skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4x was also the minimum retail price I've been taught as well. The wholesale rate has also been anywhere from 50% - 75% of the retail price depending on the negotiations with the retailer. This is ignoring soulless companies like Walmarts/Amazons/etc where you'll never make those numbers. Something people don't always consider that when they buy something from the retailer directly, they typically make more money from that sale than if you bought the same thing from Walmart. Buying something from somewhere like Etsy vs their direct site also takes a healthy chunk.
Tangential nit: is 'hominin' actually correct? I thought the term was 'hominid'
https://github.com/tsoding/nobuild

Basically it is a build system that uses C as a DSL. And no dependency tracking I think?
Email hn@ycombinator.com if you have concerns. The mods do care and will fix editorialized titles pretty quickly, but they can't keep up with everything as it is submitted. Emailing them helps keep the site clean from clickbait titles!
In 2014, I managed to get a fairly good job at a large institutional bank, without a formal interview process because the person hiring (who would be my boss) liked a blog I had written on quant sports betting during my PhD.
Marksheet.io, my free HTML and CSS course landed me a job back in 2015. It turned out to be my last office job before turning fully freelance.

https://marksheet.io/
Hacking the firmware in Fuji cameras definitely impressed a few recruiters, and helped me get a position recently.
Unfortunately most of the source numbers are spoofed, and this would cause collateral damage to any legit users of those numbers.
Corporations don't take actions, they don't make decisions, they don't breathe, think, or live. Every single thing a corporation "does" gets decided by one or more people, and its those people who are responsible for whatever the consequences of their decisions are, good or bad. There is no concept of a "corporation" other than as a group of individual people collectively taking action. You clearly have some form of disgust with corporations, but as a moral entity, they're just people.

Really, by accepting the idea that corporations are more than just a group of people, you're acquiescing to their conceit. Their trick of making themselves something "special" or more complex than just "people making choices" is part of the problem, IMO.

And no, breaking laws is not, itself, immoral. But laws represent agreements between parties, or conditions upon which an interaction is predicated. There's an implicit presumption that a transaction will comport with the laws it's governed by unless stated otherwise. I don't have a problem stating otherwise, but relying on that presumption because it's to your advantage with no intention of following through on your end is immoral.
> Compare that to AWS Lambda: 1. build you code, 2. pack into a zip file, 3. make sure the S3 bucket exists, 4. upload the zip to the bucket, 5. deploy lambda, 6. update API gateway... And don't even get me started on Cloudfront - every change takes like 5min to apply.

For AWS are you aware of SAM for CloudFormation[1]? The CDK[2]? You picked the best representation of Cloudflare (via `wrangler.toml`) but the worst representation for AWS of the developer experience. `cdk deploy` is pretty seamless and similar to `wrangler deploy` [3].

1 - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/lat...

2 - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/home.html

3 - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/serverless_example....
The Web's Grain (2015)
When interviews were actually in person, there would be a pass-along sheet where you would write down your question. Of course, that wasn't perfect (the comment I had about too many people asking BFS was from a pre-pandemic email thread).

These days, the actual process is confusing at best (and wildly inconsistent across interviewers, as it's dependent on what the recruiter sets up), so it shouldn't be surprising that it's rarely used if ever.

To be clear: I don't actually know what the rate is of candidates being asked to come back for an extra interview. My understanding is that it's always been a last-resort option, but it'd be one of the more common reasons if the candidate actually made it to the slate of "in-person" interviews, and then needed to come back for another one.
Agreed; I want to keep the focus on JSTOR's behavior, not the legislation, but:

(The No Electronic Theft ("NET") Act (1997) was introduced by Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), whose big donors include media rights holders and law firms and their PACs [0]. And that legislation was brought specifically to "remedy" the inability to criminally prosecute non-commercial infringements in the 1994 LaMacchia case [1][2], although that was about a warez bulletin-board of commercial software, not published academic papers. The NET Act amended the definition of "commercial advantage or private financial gain" to include the "receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works" (still not seeing any of that applied to Swartz, but they would have cheerfully bankrupted him fighting it, and destroyed his life if they'd won an adverse ruling).

But now, back to JSTOR's behavior and reputation.

[0]: Bob Goodlatte Representative (R-VA) | Donor Summary https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/bob-goodlatt...

[1]: "United States v. LaMacchia" (1994) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._LaMacchia

[2]: "Before there was Aaron Swartz, there was David LaMacchia" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5143897
What features are missing?

The big barrier to adoption is people and content.

Mastodon has been an okay twitter replacement with its feature set, it’s just missing people.

Threads appears to have succeeded by bootstrapping their platform with major accounts, brands and popular personalities. This isn’t a thing more feature development can solve.
The creepy af stuff being legal is one of the cracks that the illegal stuff uses to leak through.

Those cracks need to be sealed, but there's enough creepy af industry lobbying that it won't happen because money.

There's money in them thar retirement villages.
You could use a live usb stick instead of a cd using Ventoy. It is a boot manager to boot isos or even vmdk files just by putting it onto your usb stick...

I use this together with some iso suggestions of my article:
https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/01/the-ultimate-boot-stick/
I thought it was green bubbles which are shunned. In any case, it seems like a good way to get vain and vapid people to self-select their way out of your life. Would you really want to be friends with the sort of people who exclude others for consumer choices like that? Dreadful.
Leetcode didn't exist before "anti discrimination" laws. It was created specifically to give corps a legal barrier to defend against suit because the Fed wrote the law in such a way that you can easily and successfully sue any company for discrimination during the hiring process. So they filter out as hard as they can in a "neutral" way.

You can see the effect in realtime. Google products are worse than they were 10 years ago when they have good devs that cared. They left and now it's just gears in a machine someone else made.
A few words about Blameless culture
When you consider that most of this stuff originates from places outside of jurisdictions of any place that would ever consider doing something about it, you realize that legislation is worth much less than the paper it's never printed on.
I wrote an IRC bot in Perl in 1995 and it was kind of a cool way of showing off what I knew how to do. It had this feature where you could send it a command and it'd hot reload its own code which was kind of cool.
I don't understand why they don't just make the "reciprocity" argument. The fact that we allow Chinese social networks in the US while they block ours doesn't pass the smell test. To me, this line of argument is easier to rally around as it's more business focused and avoids free speech/national security debates which only serve to muddy the waters
Imgur is nice, but it unfortunately won't last forever. It's also become clear that imgur may delete images that fall under a few different circumstances:

- haven't been accessed in a while
- considered NSFW
- not tied to an imgur account

So rather than permanently losing these images, I made this little CLI tool which rips "imgur image links" referenced in local files, and download locally to host yourself.
Ultra progressive media outlet says UBI is great, comment posts progressive outlet sources, upvoted on a site with progressive users.

No, I’m not interested in playing that game.

I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything. Just pointing out to others that the fanatics seriously think this is a known-quantity / settled science.
App economy is a lot more complicated than that. Many people won't bother installing something for free even if it potentially could help them, yet they'll spend more coins on their favorite gambling game.

Money is only a tiny corner of the issue.
Meta-Toolkit – By Sonu Sharma
They're doing it (I presume) in the middle of the day, and for a couple of hours maybe. They're not keeping the victims up for 48 hours straight playing the music.

I think it's a fine idea for a fundraiser.
Maybe, but the device had a limited lifespan due to the need for batteries so it had to come out anyways.

I wonder if there's a way to detect the seizures externally.
Rollup plugin which implements Module Federation
The reverse is also the case. In market research, the death knell of your research is if you include the question of "would you prefer money or X."

People always choose hypothetical money as it's a wildcard, even if in actuality they will spend ridiculous amounts of it on the thing you are testing in the first place.

The existence of hypothetical money in surveys screws them up terribly, as people are both willing to spend and accept hypothetical money in ways that often don't translate to reality.
Meta Toolkit – Preview how your webpage will look on social media
You could run a battery optimized, opportunistically available mastodon instance from your phone, but Apple and Google won't let you. The amount of wasted compute in everyone's hands is staggering.
This is a great story. I think folks are misreading it as something to be taken literally or that we're supposed the condone the narrator's reaction.

I will say that I relate, because I once overreacted to a breakup going on a massive self-improvement binge. I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand, I don't think it came from a place of sound mental health and self-esteem. On the other, a lot of good did come out of it, and I eventually found intrinsic motivation, rather than evaluating myself by how I thought my ex would think about me.
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Whatever "ease of use" mean to you, you got it somehow.

To me if is HiDPI, which on macOS is intentionally sabotaged so you buy ultra expensive monitors.

If it is the global menu, or some other UI style, it is there too.
Another important factor is pain. Pain prevents sound sleep. My mom, who has bad rheumatoid arthritis, says that a regular strength Tylenol will knock her out.

This is because it reduces her baseline pain to a point where she can rest.
> This comment bothers me, because here I was, reading this story, not generalizing about what gender does what, just seeing a character with flaws, and then your comment comes along and makes it not just about the gender of the character, but the gender of the author as well.

The story was written by Conor Barnes. From his LinkedIn, well, see for yourself: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conor-barnes-b49833206/
Not really that niche when you have a 4K laptop hooked up to the 1080p monitors that you were able to buy because it was on your own dime and you wanted to go the affordable route. Every time I do that on X, The only thing I can do is downscale my 4K laptop screen to 1440, I can't set a fractional scale for it while still preserving reasonable performance.

And no one cares about standardization and development. They just want to use their blasted laptop. I don't know about any of that stuff, I just know Wayland works better out of the box.
I am sorry you don't have the maturity to process different points of view.
This is nuts. I sometimes lament my employer wasting money and engineer time but this is a whole nother level.
> a government enforced mandate to force me to wake me up early in the morning and go into a room with my same age peers

When someone jumps into a discussion and reframes a well known concept in a way that's intended to make people angry so that they can further a point of view that is orthogonal (x) to the current discussion, I always wonder, why?

Has life taught you that this is a useful way to further a discussion?

Do people respond well to it?

Or do you just like strong reactions to what you say and you have found that stating things in a way designed to elicit anger is a good way to get those?

(x) This article is about sleep patterns in adults over 60 versus younger adults, not sleep deprivation in children and teens who are forced to get up early for school. Your point is not totally unrelated, it's worth discussing, and it's also orthogonal to the actual discussion here. So again, why did you feel the need to jump in and try to make people angry about it?
> This trusts the client for both parties, while also treating the client as a potentially malicious party. This puts you back at 1-of-N.

Is this just the "well how do you get a trustworthy copy of the software you rely on to tell you whether copies of software are trustworthy" question? Since obviously once you have that software, it can download as many different signatures as it wants from the F-Droid service and validate them locally without needing to trust the F-Droid service; that is the point of digital signatures.

That seems like it'd be an issue for your thing as well, since the two available ways to install Homebrew itself are curl|bash and downloading/running an installer from a GitHub Releases page. Then again, if the security model here revolves around axiomatically trusting Microsoft (and also believing Microsoft is the only entity in the world capable of running CI/CD infrastructure), I guess that's not an issue.
I went through a similar path! Concatenative appeared to me like the most economic paradigm one can possible come up with, a ultimate reduction, for which there’s practically no path to further downward abstraction. It feels more like a primitive building block than anything else. I always admired the design of Unix pipes, and flow oriented programming in general, then you realize that these things are just natural to stack processing, you need to introduce nothing. It’s like you’re programming with order itself. Programming is taught and practiced in a very convoluted way, and it makes you think that complexity must somehow stem for the lower levels of abstraction, until you get a grip of stack virtual machines, they couldn’t be simpler in their innate mechanics. I don’t know if it’s only me, but I used to think Turing Completeness was something challenging to achieve in a system, a hallmark of sophisticated complexity, but as I understood stack based languages I realized it’s the opposite, it’s the hallmark of simplicity. I wonder what it's like to have had Forth et al as a first language…
Would you be fine with the same reciprocity regarding car export rules for instance ?

On principle the "reciprocity" card can't be used only when it helps and discarded otherwise.
Thank you for reading :-)
Haven't noticed it. All of the E5+s I know are real. Might just be luck and selective filtering on my end to not get involved with the... overgrown children.

Apple's recruiters were flaky on comms, rescheduled me a couple of times, and were disappointing for a company I had higher expectations for.
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My most recent internship is at Cisco. As a part of Cisco Research Group, I researched and implemented federated learning algorithms into a platform for AI/ML engineers to run federated learning. I enjoyed reading over new research, creating a deck of slides on the key points, receiving feedback on my design choices, and coding!

I have enjoyed taking machine learning courses, including computer vision and natural language processing. I tested machine learning models on human genetic interaction profiles from the Dependency Map Project. While in Seattle, attending meetups to discuss new technologies (such as LLMs) became one of my hobbies.

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That’s what I find so infuriating about many first-party sites.

I’ll often find something on Amazon and if it seems like it’s from a small business, I’ll check to see if I can buy it direct. (Arguably, this behavior is unethical on my part against Amazon, but whatever.)

I very rarely (like <10% of the time) find the first-party site to have an offer that even matches Amazon’s.

Look, I tried. I came to you and gave you a shot, but if you want to charge the same item price and also tack on $15 of shipping, I’ve received your message (“please buy it from Amazon; we don’t want to sell it to you direct…”) loud and clear.

I’m usually willing to wait a few extra days, pay the same price, and have worse returns possibility in order for you to double or triple your variable transaction profit, but you’ve got to be competitive.
Hominin and hominid are both valid terms; hominid is broader, and includes all the Great Apes, in addition to modern humans and their ancestors. (Although apparently hominid used to mean what hominin now means, according to https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homi....)
There's an entire book on this I read a few years ago, let me find it
There is no reason to use macOS as a web developer unless you do graphic design.
Hominid = all great apes

Hominin = species related to humans after the split from proto-chimps

IIRC.
Is there a way to make react “reactive” and have to define all the useState, useEffect?
Say you have a bunch of AI agents playing a game where they need to jump up on a platform and push a button.

You could give them no information and let them randomly move around until one happens to find the button.

But what if you just told them there was "something" interesting in a particular spot? You could skip hours and hours of training them just to find the button by just giving them a hint.

Think about the way a baby learns. They spot an object that catches their interest, and do whatever they can to get to it and inspect it. The difference is that the robot doesn't have an inherent mechanism for identifying interesting objects. You have to give it a hint as to what it should consider interesting, and it can figure the rest out from there.
If a spouse or child dies…see Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds…
Guess which one is getting deprecated and which one is going to have HDR support.
July 4 1863 was arguably the turning point of the US Civil War as well, near-simultaneous Union victories at both Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
The reason why these things don't take off with non-nerds is because the UI and UX of open source tools almost always sucks. That's it. There's nothing more to it.

Over the weekend there was a post about XMPP and somebody asked for a client with the same level of UX as Telegram. There were a few replies, but none of them were what I would say were anywhere near the same level.

For example one of them had an option to choose between three different methods of encrypting chats, and it was one of the most prominent UI features in the chat window. That's great if you want to feel like James Bond and encrypted chat is your main use case, but 99.9% of people are just sending memes and photos of their cats and don't even know what encrypted means.

Element is doing quite well in this department, but last time I tried (admitidely a couple of years ago) there were still some edge cases.
Bolt not listed even though it is one of the best selling electric cars, and the Bolt seems to have a paywalled reliability score on their site. Not sure what to make of this report. Is it mostly tesla that has poor reliability?
> MakeMake was designed to solve my problem (Im a C developer that develops
> protable C programs using VisualStudio, and I do not want to maintain up
> todate make files for all projects and platforms).

I just don't understand why you wouldn't use CMake for this? Especially since VS has built-in CMake support.
It’s been federal law since 1976 that copyright “preempts” any other laws granting overlapping claims. This includes contracts, which fall under state law. Now, strictly speaking the courts are divided on how to treat the specifics of these issues with respect to EULAs, but the Genius vs Google case should leave one weary:

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2022/08/copyright-preempting-co...
Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold
Someone was pre-trained with the Lukid charter!
Visualizing. LOL. Some us don’t, but maybe grit plays a part in compensating for “seeing” the outcome?
I've had some luck with reporting phishing domains to their registrars. It doesn't always work, but I have gotten a few taken down that way.
It’s wild how much we don’t know about the ocean and it’s creatures.
What would you have learned in 1 year of humanities studying that you didn’t learn in 4 years of humanities is high school, that would have made a huge difference?
In addition, for such traumatic life events, it is community and relationships that help, more than any particular knowledge.

I am not for banning books.

I just don’t think that 18-22 year olds benefit as a cohort from spending intensive time studying the humanities, when they could be studying all sorts of other things.

By all means read books, talk with friends, meditate, contemplate , read and write poetry.

But to devote 4 years of your life from 18-22 as the primary means, is a waste.
Great idea until the logs are checked and your boss or the FAA sees you had ample fuel remaining
Study the Clotilda…
Is it https://www.momtestbook.com/? That's a good one.
When I was fresh out of college I semi-obsessively started answering StackOverflow questions about HTML Canvas, which was still new enough to not have a lot of coverage. At one point I answered over 10% of all canvas questions ever asked. I also blogged a few tutorials. This made Pearson email me for a book offer (HTML5 Unleashed, 2013, almost no one read it as I had no fame, but last amazon review: "Still relevant in 2018, best book on canvas I have read")

And writing that book lead to lots of recruiters. I humored one, they flew me out to SF, gave me a car for a few days (I had never been to the west coast), dined with me, and made me an offer before I was to fly back home, an offer that was lots more than I was making at the time. I told them I'd think about it.

But I was too scared to leave New Hampshire, and perhaps too sentimental, or some more nameless term, so I didn't accept the offer. All from answering some SO questions.
Can confirm. When I was in Hyderabad in 2019, I saw signs for a few schools marketing COBOL and FORTRAN.
> The Fediverse needs the same kind of evangelical missionaries that made the free software movement

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as the Fediverse is actually OStatus/ActivityPub.