skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing the extent to which companies' recruitment departments don't have their shit together. I periodically get recruitment E-mails from a well-known FAANG company, but they are addressed to "Romane" when my name (not Romane) is clearly spelled out directly in my E-mail address. On one hand, I could write back and correct them and set up a call, but on the other hand, do I really want to go work for a company so sloppy and careless in their human interactions that they can't even get someone's name right? If you're so "excited by the background listed in my resume" then maybe you ought to look up at the top of the resume where my name is.
No, I blacklist them & share the list with my friends & colleagues as well as in relevant forums.
All "winning" requires in this context is that governments didn't really try to kill it. They had the opportunity, chose not to exercise it, and arguably no longer have the opportunity.

As the article notes, Liberty Reserve was seen as Bitcoin's antecedent when it launched, and many people expected it to meet the same fate - raids, seizures, criminal charges against the founders. Any moderately successful private currency project up until around 2010 was met with this response. Curiously, this never came for Bitcoin. Since there was no centralized throat to strangle, authorities started acting like what Satoshi did wasn't illegal at all. If Satoshi had undertaken the same effort under his real name in the open, I have little doubt that it would have been swiftly shut down, and he would have faced criminal charges. But that didn't happen, the cat's out of the bag, and now any regular schmo is allowed to mint and circulate their own currency.

Beyond that, "winning" is in the eye of the beholder. Many people call it a failure due to its non-ubiquity as p2p cash, and they're not entirely wrong. Even so, it provides those few who need it with a capability that previously was not allowed by authorities to exist.
The Taiwan obsessed PRC loonies online always seem to think that the west spends way more time thinking about Taiwan then they actually do.
That’s 100% it! It was named after the Voltaic Pile or Pile/Stack of Volts.
I don't understand why some of the folks in this thread are so confused! It's just basic English.

> You can't tell your boss that he should have known you weren't going to do the task you were asked to, because you rolled your eyes in the meeting. If you didn't communicate it verbally or in writing, then you haven't communicated it at all.

We are talking about "expressions" and just "expression" in a meeting; that's it. You don't talk about those things which you had mentioned in a meeting where someone is presenting on a topic.
> This occurred to me. April 2001, US Navy plane crashes into Chinese J8 jet, kills pilot, lands on Hainan Island without authorization

An interesting interpretation of events. Let's continue.

"Then the air crew donates their airframe & technology to the Chinese Communist Party. And when they return they come up with a lie that they had been buzzed several times by the J8 pilot until the crash. Also they faked distress calls recording it. All to prove that the United States is a paper tiger intent on disrupting the Chinese people's rightful claim to all East Asian territory."
Judging by the negativity here you're going to be a massive success -- search up the dropbox, airbnb, coinbase and ethereum launch threads if you want to feel good about where you're at. :)

That said, I like this idea -- a modern coordinated UPS. I live in an area where people have 3-10 days a year of no power; being able to pick and choose what power they'd use during an outage would be a significant benefit to them.

Good luck!
You will still need a (hybrid) inverter to use it so add at least $500 on top of that. And that money doesn't really get you a unit which is capable enough to really make use of a battery of this size.
Civil rights are declining for immigrants, the press, speech - just because a law hasn't been passed doesn't mean rights haven't changed. The idea that it all depends on law is naive or disingenuous.
That was the Roslyn project! Yes they were also excited that it would allow more devs to hook into the computer and also enhance it.
Or China will come around one way or another. It is not like US did all the hard work.

Let me put it another way, even if China is a democracy, it will still compete with US in world economy. So many people there need work, the price will be low to produce things there.

Blame US's manufacturing woe fully on China isn't logical, Japan/South Korea are of the same breed, just lesser on China's scale.

Another arguably more important factor is the over regulation and bloated governance here, to a degree of being comical, just look at the California government.

Is this drawn out, lengthy democratic process really for anything of substance or just performative virtual signaling that essentially benefits no one in the name of benefiting everyone?

Anti manufacturing is a choice, made the government, thus by the populace themselves. And please, do not bring Trump, California has been in a Dem super majority since 2012.
Your points are valid and the comparisons between liberal and copyleft licenses have been discussed a million times. But scroll up to the original context here: what's the advantage of rewriting large swathes of critical OS infra that already works fine?
Yes, it will give a negative sounding 'beep' noise and provide you an audible feedback to improve like 'Bring your left leg higher'. Just make sure that your volume is turned on!
if you use chrome/firefox you can still “request desktop site” and get messenger working without the app.
What's a western lens? Borris Johnson looked good through a "western lens."
Because illiberals, when realizing their beliefs aren't all that popular, don't tend to pack it in and give it up to democracy.
I was talking about what would happen if three or four companies did what SpaceX did, not what would happen if three or four companies did something else. I agree that there are things that three or four companies could do, or even one company could do, that would cause Kessler syndrome.
This is great for devices plugged in to the same circuit. Can it provide power to separate circuits? Such as fixed lights, which are typically on a separate circuit from power outlets.
This is nonsensical. Do you mean a tiny movement in the field of view, which should be measured in angular distance?

Or do you mean actual motion through the universe, in which case the galaxies are moving at hundreds of kms per second, which means they would move billions of kms in 6 mos.
Canada built the shuttle arms: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadarm
Yeah, this sounds perfect for the suburb I grew up in - a couple outages a year, but they only lasted about half a day.

"Don't open the fridge so everything stays cold" is a lot more difficult with three teenagers.
> India’s elections are free and fair.

Are they, when people opposing one candidate are jailed?

> That’s all democracy requires.

That is certainly false. Democracy isn't mob rule, or as the saying go, it's not two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. Democracy is about self-determination for each person; if people in minority don't have self-determination, it's not democracy at all.
I think LLMs prove that this is true.
I worked on a very capable unix based CASE system for Athena Systems in 88 & 89. There's still some articles about it online like here https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electronics/80s/88... (complete with screen shots) on page 37. What I recall being the uphill battle was fighting the peace dividend granted by the cold war ending. Defense contractors, our primary market, we’re in cost cutting mode for a decade.
How does size indicate that? Many big countries have done horrible things.
Has anyone worked in a "two crews" system where there wasn't resentment? Or where people didn't want to naturally migrate to the "future crew".

I like the idea of this on paper. I have a hard time believing it can work in practice. The closest I've seen are library teams that build some service (say a design system + components) that other teams utilize.
I tried this out, but I hit so many errors that I could never generate a report. There is no way to resume a failed generation, so it seems like if any API call fails, even 10 minutes into the generation, you have to start over from scratch.
> 2kWh per day.

That’s a lot of energy! What fridge do you have?
Oh, right after I submit I see this was already submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43328444
Statecraft at its finest? Next, I'll hear that KPI manipulation sets the standard for good engineering...
TypeScript Native Port: Some Questions
Writing bad programs is still easy. Writing good programs is still hard. No one agrees what "good" and "bad" mean in this context.
> what regulations they want to be free from?

All those except their own.

The old concept of the city state or polis [0] helps somewhat in
understanding this model of granularity.

From my ignorant reading of classics, they're basically never at peace
with each other for long.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Greek_cities
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Your python sdk's <https://pypi.org/project/sift-dev-logger> GH link is 404: <https://github.com/sift-dev/python-sdk> Navigating upward shows the fork of SigNoz which I think is funny

There was no GH link for your npm dep so maybe they're both private. Although npmjs shows your npm one as ISC licensed, likely because of the default in package.json
Democracy means that people can vote. Liberalism means they get to choose who to vote for.
> You don't know anything about me. How can you even make that assessment?

I used only the words you actively wrote. Do you not see the irony in the rest of what you wrote, though?

Immediately suggesting I’m being “emotional”? What is this, 4chan?

Uncomfortable chairs? What?

It’s just, a whole mess of “you’re going to do me wrong, so I’m going to hate you first.” It seems like it should be unsurprising that you got low ratings when you approach things this antagonistically right off the bat.

I don’t want “more” interaction - I want interaction that helps them get fives/bonuses/equity grants, helps them get promoted (yearly raises will never be anything but useless), and helps them move forward with whatever their goals are.

You’ve made a lot of weird assumptions that simultaneously assume I’m a moron, and that no one could possibly ever want to help you. Why?
> 100% of democratic societies spend resources to control the narrative around their government/country/whatever

That's like saying 100% of people lie. Yes, but that's meaningless - people range from highly trustworthy to miserable frauds. What the democratic societies actually do, and the consequences, is what matters.
If your language supports named arguments, sure, but that's not always a given.
I believe one of the authors L. Peter Deutsch, is the original developer of Ghostscript.
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Lmk when it can power my 240V HVAC and Well pump otherwise it’s just a toy UPS
Great question! Unfortunately no, it'll only power devices that're plugged into it. It's basically like a very large, connected UPS.

It's unfortunately illegal to push energy back into the circuit without a permit in all states except Utah in the US :D
> It doesn't help that the nature of "democracy" is itself endlessly contested.

It's not really; I've never heard someone say that, in fact. The nature of propaganda is to make everything uncertain, and then everyone is frozen and nobody has done wrong.
The definition of democracy as "free and fair elections" alone is subject to tyranny of the majority.
https://archive.ph/cYywT
Isn't it Romania, and not the EU? Also, what do you do about election manipulation? 'Nothing' isn't an acceptable answer.
AdGuard does this
Alright, thanks. I don't particularly like notebook, but this might a reason to give it another go.
> The reason I think UBI won't fix much is, UBI cannot give people purposes to live. Obviously we already have enough material wealth for everyone and UBI is just a confirmation. But "meaning" is always a luxury, and will be more so when less people need to work.

Employment is the only - or even best - way of finding meaning in one's life?
TIL about Nitter, so grateful as I have Twitter blocked on my computer and phone.
> When people say "Europe is a nicer place to live" they do not mean eastern Ukraine.

You can cherry-pick living situations from anywhere in the world. St. Louis, MO is probably a pretty nice place to live if you're living inside Jack Dorsey's house. If you want to make general statements about how nice it is to live on entire continents, you need to take the entire continent into account, not just the part of it you like most or least.

Fortunately for America, most of America is outside the USA, and is very unenthusiastic about the authoritarian tendencies growing in parts of it like El Salvador and the USA.
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> the good news is that generally, when the system is forced to change to become more transparent

Is that what is happening now?
Pila has temp sensors that can monitor fridge & freezer temp to give you piece of mind.

So hard to keep the fridge closed & how do you know whether the food is still safe?
You’re right, my mistake.
What is the problem the article is pointing out? A "democracy" index based on the "feelings" of some chosen experts is always going to be biased and problematic. Anyone getting the short end of that stick, if they were organised enough and had the resources, would fight against it irrespective of whether the rankings were justified or not. A large part of soft power is narrative control. There is nothing objective about narrative control. Which means powerful countries which weild a lot of soft power have managed to effectively control their narrative. And their narrative likely has little convergence with reality. No system should realistically expect the subjects to just cede control without any benefits accruing to the "controlled". So countries seeking to increase their own soft power will and should try to control their own narrative. It is easily one of the bigger captain obvious moments I have come across.
This is sorely outdated. Although for anyone with an axe to grind dustin’s articles are convenient enough.
I’ve got several Jackery batteries at this point and my wife complained that they were a waste of money right up until our breaker panel gave up the ghost and we were without power for several days. Your product is more expensive but not significantly so, and has some nice features the Jackery does not. For homeowners like me though, all of this becomes unnecessary once I can power the house from my car.
Even if it won't work for everyone — some people (including me) are looking for Datadog alternatives, so this is the easiest way for them to speak to their ICP.
PO Box 286-DOS. Wonder if Microsoft still has that.
> Are they, when people opposing one candidate are jailed?

And pray tell who that candidate is and what was their platform?

> Democracy isn't mob rule, or as the saying go, it's not two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. Democracy is about self-determination for each person; if people in minority don't have self-determination, it's not democracy at all.

And what is the definition of minority to follow? Caste? Religion? Ethnicity?

Each one of these intersectionalities are represented in Indian electoral politics at the local, state, and national level.

The BJP itself lost it's supermajority in the Lok Sabha (Parliament) after Muslim voters in UP flipped to the Samajwadi Party in the 2024 election, and the opposition parties have won major state elections such as in Jharkhand.

In fact, after the 2024 election results, Indian electioneering is starting to stop using the "Hindu-Muslim" trope because it's been overused, and the primary swing voting bank at this point is women, as was seen with the results of the 2024 General, Maharashtra, and Delhi elections.

> if people in minority don't have self-determination, it's not democracy at all.

I agree with you that Majoritarianism is NOT democracy.

But minorities are not uniformly opposed to the BJP either. Lower caste Muslims (Pasmanda) tend to lean towards the NDA (BJP's coalition) [0] and Muslim women have begun to lean in favor of the BJP due to women first welfare schemes [1]

Furthermore, assuming the BJP is India and India is the BJP is an extremely reductive take on Indian democracy that was clearly proven wrong in the 2024 General Elections. If it was then the BJP would have won a hypermajority ("Abki Bhar 400 Paar"), but got a severe drubbing forcing them to build a coalition with secular JD(U) in Bihar and TDP in AP.

[0] - https://carnegieendowment.org/2024/02/09/mapping-muslim-voti...

[1] - https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/elections/india/lok-s...
This comment is over-the-top mean and unfair.

Alex was my advisor in grad school and I only know him to be honest, hard working and technically sound. I haven’t read this book closely but I’m not convinced that it’s poorly written based on cherry picking one paragraph from it.
Thanks so much! We'll address as much feedback as we can of course, but I hear you :D
We have Ecoflows and they're great for keeping the internet on when the power goes out, I have one I can actually boil a kettle of water with! So I kind of know what the size vs output ratio is and my concern is these units seem too small. Unless you've solved the heating problem you need some ventilation and a fan?

They look cool, but it would need to be a bit bigger I think to realistically power an appliance like a refrigerator. And also, can you boil a kettle with it?
The real question is why did anyone even think KPIs were effective in the first place.
How many watts max output? Couldn't see it on the site. Thanks!
This isn't very accurate. Brightcove employs about 700 people, and about 300-350 people were laid off. So it's closer to 45%. I have this information first hand.
Godzilla did not represent America.
The Democratic white male candidate (Biden) was polling so much worse than Harris that he was removed from candidacy.

Harris was part of the Biden administration, she was the 2IC of the Biden administration, she endorsed the policies of the Biden administration and the only official difference between her and Biden was that she was a different race & gender and polled much better than he did. Although unofficially she looked mentally sharper than Biden.

It is difficult to say it was race and gender when the approved candidate of the appropriate race and gender was clearly unelectable. At least Harris was a close call, Biden had lost before the race started. If the Biden administration had been popular and had some achievements to run on then she'd probably have won.
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Love this! I am tentatively interested. I might put down a deposit after a bit more research.
> you will be sued for fraud if you sell a house to someone and rip out the septic system and the soil underneath

If the agreement includes the land, septic system, etc., then sure, absolutely. Likewise, I could also sell my car with the driveway it is currently sitting on, given a willing buyer, and it would equally be fraud if I ripped up the driveway. Lawyers can draft up all kinds of different agreements as far as your imagination, and another willing party, can take you.

But it is not unheard of to sell a house alone. Granted, houses are becoming massive – with the average home today being twice the size of the average home in the 1950s – which makes them harder to load onto a trailer, let alone fit down the road, and thus seeing less and less of it, but it was somewhat common in the past to move a house (and I don't mean a mobile home) from one property to another. They are clearly distinct things.

But, most importantly, the context of discussion explicitly removed land from the equation. It was posed under a theoretical assumption that there were no land constraints. To keep talking about the land in that context doesn't make any sense.
Well compare things now with how they were during feudalism. Things are a bit better for the average person.

The problem we have now is that the population is extremely propagandized/delusional due to powerful media, made possible by technology. But the same technologies can also create more transparency... Or the technology may cause more skepticism which is also good; e.g. As AI generates fake videos, people will adapt to be more skeptical.
I think you have a point about the legalistic nature. In the video you shared, they had a detail about how it is much harder than in the past for Chinese people to get into the US via a port of entry because visas are scarce. So crossing at a fence gap, or with a ladder or tunnel is their “hack” to actually get into the country. I’m not knowledgeable about the details of the policy in the mentioned in the video that doesn’t allow the border agents to prevent someone from crossing.
Spending ages slamming your head on your keyboard because you get a dll error or similar running a .NET app and just can't find the correct runtime version / download is a great past time.

then when you find the correct version but you then have to install both the x86 and x64 version because the first one you installed doesn't work

yeh, great ecosystem

at least a Go binary runs 99.99999% of the time when you start it.
ya i'm sure they'll get a bunch of usage despite that but don't know who would use it at any kind of scale with that pricing

otoh, they've dropped prices for everything else a ton previously so maybe they will for this as well