skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The film poster says "Right", the trailer says "Right"; seems pretty conclusive. I'm really not clear why most articles say "Rite".

Wikipedia in particular should know better, but they already have a problem with cluelessly pedantic hypercorrection (https://xkcd.com/1167/). I keep expecting them to try to "correct" Pet Sematary.
We have plenty of dishes, utensils, cups and so on. (Particularly coffee cups - one of the things I collect.) Sometimes it's good to be a hoarder. :)
Similar in CoCalc

https://cocalc.com/share/4a5f0542-5873-4eed-a85c-a18c706e8bc...

Click "Open in CoCalc", then select all, copy.
Last year I lent a couple of chairs to my neighbour, since I was going away for Christmas, and he had extra guests.
Your value as a consultant depends on the value you realise for your client. If your efforts earn or save the client a million, then you could earn between 10% to 30% of that amount - depends very much on your ability to sell and negotiate.

Successful consultants are not just technically competent, but also great at selling, negotiating and collecting on invoices.
And if USB-C doesn't provide enough amps for you, there's always jumper cables.

https://www.engadget.com/2014/07/14/junojumpr-jumpstart-your...
Yes, thank you! I did mix up the units, and I can no longer edit my original comment :\
That was over 3 years after they purchased Twitch. Brightscript and the Roku SDK aren't easy to work with.
This means cosplay is about to get a lot easier for a lot of people. No more taking weeks to prototype things out of difficult materials; now you can model a character, and have a painted cardboard costume ready to go over a long weekend!
You get massacred on jewelry anytime you need to actually sell it. If you paid $2,000-$3,000 for that diamond ring, you'll get $150-$200 for it from a buyer in a crunch. Jewelry being resold does anything but hold its value, it's a truly epic beating you'll take to the downside. 75-90% of the value of retail jewelry is bullshit, you're almost never paying the bulk of the retail price for the actual gold / silver / diamond, you're paying the mark-up from a store (as a validated trinket, to verify by reputation sharing that it's hopefully the real deal). Take a nice engagement ring into a pawn shop to sell it, you'll get $0.10-$0.15 on the dollar if you're lucky, and that's a good scenario where you're not under pressure to move it to an even shadier buyer.

The only way to go with the concept you're suggesting, is to buy actual gold (coins or similar). With something like gold coins, you'll still suffer a discount on a need-to-sell, but it won't be nearly so bad. Do not think under any circumstances that jewelry holds its value in a resale, it holds a small fraction of its value (unless we're talking a million dollar extraordinary specimen (equivalent to art in the jewelry world), but that's a super rare context, and you'll still sell it at a hefty discount in a crunch).
How is "free" relevant here? The underlying truth is that price in general is not necessarily correlated with quality. That would be true if the book were free, or if it cost $20.00, $200.00 or $2,000.00.

IOW:

If he is selling this for $200.00, how worthwhile is it?
Sorry to be skeptical, but expensive doesn't always equal great quality.
I don't know what this even means. I think Patrick and I might have exchanged a total of one (1) super secret Internet friends secret messages before we met for coffee and me and Cory kidnapped him for the day. If you're in Chicago and you haven't made a hobby out of calling me an NSA shill (or if you can credibly claim that you've done so only out of irony), we're "internet friends" enough that I'll grab coffee if you have something you want to talk about.
The 80/20 rule is just recursive. On the bright side, that makes the last 1% closer to 98% of the work instead of 99%.
LEGO Technic box.
If you're a software company and you have only a few customers, then you're probably doing bespoke development (whether you call that consulting or not can be your own decision), not product sales.

The entire purpose of selling a product is to scale through volume rather than customization.

To me the big divide is how superlinear your revenue:employee ratio is. If it's linear or close to it, then you're a consulting org. You make money based on the hours of work you are able to bill for in one way or another. If it's a "product", but you as the product developer are doing heavy customization, then you've just transitioned from an hourly billing model to something resembling fixed bid, but with a fiction of a product in the mix.
That's not an upside. That's a downside that got parlayed into an upside.
> RNG state entropy is not a resource that is exhausted by using the RNG.

I thought so too, but a couple of years ago I was writing a comment on LWN (https://lwn.net/Articles/642839/) and it suddenly clicked.

Entropy is a measure of unpredictability, that is, if you have 32 bits of entropy, there are 2^32 possible states. Suppose you generate an 8-bit value from that, assuming a function which uniformly mixes your state. For each of the possible 256 output values, on average 2^24 of the possible states would generate the same output value. Therefore, once you know the output value, you can discard the other 2^32 - 2^24 possibilities; only 2^24 possible states remain, so you now have only 24 bits of entropy left.

The reason this is not a problem in practice is that, since the output function is one-way, an attacker would have to enumerate all possible states to find which ones would generate the same outputs. This becomes unfeasible once you have enough entropy in your state (256 bits or more).

(The whole trick with Dual-EC was that, if you know the secret key, the output function is not one-way. Supposedly, either the key was discarded once generated, or the points were generated at random and not from a secret key, but nobody really believes that.)
> the less you are expected to actually work.

if you're talking about actual time spent working, may be. But the output for an expensive person needs to be high. Granted, how does one measure the output of a typical multi-million dollar CEO on bottom line performance (vs just good general economic conditions)?
Is it ok if I reply without reading the article if the title is able to be proven patently false? That is... unless we're bending word definitions... :-P
I have really wanted to do this myself. Buy some older fab equipment, and produce NAND chips. Start selling 4TB SSDs for $100 or so. It's ridiculous how long the price-fixing in the SSD industry has been permitted to persist, and someone needs to take them out. We don't need even 10nm production for SSDs or anything. Go ahead and fill a standard 3.5" drive cage with the device. Since the chips function mostly in-parallel, you get speed increases just from concurrent use. And I'd imagine you might find a subversive company willing to sell you controller logic on the cheap. Just so absurd that such a basic part as NAND chips can even get treated like a premium item despite being in basically every product of any kind created in the past 10 years. Any other component like that is commoditized and dirt cheap, especially when they contain no rare materials.
Expanding on this, for anyone who wants to read more, http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ is a good resource.
It took a couple paragraphs before I realized this wasn’t satire - or at least, the author didn’t intend it that way.

By his logic, it’s also “basically just immoral” to have 2 kidneys. Quoting except s/dollar/kidney/: “Because every kidney you have is a kidney you’re not giving to somebody else, the decision to retain extra kidneys is a decision to deprive others.”

Per https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/factsheets/Organ-Donati..., “There were 5,538 living donors in 2014.” Everyone else in the US, presumably including the author, is retaining more than they need.
this video tells what the average american thinks of the wealth distribution, vs reality (vs ideal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

it's very enlightening.
Bloomberg launches streaming news on Twitter
I'm afraid I can't answer your question directly, but printers being made proprietary was one of the things that led Richard Stallman to starting the GNU project, and the fight for companies to provide source code for the products they were selling to users.

>In 1980, Stallman and some other hackers at the AI Lab were refused access to the source code for the software of a newly installed laser printer, the Xerox 9700. Stallman had modified the software for the Lab's previous laser printer (the XGP, Xerographic Printer), so it electronically messaged a user when the person's job was printed, and would message all logged-in users waiting for print jobs if the printer was jammed. Not being able to add these features to the new printer was a major inconvenience, as the printer was on a different floor from most of the users. This experience convinced Stallman of people's need to be able to freely modify the software they use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Events_leadin...
Keep the animals off your plate, put them in your belly.
Good read.

There are more mature cryptocurrencies emerging that are based on 'loans' as the author describes. The Maker Project's stable coin 'Dai' is an example, which is only created by collateralized debt positions. However, the debt position is currently based on ETH, which is 'backed' by speculation.
Yes, time spent working is exactly what I meant.
The trailer says "right" in the frame, but the video title says "rite": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2CbNRVHPM0.

However, you seem to be correct. Since the poster and trailer agree, it seems that the title is "right".
sounds like a dystopia.
Ah. I didn't know this. Even in different currencies?
BO has all been about cost over the past few years, and that's only increasing.

'Robotics' solutions are what new projects are, which are simply layers on existing solutions. Clamp over existing things, rather than re-implementing them.
This "article" is garbage and doesn't belong on HN. Even rebutting this crap is a waste of time.
That's the sort of thing they started with. But that was just to have something to talk about. It was much more about tone than content.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/convolutional-neural-networks
It's more likely that unhealthy food is the one source of pleasure that a poor person can afford, and with all the troubles of their lives, they may find solice in eating the delicious junk. Healthy food either takes a bunch of effort, or don't taste very good (unless you couple it with some expensive condiments/spices).
Haiku, BeOS' open-source successor, has proper memory protection and we're still "flippin' fast" when our latency is compared to literally any other OS, so that wasn't the sole reason at any rate.
In terms of the source, on a side note, I personally know people who were on the square that day, and later escaped to the US to seek asylum under Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 [1]. They have a lot of first-hand information and photographs, but wouldn't release them to media because they still have families live in China, and as a consequence of release those information, PRC may reject their entry in the future. To most of the people getting the truth out to the world doesn't outweigh the freedom of visiting families and friends, which is reasonable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Student_Protection_Act...
>1) the Rohingya are not looking for peace.

There are a lot of Rohingya with different opinions. I'd guess 99% are looking for peace with a very small minority in favour of violent action.
Yes, and by that criteria, most Americans are poor.
I would prefer a phone that lost performance over time than one that was gimped at the start. I think the optics aside, most consumers would prefer that as well.
Adding my experience. I was a driver helper at one point too, and my driver would deliver all the commercial/business packages first, then park in an empty area (residential side street or parking lot) and we would handsort the remaining packages along his personally directed route. We'd unload each package one by one, the driver chucking them to me from inside the truck with the words "right" or "left" and I'd form two piles depending on the word, then I'd toss them back. First one pile, then the next. He had his route memorized and after reloading delivery was super efficient.

It blew my mind that we wasted an hour or so every day just to optimize something that could be automatic via a machine or at least implemented by the loaders... Sad to see it still hasn't changed.
Don’t be so specific
I tried to transfer $20 out of coinbase and it was going to cost $32 to do so.

Seems like if you're not doing multimillion dollar payments it's not worth it. Then again, even if you are it's not worth it.
Haha - My kettle is upstairs!! But then again, my wife (who also works part time from home) brings me my cups of tea...
My impression is that it's the other way around; working in the computer industry carries a higher pay premium (vs. working in some other field) in Silicon Valley than it does anywhere else. So while a chef might be better off in Luxembourg, the software engineer is better off in silicon valley.
There's a bunch of good advice here, but I'll add two other things.

One, look for a full-time job where you can learn from people. When freelancing, nobody has an incentive to invest in you. Go in house with the right people and they will.

Two, start mentoring. Learning to mentor well forces you to really master your technology, and it also teaches you a bunch of new things about people.
Yes every industry has a uniform. SV just had a particular one that's different from many other places but it's still a uniform.

It's a way to show that you "get it" and are part of the same tribe.
This is missing a few stories that are on the canonical site (which is linked, fortunately). One of the highlights of my life was collaborating with Eric in writing "Master Foo and the Recruiter."
To make things real simple for those who can't use a search engine, try the following

earth surface area: 510072000 sq km

ocean surface area: 361132000 sq km

latent heat of melting (ice to water): 334 kJ/kg

From these you can calculate the amount (volume) of land based ice required for whatever ocean level rise you need and the amount of energy required to melt said ice.

Note that since only a portion of energy will enter ice, the total energy that would be needed to get the required energy transfer in the ice would be approximately 20 times required energy. This is based on studies done that indicate that it is about 5% of energy absorbed by the planetary system that transfers into the ice portion of the planet.
If you're caught drilling a safe at a bank, the thieves don't get to say: "But we hadn't gotten to the money, gold or certificates in there yet".
Same here, moved to the East Bay 18 months ago, have a great 1bdrm apartment.
I (and many other buyers) don't want a user-replaceable battery. I think they look like crap, they make the phone look like crap, and in my history of owning iPhones since day one, I've never had to replace my iPhones battery. I did have one replaced through a warranty extension thing but that was because I was reselling the phone and wanted to give the buyer a perfectly new battery. Otherwise I would have kept the one inside.
Some of us can't work remote, some people will pay extra for good weather, some people like the ocean a lot. Everyone is different.
You do realize that “rap culture” revolves around a product marketed to, and bought predominately by white kids, right? I realize the term is just a dog whistle for a much less kind word, but still.. so stupid.
See the starting point below. It will take you five minutes to do the calculations. Then you make up your mind if "politically correct" is an appropriate label.
Funny - Sega Genisis was on my top 5 gifts of all time (we did it for a party).
> I have friends that still regularly commute 2 hours each way every day for work. ... and wonder about all the lost creative time they could be spending doing something with.

Or at least getting well compensated for the 1 or 2 hour commute each way. That's a lot of time-money value for a freelancer in a given month. Save on destroying your vehicle, save on gas, save the time, save the hassle & brain numbing commute, live slightly further out and save a lot on real-estate, etc.

It's funny, just seven to ten years ago telecommuting in most of the US was still largely a fantasy premise. Often talked up, but the opportunities were scarce at best for most people. It's finally starting to deliver on the potential.
Why Are All “Star Wars” Movies the Same? – The New Yorker
Manure runoff is rather bad for local ecosystems.
Tried this a few weeks ago to create generative papercraft lamps[1]. Really wonderful addon/script and flexible enough to be used with a pen plotter (ie: for printing the fold lines on thicker and larger paper that your regular printer might not support).

[1] - https://mobile.twitter.com/mattdesl/status/93493067496803532...
Crypto is only negative sum if you assume the coins have no value. Which is debatable. If all coins went to zero at the end of the game sure it would be negative sum but that seems unlikely.
> I'm mostly working with startups, helping them with web app architecture and performance

When I read the blog post my first thought was that I would love to do exactly this. I'm working at a startup right now but I'm so bored of the day-to-day and really enjoy architecture/performance tasks. I think I'm going to give consulting a try after I vest a little more stock :)
Being able to (trivially) verify votes sounds like a recipe for buying votes and/or intimidating voters to me.

Inefficiency in voting technology is a feature, not a bug. Pencil on paper is the best system we have for precisely this reason.
Many phone owners these days put their device in a case.

How then can it then "look like crap" if aesthetically it's hidden under a layer of coloured rubber?
Why be creative when you can just reskin and mint a billion or so.
Before you get too tempted, read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658437
Yes, I've been combining features from different languages (Smalltalk and Haskell), but all I have now is this huge mess that I don't know how to fix.
The Drone Under Your Tree Can't Fly High Until Registered with the FAA
If you click on the comment timestamp you can find the "vouch" option which makes the comment visible. I've done so, so the comment is no longer [dead].
Choosing to turn 10,000 people into ‘pie’ would seem a fairly black and white case. Do you think it possible to justify? You don’t seem whole against it.
I googled about the origins of many common languages, but most of them were just based off of another language. I tried finding out how those languages were made, but it just goes on...
Performance isn't lowered to extend battery life, it's lowered because the degradation in old batteries makes it impossible to reliably run the processor at max clock; if you flip a switch to force high clocks despite an old battery, your phone will randomly shut down sometimes.

That may be what they're telling people, but there is absolutely no engineering basis for it. Battery voltages decrease gradually under all normal operating conditions, and switched-mode converters can extract useful energy from them throughout the entire discharge regime.

The main constraint on battery voltage isn't some mysterious "random shutdown" effect, but the health of the battery itself. If you allow the battery voltage to fall too low -- which will, again, happen gradually and not instantaneously -- its service life will be greatly impaired. This is not something that happens without warning. It's a perfectly well understood effect. Once the phone's CPU sees this happening, it will have plenty of time to post a "Shutting down in xx seconds" message to the user, go into emergency low-power mode, or otherwise take action to protect the battery.
Yes, I am surprised that telecommuting seems to have taken so long to become mainstream. I remember when I started doing it nearly 15 years ago, a lot of my family and colleagues thought I was crazy.

But for me, even a 25 minute commute (at the time) was too much for me. I know a lot of people who take public transport say they spend the time listening to music, reading a book or taking in podcasts - and that is great.

But for me, if I walk downstairs to my office first thing in the morning and I am not feeling it, I am glad I can reach back and pick up my guitar and play some scales or noodle away to get my brain into focus.
"Hire easily, fire easily" is another strategy, it's true! but not one used by most places I've worked. It is a slower strategy when sorting through a pool of mostly not good enough candidates, and often makes employees more nervous (Just like how you "Can't" take three weeks off to practice, other people "Can't" get fired after a few months on a new job.)
Every company was once a single person with an idea
The Effect of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing on American Mortality Patterns [pdf]
Reminds me of this: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta...

> Why does her PhD make her more deserving that a welfare queen? Because to The Chronicle, the PhD has value. It doesn't. I'm not saying she isn't smart, I'm saying the PhD in no way communicates to me she knows medieval history better than any D&D player. She may know more, but how do I know? I don't even find "MD" particularly valid, but at least you can sue a doctor.

> But my reason for showing you her is to highlight the perverse logic of the university which will doom us all: since the only maniacs who would ever hire these PhDs are universities, then the solution to their unemployment is more money for universities:
Oh hi! I work for Google. I browse Hacker News in my free time - like now, from a plane.

Conspiracy fodder: how smart (or not) would a team need to be to plan a "well-executed marketing play" for an enterprise database warehouse -- in the morning of freakin Saturday December 23rd?

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31100000/Classic-Patr...
If you want tptacek as an internet friend my advice is to email him.

If you are physically proximate to him he’ll buy you a coffee. Pretty cheap price to pay for a new internet friend.

I’ll also suggest to you that Patrick (nor any of Thomas’ successful friends) is successful cause he figured out how to turn HN karma into gold (I’d bet Patrick would say HN karma all represents wasted opportunities for your own content).
then they should have charged less for their products. or created a more environmentally friendly design. my guess is that apple's PR team made this article happen
Oh, hear that, everyone? notyourwork doesn’t have a problem living in the Bay Area, so if you are, clearly you’re doing something wrong. Everyone can go home, the Bay Area housing crisis doesn’t exist!
Until 2018, SEPA transactions only clear in EUR, I think from 2018 on there will also be support for other EU currencies.
California has the highest rate of poverty in the US, when you factor in cost of living:

http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty...
FWIW I didn't like it that much. I learned much more from reading about it and then trying to code things.

I do understand that his course also gets you to code yourself, but they give you "helper functions" that obviously won't be there when actually making something, so I'd rather write those myself.
Depends on the customer. If you're planning on keeping it for five years, you'd like it to last the time. If you're planning on replacing it when the new one comes out next year, you'd rather it got maximal performance during that year. What it comes down to is which customer apple wants to cater to which is fairly obviously the latter.