skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work for a set top box middleware vendor, and at the time circa 2005-6 we had internal charge amounts of about a few hundred bucks for the mid range PVRs at the time. I just looked at a competitive analysis sheet I still have access to and it look like the total BoM for a modern PVR with all the bells and whistles like voice recognition and 4k is around $400-600 including a cheap AV rated drive to store the video.

The lower end ones with cloud PVR look like they're crazy cheap, like a low end cell phone. I wouldn't be surprised if the IP only ones were $50 in Q10000. There's a bunch of implementation notes about fiddly expensive analog calibration for the terrestrial and docsis transceivers, but it looks like the two major ASIC vendors both ship turnkey calibration systems to help reduce manufacturing cost. One of them has a nice menu of prevalidated contract manufacturers that already have production lines ready to go once you sign.
Contributing to a public pattern library for mental health
Thank you, that's great feedback for Giraffe and Saturn!
Shouldn't there be 'Sign Up' button underneath all the plans? Also I believe, you should change the 'Fetches' to something else, it is kind of confusing. I know that you have tried explaining that in the first question itself.
Anyone has experience with Uniregistry? If one don't want to put all eggs in the Cloudflare Basket.
“Medium” just doesn't work
RStudio has a server mode as well
MILA will stop developing Theano
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are you equally offended that this "floor to ceiling room divider" stops a couple of inches below the ceiling? https://www.amazon.com/Royhom-Privacy-Divider-Decoration-Apa...

Do you expect this "top to bottom house cleaning service" to include the chimney and roof and aerials because the "top" has a literal definition? https://top-to-bottom.cleaning/

Are you angry that "surround sound" only has a discrete number of speakers, usually 5 or 7, instead of a continuous surrounding panel?

Are you baffled by Thomson Video Networks' claim that they have an "all-encompassing video infrastructure" when you can see things in the world not encompassed by it? ( https://www.broadcastingcable.com/post-type-the-wire/thomson... )

Do you think "unmissable TV shows" are literally unmissable? ( https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/unmissable-tv-shows-watch-hulu... )

Why aren't you complaining about Apple calling the iPad Pro "magic"?

Why are you choosing "edge-to-edge" as the hill to die on, when Apple call the iPad Pro "all new" (it isn't), "all screen" (it's not), "all powerful" (it isn't), "a magical piece of glass" (nope) which "does everything you need" (even breathing?), "any way you hold it" (even covering the screen?), "true to life color" (even though you can't represent purples on an RGB screen?), "make everything look gorgeous" (even ugly people?), "the perfect machine for augmented reality" (even more than dedicated glasses? There can never be a better machine for AR?), "immersive games" when you can't immerse yourself literally in them?
> You could say that about any economic activity.

Any unnecessary and polluting economic activity that is actively killing the planet, yes.

> A greenhousing effect would also not be harmful to all or even most tourist sites.

I doubt that. If it won't be directly harmful in the next 100 years, there will be as many as 143 million people that'll be displaced due to climate change by 2050. Even if the tourist sites in question are in relatively safe locations such as Europe, you will most certainly not recognize them.
Lol, really? Downvoting because of envy? Grown up.
What's the distinction you're trying to make? It seems obvious that a suggestion to test for dexterity is a suggestion to test for the relevant sort of dexterity.
Fucking magnetic monopoles, how do they work?
I agree with you. When I play, the "best" invaders tend to be the easy targets that have drifted to one side of the screen.

Here is a proposal for another fitness score: everytime a bullet is shot, raise the score of every survivor, weighted by the distance between the survivor and the bullet. The closer the bullet the better the fitness.

Intuitively, I think this would select for better dodgers.
Yes, Giraffe has already taken some lessons from Zebra with some of the recent optimisations around the view engine. I think there are some more immediate gains for routing, but currently the focus is on a great Swagger integration before dwelling into anything else which requires more work. However, PRs are always welcome. To be honest some of the best perf improvements all came from PRs!
Yet another White Male. Salaries are actually from multiple different countries, but I've converted all to GBP (as that's what I think in, mostly). Which has varied in value a lot over the years, so probably take it with a grain of salt.

1997 £18k First real web-dev work
1999 £60k Contract developer making the most of the dotcom boom
2000 £45k First attempt at running my own business (didn't go well)
2002 £28k Took a job that seemed stable and came with visa
2006 £40k Last permanent job
2008 £90k Working for myself part 2 - much improved
2014 £10k Had daughter - buttoned off work big time for a couple of years
2016 £50k Still doing my own gig, but better work-life balance
2018 £115k Working much harder than I’d planned. But enjoying it. Combo contract/own gig
Private companies are probably more likely to account for actual experience. I've mostly dealt with government contracting where 5 years seemed to be the magic threshold.
I actually did a small project in .NET core here a few months ago. Pretty cool.

Sadly, older and bigger projects aren't as easily ported over, and do still require new features etc.
using my throwaway account but have some comment history on my career (i did a Ask HN post on pivoting my "career" last year). I saw someone from Sydney posting their history so I thought I add my perspective from another Australian lurker:

Date - Company ID | Starting Salary | Percentage Increase Role | Role

2005 - Company A | $20/hour | 100%! :) | Part Time Tester

2007 - Company B | $48,000 annual | 20.0% | Graduate Engineer

2009 - Company B | $65,000 annual | 25.0% | Engineer

2010 - Company B | $70,000 annual | 16.7% | Consulting Engineer

2011 - Company B | $78,000 annual | 11.5% | Consulting Engineer

2011 - Company C | $120,000 annual | $53.8% | Engineering Specialist

2012 - Company C | $125,000 annual | 4.2% | Team Lead

2013 - Company C | $128,000 annual | 4.5% | Team Lead

2014 - Company D | $210,000 annual | 64.0% | Solutions Architect

2015 - Company D | $225,000 annual | 7.1% | Solutions Architect

2016 - Company D | $195,000 annual | -1.3% | Solutions Architect

2017 - Company D | $205,000 annual | 5.1% | Solutions Architect

2018 - Company E | $150,000 annual + bonus | -26.8% | Management Position

edit: took out notes since it wasn't relevant and rearranged fields to look more uniform. If you have any questions, on each role, feel free to AMA.
Well either way, you still couldn't instigate scripts from Irssi from a remote message unless the client specifically had a Perl plugin telling it to do so (ie the user purposely programmed the IRC client to do it).

Even other Windows IRC clients didn't have this issue. I remember mIRC being particularly terrible in terms of security back in the day. Which is part of the reason it was considered such a joke on any of the more serious IRC channels (that and other features like "mIRC colours"). It's also part of the reason I wrote my own Windows IRC client (this was back in the early to mid-90s so before I switched to Linux as my primary desktop OS).

So I think comparing mIRC to other *nix IRC clients isn't going to get you very far because mIRC was in a whole class of it's own when it came to stupid vulnerabilities.
Hey everyone, just saw that Jaresume was posted here, awesome!

Though we only really went live about 10 days ago so there isn't a huge amount to see yet.

We have slowly been emailing some users from JSONResume and you can read our invite here -> https://pastebin.com/raw/vKFy3Lx7

To re-iterate what is on the homepage and email campaign;

we simply want to build a minimum feature set for professional networking.

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Warning: The site barely-barely works on mobile yet.

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Today we are working on an address book. Tomorrow, we will start polishing our mobile view/app.

You can view our design on Figma (they rock) -> https://www.figma.com/file/GrAnw8HH38pBPoeUY0bOjGk5/JAResume...

Site is built with Next.js, Koa and Fastly (also rock)

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Team:

https://jaresume.com/thomas

https://jaresume.com/rolandsharp

https://jaresume.com/john

And obviously thanks to all of the contributors to JSON Resume over the years. It will be maintained independently and we hope to invest more time into it.

Curious to hear everyones thoughts!?!
Unemployed white South Africans blocked from registering on govt jobs website
White male, born and raised in the UK, lived and worked in Australia and lately, the Netherlands.

1999: Intern developer at investment bank, £1500/month

2000: Java Developer at above, £40,000/year

2004: C++ Games Developer in Australia, AU$26,000/year

2006: C++ Games Developer in UK, £27,000/year

2007: C++ Senior Software Engineer in UK, £31,000/year + pension

2011: Java Developer in Netherlands, €44,000/year + pension

2012: C# Unity Developer in Netherlands, €31,800/year

2013: Contract Frontend Developer in NL, €50/hour

2015: Frontend Developer in NL, €50,000/year

2017: Contract Frontend Developer in NL, €75/hour

2018: Contract Frontend Developer in NL, similar to above

Fairly obvious here is that I a) like working in the games industry, b) the pay is much worse in the games industry, and c) that I never ended up staying for long in the games industry...
The housing market, and thus rents, have also boomed in that time. General cost of living is also pretty high in Australia.
Continuous Web Automation Testing
I‘d expect an NVMe SSD to be about 5 times as fast as a traditional SSD like the T5, at least in theory. However as an owner of the T5 I can assure you it’s still very performant and ideal for large media storage. If peak performance is a real concern, you still have another option I just discovered: Samsung X5 - an external NVMe SSD: https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/p...

This should be very close to internal PCI-based SSD performance and benchmarks seem to confirm this: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/05/review-samsung-x5-thunderbolt...

So there‘s a storage upgrade path if you’re fine with external hardware. I‘m considering this solution myself.
Gosaikunda Lake Nepal
Spanner is absolutely amazing. If you can live with the fact that you’re 100% vendor locked to google.

I can’t, so I run Postgres. But cockroachdb doesn’t have this problem.
Obama served 2009-2017, so your annectdote contradicts your point?
Why not the company? I am not really familiar with any controversy around Discord, I just use the software for chatting to my mates.
You are not understanding what it means to be determined that something be the case.
SQL Firewalling Made Easy with ClusterControl and ProxySQL
Well not really a fair comparison, Qualcomm is only part of the 3GPP patents profile, and LTE is only part of the iPhone package function. Not to mention 5% is equal or more to all other 3GPP patents cost combined.

Having said that, looking at Samsung, Mediatek, CEVA IPs, Intel Modem, so far it seems Qualcomm's baseband and IPs is actually quite value for money in terms of performance and cost.
Yep. Can be hard to find in drugstores, where they might be called 'aspirators' or 'bulb syringes'. Made of plastic (used to be rubber). Might be in baby section. Use water near body temp (or you might get dizzy). -Squeeze gently-.

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.co...

Same tool is a good substitute for use to irrigate the nose with neti pot solutions. A doctor once whispered to me 'big pharma doesn't want you to know about them'.
Didn't somebody make a fully synthetic bacterium? Flipping that around, making a sort of enantiomer bacterium, would be fascinating. Someday we could make a whole little toy ecosystem of mirror image organisms. Give it a century, and maybe we could do people.
Tech companies have been operating on a “take the money and run” basis ever since they ate the world. $1000 dollar devices are a massive farce with limited, if any, value add compared to 2015 models. Now that precedent has been established that you can run a multi billion dollar web based biz with zero competency with respect to facing consumers, this will only be exacerbated. You knew google doesn’t give a flying fuck about even the basic conceptual reqs needed to maintain even the illusion of decency, but instead of watchdogs we have an American legislature that is so deeply entrenched in a 40+yr old mentality that they can’t even conceive of the reptilian malevolence/negligence now enabled by technology companies.

Good luck getting your $$ back with no one watching your back
Mystery: Only English-Speakers Say ‘Belarus’. Others Use ‘Byelorussia’
I don't have a specific stack. I have moved between stacks over the years. Programming languages involved were Java, Scala, Clojure, Python, C, JavaScript (Node.js), Go, R. So the stacks change based on the programming language. The area of technology I work on have more or less been more constant. I work on distributed computing. Like implementing message passing protocols between nodes, writing job schedulers for distributed database systems that can synchronize jobs, and likewise.
This is a feature of optimizing compilers and isn't what people mean when they say it maps to hardware.
You need even more money to organize rallies, get anyone to report on them and to get any airtime for yourself. Advertising is much cheaper and easier way to get people to look at your ideas.

Banning political advertising is just a play to strengthen incumbents and hurt new comers. I also think it's morally wrong. It's "you should not try to influence others by yourself - only government approved channels are ok and maybe you will get a minute a day if you're already visible in the polls" kind of law. It's censorship reminding me of Soviet days. Europe is terrible when it comes to freedom of expression. Blasphemy laws are another example of prosecuting speech some groups don't like.
cat file.jpg file.zip > magic.jpg

that's all there is to it (tested under linux, file compressed and decompressed with zip command)
The why: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/government/282585-why-governm...
And the supply of non-embedded programmers also grew many orders of magnitude above that.

The question was whether job opportunities for C was scarce. I would not agree that it is.
Let go of your ego - what’s wrong with somebody knowing something more than you? Aren’t there topics you are an expert on? How do you handle it when someone asks you a question? If there is a marked difference between how you respond and they respond - maybe they are just a jerk or have bad social skills, that’s not your problem. If you respond in a similar way when asked questions then it’s just your ego having a hard time when the situation is reversed.
I think http://www.foundem.co.uk/ is a good example of how lightweight and fast an ecommerce site can be.

And I bet it was made by just one guy in a few weeks too.
Searched "Gavin MacInnes" on Twitter. "Gavin inserts Dildo in his ass"-video was posted over and over again, nothing else.

Searched "Sargon of Akkad" on Twitter. "Truth about SofA"-video posted over and over again and nothing else.

Obviously Factcheck.me and Botcheck.me have removed those controversial gentlemen and mass-produced this quality content instead. Automates working for good cause are not bots, of course.
The first proof of concept prototype was developed in 2007 based on insights gained with packaging and system engineering at two different companies, one a software one and the other a very large financial institution.

Refined framework (oh how I hate that word now thanks to web developers!) went into production in 2009 on Solaris 10, depending on advanced AT&T SVR4 packaging features. It was then subsequently ported to CentOS / RHEL RPM and went into production around 2011. It's been the corner stone of configuration management for the entire infrastructure, particularly production ever since.
GitHub is Celebrating Halloween
PoC||GTFO's [0] most issues are polyglot files.

Taken from 0x16 [1]'s introduction:

This file, pocorgtfo16.pdf , is a polyglot that is valid as a PDF document,
a ZIP archive, and a Bash script that runs a Python webserver which hosts
Kaitai Struct’s WebIDE which, allowing you to view the file’s own annotated bytes.

[0]: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

[1]: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo16.pdf
Also superman 3 15 years before...
Nope. Smalltalk objects aren't concurrent or asynchronous in any way. Smalltalk "messages" are good old method calls.
Mental health and wellness website
If you’ve used both R and another, more reasonable language for any length of time, it’s perfectly coherent.
Frankenstein and the gory gang: how the novel blazed a trail for high art horror
Gases diffuse and mix given enough time. There's not enough time when you have a massive indoor gas leak.

Even outdoors, large amounts of CO2 tend to sink to the ground and suffocate people in low-lying areas. Look up Lake Nyos for a particularly grizzly example of that.
> "It was on the internet — on Facebook, to be exact — that Alek Minassian posted a pledge of allegiance to the “incel rebellion,” which refers to the resentments of “involuntarily celibate” men who can’t interest the women around them in sex. He then used a van to mow down and kill 10 people in Toronto in April."

That is one of the most pathetic and miserable things I've ever read.
It's politics. How do you convince millions of people to look at your ideas and yourself without ads?
You need to be a billionaire to organize rallies in major cities and that will still be less effective than ads. You're only getting airtime if you're an incumbent or already popular. Internet made it possible to get attention of millions of people relatively cheaply. No wonder it's in the interest of ruling elite to ban doing that.
Good summary ! I agree and would add the SPA(craze) also bought us the JS-Frameworks(pick anyone you like with more than 100 stars). I don't like JS-Frameworks... I just LOVE them more than JQUERY Projects ! :/
One thousand times would make it 10km depth - so clearly not “thousands”. Other than that you are right that there is no gain in e.g. doubling the internal pressure.
Indirection Is Not Abstraction
The problem came with E.E I think.. You have to edit like 10 XML files before even getting to the source code files. Granted with today's JS tooling we approaching that again :(
but it's a bit sad that it can't intentionally help it to handle cancer.
A mile of subway in New York serves more people. But I get the notion.
I was assuming that. 100ms is barely enough time for the request to reach the server depending on the location.
A few hours after #Apple released iOS 12.1, a researcher found a Passcode Bypass
HN regularly ban/kill political topics. Good or bad some topics don't belong here even if popular among users. Things like: "I want to be a governorn of Y region or representative of X country, here is my program" either won't get any traction or be killed.
Buying ads is the cheapest and most effective way of getting eyes to your ideas. It's great it became more accessible. No wonder ruling elites in Europe want it banned tough.
If it makes you feel any better, Australian software salaries seem pretty high compared to most of the world.

I more than doubled my salary moving from the UK (Bristol) to Australia (Sydney), while my living costs only went up a little higher.
The hours of work per week varies. Some weeks it is 5-10 hours per week. Some weeks it is 30-40 hours per week. Sometimes I had to stretch to work for 10 hours at a time. Such days are rare but they happen sometimes. This pattern has been like this in all my jobs from the beginning (2003).

The days off per year in my current job is just like any other company in India. Apart from 104 weekends and 10 government holidays, there are 20 vacation leaves for planned vacations and 12 casual leaves for ad-hoc personal time off. So total of 32 leaves. This has varied from job to job but the number of leaves has always remained between 28 and 34 in these jobs.
If you can build a satisfying life and career somewhere cheap, why wouldn't you just do that from the beginning?

Is it really worth it to take a crap standard of living in SF over several years for, what, $5000/year in investment income?
Thanks for your feedback.
As everyone starts on a trial I didn't want to confuse it by putting sign up buttons under each plan, and visually I prefer one clear call to action. Maybe I could change the button text to "Start Here"?
I agree that Fetches can seem vague at first. I'll revisit it.
I find banning AirBnB a lazy form of governance, much like open container laws. "This behavior is correlated with undesirable outcomes, so it is illegal irrespective of the actual result of the behavior".

The other argument I see is that it prices out locals. Sure, allowing someone to own a 6-unit building and rent it out as a de-facto hotel will increase housing prices. But allowing locals to rent out their apartment while they're traveling has the opposite effect - it makes property more affordable by increasing utilization.
All those things are very expensive and someone without significant backing won't be able to afford them. Ads are cheaper and more effective, especially when you're just starting and don't know if you should invest more of your time and money.
Show HN: DMV appointments with 50% shorter wait
At 2 years experience I was on ~50k package in Melbourne, and at 6 years ~200k.

The pay tends to start off a lot lower here compared to the hot spots in the US but somewhat catches up from what I’ve seen.
Solid points, have you shared with the team?
If you are actually doing well (not just in your mind), there will be angels that are happy to give you a 50 or 100k loan at 10% per annum. Even in Europe.
> Also I would like to know if the SSD can be upgraded later

During the presentation they showed the inside as well, highlighting the locations of RAM and SSD and both seemed to be soldered. As they're nowadays soldered in every other mobile Mac, replaceable parts in the new MacBook Air would surprise surprise me (although it'd be a pleasant surprise).
Paper clip likely caused NYPD body cam explosion, forensic report says
If you are interested in this sort of thing, make sure to checkout Funky File Formats by Ange Albertini
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/5930.htm...
Bitcoin Depot Building on Bitcoin ATM Industry Growth
Before taxes? Vienna or a smaller city? Austria seems not so great for software devs...
In what wall time? Compared to similar error rates.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were verboten. The leaked Windows NT source code had plenty of swearing, no references to Bill Gates.
If you jettisoned lightsail while approaching solar system it would get SLOWED down by Sol's light compared to the main mass of the craft. We would see the ship first and only then the sail.

Solar sails to be effective would have to be much larger than the craft itself, and also very reflective (by definition), though the reflection don't have to omnidirectional (stealth aircraft/ship principle -- make it reflect a lot but only in very specific direction so that it seems dark to most observers).

Given this, the craft would most likely PRECEDE the sail but would also be smaller and darker and we would most likely not be able to spot it.
You don't need root to block ads on Android. To hell with the marketing industry:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/

If you're on iOS its FUBAR though.
In the Tidyverse everything in R is perfectly logical and coherent. What would you consider to be a “reasonable” language then?