skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With no money from a job, sitting at home will be something people will not like. Doing what you like usually costs money, so you need a job. Any job.

How are you going to pay for a home anyways, without a job?
Homosexuality is no more equivalent to pederasty than heterosexuality is to pedophilia.
It is said that each and every EDA tool sucks in its own ways.
In my experience, the weakness of current conferencing systems isn't in the software - it's a hardware problem.

Specifically, their ability to capture and transmit usable speech is really poor. Between echo and poor noise gating, I'm not exaggerating when I say that I can make out fewer than 1/3 of the words in my team's conference calls.

I don't care how efficient the video codec is, if I can't clearly understand what the other people are saying, it's all useless.
To argue from an extreme point of view, neither of those choices are very good because the web in general is a terrible platform. The whole standard they implement (and its velocity of change) seems geared towards minimizing the potential for competition, and is implemented without a hint of concern for what identifying information the browser APIs might divulge by design or how much the attack surface for various malicious activities grows with their inclusion. It's an arms race, and adtech have found where all sides keep their guns.
Italy’s ‘third sex’ wedding festival
> "turned it up to 11", and didn't re-evaluate the original design.

In other words they thru all engineers principals out the window.

Now there is no doubt this is exactly what happened.

But the bigger question is why did this happen and why was it allowed to happen?
Intro to Incident Communication for Product Managers
I've had an interest in crows and ravens for years. Most corvid researchers agree that ravens top the list in intelligence due to their larger brains. Crows tend to squabble over resources whilst ravens tend to be loners (mating pairs hang out for life). Magpies are also very high on the intelligence scale, as they are also corvids.

Ravens have shown extreme intelligence in solving issues on how to open containers, defeat barriers to a food source (greenhouses), windows, etc. Ravens have been observed "timing" windows opening/closing to source food behind glass.

Ravens make toys from pine cones, bottle caps, twigs, and play with them with other ravens. They also use ant piles to roll around in, allowing the formic acid from the ants to cover them, giving them a barrier to mites and other bad hosts (called "anting").
In many ways, it is the very opposite: the "egalitarian" model of homosexual relationships was itself a new development and a desirable outcome of the gradual "cultural acceptance" of homosexuality. You can see this even with very recent developments such as same-sex marriage. The polar opposite to that is the ancient, Graeco-Roman model of homosexuality (but also found today in many parts of the non-Western world, and even reflected e.g. in stereotypes about sex in prisons) as simply an exertion of male-on-male dominance and power. (Though, to be fair about it, ancient "fornication" wasn't different either! This is the underlying rationale for why a number of ethical traditions in the Classical world, including Christianity, condemned both sexual practices in very similar terms - both were incredibly far from anything that could be considered "egalitarian" or, in even more modern terms, respectful of "consent"!)
Irrespective of how practical thermic lances are, the likelihood that there would be something more valuable inside the safe than the safe itself was low (that’s also confirmed now by the actual contents of the safe) and that’s probably why destructive opening of the safe was never even considered.

The safe itself was the exhibition piece that was valuable to the museum. Destroying it just to get at its unknown but probably boring contents would have been pointless.
Prices law holds true in most professional settings, though - sales, academia, investing, law, even elite fields like sports and brain surgery.

It's not that the other 80-95% of the people in the firm or league or field don't have value, it's that they're 100% fungible.
IInterface Considered Harmful
Is there more detail to the story of your startup we can read about?

I like movies like startup.com and e-dreams.
Time to pull out this chestnut. I start out as a physics major, this is Georgia Tech in 1980, 1981. In my classical mechanics class my german physics professor said that "of course we weren't taught relativity because it was considered Jewish physics". That brought a round of chuckles until we realized he wasn't kidding.
People who care most about politics have least understanding of their opponents
The post is from 2018.
Atlantic aquifer has enough water to fill 1B Olympic swimming pools
> If you don't give your kids smart phones you cut them off of people. It's a conundrum.

You cut them off from people if they don't have a $1000 computer in their pocket?

Dumb phones are still a thing. They can call, text, and many have a camera that can send lower-res images. I think that's way more than enough to stay in touch. They don't need "Apps".
I replaced the WLAN card on my wife's Lenovo consumer laptop a few years ago and needed a hacked BIOS because the original one was the only one that was accepted for ... I don't know what reasons. Lenovo -- in that price bracket -- isn't really better in that respect.
I cannot recommend this book enough. It is a great read due to good writing and interesting case studies, and the underlying message is immensely valuable.
A was curious about the dashcam fine so I looked it up and it seems some vary ordinary usages of cameras are violating GDPR:

> It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal. Two people were reprimanded for using surveillance cameras for their own home without permission.

I assume "driver's point of view" means looking out of the front windshield? Is this not how dash cams are meant to be used? (On second though perhaps this is a translation issue... the article was in German). And then I assume the surveillance cameras were mounted outside and recorded people in public?

Both of the possible scenarios here seem pretty benign and ordinary by US standards.
Generic typing in PHP (PHPStan is getting generics)
Same as the [1] extension I wrote last year. Firefox was easier to incorporate than I thought though, the API is almost identical.

[1] https://newsit.benwinding.com/
In academic environments there is often no dedicated IT department, so all support is done by the technically versed colleagues. Replacing machines with Macs has always resulted in an enormous reduction of these support calls, in my experience. Moving back to Windows would destroy all of that.
"There's two ways to approach work: social ('packer') and philosophical ('mapper'). Philosophical is more effective, but your boss is likely to be a packer. Here's some practical tips to understand and alleviate that tension."

It also champions the bazaar over the cathedral.
Oh wow, I did not know about this and it's awesome. Thank you!
100% correct.

The available evidence suggest this averaging thing never happened and certainly was not the cause of the crash.

What we have is situation of two pilots in close proximity to each other not communicating and the captain unfortunately caught in the toilet.
Perhaps they made it implicitly self-closing.
This has been happening for years with Valve videogames, so far as I know it hasn't been limited or cracked down on.
> "They have no value really, but they are of great interest to us. It gives us a little bit of idea of what the places were like in 1977, '78," said Mr Kibblewhite.

This must be the most American thing ever. 40 year old stuff treated like they're ancient.
That is my bad, static site generator where you input the date manually. Fixing now.
>we should not let it attempt to displace the financial system

Why do people think that this will shove our existing financial system aside? The second something comes close to having too much of an impact (stepping on the toes of banks, displacing the dollar, etc), the regulators will crack down on it. What I can see happening is that it becomes an alternative payment method at best.
Was I damning too much by feint praise? I thought I agreed it was pretty good. Just some of the human plot stretched a bit far to the ridiculous. The spider eye view of the world and technology, and their take on religion was fun, and well done.

Much better than a couple of books by far more acclaimed authors I've read recently, for instance.

I'm British, we're fed sarcasm and understatement from birth. :)
Hi hope this will be called Open Sauce.
I suspect that if you ask them, they're not in Mountain View for fun, they're there for the access to top tier tech talent. Browser rendering engines and java script engines are serious engineering, needing good engineers. It's not the only place in the world you can find them, but it's a good one.
The academic CS tomes never really gelled for me. It was .NET programmer Charles Petzold's guides that made things click

http://www.charlespetzold.com/books.html

I'd also give a shout out to Micheal Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book that taught me the adage "the best optimizer is between your ears"

http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/

Reference I keep close at hand is Ilya Grigorik's High Performance Browser Networking. Web apps with sub second latency can make all the difference

https://hpbn.co/
... and on what kind of hardware, because it's not so much useful if you need a supercomputer for it.
> on smaller scales you should avoid making right-angle turns in metal lines because of electromigration

Someone needs to tell the semiconductor industry that, then, because all traces inside a modern IC are at 90 degrees. The whole chip is just a big array of parallel lines in two orientation that get cut by photolithography to form circuits. The vias between levels are 90 degrees too, of course.

It's certainly true that electromigration is going to concentrate more at tight bends. But in practice if it isn't killing your 7nm interconnect you're... probably going to be fine with that 1 mil trace that is a million times wider.
The general audience of Facebook has very little overlap with HN commenters.
And yet folks show their ID to their camera to get into their Facebook account all the time.

https://m.facebook.com/help/314201258613998
Show HN: Newsit (Browser Extension) – Reverse lookup comments from any webpage
if it works, it's not a dumb solution :)
the article isnt suggesting you should hire people who only know a different framework from the one you are using, but that you should hire people who are capable of being productive in all sorts of frameworks.
Well, real-time 4kp60 HEVC encoding is a reality since 2014 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140904005279/en

Since that time HEVC encoding has only become faster and less expensive.

This real-time AV1 encoder achieves 1080p30, which is simply speaking 8 times less pixels than that 2014 demo. And compares against H.264 which says it all.
There used to be a joke along the lines of "In Europe people think a 100 miles is a long distance. In the States people think a 100 years is a long time".
Ah, very nice.
Source? Looked online and couldn't find anything apart from one or two untrustworthy mentions on quora.
That's not relevant to anything in this thread. Please stay on topic.
uBlock origin blocks everything on Google SERPs.
> but operator guided machinery (ie CNCs, injection molding, task specific machines for things like packaging) glued together with flexible human workers isn't going anywhere

There are funded companies already trying to get rid of all of that. Here's one - https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613743/relativity-space-3...

Give it a few years. It's going to happen.
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Then block tracking, but don't remove the advertising content. Or propose a solution that doesn't involve paying them with a worthless cryptocurrency, unless you'd like your salary to be paid in BAT.
I had this in university - when I started some documents I needed were delivered to my uni mailbox which was guarded by a code, but we weren't due to get our code until we had completely "matriculated" (signed in, got our IDs, etc). So I just sat down with a couple of beers and set out out to try all 9999 combinations (it was thankfully in the 2000s or so).

Made me realise that my university mailbox wasn't actually that secure ...
It seems time for a centrists rebellion. If someone is good at Twitter it's a proxy for relatively extreme beliefs.
The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone
AI Against Humanity
> [...] All it means is that the government, key word, is not allowed to stop you from using a platform [...]

The confusion (ours, not yours specifically) might arise because some talk about free speech the principle and others talk about free speech the legal norm. (The latter is prominently codified in the US constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

It's not the same and the principle isn't exclusively about government.

Free speech is also a very old ideal and exists in places where the US constitution doesn't apply and places where human rights aren't implemented through local policies. It can be violated in places where there is no government at all.

There's this great Wikipedia article on the topic which introduces first the idea, then different implementations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
Games in which you walk (and get immersed)
Web Perception Toolkit: Detect QR Codes, Barcodes, Logo Images
As a gigging pianist who struggles to get performances, I often think back to before recorded music. There was a musician playing or there was no music. Think of all the functions and events that automation, via recordings, has eliminated. It is not surprising, therefore, that the careers of musicians have been hollowed out and I must code to pay the bills.
I'd say ThinkPad. Almost 30 years of establishment and yet it's easy to open, upgrade, replace and recycle.
I concur! They are all highly complex pieces of software each with years of design cruft and their own foibles. I've yet to try any of the "heavyweight" ones like Altium because I don't have a megacorp footing the bill, but certainly of The free ones they all have issues. I personally like and use kicad but agree that it still has some serious usability issues (though a LOT of progress has been made with >5.0) it has some features that i wouldn't give up for the world (push and shove routing for one) and some I despise (library management still blows) and on balance I prefer it to the restrictions of eagle (free) but for knocking up a quick board, easy eda is pretty handy to have on hand wherever I may be that I can't install the others on. it's full featured enough to not suck as much as (say) fritzing
One of the examples has a number of missing values (,,) and the literal 'undefined', starting around the Education section
https://registry.jsonresume.org/beeman
Cypherpunks Tapping Bitcoin via Ham Radio
I have been wrong so many times in thinking that FB had gone a bridge too far, that I no longer believe there's anything FB users wouldn't do if FB required them to do it. They could send goons door to door rounding up children for the slaughter and it wouldn't put an appreciable dent in their engagement metrics.
Never used Brave, but switched to Opera recently and it's doing great in blocking ads.
This reminds me of Feynman

http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/learn_how_richard_feynman...
There isn't much to "expect", large scale automation is happening for more than 50 years now.
It's similar to people saying "AI will revolutionise the world", it already is revolutionising for several decades. It seems to me that this notion became popular in the last few years and has been so simplified/vulgarised that people expect half the world to lose their job at once when "robots" and "ai" take over.

Job automation isn't a single point in time, it's a gradual process that's been happening for as long as work existed. And as long as we run our current economic system there will be jobs to replace automated ones. Currently it seems like services are the new factory jobs (uber, food delivery, &c.).

> Automation, which is both the most advanced sector of modern industry and the epitome of its practice, obliges the commodity system to resolve the following contradiction: The techno- logical developments that objectively tend to eliminate work must at the same time preserve labor as a commodity, because labor is the only creator of commodities. The only way to prevent automation (or any other less extreme method of increasing labor productivity) from reducing society’s total necessary labor time is to create new jobs. To this end the reserve army of the unemployed is enlisted into the tertiary or “service” sector, reinforcing the troops responsible for distributing and glorifying the latest commodities; and in this it is serving a real need, in the sense that increasingly extensive campaigns are necessary to convince people to buy increasingly unnecessary commodities.

- Guyd Debord, 1967
This is what AdBlock Plus did with the "Acceptable ads" program, which is their main source of revenue. Arguably with some reasonable criteria for what an "acceptable ad" is, but to me entirely unreasonable because the software doesn't by default do what it says on the tin.

That's years ago, I believe, and there are still ad blockers that don't seem to accept compromise.
Contributing to OSS considered “dangerous advice”
Cloak and dagger creativity camp (Burning Man minus crowd, desert and drugs)
Can you provide a source for that $775 figure? In May alone there were 144,000 illegal immigrants processed by the CBP. That's over $100,000,000 just for one month, which makes me skeptical of that figure off $775 / person being available.
How Bad Are Things? (2015)
delegated PoS requires trust. Pure PoS does not, which is analogous to PoW mining.
Thanks! I will let the user know.
Roasting as a Service makes sure someone tells you why your product/startup/website is trash. Because dreaming is too easy.

When people give you feedback they don't want to hurt your feelings. Would you pay $5 to get real feedback?
Men claimed they were abducted by aliens. Mississippi police believed them
How do you verify the content of a vaccine? It's not much different to using proprietary software. Yes, it seems to be good for us, but can you trust it fully without being able to verify it's contents and confirm that it wasn't tampered with along the way?
Most hotel and airline miles allow for C. It might cost a fee to transfer them but that's the same with any monetary transfer.

I can sell them as well on a few marketplaces online, so they have an agreed value as well.

Most importantly, because I can sell and trade them... Does that not make them mine?
>The museum had previously enlisted the help of experts to crack the code

since they have (essentially) infinite time, why couldn't they attach a machine that tries all possible combinations? feels like something that someone from the high school robotics club could come up with.
So polyglot > framework dev. Great, I agree with that.

I don't think this even scratches the surface of what's hard about tech hiring and where the flaws are in practice.
Do these specialized dashcams keep a buffer? Otherwise it seems both the shock and trigger button would activate too late to capture the moments before the 'crash' which typically are more important for determining the cause.
> less car accidents, have less risky sex, have a lower rate of teenage pregnancy, ingest less risky substances, are generally less violent

These are positive changes. All of them. These were literally something bad about older generation. All these things have negative consequences on not just risk accepting person, but also to other people around.

If you are more anxious but less violent, then it is a good trade off.
Cinnamon in my case :/
That stuff is great. Once in an embedded SW shop I received some prototypes routed like that. It was unexpected! I couldn't stop smirking and showing it off to everyone around :)
No, no the "noble prize" is an award I personally give out to the HN comment that best exemplifies the common phenomenon on this board where a glib oversimplification of a massively complicated issue is used to dismiss the importance of far-reaching changes in favour of a one-line technical fix.
Britain adopts 2050 net zero emissions target
Recently I was playing through the PC version of the original Prince of Persia again. Last time I played was as a kid and the game was very hard for me, level 5 was about as far as I could get. I trained for two days until I got so good at the game and memorized everything, that I was able to complete the entire game in one go with zero deaths. Took about 25 minutes of ingame timer to complete all stages.
I can't even imagine having the conversations I have on social media with the people around me. Talking animals discussing kink gear at Pride. Julián Castro acknowledging trans people at the debate. Getting help and sharing information on a piece of software made by people on the other side of the continent (or planet). The rights of androids and holograms.

How do I even find a common language with people whose main activities are poker, racing, and sports? These are all fine activities, but I always want to go off and do anything else when I try to socialize locally. We don't click.

It's not like I was more interested in them before I had an always-on internet connection. Social media and the internet in general gave me an outlet and community for the things I was drawn to before the internet entered the picture.

There aren't many people around here who would get this joke: https://snouts.online/@Kye/102329949919207919
"... only whitelist the domains I want ..."

Well, this is easy to exploit. Use an URL under my domain and proxy to the ad server. JavaScript is a problem. Simple as that.
It's cyclical. None of this matters, because we adapt. It was rock n roll, television, video games, now smart phones. It will be something else. Perhaps we are all mentally screwy, or perhaps it's another exaggeration. Either way, it's too big. It's like the ice age. It just crushes any and all things. It's not inherently evil. It's just new technology. We will get use to it. People are addicted, but there will be a pullback. It will come back to equilibrium. Or it won't. But life will keep ticking along.
For those who are unaware, this is a standard factory code for safes.
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Yes, everyone focuses on the software here. They assume that MCAS just needs a few updates and it will be all good.

How can we trust that assessment? What if the plane is inherently unsafe? There's been no critical 3rd party review of the plane without MCAS in operation. Everything is a Boeing talking point. Their proposed fix is 2 AoA sensors (on top of whatever slapped-together software updates), and if they disagree, disable MCAS. That's going to decrease the MTBF of that system. So, IMO, the real question is, why should MCAS even be allowed if it's so easily disabled? Either the planes can fly without it or they can't.
TBH, I'd be in support of removing every feature related to C++ interfacing. To interface with C++, you need to become like C++. If you become like C++, people will just use C++. D has spent considerable engineering effort in various areas in chase of a mythical "C++ programmer", but those people seem to be moving to Rust instead.
I’d say that since teen suicides are significantly up, yes they are sadder today. And by far the biggest change in young people’s lives today versus previous generations is being constantly connected to the Internet via their phones, more specifically social media.