skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing story!

I had a student in one of my software engineering classes with a similar disability, a few years after I dropped out I found he developed a VR game and Playstation bought it!

Sometimes I wish I had the same willpower.
I'm just honestly surprised
> which languages have been truly popular historically and then died?

For some value of "dead": at least PL/I and ALGOL

For some value of "truly popular" as well as "dead": Modula-2, Forth, Prolog.
4.11 is newer than 4.2
Your narrative is that the poor lack the moral fibre and self-control to quit.

The reality is that they lack the cash to quit. Drink, drugs, and alcohol are used as coping mechanisms to make life bearable. When people move out of poverty - for whatever reason - a substantial proportion suddenly find the self control to change their habits.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/poorest-families-more-lik...
Apparently, you guys are overloading the university's server! Nice job guys!!
The article starts with talking about "work from home", then start talking about distributed teams.

Where I am a bit puzzled is that there are already hundred of thousands of people working in global companies where colleagues are already in different time zones, with different cultural norms, etc.

So apart from the loneliness aspect, I feel it is not that a novel idea, and feels like recycled content.
4.11 is 9 versions newer than 4.2
I have a theory that one major but hard to quantify benefit of a Universal Basic Income would be that more people would gain the sort of patience you describe.

Based on your own experience, would you think that, say, $1000/month as is being proposed in the States these days would make a difference in that direction?
It's great tool for personal use, to write quick single purpose UIs in webtech that can access DB directly, without the need to write the backend or much with REST APIs.

For personal use, you also don't need multiple runtimes for multiple electron apps. You can just use the single shared one (or even system one; for example archlinux has electron installable via pacman), reducing memory use.

It's also pretty good tool to write your own UI for other people's websites.
For that, I highly recommend the book “Atomic Habits”. One of the major takeaways is that every time you do something, you’re making a vote for the type of person you want to be in the future. And from that mindset, if gives a lot of advice about how to turn actions into habits.
I "expect" it, but realize it won't generally happen. That this shitty situation is the norm doesn't mean it isn't still shitty, and the lack of feedback - or even the common straight up ghosting - is one of the reasons I want to start charging for my time when interviewing. Basically - pay me with money, or information, but respect me and my time enough that you won't waste the investment with silence.

Note: I got feedback from everyone I did an in-person with (3, this time around)
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Only if you discount luck completely.

There are degrees of bad luck otherwise that nobody can surmount. As a simple example, do you consider a person bedridden due to a sickness lazy?
Maybe something like: https://jlongster.com/secret-of-good-electron-apps
So, you're saying you don't know about the DEA's use of parallel construction as outlined in their operating manual? Or, the FISA courts, or the various Love-Int scandals the NSA engaged in?

Or let's go old school. Remember good ole' J. Edgar Hoover? Even before the digital age, the man created enough waves through amplified access via HUMINT that cast a pallor of doubt over decades of politics.

There is absolutely no rational reasoning to endorse further centralization to enable systemic abuse. No privileged system will remain free of abuse in the face of those seeking ultimate power. The only way to prevent those seeking it from finding it is to identify the power grab when it happens, and shut it down.

I absolutely do not condone the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse, but let me be clear; a world with pervasive and perfect surveillance is a world where the machinery, if left alone to it's own devices inevitably tends toward the destruction of our humanity.

I know the religious language may not carry As much weight for some, but I think in this rare case it's the most concise way I can make my point. As sinners, we are born, through forgiveness, repentance, and redemption we grow and cultivate that which as a species is said to entail all that which is generally regarded as being beautiful, and virtuous about us. Part of that, as a societal unit, comes in the form of fighting the most vile amongst us without abandoning the moral high ground.

We don't have police procedures and the rules around dispensing justice because we want above all else to punish criminals; if we were really out to do that, just point the mob of the majority at everyone they disagree with or deem a criminal and 'let God sort it out' as the most ruthlessly pragmatic would say.

On the contrary, though; we make it so hard to police, we constrain acceptable methods of investigation, because at some level we all understand the violence inherent to the system, and the inevitability of the occasional employment of it. We rein it that we may in some manner drive it, and live not in constant fear of those that drive it; as they too are (supposed to be) bound by it's laws.

It should strike a tone of alarm in anyone when those acting as the executors of the system's mandates begin fighting to loosen the rein. In no case does that bode well for anyone involved left unchecked.
I believe that’s because it’s frames per second, not an abstract percentile.
As Jeff Atwood famously puts it "performance is a feature", so as any with feature, wether you should invest in it depends on the project and the needs. Sometimes it's worth your time sometimes it's not, only your specs can tell.
what a crap article.

the riots have been going on for a while.

recently, criminal mobs wearing white shirt are entering the subways with battons and violently attacking the protesters. all caugth on camera.

police is never present when white shirts show up, only hours later.

even though there are videos of all the white shirts, only the black shirts who are protesting in a pacifist maner are being indicted, and some under laws about carring a weapon because they were photographed with a traffic cone used to mitigate police tear gas granades.

this whole thing is as bad as crimea.
>When we go visit Japan, we come back kind of disgusted by America: there's trash everywhere, food is gross, certain neighborhoods are unsafe, every other person is obese, etc.

This is exactly how I feel when I return from the Japan. The same goes for coming back from Switzerland or Scandinavia. If more Americans traveled, they would probably be more upset about how terrible the US is compared to any other industrialized nation.
Why? Unless they were in on the shenanigans he was just a well connected investor with lots of cash. Better taking his money for good than letting him use it for bad.
I do. I've talked to lots of people and the problem with that solution is that if you work with large groups of people, they can't get through. That's why the PINs feature is useful. Lots of people work with supplies, business networks, etc so they can't just reject non-whitelisted people.

Also, whitelist requests are effortless with CallStop. I don't think Apple's solution has any concept of that.

There's a lot more that could be added to CallStop too. Think about limiting the number of times a certain number could call you (think your internet provider, etc.) and also automatically implementing time based rules (you can only be reached for work between hour x and hour y daily).
The news story is just the PR release restated. There is no reporting going on. They even repeated the arguably false statement that this is "the first of its kind", leaving off the one part of the statement that might make it true "by a university".

That was the point of my comment, and I included the link so you could look at both.
>> any information they give about how they arrive at their decision could potentially expose the company to liability

which says a lot about their hiring process.
After several rounds of kids with hospital stays I really appreciated common spaces with an assortment of furniture where you could take some time to ... not feel like you're in such a serious clinical place.
The graph is likely showing Frames Per Second (FPS). The higher the better.
> technologies to fight with climate change

Climate change isn't a technical problem; it's a social problem.

“Advanced” economies rely on otherwise-unnecessary consumption of resources, irrespective of environmental damage, because there's no effective social penalty for harming the environment.

Clean energy won't help: demand always increases at least as fast as supply.
Typical. The sea lion was just asking a few questions and trying to have a polite discussion.
I think the fact that business school exists at all should be our first clue that Economics is mostly pseudo-science. It has little material value aside from propagandizing the ideas of the wealthy.
This was incredibly weird, I'm not at all on the candidate's side on this one.
If they could make an iPhone X-like phone with a headphone jack, then I'll buy it. I have zero interest in airpods or other wireless earphones though, so its a hard pass from me as long as that's the route they're going.
It's overwhelming how many projects with high rate of usefulness are based on boards from Pi Zero family, not the A or B.
The thing to remember is that version numbers aren’t decimals. They’re two or three integers separated by periods.

11 is higher than 2.
Don't most compilers already do this?
At least one reader certainly doesn't. You're asking everybody for evidence that could stand up even in court while you respond with anecdotal data and personal experience based on biased, incomplete, or generic data.

"I live and work in rural US and suddenly I can afford a lot more than I could if I had one of those jobs I found after an internet search for London" does not pass the bar you expect other people's evidence to. Not by a long shot.
In EU you have a right to amend an unconscionable contract. People use it all the time to not sign stupid clauses in bank.

Additionally, a hospital here cannot disclaim health damage (and other damages) due to poorly performed procedure. The thing is, sometimes even well performed procedures are not enough.

Finally, since critical health care is insured by state and therefore stupid charges like in the US rarely happen, but you might get kicked out slightly early and get poorer bed and care without extras. Acceptable still.

People in the US just really do not want to believe luck is a factor. Victim is always blamed one way or another.

Even if any of the 3 above was not met, the follow up question of "why" often reveals "I couldn't afford anything better" or "I was not given advice". Someone who is ignorant is not too be blamed, people are ignorant of all things before they actually happen to them.
There is a similar circuit utilizing a zener diode (https://www.edn.com/design/analog/4420926/White-noise-source...). This is very flat white noise and very wide band and works quite well (had it breadboarded a year ago).
Because the media turns everything into a witch hunt these days.
Indeed not, and I am EXTREMELY skeptical of the claim that birth times are reduced TWO HOURS (!!!) by the addition of art. That's the kind of effect you see in papers that get retracted for outright fraud, let alone dubious and irreproducible studies.
> Why is there no mention of IR (heat) radar? As far as I know, its impossible to hide a jet engine heat signature.

The heat signature of what, the exhaust? That's very low density, so emissions from the exhaust itself will be negligible.

The plane itself will emit black-body radiation, but that is based on the skin temperature, not the temperature of any interior engine parts.

In the meantime, all of this is for passive detection, so at a distance you'd be asking for the detector to pick an at-best-tiny signal out of the entire sky. Moreover, clouds are opaque.
Having been a microbiologist in a past life I'm very familiar with Typhoid Mary.

I do however think you are attacking a straw man.

"Under Board of Cosmetology regulations, an individual “must complete not less than 300 hours of instruction on the theory and practice of shampooing” at an approved school. That instruction includes how to answer the phone, order products, information about the composition of shampoos, and on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s rules governing hair salons."

Would you approve of dishwashers needing 300 hours of training on ordering soap, answering phones, waiting tables, and washing hands?
Agreed, pretty much every hospital room I’ve been in has mystery stains on the ceiling. It’s so common that I’d point them out to my family members and we’d wonder out loud what the cause could have been.

Edit: there was even one room where I put on rubber gloves and used the disinfectant wipes from the janitor’s cart to clean dried blood from my IV pole and the bed rails.
Jetbrains is paid and has probably a larger team behind it. Building those cross platform desktop apps is the business model of their company. Of course they should pick something else than electron. They hire developers that will have the java skills needed to build it.

I wouldn't say that emacs is a shining exemple of desktop UI. Everything is based on text buffers and keyboard commands. I don't see this type of application getting the same scale of adoption as vscode or slack (and this comes someone who has used emacs as an editor for python and org mode files for 3 years).
Remascompany
The difference is that Visual Studio 2010 was buggy as hell and is still a better option than... Honestly, every editor I've seen used on JS. It mostly stayed out of the way. It didn't hang when I moved the mouse, for God's sake. I think OP's point is that we're suffering needlessly, which is hard to refute when there were better options around nearly a decade ago.

It's worth mentioning that this madness is mostly an issue in the JS community; everyone else is getting along just fine. And, as with npm, react, angular, electron, etc. etc. the JavaScript programmers act like these issues - already solved countless times elsewhere - are universal constants.
I celebrate these apps. I wish there were more apps that takes us out of Adobe world. I'm using Sketch + Pixelmator and I am planning on learning Affinity Designer too. I will give this one a shot.
This same plane has been exactly the same for a year and a half. https://www.spot.im/s/00f6Ja46G1re
Yes, it's hard to imagine why somebody would get nervous about a predator like Epstein being taken off the streets.
No, as the case at hand shows. Actually, the prosecutors seem to have done an amazing job, given that usually top management manages to isolate themselves quite will from shady practices of their corporation.
I recently looked into this as well. What I'm worried about (as opposed to a more expensive method like Climeworks offers) is what prevents people from ripping out those trees next year? The planting companies never seem to be the owner of the ground. They don't even guarantee a single year.

Does anyone know how they handle this risk?
Fight Club is such a great motivational story for the first half or so. And then it goes completely off the rails.

I often credit my current position in life to watching Fight Club with a friend when I was 16 and forming my views on the broader world and how I would fit into it.
As a geek I find this really cool, but as a realist I doubt the impact it can have. To replace ICE cars, the replacement has to be significantly better in some if not most dimensions.

Outside of hobbyist tinkerers / enthusiasts, it’s going to be very difficult for a retrofit to compete with any electric-first design. Just weight distribution alone will be tough, and range is very low, to name a couple of issues.

Yes there is the perceived cost savings here, but I would argue that is a mirage, because over time the consumer will realize that they have made a mistake, and they will have to consider the price they paid as just an expense of learning a lesson. But hey it will surely provide some cool fun and conversation value in the meantime.
I think “war” is pretty great exaggeration here, as implies active action.

It’s more like “they are not talking anymore”
I agree its not quite as concerning if your habits are only coalesced in an anonymous profile, but...

The matching engines will keep matching on. You can't ever slip up, even once.

If you leak any sort of signal, its all for naught - and the matching engines may be able to use that signal to link that anonymous collection of habits back to a real resolved identity.
I think abandoned is too strong of a word. Many research projects have an explicit goal of building an MVP (and an explicit non-goal of doing anything beyond that). The research project is only really "dead" when there are no more questions to be asked. Even well-known professors some times have gaps of years or decades when no apparent progress is being made, but may still pick up the problem later and work on it (see e.g. the STOKE project and Alex Aiken's previous superoptimization projects).
This got voted down in a hurry. Every point seems valid and robust, so why?
I've found most things people say to defend/ignore/deny this issue and their views on it to be entirely unbased in factual knowledge. As you said it's hard to immigrate when healthy and having good options. Once you are down its harder and more costly to do everything, and it doesn't stop getting worse. I was half immigrated to another country when the path was derailed by coming up against these things. I have no claims to citizenship based on family or any other option either, or I'd have been gone decades ago. Once you fall from grace in the USA you are stuck. Can't afford to be poor and broken here.
I live in San Diego and just waited 30 minutes in bumper to bumper traffic to drive 7 miles. Until better traffic infrastructure is installed, more people sounds like a nightmare.
> and the popular news heading you see about Americans not having enough savings are all meaningless

What? How is it meaningless at all? Because other countries are cheaper?

Edit: To elaborate (since OP hasn't responded yet)... Implying that it means nothing to have no savings because other countries is IMO just wrong. Moving to another country (especially from the states) is difficult and incredibly expensive. It's the same argument for within the states. "Well why don't you just move to somewhere cheaper?"

Because moving is super expensive and if you have no money, and no savings, how are you going to move?

Just pack up all your shit and move to Mexico, right?
Hey folks, balena.io founder here, just chiming in to mention that Chris is one of our Hardware Hackers in Residence, and if you think that doing HW projects with all sorts of cool technologies and writing them up for the world is your dream job, we're hiring! https://balena.workable.com/j/27A101659C

Happy to answer any balena (or train station sign) related questions, of course :)
Sure:

https://github.com/flutterwireless/FlutterWirelessLibrary

https://github.com/flutterwireless/FlutterHardware

I have lots of hardware I could share if anyone would pick it up in the Bay Area, and I can make all the IP CC0 or MIT licensed instead of copyleft it desired.
Regarding the issue of feedback, IANAL, but I would have to guess that this would open the company to liability/lawsuits. Incredibly vague feedback might not be (directly) actionable, but regularly offering feedback raises the possibility that the person offering it says something -- inadvertently, or perhaps because they are in fact biased/jerks -- that implicates a company in discriminatory hiring practices.

Even if feedback in a single case isn't actionable, one can imagine that in aggregate it could be. If during discovery lawyers can find certain themes/patterns in the feedback offered to rejected interviewees, they might be able to use that as evidence. Perhaps I'm paranoid, but my wife's a lawyer....

Aside from that, in simple economic terms, offering feedback makes no sense. After all, if it helps rejected candidate, you're basically helping to improve someone who may end up working for your competition. And if it doesn't, you're wasting time. I'm not saying "in economic terms" is the right/only way to guide behavior, but if you want to understand the behavior of most companies, it's something to keep in mind.
Indeed! And form working with guys in the stealth/radar biz, there's a saying about trying to use radar to guide your missiles:

"He who lights up first gets smoked"

As in, once you turn on your tracking radar, you effectively shine a really bright beacon for anyone to see. If you are the ground station trying to get a lock on the thing that the long-range area radar saw, suddenly you are the brightest target in the area. You might have a few seconds before the plane you are trying to hit sends a missile right down your beam. Same for a pilot if he tries to scan for a target.
Very nice!

We at our university chair also wanted to have a touch-pad kiosk for our drinks (coffees etc). So far it is just used to do the accounting, i.e. count which user drinks how much, and whether he has paid.

I decided to use Kivy instead of Tcl/Tk, because I thought I can have some nicer animations, and it would feel more modern. I was quite happy with the result. Here with screenshot:
https://github.com/rwth-i6/drink-kiosk

The next step which we planned was to actually wire this app with our coffee machine, and allow drinks only via the kiosk app. But we never got to that so far, unfortunately.
I'm more and more confused these days by the downvotes at HN, I found I need be "100% politically correct" for technical discussions here(i.e. nothing negative at all, even for critical thoughts or neutral comments, neither is enough though, the comments actually has to be perfect positive), people are so sensitive these days, including me who actually cares about downvotes, which is a bad sign.
"People are dying due to lack of healthcare!"

"Who?"

"This guy tweeted about it"

"I'm going to need more than that"

"Here is a study where they claim it happens in aggregate"

"Who died specifically and what were the circumstances of that death"

"PEOPLE ARE DYING"

pretty much how this debate goes every single time
The ordinances that close public parks after twilight are generally to provide cops with a pretext to confront anyone in the park who may otherwise have no-reasonable-suspicion opsec for their...

...sale or use of prohibited substances.
...prostitution.
...homeless campsites.
...public intoxication or underage drinking.
...pretentious indie filmmaking.
...spray-paint tagging.
...logging.
...poaching.
...dumping.
...lewd behavior.

While some municipalities were forced to close parks at night, due to actual evidence of these activities, so the cops could move in and roust anyone they find, others preemptively closed their parks as cargo-cult ritual, hoping to prevent those activities from occurring in the first place.
I call BS. I am from Europe and I don't know anybody that cannot afford a week away from their home. And no, I don't live in a social bubble.
top finance figures: "meh"
This is really cool!

One thing that always annoys me with those signs is when they try to put too much information on them. You have all of the stops, fine. You then have all of the information about the train splitting which you might well need. But then they start adding information about short platforms etc. It takes several minutes for it all to scroll past. Which is super annoying if you're trying to work out if the train standing there stops at your station.