skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber is the bomb. Want to work? Press a button. Don't want to work? Press a button. Take a break whenever you want for as long as you want. Come back to work as long as you want whenever you want. No timesheets no cubicle no office politics no douchebag supervisor. What other job can you do this?

Sure you're probably not going to pull down enough off Uber alone to live in an upper middle class suburb with 5 kids a wife,two cars,a picket fence a health care plan and a pension. Its for extra pocket money, they never portrayed it as anything more.

Now we're going to flush this new paradigm down the drain for everybody because of pols in the pockets of taxi companies and their entitled pawns who think they should be earning a full middle class salary with benefits at anything they choose to do regardless of reality. This is why we can't have good things.
Hacker news does not contain a PM feature, I recommend including an email address in your profile or post.
Not collapsing, but keeping bees healthy is a challenge and their death rate is much higher than it used to be (40% up from 15% according to https://pro.bloombergenvironment.com/business-of-bees-podcas...)

There is a big decrease in the overall mass of flying insects and with it of the number of birds.
I'm quite surprised that Uber was able to even have any sort of hold in Geneva. I visited my Aunt in Geneva for a few weeks in 2006 and she lived 5-10 miles from the city center and even that far out there was a bus that came by every 9 minutes. The only time we drove was when we went into France. From my short visit I also got the impression that Switzerland is very serious about their taxes. We went grocery shopping across the border in France for the lower prices/taxes and every time we crossed back into Switzerland we got searched by border crossing security to ensure we weren't bringing too many goods across the border based on the number of occupants in the vehicle.
Location: Dominican Republic

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes, but not immediately (US mostly, since I am a US citizen).

Email: pavilesjose@gmail.com

Technologies: JavaScript (Typescript, React, Node, React Native, Electron)

Résumé/CV: Through email, if you are interested.

I am what I consider a well rounded Software Engineer with 5 years of experience. I have worked in the fast food, finance and health industries. I have made APIs, full fledged POS, web applications, tools to automate tedious tasks, have contributed to mobile code bases, Electron desktop apps, etc. If your company requires something else aside from the JavaScript stack, hit me up nonetheless because I am willing to learn. I am highly interested in a few other backend technologies, like Go and Ruby (with Rails).

I also have the usual experience dealing with proper version control, docker and cloud technologies like AWS.
Indeed. About 10-12 years ago, when I started working and having disposable income, almost every book or video game I bought came from the second hand market, and the vast majority of it came in fact from Amazon.

I'm a bit baffled by GP's claim that many people don't know that Amazon doesn't sell second hand products. It's displayed quiten clearly, and in fact, for a lot of us it was a big part of the appeal of buying there. I understand that the demographics of the average Amazon buyer have changed in the last years, but I don't think people are not aware of the presence of the second hand market.

Very bad move from Amazon. Nowadays I'm way less likely to buy from them, and this only reassures me.
Since that YouTube buzz, the album as been remastered and re-released. (And the artist went on tour after years of inactivity!!)
macOS Catalina: Things Web Developers and Designers Should Know
Not to say that I think it's particularly practical, but there is a somewhat well-established "40%" keyboard design that doesn't have a number row. They typically rely heavily on modifier keys or layer switching.

Here's an example:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MS3PWS0

If you're interested in different keyboard sizes:

https://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2017/08/full-size-...

I personally use 75%, my opinion is for serious coding it's inefficient to go smaller than that.
Can you make edits on Wikipedia? I used to be a big contributor there but can no longer easily contribute because they (understandably) blocked all common VPN IP ranges.
I have a 14 month old, and I find it fascinating to watch him play. He's super active, starting to stand, walks very fast when I hold his hand, but not yet confident on his own.

He loves the outdoors. He will literally yell and cry at us to take him out for walks and/or to the park. Loves when I take him on the playground.

When we climb up, he loves to crawl through the tunnel and finds it hilarious when I chase him to stop him from getting away from me. He will definitely try to go down the slide by himself, or crawl out of the playground to a 5 foot drop. It's as if he has no concept of the dangers.

Meanwhile, I generally let him do what he wants elsewhere, like climbing stairs, crawling into cupboards, etc. He picked up a pretty gnarly bruise on his chin when we went swimming and he fell in the change room.

To his credit, nothing seems to deter him. He'll cry for maybe 30 seconds, often less, take a quick hug from me, and then jump right back to whatever he was doing.

I can't wait until he's actually walking because then I can expose him to some riskier stuff, which he'll enjoy. Winter's almost here, so I expect him to be walking when we start enjoying the playground more often again.
The camera makers would be wise to just implement an API over Bluetooth or adhoc WiFi to pair with phones/tablets/laptops and offload RAWs and JPEGs.

Lightroom mobile, etc., could then have the images swiftly processed and uploaded, and could probably be implemented with minimal changes to the newest models of camera.
You're implying that an environment where people don't jokingly reference suicide would have led to a better outcome. Is there evidence for this?
"Diversity of political thought" is not important to a technology company. I love how the right tries to paint themselves as victims using this statement.
I put a simple image on my homescreen with a QR code of my contact details some time ago. One thing I like to do when somebody asks me for my details is just show them the image and tell them to point their iphone camera at it. On Android, use Google Lense. The look on their faces when the phone offers to save the contact is priceless.

Apple only added this feature fairly recently. So, people are mostly unaware of how convenient QR codes can be. Most people I do this to are completely unaware their phone can do this and it beats having to fumble with apps and mobile keyboards trying to figure out email addresses, phone numbers, etc.

If you are interested; just google for qr code generator and contact and you will find dozens of sites offering that. There are plenty of libraries for generating QR codes client and server side. You can download them as pdf, png, svg, etc. I puth the document on my Google drive and created a short cut on my android phone.
I haven't used one personally, but I have some exposure to other graph systems like neo4j and redis graph. My understanding is that rdf triple stores are another way to store and describe graph structures. Like the link description says, it's good at modeling social networks, financial transactions, and other 'connected node' based things.
This link compares it to the labeled property graph that neo4j uses if youre familiar with that as a reference. https://neo4j.com/blog/rdf-triple-store-vs-labeled-property-...

If youre not familiar with graph databases and their uses at all tho, I highly recommend a little YouTube exploration on the topic. There's several conference presentations/sales pitches that get into the benefits and use cases for graphs in general. I just got exposed to it this year and it's been super interesting.
Maybe hosts should think about such risks before they get into hosting.
I’m 33.

Anecdotally, a few years ago after redesign my neighborhood park went from a pretty decent number of 10–16 year-olds playing on the playground to now basically none, except sometimes high school skaters who bring their skateboards, or sometimes a mob of high school kids who will all cluster around the swings and look at their phones.

I’m not saying that there haven’t always been teenagers doing stupid shit. But having riskier / older-kid-focused playground equipment does attract at least some teenagers who use them more or less as intended.

I’d be curious to see better research about this though.
Stamets et. al have been doing amazing work saving bees with fungal remedies
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8
I apply this thinking to formal business dress very often --

People in our industry are notorious for dressing down to where the art of dressing up is lost to the silicon sands of time

Most anyone you ask from an entry level to a manager, director, vice president all the way to Jack Dorsey himself will tell you dress is meaningless and unimportant to "getting things done and building great things" and I know it comes from a place of ignorance because I used to be the same way until I stumbled into a Brooks Brothers one day a few years back

Dress is a lot like art in that one must master the classics but that too is becoming the exception in fail fast culture where the means exceedingly outweigh the ends

So I ask myself what would Alan Turing do? And I know he'd dress formally and carry on because back then computer science really did save lives as opposed to now when the user is only worth the data that can be squeezed out of them -- I'm sure this is exactly the future the hippies in the Homebrew Computer Club envisioned when they convened in their dark garages by the light of their fluorescent vacuum tubes to worship their newfound digital deities dressed in jeans and printed T's /rant
I think Sony could realistically do both in one product. They already make flagship smartphones that are hardware-competitive with everyone else's flagships. They supply the camera sensors for everyone's flagship product. They have the best DSLM and reasonably competitive lenses.

Just take their current flagship smartphone, double the thickness to fit a halfway-between-smartphone-and-full-frame sensor, an SD card slot, ability to export RAWs, and a compact zoom lens, and sell it for like $2000. For extra credit, make a standard lens mount and make it swappable and now you have the manufacturer lock-in that keeping Nikon alive. The margins on the camera business plus the refresh cycle of the phone business might actually save both those divisions.

Instead Sony's camera division and smartphone division are too busy trying to not step on each other's feet and both are suffering for it.
It is possible to set your way of thinking in a way that helps with your work's satisfaction.

You can have a negative mindset or a positive one. It's possible to look at all the work that needs to get done as the building blocks towards the production to a great end product rather than endless tedious work. Each step is very important to get the product done so the better you master the steps the better the end product is. Or you can look at work as what you need to do to feed the family you love. Or whatever you decide.

Life is all about how you think about things. You can look at them from a positive view or you can look at the negative view. Looking at it positively is immensely helpful towards life's satisfaction.
I’m reading you right now and I’m interested. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think my very first forays into programming were around 7th or 8th grade, so about 10 or 11 years old. But it didn't really "hook" me then, maybe in part because I didn't have a proper computer... just a "Bally Arcade" game console with a BASIC cartridge you could plug in. But without a keyboard, entering code was really tedious and painful.

When I really think of myself as "getting into programming big time" was my first year of college. I would have been 18 then. I took a couple of programming classes as electives, and "the bug bit" as they say, and I bought the parts to build a PC (386DX40 FTW!) and downloaded a shareware C compiler from a BBS, bought Herbert Schildt's book Teach Yourself C and just dove in... never looked back. :-)
An observation that is nearly impossible to make is that JS is something like 20 years behind the rest of the world in so many ways. Now that it has moved on from being a little glue scripting language and people are building complex software with it, all the same problems that Java or C++ or Unix have encountered in the past are coming home to roost, and more structure and tooling is required.
The general alternative falls under the acronym ISRU: in-situ resource utilisation. That's the goal of utilising materials sourced from space environments themselves (Moon, asteroids, etc.) for both structure and fuel for a spaceship.

Given that space is mostly, er, space, you've got a bit of a challenge. You have to find non-space stuff that's made of the things you're interested in, and have the capacity to convert it into the forms you need.

Which still represents a considerable challenge.
Canon and Nikon and I'm sure others already have a WiFi adapter you can plug into the SD card slot that does exactly this.
Some cameras do the multiple exposure combo thing: see the Panasonic G85.

For pro tier cameras, the problem is that no software manipulation can ever read the mind of the photographer and what they want, so you have to have a way to opt out of in-body post processing or there will definitely be times you're fighting the camera to get what you want. On professional shoots or at fast moving events like a wedding, no professional will tolerate their camera having a mind of its own and editing the files in a possibly-unpredictable way.

So if that's the case, why even include the options at all? Professional photographers have the technical skills to get what they want from the camera by turning the normal ISO/shutter/aperture knobs and don't need those headaches. Casual users don't know or care what's possible and just want a photo that "looks good" which usually means in focus and a little extra saturation. "Prosumers" or "techy users" are the hardest to pin down, but that market may be disappearing anyway.
Did they read too much Snow Crash?
I would LOVE to hear what you think they collect. I’m sure it’s absolutely nothing, right?

Fuck off asshole.
What's the TAM for a new iPhone model, versus the TAM for a new SLR? I'm guessing the iPhone wins by at least 2 orders of magnitude. EDIT: At the end of TFA they have this chart [1] which shows while camera sales peaked at 121 million units in 2009, in 2019 it's 1.4 billion smartphones sold versus 15 million cameras.

Camera performance continues to be a major differentiator / selling point and upgrade draw for smartphones. Therefore to draw in that next $100 billion in device sales, companies like Apple can spend orders of magnitude more dollars investing in the phone's camera performance than a legacy camera company can invest in their entire device.

Another major factor is that the massive processing power of the phone can be leveraged for image capture, just as it can be leveraged for gaming, and web browsing. Users can amortize the cost of all that computing power and fast storage across the several major categories of tasks that a smartphone can perform. So a processor that makes perfect sense in a smartphone is going to be very hard to justify in a SLR, versus integrating the minimum set of ICs required to process the image, with a low-power processor to run a bare-bones UI. Likewise the BOM for the screen on a smartphone is worth investing hundreds of dollars into, whereas the screen on an SLR is kind of like the backup for the viewfinder.

Finally, the raison d'être of a camera in 2019 is to share photos with friends and family, using perhaps the built-in Camera app, but most likely a dozen other social apps which all have their own custom UI, filters, and accoutrements. An SLR will simply never be as effortless and fun to use for this purpose as your smartphone.

[1] - https://www.instagram.com/p/B2b8pEDIBDb/?utm_source=ig_embed
Who exactly is this?
>Camera makers have done some half-assed wifi, Bluetooth, and NFC integrations with smartphones, but for the most part the camera still lives on its own, still uses out-of-date SoCs, and generally behaves like the year is 2005

I've noticed this too and I have a pet theory about why.

It all comes back to the Canon 5DMk2. The Mk2 was an industry first: integrating video into a full frame sensor in an affordable body. It was an enormous hit. An entire generation of filmmakers grew up using the Mk2 and doing shots that were basically impossible on movie making equipment in the same price range. It made entire movies possible.

The problem is this: Canon also makes extremely high margin movie cameras and lenses. This equipment costs a lot more (and is probably what you want for a full production but I digress) and Canon makes a lot more on it. My impression is that the Mk2 killed an entire segment of Canon's product line and scared the shit out of them.

Since then, Canon has been extremely careful to roll out video features on prosumer cameras (like the Mk2) cameras slowly. They will only support lower quality video codecs on these cameras. They have made a new line of cheap-er video-first cameras.

I think that when the camera makers cannibalized their own products, a common move in smart devices, they got incredibly scared and ran away. The only one really making moves in this area is Sony and that's because Sony has nothing to lose - they had no business when they started making their name by releasing cameras with a lot of tech. Even so, they are not very good.
In the era of swiping keyboards, Touch Bar technology, and hyper keys, it would be interesting to see an expanded project. For example, what is the optimal position and size for a dynamic OLED touch interface on a keyboard? Which keys should do something different when held? What chords are worth putting on a keyboard? It would be especially interesting if usage over time and the cost of relying on a specialized environment were factored in.

And how about software that watches you type and suggests a more keyboard-heavy workflow as your speed increases?
If you want some seriously powerful (and free) barcoding (including all forms of QR codes etc) software,

PLEASE learn how to use Bartender by Seagull Scientific.

Its incredibly powerful and superior-simplistic UI/UX to make really complex labels, barcodes, qrcodes, etc..etc..et...

The free version is the full version, but you dont pay for the software - you pay for the PRINTER license. And the software is incredibly cheap. Its ~600 (but its $300 for the printer license and $300 for a year of full support (which is fantastic BTW)

This is the pre-eminent labeling and coding software used for all cannabis compliance labels, among many other industries.

Do yourself a favor and download it.

One example for QR codes - is that you design a form (drag and drop fields onto a page. When you go to "print" the document, it will prompt you for the input data you want in each field and update the actual printed label as required. Tie it to Excel, SQL, ODBC others...

Its powerful.

https://portal.seagullscientific.com/downloads

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OK cool, either this comment wasn't germane to the thread (QR Codes) or? What? You think im someone affiliated with Seagull?

Nope. Just think people should have this great tool in their arsenal.

Mkay?
While your points make total sense and I agree with what you say, I personally believe that letting Chinese firms acquire control of US social media companies is a way greater threat to Western freedom of speech than what we would lose by blocking these acquisitions. Can you imagine a future in which we’ll be unable to post anti-government content online because most Internet properties are owned by Chinese companies which follow their local regulation? That would be the death of freedom of speech.

You do not necessarily need content censorship to keep CCP ideas out of the West. You can keep them out by means of economic policies. And I feel like Western countries are not doing a good enough job at this, whereas the PRC government has been extremely efficient at blocking foreign entities.
Brain-shrinking killer fungus that cannot be touched is found in Australia
Who tf thinks blizzard is better than walmart? They are being cucked hard.
While mildly interesting - take any mundane product - a can of beans on the shelf at the grocery store - white label manufactured in a plant in the Midwest, ingredients from around the world, a can made in Mexico with metals mined in China, with a label printed in Florida from paper paper mill in Georgia from trees in South Carolina
Install the telegram app, register, and use the search button to find whatever it is that you want to.

It isn't darknet in terms of anonymity; its wildnet in terms of content.
> no matter what language I create, people will not use it, it it comes from a random github page.

Speaking as a fellow sufferer, how did perl, python, php, lua, ruby start getting used? They were pre-github, but jq really did start that way: https://github.com/stedolan/jq.

The key to being used is a usage: a problem to apply it to. If there's a problem that people need solved, and your language is much better than the alternatives, then people will use it, post about it, rave about it. If JSON wasn't popular, jq wouldn't be popular.

OTOH your actual interest is in more abstract ideals. This is crucially important work, but you may be right that no one will use it... instead, they'll be interested in the ideas you are interested in. Finding a needed application of your ideas will generate use.
I've been curious about VPNs for sometime but unfortunately am still confused by the following questions:

- my ISP can still see all of my traffic because my RPi would talk to my router which has to exit my network at some point, right?

- if I was on the East coast and wanted, say, YoutubeTV to believe I was on the West coast I would need to have my client (laptop, would be cool if I could get my Roku or TV to do this) pointed to my RPi on the other coast. Is that how it works?
It's incredibly valuable. If I were google, I'd harvest the crap out of the data to make ad-serving pinpointing even more granular than it is now. Not only can they use the data to immediately make their ad selection algo more accurate, but I'd imagine lumping all this new data alongside existing user-profile datasets will reveal new purchasing trends (and therefore advertisement campaign trends) at an exponential rate. They are essentially an ad sales company after all so that behavior shouldn't be unexpected.
I also wouldn't really be surprised if they added hardware code that logs exactly when and where a given fitbit device is within bluetooth range of another fitbit device (or any google device for that matter). Then create a (or improve upon their already existing) network map via triangulation to see where each user goes, how long they interact with specific people, which supermarket isle they walked down when they happened to walk past another fitbit wearer that is known to be part of xyz demographic, etc.
You don't even need an adapter anymore, it's been native for years on many bodies.