skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been suggested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660793

... that one could build an "HDMI Condom" that would strip those pins with an adapter. That would be more elegant than cutting the cable open ...

I use a "USB Condom" myself when I want to charge my phone at hotels or when I want to charge from my laptop and don't want to set into motion 150 phone/computer interactions.
Interesting. Yeah, vsync is a latency killer and it's disabled by default in `rx`. What software renderers are not so good at is drawing lots of pixels every frame, so for example panning a view with lots of images open, or zooming in and out of an image that covers the screen.

I'd expect these kinds of operations to be slow at high resolution without the help of the GPU. You could probably speed things up with SIMD and multi-threading, at the expense of implementation complexity.
I don't see how you can think so. No need for fancy hydroponics and equipment to grow pot, just soil, sun, and water. The plant does the rest.
> The earth is spherical

Well, close enough for most people.

But I think the problem is that just trying to suppress dangerous untruths doesn’t seem to work in our society, and the greater the capacity to do so in other societies, the more that capacity is itself incredibly easy to abuse.

I don’t have solutions for this. I wish I did, because I have no reason to think I might be immune to untruths.
For most of their history, the tech companies were so focused on the challenges of fast growth that tending to what was on their platforms wasn’t as urgent, says Geoffrey Parker, a Dartmouth College professor of engineering and co-author of a book about the rise of such businesses called “Platform Revolution.”

“Now,” he says, “it’s exploding in their face.”
> I thought about using a google form but I don't want to have to manually record the time.

Google form entries have an automatic timestamp.

No other ideas besides the ones already stated (also a jrnl.sh user).
Adult supervision is recommended.
That argument is trivially true for most any civil liberty: the promise of a fair trial is protected only by the next higher court's fairness, etc.

To categorical discount the value of the rule of law, and to apparently consider that idea to be so obvious that just about half a paragraph of argumentation is given for it, strikes me as... just scary?

There are quite a few established democracies that have seen steady improvements in civil rights over their existence. There have been setbacks, such as World War Two. And the last five to ten years may well be similar. But it's still obviously true that "the long arch of history bends towards justice".

And, fwiw, technology alone is not capable to guarantee any meaningful rights when your own government is your adversary. The internet was praised as the killer tool to empower the individual against censorship. And yet there still is no technology that makes accessing Wikipedia in Shanghai as easy as it is in Billings, Montana. Bitcoin was hailed (by the conspiracy-minded) as a tool to overthrow democratically-established institutions. But, as it turned out, regulators were far less interested in shutting down Bitcoin than expected, and did not even break a sweat implementing KYC nad similar regulation across the cryptocurrency universe when needed.
Perhaps you should read Kurzweil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near
This is a pretty bad opinion piece written by a previous "editor in chief of The Jerusalem Post".

It also wrongly equates anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

The NYTimes comments section (specifically Times Picks') is far more illuminating & balanced than the actual piece.
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I would advise to never leave your job before having another signed offer, to be honest.

And honestly in our field (software) it just takes a few weeks to sign a new offer. Plenty of opportunities out there.

Depends a bit on the location though - but in certain EU countries it's not a good idea to have a gap in your employment, as it is used to calculate your holidays and retirement savings.
Vulkan support required for a pixel editor?

So I can't run this on my X220 despite having a dual-core 2.8Ghz i7 processor, since its integrated GPU is a generation just shy of having Vulkan support.

A pixel editor.
By that success measure basically any office worker can start a company just as easily as a programmer. The only advantage I can see for programmers is that a relatively small team can serve a very large number of customers, because software scales much better than other kinds of works.
> THE BRIGHT, SHINY, INFINITE RABBIT HOLE

Wow, what an apt metaphor.
Google earns 92.42% of those search results, by being better, at least subjectively, than their competition.

Now if you listen to the various whines of said competition, Google sure looks objectively better too, using extreme personalization to drive more relevant search results to their userbase.

There is no pressure there. If alternate search engines were subjectively (not even objectively!) better, people would switch overnight. After all, they are just a click away.
> I surmise the the government will be able to exploit the massive data collection on the ground after things settle down.

True, the deadliest enemies are invisible.

I bet that at this moment at least 10 universities in mainland China are using the massive surveillance data being collected (security cameras, phone location data, ...) to figure out how to track protestors back.

And even if there is no true leader, surely there are a bunch of people who are more lider-ish than the rest. Some networking analysis, like NSA pioneered surely can be applied here.

China has the time advantage, Hong Kong is not going anywhere. A brutal Chinese intervention would be the worse possible mistake for China to make, it will be hard for the West to ignore that. But keep the policing relatively low key, and the other countries don't have an in angle.
> There's a typical amount of seething involved in any field where someone has a minor input or touch-point with your job and they can do something you absolutely cannot or would not do.

I'm not sure I buy into this theory. I think most people have no idea what goes on behind the scenes, and so ascribe slowdowns, missed SLA, or other failing metrics to amorphous "others" rather than individuals. Under such a system they certainly don't work to identify frictions along touch-points.
Would it be possible to build a C/C++ app with #include <os> at the top and then compile it to a fully bootable image, and then boot a real server using that?
To each their own. My goal is to set very rigid expectations on when I'm reachable or not. And to enforce with myself what my priorities are. If I'm not at my PC my priority is not reading or writing slack messages.
I think we were all a bit naive in the 90s thinking that the sheer amount of data made each of us somewhat anonymous. The consequences of extremely cheap mass storage and very fast big data analytics didn't really sink in.
When a friend tried to connect to a new network on their MacBook, a second friend with an iPad got a pop-up that such-and-such was attempting to connect to their network, and if they wanted to share connection details. One click and they were in.

Creepy, but convenient.
I do have 4G, but at $1 per 100MB. I'd rather have the WiFi password when one's available.
More meaningless policy, more meaningless laws. Addressing not the root of the problem but the fashionable tail.

Always busy but never effective. The mark of a subpar engineer and a subpar citizen.
I'm sorry but the LG TV you linked doesn't even come close to gaming monitors input lag. The link you posted measured 13ms while good gaming monitors have input lag of a about a millisecond [1]. That is an order of magnitude better.

[1] https://turbofuture.com/computers/Top-Gaming-Monitor
Absolutely, I pushed it too far at some point and got put off by even the thought of opening my IDE for months.

Having some hobbies outside of code can help as well.
You can vote your way into Communism, but you have to shoot your way out.

Edit: Before you down vote this, give an example of a country that hasn't had to use violence to exit a communistic regime.
Those are enforceable via extradition treaty because tax evasion is a crime in every nation in the world; if you want to extradite someone, the act in question must usually be a crime in both nations. The GDPR imposes regulations which have not parallels in other nations, so extradition is not an option. The Europeans are, however, free to arrest those who enter their nations, so it's still worth following for most people.
If you're willing to keep the book in storage indefinitely and ship it anywhere in the world that improves your odds. If you just want the library to take your old books you might have worse luck.
What does “modern” mean in this context? I see that word tossed around a lot.
Is the list of ailments that will get you a cannabis medical card in Canada as flimsy as what can be found in California? E.g. a slightly sore back ten years ago?
I've taken the odd approach of messaging myself in chat software.. in my case, I have "conversations" with myself in Telegram. I feel like I journal more when it's just text and unstructured, rather than, for instance, a detailed form.

It's not exactly what you are looking for, but has some good properties:

- Always easy to jump in to, since I use TG to chat with people all day long; works on all devices (I need to journal from desktop and mobile)

- Easy to forward in/out notes to/from others

- No formatting woes since it's pretty much open ended. Supports hash tags and search. Can easily find all media and links.

- Telegram already supports tons of different kinds of media files and attachments; can easily snap of a pic of what I'm doing

- Can easily export HTML archive of convo at any time for analysis in other software

With my setup you'd have trouble automatically injecting content from programs, but you could make a Telegram bot that does that work, and just have conversations with it instead of yourself. (Telegram's API is incredibly simple to get started with and doesn't even require webhooks)
how do you figure that?
For now. https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/19/french-court-valve-steam...
Thanks for your reply. I think I agree somewhat with the article regarding the Novice Trap. I can learn them all, but I probably can't master them all, and it's probably a waste of time to try to. I think we are in the midst of a paradigm shift and it's not clear who the real winner is yet in terms of programming languages. I currently have the fairly unique opportunity of choosing pretty much everything about how I build the systems I'm working on, and so I'm looking for input as to which way to go. I'd like my choice to be the one that will be viewed as "the winner" 5 years from now.
The Québec situation makes me wonder whether the mafia / bikers influenced the process to keep the black market alive for just a few extra years.
Also, NFC is awesome.
Good example against. The political scene in Italy is not one that anyone would likely want to replicate.
I had New Zealand’s system (mine) in mind when posting.
Current compiler and OSes have some protections to avoid that precisely.

It won't be that easy.
> Facebook contains mostly copies of content hosted somewhere else.

Not true. Youtube host around 3% of unique videos and everything else are copies, or from somewhere else or each other. Same applies to many platforms, but Tiktok and Instagram. Surprisingly, those are the two most innovative platforms when it comes to new content.

I'm not saying you have to like it, just that their content is unique.

42.98% of content on Twitter is reactionary (gifs/memes) and is under 5s. No other platform has these kind of number. For instance on Tiktok, only 0.59% is under 5s and 4.81% for Instagram.
Are programmers overpaid in the first place?

When we look at eye popping salaries, they usually belong to senior+ engineers in top tech companies in selected geographies. I know far more programmers making just above average wages rather than 1% type level of income. And considering some of the points made by other comments, it doesn't seem unreasonable that they should be paid well.

Only those lucky enough to get most of their income via stock grants should prepare for most of that value evaporating in case of a market crash.
The lesson I learned from Hong Kong is you will never take the 2nd Amendment from me. Just come and try and take them. Take a cursory glance at what is going on in VA right now to know what is in store for you if you do.
Yep, the other good ones are for "commercial signage displays". No one wants to pay for smart garbage on those, so they're usually just good panels with ports.
The market is bifurcated and similar to law. Most people make comparatively little but the best of the best make several times the average worker. The company I work for happily rejects > 99% of applicants and I am certain greater than 90% of people employed as software developers would never be able to solve the engineering challenges I solve in a manner as cost efficient and performant.
For a long time, law was also a thing that a lot of liberal arts majors from good schools sort of fell into when they had trouble turning their English or History degrees into a decent living.

Big Law still pays pretty well--although I assume the associate work life is as punishing as ever--but it's probably not a great career path in general for someone who is mostly chasing the dollars.
There are fewer and fewer places that specialize in home sound systems, particularly the ones that let you compare numerous choices before you buy. The place that sold me most of my audio gear has been closed for 20 years.
That's why the communists take the guns first.
This line of thinking never made sense to me.

How are you going to defend against SWAT teams with whatever guns you have?

Organize a militia? Then how do you defend against the army?
Remember bitly, AMP, CDNs?

Also, as to something like a javascript exploit in a URL itself, QRs can hold a surprising amount of data, enough to max out most URL browser limits around 2,048 bytes.
Libby/Overdrive? It’s great, except for the 12 weeks I’m waiting for most of the books I want, then they become available during time that I don’t have to read.
A while back the Raspberry Pi foundation announced that some NEC displays would support using an RPi Compute Module to drive them, although I just had a look and appears to require a specific adapter which NEC don’t even publish prices for, so who knows how much it would set you back.

It’s a pity more TVs don’t support this as it would be a great combination for me.
Repo Oracle Claims Victory Even If Fed Skips QE
As they would say, Communism was never "done properly". The next implementation would be "the one that works"
Bible - Beginning with the New Testament, because the teachings of Jesus are inspiring every time I read them and show me everytime something deeper.

No it did and does not make me "religious" but gives me faith.
It’s one person’s volunteer hobby project, and you’re sarcastically complaining about it using modern hardware features.

It’s free software. Go fork it and code up a variant for legacy hardware yourself.
I agree with you, but 5 seconds is a noticeable lag that I would like to avoid if possible, since I have the option to choose the language I use. I've been writing java for more than 20 years so I would love to continue to use Java, and I think it's actually likely that upcoming versions of Java will fix this, but I want to make the best decision here, not the most comfortable one.
DIY ‘Meta Clock’ with 24 Analog Clocks
https://archiveprogram.github.com/

> This data will be stored on 3,500-foot film reels, provided and encoded by Piql, a Norwegian company that specializes in very-long-term data storage. The film technology relies on silver halides on polyester. This medium has a lifespan of 500 years as measured by the ISO; simulated aging tests indicate Piql’s film will last twice as long.

> The GitHub Archive Program is partnering with Microsoft’s Project Silica to ultimately archive all active public repositories for over 10,000 years, by writing them into quartz glass platters using a femtosecond laser.

There are many other strategies that last much longer than ink on paper. Combine that with the fact that beyond an extinction event, there will always be computers that can share ebooks between them, and the longevity is basically as long as humanity exists. Except with ebooks + something like bittorrent, I can create 1,000,000 copies almost instantly, distributed around the world.
Anyone else concerned by the decidedly negative cast of the comments? Someone shares something interesting and OP gets a barrage of nit-picky commentary; it's quite discouraging.
Looks like the US economy is inevitable trouble this time.
The problem with the Repo market explained here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXyMn8s0lEE&t=1s
What is “formal CS training”, if not a degree?
Here is an actionable plan:

1. Create a DNS record for subdomain and name it to something like downloads.byuu.org

2. Put a file there. The preferred naming scheme is to categorize it by product or product category, so something like downloads.byuu.org/emulators/higan.zip will do fine.

3. Start by putting the downloads in non-executable file formats first, e.g. use higan.zip instead of higan.exe. It's a no-brainer for a Windows user to launch the file from ZIP archive

4. Make links to downloads from your main website as you would usually do

5. Everything should be smooth now

6. Your downloads.byuu.org subdomain will slowly gain reputation

7. Once it has an established reputation, you will be able to put .exe files there. Gaining the reputation will take about several months. I would expect about 12 months to be on a safer side

8. Enjoy and be creative
> When I wrote anti-chinese, I meant at the time

Ah, okay. I read your original post as critical of scmp as anti Chinese today, but am not sure if that's what you meant now.
Teuton – A German Programming Language
MILSOB – A military-style sobriquet generator
https://github.com/horhof/MILSOB
9 months ago I purchased another deep freeze and filled it with bacon. I'm going to be rich.
The USSR. Though what came after was not much better.
what I use to keep tract of a lot of my data point is exist.io it has a lot of automated import from various sources to collect everything in there and see patterns
> The popular "classic" 2d libraries like cairo and skia are very big and complicated to build / depend on

It may be harder than editing a Cargo file, but it is something you do once. They are some of the most mature and tested libraries in the world.

> wgpu will eventually also work on the web, so it's a great option for broad platform compatibility

OpenGL works everywhere today, including the web!

> In terms of efficiency (memory, battery, cpu etc.), the modern graphic APIs have more headroom than the GL-based ones

It doesn't matter for a pixel editor. Even if it did, you would have to do a very good job to beat the driver's GL implementation.

Otherwise, you may end up with something slower or buggier!

> Today, 4K screens are pretty common, and in the future, 144hz monitors will be more and more popular. If I want to render 2d graphics with no latency in those setups, access to the GPU makes things feasible

Perhaps, but again, GL allows you to do that.
Why do U.S. schoolchildren underperform academically?
Learning ffmpeg can be daunting but it is a highly useful tool to know. The option intricacies and peculiarities make it extremely hard to “master” though. It requires so much experimentation and experience (trial and error) that achieving mastery in a year seems nigh impossible!
Could mean any number of things in context. In this case it seems to be DPI aware, have some guarantees on memory safety, uses Vulkan/Metal, and targets the current versions of the supported systems natively.

This would be opposed to a legacy codebase that might rely on an old version of OpenGL (which is deprecated completely on MacOS), the OS to scale the window (usually blurring the pixel art), require 32 bit architecture support, and not have any guarantees about memory safety.

As time goes on what features are considered modern will of course continue to change. Most code was modern at one point.
FWIW, I know iOS's camera natively detects QR codes, and I believe Android does as well.

In my opinion, the ability to use the native camera app to read a QR code significantly reduces the barriers-to-read for general users
Next Generation Preclinical Advancement of Car-T Therapy
Sorry if I wasn't clear, what I meant is that messing with your sound files should make it obvious that you're changing the sound - there's no surprise. BT is different because the expectation is that it works just like a wire.
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.” - Karl Marx
Got it. I apologize if my tone was too harsh. I do stand by all of the bold-font headings, but yes, primarily the post is directed at Walker.

My current stance on sleep is that we don't know much about it and we don't know much about how much exactly we need to sleep. I'm collecting some notes on sleep (very preliminary so far) here: https://guzey.com/sleep/
> give an example of a country that hasn't had to use violence to exit a communistic regime

DDR, People's Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia...

Basically the only country in Europe that didn't exit Communism peacefully was Yugoslavia, and the reason for the violence wasn't Communism, it was resurgent nationalism/religion.
What can you do with Python? Here are Python's 3 main applications
I’m not terribly familiar with io_uring, and haven’t used it myself yet, but does it not still require a syscall to drive things, even though the buffers are shared? Brief investigation suggests the need for that might go away in the future? But all this io_uring stuff seems fairly immature yet and not widely used, though still definitely of interest.
The thing with dot-bomb was that there were cascading effects. All those startups were buying gear from the "Four Horsemen of the Internet" so their collapse brought down a bunch of the large firms as well. (And it was all mixed in with 9/11, etc.)

Today, even if there were a big ad-tech collapse, a bunch of highly paid Bay Area engineers might end up having to move back to Ohio but I'm not sure you have the same overall economic effects. (And, if it's mostly just a drying up of VC capital, the effects are even less.)
The law quoted states a manufacturer cannot invoke a void warrenty for modifications unrelated to the warrenty claim. For example, if I replace the radio in my car, the manufacturer cannot said i voided my warrenty if the engine has problems (unless the modification did damage it).

So I would argue yes, if i disable the radios and something unrelated is damaged, then the warranty is still valid.
See present day Virginia.
While all of what you say is true, and there are numerous additional advantages mentioned by GP, I am responding specifically to:

> We also have plenty of storage mediums for digital data that last much, much longer than a paper book, so ebooks win on the "surviving a mass extinction event" front too.

My assertion is simply that this isn't accurate. Digital is easy to copy exactly, but also easy to lose completely; I see the sibling comment about Github's archival storage, but most of us don't have a way to either print or read microfiche, and surely, this is less apocalypse-proof than plain old acid-free paper.