skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7kb for a supermarket bill is plenty, and you can have several of them.

Forms and legal documents should all have an immutable official url and uuid anyway to point to their legal and administrative context.
I mean turn if off once guests are gone, yes it's not safe as everything on the network can be sniffed by your nosy neighbors, you can quanrentine this guest network from your ethernet to make it less revealing. It's meant to be a one-off thing to avoid hassle. Good to know they have that in WPA3.
Yeah no worries. We’re all hyper critical. Need to outline the dangers because people who are unaware of the issues working with mains tend to be the first to drop dead. This is followed by the people who suffer from Dunning-Kruger effect. Us amateur radio operators like to kill ourselves on vintage power amplifiers doing that.

The output resistor need to handle potential to ground so say 7kv across output to ground. Resistor is rated for 200V working voltage. Usually you use a chain of many smaller resistors here.

I haven’t reviewed the design entirely but the main problem is the enclosure and mains connection and the component choice. The mains connection should be clamped in the enclosure and either spade connections or screw terminals or ferrules. The enclosure should be double insulated. As mentioned a fuse would be a good idea as well.

Always design for worst case with these things.
Which is the opposite of what you want in rendering. Ui is king here. Data has the rest of the code to shine.
And I am quite happy.

But still there is a huge difference between being a provider of technology and actually using that technology.
Nice project. I like this dedication and the idea. But I think these comparison always lack experts in individual languages. When I read C# code in projects like this, it is seldom modern or realistic. The project already compares apples with oranges but additionally the oranges are "rotten".

I would prefer a smaller set of compared languages where the provided snippets are actually up to date. Take the Techempower Benchmarks. Here experts fight against experts for the performance crown. And they categorize what they compare.
JavaScript module support exceeds 85% across all browsers
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If no one uses it, removing it does not break userspace. Removal of features happen regularly.

How many? Dunno, doesn't matter. If there are users they are usually willing to step up to maintain it, and that makes having parallel APIs not a problem (the old one becomes a wrapper).

Furthermore UNIX/BSD faces the same problem with every other program that lives out of tree. (Which is the majority of them anyway.)

Knobology is always an endless debate, yet also regularly done without much fuss, usually simply by what the maintainer(s) decide to provide.
The difference to consider here is in 'crisis'.

Banks can fold. Companies can and will go bankrupt. But land will be there. And it's not just about the crisis event, it's riding the bounce after. Sure you might buy at the peak today, but it will return to growth on the other side of the cycle plus have more security of most other assets.

A friend of mind manges investments for high net worth individuals. I said once do they all come to you and look how big your past returns are? They said no, most come to them and say 'how can I make sure I'm never poor'.
> Trust, eventually, is always going to be in people.

Funny thing about trust; you can trust your enemies to behave poorly too. Trust seems to be about predictability first and foremost, and great mathematical work is being done to factor humans out of it. Autonomous vehicles are subject to a formalized version of trust already and engineers are working to get dependent type theory to do verification for them.
For me it was end 90s. It was "classic" at that time already. When I remember right, I learned the concept of quotas at the same time and the practical usage from BOFH.
Even without the key they start to look pretty dense. You can definitely fit one in a QR code, they just start to become less reliable to scan (especially on cheap devices), and they go from looking nice to looking quite ugly. Technically most X.509 certs would have been within the limitations of QR codes (though I don’t think there is an upper bound to how large they can get), but I realized it just wasn’t fit for purpose and moved on to something else.
I don't have to debug my render functions much in vue because they contains little logic. Debugging is more common in JSX, it's better at solving a problem it introduces.
> Also, you don’t what a Philip DeFranco moment of moving to NYC for a would-be significant other that is actually a 16-year-old con artist in Idaho.

Users of this site aren't forbidden from exchanging contact info and swapping photos / video chat. That scenario seems far fetched.
I am continually impressed that that number of breadboard connections actually works for a lot of people. I never had such luck even with 3M boards.
Instead of using a Google service to generate a QR code and hope they don’t store that URL anywhere, you can simply install a package.
SBCL was forked from CMU Common Lisp 20 years ago, which was started as a project as Spice Lisp at CMU 39 years ago.
> If you want to escape life as a corporate drone or whatever running away isn’t the answer.

'Escape' and 'running away' are roughly synonymous.

What other escapes do you prefer?
A bit off topic: Any idea about how to install apps from two countries in your Samsung tizen TV. As a expat I want to see TV from my home and host country. If I change the country from my TV all the apps are uninstalled :(
The Openstreetmap Diversity Dilemma
Same in some old samsung TVs, you could flash hacked fw with special cable
That's called operating an additional processing unit. You use AWS to quickly bootstrap a company, why not bootstrap a family? After all, genes can change a bit of the temperament of a person, but in the end, it's all about education and training. The ultimate father is the one who has risen the child, not the one who made the hardware. (Or Luke would have chosen the dark side.)
Actually, "voice over WiFi" is a thing. Seems like it uses the SIM for auth, but transmits the voice data via IP (similar to VoLTE).

I think tin foil in the walls could do the trick, but I'd be wary of potential moisture build up. I'd stay with "just buy stuff that doesn't phone home".
> MLCC caps

what about "manual" solder paste reflow ? I think I saw a few vids where people hinted at the fact that it's uneven heat and physical stress from handling that caused damage
Heh, sorry, I've been to harsh with the comment I guess... it's probably just me personally being "highly allergic" to this particular toony-style. I think it sort of falls in some "uncanny valley" of design, being neither stylized/abstract/low-poly-ish enough, nor realistic enough, nor fully-pixelated/blocky/minecrafty, but just in-between.

In general I like styles that either:

- just go all the way in the stylized direction, like Bad North [1], The Witness [2] or even Clash of Clans [3] (to be honest I also dislike CoC-style popular with mobile games nowadays, but at least it's consistent/harmonious in its candy-plasticky look)

- OR they actually try to do the realistic-style part, like the classic Age of Empires, or toony-ish-ralisticky like more modern Northgard [4]

- OR they fully embrace the blocky style like Minecraft, or the 8-bit/pixelated style of clearly retro-style games

"In between" styles just look... annoying, giving a "sand in your eye" mental sensation of the early 90s games that were too shallow and childish. It lacks some "higher harmony" thing that I can't describe any better. I get this "allergic" reaction also when I see this style in clothing or architecture or whatever.

Anyway, keep up the work if you and others enjoy it, don't be discouraged by people that just prefer smth else!

I'm just a bit sad bc I probably would've liked the game mechanics, but the style totally turns me off.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/688420/Bad_North_Jotunn_E...

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supercell....

[4] https://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/
I haven't been able to locate these numbers, can you point me to them? Anecdotally, living here, there are very few homeless people in the street, not like my home in SF.

The people you do see on the street are Refugees (for whom there is available housing, whether they choose to take it or not, many of them are either on their way to Europe, or have been waylaid) and Romani.

The Roma are an unbelievably complicated problem globally which transcends the word "homeless".

What I don't see are people with heroin / meth / alcohol problems sleeping on the sidewalks / in the parks, or pooping on the street (at least I haven't the past 5 years). There was one old homeless guy in Izmir last year who asked me to buy him a durum, though.
It looks to me December 2019 was a very eventful month, launches happening almost every other day.
Anecdata: in Python I used to (and still do to some extent) practice TDD very conscientiously because I felt it really helped me structure my programs well and get them "correct my construction". One of the reasons for moving to Haskell was that the type system has the same effect at a lower cost (once the barrier to entry of learning about the type system has been crossed).
I'm partially recovering, it's such a weird feeling. Like un-divorcing.
Use bit.ly it's quicker ;)
I generated less than $500 over 9 months period.
I have 10+ paying customers who pay around $6/mo each.

my business model is charging 2 cents per order processed. Or $6/mo flat rate subscription.
You could maybe try an old hdmi splitter not compatible with latest dhcp (that supports ethernet)
Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?
The newer thinkpads are meh, compared to what the older ones were
Well this looks promising.
CNN International is quite different from CNN (US).
> let down the team

it's a deeply wired need, and it would be interesting to discuss that. I found it easier to wake up in the morning when I felt part of team rather than going to a company be a nameless cog. Surely being a cog may avoid being overworked by never ending night shifts .. hence the debate.
They would need to be able to predict the future plus put a significant portion of their net worth on the line likely many times.
Any CFO worth its money would tell you to optimise for free cash flow. As my ex CFO used to repeat (and we were working for big co tm).

"Cash is King". She tought ne a lot.

Also RoI is a measure of time. Not money or profit. Time until you get your money back.
WordPress.

Technically skilled people, developers in particular, tend to look down upon it because of reasons such as its codebase and plugin API not being exactly clean.

It gets the job done, though, and it's pretty robust, too, especially given its long history and dynamic ecosystem.

In my opinion, WordPress doesn't nearly get enough praise for enabling people to create websites.

I deliberately chose WordPress for my business website because it allows me to delegate the nitty-gritty of running a website to developers who specialise in that sort of software.

Could I have done it myself using a static site generator and various supporting services for providing dynamic behaviour? Sure, but it'd have been much more work with arguably little to no benefit for something that's not my core business.
Sooner or later TSMC will build next-gen R&D facilities and fabs. Shareholders will be able to vote for the new locations.
NEC industrial/commercial displays make good and dumb lcd displays as well.

https://www.necdisplay.com/
$10 really means ripping apart and wiring up cheap Chinese consumer electronics. A PCB project is at minimum $100.
> Need to keep track of all these moving parts.

No you don't.
I've wanted to build a similar system for supporting preview of articles on a CMS. Problem is, users may share multiple URLs with a user so a single JWT token in a cookie doesn't suit that flow very well. Each new link followed needs to extend an existing value with additional proofs (and remove old ones?)
I still have hope, I’ll find another job soon. So I am waiting and developing more marketable skills. For example I used C++ only for embedded development, but learning to use C++ for application development might open me more job opportunities. I am also creating GitHub portfolio and already have 2 followers:-) Everything is happening extremely slow, but I keep doing. Looking for a job from unemployment in Germany is very tough, better use big name of current employer during application process.
And like programming the biggest speedup comes from the letters never typed/read. Quality matters so much more.
Stroom doesn’t mean electrical power, that’s “vermogen”. It means current.
The problem of recommending something (especially something genuinely new) is actually quite complex, which you realize by studying inferential/causal statistics.

A statisticians would say that you are making "heroic assumptions" about both the taste of viewers, and the dimensions of the product, especially given that the products you have are actually quite sparse. Heck, there's even interesting literature in empirical economics (called empirical industrial organization) trying to estimate prices/demand/costs (which is, essentially the same issue as Netflix trying to estimate what you like) and dealing with the inherent curse of dimensionality. This becomes really obvious if you are actually write down explicitly what you are doing.

Of course ML engineers are engineers and not really interested in causal inference, so Netflix wants me to watch 12 Hitler documentaries in a row and Amazon recommends that I better buy that second fridge right after the first.

Where _does_ collaborative filtering actually work?
Disclaimer: I've worked in several semiconductor companies mentioned in this article as hardware guy.

Actually it's quite liberating to be the provider of technology. You control the whole market. Specially true for some of the companies which are virtual monopolies (over 95% of the market is owned by them). In EUV side, which is the future (happening now), some vendors are the only option. Fabs can pressure them, of course, but at the end of the day they are the only vendors available. I find it quite funny, on one hand TSMC is one of those "jump? Where and how high" kind of customer but OTOH there is no one else they can turn to. I find this kind of relationship quite funny and unique. I am not aware of any other industry where the vendor has this much power. All because they are the only supplier. Maybe in defense?
Living in EU and having changed a few countries in the last decade, I can confirm this. Programmers are paid absolutely average salary, typically less than most other engineering professions.

Programmers being highly paid must be an US thing.

Consultants can certainly be paid (way) more than average, but this is not something I've seen for regular employee positions.
pure JS WiFi QR Code Generator

https://qifi.org/
> the CS curriculum

There is no 'the' CS curriculum. You must be thinking of one particular school's CS curriculum, like maybe your own? Another school's CS curriculum is going to be wildly different.
Some non-time off tips that work for me:

- Remove most, if not all notifications from your phone. Not just work-related, anything that will stimulate your brain for no good reason

- Try to leave work on time to allow other activities after. Could be ranging from going to the gym to raising your kids.

- Monitor your smartphone usage and cut it down (use something like RescueTime).

- Go to places where there is no internet connection to have some you time (e.g., a steam room is perfect to relax, or yoga)

- Sleep the right amount of hours for you

- Eat, drink well

- Remember, in most jobs, no one dies if that thing is not done today.

- Remember, if you have to work too much it's probably not your fault, but poor planning / constraints in your org. that you cannot control
Well, this is very subjective, and I am afraid if many people with <X> agenda are reading a <Y> thread, its very easy to have flagged sensible(potentially interesting) comments not because of intellectual value, but because they're disliked. Not sure how to fix
But those eventually break and the supply dries up. Not all panels are equal, so good luck finding a decent 2019 era 4k HDR monitor in 2029 or 2034. If the LCD and control board don't give up, you'll be swapping LEDs, caps and FETs sooner or later. And that's assuming HDMI will not be superseded.

So, let's hope that free-market thing actually works and at some point a "dumb display" product will be available again.
Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?
I'm wondering what framework do you use to plan your product development.

Right now I'm using just Trello with a 4 lists, Planned, In-progress, Staging and Production. Works ok but I feel I can do better, like adding a progress % or something to get a better overview of my tasks.

Are you using any agile framework that's simple and good enough for a solo dev (and maybe to support a team of max 3 more devs in the near future)?
I'd trust a Debian package over Google's service any day.
All the panels mentioned are LCD. I think nowadays the right tech is OLED. Is there any non smart OLED assembler? Also the dimension is a problem because I cannot find anything smaller than 55’’, and all are smart :-(
As a monitor I think OLED is (also) better for your eyes.
Am I wrong?
Sorry for bad English
Web based alternatives might eat Adobe's lunch here. Figma is gaining steam and the collaboration feature might be enough to win, photopea does about 80% of what I want photoshop to do (excepting especially large projects). The only real holdup is video editing since it takes quite a bit of resources.
I would argue that a good developer has spent many years learning and perfect their art, more so than any residency. Over the last 25 years have been continually learning, reading papers and journals from CS and mathematics, as well as online sources. I suspect most developers need to spend time at least reading and honing their skills across their career. To be fair many doctors read medical journals and may attend seminars.

The difference between a doctor, lawyer vs a programmer is that a programmer emerges from a computer science program in a "larval stage". Most fresh graduates have very little experience in knowing how to structure code at the level of a senior software engineer. There are years ahead to, maybe, get to the point of mastery.

The professional fields, in particular Doctors, require that the residency graduate is more or less fully "baked" and can perform their role without error. That the residency is grueling is just an artifact of the way the profession organizes itself. Personally I think it is dangerous to require doctors to run long shifts. It is almost more of a test of physical fortitude.

There is the full gamut of intelligence and diligence in the medical community, just as in the software engineering community. Does a grueling qualification versus lifelong learning in other areas make one profession more valuable or not, I don't think so. As others have stated, economics has more to do with supply and demand.
Because a.) almost no Latex document is published as Pdf+Tex, it's either PDF or die, and b.) latex has a bazillion Turing-complete extensions, that don't make sense semantically until you render them.
Is the customer paying for the work hours doing code reviews?

If they do, usually code reviews come after unit tests.
Size and lack of growth. If they are a 2 trillion dollar company they will not be able to grow nearly as much on a percentage basis at that point. Also it is harder to make big changes at large stable companies to respond to threats and large companies are more likely to ignore much smaller companies.
Arduino programmable air, pneumatics kit
Better AI would be fantastic. I always stopped playing after a while because the AI was too bad.
I have compiled an index of the new stories arranged by year of publication on my website, which is a bit easier to navigate than scrolling through the (incomplete) list on the Register website: https://bearbin.net/bofh
I'm somehow building that dating app you won't build. See you on HN in 3-4 months ;)
The key difference is responsibility.

You can leave an unfulfilling job for another form of responsibility in life that is more fulfilling.

Endless travel is really just life without responsibility. Having zero responsibility actually does not make most people happy in the long term. It’s an unnatural human state, particularly for grown men, and most will wake up eventually (perhaps once it’s too late) and realize there’s nothing enlightening about a life lived that way.
This is interesting, however my main problem with really long Wi-Fi password are devices that have bad ways to input text. Things like media box using a remote controller or a video game console using it's controller.

WPS was born to fix this, however the specification is so broken that it is literally useless from a secure standpoint.
Are you going back to work in the same place with same people after your time off?
Maybe I'm in the minority here but I don't think this is clever at all. BOFH isn't some Dr. House character who's insufferable personality is the price you pay for genius. BOFH isn't doing some sort of vigilantism, correcting injustices in the world. He acts like all the people he screws deserve it for being dumb, but the "dumb" decision being punished is not expecting to be sabotaged for no reason. That's not dumb of them, that's a necessary assumption to make civilization work. He phrases these stories as if he's some clever trickster that hasn't found a worthy opponent, but where's the cleverness in "HAHA deleted your thesis using my admin priv"? I can't even respect that in the technically talented hacker sense. He didn't hack or do anything intelligent as part of his cruelness. He just abused his normal work credentials. Don't let the tone fool you, as far as sophistication goes this stuff is on the level of a shirtless parking lot fist fight. This isn't even funny in the harmless prank sense because it flat out isn't harmless. BOFH is nothing more than an asshole who is actively counterproductive at his job. Why does anyone here aspire or relate to BOFH? Why are so many finding this to be a funny and agreeable part of "hacker culture".
Every decade major version number increases.
Another way of improving the homemade air purifier is adding an activated carbon filter (read: kitchen extractor hood filter)
The 2019 Year in Review
From the perspective of a relatively new HNer, this sort of comment further reinforces how great the community can be, in a meta-sort of way!
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good by Benjamin Todd definitely had the biggest impact on my life (and therefore hopefully on many others as well). To know that I can save quite a few lives throughout my career gave my life a somewhat deeper sens
If one of these 240 was aimed at your family house you'd be glad it was intercepted though.