skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious—didn't that go fairly well? You noticed that the one thing that matters—outcomes—wasn't there, and you ended it.

If that person had been co-located, they'd have pretended to work and otherwise browsed facebook when no one is watching. You might have liked them, because such a nice guy to talk to and so on, and had given them a second chance and eventually decided that … outcomes are not there.

I did bad hires, remote and otherwise. I don't think there is a way to avoid that. Our insight from interviewing is just so limited. You give your best when screening, and then you gotta make a leap. And deal with crap when it happens, as it always will.
As a Canadian libertarian... I’m not sure why you say that. I don’t have a dog in this fight; I just pray that neither “side” down there gets what they think they want.
That is very interesting. I follow a number of "Just Talking" podcasts and I have come to consider the members as my friends. Some of them really are, but others are just purely because I listen to their podcast.

Feels weird to realize this.
Just in case the negativity gets tiring, I want to say that you're on my whitelist of domains I always read on HN (which is much smaller than the blacklist of domains I never read).
Wow. Did you try to sell them on?
Not so sure about beautiful, but they definitely have great bodies.
Great news! Can't wait to lose access to all my files.
Every mention of anyone not on the “good” side ascribes malevolent motive to all of their actions?
I'm the kind of guy who goes through $HOME every once in a while and start looking for workarounds or filing bugs requesting XDG Base Directory spec support.

But in this case I can't complain. It's literally about the behavior of the home folder. This one makes complete sense to me.
>MS added a few other RISC architectures in the following years (ARM most notably).

Windows NT never came to ARM. The work was rolled into Windows 8 with RT.
It's doable as an extension that communicates with a native program. There are already such extensions for media buttons, you might want to look among them―some may allow you to reconfigure the keys. Search for ‘media keys’ in the extension store.

However, rewinding is probably not among standard functionality of these extensions.
For this specific example, I would use event listener to sync the content. All done manually in DOM, no shortcut, some codes duplicated. I think that's what SPA frameworks and its components try to promote, single point of update.

Personally, I like the vannila JS approach, a bit tedious, but I know what I will get.
Anyone remember Opera Mini, and how it could squeeze just about any site into just about any viewport width? I never used it on a smartphone, but I enjoyed playing with it on the desktop, it was like magic. Not always pretty, but very functional.
Yes, the Shuttle was expensive and Project Constellation was going to replace it. We’d only be without orbital capabilities for a few years.

https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/163092main_constellation_program_ov...

Unfortunately, that was canceled 10 years ago. That was superseded by Orion?
What would disabling them look like?
Curious, how do you know that lack of trust is the reason? I mean, they wouldn't tell you, right? Maybe it's something simpler like, salaries, timezone, ...?
1987 Computer Chronicles: HyperCard

An introduction to Apple's Hypercard. Guests include Apple Fellow and Hypercard creator Bill Atkinson, Hypercard senior engineer Dan Winkler, author of "The Complete Hypercard Handbook" Danny Goodman, and Robert Stein, Publisher of Voyager Company. Demonstrations include Hypercard 1.0, Complete Car Cost Guide, Focal Point, Laserstacks, and National Galllery of Art. Originally broadcast in 1987. Copyright 1987 Stewart Cheifet Productions.

https://archive.org/details/CC501_hypercard
... I’m struggling to think there was ever a reason to store epoch seconds as signed.

Was there a use case for “we need to pretend to have 65 years worth of system time before 1970?
You could definitely go eGPU + intel NUC and tape them together for 2x Switch + Dock. M2 nvme drives are tiny and I think some boards take laptop memory. You really only need the equivalent of a gtx 970 to do 1080p which probably exists in Pci x4.
This is what happens when you let business people near technology. They ruin it (Compaq that is).
I’m not sure that each “side”, when they are in power, hasn’t sought to increase the centralization of power in their hands — and then laments that the next “bad guy” has too much power.

Again, as a Canadian libertarian, I’m not sure where you got the idea that I’m “conflating Donald Trump” with anything; perhaps you’re “projecting”?
hey tvst, op here. Love your work!
Indeed, and an additional issue is that success is impossible to measure. Objective testing (double blind or whatever) is prohibitive, and there's a tradition of judging gear based on subjective opinion, that will be hard to overcome. We could already be past the stage where the simulations are good enough, and never know it.

Commercial success might not be driving the development of these products. Anybody who's that good with DSP could make more money outside of the musical instrument business. Someone is doing this because it's their passion.
Well, now we should use 64-bit timestamps, and 64-bit timestamps is I think sensible to be signed, since there shouldn't need a reason for unsigned 64-bit timestamps.
Kind of, but I wonder about niche articles with nobody keeping an eye on them. I have notifications for a small page that contains some empirical formulas which contain arbitrary constants. Every now and then, somebody will modify one of them so it looks similar but is completely wrong. What if I wasn't keeping an eye on it? Readers would never know they were seeing wrong information.
Political ideology has virtually nothing to do with what he talks or writes about, aside from occasionally emphatically denouncing ideology of any kind.
How the Iowa Caucuses Became an Epic Fiasco for Democrats
Correct. Noise curfews are common at European airports.
Spotify managed to make musicians abismimal returns, why would it work any differently for podcasts?
However it turns out, well done for completing it.
Unexpected places where you can use null bytes: gets, fgets and scanf("%s"). All three will read and store null bytes into your string from the input, and keep going: gets and fgets only terminate at a newline character and scanf only terminates at whitespace (which doesn't include the null byte).

gets and scanf("%s") are also horrifically unsafe. gets is well-known to be unsafe (to the point where you'll almost certainly get a compiler warning for using it). However, scanf("%s") is unsafe for exactly the same reason (no bound on the buffer length) yet will not produce a compiler warning. Add to the fact that these functions will accept null bytes, and you have a very dangerous buffer overflow waiting to happen.
Before Rand and Robyn Miller developed Myst, they created "The Manhole" and "Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel" in HyperCard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhole

>The Manhole is a notable computer game because like Cosmic Osmo and Spelunx it has no goal and no end; as a software toy the object is simply to explore and have fun.

>Reception

>Describing The Manhole as "the first children's software to require a hard disk", Macworld in March 1989 stated that its "realistic sounds, the fantasy-filled graphics, and the stack construction are truly impressive". The magazine "highly recommended [the game] for young children[, and] it's hard to imagine a playful soul of any age who wouldn't enjoy exploring the mind-tickling world inside The Manhole".

>The Manhole won a Software Publishers Association Excellence in Software Award in 1989 for Best New Use of a Computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Osmo_and_the_Worlds_Bey...

>Cosmic Osmo was created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, who went on to form the company Cyan and develop the best-selling adventure game Myst.

>It was created, and runs, using HyperCard. Animated portions were made using MacroMind VideoWorks, a linear animation program that later became Macromedia Director. A XCMD plug-in enabled VideoWorks animated sprites to be displayed with an alpha mask on top or behind HyperCard's graphic layer.

Cosmic Osmo (Apple Macintosh):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K30UmVsqTn8

I will never forget the fun of watching a friend's little kid delightedly playing around with Cosmic Osmo, excitedly explaining and demonstrating everything to all the bewildered adults!

Navigable games like Myst, Cosmic Osmo, and Manhole are so memorable, thanks to the Method of Loci:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

"What did you expect from a blind mouse playing a piano made of Swiss cheese?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K30UmVsqTn8&t=14m00s

(Then at 14:25: Yo dawg, Cosmic Osmo in Cosmic Osmo!)
Didn't they get hacked by a raspberry pi the other day?
Thanks for sharing Parsec! I'm the co-founder. It's really great that the script is helpful.
Whatever the motive I'm glad that he still eventually got to the point. I don't think you can fault him for that, that's what he's good at, I guess.
Can't open this on mobile. Android says opening with Drive, then nothing happens
Spotify kinda sucks. And has since they got their first taste of success. I was living in Sweden when they launched and signed up. It was great then. And for a couple of years. Then some new investors came in and it went this direction, just extract value by all means possible, winner take all, destroy, destroy, destroy. Except for themselves. Thanks Silicon Valley vampires, you ruin pretty much everything you touch
Isn’t it odd that the most important political and military mission of a generation relied on “tribal information which wasn’t written down?”
> 'I wont hire anyone who drives a motorcycle'

> 'it sends a real signal to steer clear.'

I'm sure the feeling is mutual. Or at least I hope that it is.
We have a Linux client on Parsec (https://parsecgaming.com/downloads). You can install Parsec on any gaming machine (PC or VM) and use our game streaming software to play from your Linux machine
I think the confusion here is stemming in part from the fact that "relative airspeed" isn't a well-defined term. In aviation airspeed means the speed of the airplane through the air (modulo specifiers for true vs. indicated vs. calibrated airspeed).
If you currently use a ballpoint pen, switching to a rollerball will be a huge jump in quality to your writing experience. However, if you already use rollerballs, and you're looking at this and thinking you'd like to try it out, but you haven't ever tried a fountain pen, I would heavily advise giving one a shot. If you know you need a rollerball, then a stick with a rollerball. But don't dismiss a fountain pen out-of-hand -- the cheaper brands will be the same price as the pens listed here, and will be a big jump in quality for a nontrivial number of readers.

In particular, I've used a Fine nib Twisbi Eco (~$30) for multiple years now as my main pen, and I consider it to be one of the better purchases I've ever made. It's cheap enough that I can throw it into a bag or my pocket alongside my keys without worrying too much about it getting scratched or stolen, but it still looks reasonably nice, writes beautifully, holds a ton of ink, and is just a joy to use. There are cheaper pens out there, but I really like having a piston-fill pen, and I think it's just a really good quality, versatile, fun line -- there are even a lot of different color options.

I can describe mechanically why a fountain pen feels good, but I can't really convey how it feels. The best thing I can say is that it takes something that's very mundane (writing) and it makes it feel a tiny bit more pleasurable and 'extravagant' (for lack of a better word). I write a lot, I fill notebooks with handwritten notes. With a fountain pen, it just feels good to write. My handwriting has improved a lot, particularly my cursive -- I suspect in part because I pay more attention to what I'm writing. It's easy to take care of, but it feels good to occasionally wash it out and switch to a new ink color. It feels nice to use permanent things.

I've seen a few people talking about avoiding fountain pen ink even in the rollerballs because they dissolve in water. On that note I will swear by Noodler's Black Waterproof ink. I've completely submerged and soaked pages that I wrote on with that ink, and not only does it not dissolve, it does not even smudge. It's really crazy. One of the really nice things about fountain pens is that there's such a wide variety of colors and styles and glitters, and it just adds to this feeling of making your handwriting feel more expressive and personal. It makes total sense to me that rollerball users would want to be able to use the same ink.
Thanks for sharing Parsec!
Yawn, space is dangerous. We would all still be living in trees with this attitude.

I don't believe that we can actually design a system that is safe like this, so yes it needs a lot of testing and iterative improvement. In the meantime, we need to use it to launch equipment and a few brave souls that understand the risks.

Actually to add to that, I think putting timescales in front of something like this as a tendency to clarify the goals and therefor simplify the engineering. If we sit around for decades trying to shave a couple ounces off every single part and build in triplicate redundancy so its perfect it will fail.

If you look at apollo, what you see is that they had a review committee that followed up the work and tested/built their understanding from the ground up. Part of that was ripping out systems that were to complex to be easily understood when possible, and considering how everything worked together.

In many ways this appears to be what spaceX is doing, initial design, prove it out with a bunch of launches, fix problems as they appear, etc. So one of most important design goals is designing something that will be launched thousands of times (not necessarily the same rocket, just the scale) rather than something that is designed to be the perfectly safe vehicle for another half dozen launches before we scrap it for another 40 years.
> It's not surprising that his fans have chosen to apply those techniques to Tim Ferriss himself, by following his social media and calling around at hotels to find him. He all but encouraged this behavior in his first book.

This is a funny in an ironic sort of way.

It's like teaching thieves only for them to rob you.
I teach people how to fly. Trust me when I say that this is an extremely common misconception. It's one of the concepts students have the greatest difficulty wrapping their heads around.
He has never advocated that people eat all beef. He said he has an autoimmune disease that causes severe symptoms if he eats just about anything else. His daughter switched to an all meat diet and cured her lifelong crippling RA and suggested he try it. He was skeptical but eventually did, and his autoimmune symptoms went away. He is obviously aware that the general population does not have that rare autoimmune disorder that his family has.

His adult daughter advocates it to everyone and seems to have her own thing going on around it, but diet is not a topic he discusses. I definitely advocate many things that my parents would disagree with too.
Define "good enough oscilloscope"? A rigol 1054z can be had for $4-500. What do you need from an oscilloscope that the 1054z doesn't provide?

I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand.
... in batches ... then chill
And for those individuals (or organisations) making heavy use of the resource, the zonefiles are downloadable, for local query capabilities / reduced latency.
Maybe this is useful to some people, but I think that it is not useful to me and that what I currently have is good. (I don't need the XDG stuff either though, and I don't use it.)
Curious, with GH notifs and Q&A in Slack, with demos at sprent end and probably an online scrum board…do you really still need a stand up to know what the others are up to? Or is it more to … talk?
Class D (or Class T) amplifiers are just switching power supplies "turned sideways." By which I mean that the important input changes from the AC power to the regulation signal. The latter is a DC reference voltage in a power supply; it's the audio input in an amp.
Really happy to hear you and your son are getting a lot of value from Parsec's streaming tech. Let me know if you have any suggestions/ideas to improve the product. Thanks!
Classic MacOS used : for the directory separator, so you could freely put / in your filenames. Modern macOS converts / in the UI to : under the hood in order to retain compatibility, while banning : in the UI (the same restriction that classic MacOS had).
As krebsonsecurity said, he edited the article to add that because of my comment.
The Routeviews project (https://www.routeviews.org/) provides a reverse-lookup which returns ASN and CIDR for a given IP. For example:

$ host -t txt 240.230.216.209.asn.routeviews.org
240.230.216.209.asn.routeviews.org descriptive text "21581" "209.216.230.0" "24"

That's the ASN (AS21581 -- M5HOSTING / M5 Computer Security) and CIDR block (209.216.230.0/24) for news.ycombinator.com, a/k/a 209.216.230.240.

What I've frequently found is that hostile traffic is fairly highly concentrated among bad-actor space, often datacentres with little reason to be generating end-user traffic or HTTP requests. Though that includes a surprisingly large quantity of web crawlers (few of which belong to any organisations you've heard of).
I just save them in a mbox file, using the "s" command, which automatically moves it to the mbox file in the home directory. I can then use "mail -f" to recall them.
> His mySQL tables used no foreign keys, only int fields.

This one is potentially justifiable if speed is a higher priority than data integrity.
Huh:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f18ruz/more_evi...
There's also `echo -ne '\0'`, which works similarly (it tells echo to interpret the escape sequences).
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f18ruz/more_evi...
“Unwillingness to support content creators”

We are under absolutely NO obligation to support them. They like to talk. We may or may not like to listen. They are the digital equivalent of HAM radio operators, and Spotify is acting like worse than a leech on a free and open system.
Bug Bounty and Pentesting Recon Methodology
Can we please stop spamming rachelbythebay stories?
First time I am seeing sourcehut and it seems cool. Is it basically a git, CI, and mailing list platform? Or is there more to it?
Why are there so many more single men than women until mid-ages, where male death causes more single women than men?
They've done extended, multiple relight tests of the second stage as part of their Air Force mission rating tests.

I don't think it is anywhere near designed to stay usable after multiple days of staying cold, that is a completely different mission profile from what the second stage was designed to do, aka earth orbit missions.

I would expect the stored cryogenics would not take well to it.
I don’t follow the analogy to cable. It seems that podcasting is already diverse. Why will consolidation under Spotify increase diversity?
Yea this is where I envision this working best for me. I travel for work and have been playing a ton on RetroPie lately. I wouldn’t mind being able to bring a SBC of some sort and being able play higher end games on the hotel TV. I don’t like lugging around a bunch of extra stuff.
For the most part, the podcasts I listen to are independent. I'm not all that concerned about a megacorp coming in and destroying things. If Apple and Google couldn't do it, I think we're okay for a while.
I had been following some of the set-up from "Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text!"[0].

[0] - http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
Agreed. I don't mind disagreement at all.
This sounds wrong to me because I've read that the plane uses 90% thrust or something around that to take off, and at cruise, less thrust is needed.
> I think you are just agreeing with what I said.

Pretty much yep! I think we both agree asking for gui support is likely to get shot down by most maintainers. And not for any reason than its a big ask.

> GUI is a huge separate feature request and not "criticism" per say.

I've seen a lot of people even on HN complain about cli only things. I'm not sure everyone would agree its a feature request.
Loved that. This quote just sums up customer support in 2020 (and, apparently, also in 2014):

Me 'Hi- I just called about a 12 foot balance beam
delivered to me – along with my toilet – in error.
Are you the one I talked to?'

'No'

Me- 'Excellent!'
In general, I see good commit messages as a Talmudic codification of a company's oral knowledge - complete with back-and-forth conversations, contradictory points of view and distinct characters. Still better than having to go talk to the people involved, some of whom may no longer be in the organization.

(Specifically with commit messages as Gemara and wikis as the much more organized and impersonal Mishnah.)
you get more for less money and their commission is smaller
Spotify pays more per listen than radio or YouTube.
This would kill most use cases for QNX+POSIX.
Note also that the developer said it would be a good long term solution to put the thing behind a service. Oftentimes the person isn't ignorant of better practices (though they may be out of practice in applying them). They just differ in which shortcuts they think are acceptable. Or perhaps they've been broken by an environment where doing the right thing has always been blocked by someone, until they no longer even try.

Replying to myself, since I can no longer edit.
The (Inflated) Value of Source Code
Or their lawyers are extremely good at getting employment contracts drawn up. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by paranoid lawyers that got the c levels ears.
Agreed. Besides Geometric Algebra, dual numbers also play a huge role in automatic differentiation -- the core building block of modern machine learning frameworks.

I really like the analogy in this talk about how Al-Khwarizmi's six quadratic equations simplify to just one, once we learn about negative numbers and zero.

In a lot of ways, geometric algebra (and dual numbers) are our discovery of "negative numbers and zero", but for the 21st century.
Netflix gets govt takedown demands – and none of them involve Adam Sandler
a Manhattan Project style commitment

The Manhattan Project spent about 2 billion over a 5 year period. That's around 23 billion in today's dollars. The 5 year budget for NASA exceeds 100 billion dollars.
Sodium Vapor Process
> There’s a big difference between being known in your field and being generally famous as Tim Ferriss is talking about.

Thanks for actually making me realize this distinction.

Kinda like being known for something instead of being famous for something. Does that make sense?
Yeah maybe take the company that does $283,000 in sales per minute at their word when they say don’t bother returning it.

They told you not to do it.
You did it.
Now you’re pissed that doing it wasn’t a smooth process.
Ok.
I use the online chat and it's always a person. Or they have solved the turing test with their customer support.
The “best sites” link really should have gone to the Circus Fans Webring