skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the same experience, but just wanted to sum this up as it's advice I've given to others: make side projects public.

This doesn't even have to be fancy, even just a list of projects on your own personal site with links to Github and what you learned/what you hoped to accomplish.

Having the public list is also good as many times the projects might be done at the behest of a company or you don't have a good way to "show" them so it's your chance to write them up and get "credit" for your work on them.
They definitely are networked. This one is over LTE. I used a KerberosSDR to accurately triangulate and verify that signal was originating from that spytower.

And they also to appear to have rudimentary "person", "vehicle", and other tracking, with an API to forward regions of interest to a more robust ML facial recognition algo.
Keypresses is a pretty poor metric to base communication upon. It annoys me to see "w/" and "w/o" anywhere except Twitter. The meaning isn't clear to many non-native speakers, and it's jarring — we recognise the most common words by the shape of the whole word, so it's easier to read "with" and "without".

"&" is a ligature for the letters "et". A traditional way to handwrite it, other than as &, is a "crossed epsilon", something like Ɛ̸, which looks more like "et". There's a Unicode character closer to this form: 🙲. I have no preference between 🙲, &, etc. and et cetera — none is common enough that I would recognize it by shape while reading prose.
I think at the smallest companies, they do need engineers that can do everything. There isn't enough income to pay teams of people to do specific things, so you are going to have to be comfortable writing code, screwing around with CSS, pushing stuff to production, worrying about security, and laying the framework for hiring the next n engineers. There just isn't anyone else that is going to do it.

At bigger companies, it really varies. There is a lot of specialization, so you can definitely get away with only programming (or only doing SRE, or only developing build/testing tools, or only maintaining production machines, or only developing Linux on embedded devices, etc.) I think that is where you want to aim if you don't care about the details of the "full stack". And, I think it's perfectly fine to specialize; you can probably be more productive when you're focusing on only one thing.

I am 50% looking for a job, 50% doing my own thing right now. The biggest problem I have is that when companies need the skills I have, they have too many employees and I know everything is going to be "meetings to review the employee handbook" instead of engineering. If I were going to write a complaint about the state of the industry, it would be that. Do more with less people!
The Future of “Reality”?
In the next possible say 20 or less years. May we have a system maybe like neuralink that could normalize Augmented Reality or even deep dive VR?
And the FSA and Bank of England have a special unit to help, including a special "temporary permission regime" to ensure existing EEA banks will be able to continue operating in the UK while the new licences are sorted out for up to 3 years from the end of the transition period (end of this year), or even later as Treasury can extend it.

That is to say, they could have continued operating in the UK until at least 31st December 2023 with minimal overhead and no actual British bank licence.

This is why there is no panic or rush in the banking sector. Those who are announcing that they are leaving were already contemplating leaving for purely commercial reasons and are simply doing it now to simplify things (that way they don't need to look into the new regime or temporary regime at all).
But the PS4 never got a UHD Blu-ray player, some think it was an obvious candidate for the 4K pro model. Or perhaps we've gone the other way again and discs are dead, streaming is king.
Having a good story isn't about hiding the faults in your work, it's about making your work accessible to others. It's no good having tons of experiments if you can't explain what they mean and why anyone else should care.
"Mastering Qt 5" would be one of them.

https://www.packtpub.com/eu/web-development/mastering-qt-5-s...
Walmart sells guns; that doesn't mean everything they sell is a gun. If these are just cameras, does it matter where they came from?
I find them very useful when working with software with images (e.g. maps), and when users supply screenshots with their issue reports.
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Hey,
I recommend you RPA (Robotics Process Automation), there some open source option such as Open RPA or community options as UiPath. Actually I work as an RPA developer and you can automate whatever you want. For example read an email, capture that information in an Excel and fill web forms based on the excel.
Many if not most Walmarts in my area have these. I believe that stores are installing them when the amount of incidents they have with crazy/wild folks is large, as I've seen police at the stores with them rather frequently. This sadly seems somewhat corelated with nearby socioeconomics, but it doesn't change the fact that the things the police are getting called for are real. Like another poster I tend to try and park near one if I have to shop at a place with one.
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Idk, it wasn't much more annoying than the 400th person chiming in with a "me too" before that. I already might have completely missed a comment explaining the situation between all these.

Actually those animated gifs might have been better than all those "me too", since a text-only post informing about the situation would have stuck out much better.
As a chemist, I got to smell a lot of compounds including some terrible ones.

Pure compounds might stink, but it’s usually a very specific smell, so I never found them that bad.

What was the worst was when reactions went bad and created a black tar of decomposition products. Say all your solvent boiled off and the reaction mixture got too hot and burned.

I had done some selenium chemistry at one point and had this happen. Selenium is one row down from sulfur so it had similar odor properties, but more similar to garlic for me. When one of those reactions went bad, it was worse than a sewer.

And the best part was if you got a good whiff, you’d smell it for days since it stuck to your clothes, hair and inside of your nose.

One of the most obnoxious smells was a chemical used to protect nitrogens on a molecule (Cbz). It doesn’t smell that bad, but it reacts with the nitrogen in your nose and it takes 2-3 days to go away. You learn to hate the smell pretty quickly.
I don't know about "every time"; it's more that they should be used judiciously. Using them to allow you to have two different functions that perform two different calculations but bear the same name wouldn't qualify as judicious use in my book.

There are similar problems with getting a bit too happy with macros in Lisp, or type-level programming in Haskell, or templates in C++, or self-modifying code in assembly language. In all cases, the principle is the same: In general, you should always prefer the simplest way to get the job done.
I found this last night and I'm already looking at replacing/extending my existing setup with it. Thanks for the share!
Terahertz waves create short and stable electron pulses
He founded and runs SoftBank which does $81B in revenue. Yahoo/Alibaba are his most famous investments. Here are many of the other ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group
This looks really cool, thank you.

Another book I particularly like in the same style are Feynman (lesser known) lectures on computation: https://amzn.to/2SSoJaR where he takes you from single instructions all the way to quantum computing
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Betelgeuse is ~47 milliarcseconds in diameter, making it one of the largest stars (in angular diameter terms) observable from Earth. It was first resolved using the Michelson Stellar Interferometer (which had a diameter of 20 meters) in the 1880s.

I don't know the observational wavelength for the images in the article (VLT-SPHERE has filters that go from ~1-2 microns), but if the image were in H-band (1.6 micron wavelength) the resolution of the 8.2 meter telescope is ~49 milliarcsecond, putting this image just at the formal resolution limit. Still, quite impressive stuff.
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Microsoft, Asus and Huawei also do nice tablets.
> What makes this “paramilitary spy gear?”

The need for an attention grab as confirmed by the hashtags. There's nothing "paramilitary" about this system [0] that wouldn't also apply to any number of other things like a laptop, or an OS, etc.

It's that much more amusing given that the author of the tweet (and the present submission) appears to be a Linux user, something some UK authorities using the same broken logic already deemed to be the hallmark of a criminal hacker.

[0] https://lvt.co/security/
‘Nation-state’ doesn’t mean what you think it means. It’s not a fancy way of saying ‘countries’. It means one small subset of countries such as Japan that are both nations and states at the same time.
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I think if you're at that level of technology you'd rather make sure that the star doesn't explode and eject a bunch of valuable fuel into deep space.
Science :(
Did not know that, just read some articles about it now, Google is blaming very cheap data plans in India.
https://github.com/myliang/x-spreadsheet
I had side project and nobody cared when I was looking for job. Like, it did not seemed to matter or do difference.

One hiring manager let me talk about it more, but in retrospect he was basically nice to me and let me talk about it because I wanted to.
> This comes from our capitalist economic model.

Definitely, as culture is in hefty ways influenced by (and itself influences -- dialectic!) political economy.

> To change this "culture", you have to change our economic model for how we allocate resources in the world.

Yes, but the severity of this change is open to interpretation. Part of the "culture" I was referring to was a business culture that emerged in the late 70s and called for viewing shareholder value as the sole purpose of corporations. This was not necessarily the received wisdom in the prior decades -- decades which gave us places like Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, and the decades in which, arguably, the biggest qualitative leaps in computing occurred.

It's worth noting that most of these leaps in computing come from the ARPA research culture and/or from Bell Labs, the latter of which was a government regulated monopoly and not the case study of a normal private company doing basic research. Ditto for PARC, which was more or less an extension of the ARPA group at a time when the government funding was threatened.

The lessons from this (for basic research in computing) are simple: fund people and not specific projects, while having a general overall vision; fund at the appropriate timescale of half to full decades; don't interfere.
I have nothing to do with triplebyte. I watched one video of them talking about noise in the hiring process. Wasn't aware they were so disliked!
Issue screenshots? I work on a video player and almost every issue has a screenshot in it, without which we would be very lost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

Problem is it used a lot more energy than pumping oil out of the ground. In theory we can get the energy from solar or something, but still it needs a lot of energy.

Good news it the process as been successfully used on the scale of providing fuel for entry countries. Thus we know it scales to something larger. There are other options that look promising in a test tube but don't seem to work at larger scales yet.
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Liquid Ass should be in the list. Orginally invented as a novelty prank item, it smells so bad that it is used to train surgeons and combat medics on abdominal wounds and procedures that risk puncturing the intestine.
this is fair. thanks for the feedback, will try and figure it out
Right, I started with RSS initially. It wasn't in one go, it was over a period. If I had to give you a definitive answer however, I haven't spent more than a couple hours total on this and I've been using this close to 2 years now. Did a recap last night and I have a total of 17 bots, some post daily, others I see once a month. I'm also seeing tools being shared here that could make this a lot easier as well such as huginn.
UX of seeing the screenshots for a bug inline outweighs it being used for the occasional meme.

And it's consistent with the rest of GH's markdown parsing for README, issues, etc.
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Did everyone get paid more to take on these responsibilities? I feel we're about to go through exactly the same thing at my company.
> Development (full stack), server admin, data center management, DevOps, project management, managing teams, VoIP, routing/switching, training, sales... the list goes on.

I was a 'generalist' for most of my career. I had started, run and sold a successful business that required me to touch all parts of the business.

Until a Sales Director absolutely schooled me in the theory that underpinned his work. He seemed insulted that I claimed to be proficient in sales. It was an insult to his specialism.

I would suggest you really test yourself in one of these areas before claiming you're proficient. I've never met a single person who was proficient in all the above. I've met plenty of people who could trudge along in those areas.
Yep.

People are being unreasonable here. Let's say Kroger didn't have security cams on their lots, and they were to hit the national news because the next Walmart shooter chose a Kroger instead. I bet the first thing the people complaining about having security cams in the parking lots would complain about, would be the lack of security cams in the parking lot.
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I came here to see if anyone had insights about what happened to see if I could apply any lessons learned. But all the comments seem to be "get off my lawn" style comments annoyed about people posting jokes in the issue.

Unfortunately, I am unable to resist the urge to add to the noise by complaining about people complaining.
Holy moly. Over the past hour I've come back to your response and read it several times. There's so much to unpack there.

I started writing several replies but felt I wasn't able to give you the praise you deserved, but the passage of time compels me to respond so please know you have my full gratitude

Thank you so much for such a detailed reply
The Unicode character you suggest is closer doesn't seem to render on my Mac. & and Ɛ̸ do though.
would you want it? how would you know it was safe? could that same tech "program" you? once you hook up to it, would you ever be able to tell reality from someone else's reality? I think of inception and the matrix.
> Secure messages shouldn’t persist

This is a nice, but ultimately utopic, non-sensical, impossible security requirement. I take your point that anything persistent is insecure, but anything received is potentially persistent.

There's no such thing as perfect security, there are only levels. Even a system with some hypothetical form of perfect plausible deniability designed into the receiving end could be compromised via transit metadata.

Saying persistence makes secure messaging pointless is pure hyperbole. Encryption protects against a broad range of threat vectors, some simple, others extremely challenging. There's value in every measure.
Thank you for the heads-up
Poll for Open Source Contributors
If you're an OSS contributor in your spare time/besides your fulltime job, I have a Twitter Poll I'd kindly ask you to vote in (only if you'd like). The Poll will be used to illustrate a blog post of mine:

https://twitter.com/amihaiemil/status/1229409923085283329
Most of the responses to the ticket are completely irrelevant.
How is a random clickbait Twitter post making it to the hn frontpage?

This is just a random dude venting against Kroger putting a few security cameras on their parking lot.
Modern vs. retro chess games: macOS Chess vs. Amiga BattleChess, etc.
While cars that get ~40mpg exist, they are not common - at least not in North America. SUVs that get less than 20 are more common than cars that get > 40.

That still isn't 4x though. You can find SUVs that get 4x worse, but they are generally heavy duty trucks doing things that cars cannot do. Per useful mass moved they do better than anything else.
> conditioning by society.

There is a limit. I'm sure you have one too if you really think about it. Is it tattoos all over the face? What about sandals? Or shorts? Or going bare-feet around the office.

I don't know... It's about people giving me money for work. I don't feel like I can go to work dressed like any given Sunday.
Wow. I remember setting up a NetVibes dashboard back in college (circa 2006). I can't believe they're still around.
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So "paramilitary" is still a clickbaity exaggeration. Their website mentions Target markets such as state DoTs, retailers (specifically Lowe's), oil companies, construction. Hardly a roster of paramilitary forces.
For a do-it-yourself version of chapter 1 (about building complex circuits using only nands), I can recommend http://nandgame.com/
Thanks! I was very curious about the before/after comparison but didn't see a working link in the original article.

Here is the direct YT link (from your article): https://youtu.be/o1ls7Gr9LTE

This truly seems like a completely massive change in the observable characteristics of the star especially on such a short timeframe. 36% dimmer in 12 months? I'll be really interested to see if we can find out for sure what's happening.
Wait, did you actually demodulate the LTE Signal? Or did you just treat it as a source of broadband noise?
I don't miss it a lot in Python except for some cases such as:

area(Circle circle):
...

area(Square square):
...

You could say "Ah! But that could be something that you define in each class, like square.calculate_area()". Yes, but sometimes you don't have access to the class. You could monkey-patch it but that's not something that I like to do.
The class of machines with the ‘(but obviously with a machine-bound tape)’ are even weaker than finite-state machines (because the number of states is bound by a fixed constant instead of "just" assumed to be finite).

So if you argue that the silent ‘(but obviously with a machine-bound tape)’ assumption is OK, you argue that it is OK to identify Turing machines with a class of machines that is even weaker than finite-state machines.

Any professor for (theoretical) computer science will be horrified by such claims.
For example, the emulation and debugger depends on the platform, so running debugging tests on CI helps us to improve and refactor corresponding code without much hassle.
You're right. On average I probably get about a dozen spaced out during my working hours, 10am to 4pm. On a busy day I might get a couple dozen but the intervals make these easily manageable and I always have priority. If I see something from Gilfoyle in alerts that's probably more pressing than a company I'm following that just released unaudited financials in news. Setup might sound odd but in reality as said above anything that makes it through has some stake in something I'm invested in and want to keep an eye on.
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Code's good but it doesn't cover Kleisli categories and Kleisli composition, Peano arithmetic, parametric polymorphism, sum types, pattern matching, or any of numerous other things covered in Maguire's How These Things Work. So it's not accurate to say Code is "far more comprehensive"; Code mentions FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, PL/1, and BASIC, but the example programs it contains are written in assembly, ALGOL, and BASIC. It doesn't contain any programs you can actually run except for an three-line BASIC program and some even simpler assembly programs.
I had the good luck of getting hired into a job in a 100% French environment here in Quebec just out of school almost 2 years ago. I started with just an intensive 6 credit French course in university and grade 11 English-Canada high school french as a background which conversationally accounted for very little.

I understand feeling as though your structured grammar classes in school failed you when you first went to X country and spaghetti came out your mouth. However, that grammatical framework served me incredibly well as time went on. I found it filled in holes of knowledge without need to go back and correct them later. IMO, it is not a bad place to start, a traditional grammar focused class.

If you're looking for tips, the biggest is to maximize exposure - speaking, reading, writing, hearing the language. It is simply a matter of time if you force yourself into it. In addition to everyday language practice with my colleagues to do my job (don't let them speak your native tongue with you, ever!), I hosted french movie nights, read in french, and installed Antidote for my emails (seriously - if you're learning French, buy Antidote).

Seriously, don't let them speak your native tongue with you, ever, for any reason. Force the language you want to learn without exception - conversation language patterns are very, very hard to undo once set.

Last point: Contrary to the author, "heavily accented French" to me is France French, I am far less fluent with it. Choose your teachers based on what accent you want to have, yourself.
Focus on the popular stuff: C on AtMegas, Real time Linux on rasperry pi's. That's something where there are tons of tutorials and books. Forget about fancyness in the moment.

Instead, if your future company does Qt, learn Qt. It's easy to learn In a few days if you are familiar with C++ (or Python, respectively). If you feel the urge to learn some theoretical background about TCP/IP or so, I think again two weeks are doable. Of course two weeks cannot replace years of practice.
> That last one is not alway a pejorative statement, BTW. Some people are great at figuring out the big stuff and then need others to help them execute on the detail (think about architects or producers). Others however, just give up at the first obstacle they meet, and if I get that impression from a candidate I'd want to dig into it a bit as it's possibly a yellow flag.

The most common reason for me to ditch a side project is that I've gained what satisfaction is to be gained from making it. For example, I want to try or learn some new thing and convince myself I can do it. Once I'm far enough to know how it works (even if it's not really doing much yet), I'm satisfied and I can move on to the next interesting thing.

That's why I have basically no side projects to show off..
Hi,
I also built a dashboard using MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB Charts. Here is my blog post about it: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/tracking-coronavirus-news-....
You can find my data import script in my Github in the blog post. I also gave more details in a comment and another blog post in on the way around this topic. Feel free to use it to feed your MongoDB collection with fresh data :-).
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Maybe he's using static hosting, like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/)?
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