skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how helpful this is, but I make a list of all the most pressing things I want to learn and everyday I'll look it over and choose whatever I feel like doing for however long I want.

The point here isn't efficiency, this is basically the bare minimum I think one can do while still learning and making progress, i.e. you don't need to follow a rigorous schedule or cultivate a great deal of self discipline if you enjoy the task. Doing even 20 minutes is always better than nothing at all.

Do this and slowly build up discipline by pairing it up with consistency.
Iyashikei 癒し系: Japan‘s Genre of „Healing“ Games and Movies
It's considered secure by the law (probably because historically the phone network was considered mostly secure). Doesn't matter if it isn't really until the law changes or some court overthrows it.
Show HN: Virtual Networking App
Great app to connect to friends. Really loved it!
Reminiscent
the fire ant invasion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_imported_fire_ants_in_th...
The zombie page is an educational tool, not a serious plan for dealing with the living dead. It sets up a scary (but clearly fictional) threat to teach people to make plans, have supplies, and prepare evac bags that would also apply to actual threats.
Indeed, I shouldn't get too far off course here haha, I just happened to know exactly what they were referring to and find that whole section amusing.
I don't think it's true that the US is unprepared. Most major grids have documented procedure to do a blackstart.

Which would be painful as hell but hardly 90% of population dies level painful. Author seems to be assuming more widespread damage I guess. In which case a handful of HV transformers aren't like to be the biggest headache. I'd imagine there is a hell of a lot more sensitive equipment out there than HV transformers. Internet, stock market, comms etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start
I have my home-built NAS and would be someone for this club, but using "config" as a verb is ensuring I stay away.
Regarding working on a team, communication, handling criticism, and admitting ignorance, I think most of those are really properties of junior employees, rather than junior engineers, specifically. I know I had a few issues in my first couple years, but I worked it out. I'm definitely a much more effective team member now than when I first started.

As math, I also have a pure math background, with an undergrad degree and some graduate study. Other than having that certain rigor of thought, and a problem solving mentality, I haven't really found a lot of use for it specifically in my work. For example, I probably know a lot more about graphs than any of my colleagues, because I took several graduate level courses in graph theory, but, in actual code, not much of that matters as long as you can recognize when a problem is a graph problem and find the correct algorithm (usually some variant of BFS or DFS). Every so often, I know some random fact that helps with a problem that comes up at work due to that math background, but it's not frequent. The last one I remember is that we needed a good way to compute the area of an arbitrary polygon.

Other than that, I can't think of much that I've used in work that was directly applicable. I wouldn't even say the derivative/integral concept is specific to a math background, since a lot of STEM majors require at least a 2 semester calc sequence. CS typically requires linear algebra. Stuff beyond that doesn't seem to get a lot of use, unless you're in the exact right specific field (e.g. writing graphics or other math-heavy software) from what I've seen.
I find it curious that all unclassified UFO videos are blurry and very hard to decipher
I enjoy these sort of channels, but I would say I ever "learn" anything from them.
- Sagicor 33 5667788899990M
Good job. How many jobs did you end up applying to before landing that first offer?
Ahaha. I've just heard II has a lot of ganks and not many lore connections.
> Busybox itself is quite good for certain embedded niches but it would be absurd to replace a good chunk of OpenBSD userland with that, the usability would suffer a lot.

Not to mention that Busybox (last I checked) uses a license unsuitable for inclusion in OpenBSD (which is trying to reduce the amount of GPL-licensed software in the base install).
Brown widow spiders. The ticks spread by the wasps; the spiders prey on the wasps and ticks; the wasps on the spiders and ticks.
To add to Steve’s point, Rust adds more checks during debug (non-release) more, which can makes the IR larger. So it’s not always the case that debug mode is faster to compile (though it generally is)
Made? Revenue is not profit. Their net income was just under $5B this quarter

Edit: quarter, not half
1 minute VLOG from an Entrepreneur to Entrepreneurs!
Short (1-2 min) videos about tech, entrepreneurship and lessons learnt. Hope you like what I bring to the table!
One Italian plumber and a bunch of rabbids, on the other hand...
Can you explain what it means to balance the budget? Is it like break even price for the industary?
Strong +1. I constantly felt like I was wasting time by studying and then stopping since I would forget 95% of what I learned. With a small daily investment, Anki flips that percentage to retaining 80-90%. It has been an insane boon to my motivation, and I've been able to keep a near-daily habit of doing it for 6 years now.
I have to admit I was fairly confused what the topic was until reading the first line where it mentioned AVX2 ;) I thought it might be Rust-style borrow checking for bitfields or something like that, and then the blog had "Lisp" in the title and started with a note about ULEB, until it morphed in a nice bit twiddling post.
It means holding employees, directors, CEO... Responsible for their actions instead of the company.

The shareholders only come into play in they work for the company.
The internet doesn't need parrots
This sounds pathological. Why have different C suites if none takes responsibility for anything that happens on their watch?

If this is really an inevitable state then perhaps the only solution is to limit the size of companies: by head count and market power.
>Probably a few wars too.

Not sure how you're gonna fix this with wars given that every oil producer is underwater. Even if you capture someone else's oilfields...then what? Produce oil there at a loss too?
Death stranding is the only game I ever preordered, anything made by Kojima got a free pass from me - until then.

After a couple of hours it becomes really clear that Kojima spent ALL of his time on the plot and directing the cutscenes, and it's almost like the actual gameplay was left to be done by a pack of interns who weren't even given guidance.

The terrain physics are awful. The combat is extremely repetitive and not at all engaging. Almost every mission is 'go from point A to point B'. The plot (or rather the series of cutscenes that convey the plot) have absolutely nothing to do with the gameplay. They might as well have the player do rounds of tetris between cutscenes and the overall experience would remain largely unchanged.

When you get roughly through 3/4 of the game, you hit the level that's shown in the early trailers. That level is great fun. And despite being late into the game, it starts showing you tutorial tips and coaching you on mechanics you already know. You realize that this was meant to be the opening level of the game. They clearly intended to create a much better game but at some stage said fuck it, we'll make a bland open world exploration sandbox and throw in some cutscenes.

It's sad. I would have happily waited another few years to get a full game that plays and feels like what was in the trailer level. No more preorders even for Kojima.
Yip and a good one as certainly engaged with the tv culture of the time.

Though best read then watch Canadian response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XZ9R2TUq94

Always makes me chuckle.
> I doubt any U.S. military project is actually safe from Chinese and Russian spies.

Your doubt is reasonable, based on the string of mishaps this past decade, but likely not the case given the nature of compartmentalization. Also, appearing weak when actually strong is a strategy. It’s quite possible the USG has amassed futuristic tech in secret, while playing the fool.
I have a game coming out on mobile that initially got rejected for being too related to the current pandemic. I rethemed it as zombies instead with the same gameplay, different graphics and sounds. So I can see where it would be helpful as a topic for them.
Maybe he most attractive men in the population aren't on dating apps.
I have struggled with similar issues for years. I have a kinda weird take on the topic, but I think it might be helpful. I think the “persistence paradigm” we’re living through causes these sort of psychological short circuits where we forget that what we’re doing is building our minds and not building some external edifice or monument that we can point to as our “knowledge”. There is never going to be a moment where you can point at your stack of notebooks or answers to textbook questions or list of books you’ve read and say “I’ve done it, I’ve learned so much”. The widespread behavior of persisting moments of our lives out into cyberspace has sort of bled into our psychologies. I think this is partially why you see so many people struggling with these sorts of questions.

So the short answer I think is to focus on a process of daily improvement instead of some systematic program for self study. Just read 60 minutes a day, journal 30 minutes a day, and place absolutely no restrictions on the subject matter. For a while I also burned my notebooks every 30 days, that was really helpful. These days I actually do record a lot of my thoughts but I try not to get bogged down too often in the systemization of the practice.
It's pretty atrocious that you have to run an x86 emulator to use your iPad "pro" for this stuff. This project is super cool though.
https://archive.md/qJd9r
Mosquito borne diseases like Eee or Zika etc are more than enough already.
So if you run this code, the system crashes? Interesting but not of much concern.
Feeling myself old on getting the reference. Heavy lasers for the win
Why Your Teen Should Work
I’m not sure anything I can say will convince you that he had any but evil intentions.

But consider at the time, the United States had just suffered an unprecedented terrorist attack, the conventional wisdom (and much intelligence) was that Iraq held chemical weapons and finally the United States was engaging the Iraqi military on a regular basis as the sole enforcer of the UN sanctioned no fly zone. I won’t argue that the Iraq War wasn’t a mistake. It was, but it was made in good faith and largely, I think, out of fear.
Thousands of princes will go hungry. Even prince Mohamed "bone saw" might lose a few pounds. Bad news everywhere...
> The thing Intel still does have is world-leading fab capabilities.

Do they? TSMC appears to be ahead of them in terms of both performance and fab capacity.
And when it does there won't be much demand for it anyway imo
Somehow institutions are still pretending the emperor is wearing the nicest looking clothes, they're pretending fax is secure from "photoshopping"/data tampering.
If it isn’t entirely obvious that this website, and the one with the actual article it links to, are less than credible, it might deserve mention that Montagnier is now 87 years old and mostly made news in the last two decades with a crackpot theory about bacteria emitting electromagnetic waves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier#Research_on_ele...

Specifically for the HIV/Covid conspiracy theory, this article about the earlier preprint being retracted (by its authors) is informative: https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/03/retraction-faulty-corona...
Actually it makes perfect sense: clear images are identifiable.
Python vs. R for Data Science
Isn't previously inconceivable events pretty much the definition from the book? Unknown unknowns vs known unknowns?

For example, winning the jackpot on a slot machine is not a black swan, no matter how small the probability.
Actually, there are two interstate pacts doing just that, coordinating their covid-19 response because they think the federal government is useless.

There's the Western States Pact (CA, OR, WA, NV, CO), and NY just announced an eastern states consortium (NY, NJ, MA, CT, PA, RI, DE).

Add to the fact that several states have had to take drastic measures like calling in their national guard to protect their own PPE shipments from being seized by federal agents, and it's hard not to argue that several states are in fact struggling against the federal government in a completely unprecedented way.
Yes, as in – this is clearly the land features of our present day continents mashed together, not a best guess at what the actual land of Pangea looked like, with borders subsequently projected onto that.
I don't follow, dividend yields on the 6 oil majors range from ~5-12% as far as I can tell. It's a far cry from 30-60%. Also many oil companies especially outside of the majors are notorious from having huge debt loads.
While most of these financial models seem decent for tracking the operating of a SaaS company, if you are looking for a model that PE, investment banks and VC firms actually use to value a business, check out Private Equity Models:

https://privateequitymodels.com
can it be used to do more than crash the phone?
The formal education does not matter. Your actual experience in commercial software development does (i.e., working on and getting paid on projects developing software in a team with all that comes with it). Code written for class, or as a small hobby project carries a little weight but not enough to bump you up the ranks. It is just not the same as being a part of a team working for a common goal.

In well over 20 years I have never once had my education (or complete lack of) be an issue. I don't even think I was once asked about it. So don't worry about that. I suggest to up your game and build something with commercial potential. Go through the whole life cycle. Release it. Pick a domain you know (education? 3d modelling? Electrical prototyping etc.). It's possible you might luck out during the process and land a job you like (or decide to take a low paying junior role), but if you don't, by the end of it you'll have a complete project notch on your proverbial belt, and your chances will improve.
Currently, the human race has several billion cameras readily available to take footage of rare occurrences. Not just mobile phones, but think also of CCTV security cameras, dash cams, etc...

The simple logical conclusion is that footage of rare but real events ought to be more readily available.

And in fact, that's exactly what's observed! There is now a wide variety of high quality videos to choose from, if what you want to see is things like bright meteors. They're real, in the sky, fleeting, and rare. We now have hundreds, maybe even thousands, of full colour, high resolution, in-focus videos of them.

Flying saucers? Not one.

https://www.google.com/search?q=meteor+dash+cam&tbm=vid
Discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23059615
World's oldest yarn fragment shows Neanderthals were smarter than we thought
Did you know that Google Maps, Facebook, and Twitter are all utilizing this leet exploit?
If they were clear and high-definition, they would be identified. Selection bias at work.
Systemd is an amazingly clear example of the second-system effect, as described in The Mythical Man Month. I fully expect it to be replaced down the line by something dramatically simpler and more intuitive, but that might take some time. Nonetheless, it does seem to solve some real problems with the earlier, rc-scripts approach.
Hacker News can't take a joke, can it?
Padi (scuba certification org) has a zombie course, good way to have fun and learn some new skills underwater.
Seconding Airsonic! https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic

Big fan of play:Sub as a client for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/play-sub-music-streamer/id9553...
Via email.
Have to second this. I used to have so many 'started in excitement, but probably never going to work on it ever again' projects.

Then I started an 'Ideas' board on Trello, and forced myself to put ideas there instead of working on it immediately. I am not allowed to work on an idea unless it's been on the board for atleast two weeks.

This forces me to spend a lot more time thinking past the initial one-line idea, and refining it. Eventually, for about 90% of the ideas, by the end of the two week period, I've come to the conclusion to discard it.

So now, the 10% that I do end up working on, are much more likely to see sustained work being done on them.
Cicadas are pretty harmless.
NaNs have nothing to do with safety (same for nulls).

It is a common misconception to conflate safety with functional expectations. A program that only calls panic() is perfectly safe.
The accounts were closed because they were business accounts from sanctioned countries? I didn't realise that. I had misunderstood that Github was enforcing the said countries' censorship.
I suppose so ya, can't sustain without a community or company unless you want to do all the work yourself.
China Hid Severity of Virus to Hoard Supplies: DHS Report
In countries like Saudi Arabia they fund their government budget via oil revenue.
Interesting. I know e-consystems provided their own kernel modules for the Jetson which help with some of the camera streaming, and they provide a special binary of I think guvcview to view live camera output. That is for Xavier though so I don't know if they have something for just a regular computer.

The other thing to look at is using hardware transcoding in an NVIDIA GPU, a raw 4k feed from a 4k camera is huge, but transcoded to h.264 or better h.265 the footage is much more playable from disk in my experience. It may help with live footage. Here are some notes I made when setting up GPU transcoding.

Using xstack filter:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20mosaic%20out%20of%...

Using h265 (required to support the extra resolution of 4x4k)
http://ntown.at/knowledgebase/cuda-gpu-accelerated-h264-h265...

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-ffmpeg-transcoding-guide/

What is your monitor resolution? If you can't display the full resolution, I've found that using the nvidia encoder hardware to resize each 4k stream to 720p makes transcoding much faster. I've added my video conversion scripts to github so you can see how I've done that.
https://github.com/tlalexander/rover_video_scripts

You can also contact e-consystems, as they seem eager to provide application support. Finally feel free to email me to the email in my profile, or better yet create an account and ask the question on my website http://reboot.love so other people can see our conversation and benefit from what we learn.

EDIT: I JUST saw that you meant one local display and one remote display. Sorry busy day. In that case the other poster mentioning gstreamer is spot on, and I believe econsystems has some gstreamer plug ins at least for some cameras, or maybe nvidia does...
Still better than Signs, where the aliens have interstellar travel but not spectroscopy--or tools that can deal with wooden cellar doors.
Good-natured brigading. People who have put time into Rust have made a career bet that will only pay off once they can get a job somewhere using it. Others aren't programmers, but like the "better" and "safer" story that goes along with Rust, which allows for the signal of virtue when they evangelize.
Modern wars aren't fought out of rational calculation that they'll improve the situation. They're fought when existing conflicts have their flames fanned just a bit too much, or when factors holding them in check suddenly change. I think the smart money is that oil prices will recover soon - but if they don't, we'll discover a whole world of conflicts which were previously suppressed by the reliable invariant of a rich Saudi government.
Right now I'm trying to leverage all the temporarily free COVID learning courses. Qwiklabs etc.

I do struggle much like you though - there is just way to much stuff catching my interest & I end up getting distracted by another learning opportunity while pursuing a learning opportunity.
Naively, this seems analogous to differential privacy, where the distribution of the result is the same as the real one, without revealing the individual elements - or is the dining cryptographers a full proof? I couldn't quite tell on first read.
Om Malik is a tech journalist-turned-VC. Not that that hurts your point.
I think best way to stay focused when you are learning some new technology is to do some project that you are interested in and is
related to that technology in parallel to learning. I that case you will do something that is also interesting and also practice that new technology. That way of learning helped me a lot.
So are you going to be voting for Joe Biden or Donald Trump?
I was far more distracted by the adorableness of very enthusiastic people that aren't really skilled at reading off a teleprompter than their accents.

Being able to understand ESL speakers seems like an increasingly important skill if you work in tech, was it really that hard for you?
(I realize that I am probably too late to get an answer.)

Besides Category Theory, what other topics are worth reading about to broaden one's CS background? I write a lot of code without formal CS training so I was hoping to expose myself to interesting, preferably "mind-blowing" topics without having to take a course or go through the whole SICP.
Yes, definitely. I dropped out of college to be a missionary. While I was there I taught myself programming and servers and took care of the ministry’s websites.

When I left, because I was still living overseas, I applied to many remote jobs with no success so I just started doing lots of freelance work on Upwork. Essentially I got paid while I was learning.

The pay was lousy and a couple clients were terrible, but two years later I landed my first ‘real’ software job for a startup in SF doing Rails and React.

So yes, it is possible. If I could make it so can you, especially since you have a degree in engineering and I had no degree at all, I don’t think it will be as hard for you.

Of course, as others have pointed out, your pay will be in line with real world experience, but it will go up over time.
What are the odds the USB C port will drive a Thunderbolt display?
Do you know of any good resources (documentaries, books, etc) on this sort of thing? (Particularly anything about government spending on pseudoscience.)

After those Navy UFO videos were released and I learned that the crank Harold Puthoff was involved, it became a much more interesting story. I'm surprised there isn't a book about the whole weird saga.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8073361

also 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131664
Then you are sampling a very small or a very biased set of apps.
Interesting data.
Thank you for linking to this. That's a pretty compelling story he's telling, I'll have to give it a go if I can find a low-pressure project to experiment on it with!
I use nano, but I have to say I am very surprised that they mentioned it as a viewer for large binary files. It reads the entire file off of disk into memory and then tries to split it into lines! It can't even do well on files with large enough lines :(
I am a KiCad user, should I switch to Horizon and why?
From the docs it seems like your main selling point is a better library, why not just make a better library for KiCad?
Understanding about Node JS
I want to know what to learn in node js
Big Data, Small Machine (2018)
What does sleeping in an open grave mean?

While you were in Iran, were you involved in what the US called the Arab Spring? Was it really spread by Twitter? Did it seem like the regime might topple?
Ah sorry, I didn't mean safety in the UB sense, I meant in the traditional, "do what I expect, don't surprise me" sense.