skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in a couple meetings with Jitsi with up to about 20 people and it seemed to work fairly well although they were just interactive discussions and didn't involve screen sharing or other features along those lines. You get much bigger than that and you're tending to lean on chat/Q&A in a classroom/presentation format anyway.
> as i see things, my choices are either to open a company of my own, making what i believe in

Yep.

> it'll have to be bootstrapped (vc money is just another boss), so the chances for success are extremely low.

Also a lot of VCs are creeps. I've had a mate get pre-emptive death threats from one, another big one in London was found wandering the tube (subway) molesting women.

Bootstrapping is possible. You sound like a dev. I suggest making a minimal SaaS devtools product for something that bothers you.

I bootstrapped a website verification tool for 5 years, it's definitely possible.

If you're in the US, you can join an accelerator.
What tool did you use? I’ve been using mermaid and its markdown plug-ins and like it quite a bit, but am always looking for new ways.
I read it through the lens of American history, an exciting frontier was conquered by interesting gunslingers but now its just a bunch of strip malls and Wendy's.
RIP NetViz (90s - 2015)
Back then it was one of the first to link with a db of nodes to auto update diagrams the job I'm thinking of had thousands of sites & it saved so much work once you had templates set up.
Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks
And they think EPR paradox exists to prove and praise quantum weirdness.
There are still fields where you hack on difficult technical problems - game dev, VR, computer vision, signal processing, blockchain (? - I don't know anything about it, so I may be wrong here). You can work there.
> but, it'll have to be bootstrapped (vc money is just another boss), so the chances for success are extremely low.

IMO having to remain (at least minimally) profitable at every step along the way increases chance of success versus VC-funded models that can lose money for many years, obscuring the fact that one didn’t build a business, but actually built a money pit.

Pursuing ramen profitability is a fun intellectual exercise, and if you don’t live somewhere a 1br is $4000/mo, not very stressful or difficult either. There are tons of things people will pay $5/mo for.
>Most minorities who are killed by other people aren’t killed by cops.

This is such an obviously ridiculous reason to claim that killings by cops aren't newsworthy that I'm having a hard time believing that you believe it.
I've found career advancement as well as business success to largely be directly correlated with soft skills.

I mention this because "conmen (i think they call them executives and MBAs)" is a pretty broad brush to paint with, and if I had to take a guess, I'd think there's some association between your disillusionment with engineering as a profession and a soft-skills delta that might help you otherwise advance in your field and navigate corporate culture -- or culture generally.

This is all relevant because you may find yourself having a harder time with customer acquisition while running your own business if you don't re-examine your current world view.

That's probably step 0, at least if I were to try and build a mental model from what you wrote here.

An excellent resource: https://www.manager-tools.com/all-podcasts?field_content_dom...
All jobs will have downsides, I guess you just want to find one where you can live with the downsides and the upsides far out weight them. For me, I moved between a number of unfulfilling roles until I ended up in my current position.

The tech is pretty conservative and tame but projects are small, the scope is broad and the flexibility to be creative in the implementation is high. The industry is a real niche and the company of a "nice" size (100-200). I like this space as you have more room to bring your own solutions to the table. The weight of a massive process and procedure is not there which helps
3. dot pairs nicely with m4 [1] and a Makefile. Without m4, it's a pain to apply a uniform style on groups of nodes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)
Have a look at the photos of the Rugby VLF Transmitter to see why it is not practical to put one on a sub:

https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/rugby-radio/
> There was an argument that the Windows 95 style full screen somehow wasn't desirable

Still believe this is true when I have to sit behind someone swiping back and forth through a linear line of fullscreen windows, watching them go all the way one way and ooops its not there now we have to go all the way back.

I get that the slick UI makes you feel like you're in Minority Report but really it just makes a single click operation into a 3-8 swipe operation.
I know the feeling all too well having been on the internet since the days of Apple eWorld, Compuserve, Mosaic, Pointcast, Usenet etc. All these weird and wonderful visions of what the future of the internet was going to be where it was all about culture e.g. Phrack, BBS, .Net etc. and less about business.

You can still stumble across open source projects all the time which capture this ethos. Maybe spend some time helping them out. They definitely would appreciate it.
Graphviz is for noobs. Try TikZ, aka the Gigachad of vector graphics. I spent more time creating TikZ diagrams than actually writing my whole MSc. thesis.
Ant-design is nice, but I refuse to use it because I do not want to support Ant Financial and its CCP affiliated companies.
For those who didn't know (like me!) APM is Actions per minute... Seems as though the AI should be limited on this if it's to truly be outplaying humans; we all know computers are good at doing many many repetitive tasks extremely quickly.
Yes working from home is wearing me down too. Reasons:

- Video conferencing is boring and detached

- Constant bad news being advertised in all forms of media

- The terms "social distancing" and "self isolation" are depressing

- Weather is miserable

What helps me is; good food, exercise, cuddling pets and family.
If, say, a boulder is rolling down a hill towards my home, I don't need to assign any sense of will or blame to the boulder to know that it's dangerous or to want to stop it.

As social animals, we have an intrinsic interest in preserving social harmony, in as much as the reproductive success of any individual is contingent on the success of the group as a whole. Morality is just the game theory element of this being played out.

I could make reasoned moral arguments on behalf of the well being of chickens or why we shouldn't destroy the planet, and you may nod and agree, but without a strong emotional impulse to attach to these moral causes, it's hard to get people to take these things very seriously. It's too much of an abstraction.
Anybody have an actual quote of Burnside's doubt? Article etc.
First I would take a step back and try to view the situation with less judgment. It's easy to look at the past and mythologize it and imagine it as perfect. Maybe there are more MBAs and executives and thought leaders today but the past you're romanticizing would have its own frustrations and road blocks.

The other thing it sounds like you're doing is looking around for a great opportunity rather than zeroing in on a thing you really care about and working on it. Your comment about engineers being a peasant class makes it sound like at least a part of you is more concerned about status than doing the kind of work that you say you're interested in.

Sounds like you need to answer for yourself what you're really looking for, how you would like to spend your days, what you would be proud of looking back on, etc. Rather than looking outward at the state of the industry, the status of developers, phds, MBAs, VCs or execs. If you want to build, start working on a product, figure out a market for it. But also know that at some point products do need to be sold, so eventually, you or a co-founder or your employees are going to have to figure out how to make money.

One of my favorite general pieces of advice is "you can decide what you want but you can't decide what it will cost you." You can decide to be a builder and an engineer but it probably won't come with the adulation you feel for Jamie Zawinski or Alan Kay. And if you talk to most people who are admired and have a lot of adulation, even if it's deserved, it's not something they tend to say they relish. They tend to still relish the work they valued for themselves and feel the adulation is overblown or doesn't actually give them anything of substance.
Signal with matrix.org? Not that I know of.
therapists are usually people who had psychological problems during their studies and though precisely they could self medicate by doing said studies. most are insane and can't help anyone

I recommend, instead, surrounding yourself with healthy people.
I'm going to hijack this thread to ask if anyone knows of a library that creates "hand drawn"-style sequence diagrams from code? I basically want this: https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/ -- but sadly, this one only seems to run inside a browser.
Ha nice visualisation. Would be amazing if this was available for more chat systems where conversations branch like this.

Also, as a side note its funny that there is a lot of discussion (including Baez!) about theoretical maths, and one lone tweet about molecular symmetry.
Hi, I agree with you about the non-engineering centric mind in companies. I think we are idealizing a picture of what can be en engineer job in the 50's or 60's. I have this mental image where enginners are trying to find the "most" efficient solutions for a problem, not bothering about the market or consummers, etc ...
You're considering everything which impacts privacy to be spyware.

Spyware has a definition. You don't get to change it.
TAP is something that I invested a lot of time years ago, but nowadays I rarely have time to maintain any project, or contribute to the project (which is active on GitHub now https://github.com/testanything, but before we had only a Wiki that would be offline and be restored from some backup a few times :)

This is what I ended up being involved with:

- Joined the mailing lists, and updated the Wiki. Eventually joined the new GitHub org

- Created tap4j, using an existing implementation as reference (contacted the author, who helped with some questions too) https://github.com/tupilabs/tap4j

- Created instanttap to validate the TAP streams - http://instanttap.appspot.com/ (surprised it's still working)

- Created Jenkins TAP Plugin

- Updated Jenkins TestLink Plugin to support TAP

- Wrote a quick producer for GoogleTest https://github.com/kinow/gtest-tap-listener

- And wrote a few articles and presented the solution and/or TAP in conferences

- And created the reddit r/testanythingprotocol subreddit to collect links I found about TAP

IMO, TAP was going in the right direction. If it had been adopted by Python or JUnit, it would be much more popular now.
What's new about it? The Eifel region (a part of which is literally called Vulkan-Eifel) has been known for centuries if not milleniae for its volcano seas. "Maar" is even part of many city names in that region.
I find plantuml a more useful abstraction for software stuff (uses graphviz under the covers)

https://plantuml.com/
I found a great use for Graphviz recently. I needed to implement a model that was created by a scientist with no programming experience outside of a Fortran class in the early 1980s. Meanwhile, I didn't have much knowledge of the subject matter or terminology. The model was described in a multipage Excel file and an accompanying PDF and I implemented it in Clojure.

In order to help us communicate, I wrote a script that built a data-dependency graph directly from the code and produced a diagram with Graphviz for the scientist to review. It helped us to catch a couple errors resulting from my misinterpretations and it gave the scientist confidence that the code accurately reflected his design.
Maybe you could try some of the positions out there that do require a lot of expertise, e.g. Malware Analysis? I mean companies are supposed to make money so what do you expect them to do if they cannot pull out great products?
If it truly is nothing to worry about, then make the data easy to inspect, and the collection easy to turn off.

The data is close to impossible to inspect, and impossible to turn off without third-party tools or firewalls. So I suspect there's something to worry about.
You don't seem to understand how much I need those biscuits. And I need them now!
How Controllers Maximize SSD Life (2012)
Note here that you're using the word random, when in science the phenomena are unpredictable.

"You" as a stable, persistent entity does not exist, but you as a momentary observer, with the ability to exert will to guide the evolution of the universe sure seems to.

Which hypothesis fits Occam's Razor better: that the same pattern of observation and response occurs at all scales in the universe, with the only variable being the complexity, or that there are two different processes, one of which takes over only at one very specific scale? If we don't have free will, if we're just dumb machines, why would we even be conscious in the first place? IMO it's far too big a thing to just be a random side effect.
CCNetViz: A WebGL Based JavaScript Library for Visualization of Large Networks
Also some one started it with HoG (Haiku on Genode) https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/genode-and-haiku/8384
Nice, looks like direnv. I'll give it a try
> Graphviz is for noobs. Try TikZ, aka the Gigachad of vector graphics.

Maybe you are right, in today's decaying world. But any civilized person can see that tikz, latex and even graphviz are all ultimately hipster tools. Real men of course use pic and troff.
Defintely start your own company. You spent enough time in the industry to know what problems are worth solving. Take a very specific problem and solve it better than any generic solutions available. Be the king of your narrow niche market, and when you're successful maybe broaden it.

My favourite stories of engineers bootstrapping their own business with no investors, no employees, no MBA:

Sidekiq https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-fo...

ReadonlyREST (my own story) https://www.indiehackers.com/product/readonlyrest
Ok, that might be so, i guess i dont follow US politics as close as i thought.

As for Palme its true that he has a responsibility as a leader even if he wasnt the driving force for the issue from the start. He didnt exactly argue against it publicly.

But i think the hate against Palme was more complex than a single issue and has much more to do with him being a loud and wellspoken voice for the left during the cold war / culture wars of the late 60s - early 70s. Added to that his upperclass background that seemed to annoy the right wing.
Solving Distributed Consistency with Git: Bitbucket Smart Mirror Farms
At my previous company we did Scrum with a capital S. We did planning poker, daily stand-ups (where we actually stood up), bi-weekly retrospectives and so on. However, we (the engineers) had also made it clear to management that we needed time slots for technical debt, which of course we got. It was a pleasure to work in a so oiled machinery.

So while we were still chasing features, we also had a say in when to do technical debt and could plan it out in a similar manner to new features.
> Many problems with SD cards are actually rooted in power issues

Does anyone have any info on this that's more substantial than hearsay? Experiments, measurements or at least a more technical explanation than "bad power source"?

I'm persistently hearing this story that power supply quality affects SD card life. As an electrical engineer, and given what I know about R. Pi design, I fail to see how an SD card could get physically damaged by any reasonable power supply that would otherwise run the rest of the R.Pi.

I suspect people are confusing filesystem corruption due to brownouts/OS not shutting down cleanly with physical damage to the flash (i.e. unreadable sectors on SD card)
And with Lua (and C, and C++) its pretty easy to manage the complexity. Just put things where they belong.
So uh, why is this such a horrible mistake? Traditional media screws up things like this all the time.
I have the same system for Mastodon ... works well to help visualise the complex discussions that sometimes happen.
Ask HN: Do you know what is Digital Clothing?
Hi all!
I am doing a research for FashionTech project and I need your voice in 2 simple questions:

1) What is most important for you in clothing? Choose one: (Speed&Access | Brand&Exlusivity | Personality&Customization | Ecologic)
2) Do you know what is Digital Clothing? ( Yes|No)

It would be great if you can answer like that: "Brand.Yes" or "Speed.No".

Feel free to comment or ask something. Unfortunately, I can't post my full survey here but if you interested or into help me with cusdev -write something in comments.

Thanks in advance!
How do you address his argument with the chances of success being too low?
You may find this essay by pg helpful in making your decision:

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss - http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
The Fischer Random Chess Stock Market
I was always wondering why that browser is in Arch. That finding merits a good look what else is in Arch Linux repositories that has stealth behavior or is otherwise against users interests.
chaos = free will is a bit of a strawman. Physics being non-deterministic does open the door to the universe exerting "will" though, and choice is just as good an explanation for the variance as randomness.
I tried the last major beta release on my 701 4G, but couldn't get it to work, I think due to the minimum screen resolution requirements. I'll try again with this one - some people on the Haiku community forums reported success with their 7" netbooks.
One of my favourite online graphviz editors for quickly creating something is: https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline/
Unearned income is unfulfilling and the people who think they earned it resent it being taken from them, even if it's only particularly large because there's a big market to sell into and a big winner effect in the market structure.

I don't know the answers here but they don't look like free market capitalism or redistributive socialist utopia, and actually I think this axis or spectrum is an actively harmful frame for constructing a society with fulfilling lives and less inequality. Neither more government nor more free enterprise is quite right.

People want to live productive lives where they are valued and make a difference. How do you do that in a society which has such enormous returns on capital which alienates people from their work product?
In general I agree, but this has been complicated here the last few months due to Covid-19. Stores have both limited hours and developed senior only hours. There were also sometimes people queueing up early to buy “scarce” goods like TP when the store opens. If you go to a store at open you might get turned away, find the store doesn’t open at the posted hours, or find a small crowd.

I’ve been going around 11 these months. Stores are open. Senior hours are over. Working people aren’t on lunch yet. Non-working people have generally not gotten out. And usually I see employees restocking goods.
Great post. I've used it to generate UML diagrams from databases with sqlalchemy, and more recently to generate protobuf diagrams in Python (needed it quickly to update some documentation): https://github.com/kinow/protobuf-uml-diagram

One thing that I think was not mentioned in the article, are invisible nodes, which are really handy: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=invisible+node+%5Bgraphvi...

Some times the existing layouts, ranks, clusters, etc, won't help you to produce the diagram you have in your mind. So instead of giving up and drawing it in draw.io or Inkspace (which I used to do), a co-worker showed me how he was using this technique in several of his diagrams.
Show HN: Marple – Visualising millions of datapoints for engineers
Do you think it has a chance of happening in Vietnam or North Korea under communism?
Shit, are you me?

You're just being over 30, welcome. Those documentaries you watched on your old CRT TV while growing up were showing you fiction.

The tech industry is an ad mill. Academia is about innovation killing fiefdoms. What you need to realize is that for an institution, the first priority is maintaining homeostasis, and that means not letting you do something that might risk resources or upsetting the established order.

There's a reason why the hackers on TV were called rebels. They founded new institutions because the incumbents wouldn't let them play.

You want the hacker ethos? Make it yourself, that's what it's about.
Network boot adds even more points of failure. USB boot is very attractive, but also very new. I’ll play around with it once it’s out of beta and the setup procedure is established.

I use Samsung Evo cards and haven’t had an issue with them either. My problem is one of confidence. I have no data to suggest that these cards won’t just hard fail at some point in the next five years. Simply doing better than their competitors in the micro SD card space is not good enough.
Hi HN, co-founder here! We designed Marple for engineers to make visual analysis intuitive and powerful. Most of our users are control systems engineers or test engineers (but not the kind that tests software). They often have to draw conclusions from millions of time series data points. As a quick example: logging data from a drone control system for 15 minutes at 1.5 kHz is already more than 1 million samples.

This creates some interesting technical challenges. We implemented a custom visualisation engine that efficiently displays only the data that fits the screen. In the same way, we also support applying functions such as low-pass filters, integrals, derivatives, etc.

Having a visual approach to analysing data is in our opinion still highly underrated. Common engineering tools such as Matlab or python+matplotlib scripts require you to reduce the number of samples yourself. And you end up with a plot that is not interactive: zooming, panning highlighting, adding a different signal are all cumbersome or impossible. Marple treats interactivity as a first class citizen.

We recently launched a beta version and we're currently looking for test users to try it out. If you sometimes need to visualise some data from a .csv file, python script, matlab script, simulation, ... you should give it a spin!

Cheers! Nero
there must be away to run it in a headless browser en screencapture and parse the output as png
There seems to be somewhat of a myth that it's hard to get GraphViz diagrams to "look nice". I (obviously biased) feel that the diagrams I generated for my reference implementation of RETE look quite clean: https://github.com/bollu/rete#example-rete-diagrams-to-learn...