skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sure phones had better GPUs 3-4 years ago than the PS4, and more RAM

Means nothing though, where is the software? These supposedly dated and under-powered machines are still where the production of some of humanities not only most ambitious art of the last 100 years but most profitable art is being produced.
Was the use of the M.2 slot compliant with usual M.2 pinouts? Seems like an interesting choice. I dug a little, but didn't find much.
Once upon a time in the West has probably the best soundtrack ever made.

Great cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIipUjO2ckk
I agree with your general sentiment. I have stopped watching lately but the last great season I remember was the one when Lewis Hamilton won the championship in the last corner of the last race over Felipe Massa due to some other driver not finishing. I think it was in the late 00s.
Pay them more $ than any other place they can go.
I know I love a good opportunity to waste a little time with novel software. It's hard to describe, but it brings me a feeling of joy

This is really neat, I was actually surprised that it "just worked". Usually, as others have pointed out, you have to sacrifice a few goats and utter the forbidden ancient incantations before novelty pieces like this will work at all.
Thanks for the link. It is heartening to see utility-scale storage for a reasonable cost being developed.

20 years ago, there were a couple companies working on flywheel energy storage for mobile applications. They were using carbon-fiber flywheels, which could spin up to 100K RPM, but were expensive to manufacture. I would have predicted (back then) that carbon-fiber would have won out eventually for infrastructure applications as well, but I guess they were not able to get the costs down sufficiently.
From 17th Century Computers to Today's Digital Empires
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I implemented some scale scale webapp with it. At some point, it becomes way too slow.

It's a very cool project, which is only enabled by fast js engines, but the reality comes back hard: it's an interpreter, running on an interpreted language. I was never going to be fast.

I'm really forward to skilled people providing python though WASM. And not pyodide, which is more than just python.
Wearables Trend Up Despite Downturn
Except investing isn't like a horse race. Each horse has a different finish line, and those finish lines are in flux during the race. Crucially, you can change your bet in the middle of the race.
It's not just the UK that allows software patents in practice - as the discussion hints at, Germany does too, and if I remember rightly pretty much the last patent affecting MP3 was a German patent on zero-padding held by Philips, who enforced it aggressively against manufacturers of devices like music players.
> All these "competency tests" are good for is catching blatant lying. Is this a serious problem?

Of the people I interview that claim they have years of experience, mastery over multiple languages, and expertise in various frameworks, a solid 80% or more can't pass fizz-buzz in any language they choose.
Maybe there is some in between? Personally, I like the idea of the cafe as a local work space I can walk to from my apartment, but would love it if there was some guarantee of having a desk and niceties like a monitor or print/copy/fax/ship. I would pay some membership dues for a coop space like this.
This is how all the quack medicine hucksters on PBS work by stringing together unrelated facts that make them seem knowledgeable.
I would be interested to know what are the real advantages of using Python, instead of the well-established QMK, and what is the purpose of having a M.2 bay (unless that's where the Bluetooth module plugs in).

The PCB looks cool though, and BLE 5.0 is relatively uncommon nowadays (most keyboards rely on older, thus cheaper, Bluetooth enabled SoCs), but apart from that, I see little appeal for someone already invested in building mechanical keyboards.
> These days I don't even carry a smartphone anymore, as I've found the sum of its effects to be negative.

I'm pretty close to this point myself. The big thing that keeps me from just ditching the phone entirely is Google Maps. I guess I could just chuck the thing in a drawer until I need to use it to go someplace.
Electronics are fairly light, you probably don’t save much by shipping raw/incomplete products to the consuming country for final assembly. It’s not like soft drinks, where you want to bottle them close to the point of consumption so you aren’t shipping the dead weight of water around.
Credits also contain logos/symbols (near the end), and often have stylistic flairs as well. Video compression is based on making predictions and then adding information (per Shannon's definition) for the deltas from those predictions. The pattern of credits statically sliding at a consistent rate is exactly the sort of prediction codecs are optimized for; for instance, the same algorithms will save space by predicting repeated pixel patterns during a slow camera pan.

Still, I've often thought it would be nice if text were a more first-class citizen within video codecs. I think it's more a toolchain/workflow problem than a shortcoming in video compression technology as such. Whoever is mastering a Blu-Ray or prepping a Hollywood film for Netflix is usually not the same person cutting and assembling the original content. For innumerable reasons (access to raw sources, low return on time spent, chicken-egg playback compatibility), it just doesn't make sense to (for instance) extract the burned-in stylized subtitles and bake them into the codec as text+font data, as opposed to just merging them into the film as pixels and calling it a day.

Fun fact: nearly every Pixar Blu-Ray is split into multiple forking playback paths for different languages, such that if you watch it in French, any scenes with diegetic text (newspapers, signs on buildings) are re-rendered in French. Obviously that's hugely inefficient; yet at 50GB, there's storage to spare, so why not? The end result is a nice touch and a seamless experience.
Agreed entirely, but the cost of a US college degree is often more about the credential level signaling and showing that you were tenacious enough to win the college entrance competition than it is about acquiring skills.
It's true that hundreds of programmable keyboards we use today are supported by QMK, but based on the parent comment's 4 years at Massdrop, it seems likely that a lot of the programmable keyboards they are referring to are ones that didn't support QMK or even TMK out-of-the-box.
> No, I would argue that journalists don't understand that their role requires objectivity

Based on what? Objectivity hasn't been required since the printing press was invented
Absolutely sick! Definitely I'll say its not the most usable, but some of the features make a ton of sense! Like having an active finder window thats always in the directory of your terminal, so great! Also +1 to having no configuration to get to a sweet looking setup.
Right, Ubuntu might be considered an appropriated name, but hopefully not because the name is used respectfully by someone who, while not Nguni, is at least familiar with the people.
> On Wednesday night, the topic of conversation was Lorenz herself, who had been listening earlier in the conversation but left partway through. After she left, the participants began discussing whether Lorenz was playing "the woman card" when speaking out about her harassment following a Twitter altercation with Srinivasan.

> "You can't fucking hit somebody, attack them and just say, 'Hey, I have ovaries and therefore, you can't fight back,'" Felicia Horowitz, founder of the Horowitz Family Foundation and wife of Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Ben Horowitz, said.

[...]

> "Is Taylor afraid of a brown man on the street? Then she shouldn't be afraid of a brown man in Clubhouse," Srinivasan said. "I have literally done nothing other than one previous tweet. Number one, right? So the whole, you know, talking about tweeting as you know, harassment—completely illegitimate, completely wrong, completely fabricated and just false."

[...]

> "When it comes to our industry, there’s a really, really toxic dynamic that exists right now," Nait Jones, an Andreessen Horowitz VC, said on the call while speaking about recent reports about abuse in the tech industry. "Because those stories were so popular and drove so much traffic, they also created a market for more of those stories. They created a pressure on many reporters to find the next one of those stories inside of a fast growing tech company because those stories play very well on Twitter, especially around protecting vulnerable people."

1. The lack of self awareness is incredible.

2. What happened to us? Were people always this nasty and identitarian?
While true, ~30 percent of households in the US are single-person (see https://www.statista.com/statistics/242189/disitribution-of-...). And a number of others are single-parent. The parent specifically talked about a couple's combined incomes.

Looking at https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p... (the "Married-Couple Families" section), the first data set ("All Races"), the numbers I see for median household income, by age, are:

25-29: $76.5k
30-34: $92k

30-34 is stretching the definitions of a "young couple", of course. I'd love numbers for 20-25, but this data set lumps in 15-24 all together, though the set of married couples under 20 is presumably pretty small.

$76k is still not $100k, of course.
Didn't think I'd ever see The Fields of the Nephilim mentioned on HN :) I first saw them live at the Glasgow Rooftops club when they released Dawn Razor back in 1987. As you mention the music basically riffed off of the Spaghetti Western genre and took it to a darker place. That first Neph gig was a genuinely unsettling but amazing event...the lighting, the band's sartorial schtick with the long "dusters" coated in flour (I believe), the thumping beat and McCoy's growl. Add to that, the Rooftops was a bit of a shadowy seedy joint littered with shady customers and the gig not starting until after midnight.

The first track on the Dawnrazor album is a cover/rework of Morricone's "The Harmonica Man" which sets the album up quite nicely:

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

As an aside from the Morricone thing, they were one of the best live bands I've seen in all my gig going history having been to see them aroun 10-12 times over the years.
It’s impossible to prevent a truly dedicated malicious actor from doing so, but enforcement through both policy and independent auditors — and quality of response to security incidents — provide several layers of defenses against this scenario. (As with all things, a perfect defense is ultimately impossible, but they put in a lot of effort to get a lot of nines of certainty.)
They recently changed the law and increased minimum purchasing age to 18.
Also, in the vertical model, the profit is shared with two parties -- the restaurant and delivery agent. In the horizontal model, there is an extra party which needs to be paid -- Postmate/Uber/DoorDash/etc. Presumably, the app experience makes it worth to pay more for the delivery, to pay this third party, but that has not yet been the case.

Also, once one party owns the relationship (e.g., the app), they can try and take more and more from the other parties while putting more burden/risk on the other parties.
Rents for this would be work from home space would have to be modest. Gym membership rates would probably most fair. The equinox priced areas will be painted smoke grey with dark wood desks, and be stocked with instacup coffee. The snap fitness type place will be like your high school library, and will be good enough for me if I have a few square feet of desk and a monitor.
There are still journalists who do things like reporting, but I agree the growth in significance of opinion relative to reporting, including in some historically very respectable outlets, is a bit worrying.
ydiff might be the tool you're looking for.

https://github.com/ymattw/ydiff
> The truth is that people from ex-USSR and most of the EU countries were born and grew up in primarily white society. There’s no direct connection in their minds between the race and the name of the color.

The first part is true, second part is not. The people from Eastern block are well aware of the races and do have opinions about which race is how, up to certain races being inferior.

The blacklist as word is not associated with race. But they will make quick judgements about what the words and events and historical characters should mean for black or white Americans. That typically with zero knowledge of American history and race relations. You will also see people assuming native Americans history is what the movie "Winnetou" shows.

For example, when there is conflict about things like Africans complaining about not getting proper scientific attribution, you can count on eastern European people assuming African is crazy and don't deserve that.
Agree on the test stuff. When talking to someone who can goes deep in details you mostly know that he's not a lier; then you have the trial period to fire him if he is.
Contact the customer support of whoever issued your SSL certificates and ask if you are affected by this.

If you use any of the major auto-issue, auto-renew certificate platforms, then you do not need to take any action — either you aren’t affected or they’ll issue a new certificate to you automatically. (Let’s Encrypt, AWS Certificate Manager, Google-Managed SSL Certificates, Heroku Automated Certificate Management)
The computation doesn't seem very taxing. There's some decent algorithms for it, e.g. http://pcgbook.com/wp-content/uploads/chapter07.pdf [PDF]

I think it's more that content is hard. My random generator linked above already pulls from all the top tropes from TV Tropes, but it still seems repetitive. There's an awfully high proportion of stories starring a deadpan snarker or a stubbornly optimistic heroine, but these roles and personalities in a vacuum are not enough to make them unique.

Latest experiments show that details help a lot. Quality went up a lot when I moved from "they" to "him/her". And it went up even more when I had several different types of text describing the same feature. So maybe the missing link isn't just generating better skeletons, but rather different ways of saying the same thing. After all, there are a million fantasy worlds out there. All romances are the same archetypes. But some stand out more than others.
A few tangentially related links ...

First, there are a few write-ups of the fictional UI(s) used in The Martian:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/30473933/The-Martian-UI-Scre...

https://medium.com/territory-film/ui-stories-the-martian-eff...

Second, I think this blog on sci-fi typography may be interesting to those reading this thread:

https://typesetinthefuture.com/
For fast languages like C# and Java many benchmarks are finished in a few seconds. By their tests, the warmup adds ~.3 seconds to these tiny programs. That's a long time, 10-20% in some benchmarks!

In a couple benchmarks Java would probably be faster than C++ if the JVM was allowed to warm up
We're in need of an information-theoretic definition of computation or information processing, in analogy to Shannon's definition of communication. I'm trying to work it out.

It's clear that there is a relationship between computation and information via Landauer's principle. It's also clear that it's got to do with nonlinearity of dynamical systems: "The essence of computation is nonlinear logical operations." J. Hopfield, PNAS 79, 2554 (1982).

Semantics: in short, 'meaning' is just a mapping (ie, mutual information) between language and the physical world. https://heteroskedasticblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/informa...
Also about networking and friendships formed during college which will be harder when it’s entirely online.
1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
"Science progresses one funeral at a time.”
Will it be used? Probably the last one that does not use some sort of AI Compression.See this for image compression https://hific.github.io/
In the next 10 years AI Compression will be everywhere. The problem will be standartisation. Classic compression algoritms can't beat AI ones.
So here's a question how are they going to prevent people from sharing the online courses? Like is there anything that stops someone from sharing or restreaming their classes?

I mean given what the value of a Harvard education is considered I would think there would be a lot of people interested in getting access to these courses.
The first time I ever heard the expression "social filter" was from Barrack Obama.

There are many things that a democracy can give to its citizens. But apparently, it seems civilization doesn't want to give up social filters.

I can understand social filters when it comes to friendships, sex and intimate relationship, but for jobs, I will never understand why they exist.
I think Musk will be interested... this is touching the part he couldn't automate in his factories.
Being silent does not mean they "pretend to have no responsibility". Believe it or not, not everyone uses social media and broadcasts their opinion to the world. Believe it or not, not everyone has time to protest.
Very excited for the new display technologies on the horizon. Sure, current Tv's and Monitors are pretty good, but I can't wait to see the picture quality that we're going to get. Linus Tech Tips has a pretty easy to understand video (much higher level though) on this stuff. He goes into the manufacturer roadmap which I think is pretty good to know in terms of the time horizon for these technologies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTTiQeXXrhI
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There's a growing rift in software between employers saying "there's a talent shortage" and a rapidly growing population of devs who feel like they're locked out due to the technical interview process.

Many of the engineers not being hired are recent bootcamp grads but there are also tons of CS majors that can't seem to "crack" the interview process.

Part of my job is helping companies "fix" their hiring and one of the ideas that I've been putting forth for years that's slowly gaining steam is developing a "technical apprentice" role. This role would be responsible for tasks that are frequently de-prioritized like documentation, testing, QA, bug fixes, note taking, etc. and would be a foot in the door for entry-level engineers. The role is designed to focus on communication and soft-skills while also giving the person a chance to prove their "grit" on the technical side. Even a few months in an apprenticeship role is generally enough for companies to "take a chance" on someone as an entry-level engineer.

This has been a great way to shift interviews away from algorithms and more towards finding people can add immense value to technical teams even without having on-the-job programming experience.

I'm curious what the HN crowd thinks about that role as a way to bridge the hiring gap.
They're spending it on healthcare, and education for starters.

But mostly they're buying the stuff I talked about above. Consumerism.
You know tv's aren't lit by incandescent bulbs right? Find some other punching bag to help you excuse yourself from whatever little things might otherwise be your part, if not "phone chargers", that one was a flop.
(2018)

edit: I started a poll at the time to see if HN readers had BS jobs [0]. Unfortunately didn't get much traction. But with n=8, the answer was "Yes".

Somebody, feel free to start a new poll. Hope it gets more popular this time around. I am really curious.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880159
Perfect timing for me :D

One more thing that I see in good pitch decks: an intro slide about the "Context" or "Change" that is driving the startup. There was a good Medium post about it - will try to find it.
Ask HN: Should you have a non-JS fallback on your products dashboard?
Some dashboards like Apple Developers do not support disabled JavaScript but lots of others do. Is there a demand for not using JS at all or do you enable it for trusted sites?
It's required because a democratic society relies on a healthy press. These are supposed to be scholars, with a code of ethics, dedicated to documentation. Journalists are not supposed to actually interfere in the system they are observing (e.g. by calling for de-platforming) because then they go from being journalists to being activists.

Edit: To be clear, I have no problem with newspapers including opinion articles about de-platforming, but there must be an acknowledgement that there's a difference between journalists and activists/thought leaders. We cannot go on mixing both.
Genuine question as I haven’t been to college (yet?): is this actually a thing? I’ve also heard it doesn’t help with that.
This is how hn looks on tron: https://imgur.com/WRScOII
The Hamilton Hustle
This is just people having conversations about protecting their interest. I'm sure if we spied on the "non-elite" people talking to their spouses or friends, there will be some controversial stuff.

I don't even think there's anything controversial here. This is just a fluff article.
Before they bought Pocket it was a plugin/service that was completely optional. They bought Pocket and integrated it into the browser at a much deeper level, making it opt-out instead of opt-in (and very difficult for the average user to opt out; you have to change several settings in about:config which most users have no idea even exists).

I felt they should have made it an opt-in service that the user can choose on the first launch. Taking away user choice is rarely a good thing, and even less so when dealing with anything privacy related.
FWIW, I've been using qtile for several years now, switching from awesome.

Nice things:

- tiling WM with support for floating windows

- useful widgets out of the box (CPU/mem/network graphs, clipboard notification, audio volume)

- works well most of the time

- highly configurable and scriptable

- you can set the active group ("virtual desktop) for each screen individually, whereas awesome has virtual desktops that cover all screens at once. This is great for lectures/talks as I can prepare contents/applications on my laptop screen and then move this group to the to the projector screen when needed. This makes switching between slides, web browser, or a live demo easy.

- completely written in Python, so one can easily modify the source code and reload qtile

Annoying things:

- sometimes my X server crashes and I suspect qtile to be at fault. However, it happens rarely enough so that I did not bother investigating further.

- the interactive Python shell for qtile (qsh) is a strange mix of Python and filesystem metaphors with too little actual control over the WM

- documentation and examples are not always up to date

- bug: QT applications leave withdrawn "empty" windows on the screen if qtile is reloaded (which happens when displays are connected or disconnected)

- dynamic multi-window applications don't work particularly well with tiling WMs (if these don't recognize all windows that need to be floating)

- applications can only be in a single group / virtual desktop. This is an inherent limitation caused by the aforementioned ability to assign groups to individual screens (you obviously can't have the same X11 window to be rendered to two different screens at different dimensions)
> Is this a serious problem?

You would be astonished, absolutely flabbergasted, at the number of "senior engineers" who interview well, talk great about projects, but cannot demonstrate basic programming skills (e.g., convert an integer to a string representation, or write fizzbuzz).