skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I've seen that multiple times. Just knowing how to check your limit screws occasionally would save a lot of people some future headaches. It would be cool if for a certain price range and kind of bike you could get insurance that would cover certain routine maintenance costs. Maybe something that would help cover annual suspension services on high end mountain bikes, or that helped cover routine tune-ups. As a mechanic I'd hate to have to navigate that kind of system in order to get paid, but as customer I'd love it.

Most people just don't realize that they'll save money in the long run if they just put some money into their bike every year. We had customers that would buy an S-Works every year or two because they just pounded out miles but never wanted to pay for maintenance. If they put $500-1000 into the bike every year they could have kept it 5-6 years instead of the 1-2 they were getting out of them.
What you describe is called Please-Bro in repair circles. I dont want to learn, just tel me what to replace people. Afaik ZXW has something like that build in. No brain engaging required mode - shows you measuring points and list of possible defects.
I’d like to propose a reframing of your scenarios for objectivity:

WFH is horrible for some people in some scenarios.

WFO (work from office) is also equally terrible for some people in some scenarios. It’s just that people have generally normalized and accepted that these horrible WFO situations are required to feed yourself.

Barring jobs where you cannot function without physical presence, I’d say we need to fundamentally rethink why WFO is a default. And why we think a baseline of suffering for some people is generally OK.
It's a problem with the creative process itself, I've learned, and it isn't different in other mediums. It follows the McCloud "Six Steps to Art" - starting with surface changes, gradually learning the elements of the craft, and eventually settling on a purposeful idea in the medium or about the medium.

Most developers, and therefore most projects, get stuck somewhere in the middle area, where there is enough skill to create features, but no direction or vision for those features, other than a basic template based on other software.

Often, the project will be called "minimal" to excuse having few features, but only a few projects adhere to a genuine restriction like SLOC limits or eliminating dependencies.

Appeals to commerce as the goal often have a further narrowing effect of making one anxious with thoughts like "project must moonshot on day 1", but then you look at Bittorrent, an all-time software success, and it's like, no, this probably wasn't ever going to create the next Microsoft. Funds were raised to have a Bittorrent company, but the market success it had was always modest at best. And yet it did and still does represent an idea that people can believe in.

The actual thing that I see every great project do, whether it's defined artistically or not, is to define up-front some themes and principles that you believe cohere well, and then direct the specific elements around deeply studying and exploring them. This can manifest as a corporate mission statement, or as an artist's manifesto, or an academic research subject. In final form, it generally manifests as "do one thing exceptionally well", since if you have a very clear idea of the goal, you can direct all your energy upon it. But in the intermediate stages it is still trial and error to learn what fits the theme best, what the actual success metrics are.

The thing is, if you have coherence in the abstract, it's way easier to explain the reason for being: "This is just a manifestation of the principles". Being easy to explain in turn makes it marketable without resorting to sales tricks. And because it deals with general concepts it taps into a breadth of appeal that can't be found just by looking at any one feature. So adhering to principle sets you up for success in a general sense.
ISRO’s Chandrayaan-1 Reveals Rusting of Moon
Remember Netflix slide deck and the baseball streaming team? This is all consistent with that. No surprise here.
We're in a global depression you bougie piece of shit. Don't shit talk my family.
(Nobody is sure about the graviton, but IMHO it is a good bet.)

Electromagnetism is also mediated by particles (photons) and the quantum states can survive a lot of electromagnetic interactions without collapsing. One of my favorites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime...
Maybe you can clear this up for me.

To me, realtime means "responds faster than the fastest it needs to in order to control a feedback loop" which is super subjective since different system dynamics are so different.

When I tried to use RTOS it appeared to be that better than 1ms resolution was not remotely possible. Just hardcoding the interrupts resulted in 1us resolution easily.

I grant that the RTOS provides a scheduler, but when this chip says that it is intended for "realtime" does it mean that it's microsecond fast even when running RTOS, that it's capable of running fast with handwritten interrupts and code (which to me seems to be most things), or just that it has a spec for an upper bound on op timing?

I guess the last is important for correctness proofs but the prior two are how I interpret it as a confused person reading marketing materials put out by conflicting sources.
If you don't use video then it'll be plenty. Plenty of people get their TV the old-fashioned way but still want fast Internet.

Looking at pricing for Spark (one of the largerproviders). [1]

For each of the fibre speed plans you can get 60GB/month, for another $10 you get 120GB/month and for a further $10 you get unlimited traffic.

BTW: "Mb" = Megabits, "MB" = MegaBytes

[1] https://www.spark.co.nz/shop/internet/plans-and-pricing/
I bought a PS2 at one point because it had an optical audio out (and DVD player), gaming was secondary.
Looks interesting except for the ps2 keyboard and mouse ports. I'll take a closer look though.
Qualcomm Founder Irwin Jacobs Believes the US Cannot Compete with Huawei
Related: tracked APC vs 4-legged (+wheeled) construction vehicle

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

(Menzi Mucks are available with forestry attachments)

Bonus clip: (multi-metre obstacle) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y85nfQuU0M
I'm using Firefox with strict uMatrix settings from a private VPN/proxy (everything goes through a server with a dedicated IP address that only I access via SOCKS5). I see only a blank page that tries to set some cookies, although allowing cookies still results in a blank page. It works via kproxy. I sometimes see trouble with small sites that set strict Cloudflare or Google settings, so even though the site doesn't seem to be using either of those I'd guess it may be an IP block ban possibly following an actual attack from a nearby IP address.
(1) Randomise your test inputs. If you think that will lead to flaky tests, then you already have flaky code.

(2) Be able to run the software locally in some meaningful way, (as opposed to only seeing the software in action in prod.) My most productive code/test/debug cycle always involves main(). I spend less time imagining what the software will do, and more time seeing what the software actually does.
I miss the comparison to the duodecimal number system (base12).
To me that seems much better then both the decimal and the duotrigesimal number system.
http://duodecimal.net/archives/duodecimal/duodecimal.html
Use the us ascii 0-9 and a-z (caps equivalent). O and zero (0) are the same, as are numeral 1 and L and I. S matches a and 5.

I like it.
26 letters + 10 digits - 4 letters lost to aliasing (o, i, s, u) = 32 symbols. Making L and alias would leave them only enough for base 31 unless they dropped one of the other aliases.

Personally, I'd be OK with that. I think U is much less likely to be confused for V, at least in anything not handwritten, than lower-case L is likely to be confused for 1.
This analysis is very US/Euro-centric.

Bumping the price from US$20 to US$100 might indeed allow you to focus more on your most dedicated customers.

It also bumps the price way above anything that billions of people around the world can pay for such a thing.

At Ardour, we have 3 subscription price levels:

Regular: US$10/month
Low Cost: US$4/month
Developing World: US$1/month

We leave it to users to decide which category to select. Maybe you don't care about people in Senegal or Bangladesh or the Phillipines. That's certain an option, but some demonstration that this has crossed your mind is probably a good idea.

It may also be important that on a technical level, our subscriptions are not like e.g. Adobe's. Stop subscribing to this GPL'ed software and nothing changes except for your ability to get updates for free.
Here are some video reviews looking into the sensor data accuracy:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrpJQJ3tlvklPADcz-WML... (channel: The Quantified Scientist, playlist: Withings Scanwatch)

Not great unfortunately.
In an ideal world where people have a decent disposable income, those arguments might be true.

In the real world, it's not that "people don't want to pay anything", it's that people have a small amount of money to throw at things for a marginally better experience. I sure like keyboard-driven apps, but I'm never going to pay as much as I pay for my entire Internet package for any online service. Hell, all of them I pay for barely add up to $30/month.

Superhuman and similar are tools for rich people, equivalent to a Rolex or the latest iPhone. Those with less income are assumed not to be its target audience. I'd argue that they could double the price without losing more than a single digit percentage of current users.
Hmm. Good read. Then I think everyone should write something about their accomplishments in their own blog like an article on how I became a tech lead and it would be mostly like, it's not fun. Being a team member was easy, you know taking up few projects which others considered hard and you know it's simple just too much action everyday. And always start a presentation saying, "it's a simple project having n,n,n,n,n things" and go slow so others would go and review all the things you did in the call itself.

But now you are working on 1 project namesake and hearing about all projects, resolving issues getting into sudden meetings and knowing requirement was understood differently and thinking about what sort of risk should be raised for this project. Then you get to a discussion with a architect on whats a microservice, he tells you a microservice can process bulk data(millions) and can run up to 20-30 mins and discussion ends like oh I was thinking microservice is like a simple unit of work and finishes off in few milliseconds to less than few seconds. Sorry I am a
mainframer we caught this as it crossed our thresholds in UAT and you need to raise risk if you want this go live. (Level of risk that has good visibility to management).

Wrote an automation tool 6-7 years back for myself and let others know of it and prepared good documentation and made it part KT and now present time, saying to people not to use my tool as I am going to decommission it as there are other standard tools available to do the same thing and people pinging "please don't decom it, can you rename it and let it run, as it's easier and proven repeatedly it's error free".

Suddemly a dev contact, pings you saying I have a problem with this REXX code. You look at the code and sort of gives you thought, this comment looks like I wrote it. But I never wrote something for this application or person before and asking few more questions, you come to know that my code was used as a model in lot many places as it was easier to generate test data with it. Credit for initial work was never given few years back but looking at how many people are using gives a feeling wow.

Always seeing celebrities talking about their movies on TV. Given me the thought, how come nobody is interviewing programmers and asking what was hard for them to program and state of mind they had when programming a piece of code. What gets them to the flow state.... It would be fun to know.
1. lisp

2. realising that its more about delivering than dreaming up the perfect abstraction (get it done).

3. what you think the user wants vs what the user thinks they want vs what the user actually wants vs what the user actually needs.

4. that there are always tradeoffs

5. building a product by yourself (whether on the side or starting up) will give you invaluable experience.
Nice idea, and also a positive for a well being.
Police indifference seems to be a problem everywhere. Bike theft really discourages people from cycling. If governments want more people to cycle they need to make bike theft prevention a priority. Even a fraction of what is spent on cycling infrastructure would make a difference.
Obviously it depends on the role and the seniority of the new hire to some degree.

I think, as a senior embedded software engineer, the first couple weeks (months?) should be spent with the last new hire figuring out tools, processes, and keeping internal documentation up to date as you go. Questions should be escalated as necessary, but generally this should not involve much interaction with more senior engineers so their work is not interrupted. New hires should start out with big fixing tasks and not be expected to participate in architecture or feature creation yet. If they display the ability, fine, but set the bar low.

Some companies I've worked at have such complicated development workflows that it regularly takes 3 months for an engineer to become independently productive.
I'm curious about your idea about avg rating: It would be nice if rating systems weighed a person's star rating against their avg rating. So, 3 stars meant "avg compared to his normal reviews". (Or just a note with the person's avg rating) Although this could be abused as well by a user putting high reviews on fake etc companies, causing the 1-star reviews to hurt even more.
Having a GPU is better than not having one, even if doesn't having tensor cores.

If you are on a tight budget, his advice is to pick in this order:

> I have little money: Buy used cards. Hierarchy: RTX 2070 ($400), RTX 2060 ($300), GTX 1070 ($220), GTX 1070 Ti ($230), GTX 1650 Super ($190), GTX 980 Ti (6GB $150).
I'm not buying that they're doing it out of the generosity of the business. Otherwise why not just offer a generous number of days vacation in the benefits package? They're making it unlimited because they're counting on people using less than average vacation time so the business can save money while maintaining a good image.
If everyone was as reasonable as you, the world would be a nice place
Pound for pound I would probably say yes.

Netflix is often where the best of the best aspire to be even if they have already done rotations at FB/Google.

At least in my field (infrastructure, big data, etc) this mostly holds true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
I'm someone who values tinkering time greatly and low-hour work weeks (at least WRT "work" work) are a priority.

I've gotten to this stage from two different directions:

1. Developing a relationship with a 'principal' consultant who handles client relationships themselves (shielding me from weird hours and stress) but outsources the tech to me (+ other technical freelancers). When this principal consultant has no clients, they still have hours available for their own in-house, entrepreneurial products.

2. Bootstrapping a passive-income web business. I coded a Ruby on Rails application to sell law notes following my law degree. By following the advice here, I figured out how to market it with SEO and AdWords. Much to my amazement, it ended up providing for all my financial needs for over 7 years, sometimes with as little as 4 hours work a month. (Obviously there was a huge upfront investment in getting to that stage.) I've got a YouTube video where I talk more about how I came up with the MVP and what the first few months were like, in case this is a path you're considering too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKXlZz-wbmg
But this doesn't answer the question. If you claim that all of these possible observers 'exist', how does this have a physical meaning?

This is what I never understood about MWI, in what physical sense can the many worlds be said to exist? Where are they in our universe? What direction would we have to travel to find them? Do they exert gravity on us? If not, then how can we claim that they exist in a physical sense?
I recently bought an expensive ebike to commute, and I decided to get a kryptonite lock. The primary reason was because of their anti-theft offer:

https://shop.kryptonitelock.com/atpo_landing_pages/register-...

I bought a lock that would fully insure the bike, so if it does get stolen I would at least get the value of it back.
The BEP itself is almost trivial. The difficult work is implementing it in a client that makes it useful for users and content providers.

In the wild west of the internet "update" really only means "add" because you don't want the source you barely trust to provide some data to issue an update that deletes all the previous download from that source.
But you also want to avoid wasting storage so some size caps and rehashing old data to see if it's an incremental update will also be needed.
Thanks! I found this helpful.

To anyone else also just learning about Mail-in-a-Box:

“Mail-in-a-Box is based on Postfix, Dovecot, Z-Push, Roundcube, Nextcloud, Apache SpamAssassin, Postgrey, Nginx, @konklone’s nginx config, and more.”
Google has removed the option to disable autoplay from Mobile Chrome
You mean https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui or another gui? You should be able to connect remotely, that is pretty much the entire idea behind transmission. A torrent daemon with various UIs that use the API.
"Politics is tough because in many ways people elect people who lie a lot. In business, we really try to avoid that. The skills to succeed in politics are really quite different than in business."

I disagree with this on multiple fronts, but certainly lots of business is built around lies and perception.
Similarly, the despair and agony is really what hit me most. Last autumn, my father began experiencing occasional cramps in one leg after a regular 75k bike ride. During the following month, the pain gradually spread throughout his body and increased in frequency, seemingly for no apparent reason, based on medical tests and scans. He slowly stopped eating as his body was being consumed day and night: he lost healthy weight at a rate of one pound per day. As muscle weakness spread and as he lost his faculty to walk, he grew steadily delirious with pain and lack of sleep. By the 1st of December, he was in hospital full time undergoing a barrage of tests to no avail; a diagnosis of ALS was given mid-month. During the following week, he spoke his last words. In the throes of his body collapsing, he would tear out IV and catheter. At the rate at which his situation was deteriorating, feeding tube and intubation coupled with restraints appeared cruel. He passed before the end of the year.
To be clear: the tidal island still exists. But it's been connected by a bridge to the mainland since 2014, supertides excepted.
It's not a mispronunciation; it's a regional variation.
Does anyone here have any experience with solar-powered toasters?
If nobody has the data, the torrent is effectively dead and most private trackers will remove it in time. If it's not dead, they can incentivize seeders to re-hash/re-upload a v2 compatible torrent if they really wanted to.

Private trackers tend to gamify quite a few aspects of their sites (obvious example being the seed ratio itself).
> what the long-term ones are

Work-life balance is really hard to maintain long term when you're WFH; and you don't have the "sniff the air" kind of awareness of politics/power-struggles/etc taking place in the office, which can easily cap your mobility, which anyway is pretty limited; you can end up stuck in one job if your lifestyle depends on WFH; and finally, it's difficult to power through when your motivation is low.

Of course that's from the employee's point of view.

From the company's point of view, I think the only long-term negative that's not already evident in the short term is that you miss chances to develop and promote your top remote talent to maximize their contribution. WFH folks tend to get stuck in a role or at least a very narrow silo. (Remote-first companies try to solve that of course, but I've never seen one up close so I have no comment.)

Source: I'm WFH for about 11 years on the current gig, which I guess counts as "long-term."
I guess it should be taken as:
* Strongly prefer cards with Tensor cores -> suggested cards
* if you need a card because you're currently CPU only, and you're strapped for cash, these are your best bets, but only if you have no other option.
This is good feedback. Will note this down and incorporate it in a small update.
I'd like to extend an invitation to anyone who is interested in learning more about Pony to join us in our community Zulip. Various Pony core team members, committers, and other interested folks are often on and regularly answer questions etc from people who are interested in learning more.

https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/#

And you can find more Pony related content on the website:

Talks (and what-not): https://www.ponylang.io/community/planet-pony/
Papers: https://www.ponylang.io/community/#papers
Yes. I'm surprised the author would be more concerned about confusion between U/V (or u/v) than between 1/l ... the former has always seemed relatively far-fetched to me, whereas depending on the font, the latter can be a real problem. Again, I attribute the issue to the choice of upper case as canonical, because L is not easily confused with any other letter or number.
Sorry, I don't understand why 1-2 weeks off is significant. That's a short break?

My department lead works about four days in August. My boss takes three weeks to visit family abroad each year.

A few Swedish companies I know basically shut down entirely for July.

Are American tech companies so fragile that you can't lose staff for more than two weeks at a time?
Well, i guess then you can read my entire comment.
v1 of iPlayer used bittorrent, but these days it's all streaming.
Diffuser Modulation Enables Quantitative Lensless Microscopy [Photonics.com]
I tried reading a few of Taleb's books but I couldn't get past the common sense arguments lacking any data. Feels like self help books. Does anyone else feel this way? These aphormisms really remind me of that.
A public example is rutracker.org. Another is sci-hub. See Joe Karaganis for some cannonical info: http://piracy.americanassembly.org/shadow-libraries/
Here's another source that might be more acceptable to your political preference: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48302
I had the same experience and was thinking it was strange. Surprising the BBC wouldn’t be testing for this kind of thing. Wonder if they’re subverting adblockers deliberately?
Google proposes new town-like tech hub in Mountain View
I know the French Foreign Legion used to/may still give out passports and many regular army and SS troops from Nazi Germany took this up as a way to restart their lives. For all intents and purposes, this could work too.
From what I heard in France 40 - 50 days a year is common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...
That document could use a clarification for the "Ask HN or Show HN" section. I didn't see an option to make an "Ask HN or Show HN" in the UI. Do we just add that text manually? Does the software recognize it as special keywords? If so, is it case-sensitive and does it need spaces or a colon?
Buying Gas with Bitcoin
It's mostly for exerting peer pressure and having to pay nothing out if someone leaves (versus paying out their PTO). Unlimited vacation is a scam, next time a company tries that, mark off the entire calendar for the rest of the year.