skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well done! This documentation has been 'oppressing' me for quite sometime and I cried in fear when I saw how 'offensive' and 'racist' this section of this documentation was:

> https://www.simplymodbus.ca/FAQ.htm#Modbus

> In a standard Modbus network, there is one Master and up to 247 Slaves, each with a unique Slave Address from 1 to 247. The Master can also write information to the Slaves.

I now feel enlightened as to why some refuse to take a Masters [0] degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering because the documentation for almost all the material is 'offensive'. /s

Thanks once again for reminding me that I am a halpless victim. /s

[0] Oops. Another eggshell I stepped on.
I had no idea I could do this. This article is dope! Thanks op
Depression is an illness (well technically I think it’s called a disorder).
I just had the opposite experience - treatment resistant depression turned out to be undiagnosed ADHD!
The fact that this slows down devices boils down to a rushed or simply incompetent implementation.

It's sensible to require waiting for a certificate check the first time an app is launched, but after that, the cache validity should be indefinite, and updates should occur asynchronously in batches.

The timeout settings were also excessive.

Can't forget the blatant lack of encryption. They either forgot or thought it would be too much effort to set up.
I’ll take my chances with the black hole.
But isn't apple that's overpassing Intel an equally big organization? How is it exempt from the rules of bureaucracy?
nice app great feature
> I always tell my students that the one editor they are likely to find already installed on a machine is vim

Well, vi, since it's part of POSIX. Unless you are fine with ed ;)
"settling Mars will require more sustainable lifestyles than most first world citizens now enjoy."

Not if they decide to use nuclear power. Humanity has at least one more dramatic jump in power-use/person that has been ready since the 1960's.
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I have existential depression. Or at least that's what Google tells me. Pretty close to nihilism. I don't believe life has any meaning. Hence I don't find anything worth doing. Yet I still do stuff. But life is depressingly hopelessly empty.
Nearly 100 coffins buried over 2,500 years ago found in Egypt
It's a Starbucks rules. Most non-chain US coffee shops will happily put the drink straight into your own mug.
Yeah, it feels selfish, but quarantine has been great for me and my wife’s personal lives. More time together and more time for improving ourselves.
Loved the app Nice feature
Yeah. I'm not disagreeing with that.
One of the reasons Apple has been so successful is because they make these decisions for the users. Customers were tired of their system breaking and getting malware because of confusing options and too much flexibility.
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If anybody wants to talk about their problems, feel free to send me a message. I've been through years of depression and anxiety, and I'm looking to help people in the same boat.
I'm not selling a golden age of wealth for all. I'm selling the right to direct your own life, commit to the good on your own terms and live a life of privacy. You know, freedom. There's more to life than money, we used to kill for these outcomes. The violence stopped not because we improved but because there was no more freedom to be had. Now we just end lives over economic contrivances. I'm a dinosaur, I see the meteor hitting in 2140 and so does bitcoin and many others. The only answer is ghe unknown and darkness. I don't sell out for power.
This is horribly wrong. Josiah... what are you doing?!
> But I think that publicly singling out one kid like that can be discouragement of kids around that one kid

Nonsense.

When I grew up, we didn't have participation awards. I don't think unearned awards help anybody.

> if it's implied to them that they have less aptitude.

People do have more or less aptitude than others - that's a matter of fact. It's good for them to find out so they can try something else where they might achieve more.

One of the very best mandolin players in history is Sierra Hull. She got that way by losing a music competition as a child, where she learned that she didn't like that feeling.
We need more environmental tech, but we also have to adapt our behaviour a little bit.

How can you make something that is degradable in an environmental friendly way, but also last forever? Something has to give.
Always love these disposable avenues of eating and drinking. Not sure if it started after seeing willy wonka eating a cup[0] he just drink out of or not.

But I always remember reading an article about Indian food-carts serving tea in the morning[1][2]. They make really thin clay cups to serve it in. When you're done you smash the cup on the road when you're done.

[0] https://twitter.com/omgfacts/status/885198079401631745?lang=...
[1] https://vedicmix.com/drink-your-chai-and-break-your-cup/
[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2016/10/26/kolkatas-age-ol...
funnily enough it's something I've been working on for my personal dotfile setup but instead unfortunately decided to go with ansible for now despite being a big fan of both nix and nixos. Nix was just a bit too heavy for some of the small lxc containers etc I wanted to setup.
It doesn't matter how much equity you have if it never ends up being worth anything.
A few members in my distant family died in the last few months. One of whom I was close with (grandparent) but it barely affected me negatively yet I had been forced into shell for months due to otherwise small things in the past. It's not the severity of the outcome. I recovered faster from those. I require medicine when that happens and the triggers are always small non obvious.

Please don't judge people based on the severity of their situation as to whether they are suffering or not. It doesn't help. It misleds bystanders reading your comment into a pit instead of seeking help.

As for the comparison to the world getting better, it's not linear and same for everyone. While on average, people are living better life than they did before. Life for people in some countries have gotten worse, not better. Maybe life for people which this forum self selects have gotten worse in the last few years.

Also see: https://ourworldindata.org/optimism-pessimism
They're not really the same thing, compared to vi[m], emacs is statistically dead. And there are already lots of people who're well into their careers in academia and industry who aren't users of either.

My own contrarian and probably equally wrong take is that it's mostly about accepting the (evidence-free) premise that modal editing is actually a good thing. It's hard, you suffer but lots of smart people tell you it's worth it and perhaps your suffering will help you be as smart as them. It ends up being closer to hazing and penance (your editor as hairshirt) than actual gatekeeping.
No captions on the video and intentionally disabled YT's auto captions? Completely inaccessible video for silent consumption or to the deaf and hard of hearing.
- Meshroom

- Reality capture

- Metashape

Meshroom is open source, and tends to be slower and have worse results. But it's free!

Reality Capture is the opposite. Apparently (haven't tried myself) the best in the industry, but insanely expensive (subscription-based only AFAIU).

Metashape Pro is my go-to. The demo is very liberal and it's quick enough and accurate enough for what I need to do.

You need a LOT of ram (64 gigs is about the minimum) and the more CUDA cores the better. If you don't have a dedicated graphics card, you can forget about doing any sort of remotely complex scan within 24 hours (e.g. a macbook). This applies to any PG software.
Hmm, I'm not seeing that warning, & see the same problem behavior even with 'shields down' for the site.
Startup interviews are just as tough these days.
Wow I didn't know about the undo tree! That would have definitely helped in a few scenarios
Haha the copy-pasting part is terrible, but the name invoicely is vastly superior to a name that sounds like an allergic reaction or bees.
I guess this is a case of arguing by definition. Depression is an illness in as much sleepiness is an illness.
taking care of a small child is exhausting. the way our culture says a person can do that full time and also work full time is completely unrealistic. But the shape of it changes over time - you’re what, nine months in? that’s still the hard time. Over the next few months, it will get easier, little by little. The kind of attention that a child needs changes, and while it continues to be intense, I find having a 2-year-old so much less mentally draining than having a small baby was.

If you can, just try to be present in the moment. Maybe you can’t work right now, but what you’re doing is important. Being a good parent will do more good for the world than almost anything you will ever do for money
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People drink in their car all over the world, what makes it "very American"?
Has anyone tested if disabling the 'Automatically allow built-in software to receive incoming connections' setting in the Firewall config changes this behavior? Seems like it might be attached to that static list of whitelisted processes.
Since the Covid apps where announced I tried to find convincing evidence that our current network of smartphones/bluetooth(s) are able to deliver (remotely) reliable contact tracing. From my limited technical understanding, it makes no sense. Never mind the privacy promises.

The only explanation I can currently imagine is this:

On population level, enough people following the app’s recommendations produces a net gain for the spread statistics, even if most recommendations are wrong or over-protective (“self-quarantine now!”).

Which would mean that it’s irrelevant whether the app “works” or is supported by scientific data because it’s just a device for political purposes and its surrounding narrative is, well, propaganda.

Edit: ... which also explains the probable bullshittery of iOS’s health metrics. The purpose of this feature is not to serve you truth. Its purpose is to serve its master (Apple). Maybe by making you feel good, by making you neurotic, by making you emotionally dependent on Apple’s devices, by transporting further belief in the omniscience of this magical little device that you cannot possibly repair yourself, etc. Pick your narrative.
the richest people in the world list is filled with bill gates, bezos, zuckerberg... none of which inherited it
That is called the MBA.
Yeah, they can read everything:

https://sneak.berlin/20200604/if-zoom-is-wrong-so-is-apple/

They were going to actually encrypt it, but suddenly had a change of heart after the FBI had a chat with them:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
You mean Legion
When OS X was introduced, asking on Apple forums how to run as root was almost a daily question.

Most consumers don't care about security, making it easy to disable just opens the floodgates of their systems.
be careful with that. if psychedelics are what is keeping your mood up for a period of months, your connection to consensus reality can get pretty weird
yeah anyone within tech or fang finds stripe prestigious. even if some random person on the street hasn’t heard of it. same with HFT. some would even consider them more prestigious than fang. Fang is the backup for harvard grads who can’t work at a unicorn
I've definitely had a few rough points since I started my current job early last year. I think I focused too much on my career that it left me with little energy for anything else.

I was finally starting to figure things out and get where I wanted to be in life at the beginning of the year but then the world got flipped upside down and it's been a rollercoaster since.

I almost want to say I was happy working from home, having more time for myself and my hobbies, but I was still looking forward to going back to the office because it brought back a (small) sense of normalcy and it definitely did.

Problem now is that I'm possibly days away from putting in my 2 weeks for a new SWE job in a sector that I'm super interested in and working with much cooler tech, but I'm scared. I'm extremely comfortable in my current role and it's very stable for the time being. I have no idea what the new role will be like - stress, long hours, etc. I know it'll be WFH for at least a few months to start, which I'm not looking forward to. I'm scared to leave my comfort zone in the middle of all this, and I'm worried it'll be terrible for my mental health going into the winter.

I know this isn't exactly the thread for this.. but I don't know where else to talk about it.
Never bet against pizza, I guess?
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that’s not true at all. i’ve worked at fang. google for instance pays a lot less than stripe or pinterest or snapchat etc. people specifically work there for the prestige and not the compensation
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Not a psych person, but depersonalization can also be a (mostly maladaptive) coping strategy for depression. GP's description sounds like simple depression to me though.
What did you replace Things and iA Writer with?
This is really cool, and I had no idea about Vim using a tree instead of a stack for undos. I'll check out Gundo.

Do you have any other similar recs that would help for learning?
> Increased user engagement 27% by refactoring our front-end experience in React.

>But it's impossible to say that React (or any other tech) will bring you an increase of engagement

I think it's more like it is very unlikely that the choice of technology used to implement something is what improves the user experience in any way. Basically the only way I can think of is if technology choice has a noticeable effect on performance.

As a general rule technology choice improves the company experience - so a statement like:

Increased our ability to roll out new functionality 27% by refactoring our front-end experience in React.

or similar statements about how technology choice improved things for the company might make sense, although of course your remarks regarding the percentage still holds.
you’re comparing fang to average startup. instead you should compare fang to top tier startup. as that’s the choice people who get fang offers make... in almost all examples i can think of, the top tier startup pays more.

furthermore before they were fang companies, google was the top tier startup and IBM was the equivalent to FANG.
Big companies started data science, AI projects, etc. 5 to 10 years ago. Medium and Smaller ones are starting just now. So I'd say you're fine.
As I mention above, I also mention above that the link to "scientist" says the concept doesn't apply to classical antiquity.

Shrug.
> if you can: get rid of your smartphone

Unfortunately, encrypted communication is being taken hostage by smartphones. I switched back from my dumbphone for this reason.
"the editor becomes the ssh client itself" is effectively how I use Emacs. TRAMP (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode) makes editing remote files pretty much as seamless as editing local ones. I even semi frequently do slightly-crazy-seeming things like open files via chains of several ssh hops and I can "save" them (read: marshal a complex operation involving scp, base64, and other sourcery) in exactly the same way I can save something to the home directory on my workstation. TRAMP is a default part of the Emacs distribution (and has been for over 10 years), so it doesn't require installing extra packages or even enabling anything. It's just on by default.

This capability, plus "frame" management commands and the various terminal modes make my use of Emacs roughly equivalent to they way I see colleagues (I'm an ops/sysadmin type, not really a developer) using vim + tmux.
The current PE lined cups will also leak after some time. They are designed for immediate use, not as liquid storage containers. Most of them, especially the higher quality ones, will usually last a day or two before significantly leaking but not always. Don't leave one on your desk overnight, I've seen the messy results!
>If it's already prestigious, it's mostly played out.

That's going in my book of quotes.
I had been programming since I was 10, but had decided that I had learned all their was to know (typical adolescent ego) so I decided to go in physics as it was what I thought would be the most challenging thing to do. Did well in undergrad, graduating in 3 years and got a fellowship at a good grad school. Studied theoretical high-energy particle physics. In the background of all this I was programming the whole way, worked in the computer lab, etc. Ultimately I decided to drop out of the Ph.D. program with my M.S. and dive into software engineering, my real love. Haven't really looked back since the choice to drop out. Still program everyday as a VC. Having your favorite hobby as your job I still think is as good as it gets. Even better if it grew up with you and is now lucrative and as exciting as ever.
Good, the regulators have to feel the heat. If someone pushes against the interest of the farmers - they dump manure in front of the ministry of Agriculture.
The IT world has manure on its own to give away!
All these "original research" and facts does nothing but state the after effects of the invention of cars and them becoming the dominant form of transportation. While the original post i replied to believes that if somehow this "car culture" phenomenon disappeared, people will stop using cars and everyone will ride bycicles like a happy hippy nation. That won't happen, because, like i made it clear, everything gravitates around cars, not the other way around.

Your research is therefore irrelevant to the base issue.

What i choose is to use reason and make a simple link between cause and effect.
This is a frightening result. Please vote if you aren't depressed!
Having better regulation and a bigger government? If the benefit outweighs the damage of data breach here, what's the argument against it?
I too tried spacemacs and loved the initial 30 minutes. And then I wanted ESLint, and maybe even TabNine for autocompletion. After several hours looking up random gist files I gave up. I don't get paid to edit lisp configs to get my IDE to the usability level of the one my company already pays for (IntelliJ). It's a real shame, but I just don't have the time or energy to deal with those configs.
HN has had many threads about mental health and emotional topics and will have many more in the future. I don't think so much depends on having two threads rather than one at this moment.

But there are exceptions to everything and the two threads are curiously distinct, in a way that makes merging them feel a bit wrong, like merging two different meals or something. So I think it's fine for indecision and oddity to win out for a change.
That's a controversial topic though. Keep in mind that companies like Github and Shopify showed us it's damn well possible to scale massively with a monolith.
But I take your point as being correct, there are quite a few Ruby companies who didn't reach Shopify/Stripe scale (is that a problem though? and if so - why?)
I think you're answering the wrong question?
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Funny enough, I used to be depressed for almost my whole life and now I'm not. Two and a half years ago, I dropped out from an average university to be admitted in Harvard within one year. At that time I also had poor English, struggling to differentiate present and past simple tenses.

In just two years, I ruined relationships with my relatives, lost all friends, don't talk to anyone, got a horribly loose skin, had a mini-stroke and got tinnitus. Also, I became fluent in written English, lost more than 50 kilograms, and right now 70% done preparing for applying for SWE positions. It's tough, but I've never been happier. Never had so much progress before.
I mean, you said I should waste my money on a CPU upgrade that would make no difference in 1440p gaming. That's money I can't spend on a better GPU, which would make a difference in 1440p gaming.
Meshroom seems to be the most popular but like you said it is a tough one to get working. Seems to require cuda cores which I believe are in nvidia GPUs, probably uses similar routines as Tensorflow for image processing.

There is a commercial tool called "Reality Capture" that probably would work but at 15k euros for a lifetime or 750 euros for a month it might be too pricey for you.

Here is a GitHub search link that might help You out.

https://github.com/topics/photogrammetry

Good luck with your search. It looks like there is room to develop some tools for this niche if anyone is looking for a new project.
Yeah but as a counterpoint, most Hacker News users have used Linux at one point, which lets you run commands like `rm -rf /` as root. I think it's fair to allow power users to easily disable these protections.
"My girlfriend of 13 years left me the day after my birthday in June before I had a chance to propose to her"

Well, there is a bright side to it. If you would have married and it was about to break soon after, you would have the joy of a legal divorce now on top of it.

Instead you are free to find someone new. Possibly better fitting.
The world is full of women and other awesome people, you can still connect with. A bit harder now, true, but nevertheless possible, once you manage to get out of that hole. So if you don't manage on your own, maybe stop wasting your time mindless browsing and seek professional help or find people, online or offline, to help you throuhg.
Has anyone tried a revocation list-over bloom filters? Similar to how Google's Safe Browsing filter works?

If there's a hit, a subsequent request can be sent to Apple to verify the same - reducing the impact.
Don't think this is a high priority for them and it prolly wont go through congress. Most politicians talk about illegal immigration. They don't really care about legal immigration that much.
> I guess I need to get a Thinkpad running Linux for slowly finding replacments for my tools, and migrate not within weeks, but spreading my migration process over months.

Well, if you actually like to tinker from time to time just for tinkering's sake, this is a great approach I inadvertently took.

My daily driver for 7 years had been a late 2013 mbp, which still works and is plenty powerful for most of what I do. Then during the shelter in place period I installed a Arch on my desktop (which normally runs Windows for Photoshop, etc) just to experiment a little with ZFS on Linux, etc. Then I started using it more and more and now I rarely use my mac again. (note that I'm not new to linux, had been using it both on the desktop and the server for a very long time and my work laptop runs linux).

However, unlike you, I don't use many Apple-only tools mostly just Things and Bear. I haven't found replacements for those, but as they never were a critical part of what I do, it wasn't that big of a deal to just drop them.
This is pretty much exactly how I felt. One day I just went to a walk in clinic and talked to a doctor. From there, everything got better.
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If you keep you pay enough attention, I think you'd find that primary sources have nearly completely disappeared from the news media. They'd much rather tell you what to think, rather than risk having you make your own mind up.