skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have to be wary of not stepping into territory where the state will wield its heavy hand, then I just don't see how you can maintain it is functioning at a 'local' level. What's local? It's not like the Chinese state clearly delineates the boundary. And looking at the imprisoned lawyers, local authorities are not above blocking inconvenient litigation either.

I did not link to social media, nor do I use it, so please refrain from assuming it has any influence on the point I'm making. I'm sure perfectly fine litigation has happened, it would just be foolish to count on it. Maybe you're right that with an increasingly limited issue you luck increases.
I'm just saying, it took me until halfway down page two to realize it.
Antex have switched their production to China a while back, including their precision and soldering stations line.

They are cheap but with the exception of a few product aren't that good of a value for money for what you get.

Their soldering stations are rather anemic and getting bits is rather hard (they also have a very limited line of bits to begin with).

Their gas powered portable soldering irons are quite good they don't overheat, have decent control and are well built but their electric ones are simply a miss these days.
This doesn't make any sense as a response to my comment. We said that you know that 5 is sufficient, but not that it's necessary.

What were you trying to ask?
So, Monero.
A casual conversation concerning causal inference [audio]
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The problem with plastics is that (from hazy memory) producing 1kg of plastic might involve the release of 7kg of gaseous CO2. For plastics that are already produced, yes, that carbon's not going anywhere. Producing more plastic to sequester it would somewhat miss the point.

Although a LEGO pyramid would be an amazing archaeological find to leave for future generations.
Title-loan company, which charges 350% interest, got a 3.5% $25MM bailout loan
Or a person. We're achieving human-level AI by keeping AI where it is and bringing human intelligence down.
I can't believe they didn't use Kubernetes for deployment.
What a bunch of amateurs - no wonder their product failed.
Brilliant write up! Made me laugh a lot, especially the end with Haskell :)
Thanks for taking the time to share this. I've been mildly interested in a side hustle with the primary goal of picking up new technologies but currently lack the motivation to, after a long job search.

It's interesting to see how you split your time and how much thought goes into all this. A followup question, if you could;

> and most importantly, tools I already feel comfortable with

What do you do in situations where X tool would be 'better' than Y tool, but you're comfortable with Y tool? Do you do a comparison of the time/effort it takes to learn AND use X tool vs. Y?
The cyberpunk stealth/tactics game Invisible, Inc. describes executive terminals as large devices with simplified buttons. Or something along these lines.
It varies a lot. Norway is extremely long north to south[1].

Grass can be grown everwhere, even north of the artic circle. In eastern and middle Norway there's some grain production. In western and eastern Norway there are hotspots (pun unintended, but noticed and kind of valid) where fruit farming is possible.

My grandparents did fruit farming (and fishing) in addition to a bit of dairy farming.

My dad tried to specialize in dairy farming.

I'll try to get back and add some more.

[1]: for perspective: from the southernmost part of Norway to the northernmost is about the same distance as from the southernmost point of Norway, in a straight line across Denmark, Germany, the alps and I think all the way down to Rome : -)
That is fair. Unfortunately, politics, like religion, can be deeply personal, and it is very difficult to predict how someone will react.

If the company had a proper feedback mechanism- whereby I could have left feedback for him anonymously (so that only his boss would see my name) I might have felt more comfortable bringing it up.
The certification lab is going to want words with you, if they survive.
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Calm down son. The government is about to tell us whom we can marry and whom not, this is nothing for them. Do you think they even care about robotics or electronics? "Make in India" BTW :)
> Mozart/Oz is so underrated. It's a shame it never took off.

The documentation was a major barrier. More so than any other language (trying for public adoption) that I can immediately think of. A textbook-expensive dead-tree book as onboarding path. With the usual pattern of commercial thing reducing incentive to create accessible thing, without fully meeting the need for same. And online documentation that was fragmented and poorly integrated. So "looking up" a topic would involve groveling over a pile of documents, and lecture notes and such, searching out pieces of the puzzle, and pulling them together yourself. So much niftiness, so inaccessibly documented. :/ I once massaged together a distributed table of contents[1] (long since link rotted), which might give a feel for it. Part of the problem was M/Oz was at heart a teaching and academic effort - think of early Racket.

One of the hardest things about capturing history (and perhaps a fruitful way to teach it?) is the "wait, they wat?!!?". Picking up a language now, with expectations of how language and ecosystem are documented, and HN kibitzing on "the landing page should be improved by ...", reflects a big cultural learning process on how to do this well. Mozart/Oz, didn't.

[1] http://www.vendian.org/oz/wiki/index.cgi?VirtualManual
A business that doesn't make enough money to pay workers but provides returns to owners is a charity operated on behalf of the owners at the expense of the workers.
> There was a news article recently published, that claimed that Iceland had eradicated Down's Syndrome. The mother runs through a battery of tests to determine if her baby has a genetic abnormality -- and if so, can choose an abortion. Unequivocally, this is genocide! Genocide!

I'm really interested in how you can categorize abortion of unwanted babies as genocide. I mean, I get it, they prevented DS babies from being born, ergo "eliminated a group of people", for generous definitions of people.

Would you say the same about preventing all babies from being born with fetal alcohol syndrome by having the mothers abort? What about having the mothers not drink when pregnant?
I have a regular, petrol powered SUV and regularly get 13l/100km. If I go granny mode I can get it down to 10l or less. Now I don't feel so bad for not hitting these magical consumption claims. It has 380hp (280kw) and wants to be driven as such.
If that's true, you should think about your architecture. It shouldn't require that level of effort.
"People don't want drills, they want holes" - Guy that started a drill company who's name I forget
>Had we had more funding, we would have taken the time to rewrite our app in Haskell instead.

So close yet so far. Given the funding you need to rewrite your app in BOTH Haskell and Rust. Then depending on which one is in favor at launch time you go with that and never mention the other one. Then you look like a prophetic genius company no matter which way the market turns.
3rd party cookies are not required for this. They make it easier but...

I used to work on a team that could match users between browsers. E.g. Do some browsing in Chrome. Switch to Firefox, or privacy mode, or whatever with NO shared cookies go browse some more sites, and we could match up the two sessions to the same human. And no, we didn't need IP address or browser fingerprinting or any of that. It just requires a sufficient amount of network visibility, a tiny bit of patience... and a lot of processing power and storage. ;)
To be honest, Linux is also not highly visible, sure for the HN-Community it is. But for normal Customers? They know Android, Windows, MacOS..that's it.
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In 2008 (the last time I did freelance web design) I was able to charge decent money for a custom website. Nowadays people can get that with WordPress and a $60 Themeforest template or something like Wix or Shopify. So you will have to compete with that (or layer value added serves on top). One interesting way I generated a lot of business back in the day was redesigning websites on spec. Basically I found businesses with websites that needed refreshing and I just redesigned them without asking. Then I emailed them a link to a fully functional version of the site. You can recycle the design for multiple prospects and just update the content. I stuck to single verticals like restaurants to make it easy. Here is an example of businesses I would target: http://thechinagarden.com/ or https://www.blujamcafe.com/ since they are in my neighborhood (I can work the "we are both local small businesses" angle and maybe get some free food out of the deal.
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Copenhagen's public transport system has amazing individual components, that unfortunately don't mix very well.

Want to go to Copenhagen, sure, take the train. Need to get somewhere inside Copenhagen? Just take the S trains from the train station until you reach one of the smaller stops, get on a bus, walk a few hundred metres, and get on the metro, and then change to another bus.

As you say, getting to Copenhagen is easy. Getting around between two points not connected by the same types of public transport? It's a time-consuming nightmare. It's a good thing down-town Copenhagen is a good city for biking, or it would be a total traffic disaster.
You're not missing anything - fairly straight-forward advice.

In their defence, they didn't title the post "The secret on how to use Reddit to get your first users"! But how did it get to the front page?
There are challenges with tree planting as well. Tree plantations tend to be monocultures which crowd out native species. Also the carbon stored in trees is typically only stable for 40-50 years due to fire, tree death and decomposition.
I get that this is satire, but leave Rust out of it. Rust is blameless when it comes to bad business ideas and execution.

You shouldn't be scaring people away from a language that offers so much. Rust is not hard like all the dumb memes make it out to be. For startups where performance is vital (media, streaming), I'd argue it'll be indispensable [1].

The Rust bullying harms our community. We don't have the corporate backing of Go. Pick on something from Google or Apple instead.

[1] I wrote my media-intensive webapp, https://vo.codes, in Rust and I'm quite productive.
Certainly did not mean to define data as a commodity. But rather a valuable resource. How valuable it is depends as you pointed out, is what type of data & who's hands is it in. India has a large growing population of youth who are projected to push it to become the 3rd largest economy within the next 3 decades. If I were a data-driven tech company I would definitely would want to stake a piece of this pie before it is too late. At a cheaper price too.
I’m in the EU, commutes by train 2h 30min roundtrip daily since a few years (except this year). I don’t mind it.
Intense intervention or acceptance. Pick one
Gordon Bell Prize Winners Leverage Machine Learning for Molecular Dynamics
Sally Forth? Luann?
This is the best part: "We rewrote our microservices from Node to Go to C++ and then back to Node."
F# and Supercompilers, Round 2
I've actually been thinking about this type of interface for years and have never really got the opportunity to implement my ideas.

Are you familiar with the Raskins' work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
https://humane.computer/in-conversation-with-aza-raskin/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuELwq2ThJE
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Excellent. I suggest making this clear, initially I assumed it was for Windows only.
Social media companies are starting to look the same
Understanding your audience is one of the most important parts of effective communication. If you are not spending time on finding out what various stakeholders in your organization want (in general... and out of you) and care about, you will not be able to effectively communicate with them.

Expressing what you want and care about, being open and vulnerable is also another part. They should feel like they know you and when you say something, they shouldn't have to guess where you are coming from.

This is easy to figure out if you spend time communicating with them. By ignoring meetings, you have missed out on those opportunities. Meetings are not completely unnecessary; wherever you got that impression from, you got it wrong. You have to figure out which meetings are important to you and which ones are not, obviously. But to know that, you have to be in enough of them. Some meetings present opportunities to know what is required of you and also communicate what you've been doing. You should never miss those. I highly suggest you read the book High Output Management by a former CEO of Intel to learn more about what meetings are... and a whole lot of other things.

Who was communicating to you this whole time? How did you figure out what was required? What were you going by? Whoever was doing that part is much more valuable than you. From the organization's point of view, they will not even notice that you are gone.

I suggest you learn these things and move on. Next time, if you want to work for a company, look for a company which is actually looking for someone like you and willing to compensate you fairly for your contributions.
I had assumed "comeback" meant in the backend server space.
Would you be willing to provide more detail either here or via email? This story fascinates me as someone in a similar situation living in New England! I am completely exhausted and done with the modern 1+4 stick slapped together "new construction luxury apartments" aka won't last 50 years.
If we take this satire more seriously then it's meant, which was the biggest mistake?

Lack of market research right? They should at the very least have done it post launch. Maybe more pre launch too?

I think many of the other ones might have been survivable?
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Make a script to send out @ mentions across multiple channels, start sending automated "project update" status emails daily, and generally add to useless chatter.

"Look Boss, I'm a good employee. Office 365 spy says so."
The problem with this article is that there are lots of different kinds of enterprise software.

If you are building a piece of software that is The Software that your user will be using most of the day, I think this is good advice. But there is tons of enterprise software that this doesn't apply to:

* When the primary users of enterprise software are in high turn over jobs, they are unlikely to develop expertise in your tool.

* When users need to use once a month or once every six months, they won't be able to develop expertise in your software. Think about HR systems for updating contact information (which only happens at major life events) or updating benefits (which happens during open enrollment once a year, or during major events). Or maybe a portal you log in once per month to pay a bill.

* When your software is used often, but it is one of many tools that your users context switch between, they are unlikely to develop expertise in your software. The switching between different pieces of software means that there isn't enough time for things like muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts to develop.

Enterprise UX design, like all UX design, should start with understanding the customers and their needs.
> takes real effort which then needs to be paid for

Verses the many climate change options that are free and without any effort?
You would need to fell and bury more trees than we dig up coal. That is quite difficult.
India is trying to be china or to some extent US but without having the development of either of those countries.
You're completely missing the point that you put CO2 into the ground, not unoxidized carbon. So you're ahead by the enthalphy content of those carbon-oxygen bonds. Obviously you need some energy to concentrate the CO2 out of a waste stream and pump it miles below, but that's comparatively trivial.
The moral issues with open source weapons--which is what jailbreaks should and need be considered--are myriad, as you empower increasingly weak and diverse adversaries the easier you make it to retool for different purposes. I appreciate that opinions on this matter differ; but I've struggled with these issues for well over a decade, and I still believe that "open sourcing" (which is an action that lies along a continuum) a jailbreak tool is are not ethical (and so am somewhat relieved to hear that this one isn't truly open source; though I fear that, given the authors, the parts kept closed source may be serving the wrong goal).
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Well, see my Copenhagen example abuve for one reason. The Metro goes every 5 minutes, but if you need to go somewhere where you need to switch between the metro and some other form of public transport then you'll usually double the time required.

The fact that it's cheaper for three people to take a taxi instead of going with public transport doesn't help either.
By buying phones from the likes of Jolla and Purism.
I might be wrong but I imagine this might be either illegal or in a grey area in most of Europe.
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This is crazy. I've been mulling these UI ideas around in my head for years and I've always had this vision in my mind of something very close to the C64.
Why the heck is this still legal anyway? Bosses should not be allowed to spy on people. If I actually fail to do the job in time repeatedly - ok, go ahead and fire me, that would be fair (I won't even resist if I see that's even partially my fault), but don't freaking spy!

Anyway, I would prefer to be unaware I'm being watched - I get kind of paralyzed with anxiety and can't think when somebody's watching over my shoulder and I know they do.
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Don't be a fool, a lesson by Nelson Mandela
One way to know: it lacks any real specifics like company name, any hint of what the product is, investment details, etc.
Bamboo can sequester considerably more carbon per acre-year.
Not sure why this got flagged, it is one of the few real-world performance tests comparing the M1 to non-Mac workstations.

The author's might be biased because they actually sell the systems the Macs get compared to but they don't hide that fact from the reader and to me it makes the results even more trustworthy. If you are interested in M1 performance beyond superficial comparisons I think it is worth a read.
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I did some napkin math at one point and I believe the limiting factor is energy. You need more energy than can be generated using contemporary sources.
You should have full control of the resulting system: the concept of having control is unrelated to knowing how you got said control.
Interesting, though the screenshot is aggregate productivity. Is there functionality that gets down to individuals?
> Can't believe all the Apple apologists here

I know for a fact Apple used to have "astroturf" campaigns to keep forum postings about them positive. Perhaps they still do.
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> I have been the only full-time engineer in a small team

> As a result I was accused of slacking off and was deemed not worthy of any equity in the newly formed company

You've been screwed over, probably deliberately, if you were doing this work before the equity agreement was made.
Relax. Everyone gets that this isn't about Rust, and that it's about focusing on technology for its own sake.
> and we have like 20 years of proof that using hand crafted models has been proven not to scale effectively.

What do you mean by this? In what context?

Like, the twenty year old models are still running in credit risk and insurance, so I'm confused if you mean in ML/statistical modelling.
>And it's precisely what's responsible for falling HDD volumes and rising SDD volumes.

Eh, I'd say that its because a SSD does 50,000 IOPS+ and HDDs do about 150. Once SSDs came out and started being mass produced that spelled the death of HDD in most devices. Dropping the price of HDDs to near 0 won't stop that.
Your premiums will be capped at a certain percentage of your income if you make around $51K or less.
Classic case of a Chad Node app pulling in millions of dollars vs the virgin Microservices based Go platform who can barely get any traction.
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In general I believe this to be dangerous advice, particularly conducting a drive by refactoring.

If you did not write it in the first place then you did not understand the mental model or tradeoffs that were made. A year from now when there is a critical bug attached to your commit but rather than a two line change it is several pages of diffs, how will the next person figure out what you did?
I could take a look at e.g, anything... but when you add a caveat of participation, scaling to infinity is inherently possible. If we all chose to do something, we could all do it.

The problem comes with attracting such participation, which isn't warranted without that very participation having already been established.

Carts and horses and such.
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Please don't plug heating elements into your computers.
As rail advocates point out, it could be modernized in an economical way. However the leaders don't care to. They decide a station that isn't accessible needs to be completely rebuilt into a palace instead of adding a few ramps. And many other similar things where what could be done cheap if they wanted get ballooned into large payments to do something expensive but not really needed.
Ugh, I can just imagine what the product managers for this feature are like.
I don't really consider myself an audiophile, but I do love music and vinyl. My general suggestion if someone wants to buy new is an Audio-Technica LP 120X turntable and a pair of Klipsh R-51M bookshelf speakers. The 120x has most of the features a newbie will want/need, and the speakers are fairly low priced while still sounding pretty good (although they're not quite as punchy on the bass as I'd personally like). The setup will probably run around $500, but the turntable won't make mincemeat of your records like a cheapo Crosley.

Of course, the real answer is to find vintage equipment at a local audio place, but that isn't always easy for newbs and is a bit dependent on your local music nerd community.
Would Steve Jobs’ have been tolerated these days, in a post #MeToo era?

Now, I am definitely not accusing him of sexual harassment. But hand-in-hand with that, the culture seems to have shifted towards pressuring bosses of public companies and organizations to be less abusive in a range of domains. Would his behavior as been as tolerated or celebrated if he was still around today?

(Assuming he didn’t mellow or adapt with age.)
Yes, it's a no. Find it out yourself.
The fuel is too cheap. Right up front, it needs to include the cost of its clean up.
It'd be way more popular is it was self hosted on Netlify using a static site generator
Please resubmit when the product is ready.

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