skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree that his Youtube content is great, I think the skepticism is about whether or not having a cool Youtube channel translates into being good at teaching an engineering course. I hope it turns out to be something that's great and worth the money, but if I were a betting person, based on my past experience with a lot of on-line courses, I'd bet it's not. It's unfortunate that in order to tell if a course is actually any good, you'll have to invest a considerable amount of time an effort before you realize it's not any good. I've wasted so many hours into bad courses that I have to wait until one is recommended over and over again before I'll give it a chance.
Saying "60% pre-mined" doesn't really make sense without more context since the supply changes over time and currently has no cap. There was 60 million eth pre-mined for the initial sale (and another 12 million for the devs). Which, all in, makes it approx 64% of today's supply.
https://rook.io/ is a really great way to get shared storage up quickly and simply.
Most other countries? Where do you get that information from?

Also maybe it’ll be made illegal in some countries, but if others work as fertile grounds for crypto, they will leak into all others eventually. Specially if their advantages are too good to pass.
> but if I'm in the market for bread I sure hope it has not fermented.

Because you insist on only eating unleavened breads?

https://vinepair.com/articles/want-to-understand-fermentatio...
People are installing apps for "everything" on mobile. Even for stuff where a web page exists and is fully sufficient.

The rest is just: "But with a big enough hammer we get the square peg into the round hole, so what's wrong with that? People are doing that the whole time. Seems fine".
https://trmm.net/AVR_RFID/

Looks like a pretty unregulated power supply to me, lol.

I realize you're talking about normal use, and not abuse like this avrTiny example, but... those Microchip / Atmel chips are pretty legendary with regards to the electrical abuse they withstand.
I mostly agree with what you're saying. But there is another aspect to this, based on the "greater fool" theory of investing. A lower-priced stock or cryptocurrency could be more likely to attract a larger number of unsophisticated buyers (Robinhood customers etc.)

Especially for low-priced cryptocurrency, the marketing pitch of "it's like bitcoin for $1" could be very appealing, if you spread it on Reddit and other forums.

So from a pump-and-dump perspective it may be more promising.
This is sick. Wishing you good luck and even better lawyer.
Not disagreeing with your general point, but the article does bring up a counterpoint:

> The current draft law includes provisions requiring catering service providers to remind consumers to avoid food waste, and to actively dissuade them from ordering more dishes than they can possibly finish — a common way to show hospitality. Restaurants should offer different portion sizes and are allowed to charge consumers for having to dispose of their leftovers, the document says.
So what? Modern web browsers turned out to be a great application runtime and the Web turned out to be a great delivery platform. Nowhere else in software engineering would you see so much resistance to a perfectly good tool.

Maybe the problem is that it's too good: people and organizations end up producing "web applications" instead of "web sites" just because the technology is so readily available and so widespread.

If there's one thing to complain about, it's that sites don't gracefully degrade when JS is disabled. I don't care that your browser game doesn't work without JS, but I do care quite a bit that I can't read blogs, news websites, etc.
> So Montañez assembled a small team of family members and friends, went to the test markets, and bought every bag of Hot Cheetos he could find.

Well, that would certainly make them sell better, but doesn't exactly make it an accurate test? I think I've heard of other companies doing this, although usually it's to inflate revenue and growth numbers pitching to investors or space in stores. I want to say some company did this recently but I can't remember exactly who.

But don't get me wrong, I love me some flaming hot cheetos and it's a great feeling story. Although I also remember the Wire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyg_v7Vxo4A
100% absolutely true. I respect Richard for what he did and how he has viewed things, but I am much more cynical about the world. This is likely a small exception out of hundreds of thousands of times that "the janitor" got completely screwed over, if they were even given a chance to begin with.

I mean, it happens on the daily. The startup I previously worked for had this "test" API, I helped turn it into an essential API that brought the company a ton of money, and I saw 0 of it. My title got bumped, I guess.

And now, I work on something even less visible. If I do something at work that saves thousands of my coworkers thousands of hours a quarter, I don't see any of that. Nor can I show it, because the higher-up management people don't know what a Jenkins is or what an Artifactory is. How do I sweep these "floors" so well that the CEO can see any of it? Even the coworkers that use my stuff directly don't give a shit because they have code to write and my improvements save them ~20 minutes a day every other day or two.
> They just do so much more...

That's a bug, not a feature! My Gshock is indestructible and tells the time, and that's about it. Perfect for me.
I don't think letting someone steal from you is ever going to be the "best" solution. Doing what you described is not new or inventive. It isn't going to catch an experienced lawyer off guard.
Which could then induce depressive disorder and thus some sort of feedback loop?
> Taking away our culture and morally corrupting the young generation

It's 100% correct.
OP make sure you do this, it is incredibly important. I was in a similar situation with a real dick of a co-founder who constantly pulled these bait and switch tactics. I would even go so far as to write down behaviors they exhibit and times where they tried to strong arm you in the past. Keep logs of everything, insist on communicating through means by which you can record the conversation. Writing things down may not stop their behavior, but it will seriously help your case should this turn into a legal fight.
> 10Gbe copper requires fast switching and more shielding

That depends greatly on your cable length. A 50ft run (about the distance commonly found from switch to device in an average home) will _easily_ operate trouble free and full speed over Cat5e. It’s only necessary to use Cat6/Cat6A/Cat7 when you are going over long cable lengths (most reputable sources say ~125ft is the max for reliable 10GbE over Cat5e, adding an additional ~50ft for Cat6, and up to ~330ft for 6a/7)
I've mentioned this on HN before, but I find condemnation of the NSA situation followed by calls for municipal broadband similarly baffling.
The audiobook is great to listen too.
Whether or not the message you’re sharing is true, the plural of anecdote is not data; and the only solution you find acceptable is the ending of hundreds of thousands of animals’ lives, many of whom have done nothing wrong.
Even if Wikipedia had some interactive content (to explore some topics by playing around with stuff) it would be still fine.

I'm not arguing against "interactive documents". I'm arguing that "the web" is not for full blown applications.
You're not getting downvoted by me!
Perhaps the NUC handles thermals a lot better than the laptop. I consistently get around 4-5k RPM when connecting with Elgato Camlink.
<sniff>

if only everyone could be as Efficient as the two of you.
Haha, well here's a new one

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/20/22192375/cyberpunk-2077-...

Try not to... uhhh... collect too many items... while playing your RPG... I guess. Top notch QA, really (though I think we both know deep down it's not really a QA problem.)
There are credible reports of ‘serious high up Chinese elites’ families seeking advice at the Swiss embassy in Beijing during the 1989 upheaval. If that dynamic still exists, they don’t necessarily need to be compromised by insiders to have information leak to American intelligence.
Interesting the behaviour mellowed after the fact. When we did it for our rabbit - because he'd already become a little grumpy and aggressive bundle of hate - the vet said it's probably too late to revert the changes but at least he won't hump our feet. I'd assumed it's the same for dogs.
A Simpls Arduino Tutorial: Canbus Communication with DHT11
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Arduino code to implement CANBUS communication with DHT11 sensor. We will also using an OLED in this project, so we can display the temperature and humidity on it.
Everyone will be happy if you up your audio quality. Cracks, pops and other distortions are in headphones are not fun. Noone really minds visual quality unless you are presenting something on the camera.
Would love to hear more details about this.
I'm confused now - the Ontario international airport is in California? (As opposed to Ontario, Canada; both of course confusingly abbreviated 'CA'.)

https://www.flyontario.com/

Yep, yes it is. Not confusing at all..! (To be fair I've tried to check in to a hotel on Newmarket Rd, Cambridge for a booking in Newmarket, North of Cambridge; which was at least wrong with reference to the same Cambridge UK and not Cambridge Mass. USA, but to do it with an international airport just seems particularly mean, especially when the ambiguity is on county/province/state (as you prefer to term it) level.)
Good plot for Rick and Morty. Wait, they already did it.
That's probably true. Cash becomes very unwieldy in large amounts. In part this is intentional to make it more difficult to carry $millions across borders undetected. It's not a coincidence that US$ in excess of $20 denomination is rare.

In Europe, there's the E500 bill, which is a bit more practical for large amounts, and some have expressed a desire to withdraw it from circulation for this reason.
It’s still used extensively by breeders, including what amounts to the highest authority, the American Kennel Club.

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeding/choosing-a-br...
Yes. At this point we have absolutely no choice but to review our economic system from the root up. There are too many disastrous problems that can't be fixed with our current incentive structures and modes of social organization.

What exactly it should look like, I don't know. We have a great many ideas on how to do, informed with historical experience though, and it's very high time for some radical social experimentation, from market socialism to decentralized planning and much more, and many have promising preliminary results. We have to set up experiments of these ideas of increasing scales and eventually completely change how we organize our society.
> This leads me now to wonder whether it's not a bit selfish to decide to mess with an animal's hormones to get them to conform to an unnatural environment.

Do dogs even have a natural environment? Dogs are separated from any natural source by many thousands of years, and done in a way to make them easy for them to be owned by humans.
Not all companies, obviously, but the proportion of staff outsourcing has grown in the past few decades.
That shit wouldn't fly in Australia. no one wants the ACCC going after them. They are worst than Nintendo when it comes to law suits, which is amazing for customers. its the only reason steam actually offers refunds now days.
Europeans are just box-shifters for American brands.

Can somebody explain why people keep mentioning European countries on a technology site like HN?

Besides the above, in one generation Western Europe will be an Islamic Republic, and that ideology is big on submission, not science and technology.
Because I wasn't name calling, only responding to what he said. I thought that much was obvious.
Facebook has trod this path before too, with their solar powered ultralight 'pseudo-satellite' drone. That predictably didn't work.
I agree 100% something is wrong. What's curious to me is why it's not fixed.

It's possible it's impossible to make anime and pay a good wage I suppose but ... assuming it is possible you'd expect some animators to quit and start their own company and attract all the talent by paying well and not over-working their employees. So what's preventing that from happening?

Same with games.

One idea (which I don't like), the odds of making a game or anime that make it's money back is extremely small. Either you make Minecraft (game) or One Piece (anime) or you more likely make "Tower Miners" or "Comic Party" (I just googled failed games and failed anime).

Just like saying "I'm going to be a music Rock Star/NYT best selling author/Movie star", the odds that you will be the next hit star are extremely low. It's no different for games. And if it's not a hit you lose money which means you don't make a living wage.

Is that the reason those industries pay so low? Because the odds of them making their money back are like 1000 to 1 against and so they have to keep budgets as small as possible just to survive until they hit the 1 out of the 1000?

Is there some other way to get a $$$$$$$ budget to pay 10-15 people a living wage while the odds of making back that money on sales are 1000 to 1?

PS: I know the story in anime is that prices that broadcasters / publishers pay are low because of history but that seems irrelevant in 2020 when you can reach fans via the internet.
I work in a place with one third white collar and two thirds blue collar workers. We have our own 'Facilities' folks that do all kinds of things. We hire a cleaning crew to come in after-hours and handle the janitorial part. Just sayin.
What are the max supported resolution and framerate in this mode?
The site itself looks like a front. It's the bare minimum of a website, a template and images with non-transparent backgrounds. Compounding with contact information not working, this should ring alarm bells for most.
Chat Service Discord Doubles Valuation to $7B
Unfortunately my experience has been when a CEO is asking you to “act like an owner” it is code for “spend less” and “work more.” The subject of this article had an advantage because he took things quite literally and hadn’t heard the BS before.

3G Capital also uses the “act like an owner” code - the problem is that their employees cut a bunch stuff and they cut a bunch of their employees.
Can the company in this situation generally force the return sale of the shares for the strike price at the time the shares were issued? And assuming 1/4 of the shares are vested after 1 year, can the company still buy those vested shares? How does valuing those work?
If you substitute “bread” for “matzah” (unleavened bread) the whole comment could be a weird jiddish joke.
Then why are we paying ISPs?

Users pay for the Internet. Advertising pays for the Web.
Yeah, I know of the paper, I even referenced it in my comment :-)
Exactly. It's difficult to make causal claims from observational data, and made worse by the constant flood of causal claims coming out of microbiome labs. At best there's anecdotal evidence, at worst researchers are peddling snake-oil.

And to clarify, I have worked on microbiome research. The whole field is a mess.
>In a separate response, the National Association of Broadcasters said it "strongly supports" the law.

I suspect the NAB not only paid for the law, they most likely wrote it.
“What an odd legacy to have.”

If by “odd” you mean “he saved millions and millions of unwanted cats and dogs from ending up in kill shelters or being abandoned in fields”, well, I’d take that on my tombstone.
> If we take that life plausibly "started" as as one single-celled individual

That's quite an assumption. I think there were 42 original proto-organisms spread over all the aeons. Creating a 43rd artificially is not a big deal.
I can't remember the last time I opened a native email or word processing application on desktop. I much prefer the web experience. What makes it the wrong tool? What's the point of these silly rules?

You want to build applications? Use whatever freakin tool or platform your users will adopt. Don't be constrained by pointless prescriptivism.
There is in fact indication that journalists have at least been targeted in Portland according to an ACLU case, which results in a judge putting a restraining order on the police. I’m not a law person, so if you know better on the nuances please educate me on the matter but this legal judgement implies to me that journalists do have some special status and that it is is inappropriate to target them for arrests.
Well no, fuck them. If the choice is to get some crumbs of a cake I was vital in baking or to throw the whole cake, I'd throw it unless I was starving otherwise!
It is not a good move to let someone get away with something like this. Also, it will mark you as a pushover in future endeavors with other people, should they get wind of what happened there.
Do not let anyone get away with that kind of antisocial behavior, if you can help it, is my two cents.
Yeah, I didn't miss their clever little double entendre, nor did I miss they portrayed Shannon as a doddering old fool. This was not a docudrama; it was a desecration.

Are you actually defending the thing, or do you just take offence at "Calculus apple-noggin sperdo?"
There are not too many companies where you can start at the bottom and work your way up to the top. Very unlikely in 2021.
I couldn’t read the article because CNN “respects my privacy” so much they can’t allow me to read it without violating it with tracking, cookies, etc...
I’m not a lawyer either, but these risks are easy to skirt.

First they have time to just fire him, and without contractual protections she/he’s out before vesting a single share. Most US states are At Will employment, meaning they don’t need a reason. If the CTO wants to contest the firing, where will they get $30K+ to pay a lawyer sue over a nearly worthless business?

If he/she is able to vest their first year before getting fired, but they then dilute the CTO further, where is the CTO going to get $30K+ to pay their lawyer sue over 10% of a nearly worthless business?
...And require the authors to publish their code, ideally in a container that runs out-of-the-box on the cloud.
This is so cool. I feel like it has a ton of use cases but needs some time for people to start trying it out. Do you have any examples of how people are using it in the wild?
Basically, since the OP didn’t vest. It’s only worth anything if it vests, so in this case it’s less about forcing and more about just tidying up the paperwork from a legal place.
Indeed, the paper in question here was sponsored by grants to the APC Microbiome Institute. Not that that means the work isn't solid, but it's certainly something to bear in mind while reading.
Terraform Tutorial for Beginners on AWS
US deaths in 2020 top 3M, by far most ever counted
In late 2013, with expected delivery December 2014.

I was poor, in college, and turned $70 of Bitcoin during the presale into $40,000 of Ethereum when I sold in late 2017.

Do I get to call myself an angel investor now? ;)
“Pit bull” isn’t even a coherent concept; it a loose term for a constellation of terrier and bulldog breeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull
The overview video touches on how some components of the Hey app are aggressively cached, like menu popups and such - so I imagine your "offline" capability comes from the fact that anything you need to run the application offline is just cached from the last online use.
It’s mobile phones. They helped push the perf/watt needs and mass manufacture drove the price of this stuff down a lot. Without it we’d be stuck with m4 and that class which is where ARM is particularly well suited. they’ve always won on lowest absolute wattage and have only started being competitive for perf/watt in the past few years. then being able to scale that up has only been more recently with Apple being the clear standout on what they’ve achieved.
I hope this works out for you! I am not sure how I could contribute much insight without quite a bit more detail, this strikes me as "Should I hire a lawyer?" to which I'd say "yes."

Without knowing how your partner is inclined to act or respond to negotiations, or what your negotiation strategy is and how likely it'll be effective in this dynamic it's all a giant question mark.

Essentially it's like asking a website "How do I win a fistfight?" except unlike actual fistfights, there's an entire profession and industry dedicated to people that can (hopefully) act effectively as your proxy.

If you're genuinely dead-set on not getting a lawyer, then you've got a fistfight scenario on your hands. If that's what you're looking for, make sure that you've taken stock of your capabilities and those of your adversary and form a strategy accordingly. This answer is basically as vague as the question though.
‘I couldn’t be silent’: UN whistleblower on WHO Italy report
> What I fear the most is someone renaming the project and selling it as their own with no added value.

https://youtu.be/fbJdS-nLjQY?t=28

(WOLF3D, not Doom, and IIRC it was licensed from id, but still relevant I think)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020: Now supports VR headsets
Shannon loved to juggle and make non-sensical contraptions. One was a box with (a button? lever? I don't remember, let's go with button) that when pressed would open the lid. A mechanical arm would then pop out of the box and press the button to close the lid again.

What a hero.
Why isn’t a vasectomy an option for dogs?
Joe Rogan fans are refusing to follow him to Spotify, and it’s bad
I'd say take the 3% and continue. Current price has little or no value anyway. If you take 3% and just chill for 2 years you get a higher price per share. Don't let the emotions run over you right now
Houses in the US are typically wired with 240v split phase, so nothing is stopping a mad lad from installing a 240v outlet in their kitchen, and running a kettle from it.
It's not a "silly rule" that the web is not for application development. It's about the technology as such!

An example what I mean: One can use a stone to put nails into a wall. But a hammer is clearly the better tool for that task.
I don't think he said anything particularly insightful irt all those topics. A lot of the statements were superficial things that you'll pick up while working on adjacent areas (and as we know, it's pretty easy to jump around different teams/fields in Amazon) or from Amazonian friends.

Interesting things he didn't really talk much about: Alexa (there was 1 like 1 very superficial reference to it), Kuiper, and others.

I don't think this is a PR piece, and most likely it is not approved by the company (the reference about Jeff's Sex Life would've been removed). This does feel like a real view from an insider, it's very opinionated, and not all of it is right.
Ha, 40 pounds? My dad ended up in the hospital because of an antibiotic-resistant infection from…our 12-pound cat named Mittens.
Facebook and Google both have multiple offices around Seattle. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple or Netflix were interested in hiring in Seattle either.
It took me a while to find something matching those specs too. I got a couple of these when the price dropped below $300 and they're great. I had to watch a few PC Building deal Reddits to catch the deal.

https://www.amazon.com/LG-27GL83A-B-Ultragear-Compatible-Mon...
This was in "the late 1980s". Even if we're assuming this was in 1985, $4 in 1985 is $9.36 - $9.85 today. Sources:

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
https://smartasset.com/investing/inflation-calculator
https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html?cstarti...
because if there weren't fairly strict limitations on what you can do with the material, someone could reproduce the work and you'd be deprived of your profits, leaving no incentive to make stuff, which costs money.
“Able to demand” colloquially means they are getting it.