skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the parent OP, but for myself...

I keep it simple. Choose a couple things to focus on and write those down in my planner (pen and paper). Lately it’s been:

- read more books, especially biographies and histories

- spend time with my kids

- write a blog post or essay once a month

Outside that, I don’t get much more specific. Work is already busy enough to juggle. I don’t need another thing to juggle. I’m not interested in forcing that much structure on my time outside work. I try to prioritize simple things that make my family or myself happy.
Is there a recommended (maybe a plan or DIY method) for really small projects to use Geocode Earth and/or Pelias?

What are the hardware requirements/cost for a basic deployment of Pelias?
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I've been in VFX around ~6 years and was in the sw industry before (and the hw industry before it).

I find VFX really fun as far as job! Sometimes I do think about leaving mostly for Pay reasons but the pay has been decent enough recently (basically FAANG base pay without RSU/Bonus...).

It is interesting how we have a lot of big scale problems that goes unrecognized, I find the problems really challenging. Compared to when I worked in the software industry we had a team 10x as big for a problem 100x simpler.

Outside of some big tech companies, biology, oil industry and finance, I cannot imagine many companies having such a big scale on number of cores/memory/disk.

Working in Pipeline I haven't found crazy hours yet, has been mostly a 8h/day job that I can disconnect after I am done. Also with Covid some people even switched to 4 days weeks which is quite interesting.

Anyho, thanks for sharing your perspective!
I have many fond memories of my first real job as sysadmin/render wrangler for a small animation company about fifteen years ago.

Cores and memory were indeed what mattered, and as long as frames could be fitted into memory then the machine was left to render the frame and then save it back out to shared disk. There was no virtualization, just raw compute hardware running at full capacity 24/7. The scene was already split into different layers and rendered as sequences of frames that were then composited into final products.

First job, first mini-datacenter in a new building, and there I am asking contractors to knock a hole in the building to fit air handlers due to the heat we were expecting to generate. Was great fun.

It taught me a lot about automated systems management.
In this case it’s something expressed by a developing brain over instant messages. The way it comes across to me is as posturing by a very insecure person.

Something I’ve learned by observing judgments people around me make about others is that I’d rarely deserve or want to be judged the same way, and that the people making judgments would typically feel the same. If I were Mark being judged by messages sent online as a teenager/young adult, I don’t think I’d feel like it was rational or kind, and more opportunistic rather than necessary, productive, or helpful at all.

Having said that, evaluating him by more recent information doesn’t make me feel great about him by any means. I’m not defending him. I just don’t believe the messages are very useful information anymore - even if at the time they were perhaps an indicator of what’s to come. It’s probably more useful to look to current events to understand who he is in the present.

I see these messages passed around and referenced often and frankly it has begun to appear like a crutch for trashing the guy. Given his position in society and the amount of information available, we should all be able to collect and reference more recent and relevant information.
It was also pretty clear at the time on twitter that something was going very wrong in China, the earliest search in my Google search history of wuhan was January 2nd following these twitter leaks. The United States also has access to intelligence information. We dropped the ball and should take responsibility.
This is quite striking. Thank you for sharing.
A well-preserved woolly Rhino with its last meal intact found in Yakutia
A list of scientific backing: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-scien... (see "Human Studies of Masking and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission").
Alright, sorry
>> My critique is less about a "character arc" and more about any interesting development to the character. Let's take the main character, Wang.

Oh, I see! Sorry then :)

I agree that most of the characters in all three books are a little ...flat. But that's also part of what I say above, that the characters don't have to have "depth" for the story to move forward, and the story is often the main concern of authors who haven't had a particular kind of training in how to write.

>> Thank for taking the effort of writing the lines about the Illiad and the Odyssey. I've never read them, but I think I would enjoy a oral performance like they were given when the story was initially crafted.

That'd be really something. I wonder if there's any performance like that somewhere.
I enjoyed this article and I think it's helpful for technical leaders in early stage startups. I feel like a lot of these companies will continue having problems mostly because the people that are attracted to smaller/early-early companies are the same kinds of people that don't want to work in structured (more corporate/deliberate) environments.

My experience is a bit more on the agency side where technical debt is caused by developers/project managers not really caring about the longevity of an application. The idea of going back and fixing anything that isn't specifically called out and invoiced for is so far away from the priorities of these businesses.
I don't think so. A philosophy should be self-consistent, so if I can use Foucaults own words to critique his position on pedophilia, all the better.
1) fully, even before pandemic

2) over a hundred miles

3) reasonably well, some water-cooler video calls help

4) pro: control over environment; con: environment shared with children

5) fewer social options outside work is a bummer

6) would recommend remote generally
If those things are free - if there's a chance I'm saving someone's life by wearing them - then I'd be a monster to refuse because it's inconvenient to me.

I'm guessing you have an equally ridiculous slippery-slope follow-up as well?
I would argue one should mainly focus on what you would use yourself, and only if you enjoy it and are running out of things to add, move onto other types (here it can be tricky to know what is really needed/used).

The reason I recommend starting with your own priorities, is that this (when done by enough people) adds what is really being used the most by everyone.

Mind that the existence of data also creates purposes for it. Let's say that features for blind people are mapped very well in your area and there is a developer involved with that community, s/he could create software to make use of it. For this example, StreetComplete asks for things like tactile paving at bus stops and crossings and auditory signals at traffic lights.

One thing I don't see the use of at all but that is a ton of work in most areas is the "building kind" and "number of levels for this building". One could color-code the building type or render an approximate height for each building on 3d maps, but really, most maps don't do either of this, and these two quests are far more work than the dozens of other quests combined.
Reddit has turned into Instagram/TikTok lite so I suggest going away from r/all and sticking to subs with content. R/all nowadays is the exact kind of ”unlimited feed of good stuff” that I escaped instagram’s ios app (and fb way before).
Do you plan to release components tailored for admin dashboards and SaaS webapps? I noticed most of the free component are better suited at "commercial" websites
I’ll repeat a recommendation I’ve made before: reinstall your smartphone’s OS, don’t restore from a backup, and install as few apps as possible. Start bare. Then get on with your life and see how little you can get away with on your phone.

A lot of apps I still had on my phone were installed in my “enthusiast” stage of iPhone living, and they never went away. Once I started over, I was just fine minimal-ing my iPhone life.
Heh, in the Netherlands we are still making these mistakes and the authorities still focus on washing hands and 1.5m distancing.

From January 1 schools can now apply for funding to improve their ventilation systems and it will probably arrive around June. And we still have not started vaccinating and won’t start vaccinating the elderly for at least a month.

And only very slowly the media finally is starting to notice that the government has messed up. But still most reporting is just copying the press releases, shifting the blame around, jealously pointing fingers at supposed transgressors and blindly defending policy.

It’s truly sad.
I think it's more that Tractor's not really very highly thought of in the industry :)

It works, and roughly does what it says on the tin, but most of the bigger studios (other than MPC and DNeg who do use it) have better custom solutions.
>Are people going to adequately react to such a change in risk?

Reactions track with the perception of danger, not risk. We would all behave differently if the danger was a flesh-eating hemorrhagic zombie virus, rather than moderate-to-severe flu symptoms, even if the risk was unchanged.
Hope you didn't mess up your flag system. Or your feature flagged feature doesn't corrupt your locally stored state.
People having high expectations of Microsoft is not Microsoft's problem. Microsoft are human beings just like the rest of you, and just like any large company, organizational inefficiency handicaps skilled developers a great deal.

Base your expectations on reality, and you'll have a much better time.
Additional discussion from a little earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25615186
And our DBAs with MBAs!
Not really. How do you connect the PC and MacBook to the sound bar? If connecting both directly to the sound bar, you'll need to switch those too. So each time you want to switch between PC/MacBook, you'll have to:

1. Switch the video source on the monitor
2. Switch the USB destination on your USB switch
3. Switch audio source on your sound bar

That's why upstream USB-B is so compelling. The monitor acts as a full KVM.
Tips for UI Checkboxes
Proof of Work, a Pictorial Essay
Hi there, millennial here. I spend hours and hours on live journal, flash game sites, and various web comics in the mid-2000s. I think I spent basically the same number of hours per day on the internet I do now. Just now some of it is work instead of teenage entertainment/dithering, and a lot of it is on a phone.
WWII is important more because of the radical restructuring of society undertaken to fight it, the potential consequences had we gotten it wrong, and its lasting impact on the world. It's not about the sheer number of combat deaths. Same with COVID.
> That’s why you don’t need a teeth brushing OKR.

I do have a teeth-brushing OKR because I forget to do it otherwise, to the point where I've had to have two teeth removed.
I think it’s easy for him to convince himself of this because he started Facebook from nothing. I’m not saying he’s right, but he can point to that and say “why can’t anyone else do that?”

It’s something I’ve witnessed a lot of successful people doing.
Interesting! What size org?

We recently passed 10k stories and it still feels very snappy. Also the UI/UX feels very polished.
Ah yeah you're right, I did install the v28.0 version and forgot about this new feature.

Also a big thanks to you for your work on this app, it makes editing OSM super easy on the go, and gave me something to do on my walks during the lockdowns :)
They don't pay for them. It's where all the "aid" money goes.
Thanks. This is literally more than I've seen published from my local government in a year.
Yeah, phone is just a way of going on browsing-autopilot-mode. Without the phone I'd be wasting time on a desktop web browser scrolling through HN/Reddit, and many years before it was Digg and Slashdot. I like the advice of being intentional about your reading but eh, I enjoy passive browsing a lot.
Do you have a sound bar or external speakers? If so, I assume you only have one of your devices connected to them? With USB-B the audio source is determined by whatever device is currently selected by the monitor. It's nice.
Yep, all of their workstations were dual socket servers, where each socket was a workstation VM with PCIe passthrough, and each getting their own hostcard+GPU. Each VM had dedicated memory, but no ownership of the cores they were pinned to, so overnight if the 'workstations' were idle, another VM (also with dedicated memory) would spin up (the other VMs would be backgrounded) and consume the available cores and add itself to the render farm. An artist could then log in and suspend the job to get their performance back (I believe this was one of the reasons behind the checkpointing feature in RenderMan).

The Teradici stuff was great, and from an admin perspective having everything located in the DC made maintenance SO much better. Switching over to VDI is a long term goal for us at Blue Sky as well, but it'll take a lot more time and planning.
> Maybe weekly tasks can be filed as Jira tickets?

I use Trello for a to-do list (https://memo.barrucadu.co.uk/self-organisation.html), and have recurring cards for chores - it's very helpful!
Yep, same, and it hurts the most loyal and hardworking the most. Do what's best for yourself and find a better job.
Consumer SSD drives only go up to around 500Mbps, and it's far less for SD card storage. So you won't be even able to download a file with 690.47Mbps! (To stream a video in HD, you only need about 5Mbps).
Can’t remove the browser though and this is my biggest timesink.
> Sorry if not being a blindly obedient serf makes me evil.

But aren’t you actually agreeing with the US federal government’s actual response? Aren’t the people saying that you should wear masks the ones going against the grain here?

Doesn’t that make _you_ the obedient surf?

S[n]ide note: I live in Australia so I have no skin in this game. Along with NZ, we’ve had very few deaths from CV19 relative to large cities in the rest of the Anglosphere, and our economies are basically open. I suppose the “police state style intervention” you speak of did reduce our short term freedom - we had 3 months of hard lockdown - but I’m writing this from our summer holiday beach AirBNB, and it sure feels like freedom to me.
Is surface data really that helpful in routing when the road type is accurate? If a road is indicated to be a major one, the surface ought to match its heavy use. What's more, if you've ever driven in Belgium, or crossed the border from Germany into the Netherlands over a highway while it's raining (pervious asphalt, "ZOAB"), you'll find that asphalt != asphalt. Driving from Aachen to Nijmegen might be much nicer over Dutch roads than over German ones in the rain, but both would be tagged with the same surface.

It's a very easy quest so I complete it when I'm checking the location anyway, but I do find it to be quite a bit less useful than, say, whether a road is lit, which I have been tagging near me because my girlfriend mentioned that she was having trouble planning runs because she doesn't know which streets are lit. The lit tag is prioritized below surface data, and road type isn't a quest at all.

(Ties into a book I'm reading: invisible women. We're not purposefully ignoring them, but men developed the app and we are much less likely to care whether a road is lit when going out after dark. I don't actually know why prioritization was set this way, just that I wouldn't be surprised if this bias subconsciously played into it, or perhaps is the reason why there are so few apps that display it.)
> the longer it exists, the better the data will become.

This is unfortunately not a given. The world changes constantly, and things like having up to date coverage of restaurants require an immense amount of essentially ephemeral work to keep up to date.
Not even on the radar for why he vetoed it, but you knew that and just wanted to make a dig for echo chamber points.

Just like Independent did when they wrote “Donald Trump had originally vetoed the $740bn defence bill containing the anti-corruption measures”... but asking for integrity when there is a chance to dig at Trump is just apparently asking too much.

Don’t you find it all so tiring? Don’t you want to be better than what you accuse “the other side” of?
Exactly. You’re a fool if you believe what Facebook’s marketing that tells you they care.

They position themselves as caring to hide the known effects of their platform, and they signal that they’re a progressive company because people associate that with being ineffective (how could they be a monopolistic cancer on society if they’re caring liberals!?). You’re an even bigger fool if you work there and believe it.
You can download the entire OSM data catalogue and host it in your servers.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data
Sure, agree, but the more subtle second order point is that those unrealized potentially borderline subconscious things you set out for your self can accumulate and gnaw at you with low acuity yet chronically forever.

As a datapoint American garages are full of dormant dust covered dreams. It takes effort to donate that exercise bike or old piano to Goodwill because you have to face your demons that you will _never_ become that version of yourself, there's no future you that will be really fit, and without evidence I'll assert that it's that very conscious act which symbolically represents the destruction of ambiguity is difficult for most humans. So we go through our life with splinters serving as thorns we carry around forvever.

We're getting a little too foo-foo spiritual from here which is probably against HN rules, so I'll stop at that comment.
could you name hyped projects that weren't supported or documented?
Twitter, and social media in general, is not intended to give you space for nuance. Long conversations are discouraged. Hot takes are encouraged. They want to smash you with things that trigger an emotional response over and over. In my personal business I don't care all that much what you 'want,' I care what you'll pay for. Twitter doesn't care what you want, they care what drives engagement/ad sales.
Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App
You'd have more luck searching for videos of FGM-148 launches. It's smaller and ground-based but works similarly.
"Effectiveness of Cloth Masks for Protection Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus"

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-0948_article
We're barely over 1k employees, and most of those don't use Clubhouse. Not sure how to tell exactly how many stories we have in CH.
Implementing Hash Tables in Racket
For me it's also faster to read lifetimes, which have a standard concise syntax, versus ad-hoc documentation.
>on github because they keep moving all the projects around and erasing them

who would've thought that managing hundreds of repos with shitton of issues, dependencies and people is difficult to get at 1st attempts
As opposed to KDE, where you click the battery icon and check off "keep my computer awake".

Sometimes Apple's design is so stuck in the 90s that I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.
Built-in KVM is amazing. External KVMs are ridiculously expensive. Especially if you want powered USB-C and adaptive sync. If it even exists, you're probably talking at least $1,000.
I see you this, and I raise you "the package repository I was mirroring contained an AV module that had a copy of EICAR in its test suite".

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.
Sure but can you sell a thermal camera that takes e.g. one second per exposure? And costs even more than current models? I'm not sure there's much of a market there.
Harvard professor says an alien visited in 2017 – and more are coming
Hmmm. I mean. I'm a contractor too, and I share your pain, but ... I'm really impressed you walk out of paid work because of the issue tracker your client uses.. It sounds a bit like they dodged a bigger bullet than you did tbh mate.

All these systems suck. You learn to live with them, for me I do this:

Everything goes in OmniFocus, I have a keyboard shortcut to create a task that takes <1sec, hit enter twice and it's stored. Twice a day I go though all the tasks I entered this way, and I either mark them done or assign them to various projects/tags/labels I have setup on OmniFocus.

15 mins before I finish work for the day at a client, I update whatever ticket system they use (mostly Jira, but also sometimes even worse things like servicenow) and also whatever enterprise crapware my agency uses (usually some sap based bollocks).

The last 15 mins suck. But it's part of the deal. I can't imagine how strongly you feel to turn down contractor rates due to a ticket system.. I mean, come on?

Edit: Also - btw -- if you're on a Mac the app-store 'fat-app' version of Jira is about 10x better than using the web interface, I suggest you give it a try.
The CDC says masks protect the wearer. Not nearly as much as an n95 surely, but how could a mask not protect the wearer to some extent? Virus in aerosols moves on very tiny water droplets, and a porous barrier will stop more than no barrier at all.

Obviously it’s way safer to simply not be in a risky situation. You’re reading stuff into my comment that I didn’t say.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-scien...
I'm starting to see some undergraduate programs offering Robotics Engineering degrees. What are your thoughts on pursuing one of those rather than a more traditional engineering discipline (Mechanical, Electrical, CS, etc.)?
China lied and tried to suppress the flow of information as much as they could.

Some courageous Chinese citizens defied that (and have been punished by the CCP), but China needs to be held to account. Instead they then threatened the EU and WHO to water-down their research as well.

And it's tragic that it's only Trump who seems to be doing that (not only because no one else is, but also because it taints that argument by being associated with him)
Ask HN: Making object-oriented superset of Golang with classes. Is it useful?
Do they also handle audio? I like having the monitor pipe audio to the sound bar so that my PC and MacBook both take advantage of the sound bar.
No Golang for You
How can we assess any of this stuff without an actual world war?

The disassociated current generations look bored enough to send the kids to a real war in 20 years, and then we’ll see the truth behind all of the war tech and what future war really is.
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull has what turned out to be aliens and an alien spaceship.
I am doing n-back cold water swimming to convert white matter into gray matter.
Especially interesting is all the people advocating backing down, and how heavily upvoted those comments must have been to be at the top.
Half of that I can't bare to imagine doing on a phone; the other half I'd really rather not, though platforms used (especially chat and photos) may necessitate it.