skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, lots of progress being made left and right: huge improvements in image processing and recognition, SLAM in every cleaning robot (and we have cleaning robots!), much improved machine translation, much better voice recognition and transcription, ubiquitous video conferencing software, super complex virtual worlds accessible to anyone and also most of what was desktop only now also available on mobile devices, which was far from a small task to achieve.
The title could easily be My experience at a software firm. No large organization are without more than a few assholes
> I disagree on the effectiveness of market solutions for fighting a year-long military campaign.

Markets are generally smart enough not to think killing large numbers of people and overthrowing governments is a good idea. If the US government was somehow replaced with a market the Middle East would likely be a more peaceful place. Markets generally find better ways of doing things - like financial incentives - than military intervention.

I'm more than happy to admit defeat if you want to argue that markets are ineffective at subjugating exotic new lands. In terms of defence, I havn't looked in to it at all. I expect market based economies to beat command and control economies at war because they can better sustain an effort.
This reads as a long diatribe from a malcontent and possibly incompetent employee.
> It's basically saying "we can detain you if we think you have a virus and you're not allowed to fight us or try to escape."

Look up what an involuntary psychiatric hold is. In NYS, for example, i very strongly advise you not to say phrases like "i want to hurt myself" in front of an on duty EMT; the next 48 to 96 hours of your life have a fair chance of being, uh, weirder than you'd anticipated.

>Section 4, Article 12 is basically describing ... forced vaccination/medication.

That's been a matter of settled law for 115 years. The state police power to ensure the public welfare does, in some situations, permit this.
Ask HN: Why do so many build static site generators, todo, and note-taking apps
That's cool ... just ignore twitter/FB. Do you realize yc is kinda social media too?

And we're expressing opinions without people being too belittled/shunned ...
They'd be an uninteresting background character, just like myself and everyone else here.
I finished in March 2019, so no worries.
Fair enough, I've restated that.
> This seems very circular to me. If they don't build very effective antibodies, they shouldn't be putting much selective pressure on the virus, because if they did, they'd be more effective in the first place.

Just to follow up / argue from another angle. It's believed to be likely that the "new" UK variant likely emerged in an immunocompromised individual. This results in A) -some- immune response, and B) prolonged infection where the virus is under evolutionary pressure to escape that immune response / original antibodies.

Someone who doesn't mount a strong response to the vaccine is a very similar case.
> If the company tries to dock them for working less they'd immediately become non-exempt.

This is false. First, the relevant rule that is kind of like that is the “salary basis” rule, which doesn't apply to all exempt employees; for instance, it does not apply to “Computer professionals who are paid on an hourly basis at a rate not less than $27.63 per hour.”

Second, even for exempt employees subject to the salary basis test, they can be subject to workplace conduct rules requiring a set schedule and be subject to disciplinary dock for failing to comply with that conduct rule. The structure of the dock needs to make sense as a disciplinary dock and not be a de facto shift to non-salary pay, but there is absolutely no rule in US federal labor law that “an exempt employee chooses their own hours”.
California reports 585 coronavirus deaths, new single-day record in state
Happy Cancelling Year 2021
Okay - could you give some examples of where you think huge advances in software have been made?
>From my experience with gov trying to do tech investment it’s going to go into the pockets of late career overpaid ‘executives’ with ‘industry experience’ and tons of (also overpaid and underqualified) contractors doing the same thing. Not the brilliant engineers you imagine are going to run it.

Are we talking about VC and large corporate investment or government investment here.
Fun Fact, in the lower 48 it's impossible to get more than 115 miles from a McDonalds!

Yep, anywhere! http://www.datapointed.net/2010/09/distance-to-nearest-mcdon...
CAD models of Mars rover and helicopter are now available from NASA
Now append some eco to your leanings and see that this sort of free market experimentation isn't sustainable, if you don't want to end under the great garbage avalanche like in the movie "Idiocracy". Or be filled with microplastics, which contain endocrine disruptors, which are not good for anyone/thing.
We Can’t Stop Longing for the Good Old Days
We can recycle it. But it isn't cost effective.

Still consider this. Things decompose only slowly in a landfill. But when they do, they decomposed into methane because it is a low oxygen environment. And methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 is.

Therefore "they'll break down in the landfill" is not as fine as you think it is. The fact that styrofoam will NOT breakdown in a landfill makes it ACTUALLY better as a form of carbon capture. (Although the carbon being captured is actually from fossil fuels, so at best it can be net neutral.)
I completely agree, especially if you are, like I imagine most HN readers are, already at the top of your professional field.

In 2019, I started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It's had a dramatic improvement on every aspect of my life: health, weight loss, stress relief, mental fortitude, friendships, breathing, everything.

And in starting BJJ, you're going to be _awful_ at it. No matter how athletic you are, you're going to get destroyed (choked or joint locked) many, many, many times by people younger, older, weaker, stronger than you simply because they know more and have better technique. You really truly do start at the bottom.

It's exhilarating. Every day after work (or before), you and a bunch of friends go into a padded room, put on pajamas with a thick belt, and attempt to strangle and/or joint lock one another. You learn new techniques, body mechanics, and actual fighting techniques. When you're rolling with someone else, literally every other stress in the world melts away as you're trying to stop your opponent from submitting you while you're trying to submit them. It truly is physical chess, and there's nothing better than switching from the drudgery of a job to a night of martial arts.
This comment really resonated with a feeling I’ve had over the past few years. When I was younger, especially at the beginning of college, I loved to build things by programming. I learned new languages, new patterns, wrote an OS, a website with all the front end complexity, etc. I could hack something on the weekend outside of schoolwork.

For a few years it has felt so difficult to start something - perhaps a curse of “experience” is that you see the failure modes ahead of time. I think I’m overall more efficient, but my motivation to just strike out there and try something has been wrung out of me.

Lately I’ve been trying to trick myself into working through that feeling and learning on the side. A desire to “finish” (i.e. write up as a blog post, publish software, send to a friend) is what gets me to overcome this bias to inaction. But it still shocks me how much more creative energy I had as an 18 year old than I do now.
This is demoscene-worthy.

and it gets replaced with a basic filled and bordered rectangle.

...also known as a pixel ;-)
Whoever downvoted this must feel left out?
No, not really. I personally find a regular non-convection toaster oven to be good enough (and much cheaper).

Here's the technical aspects I see no one talk about:

(1) Air fryers have much higher air flow than a convection toaster oven and the chamber is more aerodynamic resulting in better air flow around the food.

(2) Air Fryers have a basket, convection toaster ovens may or may not have one and buying an aftermarket one is surprisingly not cheap.

(3) Air fryers have a hair-dryer design, with a fan blowing onto a heating element. The convection oven has normal top and bottom heating elements with a fan blowing the air around on the side.

I find that the air fryer does do a better job at reheating (refrigerated or frozen) fried foods such as tots, fries, fish sticks and chicken tenders. But the trade off is that it's not as good at toasting and roasting things like waffles, bread, quesadilla, pizza or vegetables.
Are there 1 billion high bidders (they have huge production goals)?

Also, the 6 months is for deep freeze storage, the next level of storage, the shippers+dry ice, is 30 days.
Care to elaborate why? I have a Kindle, and while I love it I wouldn't call it life changing. So I'm curious for your reasoning.
> So many questions here. What the heck is going on with Ohio and Michigan? And Illinois and

Is it just me, or does the article end in the middle of a sentence with a few pictures left at the bottom?
No, I get it. We have two possibilities here…

1) an employee, whose job description includes correct handling of biomedical supplies, twice fucked up, and acknowledged that their consecutive fuck-ups would cause vaccines to become inert and the recipients being none the wiser

2) an employee deliberately sabotaged vaccines

… and I get that journalists cannot just come out and say "it really looks like someone sabotaged a batch of vaccines” because libel

AND as a person who has made plenty of mistakes, yes, I get that a person can make the same mistake twice. But we're talking about profound negligence here. “You had one job.”

It's fine to be skeptical, but let's not pretend that the likelihood of this being an “oopsie” is a coin toss.
>And we're expressing opinions without people being too belittled/shunned ...

No. Unpopular opinions get flagged and shadow-banned instantly here.
I don't think so. Here's a study looking at Beijing that estimates about 15% of cases were transmitted presymptomatically: https://jech.bmj.com/content/75/1/84.full
There is a lot more to a communication system than the primitives it uses. Even holding primitives constant, there is a lot of room for variation (and bugs and side channels). Recall that one of the early identifiers of equation group was subtracting 0x61C88647 rather than adding 0x9E3779B9 during RC6 key setup [1 p. 28]. So I guess what I'm saying is nations don't just download AES bitstreams off the internet.

[1] https://media.kasperskycontenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/sit...
Definitely. Also don't stake your whole life plan on that promise being kept. Transitional promises have a habit of being walked back.

There are many workplace promises that are disappointing or an inconvenience if they don't work out, but some end up being an existential threat (eg, "Don't worry, we're keeping the Boston office.")

Accept the promise, but groom your professional network extra carefully until the dust settles.
Did the Watership Down remake get sanitized? I never watched it, having been part of a generation of Australians who all got taken as school children to see it and scarred for life. It was just assumed animations are for kids. It must have been hell for the teachers, dealing with a class of traumatized 6 year olds in a cinema.
Nice! Do you mind elaborating more on how you went about training your models, where do you generate the outputs (web page? spreadsheet?), and the difficulties you encountered or the tedious/repetitive parts?
I love how this was completely disregarded by most of their teams.
> any other competitive ARM desktop processor

Perhaps better to say any other competitive ARM machine, since the actual CPUs are generally fine (not amazing, mind, but good enough) but crippled by unfortunate firmware/motherboards/etc.
They introduced these as a $5 add on in the early 90s, but it rapidly became just a regular part of service. I've never heard of any telco to charge for the reporting service.
Thanks for sharing this! I was wondering how much work it'd be to build a graphical Windows app using Rust, and glad to learn it's actually not too bad!
Sometimes, breaking the rules is the only way to obtain real evidence. ;)
I'm guessing this means quantization of a rhythm.
What you think of hardware innovations are often actually software innovations. Your iPhone doesn’t take a better picture because it has a better lens this year - it does because it has better software.
> I wish more people thought like him.

I don't, because instead of introspectively looking at why the world didn't turn out exactly like he wanted it, he blames others by dismissing their achievements as stagnation.

Those futuristic looking user interfaces never caught on because while they look good in movies they suck for actual productivity, even for non-technical users.

And when it comes to "non-programmer programming", just look at the success of tools like Zapier. I see tons of non-programmers using them to great success.
I would consider the advances in ML to be mainly mathematical and hardware rather than software. Being able to write the libraries to support ML operations wouldn't have been a problem in 1996 if the hardware & theory had existed.
More direct link:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cscope/files/

I set the forward proxy automatically rewrite http://subdomain.sourceforge.net links into the above https:// format.
I am considering animations for my thesis. When printing, a designated frame should be used, but inside a reader, the animation should work. I am writing my thesis in LaTeX too. Any pointers?
Inscription Leads Archaeologists to Tomb of One of the Last Han Emperors
> Do your job, but don't kill yourself over it. Work-life balance is king.

This is the most important lesson I learned working at the fruit company. That and never have a long commute.

I now work at a place that's ten minutes door-to-door in the morning and fifteen in the afternoon. I took a pay cut to achieve that (I live in East Bay), but maybe the new wfh culture post-COVID will open up more possibilities.

Anyway, point being that I've decided that my job is second to my happiness.
Agree with everything you say about prison.

I think you are under-estimating the extent that many urban schools are preparing students for prison though, and have some structural features in common, even though of course schools aren't nearly as bad as prisons. Contemporary urban schools are often really terrible places, stockhousing and controlling children, preparing them to be stockhoused and controlled.
In fact, Apple occupies a fairly tiny fraction of ARM that's not shipping Linux out of the box - most ARM chips are running Android or some other embedded Linux spin. Inferior hacked-up Linux installs on locked-down hardware, yes, but just running Linux on ARM isn't anything like a difficulty.
Ask HN: What is your best New Years Resolution?
I was looking at Rust based scripting language to add to SIMple Physics (https://mkhan45.github.io/SIMple-Physics/tabs/about/). While Lua as a language works perfectly for me, it will be pretty difficult to compile to WASM as part of a Rust project.

The two most mature embeddable Rust scripting languages at the moment seem to be Gluon and Rhai. Gluon, unlike Rhai and Lua, is inspired by Haskell and OCaml and highly functional. On the other hand, Rhai is pretty much a Rusty looking version of Lua from my first impressions.

I'm pretty heavily leaning towards Rhai at the moment since I need the scripting language for SIMple Physics to be easy for beginners with no programming experience to pick up for ultra basic applications, but I think Gluon is pretty unique. I'd assume that simple imperative languages are just better for embedding since they're often just used to send commands, but I wonder if I'm just close-minded since I've been using Lua.
One of the high schools where I grew up was rumored to be designed by a prison designer.
I used to do some gigs in the Middle East. Even within single documents you'd find the same words spelled in both the British English and American English spelling.

As a Canadian, only found the 's' instead of 'z' in words that end with -ize unfamiliar. The other flip-flopping didn't bother me because it was essentially what I always see here at home with Canadian/American spelling norms.

Usually there would be a standard dictating how things should look and feel, and that would indicate spelling norms. But when there isn't a standard, I'd just consider who I think would be the next people who have to look at my work, and go from there.

I always felt though, that the lack of standardizing (or standardising, as the case may be) the language of choice is the type of thing that leads to hard-to-find bugs. There should never be the option to have both a getColour() and getColor() defined.
I realized I wasn't super clear, let me add more. The case is where the candidate is NOT currently on W2 wages anywhere else. Typically, these candidates have enough cash reserves to be able to take a few months to find the next gig. A little highriing bonus takes the edge off.
Yes, I host quite a few high-quality images and videos that can really add up. It's not shocking to see it come close to 1 TB a month.
I see this as evidence that the privacy features of these coins may be effective in their goals. If I'm in a position where I need the privacy features of these coins for my own safety, I'm going to lean towards the one with all the regulatory hoopla stemming from it being so hard to trace.

I really liked this video series by some of the monero core team that goes through some of the privacy features and limitations of the monero tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOyC6OB6ezA&list=PLsSYUeVwrH...
Youtuber's 'Titanfall' style grappling hook pulls you up a tree in seconds
> if you do not understand that then consider that perhaps a life in which most problems are inherently tractable, [...] does not actually leave you with a correct understanding of your ability to understand or solve complex problems in the world.

Ugh. That's not really any better. You're still effectively saying the person is an idiot / incapable of reasonable thinking. :(
Here's a summary of NY law regarding one-party consent: https://recordinglaw.com/united-states-recording-laws/one-pa...
I would say it matters insofar as anyone wants to apply understanding of the fundamentals of cooking to new tools.

Should I expect to use an 'air fryer' to do things I can already do with other tools—like toast bread or roast/bake something small, even though none of those is 'frying'? What are important considerations / differences relative to the small convection oven I already have?

If air frying is a fundamentally new cooking technique, then I may not be able to apply a wealth of cooking knowledge & intuition when using it, other than basic food chemistry. If it's a rebranded convection oven, then I can decide if a different form factor is worth it for things I already know how to do.

Does that make sense?
Yep, frequent updates, lots of high quality images and some videos. That also made a huge spike in traffic painful because I wasn't expecting it. Having a page go viral can have unforeseen consequences :-)
Vitess Operator for Kubernetes
Brain damage of patients with Covid-19
Many 3D authoring program like Blender, Meshmixer can output U3D or RPC that you can use to embed into 3D PDF files. There are just many tools that can read the format. But beware that only Adobe Reader can show the 3D object
Surely AMD or non-x86 is in a far better position to check Intel's position? Given that they're shipping something today that's a match for current-gen Intel...
I think the other solution is diving into more interpersonal relationships. Atleast those can be extremely fulfilling over a long time.
yeah I remember not reading any Mark Twain in high school

“no high schooler can possibly relate to that book in any meaningful way” yes nobody has ever had messed up feelings about social status or unrequited love or what are you talking about
I've had Jeni's delivered before, yeah. Packed in dry ice it shipped fine. But, yeah, it's packed to travel. Not just placed in someone's passenger seat for 30 minutes.
Of course they are useful, as is google scholar and the search field in various journals. Or some blog that tells you whats was new in the recent conference. That doesn't mean they deserve to be cited over the real sources. They are cited as a crutch: "go here for a more detailed list of sources". The little meta-analysis they do doesn't explain most of the citations they get.
Could we please not try to prohibit critique and discussion just because someone doesn't agree with it? Open discussion and well founded criticism is what makes me read the comments.

I actually was searching for a response to GP claims about prison not being a deterrent and if nobody had mentioned it would commented it myself.

To add to the arguments: GP even contradicts himself by stating how bad prison is and that you really don't want to be there while claiming it's not a deterrent.

Criticizing that point was absolutely fair and doesn't mean the rest of GP's comment is bad or untrue.
> Especially when, on Facebook or Instagram, we would see close friends without masks hanging out and partying, while we sequestered ourselves from the rest of the world.

People that recklessly and selfishly endanger themselves and others would not remain my close friends.
Yep it was right around 1TB :-)

(high quality images and videos, combined with a viral page)
Personally, I wouldn't take on a project like this through Upwork. I have no familiarity with either libraries, and it's hard to tell from here whether it's an easy thing to do or something that requires massive hacking or an architectural rewrite. Hourly pay offsets the risk, but I don't want to take something that I'm not at least 70% confident of completing.

The problem with many freelance jobs is that they're a form of, "My team are too dumb and slow to do this, so I'll outsource it and see if I can get it done cheaper." When it's often an impossible job. Ironically, I would take the same job through Toptal, because they're known for at least vetting the clients.

On the other extreme, I once commission some pixel art on Upwork. A logo designer applied, with no experience. I asked her for a sample of any pixel work she's done, and she got offended, saying that she had no experience and I should pay her to try. I have a few months of experience here and I suck, but I doubt this random stranger would do better with 5 hours of experience.

So Upwork has this mismatch on both sides, with expectations and experience. It was probably better when anyone could just apply for a job, which meant that you were likely to just come across someone who is experienced with some niche library, the same way you would on Stack Overflow. Maybe another option would be asking someone who has contributed to the library to work on it - consulting is a common business model for open source.
Thanks, this is exactly the breakdown what I was looking for.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Smith
Unless they were somehow subsidized by the Chinese government I don't understand what market there would be for a slow, undocumented, probably buggy, power-hungry chip like this
Lol, so your argument is the silent majority is doing the upvoting on the story but for some reason a different silent majority is upvoting the comments in these threads.
I've also heard it argued that youth still don't know what's impossible, so from time to time, they approach a problem that's deemed "impossible" from a different angle and find a solution.
China's security services have no qualms about extorting foreigners on foreign soil. You don't know how you're vulnerable.
Isn't Farmville a rip off of Harvest Moon? I assume any Chinese mobile game they ripped off was itself a rip off from Natsume's Super Nintendo game.