skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boards are the Heltec boards that are an ESP32/SX127x. One of the boards is using the stock antenna that came with it, the other has a TBS Immortal T I had lying around. Using the 915mhz bands as well.

I use it out in the mountains, with line of sight between hilltops, but pretty forested so it's having to punch through foliage. I did some unscientific testing around my house and did notice a lot less range, I'm suspecting there's a fair amount of noise from other things in the ISM bands in the city.
Ask HN: Start own company or get into desired role at Big Corp. first?
Lets say I went to grad school to do "A" but didn't have the entrepreneurial vision at the time or had visa/family issues to worry about to turn "A" into anything significant. After grad school, I got a job offer from a big name mining manufacturer to do something remotely related to "A" and have since spent close to a decade, only rarely getting to do "A". After seeing how things happen at Big Corp., as well as being in an almost burnt out state with Corporate, I have decided to go about my own way. However, recently, a gap has been created for people who can do "A" in the org. So at this point, is it better to switch to the team where I'd be doing "A" while I work on my pet project/future startup in the same area, with work that is overlapping ? or just stay in my current position doing "B", which I don't enjoy, but have gotten good at, while working on my own side project for "A". (FYI here "B" is Time-series Data Science/ML/prediction/prognostics while "A" being Robotics/Perception/CV research.
The HN hive mind appears to believe that if all the HN readers in the world refuse to work for companies that they don't like, then a new age of love, peace and libertarianism will dawn across the world.
I think it’s been time for awhile. De-Googling is hard. I’m still trying. Email is the last one…
alv is a role model to so many inside Amazon, because

1) His internal tech talks are fun, peculiar, and make complex concepts easy to understand

2) His contributions go far beyond "Just S3" - though that would be enough. His low level frameworks and concepts underpin almost all complex AWS distributed systems - from databases to messages.

3) he STILL Codes, iterating on ideas, and pushing scalability of distributed systems to the next level
> This process is extremely asynchronous, and can take up to weeks to complete. Processing a Bitcoin transaction on the blockchain is analogous to that very slow, very asynchronous process.

The difference is that you have a level of guarantees that it is going to clear - at least in the UK, the second I make a payment I get a notification and the debit is posted onto my account in real time. If someone sends me money I receive it within seconds at no fee. With Bitcoin you don't have that guarantee until it has cleared which can take hours and cost over $2.

> It produces one, and only one thing, and that's trustless transactions. As long as there is a market need for this, it has some use, even if it's a niche use-case.

Your bitcoin doesn't produce that - your bitcoin sits there not doing anything. The transactions are verified by actual assets (servers).

> I think this is a good criticism, but is one that a bull might argue will hold less true over time. In the bull's perfect world, there exists enough tooling and frameworks to allow someone to live their entire life off of Bitcoin while still interoperating with the tradition financial systems seamlessly.

Even the bulls seem to admit that the transaction fees of BTC are too high and the validation time too slow - this is why they seem to push towards alt coins. I can see that someone might be able to live their entire life off bitcoin, but I still wonder why. I mean I live in the UK and people can hold all their money in Yen and pay via MasterCard if they want which will automatically do the currency conversion, but people don't do it because it would be insane. I don't see why BTC is any different.
I think there's also an element of constructed boxes to put people into as well.

Would I rather say to you, some random person, "I'm gay" and move on? Or do I want to get into "I'm gay, it's complicated" and have to explain more? Most of the time I just don't want to get into it further.

And I've had conversations with some folks who outwardly say they're straight but privately have described themselves pretty similarly to "Well mostly straight, it's complicated."

It's tiring, and I'd like it if we all came to an agreement that it's complicated, the edges don't line up nicely, and we should all just accept that it's weird. It'd make my life way easier
To be fair, the author of the article and the person who posted this are the same person. A medium article isn't too far away from a chan posting. Anyone can hop on and write whatever they want, and then post it here.
Scarcity has value. With only 21 million Bitcoins, there will not be any more added.

Unlike US Dollars.

And since it is difficult to acquire gold or silver now, Bitcoin has utility.

Ask Elon:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/tesla-buys-1point5-billion-i...
FWIW, my direct and immediate issues are when the system lies to people about the way the system works. The power imbalance is already ridiculously high when someone has you in custody--momentarily, temporarily, or permanently--that it seems entirely unconscionable to me that the system then further gets to lie to you about your status or what will happen to you next.
> I disagree with you that mere size at all makes a company quasi-governmental and in particular disagree with your chosen example of social media.

It's not size, but power. Twitter's curation algorithms have massive unilateral influence on public opinion (reaching far beyond its own user-base) probably including the ability to sway national presidential elections. I'm not aware of any utility companies with such power.

> "Responsible"? Every single method of speech we had in 1791, 1891, or 1991 is still with us, far easier and cheaper than ever, along with a host more.

What proportion of your speech is by telegraph these days? I'm guessing it's a lot less than it would have been in 1891. For much of America, much of our speech especially our political speech takes place on social media, and thus "traditional" channels enjoy a much smaller proportion.

Moreover, social media introduces an entirely new dimension: it's multicast. Your telegraph or phone call conveyed information to 1 other party at a time. A Tweet can be seen by millions or more. The volume of communication on social media dwarfs that of other channels.
How is Canada preparing for the new independent workforce?
It might not be as much as you think. I know professionals who’ve been paid a few hundred dollars to be an expert witness more than once, but usually in medicine. It’s easy money for someone if a lawyer often does certain cases that require an expert witness.
I'm not sure whether the summer experience is the same without having lived through winter as well.

In spring every bit of green is celebrated by the winter survivors, but if you just came in from the other hemisphere it just feels empty.
> Like what am I supposed to do? Spend it? Where? I can't buy a coffee with it.

Yes in certain places you can buy coffee, for example in Tokyo (although that's Bitcoin Cash, not Bitcoin).

Other places include buying domains, email, hosting or VPNs while preserving your privacy. Or buy computer equipment from Webhallen or Inet, two of Sweden's largest computer stores. Or buy games, porn or similar.

> but then seems to misunderstand the most fundamental property - acceptability

No, the properties don't change depending on how many use it. That's the functions of money, which you're right cryptocurrencied don't fair well in.

For example gold was once an excellent medium of exchange, but it's not anymore as people has stopped accepting it for payments.

Even if something is technically better, you don't replace the money quickly. The point is the potential, not that we're there today.

> explain the value proposition of bitcoin without eventually it just boiling down to "well the value is going up so I'm hodling"

The whole book is based on this premise and that cryptocurrencies are a better currency, and the volatility of Bitcoin is one of the biggest drawbacks. (Besides the ridiculous fees and the lack of privacy.)

To simplify the value proposition is mainly twofold:

* As a better means of payment as it's cheaper, faster and uncensorable.

* As a form of money where nobody can manipulate the supply.
Bookletify: Convert a pdf to a printable booklet layout
Hazel Analytics | Full-stack / Back-end Software Engineer | Seattle, WA | ONSITE NO-VISA | https://hazelanalytics.com

Hazel Analytics provides data and analytics services to food service/retail companies and related industries, working to improve food safety compliance. Roughly half of the 100 largest food retail chains use Hazel technology, and we proudly count Uber Eats, Instacart, Target, and Starbucks among our customers. In 2019, we won two food safety innovation awards, and we still have big ambitions to keep advancing the state of the art in food safety management. We're also honored to have been recognized by Built in Seattle — two years in a row — as one of Seattle's best small businesses to work for.

We're currently seeking experienced full-stack and back-end software engineers to help us realize our ambitions. Back-end engineers will work predominantly in our Google Cloud Platform environment with Python (Flask), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL 12 (on Google Cloud SQL), and Docker; full-stack engineers will tend to work a bit less in infrastructure and will add JavaScript (React) to their areas of expertise. We keep processes and meetings to a minimum in order for engineers to stay in the zone. Our team culture is laid-back and friendly, balanced by a strong sense of personal ownership and motivation to deliver; we're a small company, so engineers collaborate closely with non-engineers. People who are eager to mentor junior engineers are strongly encouraged to apply, as are folks with a background in devops, data science, or UI/UX.

Compensation is $110K - $160K (DOE), plus equity, year-end bonus, and a generous benefits package (including parental leave). We're currently working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic but planning on an eventual return to in-office work; at present, we're not considering fully-remote team members, but I'll continue to weigh it for the future. We aren't able to provide H1B sponsorship; relocation assistance within the United States is negotiable. These roles are not considered entry-level.

Full-stack candidates: https://jobs.lever.co/hazelanalytics/7c4ae7ec-ed3f-45cf-b2e9...

Back-end candidates: https://jobs.lever.co/hazelanalytics/64f146aa-a334-4491-915d...

(I'm the hiring manager for these roles; I've personally hired and _been_ hired through HN Who's Hiring threads.)
Or, presumably, holding the spacebar down and letting the repeat function do its thing
> "If you think they aren't going to close it down in 3 years, you're wasting money."

and

> "Google has already decided to cancel Stadia"

mean entirely different things. Of course people expect Stadia to get cancelled, but to claim they've already decided to cancel it is disinformation. It's a blatant lie. Don't spread fake news.
> So, an NYT reporter snooping on a Clubhouse conversation got her facts wrong (although she later corrected them), and the entire thing seemed relatively trivial to start with. And... this is exhibit A for the prosecution about how no one is doing real journalism anymore, they're just playing hall monitor. Or turning into the modern Stasi. Sure, those two things don't seem very similar, but we always forget how the SS started out as elementary school crossing guards, don't we.

Taylor Lorenz is apparently so focused on Marc Andreesen blocking her on Clubhouse that she admitted (in another since-deleted tweet)[1] that she had created a "burner" account, a violation of Clubhouse rules ("We [Clubhouse] prohibit the creation of duplicate or multiple accounts by one individual, whether representing themselves or another entity")[2]. She has a long history of tweeting at Andreesen on Twitter about her block. An argument that she's simply a neutral reporter soberly seeking out "abuse" and "harassment" strains credibility (especially given that her behavior toward Andreesen on Twitter is actually harassment).

How would you characterize an organization that sends its agents out to harass and stalk perceived enemies, trying to catch them in any act that can be portrayed as wrongdoing or wrongthink, and even going so far as to spread demonstrable lies about them? Stasi seems only mildly hyperbolic.

[1] https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1358349374749769730

[2] https://www.notion.so/Community-Guidelines-461a6860abda41649...
>"smart people get frustrated quickly. I've learned through the years to select those that are agreeable"

That might make sense if you're hiring people to dig holes in the ground but seems absurd to use as a filter for any sort of skilled professional position.
It makes money for me and I can do what I want with that.
https://archive.is/BHGUt if you don't want to log in to Medium.
As with so many articles whose titles are questions, the answer is no.

The author is wrong on several premises:
1. Capitalism is not the thing that saves us from authoritarianism and fascism, nor was it before - in the context of WW2, for instance, I'd argue that authoritarianism and fascism's ruthless desire for continuous increases in power became self-defeating because of the enemies it made those regimes.
2. Capitalism does not represent a fight for liberty. It represents a bunch of individual actors fighting for their own resources, and therefore, implicitly, requires a certain amount of liberty, for those people only.
3. Capitalism does not actually care how many rights you have. It cares only about how much value you produce, no matter how you produce it. Capitalism only benefits those who already have enough resources to be "in" the fight. (The author notices this, but seems to think it's a good thing. It's not.)

Capitalism already saved us, after World War 2, from economic stagnation and, ultimately (in the model of the Soviet Union), collapse. Now, it's time for the next thing to come along and save us from the problems of capitalism.

It's difficult to say what exactly that thing is, but much as before, it probably doesn't involve capitalism totally dying or going away. It probably involves it being reined in, changed, and retrofitted, along with many other parts of our society.
It's not dependent on Go being installed on the host... I'm not sure why you think this is the case. Like most Go applications, it's compiled into a single static binary.
While i'm not some Elon maniac, I think these people need to stop eating, because that is more environmentally unfriendly.
Wait, do people still believe anything glen greenwald says?
my friend... developers are not allowed in
I wasn't aware that intel killed Optane-Only SSDs for consumers so I looked up and here's a recent article about it: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-kills-off-all-optane...
Why can't just they run the DNA test again in 2 or 3 other different software ? If all of them come back with the same result then we can assume that the first software is not buggy right ?
> There's a reason we still have 'turn it off and back on again' in our bag of tools. Often it's the only thing that reliably works.

An alternative perspective—at the very large scale, the opposite may be true. Turning something off and then on again may be one of the worst ways to fix problems with certain large systems.

At a large scale, you would document and manage the state of the system, make changes which put that system into a new state, and build tools that monitor and enforce system state (declaratively where possible, but it’s not always possible to be declarative).

Sometimes there will be duplicated effort between making sure a system runs smoothly and making changes while it’s running, and making it so the system can turn off and on again. Think about the duplicated effort between setting up a new database and making schema changes to a live production database.

YES, you want to have a source of truth. But the “turn it off and on again” source of truth is usually a sequence of imperative commands rather than a description of the desired system state, and comes with its own reliability problems. A description of system state as source of truth has a different set of reliability problems but I think it’s absolutely necessary to explore the solution space between these two extremes—shooting for a completely declarative system is futile, but an imperative system can be very hard to reason about.
I agree: not true. The advantage of automation is you can do more for less which extends the reach in wealth and services available to the human race. Automation is a beautiful thing and gmail being too big to service with human support is not understanding that we'll never have enough intelligence power to police every square inch of existence + the net if we rely solely on human intelligence.

Problem is: can we cultivate machine learning intelligence to be as good as some of the best human arbiters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91TRVubKcEM
It would be much easier to take this argument seriously if the most recent example of "deplatforming" (and the prime example in the very article we are discussing in this thread) wasn't a bunch of well funded publications coming to the defense of hedge funds and calling meme culture aware day traders evil Nazis.

Seeing as of late the only prominent examples of the terrible behavior you describe are by exactly the people trying to warn the world of these evil people and save us from them, I'm going to have to file this in "baseless scaremongering."

This is the moral panic of our day. This is our satanic panic, and the people you're defending are our Tipper Gore.
What's with the crabs? Is it an inside joke I'm not getting?
> That being said, I still doubt that people really have a choice over their sexuality.

My response to people who argue about this is generally: "So, when did you decide you liked long legs more than large breasts?" Choose whatever pairing of sexual characteristics drives home the choice to the person involved.

Like so many things about "sexuality", at some point we notice them, but rarely do we actively choose them.
Oof, I hadn't even noticed this. Almost regret replying now. What nonsense.
Are the components only available for React?
It really doesn't seem accurate to characterize this blogpost as a measured approach. A few quotes that jumped out at me from just the first section:

> the Times’ tech team quickly donned their hall-monitor goggles and Stasi notebooks

> The little crew of tattletale millennials assembled by NBC — who refer to their twerpy work with the self-glorifying title of “working in the disinformation space”

> they clearly get aroused — find otherwise-elusive purpose — by destroying people’s reputations and lives
It's 0.05% of energy that could be used elsewhere to reduce emissions (since a lot of miners sit on renewable energy). It's a worthwhile target because it#s easy to fix: don't waste energy like that.

edit: additionally a lot of small crap is still a pile or crap at the end of the day, the small little energy wasters (comparatively) still make up a combined total that is wortwhile to take on.
Terrain can make a difference. If given the choice, I'd walk over ice that was on top of grass, gravel, or smaller stones (that is, most are in the 1-3" diameter range) over concrete or asphalt. That ice generally gives way under you and provides you a chance to get traction without specialty footgear. The ice that forms on pavement is often much slicker, and the pavement doesn't give so the ice doesn't break underfoot.

Concrete and asphalt also promote the development of ice in a way that other surfaces do not, because they retain heat from the sun hitting them. That's the principle issue here, even when it's 10-20F, the pavement is easily above freezing on a sunny day, and when the snow falls in the afternoon it quickly melts and refreeze creating hazardous conditions until the next day when it thaws (assuming it's not a deep snow) as the sun hits it again.
There's a minor problem with your 1st item above - the quote she was (mis)attributing to Marc was actually a quote from DFV on /r/wallstreetbets. If she had use the word in her quote of his quote, it would have damaged her narrative.

The fact is that in her tweet and subsequent non-apology when corrected she went out of her way to paper over the context of this being a quote of DFV. She claimed the word was used 'casually' as if it was directed at someone or a group rather than quoting someone who was referring to himself...
The majority of the code is talking about personal values (working backwards up the list, I'm counting independence, class, worldly knowledge, being a stand-up guy, being observational, honourable, amenable, strategic, rational). The parts that deal with being part of a group are not that unusual either - everyone is part of a group and that isn't a problem. Employers all want to be a little like a family.

If you want to argue that Google is promoting these values amongst it's employees that is fine; but that is a great idea on Google's part. It isn't strengthening your argument.
> And, FWIW: the whole thing is about how Taylor Lorenz dinged Andreessen for using the word "retarded" on a call. And it turns out, I guess, that someone said it, but not Andreessen. Is that really worth this screed?

I think this is a good microcosm of a broader trend. Is it itself indicative that the sky is falling? No, of course not. No single black man getting shot by the cops in murky circumstances is itself indicative of systemic racism. Rather, those cases, and the Lorenz case serve as useful foci for talking about what I think are real problems with society.

I do think that journalists aligning themselves against privacy and free speech in the name of fighting "misinformation" and "hate speech" is a real problem. This case is not what makes it a problem, but it is a good vignette demonstrating it.
> Google already tried to solve the last-mile delivery infrastructure problem and unsurprisingly appears to have found it intractable

This failure was more political in nature though, the technical solution is there
Good catch; someone on YouTube called this out this morning and we released an updated dataset (we had also missed the ones attached to the wheels): https://public.roboflow.com/object-detection/mountain-dew-co...

Really hoping someone uses this to win the contest!
No becuase 1) the article title includes Signal and 2) article body specifically shows Signal messages accessed in an investigation and the metadata between the messages indicates the phone was locked
I think it is more fundamental to human nature than can be explained by religion. Just hang around in tech circles and listen to them talk about other people and you'll see they consider themselves to be in some fundamentally different category from the rest of humanity.
Ask HN: Best Gmail alternative that handles multiple emails in one inbox?
I have read many posts here of people getting their google accounts locked for no reason, so I am trying to protect myself and am planning to migrate. I run several websites and currently have different email addresses from different domains all forwarding to my gmail and I use the "Send mail as" feature to select which address I am sending from. This is a critical feature for me, so I was hoping to get some advice on which gmail alternatives support this feature. Thanks!