skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give some nontechnical advice: make real human connections. Let people know you (as you have in this post) and be genuinely interested in their work and problems.

Throughout my career, from the first paid job I was offered to the best and most lucrative unsolicited offers I've received in senior management, it's all come down to personal connections. People that knew me personally and knew a little about my life, or secondary connections -- friends of friends.

Your location shouldn't make much difference these days -- everything is happening online. Ask around about meetups, panels, pair programming, clubhouse rooms, or anything else interactive where you can share a bit of your story.

I'm connected to some highly successful people, and their main secret sauce is connections. It's nothing mysterious, but really just basic human kindness, generosity, and a collaborative spirit goes a long way. I find most people genuinely want to be helpful and especially so for people who have achieved some level of success already. So the other part of the advice is to scan your world for accomplished people, and just tell them your story. (Better yet, ask what their problems are and offer to solve something for them.)

This was a great Ask HN, thanks for taking the chance.
Yeah I've been using the same 1994 Model M (M13 -- all black with a built in trackpoint) since... about 1995. Besides some dust build-up and me not having replaced the trackpoint nib and it being worn down it's still in mint condition.

Sure, they _could_ be built more solidly but I'm going to take a wild guess that 25 years is well beyond the lifetime a typical keyboard would be engineered for so it's probably still/already overbuilt.
Indeed, it was easy for politicians to try and capitalize on the event (stock market rigged for the rich saga) when in reality it was financial regulation that caused RH to have to stop allowing buy orders in GME.
Really? I mean I've worked at GitHub, Apple, and now Sequoia Capital and get paid pretty well. I'd say wealth is a pretty important factor to me in choosing a job.

I'd just rather find teams in those organizations that don't have ridiculous interviews and therefore often times cultures that view success in that kind of endeavor as something to be lionized. That or I want to fail out because I'm not qualified.

I interviewed for two teams at Apple. One had a brain-teaserish interview (not totally that sort of stuff but involved a lot of whiteboarding arbitrary things) and one had nothing like that. I'll let you guess which team I chose and additionally guess which team ended up having a healthier culture. :)

But you're right, my philosophies on this stuff probably are different than a lot of folks, and that's OK. That's why we have different teams, jobs, cultures, etc. I just optimize for things I like, and I hope other folks do the same!
Well this "extension" is closed source, but at the core we use deck.gl [0]. deck.gl is under open governance [1] inside the Linux Foundation/Urban Computing Foundation, so no contributor can take the project closed source.

[0]: https://deck.gl/

[1]: https://github.com/visgl/tsc
Check out how things are wired with in this Pyramid cookie cutter.

https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid-cookiecutter-starter/blob/...

I think same approach should work well for flask - just tie the session to the request object on first access.

Side note: I think we met on IRC few years ago ;-)
Me. My utilities have always been more reliable than my internet service. Not only do my utilities have far fewer outages (almost none by comparison), they go so far as to inform me in advance before a planned outage, something no ISP has ever bothered to do.

Meanwhile, municipal internet speeds routinely crush what I'm getting from my ISP. No Google Fiber here, and while I do have fiber service, there are no gigabit fiber options here. And we have no say over that. I'd much prefer to be able to vote for gigabit than be angry at a black box that has no reason to make my service better. ISPs don't compete because they don't have to.

Since you made the comparison, I'm quite happy with my city's DMV. The wait hasn't been long in a decade at least, there are 25-30 manned stations, appointments can be made and are kept, and overall it completely bucks the idea that the DMV is absolutely horrible. And this isn't a big city.
If I'd go back, I'd seriously consider plumbing as a career.

You can pretty much learn the job and be f-ing done for the rest of your life, more or less.

Otherwise, be ready to be forced to re-learn stuff every two years or so, because of the new trend/framework/language/craze.
I'm amazed they were able to pack enough energy in the thing to get the props to go fast enough to work in Mars's barely there atmosphere. Keeping it upright is standard equipment in even low-end quadcopter drones.
more like a greyhounds had been released by the masters :)

yapping and biting at the ankles
LATAM engineers should try to immigrate to the US instead to working remote. The same owner of Ontop is saying that they are getting just 33% of the salary they'd get in the US.
Venausa (https://www.venausa.net) is giving a coaching in Spanish to get a job in the US in less than one year averaging 90.000 USD annually for LATAM engineers.
>> why?

pick up a cyberpunk or shadowrun book ;-) smartgun increases chance to hit and is required for automation

1. remote fire control, obviously, and an interface for drones, semi as well as fully automatic ones

2. the shotgun has a display and camera - how about friend/foe recognition? (requires a tactical network)

3. connect it to augmented reality goggles/visor/eyes. gun sees what it is pointed at, use that to render a crosshair

4. think about police officers and body cams. A gun that records its point of view makes a lot of sense as well.

>> If a gun doesn't consistently go bang when you pull the trigger (and safety is off, etc)

"Safety" might change away from a mechanical aspect over time. Some may consider these anti-features:

5. there is an active police operation in the area, your gun is now locked to safety on.

6. this weapon can not be used in this country (the USA did that for rocket launchers)

7. this weapon can not be used with this ammunition (printers do that with cartridges)

8. you are not the registered owner of this weapon

9. your license has expired
He likes the stock
I don't condone the way PJ insulted Eric but these two tweets, both by Eric, are sus:

1: "I’ve talked to PJ multiple times asking him to do more to contribute to diversity efforts at the company. Asking him to join the diversity group. To lend a voice when I spoke up at staff meetings. Anything to show the staff that he cared about the issue."

2: "They weren’t obligated to support me, diversity efforts at Gimlet, or the union. "

PJ might have handled this extremely poorly but reading between the lines here it sounds like Eric and POC at Gimlet saw RA as having this island-of-power within the company and basically said "hey, we want change at Gimlet and we expect you to use some of this power to help us achieve it."

That is maybe the extent to which I think this parallels the BA story AT ALL. What is the Gimlet analogue of the "BA took these recipes by PoC and gave them to white reporters who stripped them of any culture" angle?
Yea, I'm talking from the perspective of an addict or in-between addict during that sentence. From their perspective, every weekend is fine. Moreover, I know one (exactly 1) acquaintance that has done cocaine for more than 30 years every weekend and only in the weekends. So arguably he wasn't addicted, not in the psychopathological sense where he wasn't functioning in society (he was, I think he did construction work).

Unfortunately, I don't know enough (anymore) on the science of craving, most of what I wrote is actually what I've noticed because of meditation and self-reflection, so it's a very subjective account. Though, what I stated about conditioning, that is scientifically proven, you can read the wiki of operant and classical conditioning.

> The description of your craving process is both fascinating and horrifying. Well, mostly horrifying.

In certain forms of mindfulness meditation you're asked to observe your sensations in your body. In practice this can translate to observing whatever craving you're experiencing :P

Let me think a bit what areas of research might be interesting to account a bit for my subjective experience...

- Wanting and Liking from Berridge's lab [1].

- Research on how to make slot machine's addictive [2]

But those ideas are a bit more circumstantial I believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_salience

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247926701_Addictive...
That's an excellent point.

The form looks like it can accomplish all sorts of things and business logic, just like a SQL query can accomplish all sorts of things and business logic in a database.

There's nothing inherently wrong with that. But like you say, the issue is with training.

The fact that 3 people who were presumably trained in how to use this tool, used it wrong, means it's absolutely a failure of training.

Business logic very often isn't "intuitive", because tools are used in all sorts of ways. When it comes to business logic, what's often most important is documented procedures and checklists.

The real question is, since this was a procedure that had been performed regularly and correctly in the past, why did it fail this particular time? Why were these 3 employees left to assume they were using the tool correctly, rather than referring to a definitive documented procedure that would give them the answer for sure?

Oftentimes it's an employee turnover/transfer/vacation issue that exposes the lack of documentation, and the real issue is too much knowledge in employee's heads that isn't committed to paper in the right places -- pure sloppiness of business procedures.
> So why do they have to be the ones paying the price?

What price?

The original price of the device? Because we all do.

Or the price of having to buy a different machine than the $200 MacBook from the shady person online which came without the original box, warranty or charger? For the same reason, and also because they're stupid.
Hard agree. I've lost some loved ones to meth, and it tears up whole communities. When I was young I was lax about drugs, but after seeing the same story over and over...drug addiction is real and it hurts.
Patterns, PREDICTIONS, AND ACTIONS A story about machine learning [pdf]
Not really, no:

* Languages with significant runtimes are going to be rejected by project maintainers; nobody is going to rube-goldberg a GC into an existing project just to replace a risky component when the option not to do that exists.

* Languages with insignificant adoption are going to be rejected by project maintainers because why take a flyer on an unknown quantity (not just technically but in terms of where the community will be 5 years from now) on a project you've been maintaining for decades? Say what you will about the Rust community and its long-term financial viability but the industry is pretty much already committed to it.

I'm fine with Rust but, like, not it's biggest fan (strongly prefer Go) but Rust pretty clearly hits the sweet spot being targeted here. I think you can assume safely that most of this work will be done in Rust.
I don't really know as I've never worked there but from what I've heard their base pay is relatively average but equity boosts the total compensation a lot.
Facebook ads are scam.
FB Ads don't reach anyone.
Oh boy, a gun that tells everyone exactly where to find the armed combatants. Will Russia sell it's new WiFi and Bluetooth enabled gun finding sensor too? Will it also have a blinking blue light to make it easier to spot at night?

I look forward to the defcon demo that tells you when your enemy's gun jammed or how much ammo they have left.
Ask HN: How would you implement Clubhouse in 2021?
Dear fellow engineers, with all abundance of software and tech stacks these days — how would you design an app like Clubhouse?

Which existing libraries, software, open or proprietary would you use for encoding/mixing/streaming?

Which parts you would write from scratch and why?

How would you design backend architecture in MVP stage and how would you change it with scalability in mind?

Related topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131123
The parent comment is being downvoted for some reason, even though the viewpoint is exactly the same as the original article.
Virologist: someone whose livelihood would be put at risk by public mistrust in the practice of virology.
After a year of feedback, surely some folks must have suggesting making this either part of or an extension of ADS-B and yet, they intentionally and very explicitly avoided this. Had they integrated this into, or made it an extension of ADS-B, then aircraft could see and avoid drones, even if that meant only newer ADS transceivers would benefit. Collision with aircraft is one of the biggest threats of drone activity.
COVID-19 related SNP-s:

https://www.snpedia.com/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&se...
I wanted to use a mechanical keyboard for years but working from home with other people in the house or working in an open office environment made it difficult due to noise.

That was until I recently discovered the Gazzew Boba U4 tactile switches. These things feel amazing and are quieter than my crappy old non-mechanical keyboards!

This keyboard has been life changing. Total cost somewhere south of $200. I highly recommend looking into building one if you spend more than an hour per day on a keyboard.

Here's a video comparing the u4s to Cherry MX Browns: https://www.reddit.com/r/keyboards/comments/lmdy4s/mechanica...
For your #8 a function might be helpful to remove the $[] characters.

$ function c;{echo $[$*]}
$ c 1234./56
22.035714285714285
$ a=33;c a / 3
11
> of course Amazon is going to keep that and use it to personalize my results

and yet after years of buying the same pair of shoes, year after year, amazon still doesn't know what's my shoe size and I have to check if my size is still available every time...

I believe they are not really trying to improve my experience, but their profits.

But I have no proof.
It doesn't currently work when accessing The Pirate Bay (at least using Virgin Media). I have my DNS resolver set to Cloudflare and I get sent to https://assets.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html. Manually setting the records in my home DNS server does not work either.
Yes, you are correct. Noting that [not] all cancel efforts are the same, and I'm sure there are edge cases and exceptions, it seems that generally cancel culture efforts often gain momentum when the target shows 'perceived weakness' and often lose momentum when the target makes it very clear they don't care. In the case of corporations like Disney, the very idea of telling people to "fuck off" as you say is anathema to PR culture.
Europe says lol
repeat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)
One yuck about aliases, it doesn’t give you autocomplete. See abbr in fish shell for an alternative.
You're the one muddying the waters, here. You keep comparing device restrictions between iPhones and radios when they're completely different. One accesses a public good and the other a private platform.
Illustrates his ineptitude in analyzing stocks. He literally lucked into $50M. Then he proceeded to squander $35M for internet points.
Jira or some similar tool. Tbh, Jira on premises was way faster than Jira cloud, but meh.

I have two 24" displays and a comfy but not expensive IKEA office chair. You don't have to spend a lot, just make sure it has ergonomic features (rise/lower the sit, arm rests etc).

Bluetooth headset is a must. I have a fairly old pair of Sony (mdr-zx770bn iirc) that are slowly dying, but they're fine.
Opening an LLC as a sole foreign proprietor is very easy. Not only that, if you dont physically conduct business in the states (as in a developer programming from outside) you dont pay any taxes in America (you still have to file of course). Getting a bank account is also easy with an established LLC, directly with Mercury or indirectly through Stripe.

https://www.llcuniversity.com/irs/how-to-apply-for-ein-witho...
>>Stick to emails. People barely ever change their emails.

As someone who uses the same gmail address since 2004 I thought that's what everyone does.
Then I've started selling software and to avoid collecting personal data I've decided to link licenses to email addresses. Having sold 10k+ commercial licenses I get to deal with email address related problems about once a day (email address expired, blocked, access was lost, the provider doesn't allow using it from current location, the company closed, the university doesn't let you use it anymore etc.).

Fortunately security doesn't really matter that much to us. Worst that can happen is someone gets to use additional license. We don't collect any personal information so there is nothing to leak. If that wasn't the case though and we had any kind of personal information linked to licenses I would really like to avoid using email addresses for anything. The simple: "Hey, my name is X Y, I lost access to abc@test.com address, can you please let me use another address" becomes a security nightmare.

It's one of the things you learn once you start doing something on a bigger scale. Some other things which I've learnt actually happen but never happened to me: SSDs fail, RAM fails quite often, a lot of stuff fails with some Windows settings that won't ever fail on 10 computers you test it on etc. etc.
The Golang Testing Bible
One could have a reasonable belief that the payment was intended as a gift, in which case the recipient would not necessarily be a "creditor" but there is still no reason for them to believe that the payment was invalid.
Ah, talktalk may just be being lazy (or the sci-hub change hasn't hit me yet)
As a bonus, if anyone ever asks you what it's like to discover Photoshop filters for the first time, you can just point to your keyboard.
A wash account is a normal financial term. Just like front- and backoffice. Also, nostro, loro, vostro, clearing accounts.
BioNTech/Pfizer sought 54.08 Euro per vaccine dose from EU (de)
> "own water"

what is owning water? I don't want to own water. I want to live in place where there is no water shortages. What is your plan to survive without 'owning water' ?
NASA Perseverance Mars Landing Raw Feed
Here is a machine translation to english:

https://www.translatetheweb.com/?from=&to=en&dl=de&ref=trb&a...

If you prefer Google Translate:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=h...
I find the fact that the factory is being built in India a bit disturbing. India does not have a thriving civilian market for guns, how does this help the people?
Like I said - a hunch.

I hope we can indulge one another with such things here.
We sequenced the oldest ever DNA, from million-year-old mammoths
>I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts.

One recent Google achievement that it is not talked about that much, Google Maps, Google offered it for free, killed all the other companies that offered similar services for money and now Google maps is also paid. Some people don't like when giants use their profits from a market to offer free stuff in other markets and kill good paid or free products.
I mean I believe they don't have the option to just not include links to news sites, which is what Facebook is doing.
Interesting. None of my friends smoke any more, with the last having quit two years ago after a long struggle and then reading Alan Carr's book and working with patches and gum. Cold turkey quitting hasn't been the norm. Most have tapered off.

And no, I don't really even 'want' a cigarette. I know what addiction is, in that I feel this strong pull towards sweet stuff. I must have any kind of dessert, and if I see a novel food, I must eat it. I just must. It's like a fugue state. Try as I might I fall. Also with online validation for comments I write or stories I tell. The dopamine hit from an upvote has a debilitating hold on me.

But with no drugs have I felt this desire. Not even shrooms which I enjoy or MDMA which has been my all time favourite. I have some shrooms and some LSD in my fridge so I can partake any time. I just don't.

I'm amenable to the Rat Park hypothesis too. Maybe it's all Rat Park stuff.
Live landing coverage of the Perseverance Mars Rover
Caching is a bit dangerous, and most shells don't support asynchronous prompt updates. And cross-shell support seems to be a prime feature. Spending probably a lot of effort just for improving zsh experience might just not have been important enough yet.
His whole point is you can use drugs and keep up all your normal daily responsibilities. He states this several times as the definition of “functioning”. If you show up to work on drugs you’re not functioning and that’s not what he’s advocating for.
That's a fantastic opening statement.
This ignores the fact that cryptominers sell their old cards on to gamers, at a value which, due to the shortage, is potentially even higher than what they bought it at. The only way out I see is flooding the market or a crypto crash.
Should is the wrong word. I think what you mean is it would benefit them financially to immigrate. Some people may not want to leave family in their home country and others may simply not want to live in the US.
Stationfall
Planetfall
A mind forever voyaging (still have it on my shelf)

Classics.
Yes, I have a wasd keyboard with the red switches and little rubber rings and it is very quiet and comfortable.
>Apple is abusing it's power but not letting you even put a shitty link to your website if on that website you were selling stuff.

That's a load of horseshit. You can't walk in to a Target and post an advertisement saying that the Walmart down the street or "Mom and Pop's General Store" sell the same items for cheaper or that they have x, y, z. Apple owns their App Store. It functions just like a regular store and they're allowed to decide what they want to allow on their store and what they don't.

Your position on this is wrong because it's based on assumptions you're making that are inaccurate. This a private platform. They're not abusing their power simply by operating their store and not allowing others to advertise their own outside goods inside of it.
JoSunday – The Virtual Assitant for your work
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It may be legal to grow opium poppies in the US for garden or seed purposes, just not for the processing into opium.

https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/resources/wp-resource_s...

Michael Pollan also wrote an essay about it (I think taking a slightly stronger position).