skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't do the cheap ones anymore. I have a nice office chair for my back and a nice keyboard for my hands, and I'd never go back.

From this store, all of the customization is included. It's the same cost whether you buy all beige keys with the default caps, or if you make every key an alternating color and upload an image for custom prints. So then it became a question of "if I can do anything I want with this... what is it I actually want?" I figured I'd go for something that looks at home in a cyberpunk novel.

Edit: BTW, your earlier "oh wow, I do hate it" reply made me laugh. Thank you.
If you have to put a qualifier in front of “universal healthcare” it’s not universal healthcare
Mon Ami - Social Venture | Senior and Associate Full Stack Developers | Remote Friendly | Full-time

Mon Ami is a social venture that builds SaaS software for sectors traditionally overlooked by technology companies. Our customers are government agencies, social service agencies, and healthcare providers.

We're looking for early engineers to join our team of four experienced developers to make a profound difference in our product and in the lives of those we serve.

We use React / Stimulus / RoR, but a background with those frameworks is not required, provided you have comparable experience.

Learn more & APPLY here: https://www.monami.io/jobs
# Sci-Hub Leaves Handshake Blockchain After 2 Days, Citing Centralization Concerns

Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization. ...

“I first just thought that another domain for Sci-Hub won’t hurt. But later I realized it’s them who really controls the domain, not me,” Elbakyan told CoinDesk via Telegram.

The Namebase team reached out to Elbakyan after Sci-Hub was banned by Twitter, reportedly due to a new copyright infringement case in India, she said.

“They wrote to me when I was having that stressful situation with Twitter,” Elbakyan said. “I just gave them an IP address and they connected it to the domain. That’s all I did. Now, where is the decentralization?” ...

“In fact, I’m not in control and they can throw me out at any moment, just like Twitter did. And yes, all domain services are like that, including .se and .do, but they aren’t promoting themselves as decentralized. Plus, those are reputable ones, and this is God knows who. They are just using Sci-Hub to promote this weird project,” Elbakyan said. ...

https://www.coindesk.com/sci-hub-leaves-handshake-blockchain
Website is perhaps recommended, but the app still works great and is updated from time to time.
I’d like to know how I’m still logged in in Twitch even after deleting and installing the app. Or how Spotify offered me to link it to an Alexia device I was setting up after I installed the Alexa app.
Perseverance is one of the largest objects that NASA landed (along with the Apollo lander), and it's about the size of an SUV.

SpaceX is trying to land things the size of buildings.

Let's just say it's a very different problem.
SpaceX has a very different set of risk tolerances and approaches. Nasa is a government funded entity and the tolerance for failure (rightly or wrongly) is very low according to every thing I've read.

SpaceX being private has a much larger cushion for failure. Elon will keep funding it far longer than congress would Nasa is my guess. If SpaceX loses some rockets that's the cost of business, of course once those missions are manned it's a huge difference but until then I think it's not really comparable.
The military has to account for leadership moving up or out, a constant influx of new people, and the operational challenges of what they do, and a different perspective on money. Military dysfunction is different than private sector

Companies tend to focus on chiseling pennies and hope for the best.
How is it market manipulation to make people aware that more than 100% of a stock has been shorted and thus the shorters are going to be in a real pickle? This was all public information.
Diabetic spike-and-crash will do that to you.

That can be life-threatening, even if you’re not an actual diabetic.

Crash low levels of blood sugar can easily kill you.
Lack of diversity and vegetables are expensive ; the former leads to overuse of all those "-ides"(and fertilizer) and the 2nd to the obesity epidemic, because derivatives from corn are so much cheaper...
Shout out to the team member with the "This is fine" plush dog on their desk.
German has fixed pronunciation rules, there is no through/trough/tough/thought confusion.

Of course for some foreign words you have to make an exception. However, Uber has a pretty minimal presence in Germany, so I doubt many people know how it is 'supposed' to be pronounced.
You think China is in the habit of building hydroelectric plants in places where no one needs electricity?

Also, a minute with Wikipedia and a calculator will show you that transmission losses for the longest possible straight distance in China are <5%.
> Note how most plants are green, which is to say they're content with reflecting the most energy-dense range of the visible spectrum.

Photosynthesis is very complex, and there are reasons why plants shed about 10% of green light: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1490 . It's not that evolution was too dumb to discover the simple fact of green light being more energy dense, it's that there's other more important constraints happening at the molecular level in photosynthesis.
Investing in the right single stock always outperforms the index. But risk adjusted returns may not be better than a diversified portfolio, Microsoft could also have dropped due to some scandal whereas the downside risk of a balanced portfolio is much smaller.
Bruce Blackburn, Designer of NASA Worm Logo, Has Died
N00b question: why is it black & white?
It is not because it affects their job performance it is because the test they use can't measure if things were done a minute ago or 3 weeks ago.
I have too, but when I have an option between 1x the price and 1x the boards and 2x the price and 9x the boards, I usually pick the latter.
Wind and solar are both currently over-producing. Not "lost half to almost all." That's an almost-certainly deliberate misrepresentation based on the fact that winter production is always lower than summer production, and comparing the total peak capacity on the best possible summer days and comparing it to now.

We had projections for both wind and solar for these last few weeks, and both wind and solar OVER-produced, exceeding those projections.

On the other hand, we had projects for coal and natural gas, and both of us failed spectacularly.

So yes, I am concerned about any article that spends time talking about wind and solar, when the ACTUAL problem that caused it to be 41ºF in my living room was natural gas and coal.
The incremental cost of labor is not going to slow the arrival of a robotic Aldi. Fortunately, I have other grocery stores in the area and can spend my money at the one with the best quality AND service.
My Wish for Python 4
> The blame has to be shared, however, with the battle-axe personalities of the people that use this stuff. They would like nothing more than to retire while still using the _exact_ same applications and dated interfaces they've used for 20+ years. Literally, these are default "grey-theme" java applications, with all kinds of inconsistent UI quirks and absolutely no shits given for discoverability or even being able to create hyperlinks so that people can share stuff without screenshots.

Here is the thing, the reason these people would want to keep using the software is... The replacement will be broken and they'll spend years with bugfixes and what not to get to the exact same position they're in just now.

Using old UIs isn't fun but if it works it's good enough. This is a case of everyone getting used to the workarounds until no one knew about the workarounds.
Hahaha, this can't be real. Will they gimp the RTX-3060 in other applications like machine learning too? Will people who already bought these cards for mining have to watch out for updated drivers or firmware? This is an absolute nightmare scenario which will come back to haunt Nvidia for years. I can't believe they approved this.

It'll be interesting to see how games perform on the newly gimped cards people already own. Can they firmware-gimp a card to reliably stop mining without affecting games? We'll see!
Are such short shifts legal in the US? Last time I worked retail in Canada the law was that if you were called in to work you had to be paid for at least 3 hours even if you were sent home.
Well, look at the Russian space program. There haven't been any fatal accidents in the Russian/Soviet space program since 1971 as opposed to the US where the last fatal accident happened 20 years ago (Columbia accident).

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
> If we look into the relatively near future, fusion energy is going to account for a rapidly increasing share of energy production by the end of this decade.

I really don't think by the end of this decade there will be any commercial fusion production. I'm sure we will be closer but it is still some decades away.

ITER proposes to follow up their current research reactor with a successor (DEMO) which they plan to start building around 2040 and begin operating in the 2050s. Then they expect DEMO to be followed by their first commercial power station, PROTO. They probably won't even start building PROTO until the 2050s or 2060s, so we could easily be looking at 2070-2080 before it comes online.

Now, there are other teams working on fusion, there is always the possibility some other team could leapfrog ITER. It is also possible that with increased investment timelines might come forward. But I'm very confident that come 2030, the amount of fusion power in the commercial energy markets is going to still be zero.
Isn’t sitting on boards while you work at megaCorp a conflict of interest / violates your employment agreement?
Yep, you nailed the biggest problem. No single person can individually make decisions on those time scales. Future energy costs, interest rates, climate trends, technological changes, and urban planning all need to be factored in.

There needs to be a financing system that packages all this together and offers homeowners a simple low-interest construction loan that is cheaper than their energy bills.
Calling three separate people "under-qualified" is a bit more than a misunderstanding.
I'm sure this will be downvoted to oblivion shortly, but it's mind-boggling that the company who's turned rocket landings so routine that it's notable when they fail is being singled out as a failure.

(Update: sorry, by "this" I mean the parent comment.)
I just watched that video and now I know even less about the product than I did before (which was nothing).
No true Scotsman huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Also can you link to an example of this purported memory safe C++ compiler? Please note for an apples to apples comparison it must reject all memory unsafe non-modern C++ constructs.
The automation in ordering at fast food places was visible immediately after several cities uped the minimum wage. Hurt the workers but my orders accuracy has gone up compared to the previous human system
Also, building a zero-carbon transport system would be generally useful for transporting things other lettuce. And that's probably like 80% of the way toward a zero-carbon transit system. I think you have a good point.
That's not distribution. That's just letting every owner maintain their share of the pie by staking.
Let's break CPython together, for fun and mischief
I guess that would depend on whether you believe there's a meaning to life in the first place.
I think it's mostly the joy that their past decade or two of work wasn't wasted.
My guess is lower image size, which means image can get transferred faster.
Even for runs off a few hundred PCBs all the PCB assemblers I've worked with prefer to do it themselves. They know their machines much better than I do.
As someone who's spent time in both Austin and Houston, I'd agree with the sentiment that Houston is pretty objectively a much better place to live. These phenomena are probably more driven by superficial appearances, though, and that's where Austin has always had an edge. It's hilly, it's perceived as a college town, and on the surface it has a lot of access to nature. It looks better on the surface than Houston to an observer who hasn't lived in both places. Really, it's just like the Bay Area -- it looks good, but it actually is a very rough and empty place to live for most folks.
Something I've always wondered: Isn't municipal broadband mostly the last mile? It's the extremely capital intensive work of going from houses to houses rolling out fiber, maintaining a few local relays with equipment and fielding tech support requests.

Wouldn't ISPs be happier just installing their hardware somewhere and reselling their capacity wholesale and outsourcing all that last mile work to the local towns?
> in this case if they make him faster they have to make their changes public because of the GPL

Related to this: the GPL's obligations about sharing the source, kick in if you're sharing the binary. It's not relevant whether you made any changes yourself. [0] For compliance, the lazy derivative product will have to make the source available. I wonder if they've done that.

[0] https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2020/fall/why-providing-source-...
I wonder who they're going to blame when they still can't get their card but can't pin it on the miners.

As for these mining cards, without the resale value they might as well be ASICs.
That's completely unfair: In addition to Twitter US capitalism also gives you the option of GoFundMe. You can utilize both at the same time too!
I wonder what the Census Bureau counts as a "job" here. Does having a monetized YouTube channel, Twitch stream, or OnlyFans account on the side count? What about monetizing a hobby you might still otherwise be doing with something like Etsy or Patreon? Driving for Uber or DoorDash on the side? A school teacher taking a part-time job over the summer? Hosting an Airbnb? Going door-to-door for the Census Bureau itself? Many of these are not necessarily indicative of economic turmoil.

A data point missing from the article is how many hours workers are committing to their jobs. I'd consider that to be more important that just the number of jobs people have. The article clearly attributes the rise in multiple jobs to wage stagnation while the cost of living continues to rise - which does seem like a reasonable explanation. However, it's possible that at least some of the rise can be attributed to greater economic opportunity as people dip their toes into new markets without completely abandoning their traditional jobs which they may already have.

EDIT: Others have pointed out that many employers have also stopped offering full-time work to avoid having to provide their employees with benefits. That would also contribute to a rise in multiple jobs without necessarily increasing the number of hours worked.
The majority of this figure is not credit card and mortgage debt. It is government debt in the form of bonds, bought by central banks. Multiple first world countries have turned the money printer up to full throttle during pandemic, and that has caused the debt:GDP ratio to sky rocket.
I thought they looked anxious and overheated.
> Blame users that use...

I am, and I'm warning them, whats wrong with that?
Maybe but for me I think it would the joy of completing such a massive task so well. They literally just achieved something that no one else in history has.
Found in the Skyline FAQ that you can turn on anonymously sharing private repo contributions: https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...
It's from a hazard camera, which is not used for main photography. Better images will come soon.
If private companies can't compete with the government-run enterprise, this implies that the government-run enterprise is more efficient. And if the government-run enterprise is more efficient, why exactly should the private competitors even exist?
Not only is the snark in your reply annoying and take away any point you wanted to make, but also it's not socialism so it's an even worse take.
They might have an ideological bias, but if the prevailing ideology is anti-nuclear then ignoring that bias isn't going to get you very far. Biden has committed us to moving the energy sector off of carbon in the next 15 years, which means we're going to build a lot of $CleanEnergy really soon, and if the ideological landscape doesn't change it very likely will be a whole lot of solar and wind (what is 15 years minus the amount of time it takes to build out a nuclear power plant?).
If x and y are correlated, it could be the case that x causes y, y causes x, or x and y are both caused by z.

Could it be the case that high levels of debt and crashes are both caused by the business cycle? If debt increases when the economy grows (because debt is used to fund investment), and the economy grows and recedes in a cycle, won’t we expect there to always be lots of debt before the recession? In the counterfactual where we don’t have debt, we’d also have less investment, so perhaps development would be permanently lower (ie. worse than the low point of each recession).

This is similar to the observations that the stock market is always highest before a recession, or the tallest skyscrapers are built before a recession.
Both Greifswald and Rheinsberg were built according to German standards. East Germany even produced the reactor pressure vessels themselves.

Also, the blocks 5-8 in Greifswald were modern VVER-440/213 which are far more reliable and safe than for example the SWR-69 reactor types used in Neckerwestheim I, Kruemmel and Isar 1 which were all in operation until 2011.
It depends on who the job interviewer is. Pre-COVID if it was all expenses payed trip to the left coast for an interview with SV royalty then yeah I might study a bit on the plane.

I always loved a good travel to a nice location (e.g. Seattle) for a few days break and interview in a company of interest.

You can make a sport of it but yeah it's worth it for some top tier companies.
I guess technically it's on an 11 minute delay for the whole planet.
I'm super confused by your comment! I don't believe that good contributions in one area absolves someone's bad behavior in other fronts.

You're not supposed to buy goodwill.
...including the US when you look more closely at Medicare and Medicaid.

At least that holds true for a lot of peoples.
My disagreement is based on the fact that it was 41ºF in my living room due to failures with coal and natural gas, so any time spent talking about weakness of power-production methods that were exceeding expectations is beyond wasted. It's a distraction from the real issues.

If solar and wind had failed spectacularly, then I'd want to see that. But they didn't. Coal and natural gas did.

So we should be talking about how natural gas and coal failed, not some hypothetical alternate reality where solar and wind under-delivered.
Yeah, last time I checked everyone was still on the "viable fusion is constantly 20 years away" meme.
Rarely does one hear the sunk cost fallacy advocated so enthusiastically.
Your relational database won’t scale for analytics
I was in a "startup inside a <mid-sized> Company" (about 5 years old at that point, pre-IPO) a few years back. It operated independently, separate building, separate recruiting with a large amount of equity compared to the main company.

The benefits were that we could hire major talent who wanted to take some risk but not complete risk (i.e. our funding was "secured"), politics were completely removed, we operated in semi-stealth and we had an already established base of customers to do POCs and get feedback from. It was successful and post-IPO of the main company it merged fully and became a fully branded product under the same umbrella. It was almost like a Cisco-style "spin-out-spin-in" but way less equity.

The downside was if the project failed for technical risk reasons, we would all be axed, of course, and the partially vested equity wouldn't have been worth as much of course.

I think really think the biggest benefit was the removal of politics and distractions from the main company. Other large companies (Ex. Oracle) you cannot innovate internally unless you do it faster than someone can find it and kill it. After a company reaches a certain size and maturity, the only growth is through M&As not through internal innovation and taking risks IMHO.
It’s like 20 years away!!
Germany spent closer to $26B on Solar since 2016. Meanwhile, the US alone expects to spend $36B on storing nuclear waste. Half of the first generation of nuclear power plants being constructed were abandoned because of insurmountable costs.

If nuclear power was economically viable, no one could stop it. But investors do not want to pay for plant construction without massive subsidies that are now absent, nor for the decommissioning, nor for the storage of spent fuel; they just want to sell electricity and keep the money without any overhead. Where are the private investors! Bring them on and get it done! They're simply not interested. "Electricity too cheap to meter" never materialized. Renewable energy is a far better return, and today, nuclear power can not compete against renewables. Consider that if a tiny portion of the investment in R&D for nuclear energy had instead been invested in renewables, nuclear energy would have died in the 1960's.
Sounds like a standard software company...
Sourcehut Pages
I heard on the live stream that it was taken by a camera that is used by the driving system.

Guessing its black and white/high contrast to help see rocks etc. And probably much lower res, smaller file size too for transferring.
Just an enthusiast, no real answers, but here's a guess:

These are hazard cameras, designed to be inputs into the guidance algorithms on board. It might make sense for such a camera to be B/W to reduce on board processing required. There's also a glass cover on them, and a lot of dust from the landing, so that may be obscuring true color if the cameras do in fact take color images.

Also they may have just transmitted a lower quality B/W image to get something back to Earth quickly, since higher res images take longer to uplink.
I only can judge from the article - I don't know the dynamics of the team. Some people and teams thrive on meeting a challenge and it would be exhilarating. Others would see this as draining.

For the right team, I would do this. That isn't many teams.
It's an "engineering cam" that's not really meant for taking nice pictures, more to see where the thing is going. There'll be some better Instagram selfies soon though.
> I'd rather they have scaled up the demand.

There are car factories shutting down due to lack of chips. The silicon for the systems that I work on has its lead times increased from the customary <30 to 50 weeks. The supply issues is worldwide, for all fabless semiconductor issues.

How do you suggest they scale up demand short of building their own fabs? (Which I hope you aren't suggesting...)
Keychain items persist even after you delete the app, and probably app URLs?
For the Twitch issue, it's likely that Twitch stored a secret in your Keychain that persists. If you have a Mac, you can enable iCloud Keychain on your devices to sync and explore the contents. Search for Twitch and delete the entry(ies).
This was explained on the feed. It's from a lower-res safety camera mainly used for object avoidance on the ground. High definition images will be available later.