skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same with me and a lot of people I Know. Macs are so reliable (in general, don’t want to get into a debate as a lot of viruses don’t target them as Windows is larger) that upgrading is not required for a long time.

It may change in the future if Apple introduces planned obsolescence, but so far no issues
I remember the PC World Computer Fair at the Barbican in the early Eighties, walking past the Acorn stand with a BBC with a voice synthesiser singing “I am working for the BBC”.
Yet Another Collaboration Tool
On a global marketplace? $100/hour is a ridiculously good rate for a large % of workers. Maybe not in SF or Tech Hubs but for a graphics designer in India, or Eastern Europe?
I think most people can't stand political views they don't like. But censorship is never the answer.
I always disabled swap on Linux (back when I was using HDDs) because it was completely useless anyway. As soon as you ran out of RAM and it started using swap the entire system would grind to a halt and you'd basically have no choice but to restart it, killing all processes rather than just random ones.

There doesn't seem to have been any effort by Linux developers to fix that (e.g. provide a kernel level GUI to let you pick which processes to kill when out of RAM).
Hi, what version are you on?

I'm running two versions: 85.0.1 and 87.0a1 and haven't seen it on either. On the other hand, I had configured my new tabs to be entirely blank, so maybe if you'd like to try the same we could find out if this removes their ads?
Automations / Flowcharts looks useful, but not a problem I have :) Still great product, Good luck Omar!
We won’t know how bad it is for a couple months, feels too much like last year..
I hate the phrase “worth millions”. They may have millions of dollars, but they are not therefore worth that much in a moral, societal, or even actuarial sense.
#!/usr/bin/env bash

WANTMODE=wal

for file in "$@"; do
MODE=`sqlite3 -init <(echo .timeout 10000) -batch "$file" 'PRAGMA journal_mode;'`
if [[ $MODE == $WANTMODE ]]; then continue; fi
OLDSIZE=`du -kc "$file" "$file-wal" "$file-shm" 2>/dev/null | tail -n1 | cut -f1`
echo -n "$file: "
echo "PRAGMA journal_mode=$WANTMODE;" | sqlite3 -init <(echo .timeout 10000) -batch "$file"
if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then continue; fi
NEWSIZE=`du -kc "$file" "$file-wal" "$file-shm" 2>/dev/null | tail -n1 | cut -f1`
echo "${OLDSIZE}kb -> ${NEWSIZE}kb"
done
>Fedex on high-margin, next-day service

FedEx Express does. FedEx Ground has a separate truck fleet, and, fascinatingly, a separate president and CEO. FedEx Ship Manager prints both labels, but they have different barcodes and layouts, and you have to schedule separate pickups.

One name, several different companies.
I don’t understand why people are so upset about this, but okay with google showing ads in search.

This is cutting out the middleman.
I work full-time and get monitored like this. Ever hear of Hubstaff? It's an unfortunate reality for some remote workers and I don't agree with it but it happens. There can be an inherent distrust from employers when they're unable to see you physically working. It's more of an assurance thing, but I've gotten used to working exclusively in VM's.
Implementing "defer"
Stripes new compensation policy limits upside for employees
Derek Yu, the creator of the Spelunky series among other things, has just published a blog post on his experience with developer archetypes: https://www.derekyu.com/makegames/archetypes.html

Recommended short read, I'm sure you'll find yourself here and relate to your non-indie-game-developer self too!
Ah I see, you perhaps mean a slightly more general concept of coroutines than I was thinking about? Closer to something that fits a thread-like interface on top of actual threads regardless of whether it's being done through direct yields or intermediated by some sort of scheduler?

Basically the crucial point being getting concurrency without the need for actual parallelism?
I remember Chris Serle learning about email from Ian McNaughton in 1982, I just couldn’t understand how fax was a thing for the next couple of decades.
I remember taking my computer into repair at some Chinese shop. When I came to pivk it up, all their floor demos were showing the pictures and animations I had collected.
Well, obviously both can be true at the same time - the new strain can be more infectious but overall case counts can be under control due to more effective control measures and lockdown discipline. You're coming off a huge bloom in cases from the double holiday and New Year period in the US when a lot of people mixed over a period of a month or more.

Maybe this strain explains the high prevalence of the disease in California despite relatively restrictive and early lockdown measures. Ive seen that cited several times here, relative to Florida, to argue that lockdowns don't make any difference.
I used upwork when i was between jobs and wanted some side work before i found something more permanent. I managed to get a ~$100/hr gig. Although honestly it still didn't seem worth it in the end. Freelancing sucks.
Software Testing Methodologies and Approaches to Fuzzing
From what I read, the way eInk conducts their business, it is very difficult to launch new eInk products. This limits the available offerings which means there is no competition to drive the market priced down. I bought a reMarkable 2 because it seems to be perhaps the only device on the market which doesn't require a jailbreak or such to do even the most basic customizations. The only other alternative I have seen so far are DIY projects attaching a raw eInk screen to a Rapberry Pi.
Ask HN: Pivoting from Medical Device to Aerospace Industry
In recent years I have had good success in becoming an Engineering VP in a startup developing Medical Device Software. The Medical Device Software industry must solve for both innovative software and ensuring quality and processes conformance. With my background as a Software Developer and my ability to quickly understand and interpret quality Requirements, I have found a sweet spot in my (limited) talents that is both professionally challenging/stimulating and in high demand.

However. I don't want to spend the rest of my life working for the Lifescience industry.

Recently I have realized that my true life-long passion is working in the Aerospace industry, specifically the Space industry. I have almost zero network with companies or professionals working in the Space industry however I have realized that my "talents" in the Medical Device industry are applicable as well for the Space industry. Although the Quality standards differ in name and numbers, they must also solve for the same challenges in delivering innovation and assurance of quality.

What would be your advice for someone wanting to change industries from Medical Device to the (Aero)Space Industry? My heart is aching to contribute to the second space race, and I willing to give up my VP position, salary and everything, as long as I can pursue my passion. I am in my early thirties, no kids or attachments otherwise.
What's next, brainwave scanners that only pay you for hours that has atleast 20% gamma wavelength.
Enjoy your browser that's based on Gecko/WebRender, funded by ads, or your browser that's based on Chromium, funded by ads.
Bear in mind that these "custom" vehicles that the USPS has used in the past use a lot of off-the-shelf parts. For example, the current "custom" Grumman LLV is built on a GM chassis, and uses a GM powertrain.

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

It's essentially a new shell thrown on top of an 80's GM SUV.

Do you have left-hand drive mail vehicles in the UK? I don't recall ever seeing images of a Royal Mail delivering to a post-mounted mail box from a truck now that I think about it....
The word "easily" aside, yes. My reasoning, it was actually talking to an arm RTOS core which was the soft bus to the cpu doing the gui and sugar.
The electric Renault Kangoo can drive across the whole of Switzerland on a single charge.
Well, if it is more deadly, the the article states "is associated with severe illness and death", then it will automatically bring down cases, as people die.

The problem with Covid-19 (the original strain and also most of its variants) is that it is not THAT deadly, which results in hosts remaining alive, and transmitting on the disease.

Yes, what I am saying above sounds counter-intuitive and even harsh, but this is the case.

Long term, I see the more deadly variants dying off, and the less deadly variants remaining with us forever.
It would have been perfect if on a .whynot tld
I built this - https://hackaday.com/2021/01/08/old-kindle-shows-hdmi-video-...
I'm a developer making a game prototype (full-time at the moment after being retrenched).

If you're a solo dev I think it's really important to focus on the areas where you don't have any skills. For example art, animation, effects etc. All of these could potentially be a big hurdle, depending on the idea that you are developing.

Learning how code works in Unity (as a developer) isn't that difficult, it just takes a bit of time. Say you need to add more advanced elements, for example you need some form of space partitioning? If you know the terms then searching for existing code (e.g. a good KD-tree implementation) on github is also not a problem, and you shouldn't have any issues implementing it in your game.

But figuring out what art assets you're going to need, how you're going to create them (or source them) and integrate them into the engine can be an issue. As per another comment, "juicing" the game up takes you out of your developer comfort area, you need to really tap into your creative side there.
Ask HN: Advice on choosing an M&A firm for a company with ~1M earnings
Hi HN,

I own a privately held, web-based business with revenue in the low millions and around 1M EBITDA. We've seen strong growth over the past few years, but are currently on somewhat of a plateau. Future prospects look decent though, so I expect we will remain comfortably profitable, and I could see outcomes over the next 1-2 years anywhere from flat or slight decline up to perhaps 50% growth.

Having run this company for a number of years now, I am starting to consider an exit. I'm not in any particular hurry, but am at least starting to think about what our valuation might be. Since the company was entirely bootstrapped, I don't have any real experience working with VCs or M&A firms. I know if I was looking to sell I would want representation that understands the market, but beyond that, I'm interested in advice on how to choose a good mid market M&A firm.

I've seen it recommended not to go with firms that charge an up-front fee, because incentives are more aligned if the firm only earns when a sale is done. That makes sense to me, but I don't know how common the various cost structures are, so how feasible that is. Any info on that, as well as industry standard rates/ranges in general would be helpful.

Plus any other advice. Most of what you find online is put out there by the firms themselves, who of course have an interest in focusing on their various strengths. Input from people who have sold companies around this size would be invaluable.

Thanks!
Ghana is first in Africa to receive Covid-19 vaccines under COVAX
The map is relative to one location. You don’t want to see « rocks » and « rocks » for any distance smaller than 6000km, you want to see everyday objects. So you want the origin to be on earth surface
No no! that's perfectly alright. Thank you so much for pointing it out.
How to get relevant email address?
This is crazy good. Well done.
The only surprise in that sentence that the percentage is less than 100. Obviously, somebody in US post did not get the memo that Biden wants to electrify government vehicles by 100%. Elektrek is pointing out that the key person involved with this decision was appointed by Trump.

Basically it's a fat juicy government contract where a military contractor gets fat juicy pay check to build something that already exists that other delivery companies world wide are buying because they are very suitable for this kind of work load (lots of stop/start, predictable routes).

The other interesting thing in the article is the rather large range of vehicles (50000-165,000) that is being committed to. Half a billion for 50K vehicles seems a lot of money to commit to in a company that probably is wondering how much of their core business is still going to be there in a decade. Delivering letters is basically a dying business. The only mail I get is the very occasional company that somehow hasn't figured out email. Is that still going to be a thing decades in the future?
Then that adds a delay to each block being broadcast to the network. It also means that the longer a miner waits to broadcast the block, the more time a different miner has to finish a proof-of-work and claim the next block first. Miners are all racing each other, so they're all going to try to wait the most minimum amount.

The logic around only accepting a block if you previously saw a signed hash is vulnerable to sybil attacks. An attacker could run thousands of nodes on the p2p network, never relay anyone else's signed hashes, steal the proof-of-works from completed blocks and then broadcast signed hashes of its own blocks with the stolen pows and then broadcast those blocks. Many users might find themselves connected to only nodes run by the attacker and would get tricked into accepting the attacker's chain.

The proof-of-work not depending on the blockchain state means that a miner could queue up lots of complete proof-of-works and then mint a ton of blocks with them all at once to do a 51% attack.

Any solution to this is either going to be centralized or look like proof-of-stake, and at that point, the proof-of-work is extra and not actually load-bearing at all.
Allwinner H3-Based Cherry Pi PC Rolls as Orange Pi PC Lookalike
Well you have to compete on skill, niche and reputation. High skill workers in poor countries still can make $$$ online if they have the appropriate skills and especially if somewhat specialized. Doubly so if they have a strong reputation for doing a good job.
Oh you'd be surprised. Here's a few (tld and target market)[0]:

.kim - Kim (Korean surname)
.lol - LOL: laughing out loud
.organic - organic gardeners, farmers, foods, etc.
.plumbing - plumbing businesses

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
Almost all German pupils that want to can study, the old haupt-, realschule and gymnasium system you refer to is a lot less meaningful these days than a few decades ago (e.g. lots of kids can go to a gesamtschule and still get into university even if they weren't admitted to a gymnasium).

Germany is actually a couple of places above the US in the education index (that measures years of schooling): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index

Additionally most vocational schools (Fachhochschule) are also free/cheap in Germany and Austria so even those pupils who can't get into university can still get affordable education.
Yes, it sounds like someone is being paid as a "micro-manager" to check whether others are working. It is very dismissive towards the other employees, and it is very troubling to pay someone at a management level to do such work. Someone whose job only consists in checking over the shoulders of the people doing the actual work should be paid less, not more, than them.
I have a bit of a sour experience with this keyboard. I love it, I really do.

But when I accidentally wrecked the receiver, here's what I found:

* MS doesn't offer replacement receivers

* Each keyboard is paired to its specific receiver so you can't even buy an off-the-shelf replacement

* MS make it extremely hard to reach a person to speak to

* Their website practically doesn't have support for this keyboard

My Sculpt is now a useless piece of plastic.
This is such a great product, but I have to be honest, I didn't understand what it was about until I signed up. Because landing page is just fluff :/

Sorry but in my opinion the copy in your landing page is a bit off.
Give it a shot! I bet you could figure something out, maybe starting with this guide. https://teaandtechtime.com/custom-60-percent-bluetooth-keybo...
The remote work law in the European Union is here https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...

The specific article in question is:

* "If any kind of monitoring system is put in place, it needs to be proportionate to the objective and introduced in accordance with Directive 90/270 on visual display units;"

It is legal but there is a big "if" in there.
I'm literally surrounded by SCSI devices at the moment, and this project is a godsend - but it doesn't ship outside the US, alas. Pity.

Anyone else in Europe wanna pitch in and make a batch of these for use on the continent?
For contrast, my PC “system” PCIe drive bought in 2018 shows 6,7TB, and “data” SATA SSD has 1,5TB wear, which is used for games, etc. The drive at work had around 8-10TB since 2016 last time I checked.

I was never concerned with wear, have moderate demands/usage and used these drives as much as needed.
I think its Apples turn to respond. I don't see this as anyone elses responsibility. Until then, all available data clearly points to a premature death of many M1 machines.
Types of Insurance Policies You Should Know
If only someone would make a gig marketplace website that could act as an escrow, collecting money upfront and distributing once the work is done.
Great, glad it's a fun distraction and that's a better score than I can get. :) Feel free to contact me outside HN as well if you can think of any improvements (global high score tables are sounding good!).

More on topic, when coding the game, I was Git committing maybe every hour or so without useful commit messages and didn't have a problem. With games (in the early stages anyway), I find you're typically changing lots and lots of small things all over the place to tweak the gameplay and presentation in an experimental way, so granular commits aren't helpful.

I would switch to more granular commits now though since the game has stabilised more.
Proof by example. Just because it worked well for your family growing up, that does not mean it does for everyone else. For instance, when I was a kid, there were all kinds of stores in walking distance from our house. All of them are now gone and replaced by much bigger stores on the outskirts of the same town. Also, my grandparents lived close-by, so my parents could drop us off quite easily if necessary.
A lot of the things that could be done on foot now require some form of transportation in that area, and PT is too sparse to be a real alternative, especially when you have four children.

If SUVs make up 50% of the market, it is not surprising that they get into accidents more, but of course it's unclear what exactly you mean by "higher rates". But in any event, just because they are involved in more accident does not mean that they're less safe for people inside the car - I would think that the safety features of elaborate cars are an order of magnitude more developed than those of these tiny three-wheelers.

And those 50% of SUVs will not go away over night to be replaced by tiny cars. So that's why the reply to my original post makes little sense: as long as our streets are filled with huge cars, it's without a doubt more dangerous to drive along in a tiny one.
we probably should though. The flu is different every year. Which is why we need new flu shots every year. Giving it a new name would help the public understand.
Considering how big Apple is, and how diverse its offerings are, that doesn't sound like a lot.
Ask HN: How is your development experience with the Apple M1 so far?
Common asthma drug cuts Covid-19 hospitalization, recovery time – Oxford study
Zero Bug Tolerance
I'm not familiar with that thesis. Pijul uses deltas everywhere (but a special form of deltas, storing more information than the output of `diff`), plus tricks to make that fast.
Which browser are you switching to? I think many people on here, like me, think the options are Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome derivatives. There was a recent hullabaloo about Chromium packagers throwing in the towel with Google deprecating a bunch of Google features from Chromium, suggesting that using a Chrome derivative may not be the strongest choice, but I'm still curious as to where you're heading.
Good luck reversing a bank transfer.
According to the linked Tindie page ships outside the US and explicitly says to contact the seller to add countries that are missing?
This really looks cool, I don't know why you did get this little attention.

Maybe your next iteration allow us to login our accounts, upvote and comment posts :)

Great reader :)
Boris Johnson says he feels guilty about his journalism
> So while it’s not branded, the reputation is overall positive.

I agree. Trader Joes has a lot of white label stuff, I'd say I usually have a higher impression of their white labeled products than branded products at the same price range.
> what's the point of writing 2-3 per week if you don't think you have any relevant/interesting to say?

What might not be relevant/interesting to you could well be relevant/interesting to others. There's also the Field Notes philosophy - "I'm not writing it down to remember it later; I'm writing it down to remember it now" - blogging about something can solidify it in your mind because you have to work out how to express / explain it.
Same here, although 5 years later. I've learned static typing, byte handling, string handling, array handling, arguments by reference !, arguments by copy and even OOP with it. It was very easy to read and well structured. Clearly structured but powerful learning language at this time.
When the user guide prominently includes a wiring diagram for adding the memory necessary to run the product:

http://users.telenet.be/kim1-6502/6502/2ksa/2ksa.html

Cover:Schematics for a 5V, 3A regulated power supply and a
1K x 8 read/write memory block. The power supply and three
such memory blocks can be added to the basic KIM-l microcomputer
to provide the 4K RAM required by this assembler. Parts are
available from Jameco Electronics.
> Modula-2 isn't that much big influence on OCaml, its modular ideas were already present in CLU, ML and Mesa.

Modula inspired ML in this regard: <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/773473.178245>

ML modules alone don't provide separate compilation.
Are you familiar with the term sealioning?
Extraterrestrial Engineering
Any sources that people are ok with ads in search results? Especially from the same people?
High-end, by definition, is not a large percentage of workers. High end is the workers on the high end of the compensation scale.

Those type of people arent going to be on a site like upwork, but they make a hell of a lot more than $100/hr.
It seems like you're trying to shield yourself from "complete dead weight contractors" which should be easy enough to spot. Certainly don't need a dystopian monitoring system to pluck up their monitors every 10 minutes, and have months of research on trailing data to come to the conclusion that a contractor is dead weight.
reminds me of Umberto Eco's 'Foucault's Pendulum' and the measures of the Parisian newsstand that refer to the Cheops pyramid and the universe.

If you look hard enough for clues, you will find some.

However, they did not appear to me.
There are a lot of "should"s in the world. People should not feel entitled to something they use extensively but do not pay for, yet here we are.
Let's not ignore major funds and companies investing in BTC like crazy, that's what is propping up the price not the "Tether scam" that's being going on for 5 years unproven.