skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope so too.

There goes 25% of Apple’s profits. Who needs to sell iPhones in China anyways. And 50% of GM’s profits. Who needs to sell American cars in China anyways. And Boeing. And Intel. And AMD. And nVidia. And Microsoft. And Tesla. Sweet sweet Tesla that just opened up a gigafactory in Shanghai. Profits vaporized. The list goes on..

There goes the fake stock market while we’re at it. A huge chunk of that value is from China. But, let’s go ahead and decouple.
5-10 years a lot of development work will be considered blue-collar work

started with all the bootcamps, learn to code stuff, plus gameification of hiring process, covid-remote work and an increase in automation and ml tech i can see it as a plausible future
If you train a neural network you get some results. But presumably if you train a 1000 separate neural networks on different measurements made of the same target, and then let those thousand models vote, isn't that a new kind of learning mechanism, compared to having a single neural network that always takes in all the inputs?

Further each of the thousand neural nets could have a different learning algorithm.
I may have delusions of grandeur because I mainly work on compilers and libraries rather than business code but there is some diabolically awful code in this training set
Another submission from the Osmocom folks (who have been creating open source for 2G/etc):

https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/harald_welt...
Thanks, very interesting. Unfortunately my main compiler is TinyC so I am limited to those extensions that it supports, although TinyC's community is open to ideas and may be they can add missing bits eventually.
I accept this as unavoidable reality. The only way to fight this problem is education. I'm not worried much about the fact that everyone "believes" some stuff that is actually not true. This is and was the case for all time humans where alive. In time where people had the opportunity to debate the different "truths" humanity made progress. In times or societies where this was not possible progress was slow. we dont need and will never get the absolute truth. but wee need freedom to search for it. there is no guarantee that we will find it and even the opinion of the majority can be wrong and often is but it will self-correct as long as pointing out the wrong is allowed. There will always come a time where the wrong becomes obvious to the majority. Pointing out the wrong will be disinformation if the people who decide are in the wrong. We can not have that risk.

So back to the start. You cant have an authority who decide. whats right or wrong has to be proofed/debunked. And it can not be removed afterwards as this would invalidate the debunking.
This is a slow and inefficient process we should probably focus on making it better because it works, it just does not work as good and as fast as the modern world would require. The shortcut "solutions" however will most likely not work at all and potentially case more harm than good.
Tindie is a marketplace, they don't ship anything (and using them from Europe is not a problem). The specific seller of the product discussed here does ship to Europe too, contrary to your claim, and explicitly asks you to contact them if your country is not set up yet (because they do need to research shipping cost and set it up). What exactly is the problem with that?
Pricing depends (also) on number of visitors, for example, the free tier includes 500 visits per month.

So this is hosted by you? This is a tool/service in the space of squarespace, weebly and such?
Hidden message in the Perseverance's Parachute
As I know, Sputnik is cheaper and safer than Pfizer, but not as effective (92% vs 96%).
True. It is gigantic. I heard rumors that an outdoor mall operator wanted to develop the space. But it’s anyone guess. I’m sure the Wilsonville city council and others are working to not let it go undeveloped and turn into a blight.
Before asking for material to read you launched into a moral and self righteous lecture on doublespeak. I doubt whether that is the most effective or even a pleasant way to ask for information
> why continue to pay 5% on top of payment fees?

Because without Upwork weekly charges clients might “forget” and “postpone” and “delay” payments. 5% is ok to know that money will be paid by the schedule.
The most ram you can get on the machines is 16gb.
>There's the modern, results-oriented idea of "you should develop useful skills," split between people who think of it as "this is an investment in yourself and your human capital" and those who say "this is to produce more cogs for the machine."

The irony is that those who get a student loan but don't get an economically viable degree will ultimately end up as full time cogs in the machine because of their debt burden.

Once you have a lucrative job, the amount of time you have to spend your life working for the machine goes down and your ability to choose how you want to live your life goes up.
Fair enough. Actually, in the place I lived I could be as loud as I wanted too.
End of an era for me.. for decades, Fry's has served as a regular weekend waypoint jaunt, in between stocking up on food and getting the laundry done.

I can't count the number of times I'd said to myself, over the decades "just gonna go see whats new at Fry's", and then .. a few months later, those gadget/widget/grommets I bought on an impulse while idling in the aisles turned out to be very, very fruitful for some project or another...

We definitely have a weird future ahead of us, where browsing aisles and getting exposed to weird stuff is no longer a physical event.

I don't think I will feel the same level of nostalgia for Amazon, when it closes some time in the next billion years ..
yes, we've seen that one of the drivers for choosing our tool is often a shorter time to market and faster iteration cycles.
Google Scans Your Gmail for Invoices and Receipts to Track What You Buy Online
>This blog post's talk about the "Monero faithful" and the "community" seem quite ironic to me.

How is it ironic that people believe in the only digital money that doesn't enable mass surveillance? Because people try to profit off free computing? I don't understand
A US air Force captain reported a Mysterious Flying Object passed over his Plane
All I'm saying is that I don't think it's as simple as "you either have incentive or you don't", because if it was, then developers writing bad code that they themselves had to go back to wouldn't exist, but they clearly do. I'm one of them and I talk to a lot of them daily.

To say that "of course this freelance code is garbage, they're paid peanuts" is naive, because it implies that:

a) Well paid engineers always write beautiful code, and the more they get paid the more beautiful it becomes, which obviously isn't true.

b) Badly paid engineers don't care about code quality if they don't get paid for it, which isn't true because open source is a thing.

Reducing everything to economical incentives is, in my opinion, not very useful.
Very refreshing to see this take on marketing text in "anxiety" mode (https://fibery.io/anxiety). "Normal" alternatives are at https://fibery.io/freedom or https://fibery.io/build.
Well there is DANE but browser support is unfortunately missing.
>What will also happen is that the government will end up regulating the App stores, since it’s no longer just Apple running them.

App stores have been on PC for decades at this point and the government isn't regulating them.

I'm not sure this concern is founded.
Decoding the Perseverance Parachute
So all my old SCSI storage disk boxes and towers are hereby not only obsolete, but disrupted? Phew! :) The retro computing world is not only wide but can also be expansive.
There's a huge difference in the motivations of miners and users. The latter group is being addressed here.
And I thought Snow Crash was far-fetched...
Link to the pre-print since jounalists always seem incapable of doing so:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.04.21251134v...
What's your opinion on existence of Planet nine?
There are quantum resistant methods forks can use.
Abandon is not the appropriate word.
But there is a difference between Fry's closing at some point, which anyone that has been into a Fry's in the past few years expects, and a surprise shutdown between Tuesday and Wednesday with no prior announcement (which is what was implied by the linked tweet and was the most noteworthy).

I think that the fact that we all did expect them to close at some point caused us to overlook the rarity of a company ceasing operations overnight and we just took some rando's word for it.

Edit: it seems like this unnamed source was correct. Closure information is now posted at frys.com, which isn't quite midnight but close enough. I'm still a little disappointed at HN in general for basically taking one unconfirmed source at it's word without any of the top voted comments questioning or asking for confirmation.
Show HN: I built a cute, little isometric block stacking editor in QML
Already somewhat old, but still cute.
I hope it brings you joy :)
Not similar, same. John Fry went to school at Santa Clara University, and brought the family franchise supermarket store to the Bay Area, then localized it. At some point selling electronic parts in Silicon Valley was more profitable than selling produce, so the Bay Area "Fry's Food and Drug" became "Fry's Electronics".
I fully agree with you that education is the ultimate solution, but in the mean time, wtf do we do about the entities that have wealth and power, and are able to influence millions of people on just about whatever the fuck they want?

What do we do when the things they choose to influence the population on are no longer just "the rich getting richer" but become actual existential threats? When they get dictators elected, make climate change worse, endanger lives by producing healthcare misinformation, etc?

Does it matter that, over the long term, there are more idealistic freedom of speech ideals if we don't live long enough to even get to the long term?
Crazy idea: Add some form of laser dot for the mouse pointer...
The trouble with Cassandra as an object storage metadata database
We need to put a stop to all electronic surveillance.

Cheap tech/software is making it appear everywhere. It’s just going to get more pervasive in the future. I already feel like the wealthy are watching us everywhere.

I would like to see most electronic monitoring made illegal.

I think we need to set up laws over employer monitoring, even having cameras at work for any reason, even for loss prevention. If they decide they need to bring us in—so be it. If an employer doesn’t think you pull your weight, they can fire.

All public, police electronic, license plate scanners, including ankle brackets, and alcohol monitors should be illegal. Yes—even alcohol monitors. Go back to “If he passed the field sobriety test” let him go. In certain rare situations, a blood test could be obtained. In my county, Marin County, I’m pretty convinced most DUI’s are marginal, and give our officers something to do? (Yes—I see you cops on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard salivating for something to put on your shift reports, especially after 10 pm. Don’t bother driving through Marin County after 10 pm, especially if your drive an old car, or had a glass of wine at dinner. Sorry—I walk at night, and have been seeing way to many traffic stops. I know one know my neighborhood, but I bet they are seeing the same in their neighborhoods.)

I would like to see all cameras in public settings removed. I would even put back the Toll Takers.

All this cheap tech, and surveillance will just get worse in the future.

We got by for decades without it?

We seemed to have a better society back then for the most part? Worried about security, hire a Security Guard? Worried about ethics/morality of your hires, maybe show up in church, or set an example for your employees?

The only form of surveillance I was excited about was Police Cams, but most are easily disabled by the officer. The only worth while video seems like it from a passerby who has a phone?

I don’t want to get into a big debate, but feel like we are at a point where the we are all being watched/photographed way too much.

To all the nervous nellies out there, whom believe surveillance makes society safer/better; everyone has a nice camera at their fingertips.
all password managers i know work better than this, the paid ones offer infinitely more, the OSS one, keepass, is better and safer, it also has multiple integrations

no use, make it more interesting/better or it's useless
I’m out of that game but for me it depended on the work. I mostly did security assessments, which were extremely simple to time box and were much easier to sell as fixed bid.

Longer architecture or implementation work were hourly.
>need to be contained

Yes? When was the last time you were on the Moon?
I've messed around with stuff and honestly? Unreal + Blueprints is a much nicer set of tools for experienced programmers I think.

It's visual programming, but it's easy to explore around, there's nice debugging interfaces, and the type inference stuff makes it so that you are presented with a lot of the engine details in a nicely digestible manner.

Unity it's like "OK make a bunch of C# classes and coroutines!" and it gets real messy real quick if you don't know what tools are available to you.
Looks really cool. Out of curiosity, how did you build the real-time collaborative aspect of your editor? Is it built on some existing tools, or did you build that part from scratch?
A single engine is 25$ million dollars on a 777. Not exactly something they want to push till its limits on inspections
Perhaps an alternative to look into: Numpyro [1] has a JAX backend so can be really fast when compiled; and it can run on GPUs. So that might be helpful for your problem with loads of data.

[1] https://github.com/pyro-ppl/numpyro
Yeah I thought about that, but gitlab-runner doesn't allow to "share" cache or artifacts between jobs so it's not a good fit to test multiple-jobs workflows.
The clip doesn't mention the importance of the BBC Micro in the history of Arm - but without the success of the BBC, Acorn surely wouldn't have been in a position to create the Archimedes with its novel processor.
Was there any correlation during this period with Ice Shelf collapses ?
Mine still works: https://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/my-bbc-micro-model-b-and-plume-... https://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/back-from-dead-with-power-suppl...
Stamen could definitely be added as a free tile host (as should OSM themselves), but I would specify that it's the hosting service that's being offered freely, not just the tiles themselves.

While the tiles are free (CC) I would say a list of freely licenced downloadable resources/assets for devs would be much bigger/broader in scope.
Yeah it does work with includes. One of the pain point right now is that it does not work with cache:untracked or artifacts:untracked, but I'm trying to figure it out :)
yes for the free tier we host the website. Starting from the paying tiers we enable self-hosting. Today it is still an on-demand feature but we are planning to enable self-hosting in self-service before the summer. We also plan to have one-click integrations with Netlify and Vercel (we are in discussion with them at the moment).

Yes, the tool is in the space of no-code site builders, we typically see users choosing weweb when they've outgrown their regular site builders like Webflow, Wix or Squarespace and want more customization options.
So its just another "better" bitcoin. But bitcoin is already useless. And we already have FBA coins instead of PoW/PoS which are way more efficient. It remove the external "useful" work completely.
Yeah, it actually gets more expensive because colleges can overcharge you.
Never had the pleasure of having (or even seeing) a BBC Micro, but I grew up with the contemporary ZX Spectrum (and the predecessor ZX81) and I have the fondest memories of that time [0].

There was something magical about its simplicity and immediacy. From OFF to a BASIC interpreter in about one second. No boilerplate, you could be drawing stuff on the screen in one line.

I've wondered many times if there's anything equivalent for the current generations. Teaching CG in university showed me just how many abstractions there are between a person and the computer these days. Some of my students didn't have a clear understanding of the difference between RAM and disk; I suppose SSDs make this difference even more tenuous. For me growing up it was pretty obvious what was in the computer and what was in the tape.

[0] https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/d...
I think the way you work, even if you produce stellar results, in some cases will actually be a worse fit than a lower-quality solution that takes longer but involves some kind of draconian control mechanism, because it's also about feeling in control, not just results. These draconian control solutions mostly work as a very crude way to care for the mental health of employers, managers etc., with disproportionate negative impact on the employed; but giving up control is always risky, and feeling risk isn't fun, and dealing with that in a healthy way is something lots of people who get into such positions have never had a chance to properly learn, or even realize it's a problem at all. But such people often do have power and leeway to put in such controls unilaterally, and the further up you go on the food chain, the easier it becomes to isolate oneself from the consequences of such thinking, and doing things differently on the lower levels may require those further up to at least tolerate such an approach; but if they're deeply insecure themselves, wouldn't they perceive such a stance as weak or soft? Won't that hurt my chances for advancement? Will it look like I didn't do my due dilligence if I actually do get screwed with? There are lots of orgs that work like that.
One reason why turbines are much more reliable than engines is very few parts are ever accelerating. Once the turbine has spun up everything is rotating in unison unlike a crankshaft for example that is constantly changing direction / acceleration
My 2012 MacBook Pro is still going strong! Use it daily. Upgraded to a 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM and I sincerely hope it'll last a few more years - still on Mojave though. I boot into Crapolina to do App Store work from a USB SSD, but will probably upgrade to Big Sour at some point with the horrendous menubar spacing.

I type this on my work MacBook where I've had to press backspace so many times due to the shift key not working and the i key repeating itself, with the touchbar flashing constantly next to the power button.... the battery has a worse rating too even though it's a 2016 versus my 2012. I hate this keyboard.
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NL/The Netherlands :

Around 1984 I got really interested and there was an Acorn Electron at our local library for everybody to use.

Around 1986 I went to a new school which had a fully equipped classroom with BBC B's, server with co-processor, networked(!). We all had our own floppy disks ( not drives ), which we could save to at the end of the hour. This class was opened up during lunch-breaks.

Late 1986 : Acorn dumped their Electron stock on the marktet and a national furniture chain ( Quantum ) carried them, and I acquired my first computer for a very modest price. I still remember that day and place.

Thank you Acorn for the wonderful products and the BBC/UK for the foresight.

And here we are.
That's insanely cool. I wonder, if similarly, it could be set up to pump out 3D models of things. We'd be pretty close to having an "AI storyteller" for games, movies, etc - and one that can improvise!
This would be highly illegal in greensand... Wonder if they even offer service here?
Journalists' job isn't to point you at real original information, it is to keep you from accessing the real stuff and to come back to their newspaper.
Yeah it's crazy how so much stuff in a supermarket is then totally off limits to you.

I just ate a lot of vegetables and meat. Old school diet!

Plus like the comment below, just making things from scratch. Often they taste just as good - the sugar was just in there because they used cheap / unripe ingredients that don't taste of anything.
Does this use a Linux kernel module on the RPi, or is the emulation in userspace?
Great work. Something I'd definitely want would I still be using the Sculpt.

Like others have mentioned here, the Sculpt suffers from other issues apart from being wireless:

My biggest issue is the small, poorly constructed F-keys. Switching to regular sized keys on the Microsoft Surface Ergonomic shows how bad they actually are.

Anyway, is there a way we could get Microsoft to build a Sculpt v2 which fixes the shortcomings of the original one?! I still think it's one of the best ergonomic keyboards, even with issues it has.
Where is your head to come up with this logic?

I never said such thing and btw, not that it matters, but my family has a history of being slaved, that's why I put this argument. It doesn't make it any prettier if you are enslaved with or without food, it's still slavery. The same is for eating meat, it doesn't matter if it's organic or not, it's still eating meat.

Do I have to draw for you?
One thing I'm missing in all these languages is 100% auto-completion like the one you have in Java or C#. I have yet to experience a single instance of Intellij not being able to auto-complete something or not do it completely.

I know Nim and Rust have good VS Code plugins that do that to some extent but it is not something I can rely upon.

Maybe I'm just spoiled.
Also keep in mind whatever frequency they use doesn't go through cats very well. Took me a while to realise that the keyboard and mouse are playing up only if a cat is sleeping on the desk just behind them.
So glad I read this. I was about to buy a Mac Mini M1. Now I'm holding off until this issue is clarified or solved.
Recommend getting away from hourly, or recommend going for fixed-price only?
The Future of Storyboarding: Blender for Pre-Production
Biometric Authentication Methods Will Revamp the Commerce Experience
Let em guess, the work was paid with gridcoins.
If you look on the engine, there is a brownish kevlar sheet that is designed to actually contain the blade. The cowling is not part of the testing process for broken fan blades and is not on the test engines.
This is the kind of thing I was getting at about everything about modern life being bad. It's like someone declared war on sperm a few decades ago and is just slowly modifying everything they can think of to kill them all off.
And seeds. Lot's of seeds! Gotta eat those plant-sperm if you want to make good sperm yourself!
Fax is still a thing. Not long ago did some work for a publisher, who take orders from their stockists via forms submitted either via ftp as EDIs, or fax as either EDI or a hand-filled form for transcription to EDI - the majority still fax in handwritten forms.

I also had to send a fax of documentation to a government a few weeks ago - their rationale was that fax was secure, and email wasn’t - the irony of course being that I used some random web to fax service, which is likely much less secure than either email or fax!
Kite is doind pretty well for me in Python.

In my experience a lot of stuff that is auto-completed in java is boilerplate, stuff that I don't really need in python.
That's an impressive amount of RAM!
Of course, that's the point. If you cannot have enough memory, you don't buy them. Even the old haswell (2013) Acer laptop has 16GB; the skylake lenovo laptop I use for work has 32GB.
Cowling is not designed to hold the fan blades. There is a brown kevlar sheet around the fan that keeps the shrapnel in