skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be great if a vendor sold iMac mainboard swap kits to convert older models into general purpose monitors. The monitors in iMacs are useful well beyond the period Apple supports the builtin computing parts. It would be interesting to see how big a market there is for such a set of products. I suspect a lot of iMacs are collecting dust because they can’t install a version of MacOS that still receives security updates.

Ideally, a customer would enter their iMac model and serial number to see if a kit was available so they wouldn’t have to crack open their computer to find the display panel model.

This may be complicated because different models have different sets of ports and it’s possible that batches of the same model were made with different LCD panels and display controllers.

The varying ports would not be an issue if customers were willing to modify their cases with a rotary grinder.

The resulting monitors would have DisplayPort (regular & USB-C), HDMI, and DVI-I inputs that could be switched between. A builtin USB hub would also be great. It would be better if the embedded iSight webcam was connected to the USB hub internally and the audio jacks repurposed to utilize the builtin microphone and amplified speakers.

In an alternate universe Apple could have included a monitor input port and let users switch between displaying the internal and external computers. They sort of did this with Thunderbolt on a few models but that was only useful with other Macs.

I really wish the iMac had never been an all-in-one product and instead was a minitower or pizza box chassis with regular PCI Express slots and a separate monitor but here we are. In that scenario, folks with less compute and expansion needs would get a Mac Mini. Is connecting 3 extra cables (monitor, monitor power, and USB) such a heavy lift?
No. I always stay liquid and fill the gapes.
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I got mine last week, i had some mild discomford in the arm that i got vaccine in, and nothing else.

I am not sure what to make out of latest news about AstraZenica.

Not even sure how much vaccine will help me since I am on biological drugs (that lover the immune response)
God this is infuriating. Apart from being an obvious scam, NFTs are actively doing harm to the environment. This is not funny, it's just bad. It’s a net negative for humanity.

As, of course, are any and all cryptocurrencies and blockchain-related get-rich-quick schemes. I can’t wait for this whole pyramid to collapse.
Both wikipedia and pypi requests are >99% readonly and cacheable, and neither have strict global consistency guarantees. That makes them very cheap and technically easy to run through a free global CDN like cloudflare.
May I ask what games use Rust?
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Scientific Advances Are Ruining Science Fiction
It was a blogging platform when I last looked into it, now it seems to encompass blog, newsletters, and paid subscriptions to access premium content (like Patreon?) all in one.
Not strictly true.

Your earnings after the first 1M in a calendar year will become subject to 30%. Your earnings before that aren't affected.

However, you are then kicked out of the program for the whole following year and can only reapply for the year after that if the next year's earnings are under 1M.
It seems wikipedia english gets 255m per day. This doesn't include all of their image hosting and other side services though. I think those are in the many hundreda of millions if not billions. Id say they are at least comparable.

It's kinda moot though. I wouldn't begrudge pypi asking for money either.
If there are no Scots speakers who care enough to write it, should it exist?
Almost anything (with exception of "3 easily googleable questions about you") is safer than sms. For example, emailing password reset link to my gmail account that is protected with real 2fa.
I posted this yesterday but it got flagged because apparently a shared Airtable link requires people to login, did not know that, my bad!

I converted it into a list.
Feral pigs are just big pigs with overgrown teeth and more hair, something about freedom makes them even more aggressive than they normally are so never get near a wild souder (group). Yes, they are good to eat if in good areas but they usually have worms so cook well. Many ranches have cage traps set for this very reason.
TX declared open season on feral hogs and offers a bounty per tail as funds permit, there is no reason to "cobra farm" them as prolific as they are. Enterprising souls have even offered "chopper rides" for the shared cost of ammo & fuel so you could hunt down a sounder and kill them with a variety of full-auto fire weapons (M60, M240, Mini-gun, etc) from the safety of the air. Yes, it sounds horrible till you consider the amount of damage they do to everything in their path and with a population of 10mil+ you aren't really making a dent.
This is a question I've been trying to ask ever since NFTs became the hot new "thing."
I'm very familiar with this as I spent 10 years in prison. The term "Uncle Tom" is not used by black men in prison. They say "house n-word" (except not n-word of course). It's about the most offensive term possible.

It basically means a "house slave" that was well-treated and is therefore sympathetic to or on the side of the white man. The anytonym is "field n-word", a slave that worked in the fields, which I probably heard more often as people sometimes identify as that term. E.g., if a guy is talking to his buddy who has a nice ("cadillac") job situation, he might say "I'm just a field n-word."
One thing that works well in "monorepo" is that API specs are in the same repo for "queries" and "answers". In a multi-repo world, you have three distinct possibilities, the API spec goes in the "answers" repo (this is pretty natural, but requires a build system that triggers "queries" rebuilds/retests on changes), the API spec goes in a dedicated repo, or the API spec goes into one of the "queries" repos.

This ordering is probably in order from "most" to "least" obvious, and I don't have an answer for what the correct solution is. Most probably "separate repo", making the interface not privileged to either side of the "interface barrier".

FWIW, building at Google when at a 8h offset from Pacific Time worked fine, indicating that part of the problem is "does your repo/build solution scale to tens of thousands of simultaneous users".
How to get more done without overcommiting?
oh, nice.

I didn't know about it.

It is a huge undertaking, google has services from "simple" things like location, to complex things like face recognition.
To me it's less outrageous when you think of it in terms of crypto. The buyer paid 44 ETH for it, they probably had thousands of ETH that they created from nothing a few years back.
Unfortunately in many countries progressive taxation means people likely to start business are unable to save and invest in it for long before they have no choice but take a bank loan or look for VC money. It is rarely possible to start a business only with your own money that you saved. I think that's bad, and is often overlooked by people supporting high progressive tax. We are cutting the wings of people who are more likely to succeed and provide jobs and force them to share their business with the rich who likely never worked hard in their lives.
60k is the highest controlled US civil airspace.

So what they're saying is that aircraft are flying from 45k feet to beyond 60k feet.

The SR-71 is the only airplane that regularly flew above 60k feet (85k feet cruise.) Previously the X-15 made many flights to above any significant atmosphere, then used rocket thrusters for control.

Source: commercially-rated airplane pilot.
This is basically what I did. I ended up trapped in a half-management-but-no-real-authority-but-also-we-need-you-as-an-engineer role. It's an easy place to accidentally find yourself when the managers above you aren't technical enough to manage engineers effectively. All my previous jobs were in smaller companies where this tends to be the norm.

It has been incredibly freeing to work at GitLab where there is an engineering career path and no pressure to move into management. I don't think I'm a bad manager, but I don't enjoy it as much as engineering, and it's nice to just be able to do what I'm good at.
(Non-fungible token)
Given the huge amount of free coins floating in the system from the prehistoric days, chances are the guy who created this is also the guy who bought it, or a close friend. That was even already shown to be the case for the massive sale last week -- the purchaser was the owner of an NFT startup.

The entire thing is a scam designed to get time in the news. Never forget what kind of folk you're dealing with in this space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin
Study finds evidence of 55 new chemicals in people
Is the domain actually-authentic-ntfs.com still available?

I know it's a typo but FWIW, I would buy NTFS for $80k :-)
You are correct, let me rephrase that:

I separate plastic so it can be either burnt together with my other trash, or shipped to Turkey where god knows what environmental crime is committed with it. An extremely small percentage might be melted into some low grade park bench. Absolutely zero plastic will be turned into high quality plastic pellets for industrial as a substitute for new plastic. It does not make me feel good, but not doing it makes me feel worse.

I just voted today for real change. Voting matters, plastic "recycling" doesn't*

* if you live in a place where you have meaningfully different options, not just two flavors of the same
Voters don't cancel their representative, they select the one they think will represent their wishes. Even removing someone from the office when the voters believe they no longer represent their interests is not cancellation, it is how democracy works. You don't cancel your lawyer if he misrepresent you, you fire him.
Mentoring Developers in Selleo: Best Practices
>... thousands of Wikipedia “volunteers” essentially work on the site full-time, driving its success — but that while they get nothing tangible for their efforts, WMF bankrolls its employees’ cooking classes, massages and gym memberships.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...
An iPad design ripoff (complete with the JingPad Pencil) with fake images from a Chinese company.

That's a no from me.
Isn’t this about bolstering the network around whatever crypto n/w is serving this? The idea is to bootstrap a digital artefacts market I guess and one a lot of people start trading them the value on the network overall goes up and somebody makes big bucks. These shock and awe purchases are just designed to draw people’s interest and drum up a bubble of activity. The immediate beneficiaries are lucky guys indeed, but the “investors” must be half-wits if they don’t realise that just about anyone can see these artefacts are immediately and perfectly reproducible.
Just trying to avoid getting Twitter dogpiled
From Amazon to FedEx, the Delivery Truck Is Going Electric
Huh, like an ideological or meme Ponzi scheme!
What Is Apple’s Quant for Neural Networks Quantization
I thought this was a really interesting look at the commercial end of ransomware.

Clearly shows that as an attack class it's not going anywhere for the time being and it'll just be a growing issue.

With the amounts of money being made, you can also expect increasing sophistication as it'll make financial sense to invest.

The comments about targeting companies with insurance were also interesting. I guess it's a smart way to make sure you get a guaranteed payout. But also I can see insurance rates going up and/or companies getting out of the market if they have to pay out too often.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

https://medium.com/cortexlabs/what-is-ntf-da442a7d2728
most people you know, probably, but you have no data about everyone else
OSM should just run their tile server behind cloudflare. Then cloudflare will pay for all the traffic for common map tiles, and load on the tile infrastructure will be low enough that the running cost isn't substantial. Asking thousands of individual users to set up and host their own tile servers is just a waste of everyone's time.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the author, I feel like it's a bit pointless because it feels like the politically correct wave has already won. Just keep thinking what you want, don't cancel me. This is not a hill I want to die on.
In my experience the "mistakes" mentioned in the article are mostly a motivation problem. The assumption is that a successful engineering manager is one that makes their team thrive whereas in reality the companies only reward individual success. Same goes for developers, best developers only get junior->senior promotions while the ones that join the most meetings and do strategical thinking goes towards engineering management and leadership.

1. Still doing much technical work

If the technical work tackles an important bottleneck or solves an immediate internal problem for the company, this will be seen as incredibly valuable (even more so compared to the eng. manager were still a developer) as opposed to delegating it.

2. Not giving (enough) holistic feedback

In my experience, managers never evaluated based on how helpful they are to their teams. They only need to avoid negative feedback, which is not necessarily aligned with being honest and direct to their reports.

3. Doing all the project management

There's an urgent problem. Eng manager dives in, quickly fetches developers from teams and micro-project-manages them until the resolution and moves on. This is recognised as a success.

4. Not sharing enough information with the team

Sharing is good for the team members, not necessarily relevant or hurtful for the managers' success.

5. Not doing one-on-one coaching

Same as above, managers help their reports out of good will if they do but if they are evaluated on their help with delivery and not the health of their team, they do not have the motivation.
Some years back I hiked the Inca Trail in Peru. The second day started with a long trek up the side of a mountain, covering a vertical distance of about 1500 m in about 4 hours. You could see the trail ahead pretty much the whole time, including the people on it. It was incredibly challenging to keep going as you were exhausted by altitude and effort and could see it was only going to get more difficult as the day progressed, and still you could see the people who were already on the trail ahead of you. This was the point where many hikers turned back.

What I learned was challenges that defeat you are never what's behind you, only what's in front of you. When it's an uphill climb, the people at the top are causing more of a challenge than what you left or even where you are.

I frequently encounter the position that "we shouldn't do anything at my level because the problem is further down the system" just like the parent comment says. Yes, it makes you feel better to deny you're part of the problem. Unfortunately it's not true in a way that makes the problem worse. It's a close cousin to "she shouldn't have dressed like that" or "she shouldn't have gone out alone". Or maybe "I was just following orders".
That's a solution as a user that wants to use simple apps, not as as an app based company.
The result there is the same for a lot of em.
It cuts their userbase massively and if part of your appeal is your userbase (social media, dating, multiplayer, etc) or depends on it (spotify and the like can only pay out so little and keep their costs low because they capture a sizeable marketshare) you need to be on there.

As for windows it's rather surprising that Microsoft hasn't tried harder to get more of a walled garden going given they were never shy of anticompetitive behaviour and mostly stems from expectations grandfathered in.
Why would anyone spend millions on a tulip bulb?

I think this is exactly the same situation. Caveat emptor.
In relaxed terms, NFT is a special type of token that is universally unique. There is no two identical tokens, and by holding this "token", it's like holding a certified purchase receipt. It's the "proof of ownership" for this item.

Think of it like a freshly printed 10 dollar bill - it's all unique because of the serial number, and there's no two bills with the identical serial number (in theory on bills... in practice on crypto it is truly unique)
I mean if you actually read the published data that is categorically wrong.

The variant in question escapes Antibody detection, but T-Cells still seem to provide significant protection against severe disease and death.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.11.435000v1

The main published results aren't yet from human scale studies but here is one in hamsters showing a comparison in organ damage and results between unvaccinated and vaccinated with the Oxford/AZ vaccine.
Across the Internet, a Game of Whac-a-Mole Is Underway to Root Out Extremism
I think it's necessary to put emphasis on the "get-rich-quick schemes" part, and not the "blockchain/cryptocurrencies" part.

I hope you're not implying blockchain tech and all cryptocurrencies don't/can't provide real utility value, but if so I beg to differ substantially. I built a hook to the Stellar blockchain to store SHA256 hashes of audit evidence that can be validated against at a later time as tamper-proofing evidence. This is just one extremely simple use case, not to mention the entire Defi ecosystem that's being developed as we speak.
As I see it that this was a organizational culture failure where he tries to explain it with a technical debt problem.

I see the fingerprints of almost feudal organization structure the other aspects when I first read about the New Jerseys problem with COBOL.
The blood clots are apparently of a specific type, not a localized big one, but many small clots all over the body. This was on danish news Monday but I can't find an english reference.

This makes it different from the blood clots healthy people sometimes get.
This is how skynet starts
Labor force participation rate: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.ACTI.ZS?location...
Exactly! Same with Google, FB. Disk space is almost free, let who ever sign up.
I'm not sure how NFTs work, but are they proof of work or proof of stake? I was under the impression that one was more destructive than the other, and that proof of work was very outdated. I would imagine NFTs being somewhat new that they use the newer protocol.

So I see this claim made a lot, but I wonder if it isn't a spillover of the BTC inefficiencies into a domain that doesn't have this problem? I could be totally off here though.
I've been trying for ages to get Google to take down spam/scam apps that use my apps name and screenshots but just add "tips" or "guide" to pretend they're legit.

Nothing doing. Still about 50 imitation apps that come up in their search when looking for my app.
Just wanted to call out this excerpt from the article - the author makes an extremely good point:

> I don’t want this post to be about The Solutions™ but here’s one for your noggin; there is this a significant intersection between career changers/developers coming from non traditional backgrounds (i.e. people with no CS degree) and minorities. Put your money where your fucking mouths are and hire these people. Every summer countless tech companies of all sizes run internship programs, would it be a stretch to run an apprenticeship program of the same length for non traditional applicants?

People of color often don't have the cultural or economic incentive (or capability) to engage in STEM roles for many reasons (especially in the United States), so an emphasis on bringing in people from _non-traditional backgrounds_ can have a real, quantifiable impact on workplace diversity.
No, I equate it as an accurate criticism of the left.

As in, it isn’t an inaccurate criticism. It would be nice if the various camps just acknowledged their criticisms based on accuracy.

Yes, a few predictably present radicals does make it an accurate criticism. It would be more difficult to predict this kind of behavior from people identifying as “the right”. They do other things and a core part of that is rejecting virtue signaling even if that results in apathy that perpetuates adversity.

People are willing to choose the latter, in absence of other choices, partially because it more honestly matches the last 250 years of apathy by all administrations. Where its clear there is a kind of vapid reckoning occurring in the former that simply assumes their minority constituents are all struggling victims that cant possibly be interested in any nuanced platform.
And in six of those years (2013-2019) it was absolutely flat:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GOLDAMGBD228NLBM

If you bought gold in 2005, you would have peaked in 2011, and not recovered until mid-2020. If you have the nerve/patience to do that, you have a stronger stomach than I.

I am constantly reminded of Buffett's 2011 take:

> Let’s now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all U.S. cropland (400 million acres with output of about $200 billion annually), plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world’s most profitable company, one earning more than $40 billion annually). After these purchases, we would have about $1 trillion left over for walking-around money (no sense feeling strapped after this buying binge). Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting pile A over pile B?

> Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A.

> Beyond the staggering valuation given the existing stock of gold, current prices make today’s annual production of gold command about $160 billion. Buyers – whether jewelry and industrial users, frightened individuals, or speculators – must continually absorb this additional supply to merely maintain an equilibrium at present prices.

> A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops – and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be. Exxon Mobil will probably have delivered trillions of dollars in dividends to its owners and will also hold assets worth many more trillions (and, remember, you get 16 Exxons). The 170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything. You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond.

* https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf

Gold has not been a very useful 'investment' over the long-term:

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/will-gold-save-the-day/

What are the expected returns of gold given that it has no earnings?
>I've heard the term "NFT" a lot in the past days. However, I still don't know what it stands for.

Serious question as I'm confused by your confusion since HN is overrepresented by techies who know how to google <anything> ...

I also didn't know what "NFT" was last week and I simply googled it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=nft

It's the 1st result. Is that google result misleading and that Foundation.app website and everybody in this thread is talking about another "NFT" I'm unaware of?
Wikimedia/pedia also has constantly new challenges and tasks. Would you want them to not ever change the software, management, ...? WMF has a mission beyond wikipedia, all of them related, in the public interest and transparently done.
Avi Wigderson and László Lovász Win the Abel Prize