skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one of the lucky few (Australia) who have been working back in their office in around October last year.

But my takeaway is that the purchase of a proper ergonomic chair at home has been an absolute game changer for when I am on the PC at home. Secondary ensuring I can keep my monitors at eye level to prevent neck problems.
I've also been rejected by YC several times! I think not doing YC is a really smart choice for some companies.

That said, I think the value of yc is twofold. (1) it's the best possible way to get to a first round of funding and (2) the partners give exceptionally good advice, even for experienced founders.

(1) is useful even if you don't think you'll raise round after round after round of funding. Some of my favorite YC companies took no extra funding. They did yc, raised a normal sized seed round, and are off building fun things and living delightful lives. Seed rounds buy a lot of time and flexibility. In my case, a seed round has let me make big decisions to move our company closer to what I want, even when it meant turning down revenue or firing a bunch of customers. There's nothing more freeing than the ability to escape boat anchor customers.

Even still, yc will help most any company grow faster. That's pretty much what it's designed for. Not all companies should grow faster.
So many of those quotes really need to be read in the context of the original posts. I have read them all in the original context and have also read the journalistic reports on them that conveniently omit the context. There are others who have broken down the claims and compared them with the original quotes and it's really criminal how RMS has been misrepresented.
>it seems ytop [2] is not being maintained anymore

Indeed, author recommends `bottom` instead so noted that in the list. It appears top has a few alternatives. There's also `gotop` that is written in Go and (now that looks cool) `bashtop` written in Bash.
Recent Onyx BOOX user. Excellent and large displays, 10.3" and 13.3" (effectively A4).

And Frontlight.
You're bringing up a specific professional use case in a general-purpose discussion. If you run concerts on anything other than dedicated hardware and software, you're going to have a bad time. If you record at home without low-latency devices and soft-rt software, you're going to have a bad time.

It's in the same category as "the performance of stock Camry is unacceptable for racing" - yes, plan accordingly when entering a race :-)
They probably need to list before they report the user loss from this last quarter.
In that space, it's user growth at all cost. Because selling order flow is how they make money
Looks cool. But Doesn’t work on iPad safari.
The unsuitability of laptops for PDF reading is absolutely inexcusable.

Ebook readers rock.
I live in a metro area of the USA, but not one of the 20th largest ones. I started making any kind of real salary (meaning over $2000 a month) in programming in the spring of 2019. I now make base over $130k a year, and bonus/stock will be about $30k this year, so about $160k a year total compensation.

In 2009 I was making $90,000 a year as a systems administrator (was a sysadmin from 1996 until 2009) and was going to school at night, but the recession killed my job and I went back to school more full time then.

I don't have my degree in computer science yet, although I have a few more classes to go. I am not currently enrolled.

There are about 20 programmers in my larger group. I would say there are about 4 programmers here that are clearly better than me. I am pretty easily better than 10 other programmers here. So I am in the 50%-75% range of ability where I work.

A guy I am friendly with who started programming in 2000 and knows my main language and framework told me he is making about $30k less than me and his bonus will be smaller than mine. He knows my main language and framework much more than I do.

I already has a broad array of skills - Ansible is too new for me in terms of devops/SRE which I never went into but I know all the old-line sysadmin things going back to SunOS IPX machines. As well as the command line, MySQL, other toys; can talk about Turing machines somewhat, I forget what the pumping lemma is other than it puts something in the middle of other things or something, or about the sudoers file

Right now I am learning my main language better, learning my framework better, learning core programming things better (like how every language and framework seems to be becoming more functional), learning git better etc.

I am kind of on a leetcode to FAANG (or something similar) train, although I am in no rush. I doubt I will interview anywhere this year if my company situation remains as it is, which is good. At some point I might find that I can't grow any more where I am - or things could go downhill for reasons outside my control - which is why I am improving my skills to be a more attractive candidate where even a FAANG might hire me. So a ~$250k total comp. at a level 3'ish FAANG role is my current goal in the next few years.
Bentley engineering boss hints at plan to develop synthetic fuels
I think the buttons underneath the sequencer are supposed to be measures, but they don't seem to be working properly for me. Clicking on them once highlights them - but only sometimes. And then clicking on them again does not unhighlight them - but only sometimes. Other than that this seems fun, I want to try to get around this weird issue cause I'd love to play with this. Maybe I'll try Chrome (currently using Firefox)
Although it almost never is the specific purpose, it is always also a purpose.

An exit is an exit, a liquidity event is a liquidity event.

De-risking means being able to support your lifestyle no matter what happens, so this does that regardless of whatever quantum states of adversity could lurk behind the scenes.
AMP's SEO advantage wasn't in organic results, but a separate search vertical ("the carousel") placed above-the-fold. So as mentioned, introducing a new vertical also allowed Google to sidestep any issues of hurting organic results.

In addition, the carousel was a much more desirable placement for publishers to chase. It made them pay attention more than a small ranking factor bump would have.

I do however disagree with Google's decision to implement this. I feel it's one of the legitimate criticisms of AMP, and it took them far too long to fix it.
If curious, past threads:

Stanford study finds walking improves creativity (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9718190 - June 2015 (83 comments)

Stanford study finds walking improves creativity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7669818 - April 2014 (89 comments)
This is true. AMP is a punch in the gut for someone who advocates for the open web. It says: the roadmap you implemented wasn't right for users. It let publishers abuse the user experience. We are taking a step backward, hiding many things that are too powerful, and making it more restrictive.

I completely understand why open web advocates would not greet AMP with a warm welcome. That doesn't mean it wasn't necessary to fix the problems. The problems were and are real.
I've noticed on Hacker News a tendency where people declare phones to be distracting for them and thus the only solution is to stop using them.

I've been listening to the Cortex podcast recently. It is a productivity podcast by CGP Grey (youtuber) and Myke Hurley (runs a podcasting company). There is a big focus on the tech they use and how they make the most of it. There is a large focus their phones and iPads.

They both would probably agree that the garden-path with modern smartphones is a distracting mess. But where they differ is that assuming that means all hope is lost. They are quite advanced users of the systems they use but the basics can be done with only a bit of effort and will make a big impact.

* Go through your apps and purge ones you aren't using anymore.

* Go through the apps you chose to keep and explicitly set the notification settings for them. A lot of distracting apps are distracting because they use notifications to remind you that they exist.

* Remove time-sink apps from your home screen. You'll use them less if opening them takes more effort.

* Use the spots where time-sinks apps used to exist for apps you want to get into the habit of using. You'll have a few days of muscle-memory to exploit to your benefit.

* Take a look at what your calendar and reminder apps can do and start making use of them. They consider these two apps to be the core of the productivity software, and the basic apps will serve people for a long time.

* Look at Screen Time (or the Android equivalent) and see what it can do to further help you. You can set app limits and notification free periods (with exceptions). An interesting metric that is worth periodically checking is Pickups. This tracks what is the first app you switch to after unlocking your phone. It can be handy for identifying troublesome apps.

There is a lot of simple stuff that can make a big difference. That entire list can probably be done in the time it took me to write this. It seems so weird then to see how much of Hacker News is utterly defeatist and doesn't try.

If this did make you curious about the podcast, two episodes I think would make good jumping in points would be:

* #101 Productivity 101: An attempt to cover all the basics for someone just getting into productivity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSCldom1Yc https://www.relay.fm/cortex/101

* #109 State of the Apps: This is a yearly overview of the apps they are using and what they get from them. They include screenshots of their homescreens in the shownotes which can make some useful inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIiOfhlBB4A https://www.relay.fm/cortex/109
Medium Editorial Team Update
Wow didn't know it was that bad
It's interesting and frightening that we are now developing and using systems that perform complex computations for which no analytical expression exists. I saw something similar a while back here: https://www.livescience.com/ai-solves-three-body-problem-fas...
When I click a Reddit link, I expect to be logged in as myself with the ability to vote & comment directly. Instead I land on an easily cacheable page that asks me to download the Reddit app without fail.

Reddit is already fast, Reddit does not benefit from AMP - except by putting that "This page looks better in the app!" modal back in the face of people that have otherwise disabled it via their user settings.
Are we forgetting to account for the lack of centralized banking and everything that comes along with it when factoring in the cost of Bitcoin? No need for tellers and bank branches, no fiat, all of these things should be included in the comparison, along with tons of stuff I can’t even think of that it takes to run a centralized banking system.

Heck just the absence of a federal reserve with the ability to do stupid things to the currency might pay for itself.
a video from 4 months ago, what it normally looks like to transit the canal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwdU2cYRbnM
Social Pomodoro
This would be even better if the cause as well as the time period for each country was included as well.
The requirements page is interesting. For Linux they require a 1Ghz processor and 512MB of memory. For video it requires a Geforce 3 or better. So basically anything that still works.

For Windows the requirements are a 3Ghz machine and 2GB of memory. Is the Windows port running on an emulation layer? The disparity in the specs borders on the absurd. Or is it including Windows 10 vs. a Linux version running on TWM?
Maxwellhill was super profilic and definitely got harrassed occasionally in all those years. Stopping exactly when she was arrested and making 0 comments and posts for 8 months since is extremely unusual especially as people forgot about it quick and given that if they were posting there'd be way less reason to suspect them or harass them.
Would def invest in these guys. I know folks think the trust is gone since GME, but they are not the bad guys in this game. But if anything it proved their power to actually make a difference. They don’t release numbers, but I expect their customer base to exceed some large, traditional brokerages if it hasn’t already. They changed my thinking on the whole space, and as such I think they are more valuable than most legacy players. Folks seem to believe they have a large slice of the whole DOGE supply too. They sold doge when nobody else would — don’t underestimate the doge. :-)
Looks like I can't "turn off" a pizza (for lack of a better term) once I've started using it.

It'd be cool to be able to edit a pizza before it was being played, or save different sets and queue them up.

I've played a bit of Fuser (by Harmonix) and it has a similar vibe. Not exactly the same but I think this could go in a similar direction.
I struggle to find legitimate use cases for NFTs - and I say this with confidence that it’ll age like warm milk.

That said, the one really obvious use case that jumps out at me is in-game loot. At least the inherent value of the NFT is tied back to something that people may want but otherwise can’t just copy-and-paste on their own.

The only problem with the above is that it doesn’t benefit publishers to allow third parties to freely buy-and-sell commercial content without a cut, so I can’t see why they’d ever go for it.
Self signing doesn’t let the world access my website without some scary warning.
They just go around. It’s not catastrophic just adds cost and time. No refueling or ports required for these mega carriers. We’d go around the cape sometimes just because of loads, some aren’t allowed through, or because fees were too high for the value of cargo. Depending on the size of the carrier it can add 20 days or so to the voyage.
My question was meant to be rhetorical in response to the OP.

We have many things labelled to be a theory that are complete enough to be acceptable answers while still being considered relatively incoherent or insufficient to science.
Apple has at best 10% market share in personal computers. Microsoft has a monopoly; a move into Microsoft Silicon would invite anti-trust scrutiny.
Can an assassination attempt be considered successful even if it fails?
I would buy at least one such nano and stash it as a Mac build and media server. I wish apple stuck a 2.5 Gbps port on it though.
It'll be a huge problem if they try that the first time they have a really bad quarter and stop their own trading. But I could see them trying if we have a "business favorable" FTC.
Now that is a new one, because you’re is just a contraction which is not necessary in written English.
Are you under the impression its now impossible to use TLS1.0? What exactly do you think would happen? The web security police come and arrest you?
Japan asks IAEA support for Fukushima tank water release
The latter does not prevent the laptop from the need of a "printer driver" to actually render something. But the driver can be unified (TTY or PostScript), and the printer object (not exactly like a file) has, well, methods to report options and set options, like the paper tray to use.

Or so I understand.

If we could imagine a network filesystem (spanning many hosts) full of Erlang objects which can receive and send data, it would be somehow similar.
I thought it would be Charlie Bell
You are making a common conflation when talking about VR. Better specs does not mean better technology. Sure, the Index looks better on paper right now, but in 2-3 years it will be an unthinkable purchase.

There is a limit to how high the resolution can be bumped in order to realistically run on consumer PCs. Oculus knows this and is dumping heaps of money trying to make foveated rendering happen and squeezing every drop of performance they can out of their rendering pipeline. What can Valve do to compete? Not much. They can bump the resolution anyway but then it becomes a device for super high-end PCs. One breakthrough is all it will take to deprecate the Index.

Plus, we're talking about a $1000 device here. This price point locks out a lot of people. Yeah yeah, I've heard it before, Oculus collects data to subsidise costs, whatever. It doesn't matter. Their devices are more competitive and that's what will capture the market.

It might sound like I'm shilling here but I would point you to my original comment. I don't want Oculus to rule. But they're about to put on the crown.
> They sell luxury goods.

Apple owns like half of the consumer market, everybody and their mother has Apple hardware, so not sure how you would call that "luxury goods".
I mostly just fill my time with work and hobbies. The rest of the time I spend alone with myself.

Doesn't fill the mental needs, but you just get better at suppressing them over the years.

Would be nice to meet someone who shared my interests and take on life, but the only ones I've found don't find me particularly attractive or already got snatched up. And what's the point of starting a relationship with someone who doesn't share your interests and take on life? Fear of dying alone? That doesn't seem to me to be a good enough reason.

Eh, well, dying alone doesn't seem too bad in an era where you can literally pursue any fascinating hobby you want with relatively low startup costs (FPV drones, dirt bikes, rock climbing, backpacking around the world, you name it).
If you use third party DNS, e.g., ISP , Google, NextDNS, etc., the third party provide you with access to a DNS cache. The cache is shared with (many, many) other users. If the other users manipulate the data in the cache, or the DNS data in transit from authoritative DNS servers to the cache is manipulated, DNSSEC can help to detect that. It is like downloading a file over an insecure network then checking against known checksums/hashes/fingerprints. Except with DNSSEC the owner of the file does not create the hashes. She delegates control over the signing process to third parties.
Chasing Covid-19’s R0 and Other Numbers That Define Epidemics
Right, but this is what I mean. If this is the best collection of stuff, well, it doesn't make a compelling argument that there is a huge scourge of this around the internet.

Even if we assume these are all legit issues, there have been 66 total in the five years this repository has existed. That is a miniscule number.

If we actually look at the issues, many of them are not instances of an outsider demanding a project being rewritten in Rust. Let's look at the most recent five issues, to pick a random sample:

* https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/62 This is showing a branch that the team themselves made. It is not an outside demand to re-write it in Rust.

* https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/59 This one does appear to be legit. Not a ton of drama here, a polite conversation that was closed without issue, even though its existence is generally a bit annoying, yes.

* https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/58 This again is someone who is doing this for their own project.

* https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/57 This is a transcription of a joke in a telegram chat.

* https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/53 This is a person who opened an issue on this project, but does not appear to have asked upstream about it.

* https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/51 This one is amusing, given the article, but again, isn't an upstream request.

Let's look at recent closed issues:

* https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/67 This is a person who made this issue, then two minutes later, opened an issue being a jerk on the target repo. Yes, that is annoying for the person who had the issue opened, but is hardly an indication that these are real requests. This person is trolling.

The next seven most recent closed issues are someone who has just opened issues with random technologies they thought they'd be funny. I was only gonna do five, like the opened issues, but it's clear this is a series, so have a bonus two.

So already, we have like, let's round it up: two real issues here, out of fourteen. I am not convinced.

(Your hacker news link seems like nonsense to me?)
I've been testing an Asustor (latest gen) vs Pi NAS and all-in they use almost identical power at idle and at full tilt (drives included).

Surprised me since the NAS is running an Intel processor.
Would it be breaching their fiduciary duty to shareholders if they facilitated sell-offs that decreased their own stock price :face_with_monocle:
This is the article which started all this, the posting of which to reddit supposedly doxxed it's employee. Second to last paragraph:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-green-party-s-growin...
I finally escaped Node
For what it's worth, a spare $500/mo is never going to happen. I think I was 33 before I had an extra $500/mo.
Suez Canal was out of use from 1967 to 1975. It wasn't great but the sun continued to rise.
ASML's financial reports suggests EUV machine production rate has not been impacted:

>In EUV... we successfully increased our manufacturing output in 2020 to 35 systems, however due to fab readiness of our customers we shipped 32 of these systems

It seems they built EUV machines faster than their customers were able to install them.

Furthermore ASML insists the upgraded NXE:3600D machines will start shipping in mid 2021 as planned.
Indeed. A bit like what happened with Blade Runner and 2001 (which has a different relationship to the movie as neither is based on the other).

I think 2001 is a movie making masterclass in itself.
Review Dry and Non-Contact EEG Electrodes for 2010-2021 Years
The basis of the work of electroencephalography (EEG) is the registration of electrical impulses from the brain or some of its individual areas using a special sensor/electrode. This method is used for the treatment and diagnosis of various diseases. The use of wet electrodes in this case does not seem viable, for several well-known reasons. As a result of this, a detailed analysis of modern EEG sensors developed over the past few years is carried out, which will allow researchers to choose this type of sensor more carefully and, as a result, conduct their research more competently. Due to the absence of any standards in the production and testing of dry EEG sensors, the main moment of this manuscript is a detailed description of the necessary steps for testing a dry electrode, which will allow researchers to maximize the potential of the sensor in the various type of research.
Users are flagging them. The only thing moderators have done is decline to turn off the flags. We turn off flags sometimes when (a) the article contains significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) and (b) it can support a substantive HN discussion. Neither of those seems true here so I don't think it's a hard call.

There have been countless threads on the generic topic here (free speech online, let's call it) and the details of this particular story seem very specific to Reddit drama, indeed (not that I've looked closely) to some specific subreddit. If so, that's neither an interesting new phenomenon nor gratifying of intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), so it's not on topic for HN and users have been right to flag these.
Ask HN: Is it possible to use Docker on macOS for development?
Despite all the bad press, I’m betting they increased users/deposits overall. Just like when Facebook/YouTube got “boycotted” and now report record results.