skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cussing the GP out for a light joke does not inspire confidence in you or your cause.
Scientists Translated Spiderwebs into Music
That does sound a bit like me too. I use tools that I’m e it her familiar with enough not to need SO, or that are too specialised or niche for SO to be useful. I have no problem reading documentation or just diving into the code if all else fails.
Maybe you don't feel too self-important.
> The only reason somebody would want both #1 and #2 is if they put tabs and spaces into the same document. That's a terrible idea.

I’m not sure if the GP is asking for what you seem to be referring to. I thought of that request as the keys should insert the characters they stand for. Are you thinking only about multiple spaces used instead of a tab? Spaces are routinely used to increase readability in code. Even something as simple as comparisons in loops are more readable with spaces around the symbols. There are many other cases where spaces are used as spaces.
I was once called by a former employer to see if I would do some consulting on a RSX-11M system I used to work on. When I realized I didn't even remember how to log on, I turned them down.
I fixed it by making my old profile the default in about:profiles

It's weird that a new profile was created in the first place.
One of the comments is just borderline suspicious activity though. Anyway, hope you sort this out without having to nuke your neighbor's connection.
NASA uploads 1fps video of Mars Helicopter flight (from 13:09 in video)
There seems to be a lot of negativity in the comments so far. Is this not the dream that is often touted on hacker news? Work at a FAANG and "retire" somewhere more affordable?

I'm personally doing just this. I was lucky enough to land a good job out of college, buy a house in a desired area, and see it appreciate in the last 10 years. This increase plus the birth of my kids left me wondering if there wasn't a better route than continuing to need a FAANG salary to afford a larger house and private schools.

Due to this we are taking advantage of the remote work opportunities that have opened up due to the pandemic and are moving to the place we spend all our time anyway: a small town in the mountains. We get to do the things we want to do, have more space for our kids to roam, and a better quality of life without the stress of constantly needing a good performance review.

I understand this is not for everyone and I understand the negative perception of 'outsiders' pushing the price up for locals, but at the end of the day I'm optimizing for my own quality of life. I can't think of a better use of the money I've earned doing what I love than to provide a great life for my family.
+1 here.

I think professionals needs to understand the game that they are into. Reorgs, bad managers and other aspects are included in the salary. If you can deal with that, ok; if not leave but this do not give the right to bash publicly someone.
How noble to vocally discard a thing you can't actually lose.
Isn't that just an "exclusive" agreement? that happens all the time.
The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
Worst of all worlds!
> When the specs are constantly churning in order to keep one gigantic company's browser an effective monopoly, maybe it isn't really that important to follow them so closely...

The notion breaks as soon as your users want to use youtube or gmail, which for some mysterious reason keep insisting on using all these useless "standards" even though they have no benefit to the user.
Unconstrained Scene Generation with Locally Conditioned Radiance Fields
gcp doesn’t even give you ipv6 at all. Talk about limitations...
HN design and its spartan interface is an overwhelmingly and the primary reason for its success (of course content, people, moderation, etc as well). If it were a phpBB board, or a discourse forum, it just wouldn't be the same. People are addicted to this site for its usability and simplicity.

We've seen mass exodus from Digg and Reddit. The inflection point is always design, 2008 when they messed up the Digg UX with promoted posts, the whole website went down in a dumpster fire. Reddit has been the same but inflection point was carried out through a couple of years as they went to a new design. Still, old.reddit.com is popular. Reddit has too much influx of new users, high churn rate to keep it from burning down.

Design is the reason for IBM. It is why Apple exists, Nike, Stripe, etc. Sure, a company can be successful without good design, but the ones that are built with design as a cornerstone of its foundation, are easy to spot - HN is one of those IMO.
Sadly the TVM part of this has been deprecated and no longer supported. TVM is a little complex for me but would love to dive in and contribute sometime
Oh god, sorry, I didn't mean to woe-is-me programmers to some kind of perfect equivalence with $35-40k-and-bennies-if-we're-lucky/unionized blue collar folks. I do think in terms of power dynamics most tech workers are much closer to that than to the "professional class" (doctors, lawyers, professors sort-of-but-less-so-these-days) or Fussellian upper-middle that they wish they were. $80-175k doesn't break them out of the tier of income where they're burning much of their money competing with the other working-class stiffs for e.g. housing, and (very relatedly) education for their kids. It's more comfortable, yes, and it'd be crazy to complain about it compared to the alternative, but it's also much more similar than it is different, as far as ability to tell a manager "no".

My intent was just to highlight the above: that most people employed in "tech" would perform a very similar calculation to what any other blue collar worker would, and would end up at the same conclusion of cowing to management. The market's better, sure, but if you're not part of the Tech Worker Aristocracy, and especially if you have a family, you're gonna ask "how high" when the boss says "jump", just like any other poor blue-collar bastard. The top-level comments you were wondering about aren't representative of most of the tech-work world (same as much of the perspective, or at least the apparent perspective, of this site isn't)
Downvotes can be countered by upvotes and are more for low-quality content (or things you disagree with, although many - including me - try to refrain from doing this). Flagging is for content violating the rules, for example spam or insults.
I actually deleted my account some time ago via GDPR request. So I haven’t contributed in a long time (but wasn’t a heavy user anyway). But I have noticed a major decline in my using it at all, even for just reading answers. Yes, I did look up that C++ thing a few days ago, and ended up finding the answer on SO, but before that, I have no idea when I used it last. Could be months.
APS-C might be a tough ask, but something like this[1] or this[2] might work - smaller sensor but at least you won’t get a ridiculous crop factor on APS-C lenses. The second one says it’s format is APS-like.

But I’d say an RPi alone would be a bit tough to handle something like this. You’d need at least an FPGA to control the sensor and maybe something like RPi for UI and further processing.

But it’ll be expensive. These components are anything between $500 and $3000, and that’s _without_ the FPGA and other things that would be required. An equivalent crop frame camera might be only $1000(?). If the aim is to have a DIY hackable camera, sure. If you want a cheap camera, no...

[1] https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Canon%20USA%20PD...
[2] https://ams.com/documents/20143/36005/CMV12000_DS000603_3-00...
What's really baffling is how this is a problem if he just wants to use his laptop or something? Like 5ghz is everywhere these days.
I had this idea in 2016, i.e. offer a platform that lets people register their startups, they hire people + provide a service and enable them to provide equity securities to their employees + the founders (still using traditional contracts that represent the actual legal structure in the form of real-world legally binding contracts with a simultaneous existence as security tokens or whatever financial instruments make sense to early-stage startup employees) but issue ICO-based denominated shares that are then owned by the employees by their holding of the private keys of the wallet - could be operationally similar to ownership of present day ERC-20 tokens), and then enable them to be traded on DEXs if the employee has already vested parts of the crypto-shares/ERC-20 equivalent tokens. The real expense comes in a bit with the requirement of needing to still have a valid legal structure in place with contracts, with specific terms that still are valid with the existing legal framework in whatever country the platform would support. It is for sure viable but will require a lot of capital for regulatory compliance, and also will need to compete in the longer term against better capitalized companies like Coinbase that already have all the necessary traditional banking relationships and other tech companies that operate in adjacent DeFi fields (if they ever decide to compete, of course).

Like Coinbase could acquire Carta or one of those other startup equity focused companies and then use that user data to focus on the best startups to trial this concept with, and then roll it out publicly and then just totally kill your idea. I think it's definitely a good application of the technology and the existence of such a platform would structurally strengthen the crypto ecosystem over the long term.

The fact that Coinbase did a DPO instead of some kind of fancy DeFi-based offering is telling in their potential lack of conviction in the ability to offer public securities at this stage in the game through some of these smart contract based platforms. I'm sure @barmstrong and the Winklevoss brothers have spent a lot of time thinking about this
On the whole, does FIPS improve security or is it one of those compliance checkboxes that actually reduces security of those who know what they’re doing?
Scunthorpe vs. Pastebin
This isn’t really the root of the problem through. The government can’t get more housing through because the voters don’t want it, the voters don’t want it because the traffic is already bad enough and there is nowhere to build more roads, and they don’t consider taking the bus or funding more public transit. And even if you climb that hump you become New York City or Shanghai, both of which are plenty dense with public transit but still not affordable at all.

Seriously, without Singapore-style public housing, you just aren’t going to solve this problem in any reasonable way.
But that would ruin housing as a good investment outside of a small niche market at the super high end.
Sign language, obviously.
husbands:

https://xkcd.com/605/

:)
California had a population of 10m in 1950, and 40m today. So presumably some housing was built. In that period California added the GDP of a mid sized European economy. Such a disaster.
>Becoming the guy who publicly critiques his employers?

Exactly.

At least for me this is a red flag, due to the fact that those things in the article is part of the game.
Search it to find whether destructive operation or return new list
> And once you’ve realized this, the diploma starts to resemble Monopoly money. You have to start evaluating people on a case-by-case basis, instead of using the degree as a reliable proxy.

I’ve found this to be true of job titles, too.
People can critique this writeup, but this is a useful data point for others interested in what happens as companies scale. These aren’t new pain points and they aren’t indicative of looming failure at Stripe — they’re just areas where we could probably do a better job, and might even provide business opportunities for startups that can help HR departments identify and address them.
The business model of indirectly billing for a video game (through insurance) is fascinating. I hope it has merit and helps people, but I would be a little concerned that it could also be exploitative.
I don't really understand. "One Single Digital Audio Player for all your music, with bit-perfect audio quality." - isn't that what VLC does?

Judging by this thread[0] it's good for people who like thumbnail images with tracks? And it "works well with music libraries"? – not sure what that means, I've never used specialized software to organize/navigate my music files. (Am not an 'audiophile', just a musician.)

[0] https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/which-music-player-do-you-ru...
Lightweight sandboxed applications in the browser. No admin password needed since there's nothing to install.

Sure it may be bloated overkill for something that could have just been a plain text file, but it is nice to have real time and interactive visualizations.

Plus it is nice to have the choice to use mobile websites instead of using the access hungry native apps.
I think they understood. I'm happy with this as an example of a mix (and now prepared for the formatting to be eaten), which I believe would be seen as obscene by the commenter:

{
<tab>foo(arg1
<tab> ,arg2
<tab> );
}

Though I think this example is less likely to be controversial:

{
<tab>bar(); /* Some comment
<tab> * across two lines */
}

But it is all fine, because I don't really feel like I need to defend my preferences - that is the nice thing about them.
Blocking third-party cookies without replacing them with FLoC reduces tracking much more efficiently.
Workers.new, custom builds, and improved logging for Workers
I appreciate my custom CSS just fine, thanks.
I would imagine that the point of the site is to draw attention and get people who actually care about this stuff to discuss it, and figure out some more appropriate solutions.
Im honestly surprised that people use stack overflow any more. In the early days, I gained a large amount of reputation both answering and asking questions. It felt like participation.

Now it is almost impossible to ask a valid question without it getting flagged for some reason. Questions are closed as duplicate, when they clearly aren't. If you follow the "new" feed, you can see valid questions getting closed before your eyes. Now I just stumble on it from google searches - and most of the time the answers are of poor quality, or to do with an outdated language or product feature.

It is sad, because it was an awesome Q&A site.
Deleted. Hurts when people down vote a personal story.

TLDR: Worked hard to be ahead, got sick, stayed behind trying to catch up until I stopped trying.
That’s usually clean builds. Incremental builds can be in the instant to 1-5 min depending on what line of code you change (deploy a new compiler and you’re probably rebuilding everything).
Also aws:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=250753
I actually don’t mind the python docs, but then, I learned python from them back in 2001 when I had infrequent internet access, so I had to rely on my offline copy!
It's great that they officially releases data dump to IA.
Crazy thought, but maybe communicate with them and try to work out a solution?
Great post but one point, Whole foods sells 1/2 gallons for $6! I don't drink much milk but would gladly pay a premium for high quality, local, organic milk.
Custom MiSTer FPGA Case (With Beer) [video]
Your comment makes me realize how lucky I am at my job: we do this production environment replication via “SAN magic” and it is so insanely useful.
A few weeks ago I went to play a piece on the piano. I completely blanked, tried to piece together the intro by ear but wasn't really getting anywhere. My teacher played the intro and then boom, the whole thing was back under my fingers.

The brain really is fascinating.
Given how much capitalization AWS and Azure account for it's surprising how little progress has being made in many areas.
A true serverless RDBMS database priced sanely that basically charged for qry execution time and storage without need to provision some "black box" capacity units and would be suitable for a large scale app. Most of all workflows that require contacting support and arbitrary account limits that force you to split solutions across multiple accounts wtf.
Even if he happens to be telling the truth here and they have pulled back some data which shows that Autopilot didn't play any role in the crash, this kind of low-info twitter trolling isn't a good look. By not specifying exactly what data they were able to recover (if any) and coordinating with the investigators, he's raising many more questions than he's answering.

It's a very Trumpian response to bad press that leaves a bad taste in my mouth, even in a situation where I'm inclined to believe that the initial reports are missing some key facts.
> The fact that Coinbase did a DPO instead of some kind of fancy DeFi-based offering is telling in their potential lack of conviction in the ability to offer public securities at this stage in the game through some of these smart contract based platforms. I'm sure @barmstrong has spent a lot of time thinking of this, I certainly would be if I was him.

I think the reason is very simple. Traditional markets have way more investable capital, which leads to better liquidity and higher price. Yes it is possible to issue an equity token, but credible companies will get better valuation and liquidity from traditional equity markets.
I used to believe this “wealthy Californians fleeing” narrative and… I’m just not sure I buy it any more.

135,000 more people left California than moved in last year. Even if they overwhelmingly moved to only ten other states, that’s just 13,500 extra ex-Californians in each one of those unlucky states. And not all of them are going to be wealthy, surely some non-negligible portion will be less well off. Maybe they’ll be wealthier on average, but it’s not 100% tech millionaires.

Somehow this is supposed to be responsible for skyrocketing prices in Austin, Portland, Atlanta, Denver, Boulder, Seattle, Aspen, Jackson, Tahoe, and hundreds of other cities, towns, and locales across the country. All the while the price of housing in California suburbs is going up too!

At the same time, interest rates are plummeting. For a given house sale price, this can dramatically affect the affordability of monthly payments: refinancing last year from 4.325% to 3.375% cut my payment by a full 20%. Sub-3% loans aren’t too hard to find right now. In a competitive market like housing, this has the extremely well-known effect of causing sticker prices to rise. Put another way, if you can afford $1,500/mo payments and the rate drops such that you would only need to pay $1,150/mo, the market will quickly react to increase prices to keep the overall monthly payment the same.

This isn’t a novel mechanism. It’s part of the reason housing has been such a wildly successful Investment vehicle over the last few decades. Interest rates fell, prices went up accordingly.

Are emigrating Californians responsible for some of these price increases? Sure, both generally and probably in some specific markets, I totally buy it. But everywhere simultaneously? I’m skeptical it’s responsible for as much of an effect size as people appear to believe.
I really wish that regular trailers would develop some sort of standard linkage system rather than the SAE ball. I want to back up to my trailer and have it hitch a load equalizing connection without having raise/lower and get grease all over my hands and pants.
So if you're an IBM employee, you're allowed to work on the Linux kernel, but only if that is designated as part of your job function. Interesting...
That website gets posted here all the time as an example of lightweight HTML.
All Tuya based devices are 2.4ghz only. Considering the scale of that ecosystem it's unsurprising this has occurred. I have around 40 devices in my home already...
Just use stablecoins bro
Yes.

There's also the confusion between "flagged" and "dead", which still gets unclear at times.

Not serving dead/flagged via API mostly makes sense, though it could make some analysis harder.
Long-lost Linux distro is making a big comeback
Figma, docs, sheets. All great apps I can use for any device with a web browser. No install needed, no updates needed. Easy to collaborate with. No "install this application" just "open this url"

Application delivery though the web browser is just hella convenient. It's really hard to give that up for some "native apps and static documents" utopian dream.
I think we agree, that it solely serves as clickbait to the rest of his point. My initial impression was that there was the implication that something significant is being given up, which is not the case.
Seriously?!? That's hilarious! Thanks.
It gives the impression that they don't trust their other more standard testing and analysis tools, and also that they don't trust their developers to use discretion when selecting online resources.

And it seems the software itself reflects a misunderstanding about how programming code is actually manifested. It's very possible to read the official docs or use an IDE and end up writing the same lines of code in some Stack Overflow answer, as many here have said already.
He's not. It wasn't exactly a happy separation. The company had some internal strife last year and I'm not sure if the CTO and the head of tech want to work together anymore
Being convicted of violating anti-money laundering laws is not proof that they engaged in money laundering. Like I explained, to prove money laundering occurred, you have to prove that money was generated in a criminal enterprise, which would require the party who provided the funds to be convicted in a court of law of some crime that generated the income.

In the vast majority of cases where a financial intermediary is convicted of violating an anti-money laundering law, this doesn't happen.

It would make discussions more constructive if you read the comment in full before responding to it.
I agree, Django docs put Flask to shame! Flask in general is more intuitive I guess, but the docs are not as good as they could be.
The way I see it is that for many people web applications have replaced their need for desktop applications while giving a somewhat comparable experience. I think it would be a very hard sell for the average user to want to use a "minimal browser" because it could mean giving up a lot of day to day functionality they rely on.
I love my PiDP-11 and the PiDP-8 as well. He is working on a PDP-10 next. That is going to be hecka fun to be running TOPS20 (yeah I know simh dude, but it seems so much more fun when you have the "look" to go with it.)
You sleep for 8 hours.

Another 2 hours is spent showering, prepping for sleep and waking up and using the bathroom during the day.

So you have 14 hours left. If you work, you only have 6 hours left. Commute to work? 4-5 hours.

Dishes, mowing the lawn, prepping and eating meals, studying for your next job advancement, housekeeping, laundry, etc etc... by the time you are done there isn’t a ton of free time in the day.

Spending half of that free time on such a mundane and boring way to pass the time sounds truly impractical to me.
Surely the solution with someone with that much kit is to turn the TX power wayyy down. I guess it depends how close your neighbours are too, and what kind of building they have.
I think this is more hope selling. Here is what I know:

You are always late for something. But you are always early for something else. Times, all things being equal, always breeds opportunities and risks.
Youtube and gmail will mysteriously break for people on Firefox too, so it's not that much worse.

/sarcasm (sort of...)
Vaccine efficacy on mutated strains is a debated topic. Let's wait for another 3-5 years before declaring the new-fangled vaccine as a great human achievement. Also lets solve all the blood-clot issues associated with the adenoviral vaccines.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021031...

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/two-thirds-epidemiol...
Braille is more of a script than a language.