skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you say this fares against a kaiterra or tongdy machine for example?
With diy projects, I'm always concerned about managing temperature and humidity impact on readings, especially on sensors like the plantower.
I've had issues in the past with monitors in very humid environments like Thailand and Singapore.

Disclaimer: I also run an environment data platform business
> When its comes to having a converstation, particularly with multiple people, I can't think of anything worse. I always dread tracking down information when I have to dig into achived mailing lists

Can you give an example of a communication medium — where having a conversation involves multiple different people over the course of weeks or months, with message frequencies varying from several-per-minute to a-few-per-month, and message sizes varying from single sentences to essays — works better than e-mail (and e-mail lists)?

I agree that unwinding a sprawling email thread after the fact can be a lot of work, but I also haven't seen any other medium make that job any easier. It seems to me to be an inherently hard problem.
> Yes, but are there any political philosophies that advocate the adoption of elements of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle?

I don't know if existentialism qualifies as "political philosophy" or not, but if all philosophies are political, then I think existentialism fits that description.

"Once freedom lights its beacon in a man’s heart, the gods are powerless against him. It’s a matter between man and man, and it is for other men, and for them only, to let him go his gait, or to throttle him." -- Jean-Paul Sartre, The Flies
"by Accident."

How many more of these so-called 'accidents' does it take to stop using Twitter? So when users tweeted the magic word 'hammer' a few months ago, they immediately were banned for no specific explanation or reason except 'broke the rules' or 'by accident'. And now this.

And Twitter won't even explain their own actions on their own platform and continuously refuses to comment on the specifics to what lead to this 'accident' (since they are a private company and don't have to.)

Must be hiding something to save themselves from 'accidental' negative press coverage eh?
All OmniOS releases are for the x86-64 architecture only.

Maybe http://www.tribblix.org/download.html would be more appropiate.

For even more geekyness https://github.com/itomato/lubu
Word of mouth is the surest thing I guess - just listen to your colleagues describing low-effort companies/teams they’ve encountered, and try to get there. FWIW I’m in Europe and all the jobs I’ve had here in big multinational companies were pretty low-effort. Maybe it’s less common in the US.
This new approach to generative modelling looks very intriguing.

In a similar ilk, there's this ICLR paper from this year using stochastic differential equations for generative modelling: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13456
I might be a counterexample to your perceived overlap. 3 points:

* It seems that, as a species, we have deep issues rooted in our tribal upbringing. Reaching a global actionable consensus seems as hard (if not harder) as colonizing another planet. The internet only catalyzes the "us vs they" thinking people struggle to get rid of. In one of its many incarnations, it's a nurture of horribly mistaken worldviews — and here I imply climate change denialism, in context. But also flat earth, etc.

* Viewed independently from antropogenic climate change catastrophy -- living on another planet would be extraordinary achievement, would you disagree? Launching a "toy" helicopter is kinda cool, but... living? For some of our greatest ancestors, the coolest achievement has been building millenia-lasting megastructures. Our generations are building fusion testbeds, orbital telescopes & commsat constellations; why wouldn't, say, a giant Earth-shaped globe monument on Mars be great? Perhaps not a globe, yea... but a Statue Of Liberty? Dao temple maybe? A hammer-and-sickle impact crater giga-egraving? Whatever.

* Both viewed together, rationally, Mars colonization is an option to escape extinction on Earth. Not a priority, sure; more like, a backup-of-backup-of-backup plan -- for when all else failed (see point 1). It's not like we can do it soon, either; advance preparations and long practice needed. I won't express any judgement of viability. I do see, however, how ambition and inter-tribe competition can drive this plan to a ready state (see point 2) -- sooner than fossil fuel combustion stops across the world.
> Some senior level engineers can end up making 4000 - 5000€ per month, which would translate to ~$65.000 per year.

Here in France and I think in most western Europe 65K received by the employee will correspond to ~130K shelled out by the company, the rest going out into taxes on the employer side and taxes on the employee side, so it's basically the same.
No language is immune to slow or memory-hungry code. The JVM is probably the easiest runtime to monitor/instrument/profile (and it's not like having no runtime makes that any easier, quite the opposite), and has probably the most tuneable GC going.

I guess enabling your users to do that might be work for a sysadmin, but that's more a reflection of those users having higher expectations for Java than for other runtimes - providing your users with the same capability in other stacks is never easier than Java, and often significantly harder.
Link: http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/Park
Icelandic sagas are fun reading and great literature. You get to peek into another time period where law and morals where quite different and savage hero's rage with both sharp tongues and swords
How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?

"Sorry, but I'm currently not accepting in-office work. If my employment is contingent on new in-office policies, I'm afraid I'll be tendering my resignation."
What does “to actively ignore whilst on” mean? Also which one do you mean?
Guix 1.3
I can't find any references right now, but someone once mentioned TVs shipping with SIM cards embedded so that they could collect telemetry even if you didn't connect it to your network.

Even if it isn't/hasn't happened, there's nothing to stop someone like Samsung sticking cellular modems in their TVs to work around you doing this.

If we think about it like Air-Tags too, popular enough product, it'll just connect to one of your neighbour's TV's which _is_ online.

I remember years ago, Vodafone gave me a "free" femtocell because signal in my home was poor. They neglected to mention the fact it broadcast a public cellular signal which allowed other Vodafone customers to use _my_ internet bandwidth.
For the longest time (until now) I've simply thought that gescom were a de facto alias of autechre...
One thing which annoys me with lot of these tech blogs are that they don’t support RSS. I would like to subscribe and read them as lot of these information are generally a good read and learning.

To be fair, they have a neat feature to subscribe for their new posts by email but somehow RSS is harder?
While I'm happy the NSA is being somewhat transparent about something, even if it happened in the 70s, this is alarming:

FOIA request placed 25 November 2009
Final reply 30 April 2021

Did it really take them 11 years to go through and redact this one document?
> Dijkstra's speech is total and complete arrogance.

and hence the quintessential quote

arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-dijkstras

- alan-kay
Labelling cryptographers as criminal enablers is foolish
> Microsoft ... stayed with the founders for a long time

no, Microsoft brought in Jim Towne (from Tektronix) and then Jon Shirley (from Tandy), only then returned to founder Gates and, not founder Paul Allen but, Gates pal Steve Ballmer.
If I personally dislike XYZ I could write "XYZ is quite [outdated/boring/miserable/painful/awful/uncreative] in many regards". But people here are more interested in (specific) advantages and disadvantages than my personal taste...
Isn’t that life assurance not life insurance?
> people are now trying to draw Asians into the same retrospective thinking. They talk about how the British stole $42 trillion from India. How does that help? The British are never going to be able to give back that money—they can’t afford to.

Oh yes the British bourgeoisie can afford to.

The west can give up it's ridiculous intellectual property regime that kills millions of people and blocks innovation. IP is nothing more than an (artificially scarce) monopoly right on a bit of knowledge. That knowledge belongs to all.
I'm pretty confident we'll see a JS engine written in Rust at some point in the future, it'll just take a very long time to get parity with V8 and will likely introduce its own slew of issues.
This. Knowing why they want you to work in the office is the first step. Get clarity on that (and that might mean reading between the lines - the boss might be lonely and just want everyone back in the office, but they'll never admit that).

Once you have clarity about why they want you in the office, then you can begin to work out how you can craft a deal.
As far as fighting fire with fire, I'd advise the FSB (or whatever relevant law enforcement body) that if you do not ably deter cybercriminals in your jurisdiction we will not enforce cyber crime laws against criminals targeting Russian individuals and companies. Could American hacker groups cause sufficient problems for Russia that it would become worthwhile for Russia to enforce laws against its criminals?
+1, I also fell for the 'Cam'. Could someone please update the title?
My guess? Lack of first class functions and macros. Maybe higher kinded types.

The first one is annoying, not really something a professional software developer would care about for more than 10 minutes while creating a new product.

Macros can be major footguns, they're something that can only be realistically used efficiently and safely in large code bases by actual senior engineers. So the jury's still out how much they really increase productivity for the averaged developer.

Higher kinded types seem great, but it seems that they're not easy to implement and they also slow compilation down a bunch (someone please correct me on this). These seems hard to bolt on to an existing language, so Java can't be faulted much.
We are still working on it, it just requires some work deep inside of Deno internals.
Style transfer commonly hallucinates objects or adds artifacts. Making something look like a painting is actually much easier than making it look realistic. In paintings, artifacts are often tolerated as 'artistic'. In a photo, it just pops out. Also, style transfer approaches are not temporally stable most of the time. Have a look at the comparisons with state-of-the-art image-to-image translation (CUT, TSIT) and photo style transfer (WCT2). In the case of GTA/Cityscapes shown here, most of these methods put trees in the sky and/or flicker. Also the use of G-buffers allows a much deeper and more robust translation than just using images as style-transfer approaches.
There are only a bunch of out of memory errors, though. And they're easy to fix.
Rather than reading this short blog post read the underlying "ACM Turing Lecture 1972" by Dijkstra https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.... There is a lot more wisdom to it.
A very good episode on Science Vs podcast on this very subject.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/emhxgkd/a-seedy-lat...
If Germany companies work like UK companies, you can setup a company, pay corp tax on your profits and leave the money in the company.

Then a in a year or two you can take the remaining money out using dividends.

Fundamentally, it's a tax inefficient way of doing things, but it's the company making the money, while you're only earning whatever smaller amount you pay yourself.

Bit late for this income, as you've already been paid.
Nevertheless, his early work especially contains some melodies and harmonies that sound to me like they originated on an entirely different plane of existence. I've always felt that RDJ is some sort of conduit for translating melodies from heaven.

The wistful melodies on "italic eyeball", basically all of SAW I, "on the romance tip", some MFM stuff, ICBYD...

He's a troll in interviews for sure, but using dreams to find melodies doesn't sound all too far fetched to me.
I thought it was the US that was still considered a hot bed for card fraud.

I've been to stores in the US where they just swipe your magstrip and hand you back the card. No signature, no pin, they don't even look at it, so you can basically clone cards like it's still 1985.

This is consistent with how my UK bank treats any transaction occurring in the US: usually it's an instant card block and a polite phone call from them to check that it was actually me.
As a thought experiment replace URV with [Unit of Minimum Wage] UMW.

"But everything would be listed in URVs, the fake currency. Their wages would be listed in URVs. Taxes were in URVs. All prices were listed in URVs. And URVs were kept stable -- what changed was how many cruzeiros each URV was worth."

'Everything would be listed in UMWs, the fake currency. Their wages would be listed in UMWs. Taxes were in UMWs. All prices were listed in UMWs. And UMWs were kept stable -- what changed was how many dollars each UMW was worth.'

So if the minimum wage was raised, but correspondingly taxes also went up, that would be (if based on a value tax) somewhat of a tax on the rich.

However anyone who's wages didn't rise with the plan, as the middle class in the US currently experiences, is made correspondingly poorer; while the rich still benefit from being able to raise prices.

That is the war on the middle class.
In the US, interchange fees are an order of magnitude more than in the EU, where they are capped. So there is a lot more fraud the system can silently swallow before anyone has to consider upsetting customers and vendors with PINs.
> This is my fundamental disagreement with libertarianism: your statement "I want the free market to thrive and the state entirely out of everyone's lives" is a complete paradox. The "free market" is a creation wholly enforced through the power of the state (and ironically always requires a lot of regulation to stay that way). I will gladly change my mind if you can give me an example of where this is not true.

You are right and i think Thomas Hobbes would agree with you. The free market cannot exist without the sovereign. The sovereign is the deposit of people's will's, of their natural rights(violence and war). Thus there being a sovereign(state/regulations) does not mean people are not free.

Without the sovereign one goes to full on anarchy which paradoxically leads to the supreme evil: violent death. There is no liberty if you are dead.
The comment is in reference to the bar graph at the end of the article.
Weirdly my perception of Java (and C#) is actually a bit of what you describe, but often a lot more one of drifters who know/care just enough to get a salary and continue to drag their bad legacy habits and patterns with them from role to role.

The more esoteric a language is, I find the more _passion_ the average developer has for that language, it's libraries, and tooling.

Now I'm not saying the passionate Java and/or C# devs don't exist - they certainly do, C# is my bread-and-butter and I like to think I still have a flicker of passion for my work - only that there is a vast ocean of driftwood developers making it more difficult to find the sharks.

Haskell (my perception of), for example, has demonstrated some of the strongest devoted (to themselves _and_ Haskell) developers I'm yet to meet. That market is just nothing but developers who love their toolset and just want to write and learn amazing code.
Image search is one of the pain points when you want to deploy your own cloud, and what I'd miss compared to Google Photo or that image search in Dropbox.

Is there something like that in Nextcloud for instance?
I am aware of a basic face recognition app (https://github.com/matiasdelellis/facerecognition)
Ask HN: What do you use to track your tasks and accomplishments at work?
Currently I'm using one text doc per day, titled with the date. Today's doc has all my outstanding tasks, and listed below is everything I've done for the day. As the day progresses, I move items from the TODO section to the DONE section, then at the end of the day I'll move all the leftover TODO items to tomorrow's doc, leaving only the DONE section for each day.

It works okay-ish, but it's a bit arduous, and the tracking isn't great: I can find out what I was doing on a given date, but that's not particularly useful information.

What systems does HN use? I'm sure my system can be improved tenfold, I'm open to any suggestions.
Just because they are attempting to address it does not mean they will succeed.
For an example of photorealistic rendering approach coupled to a scenario generator, see https://synscapes.on.liu.se/index.html
If you have 1000000 people, there's a very high risk at least one is crazy or illogical with respect to survival.

If you have a couple hundred really well examined people who all really wanted to be somewhere the odds are much better, and all the more so, that problems can be contained when identified.
Many banking apps won't even run on a rooted phone 'for my own safety', yet not so long ago the same banks allowed aggregation services that store my login credentials to have access to my accounts?
I had a Zoom's membrane keys fail after a year or so. Cannot recommend their devices.
Secure collection and transfer of logs, decorated with metadata (timestamp(s), logging host, mac address, pid etc.) is solved many times. Just pick a tool.

The hard part is the message field's content and format. It basically boils down to actions of thousands of individual developers. They will never agree on a format and logging style.
Have they fixed the iOS jank yet? I was looking into this a few months ago, but at the time the demos coming out for iOS were appalling, so I dropped it.
> Keep offering up options that make their life easier.

Can you give some examples of what offers like that could be?

I also like the Seinfeld-esque advice of just staying at home, although I really wouldn’t have the guts to go through on that.
Much like "1 + 1 = 2"
I had several IRIX machines as my desktop workstation. They were 1280x1024.

Eg, https://sgi.neocities.org/oldindex.html comments "And everything looks pretty good on my 1280x1024 monitor." https://www.acc.umu.se/technical/hosts/irix.html shows several 1280x1024 machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_display_resolution#SX... comments "Super XGA (SXGA) is a standard monitor resolution of 1280 × 1024 pixels. This display resolution is the "next step" above the XGA resolution that IBM developed in 1990. ... SXGA is the most common native resolution of 17 inch and 19 inch LCD monitors. ... The 1280 × 1024 resolution became popular because at 24 bit/px color depth it fit well into 4 megabytes of video RAM."

I didn't do much with Suns but http://unixhq.com/websgt/ultra1.pdf comments about the Ultra 1: "Creator - Accelerated 24-bit 2-D/3-D graphics and imaging with 8-bit overlay plane,high-speed convolution, rotation,panning, zooming, color conversion, up to 1280 x 1024 at 76 Hz, stereo 960 x 680 at 112 Hz"
Bitcoin sets fresh historic record above $64,000
If anyone in Germany (or close) also wants one, there is a full Ultra1 on eBay (just with a more manageable LCD screen): https://www.ebay.de/itm/114800428000

I have no connection to it, only mentioning it because they seem to be quite rare.
http://archive.is/GbCGq
Humility isn't important, a an accurate assessment of your capabilities is important. A good assessment of yourself isn't humility.

Dijkstra wrote a lot of "deep but not really" quotes that makes perfect headlines and generates clicks and traffic for your blog. Doesn't make them good advice. His full articles are better but people just use the short quotes and writes blogs based on those.
What are some vulnerabilities in bluetooth?
I recall an episode of a daily TV series in Japan where they found seeds from a several thousand year old archaeological dig, which yielded a still viable magnolia tree when planted today.

And there was that story just recently about bacteria found in the deep mantle, dormant for a couple million (?) years, that grew when cultured.

Amazing how patiently life can wait for the moment to be revived again, with no promise or knowledge of when the day may come.
Google to launch Android earthquake detection feature
Partnership Marketing
If it's the same 21" Sun that I had back in the days the native resolution is indeed 1600x1200. Sony Triniton tube, those screen were fantastic.

Mine could even do 800x600 at 160Hz, my first experience with high refresh rates. Felt like I could grab the windows and pull them out of the screen.
We decided to start shoto as newsletter instead doing an app because of some of the reason mentioned on the site. Everyone has an email account to begin with and they check their emails daily. I personally love email.
Yeah, I guess you're right.

It just seems silly that people won't pay something as low as $5 - $10 per year for a service they use daily, while paying for multiple streaming services, cable TV or cell phone plans where they mostly use the data.

Sure $10 doesn't represent the same value across the world, but I don't see an issue in letting the western world pay more. US users is already worth more to Facebook than someone in Africa.
Probably why my employers payroll system is only available internally / via a VPN
> From tomorrow all ISPs will block all Facebook products.

This is not how EU does things.
Guide to Market Making
Usually there isn't even been a choice to make. Everyone just gets a laptop with a docking station, standard configuration Lenovo/Dell/HP. If you want a desktop PC, you need dispensation based on tasks or specific needs. It's been over a decade since a laptop was a "status symbol".

A laptop lets you take your work with you, instead of having to futz around with USB sticks and conference/meeting room PCs that never work quite right.

Laptops also simplify WFH enormously, something that has only become even more relevant over the last year. When I started at my current workplace ~14 years ago some of my colleagues had a desktop PC at work and one at home. At my workplace before that, desktop PCs were still the default, which was a whole mess of RDP-ing to your main office PC when you were at the remote server room office, and you'd better hope that nobody had accidentally switched it off while you were away. Luckily for them, they were finally switching everyone to laptops shortly before I left.

With processing power leveling out as it has over the last couple of years, there really isn't much reason to choose a desktop over a laptop, unless you have some specific very power-hungry needs. A decent laptop does 95% of what a desktop does, and the few people who do need that 5% aren't in any doubt of what they need.

(And even then, a lot of those needs could be served by an eGPU)
My limited experience with pairing has been positive. The negative is you can easily get caught up in the pace.

Which can be solved by taking breaks.
Rust is a good choice. It will serve you well.

In my experience, I can learn a new language (and general style) serviceably well, in just a few weeks, but it can take years to learn the language in-depth, with the language being a “moving target,” as it evolves. I decided to specialize in Swift, and still have a lot to learn (I’ve been programming in Swift since the day it was announced, in 2014). Part of the reason for the time it’s taking, is because I have been using it to ship products, which slows exploration and research.

What really takes time, is platform SDKs and frameworks. They can be real rabbitholes, with all kinds of idiosyncrasies and caveats. They, too, are generally “moving targets.”

Good luck in your endeavors. I really enjoy programming.