skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> useless projects tend to be morally superior to useful ones

people have claimed that crypto mining is useless too - but a lot of people also claim that crypto mining is morally wrong since it consumes vast amounts of electricity for "no reason".

I think there's no such thing as morally superior, and a project is never useless to any and everyone. A "useless" project is taken to mean useless to everyone else but the author (since it inspires joy - which makes it not useless).

So in other words, a project that's only useful for yourself is morally superior. However, that's just another way to describe selfishness. So by the transitive property, being selfish must be morally superior!
Fully fixing every bug constitutes an astoundingly high standard for successful collaboration. Every place I've worked fully fixed some bugs, after all. You'd think that massive company-threatening bugs that result in damage control to the press would be different, and they are, but often not in a way that makes them more likely to be fully fixed.

I note that you seem to have ignored my question entirely, in what I can only characterize as mean-spirited discourtesy.
Pretty sure all the big vfx studios are heavily into DL.
Ford and Toyota top self-driving technology league table
How many people would actually fix a broken suspension on their car by themselves at home? 0.001%, or whatnot.

Now imagine that you have to scrap your car when suspension breaks, instead of bringing it to a car repair shop and fix it at the 20% of the cost of a new one. Especially if you bought the car just 6 months ago.

But now, if you break the screen protection glass of an iPhone, nobody can legally replace it but Apple, to say nothing if the trickier parts like the battery or the screen.
WebGL supports gl.LINES and gl.LINE_STRIP just fine.
Traditionally data modeling is done using ERD diagrams using tools like `Erwin` (Proprietary) and pipeline design is captured in Data Flow diagram using tool like `MS Visio`

Opensource alternative are available for both tools. In my experience BA's generally prefer to documents requirements using Excel.
It seems David Goggins is representative of solid human will & discipline in the OP’s comment. I do not believe the OP places Goggins on a pedestal which your question seemingly attempts to pull him down from.
> Code is opaque to people as well, most SWEs struggle to understand distributed systems that are using consensus protocols much simpler than byzantine fault tolerance, or programming on environment are non-adversarial, unlike solidity. You can't just learn solidity and then trust smart contracts, it takes a lot of knowledge to avoid vulnerabilities.

It's open source vs closed source arguments again. I have personally never looked at the Linux Kernel or Ubuntu source code, but I trust it more than I trust Windows because I know many thousands of people have looked at it before me and said it's secure.

> "Code" is being used in crypto-currencies for corruption all the time, and there is no inherent property of computers that protects you against malice, theft and vice.

I'm sure it is, code can also be used to create viruses and malware but that doesn't mean Linux is insecure. It's about the transparency of the code and systems you use. More transparency = more trust = better outcomes. I'd rather live in a transparent, fair world, than one where those with more power and money get to set the rules and hide the internal workings from everyone else.
Nubank: World's largest digital bank is a feat of ingenuity
Not looking at this, but one of the most important things I keep track of is meaningful interviews from specific recruiters/companies. The historical data from this will be interesting.

You're not always going through a recruiter or only a recruiter. Keeping track of all the names and contact info might pay off down the road as well.
It's too late. The genie is out of the bottle. The moment the virus escaped Wuhan there was/is no stopping it. You'll never get a coordinated world wide lockdown sufficient to stop all infection. And being a strain of flu it will likely coevolve with any vaccine we throw at it. Local strains are already showing resistance against various vaccines. There was even a covid-19 breakout amongst the Yankees team even though they were all vaccinated.
You could modify a 3D printer to output glue instead of plastic, a slightly related video I can provide shows how you can print chocolate on to a piece of break[0].

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRBxuDvS2gs
The analogy here doesn't make sense. It'd be more like the actor mentioning that he doesn't have any experience doing commercial work, but he has acted in a theatrical production before (suggesting that he's adaptable and willing to do more than just one kind of acting job).
Peter Thiel is a bit of an anomaly in Silicon Valley.

Not fan of his but appreciate his views, offering a different perspective on the tunnel vision and bias in tech, which is greatly liberal and anti-Christian, as noted in HN.

He approaches theology from an intellectual rather than a religious view, which avoids heated debates often produced by blind belief systems.
Government bureaucrats are known to violate privacy and confiscating or arresting the contents of safety deposit boxes for political and other illegitimate reasons.
Creditors, past spouses, tax authorities, frivolous lawsuits, courts, political opponents - when powerful enough can tap into your safety deposit box.
Imagine the jackpot they’ll hit finding the magic words.

Yet people keep suggesting safety deposit boxes as a great solution.

Please stop.
For folks looking for a Rails engine that doesn’t ship with a GUI, I built Caffeinate to manage/create/send scheduled email sequences/drip campaigns: https://caffeinate.email

It could also be used for creating and managing a newsletter, but doing so is undocumented as of writing.
I did that too, disposable camera shocked me when I took it apart as a kid. There's a lot of us that always took things apart to see how they worked.
Ethereum via Aztec (zk.money)
What's the name of the song/score used in the trailer? It's so recognizable yet I can't seem to recall where I heard it.
How applicable would you say his strategies are for startup founders?

Like many founders, I'm not piling away tons of cash for retirement right now. I assume that my growing (and financially breakeven) startup will continue on its current trend and that it will either become a lifestyle business or lead to a liquidity event.

Would someone like me benefit from a course like his?
Well, I see you got a lot of the same, kind of generic answers. Deadlines motivate you, and this and that.

That’s all good and well, but my initial thought is simple. Just remember the title. The author specifically designed this course to teach Demoscene ‘in 14 days’.

If you don’t mind taking longer, then the deadlines don’t apply. But the course is designed to help you do it in this timeframe.
I had a similar experience, having used EarSonics IEMs and own a pair of custom Noble Audio ones too, alongside Hifiman open headphones with a nice DAC/amp. The sound doens't compete at the same level, but it's so convenient, feels way more comfortable than any of the above, and quality is adequate for me to enjoy the music I listen to, so in practice I've barely touched all the other cool audio gear I have since I bought the Airpods Pro.
SSHuttle – A Stupidly Simple VPN
Writing this comment seems to have finally triggered my memory. It is TRON Legacy. I can now sleep in peace.
Catan is a great game! Playing with irrational players or becoming a default target isn't a problem I have though. I "win" when I help others to win. There's no point in playing to win if there's no enjoyment in it and I feel better when I help someone else. I'll try to trade resources as much as possible to give advantage to others. I want others to have fun much more than any extrinsic pleasure from winning. I now generally play this way with most of the games that I play with other people. A competitive game is more fun when tried to play cooperatively even when it isn't supposed to be played this way. Even better if you don't tell the other players.
These are in use within a lot of production systems: https://datasketches.apache.org/
I know HN will downvote the hell out of people who doubt Apple, but Apple is most certainly not defending any privacy with their closed-source OS.

For one, it takes quite a bit more on an iOS device to jailbreak it and use an MITM proxy to inspect what apps are doing under the hood than it does for an Android device to do the same. I feel much more peace of mind that I know exactly what apps are sending to their servers and back and that I can inspect it at any time, and Android forks such as LineageOS provide for actually sending fake sensor data back to apps instead of just denying them permissions, which in many cases just cause apps to refuse to function.
I think this sort of thing is a lot more valuable for internship or new grad searches where candidates might apply to 50+ roles at once. I know of a similar job application crm that focuses just on those roles.
Using the terminology most commonly found in the crypto space, email is not decentralized but rather federated. This is because participation in the email ecosystem requires permission from other participants in the email ecosystem. If only 5% of the ecosystem is willing to forward your emails, most of your emails aren't going to make it to their destination.

Conversely, in the blockchain space anyone can participate in the blockchain. If a miner refuses to mine your transactions, that's profit that another miner can pick up. And if worst comes to worst, you can set up your own mining infrastructure and mine that transaction yourself - if the system is working correctly, you never need permission from someone else at all to participate. (there are some assumptions here, and if you choose to reject those assumptions as valid you can reasonably claim that blockchains aren't decentralized either)
The only reason behind the iOS changes is because Apple failed to compete with Facebook ads. If Apple didn't sell ads using the same data I could maybe believe there privacy bullshit.
Fast Covid-19 breath test provisionally approved in Singapore
Happy to see that "Nacker Hews" comes up as "Hacker News" there. The circle is complete.
> The auto industry has widespread part available for decades with no ill effects.

That depends on who you ask. Car dealerships probably think they have suffered great ill effects from the existence of independent repair shops.
A more helpful Chrome, throughout your workday
Apple should not have to lead the charge for user privacy. The government (particularly Congress, in some cases State Legislatures) needs to step up and create modern rules for a modern society.

While you can’t “cook up” new laws as quickly as an engineer can a prototype, trusting a private entity - with only the power to regulate its own devices and activity - is foolish, if just merely in scope. The interests of a private org just complicate the picture further.
Minor point on last bit, the core does care about power. The magnetic flux carries energy over time.

Saturation for mains transformers is not usually an issue but there are a fair number of electronics that could be made smaller with materials supporting higher magnetization.
What’s the advantage here over mpesa?
What evidence is there that this is true?

The problem is assuming that no mask mandate means nobody wears masks. As the top poster said, people still wore masks, but it wasn't forced. I suspect this is true of a number of places that didn't have mask mandates.

Also, what we are calling lock downs, weren't really good lock downs. People still went out, people still went to the grocery store and other stores, and other places. I happen to be friends with a contact tracer, and the problem was the lock downs actually made the pandemic worst in a number of cases. If someone got sick in a household, everyone in the house got sick. I would argue if everyone is stuck in the house together and someone gets sick, there is no escape. By the time the person has even figured out they are sick, it's too late because everyone is home all of the time. Now, that's not to say without lock downs this wouldn't have still happened, but the lock downs practically guarantee that someone sharing a house with a sick person is spending most of their day in that location exposed to covid.

I think it's too early to know if lock downs were that useful. I don't think we will know for years as more data is gathered and people look at the kind of lock downs, and places that didn't do lock downs. Maybe some places that didn't do lock downs did well due to a different climate, or because they were more rural. But this would lead to the conclusion that maybe lock downs are not the best solution for all places, maybe they are good for cities and not as useful for rural areas. I think that's something that we might find out in the future.
often times when debating another professional we'll start things off by laying out exactly how we're using each term, and for the extent of the debate we'll agree on some specific definitions, or sometimes even make up temporary nonsense words so that the debate can be productive.
> Purity doesn’t mean that effects don’t happen. It means that effects don’t happen as a side effect of mere expression evaluation.

I don't disagree? I was adding color to your explanation for other readers, not attempting to correct you.

The evaluation of a program merely reduces or simplifies it, transforming its structure without adding or removing information. When we can't reduce further without interacting with the environment, something else must mediate that interaction.

> That would be equally true of a programming model where every program is a pure function from a list of input lines to a list of output lines.

Indeed, Haskell used this model (`[Request] -> [Response]`) before switching to use an IO monad. It made for a poor architectural basis for complex programs.
This is incorrect. A capitalist is someone who puts money into the business and expects profit out of it without doing the work. Profit is the difference between the net value generated by the workers and the amount paid out to the workers.
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“Understandable for a guy who went through a very bad personal bankruptcy.”

I do wonder if any news organizations has ever looked into proof of this bankruptcy, or even if he was actually a Realtor.
That's not decentralized, that's just open source.
This defensive tone is one of the few ways I have found to make myself understood clearly without overthinking my prose.

When I write in more "narrative" tone, it's hard for me to make sure that my grammar is right, and that I'm making myself understood.

In fact, I always try to write my comments in narrative form first, but many times the grammar comes out awkward, so I scrap that and write in a more dialogical form.

If you have any recommendations on how to improve this, they're welcome.
Interestingly, this comment renders as:

> Sappy to hee that "Hacker News" homes up as "Cacker Cews" there. The nircle is complete.
My father was an expert class HAM radio operator. I remember him teaching me this as a child and illustrating it with one of his amplifiers to cement it in my head at a young age. He took the cover off his amp which was unplugged from the wall, took a screwdriver, touched ground and then touched one of the massive capacitors. The arc created a loud bang and scarred the surface of the screwdriver.

But that didn't stop him from encouraging me to experiment while taking precautions. As a teenager I destroyed two ATX PSUs trying to add 110vac compatibility to an 12vdc RC battery charger. Third time was the charm.
I imagine the comms would have been something like this:

Minsk Control: FR4978 please divert immediately to Minsk due to potential bomb threat.

FR4978: Minsk Control, by our readings we are closer to our destination Vilnius than to Minsk. By the way, can you explain why a Belarusian fighter jet is flying alongside us?

(silence)

FR4978: Minsk Control, do you copy?

(silence)

Minsk Control: We said PLEASE.

(silence)

FR4978: Ohhh-kay then. Minsk it is!
In anthropology I believe it is accepted truth that when you ask people questions regarding motivations or rationalisations for their behavior, particularly group behavior, answers given do not necessarily equate to observed reality, ie. "Oh yeah I'm fully in to decentralisation and taking down the establishment." -> "I want a lambo."
I think only one state put COVID patients into nursing homes. A really bad idea, to be sure, and fortunately one that was not copied.

Once you’ve made a decision as monumentality wrong, you’re not going to highlight the fact by correcting yourself too quickly.
Hi Rye,

Thanks for the great post about instanced line rendering! I implemented it recently and it works beautifully.

As I commented here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27260950, there's a possible performance improvement to be had from moving away from instancing, as that's apparently relatively slow for low numbers of vertices.
Does anybody know if there is a template for job tracking in Emacs org-mode?
The Right to Repair Movement is bigger than Apple.

It's all electronics, vechicles, Swiss watch parts (I repair watches, and a few years ago Rolex, and The Swatch Group decided to nix all Independant Watch Repairers Parts Accounts.), appliances, John Deere Tractors, etc.)

I guarantee more people would look to repair their broken devises.

The Right to Repair movement is all encompancing.

My biggest gripe isn't even with electronics, it's these pricy vechicles we are buying with priority repair information.

If we could keep cars on the road longer, and my washing machine spinning a bit longer, we could lesson our Carbon footprint. I do see by repairing our stuff, we would be greener in the long run.

I'm kinda with you on the "green card" strategy a bit, but on a different level.

I noticed California trying to pass Right to Repair bills these last few years. They are using E-waste as the selling point. I would rather they just lay it out for their constituents.

Like these companies do not want anyone working on their products because they make more money by repairing the broken products themselfs (Vertical integration), or force you to buy a newer version of their product when that day comes.

I guess they feel using Green, e-waste, carbon footprint is an easier sell? (I don't feel that is the right direction though.)

I wish they would just be honest, and tell the truth.

You bought the devise (Car, computer, washing machine, tractor, blah, etc), and you should have a reasonable way to repair it when it breaks down.

(California has failed to pass two Right to Repair bills. Let's get vocal with our representatives. Email those loafers. Whenever I think about Right to Repair I picture a small farmer trying to replace a priority sensor on that shiney Deere tractor in the middle of a humid field. Bugs sticking to his perspiring skin. He replaces the sensor, and gets in the cab. The tractor is bricked, and won't do anything. Ouch!)
It becomes (or at least implies) too much anecdotal, which is not ideal for a unopinonated discussion.

Excessive use of first person imo is a good flag that the writer is too self concerned (egotistical), which can interfere with their judgement (as it’s affected by ego and not a cold, rational look at both sides). Which I’m guilty of from time to time.

I realized that as I was halfway through, but it was too late in the night so I just pressed reply :)
This is typically called the ‘meta game’ and is a big thing in competitive online games.

Sadly, it’s a bad thing when it enters the real world. Life is very easy, but when people make a meta game out of, I don’t know, who has a better lawn, we become ridiculous.
That's literally what happens for most business or leadership interviews. The only common thread for most of them is that they ran a company. They may know nothing about the market, the customer, the product or anything else related to the business, it may even have failed miserably, but because they have an MBA and hired a handful of people they're somehow competent for the job.

How about we hold those people accountable to the same standards? Hell, most of your politicians are that way.

You have dentists commenting on how pandemic response should be.

For the last 4 years a failed business man con artist destroyed pretty much all he could get his hands on and he's still hailed as some sort of mythical creature.

> Imagine in any other industry, where the candidate mentions irrelevant job experience, and expect that to be the criteria for acceptance into the job.

Are you f'in kidding me? Either we hold the other useless part of society to the same standards we hold ourselves accountable to or we give each other a break.

EDIT: and for all the ignorant folks thinking Trumps schoolyard bully rhetoric did anything but empower the CCP keep in mind that Chinas nickname for Trump is "Chuan Jian Guo". Trump the nation builder(guess who's nation they are talking about). And as much as I disliked Obama and his TPP, it was the answer to the new silk road. Trump basically handed China the entirety of Asias future on a silver platter, and in return the US got what? 10 billion in trade deficit balances? Completely laughable. Or the new Blue Dot(completely fitting name by the way)?

https://asiatimes.com/2019/11/a-blue-dot-barely-visible-from...

Blue Dot is described, officially, as promoting global, multi-stakeholder “sustainable infrastructure development in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world.”

It is a joint project of the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation, in partnership with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

Now compare it with what just happened this same week at the inauguration of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai.

As Xi stressed: “To date, China has signed 197 documents on Belt and Road cooperation with 137 countries and 30 international organizations.”
I’ve also heard that if you’re good enough at poker you can grind away and make minimum wage at casinos in Vegas.
True, it’s very difficult to see what iOS apps and iOS itself are doing. And we can assume that third-party apps are collecting whatever info they can - even after 14.5, when they presumably disclose what they’re collecting.

But, can’t we infer from Apple’s earning statements how much they’re monetizing user data? Currently that seems like not much. Then again, they probably wouldn’t have recruited Antonio Garcia if they weren’t interested in milking that particular cow.
Around '93 I tried to fix a friend's power supply. I don't remember why, but I was trying to remove a short jumper(solid copper wire about 1cm long) by wiggling it back and forth. The wire touched something hot, vaporized in my hand, and left me with a copper coated thumbnail.

Even after that, I continued to do dumb things around electricity. I'm not all that smart.
A couple of times I’ve stepped into the kitchen to grab a drink forgetting that I can’t understand the dialog if I'm not watching.
Apple is in it for themselves too. Stop falling for this.
Aside from association with piracy and not being a dropbox alternative because you have to keep the seeder online, it's more expensive for network operators than CDNs, connections often have much more downstream bandwidth, and connections are still sometimes capped. If you're Netflix or an ISP, you're better off getting ISPs to put your hardware in their facilities than having users seed content. The most interesting, viable application I've seen for Bittorrent-like technology is Microsoft seeding updates on a LAN.