skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really missed out back in the early 2000s when companies were throwing away their old plotters and replacing them with massive inkjet printers. I've since gotten into 3D printing as a hobby, and recently have been playing around with attaching a pen to the printhead. This works quite well, and is more fun than I expected. If you're looking to get into CNC pen drawing, an inexpensive 3D printer might be the way to go, although I can't fit an entire leaf of paper on mine, so need to limit the size of my drawings. I've also experimented with extruding plastic directly onto the paper which surprisingly works without warping, but I haven't come up with any creative use for it yet.

As an example of what you can do, here is someone who has gone beyond just attaching a pen like I did, and actually integrating a pen changer to use multiple colors: https://youtu.be/pxt_TbyBImc
I agree in principle, but we should also consider the asymmetric effects in practice.

If every female co-worker gets multiple unsolicited advances per year, that could be a problem, even if the advances are tactful, between equals, and listen to rejection.

At some level you just want to go in to work, not be spammed with advances all the time. It's different for most guys we don't get nearly the amount of interest, even if we're attractive. So it would be crucial to try to understand what women experience and what they want out of a workplace instead of just going on abstract concepts.
Every time I see paywalls on articles like this I wander why would I pay to read something that's telling me what I should think.
The article describes what it is and links to more info about it.
Still, what prevent the modified software from providing what that hardware device needs to be happy (if it is cheat prevention, that device can’t inspect what is in RAM) or removing the bit of code that checks for this hardware?
Perhaps "in there too" ?
Most folks don't even bother going back through my posting history, to find out a bit more. I tend to "overshare," because, basically, I don't give much of a hoot, anymore. The folks that matter, know me.

No one ever seems to follow any of the many links in my HN profile (except, every now and then, I get spammy LinkedIn connection requests).

As it turns out, I happen to have a wide variety of experience, but one common factor, is that all of it has been focused on shipping software (even my side work).

So, yeah, I guess I am a "one trick pony," but that one trick, is a lifetime of ship. I've heard that can be useful.
> Your feelings are beyond my control

Clever, yet generally false. How we behave and what we say impacts other people's feelings in general.
>> consistent across OS versions and platforms.
> This is an upside for the developer only.

This is definitely not the case. For some apps/branding, a particular style is more desirable than making sure a checkbox looks 100% native on each platform. And even the things that benefit the developer are not upsides just for them (think lower initial design & dev costs, lower testing costs, lower costs of new features - all of which mean resources can be allocated elsewhere).

> the GUI will probably not be consistent with its OS.

Like I mentioned, there seems to be a trend away from this as a goal anyway (even within the set of OS-provided apps). Probably it's a combination of it not mattering as much as we originally thought it did, and because end-users now have a familiarity with a core set of UI concepts. There's a short list of things you do to make a button be "button-y", and users know to click on it. They just don't care if it looks different than the buttons in some unrelated app.
It opens VSCode but fails to load the project:

Unable to open 'runningviz': Unable to resolve resource vscode-vfs://github/gquiniou/runningviz.
Man I love that we now live in an era where this kind of thing can be easily purchased. Back in the day when I had SageTV as my DVR ripping off the content protection crap was impossible… all HD content had to be analog.
And then maybe, banks like stablecoins
It is in fact thermodynamically and metabolically far easier to heat than to cool.

We're warm-blooded creatures, so if we want to be warmer we can just jump around, or put on insulation. To cool, we have to sweat, and if the sweat can't evaporate much because of high humidity, we have to do a lot of it.

Similarly, if we want to heat a space, we can just burn something. Cooling requires active transport, whether finessed by something like a windcatcher or attic fan, or through an air conditioner.

Heat pumps are more efficient, but more complex, than furnaces, and can be run in reverse to provide air conditioning.
Sometimes I amuse myself by thinking that fantasy games are actually a thinly disguised sci-fi commentary on the direction of modern programming. Take for example the Protoss race in Starcraft or the Sheika tribe in Breath of the Wild - the premise is basically that there's a highly advanced society using the remnants of amazing ancient technology that they themselves no longer understand.
Ask HN: Grounded Examples of AGI Malignment?
Is this important?
That would be mean, and perhaps even career-limiting or break NDAs or both.

One example I can point to is the fact that we (Sensory Networks) had cargo-culted in a recursive hash function for a string matching engine (back when we made hardware). There was no real reason to be using a recursive hash at all, but there was a cool paper from the NSA about recursive hashing, so there it was. No-one had even evaluated anything simpler.

Again, recursive hashing is cool. Arguably Bloom filters and (maybe) Cuckoo hashes are cool too - but my problem isn't with the existence of these techniques but the way that people seem to get a rush of blood to the head and use them when they're kind of pointless and overcomplex.
I'm sceptical.

First time I've heard about curved image sensors ~15 years ago. So until this thing ships in an actual product, I'll put in into the same category where I put revolutionary batteries with 20x capacity (promised since 1990) and other too good to be true things.
No, the article pointed out that vim and Emacs users can ssh into the hosts and edit code there. No VS Code use required
Sure, but I think that's true in non-Jamstack code as well. Datadog, Snowflake, BigQuery, DynamoDB, Google Analytics, etc. are all examples that I've seen used by non-Jamstack software, and most have a fair bit of lock-in.
I agree with everything you say, and some cities have banned advertising.

However, the pic is a bad example: if you look just a little to the left there is currently a HUGE screen[1],

Piccadilly Circus in London has been known for it's adverts in lights, then later screens for decades.

[1] See pic on google maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5097908,-0.1348659,3a,75y,30...

More info

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41751310
I've switched most of my group chats with friends to autodelete.

While I haven't had my devices seized, two acquaintances had their device seized for an investigation. They were just on the wrong place at the wrong time.

This meant that months and months of our chats were potentially read by a third party.
Here are some snippets from our legacy codebase, where the exact same method is used (Django Crispy Forms):
https://walkman.cloud/s/TWmtNMjMM3ZfdZM

This is NOT the right solution to the problem you mentioned. If developers don't know what they are doing, they can leave an even bigger mess with this.
What's the point of that? Using cryptocurrencies frees you from the possibility of your funds being frozen or seized or even detected/associated with you.

GBPCoin would be no different from using GBP on a bank account.
There Is No Incentive for Developers to Create Quality Code on Software Projects
I mean I used to be a tier 4 oncall at Amazon and had global root access, managed the configuration management infrastructure and had enable access on all the networking equipment. I'm criticizing the SRE role from a background of having a very high level of understanding of difficult operational roles. The selling point to me 10 years ago was that it would break down the wall so that people like me could also have access to the source code and be SWEs (instead of having to strace a black box all the time), but it seems like the job has become significantly dumbed down from the systems side, and SREs tend to grow out of the software teams and are the people responsible for the pager, metrics, SLOs, hacking up turing computable YAML, memorizing the whole CNCF landscape, and yelling at Kubernetes.
Most people just open the windows for that use case: a whole house fan can be used for making the air exchange faster through.
There’s two sides to that coin. In visual studio, most of the time you don’t need to bother to see what’s under the hood, and you can focus on feature development. In that way, their ignorance can be a good sign. The flip side is when your stuff won’t build, it can be an ordeal to figure out why, but thankfully it does not happen a lot, and they can leave it to the local experts.
No need to apologize, precision is important. Perhaps my point blurred two different things.

Point number 1 (directly referencing your question):

No, I did mean it's easier to heat than to cool. Basically every mechanism release heat, including heat pumps. Ultimately, to get a person to a comfortable temperature, all that is needed is to wrap them up in insulation until their body heat matches the heat loss for the required Delta(T).

Cooling is another thing altogether. There is no cooling mechanism, all we can do is:

1. absorb heat (i.e. evaporation)
2. move it somewhere else (i.e. heat pumps)

Your body can do 1. but only if the humidity is low enough, but it can't do 2. My conclusion here is to illustrate that your body can largely take care of itself when it comes to warming itself up, but it's (comparatively) very bad at cooling itself.

Point number 2:

While heating is very easy, it's also very energetically wasteful for two reasons:

1. The Delta(T) you have to fight against is larger, often double so the losses are larger (Delta(T) sets the heat loss of your home)

2. Most heating isn't done with heat pumps which are very efficient, whereas all cooling is pretty much only done with heat pumps [1].

3. You can use heat that the AC moved around. Today you can hook up your AC to your boiler so the heat you moved out of your home is dumped into your boiler. As long as you use enough hot water, the more you run your AC the lower your carbon emissions will be since the water boiler runs off gas (I'm not advocating for using more hot water, btw)

So, while using your AC is not good for the climate, it is not the easiest optimization to do first.

[1] Swamp coolers are weird: you live in an arid enough place that evaporating water cools you down... so you waste that precious water when you could just run an AC???
I just sang happy birthday at what I find a normal pace in 15 seconds. If you can't open your phone and camera app faster than you can sing that song then maybe you should look into upgrading your phone. My iPhone from the screen being off to the camera app finished with taking the first picture is easily under 2 seconds, probably about half that.

My DSLR is about the same
Is he in any way related to F#? I feel like he is completely focused on Typescript with C# slowing down with features and F# and VBasic are pretty much in maintenance mode
Totally - the litanny of bullshit against uber is strong...

A friend of mine who was a stellar SRE/DevOps guy refused to comment on his tenure with uber simply saying "It was the most fucked up place I have ever worked" -- and he was a seasonsed SV vet at the time... and this was several years ago
> Just “we’ve been forced to do this by others.”

Well, because they were. Apple poked them with a stick, Facebook responds in the most blithe, un-entertaining fashion possible. No surprise there, since everyone in the privacy community knew this was a pissing contest from the start. If we want real change, we should be holding people accountable and forcing transparency everywhere possible. Until then, it looks like the corporate interests-that-be are more concerned with slowly destroying one another using their liquid assets than improving the "user experience".
“ Apple outsources some of its call center work around the world to Teleperformance, and employees say they are being pressured to sign a contract agreeing to the cameras, despite an Apple policy prohibiting it”
Their point is that the official stance can easily be wrong, which calls into question whether it's a good idea to silence people who are questioning it, which is what many were doing on social media in early 2020 when the official stance was that masks don't work.
> I resent went bugs get closed because they're old

I'm picturing the guy who came up with this idea sitting at his desk surrounded by unopened bills.
> Generally speaking you don't have to worry that much about chemical weapons waste...

This whole paragraph is gibberish. Some chemical warfare agents are vulnerable to hydrolysis, but only if the munition casing is compromised. However mustards are quite robust against environmental degradation; they have low volatility, they're hydrophobic, and they resist hydrolysis. Thus they appear to persist indefinitely even when the bare chemical is exposed to water. Read the news stories about fishermen being burned by blobs of mustard that were accidentally trawled from the sea floor, or people on beaches injured by random enounters with wandering bits of mustard.

And of course none of this matters as long as munitions are still intact, which will be the case for millions of hundred-year-old shells dumped at sea and buried on land for the foreseeable future.

> Heavy metals and exotic engineered chemicals...

Mercury is indeed a persistent pollutant that bioaccumulates. When you mention agent orange, I'm guessing you're talking about the dioxins that are supposed to have contaminated some batches of pesticides. However none of these are exotic engineered chemicals, and they certainly aren't "mildly toxic". While many old weapons dumps present a mercury hazard, they're dwarfed by the mercury pollution caused by coal-fired power plants. Dioxins aren't really relevant to weapon dumps; the vast majority of dioxin pollution (and chlorophenols in general) comes from burning of waste and industrial accidents.
Miners are contractors. They have no stake in Ethereum's long-term success unless they become ETH holders as well.

Ether's price has risen exponentially. It doesn't make sense (and isn't necessary) to pay miners exponentially higher amounts of money to do the same job, thus the issuance reductions.
This. I can't tell if no one understand this or if they're just being willfully obtuse. I think saying I want to do X because of Science or Religion or Justice or whatever confers such an impetus that we ignore how it confuses means and ends. Saying the ends justifies the means is cynical but it makes more sense then saying the means justifies the ends which seems to be common way of thinking for all parties.
Javascript content loading is easier in most cases. Just look at your browser network inspector and grab the URL.

Usually the response is in JSON and you can ignore the original page. You might have to auth/grab session cookies first, but thats still easier than working with the HTML.
and a capital gains tax less than that of France and not much higher than the UK's.
Do you realize you are now arguing against yourself in the same thread?
Because it is not a consistent user experience, it is a consistent developer experience.

For the actual user, the experience is inconsistent with the rest of their system.
how do you eliminate cache misses in this workload? seems like long runs of sequential reads/writes will result in eviction by the time the “byte” is ready for the next stage of the process.
not as old as the OP, but up there, and they should be pretty obvious: older workers are in completely different phases of their life, share few of the social aspects that younger workers find important or critical, and (lets face it) we're typically in a different place physically.

So much of career advancement is shared social & cultural values and norms, and we're out of sync with a workforce that skews significantly younger.
You don't think the murder rate and violent crime numbers have anything to do with it?

Or any of the blatant political favoritism people saw with who still had rights under covid restrictions and who didn't?

I think even people that used to be willing to risk it realized last year just where they stand in the eyes of the local politicians.

Even if it wasn't enough to for them to leave, it definitely was enough to prevent new arrivals.
There are lots of options for making your dev environments reasonably quick & easy to set up if you're mostly doing web stuff, or developing for a very small count of platforms, and mostly or entirely with open-source tools. Change any of that and things start to get harder in a hurry.
I feel like all of the problems in the blogpost are solvable without moving everyone to this crazy web development environment. To quote one of the proponents:

> I do solemnly swear that never again will my CPU have to compile ruby from source.

...yeah, why was that even happening? Why not distribute pre-built artifacts? I feel like the whole docker ecosystem only exists because people forgot how to distribute software and/or python/ruby and friends make deployment so hard.
Cautionary note: UUIDs generally do not meet security requirements
> The types of by-choice homeless people you're referring to are a tiny fraction of the homeless population.

And they are almost always invisible (by choice).
Nothing happened? Not sure what the feature is
Thanks for pointing that out! It's now fixed.
There certainly are genres of photography where you absolutely have to take a picture of a fleeting moment in under two seconds, but I don't think it is a common scenario for most people. The things people photograph the most are people (incl. themselves), and landscapes/objects/things. And I say this as someone who recently dumped $6.5k on a camera for wildlife. I obviously do see the advantages of dedicated cameras, but for casual users I don't think they'd need more than a phone camera. $.02
Agree - I find other editors much more responsive.

But when I need to learn or explore a really large code base in Ruby, I haven't found anything better.
R-value doesn't really address thermal mass issues. I live near Santa Fe, NM and given our daily temperature swings (up to 40F!) and annual variation (100F to 5F), comfortable housing here benefits from both insulation and thermal mass. Geothermal heat pumps seem less practical than air-source right now, and a 6.6kW array turns out not to be enough even with Mitsubishi units to keep out (adobe) home warm in the winter.

Stud-based construction is quick and relatively quick, and might even be appropriate in the right climate. But in places like this (and many others), it's a mistake that you can ameliorate (e.g. with insulation) but cannot actually fix.
V8 Powered Jetski
Amiga 500 replica is coming in 2022 for $140
I've developed on a remote server for about 8 years now. It started when I was a contractor and my machine was simply too slow to run the project I was assigned. I did not have the money for a new laptop, but I could afford the ~55/month for a dedicated server with 32GB and 4cores. I have worked that way ever since. I've been fortunate enough to work at companies that run their own VM infrastructure which allow me to work this way. And as someone who likes to work in different places, like the park, being able to download docker images while on a Hotspot and it not go through my data plan is amazing.
It's frustrating to me that these are the exception. That may not be my absolute top priority in choosing a phone, and if it isn't, chances are I won't get it.
I don't think they were that advanced. The cheap consumer stuff would just use analogue circuitry to blank out the signal during the vertical blanking interval.
How FoundationDB Works and Why It Works
Carnac looks amazing. Is it cross-platform? (The home page notes Windows 7+, but could it run under WINE with .NET?)
Yes, they block known VPN IPs even if it matches the customer’s home country. If a VPN IP is detected, only globally licensed content will be visible.
Let's not call it censorship, let's call it what it is, pushing their agenda. It's 100% fine for youtube to push an agenda, but calling it censorship misleads people to think that they are otherwise objective.
This is 100% where the tools-in-the-cloud thing is going. It's going to be a major selling point for a lot of buyers (companies).
It's a slightly different flavor of the same thing.

VS Code is an amazing tool that's getting huge adoption because of how awesome it is, and how open source and community centric it is, etc. They've gotten a lot of mindshare and dev love, that's the embrace bit.

The next step is the set of closed source addons. Have you noticed that a lot of the new VS Code features are now in addons that are under a different license. This includes the new remote dev and python tooling. Still free to use and awesome tools, of course, but fully under MS exclusive and controlled. That's the extend.

I don't know what the longer-term plan is. I'm hoping that it won't lead to an extinguish. But if that's what they want, then they could e.g. cripple the open source version, moving all their dev effort into a closed-source, Azure/Github only web environment. Who knows?
Why the attraction to USDT? There are better stablecoins with real backing and audits, such as GUSD. You can trade 1.00 USDT for about 1.01 GUSD, which is strange.
> Bitcoin has chosen consistency with its original principles

Bitcoin was originally invented as a "peer to peer electronic cash system". The fees have made it impossible to use it as such for quite some time.
People really don't appreciate how brutal humidity is on our bodies' ability to cool down.

I run my AC more to dehumidify than to cool. I hate setting my AC below 78, that's freezing, but I have to because of improperly sized AC units, poor HVAC installation, etc.
> but reducing the chance of infection passing is not a concern for me at all

You've lost me here. Really? Is this the part where I discover you have a completely different view on the whole topic and this discussion was pointless from the beginning?
... If I had dug just a bit deeper before posting :)

> Today, this type of reporting requires at least one party to learn which specific people made a purchase after seeing a specific ad. With MPC, say one party has the information about who saw an ad and another party has information on who makes a purchase. MPC and encryption make it possible for both parties to learn insights about how an ad is performing, without the need to entrust a single party with both data sets.

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/08/privacy-enhancing-technolo...
Many of those problems could be solved with a smarter git clone just like they did in this case. Is there any work on something like that that could be upstreamed to git itself?
Actually this is exactly why there were so many people (like myself) on the Bitcoin test net, that never bothered with mainnet. Everything crashed, an entirely new political order was installed, and people just worried about other things.

But something has to come out of it all, and crypto seems like the most resilient possibility.
Let's rephrase that to needing energy at night - heating or cooling. There are some spots that go down to 10C in summer according to Google
Once it is open source, does it really matter what the origin is?
Given that the headline itself is a punchline, I wouldn't expect much more.
Example, Tic Tac mints are essentially entirely sugar yet fall under that threshold so the nutritional information reads '0g' of sugar per serving.
NASA host a conference at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss an OSIRIS-REx important finding