skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was, that obviously it is possible to program a mouse driver very effciently.

And even if it were a full blown cross compatible mouse driver with a lot of device features it is hard to fathom why such a driver would require more than a megabyte or a couple of megabytes of space. The basic functionality can be realized in less than 30k.

We had the whole operating system with GUI (Win3, OS/2 and Linux)run in 4 Megabytes. Sure it was snappier with 8 Mb, but that is still a far cry from the minimum requirements the commercial OS offerings come today.

The way we are wasting ressources is simply insane
Why Does Lactic Acid Build Up in Muscles? and Why Does It Cause Soreness? (2006)
IOS, native
Firebase + Java and Google Cloud, for the backend
Database, Firebase Realtime DB, as a NOSQL solution (works better than Firestore for me) and actually build a simple RCP service on top of it.

My next backend might be on Go and just use a simple Rest service, and minimize Firebase usage (it is still good for real time chat type of apps).
Notice you said in the past. Samsung got rid of those things to save space and cost while making room for other things
Proof of residence is not required by law for bank accounts, but banks are on the hook when dealing with non residents, in particular regarding anti-laundering laws. Technically it’s a private sector decision, in practice it’s a result of the different gov entities requirements that lead to the current situation.

Of course it’s not just french banks, having foreign accounts is just becoming more complicated in general IMO.
When I canceled my Adobe subscription 2 years ago, there was no way you could do it from your account. I had to contact support, then spent about about 10 minutes with them until they confirmed my subscription will no longer renew automatically. It took that many minutes because on the one hand they are not the quickest to reply, on the other they’re trained to push another year down your throat. You tell them that you haven’t used it in months and they’re like yeah, sure, but did you know you can get 10% off if you renew?

It’s like when you’re at McDonald’s and they ask you if you’d like a soft drink for the full menu. Two differences though: I’ve never seen a McDonald’s clerk insisting on the drink after I tell them it’s not necessary. And, most important, at McDonald’s they sell you a $0.99 Coke, while Adobe (and a lot others) sell you $119.88/y subscriptions.
> MingYang says the MySE 16.0-242 is just the start of its "new 15MW+ offshore product platform," and that it's capable of operating installed to the sea floor or on a floating base.

Am I reading that right? A tower 242 meters tall (read: a 70-floor skyscraper), with moving 118 meter blades, and they're proposing anchoring it to a floating base!?
> The Web has been a mistake.

In hindsight, what would have been better?
Also self taught, again no degree. To be honest I didn't even particularly compensate for it, it's not like I decided instead to put a large focus into open source projects or anything to fill out my CV. I just started programming as a kid, entered the workforce, and figured out I could be paid to do that and here I am.

Only ever been an issue once, and even then, I was more so the one taking issue than them (had a gruelling interview only to find out at the end they hadn't read my CV by asking about O Notation and saying "you must have used it at university at some point"). They said it wasn't a problem for them, but yeh, I wasn't too happy about it (and that might've showed a bit more than I wanted).

The downside of this relaxed approach is that I know very little of theory, and I only know about something if its something I've needed to know for a task or project. That can be an issue, but nothing too bad yet to concern me
Out of curiosity, mind sharing where you were told the latter? I know what you’re talking about, but I’ve never been anywhere where it’s quite like that.
I was thinking of portable autoclaves. What about manufacturing blades on-site?

Large scale composites are still largely manual labour, and there are few pieces of tooling which themselves need to be one big piece. Mould can be split into sections rather easily.
You appear to just be a troll but in case you’re not and you want to actually think critically: go away and ask some questions, such as why you think this? Who told you? How long has New Zealand actually been in lock down? What has life been like in NZ during those lockdowns? What do you actually think outside of lockdown it has been like in NZ? Why? Go watch some travel vloggers who wound up in NZ (I’ve seen these come up on my feed: Alex the Vagabond, Danegar and Stacey, Gone with the Wynns), life is normal. It’s absurd what people overseas somehow are making up now.
It might not be entirely relevant to your situation since this happened at the start of my career but I somehow ended up going from Ruby on Rails development to working on C++ networking code in the games industry. The way I did it was by starting with backend development on games and eventually getting to work on the internal SDK used by the different projects to communicate with the backends. I now work as the equivalent of a full stack developer where the frontend is a game engine running on a console devkit instead of a JavaScript SPA running in a browser.
This might be some form of survivorship bias but getting your foot in the door of a new industry/area with some skills you already have and slowly moving towards what you're actually interested in worked for me.
> is really how people and organizations think. Language structures the field of possible self-justifications, and it's the ruler against which behaviors are measured

This works less well when employees are not taught from birth only the language Google's legal team want them to learn.
I have always used Rails for my projects. In the most recent I took a detour to Django, which was successful, but never felt quite as productive.

If I start something new this year I think I would opt for Rails again. Even though it’s long in the tooth nowadays, I would choose it for productivity, time to market and availability of people if the project scales.
One of the reasons may be a problem with "disabling" vertical turbines during high winds. With properller-like turbines, blade can rotate to move edge-on towards the wind direction or move parts of blades in the opposite direction, so that the overall torque in each blade is zero regardless of the wind speed.
> Shouldn't it be trivial to see that the input is csv?

There is no reliable way to infer csv files: CSV files do not have a magic number. There are all kinds of separators used and quoting rules differ widely.

It's super annoying if a tool works on a 1K line CSV file, but breaks down if I have a 3 line file because it can't infer the type.

I much prefer my tools not to be "90%-smart", but predictable.
Perhaps you could view Googlespeak as a side-effect of the legal protection.
Most people I know keep buying bigger phones even though smaller ones from the same companies exist now
That’s was my point. Why should they give it up for free? EA aren’t a charity.

Plus as I’ve said before, this kind of clause is really quite common. Even FOSS has done it on occasions
Sorry, no. Source: American traveling around Europe right now with my American vaccination papers. Getting Yet Another PCR test tomorrow, thank you very much.
I am wondering about a KaiOS phone with physical keyboard.
This would be the crack for my use case.
Have you tried another brand? Seems like you are jumping from "I had a bad experience with one smart TV" right to "smart TVs are to be avoided".

I have a smart TV (of another brand) that I am very happy with, and while I don't really use the built-in apps, they are quite decent and – importantly – don't get in the way of me using the TV as a HDMI sink exclusively.

It even got native AirPlay support via a software update three years after its original market launch, something I'd absolutely not expect and was quite pleasantly surprised by.
Interestingly, vertical designs have been proposed for Mars, because space for shipping them is at a serious premium, and the much lower atmospheric density reduces the stress considerably. (Hollywood depictions of destructive Martian sandstorms are quite exaggerated for effect.)
https://hanami.run email forwarding services with webhook, smtp, disposable emails

Tech Stack:

- Ruby/ for webapp and user facing service: very quick to get the feature out, easiser to work with HTML, database access. Being a one man shop, I have to develop fast

- Go: mail server and anything that isn't user facing or doesn't involve rending HTML. Statically type to reduce bug, performance to cut cost, this is the core of business.

- React Native: for our (upcoming) mobile app so I can share code for both of android/ios

I think the ability to ship out feature fast is important to keep user engage. And with the performance of Go I can keep cost low. https://hanami.run currently handles about 50K domains and processes 10 email per second and the entire infrastructure is ~ $100 per month including redundancy.
My iPhones have always gotten software updates much longer than my Android phones so I’m always curious why Apple gets targeted so often when talking about phasing out old phones. Heck half of the new Androids had trouble getting software updates in a timely manner.
Honestly really got a kick out of reading about this. Human ingenuity!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card
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I think there is plenty of volunteers heaping scorn on Jobs and Musk on every significant forum.

Surely not everyone has to join them, or?
> Alternative take, people didn’t like Dropbox because it was the repackaging and close sourcing of existing solutions

It wasn't. Even the famous comment just pointed it was possible to replicate with existing tools. And apart from one person the thread was actually pretty welcoming.

That comment was just a grandfather of the very popular "Why should I use this instead of [completely different solution]?", that is also so very often also used against open source projects themselves.
I tend to fall in the trap of once you have authenticated the person and passing tokens around that can hold claims/role for authorization, you will eventually reach the point where the tokens are getting so bloated due to the complexity of access controls.

AuthN is the next big challenge especially in a multi-tenant/multi-enterprise SaaS type platform

https://cerbos.dev/blog/the-hidden-costs-of-user-authorizati...
Presumably they're hoping to get some team bonding out of this. Everyone in their own hotel rooms doesn't make for a good bonding experience. Everyone with a private space to go back to along with some nice communal living areas works a lot better. Using a hotel would feel like going to a conference or any other usual business travel and the companies doing this are likely looking for a different feel.
I use it as a daily driver for about 2 years now. I've never used any other mobile OS so I can't make any comparisons. I run it on Sony Xperia XA2 with android app support. Its been stable, no issues so far. Updates are regular with UI improvements and new features.
I also hate patent laws as much as the next person, but what you’re now complaining about is a much bigger issue and one that’s not going to change any time soon.

This kind of defensive use of patents I’m actually ok with. Indie firms who can’t afford expensive patent disputes benefits and in the mean time it protects EA against larger firms.

The bigger issue here isn’t the clause, it’s peoples dislike of EA. Sure EA have earned that distrust but this isn’t one of their shitty moves.
Arguably, Nokia is a good example of "money and connections won't save you if you persistently go astray".

I liked Nokias, I even programmed for Symbian OS, but boy, that was one convoluted system. The UI was pure hell, badly documented, error-prone and had to be tailored to every device out there (of which Nokia churned out a lot), unless you wanted to risk bad artifacts.

They also LOVED to introduce major compatibility breaks.
There's a nice video compairing vertical and horisontal axis wind turbines here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM-gCvhQhPU
Getting very close in my large side projects for everything to just be Go + PostgreSQL. Go is the API, business logic, and very soon the entire web layer. This is all on Linode, there are no containers I just put a binary on an LTS Ubuntu and then iptables to just those ports (with SSH configured in their Cloud Firewall to only be possible from my home IP).

I have a long term itch that I want to scratch soon, whether it's possible to dispose of PostgreSQL and just store my data in an S3 compatible object store and yet still have a SQL interface to it. https://blevesearch.com/ is on my list of things to look into for this. I'd already structured the PostgreSQL schema with the possibility of putting individual tables into an object store, but as my databases grow I'm keen to avoid becoming a DBA and I don't use most PostgreSQL features so if I have the chance to reduce my tech stack to just Go I may take it.

What I've learned from having a mix of Python + Django + some NPM... bitrot and maintaining dependencies is a debt that you have to start paying way too soon. Originally only the API was in Go, but that is the one part that over years has required virtually no debt paydown due to the language, environment, dependencies. You can leave a Go application for 8 years and all you need do is compile it to the latest Go and everything works perfectly... I can't even run or upgrade Python apps from half that time ago without major work to bring it up to date. As the side projects proliferated or grew, it is less overall effort for me to rewrite in Go than maintain everything else.
What about cryptocurrency trading which goes on continuously for 24 hours a day?
We criticize free services all the time for this, but I think that paying users are monetized all the same. Using American examples, the DMV sells data, internet providers are selling user data, credit card companies are selling user data... so it's not like any other companies don't monetize their users in other ways.
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You know, what I'd like to see more than standardised API tokens to make scanning easier is actual addressing of the underlying problem.

For example, we had a pentest done on a website and the pentester got all excited because they found some AWS tokens.

Trouble is, they would be worthless to anyone external because we were making good use of AWS IAM to lock them down with ACLs, Roles etc.

So it was effectively a non-event.

What happened to the old concept of layered security ? Why should discovery or leakage of an API key automatically give the attacker all the keys to the castle ?

In my ideal world, all cloud and API service operators would have the equivalent to AWS IAM and preferably would enforce its usage (i.e. "here's your API key, but it won't work until you set some layered security")
It seems Microsoft and Intel are threatened by the M1 and had to do this hastily. Hence the rush for Windows support in spite of Linux.
You're being cryptic. The people your criticizing (this might include me, i have no way of knowing) will not be able to learn anything from your reply. It would be more constructive I'd you shared your thoughts so we'd have a chance to improve. What is your point, exactly? Spell it out for us, please.
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I'm also a self-taught programmer and I'm from Poland. I think it might be harder to get your first job without a degree in europe but it's definitely possible. There is one more difference that I think is relevant to this – in general university is free in europe so it's "easier" to expect that people will have a degree. But it's not a dealbraker.
I have cancelled my account years ago. Paypal doesn't offer anything in the market and I don't use a single website that requires paypal exclusively for payment.

Something is really wrong with a company charging you for inactivity. Maybe it would help them more trying to find out why their customers don't bother using paypal anymore rather than some short term gains in inactivity fees.
This "Feynman" type of communication is really what should run through the education system
In some circles, people expressed they will be DDOSing the service and report pro-life people or even made up people to halt the process to a crawl.
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If the employees all collectively decide to quit, that sale still doesn't happen.

The company can't give the service without the employees cooperation.

Consider the waitresses saying "don't serve that guy, he tries to grab my butt every time" to each other. The managers are shit for forcing them to. They might not be able to get a sexual assault conviction, but that doesn't mean they should still be subjected to said customer
I'm relatively new here, but this post really caught my attention because I have faced the same problems most of you are mentioning.

After reading the comments in this post I can see some of you want curated content, others just want to explore random websites that work perfectly on all types of devices and popped into a search engine.

I've created a site that some of you may like (I'm sure it isn't what all of you are looking for) but it might be what some of you are looking for? It by no means has all the bells and whistles of a search engine but it does offer cool lesser known websites that Google fails to show us.

If you visit https://boredhoard.com/ you can give it a go and please fell free to provide feedback so that maybe I can morph it into something you guys like/want.

Will be very happy to listen
Here are the reasons I've generally preferred airbnbs over hotels:

- price is often better

- more control over location / amenities

- transparent discounts for longer stays. I don't need housekeeping every day, I do need to able to afford a month of lodging sometimes though

- Having a kitchen is really nice. Even if you don't want to cook, it's nice to be able to make coffee, drinks, microwave something

Also, I've found wifi connectivity so much less reliable at hotels than at Airbnbs, but I'm excited about the "host wifi check" tool mentioned in this article
I was in the same boat a few years ago. Been a web dev since 2002. A first step was to start freelancing/contracting (since 2013), so I had shorter engagements that I can move on from after a few months.

With the increased wages, I could afford to take summer holidays off and spend it with my family, and work on passion projects.

That's when I really got into game dev (2015). I made a bunch of small games, a lot of them throw-away/unpublished. I then started learning game design (from books, Coursera), but really thought I'd benefit from doing it with others, so right now I'm half-way through an indie dev masters [0] (Falmouth flexible).

The masters has been great, because it's self-directed learning, and I've built a great network of collaborators. I've just set up a Patreon this week, and will be slowly building up a sustainable indie dev living. (I'm already down to 4 days a week on my usual career.)

I've read so many stories of folks saving up a year or two's runway, only for it to not work out in the end, so I'm trying to be as prepared as possible. I'm learning as much as possible right now about finding repeatable success as a game dev.

I'm 42 this year, and not the youngest in the cohort, but surprisingly also not the oldest. (Got a couple 50+, and a few other 40+).

This is just my story. I sincerely hope you find something that you can fall in love with again. Good luck!

0. https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/online/postgraduate/indie-g...
To some degree I guess.
Current title (“Texas introduces site to report women who have had an abortion”) is not only not the source title but is flagrantly false.

This is not a site operated by the State of Texas, but rather by (as the top banner indicates) “Texas Right-to-Life”, a private entity whose main website [0] describes itself as “a non-profit advocacy and educational organization that opposes abortion at any point of gestation, as abortion destroys a living, growing human life. In the rare case that the mother’s life is indeed endangered by a continuation of the pregnancy, sound medical practice would dictate that every effort be made to save both lives.”

This isn’t a law enforcement tip line, its a private harassment tip line.

EDIT: And, to be clear, a tip line to report Constitutionally-protected activity to private activists who consider that activity to be morally identical to murder, and who consider themselves to be under divine instructions to stop and/or avenge such “murders”.
Commute through, eg Mill Valley to South San Francisco, or similar. Right now, because there's no freeway that goes through the city, that commute is technically possible, I'm sure there are people that do that, but it's not a fun or easy commute, so people try and live in San Francisco and commute to one or the other. If there was a freeway from the Golden Gate bridge, through the city, instead of Lombard and then Gough, then the Mill Valley - South San Francisco commute would be (more) viable at a cost of increased inter-city traffic. Ie traffic that is in San Francisco, but not doing anything there other than transiting. Which is the so-called "extra" traffic GP refers to.

See also: Boston's Big Dig.
If you keep scaling this up, you might naively think the tips of blades could reach Mach 1. They won't, due to a variety of reasons.

But that does remind of Thunderscreech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H_Thunderscreech

"The XF-84H was almost certainly the loudest aircraft ever built, earning the nickname "Thunderscreech" as well as the "Mighty Ear Banger".[16] On the ground "run ups", the prototypes could reportedly be heard 25 miles (40 km) away.[17] Unlike standard propellers that turn at subsonic speeds, the outer 24–30 inches (61–76 cm) of the blades on the XF-84H's propeller traveled faster than the speed of sound even at idle thrust, producing a continuous visible sonic boom that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards."
I think you are reading something into it that is not necessarily there. The slides give examples of things that are appropriate to say and are not appropriate to say. It doesn't necessarily mean that one thing has to changed into the other.
> Humans are complex. None of us (or at least, very very few of us) are fully internally consistent.

More importantly, humans are different. Some are heads and shoulders above others morally or in other ways, and judge them accordingly.

> There exists in our society a widespread fear of judging that has nothing whatever to do with the biblical "Judge not, that ye be not judged," and if this fear speaks in terms of "casting the first stone," it takes this word in vain. For behind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence the doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done. The moment moral issues are raised, even in passing, he who raises them will be confronted with this frightful lack of self-confidence and hence of pride, and also with a kind of mock-modesty that in saying, Who am I to judge? actually means We're all alike, equally bad, and those who try, or pretend that they try, to remain halfway decent are either saints or hypocrites, and in either case should leave us alone.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

> why not recognise people for doing great things?

In this case, because they can't be called "great things" without diminishing human greatness and actually greats -- they're just product, often in the service of selfish, banal, mediocre ends. Certainly with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook. None of their luminaries can even tie the laces of people who can tie the laces of great people. So why can't the money be enough, why do we need to fawn over people, too?