skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't wear a mask if you have a day-long interview at a FAANG

Why on earth wouldn't I? My O2 levels don't seem to be too degraded by a mask. And, even if they were, I would never expect to be hired by people who saw me put them at risk. I'm not sure I would feel comfortable accepting a job from people who would hire someone who wasn't willing to wear a mask.

> I wish we could have an adult conversation, not pretend there are no minuses and masks are a no brainer in all situations.

I've never experienced a negative from wearing a mask. Some people are really opposed by I just don't get it. It makes as much sense to me as people not wearing a seat belt because they worry about chaffing.

> there are places in the world where they are just as serious about covid as US, and yet kids can stay in class without masks.

Every state that lets kids run around without masks produces news stories about COVID spreading like wildfire through the schools. I don't know why I would consider that acceptable. Kids should not be forced to get COVID for no reason.
Shipping Clubhouse on Android in ten weeks
There are many ways, right now the media focuses on the artistic disruptions.

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1435967697913880580

Never before have artists had this much control of their ip.
If you want to do a basic quantum eraser, the simplest path is this: https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=69....

A good physics undergrad could assemble this and demonstrate it successfully in a day. It's really a Mach Zender interferometer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%E2%80%93Zehnder_interfero...) which is one of the nicest designs for doing quantum information experiments.

The laser they use isn't anything super-special, although it isn't like what you'd get if you bought a laser pointer or a cheap laser engraver. The beam size is very fine and the beam shape is round. Most of the other parts are fairly generic but precisely made. The most exciting part is the beamsplitters, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_splitter since they are key to assembling the interferometer itself.
It's amazing how math can require so much work for what appears to be a single result, but I spend an entire semester proving a single mathematical theorem and to do that I had to work through an entire textbook, so I don't think it's that unusual.
Black people are 13% of the US population. If every adult black person in the US were unvaccinated it would still be less than the number of white Republicans who have not been vaccinated.
I can be detailed when I have a keyboard, but as example let's say the orm using active recordss and mixing db concern with business logic, or the simplistic "controllers" or lack of DI solutions, enough?
You just need to raise the bar to see the difference between those who will/won't and where their will to resist expires. For most people it's a pretty low bar and when it comes to paying your mortgage then most folk won't jeopardize their job.
What do you mean by an "account"? They could not credit my BTC address with BTC they do not own, no. Obviously they could give me a login to a webpage showing I hold 10e99 BTC that I can't withdraw. They could do the same thing with gold bars and free Wendy's sandwiches. It's not the same thing as printing BTC, creating gold bars, or manufacturing actual sandwiches.
I have seen tons of plastic on the coasts of many countries. CO2 is overhyped for the benefice of few elites and their authoritarian solutions
Is anyone else exhausted by the constant barrage of "personalized" experiences? Its always been about click rate for advertisers, but now they push their monetization model as a feature and it just feels draining.
Microsoft JVM GCToolkit
DVI output was easy; just buy a video card.

The problem is, you can't add DVI to a VGA-only LCD monitor, and those things were everywhere.
Press release from Purchase about corporate purchase by the Purchase-based company that makes purchasing easy.
Now you’re getting it
Sweeping new vaccine mandates for 100M Americans
Well, Scarf offers free pixel tracking too so you definitely have the correct model for what we do, though sorry to hear you dislike the approach.

Our goal is to help enable OSS developers to financially support their work. Do you think it's still wrong when it's OSS developers trying to sell their services or premium offerings to the companies that already rely on their work?
If so - companies are tracking people all the time at a very granular, personally identifiable level. Why should we hold OSS developers to an even higher standard than what we tolerate from large companies?
I think this is caused by a cognitive bias. The more positive things about company X we hear that matter to us, the more we view anything they do in a positive light and the less weight we give to anything that counteracts that belief. Conversely, the more negative things about company X we hear that matter to us, the more we view anything they do in a negative light and the less weight we give to anything that counteracts that belief. Once a trend starts, it gets harder and harder to change people's minds.
But why should it be web-based? Why would something else web-based 'beat' this based on that fact alone?
ARM being fabless first and pretty liberal with the licenses helped alot. Nobody feared to help there competitors when developing on arm.. they were as neutral as the swiss before they were acquired, and thats a great thing for embedded development projects.
FSF job opportunity: Outreach and communications coordinator
I can't help but feel after reading this proposal that what they want is Rust but with 30 years of libraries tools.
> "my son was a gude and honourable mon, but Sparta has mony a mon better than him."

On a sidenote, this sounds northern irish to me. Think Daniel Day-Louis in The Boxer
First Spider-Man Comic Sells for Record-Breaking $3.6M
I think you can tessellation on the CPU in an adaptive fashion (e.g. based on curvature or similar) and update that on a per frame (add, remove tessellation points) basis rather than re-tesselating from scratch each frame. The tessellation would just have weights from each control point.

You can modify the vertices on the CPU, update the tessellation points and update those to the GPU. Get 60fps should be possible even when updating 1Ks of vertices (probably more) per second. Do this for whatever changed using dirty lists or something so you do not update everything to the GPU on each frame. This should be relatively fast if you using ArrayBuffers.

100% this can be done in JavaScript in a very fast fashion. It may only seem like it can not be done if you are doing JS poorly. Maybe people make the mistake of not using ArrayBuffers for everything and that makes it slow. The main limitation in JS is the lack of really great multithreading, but I do not think you need it here.

If you want ultimate speed use WASM for the CPU-based updating of your geometry structures.

Anyhow, you are mistaken in your current beliefs and it will hurt you going forward.
Don't worry, other lives will end before mine.
Not only did you come forward with a political position while stating that it isn't, you are also wrong about what the vacines do and do not protect. If vacines didn't protect the person taking them, there wouldn't be any use to them at all.
Amazon reveals new college tuition benefit for its US warehouse workers
In a nutshell it is delegating all this manual work to a service.

I was happy with manual deployments for a while too, until i got fed up with this activity.

It is just a question of quality of life, automation.

Also, yes - there are tutorials, but what if you are not willing to spend time learning it even if you have tutorial?

Most of developers have a very high pain tolerance for manual tasks and search for yet another tutorial how to do X by themselves instead of delegating a task to some app or service.

Not everyone is like that.
Ask HN: How to know when it is a numbers game?
How do you know when something is simply a numbers game and not how you approach the obstacle?
One aspect not entirely covered in the article is when you have a deeply technical piece of software and the dominant vocabularly of the technical field is in English.

We get many requests from users of Ardour (a crossplatform digital audio workstation) to disable automatic translation based on their system language setting, because the terms used in the original/English version are the ones they are used to.

It also leads to some hilarious discussions among translators (at least for those of us watching from the outside). The funniest one I recall was the Portugese and Brasilian Portugese translators discussing how to translate the word "Roll" in the context of a DAW's "transport control" (i.e. the "play" button)
Ah yes. Because an app optimized for touch on a tiny screen will scale beautifully to work with precise controls via keyboard and mouse/trackpad on large and huge screens.

As evidenced by all the professional apps that require little to no modifications.

Oh wait...
100 years ago, to do the Michelson Morely experiment (imho the most important scientific experiment done yet, except perhaps LIGO) required heroics and could not have been done by mere mortals. It required floating a massive appartus on a bed of mercury in a subbasement and was still hard to run during the day due to horse-based deliveries a few buildings over.

My friend did the experiment in an afternoon Physics lab (princeton), almost all of of this is due to innovations in precision manufacturing and material science.
Awesome story. This has inspired a bit of long forgotten altruism in me.
If some Silicon Valley turd came anywhere near me wearing these things he would be asked - very politely, but only once - to take them off.
You're right, thanks for pointing it out.

Normally don't even bother with these but it was an exceptionally bad instance.
Debian could provide a tool which builds it for you, on your system, right? The resulting binary would not be redistributable but you could use it.

I've often wondered why more linux distros don't provide a similar tool to build ZFS into the kernel for you.
yes, if obesity were contagious.
Oh, "qualified investor" qualifications. In that case, why does anyone think that they would be particularly skilled at hiring CEOs?
Looks like the old MSN: https://web.archive.org/web/20010531123934/http://www.msn.co...
DoL requires vaccinations or testing for all workers of businesses above 100
AuthZ: Carta’s highly scalable permissions system [audio]
If you don't like them get your local government to pass a law. These are a great opportunity for creeps and perverts and we should ban the devices from the community .
phone cameras in japan must produce a shutter sound
https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/4vyko2/shutter_s...
It will. Times and attitudes have changed since Google's Glassholes.

There's going to be resistance from folks putting high intensity LEDs, triggered by Ray-Ban recognizing camera's, bit it'll be shortlived and a very tiny minority.

I don't like it, but that's my expectation.
> how can you tell the difference between...

Probably by finding the financial records that you received payment from the brand.
> Citizens of Britain were destroyed financially by WW1, and the British Empire fell apart.

They were destroyed financially because they were destroyed physically. There are a lot of reasons the British empire fell apart, including losing Hong Kong to the Japanese showing the world they were no longer able to protect their territorial posessions. Pinning this on hard money is really difficult IMO but if it was actually hard money, that sounds like a great reason not to adopt it? Empire collapse sounds bad...

> Afghanistan lasted far longer and had no real sacrifice of current citizens, other than debt which will be paid by debasement.

What makes you think lending won't be possible in a hard money environment? Afghanistan was expensive but not that expensive. US GDP is 21T. Afganistan cost $100B/yr, or 0.47% of GDP. America can fight forever-wars because of its largesse, not its ability to create debt. That's just accounting.

You can't make a $21T GDP country feel $0.1T/yr. That's a rounding error in appropriations. The Defense budget alone is $700B/yr.

> With forever wars financed by fiat money, we can funnel freshly printed cash into the meat grinder forever.

This is social policy not monetary policy. Japan has a soft monetary system, struggles constantly with deflation and has no army.
I was thinking about this recently when I took an Asus laptop apart. You can get a 720p camera and microphone for $5.00 [1]

It weighs nothing, cost nothing. I just have to figure out how to plug it into a raspberry pi for an augmented car experience. (right not using my bulky laptop)

I've trained a small model with my voice to respond to basic commands. No need to go through a Facebook server or any cloud server for that matter. Tech can be a lot of fun when you get your hands dirty and ignore FAANGs.

[1]: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/PC-Laptop/Asus-G75VW-DS73-3D-Ca...
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

(Just kidding, that's awesome!)
Slightly off-topic, but what happened during the time HN was using Cloudflare (August 2017 up to August 2018 by the looks of it)? Was it a trial and enough people complained about the usage, or otherwise had issues accessing from niche user agents?
How much is the MasterCard paying? Is that published anywhere?
Sorry, meant to say some other data structure, say, a hash table where the key is some custom type / struct and the value is some custom type / struct. Or a binary search tree. Or a linked list.
The one to get? It only has a one V8 engine. You know what's better than one V8 engine? Two V8 engines.

The Gigahorse, that's the one to get.
DKMS style linking at install time might be an option, but I've never seen it used in practice
Depends on what that means in absolute terms, how many Jims can you expect to hire?
Rare earth war – can the U.S. even compete with China?
Scientific theories are explanations for ("why"), not passive descriptions.
- I have a piece of art
- I too want that piece of art

You either become or hire an expert art imitator to imperfectly recreate that same piece of art or you can't have it.
vs
- I have an NFT for a png
- I also want that PNG

You download that PNG
> Yes, I've come to the conclusion that it's better to bury most plastic waste.

Alright, here is a controversial hot take - we should probably just burn plastics - and most garbage actually - as fuel. Done properly, incineration is a simple way to limit environmental contamination caused by plastics and other waste materials. The extra GHG production would be partially offset by savings from simpler logistics for processing (no more shipping barges of waste plastic going to overseas dumps) , and significantly reduced methane emissions from landfills. And - depending on how cost-effective incineration is - we may be able to take savings from waste processing and double-down on removing emissions from other industries (e.g. Energy, transportation).
I do find it amazing that mathematicians seem to have almost infinite time to work on problems, and so much freedom to choose what they're working on. How great that a big group of people can collectively decide to spend years creating a book like this.
True, but that's only if you need to convert to hard cash/USD. If you can transact digitally then ATMs have less usage and associated risk.
A group of men surround your car eager to tell you stories about the cars it reminds them of.
There are cross-platform toolkits that render using native controls. Bootstrap+jQuery and Win32 are not the only two possible options.
There's this great talk from a CCC about reverse engeneering the PSP: Uncover, Understand, Own - Regaining Control Over Your AMD CPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKH5nGLgi08

At 47:10, they mention that they haven't found anything evil. Ofc, this isn't hard proof, but if I trust anyone's answer, then it's theirs. (Btw, watch the whole talk, it's nothing short of incredible.)
What about the long term safety data on catching / surviving COVID itself? Long COVID seems to affect between 10-30% of people who catch COVID. Why do I never hear anti-vaxxers being concerned about that?
At least crypto kitties was fun
GOV.UK: A single sign-on for government services and personalisation
Personalized news is the problem.
Most appropriately timed auction ever.

However, could see Cirque du Soleil picking them up if they could get the additional rights with them.
No, at least not in the US: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/
'73 felonies and 34 misdemeanors in San Francisco alone'
Apple’s Watch Software Chief Takes over Self-Driving Car Project
Magnet milestones move distant nuclear fusion dream closer
>I'm pretty sure the end game is either exerting social or even legal pressure to KEEP the value going up, simply because so much money is involved.

This just reminds me of how society screwed over future generations once the decision was made to treat housing as an investment. There is now a tremendous amount of social, political, and legal pressure to keep values going up in order to protect the financial health of a good percentage of people which is diametrically opposed with the financial health of a separate group of people who cannot afford those rising costs.
In the aftermath of WW1 the secret rule book was accidentally allowed to become too secret.
One question regarding wrappers around native GUIs as someone with little experience writing GUI software: how does the wrapper handle different UI/UX guidelines? It’s one thing to wrap a common button class around Win32, AppKit, Qt, and GTK buttons. It’s another thing to have the application simultaneously comply with the UI/UX guidelines for each desktop environment.
I don't remember seeing the Opera House or Harbor Bridge in it. It was filmed there, but it wasn't set there.
> short any capacitors with a screwdriver

Not universally a good idea to do that, especially not in a power supply. Safe enough in some circumstances but not all. Better to buy a discharge probe or make one by soldering a 2200 ohm 5w resistor between a couple of insulated wires.

EDIT: made it less condescending.
I thought it was about quantum computers
In addition to monitoring the cert, consider using Let's Encrypt/ACME to auto-rotate certificates.
Oh yeah i totally understand what it means having so much projects – every minute spent on manual task becomes an hour if done on all projects.

Let me know if you need another set of eyes or discuss it options. https://twitter.com/KostjaPalovic or in our discord https://appliku.com/discord
idk I thought there wouldn't be enough power to drive them long enough, but apparently...
> I've done it and know people who have done it,

This is good news, I know several people from the EU (and outside) that could not get a renting contract because of the lack of good ol' French IBAN

> Aumax and Boursorama didn't ask for "justificatif de domicile"

Boursorama does, I do not know for the max card.

> you can get a phone contract online, with only a credit card;

oh really? the telecom companies do not ask for your actual address? I thought that this was now impossible following the anti terrorist laws
it's pretty cool that the Internet Archive has 1M+ snapshots of msn.com, I wonder what other URLs have more captures
I suspect that's what's happening here. This is a state-backed HODL play that puts deposits into the government's hands.

Bukele himself is not formally educated beyond high school, and has no background in finance, which would be needed for an initiative as large as this. Additionally, the US State Department has some of his close colleagues on a list of corrupt officials [0].

I wonder what protections are in place that would prevent Bukele from pulling the rug and boarding a private jet with nothing but a seed phrase.

[0]https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-names-bukele-aide-...
But, of course, bigsite.coms tend to have the funds required to not have to ask people for free labour.
Biden to require companies of 100 employees to mandate vaccines or weekly tests
India’s automobile industry is highly competitive. Ford enjoyed just a 2% market share thanks to their shitty low tech car line up. Indians had better to choose from.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-m...
The terms productive and profitable are tightly related to each other. Of course you can argue about definitions, but I think I understand what you mean anyway. Yes, some things are hard or impossible to price (measure). But nonetheless pricing is the best tool in this complex world that we have for deciding what is most productive. We get monetary compensation for our work that we can exchange for the work of others. The more we earn the more we can do. We can help others with our earnings, maybe more this way than by direct contribution. It is a matter of specialization and division of labor that helps everyone be more productive.
Is there anything specific Mikrotik owners can do? (other than updating their firmware)
Updates are the last thing I want as a user, thank you very much. Windows and constantly shifting UI of various apps have soiled this concept altogether in the minds of many users.
Is this a generational thing? I've started using Instagram lately and I just can't understand how people who are doctors, lawyers, or dentists are posting content providing professional advice or tips and tricks one day and the next day it's videos of them doing yoga in thongs to sell underwear. There is the odd account where developers are posting similar content. Even elementary school teachers are twerking in videos in their classroom for likes.

If the upcoming generation of developers and tech professionals no longer believe in a separation of personal and professional boundaries, will we see a complete elimination of boundaries and privacy? Is the end goal to have the ability to directly tap into what others are seeing on demand in their most intimate interactions. Something similar to the TV adaption of Brave New World? (I haven't read the book, so I don't know if this is true to the original.) As far as I know, Facebook photos and accounts are private, or that's what it appears people tend to send the accounts to, but Instagram is all about leaving an account open, so they can get influencer collaboration bucks.
> I understand why someone would fractionalize an NFT as a scheme to extract more money from suckers, but I don't get why someone would pay $ for owning a small portion of an NFT.

Maybe these "suckers" do not understand what they are doing:

1) they heard that blockchain and NFT is the future,

2) they do not understand why, but they trust these who understand and evangelize,

3) they want to try riding their luck, just in case this miraculously works.

Imagine people purchasing lottery tickets, just in case they miraculously win.
Amazon offers to pay college tuition for most US workers
Wonder if EyeBuyDirect and CoastalContacts are not using Luxottica frames.
If Google isn't a prestigious employer, which companies are?
It’s a bit of a digression, but I just learned from this article that the Facebook laughing face gets criticism. This article seems to insinuate that’s why Microsoft replaced it on their service. It seems fairer to say that if you know you’re sharing news then that reaction won’t be needed. Compare that to Facebook where a wider range of content gets shared and you need a wider range of reactions in response.
I was searching for the People Eater's Limousine (the Mercedes-Benz W123 limo mounted on a truck frame) but didn't find it.

>The vehicle was destroyed in a spectacular stunt and its remains were crushed and scrapped.

Damn.