skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be good to see a post-mortem autopsy of why it failed since it was so hyped and well funded.

Or perhaps it might have succeeded in the long run if it was not so hyped and well funded?
> It's not an "ad hominem attack" to point out someone's apparent lack of experience with the subject of their comment.

It is if, as the other comment did, you just claim I don't know what I'm talking about without providing evidence of that.

But congratulations to you on using sources and arguments. I still think you're projecting. In my experience babies have no trouble recognizing human faces with masks on because they are drawn to eyes. In fact, they even recognize and will respond to a smile behind a mask, again because the muscles around the eyes contract. Probably masks are harder for slightly older children who are learning language, because they can't associate mouth movements with sounds.
Have to agree, Windows sucks less with Linux on it.
Nicely explained in simple terms.
Besides using molten salt fuel, using molten salt coolant enables a low pressure reactor, making it potentially a lot cheaper to construct from that perspective.
Blank in all cases for me. With adblocker enabled/disabled. With Dark Reader enabled/disabled. On the homepage vs /my_twitter_handle. In Chrome, Edge, Firefox.

I'm in Australia. I see no errors in the developer console, or the network tab. Inspecting element reveals a bunch of divs, with no meaningful content (essentially empty) in the middle.
This is sad news, genius.com is still my go-to website for lyrics and interpretations.

I’ve been a fan of Genius since they were featured in an episode of Small Empires[1], a series by the Verge presented by Alexis Ohanian (an investor in then-named Rap Genius), eight years ago. While I’m glad they expanded beyond annotations for rap music into other genres, it doesn’t surprise me that they struggled to expand beyond music.

Reading the article, I wonder if layoffs mean they’ll stop producing their artist Lyrics & Meaning video series on YouTube[2]. I hope not because it’s a unique angle. Either way I’m sure the website will live on, I just hope the new owners don’t destroy it through monetization.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T92-MTJYmFc
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/rapgenius
I thought you were saying he sunk a nail into every pipe, and damn wouldn't that just suck.
I'm now very curious about the stories behind all of these. Did someone attempt to enter the EU with a Byzantine Empire passport?? What did it even look like?
I believe Twitter also relies on read only Tweets as a performance optimisation.
That's absolutely not what I meant. The trigger condition is not the problem. The action is. It is not goal-based. I can't give a target value (as template) and the system tries to bring the entity to that state.

I have to have another check (or two automations) to trigger the off/on-action. Home assistant basically has no idea how to bring entities to a desired state.
The entire crypto world is not like this. Crypto is not all about making money.
Umm, no. did you read the article? The early covid supply chain issues were ages ago, the effects of those were gone by last summer.

The current supply chain issues are mainly due to China’s zero-covid policy and a typhoon closing down ports.

The western world is basically back to pre-covid business wise, with Asia being the bottleneck
Imagine reducing Amazon to “exploits workers”.

For starters, what about all the startups powered by AWS?

Amazon lets my programmer cousins in India buy the latest technical books in days, while my generation used to torrent and print 15-20 years ago.
It wasn't monetary policy that drove inflation. It was the fiscal stimulus. It didn't cause lumber prices to go up by much though, that was just a basic supply shock. I doubt that fiscal stimulus did raised lumber prices by more than 10-20%.
I'm not sure there is a business in that after the short-term supply chain crisis is resolved. If you make robot kits, the product you're selling is an educational project and the work you do is integrating the system, documenting everything, provide proof to teachers that this is a good use of students' time, etc. You're writing a textbook that happens to need microcontrollers and ceramic capacitors and printed circuit boards. You could say "I'll do anything to survive" and license an ARM core and start up a semiconductor fab... but it will be a decade before that is online, and by then ST will be back selling STM32s for 3 cents per thousand.

The economy needs building blocks and raw materials and that's why there are companies that provide those things. It isn't practical for every company to vertically integrate everything, there just aren't enough resources to do that.
Related submissions by the author of this site (showdead on): https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lovefeature

Make of that what you will.
Did you get this information from:

"Undo or redo a tweet
Discard your last tweet or re-edit it, quickly with shortcuts" or are you just guessing it based on the twitter API?
Free advice: don't do "homeworks". It's an indication of poorly run and dishonest company, with incompetents at the helm. That's if you get the contract. Most likely you won't (because your are competing with desperate people who lie about their actual effort). Best is to stay out of it.
Why? It's not a bad idea, a certain suffix that means "scandal" is useful, no?
I'd contend NAFTA was the kiss of death for the US. It's what turned on the country to cheap produce out-of-season, and it got us addicted to cheap electronics. People forget that shit like tape decks and the like used to be prohibitively expensive in the 70s/80s. Nowadays we have people working at McDonalds with $1000 phones in their pockets. I don't think these devices were meant to be had by all. You should have to work for them. Commoditizing electronics looks great from a human rights perspective, sure, but it's proved ruinous for the planet.
That's neat. How do I proceed to do that?
Kizie doesn't edit your existing tweets, even Twitter doesn't/can't do that :D

Kizie just makes it easier to discard/redo your last sent tweet within 10 seconds of posting it, before implementing I thought it wouldn't be useful but I've personally used it plenty of times. It does help, try it out and let me know maybe
Right... there have never been governments that oppressed the majority of their citizens.
Ancient spider caring for her offspring is trapped in 99M-year-old amber
That's Where or How, not Who.
Because you need to have this measured out by the time the car is available for purchase (maybe even way in advance?), not after.
I have to agree. No idea what it is, but I just really don't enjoy using it at all. I find it quite disorientating. Would be interesting to see someone do a blog post on why that happens. It's honestly bad enough that I simply find myself just not using Discourse forums at all, even if it is on a topic that is actually important to me.
I wish I wasn't born here
Just in case you don't know it...

In germany it's not possible to have a criminal prosecution against a company. It's only possible to do it against the individual persons in that company who acted criminally.

Pretty stupid imho and one of the few things I'm jealous about the US.

It's also the reason why VW had to pay a huge fine in the US but not in Germany.

Actually germany can't do shit about it. They can only try to punish some employees IF they can prove they are guilty....
> I like to think that peoples' honor is not contingent on their estimation of the honor of their colleagues.

You might want to rethink that assumption, because overwhelming evidence suggests that people's honour is contingent of their estimation of the honour of their peers. See the Golden Balls TV show, where the two remaining participants at the end are asked to "split or steal". Turned out people are more likely to steal if they think the other will steal as well. Also, people don't like to get swindled. If they expect swindling, its' only natural that they resist it however they can.

Don't get me wrong, we need honour, if only so we can share this Earth together. There are other ways to fight dishonour than to be dishonourable yourself, and there are advantages to honour (such as the reputation of being honourable). It's just that evidence is not as rainbows and unicorns as we'd like.
Fairseq S^2: A Scalable and Integrable Speech Synthesis Toolkit
> At some point (around AOL?) the inflow of newbies completely broke that paradigm.

That event was called Eternal September, and netiquette has never been the same, or so I am told.
> Light switches should turn the lights on and off, rather than disable the light automation (looking at you Hue).

Why are you looking at them? The Hue lights wired properly do exactly what you describe. You wire them in so they are constantly fed with electricity and send smart signals with a wall mounted control panel. They sell you this control panel. It looks like a switch.

Heck if you are retrofitting a building you you can use their wall switch module to adapt any traditional wall switch to become a smart switch.

They have the spunk to also work with half-assed installations. You can define in what state the bulb should be after the power is restored to them. Of course if you go this route they can't be turned on when the power to the bulb is off. What would you expect them to do? Should they pack an RTG in their bulbs to have the option to illuminate when the power is off? Should they throw a tantrum and tell you off for installing the lights wrong? Of course they don't do either of those. They just keep on trucking the best they can.
I almost never use discord, not that I want to avoid it, but because my daily use of software doesn't require it.

Gaming, I usually use Steam's built-in voice chat and/or rooms, and search for community forums within the game's page without hassle.

For meetings I use either MSTeams (unfortunately if I don't have the option) or telegram, the latter is even better now with the group calls and screen share.

When search for answers for a Github project, I go to discussions or create an issue.
Seems very risky to try this.

Imagine the authority responsible for border security arrests you for document falsification. You can’t very well call your embassy.
> What is complex is it being Lisp language which means you need to adjust your brain structure to a different level of functioning and focus when reading code.

"To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Common Lisp..."
I have two decades of experience as a consultant
(not anymore) in different companies and even different
countries and different states and at different levels
in the hierarchy.

I would say that getting to work on a "high impact" project is not all that common.
It does depend on how you define "high impact"

Most of the projects I got on were not green field, it was adding functionality to existing business application, written in legacy
ways and legacy languages.

I did a lot of figurering out why some obscure program does not work anymore or why it is suddenly so slow.

Quite a lot of enterprises does hire in consultants to do sht work
so that their internal devs dont have to do it.
Of course, some do not have a dev team at all.

Some people you end up working with in mid sized to large companies are hostile to consultants being hired in. Had that problem a few times.

You do learn how to accommodate unreasonable demands, passive aggressive behavior, how to communicate bad news, lead a group, analyze an existing code base fast.

You can fast end up doing a lot of cover your ass, both from a client and from the consultancy company you work with. All the ones I have worked for were cutthroat in some ways. Some more than others.

Your billable hours are a huge factor.
One coworker of mine was billing upwards of 90h to 150h a week,
he got a lot of bonuses and perks.
This was not physically possible, but since he had more than one client
he billed full it me on several at the same time.

IT consultancies are usually highly competitive in all ways.

They are also only interested in what you have done this quarter
and will sack you if that is not good enough. or have a pay stricture
so you dont have a dime if you are not billig at least full time.

Several places I worked 40h a week was the bare minimum.
Tolerated for a while, but you would get notices about needing
to apply yourself more, to get in the game. You are expected to learn all new things in your field on your own time and dime.

In some places you have to keep X number of certifications current.
You study on your own time but usually the exams are paid for,
at least the first try. Failure to keep up is a grave problem.

The sales team rules.
You have to learn how to kiss their assess and become friends.
They will have a lot of pull when it comes to who will be put
on a new sale. You want them to think of you as a valuable
asset. or you always get the sh*t jobs.

I had perhaps 4 - 5 big fun projects.
One was to write an ERP system from scratch
(Yes I heavily advised the client to buy some
existing product but the client was adamant that
the business was so unique (it was not)
that it had to have its own system.

The one big thing they had was a multi-dimensional pricing
model from hell. The founder of the company must have spent
years coming up with it. All sorts of inputs, all sorts of
options discounts, scale, employees, nation, state, order size,
Previous orders, season, sports events, stock prices, number
and types of cars sold in the last month, and a lot more.

Working on that, and getting it to work was probably one of my
best achievements. My team was superb.
Yeah that's a known issue and happens on any app that used Twitter API when Firefox enhanced protection is enabled, it would work on balanced settings.
> The tech interview with the ludicrously simple questions are all about finding people who 'get it', and are actually effective at it. Which is why it persists.

No downvotes from me, friend.

I get what you are saying, but I wish my tech interviews ludicrously simple. They tend to be the opposite, and it seems to be worse when you are a front end UI engineer. Not only do I need to be up to date on the new new javascript hotness, I need to be able design twitter's back end architecture and implement min / max heaps on the spot on a white board (now in coder pad, hacker rank or, even worse, google doc) in about 20 mins or less.

That's asking a lot.
Thank you very much for those clarifications.
> I’ve met people who sue Rosetta, Babbel, Pimsleur, etc.

For a second my mind processed that typo as "damn, people really hate Rosetta!"
Are you speaking from personal experience? Care to share some details?
But they operate on extremely low wages supplemented by government transfer payments.
The CEOs of my last two companies ditched all offices and went 100% distributed during the pandemic. For software it made more sense to recruit workers from anywhere than a drivable radius from a city office.

Companies eager to return to offices have most likely invested money in fancy offices and they want to see that investment put to use.

Remote workers are more productive, take fewer sick days [1], and can work from cheaper areas, a win-win. To give up that value proposition companies would need something more valuable in return, and water cooler talk and cubicle to cubicle chatter doesn't seem worth it

1. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/technology/...
The one from the early 90s? Produced pretty decent mice among other things.

Edit: found them, still alive, still making the periphery - https://us.geniusnet.com/about
Many engineers who I know as friends/excoworkers who are in top companies (including but not limited to FAANG) barely eeked by into their job, usually with a large string of failed interviews behind them. All of them consider themselves extremely lucky that they landed a job at a great company and believe that if they had to re-interview for the same position, odds are much more likely they'd utterly fail it.

Yet they are currently working at highly respected top tech companies and are accorded a certain "elite" status by many of their peers at less prestigious/selective companies.

My best friend is at Netflix and constantly dreads ever having to interview for another job again because he's dead certain he will bomb the leetcode rounds because he hasn't looked at an leetcode problem in five years. Even his current job at Netflix he considers having obtained through sheer luck, and he says none of his experience working at Netflix is of any help in solving leetcode problems.

I quite often hear stories on here, Blind, Reddit, etc. of people who manage to land multiple simultaneous offers from FAANGMULA+ but have yet to meet such a person.
> I do realize that this no-tech-interview approach would probably never work for permanent positions

This. Booking a freelancer is a completely different game than hiring an employee. There are legal aspects here because big company A hires small service provider company B aka freelancer to do work. In my experience companies looking for freelancers need experts with very specialized skills on framework X or cloud provider Y.
Hi balloob!
I was showing my non-commercial weather API project [0] to HN 2 days ago. Another HN member was already pointing out your project.

If you are interested, we could have a look at integrating weather data without the need of your users to sign up for API plans with their personal data.

[0] https://open-meteo.com
I largely agree with you, except that I think the most valuable experience gained is that of exposure to information a typical software engineer is not privy to. I think this is often overlooked and is what doing a short stint in consulting should be about. Getting the opportunity to understand the inner workings of an organization at, often, a senior management level, was one of the most lucrative lessons of my professional life and is a selling point that I use when interviewing candidates because it’s generally true if they conduct themselves intelligently. Also, to reiterate your point, consulting can be incredibly lucrative if you price yourself at market value — most freelancers and consultants I’ve met are too afraid or nervous or get caught up in imposter syndrome, etc. to charge their true value. $300k/yr (in the US) is near trivial to make annually as a consultant, $400k/yr is where most capable software engineers should be, and yet few get there for reasons I attribute to lack of self confidence — a shame really.
Flarum seems better than Discourse.
That ideal leans heavily on the other community members being able to recognise and accept that you have learned and changed.

Especially when the community = everyone on the internet that's a problem.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22704138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27786545
I host one for my wife on a 5$ DigOcean droplet. It was a pretty easy install and updates have also been easy. I’d recommend it if you need this kind of solution.
Could they remember if they were off or on? And return to that state? Could they interrogate the switch to see what state they are 'supposed' to be in when power is restored? All of those would be acceptable I think.
They d have been acquired by google and shut down 3 years later. The ones that have escaped that fate are self-hosted forums and , oddly, blogspot
Every so often I come across a story about what it’s like to travel internationally as a stateless person and I always find them fascinating.

Here’s one recent(ish) example: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/10/14/refugees-and-e...
Fauci Pre-Pandemic Laughing at Idea That Masking Effective Against Disease
I'm in the same demographic as you.

The reason why I hate Discord as a replacement for forums is because I find it very hard to find whether my specific issue has already been discussed, and if I find something, it's quite hard to follow the intertwined discussions.

You're talking about a threaded-feature, I'm not familiar with that, maybe it helps. My latest experience with discord was around spring of this year, with some tokio(-rs) related projects.

But I find that something like stackoverflow or "Discussions" (not sure what the name of the app is, but many projects have them) are much more practical to use when you need to look up things.

It seems to me that with Discord, the way it works is you show up and ask your question, as opposed to searching the archives to see whether someone already asked it before.
They made mice originally, ISTR? I had one in the late 80s, bundled with a paint package called Dr Halo.
> On smart phone they force you to use the app instead of the mobile web page

I have been using i.reddit.com for years on mobile. It works great.
This stack was developed by my colleagues at Netflix (primarily Randall Stewart, known for SCTP). It serves the vast majority of our video and other CDN traffic.
Mostly because they assume that it's at the cost of schedule.

In my case, that turns out not to be the case. I work very quickly.

I can develop a fairly "full-fat" iOS app, with a lot of functionality, in less than a week. I do it all the time, with test harnesses.

But getting the app to what I consider "ship" shape, is another matter entirely, and can stretch the project to a couple of months (which is still not so bad, all things considered).

One of the nice things about my approach, is that I can start using TestFlight (Apple's beta-test service for iOS) quite quickly. This allows non-tech stakeholders to start actually using the app, very early in the process.

If I have an open-ended schedule (like I do, with the project I'm working on now), it's amazing, because we can refine the project, and work through a lot of the MVP stuff, without the public shame.
Probably some tabs vs spaces issue.
Because it is/was, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28512121
Scam? Or HN design iconoclast?
It's not that I don't trust you specifically. I have no reason to monetize my interactions with you either but would you run an executable email attachment if I sent one to you?

Please consider making a graceful fallback to an actual website even if it's only to tell non-JS users to go away.
The thought of creating Kizie iOS app has crossed my mind like 23 times :D, someday
> The mobile interface doesn't even work anymore, you have to use an App.

I'm using i.reddit.com right now and it seems to be working just fine.
Yup. Also, data-mining by non-tech staff. So many of these breaches, are because some marketing person took a dump of the data, and stored it on an open AWS instance, while they mined it.
If we're going there, we should insist that junk food manufacturers stop making their foods tasty.
Especially considering this was caused by the government passing out money for too long in addition to telling everyone to not bother paying their rent. Plenty of places have been offering $15-$20/hour and have struggled to find help since why would you work when unemployment pays more?
Depends on the robot really. Robots that help the elderly manage their dementia and loneliness? Great. Robots that help wheelchair bound people navigate? Great. Robots that help clean up nuclear disasters? Great.

What would not be great is if we just allow a handful of people to own all the robots in the world (and their output), just as we allow a handful of people to own all the capital producing equipment in the world. Then we're just where we are today, but even worse off. This is actually my nightmare, and partly why I don't do much robotics anymore these days...

Remember, people only need jobs because we as a society have decided if they don't have jobs, we will allow them to go hungry and suffer exposure of the elements due to homelessness. This is perhaps necessary when there's so much work to be done you want people working instead of idle and comfortable. But if the robots can do all the work, then why do people need jobs? Only if the benefits of that work accrue to a handful of people rather that society as a whole.