skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Max Lumi is what I picked up this past March. It's big, but an excellent choice for scientific articles, note-taking (a surprise --- not my intended use but one I'm finding I do make use of extensively), or reading comics at full-size.

Onyx updated the device once shortly after it arrived, but not since.

I've not been able to activate the Google Play Store ... I think because of Google's "you must register an account" bullshit, so I've just stuck with F-Droid and APK-Mirror for a couple of apps (mostly Pocket, as the F-Droid version is badly out of date).

Since I install few apps regardless, this is not much of a handicap, and I consider it a benefit.
That may hold true for US (and even then there's a lot of variation in living expenses and affording things like education or healthcare), but it doesn't necessarily for many of the other countries out there. For example, i recently did a blog post on my earnings as a software dev in Latvia: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings

In short:

- i earn 1.5x the average salary/wage in my country
- that figure is approximately 1500 euros per month

To afford the cheapest VW Golf [0] (a popular car here), i'd need to save up 22'325 euros, which is the equivalent of 15 months' wages, or ~30 months with the ability to save 50% of what i make. It'd take me over 2 years to afford a new car, which is also why the used car market is so popular here.

To afford a house in my region of the country [1], i'd need to save up around 100'000 euros, which is the equivalent of 67 months' wages, or ~134 months with the ability to save 50% of what i make. It'd take me over 11 years to afford my own house, something for which i really don't have an answer - most people just rent apartments instead (also we're talking about countryside properties here, not the ones in cities).

Of course, it's not all bad, but how much money people in various careers make and how much PPP holds true in a globalized economy varies greatly, as expressed in that blog post of mine. Some countries are just poor and the people in them aren't well paid. Some companies are profitable but aren't incentivized to pay developers anything above what they can get away with - which is also why many of the WITCH companies have regional offices in my country, as we're one destination for outsourcing. As for how hard these careers are, it depends: some people are miserable working in software, but at the same time at least it isn't back breaking work.

Links:

[0] https://www.volkswagen.lv/lv/models/golf-8.html

[1] https://www.ss.lv/lv/real-estate/homes-summer-residences/lim...
Tests are also meant to be continously refactored, though.
Same. Do automatically opt-in newsletters really turn a profit?

I would think that for something like a newsletter, explicitly opting in would end up being more profitable, since if you’re sending an email with eg sendgrid it’s not free.

Can someone shed some light on the economics of newsletter spam?
I was going to write a similar story. I often share my story with high school students so that they understand it is ok to fail and not have all of the answers.
I guess these are all eaten by the same people, the Pringles people?
So that’s how much all the tracking and other data (biometrics? 3D model of your home?) is worth to them.
> I've had those mold on the way home from the store.

They can sense you've bought them..
Thanks for the great review. Penpot has had a great reception from the day we launched it and the team is working really hard on each release. We will soon have a business model behind to ensure the tool's sustainability. Our goal is to make sure that design and open source are finally together for the next... decade.
You've got that backwards. Brexit is the prime example of the British public rejecting a campaign that was being pushed on them.
When were these created?

New account creation on numerous services (not just FB) has become increasingly limited. Even simple MS Windows registrations.
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So basically the whole conspiracy theory can only work if there's nanochips in the vaccines.

If the goal is some economic advantage the vaccines don't make sense. You would exactly focus on treatment drugs. Not preventative drugs.

If the goal is population control you wouldn't introduce a vaccine that's more deadly than the virus. You wouldn't want to damage the loyal citizens and save the disobedient anti-vaxxers.

The same goes for the idea that they are working towards a social credit system. You would want the vaccines to work. You would then introduce more dangerous and deadly variants of the virus to wipe all those people not joining the system.

It doesn't make sense.

For this ploy to make sense there needs to something else. Something valuable to the new world order. Something so valuable that it's worth the risk to inject people with vaccines that are more damaging than the virus itself. Something that allows the NWO to control the people.

Thus the conspiracy only makes sense if there's nanochips involved.

These versions of the conspiracy are mutually exclusive. Yet I see a bunch of these versions in the Spartacus letter. Why would you fool around with "dangerous" mRNA tech if the goal is to inject nanochips?
I think not. With a full tank there is less room for fumes to expand. I believe less fuel in the tank means worse fuel economy.

Found this[1] from a quick search.

[1] https://www.carsforsale.com/how-to/5-simple-reasons-to-keep-....
True, that’s an exception. It reminds me of the way some missile control software never bothers to free memory because by the time it runs out of RAM it’s already exploded…
Thank you! The overwhelming feeling I got when reading this was "wow, this person really does virtually nothing!". I went in expecting a challenge to my view that mid-level managers are mostly worthless, but instead that view was reinforced.
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This would need a huge apparatus to measure and distribute funds that will be ineffective. There is no effect on climate.
When I was in school (+6 years ago) I had classmates that were in the business of building and selling Facebook pages.

This was before Facebook started showing the history of the page's title changes over time.

As students who were broke and had lots of time on their hand they'd basically post all day a variation of cultural references, leading questions, polls, memes etc..

Anything that would drive the subscriber count up, which is the most important metric for how much they can charge for a page.

I'm guessing the posts that got 1.4 million comments is just that but on steroids.
I was going to ask whether "largely-but-not-completely bypasses" was an exaggeration, but the Israeli data really does suggest 39% effectiveness[0]! Everywhere else seems to be at least 70% or higher, so I wonder what's going on? Should the Israeli variant still be considered delta if it's much more effective at getting around the mRNA vaccines?

[0] https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/vaccine-efficacy-safet...
I like this method better: https://prideout.net/blog/octasphere/

To me it produces more pleasant resulting mesh, which gets important with fewer subdivisions. Here's what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/o3RFfZx.mp4

But the criticisms from slavik81 still applies, it produces long triangles with insufficient surface information for the flat parts.
It's time for mass-migration to Firefox. Only losing users is going to tell Google that this is a horrible solution to enforce.
> All we know is that we have further knowledge that at certain points in time.

What does that mean, if not "we know more than they did"?
I too do that, in a different context, and it's fine. Databases have problems with big items, but images aren't big in that sense nowadays.

The problems relate mostly to backups/copies/reloads, that kind of thing, and copying an image doesn't cause anything to hiccup. A transaction that transferred 1MB over a modem line was a problem, that could block other commits for a long time, on today's networks 1MB doesn't take long.
I put it down to the limitation of the hardware at the time. Drawing a circle is the same math throughout the shape. Same with the square. But a rounded rectangle requires breaking the routine into two distinct mathematical operations at 8 different intervals. Doing so on a system with highly constrained resources might not be as simple as "I figured circles and squares out, so rounded rectangles must be a bit of both". Baring in mind the goal of this was to create a performant production-ready routine rather than a pretty tech demo that isn't really suitable for everyday use.

I remember my days working on similar (and older hardware too) and stuff that was conceptually simple would often be much harder to implement in practice. And not always just because of hardware limitations, some of the algorithms we take for granted today hadn't been invented back then either, so we were having to figure all sorts of things out for the first time.
Something dark is brewing on Kik
On one hand there is a ton of distributed RDBMS like Cockroach, Yugobyte etc. and yet it looks like a good majority of large projects are opting for Vitess. Is coordination overhead so heavy in those systems that they are
not viable for these use cases?
Well specifically to the brightness, how much light is going into your eyes when using a VR set relative to, say, a TV? Or a 27-inch monitor close to your face?
The train that shrunk France and Western Europe
>Why the issue with those born in mainland China? Because China doesn't allow dual-citizenship. Those that become naturalized in the United States, for example, lose their Chinese citizenship. This then becomes a carrot the CCP can dangle in front of those wishing to return: restoration of citizenship. That is, of course, if you happen to have a particular set of knowledge or skills deemed important to China.

The main issue is not this. Born in mainland means your family lifes there and can be used as hostages or coercion bargaining chips. The bureaucracy and "rules&laws" are just decoration, for something that is more resembling of a mob-extortion racket by the CCP. Not mentioning this, is repackaging what is done by these hostages as a "choice" on their side. They have no choice, never had, they live at gunpoint since birth.
This is very naive, in incorrect. The stock market goes up on average…investors know this. When they sell it’s usually because they need cash, or they believe there is a better use for their capital. Most people who sell stocks do so knowing that it will continue to go up.

This also has nothing to do with returning cash to investors. They were going to sell the stock anyway. Who cares if it keeps going up? It has nothing to do with the mechanics of a buyback.

> These investors who sold did not benefit from the sale any more than they would have selling on the open market in a non-buyback situation.

What in the ever loving Christ? Why does this matter? You guys just keep moving the goal posts. This simply doesn’t matter and I’m not sure why you guys get hung up on it. Shareholders love buybacks. Why does HN think they have figured something out that millions of other people have missed. It gets so tiring going in circles.
You can't really feel pain in your retina though.
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There is plenty of fuel available.

The issue is that there is a shortage of truck drivers, which causes slight issues with supplying petrol stations. This was made public in a very bad way, which caused panic buying and now virtually all petrol stations have run out and closed.

So now there is a big problem with re-supplying the country's petrol stations...

Now, people were a bit on edge because the drivers shortage was already felt in supermarkets, where people can see items out of stock and the media keep talking about issues over Christmas. The spike in gas prices has also recently caused several domestic energy suppliers to collapse (including mine, actually). All of which has been headline news. So as soon as 'shortage' and 'petrol stations' were mentioned in the same sentence people went ballistic.

I have a quarter tank left but luckily I still WFH so don't need my car much, which is good because all the petrol stations in my area are now closed.
(the) dude, relax please, we know you're either a likely Russian state-paid actor hired to sow doubt or severely misinformed
for the record, you can do compaction with redpanda - all the same compaction strategies you know w/ kafka work w/ redpanda.

https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/tree/dev/src/v/storage - see all 'compaction_*' for deets
We feel personally attacked at our startup by some of the stuff you wrote on your blog especially the thing about writing in plural
What is more less the price range you expect for your headset?
The only browser that's been losing users for years is Firefox. That already tells Google all they need to know. (It also tells Mozilla what they need to know; pity they are deaf.)
That is why we got the lockdowns, pretty much worldwide. Either governments are obsessed with making things worse, or the pressure came from somewhere to make global vaccination programs feel like the obvious solution.
My boss hired me full-time while I was gigging on Upwork. They asked me "Why Upwork?". I was like "I have to stay with my dad at hospital" and they were like "You can still do that for unlimited time". That's how I got my financial independence, dad is also okay now.

Freelancing sites should be full of desperate people like me who do small gigs due to similar life circumstances.
I would just note that a completely unique UI/complete redesign is saying a lot when I still have to use control panel items that have been around since I used Windows XP.
It's the opposite of that. Miners will try to grab higher fee transactions first, as soon as they see them broadcasted
Germany has a lot of coal, so no need to import. That's why it was German chemists who invented both the first chemical process to convert coal to usable liquid gasoline, and to convert CO gas (state of matter) to liquid gasoline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergius_process

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_liquefaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_to_liquids

Also the reason why France occupied that region of Germany after World War 1, and then hilariously also again after World War 2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_the_Saar_Basin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Saar_status_referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Protectorate
I still don't understand why Spolsky's Evidence Based Scheduling didn't get much traction. Defining the completion date as a range of probabilities makes the most sense.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...

As implemented in Fogbugz:

https://fogbugz.com/evidence-based-scheduling/
The difference here is that if you like Apple hardware, Apple do not have to up-sell you the OS - it's baked in and for most people the only option. So Apple do not have to make radical changes to draw you in.

Whereas, Windows sits on fairly open hardware. PC users have another option of OS in Linux (and maybe BSD...) So Microsoft are aware that they need you still be invested in their OS every few years.

It's like selling a car. Every few years the car manufacturer refreshes the body shape of the car to keep people loyal to that model and encourage them to refresh their older version even though fundamentally the newer model is no different.
Now can i train a NN that parses the code and my actions as input and auto-rearranges the windows depending on the workflow?
Dupe: "ListMonk – High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389346 (26 days ago, 48 comments)

Also discussed 2 years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421243
> Alexey controls his mind and his body with totality.

I understand this is often advertised as a goal in life. But the fact is that most of the time you don't control much of what happens inside and outside you... This happens only in very restricted contexts.
Given the limited capabilities of that hardware, it probably would have been a waste to have non-technical design teams coming up with unimplementable ideas.
What rate do you expect to be paying? How does it compare to the salaries for a development team?
To draw a rounded rect, you don’t want to draw four lines and four quarter circles. That will run into problems if you want to use transfer modes such as XOR, fill with a pattern (phases of the patterns won’t match), etc.

On the Mac, you also needed to do clipping against arbitrary regions (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...). Doing that at reasonable speed wasn’t easy at the time.

I didn’t check the source (https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-sour...) but I guess the drawing routines created scanlines top-to-bottom (that’s how regions worked on the Mac), and Bill tweaked a copy of the oval drawing code to insert extra pixels in each line and extra identical lines for the straight vertical parts.
Postgres is indeed good at that. I know from experience.

If you want to commit ten things every second all week, don't transfer so much data in a single transaction that you hold any important locks for half a minute. And if you use replication, test while replicating.

If the blobs you store are small enough to not disturb your commit rate, then pg's drawbacks are IMO smaller than those of the alternatives, particularly if you want some sort of commit that returns when both image data and something else have been committed.
Related ongoing thread:

Procedurally generating a rounded box mesh - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677064 - Sept 2021 (21 comments, particularly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677781)

Past submissions of the folklore.org article:

History of Rounded Corners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7062706 - Jan 2014 (1 comment)

Steve Jobs and Rounded Corners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096927 - Oct 2011 (1 comment)

The story of round rectangles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636358 - Aug 2010 (77 comments)
Mocking helps with architecture, though.

When A calls C through B, you have a tight coupling between A and C, but mightn't be aware of that, because you only see A calling B.

Lets say C reads a CSV file. By testing implementation only, you might 'create a csv file' then call A.import() and assert some records in, say D are created.
By testing A in isolation, you make apparent that it couples to C and D because you have to mock them out. B is a direct dependency of A, so you don't mock that. At the least, you have now documented the accidental coupling. But at the best, your tests showed you a design issue.
No, because we have land to build on and derelict buildings we can clear.

Either way your comparison is moot, as houses are not people, and as such cannot be treated badly and so decide it doesn't want to be bought/sold.
Swings and roundabouts: what you lose on writing tests you gain on not bothering to implement things you don't need. If the test passes, you stop.

Without the tests to guide you it's very easy to waste time over-engineering, even if what you're building is well-structured.
Worth noting that most of this is a very US view of PhDs. In Europe most PhD students earn pretty close to what their starting salary fresh out of school would be.

Also in Europe the concept that PhD means you want an academic career doesn't seem to be as true. I work with a lot of people who have PhDs and none of them did it because they wanted an academic career. In fact going back to get your PhD after working for a few years is surprisingly common, and in many cases your employer will partially sponsor that.
There are plenty of people who don't seem to notice how crappy things look when their monitor is set to non-native resolution, or the differences between SD/HD/4K, or a clearly uprezzed JPG. Might be something to do with what they are used to, and/or their individual eyesight. Resolution is just as critical for me as it is for you, but my eyesight is good and my eyes/brain are pretty well-trained from years of having to do things like spot a single dead pixel in a 6.5k video frame for a living.
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Or the sun/daylight while being outside? I'd guess that's some orders of magnitude more.
How do they store your purchases if you refuse to use facebook?
These people never learn, this paper[0] is worth a read.

Despite the narrative of novelty touted by these companies, this is not the UAE's first foray with bringing ultra-modern or 'scientific' greenhouses to the Arabian Peninsula – a large University of Arizona project did so in Abu Dhabi from 1969-1974. Yet that project is largely forgotten today, including among today's new AgTech entrepreneurs. This article investigates why this is the case and, more generally, why the systematic failures of high-modernist, spectacular projects like those to green the desert are so routinely forgotten.[0]

[0]https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/i...
I agree with this. But the fact that a bunch of psychopaths rule is only ONE part of the equation. The true, WHOLE, but “politically inconvenient” and “culturally forbidden” reality is more encompassing. Read “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room –The Holocaustal Covid-19 Coronavirus Madness: A Sociological Perspective & Historical Assessment Of The Covid “Phenomenon”” by Rolf Hefti at https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html

Without a proper understanding, and full acknowledgment, of the true WHOLE problem and reality, no real constructive LASTING change is possible.

Btw the full Spartacus letter including references can be viewed at https://archive.is/CDc1J or https://archive.is/yqSJk since the original document has been removed, unsurprisingly...
> Comments that do nothing more than @mention people publicly. It just seems weird to do that.

It's grown to be a more common way to share something with a friend. Less clicks than sharing in private messages, and also more inviting to conversation — which would be shared not only between you two, but also open to other friends like yours. Mostly those @mentions and conversations are very casual, like "me: @friendName -- @friendName: OMG this is so @frank -- frank: I'm in this picture and I don't like it". All of which makes perfect sense for mindless positive chit-chat.
Because they close your account for not being real and you lose your game library?
Mozilla annoys me. Truly it does. However, it's the organisation.

Firefox as a browser, especially dev tools, seems better in every day use than Chrome does. I am really not sure why they keep losing users. I do remember being massive performance issues in the past, but that's really not the case today (at least in my experience)
Also, sending people home whenever they feel like it/are slow. Some places have made this illegal but it still happens all the time.

Try pulling that on the emlloywr though and see how quickly you are fired. The imbalances we put up with are maybe getting ironed out.
Talk about important work in 'founding':

The Etruscans laid the first underground sewers in the city of Rome around 500 BC. These cavernous tunnels below the city's streets were built of finely carved stones, and the Romans were happy to utilize them when they took over the city.

[https://phys.org/news/2015-11-toilets-sewers-ancient-roman-s...]
Considering Samsung is the majority of Android phones, yes. They keep up and sometimes apply security updates faster than Google.