skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a protocol that's a good forty years old

34 years old, actually. I guess we can go ahead and deprecate the x86 instruction set, tcp/ip, ASCII, C, tar, and many other tools and standards that are old.

> and even that is not supported.

xterm supports vt430 emulation. I use this semi regularly. I believe mintty also supports sixels, plus a handful of others. The libsixel website has a full list.

> And I can see why, why on earth would you want to be adding support for that in 2021?

You might want to read your own post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28856005 ).

What’s your great idea as opposed to sixels?
Hey just a heads up, your account is shadow banned.
Thats the other big issue - we helped streaming get it's feet by allowing lower pay, lower benefits, and longer hours, back in 2007-8 since streaming wasnt yet considered 'viable'. They agreed to revisit it in the future when it was viable. Now they won't even discuss it.

Extra money goes right to the companies. Actors dont get the same residuals from streaming either, just look at Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit.

Streaming contract language is based on number of subscribers, so before Disney+ launched, they made a bunch of movies under the zero-to-tiny subscribers model, essentially a low budget contract, to avoid paying normal rates, but these were full fledged films and shows.
Random related fact, too, the oldest university in the Americas is San Marcos (Lima, Perú) which was founded in May 12, 1551; 1 year after the history books mark the end of the Aztec civilization.
“often through disastrous conquest”

interesting to see the subtle apologizing narrative, as if there were conquests that weren’t disastrous (to those defeated).
TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State
Canadian Instacart workers to walk off job in bid for better working conditions
Is solar (either at your home or through an energy company) not likely to become an option for you?
There's a "be careful what you wish for" argument here, because my understanding is that the FAANG vendors are snapping up security people just as fast as they possibly can, and, again, ceteris paribus you'd rather have those people working on the actual most serious vulnerabilities rather than the ones causing the noisiest bounty drama. But you could reasonably go either way on this I guess.
Somewhere else Justine probably lols by being αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε with hello.bin at 55 bytes.

[1] https://justine.lol/ape.html
Maybe only add it to your demofiles?
It's a great product!

If you are interested in programming your Apple in assembly, you can ask nicely for your FastChip to include a 65816 processor. It's going to act like a 65802, due to hardware limitations, but otherwise yeah. You get the 16 bit instructions to use.

I've not had any compatibility trouble with mine, which is a 65816.
> the remaining 30 shocks were given for screaming and tensing up while being shocked.

I wonder if "normal" people are expected not to scream and tense up while being shocked. I'm pretty sure most people I know would do the same.
> It's worth reaching out to them and sending emails to the good ones - I've found they appreciate it.

I have found the same. So many of them have said to me that those letters are priceless to them.
The original article is from 2016. I think 128GB was the biggest you could buy before the $/GB started to get silly.
This sucks for me as a consumer too.

I want a WS skillet, and the first X results are for lodge... I don't need a lodge, I don't want a lodge, i want a WS, and google is not showing me what I want.
>My son can look at the packaging on newly delivered purchases from Amazon and tell you before you open it that it's been returned and resold.

what are the things to look for?
Quoth dang:

> Quite a few HN users, including some of the most prominent ones (and some of the best writers too), started off with a pugnacious commenting style and learned over the years to modulate that in the interest of curiosity, both in themselves and others. That's the learning curve we all have to go through here, and are still going through.

Not saying I'm prominent or a great writer, but here's an example from my own posting history showing two comments with the same general message, but the first one done in an unnecessarily provocative and condescending way, and the later one done after learning how to tone things down:

Score: -2, confrontational, no productive discussion generated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581452

Score: +95, modulated, resulting in better discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27997427
On a related note, Google's poor targeted advertising makes me feel safer. My YouTube account uses the same gmail account I have connected with Android. I use Google Photos routinely but still got an ad explaining how Google Photos worked (using cats as an example). Google may know I like cats, but it doesn't know how I use my phone.
Considering that OSS was (and still is) run by just a few people and is a small company, I don't think it's "selling out to the man"; it's not Microsoft or Amazon or anything. They tried to be as "open source as possible" while still ensuring they've got money to it. I don't think anyone got very rich from it.

Although details differ, all of this is still not really a solved problem today. People want to have their cake and eat it too.
Apparently Walmart has made some changes for the better then. I worked there for a 2ish years, right up to COVID. You'd get in trouble (and your boss too!) for working very much overtime. Also you'd get in trouble if you didn't take at least a 30 minute lunch break, and you'd get in serious trouble for working off the clock.

Walmart probably got too many lawsuits or something.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a physical token that they can use for both WebAuthN and gpg signatures?

Would be great to hear stories from people who have put the equipment "through its paces" so to say :)
"All too often the middleman is milking both sides."

By definition a middleman is milking both sides. Were a middleman not there, it would definitionally be better for both parties. The only case where this is not true is the one where the middleman makes no money
...and here's one in a 386 motherboard, using a 386-to-486 adapter: https://dependency-injection.com/pentium-on-a-386-motherboar...
Hobbyists create new languages because it’s fun, or in the earlier stages they think they can make something better than existing languages.

Big companies / orgs have made new languages like Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript, Elm, Rust, Zig, Elixir because the previous counterparts (Objective C, Java, JavaScript, also JavaScript, C++, C, Erlang) have big flaws.

Everyone still creates DSLs because they are more effective at solving certain problems than general-purpose languages.
> How many people have died in suborbital rockets with low apogees and barely any down range movements?

The three astronauts of Apollo 1.
But they call it a search engine. That would be a fairer point if they called it an ad-lookup engine
I have been the CEO of a successful company for 5+ years and a senior director/manager in others. I very rarely had meetings. If you pick the right people for the job, and make sure they know what the goals/deadline is, then the best thing you can do is to not bother them with meetings. Find ways to measure progress without interrupting the team flow. Make it clear that you expect the team to solve problems themselves without constantly asking for permission etc. It isn’t rocket science. I spent about an hour a day working when managing. The rest was me doing my hardest to not slow down the team that was doing the actual work. It worked really really well.
They won’t look to investigate if they don’t even understand the product
> Is IPC Inter-Process Communication? Or is it an unrelated tool?

The former. Piping with the shell, or C subprocess hosted by the Janet script, or vice-versa.
Is it enough just to click on the link?

There surely are browser extensions that click on every link, just to make the companies pay, and make advertisers look even shitter.
In a similar vein I often see people complain about the NHS. Obviously it has issues, and yes sometimes it doesn't cover something you think it should. But it is world-class both in treatment and research.
I use a Yubikey for this (4C specifically), works well.
Woman who survived Maoist China claims school boards using ‘communist tactics’
The No Tech for Apartheid campaign: Amazon and Google
Why Likana's 24-Hour Solar Bid Under $34/MWh Lost in Chile
Pretty recent. See a more recent build from a few days ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oY00KwaBbY
Who needs an iPhone when you can have a gorgeous rotary landline telephone?
In my example, I saw a lot of competitors try and fail at acquiring customers profitably. You could see the ebbs and flows of them trying as well as the well-financed players dominating spend. When the industry numbers came out, things never lined up.

That said, I’ve worked at brands where paid search and paid social are incredibly valuable channels.
Is this somehow easier to do in the UK? I would imagine that there would be tax and health insurance points that would tip off employers, but maybe not? I suppose the W4 could hide the extra income with your spouse or you could cheat on the withholding or something?

Overall I think “treat yourself as a business, family inc.” is the key takeaway of the article. I think everyone can learn from that, but being upfront and contracting would be more morally sound. Usually your employment contract will prevent working somewhere else and if you have a timesheet instead of salary it’s hard to get by without actually working the hours.
Yubikey?
I greatly dislike smart watches. But even comparing the engineering between an Apple watch and a mechanical watch is really ridiculous. It's not even in the same dimensions. A mechanical watch is trivial child's play compared to an Apple watch.
How to work with salespeople without monthly fee?
What I found interesting about this was that Patrick Stewart is 81, and his highly-influential teacher who just passed was 96.

It's funny how, as a student, your teacher seems like a real adult person from a completely different generation. But I guess after you fast-forward a few decades, the difference becomes pretty trivial.
When it comes to consistent power generation, Germans can't just wait until next year. Wind power has it's ups and downs, which is why you need a lot more of it than coal or nuclear to meet the same demand.
After 40 years, I ran into my 6th grade science teacher about five years ago. We now have lunch a few times per year (more often when there are no pandemics) and regularly exchange email.

He was an inspiration to me and was probably the best teacher I ever had. He confided to me a few years ago that he had very little STEM education. He reads fiction, and enjoys painting and sculpting. As he approaches age 80, he stays sharp with trivia challenges, and is on several bar trivia teams.
Can we agree that if Amazon fires these people they will be worse off?
New Details on “Avowed,” Obsidian's Take on Elder Scrolls/Skyrim
Those kinds of things can be done with the CPU, Apple 2 style. Map some I/O to a few addresses and service the SD card with a small routine.
SizeBench: A new tool for analyzing Windows native binary size
I see that error sometimes when a content filter blocks a website.

Do you have an internet filter that also blocks vpn sites so you "can't" get around it?
Because nobody wants to host an exit node.
Recent build is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oY00KwaBbY. We're just getting started.
There are not now but there may be a solution in the future eg "Seasonal energy storage in aluminium for 100 percent solar heat and electricity supply" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259017451...
they also have garbage it support
I think smartphones are helping change the game a little. With instant video streaming and ease of providing proof, I predict employers will be more wary of trying to get away with nonsense like locking people in, especially big employers.

One big change that needs to happen, especially in the labor “friendly” states of CA/WA/NY/MA is modifying the all party consent recording laws to one party consent. Employers (and people in power) should be afraid their audio is being recorded so they cannot claim he said she said when they try to get away with something illegal verbally.

Edit: my list of states should be CA/WA/CT/MA. NY is already one party consent.
First, no, because big production budgets go to producers and other above the line people before the money gets anywhere near the crew. And this is true for Apple and Netflix just as it is for anyone else.

But second, also no, because streaming services are the bulk of the problem.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90683559/hollywood-is-on-the-bri...

Production schedules are more volatile than they used to be, and streaming services don't have to pay as well as normal productions, owing to an outdated contract.
for those unfamiliar, here's a fun dinner party factoid about a Glindoni painting depicting Dee performing magick at court

> X-ray imaging of the stately Victorian artwork has revealed that Dee was originally surrounded by human skulls before the ghoulish image was painted over, probably because it was too odd for the buyer. But curators of an exhibition opening on Monday believe it sums up the conundrum of Dee: should we remember him as brilliant pioneering scientist, or as an occultist who thought he could talk to angels?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/17/john-de...

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/nydjbrr7

https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0081435/full/full...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Dee_performing_...
> treating British occultism as a co-ordinate for serious inquiry into the function of an Aztec artifact

I don't think the article did that. The article suggests the occult significance of obsidian mirrors to Aztecs is known through the relationship of those mirrors to the god Tezcatlipoca:

>The Aztec god Tezcatlipoca, or “Smoking Mirror,” is frequently depicted wearing mirrors that allow him to see humans’ thoughts and actions. As Campbell tells Live Science’s Mindy Weisberger, “[T]here’s quite a specific association with these types of mirrors and that particular deity.”

Of this god, wikipedia says:

> His name in the Nahuatl language is often translated as "Smoking Mirror"[3] and alludes to his connection to obsidian, the material from which mirrors were made in Mesoamerica and which were used for shamanic rituals and prophecy.[4] Another talisman related to Tezcatlipoca was a disc worn as a chest pectoral. This talisman was carved out of abalone shell and depicted on the chest of both Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca in codex illustrations.[5][6]
They're not. If you look at southwest, they had about a 10% profit margin in the year before COVID. Incredibly typical type of profit margin.
Two things happened in California (I don't know if you're in CA of course) started cracking down on employers making employees work through their breaks--and-- forcing employers to actually pay for hours worked with severe penalties.

This is why they're so strict now, at least in CA.

Then they got walloped with a lawsuit about it. I actually used the situation to my advantage. Once I realized what was going on-- I snuck out the loading dock which was never closed and took leisurely lunches. It was assumed you couldn't get out, so you hadn't. I can't have been the only Walmart rogue who realized this, but I never saw anyone else do it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wal-mart-a...
Those 42% percent in Germany include Bio-mass. A Bio-mass 'plant' is a wood chip furnace, it is only renewable based on the weak principle that the burned mass and C02 emissions can be captured 'because we can just plant trees'.

The energy needs we have and the land avaialable in Europe for forest makes this impossible without importing 'bio-mass' wood pellets at which point the ecological argument goes out the wind. [0]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302972714_Tracking_...
So you want to live-reload Rust (2020)
> Similarly, the bundled `cc`s with classic Unices (if they were provided at all

It has been a generation since it was common for people to pay for Unix, and then pay more for shitty developer tools.

That gcc has gone from savior to legacy in that time is a huge testament to the value the open source world has created. But I think people forget the bad old days pretty quickly.
Shatner has devoted his life to commanding a stage. Of course he will come out looking best in that setting.
Vector databases are central infrastructure for the information retrieval systems of the future.

The writeup was interesting. I'm curious how you would compare pinecone.io to Google Vertex Matching Engine?

At ZIR AI (I am the cofounder), we also focus on this style of retrieval, specialized to text (NLP).
why can Russia and China do it, but EU cannot?

Seems strange. EU is capable in everything but silly chat apps and more complex, search engines?
Climate change in India: The young inventor's solar-powered ironing cart [video]
Yikes! That'd drive me crazy.

I'm reminded of the YAGNI ("you aren't gonna need it") principle. Sounds like your coworker could apply it more.
> I just can't see them getting away with violating labor laws

tell me you have never in your working life gone anywhere near the entertainment industry without telling me you have never in your working life gone anywhere near the entertainment industry.
Is the consensus that we're moving towards actually passwordless futures?

I've only seen WebAuthn and Touch ID replace a one-time code either sent via text or looked up in Google Authenticator. I have one Yubikey for each laptop I own, and also use Touch ID / Face ID on iOS with whatever site will allow, but it's always a second factor, not a password replacement.

The weird thing is that I also use a password manager on mobile (KeePassium), and I have it configured to unlock with Face ID to autofill my usernames and passwords. So on some sites I actually do have "passwordless" log in, but in a round about way.

Not sure whether I should be eager to drop passwords entirely, whether this WebAuthn + password manager flow is the end game, or whether I should go change the config to require my master password manager password for every log in.
Fascinatingly, Tobinworld was originally a branch of this same school, and has since changed name/ownership to get around restrictions on the founder’s ability to operate in California.
Hey guys, there are these things called “workstations.” Have heard of them?
Edgy take there comrade.
The American Civil War?
I was flying from LA to Sydney a few years ago and 2001: A Space Odyssey was available on the entertainment system. After a few hours and a couple of glasses of wine I put it on and fell straight asleep. I awoke groggily some time later to this[0] frame from the movie. The next second and a half I experienced pure terror until I realised I wasn't plunging to my death in the middle of the pacific ocean and how the pre-flight safety briefing really sugar coats the reality.

[0]: https://typesetinthefuture.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/2001_...
If people stop making iOS apps, apple stop writing them big fat cheques.

There are a shit ton more developers than there are platforms to develop on.
Wait. Is thst true though? I'm a technical person, with a lot of very specific searches. Around 70% of the time, I don't actually get the results that answer what I'm looking for, no matter how many quotation marks I surround my strings and no matter if I use site:x.com, and various other Google hacks I've had to come up with to try and find my relevant results.

The reason this happens is because the Google result shows my words in the excerpt, but when I click in, there's zero percent of the content to be found. That feels like a bait-and-switch akin to the taxi analogy.

My relevant results now either don't exist, or is in an absolute sea of mind-bogglingly bad results that it wears me out such that I would rather have had no results to begin with.

In this sense, I feel like Google is absolutely purposefully showing me results that I didn't want to go to.
As someone with a family member that is a senior logistics executive, most facilities already run 24/7. Is this about drivers or something?
But the news here isn't "the Aztecs had obsidian mirrors they used for ritual purposes", it's "several obsidian mirrors found in Europe, one purportedly belonging to John Dee, have been authenticated as being of Aztec make by analyzing the chemical makeup of the material". It could have been a contemporary knockoff or later forgery; now there's a strong case for its authenticity.
> I cannot name a single "expert" who has attempted to calm people at all.

That's odd, because here are some excerpts from President Biden's remarks on covid [1].

"THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, my fellow Americans. I want to talk to you about where we are in the battle against COVID-19, the progress we’ve made, and the work we have left to do.

And it starts with understanding this: Even as the Delta variant 19 [sic] has — COVID-19 — has been hitting this country hard, we have the tools to combat the virus, if we can come together as a country and use those tools.

If we raise our vaccination rate, protect ourselves and others with masking and expanded testing, and identify people who are infected, we can and we will turn the tide on COVID-19.

...

So, let me speak to you directly. Let me speak to you directly to help ease some of your worries.

...

We know that if schools follow the science and implement the safety measures — like testing, masking, adequate ventilation systems that we provided the money for, social distancing, and vaccinations — then children can be safe from COVID-19 in schools."

And here are some from a recent press briefing [2] by the COVID response team:

"MR. ZIENTS: Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. In a moment, I’ll turn to Drs. Walensky, Fauci, and Murthy.

I’ll start by discussing the progress we’re making on testing, vaccination, and boosters — three critical parts of the President’s six-point plan to accelerate our path out of the pandemic.

First, testing: In the past few months, testing has increased, particularly at-home testing — a convenient option that came to market earlier this year.

To meet this increased demand, the President’s plan ramps up both the availability of tests and access to free testing. In just a matter of weeks, we’ve made significant progress on both fronts.

...

I’ll close with this: We’ve made tremendous progress over the past eight months, and we are executing well against the President’s six-point plan. We’re on the right track, but we need everyone to do their part."

The experts are saying "stay strong and we'll get through this". Meanwhile you are talking about how wearing a piece of cloth on your face is "human rights crushing crap" like we're one step away from the death camps. How is that calming anyone down? And who exactly do you mean when you say "them" anyway? It's a really worrying sign when "they" are always doing all these nefarious things just to frighten and control people. Do you know many in your life who acts that way? If not, why do you imagine that "they" are any different from the people you know? Where do you think "they" live? What do "they" want to do when "they" get home from work today? Do you think "they" read to their children before "they" tuck them in at night?

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...