skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use their updated version, advertised as a travel router. It is pretty small and I carry it while traveling.

https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr...

The 1st Gen Apple Airport Express, with the wall plug, was once a good option.
It can be. It's also very expensive when people are scattered across multiple states and even multiple countries. Basically no meeting with more than 2 or 3 people I'd likely be in would involve people only in one of my nearby offices.

In addition, while whiteboards can still be nice for certain things, over the past few years I've also come to realize that collaborative docs (e.g. Google Docs) are actually as good or better for a lot of purposes.
They don't provide solid sources because they don't exist. Their claims are untrue in the spirit in which they were posted: That the results of the policy were uniformly harmful.
A comment said botulin won’t be released in salt concentrations above 10%, whereas this concoction was at 20%.
This is a total non sequitur. The smallest organism we know of capable of independent self replication and Darwinian evolution has billions of atoms. The complexity gap from Miller-Urey style experiments to that is enormous, vastly overwhelming mere billions of years. Maybe there's some trick that evades this gap, but if so we don't know what it is, or how likely Origin of Life would be even with the trick.
Sure, I appreciate a healthy mix as well. Just saying it's unrealistic to expect a 50/50 distribution of anything, in any field, expecially so in software development.

Curious as you mentioned degrees, do you know if the same ratio transfers over to actual work life?
The British media has indeed very successfully spun this to our domestic audience as a problem unique to the UK that's caused primarily by Brexit. I think that says more about the British media than about reality though; the complaints of local truck drivers seem very similar, and the industry here was complaining about driver shortages well before Brexit.
Never trust microsoft or any other big tech firm
> Microsoft act as a Certification Authority (CA) for SB, and they will sign programs on behalf of other trusted organisations so that their programs will also run.

This means: 1. You trust Microsoft (you delegate the trust of your data to Microsoft).
2. You trust that Microsoft certificate will not be revoked.

Sorry, for me, secure boot is when i have the keys. When someone else has them they also have my data.
> now do our concentration-related tasks when our child is asleep

My child sleeps maybe 1 hour in the afternoon and then during the night. Do you mean you can only concentrate then? What about coworkers who, quite reasonably, expect you to work with them and collaborate with projects during their work hours? What about meetings? What about emergencies in production, which never choose the most comfortable time to happen?

> no commuting

Agreed, this is the best of WFH, hands down.
The arrival of tools like Compiler Explorer means examining the assembly code is trivial. It's quite easy to fall down a rabbit hole of code tweaks to see what effect they have on codegen. Even examining the differences bwtween gcc and clang can be quite revealing.
That and you might get up and pass your current typing speed while substantially reducing wear and tear on your hands and wrists even if you don't have RSI issues.
I bought the Georgi keyboard [0] and I am using Plover. The Georgi can also be used as a one-handed keyboard [1], and I am just getting around to mapping it to augment my livecoding for music setup. Some use it as a gamepad too. You always learn something unexpected when you learn something new.

[0] https://www.gboards.ca/product/georgi

[1] https://qmk.fm/keyboards/georgi/
Scarier than Big Brother.
I have an eye condition, I am not fully blind but I have a lot of trouble with text (I use the zoom feature,TTS, and big fonts in my desktop and apps.

What would be super helpful for me would be things like:

1 allow changing fonts and font size, some games use some weird "fantasy" or hand-writing fonts , this are very hard to read so give us the option to use plain Arial font.

2 implement UI scaling so fonts and icons can be larger

3 don't make important ame objects hard to be found, maybe an option to outline things if you press a key, when you have disabilities is always a doubt in your mind that there is something on the screen but you can't see it. This is super annoying in point and click adventure games where you need to sport 1 pixel sized item or some very well hidden object.

4 for games with lot of text like lot of dialog that is not voiced , lot of books,computers or stuff to read I would love if more games support TTS (text to speech), I don't mean include a TTS engine in your game, just send the text to an application , or local port that the user specified and the user can't use it's own TTS program with his preferred settings to listen for the text.

5 For dialog boxes give us the option to set a full opacity background, set the text font family,color and size , for some games I used OCR(Optical Character Recognition ) to read the dialog windows but OCR can fail or take a long time if the font family is a weird gaming font or the dialog background has transparency.

6 If you make a game because you want to make the game (and not because you are learning some cool language or how game engines work - witch is very good you want to learn) try to use existing game engines, this engines will have already some accessibility support or there is enough experience on how to mod things in. So if you want to make a text adventure game use the best tool for the job and not create your own engine.

I am sure some of this would help a lot of people that have smaller eye issues and those would appreciate some of thios options.
I sure appreciate a technical rant on the topic :-) Haven't thought about conservation of energy in this context.

I wonder how this concept came to take hold? If it has no explanatory power, why even offer it?
Apple M1 Max: Testing 25 games
What means legally blind? Can one be illegally blind?
Remote Web3 Jobs
Hi everyone! I'm Yogesh, a product designer who recently got into no-code. This was a weekend project to improve my bubble.io dev skill. I had only started using bubble for a week so I thought a job board would be a good start. I had seen a launch about web3 jobs a few weeks back by @andreyazimov and had bought a domain name thinking of building a niche website for remote web3 jobs someday. I built it mostly under 24 hrs live on Twitter. Inspired by @sam_jetpack
However, (or unless things have changed recently) you have to license at least 4 cores. The 2-core pack only exists so you can use it in conjunction with 4-core packs to license (e.g.) 6 cores.
That doesn't sound right to me[1]. Surely physics + enough detail is biology? Maybe it's not a level of detail we actually understand with contemporary science -- hence the addition of higher level abstractions like biology which are derived "top down" rather than "bottom up" (i.e., empirically) -- but "emergent systems" != "magic".

[1]: me: a complete layperson.
It sounds like you've never been a member of a group that has been ostracized or unfairly treated.
Because I was confused with these benchmark results I tried to run it myself. And learned that current benchmark version and benchmark in affinity forum topic are not comparable. But still there results for that older benchmark version are quite strange. And for the reference: my 1080Ti outputs 13k, but there is huge variance run to run.
How to Reach Out to New Customers and Attract Their Attention in 2021
This reminds me a lot of Erlang/Elixir's distributed processes: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/distributed-....
Fair point here, I've added a caveat in https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/mikemcquaid.com/commit/d70880...

Context:

- I've only ever been an open source maintainer for projects on GitHub (including before I worked there)

- I'd still recommend those tools primarily if I didn't work at GitHub (because of personal preferences to e.g. not run my own servers)

- This blog post was a companion to a talk I presented at GitHub's Universe conference this week
The argument that he's a flight risk is quite strong, supported by his historic behaviour.

No, I don't think they should be holding him at all, given that extradition has already been refused, but this is about punishment and vengeance and politics, not about right, wrong or justice.
> Those at the top are safe, but the top is slowly getting narrower.

This has been happening for decades. It is an inherent property of technology AIG automation driving down marginal costs and increasing yields, all benefiting owners of capital or those who have the ability to help automate.
That sounds like they had a hypothesis, did an experiment, the experiment matches their hypothesis, so they came up with a reasonable explanation why. But if noduerme had done the same experiment with the hypothesis "life can't form in the presence of Teflon" the experiment would have also confirmed his hypothesis, and he would have given you a reasonable explanation why that is.

It would have been more convincing/thorough if they had also tried e.g. a steel and a silicon carbide reaction flask.
Perhaps a wall-plug air-freshener form factor would last longer?
funny that you mention it but most technically minded Germans I know (maybe outside of people spending their days with datacenter stuff) habitually use `ping heise.de` (of c't and ix print magazine fame), which seems to have been a thing since the 90s. It's usually fast, you can really count on it being up and still around.

I even remember them once writing about having such an unusually high volume of ICMP traffic that they had to divert that traffic to a dedicated box at some point.
This is false (to some degree), if my memory is correct, life on earth emerged as soon as condition where favorable ~400m years after earth was formed, I am not saying it's aliens, aliens?
For some examples, in my laptop the CPU is officially a 45W part though it can be configured to draw up to 70W. On the other hand, my GPU can be set to draw 115W.

In my desktop, it's a 65W (AMD) CPU and 230W GPU.

For an AMD consumer desktop, you wouldn't expect much higher than 125W power consumption from a CPU.

But the new Alder Lake Core i9 advertises power draw as high as 241W.

So you can end up with a more demanding CPU than GPU if you try.
Same, I didn't even notice the mistake. Could also be interpreted as "how focused the dog is _on_ something".
Did you need to re-write things to work with it, or did you start out greenfield with it? Interested to know if existing tooling works nicely
Diesel via battery cars trapped in snow
Regarding being stuck in traffic or snow in icy conditions. Drivers of petrol or diesel vehicles have the option to carry spare fuel to prepare for this possibility. An electric vehicle relies on it's next charging stop.
Social media accounts could soon require digital ID in France, UK
Would you like to say a bit more about why that's not a valid argument. To be clear, I'm not saying it is (I don't know enough about the subject to do so) but it doesn't seem that far-fetched to me. Isn't similar probabilistic reasoning used to explain why evolution by natural selection gives rise to various complex life forms? If so, do you also think that that reasoning is shoddy?
It would naturally be foreign to most, but the neat part is that it's also pretty accessible. Look up vectorization techniques and L2 cache optimization and you're most of the way to understanding. Most people who grok something like this after their first glance are specialized in the same or similar domain and probably wouldn't have an expert understanding of some things you take for granted.
I'm surprised there isn't more shame in admitting that one doesn't like activists. It has unbelievable "why don't they just eat cake?" feeling to it.
Microsoft doesn't have access to your hardware. How would they exfiltrate your data without also having your TPM? If a key is revoked then you... disable secure boot.
Brazil is +5h from California. That's the same as the difference between New York and London. Workable for a couple of hours out of every day, but hardly "similar timezones".
While I’m unsure how it would pick up anything useful I can certainly see how it would work in an enterprise office.

I’ve worked in the public sector for decades, and if you left an iPhone charger somewhere in an open office space, it would get used by someone.

Slip a few of those chargers into one of our massive orders for hardware and no one would ever find out.
It's wrong because the force on the lower airfoil surface is far smaller than the total lifting force.

The flow above the airfoil "sticks" to the airfoil. Since the upper flow is being forced downwards by the curved upper surface, it forces the airfoil to move upwards.

What happens if the upper flow doesn't curve downwards? Simple. That's called "stall," and your airplane drops out of the sky. "Stall" is when the upper flow becomes detached, and goes straight back, rather than following the curved upper surface. (The force on the bottom of the airfoil is far too small to keep the plane in the air. Most of the lift is created by the upper surface! That's why "stall" is such a huge deal.)
The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb
How was the ORM support with CRDB?
This is by Alex Wellerstein, who is unparalleled when it comes to writing about nuclear weapon history. His occasional blog http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/ is an excellent read.
It probably means that the person's blindness is sufficient enough as to be recognized by the legal system. Just a guess.
It's a specific threshold e.g. 20/200 vision or worse. Some may be able to see to some extent, but it's still bad enough to be considered blind for disability purposes.
...because panic and recovery is a whole different plane of existence. Recovery feature is a needed evil here, needless for a simple error handling.
Wow. Brandon really is collapsing our country. Let's go Brandon.
These companies will say it's illegal to lie in time sheets and they'll fire you if the catch you but then they don't try to catch anything too hard and set up what you have to do so that there is no way to do it without lying on time sheets. That kind of behavior is very common for lower level workers so the company gets to eat the cake of illegal practices while protecting themselves by saying it's against policy. See all the Amazon warehouse bathroom issues.
> How did you manage to even get an interview for a position using a language/environment you're not familiar with?

Just get familiar with it. Post an interesting small project to your github written in that language. Blogs are often useful for demonstrating your interest and aptitude for technologies. All of that is attractive to an employer.
This is actually the first time I have ever thought that facebook's future doesn't look great in comparison to other big tech.
No! You're thinking of "crackers." There's a very serious difference. The word "hacker" being co-opted by writers who don't understand it is like the literally-as-figuratively phenomenon. Literally doesn't mean figuratively, they're just using the word incorrectly.

https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/hacker-vs-crac...

http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html
How is the new value of the vintage car determined? Isn't that speculative? Do I get to decide every year how much I think it's appreciated?
It's still insane to me that there are games being released that lack even the most basic of accessibility options like customisable control schemes.

It's noticeably an issue for console games, even those made by big profile developers who don't really have any excuse.
What? It's an adaptive trial design, not a criminal act.

The vaccine was effective/safe enough that it would cause more harm to leave them unvaccinated. If anything it means that there's more points of safety data by doing it this way.
“Spot Me Up” – The Rolling Stones and Boston Dynamics
Not really, that is the intended purpose of X11 properties after all.
Garum =/= Liquamen

Author says he made “garum (or more accurately, liquamen)”, but provides no explanation of the distinction, nor did I see one in the comments here or on Twitter.

Apparently garum is made from the blood and viscera alone, whereas liquamen uses the whole fish.

Source - https://www.romanobritain.org/2-arl_food/zz-grainger-garum.p...
Does this mean that I need to get the private key to Microsoft for them to sign? Can Microsoft then record my key and impersonate me?

Or can Microsoft sing an NSA backdored Linux so it appears that is "secure/genuine"?

If the answer is yes to one of those then for me seems fair that someone would say that "it is not secure book if I can't remove Microsoft)NSA keys) and put my own and confirm it worked)" , seems to be a push for sanity that failed , like how we failed and we have now DRM into the browser.
> never told us anything about the origin of life

There are several steps to go from no life to life as we know it. This experiment illuminates one of those steps. How is that "nothing"?
Typically this phrase is used for someone who has very little eyesight remaining, but is not completely blind. Many countries have laws prescribing a minimum level of sight below which you are entitled to benefits accorded to blind people (for example, the right to do exams in Braille or orally, or financial compensation towards getting a guide dog in countries where that is part of social healthcare)
Let N be the number of places life could arise, and p the probability that life arises in one of those places.

That argument is basically "there is a value of N such that for any p > 0, N p is much greater than 1."

But that's obviously wrong. For any N, there are values of p > 0 that make the product N p arbitrarily close to 0.

The dim intution behind the argument was that p can't be "too small". But given our current understanding of OoL, that's not a justified assumption. p could be exponentially small, if OoL requires some extremely unlikely step.

Natural selection is great once the system's reproductive fidelity is good enough to support it. The problem is bridging the gap from small molecules to that system. The smallest system we know of that can independently support Darwinian evolution has billions of atoms.
The Noma fermentation lab in Copenhagen has been experimenting with garum for the past few years. There is a detailed chapter in Noma Ferments if you are interested in learning about the process.
I'll jump on the band wagon and echo the same sentiment for Web. Imagine using a screen reader.
I think this is for organisations that already have a large system using T-SQL and want to migrate it to postgres.
Your rant is spot on. Unfortunately, a lot of people (even the "sophisticated" ones) are falling for the tactics of these dodgy fellows.

I just hope people make a little bit more time when picking books to separate the wheat from the chaff.
It doesn't tell us nothing, it's just not the whole story. And why should one expect a single experiment to tell the whole story?
I recall, in 1952-3 Toronto changed their grid frequency from 25 Hz to 60 Hz. This was done to reduce the mass of the iron in the transformers, which was reduced greatly. That means main power, substations, pole pigs and all the small power transformers and motors would be smaller. Many small power transformers would carry on working at the new frequency OK, but most motors linked to frequency were changed. I recall watching unchanged electric clocks zip around - all changed for efficiency.
Now in Europe they use 220V 50Hz and we use 120V 60 Hz. If we switched to 220 volts(a massive-massive task), this would liberate about 45% of the copper in all houses/factories etc.
This might pay for it and mitigate the anticipated copper crunch. Transmission lines have already switched to Aluminum. Houses have not, because a badly planned switch to Aluminum house wiring in the late 70's caused many house fires because aluminum changes dimensions when under pressure under a screwed down bolt as the temperature changes daily - just a little, but the coefficient also differed from the brass hold down nuts. Over months/years = varies a lot, the connections and wire nuts etc would turn into resistors and = fires. The elevating temperature also hastened the process. Early thermal cameras could be used to find these hot spots. They did have proper aluminum-copper connectors by then, but the fires put people off and insurance companies would not give fire insurance on a house with ANY aluminum interior wiring. Modern aluminum wiring is OK with approved connectors.
https://esasafe.com/home-renovation-buying-and-selling/alumi...
> We needed IPv5

Interesting trivia: The experimental Inter Streaming Protocol (ST) used version 5 in the IP header, though it was never officially known as IPv5. Consequently, IPv6 is so numbered to avoid confusion.
It's kind of like saying learning to jump really high is the first step to getting to the moon.
I suspect trying to maintain a remote-X11-based workflow is going to become increasingly annoying as more applications prioritize the Wayland / Xwayland use-case like Firefox has done here.
I think there's 2 opposing forces that will affect "us" (rich country engineers) over the coming decade.

1) An absolutely insatiable demand for software as _everything_ needs to be remote friendly and digital.

2) An equally insatiable demand to offshore engineering talent for a fraction of the cost.

I'm not sure which will have a greater effect. Technically, if the demand for software grows faster than the world's ability to educate developers, salaries might actually grow. However, there's a real chance the gold rush of super high California $300k+ software salaries is coming to an end.

Personally, I'm seeing moving into management as more attractive everytime I see an article posted here about remote work. People here are understandably dismissive of this, but it's happened before in a lot of industries.
At any point from around 2011 the US could stop persecuting the man and it seems quite likely that all his legal problems would just disappear in about that timeframe. All of this has been a cynical and persistent campaign from the States showing off how far beyond the strict legal jurisdiction they can reach when someone embarrasses the government.
The bandwidth, latency, and resolution of an analog whiteboard beats the pants off anything digital.
Rust Code Reading Club
How Big Tech is pitching digital elder care to families
Merck agrees to let other drug makers make its Covid pill
You jest, but... https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html

TL;DR: read the end of the first paragraph.
Even better (or worse?) hide it behind the faceplate, a little more work but certainly better hidden! Just turn up in a yellow jacket, official looking lanyard and tools...
Kinda laughable to me that Apple supports a rather obscure provider, but not heavily-adopted standards like the EU certificate
Smarter Every Day is wrong.

If you have kids get them to do the trig for you.

Your brain can't tell the difference because of the speed of sound and ear position vertically. It's too quick.

I don't see how the brain could ever use Interaural time difference. I think it's fake science.

I might be convinced horizontally, but I think it's bullshit. At maximum on a human (a dog is smaller) ~20cm that's .0005 seconds maximum time difference. Exactly 180 degrees (Get your kids to explain the numbers) You need faster than that to get different angles.

It's about ear shape and maybe the sound going through your head so you get a muffle on different angles or something, Google it.

Dogs with tilted heads are also clearly cute (and studies back this) so we also will clearly breed dogs that tilt heads more. There can be more than one reason a dog tilts their head. We have designed them for a few different purposes and it's efficient to reuse their code.