skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that not obvious? Do you hold that position?
what a boring argument. Also wrong. I would put a lot of money on "you didn't a/b test collective bargaining with your own negotiation" because it's simply impossible, so you don't really know if that's true.

Also most workers are not in a job with a candidate shortage (and candidate shortages don't last forever, better have a union while you have the power to make it happen then when you become a throwaway widget for your company)
This exact thing happened to me. I was the backend guy on a winning hackathon team and decided it was pointless to build a real server for the proposed idea. It was essentially a single page app, v nicely designed etc, kind of a half-baked concept but kind of fine. Definitely aligned with the business. It won with the entire backend being mocked. It didn't really matter if there there was actual business logic underneath. I just advised on API design and made sure the idea hung together technically speaking.

It beat some much cooler, technically innovative concepts. It made me not want to participate in another hackathon though. All the fun, nerdiness and actual hacking were replaced by basically building a sensible product demo.
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i’ve used hinge and i think barely anyone uses the audio prompts. I haven’t seen a single profile in my feed
Just saying Yes saved my ass countless times over the years
I respectfully disagree. The dislike button definitely had value. You cannot read 10,000 comments on a video with 1.5 million views. Like/Dislike ratio was a fast way to ascertain quality. Maybe it was incorrect 20% of the time (and I'm being generous there), but even that means that it was helpful 80% of the time.

And according to your logic, the Like button is also useless and should be deleted as well, since you can equally have a mob of people hitting it without really "liking" the video. The same is true of the comments.
You can (and I very much recommend) use SponsorBlock to get rid of those too, unless you are very interested in hearing about the same snake-oil VPN, shitty earphones or pay-to-win mobile game every time.
OP is the kind of person that messages his highschool friends on Facebook talking about how he has an app he designed that he just needs a developer for and it's "like 90% done", but when you ask him for his part of the work he sends you a PSD with the UI design.
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If you want to lose even more faith in security, the Lock Picking Lawyer on youtube has videos of him opening/breaking into almost any kind of lock you can imagine.

https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer
Yeah this is for "startup lite" hackathons where the goal is to sell an idea and possibly your team to investors. I had a blast doing hackathons where the goal was just to make the coolest thing possible in 24 (or whatever) hours.

I did one in 2013 where a PhD student researching CFD wrote a full fluid simulation in pure javascript and used it for a music visualizer. It was incredible.

EDIT: I actually found the demo I was thinking of! Still holds up: https://vimeo.com/79272443
> You're literally being a dunce

Oh, what a surprise, more insults from somebody who can't even use the correct terminology and claims that "death rate" is "the most obvious and only relevant statistic when it comes to describing vaccine effectiveness".

If you had ANY interest in facts, it would take you only a moment of thought to realize that neither the (correctly defined) death rate nor case fatality rate can be "the most obvious and only relevant statistic when it comes to describing vaccine effectiveness", since they make no distinction between people who were vaccinated back at the beginning of the year and people who just got their shots.

You would then also realize that "the most obvious and only relevant statistic" is case fatality rate as a function of time since vaccination. You would plot that with time since inoculation on the x axis and case fatality rate on the y axis.

A few seconds of googling would then lead you to a couple of big recent studies:

https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/our-story/health-research...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/11/covid-19...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0620

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

In short, protection against infection wanes rapidly, protection against hospitalization and death wanes more slowly, and booster shots help, as exemplified by the Israeli example. From the Science article:

This phenomenon has been most comprehensively monitored in Israel, where high levels of transmission of the Delta variant led to a resurgent outbreak in mid-June 2021 (16), despite a successful nationwide campaign to vaccinate the population (17). Israel authorized boosters of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for adults age ≥ 60 years in July 2021 and extended this authorization to adults age ≥ 50 years in August 2021 (18). Rates of infection and severe illness subsequently declined in those who received a booster (19).
In practice they are far from orthogonal.
The "error handling" feature is a particular use of nonlocal GOTO plus a LABEL data type. It may be more efficient than an exception, because a label value includes its stack frame, while an exception must check whether the exception is handled in each frame as the stack is unwound.

On the downside, label variables entail the danger of jumping to an uninitialized or dead label value. This is a counterexample to another comment's claim that PL/I is a "safe" language.
Yes, just like I find it creepy and immoral that governments all around the world are pushing big pharma's products on everyone.
> cause extreme economic harm, lower living standards SUBSTANTIALLY, and be very regressive to the poorest people.

Isn't that a bit hyperbolic?

"Extreme" economic harm? Define extreme, please. Also account for all the increased economic activity related to climate change mitigation (renewable energy, carbon capture, construction).

"lower living standards SUBSTANTIALLY" - Climate change will do that too. Try cooling your house cheaply, or getting enough freshwater or fresh produce when the climate goes haywire.

"be very regressive to the poorest people." - Again, needs context. The "poorest people" are precisely the ones who will suffer the most if climate change isn't averted. The Indian subcontinent, to take one example, will have acute water shortages and/or sea-level rises (in Bangladesh) which will lead to crop failures and famine.
> The main goal of the startup hackathons (or any other) is to validate the idea in a limited time that the product you build is needed by the people in the room.

No, that's a Startup Weekend-type event: https://www.techstars.com/communities/startup-weekend. They rightfully don't call themselves hackathons.

A hackathon should be related to software development, not entrepreneurship.

Nothing wrong with either, but labels matter.
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To me, this looks like a rip-off of https://raytrix.de/ who have been granted a patent for pretty much the same thing in 2013. And they have been selling pretty much the same thing, except that for Raytrix, the lens is pre-installed by them whereas with K-Lens, you install it onto your own camera.

Also, they effectively split the resolution by 3.x on each axis, because they are multiplexing a 3x3 image grid onto the same sensor. That means a $50k RED MONSTRO isn't "good enough" anymore to get 4K output.
Yes, I understood that. What I was wondering is if the motion interpolation could be designed to 'understand' the sharp edges in the motion profile, much like the 2D smoothing is able to preserve edges even when blurring.

At this point it would probably be easier to do it with some kind of DNN motion interpolation...
That's a little depressing. The hackathons around here are just people getting together to work on what ever they feel like. There's no jury, no contest, just hacking on fun little projects, helping others.

The observation might be correct in the circle where to author travels, but it does remind me of the dotcom days. You always had this guy: The Idea Guy. He couldn't actually do anything. He just had "ideas", and others just had to write code to make it work. The important part is that the ideas where the thing that matters, coding was something anyone could do... except the idea guy, apparently (much too busy I guess). The plan was always the same thing, the idea guy would come up with business ideas, and a team would code them up, while the idea guy sat in his office, dreaming up the next big product.

Back then those people where basically a joke, but now I guess they're important.
A good podcast and a walk helps.
+1 had a fun Node Knockout experience many years ago making a game with 3 friends. We had a game artist / sound designer, and two engineers with chops on the front-end and back-end.
HTML says

<meta name="generator" content="Asciidoctor 2.0.16">

so I guess https://asciidoctor.org/
I had one of the first Lytro light field cameras [0], and thats exactly what happened. The camera was essentially bricked and all my photos were deleted from the only cloud platform that could render them.

Luckily, or maybe unluckily, for me the camera ended up taking terrible pictures and no images of any consequence were taken with it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro#Original_Lytro_Light_Fie...
They didn't kick you out for the lingerie, they kicked you out for pronouncing it "dressage" instead of "dressahhhhjjjjj".
Two competing departments inside AWS.

Technically, Athena is based on modified Presto while Redshift is (very) heavily modified Postgres.
Yep, "hackathon" got co-opted into "free labor" the moment business types sniffed it out. Hackers caught on, left, and now "hackathon" means "business types hyping each other over demo sketches" -- which is fine, but not my cup of tea, and about as far as it is possible to be from the original spirit of hacking.
I've gotten so pissed off about this that I compulsively save to disk every interesting article I find.
Your hackathon results should not "look sexy". If that's what you're focusing on, you're going to the wrong hackathons.
I suppose as someone interested in cancel culture I would wonder respectfully why there's anything wrong with celebrating beauty as a feminine attribute, or with comparing a beautiful camel to a beautiful woman, (if in fact that's what was done)?

True, males have been traditionally denied the status of "beauty" in more traditional cultural arenas, and yes, many unfair prejidices towards domesticated animals exist such that their comparison to a human is assumed to be derogatory. However why let a few bad apples spoil the bunch?

I don't think there's anything wrong with celebrating beauty in all its forms and comparisons and I thoroughly enjoyed this article.
I understand the strong incentives for browser makers to try to monetize, but still it’s annoying. We don’t want pocket, we don’t want flock, we don’t want financing. Just let us use the web.
yup, the only thing in the past that was keeping companies from popping a sim into every product to report back home (above a certain price) was that there was nothing stopping you from pulling the sim and just using their plan in other devices, at least for a short while until the company realized what was up (if they cared to check (they usually didnt))

now they have complete control over the end-to-end, and can cheaply provision sims that only talk to their local tower for example, and reject non-company provisioned IMEI (if they need it anymore?) etc

working on building blocking for this :)
Given the UK is now more soverign over these matters and others, it is more relevent. No lobbying in EU will save companies now.
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There's an open PR with the details, I set it to deploy every push to that PR for now so we could make quick fixes. It just runs asciidoctor, nothing fancy.

https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/pull/272

(specifically https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/pull/272/files#diff-... )
I'm a big fan of Loreo stereo lenses. They're well made and inexpensive.

You can use stereo pairs to calculate depth, and in this case, you only lose half your horizontal resolution (vs. losing significant horizontal and vertical resolution on the K lens)

http://www.loreo.com/pages/products/loreo_3dcap.html
BioNtech, Pfizer and Moderna delivered a 115mph strike right in the middle of the plate.

If you don't want it don't get it.

If the problems of the world are BioNtech, Pfizer and Moderna...then we are living in heaven.
I have some friends I'd be visiting in Cupertino if they had offered that much about 3 years ago, but they didn't. The real money was going to be based off of grants and getting a promotion back to their current level, and that was all too abstract for moving to the Valley, so they passed.

Worked out as their boss quit in the interim and now they're the boss.
I get the impression housing prices aren't a big deal there?
I’ve personally seen hackathons won by backend-ish things, such as a recommendation engine and a command line tool.

The author’s idea of a hackathon is Shark Tank. There’s more to hackathons (execution) than the idea and visual at the end.
I've had terrible experiences with Snowflake "automatic" optimizations. You have zero visibility or control over partitioning, join strategy, or anything else compared to Spark/Databricks.
You got a job with a lower barrier to entry and then transferred to development. It's much harder to go straight to development with no industry experience. And once you have any amount of experience it's much, much easier to get a job.
The other reply explained this but imagine you bought a soda, and you drank it and it turned out to be rat piss. You call up the company: my soda was full of rat piss. Their reply: "Oh yes, we sell lots of sodas, you couldn't possibly understand how much soda we sell so rat piss soda is a seven sigma event...bye".

If you are in software, recruiting is your business. You have no other real assets. So categorising your hiring process as a random variable makes no sense. You should have processes in place that ensure non-randomness...again, is Coca-Cola out there selling tons of rat piss, and just saying: "Tough luck guys, this is a hard business"...no. If you don't have processes to ensure that outcomes in the core parts of your business are not random, you don't have a business (I used to work as an equity analyst, I have heard this kind of thing from CEOs over and over...I never recommended investing in such business, I have never seen a company that was run that way succeed).
Im not sure how good our instinctive expectations are. The folds in the shirt, for example, are very prominent in the normal photo because of the shadows. But the difference in depth really isn’t that large.

Say you have the 255 shades of gray in RBG, and you want to spread them evenly over the distances of 1-5m. That would give you a 1-step increase in brightness for every 1.6cm or so, which happens to be pretty close to what I believe these folds‘ magnitude might be. I’m not entirely sure how prominent the difference would be to the naked eye. IIRC, the MPAA considers even 50 to be plenty.

I‘m leaving out lots of details (pun not intended, but appreciated): you’d spread your resolution logarithmically, for example, not linear. And, of course, you could work with more than the resolution of 255. But it’s a different domain and I believe some intuitions are off if you compare it with the x and y dimensions.
What's next? Own your own island as a service™? I really like the direction AWS is headed and I like how they're opening up access to hard to setup hardware.
> with more artists insisting on getting those rights upfront

I doubt that unknown artist can negotiate anything. What you are offered is better than nothing. Big corporations abuse their position all the time, individuals can not realistically opt out. The only option is regulations and law enforcement.

> What can WB or any other major label offer an artist like this in exchange for the gigantic ask that is "we own all your stuff forever and btw we also own any re-recordings of these songs"?

Advertisement, legal protection (mainly from themselves), access to traditional media, and distribution in general. How many artist make it out of the big labels system? There is a reason for that.
What's the motivation behind this question? Or why do you think Amazon wants to create lockin for Graviton processors.

Note that graviton represent a classic "disruptive technology" that is outside of the main stream market's "value network". I.e., it provides something that is valuable to marginal customers who are far from the primary revenue source of the larger market.
Sounds like these are not Hackathons but MVP-athons.
Under that model nodes would contain search indexes. Content would be self hosted or blockchain hosted for a fee or sponsor hosted through ads. It could work..
Ugh, not to get on a grumpy-old-man tangent, but I recall when 'hacking' and 'hackathon' had fairly specific and nerdy meanings, and not 'let's try to knock something up we could do in Figma or another wireframe tool to sell to investors'
I know of a way and have been using it for years. It's a bit too complex to describe here. Reach out to me via email if interested. My email is in my profile.
There are a few things that people find exciting, but for me the idea of being able to pay for content frictionlessly is pretty neat. I'd love, for example, if when you get one of those ad blocker blocker popups if there was an option to pay .005 cents to bypass it.
Odd Taxi was excellent.
On a per thread basis - yes. On a per dollar basis on AWS - no. Per instance basis - depends a lot.
... a startup founded entirely by prior successful team members, all friendlies.
I write!

I started a new habit back in 2016: anytime I felt bored or felt an impulse to just open a browser and navigate to a news site, I would instead tab to my word processor and write little character scenes or plan out the plot of a new chapter in my book.

I actually finished an entire manuscript for a murder mystery book this way.
Yeah, but these are intended side effects:

- less duplication of work (=spending of tax money) between structurally very similar communes

- less lock-in that keeps you bound to that one corp forever (=more incentives for them to deliver good work for the money)

- potential collaboration and improvements from outside actors (private persons, other communes, organizations, companies, ...)

The idea is basically: if we need to spend money for software anyway, why not develope it in a way that produces lasting value for society as a whole?
One use-case is that LTE/5G are becoming increasingly attractive as a replacement for land-mobile radio. It used to be sort of common for major cities to have commercial MotoTRBO/OpenSky/iDEN networks for all kinds of business users that wanted LMR without having to pay to install their own equipment. Most of them died out due to stagnation of the technology and competition from cellular providers. There's a bit of excitement that that business sector could be coming back, as cellular equipment gets less expensive and increased data-centric usage has made quality of service on the mainstream cellular networks much more variable.

Almost all major cities operate a private LTE network for city agency use, for example. But for various reasons it's mostly been out of the reach of private ventures. This could be one piece of changing that (5G brings a number of the other pieces).
As someone who's only worked with a prepared hardware kit (a dsPIC33F on an Explorer 16 that came with cables and the debugging puck), if I want to pick up the board they recommend in the blog post, do I need to make sure I get any other peripherals?

This all seems very cool, and I badly want to poke at embedded stuff again, but I have whatever the opposite of a green thumb is for hardware. Advice would be appreciated ^_^
Giphy started as the place to upload mp4 "gifs" to post on reddit. There was the giphy bot that would convert any .gif to a giphy. But naturally they had to pay the bills, so the grew.
I miss apps like this. The UX is just so efficient and perfect. That settings screen is chef’s kiss
We have to be careful, there are toxic people who would constantly dismiss other people into submission by calling their ideas stupid repeatedly. This is abusive and it better not be permitted. They could use a more civil word for it.
Here's the thing, I don't mind people I'm familiar with (and who earned their trust) calling me or my ideas stupid, but if it comes from other people they don't really have that privilege, they ought to measure up their words, especially if do it repeatedly where it could become downright harmful.
(The bump was done nine months ago, it even talks about it in the linked post itself.)
Interesting, didn't Soracom end up going to KDDI in 2017? Is KDDI even getting rid of them / are they even for sale now or was this an old deal?

$187M for an exit is not that large. Were they offering a price in that range to AWS?

It feels a bit like some of the AWS IoT offerings are throw stuff at wall style.
Let's cut out the middleman entirely and say that Hackathons, as such, aren't needed ;)
A fast hashmap library: libhash
Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air
Fly FPV drone
There oughta be a Blender plugin to animate growth
I heard teachers are so scared of being vilified by students, they don't bother to state a fact, or even argue anymore.

It's not just an argument in class; it's plastered all over the internet and could have far reaching future problems for their future.

I like the fact students have more of a say.

In my day, I had a chemistry teacher harrass me to the point I needed to change schools. I remember going to a school counselor, and the counselor said, "Dr. Bezergian is crazy, and you are the type he likes to go after. At the time, I didn't understand "the type". It turns out he would make life in his class difficult if certain students that didn't return his advances. I started putting it all together when I was in a bar celebrating finishing second semester of Organic Chem. after enrolling in a different college. I was giving my usual Dr. Berzergian stories. A guy from another table chimed in and knew the PhD. He filled me in on his personality picadillos.

My point is even if we had the internet back then I probally wouldn't have said anything about the guy, but the other guys who had to switch schools for chem, or just drop out of college, probally would have posted something about the man. Hell, we woukd probally have our tuition paid over his sexuality and the way he tried to get his dates?

I lost my point.

I guess it's just discussing topics in class shouldn't be posted on the internet, unless those topics are causing damage to the students. I guess we will argue over whats bad enough to ruin a teacher's reputation in school, and socially?
Yup, Ken is not an ignorant negotiator. Happily they had a very good exit with KDDI, but it just sits with me wrong. Hugs Simone!!
This seems like an opportunity to build a "better" search engine for Amazon and reap the affiliate revenue.

There's got to be a reason no-one (to my knowledge) has done this: They probably forbid affiliates from doing their own indexing and ranking. Does anyone know for sure?
It's incredible how Apple went from a laggard in new technologies to a trailblazer.

I guess that's the power of a corporation on the scale of an 18th century trade monopoly.
It seems odd that some HN folks think idea is patentable