skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d honestly consider 800€ already enthusiast grade, but I’m interested. What does your 800€ bicycle have that mine doesn’t have?

For reference, I’m currently using https://www.boc24.de/p/bocas-bari-trapez/217333/ (which I bought at 320€ on sale) with some changes (B&M 100 lux front light, seat post with suspension), and I don’t think I’d get any major improvements with other changes.

Due to cycling in city traffic, I need to be able to instantly switch gears at standstill, so a derailleur would be a downgrade compared to the hub gearing I’ve got, and upgraded hub dynamos would bring me just 2-5% more performance, which isn’t really useful.
Giphy collects a ton of data which Facebook is very much interested in.
The fake Tom Cruise on TikTok, while not "photo-real" in any sense of the word, seems to overcome any uncanny valley effects through shear force of personality. We don't just observe the face, we react to the spirit behind it. In that case, the effects artist found "Vienna's foremost Tom Cruise impersonator" to provide the mocap. And then painstakingly mapped the face overlay to the emotional cues in musculature. And those seem to be the feature detectors we pick up on, rather than the highest fidelity.
It would allow Facebook to get even more information about what services and applications people are using.
I realise that, but I don't think there's that much need for the vast majority of Java developers to know this stuff. Unfortunately, there's much more important stuff -- like jlink -- that we're having a hard time spreading. I hope the new website, https://dev.java/, helps.
Phew, I was wondering when they closed the sale. I swear I would have remembered that
Show HN: My top watches for investing in 2022
As a watch enthusiast, I've always considered Horology as an art and a philosophy of a job well done.

I quickly noticed that beyond their artistic and mechanical aspects that show the insane amount of work behind the scene, luxury watches rarely see their value decreasing over time.

So here are my favorites watches to consider for investing in 2022, your feedback is welcome!

https://watchflair.co/
I wonder if a Raspberry Pi port would be a "low effort" way to attract more developers.

I'm not claiming that such a port would be easy, but that the Raspberry Pi represents a relatively stable platform. Rather than having people turn away when they discover that component X of their PC is unsupported, they have a path where they can boot the image, try it out, and learn how to develop software for it. While this probably wouldn't address the issue of kernel/driver development, it may help to address application development.
Ethereum has over 260,000 validators right now [0], and you can run one on a Raspberry Pi. Some are on centralized exchanges but most are not.

Rocketpool [1] also recently launched which is a decentralized service that makes it super easy to setup your own node, and more profitable than staking anywhere else.

My node is generating the normal staking rewards (~5.5%), plus another 12% bonus (from ETH from individuals being paired with my node), plus another 50% in RPL rewards. That 50% will surely drop, but it will always be better than just staking by itself.

RocketPool also allows individuals to stake as little as 0.01 ETH, the same as centralized exchanges, but it's decentralized, and they get rETH in return, which they can use in Decentralized Finance, giving them even better returns.

Put together Rocketpool gives better returns in a more decentralized way than any centralized exchange does, and unless you're really new and don't want to move off your exchange, it's a no brainer better alternative.

[0]: https://beaconcha.in/

[1]: https://rocketpool.net/
"The surveys showed that 51% of children believed girls were less interested in computer science than boys, and 63% of children believed girls were less interested in engineering."

These statements are likely true on average. Instead of lying to children about group differences, we should encourage them to follow their own interests and abilities, regardless of whether they are typical of their sex.
I think it's more apt to think of the keyboard as analogous to the steering wheel and pedals here.
China Is Winning the Big Data War, Thanks to Xi
Show HN: Lucid – CMS for Small Projects
consider though that if peertube just emulates the practices of existing players the result will likely be exactly the same

the high thresholds and lack of mainstream polish of most open source projects is a true fact and has to do with the economic / business models (or non-models) so its not an easy challenge to solve

somehow being able to engage creative people to contribute (whether it is UI design, visual art, engaging text etc) will be critical for FOSS to have bigger impact
Will omicron be more contagious than delta? What researchers know
NASA postpones spacewalk over 'debris' alert
I don’t know. People extend their sense of endearment towards space to SpaceX as it is the best positioned company. Americans have a ton of nostalgia about the space race. Hollywood gave a lot of cool tales. A lot of emotions at play here.

Take a step back and look at the technology. Sure reusable rockets are cool but still way short of what we need to make it economical at scale. People in 60s over achieved and it’ll be a long time before we surpass them. Even then we have a long way ahead. Maybe if there’s a breakthrough in propulsion, fuels etc that’ll give a 10x-100x efficiency improvement then we can hope for something in our lifetime. Otherwise I still see it as a niche activity.

I don’t really get this “single point of failure” argument. Sure, I won’t deny that risk but it’s situated in a cosmic timescale. I don’t see it with any urgency just as I don’t see earth being swallowed by the Sun or the heat death of the universe with urgency. These are cataclysmic events.
Hello! I'll write you via email.
I think we will be limited by the size of the silicon atom. As far as I remember, 0.00001 nm is actually smaller than a silicon atom which is about 0.2 nm in size.

https://qz.com/852770/theres-a-limit-to-how-small-we-can-mak...
So will people surviving it as that also generates antibodies and curtails the lifetime of the virus. It’s possibly worse from the virus’ point of view as the antibodies will be less specific, having the whole virus as a target.

Face it, it’s a hard life for a virus. If it’s too successful, people die and fail to spread the virus. Otherwise, immunity slowly builds up and restricts the spread. Unless it manages to alter itself to change host species or manages to harm the immune system.
Has Oxide released any information on the price range of one of their machines? I assume if they're targeting mid-size enterprises it would be outside what I would consider buying for hobby use, but it would be sweet in the future if there was a mini-Oxide suitable for home labs.
Having the largest military is useless if high command is shit.
The local mafia gang would be just one of the private protection agencies with armed forces.

There is definitely a competition between them; but is violence or negotiation the most business effective way of dealing with it?

Warfare is expensive, you risk men lives and weapons aren't cheap.

If there is violence on the street or if protection money is too high, no-one would want to live there and there would be less people to sustain your army.

I think the incentives are aligned to solve disputes in a pacific way.
Center motor, so if anything, the load is higher on the chain than normal bikes.

I am not sure how much more than 5k you can realistically expect for a lifetime for an ebike drivetrain regardless how you maintain it. You need to clean the bike anyway between the customers. If a quick wipe with wd40 gives you 5k, I am not sure if the extra miles on the drivetrain justify the extra work and extra cost of a fancier maintenance.
Sounds like recentralization to me.

IMHO, if we’re gonna do cryptocurrency, we should try to make as many transactions as possible on layer 1.
Mistakes you're probably making in the Y Combinator interview
I guess I don't get it. This is based on speculative misuse - that FB may in the future deny access to Giphy to competitors. So if you own a tool that your competitors may use then that's anti-competitive? Seems like that could apply to a lot of companies. Why not wait for actual misuse and base a case on that?

Also what's so special about Giphy? Seems it could be duplicated fairly easily by any serious competitor.

And competition being defined as other social media platforms? Pretty broad definition.

Seems FB hatred is making bad law. And that bad law will bite others not just FB.
Sorry but even if the anonymous OP allegations are all completely true, so what? I don't see anything there that Stripe did that was illegal - only aggressive/predatory along the lines of what happens daily in business. You could probably google up multiple examples without ever leaving the first page of results.

If I were a Stripe investor I would honestly be validated that the leadership is acting so boldly in the company's favor.
It's all about the Ads.

> Regulators also determined that the deal was uncompetitive because it shut down Giphy's advertising business, therefore eliminating Giphy’s competition to Facebook's ad business.
I can already see it: the US's state-of-the-art reconnaissance tardigrades will get outfitted with Zen 53 EPYCs, while China's fruit fly drones languish behind with their last-gen Xeon knockoff implants.
You should be OK since you have experience. Just make sure your interviewing skills are dusted off, review the STAR method, etc.

My anecdata as a PhD engineer: my first job out of college came from putting my info into a faceless corporate careers website. I also got a competing offer through LinkedIn. My current job at a little <100 employee company was obtained through a recruiter on LinkedIn. When looking a few months ago I got another offer from a corporate careers website.

I felt pretty useless fresh out of college, but once I got my first job, I started getting messages from recruiters on LinkedIn fairly regularly. I'd be interested in how people do their due diligence in checking the authenticity of LinkedIn recruiters!

As for indeed, when I used it 5 years ago to get my first job out of school, it didn't impress me. I didn't get any leads from it. Zip Recruiter I think is an actual scam.
For venture capitalists like the article author, the primary objective isn't fixing problems or making things better, it is about making money. He even makes this explicit in the article: "cryptonetworks align network participants to work together toward a common goal — the growth of the network and the appreciation of the token", i.e. the common goal is to not to provide useful new functionality or to improve upon things in some way, it is quite simply to get new members to join their cryptocurrency schemes and in doing so make existing members of the schemes more money.

BTW, original discussion on this article from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16410478
> I wonder if we will observe something similar in acting and social interaction, where more and more bad or CGI acting gets corrected by uncanny valley methods, which new generations get on mass exposed with and thus change their own habits and what it means for facial expressions to be uncanny.

I don’t think this will happen with CGI. For most people, the vast majority of music they consume is pre-recorded. Thus, whatever is common in pre-recorded music becomes their definition of music. However, with regards to faces and expressions, people still interact with real faces and expressions in real life and movies are just a small proportion of the faces and expressions they encounter. Thus real life will still set the baseline standard and won’t be able to be shifted like what happened to music.
Yes we should. I have a couple Kinesis advantages. Having the ability to have my thumbs do backspace, control and enter are fantastic. I also put symbol keys like {},[],(),`,',~ on the keypad layer that I can easily shift into (I remapped the giant delete key to be keypad shift) so my weak ass pinky fingers don't have to do as much work. For me that's something that gave me the most pain during typing. I'm not really sure what to do for laptop typing though. There's nothing like the Kinesis advantage in a laptop. I'm thinking maybe I can get a laptop with a JIS keyboard and remap the extra keys near space to shift into a layer instead. I wish manufacturers were interested in improving keyboard design and not just how many keys can they remove to save money.
Every Day, Every Hour, Every Minute = Potential Profit Made or Lost
It's very easy to get attention by recruiters on LinkedIn, but my experience has been that, even if I am angling for a product development position, the vast majority of the interview requests will be for support work. I sampled the 48 recruiters who reached out to me from October 1 through the 31 and 45 of them either explicitly listed the role as an SRE, or a more vague 'DevOps' that resolved into support work after some inquiry.

I didn't understand what these job classes meant three years ago when I was getting frustrated, and was surprised that I could find a job within a week. Panic really hit me when it dawned on me that I had given up a pure developer job for a pure on-call pager rotation job. I learned a lot very quickly from that screw up.
Having switched to a properly split keyboard with 12 inches between the parts, yes yes and yes.

I'd like to see a reprogrammable keyboard where the letter shown on the keycap can change with reprogramming. Or with whichever layer is selected.

Shape and size wise the Kyria [1] is the best I've found for me.

1. https://splitkb.com/products/kyria-pcb-kit
Anything as long as it's not a touchscreen.
I personally fear that in a de-globalized world, there is a higher chance of a third World War. Of course, there is the policy of M.A.D, but that seems like such a weird place to be in.
With that logic it would mean that Facebook is barred from acquisition of big data sources in the UK.

That would be breaking news indeed.
I’m guessing because the equity vests at 1 year, you can’t realize huge gains in stock prices
Best Smartwatch for Android Under $100
What is this single point of failure? You can take any server down on the internet and it will be fine. The DNS may be a more vulnerable point, but still, lots of different organisations have DNS servers on lots of different places.
I’m about to start a job search and the stackoverflow jobs board seems to have a decent number of positions… most even advertise salary band, which is nice.
I worked a lot in human-computer-interaction a couple of decades ago, and people always try to make a better keyboard, and outside of niche uses, they have failed, except for small, incremental tweaks. In fact, it is an example I often use of how, most often, when people try to reinvent something, they instead end up learning why the existing thing is so great. I know I've done it multiple times with various technologies. It's a great learning experience, but my money is betting on the keyboard staying the keyboard :)
If ISPs want money from Big Tech, then Big Tech must be their customers, but I bet that the ISPs want money just because, and do nothing to earn it.
I have always wondered why nothing humorous or fun appears/happens on HN in the comments. This post and subsequent comments are very telling.
A company's valuation has nothing to do with its capital structure. You don't know how much of its cash is servicing debt. It is possible (particularly for a capital intensive business) to go bankrupt regardless of any continuing investment.
It’s honestly entirely foreign to me, I grew up in an environment where everyone cycled, but that meant most bikes were somewhere between omafiets (old, used bikes) and very cheap mass produced bikes. To me a bicycle is a mode of transportation, not a sports device or a lifestyle product.

What would they even do with such a bike?
>Also what's so special about Giphy? Seems it could be duplicated fairly easily by any serious competitor.

They're not buying it for the tech, they're buying it for the user base so they can sell their data to advertisers.
Humans make mistakes, and Patrick apologized on the behalf of this experience.

While there may be opinions on whether or not this “makes it right”, apologies in today’s world should still carry some worth.
What impossible meant to Richard Feynman
Milton Friedman made a good career proving you wrong with his helicopter money. Dumping cash in human hands has real effects beyond increasing the price of everything.

(I agree that the parent comment is unconvincing.)
> no join support

Perhaps you mean no left-join support? There has been support for inner-join support in PostgREST for a few years :)

(example: https://supabase.com/docs/reference/javascript/select#query-...)
That was a very long road that took the reader to right where they started.

Laptops don't fit ergonomic keyboards, but nothing else about them is ergonomic either. Otherwise, for anyone who cares, ergonomic keyboards are readily available (yes, low volume of sales plus high design expense will yield expensive products) and I've never been on an enterprise network so locked down that you couldn't swap keyboard layouts.

One tip: if you put an alternate key mapping on the shared top secret submarine laptop and leave it readily accessible, don't be surprised when someone wakes you up in the middle of the night because your time-saving macro "broke".
I want a world without garbage collection. I don't think we can achieve a world without garbage collection while there are codebases based around aliased pointers (which makes lifetime reasoning difficult, and causes enough use-after-frees to make the Linux desktop apps I use unstable, unless you use refcounting) and circular references (which is difficult to refcount). Maybe I'll wait for Rust programmers to rewrite software around tree-based ownership (restrictive but immune to these problems) and ECS/arena indexes (can use-after-free but won't segfault).

In the time being, while "spiderweb object graphs" are commonplace, perhaps Nim's memory management (https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html) can give us "non-GC by default, refcounting or GC when necessary". I want it to succeed. I hope it does.
That was quick. I was just watching it when I wrote the comment.
Uh oh. This post seems to have a lot of red flags.

- Custom TLD specifically for this one expert

- VERY emotional language, lots of blame

- Implicitly wants people to die [1] because he doesn't believe vaccines work faster than viral evolution

- Oh ok, this guy is a well-known vaccination sceptic [2]

[1] "I am truly afraid that these dynamics will eventually allow for the natural selection of individuals with uncompromised innate immunity while eliminating those without it."

[2] https://vaxopedia.org/2021/03/14/who-is-geert-vanden-bossche...
Oxide’s work is always interesting and basically a perfect confluence of all of my combined hardware and software experience to date.

However, I can’t quite get over their policy of paying everyone the same salary of $175,000. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348836 ) I’d love to apply and work on these things, but I wouldn’t love the idea of sacrificing $xxx,000 per year for the privilege of building someone else’s startup.

Does anyone know if they have some variability in equity compensation at least? I’m no stranger to taking significant compensation in startup equity, but it would have to be significant enough to make up for the significant comp reduction relative to just about every other employer in these domains.
The problem with Pip's dependency version handling
Are SpaceX salaries actually "ridiculously high"?
Companies are increasingly using automated video interviews to assess candidates
What I learned about interviewing
you're using it to help break a stiff or rusty lock, but it's not lubricating anything.
Mass produced food stuff(buy it at a store)relies on packaging to draw in the customer. Best example: Poptarts. Package pic show pastries brimming with rich filling when in fact its a thin layer of some colored paste. Poptarts have survived and are "cult classic" that gets a shout out in movies; Pulp Fiction, WW1984.. Begin with the end in mind.
> Like, my family isn’t religious at all and as an adult I’ve come to identify as a materialist, but that… that was the closest thing I can think of to a religious experience.

I like to think of electromagnetism as a form of magic (in the supernatural/religious sense). In the days before radio, the idea of moving energy and information over pieces of metal or thin air would be considered sorcery or witchcraft. Today its so much more advanced with pocket computers literally putting the world at our fingertips. I can casually talk to people on the other side of the planet in near real time.
>Bill and Melinda's Trust has locked up the majority of farm land in USA.

source?

https://newspunch.com/billionaire-globalist-bill-gates-sudde...

This article says the Gates' or their foundation might have a few hundred thousand acres, but the USA has orders of magnitude more farmland.

https://stacker.com/stories/1578/states-most-farmland
Mithril is reasonably fast, but there are plenty of faster options like Solid, Inferno, Preact, or Svelte.

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

IMO the best thing about Mithril is that it doesn't have reactivity, much like Imba. This allows you to define state with pure vanilla objects and classes. Also that it includes an HTTP client and router in just 10kB.

It's really verbose though compared to Svelte.
Large Telescope uncovers closest pair of supermassive black holes yet
Farcical CV padding.
A Review of “The Man Who Solved the Market”
The current UK government is very corrupt. The issue here is that someone at FB missed their request for a "donation". I'm sure this can all be sorted for a low 6 figure sum...
Destructuring only really makes sense for simple struct-like data structures. If you are worrying about prototypes you are destructuring the wrong things. Duplicating class instances is almost always something that you'll need to do manually or through serialization in OOP afaik.
Unfortunately, LinkedIn is the only game in town. It's pretty worthless though. In 2019 I received 6,000+ contacts from headhunters, maybe 25 were relevant and 3 were actually worth responding to.

LinkedIn's bread and butter seems to be spammers in India with addresses from New Jersey.

You will probably not find a good job on LinkedIn. Find niche-specific slack job boards and network with people. LinkedIn is mostly a waste of time. It was shit before Microsoft, now it's diarhea.

I'm glad I will be retiring soon and will never remove a connection for re-posting an Oleg Vishnepolsky post.

Fuck LinkedIn.
Ask HN: What would you do in a visa emergency?
Hi everyone,

An American friend of mine is currently working in the UK as a front-end engineer. His employer offered him the opportunity to move to London (sorting out the visa and the move) which my friend accepted. Him and family have been living in London for the last 2 years. Sadly, they are terminating the mission and his visa will expire in February. (It was subject to renewal)
However, he and his family really enjoy London and they would like to stay. So we try to sort out options here with my very basic visa/market knowledge.

Is the timing doable if he finds another job offering to sponsor him? Do you know any companies willing to sponsor him? What would you do?

Thanks everyone
> Also what's so special about Giphy? Seems it could be duplicated fairly easily by any serious competitor.

You're right, a reasonable regulator following the U.S. anti-trust regulations as they were written in the early 1900s would also require Whatsapp, Instagram, and Facebook to all be cordoned off into separate companies at a minimum.
If I get even remotely busy I forget all about HN. I can't imagine anyone trying to run a company wasting time here.