skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not necessarily comparing them, I'm just pointing out that this line "people can't manage their own shit and so must contract with companies to do it for them" is ridiculous in it's face.

You don't need professionals to build such services, no. Especially considering that the services don't really work better than a drive with MP3s on it.

Software is eating the world, I expect defensiveness on this site particularly, having massive back end data centers and frameworks just for people to do what took a 1tb drive 10 years ago is absolutely stupid.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29411775
Done. 1 hour and 6 minutes, 253 lines of code (mainly inline CSS).

It's a dumbed down, extremely simple version of the front page of microsoft.com, with the first section showing news-like snippets of the content of the 4 main links: Microsoft 365 (which includes Office), Windows, Xbox and Surface. The rest are the other less relevant Microsoft-related links from the "All Microsoft" section. They took me some time to type in).

The rest of the functionality (Account and shopping, support-related) aren't included. Other event-related content isn't included.

https://boring-colden-2cca40.netlify.app/microsoft.html
Would there be much benefit? Hacks happen because of two reasons:

1. Bugs
2. Social engineering

In a decentralised exchange you increase your vulnerability to 1 trying to get rid of 2 on the exchange side, and I'm unsure you can offer the features that the bulk of traders want on a decentralised exchange. Actually, I'm sure (enough to bet 50 $ on it if there is a way to properly specify it) that the most important thing cannot be offered by decentralised exchanges: cashing out to pay your taxes in fiat.
Low power mode doesn't affect autoplay for me in Safari
Show HN: Scuba-like observability for non-Facebook engineers
USB-C cables are not all capable of carrying 60 Watts. They're supposed to, but there's no way to know that the cable you are holding, or looking at buying, is actually capable of that.

Back in 2016, Benson Leung tested many USB-C devices and cables. I went through his amazon profile [1] and found an example of an out-of-spec cable he tested[2].

> Furthermore, the DC Resistance of this cable is too high:

> VBUS 140.82 mΩ

> GND 90.09 mΩ

> The IR drop on GND is too high. At 3A, the maximum allowed resistance is 83.3 mΩ, and this cable exceeds that. Furthermore, the seller also advertised that this cable was "100W" capable, meaning that the maximum is actually at 5A, with a maximum resistance of 50.0 mΩ. In both cases, this cable has too high IR drop.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AFLICGQRF6BR...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1Y953RCSLMFSU
wow, this is something i didn’t even know about until i saw this post. makes a lot of sense now with how people are ignoring other crisis around the world. that’s sad
As an American assumed it was more like British English.
If it’s backed by ram, I would expect the performance characteristics to differ from ssd or hdd, especially in respect to latency concerns.
You don’t think big companies have diversity quotas in 2021? Where have you been for a decade
I'm sure they're "extremely efficient" compared to the last few miles, but those are still a whole lot of emissions that don't exist at all when production is domestic. That said, the more realistic possibility is that the threat of bringing production domestic will drive China (and the shipping industry, perhaps via nuclear marine propulsion) to make concessions.
True, reason why you don't stop at just the employment contract. You should also disclose existing projects to them and have them sign that your work outside of hours/facilities does not upset them.
> Other countries manage to have public services that actually work.

Which countries have something competing with Amazon?

> I don't believe that the American people are somehow genetically predisposed to having a bad government.

All governments are bad. The American people just happen to have alternatives that have revealed how bad some of the overlapping government orgs are so they make a lot of noise about how bad government departments are.

> If you think your elected leaders are not competent and professional, then fire them and elect leaders that will improve the government. If you want a better post office, we need to FIX the post office, not destroy it.

The whole thing is fucked from an incentives perspective. No government employee has motivation to try hard or innovate. There is no shared bonus structure to bring that on in any branch of the government.

When government is competing with an industry, it’s either going to need to run at a loss and live off of other tax revenue or it just won’t be competitive for whoever the customers are.
Alliance on Nautilus: How Speeding Up Science Aided the Fight Against Covid-19
HN needs an infinite scroll and AI-curated newsfeed so developers here can eat their own type of dogfood.
The racks was a reference to entertainment centers, not torrents. That was just about everybody.
If you expect USPS to turn into Swiss-like government agency, sure. But it is not. And it can never be. The culture inside government agencies in USA is rotten.
Trying to do Simple Tasks on Linux lol
>Well, everyone has their own bank account. There's a lot of potential there to just transact directly

The technical problems with that are much less important than the legal problems.

It's likely that the IRS will maul users (unless they report every transaction as a tax event!), and the bank may refuse transactions. Users may even ask the bank to refuse transactions, and then your collateral isn't really a collateral.
Counterargument: as someone who doesn't live in the US, I personally benefit from the international logistics infrastructure built by private US companies fed mostly by demand from US private citizens. But I don't benefit at all from well-funded US public domestic logistics services.

International logistics can't really be solved at the national level, because the interests involved aren't national/unilateral — they're international/multilateral.

(You could maybe make an argument for treatied multilateral investment into public logistics infrastructure tied to said treaties, maybe led by the Universal Postal Union — something similar to the Paris Agreement, but with global-economic goals rather than global-ecological ones. But that's a very different thing from just saying that one country's citizens should demand their own government nationalize a particular service.)
I added the Terralith datapack to a new world on my server, but am I not getting it? Everybody gets the same world right? Yo have to download other seeds? I don't see massive changes, any coordinates that are particularly interesting in the default world?

Edit, I think I found something nice (a cave) at -281, -15, 436, that's not something 1.18 generates by default I guess?
> When Yemen united its mountainous Islamic tribal north with its mountainous Islamic tribal south, many observers were adamant that the experiment was doomed to fail. The differences between the two sides were too great.

Clever.
Ooh, they've got a thumb-ball now!

edit

> Because this trackball has roller bearings, it’s noticeably louder that other trackballs. It makes a sort of scratchy grinding noise when the ball is moved. It’s a noise that you will notice during use.

sigh
Much of the Remarkable 2's design shows this level of suspicious hardware design choices that cripple extra functionality, functionality that wasn't advertised, but would have been possible had work not been done to prevent it. Beyond just bluetooth keyboards, while USB keyboards work on the Remarkable 1, support was apparently intentionally broken on the Remarkable 2. While otherwise completely supporting USB OTG, the USB port has been modified, apparently at a hardware level, to not provide power to devices. This appears to be related to the addition on the Remarkable 2 of an additional, physically-adjacent USB-protocol interface with a proprietary connector, for potential future accessories, which does provide power. For those who have made adapters, this proprietary interface supports USB keyboards quite readily: apparently, the possibility of developing a keyboard accessory in the future was sufficient motivation for the company to break standard keyboard support at a hardware level.

While I have found the Remarkable enormously useful, that has largely been in spite of the company. Had I researched it more closely before purchasing it, I would have realized that the seeming openness (SSH access, Linux, a development community and unofficial third-party software repository) appears to have been forced on an otherwise hostile company by the GPLv3. So it is promising to see the same style of device with a manufacturer that actually supports it being open and adaptable.
The same TV manufacturers that are still shipping 10/100 Ethernet ports on TVs in 2021?
Clearly you are far more of a linguist than I am, but from such a perspective, I had a similar impression; I reloaded the page several times and none of the words struck me as being remotely plausibly English. These are worse than most Hollywood scifi words/names.
That’s better than my friends who were having their phones randomly tapped
Because logistics is mind boggling difficult.

I would say the burden of proof is on anyone who thinks they could fund or create an org that can match Amazon’s.
I agree. I'm kind've stumped by people's belief that you can just throw money at something and have it work. Doubly so for a government organization that's steeped in politics. Amazon is freaking lightening in a bottle. Last night, I was ordering Christmas presents at 12:30am, and they were at my door by 9:30am. That's completely insane.

Government programs are frequently and mysteriously hamstrung by not having enough money as the sole explanatory variable for why they failed at X or why business Y performs more efficiently. It's never an organizational failure, the wrong people, the wrong incentives, just more money is all that's needed. If we'd properly funded the USPS 20 years ago, surely we'd all have same day shipping for pennies, right...? Money would've enabled that?
You obviously haven't paid attention to the world political climate over the last decade or so.
my anxiety is getting the best of me whenever i see this type of stuff i always think of how a state can abuse it to get rid of people legally and use an excuse. but then again i am extremely distrusting of new “progress” in general.
This is great. The C++ ecosystem is becoming truly awesome.
> insert angry post about how not everyone celebrates Christmas and therefore it's bigoted.

The sentiment is that if it offended one person it can't exist on the internet anymore.
Minecraft world gen has never been interesting, and still isn't. All of the comparison screenshots look exactly alike: Some trees, some cliffs, some water. And a mixture of dirt, grass, sand and snow. To call such bland a landscape "interesting" is an admission of complete lack of imagination.

And now we're having a massive celebration because... Microsoft added caves? What a joke. Caves are among the oldest of inventions in human history.

Where's the factory biome with weird machinery and pipes running around? Where's the dead biome thick with fog and populated with graves and zombies? Where's the airship biome that floats high above in the sky and takes building effort to get to?

There's so much creative potential, totally unrealized, for decades. Minecraft never went anywhere. It will die the moment a more imaginative clone pops on the market. It might by Hytale, or something else.
The Rus are the Vikings who started the original Russian states in Novgorod, Smolensk, Kiev, etc. together known as the Kievan Rus and ruled it for 8 centuries afterwards. The last Viking bloodline Russian tzar was Ivan the Terrible.
Who said anything about morally superior?

There is no morals in regard to the technology. The tech itself has no morals, it is the people that use the tech for good or evil.
Yes, I did multiple times. I had not done full rewrite, because there was zero reason to do it. Nor time for that matter. The thing I took over was typically developed over a lot of time, doing it again would take a lot of time again.

> However, many senior developers recoil at the thought of quality documentation

There is no such a thing as quality documentation. An individual here and there is able and willing to write one. Average developer is not. And I don't even blame them, it is in fact skill and job occupation on itself to be able to do so.

Developers are not even trained in how to write good documentation. There are no processes to check, test and review documentation.
Like John McCain, Dole’s politics did not agree with mine but he went through some serious sh*t serving our country, so a heartfelt “thank you.”
But how is being delta neutral a scam? If they weren't taking the other side of the long futures trade, someone else would at an even worse price. And if they weren't buying it back lower, someone else would at a worse price.

The idea that Tether just prints out of thin air is a conspiracy theory, I've seen large traders confirm they can do create/redeems and there was some information released about their holdings of commercial paper, settlement with NYAG, etc. And they have frozen stolen funds in the past, in the case of the Poly network hack. USDT routinely trades at a premium to USD, the market does not seem worried.

Of course Binance and Tether and a lot of other unregulated crypto companies are shady, but it's more interesting to focus on the particular shady company in the original post.
Except these people can create their own bugs and rob their own clients and call it a hack and nobody can do anything about it because they're off shore and unregulated. You'd have to be pretty dense to put any money on the unregulated exchanges.
My anecdata (at multiple companies) supports their opinion.

What matters is that there is a clear owner who is the voice of final decision. In most cases there is no objectively better way to do something, so having a person who is a tie-breaker is beneficial. Of course, they must be involved in actual coding, doing code reviews of other people's code and similar. And other people must review the owner's and each others code.

But, having an owner is not the same as having a bus factor 1. There should be an owner, but other people should know the project and the codebase enough to step in at any given time, even as (temporary) owners if needed. And this is only possible if they actually work on the project, even if the approach that the team (/owner) decides upon is not what they would pick.
Pay everyone the same to do the same job…

The federal pay ceiling in 2021 is $172,500 per year. That’s about what a SWE new grad at Amazon makes in their first year out of college.
The more my interpersonal and networking skills improved, the easier it became to get work. We all need skills, but once you have enough skills to reach a figurative escape-velocity then pouring too much effort to qualify on-paper for things is more a waste of time.
Washing machines are an obvious improvement to washboards though.

With the modern service oriented way of listening to music and watching TV, you risk losing what you purchased, you're manipulated by algorithms, you're trapped in the net of a service provider. Is that really less stressful than pulling out a CD and putting it in a CD player?

Digital media is better than cassettes. But the service oriented way companies expect us to do it now is not better. We really hit peak digital media with mp3 playing software on our smartphones. Everything since has just made the experience worse.
> I think there should be an even more general effort made to remove the competitive advantage that comes from simply being big.

That’s ridiculous because you completely disincentivize automation and efficiency with those types of rules.

There is no reason to ensure that two guys spending 5 years to hand build one car need to be subsidized to continue that way.
Or differently stated, reinvest all profits back into the business, report a loss. Amazon is brutal to its employees, a government run entity will never match the level of execution. Its really a fantasy to think otherwise, and has never been shown to be true
Mourning the lost potential.

There is a grocery store near me that sat vacant for several years. Finally a storage company took it over. It's a good thing that something is there, just wish it was an actual grocery store.
Apple Planning Five New Macs for 2022
The Azure, AWS, and and Google data centers are some of the most secure facilities on the planet, maybe even rivaling that of our nuclear missile silos. If us-east-1 got nuked or went offline [for months], we'd probably see an instant depression in the U.S. economy as so many parts of life break, so it's in the DoD's best interest to protect Virginia and North Carolina extremely well[0].

Azure even offers multiple levels of clouds that can house government secrets[1], although I couldn't find a way to tell whether an outlook hostname is part of a higher-security region or not.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28825009

1: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-government-top-...
This is surely only to be expected. Just wash your hands instead. Instead of trying to kill the bacteria wash them away.
After a few refreshes I got 'sundial'.
They will not let you have a reliable and painless death. I bet some people will be stopped by the pain that a traditional suicide methods might bring, as well as the risk of staying alive but getting mutilated for the rest of their life as a result.
> if it weren't for the politicians actively trying to drag it down with arbitrary, arcane rules to protect their donors.

Is there a sector/program in the gov't where that isn't the case? Every entity that is created is just a new fiefdom to expand and lord over from the time it's created to infinity.
Title and story seem exaggerated. Yes, you can place an airtag or any other gps tracking device on anybody's car parked out in the open. But that does not lead to stealing. The actual act of stealing is when you break into the car using any means - mechanical or electrical and then drive away with the car. And that stealing action does not involve the airtag at all.

The vulnerability lies with the electronic keys used by the car manufacturers - yet rather than blaming them for lax security, the article chooses to focus on the airtag.
GIGA G4201TM modems are built for exactly this, using the G.hn standard, over a single pair. I’ve been using these to avoid digging into walls to replace wiring — they claim to sync at up to 1700mbps and, even in the real world, I’m saturating the 1000BASE-T ports.
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That's because those countries have the largest populations of new money rubes to sucker into buying shiny objects.
Whether a single server can handle a million threads depends on how often those threads need to wake up, and how much work they need to do before going back to sleep. Thread pools don't even come close to working well for storage IO, because dozens or hundreds of threads per core each blocking on just a few kB of IO that the SSDs can handle in milliseconds or less means you spend far too much time on context switches. Network IO is usually lower in aggregate throughput and much higher in latency, so each thread spends relatively more time sleeping and therefore you can fit more of them into a single machine's available CPU time. But a million threads on one box imposes significant constraints on how active those threads can be.
Yes. See https://wasabiwallet.io/
Not startups, but projects:

- https://github.com/jhadjar/uniflex: enables a subscriber of a telco company to send airtime to a subscriber of another telco company, which telco companies don't allow directly. I learned to research: the code worked for me using Gammu and 3G dongles of multiple telco operators, however, a "normal" SIM cannot send airtime to an "airtime merchant SIM", which would have been needed to make it work in the real world. I could have had this information in one conversation with airtime shop owners.

- https://jhadjar.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/leoculus-automotive... and https://github.com/jhadjar/Leoculus: Leoculus is an interface (project) to display analog video from a Rear View Camera on car monitors that only accept digital video (Peugeot S.A., Tesla Motors, etc.). I learned to make time and invest on things I wanted to actually do and to build for people I like to interact with. I originally started thinking about it because a friend at the time had an after-market accessory install, but I don't particularly like that vibe/space.

- One project for a friend who worked in the finance department at a telco company who used Excel to compute some things, look-up vendors/accounts, fill-out cheques, etc. I built the thing and it worked. I asked my friend then how much his company would pay for it, and his manager, although loving the product and wanting to get it told him they will not pay for it, but it would be really great if they could get it. I learned to say "fuck off".

- One project for a friend of a friend who worked at an organization of 60,000+ people who had a FileMaker thing to manage careers and the thing showed its limit. I started researching the thing to help. The data is sensitive. There was a quick and dirty prototype. I learned from my earlier projects and asked how much they would pay for it and he said nothing. Leveraging the skills I learned on my telco project, I said "fuck off".

- Another project for someone doing dental prostethics who needed to sell a product but who was ignored by wholesalers. I asked him questions at 2AM in a forest on all these products, got me some samples, had spectrography done, noticed they're quite the same, and researched the topic (polymerization and stuff). I stopped it right there because the margins are really low and I leveraged what I learned on not working in a space that I don't like.
Great work, but I vehemently disagree with the section on animations. Long animations that keep me waiting and prevent me from continuing my next input are a great source of frustration. It is more important for users who use your system often to be able to do so quickly than for it to “look pretty” but constantly swallow inputs and not do what I told it to do.
USPS being weak (AFAIK primarily because of this law) benefits their competition, who are lobbying against "fixing" it.
Any government employee care to weigh in on whether you’re motivated to try hard and innovate? I don’t think I’m being hopelessly optimistic, believing we’ve got a lot of good people in government service, doing their best.
Big companies can fire people if they are not doing their job, which obviously is not true of USPS.
Because weed goes hand-in-hand with assisted suicide how?

Not illegal, CBD/low THC (-1%) cannabis has been legal for a while, and « weed » can be prescribed medically.
Your 10% example was used by Jack Welsh GE and Enron right? Do you consider them innovative / forward looking?
Working on vestmap.com
I might be too sentimental (and left leaning) but I always love a story that ends with a company losing money
The thing is, when humans conquer a rival group, we tend to rape the survivors. That kind of ensures genetic mixing, so this kind large discrepancy in innate ability couldn't really appear.
Why would I pay gas when a Pi board gives me the same amount of computing power but is cheaper?
Yeah, r/retroprogramming is not a very active sub... Check out r/retrogamedev