skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no middleware, no crap

Not sure if this applies to the Amiga, but one of the huge drawbacks to DOS was that you wrote your own video and sound drivers. It wasn't abstracted away, so you could get better performance, but it was a lot of repeated work, and it doesn't scale.
Because not everyone agree's that a nationalized system is the best solution to the bigger problem, hell we probably do not even agree what the bigger problem is

i.e I am sure you believe the market is the problem, where I believe government is the problem, so since I believe government is the problem i certainly do not believe giving more control to the same government that created the problem is the solution to the problem
> If it comes down to data or your gut, trust the data. Your gut is an emotional manipulator.

I don't disagree with you in theory, but in practice much of the "data" we get is also a manipulator. Lies, damned lies, and statistics and all that.
Chrome's equivalent is http://www.gstatic.com/generate_204 for those curious, and plenty of other browsers have their own.

Neat tools as until I learned of the existence of these ssl-less sites to prompt captive portals I use to try to connect to various sites until it showed up.
Because professionals can't take the chance that an in-app notification (from another app) or a menu bar or something else will end up in their output. We're not just talking about an external monitor here.
Yeah, it's all automated. You have to go through the whole store and mark what you have at least once a week. The system internally matches that against what the cash registers sold, and then makes an order for new stuff and corporate runs a report and submits that to insurance. It's all pretty orthogonal to if anything was actually stolen or if there was just process mistakes like saying 4qty for something when each was a different flavor/SKU or something.
It's never been a worse time to browse the web.
> There's nobody who supports the idea of letting any idea be vetoed by anyone.

Well, between IBM and Poland-Lithuania, it's not like liberum veto hasn't been tried (with moderate intermediate success and long-term problems as a result).
The Search for Planet X[1] is a board game where players solve what amounts to a logic puzzle. The puzzle is generated procedurally and shared via seed amongst the players. The players then interact with an app to extract facts or constraints, keeping track of their own information as well as other players' queries in order to derive the game terminating[2] fact (the location of planet X). The game is, of course, deciding which new facts or constraints to learn.

1. (2020) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/279537/search-planet-x

2. Among other ways to win points within the game
Every source that fails to provide a complete description of reality as a whole is "missing context."

But it is not the job of sources who are reporting true things to soften their messages, or act as if they are kindergarten teachers and their readers are children.

News Outlet: "Saudi Arabia killed Jamal Khashoggi"

Fact Check: Missing context, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does good things sometimes, too.

News Outlet: "Jussie Smollett found guilty"

Fact Check: Missing context. All lives won't matter until Black Lives Matter.

Thanks, Facebook for this intrepid fact checking. I feel blessed, rather than patronized.
I can only offer "becoming Zen". People constantly praise me for being Zen about things that upset everyone else; it apparently grants me much "leadership points" among my peers and direct reports.

It's mostly because at some level I just don't care enough to INVEST the energy required to get upset let alone meltdown. I pick carefully what I CHOOSE to invest emotional in and it's a very short list.

Related to this: what are you willing to "walk away from", and if you aren't, why not?

I have also experienced most of the "stress/crisis events" a man can, and survived them well enough or often enough to not be phased by them anymore.

https://paindoctor.com/top-10-stressful-life-events-holmes-r...
Yes, AM, from some of the links in the article. Probably for backwards compatibility: the video version could carry 5 MHz FM video with an AM audio channel.

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/opto/jo406/index.htm
Brit here - context matters, so when I read this headline on HN, which is US-centric, I assumed it meant insects.

But, even if I'd known it was on The Guardian, context still matters, and "bug" feels like an odd choice of word in a sentence like this, where "bacteria" would be more obvious - I have to assume they've chosen "bug" as clickbait. Which has me disappointed with them :/
Buy industrial signage displays. You'll be paying a significant premium but it's basically the only way to get a high quality non-smart tv these days.
This is by no means limited to Tesla, and is true of almost every new car sold now.

As an example, almost every new Ford sold in the USA since 2019 has standard 5G/GPS remote connectivity; even the cheapest entry level cars at Ford like the new Maverick can remotely over 5G unlock doors and remote start the engine (just like the 'owner' can in the Ford pass app, now standard spec on virtually all Fords.). The manufacturers of course love the extra usage metrics and can also over the air sell upgrades like 5G hotspot access and so forth. Many cars now have 5G/GPS receiver for metrics even if no connectivity or nav features whatsoever exposed to user.

My point is; aside from the use of "summon", this kind of locate, remote unlock and start by manufacturer is available on almost all new cars sold today, no matter how cheap - the 5G remote access tech has become increasingly ubiquitous. This is not something unique to the way Tesla creates it cars at all, especially in 2021.

> https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/fordpass/fordpass-remot...
Because SAP isn't an "alternative" it's the dominant player of it's own field. What alternative does the US have to SAP might be another perspective worth examining?
Minecraft is pretty good.
Eh. This is a true picture for the Democratic Party as a whole: they don't want this to pass any more than they want Medicare For All to pass. The Progressive Caucus members are probably sincere about pushing it, though.
All prosecutions are at the discretion of prosecutors.
They surely have enough money to buy macbooks, and something like this is a fraction of the cost (seems about 10%).

Of course, I'm also confident that software workarounds will exist in the meantime.
The other difference being that neverssl.com does a bit more as it immediately redirects you to a unique subdomain, ensuring that any caching that your browser is trying is subverted.

Sure, it might go away one day. Until it does, it’s the best solution to this problem.
We're not talking about a rackmount AV machine. We're talking about a tiny device that can output to HDMI.

And, again, we are talking about situations where this orange dot would make the function "unusable". Those situations are not situations where a professional uses the built-in I/O and leaves things to chance.
> That's not really accurate - if an organism can breakdown (digest) plastic to any extent, it can do so all the way to water and CO2.

I can't breakdown most plastic to any significant extent.

If I ate small pieces of plastic, some would be excreted in poop and some would accumulate in my body.

If I ate animals that have eaten small pieces of plastic, being high up the foodchain, this may be exacerbated (biomagnification).

If bacteria learn to degrade plastic--- that may improve the situation for my grandchildren but it probably doesn't reduce how much is accumulating in marine life now that much.
You just need 1 other reference to the socket in code to prevent it from being garbage collected without socket.close().

For example, this won't automatically close the socket:

>>> s = socket.socket()
>>> other_sock = s
>>> s.connect(("127.0.0.1", 9999))
>>> s = None
Ask HN: Have you gotten a 2nd full-time remote job since the start of lockdown?
Over the course of the pandemic, I've seen multiple anecdotes here on HN of engineers (and others) taking on additional full-time remote jobs and working them in parallel. I'm wondering if there are folks here on HN who have made this work, either surreptitiously or with the consent of their current employer.

I'd like to hear about any and all gotchas you've encountered. The one I'm most interested in is the juggling of meetings. What if the current and new teams have overlapping stand-ups, for example? Or what if an impromptu meeting gets added to the person's calendar, creating a conflict with existing commitments?

I'm also looking for opinions on the morality of such an action. To me, it seems equivalent to that same dev getting a job as a shared ride driver or something, if (and this is a BIG if) the employee is able to continue delivering the same quality of work to both employers, the two companies operate in separate spaces, and there's no risk of improper IP transfer.

That said, I'm open to the possibility that I'm wrong here. Hoping the HN hive mind will have insights that I haven't considered.
Interesting, I would have made the opposite assumption ("the satellite is moving so much faster than everything else, we can estimate the interval from the satellite's speed alone). It seems both speeds might have a similar impact, as per sibling comment.
More and more companies are direct insurance, meaning even if they use an "insurance company" to manage the group, that is just for the administration of the group. The companies are paying the medical costs of the employee directly.
So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US? Is it market fragmentation? Languages? Is it capital allocation related problems?

I feel that the ability to bootstrap projects in all the large EU countries is way harder than the US, or smaller euro ones (like the Netherlands or Estonia).

In Spain for example, the cost of something similar of an LLC is way higher than in the US, not to mention that you have to pay almost 400€/month (at minimum) just for owning the company as Social Security fee, even if I'm also working for someone else paying my social security through my salary.

It's a huge burden if you're in my situation, which is having an average salary, not a lot of savings and you don't have a family that bails you out.

Also, this listing lacks a few more that I listed here: https://iagovar.com/mapas/european-web-hosting-alternatives
I've often thought about this. People nowadays build their websites predominantly on React component kits which resemble more sophisticated HTML elements. If HTML were extended to include that more sophisticated functionality -- and come on, it's been 20 years and people are certainly sufficiently aligned on this approach to now include it in the spec -- then I wonder whether JavaScript would be necessary, or at least as necessary as it is now.

I think either direction would be interesting. Or both. The browser was an experiment in the first place, but people seem to have stopped experimenting and are just doing the equivalent of what building on an IBM mainframe would have been in those days. It's disappointing. (It's not unlike people who quote Martin Luther King today, not appreciating that the essence of his radicalism was the direction of travel towards justice, not the political compromises themselves which are now firmly established.)

I hope at least that the renewed interest in systems programming that's come with the Rust fandom might spur some actually innovative developments to replace the antiquated model we're all stuck using. But sadly the tech community seems to be split into two communities, one of which has no interest in innovating, and the other of which seems to be set on innovations so absurdly impractical (¡world wide web on the blockchain!) that they could never take off.
ADHD prevents me from consuming lots of content at 1x speed at all. Trying to listen to a lecture is incredibly painful. I completed college in 2006, I believe YouTube launched 2x speed a few years later, it wasn't until then that I discovered I'm perfectly capable of listening to a lecture at 2x.

Now, perhaps I get less out of a 2x lecture than a neurotypical person who is otherwise my peer does from a 1x lecture. Maybe even a lot less. But it doesn't matter, because I get a lot out of a 2x lecture and nothing out of a 1x lecture.
I thought that was a pretty good essay. I've never had Security running the show, but the other scenarios he discusses match my experience.
Resource conservation. Computers I use are often older and/or have limited resources. I want to use available resources for other things.

Example:
http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/distrib/...
Certainly? If they do, their insurance rates will go up.

I know if I report a reimbursable event to my insurance company, my rates will go up until the reimbursement is more than paid back, then will fall back. So I consider whether it is worth it to clam it or not.
Solid design, what's the business model? Is this just for fun?
Is that a bad thing though? Short term it would cause a lot of a pain, but long term it seems like it would optimize for more efficiency overall.
RIP to the Polaris Amphitheatre as well.
Sure, my go to editor for Clojure is Emacs with prelude and few major modes (CIDER, Clojure mode, paredit, smart parens, helm, etc). I use the CIDER-nrepl to jack into a REPL process within Emacs, so I can evaluate buffer's with C-c C-k. It creates a very fast feedback loop.

Clojurians don't tend to like frameworks and stuff. They're less frameworks, and more toolkits, a collection of popular libraries with config out of the box. Popular ones are Pedestal, Luminus, Edge, Compojure+ring. I started with Compojure, and I've played with luminus, Juxt's Edge, but lately I almost always bring together Reitit (a router) and Ring (jetty adapter for Clojure).

Front-end frameworks are a different story though. There are two big contenders: Reagent and Re-frame. Reagent is a Clojurescript wrapper around React that uses Hiccup (an http DSL for clojure) syntax to define components. Re-frame extends Reagent by providing a side-effects-under-the-hood framework for building single page applications. Recently, I've taken to really liking re-frame, especially with the Material-UI Reagent wrapper to ship fast.

clojure.test is the core testing library, and it's pretty robust out of the box with assertions and macros for testing conditions like Exceptions being thrown. By default it provides diffs when the test fails. There are libraries to help with testing/mocks and stuff, but I almost never use them.

It's also possible to use clojure.spec to create data generators for generative testing; however, the caveat of using clojure.spec for generators is typing your functions/type/etc too much, you'll lose the benefits of a dynamically typed programming language and probably spend more time writing the specs instead of the code. I typically use spec, or a competitor like Malli, to validate input at the system boundaries and critical code pathways.

There is so much to the Clojure ecosystem, this really only scratches the surface. I hope this helps though.
Yep, generally load shedding was a few hours just for peak times. And indeed, someone asked the question if we ever tested our generators and the tech answered that we never need ed to test because they routinely kicked on for one reason or another.
This is a totally valid complaint given the target market, but for me personally there are few pleasures greater than a fresh OS install. It’s like a blank white page, full of hope and opportunity… soon to be ink-stained and dog eared and with a broken X config, in need of replacing.
Too much "I built", not enough "I asked".

You didn't build things people want, you built things you thought people want.

I hope you find success but really after 12 years I'd suggest you get coaching/mentoring/YC startup school, because while you definitely gained experience from your failures, it looks to me that you haven't learned the right lessons from your mistakes. Even if your current startup is making some revenue.
https://justine.lol/endian.html
Legalized gay marriage was also called a fantasy by critics when it was proposed.
>whole screen content is controlled by the app.

That is not the purpose of full screen mode. If that were the case, then notifications and menu bars would be able to be disabled by the app. They're not. They need to be disabled or muted by the user at the OS level.
From the README:

> Q: Who maintains dataklasses?

> A: If you're using it, you do. You maintain dataklasses.
I’ve found limited success and failure. Here is what I’ve learned.

Business is hard and important. Marketing, sales and strategy are necessary, there’s no “build it and they will come.”

Working at small early successful startup has been huge for learning.

Learning from local startups and building relationships with other entrepreneurs is huge.

Startup accelerators and hackathons help tech people learn business savvy and connect with non-tech cofounders.

For the vast majority, software dev is an arcane art and dev chops can be highly appreciated by a businessey entrepreneur.
Big brother/sister programs are highly personal where you interact with the person directly.

I imagine it’d be incredibly fulfilling to know that you helped coach a troubled youth through a turbulent period to land in a good place.
Is it possible this is a a pushbroom sensor, where red, green, and blue sensors are moved along the path of the plane or satellite that's taking the image? My understanding is those have a higher effective resolution than frame-based sensors, which would make sense here.
Which is why the stores use it as a service to mainly to account for a big robbery, and the insurance is OK with pretty close to a wash on the day to day in order to have way more data for their actuaries.
As stated in other places here, if you have leased or financed your car, YOU DON'T OWN IT. You pay for the right to use it on a monthly basis.

That is why there are legal contracts. This is just automated repossession.
>The repercussions you risk facing are far greater than the risks I'm facing right now."

Aka anarcho-tyranny.
Texas has far more lax gun laws. If somebody was robbing a store they could very easily be shot and the police wouldn't bat an eye. Good luck trying to do that in California.
Looks like no ABAP developers here :).. It was fun using it. the whole SAP R3 tech stack.. But yes proprietary so i agree it not being here.
Facebook will prevent, not create, the ‘metaverse’
> disable SIP and lose all their iLok plugins

Wait, what? Does this mean that SIP is now de facto mandatory on macOS, unless you don't use any DRM-encumbered programs?
I don't know. For a while the major toothpaste companies were putting plastic beads in toothpaste as grit. I would say that's a company issue.
The doctor shortage is artificial.
So they make a big deal out of cookies, meanwhile you have to show your personal data and medical details to buy a coffee. What a joke.

If we do vaccine passports, can we just stop the whole data protection charade completely?
That's super interesting! I love this discussion. Would the satellite be that low though? 250 miles (400km) is still going to experience significant atmospheric drag. Fine for a cheap mass deployment like Starlink, but I'd expect an imaging satellite to be set up for a longer mission duration. Then again maybe the cost of additional mass for station-keeping is worth it for the imaging quality.
Not enough information provided.

"Tech skills" is an enormously broad category on its own. You provide no context, so there's no way to narrow it down.

What do you want to do in your career? Answer that question first.
Before ‘Dune,’ Frank Herbert learned from native Americans
I would agree that you could dissuade a few monkeys from taking your sandwich. Animals don't particularly want to fight: even a "victory" could end badly if you live in a world without antibiotics, splints, or indeed any medical care.

On the other hand, if you backed five desperate monkeys into corner so that they think they are fighting for their lives, I think you'd fare much worse. I'd bet "punt attempts" sometimes end with the monkey clinging to your leg instead, chomping away at whatever they can reach (and even the molars can do some damage given the tremendous bite force).
Karabiner (https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements) + Deno/Go as nice scripting languages.
Communication.

Learn how to share your ideas and opinions in a concise, engaging way. Learn to advocate for (or against) something in a way that will have people engaged (first point: never be combative, people will mostly dismiss you as immature or emotionally compromised).

Yeah it doesn't sound like a "tech skill" but it absolutely is and I think too many "tech" people severely undervalue it, preferring instead pure "lone wolf" kind of skills that don't require the squishy, dirty aspects of dealing with other humans (speaking from personal experience here).

You can accomplish a lot on your own with the right talent and skills. But you can always accomplish more if you can engage more people.

Maintain a blog of interesting things you've learned, hiring managers will value the demonstrated writing skills.
Interesting. Sadly, I believe the Photoshop approach would not produce a DNG file that you could normally interpret in a raw processor of your choice. Looks like pixel shift cameras (which apparently still use Bayer sensors, just moving them around, to debayer at capture time so to speak) is the most practical option at the moment.

I’m curious if it is technically possible for a digital sensor to capture the entire light spectrum of the scene, without the need for RGB separation at any stage—similar to Lippmann plate[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippmann_plate
Switzerland and the UK aren't in the EU. The website name is abit of a misnomer.
What if there's no good argument from data that non-violent crime is bad? Should we just accept it?

When you see someone steal something, it's like hearing a discordant note in a song. It makes you feel bad. I think that feeling is to some degree responsible for all social harmony and we really have no choice but to trust it.
It shows their professionalism, and how much they value you and your time. Point out their bad behavior and end the interview. They failed.

Consider it a good thing because you might have actually accepted a job there, and then you'd have wasted a ton of time and effort for nothing.
I wouldn't call it just app theming. App developers in general love how there's now a "right way of doing things" now, but in particular, the future.

You don't have to worry how each distro handles booting or services - it's SystemD.

You won't have to worry how each distro handles audio with Jack, PulseAudio, or ALSA - it's PipeWire.

You don't have to worry about the libraries the distro provides for your app - just use Flatpak.

You don't have to worry where to host your app for every distro - just use Flathub.

You don't have to worry what toolkit to use - just use GTK. You can use Qt if you really care, but GTK is clearly the "one true road" (if that analogy makes sense).

And so on.
They blamed the rising housing costs and changing neighborhoods on the tech workers. They would have opposed public transit alternatives as well. They didn't want those people living in SF and working elsewhere.
Was going to write the same thing, but you wrote it in a clearer, more concise way than I could have!
Are you selling kits? I would like information on buying one.
That was a bit different though. It didn't really have labels in a consistent way.

I agree folders are still great to have but I don't think the idea of a database-driven filesystem precludes that. It will just add more organisation options, not take any away.