skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't think $20k is unreasonable to rewrite something for a manufacturer. Chances are they'd change the scope, make requests and he'd need to modernize it and I can easily see something like that taking 1-2 months.. at which point $20k could be very reasonable vs the time and effort it'd take to find someone completely new to your system.

If I was the company though I would make sure that them providing the new source would be part of that $20k though or an agreement that when he no longer offers his services personally, regardless of whether he sells the company or not, that he will also release the source code to them if they are unable to negotiate for it upfront.

I think that would be fair and fulfill both parties concerns.

I personally prefer open sourced solutions as well, but in business that just isn't always practical.
I'm in Santiago, Chile right now. It was hopping. So much optimism on the streets. People partied and chanted and honked until 3AM. I'm jealous of the people of Chile to be able to look at their country and see hope.
iOS 14.5 goes back to iPhone 6s which came out in 2015. It seems more than reasonable that it wouldn't support devices older than that.

No iPhone or Android device available actually prevents you being tracked.

No smartphone prevents someone wanting to track you from using a cheap GPS tracker, Tile or another old cellphone to trace your location.

Airtags aren't made for tracking people and are actually the only tracker that will alert anyone at all of their potentially unwanted presence.
The paradox is that it feels like better hardware is making AAA gaming worse overall. In order to be taken seriously as "AAA" a developer feels like they cannot choose not to use the hardware to its fullest. Modern hardware means that we can have huge, open, living worlds, so every AAA game must have a huge, open, living world, enormously inflating development costs both in terms of scale and complexity. Likewise, modern hardware means that we can have beautiful, photorealistic graphics, so every AAA game must have beautiful, photorealistic graphics, massively inflating the budget due to hiring so many artists to make those assets, resulting in games that can't afford to take risks because of how much investment has been put into them. The temptation to do this has always existed, but now technology (and gamer expectations) has advanced far beyond the ability of game devs to scale.

> Perhaps we’ll see an eventual changing of the guard and a reset to a more sustainable market, closer to what we had in the 90s?

How about a different point of view: the 90s originated this problem. The advent of 3D hardware meant that every game had to be 3D. The shame is that with the prior generation (SNES et al) we were just mastering the art of 2D games, but suddenly all that gets chucked out the window (or nearly all, see Symphony Of The Night as the exception that proves the rule) in favor of crude, clunky, first-gen 3D adaptations. It wasn't until the mid-2000s that the advent of modern indie gaming would pick up the thread of 2D games, resulting in some of the best gaming experiences I've had. Maybe ten years from now AAA studios will at last feel free from the obligatory burden of pushing hardware to its limit and will content themselves with putting out games that are less technologically ambitious (and put some fraction of the saved effort towards something else, like storytelling or game mechanics).
Highly recommend the appbrewery flutter bootcamp (it’s a video course). It’s $10 and will get you up and running quickly. I have no affiliation with them other than as a happy customer.
Walmart parking lots are equally busy and hard to navigate in my experience
A small roll of the place at the time the photo was taken could also explain this difference.
I've used the term because that's what the media uses to talk about the spike of people quitting their jobs for new positions.
Indeed, the psychopathic attention of the three-letter agencies of the Pax Americana, both governmental and financial, tends to fall upon South American leftism in all its forms. I'm sure this time will be no different.
Not at all! Governance councils are elected for terms by stakeholders. You could remove that and just require everyone with a stake to vote and hope for 50% but this one didn’t
People shouldn't forget that old school (non-WLAN) baby monitors usually don't have any encryption, and can be easily intercepted.

WiFi baby monitors at least have WPA2 encryption over the stream, but firmware (and any cloud software if you are using such features) can be quite sketchy, if you are not using reputable brands (and even that is not a guarantee.)
> Outside of academia, there's no use for prolog.

Prolog certainly has been used in industry; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog#Use_in_industry has some useful discussion, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29539384 talks about its use in network software.
My static site is build by a generator. A generator that literally runs after each save and it takes milliseconds to compile my site. I also have autorefresh plugin for development, so as soon as I save a file whatever page I had open in my browser "instantly" gets refreshed.
> Nearly the entire Republican party has reorganized around the concept of "if we win, good, if they win, they stole our country".

It's not like the other side is totally immune to this, either. There used to be a very real sentiment among Democrat-leaning politically-involved activists that the 2016 election had been "stolen" from them and that they would never acknowledge Trump as a legitimate president. You would even see echoes of this mindset in press outlets like the NY Times. Of course those folks didn't march on the Capitol like the other side did post-2020, and I'll gladly praise them for that choice.
I sometimes wonder why road fatalities are not measured per-hour of driving instead of per-mile?
Is there a dataset with all the close-up satellite images somewhere?
A review of ontologies for describing scholarly and scientific documents (2014) [pdf]
Sounds like a neat experiment.

Perhaps it should be done.

Of course, it’s so much easier to simply imagine such things. All that ‘scientific method’ stuff is just a nuisance when it comes to evolution.
I think for some people working for someone else is akin to selling off a piece of your soul daily. It's not about the money - it's about having autonomy, excitement and risk in your career. Money is just the scorecard.

As an entrepreneur you get to hand pick who you work with, what you work on and how you get it done - something basically impossible working for someone else. If you think about it, in no other time in history has it been normal to work in distributed, mega corporations.

This path definitely isn't for everyone and there's a lot of real downsides. Personally I grew up telling my Soviet parents that I want to be an entrepreneur - and them telling I need to choose a "real" job. Well after trying the "real job" thing, I vowed to stay as far as I could from corporate life and couldn't be happier. I guess it's just a matter of taste.
a PhD in Chemistry or Physics is of value to the niche Chemistry/Physics markets. Related PhD's are equivalent. Would think that a PhD in CS is seen as somebody on the academic track, and in ancient times an MS was worth 3-5 years experience for that initial position. A broader academic training, as it were. No clue whether it's still seen that way or whether "what, actually, have you done - show it to me" rules the roost.
TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics
I'm not terribly familiar with Linux use of hardware I/O devices so my guess would be yes unless Blackmagic (or someone else) makes some kind of Linux kernel extension that would allow you to manually specify that or VLC has built-in support for external I/O devices.

Edit: Just checked because I was curious. The default installs of VLC do not include Blackmagic support but you can compile versions from the source for Linux that include it (if you also download the support files from Blacklink first).
> I don't have to ask anyone for permission to go for a walk or have a 3-hour long lunch if I want to.

Me neither and I work at a FAANG.

I think a lot of those serial entrepreneurs that have never worked in companies have a very skewed idea of what it actually looks like once you're in a decent company.
Sorry, I'm actually confused by the reverse—are there DRM systems which require SIP to be enabled now?! That's awful!
It depends on the satellite. Weather satellites in GEO do because they aren't moving relative to the surface and they have time constraints for scanning the full earth disc. Higher resolution imaging satellites use linear sensors. However, they use TDI imaging which at a low level makes them superficially like an area array with limited vertical resolution but the light collection is still fundamentally different.
They should be mentioned and also incorrect. Those listed are not search engines but search services, mostly using Google or Bing.

Self-diclosure of bias but they also missed our independent no-tracking international search engine (own crawling/indexing) https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
I see. Maybe they were just lazy, and since they didn't see anything obviously going wrong other than wasted bandwidth, let it go.

Sort of like the NASA management in the Challenger report; as Feynman pointed out, the fact that the O-rings were eroding when they were not supposed to erode at all indicated that the models were simply wrong, and thus there was no guarantee of safety at all, as the "safety margins" were only margins if the models were right; but since no shuttle had visibly blown up yet... Cryptographic and anonymity and information leaks are particularly dangerous that way, because when they fail, they fail silently: a bad crypto scheme still encrypts and decrypts your emails, it just lets the enemy decrypt them too. I'm reminded of my work on darknet markets: DNMs often leaked their IP or other information because there are so many ways for Apache or Linux to do so by default, and when they do so, there's no visible error; the DNM will continue working exactly as intended, right up until the police kick in your door.

Aside from being proactive about investigating anomalies, information leaks are very hard to defend against in general. Hard to see how you could reasonably block this bug without some fancy capability security implementation which would let you do something like require the client to produce a proof that it is in sight of a block and permitted to query its current status. (Then requesting arbitrary blocks would fail by default, and a patch which mistakenly gave everyone a global capability to let requests succeed would be impossible to write without knowing one was introducing a grave vulnerability.)
I tried Elementary for a week recently but just couldn't make it stick.

The Calendar app doesn't work with Google Calendar as a backend; or, at least not with a ton of hacks, which is what one chooses Elementary to avoid.

Overall the Pantheon WM feels rather sluggish, even on modern hardware. Managing windows just feels so clunky compared to KDE or even Windows. To be fair, macOS is their direct competitor.

I paid a bug bounty ages ago to get streaming audio to work in their Music app but I don't think that went anywhere.

I think they might be able to get something solid in the next few years.
Hostage?
You can flag comments and, in egregious cases, email us at hn@ycombinator.com. That's in the guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
code review is a process that carries a lot of meaning today. the work cycle in most workplaces is not qualified to meet this meaning.
Interesting in itself there is this, but we never manage to find similar gems for UFOs.
How cheap do you want PCBs to be? They're already at the point where shipping costs dominate the price. https://jlcpcb.com/
How does the 'Maker Pen' work? It looks like constructive solid geometry. Is there any voxel design? Where (client/server) and when do the meshes get created and transferred? Is it a system of downloading lots of small, unique meshes, or packaging large caches for the client? Can you talk about the mesh format used and how it handles animation?
Work in the FINs domain, and have been using this for years to teach basics to newbies. Great stuff.
But isn't it normal to change you work place every X years?

Even here in Europe. If I ask my current boss that I want like a raise of 1/3 of my salary he laughs but when I leave to a new company I laugh.

I worked in Germany, Lithuania and Norway.

Basically you are forced to change your job if you are a good developer and want to get more money.

And for me a lot of gaming studios which I loved in the 90's and 00's have lost all the glory. Just look at Blizzard, EA and Ubisoft.

It really worth looking at the history of EA and why it even exists.
Turns out the city in the state of Georgia is named after this region. I don't know much about the city, except that a handful of friends from my university days are from it, so I was surprised, to say the least, to see this pop up on HN. Haven't thought about the city in years. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdosta,_Georgia#:~:text=Trou....
> they got an insurrection which was few hours away from something way more serious.

From what?

Even if they took over the building they would not have accomplished anything anyway. What are you thinking they would have accomplished in a few hours?

Let's say for the sake of argument they decided to just let them be - no police move in, no military, just let them be in the building, what would have happened next?
Assuming you don't mind Microsoft or Github you can host a blog or whatever on github pages for free. You can even use a custom domain. That's how I host my site.
Oh yeah. If you get banned on Facebook do you get banned on Whatsapp too now? I'm not 100% sure how they are combined.
Click the timestamp for the comment, then click "favorite", then set a reminder in your calendar to check your favorited comments (link in your profile).
I guess this is a Silicon Valley megacorp right? Who could afford those wages?! Over here in the UK, if you're absolutely shit hot, principal engineer type material, I guess £150k + is common. Maybe more if you're a true elite engineer, but US wages are surreal. As others point out though, we get a lot of great public services, state pensions and so on. All a tradeoff.
Because the article dealt with a serious academic analysis of the subject, not just some blogger's speculation.

And as the events of Jan 6 showed, very clearly -- the issue at hand is far from abstract.
That's going to be an uphill battle. Graphics drivers of the kind old enough to run on ReactOS do real nasty things to the kernel like binary patching core components at load time. Raymond Chen sort of talks about this here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040305-00/?p=40...
No, that is wrong. So far the OS didn't display anything permanentely on top of a full screen app. It was only as a reaction to user input and exceptional situations. Especially (under MacOS), when the full screen app was runninning on a secondary screen.
I can only hope/assume, I misunderstood the article or this is just a bug.
I have continually heard the assertion that Linux desktop folks just hate change much at odds with the actual community of users who by and large willingly changed from what comes on 99% of computers learning not just one new thing but in fact many over time. Anyone who has stuck with the Linux desktop for any substantial portion of the 20+ years its been a thing has had to change plenty. Indeed the Linux community has adopted many things eagerly over time.

Most of the biggest communities are around distributions that have releases every 6 months - 1 year and proudly proclaim all the things that they have improved and changed.

It's an entirely bad faith argument.

Audio prior to pulseaudio on the Linux desktop was hot garbage primarily for lack of hardware support for various built into the motherboard sound chips. The only viable solution was to buy supported sound cards which of course was only easy on desktops. With the launch of pulse even those machines experienced curious problems with a crashy, confusing, poorly engineered face to the already bad audio situation on desktop Linux. It ended up with both the credit for its own bad engineering and for the underlying shoddiness of the substrate it operated on by being the thing that visibly failed to produce sound when a user clicked on a video. The cases wherein audio was magically fixed by disabling it using alsa alone created loud and persistent critics whose criticism persisted even when both pulse and the underlying audio problems decreased.

This is indeed how things work. If I put syrup and lots of salt in a glass and float a radish in it and proudly plaster my brand across the cup I shall never sell you another cup no matter how much I improve the formula for my "soda".

Labeling people who came by their criticism honestly thoughtless Luddites doesn't help. You might notice that most products don't go through a "hate phase" and new software often does. It's not just because people don't like change its because as a species we are remarkably bad at making software and new software is often garbage unfit for purpose. If much software were a toaster you should have girded your foot with a steel toed boot and kicked a field goal out your back door with the disgraceful junk you were tricked into buying.
Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce, IBM, SAP etc... You also have the arguably less boring but equally stable and more lucrative options like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple.
The Catch-22 of Addressing Election Security
You still use grid or flexbox but instead of writing a class adding grid:0 1 and referencing the class name you use a shortcut with predefined values.

Easier to remember and quicker to type. Centering content on a screen is class="place-content-center" which makes things easier.
"They mentioned once FSD is better, they’ll probably just have the cars drive themselves back to Tesla in this situation. Technology is amazing."

That's the happiest I've heard someone be about their friend's job being automated away :D
The triple-A gaming industry in general seems to be in a bit of a crisis. Quality of releases for the past couple of years has been abysmal, and creative direction seems to be now entirely in the hands of overpaid, unengaged executives who are totally disconnected from the gaming world.

Games are routinely being released in a half-baked state. How could a developer with a real love for the medium be happy working at organisations like this?

Ubisoft is one of the worst offenders (especially in terms of creative direction) so it's no surprise that they are the most affected.
Writing Interpreters in Rust
I'm really not sure how that is at all challenging for computer vision to handle. Conditions like these are probably more along the lines to challenge self driving tech:

- British Columbia Highway 5 (Coquihalla Highway) Daytime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIF79ZlWcOI

- The Coquihalla Highway at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM3BPOLVoUg

- Alberta Highway 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-Ap5fboi8
I'm going to go ahead and guess platforms like social media/twitch/etc encourage us to keep looking at the next thing instead of looking at what we have. Meaning the previews look great but they dont translate into lasting experiences.
Taxes and bureaucracy.

It is beyond insanity. And should you succeed in France/Belgium/Spain you'd be seen as the evil capitalist responsible for all that is wrong in the EU.

The whole mentality is rotten.

The EU has one big software company and it's... SAP. SAP is a drop in the bucket compared to the big US or Chinese tech firms (I don't think SAP is worth even 1/10th of any GNAFAM). But there's worse: I think SAP's market cap is worth basically as much as the next 50 or next 100 (or maybe basically all the others) EU software companies. Something crazy like that.

So one successful software company (thankfully we have Germany in the EU and SAP if, of course, German).

It's a failure whose level of failure cannot be understated.

A complete, total and utter failure.
This really sounds like the sort of thing that'd be fun to implement in https://logtalk.org/ specifically.
> As an entrepreneur you get to hand pick who you work with, what you work on and how you get it done - something basically impossible working for someone else. If you think about it, in no other time in history has it been normal to work in distributed, mega corporations.

You do? I've owned my own consulting firm before. We took the clients we could get, and not all of them were our first choice. But we needed portfolio work and money to keep the lights on.

Good clients are worth their weight in GOLD, and are comparatively rare to the "Oh hmm... I thought I was buying a website from you? I have to do stuff?" clients we would constantly see
If you start from the goal of buying in early to a foundational, trillion+ dollar investment, it can be easy to work backwards to convincing yourself that web2 is doomed and web3 is the way to go.

After all, tech giants dominate web2 already which makes it hard to see a trillion dollar investment happening there. But web3 promises us that the tech giants’ days of influence are numbered, and when everyone goes for decentralization that’s a lot of value to capture.

That doesn’t make the hypothesis any more true, of course
Well, this is a “no true Scotsman” fallacy. In practice they do. It's not frequent but I've seen that a few times and it it's always “fun” to watch.

So it shows that there's a lot of professionals out there not following best practices (which isn't surprising to be honest, it's the case in every industry, including super critical ones…).

Maybe the orange dot will actually help these people start using best practices in the end… (note that I'm not defending Apple's move when saying so, I really hate their tendency to think there customers are wrong and because they are Apple they know better)
I wouldn't expect it to get deleted for any kind of security reason... but it will get replaced, and possibly faster because there's a defect. Moving object artifacts are undesirable and make the image more difficult to use especially for automation (such as Google's registration). They tend to get knocked out automatically over time as the composition algorithms try to keep a neatly consistent scene. They may even be handled as clouds depending on which methods Google uses to avoid cloud cover. This is the same force that has slowly worked most alignment and registration marks out of Google imagery (for a long time aerial imagery usually contained registration marks etched into the camera optics), although you will still find them especially in areas that are more challenging to register by machine vision (deserts, etc).

Aircraft in Keyhole and Google Earth used to be extremely common before the composition methods improved and more imagery sources became available. You could just about make out the traffic pattern at some airports. You can still find them but they're much rarer today.
London is very expensive
Not sure about VLC, but ffmpeg has great support for Blackmagic, you just have to download the Blackmagic SDK, compile ffmpeg with Blackmagic support (and the SDK in path) and then you'll have a separate input/output device available in ffmpeg. The other great thing about this approach is that this way audio also takes a dedicated, integrated path, bypassing OS layers and maintaining sync with much less effort.
How are you measuring value added? A great product with no sales adds very little value.