skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A simple if speed >= speed limit, then slowly apply brakes, would be so controversial, even if we exempted cop cars and ambulances. Because "freedom." Same with guns and if location == school zone, then don't fire.
OnlyFans ghostwriters, who say their job includes catfishing paying fans
This seems like something that the market could address.

The new neighbors could come together and buy out the racetrack. Take out a mortgage to turn it into an apartment building or something, then sell the building to pay off the mortgage.

If the value to the neighbors of not having a racetrack there is at least as much as the value to the rest of the market of having a racetrack instead of an apartment building, this should be economically viable. If it isn't, isn't that a solid case for leaving the racetrack there?
> open floor plans

This is the part where I personally experienced the most friction between the management/lifestyle/trend bubble and "boots on the ground" people/devs.

All of a sudden blog posts and news posts popped up that claimed how open space is better, everybody loves it and everyone should be able to look every coworker in the eye and on his monitor, 0 barriers etc.
Meanwhile I have yet to meet a coworker in real life that prefers or even likes this trend, personally I hate it. Makes it hard to focus, turns the distractions and noises up to 11 and makes overall for a terrible workplace.
It was a major reason to quit my last job, and I am much happier with my current one.

Similarly I believe that homeoffice has probably sensitized many people to terrible workplace environments.
The op of this thread replied to my comment with a military.com article, and in that article there is a link to an article on thedrive, https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42392/damaged-b-2-spir...

"According to sources, the B-2 experienced a hydraulic failure in flight and had its port main landing gear collapse during landing, sending it off the runway with its wing dug into the ground. We cannot confirm that this was the case at this time, but the satellite image above does concur with the gear collapse/wing down aspect of the incident. While it is possible the aircraft was rolled off the runway after the fact, this is unlikely, especially considering its wing-down disposition. The damage to the aircraft also remains unknown. "
For me that is equally to not supporting Typescript.
> I think people will soon realize that code is a data structure, not text.

Always 5 years out, like nuclear fusion. :-(
>so what does blurring it on Google Maps give the residents, privacy-wise?

ephemerality. If you think your neighbor is violating your privacy you can take it up with them, you think you can take on Google? There is no incoherence here. If you live in a neighborhood, there are of course certain natural limits to your privacy given that you're part of a community.

But digital privacy laws first and foremost protect citizens from entities well beyond their control, they protect them from automated processing, storage of their data beyond their own borders, and privacy erosion in ways they cannot control and at a scale that creates entirely new problems. Of course nobody has absolute privacy, everyone can overhear a conversation, but this does not end with a surveillance state or control society. Corporate entities or governments processing billions of messages in real time does.
That sounds a little worse than the first database engine I wrote.
It's not a matter of being able to scale it up, it is mostly a cost optimization.
Bacteria can do pretty much any chemistry that's within their energy reach. E.g. making sugars out of plastics. Or ethanol. Or anything else. There's no law that says it has to be all water and co2. I see no argument why it can't be partial - enzymes do partial degrading alk the time.
Ironically GTK apps look better on a QT based desktop than vice versa because KDE/QT devs unlike GTK devs actually make an effort on that front.

You can with minimal effort theme both similarly by installing a theme and icon theme that has versions for both gtk qt but your gnome desktop wont provide a built in gui to configure such, again their choice, their limitation not a limitation of QT. A given app QT app isn't going to pull in a particular theme because that would be the tail wagging the dog.
Turkish drones have seen wide use in Syria. I am not keeping up with the situation, but for instance:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkey-dron...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2020/03/02/idli...
TL;DR: their concrete was different.

> Roman concrete, on the other hand, is a simpler mix of quicklime made from baking and crushing limestone rocks and, most importantly, volcanic rock aggregates of various types, which were abundant in the region surrounding Rome. In contrast to the aggregates used in modern concrete, these volcanic materials used by the Romans are highly reactive and the resulting concrete remains chemically active for centuries after it first hardens.

By the way, I don't buy this entirely. Let me tell you why.

The Pantheon is mostly stones and bricks, and "some" concrete to keep the bricks together. These large stones are held together by simple force of gravity, very much like the Pyramids in Egypt (~4,000 years old, or double the age of the Colosseum or the Pantheon).

I'm not a materials engineer (just a software engineer). Can someone with more knowledge comment on my view?
LM on how humor has changed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIjeWyvR5so#t=7m10s
i totally agree with you. i think if you were a small product focused company, you could conceivably have engineers with a PM, and cut it off at that. why a PM? because talking to the customer and getting that feedback is a must, and potentially offloading that to someone specifically as their role sounds like a good separation of labor.
Guess you will never work at most of FAANG then. I did 5 back-to-back whiteboard leetcode's in one day last time I did that.

Was able to provide a working solution for all of them. One of the interviews I was unable to do the optimum solution, but discussed how I think it could be done better. No offer, heh.

I have been told that it's now mostly luck getting in. My lunch break person even told me that.
> one interviewer was watching their laptop and typing (slack?) and made almost no eye contact the entire time. it started with dead silence for a bit, then "what questions do you have for me". and that question was repeated 2 or 3 times after I finished with my reply, then it was just over.

In this case it does sound like they weren't actually paying attention to you, but FWIW, when I interview people I have a checklist of questions[0] and take notes on my laptop so I would be typing and at least glancing at the screen. On the other hand, it's obvious that that's what I'm doing, not least because I tell candidates so.

[0] Or at least topics that I want to make sure we cover.
Can't make insurance claims if you don't have the police reports to back it up.
Yeah, I think it's not so much the middle management that's the problem, but as you get higher and higher up a large company, and more abstracted from the actual work being done, there are a lot of demands for leadership. But our culture (at least in the US) kind of assumes that founders are special, ultra-people on the basis of them founding a company and providing jobs for everyone. In my actual experience, most of them are just characters ranging from the eccentric to the idiotic.

It does take a lot of vision and leadership to successfully run a large company. Unfortunately, I would argue, we tolerate a lot of unsuccessful companies.
That assumes your town has such coworking facilities. Maybe a safe assumption in cities, but definitely not in all towns nor for people living in more rural areas. And if you're going to commute to a coworking office in the same city that your normal office would be in anyway, it seems a bit pointless. A commute is a commute.
Not too many complains. It's just that I'm not a profesional video editor, so other people may have a more informed opinion. I just tried 2 or 3 editors, and this is the one I liked the best.

Some minor complains: (I'm using an old version, some may be fixed.)

* If you have multiple tracks, you can't reorder them vertically. So if one track is on top of other track and you change your mind, it's not posible to reverse the order. (You can edit the .mlt file that is just a xml file with any text editor. I did it a few times. Remember to make a backup just in case.)

* The sound-only tracks must be at the bottom. Sometimes I´d like to organize the tracks in imaginary blocks, and some blocks have some video and some audio tracks.

* For intervals smaller than one second, it shows the number of frames. So if you are editing a 15 FPS video, it goes ... -> 0:13 -> 0:14 -> 1:00 -> 1:01 -> ... I think it's common in video editors, but it surprised me.

* The files with the original videos are linked with absolute path, so if you rename the folder of the project, you must select the "new" subfolders where the videos are. (I may be doing something wrong here.)

* There is no option to continue with the last frame of a video until the next video in the track. In many of my videos there is a blackboard and sometimes it's necessary to add a long (20 seconds) audio explanation while the blackboard is frozen. This is really painful for me, but if you edit videos where there is always movement you may not need it.

Just to be clear, in spite of a few minor complains I recommend it.
I’m clearly talking about the early 00 market crash as the black swan. Some depreciation is expected to happen sometimes. Obviously.
They didn't use javascript?
Google may not have "started" the whole get rid of middle management idea, but they have certainly popularised it. Only to learn later ( much like 99.9% what Google does ) that you do need middle manager. But then they have zero idea how it should work. ( much like 99.9% of their product ) May be A/B testing?

Middle Management is hard. Constantly being torn apart by top and bottom. You either have decent manager that gets your team a huge boost of productivity but stressed to burn out. Or they run wild and becomes the villain themselves. I guess this is either you die being a hero or do it long enough to become the villain.
Yes a group of people, armed with water bottles and cameras infiltrated the Capitol.

This is just nuts, of course.

This "group" literally battered the doors down, using objects a lot larger than "bottles and cameras". As you are presumably perfectly aware.
Free software is not about price, it's about freedom. It can and should be paid for.
The drone has a drone (in the embedded video)
Man, that's pretty creepy.
A decent manager isn't so different from a scrum master in the agile world. A good manager is an intentional bottleneck; they are careful about what gets through the pipeline.
Another resource: "The Illustrated Transformer"

- https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

- HN post for the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18351674
Cisco Developer Relations in 2021, and What’s Ahead in 2022
Take a look at two key trends that shaped 2021 and how our community can get ready in 2022 - Shift Left Security and Cloud Native development.
I think you're basically right. I know some people that looked in to building a flow battery (it didn't pan out for other reasons). The utility wanted it for frequency regulation - in other words, extremely short timescale response times.
In any production things go wrong in a million tiny details.

Anything that doesn't have a workaround gets thrown away. And nope, it's bot a hyperbole. I've seen lamps discarded because they couldn't be made work just right, and stage props removed entirely because they looked out of place for that particular stage.

"Something is shitty, let's laugh about it and continue regardless" is what often separates people who don't care from people who do. Unfortunately, seeing all the shit we have to put up with daily, those people that do are in the minority.
Portable air conditioners don't work.
Every RNG with a fixed size state has a period. If the period is not known, it's probably seed dependent and there may be some seeds with very small period.

If 'very small' is small enough (such as 2 or 5) then those seeds will cause some ordinary uses to fail badly in obvious ways. If bad seeds are common enough (say 1 in 2^64) then you could actually see rare failures in production.

(Cryptographic RNGs tend to avoid this risk just by having a pretty gigantic and well mixed state, so any bad seed-- if one exists-- would be extremely unlikely to be hit. They also usually have structures that are 'close' to permutations which makes it hard for them to have small periods.)

For insecure small state RNGs the risk of small periods makes it useful to build RNGs based on structures that make it easy to know the period. Unfortunately, those same structures also tend to do things like make the RNG efficiently invertible.

Invertibility itself shouldn't be a problem since these sorts of non-cryptographic RNGs should never be used where security is a factor, but the existence of invertibility has a bad smell even when you're just concerned that the pattern of the RNG may trigger pathological behavior in the underlying system (as the structure of LCGs often does).

If it's not obvious to you why invertibility (or predictability in general) is a bad smell, think of it this way: Using the inversion I can create a randomness test that the RNG will fail (by recovering the state and checking it) and I can create an application that will fail using it. The application would be contrived, for sure, but it would exist. If we don't know how to predict the RNG then we also probably don't know how to create an application that will fail with it, even a contrived one (assuming the RNG otherwise has good statistical properties).

Though this only goes so far, because with a small state every RNG is going to be invertible (up to seeds with equal output) by an exhaustive test.
Can someone explain? I don't see anything, just a location in MO.

Update: oh cool! I see it after moving to Satellite and zooming in.
The shadow is about 2500 feet away. Judging from nearby houses the sun is probably about 15 degrees SouthEast of noon.

2500 ft * sin( 15 ) = 650 ft

Someone should double-check my geometry though.
I've been avoiding EPS like the plague for several decades. Unless something has changed since I last looked it would be well below SVG on my preferred format list.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/imagine-wedding-designer disagrees with you :P

Ubisoft is actually good at making crap games. For example they bought a Brazillian studio that was often contracted to do some cool hunting games. Then they forced the studio to pump low-score after low-score NDS games (Wedding Designer was one of them), there was tons of executive meddling, then they said the studio that was crap and closed it down.

Thing is, at the time it was literally the best studio in Brazil, and this incident caused some damage to Brazillian games industry :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogne_case
Hundreds of Statistical/Machine Learning models for univariate time series
> “you have X headcount now, why are we behind on this project? Developer Z was specifically hired for this - is he just goofing off?”

Is it protecting developers though? Or rather protecting higher ups from direct consequences of their crassness and cluelessness?

If in absence of middle manager, the upper manager said something like that to me he would have my resignation next day on his desk, along with a request for a raise and strongly worded demand to accept one of those documents.
You are only interested in urban areas which is less than 1% of total earth surface
Except microsoft actually listened to feedback before rolling this out everywhere:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.graphics.ca...

Plus there's almost certainly some registry key you could change to turn it off on a per user basis.
> I don't understand why you're so combative about this. You say "professionals never do this", but lots of people are telling you that sometimes they do.

For what its worth, from someone who doesn't work in this space, there's something really confusing to me:

This thread is about professionals who:

1. Are displaying visuals at venues with million dollar A/V hardware budgets.

2. For which an orange dot (or anything other than pixel-perfect outputs) is a complete showstopper.

3. Who can't afford a $100 dongle mentioned upthread to output pixel-perfect graphics from their Macs.

I'm with you right up until point #3, but I'm really struggling with the last bit. $100 doesn't even sound like "prosumer" money to me. If $100 is really a show stopper for your million dollar business, you need to charge more.
Thanks for your elaborate notes! This is helpful information.

When I tried your commands, on Arch via libcgroup-git, `cgcreate -g cpu:cpulimit` only results in `cgcreate: can't create cgroup cpulimit: Cgroup, requested group parameter does not exist`, for some reason. But this is not a support ticket, I have not researched this at all yet. But cgroups only limit some processes anyway, never the entire core(s) - so it seems one could also simply use cpulimit [1] instead which emulates by sending SIGSTOP and SIGCONT.

About cooling_deviceN: While this does limit cpu functionality, this seems to only also set `scaling_max_freq` to an appropriate value, throttling because the fans are disabled. Not more useful than setting the frequency manually I presume.

[1] https://github.com/opsengine/cpulimit
Yeah, best I've seen is 2x and that was with a very slow speaking lecturer.
> Here in Germany if you can code "hello world". You will get a job.

Maybe I need to learn German, because this definitely doesn't apply to UK from my experience. You need to invest at least 4 months full-time before getting a junior role that pays as much as retail. Then you need to spend your evenings and weekends for the next 1-2 years before earning average salary.
Ask HN: My side hustle made $2mm in the last 4 months, what should I do now?
Like many others during the pandemic I began speculating on various cryptocurrencies in the past year. I had some modest success earlier in the year but the past few months of have been a whirlwind thanks to a lucky trade where I was able to turn a $5000 NFT purchase into $1.5mm. I have also had good success running various bots to profit from arbitrage opportunities across various blockchains and exchanges, and after scaling up the volume of this activity have made around $500,000 from this in the last half of the year.

I am a software developer in a mid-size, medium cost of living city in the US making ~$150k/yr with around 6 years of experience. I'm in my early thirties and recently got engaged to be married in the next year. I own my home outright, have saved 20-30% of my income for my entire career but do have ~$100,000 student loan debt between myself and my future husband. Since I live in a high tax state I can expect to take home maybe a bit over $1mm after taxes, with a net worth of around $1.3-1.8mm at that point. Most of the money I've made in crypto last year is held in stable coins (USDC, DAI, USDT etc.) but I also hold low six figures of ETH and various other tokens. I've pulled out around $200k to my traditional bank account.

I've been making an effort to not change my lifestyle despite this new wealth, aside from updating my personal office, computer etc. since I will be able to take those expenses as tax deductions. At this point I feel like I am almost losing money by keeping my day job, since I haven't been able to optimize my bots/capitalize on opportunities that I would have otherwise. On the other hand, I have no idea how long I will be able to continue to make money from my bots as it continues to become more competitive. I'm working to find tax and legal professionals but I'm not sure where to start really and it's hard to find someone who will work with me given the nature of my income. My current job has begun to feel like a bit of a dead end, and I get along fine with my co-workers but don't feel a strong connection to anyone. On the other hand my current job is very flexible and I can do many of my responsibilities on "autopilot" giving me the bandwidth to to pursue my side projects while holding down my day job. At this point it feels like my options are:

- stay at current job but reduce hours
- find a new job, maybe in crypto
- quit job and go full time into crypto

Is there anything I'm not thinking of or advice that folks who have been at a similar crossroads can impart? Thanks in advance, I apologize for the length of this post and I hope I distilled all the relevant details here.
The title of the article doesn’t really match the content. The article says 34% of workers want to go into the office 3-5 days a week. So very clearly you can lure employees back.. because some of them do want to go back.

The article has stats about what we’re all assuming, namely employees want wfh and employers don’t. But in no way does it attempt to answer/justify the thought provoking question asked in the title.

How would I be lured back into the office? As a late 20s male in the USA I mostly miss the social aspect of work. I always had friends at work (despite what the grumpy people says about coworkers being friends), and I miss that. I left a job four years ago and still hang out all the time with those old coworkers.

I’d also like to not be held to specific hours or days. Breakfast and lunch would lure me in, along with high quality coffee. I don’t mind open floor plans, but do know most people don’t like them.
>helps pretty much everything else

Helps but doesn't solve. There is nothing that you can do to remove the OS's ability to put things on a secondary display outside of your control. The only option is to have a separate I/O controller.
I will happily go back to the office for a life changing raise.
Its like no one has heard of Stocking Pelham from 4 years ago:

https://stateraenergy.co.uk/Energy%20Storage%20Facility/pelh...
Anyone care to explain why?

Did you read the article? It's utterly nonsensical, from the very first sentence. It isn't "hostile" to point this out.
Yes well, open office plans and cubicles are awful, no argument there. But a real office with a door can be attractive relative to the situation many people have at home.
Of course, it's automatically about "muh freedom" and implicitly insulting a whole culture. No reason to think that maybe, just maybe, speed limits as they stand in many places are arbitrary, overly low and specifically designed as revenue machines for vaguely corrupt municipal, state and other regional governments. The majority of people who moderately speed (a majority of people in general) have perfectly reasonable use of their faculties and judgement. They're not going over the speed limit because they're just freedom-obsessed assholes. They're doing it because their slightly elevated speed is more reasonable and relatively safe.
> Do we, though?

We do definitely need better vector graphics, including animations. Because then you can have the same crisp images and animations regardless of your resolution or screen size.
I wonder if you considered leaving the previous project(s) running while adding new ones? Of course if you realized there was a reason they would never succeed, then terminate, but if you were unsure why they were not succeeding, maybe let them continue. An unused app is not a lot of work to keep running, right?

You might collect a few users and one of those might give you a great idea. Customers can make great design partners, and the feedback on one app can lead to an improvement on another.
Road design and car design. Few people were doing 80mph back when the road noise was deafening and your steering wheel would shimmy. In today's cars you can't tell the difference between 60mph and 80mph.
Guessing blindly here, but maybe the liquid is pretty expensive still?
Can Siri work with whats in your copy/paste cache?