skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really simple. Remember how it was in school? There was nobody in your class like you. In your year? One or two you could actually talk to. Now, in a big corp, it's basically like in school again. Just get out of there.

And the people telling you, that's just the way it is, and the managers have their reasons? Of course they have their reasons, but they are not yours. They have families they need to take care of, they got used to their big pay checks, and all of these things make it impossible to do certain things anymore, although they might seem simple.
Show HN: Text analysis with scatterplot via NLP clustering of sentences
http://langviz.com/

I love NLP and I built this over this weekend. I wanted to share it because I just found myself using it to analyze a text that looked too long/intimidating that I wanted to understand faster than I could read it.

It's only on a 4-core CPU for now, for budget reasons.

I will thank you for your feedback.
Just in: The central bank of central banks (BIS) is propagandizing against the decentralization of the banking system. To the surprise of no one.
I get the impression the poster was hoping for the last thread to focus more on the 8086 assembly listing. What I might be able to do if I have more time is do a separate write-up that focuses exclusively on that, as a follow-up post.
> If you took the job when commute was reasonable but they changed their office and commute time went up, then it is on the employer to make some adjustments for you.

This is what happened to me, no adjustments.
Or the new version of their controller software missing huge chunks of functionality causing you to keep switching from new UI to old UI depending on what you needed to get done.
The psychological momentum of BIS far exceeds that of crypto. BIS and affiliated parties are comprised of thousands of old guard who have built their career and sense of self worth on the belief what they are doing is necessary and beneficial for society. Crypto participants are at max involved a few years and overwhelmingly young 20-somethings.

Just as science advances one funeral at a time, so too will this whole industry. It will help if we just stop debating whether crypto assets are real to begin with, and accept that this stuff isn't going away.
> This doesn't explain why they wouldn't accept the offer of work from /u/lopkeny12ko.

Probably because $BIG_CORP was also a nimble startup ages ago, and people had written important APIs as fast as possible because they had to, and they were successful, and the company grew, and three years later the core team realized they're supporting three different sets of APIs which all overlap but do things slightly differently, and because 70% of the company revenue depended on it, it took five more years and the souls of a few dozen developers to finally get it cleaned up.

Understandably they don't want to open their codebase to someone thinking "It's just one feature that takes a few days to add! What's the issue?" - they're probably thinking "Will this make sense five years from now? What if $ACRUIRED_PROJECT gets deprecated later? Honestly I bet this project won't last two years..."

...or maybe they are just power-tripping lazy-asses. That also happens.
I still own a couple of foneras, I liked the model..
Yes, and even the generational changes can be quite worth it - I recently swapped a 2016 Intel 8265 wifi card with a newer AX210 (- which costs basically nothing) and even without utilizing the updated standards I got 50-80 % more bandwidth under exactly the same conditions.
Fair enough, I didn't know the laws were that severe, but I only used homophobia as a shorthand/standin for all the other groups I mentioned as well (racial groups, lower classes).
Not new, but it's even more crucial to find a way to fix this.
For those curious about how to code this in ICD-10:

W20.8XXA Morbidity from strike by thrown, projected or falling
inanimate object, initial encounter.

And probably associated with this place of encounter:

Y92.832 Beach as the place of occurrence of the external cause.
That's another argument in itself. I was always taught that phrases set apart by semicolons need to be capable of standing alone as complete sentences, so it's jarring to see them used to delimit nouns or noun phrases in a list.

At the same time, the language clearly needs a comma-like operator with higher precedence than the comma, and it's very hard to argue against pressing the semicolon into that role.
The items I listed above are attributes that make driving better whether you posses them or a brick.
OK, I didn't realize how much detail was put into guns in Ghost in the Shell SAC: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_Stand_Alone_Com...

I didn't even feel like it had much of a focus on gun fights, but apparently it's like a detailed firearms museum. They also have airsoft product placements... I'm not that surprised, some people probably bought the featured airsoft guns purely for display.
Kinda weird to get your product featured on front page of Hacker News mid afternoon a couple of days before Christmas - not sure developers are fully focused right now.
We have an EdgeRouter. The firmware is super annoying, I couldn't get it to do everything that I want, boring stuff that is easy with FreeBSD or OpenBSD and PF, Linux or Mikrotik for that matter. IPv6 also is only configurable from the console. The hardware us good though, does lots of pps. Too bad its ruined by annoying software.
That sounds pretty cool. Let's redo it in Electron.

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If a brown guy in an interracial marriage started a company with David Duke and Richard Spencer and then gave "edgelordy" speeches about race, I wouldn't have to think too much about how "American" my framing is before writing them off. What I'm alerting you to is that writing in VDARE and Taki's Mag is approximately (and not hyperbolically) the same thing. People should write this guy off. He made his own decisions, and can now deal with their consequences. Or not. Either way, we're not losing much.

Whatever point you want to make here, I promise better people have made those points, more cogently.

As a total aside to all of this, and leaving out hyperbolic campus-culture and woke-ism stuff, the American framing on these issues is good, superior to the framing of most other cultures. I'm continually disappointed that American conservatives don't do a better job of reclaiming this issue from the left. It's a place where "American exceptionalism" actually holds somewhat true!
I find that the smaller the minimum commitment, the more likely I am to stick to it. It's much easier to convince myself to do a 5-minute task than a longer one.

Once that's done, I may gain some momentum and keep working, or I may not, but it's up to me, and the knowledge that I can always step back helps a lot.
Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory – Lex Fridman Podcast #247
I saw "password less login" on your homepage, then a smile took over my facial expression. Your product is innovative, that's an advantage over potential competitors with bigger teams and wallets.
Another great plus is that you have a walk-through video ready for onboarding new users and visually guiding curious web explorers.
Wish you get plenty of success and keep building SlikSafe!
First off, how badly does the parent company need you to be on their VMs? It's probably necessary work, but not important. Everyone will still have jobs if it doesn't finish for a couple quarters. In the meantime, let your boss know you're blocked, start tracking this as a dependency, and go work on something else.

In my experience, it helps a lot to imagine the motivations behind each process in an uncynical light. Everyone is trying to solve their own problems, which aren't necessarily the same as your problems or the organization's as a whole. You went from an environment where whatever you were working on was a huge part of the overall organization to another environment where, proportionately, it simply isn't as important. If your startup had kept going, it would've ended up looking very similar as it got bigger.

Large companies are just startups that've learned more hard lessons. Every one of those processes were put in place in order to protect something or someone from the harms of doing what you're doing. They didn't emerge from nothing. You don't have to like it, but I encourge you to respect it.
I really don’t like ligatures but I also don’t like it when my IDE auto-completing quotes/braces/brackets/etc. I try to turn all that kind of stuff off.

Basically, I find it very distracting when typing something and then seeing something else appearing around my typing. Ligatures definitely fall in that “distracting” realm for me. It may not be as pretty but I like the symbols showing exactly as I typed them.

I don’t begrudge others who like these —- it’s their preference. I just prefer non-ligatured versions of coding fonts.
Exactly. There are environments where individual proactive efficiency is highly rewarded and respected, but not all. Sometimes you just need to settle down into the same flow as others. Trying to swim faster than the current just doesn't pay and can also breed resentment toward those who have mastered the coasting mentality and seem to be doing better off financially and mentally.
For example “If we choose a left-wing Education Minister, what will test scores
be in five years?” vs. “If we choose a right-wing Education Minister, what will test scores be in five years?” and then we have a good guess as to whether the
left-wingers or right-wingers have better education policy on this axis.

If the measure of good education policy is higher test scores, in a world where the tests are updated at regular intervals (and they have to be, because in a changing world the things you need to learn will change), just win by changing the tests. That's the problem with people who try to reduce everything to maximizing a utility function. Each side can drop or add things to the tests based on what they consider to be important.
Not sure I understand. Should you trust Silk in this case? Wouldn't any issue with this company mean unavailability to everyone's data? Maybe i have missunderstood the producy
Apple Carplay, etc.

It gives you 90% of why you check your phone. Reading texts, easy access to songs, podcasts, etc.
Thankfully that legislative idiocy seems constrained to specific states.
Ask HN: Are there any open source PKI solutions that don't suck?
We are a small IoT Startup and looking for a PKI solution to provision certificates for our devices. I had a look at openxpki, smallstep and PrimeKey, but either they are a pain to run or really expensive.

Do you know any other solutions? :)
There are laws against this in Australia, enforced with camera detection of smartphone use.

The laws themselves are not perfect but if you can reduce smartphone use down to the acceptable level of distraction in a car already, the problem would largely be solved. Android Auto is complete trash, but it offers some of those features:

1. Big, simplified interface with limited options (navigation, music, phone).

2. Voice controlled (sort of, it's garbage in a noisy car at highway speeds). This fails a lot in rural Australia as the phone networks don't have 100% coverage.

3. Easy voice call answering. This is largely solved.

4. Easy text message creation. This is largely a complete joke as the voice recognition turns your semi-shouted reply into garbage, slowly reads it back to you so you can correct it etc. It's bad and distracting in it's own way.

5. Easy playlist finding for music. Largely solved.

6. Masking other content. Distractions like facebook and instagram should just be hidden - you don't need what makes up 90% of those feeds while you are driving. Facebook messenger maybe.

Having said that, I mount my phone on the dash when driving any kind of distance and the car then becomes a sort of mobile office. I can answer the phone, try to answer SMS messages, listen to music and navigate mostly with voice control and without having to remove my eyes from the road any more than the speedometer / radio in the car usually distracts a driver.

Answering a technical question while driving is kind of distracting though, so I avoid those phone calls or ask the caller to wait until I can stop and answer properly. You can't regulate this, you can just educate people.

It's doable if the limited interface of something like Android Auto was made more functional.

edit: Remind people they don't need to be 100% available 24/7. It's OK to go offline for a while.
Given their inexpensive pricing, as long as they only do that in their admin interface and don’t mess with my packets, it’s not worth throwing the baby out with the bath water in my book… especially since there are no real competitors offering good hardware with nice UI.
The only way to misread the Second Amendment is to assume that it, alone among the other amendments in the original Bill of Rights, was written to constrain the people rather than the government.

In other words, you have to approach the question with an agenda -- and a conclusion -- already in mind. Bad for intellectual honesty regardless of how you feel about gun ownership rights.
Aswath Damodaran has a great rundown on how they’re just the latest charade:

https://youtu.be/Y8E2f0V2NVI
Isn't the trailing comma at the end of lists (like Python, JavaScript, C#, and this sentence,) just an extension of the serial comma by one more step?
Bill Gates on stage with The Rock
Ubiquiti's Unifi line seems riddled with issues. Why would I want an account or the internet involved in any part of my network control?

However, I am quite happy with the Edgerouter series. I just wish it got more updates. The last update to EdgeOS is 6 months old. I don't like my security gateway not being patched with weekly security updates.
Facial recognition for bucketing photos is much easier than for biometric security. Both might still be easy these days (I wouldn’t know, I am not as in the loop for AI as I’d like to be), but the former was good enough at least a decade before people seriously used the latter.
Interesting to see the bit of Italy north of Trento that was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. They used both the German and Italian names for places where both were in common use, which trails off towards Bozen (Botzen on this map).

You can see how 'mixed up' things were in the Istria area as well, with lots of Italian names mixed up with Slavic ones.
This reads like AI generated text. I literally can not understand what you are trying to say.
Then this is the time that the OP needs to join a startup as founder or early employee and get meaningful equity in exchange.
Interesting thanks. So the protocol supports it, but the official app doesn't expose functionality shaped the way I want. I'll have to see if I can get that lite app running on PC somehow.
Termites can dig very deep. The final inspection went 30 meters down. Burning down 30m into the earth would require something far beyond what "onsite burning" usually involves. (Hence the "small subterranean fusion bomb" comment from kingcharles.)
He owns a car and regularly chose to commute by bike during the winter. Now that he is retired, he still bikes during the winter purely for fun, as do many other people. That may not be the choice everyone would make, but my point us that it can make sense and bikes are quite feasible during the winter.

Of course, the availability of trails has a huge impact on that choice and it's safety. Sled dogs, snow machines, and now other bike rider make sure that there are lots of trails all over.
Prediction markets are super fascinating. Their use is hampered in the US both by the insider concerns mentioned in the article and a web of state laws that sometimes classify them as gambling.

For the Solana ignition hackathon I played around with building a search engine based around a per-query prediction market. It’s fun to try to structure different problems in this way since it’s totally different to how we typically solve things in CS.
Intel Hiring ”Apple Competative Assessement Engineer”
To me the craziest thing is that, on the one hand, you have Proof of Work, cryptographic security, public/private keys, the full song and dance.

On the other, you go on some website, click "enter app" and are prompted by a crappy pop-up to authorise the website spending all your money. And if it's Etherium, you have to pay like $50 just for the joy of doing that.
How much would you pay for development of a text editor with these features?
# Choose:

a) I wouldn't pay anything

b) I would pay 1 dollar

c) I would pay 10 dollars

d) I would pay 100 dollars

e) I would pay 1000 dollars

f) This editor already exists, it's __________________ (write in the comments)

# Features:

* free, open source software

* UNIX portable

* base program fits in embedded system (<1 MB memory)

* scalable plugin architecture up to IDE level

* terminal (CLI) support

* graphical (GUI) support

* conformat, easy to use, human interface guidelines (shortcuts, layout)

* all features ready to use, no initial configuration necessary

* jump to definition

* jump to line

* split windows

* multiple files

* line and column numbers

* long line wrapping

* automatic refactoring (rename, reorder, control structures, etc.)

* regex search and replace

* shortcuts operating on full symbols (delete symbol, next symbol, etc.)

* symbol checking (misspelling)

* automatic indentation

* vertical selection and filling

* block indentation

* block comments

* help integration (man, info, devhelp, web, doxygen)

* project support/build system integration (meson, cmake, etc.)

* pkg-config integration

* syntax highlight

* extra whitespace pruning

* searching through the project (vcs, dir)

* unicode

* mouse/clipboard support even in terminal mode

* debugging

* parsing

* bonus: version control system integration (commits, etc.)

* bonus: diff/patch integration

* bonus: fast operation with long lines

* bonus: fast syntax highlighting for large files

* bonus: block folding

* bonus: input method for symbols (greek letters, unicode symbols, etc.)

* bonus: coding style lenses (file style vs. visible style)

* bonus: collaborative programming

* bonus: video streaming

* bonus: Windows support

* bonus: embedded OS support

* bonus: plugin store

* bonus: API store
Also see Pop (pop.com). I’ve used it extensively in the past, and have loved it. It’s currently free, works very well, and has a very responsive team.
A jail I was held in has tinted glass windows all the way around it to make it look like a modern office building, but behind the glass... 99% wall.
Of course you can steal it, and it's unethical and should be punishable. Not sure what planet we live on here.
I created a burner email address:

remoteworkhackernewstempemail@gmail.com

Feel free to email me, I would be happy to refer someone. The pay would be somewhere in the $140-$170k range. It is a good company, tiny team working in biotech and oncology. Feel free to email me and I can share details.
They're not necessarily scams, but SPACs have more leeway as regards regulations, so it's no surprise we see shady folks flocking towards it.

For example, the kind of financial projections allowed in SPAC disclosures will never pass the smell test in a conventional S-1 filing for an IPO. It's kind of the wild,wild west now with a high noise-to-signal ratio.

Hopefully, the suitable regulations will gradually roll in, as current SEC chair Gary Gensler is pushing for.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/12/09/sec-chair-gensler-seeks-...
it sounds interesting, however manufacturer claims it can stop functioning if you install "wrong" locale (whatever that means)

while I cannot get how hardware can die from install different "driver" warnings like that put me off from using tp-links. Perhaps I'll buy a cheap tp-link and give it a try just as experiment to see how far I can get
I dislike your condescending tone and I also think your speech doesn't generalize.

There are large code bases in production that are productive: Everything that is open source - and still the process isn't as shit as op describes.

So this has to do with corporate hierarchies and not the quality of the code.
Guns are cool. You should give them a try, I recommend at an outdoor range too. America is one of the last countries with a liberal mindset (in the true definition) that allows private ownership to exist. Like driving fast, flying or diving, there are few pleasures in life that match firing guns outdoors.
It's the inevitable reality of social media, it gave the village idiot a megaphone.
Just leave, everybody’s hiring right now.
Why not? One can easily borrow USDC or another stablecoin with crypto collateral, withdraw to USD and use it for non-crypto investments..
Direct link

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/rkk9qg/im_a_new_s...

for everyone else having a hard time figuring out how to find the actual comment.

Really worth a read and absolutely puts OPs story into perspective.
dogtags (perhaps via freeipa) or cfssl could be options, potentially.
but at the same time software bloating basically voided that increase of computing power...
I worked at a startup that was acquired by a larger corporation. This echoes my experience as well, everything became so clogged up with processes, documentation, responsibilities so distributed that there were times it became unclear who was responsible for what. I had a bunch of arguments with other departments and upper management over processes that were directly impacting my team of engineers, but eventually just caved in. Meeting glut, passing of responsibilities, nobody stepping up to get stuff done, and a bunch of other things that made me unhappy. They at least treated me well enough all things considered and I had multiple promotions, but eventually I got so burnt out I just left.

I don't think it's necessarily like this at all large companies. I had worked at a much, much, much larger company before and never had to deal with anything like that. It really comes down to the company that acquires the smaller one.

I mean look at Blizzard, who inevitably just became Activision despite years of claiming they would not. The process / culture of the company that acquires the smaller one almost inevitably wins out.

You have to realize that the company you worked for no longer exists. It was acquired and is something else entirely. If you're unhappy, I would suggest to consider looking around for different opportunities.
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying there can be targeted enforcement. And I'm using gay people as a single example, but the point applies to other minority groups.

As for "needles in the park" as a measure of policy success, I don't think it works. If a city is more benevolent or actively brutal towards its homeless population, you're going to see a drop in needles in the park. In London, the homeless are largely ignored and just shuffled around (which is a kind of passive brutality). There are so many confounding variables there.
Doesn't seem similar at all as there is no reliable evidence of fan death being real.