skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be interested in the research.

If true, my scrum falls in that time range. That does tend to sap my productivity.
Writing is good for your toughest problems. For easier work, like tracking and prioritizing tasks, a text editor is more efficient. In both cases you want to minimize distractions.
Interesting points, but the up sides of dlang are over shadowed by the fact that rust won the hearts of many low level developers and has gotten traction. I know of a few companies that are having difficult finding skilled developers because of this.
If you hold a principle only as long as it benefits you, it wasn't a principle but an excuse.

When folks start discarding or inverting multiple long-held principles, I think we should wonder why the change, and its seems reasonable to ask "were you mistaken or lying about the principles you espoused before, or are you doing so now?"
Interesting, they didn’t have a way to “rasterize” the ink to the page completely.

You could take that in a different direction… find a paper that allows you to wash the ink off it, to make reusable paper…
The shutter-open-for-half-a-frame or "180° shutter angle" is commonly recommended as a default for shooting video. It is the result of having to compromise between inaccurate recording and a blurry video when your frame rate is low.

With 24fps and a small "shutter angle" you are capturing wrong information (e.g. resulting in wheels turning backwards) and you get a choppy look. With a large shutter angle you get too much motion blur. 180° is neither really correct nor really sharp, but it's the most commonly used compromise.

These problems are really the result of a too slow frame rate though - with 60fps you can shoot with a 1/60 shutter, and you get 100% accurate playback while still having frames sharper than a 24fps movie (with 1/48 s shutter) and a smooth video.

When you capture with a high frame rate (e.g. 120fps) and a 360° shutter angle (1/120s) you can also easily reduce the frame rate later without any ridiculous hacks like 3:2 pulldown by combining (averaging) frames or leaving them out, depending on the motion blur amount you want.

Applying the "180-degree-rule" to frame rates other than 24 or 30 fps just comes from missing knowledge or misunderstandings from what I can tell.
True, but some of the responsibility lies with the users. If they can't be bothered to care, then maybe some pain is warranted.

In my particular case, I stopped upgrading Windows around 7. It is only last year that I decided to upgrade and that was also the year I moved to linux as my main driver. I am not an average user, but I am not kernel contributor either. I am just a guy, who wants some stuff done on a PC I own.

And that might be part of the issue. People need to feel the pain from the devices they have been sold so that they can learn why freedom and ownership is important.
I'm curious what you think we're losing here? I mean, I can't remote order with McDonalds on my vintage Windows 95 PC.

To me, the platforms are simply improving security and slowly jettisoning older systems which cause security issues. We don't allow TLS 1.1 for a reason.
I can't say I feel dumb(er) but I can certainly say that when I am stuck with a problem, I feel the urge to use pen & paper (s-pen & s-note) to work on the problem ;)
I found some recent videos that do in fact cover more details and it's actually quite a bit worse than you describe. There are no burner phones or command tents it seems, or at least that is not a significant part of how these people coordinate anything. These people are using social media and public podcasts to coordinate their actions. No manifesto, public podcasts. In fact they have been monitored extensively and followed for quite a while leading up to this. [1] Several militia groups and white supremacist groups had been planning this for a while and reporters had been working with social media companies to use machine learning to know who would be where, armed with what and what they intended to do. The only part they got wrong was the clothing. This time the one militia that usually wear Hawaiian shirts went in plain clothes but were spotted instantly either way.

The most concerning part of this to me is that as far as I can tell the incident on the 6th was simply allowed to happen. They only had a handful of state police in standard gear even knowing there would be a mob coming their way with militia members mixed in.

There is an interview with the federal prosecutor [2] that towards the end says there could be a case and it could go that way meaning the more serious charges but sounds more like he wants to go back to being the DA in Miami. Maybe he will hand this off to the next federal prosecutor?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v22xC09WSVc

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbAYJt0hJG8
If they did 90k of good business and are charging $50 per hour, the risk in scamming for such small rewards seems weird.

If you’ve got a good client who’s paid on time, never caused issues, and you’ve met in person (and seems nice), then you don’t think too much when they explain away a small change in procedure.

This is so common that most corporate training on fraud will mention this scenario one way or another. Its the natural confidence scheme that predators have used for millennia.
Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone 15 years ago
Show HN: Combat social media addiciton with foreign wikipedias
Greetings HN,

This is an app I built to help me combat the (previously!) firmly-established habit of pulling out my phone to read the news / reddit whenever I had 5 minutes of downtime. The idea is to channel that energy in a more productive direction: instead of opening XYZNews for the nth time I'll try reading wikipedia - but in a different language. That way I'll learn something new about the world, practice that language, and not blindly stare at the news feed hoping something interesting came up since the last time I looked at it 1 hour ago.

The app offers sources of content in a foreign language (by default wikipedia but any website can be added) and a built-in dictionary, which is activated by double-tapping a word [1]. It's actually worked quite well, and though I do still read HN I've drastically reduced the number of times I compulsively open news websites.

Fun fact, some wikipedia versions (e.g. Italian) have a "quote of the day". Those have become my favorites. Otherwise all pages have an "article of the day" which is often interesting.

As mentioned the websites are configurable. The languages/dictionaries are hardcoded (mostly wordreference), but trivial to add by modifying the source. The built-in browser is sometimes buggy and gets dizzy if it follows too many redirects, but it builds in Android Studio and otherwise works fine most of the time[2]. Any feedback welcome!

(note: no ads, no sign-in, no data is collected by the app)

(disclosure: I've allowed myself to resubmit this because the last title did not show the relevance to the subject of battling social media addiction, which I think is of interest. I believe this is allowed within the site's guidelines)

[1] Although e.g. Chrome has a built in integration with wordreference, it still requires too many clicks.

[2] might crash if you cross the international dateline in a canoe. I mean it might. If you try please let me know.
For reference, there's a very interesting documentary [1] about the impact of renewable energy on the environment.

[1] Headwind 21 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RgyLDVlAg4
Good for you, you are in a situation where you are not reliant on a small business and it’s easy to follow advisories.

There’s far more to life and jobs than that.

As for how it’s inevitable - maybe it wasn’t, but look around you. An awful lot of destruction we did for questionable benefits.

And I know that with the next pandemic, far less people are going to listen. To them, the credibility of experts has been permanently damaged.
One should understand that not all processes in life take 45 minutes. Learning meaningful content is like going to the gym or playing the piano - you cannot expect to see any meaningful results in a day. You'll have to put in the work for a very long time, but you'll get better at it as you go.

Analogy aside, not all text is written to be read in a 45 min session. Set your mind that reading and absorbing content from a text book can take anywhere between 3 months to 3 years. Some concepts may take decades to really click in your mind.
Luckily, the content in text books is usually broken down in chapters and sections for you, so consider each of those a "less text" content, and read "less text" every day. Set a goal of understanding a single section or chapter per day/week.
At the end of a year you'll have read "long text" without ever reading much in a single reading session.

Research papers can be read in anywhere from minutes to a couple weeks. But if you are new to the field, you may have to read them over and over, and that time can extend to months until you understand the implications of what is written.

Don't rush it.
The "light" you've "shed" might be relevant in some idealized scenario. How does anyone (issuing bank, acquiring bank, Upwork, or contractor) figure out whether "the client was authorized by the cardholder to use the card"? Do they just ask the client? Do they just ask the cardholder? Of course neither of those parties may be trusted at this point. A court could render an opinion, if the case ever got to that point. However, it won't get to that point, because of the actions of the acquiring bank. They have just decided it's the contractor's fault with minimal investigation, and have charged Upwork the maximum. Please note: this what banks usually do, regardless of the lies you might tell your customers.
Ask HN: How do I get over constant failure?
When I first started my career everything was great - I did some internships at small local companies and got terrific feedback. I loved computers and would identify problems and dive into solving them enthusiastically. In hindsight a lot of the stuff I did was basically prototyping that never made it into production, but it felt great and my bosses loved it.

After a couple years I hit the big time and got a job at a tech startup that was blowing up. There was one really successful project I worked on, and otherwise I didn't really accomplish much - the whole organization I was in was very dysfunctional and we churned through management and new projects really quickly, but nothing really landed. During this time our stock price went crazy, and I sold all my stock to make a down payment on a house and max out my retirement savings. Eventually the mismanagement got to me - every project seemed doomed to fail, and I was paralyzed with indecision daily. They promoted me to the level where I was supposed to propose and run projects, and I hated it.

To try and get back to building things, I joined a small startup around the time the pandemic started. Everyone there gave me great feedback, but there was no product focus, very little management, and ultimately it still felt like the things I was working on didn't matter or lead to anything. The product itself was hard to use and had so many problems that I couldn't imagine trying to untangle them all, so I left after a year.

At this point I was terrified that I just couldn't work in tech anymore. I had developed medical problems from stress, and took months of time off to try and recover. There was nothing else I wanted to do for work, but the thought of sitting down and building anything was terrible.

Fast-forward to today - I applied for and got my dream job, working at another very successful startup that has a lot of high-performing people. They get things done, and the product is great. It's been a couple months and I have achieved nothing. Not a single PR merged. I came in with all the momentum from my unemployment, all the enthusiasm and energy I could muster, and proposed a bunch of projects. Nothing landed. My manager left a few weeks after I started, my onboarding buddy has been absent, and the fear has started creeping in again that I'm alone and can't hack it in this high performing team. If I can't work in the tech industry it would completely upend my entire life.

Does anyone have any advice from a similar situation? I think I need more support and guidance but my experience has been that tech companies don't really offer that, and also that everyone seems happy and successful regardless.
kinopoisk doesn't appear to be one of the 20 services it searches.
Not sure I understand. I mean using the interactive mode to figure out the right query ("[].mumble.whatever...") and then being able to save the text of the query that you figured out by pointing and clicking. Like a graphical SQL query builder allows you to do.
One thing that’s happening is that different roles are being created. For example at UPenn it’s now possible to get tenure as a teaching professor.
I agree - what I don't get is that you can generally only reverse charges for a limited period of time, even for fraud. He said he worked with Robin for two years, but probably only 120 days worth could have been charged back. So yeah, like you said, based on total earnings, the amount of work charged back and the time he says he worked with Robin, it seems like the vast majority of his work on the platform would've been with Robin.

And yeah, where's the righteous anger at Robin? All OP says about him is positive things, even though the situation is unambiguously one in which Robin is a scumbag and a thief if we accept the facts.

Just a lot that seems sketchy here, and especially the way his profile has stuff like "84.2% of the businesses I worked with, got an investment & provided their investors with an ROI of more than 6X." - that kind of very specific stat about a particular return for a particular percent of people just feels very dubious to me.
I think anyone who has ever tried to get any process optimizations pushed through in a large company, knows that the idea of "the market will automatically do whatever is most profitable" is mostly an ideologically convenient pipedream.
You mention Ionic at the end, so I have to comment as the co-founder :)

The first thought is on maintenance and support from Google/Facebook compared to someone like Ionic. One of the things people don't think about before it's too late is support, and Ionic is unique in mobile in that we actually make money from supporting our technology directly for customers. We have direct support available for our auth/security/data storage plugins, cloud services, and open source projects. We literally will respond to customer support tickets and make fixes/patches on a weekend if we have to.

Is there any other company out there doing what Ionic is in mobile? You mention having issues with the Web View component, is Google or Facebook ever going to prioritize your issues? It's not likely, they don't have that kind of business model around their technology like Ionic does. Facebook builds RN for itself, and who knows what Google's end-goal is with Flutter (drive GCP adoption? push its ad network?) but it's certainly not to monetize it through dedicated support for the most significant users of it. I'm proud that the Ionic stack is the most user-aligned offering out there because we're literally in the business of supporting and extending users of our OSS stack.

On the Web View side, we've recently shipped one of the first mobile micro-frontend projects in the ecosystem called Ionic Portals which is basically an awesome Web View component powered by our tech and expertise building web view experiences on mobile. Right now it doesn't have RN or Flutter bindings but we are working on them this year. This has been a pretty interesting shift for us and we're now working with traditional native teams not using the traditional Ionic stack:

https://ionic.io/portals
Exactly. This is a great example of where cryptocurrency has a relative advantage. If I'm looking to defraud, I'll prefer to do it via cryptocurrency because once I have the money, it's hard to get it away from me. That helps explain why fraud is so common in that space.

It's easy to see that cryptocurrency is a big reason ransomware has spiked in recent years. I suspect the same is true for other sorts of financial crime. I'd love to know how much. But it's surprisingly hard to do a telephone survey where you ask people about their criminal choices, so I expect I'll never know.
Ah, excellent. I will most definitely give this a go.
Yes, but Hubble also already did that. Astronomy has been at “we count every single photon” for at least the last two decades
That’s right. It can happen again. And again.
Their problem, not yours. Their argument won't hold up in court.
Apologists showing up in huge numbers! It's just the way film works, they cry. Nobody's fault!

Why then did film manufacturers advertise 'realistic skin tones' for a century. And never do anything whatsoever about how that was false for a significant fraction of humanity? That, of course, is 'just how it works' too. That's the point of the article - that it's easy to ignore black people because {reasons}.

It was not inconceivable that somebody could make film that worked for all. Ignoring that critical idea shows a willing suspension of rationality in the service of a really obviously biased situation.

But no, continue apologizing for institutional racism, because of course that's how it's supposed to work. Everything for white people since, money.
Fair enough. I don't know him though (never heard the name) and after skimming through the first paragraphs of each item and reading this I closed the window instantly as for me it invalidated the information where I had no in depth knowledge myself. As in 'how can I trust any of the rest if something so fundamental is off'.

Very unfortunate if what you say is true. I guess I'll give him the benefit of the doubt then and go read the rest.
You can see here: https://www.tatime.gov.al/eng/c/4/96/107/income-tax

The thing is that remote programming is considered "export" and export has no VAT. The numbers above are literally the taxes I paid in 2021 & 2020 (I paid the 5% of profit tax on 2020). I may have missed any small thing like $14/month for electronic signature & software. Mostly less than $500/year in all other things combined.

Edit: By "taxes changed this year" on parent comment, I meant in 2021. Not in 2022.
I do not understand this part:

> "I’m on very good terms with Robin."

So why Robin does not want to pay and help with Upwork if he is on very good terms with him?
If you are in very good terms with Robin, then just ask him to pay for work. If he refuses (and he is not scammer), you can open a case in Upwork and then you will go in arbitration. The arbitration is quite reasonable and works well (I had to run one).

But if Robin is a scammer - then I'm really really sorry for you. There is very little you can do without lawyers and law enforcements.
But do they hate them because they didnt provide government support as part of their response, or do they hate them because they think just doing nothing wouldn't have also destroyed their business when everyone got sick at the same time?
You might find this interesting:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/44093/details-on-t...

The discussion includes links to several relevant GAO reports. I agree that it would be interesting to see a single detailed list. That is not in these reports.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-20-224.pdf

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-16-112.pdf

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-16-112.pdf
You're not wrong, 10-bit depth is essential to avoid color banding. However, I believe that all anime blu-rays are encoded in 8-bit AVC, so the issue is not the bit depth in the source material. Rather, fansub groups re-encode blu-ray releases to achieve smaller bitrate, and 8-bit => 10-bit conversion allows higher compression rate while still avoiding banding.
Nope, still haven't seen this as a thing. There are still drugstores and doctors offices which have vaccines in these poor areas that give the shots for free. Not getting the shot is a deliberate choice and it's not racism that is blocking people from getting it. People of every race are smart and enabled enough to get this shot if they want it.
EevBLAB 92 – The Wealth Equation [video]
Given that the strip is now (ouch) almost 19 years old, it occurs to me that some folks may not have seen Nightlife Mingus' appearance in the web comic Achewood:

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=06202003
Honestly, if I was a fraudster and I read a description of Upwork's actions here I'd be delighted. If I pay myself with a stolen card via two accounts through Upwork, their standard policy is to ignore the card fraud account and tell the freelancer account(s) the transaction was laundered through that they'll have to pay Upwork back out of future earnings, if any. That's a fraudster's dream antifraud policy, because they have no intention of using any freelancer accounts they create for real work so there's nothing lost, no police are involved, and Upwork doesn't even care if someone is willing to testify that someone admits to using someone else's card and knows where they live!

Upwork's behaviour is no deterrent to actual multiple account fraudsters at all, and positive encouragement to fraudsters with stolen cards that can profit from selling on actual work done by actual freelancers.

The only context it makes sense is if they're pretty sure the freelancer account is an innocent party they're happy to continue to use their platform, but figure it's cheaper and easier to squeeze them for the chargeback than chase the person who entered the fraudulent cards.
Here's what I do: I start reading from the last paragraph.

I can barely get myself to read anything long, even exams! Somehow, starting from the last paragraph, and sometimes even the last sentence, and going back, makes me actually read the text. This also worked with research papers (conclusion -> 1st paragraph). Maybe give it a try?
The original post says the following, with italics and explanation points: "Coming from mathematics, where one paper every few years (!) is considered the mark of a productive mathematician,". I spent decades in academic pure mathematics, and I've been on many hiring committees, and that assertion doesn't match my experience. Also, look at the original poster's own publication list at https://bastian.rieck.me/research/#publications, which has several publications every year.
That's one reason I'm long-term hopeful about Smart Contracts. If they are adopted, they may force/encourage a re-evaluation about all kinds of things, including predatory aspects of banking. For example, let's reconsider if poor people should really be hit with extra charges when they hit $.0 on their bank account.
Possible with the modular skateboard model:

https://mondaynote.com/evs-the-manufacturing-revolution-40a7...
You should be funneling income into a separate account and moving it elsewhere after.
How is that bad? A vaccine is designed to cause a response by the immune system; this is certainly not pleasant, but exactly the trade against the potentially much worse effects of an actual infection.
If the claim that "Suicide is not a quantitative measure of mental health" means that such large fluctuations in the suicide numbers across many jurisdictions with differing underlying rates can't be used to inform any opinions about the impacts of the pandemic on mental health then I emphatically disagree.

I don't know who said you can measure mental health without accounting for the environment, I never made that claim! I literally said "I don't think it is "safe to say" much of anything about suicide rates or individual motivations, it is a complex issue."
I tried that but it was one of those "Win printers" without local processing, and there were no drivers for ARM.

Someone in Germany made some open source drivers but it didn't work properly for me. Eventually I found a networked one on sale and I gave the old one away.