skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That’s more familiar. Humans staring in random directions. Many clearly not listening.

They are all starting at their screens. You can tell because of the reflection and glow. That in no way means they are "clearly not listening."

>Here’s the question, how many humans are on this call?

>Zero.

>There are no humans on this call. Yes, there are 14 participants with their video on, one with their video off, and someone dialing in.

And they are all human.

>You have five base senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Bonus fact: you actually have seven.

There are a lot more, like a sense of danger, a sense of being manipulated, etc.

>Every single of these senses, yeah, even vestibular and proprioception, are limited in a video conference call. You do not see the entire person; you see them from the chest up.

Unless you are crawling around or peeking under the conference table, you can only see people from the waste up in a regular meeting. Please don't peek under the conference table.

>when someone attempts to insert a vital fact only stomped by the current speaker who hasn’t heard the interruption yet.

People interrupt other people all the time in face to face meetings. It's not great there either. At least on a conference call, I can mute someone if they get overly obnoxious.

>I’ve been looking for cracks. I’ve been looking for leading indicators of future doom. The Great Resignation seems like a proper crack, right? But are people quitting their jobs because they can’t work together or because their current job sucks and all this terror in the area has given them a new appreciation of what really matters?

From what I can tell many people are quitting shit jobs that require people to be at a location (like a restaurant) with shit pay and no benefits. I suspect they are sick of paying for childcare and commuting too. They aren't just quitting to sit around in their underwear, they're going to better jobs with better benefits like healthcare, and the ability to work remote, which doesn't require childcare. Childcare is friggin expensive too and probably not great for their upbringing either.

>A video conference is a sterile dehumanizing experience.

So is going to meetings and commuting to an office every day. I'd pick a conference call 7 days a week and twice on Monday.

This is obviously an emotional sell to get people back into the office. It's pretty weak on actual reason other than the author likes to smell people and look under desks perhaps.
It's really ridiculous to me because when Airbnb was first a thing I actually really liked using them. It felt like the prices were more reasonable and the hosts were generally a lot more welcoming. Recently this has really seemed to change. This may be in part because I live in a popular vacation area but the prices of an Airbnb on the coast for instance are super expensive and generally lacking in amenities. Recently I canceled an Airbnb in Seattle Washington because it was close to $250 a night and after I booked my stay I was emailed an extensive list of rules about the property. Generally I'm pretty cool with whatever the host wants, it is their house and I want to respectful. However one thing that really stuck out to me was that the host made a point of saying that if you stained any of the face washing towels that you would be charged $40 a washcloth which just felt ridiculous to me after the already high price per night.
To clarify: will the standalone detachable model be able to detach and tether to another computer? Or will I have to use the compute unit to use it?
Because someone on the other side will use it in a campaign add within 48 hours.
perhaps the P&L? That's the bestest report (imo) of the business.
There is a shadow banned sibling post to this, which given the subject would be worth including. I did vouch but I don't think my votes count as I explained. If you turn on showdead in your settings, you can see the post and vouch for it
All these are good points but missed a key thing.

The interchange format includes a computer readable description of the FPGA which tells the tooling what is available inside the FPGA and how they can be connected.
It was an allusion to the movie War Games.

Air Superiority was also one of our favorites.
I think what the author is missing is that they don’t have a captive audience to spout off on since now it’s very very easy to tune out a meeting that’s a waste of time.
I agree with you totally. It's really frustrating to me that we are often so impatient with people who struggle with computers. Both people from older generations and younger generations both suffer a lot of shame around asking for help with computers even though a lot of aspects of technology require a foundational knowledge that is often never taught in a formal manner.
There is some overhead in a condo. But the shared common stuff is much cheaper. Roofs and heating systems. He had a special asssement. $1500 for a new boiler (35 units) My friend in a house replaced theirs for thousands because it was old being and some of the pipes and everything needed replacing.. Plus its easier when the management company deals with it, but you pay a bit for that.
great, now how about container virtualization
NYT Long Covid Sufferers Are Struggling with Exercise
I agree. The actor and the character ought to be differentiated.

If you want to argue the CG isn’t good enough, fine, but the actor isn’t the character. Sometimes actors are replaced, but other times, maybe their accent slipped in an episode, or their makeup wasn’t good in season 2, etc. So where do you draw the line?
Yea I feel like the whole Twitter thread is just PG moving around goalposts on "What is a business plan" or "what is a balance sheet".

I mean his article on "The Equity Equation"[1] seems to be written by someone who has read a balance sheet.

[1]http://paulgraham.com/equity.html
If your implication is that one can simply stack more junctions, that is fine to try from a research standpoint and for mass-constrained applications like space exploration, but the economics get substantially worse for normal applications. It's also the case that multi-junction cells (at the infinite limit) have a max theoretical efficiency that is about double the theoretical max of the best single-junction systems. That also ignores recombination effects at the interfaces between systems, which are also almost pretty gnarly.
Putting HDMI ethernet channel thoughts here, since I have no first-hand experience with it. My understanding is that it's basically 100base-TX under the covers, and that's vaguely confirmed by [1] and others. The big difference, as you mentioned, is that it uses a single pair, instead of separate RX/TX pairs like 100base-TX usually does. Rather than doing the 1000base-T trick (share the lines with echo cancellation), it looks like it uses an analog hybrid [2]. Still never seen it in the wild though.

[1] https://www.semiconn.com/ep91h1
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_hybrid
The standalone is going to be usable tethered.

The compute unit will be usable as a separate device, as well.
Investment Theory of Party Competition
On a semi-related note, Google has also been investigating in improving support for SystemVerilog support in open source tooling -> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/09/open-source-system...
You need to find the fastest and cheapest way to de-risk your startup idea.

That can be MVP or it can be something else. For example if you're a FinTech lending startup, then you better prove that your loan algos/model are profitable, rather than building UI wireframes and mockups. You can do this by backtesting your models or building a simulation.

"The Lean Startup" book by Eric Ries is already 10-11 y/o, so it's not up-to-date and with lots of gaps.

Also, ignore most of the data-driven methods, as they require lots of data which will not be available for pre-launch product. Instead you need to build a theory about your potential users' needs, and focus on shipping something first.

I suggest to get familiarized with the following methodologies:

- JTBD (Jobs To Be Done)
- 5 Whys
- GIST (Goals->Ideas->Steps->Tasks) method (partialy data-driven)
- Google Ventures Research Sprint
- Google Ventures Design Sprint

If you still decide to ship an MVP - focus on a single most important feature. Use nocode/lowcode tools if possible. Or use some addon/plugin/widget for an existing platform: i.e. a chatbot, Slack/Teams app, twitter bot, Chrome extension, etc.
I'm an FPGA noob but I really like ghdl. It also has a feature to check code is synthesizable and translate it down to a vhdl 93 netlist, so you can use modern features that proprietary synthesizers may not support in your vhdl codebase
Slightly off topic (but part of the build instructions), but why do people like CMake?

I have an aversion to learning it because it seems like an abstraction of an abstraction and of little value. But I’d like to change my mind.

(Thanks for this btw, I was looking for something like this)
It's not a secret, it's common sense:

> Norway has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world; in 2016, only 20% of inmates re-offended within 5 years. [...] Norway's prisons are renowned for being some of the best and most humane in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_Norway

Treat people like people, it's that simple. Attitudes like ahh's arise from not expanding past using their lizard brain. They create more of the problem they purport to complain about. Straight contradiction.
Be more specific. What exactly about my ‘tone’ don’t you like? Quote me even.
Taika Waititi has an extreme (imho) version of that https://www.tiktok.com/@outstandingscreenplays/video/7057217... . He will write something and put it aside for several years than re-read and re-write.
Is this something that is not always present? If so, why are we experiencing it now?
I deal with this on a regular basis, and my approach is straightforward: I don't compare them. If a have a date on one side and date-time on the other, then I am missing the data necessary to make a comparison. The question seems like a non-sequitur because the implied question is "how do you compare two variable when one of them does not have the data needed for comparison"

The only question in circumstance like this is whether or not my requirements allow for-- or can reasonably be modified-- to strip off time and only compare dates.

If time is an inherent requirement to the project then the response I give is simple: "Then begin collecting time data."
I read them to see how people think. You can learn most of the same by talking to them. He didn’t say he doesn’t read the P/L, i.e. budget.

Plus he has other ppl to read the balance sheets.

I did a $20MM A round with $BIG_FIRM after associate asked for business plan and parter said “they sent it to us already” meaning just the Excel model. Which was a relief since I never write a BP suitable for public consumption, only internal use. But the excel model included all our assumptions for headcount, cap ex, op ex, regulatory and revenue so really what use was a narrative?

(It worked out for them)
Software businesses have one balance sheet item: cash.
Why does it matter? You are changing the financial picture, probably by an order of magnitude or more. The question should be what the company will look like after the investment, not before.
The housing market needs to ban investment properties and heavily tax multiple homes. It's a place to live, not a ponzi scheme!
Why you have to be happy? lol. In fact, the normal life state for the best of survival would be far from being happy. Whenever we prefer something, think Darwin and think if it makes biological sense.
I don't work for 8 or even 6 hours continuously without breaks. For me 4 hours would be ideal. I guess 6 would remove any "range anxiety"
Statements like that will get you fired at Peloton.
I work in security - your statement is incorrect. Its fairly common.
The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316
Thanks for the shout out for my Ruby one-liners ebook. The second link (https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_ruby_oneliners/) is the latest version.
No thanks.

The US is blessed with plenty of space for single family homes. Sure you’ll pay out the nose for one in SF or other major cities, but it’s an option.

I’ve lived in dense cities where single family homes are out of reach for everyone but the top 0.1%. People get used to it, but condo living kinda sucks.
Ask HN: Fintech founders, how's the experience with your Banking provider been?
From an outsider's view, it seems as though most Banking as a Service companies are smaller banks. With the explosive growth neobanks and fintechs have seen, is the developer experience and general support been well handled by the BaaS banks? If not, what are some things you'd like to see improved here? Curious to hear if this contributes to a bottleneck in any capacity
I remember a long evening on the Ocean City boardwalk spent doing this to a payphone and waiting to see who would walk by and pick it up.
The thing about video call apps is - seemingly, no matter how great the internet is on both ends, the video quality is still laggy and blocky. We have 30 Mbps on both ends. That's supposed to be near bluray quality. But that's not what we get. Even when I use the crappy 720p camera, what I get over the internet is much worse.

From our testing, Whatsapp is one of the worst. Zoom is in between. Hangouts is usually decent. But again, nowhere near bluray quality.
Still takes awhile to process 10TB over Gig, and it’s easy to end up with that quickly for everything from surveillance footage, 4K video, any sizable number of high resolution photos, etc.
Windows did many things wrong, but engineering is probably not one of them (there was a test of someone installing an application on win 3.1, after upgrading all the way to windows 10, you can still run it).

For your question, I guess the answer would be along the line of “linux development process can’t scale to more users”. Linux is running on a lot of machines, but the number of human using it is at least a magnitude less than other popular software (I count Fb, google search, gmail into this too). Things like supporting different configurations, newly released hardwares (and 3rd party softwares) are not linux strong point. For example, subsystem maintainers are recognized, but they are not incentivized (and probably can’t afford) to make sure everything works well on hardware they do not own
Credit cards aren’t the problem. Just companies like stripe and PayPal don’t operate there. You can use Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, etc.
Could anyone suggest a good resources/guides/tutorials/books for writing Firefox add-ons?

I remember making a cursory search a year ago, and hardly found anything remarkable. (Might have been a case of Google's-bad-search-results syndrome.)
You can't call dibs on any future progress in a field.
they've been processing payments for over a decade
> You need to find the fastest and cheapest way to de-risk your startup idea.

Agreed - but, if I were to break out startup risks into the following, which one is the highest?

- Market

- Product

- Channel

- Business model/unit economics

> "The Lean Startup" book by Eric Ries is already 10-11 y/o, so it's not up-to-date and with lots of gaps.

Can you mention just a few of the gaps?

> Instead you need to build a theory about your potential user's needs, and focus on shipping something first

What's the most effective way to discover:

- who these potential users are?

- what their needs are?
I would think PCVR+workstation would be their main competitor or even Hololens. Microsoft has built a more compelling software suite for productivity thats not also locked into a single platform like Oculus.
This isn't very constructive, FWIW.
If you say it's unacceptable, but can't define acceptable except as "not this", it's kind of worthless. Why is a single person better/worse than a group? Do you have any evidence to back it up?

There are all sorts of tradeoffs involved in how this sort of thing is done, and why, and those tradeoffs have evolved over thousands of years of legal systems existing.

In this case, the common tradeoff is that this is an elected official who is accountable to voters for the decisions they make.
There are states where they are appointed.
There are states which require grand juries.

All of these have tradeoffs - there is no "best", nor do statistics say that any of them end up any more fundamentally fair than each other. Nor do any of them have a significantly different rate of indicting objectively or subjectively innocent people (last i looked).

It's unclear exactly what you think a system should look like - i would argue any system with sufficient safeguards is not going to look very different than a preliminary hearing anyway.

Particularly your complaint about the stress/loss/etc seems unavoidable. That occurs starting with when people are investigated in the first place.
>I remember real meetings. They were far more exhausting than any zoom call. Completely draining.

Some were and some weren't. Bad leaders hold bad meetings. Good leaders hold meetings that are short, to-the-point, stick to the agenda, and involve only the people who actually need to be involved. To wit: if you don't hold sufficient authority to make decisions related to the meeting or if you aren't there to weigh in as a subject matter expert, then you don't get invited.
> Facebook Pay is an easy, secure way to pay in more places than ever

Amazing! I love paying!
> NES sound was pretty bad, honestly.

“Pretty bad”, I will have to disagree greatly with you there. Yes, there is plenty of awful music composed for the NES sound chip, but the same goes for the SID, YM2612, etc. As with any instrument, you need talent.

For heaven’s sake, what about Takashi Tateishi’s amazing soundtrack for Mega Man 2? As an example, here is the Woodman stage theme [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDC4X8Dgxr4&t=477s

Admittedly the Japanese release of Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse was helped by the addition of the VRC6 chip when it comes to sound, but the depth of the notes is astonishing [2].

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqyoTvZ5cOE&t=2050s

Let us head west then, what about Jeroen Tel’s Overlord theme for the NES? [3] Or what many consider some of the best sound ever extracted from the NES: Tim Follin’s work for Silver Surfer [4].

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5vccpl9hd8

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlLl2j5THQ&t=231s

Heck, the NES sound chip brings us great tunes to this day. Listen for example to Rainbowdragoneyes’s first half of the soundtrack for The Messenger (2018) [5]. Track 8, “Bamboo Boogaloo (Bamboo Creek)”, never fails to put a smile on my face.

[5]: https://rainbowdragoneyes.bandcamp.com/album/the-messenger-o...

Yes, the Mega Drive sound is great (despite some finding it having a bit too much “twang”). Personally, I really like the Battletoads soundtrack on the Mega Drive [6]. However, using the word “bad” anywhere in a sentence with the NES sound chip is not something I can stand hearing without speaking up – it is objectively wrong.

[6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdHsKEv87rY
> - Support for markdown

Have you looked into ASCIIDoc?
In an ideal world I'd love to see social media apps be able to loosely hook in to banking apps. So facebook messenger would handle requests and you would tap "send" in facebook messanger which would open your bank app with something like "Send $10 to facebook user ___ and let facebook confirm transaction success" so facebook never has to hold your money or make transactions, but you can make payment requests in messenger.

Although I do remember that the US doesn't really have a good/fast way to make instant bank to bank transactions so that could be an issue.
That's not true.

If my software company's treasury gains were realized it would make up almost a third of our revenue.

Though I suppose a case could be made that this would make us a holding company with a cash-flowing SaaS, and not actually a "software company"
I was wondering why I was reading a vaguely paraphrased Kotaku article.

Blogspam is a pernicious cancer.
Yes and no. I'll admit market cap alone doesn't demonstrate this, but market cap + trade volume does, unless you have reason to believe the majority of transactions are wash trading.

In your example it's $1 between two parties, in Bitcoin's case it was $17B over the last 24hrs between a huge number of parties, which indicates that a significant amount of value can be pulled out of BTC.

How much has been spent on mining hardware?
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> I'm a huge fan of markdown

Have you looked into ASCIIDoc?
Or just buy a modern NAS, which will already have multiple NVMe drives, arrays of SSDs, and a decent number of spinny drives. outside of low end consumer kit, saturating 10G is easy with any modern equipment. Even 5G is easy with my 8 year old NAS.
Could I use passive devices breaking out to get 4 connections on rj45 and so move switches back to my wiring cupboard but keep multiple devices in the remotes? I only wired one rj45 per (bed)room.

Domestic, so <20m runs of cat5e/cat6. Don't need more than 100mbps per host.
No, if you read my the papers you'd learn his claim, based not on measuring papers,but on guessing, is wrong.

When people measured the required items, his conclusion is not supported by evidence.

Ioannidis made assumptions that didn't hold up under empirical testing. End of story. Measurement trumps belief.

I gather you prefer conclusions based on feelings. I prefer my science to measure things to discard invalid claims.
Thats pretty much what top tier security people I know do.
There are so many double standards applied today that it’s hard to know what the author has in mind. Can accept the idea that vague rules are subject to abuse though.
It should tell you in the notification that will also show up along with the channel name, person, and message.
High Expectations for Black Hole Simulations
The police "screwed" him by following the exact letter of the law as they questioned him, and didn't give him the "get out of jail free" card that he almost managed to get. And while it's not totally relevant, he was hardly just some kid with a joint on the floor of his car (it was a serious violent offense).

Yes, the police sailed a bit close to the wind. But maybe the law is currently too suspect-friendly in the USA (which then is compensated with extreme penalties for the tiny number of suspects who are found guilty in a trial). The US system is such a mess that the police and suspects basically conspire to avoid it (plea bargaining). And while it's easy to just blame the "law and order" crowd, they're partly just reacting to the fact that it's almost impossible to fairly convict a savvy criminal in the US without physical evidence or multiple witnesses.

In most of the world, police interrogations aren't optional (if you know the cheat codes). I believe that in the UK, Canada, Australia you have the right to remain silent, but police or prosecutor can tell the jury which questions you did not answer (and then the lawyers will argue over why that was the case). The right to council is often for the trial, not telling you how to avoid answering questions during a police interview. If the purpose of legal systems is to "discover the truth of the matter", then I think the US does a poor job (making it far too easy for a smart criminal to simply shut down a case against them), and a lot of the disfunction they have seems to be an attempt to compensate for all the rights that a smarter criminal can have.
Interesting, I always found postgres to feel slower, but never took the hussle to benchmark it against mysql