skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is so feature bloated now. I rarely log in anymore because it is just too overwhelming.

I literally have 30 menu options in the side bar. This is not an exaggeration. There are stores, memories, groups, marketplaces, messaging, live, watch. It's insanity.

They've gotten too good at keeping your attention. My mom is addicted to facebook. She can't put it down. She is constantly telling me about news articles and crap I don't care about.

Facebook is a cancer that people should cut out. Instagram isn't as bad (yet).
Yes, I don’t wanna give too many personal details but I gave them a lot of solid work for years after that.

Some in the comments suggested a differentiator about my performance gap was my self awareness that I was doing poorly - I certainly had an anxiety problem in general that was getting in the way beyond work too, but knowing my manager really had my back went very far. I knew of course that I could still get fired, but it meant a lot to me that no one was jumping at the chance.
The idea that ordinary people will (reliably, securely, safely) manage their own cryptocurrency holdings without using an exchange (or similar service) is ludicrous. This is blind techno-utopianism at its worst, and does nothing for humanity or society.
Even working as a client of a Chinese company I see the same thing - they only want to communicate via random WeChat groups, and anytime you ask for things to be emailed its a battle to make that happen. Eventually the one specific thing you asked for will be emailed, then everything will revert to WeChat where its all buried away.
That's certainly a single piece of evidence that every machine-- including all Linux distros-- are ineffable mysteries.

Similarly, all fruits have fat content. Just off the top of my head:

1. avocados (a whopping 15% fat content!)

2. there is no legal requirement for me to list another fruit here
Just to throw in another anecdote, I realized a bias I was having interviewing. Talking with candidates who used airpods was such bad audio, that I was less engaged and generally had to devote more energy to understanding them, leaving me with an impression of them that wasn't so much to do with the content than the medium.

A good reminder to myself when I'm on an important call just to set up a yeti, out of respect to the people who have to listen to me.
Background story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/867168/

TLDR: Intel want some huge DRI-related in linux kernel. The DRI maintainer insist there need at least one open user mode user. So we have this Proof-of-Concept driver
This is something that people have to accept: the target audience of scientific papers is other researchers, not laypeople. Ideally we need more effort spent on synthesis of prior research. In my field (ML) very few prominent researchers write overview papers summarizing state of the art even over last few years. There is little academic incentive in doing so. Laypeople should read books written for them (like Hawking's books), not bleeding edge research papers.
I wouldn't say Symbian was C++ - I remember it being a sort of intermediate step between C and C++. There were no exceptions, no STL, and many other weird quirks
> You do realize that the entire "ubiquiti sucks" mood on HN started with the publications of these (factually inaccurate) articles from Krebs?

Their product direction changed and they're no longer my go-to. It appeared to kill a lot of goodwill from others too.

On the other hand, I hadn't even heard Krebs was going after them until today.
Wow, I feel like that is a step back. This feels a lot like other protocols non free specs like J1939 that is over $1000USD.
Bitcoin is too volatile, when will it become stable enough to be used for pricing IRL goods?
Annual letters since 2015, and why I write them
Since I don't post about myself much on social media and I'm a bad correspondent, it's been a really wonderful way to keep in touch. Also, seeing myself change over time and hearing back from long lost friends are added benefits.
What do you mean by hosting? Both paperless-NGX and OCRmyPDF can be installed completely locally. Why not just install paperless which takes care of the OCR integration for you?
Nobody forces you to buy NVIDIA hardware. I don't.
I think rakoo was contrasting your observation as a "server-side vs client-side" distinction. As you said, in a server-side model you're using a server and you have a lot of freedom in how you manage the system. The p2p model in Beaker put everything in the client (the browser and thus the frontend js) and you're constrained to that model.

The nice thing about client-driven p2p is that the local-first model mirrors the intuition of using a desktop app, kind of like editing files in vim. Rakoo is overselling it a bit though, because the p2p network we used doesn't guarantee uptime unless you keep your device on. You might still want a caching supernode in the system. P2P also introduces coordination challenges with multiple devices, though the hypercore protocol folks are developing some answers to that now.

The idea you're discussing of dumb files on an HTTP server can work. There's a shocking amount you can accomplish if you just add the ability to enumerate files with range-queries (aka "list files in folder") though solving that with generated index files as in RSS is also fine, and a bit more flexible to boot. If your goal is to keep the server "dumb" then you're probably looking at a pull-based architecture -- again like RSS -- which reduces the amount of coordination between servers. This tends to mean you sacrifice discovery because you don't receive information you're not pulling, so a @mention or reply or subscribe by a random won't reach you. That might be a feature more than a bug for some. The solution is either to add push or to do some network-crawling. Secure Scuttlebutt does the latter along N expansions of the FoaF graph, which has a nice web-of-trust concept embedded in it. You could also go "full google" and run a service that crawls the entire network, then serve the crawled output to users, at which point you're pretty much at Twitter-levels of connectivity with a pull-based network.

The one other observation I'd make is that dumb file servers are most limited by the kinds of queries they can satisfy over the network. You can solve that either by crawling a site into your local index before attempting queries, or by trying to produce index-files on each server (which, again, is basically what RSS is). If you do the latter, I'd look into a file format in which range queries could be used so that a query can fetch a subset; perhaps using a fixed-length header and/or fixed-length records.
The article says "No digit can appear in the ostrich head _more than_ three times."
What’s the tool to view this report in an acceptable format? I’m actually interested to read and share it.

I’m not sure about this site, but it seems to be rendering the research report in some strange form hyper-optimized for advertising?
Because I wrote this comment shortly after waking up and made a mistake. That code is far far better. Thank you.
Not saying crypto has failed in all aspects, just in the use case talked about in the blog post. I don't see crypto competing with e.g. Nequi any time soon.

The project you mentioned is interesting, but I see it as something much more for the middle and upper classes. I know plenty of crypto enthusiast in those circles.

I tried Buda, which is mentioned in the article as partner. It has been the most tedious experience with a "financial" product I had in my whole life.
Drivers make all hardware communicate.
Rust is absolutely dominating the very tiny domain of greenfield OS development.
> There it is. This is just an article blindly bashing cryptocurrencies. I implore you to ask yourself, what has previously been used to do all the above? That's right. Fiat currencies such as the GBP, USD, and other currencies.

Did you read the part after that? It sounds like they might use crypto for other purposes, and that they hope the useful things about it come to overshadow the way it's largely used today.
> We know that the single best predictor of job success and performance is IQ.

WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.

IQ predicts how fast you learn shit, not how well you do on the job. Plenty of studies from the fields of personality/social psychology/psychometrics talk about this, get out of your narrow SWE field and read up on these subjects. This IQ=job success belief is simply SWE self ego-stroking.

edit:

Jordan Peterson (psychology phd) - The Mystery of High IQ and Industriousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0zS2RAzlI
> Automakers found that mechanical, hydraulic or pneumatic controls failed to achieve enough accuracy and consistency over each vehicle's usage life to meet these emissions tests. This was especially the case as the car aged.

Decades ago, I owned an old Alfa Romeo that incorporated a complicated cam system to control the oxygen ratio to the fuel injection system. More complex than your typical 1-dimensional function of a cam, this cam was "two-dimensional" in its output. The cam follower was able to slide along the axis of the cam based on something or another (RPM? temperature?) and the profile of the cam varied from one end to the other. Now there's a pretty wild "mechanical computer".

A mechanic though told me that over time the middle of the cam would wear — a kind of "saddling" — and engine performance (and probably emissions) would suffer.
wrong.. one of them is bricks whereas the other is gorillas
> Do you know what is going on in all your 3rd-party Linux drivers, say, from NVIDIA?

I’d certainly like to.
I don't see any text explaining how this works beyond:

> The Electronic storm surge model is a depth-integrated single-layer two-dimensional electronic model based on hydrodynamic equations used to examine tidal surges, comprising three main units; a unit holding the input and output devices (Advance Instruments OS-240 oscilloscope, Commodore CBM 8032 Computer and Commodore 2031 5¼" floppy disk drive, and another two units (connected and wired together in a V formation) forming the mesh framework of the machine.

and there are not enough pictures for me to understand. My guess is that this is an analog computer which uses voltages in circuits to model the differential equations of the atmosphere pressuress? And do they divide up areas of the atmosphere into each cell or something?
Soon! We're polishing up a platform engineer role now. It'll appear on https://fly.io/jobs/
Andy Jassy on Figuring Out What's Next for Amazon
You can’t beat mikrotik s routers (rOS / routerOS) and their routing hardware. I actively managed well over 500x of them. however I agree with another reply that their access points are definitely a side show for them.
The unfortunate part is their interface and sw capabilities are so great that if they just put some additional effort + latest gen hardware towards their access-points they could become one of the top players in Wi-Fi.
(I also manage several hundred mikrotik access points).

Ruckus is my go-to for access points/ client Wi-Fi. (I manage 1000s of ruck) Excellent hardware. Every AP they offer can have it’s firmware flashed to either fully standalone, OR centralized manage (vSZ / ZoneDirector), OR unleashed (which is AP self-managed for up to 25 local aps).
Another much overlook feature of ruckus is that every function can be controlled/modified via SSH. while not as powerful as a true API, it’s still very powerful and often very overlooked.
Come on, it was just for a very small minority, and you couldn't do it for every payments, most businesses refused for small payments because of the fees, "CC only after X dollar" kind of rules

And you still can't use your phone, a joke this system is
China really does take that to another level - when you order a meal in a restaurant and get the bill it has a WeChat or AliPay QR code on it. Scan the code and you've got a pre-populated payment for your meal that can be processed without sitting around trying to get the waiter to bring a card machine to you.

At least in the UK that exists to some degree post-covid, but its in the form of every pub chain in the country having its own crappy mobile app for ordering via a phone.
Wow, hopefully you weren't transmitting! The harmonics and spurious signals from that sort of thing would be difficult to manage and stay in band.
Be a good writer to be able to recognize and hire good writers?
I've tested the lightning in El Salvador to lightning payments and they work in 4/5 seconds in the merchants that accept them. There's also the local wallet QR codes which I haven't had the opportunity to try yet

The volatility is what I like the least. Like one day realizing that the Wendy's hamburger I had for dinner was well timed, because a few hours later Bitcoin's value dropped.

In El Salvador we've had an stable currency for decades, the USD since 2001 and a stable Colón since the 1990s.

Exchange rates is something that most millennial and gen z's have never had to worry about in El Salvador. As our wages, many of our imports and exports are prices in USD.

Compare this to other countries like Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey or Lebanon where the exchange rate is daily news. Or like Nicaragua and Costa Rica where prices and payments can be made in both USD and their local unpegged currencies.

There are only a few currencies whose value ocassionaly increase compared to the dollar. Sometimes it's the Swiss Frank, the Guatemalan Quetzal or Euro. From this ones, the Quetzal exchange rate is perhaps the only one that could affect El Salvador the most as fruits and vegetables are sometimes priced/paid by importers in Guatemalan Quetzales.
Suing a journalist is not a good look. I wonder what other vendors out there will take up some market share from them after this nonsense is over. Hopefully this in the end this turns into a net positive for Krebs.
I don't know which websites you are using. Respected organization have been providing reliable and non-changing advices for a long time already: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you....
I got the Bad SSL Cert warning in Firefox and just backed out.
Why is there a big list of notebooks with a huge amazon logo for several pages of scroll before the actual article?
As I’ve previously commented on this topic on HN, the only reason this will start a food shortage is if people start prepping for a food shortage. If this news wasn’t as widely reported we’d be fine but the more we talk about it the more likely it’ll become a thing.
Syllabics are an abugida, so they map to the structure of Cree, Oji-Cree, and Ojibwe quite well. In these languages, syllables tend to have a single consonant followed by a single vowel (with some exceptions; this applies less in non-syncope dialects as well). Words that are unwieldy in the Latin script are less daunting in syllabics:

anishinaabemowin -> ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ

makade-mashkikiwaaboo -> ᒪᑲᑌᒪᔥᑭᑭᐙᐴ
You'd be surprised how much of that you actually need to actually get a software project off the ground and into customer's hands.

I've come into projects as the architect for refactoring what was built by someone who had only just learned to code. It was bad, sure, but they were bringing in enough revenue to hire me and get things on course. All with 0 knowledge of devops and 0 lines of test code coverage.
For the limits the speed is 1200 mph and the altitude 59,000 ft.

A commercial airliner won’t exceed 650 mph or 40,000 ft.
"I have never been able to figure out what went wrong, but it was extremely embarrassing."

Kudos for retracting. Integrity is probably more important for science, than intelligence (not meant as offense, there are a million reasons a experiment can produce odd one time results).

Too many published results seem to not be reproducible anymore and not many are even trying, as there is little benefit in reconfirming findings, but rather incentive to publish, publish, publish.
Quantity over quality it seems. We somehow need to change that again.
Further you need to trust the devs writing the algorithms as well.

BTC forked shifting much of the value of BTC onto another blockchain. If it happens again, you have to remain vigilant to recoup your value.
This took me down memory lane but in a weird way. One of the first languages I really took to was vb6. I was absolutely convinced I could write an OS with that language... I tried and tried - really not knowing what I was doing and finally realized its limitations. Such a good lesson on using the right tool for the job.
Good question. I have found only 1 person in the world that cares for what I have an interest in. All my other heroes are in the grave.
The question becomes at what point do we expect companies to train people and what point do we stop foisting that on universities? This ties into the bigger goal of what the purpose of university is and should be, but I personally think companies need to step up and start training again instead of expecting universities to cover most things they want/need.
I have a tp-link Omaha setup in my new house. I run the management interface on the LAN in docker on an old Linux box (runs pihole too). Works really well so far! I have the wifi 6 APs, a PoE switch, and a router. I have 1gig symmetrical fiber and everything is reliable and fast now. Previously I had an edgerouter-x and it was very flaky.
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Single DB corruption and disk failures are more common than you think.

"Single master, replicated to another region."

Why do you recommend against using a modern distributed database?

Is it that hard to spin up something like CockroachDB? In fact, it wouldn't surprise me that Wave are running CockroachDB as their Postgres foundation under the hood.
Haired programming is bogus. It's just another form of micromanagement invented by MBA types. They're constantly trying to make us more productive and forcing us to collaborate in uncomfortable ways. Our jobs are difficult, it should be done at our pace, not theirs
Mining energy use and the price of bitcoin are co-integrated. They play off each other. An increase in price incentivizes more mining and more mining increases the security of the system, which incentivizes more money to flow into and stay in bitcoin. Also, as miners become a larger industrial complex and tightly coupled to electricity producers, they become a tightly integrated piece of civilization that has funds local tax revenues, is the most ideal customer for electricity producers, gives people income, and has its own lobbying groups that push for positive policy change for the system.

And in the future flipped world I'm talking about, where in order to buy energy you need to have bitcoin, there is no "buying" bitcoin. Bitcoin is the primary money that you need to have to buy energy. And if you don't have it, then energy producers use their energy to mine it.

At that point, it ceases to be a speculative asset and becomes the key unit of account for civilization that doesn't depend on the enforcement of the monopoly on violence.
is there any article/book/blog about this +1 system?
thanks a lot

ps: I was also thinking about monitoring fungi, microbes etc. (and the usual temp, humidity, acidity)
I'm just using simple IIR filters because it's one float of storage and one line of code, but I'm curious: which filtering algorithms are you talking about?
I agree with you there. All the data is right there, in fairly open (if not exactly standard) formats. They even include an index document and basic descriptions of the data formats. One would think their competitors would want to make it easy to port exports from Google Takeout into their systems.

I'm a bit surprised that you had trouble importing photos, though. Isn't most of the metadata kept in standard EXIF tags in each file?
Perhaps you mean childlike, not childish?
I absolutely despise things like this.

The war in Ukraine, amplified by the West's anemic and at best useless sanctions, have likely led to a famine which will effect millions of people.

Yeah, us sitting here in our offices in the richest country in the world, arguably the people who helped cause this, won't be effected. Maybe our food prices go up a tiny bit.

The people in developing countries, like usual, will now become victims of starvation, which will lead to revolutions and civil war, and ultimately more suffering.

I'm sorry to be so cynical about this, but it has been like watching a slow motion, unending train wreck see the last year of foreign policy nightmares coming out of The United States. It turns out that, no, we are not in the end of history, and yes, there are still a lot of bad people in the world.

Our foreign policy laziness/ineptitude has led to a situation where the leader of a nuclear armed, hostile superpower (Russia) has two choices: win his war against the west, or die. In the process we have invalidated the idea of The Federal Reserve meaning anything (oh you have USD deposits? You made us mad? We'll just cancel them!), and are about to see countries selling oil denominated in something other than USD.

To be clear: Putin is a monster who has now killed thousands, and destroyed a country. I wish he was rotting in a prison cell. But the reality is: he isn't, and these absolutely idiotic sanctions we are imposing on Russia will lead to none of our stated foreign policy goals, and only suffering for the poor.

Somebody's twitter thread about how acksually this isn't a bad thing offers me no comfort in this regard.
Ask HN: How do you make the best of conferences and industry events?
Do you go in with a plan? Take notes? Get details of potential vendors?
Respect to the person on the other side of the conversation is why I invested $500 in camera, mic and phone setup when we went fully remote. All cable too, no wireless so no risk of pairing or battery issues.

Bonus is that giving a good impression helps my career too. Every little helps.
Snapchat already came and went. TikTok killed it.

There are still people using ICQ, but it doesn't mean it's not dead.
The need isn’t to have complete control in actuality, but instead the ability to control any particular something in the system, or at least understand it.

i.e. the ability to examine and understand something weird that’s going on and that may be a potential problem.
In Bangladesh it's booming
Beautiful Dashboards with Dash and Tailwindcss
Create an image of yourself being an expert at something, then advertise yourself as the expert to consult.
This is the best model. I have been advocating for this forever.

The university that I got my actual degree from was something that a SV company would scoff at. But, the education they were able to scrap together was far more effective in my day-to-day work than prior education I had received at a far more prestigious institution.

Perhaps it was just me, but it always seemed like the less money I spent on my education the more effective it became.
I wonder if the same consequences will apply to western children who grow up with mobile Internet without being exposed to the desktop web until they have to use it in a job or higher education.
Ah, now it makes sense. Thanks for the reminder of 8th grade trig...it's been a while!