skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, approximately, 25% of the workforce feel strongly about wanting a union so as to vote for it. Admittedly, only 20% feel strongly against it so to try and stop it. Makes it tough for either side to claim a proper mandate.
So difficult. Used to be easy. Stopped caring. Want to care. But black tshirts and air force ones are just so easy.
Whatever positive effect his philantropy has, it has to be offset by the damage he's done to the world, by slowing down progress (famous asshole predatory behaviour of MS of the nineties) in order to make his money in the first place. Only then we can try to assess if Bill Gates' overall impact on the world was actually positive.
Tips:

- Watch YouTube videos, there are beginners guides, tips and tricks, etc.

- Try to see each death as a challenge, what can you try next time to potentially not die? Dying and improving is “the process” in these games.
wat!?

I mean... yes it would, but isn't teaching proper care and attention of licensing important?

If it's not the developer's original code then they ought to think at least a few minutes about where it came from and whether they have consent to use it and all that nuisance.
I have a vague understanding that it is not so easy to encrypt data with ECC as it is with RSA. Is that true? This is one reason I still use RSA. What is the right way to use an ECC public key to encrypt data so only the holder of the private key can decrypt it? (Without any fancy key exchange - just fire and forget, email style)
The campaign against RSA is pretty evident for my pattern recognizer, for it comes in distinct waves and employs templated articles, which indicate an organized backing behind it; And it has some markers of psychological manipulation - first and foremost, when you honestly have an Y better than X, you don't yell at everyone imperatively to stop using X, instead you plausibly and intelligibly highlight all the advantages of Y and let the readers draw their own conclusions.

Clearly this is not the tactic used in the article in question and many more alike. One just doesn't promote better things by declaring all prior art inferior unfoundedly without any vested interest.
Do you know about https://eco.kde.org, it's a project under the kde umbrella (but not only for kde) that is sponsored by the German government with the goal of both doing measurements and defining how a eco friendly software should work. Okular was recently awarded the blue angel certification: https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blu...
I've been doing a bit of work in the esports space. Two projects, the first which allows freelance coaches to leave reviews on footage that's been given to them. You can see an example of a coach using it here:

https://kilk-valorant.vodon.gg/

The other is a tool that I've built in conjunction with a coach from a French esports team which allows the coach to add footage of the individuals players in a match, synchronise the videos, then view the match while jumping around each of the individual viewpoints instantly. This is an open source tool here:

https://github.com/Rodeoclash/vodon-pro

(I have some ideas around hosted services to support the review process which could be subscription based).

At heart I'm a developer, so I'd really like to connect with someone who is both in the esports space and business focused. Contact details in my HN profile.
The "few others" are a cadre of younger politicians. As millennials continue to win elections, the hope is that the tide will shift. Gen Z is even better because they have never had any illusion that this was a workable system.

Unfortunately the Boomers will cling on to power until their last dying breath. (ex. Nancy Pelosi running for re-election yet again).
Thanks for this! I knew about 256-color and truecolor modes, but I didn't know about the palette-changing escape sequences. I prefer to use the standard 16 colours for portability, but tweak them where possible for comfort. Now I can do that in a shell script instead of messing with the terminal palette on every computer!

Not gonna use those clunky base16 scripts, though. TL;DR in GNU screen:
$ echo -e '\eP\e]4;0;rgb:01/3f/13\a\e\\'
So far we've done very little. That said, there's a lot of energy around the project. People are contributing in various ways, expressing support, writing about it. We'd like to bring it all together. Happy to share more, if you're interested contact us. Email is on the website.
Is the source code available? It would be amazing to the best possible implementation available as Verilog. There are quite a few pretty good IEEE 754 implementations.
Ask HN: Find a topic-specific professional to answer questions on a paid basis?
Sorry, I'm trying to make the title fairly general.

My specific situation is that I've been teaching myself 3D modeling and I've run into a wall where after doing large amounts of research (10 hours+), lots of googling, finding appropriate discords, etc I realize I need to talk to a pro and pay for their time.

Time is money, and I've passed the midpoint on time spent vs project interest. I want to finish the project, but can't spend more independent time (2 days now) trying to figure something out.

So going forward, what are HN's recommendations for finding professionals for highly specific questions where you can pay them a reasonable fee for their time?
At what point should we be ok with low-level Amazon jobs sucking?

I worked at a fast food restaurant. That sucked. But I was also a high school kid with no marketable skills. So I sort of understood I was “putting in my time” and this is the way it goes. I never thought “we should unionize and demand more money.”

If Amazon needs career people in these positions, they’ll be forced to treat the employees as career people and not like the fast food industry treats employees like myself.
It's a scheme for the wealthy who the party exclusively serves to win elections by pandering with negative messaging designed to appeal to the disaffected. They can't win seats as the party of big business and special interests.
Can't read the comments. Too gray.
The goal of a for-profit business is to make money. There are plenty of non-profits and government jobs if you don’t want to get with the program. You may be shocked to find a lot of non-profits also need to make cash to survive, however.
Agreed, but still useful IMHO to get a sense of "where" you are in the day.
Very unrelated and I really hope my admitted ignorance won’t be unwelcome, but I was quite curious and… let’s just say I’ve never been so curious about something written in C, much less written any myself.

I glanced at the possibly relevant .c files and none were 300 SLOC or even LOC. That left only the .h file. I had no idea you could even provide implementation in .h files. I mean in hindsight that seems perfectly cromulent, if maybe still questionably intuitive.

Is this common practice? I’ve been assuming header files are used for unimplemented type definitions similar to TypeScript .d.ts files. Is this wildly wrong to assume?
I just read the PDF spec. That's awesome!

I particularly like the four 2-bit tags that allow you to encode: runs of a previously seen pixel, or a color Delta (big or small), or a previously seen pixel.

Plus, the simple hash function of previously seen pixels (inner product of rgba and the first four odd primes) based on their color values, into a 64 slot array, it's just really nice.

It's so refreshing to see one page specification. it just comes across as really elegant. Almost a work of art and has a certain aesthetic to it that I really like. It'll be cool to see more people creatively inventing standards. It's a worthwhile pursuit not because you think okay we're going to create a standard that's going to
take over some other standard...nor a proliferation. But a file format a specification is a valid sort of medium of creative expression and output. It's a valid creative product I think. So it's just really really cool to see this!
> It should be obvious that I'm inviting search and rescue to use the information printed there, why should a judge be involved?

For the same reason you still need to enter a sudo password when you use sudo for a trivial self-evident thing: It is not the trivial self evident thing we want to prevent, but the difference between a cop tracking the ex they are stalking and that missing person is literally just their no own judgement.

Trusting cops not to abuse a certain power is bad when you can just implement a little systemic friction that prevents large scale abuse.
I think there is too little reward/gamification in the free tier and also the pay for tier is too much also for too little gamification/reward
Executive orders to get as much as they can rammed through. Then its on Republicans to repeal popular programs and suffer the consequences.

1) Reclassify Marijuana as a non schedule 1 drug. (Finally a bill got through the house today to get the ball rolling but Biden could have done this day 1)

2) Declare COVID a national emergency and use that criteria to extend Medicare temporary to the rest of the country. Lets see the Republicans try to repeal that and not get beaten down to nothing.

There are many more things he could have done but does not want to. I have typed up this list so many times that it is tiring because it has been discussed to death at this point. Biden's upcoming historic losses are completely his and his party's fault.

The current Republican strategy is to run on nothing and they are pulling ahead.
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> Or "write it" in Java, there already is a framework to solve your very problem, all you need to do is to configure it in X.. ehm, YAML.

Nah, modern java needs still needs configuration in XML, YAML, _and_ environment variables set in shell scripts somewhere. And maybe stored in your LDAP server too ;)
Next month I will post my own stuff in this thread but for this month I want to highlight the much more active efforts of the whereiseveryone crowd. Please join us in making guix great! https://git.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus#manifesto

We have meetups also every month to discuss documentation and packaging. Next month I will also start a meetup for datalisp (which you could see as configuration meetup, i.e. how to run your own system).
Then I'm sure you can explain where the number c49d3608 86e70493 6a6678e1 139d26b7 819f7e90 came from.

http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/rigid.html

https://credelius.com/credelius/?p=97

With Curve25519, by contrast, DJB explains exactly what constraints were imposed (with very solid justifications for each of them) and then proves that Curve25519 is the unique solution to these constraints which minimizes the remaining free coefficient (which maximizes efficiency). NIST should appoint him to be their Czar or something.
> But my Kubernetes Cluster on AWS can handles this for only 30.000$ a month

A k8s cluster for something like that wouldn't cost anywhere that amount, plus you would get the advantage of being able to deploy your app in multiple availability zones. If you don't need k8s features, there are definitely simpler options that will give you redundancy and won't break the bank.
I dont know if this is a joke or an actual thing he did, but there is a story that he came back from visiting Sony in Japan with the idea that Apple employees should have a uniform, like some kind of Bond villain.
The first link was the translated one. HN replaced it with the original Norwegian one.
This does sound great to me. Do you have any way to keep up to date with your progress?
> but statistically speaking, when centrist Democrats run in those swing districts they win more often than progressive Democrats do.

Turnout is abysmal in these races. I have volunteered in multiple progressive races and it is such an uphill battle to increase turnout by even a few points. Many districts are won by brand loyalty(ie. a politician has been running for decades and so he is a known figure).
See my reply to denvaar for an example!

It has much in common with mindfulness I'd say, with some extra "simplified" techniques and learnings. It's easy to dismiss this type of therapy (even more so before there were studies on it), but the mindset changes which it advocates are very wholesome and are likely to increase quality of life even if it would fail to lessen the pain, so there's very little to lose!
I work for a small product development and contract engineering firm - a dual major in EE and MechE would be a big plus in our eyes. Not sure if that’s the type of job you want, but there’s definitely such firms scattered across the US (assuming you’re based in the States).
Idk, my manual Honda was stolen after living near Seattle for about a month. Luckily it wasn't valuable enough to chop.
Zero trust means zero trust. If your security relies on trusting a central authority, don’t call it zero trust incorrectly.

Use the right term, not twisting a wrong one.

It’s a little bit like other terms, democracy, peace process. Etc. Democracy is defined to be what I do. So you can never be undemocratic.
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I've just read this book and I can highly recommend it. It questions the very nature of our "progress" as a species.
> Is this common practice?

For small libraries, yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Header-only
The contra argument is that bear can and will come at you whether you poke it or not. I fact, you can be hanging out in forrest, minding own business, actively avoiding bear and he/she will come at you to attack you.

Bears do what bears do. No reason to make up feel good rationales about how attacked people actually deserves it nor how the bear attack was actually caused by a Wolf over the next hill.
I love most of them!

Is there a way to search for non low-contrast themes?
My search for "High contrast" among the light themes yielded no results, yet i saw some themes that fit the bill while browsing.
Yeah, we do. Nato expansion is NOT the reason.

> why did we think this was a good idea?

I thought it is good idea to join NATO, because then NATO has to help you defend if/when Russia gets expansive again. Or someone else, but realistically it is Russia who is most likely to do it.
Disinformation should be downrated. If I use a search engine, I should be able to find reliable information, not something that is artificially and falsely promoted. But I also need to be able to find it in case I want to do research, learn how Russians are thinking etc. I think DuckDuckGo has taken an appropriate approach.
The 200$ monitors at my work have height adjustment and can even rotate 180°. My only possible conclusion is that someone at apple is a huge asshole.
I guess it depends on what the intended use is, over the years I used eeePC's, Acer One's and similar 10" (or smaller) laptops (yes I know that those are low cost/low performance) without much issues, they are very handy (as in very portable) to (say) occasionally access the web while traveling, troubleshoot (via usb/serial) routers/plant controllers and similar, but also did "office work" on them when needed.

I would say that they are (were) a much more controllable (thanks to the keyboard, even if tiny) tablet, I got one of those "detachable keyboard" tablet (a HP Pavillion 10") a couple years ago and somehow it feels "different".

I think that (besides the e-ink display which is IMHO a very nice idea) there is very little choice of smallish comparable devices, the only one I know about are the GPD ones:

https://www.gpd.hk/
Everybody has the freedom to follow the rules or try to skirt around them.
I’m seriously considering to make that mandatory via the spec. :D
I agree here. I tried to power through the book (which to be fair is really clear, didactic and still concise) and I was stumped because I'm more practical minded, and I'd be trying to look for examples in my domain (signal processing: filtering, beamforming, mle/map, compression, etc.) and I'd be stumped quite fast.

I appreciate any textbook with interesting real world examples and slow worked-through solutions. But maybe I'm a bit too lazy to do the work myself.

I still haven't grasped really what svd does, why it is different from eigenstuff (and... well... what eigenvalues/vectors are...) and the link between those and solving linear systems, and with the characteristic polynomial, and matrix inversion, and... I have intuitions, and I can mostly implement the stuff, but no clear understanding.

So... I suck at learning linear algebra :-)
Ha, 0BSD makes me realize they could’ve called it 0MIT, as in “omit attribution.” Would’ve been funny and arguably more understandable.
Even as an Aprils fool joke, it's of incredibly poor taste. User trust is a invaluable asset that projects like Neovim has, and it's unwise to drop all of that with deceitful and inflammatory language. Had the author consulted with others before opening this PR?
I hear you, but think we are talking at cross purposes here because I
am not making a Free Software argument. If we can factor out
"proprietary is evil" for a moment then there's a world of difference
between human activities that serve our mutual day-to-day needs and
those that are parasitic upon our vices.
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I've seen research that supported that idea and research that didn't so I'm not sure it is possible to provide a definitive answer to that question.

As a colorscheme author, though, I can attest that working on a dark background gives me a lot more "range", so to speak, than on a light background, which tends to make "dark" colorschemes much easier to create and more expressive.

For me, the sweat spot is at around 10-20% lightness.
That doesn't offset all the political sabotage and hostage taking the Republican party has been pulling off since 94.
>where marijuana is legal, why isn't there a big push to make it easy to buy it with Bitcoin?

They're not that stoned.
Randomly? No, it was deliberately used to make this article clickbait. Its not that fascinating when a normal person gets scammed. She scammed us by telling us she's a expert when she's clearly not.
For working in sunlight or very bright days; my daily driver in winter is an x220 and it is perfect but in spring, summer, autumn, I simply cannot see anything so I switch to my MacBook m1 which, at full brightness, still is not good already (and it is only spring).

But yes, blobless Linux would be a very big + and so would very long battery life. I have a stack of x220s as backup but they will run out in the end and in my country the supply is drying up as they are good and cheap so people bought them up.

A run of x220 or rather x220t with eInk or rlcd would do me well with the 9-cell battery. But it is a bit big too big and I still need a tablet (in case of 220) and phone which I do not like.
I was pondering about using simple decentralized databases that are kept synchronized asynchronously.

I arrived to a design where SQLite databases would be synchronized by Kafka. Kafka is really robust, and has a friendly semantics when configured to be in-order delivery.

The catch is, you don't issue writes to SQLite anymore. You write Kafka messages, and have to prepare to resolve concurrency problems at read+write-to-db time. For example, user registration is not an atomic action anymore - you write a registration attempt message, and then it might race with a concurrent registration attempt from an other node (say due to retries and random load balancing).

You resolve the race in message-reception time (doable due to stable order on multiple reader nodes). I expect this would work nice, but needs you to rethink all actions that used to be synchronous db writes.
Heh :) I love this piece. It's so intelligent!
Mearsheaimer would have to show that absent NATO expansion, Moscow would let Ukraine live in peace.

There was no risk of Ukraine joining NATO anytime soon.
There is a forum dedicated to devices like this at https://forum.ei2030.org/ - also a zulip chat linked there which is more active.
How is "little kids" better?

Games are for every one (well some games are for mature audience but that's not the point).

I like easy games because I don't want to be punished for not being good enough after a job week.

I like thinking/strategy games like chess because I like to challenge myself.

I like a lot of other genre for different reasons.

But not a single one of them should be depicted as "for little kids", not even sokoban, tictactoe, etc... because that's just not true.

Games are for entertainment. You're either entertained, or not when playing the game. It's completely subjective. It does not depend on the fact you're a kid or an adult.
I don't believe this would work to fight procrastination for more than a few days. Just like all gamification systems, they are very limited and won't change your inner motivation.
Why the assumption that they're worse?

If the root cause of the problem is monopoly, then this is exactly analogous to the question of established monopolist vs startup.

"No one ever got fired for choosing <current monopolist>" is fine if you're playing it safe but many people don't have that option and find, sometimes to their surprise, that the cheaper option is also better, due to the different incentives in play.
No, I had a libretto, it was very cool but in the end not usable enough for me.
The support for joining NATO in Finland is going up, because exactly as you say, they think they are in potential trouble.

Obviously they in fact are at risk and they know it.
I find the Boox display fast enough to work on, it is just cumbersome to having to set it up on a stand and connecting up to it; takes up a table in a bar instead of just a little laptop like you suggest.
I enjoyed the Typescript definitions of LSP-protocol.