skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't get it. Nothing in this article makes sense to me, either. Not to denigrate the author - I'm sure what he posted makes a ton of sense, just not to me.

I made a twitter account shortly after it first started, made a few tweets, and then it languished and I think it's probably long deleted by now. Last year my wife made me another one because "you need it to promote your OSS stuff". Okay so I made a few tweets ... aaaaand it's been sitting dormant for months.

I just ... I dunno how to even describe it. Can't see the point, maybe? Can't build any enthusiasm to get involved? Find it about as interesting and engaging as cutting my toenails?

But it's been the same with facebook and ... I think it was instagram or one of those newer ones - the one with the icon that looks like a ghost. It's such a hassle to use them! HN is the only place I ever post anything, and even that's a few days of posting stuff and then weeks of nothing.

I mean, I do understand how it can be beneficial to work those social networks for your projects and passions and such, but yeeesh what a slog!
1. Going out of the comfort zone is generally a good idea as long as it's (medically) safe

2. Some of those (cold showers, fasting) have proven benefits. Are you arguing the benefits aren't useful or that all the existing studies are flawed?

There's also 3 of why'd you comment on something if you don't care about it but as I'm doing the same I can't really argue that fully.
Yep -- I'm real surprised Logitech hasn't shipped such a thing. $2-400 is the sweet spot. At ~$600, one starts being able to use a Canon M50 and a 22mm f/2 for plug-and-play high-end webcam usage.

There's a huge market there that doesn't know it wants one yet, but it will once it becomes available.
I don't know how much of this is reality, but to me the argument is as follows:

Let's say seeing a certain type of post makes someone sad, and that this causes that person's mind to wander, slowing or stopping their feed-scrolling for a moment now and then when they see such content. This means they're now stopped on the feed at a potentially vulnerable moment. There is now a monetary incentive for the feed curation algorithm to continue doling out the kind of posts that make the user sad, as well as placing targeted advertisements right with them - ideally ones that exploit the negative emotion in some way.

I realize not everyone reacts the same way. Maybe they speed up their scrolling instead. The kinds of behavior that social media feed curation algorithms track and act upon is opaque, and I think that lack of transparency and accountability can easily have unfortunate consequences.
I've been using a Sony A7iii and it's been great until I switch to an m1 mac. No compatibility anymore.
You are probably not going to get any sympathy for your hard line attitude here, this is hacker news, not daily stormer. You might want to grow some compassion too.

The tech industry was built and maintained by immigrants, and all families are immigrants to new lands at some point in their history. Look around, you will see there are folks that are doing things that you will not do for money. If you want those things to stop and collapse society, keeping pushing for deportation of the labor pool.
Started receiving DNS failures this morning. Resolved by using Google DNS, but still getting timed out responses. Microsoft's status page shows everything green, curious if others are experiencing issues.
35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly
Only my own experience and secondary sources https://keycloak.discourse.group/t/maximum-limit-of-realms/8...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54465114/when-realm-coun...
"selfie"? Video-calls are especially normalized now, since the pandemic. My family and friends use video-calls more often than voice-only calls now.
The cost of operating a US company in a highly regulated environment. Binance US, the closest comparable, "only" does 10% of the volume of Coinbase, or 20% if you take into account that half the Coinbase users are not from the US.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/exchanges/binance_us
Isn’t the video interface over USB standard? You don’t need drivers do you? Just plug and play.
Ask HN: How would you virtualize a multi-user DOS application in 2022?
Let's say you had a typical multi-user database-backed MS-DOS application, that for intractable business reasons had to be supported in a multi-user production environment today. What would your virtualization stack look like?

Here are a couple approaches I've experimented with, along with their downsides.

- Running a Windows Server 2k3 VM, along with TameDOS and a SSH server. VM NAT'ed to the VM host, SSH port is forwarded and the DOS application is used as the shell. Obviously using old Windows versions in any kind of business critical application is asking for trouble. Also, it appears impossible to spin up a new Server 2k3 installation as the licensing servers are shut off.

- Using a DOS emulator such as DOSBOX-X on each client machine, with the application files on a shared file server. Deployment is more complex than an SSH client, which can cause issues with nontechnical users. Not sure if issues will arise from multiple emulator instances accessing DB files simultaneously.

- FreeDOS VM. Multiuser access to the VM seems to be the issue here. Without a native SSH server and multiuser support, it would have to be something like spinning up a new VM for each user session. Again, not sure if multiple VMs mounting/accessing db files simultaneously will cause issues.

Any advice from folks with opinions about the intersection of modern virtualization and ancient DOS applications would be appreciated.
I still don't understand

they didn't let anyone proficient at LoL even try using it?
interestingly ...I built a DA mini-clone (as a multi-wordpress install) about 15y ago for a teenager art group at a local library

Sadly, it only lasted about 2y before being abandoned
My only suggestion was going to be "get the cheapest HDMI->USB you can find", but I see you also discovered that trick :)
What happens when the public loses faith in the Supreme Court?
Steps towards debugging and resolving Android bootloops
Surprisingly, a quick physical workout can help my mental state, and assist me with energy to push through blocking situations.
Forerunner, a startup that lets you buy into single-family rentals
If the spirit of the law of corporations is to serve the publics interest, and profit-motivation serves the public interest by increasing the capital savings in private society, then why do a variety of view points matter in achieving the objective? How does a board member with more feminine care knowledge increase the available capital for lending into, say, nail salons, by being more proactive about such internal capital expenditures toward more femininity?
> The swastika is a completely different symbol and unrelated to the Hakenkreuz. The swastika has never been used or considered by the Nazis.

This is not true. "Hakenkreuz" is literally just a German word for swastika, etymologically a descriptive one in German instead of a Sanskrit loan word.

Contrary to popular misconception, there is no inherent difference between a swastika as used in religious imagery and a swastika as used by the Nazis. The difference is context.
That sounds like a complex solution. Sometimes a dumb solution that works good enough is better than a complex solution that _probably_ can't be exploited.
Ok. But I don't think that's going to be done by putting them there. Nothing suggests it would. Instead, it's a slow process of endless education. And I'm afraid the people at the very top are (on average) the more conservative, so it's a long, uphill battle. Giving a bunch of women a cushy job isn't going to achieve that goal. Chances of it backfiring are real, too: one foobar and the mindset is back again, rooted firmly in evidence this time.

For comparison: look what a black president has done against racism in the USA. OTOH, I don't believe putting women on a board of directors is going to make companies perform worse. So many seats are taken by mediocre bootlickers. But I still think it's not going to help women in general.
I had the Atom until AT&T said it wasn't compatible with their 5G forced switch over. Now I have the cheapest android they offer until I can find something else.

I had an original Jelly but battery life was miserable.
I don't really care about this but:

I've got this friend, he's a really good guy, a stupidly hard worker, maybe a little naive from my opinion in that he doesn't question mainstream narratives a lot but obviously very intelligent. He has busted his ass for years. He has a PhD in Genetics, and an Mba and finally in his late 30s is stepping out from making 35k a year as a post doc to go work at a Bio tech focused VC.

I think he's going to get beat down the first time he sticks his neck out and it sucks to watch.

No idea why I'm saying this. Maybe the takeaway is that this stuff affects people you wouldn't expect.
> the few clueless productives who'll destroy their mental health trying to grapple with it all

Ah. Damn. Thanks for the reminder.
> 5. Block retweets which aren't quotes.

What's the reason for this? I didn't even realize you could do that.
This is true and is a limitation of SQL (not of the relational model per-se), and also is part of the problem that SQL is not composable (so you don't have a way to nested table definitions)
How is this different from Polywork (https://polywork.com)?

I feel like if this is for intros/hiring a simple community would've worked better.
USDX is a casualty of UST implosion and bad coding. People found a way to arbitrage the low value UST for something in the USDX system.

Press F to pay respects.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

While some people are really good at lying or dodging direct questions, many more are very good at lying to themselves. If you believe your own bullshit it's remarkably easy to look sincere while spewing it.

There are certainly many scammers out there, but also some people who believe their own marketing material. But the thing is that once you start picking apart one infinite growth pyramid, then you start seeing them everywhere, and eventually respectable people start trying to draw lines and claim that the bullshit on this side of the line is obvious and bad, but the bullshit on the other side is okay because reasons (reason #1: we can keep this running for at least another 100-200 years at which point I will be long dead)
If there's no scientific, consistent way to define race, how is it that a machine learning model is able to pick the race that somebody self-identifies as consistently? The model is simply using rules based on math to deduce an accurate guess.
No boom needed for a big improvement -- the Blue Yeti Nano sits nicely on my desk, gets the job done.
Oh my god thank you! This makes so much of my work easier!
The Sony a7 IV includes a screen reader to help the visually impaired
One of my first Android phones was an Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro.
It was great except the low resolution display and camera and bad touchscreen.
I will buy a similar phone with new Android version.
The Razer 5G from Motorola is small
https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56bbb053-68c8-4e52-a1e8-...

Hacker - Creature (Human Wizard)
3U
Flash, Flying, Haste
2 / 2
"When it cries out, look around for prey."
If someone has to create such a long justification for why they need to use twitter, i'm still not convinced it has any value. So far in my experience twitter is primarily an echo chamber for VC's to pat each other on the back. I even aggressively try to mute/unfollow them, but engaging with any tech topic just seems to force me into VC twitter. I don't really care for it.
If you’re a diehard fan why would you buy a subpar phone, and not the latest flagship? Smaller phones imply less usage because some things aren’t as pleasant as on a bigger screen.
College Board stops sharing data on Advanced Placement Computer Science exams
There are loads of caching proxies available for private/corporate use - I run Squid[0], personally...but have seen at least a dozen other tools in use in corp envs

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[0] https://antipaucity.com/2018/07/18/a-fairly-comprehensive-sq...
Exactly. It's amazing how efficient you can be when you don't have tons of pesky government rules and regulators breathing down your neck.
Robinhood launches DeFi wallet to rival Metamask
Direct consumer sales of CPUs is pretty niche even on x86, and on ARM side this whole SBC business afaik is pretty niche compared to the commercial (embedded) use. I can easily understand why no-one bothers to invest in that small sliver of a market
There is a huge difference between 0 ping and 35 ping though, particularly in pro-level LoL. It is strategic but that ping can be the difference between flashing a skillshot or not, and swinging the whole course of a teamfight.

Of course 35 ping is not THAT bad and I agree, while unfair, it wouldnt be the end of the world, it's not even Worlds, just MSI, an invitational event.
Can somebody clarify what a PC based console actually is? Is that a Windows PC with some specific hardware spec to build games for? How would that differ from an actual PC?

Personally speaking, I think the console market is going in the wrong direction with more complexity and customizability. Consoles should be simple (not with a bunch of different models and variants) and just work for quick entertainment.

PCs are where you go when you accept that there will be some complexity and complications in figuring out how to run your game.
The recently viral “USB hubs drove me crazy” post forced me to realize that all commodity outboard consumer hardware are probably identically sourced boards/chips, with western branding responsible for the markup— but this one survived where a previous cheaper one failed, YMMV.
I work in this space and although true (this is called modal dispersion), there are compensation techniques always used in termination equipment to 'handicap' or mitigate these occurrences. Not perfect, but very, very, very small deltas. Unsure if it's enough to act upon without knowing the length from output to next input.
> ML models are great tools, but they're way too much of a black box.

A human doctor is also a black box, in meat form.
It's not a get rich quick scheme, it's a Ponzi scheme. o
Once you can't convince new suckers to buy in the system collapses and the one left holding the bag loses everything.
Bitcoin is money, it doesn't try to be anything. It has succeeded far beoynd any expectations.

Not true. Tether should have USD equivalent reserves, but I don't care about them. I don't care if they go bust.
English version here:

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkomngbd5
That occasionally gets mentioned here [0]

[0] https://www.thelayoff.com/intel
This right here is the best solution I've found. I have their Brio kit w/2.8-12mm CS lens and it's excellent in a small package. Low light conditions are still a challenge due to the tiny sensor.

As a bonus, you can disconnect the built in mics and opt for a nice boom mic with a hardware cut off switch.
It doesn't seem like a concerted campaign, these don't look like sockuppet accounts.

I noticed that when any big news comes out, there are always slowpokes posting a dupe. E.g. Elon Musk Twitter deal was submitted countless times for each act of the drama.

I guess this was a similar case.
I would rather use LOGICAL replication to achieve 1MASTER-1SLAVE or 1MASTER-Multi SLAVE or MULTI MASTER - Multi Slave configuration after working schema design details and read-write query patterns across tables.
That one was a yoga 2 pro. An unfortunate choice to stray from the T and X series on my part. Or, they could have chosen not to add software limitations and Superfish or at least made it clear before I bought it.
Cool. Thanks, somehow I didn't understand that it is a product instead of an idea. (I have a microphone and can put it off camera. The quality of the picture is not critical for my application, and my personal eye does not find it a bother. I just want to look at the screen.)
I like the idea of the litephone except it's the opposite of what I use a phone for. I don't care much about phone calls, they're mostly useless except that my doorbell is hooked up to my phone (which is of course set to silent lol) and sometimes I need to talk to banks or recruiters. I want maps, chat apps, email, lyft, a browser, etc. but also to disable 99% of notifications 99% of the time.

Right now I still use my Palm Phone (PVG100) and I'm bummed that it looks like they won't release another one. Gonna use it until it's impossible for it to function in the modern world.
Completely agree, and I'm surprised more people aren't using Tweetdeck.
You think the housing problem we're facing would be alleviated by putting apartment buildings in my cattle pasture?
Don't be surprised, it is simply a lie!
Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller was a success for the modding community
> Yes I do. We could accomplish so much more with a direct democracy.

Absolutely not, lol.

The world is way, way too complicated for every individual to have a meaningful and informed opinion about every particular topic. That's why we delegate to experts in the field. There's no way I want some corn farmer in Iowa voting on monetary policy. Most people here haven't the faintest idea how monetary policy works. The comments here are horrifying, and this is a pretty elite group to begin with.

Similarly there's no way I want some city-slicker who's never held a hoe to vote on farm policy.

That's before we even start in on civil rights.

It's a flawed, backwards idea best left in the dustbin of history. It just doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Specialization is good. Delegation is productive.
Hugo is cool and all, but in the end it isn't that hard nowadays to bash together libraries to get whatever you want do, in whatever language you like, with whatever logic you like.

If you have an existing Hugo install, the easiest thing to do is write code to output your DB into static files, then run the Hugo process. A batch file or shell script can easily be used to automate the publication process. Trying to hack Hugo to directly use the DB is not worth it.
Fellow small phone fan. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the smaller OnePlus phones designed for kids.
> How does it know when to start emulating? Surely there is some overlap in opcodes between the x86 and ARM64.

Well, it would have to keep track of which regions of memory are code it has translated and which are data that was written out by the program it's executing.

It can check if a branch or jump instruction goes to data, and then jump to its emulator instead.
My problem is when you turn it on plugged in it defaults to USB mass storage. I have to turn mine on and then plug it in. What do you do?
Their website says: "USDC is fully backed by cash and short-dated U.S. government obligations". I'm sure they'd absolutely love an official audit of that, but given the murky regulatory environment for crypto, I'm also sure that Grant Thornton is refusing to do anything more than it already is.

I admit I'm biased, I've used USDC personally & professionally, and I know people involved with running USDC. They're not evil geniuses. And even if they were, you could make so, so much money by breaking it ala Soros & the Bank of England, that I think it would've happened by now.
My wife just bought the iPhone mini for all of these reasons, but she is definitely in a minority.

The main use cases for smart phones are texting, email, social media Twitter/Facebook/Whatsapp/etc., general computing (banking etc.), games, video.

All of these use cases are made better by a larger screen size.
It's not ideal but I've circumvented this by disabling automatic focus and other things that add visible elements to the preview, and the just using the preview's 720p output. It's a hassle and you'll have to manually adjust the focus so that everything's not blurry, but the end result quality is quite good.
This makes me really happy.

These companies treat this stuff as unimportant edgecases because it only happens in a couple of cases but when you are the size of carvana, your edgecases can cause major disruptions in a huge number of people's lives.

Companies need to be forced to feel this pain more often. And so awesome that this isn't a 3M fine slap on the wrist. I bet if you calculated the cost of losing your licensing in the state it's massively higher than what the equivalent fine would be.
This is really cool! I noticed a few things you might be interested in:

It looks like there might be issues rendering mana costs that have, e.g., 1GG where it does not render the second G. That is to say, it's rendered but only the barest left edge can be seen. This appears to only be the case if the card's name is sufficiently long (I noticed this with "Bethen, Cenn's Heavenly Sleep").

That being said, I have no idea how powerful Bethen, Cenn's Heavenly Sleep really is as a 4/4 flyer because it's CMC is "at least 3" because I can't see the full mana cost. The mana costs that I can see seem to suggest that the card's strength matches the mana cost pretty well, though, so I'd guess Bethen's cost was 4 or 5.

The text can sometimes say some weird things (from a 2/2 Zombie creature that costs 1 B(lack) called Null Slayer; also Zombie Human Clue is my new favorite creature type):

> (1 B(lack), Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a black Zombie Human Clue [it's amusing to me that the reincarnated token gains the Human type] with no mana cost. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield [the latter half is redundant with it being a token]. You gain life equal to the life lost this way [good to know?].)

It's still really impressive the effects it comes up with!
is the quality at least comparable to what i can get from a mid-range webcam?
because that is what this is competing with for someone like me who already has the necessary camera, but also needs a webcam occasionally.

i found this article https://havecamerawilltravel.com/nikon-d3400-webcam-live-str... that suggests the budget device is workable but obviously doesn't deliver the quality that the camera can provide. but how does it compare to a regular webcam?
Binary diffs are not useful, unless the diff software understands the underlying format. Most formats are linear but many are not, and many formats permit different binary encodings of equivalent data. Imagine for example archives created from same directory tree but by different implementations. There's no reason to develop this feature in git, because that's a lot of maintenance for little to no use. I don't see why spreadsheets should be any different. If they contain plain text that should be diffable you can remove non printable characters and pipe it to diff.
DAI is primarily backed by USDC actually, and then ETH. There is a funny argument to be made about that, but you didn't make it.

My thoughts are that the MakerDAO (DAI) community existed too early and didn't have other backing options, so gravitated towards centralized collateral for their decentralized stablecoin, despite the irony.

There are newer communities of stablecoins with a similar design to DAI that chose different decentralized collateral options, and are functioning just as well.

None of them are perfect though, usually some baggage with the founding team, or a shitty governance platform. But they're working okay.

My only point here is let's just criticize the accurate thing.
How’d that work out for Enron?