skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the anti-Wayland crowd needs to just shut up.

Maybe there wouldn't be a substantial antiwayland crowd if wayland proponents hadn't started saying that when wayland was an impractical mess years from being ready back in 2015-2017

Offering a superset of functionality in a prominent option without major downsides might have worked too.

At least it would have worked better than offering limitations and telling people to shut up and deal with it.
Having a pattern repeat is only a problem if it has some inherent downside. Let’s assume every review over your career is acceptable vs outstanding, but you also get paid more money. Isn’t that a better situation?

If you and your boss have a slightly worse relationship but you’re personally happier then again that seems like a net positive.
If you mean the same thing by pay for software then I’m truly lost. I pay for loads of software. I largely find it quite affordable.

As for democratic legitimacy, I think your position is absurd. There is clearly no real public appetite to change the status quo on copyright law. If there were it would be an electoral issue, and it just isn’t.

> This argument didn't hold much water before there was a decent infrastructure of free software,…

Free software covers some basic commodity software and infrastructure needs and that’s about it. The first areas to be covered were tools and applications needed by software developers, text editors, compilers and such.

Beyond that the development of FOSS applications was very slow and incomplete. Meanwhile commercial software saw massive investment and the development of a plethora of both general and niche applications, including in many areas no FOSS applications even exist to this day.

The commercial software industry consists of hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in software globally very year. It employs many tens of millions of developers, but also artists, designers, researchers, QA testers, trainers, and domain experts in almost every field of human endeavour that contribute to the refinement of the software. The FOSS ecosystem is pitifully tiny in comparison and it’s finding Morris can’t hope to come close to providing a viable alternative.

I’ll give two example from personal experience. In one job I worked for an independent software vendor that developed an application for designing cellular radio networks. It used terrain data and radio propagation modelling formulas to calculate signal strength and interference maps to help cellular network companies optimise their antenna placement and orientation. This was in the late 90s. No FOSS solutions exist in this space even today, developing the software took the input from a team of radio engineers as well as developers. The company also employed professional technical writers, application support personnel, trainers, a whole ecosystem of professionals.

The next job I worked at was an ISV developing derivatives trading applications for banks, pension funds and such. The software included front ends for traders, order routing servers, and interface gateways that connected to derivatives markets all over the world. Again the input from domain experts in trading was key, software developers on their own needed help to understand what traders needed, and how markets work.

Again, no open source solutions like that exist, and I don’t see any funding model coming along to address a need like this.

Even when FOSS does address a market need for applications, it often lags decades behind commercial applications, and is highly derivative of them, simply copying commercial application designs. People simply can’t wait half a lifetime for FOSS developers to get around to addressing a requirement, when commercial vendors can marshal
Millions of dollars of investment to get useful applications to market in just a year or two.
Probably cause Big Tech stole all the computer vision and DSP folks
Yeah, it gets a bit confusing when you add in the German Emperor, Wilhelm II.

* George V and Nicholas II share Christian IX of Denmark as a common grandparent

* George V and Wilhelm II share Victoria as a common grandparent

* Nicholas II and Wilhelm II are more distantly related to each other (second cousins once-removed through Frederick William III of Prussia)
Ha! I got that too!

I tweeted the classic joke "old people should be killed at birth", which made sense in context. Got a few likes in the moment. 4 months later, account suspended, had to delete the tweet to get it back.

I'm still puzzled by what happened.
- sky-high
+ but

Swiping fiasco. When do we get the edit comment feature in HN? :)
They were invited back after getting fired.
There are plenty of videos on Youtube about the US's previous work on a liquid sodium-cooled reactor. These are pretty apt:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVhtygifsuE

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NKdWV5SCg

That one site is responsible for quite a large fraction of the deaths acknowledged by the US nuke industry, maybe a strict majority, with an unknown number more unacknowledged. The most reliable product of that industry has always been dishonesty.
Some cameras still turn off the video mode, it has been patched out in some nikon and Canon models as it's just a firmware limitation stemming from the same tax reason.
Lexical Analysis in 11l
Interesting. The default seems logitech capture which immediately hits all the fans on my laptop. Wonder what the difference is... Thx!
The peak of that was the amazing Panasonic GD55: https://www.gsmarena.com/panasonic_gd55-372.php
Streamlining the actual process of the legislature so that more can get done
Firstly it isn’t so easy to just ‘park’ billions of dollars. Even if they’re in a bank they can be lent out by the bank.

Secondly the point is sort-of that an organisation like tether doesn’t get the choice: their purpose is to hold dollars and issue equal amounts of their IOU, just like when a bank holds shares in Volkswagen and issues an equal amount of the ADR (the ADR represents the shares held by the bank but, unlike Volkswagen stock, can trade in US markets) because their job is to hold these two meant-to-be-equivalent things rather than to hold Tesla stock instead because they think that would be less of a waste of capital.

If people felt that it was a waste of capital to put money into tethers then maybe they wouldn’t do it (but of course if you have tethers you can lend them in crypto things rather than regular things and maybe you think that’s actually better so you don’t care what tether the company does)
My last couple of phone purchases have actually been camera purchases.

I got an iPhone XR for the low light performance of the camera, not because I needed a new phone.

I got a 13Pro for the cameras and lidar, not because I needed a new phone.

My reality is I want a great camera that fits in my pocket and is durable - that also makes calls, runs Signal, streams Spotify/AppleMusic, and has a usable web browser...
We’ll run, small, efficient startups that raised significant capital right before the crash.
Part of the problem would be long term tenants are facing is of their own collective making. Well, that and regulations. That being the difference in experience when dealing with short term Airbnb tenants who are often on vacation, and long term tenants. The attitude is completely different. Unfortunately, long term tenants are too often adversarial. They feel entitled, and are apt to pursue litigation against you. They too often will attempt to dodge their liabilities, and leave them with the property owner &/or landloard. Short term, vacation, tenants appreciate the business. They even occasionally buy gifts, and send thank you cards. On top of that, they have a reputation at stake. Airbnb insulates the landlord from some issues. I know of landlord who had little, but noticeable, damage done to a nice couch by an Airbnb tenant, and one photo and email to Airbnb had the full price to replace to couch reimbursed. It couldn't be any more different in trying to be made whole by ex-tenants without Airbnb in the middle.

Bad landlords get annihilated in real estate. Airbnb has solved a lot of issues for them. Unless an owner, or location/property, precludes Airbnb for whatever reason, there isn't a compelling case to not rent through them.

Maybe there is a market opportunity for a similar company but for long term rentals.
> The job advert explains what information the reader will need to make a note of, including the number of characters by gender, the number of sentences given to male vs. female characters, locations, how many questions are asked during the book, and what animals appear, among others.

All of that would be beyond trivial to get using NLTK or similar.
Tried this with an android client and experienced substantial latency despite working just fine between 2 computers in the same lan.

Mpd seemed to work better.
It used to be literally this.

> If you'd like to keep up with Twitter updates without logging in, try subscribing to Twitter via rss feed. […] Find an rss feed for a Twitter page in the sidebar of any public profile page

https://web.archive.org/web/20110228080118/http://support.tw...
Car services existed (that were not cabs), as did other ride-sharing services that didn't have VC money to burn.
Someone on reddit said 'Netflix is like browsing the $2 DVD bin at Walmart except your pay them $15 a month for it' and I felt it was very apt.
It’s also harmful to farmers and people who have to drive farther because they can’t afford condos downtown.
It depended on how long you had been at the company. I don't remember the formula but it was enough that you didn't feel bad about getting fired.
As far as the "terminal virtual machine" is concerned, text which scrolls off the top of the screen is gone forever. Most software terminals implement functionality to save that content into a buffer and allow the user to review it, but there are rarely any control sequences which interact with scrollback, and behavior which interacts with scrollback (like resizing the window) often varies between terminals.
At some point they abandoned trying to make a single good show or movie (or having a library of classics) in favor of churning out five mediocre ones.

Why watch a bad show? The best media is available whenever you'd like (but it's not on Netflix anymore).
As a counterpoint, I regularly find my intuition is wrong, and to some extent I think human intuition is wrong systematically. The people who make the best first impression almost always seem to be worse when you get to know them, and people who make a poor first impression often just think more and take time to understand. If you're in an industry where first impressions are most important (like sales for example, I think they never really should be) then maybe your initial impression is a good measure, otherwise, don't judge a book by its first few pages
> the subject was "unsolved problems in economics", not "unsolved problems in politics". Regulation is a political topic, not an economic one.

If you don’t care about getting it right, fine. Ask politicians to do whatever they want on the basis of whatever biases they have.

If you want to get it right, then you need to weigh the costs and benefits of different regulatory policies. That requires theory and data.
> The alternative is to do the kind of work very few else can do.

I feel like that's a ridiculously arrogant worldview. There are nearly 8 billion people in the world. And by definition, half of the population is average/below average. It's supremely arrogant to think that you're vastly above average to the point of being irreplaceable.

Additionally, the issue is that given two equally-qualified candidates, one can do the work for less simply owing to the fact that they live in a region where the cost of living is much less. That's the issue I'm struggling to death with.
If it's 'bold and flagrant', then probably "don't hire them" would be a pretty good rule.
Thanks for letting me know. I'll try it right away.
Twitter Board Says It Plans to ‘Enforce’ Musk Merger Agreement
Unlockable bootloader is criterium number 0 for me, even when recommending phones to people who will never want to change firmware. I would be happy if manufacturers stated this in phone specs.
Netflix has _always_ been the $2 DVD bin
I don't think that is the tidyverse's fault. Learning the tidyverse doesn't corrupt your brain and make it impossible to learn about vectors and subscripts.
Almost like Twitter has a massive problem with fake accounts. Or rather they don't seem to have a problem with it, people who care about truth have.
Seconded. I'm only keeping it for my daughter, she's engrossed with a series of unfortunate events.
Thanks for clearing that up for me, that makes alot more sense as a puzzle.

I wonder if it's something to do with corporate lobbying and a "if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" game going on.

For instance "If you give me the money (buy my overpriced bonds) I can do the things that get me re-elected, and meanwhile I can look into revising that bill you wanted me to look at."

Just a conspiracy theory though, I'm way too blue collar to properly understand this sorta stuff.
>I swear HN's discussions

Hardware Discussions on HN has been trending towards mainstream media since forever or arguably 2016/7. At least this being upvoted to the top suggest there are still a silent majority who knew what is going on and didn't bother commenting.
This looks fantastic, going to remember this for a few future projects.
Well, it was an opportunity to post something π-related...
You just bundle all libraries except glibc in the tarball. You build against the oldest glibc you're willing to call "supported". Firefox and Blender (among many others) have been doing this for as long as I can remember, and as long as I can remember their tarballs have never failed to work for me, on any distro.

The problem seems to me to be that there's some kind of cultural imperative to attempt to dynamically link against whatever the system version of a library is, which is clearly insanity.
I think should be this other link from 2018:

https://hackaday.com/2018/02/22/quickbasic-lives-on-with-qb6...
You must have the wrong company.

"Sourcegraph is a web-based code search and navigation tool for dev teams. Search, navigate, and review code."
That is some sexy industrial design.
There's still a market for buggy whips too.

No VC firm is investing millions expecting a 100x return in buggy whip startups though.
> You're perfectly free to completely ignore work after 5pm! Nothing bad will happen!

Maybe not in a big tech job. But I have worked at startups where ignoring work after 5pm was grounds for a negative performance review and being passed over for promotions. This was not the unspoken culture, it was the clear from-the-top direction. Deadlines existed and features needed to ship, and that required evening and weekend work.

If you in a role with even less power, ignoring work after hours can wind up with you being terminated.
I use Droidcam and the latency is minimal (over USB; WiFi is a bit more).
The CNN article is taking the definition of an HGV entirely out of context from the underlying CSIS article it links. From the CSIS article:

> Russia’s Northern Fleet has begun preparations to deploy the air-launched ballistic missile Kh-47M2 Kinzhal on MiG-31K carriers. The deployment of the new hypersonic weapon is consistent with Russia’s ongoing and persistent efforts...

Not all hypersonics are HGVs/skip-glide weapons.
We’re five years out from this prediction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726214

I don’t see a qualitative difference between Twitter with automated accounts and Twitter with actions that dissuade them.
>These are all from before the pandemic when people knew next to nothing about the coming virus.

And yet their tone was so brazenly confident.
>> Am I getting that right?

Yes, pretty much.

And in the interest of adding a further meta-layer, your synopsis might have benefitted from an unattributed paraphrased section from the article.
Twitter's account of deal shows Musk signing without asking for more info
> More specifically, this is where you need data which does not and cannot exist.

This is wrong. All important work in my field in the past 25 years has been empirical.

> Any model which assigns numeric "estimates" for these costs and benefits so they can be compared is substituting the authors' own subjective valuations in place of those of those who will be affected by the policy.

Very, very wrong. You’ll never get away with picking your own parameter values in modern empirical IO.

If you don’t know the field that’s fine. I probably don’t know your field either. But don’t make these overconfident and totally wrong claims about what’s done in a field you don’t know anything about.
I don't have to justify myself to you and do not intend to. I don't actually pirate anything, regardless.

My intent is that someone somewhere reads this and decides to let me buy their damn content. It's not a justification, it's an appeal. Put your album on bandcamp. Put your game on itch/gog/your own website/humble bundle, preferable without intrusive DRM. I have no idea where you'd put a movie or TV show, but there's probably some place.

Please.
This is a dilution of the word gas-lighting.

Yes, that deck has the dual purpose of "rationalizing" their investments in web3, which don't need rationalizing at all because they are insanely profitable, as they pump their prior rounds with new investor money in future rounds, as they really leverage the anti-dilution provisions of their OpenSea investment hard.

Every rebuttal written web2 in that article applies to web3 as well:

> YouTube gets to charge 45% because they’ve built a platform that directs billions of users to watch videos they’re likely to be interested in. If you don’t need your video-hosting platform to help you acquire viewer traffic, then you don’t need to share as much of your revenue.

OpenSea gets to charge 2.5% because they've built a platform that directs hundreds of thousands of users to browse NFTs they're likely to be interested in. If you don't need your NFT marketplace platform to help you acquire viewer traffic, then you don't need to share as much of your revenue.

Its whatever. I'm glad they released the deck. It is worth scrutinizing simply by questioning the source, but treat it as an informative piece to dig a little deeper in. "Oh no some figures in a slide deck couldn't be compared 1:1" eh, okay. that's all that is.
Star Citizen (2015)
Oh really good point. The admin logs for each server... you can never really delete those, even though it's all full of what you say and even images you post. Kind of filthy to think about all that. Just a bot copying everything you send Discord and re-posting it just so the admins have copies no matter what you do. Sure it's not "your" posts, but if you really wanted to delete all the data those should be included in the delete. Oof. It just gets messy fast.
Watching this video on it now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQJZHfAg18
"In those days it was mandatory to adopt an attitude that said:

• “Being small and simple is more important than being complete and
correct.”
• “You only have to solve 90% of the problem.”
• “Everything is a stream of bytes.”

These attitudes are no longer appropriate for an operating system that hosts
complex and important applications. They can even be deadly when Unix
is used by untrained operators for safety-critical tasks."

Very much so.
Were the layoffs from technology focused roles?
What made you drop zencastr?
This looks great. I left my Pixel 2 for a Nokia flip phone running KaiOS for half of 2021, but the OS was underwhelming, with broken WebDav syncing that required me to manually import contacts and forgo my calendar.

I then upgraded to an iPhone SE, but miss Android apps like Termux, PDANet, and MiXplorer. iOS lacks compelling alternatives: A-Shell, iOS-Socks-Proxy (running in A-Shell), and Apple Files + Readdle's Documents are decent, but don't measure up to the aforementioned Android apps.

All that makes the Jelly 2 an attractive choice. It ticks the essential smartphone boxes but discourages excessive use (doom scrolling, Instagram, TikTok, Hacker News, etc).
> you are at a disadvantage if you are not.

Are you?

If you want to become a manager and director of engineering or something then you probably need to sign up for checking your e-mail all the time.

If you're an IC and want to stay an IC you'd probably do better to make yourself indispensable by learning the codebase you're working on and becoming an expert. Which will be a lot easier if you're uninterrupted with mundane details.

Also if you're the firefighting person and the person that is easily interruptible then that's what you'll get, so you'll be constantly context switching and won't be able to become the indispensable expert.

And if you really want to climb the ladder, like someone else pointed out, you probably want to job hop.

You may be at a significant disadvantage by thinking that this is the way that you get rewarded.
Would they need to go through the entire interview process again? It would seem fair to just give them their old job back since they already did it.
The 2019 rent control law rears its ugly head. Everyone wants more space post covid, but nobody wants to build or even allow more housing. So the small amount of free market housing goes through the roof, and anyone with an apartment that can get away with airbnbing it tries their luck.
I recently torrrented again after a long time off (lost interest in watching movies).

But I hearrrd about this movie from India that was awesome.

Setup a torrent and left for work. The movie had downloaded fine when I got home. Comcast had also disabled my internet. No signal strength at the cable modem.

But, being familiar with this trick (my pi-hole to block advertising being what set them off last time) I restored it by turning off the cable modem for several minutes.

I doubt a single human interaction was involved except mine.
Note that he says estimate of human survival. It could well be lower. Also some people are going to have lower thresholds than others.
OK, but couldn't you do the exact same thing by running lean? Then the extra oxygen would convert heat into impulse. Or, as you said, by steam injection? (But then you'd need an extra tank for the steam, so that's probably less than optimal...)

(I'm not saying they're wrong. I'm asking for an explanation.)
No, I don't support defeatism. The end is nowhere in sight; a struggle, privation perhaps, but that can be overcome, as we have done since time immemorial, and as we will continue to do.

There is no alternative. Defeat and death are not an alternative to working harder. It is infinitely better to fail while having tried to overcome than it is to concede defeat, give up, and lay down. The former is noble, and the latter cannot, and should not, be countenanced.

Join the fight. I am right now today building machines that grow more food on the same land. It's my day job. We don't have to work on adtech and digital casinos. We can win, we can have fun doing it, and we can be prosperous and happy.
The Pixel 6a is supposed to be nearly the same size as the Pixel 5, I thought.
Princeton Prepares to Axe Star Professor
How much is your startup worth?
Funny -- this is why I love working in Lisp. I can edit the code and retry it, often by just restarting the stack frame. Compiling takes milliseconds.
Folding proteins is a scientific endeavour. You are raising the bar, thought I understand you wish you weren't—metaphysical questions about science, a requirement for the AI to explain any results in natural language of meatsuits, and referring to the first step of a grade school analysis of the _scientific method_ (forming a hypothesis) as a requirement for _science_, all raise the bar.