skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most eReaders use Linux. Kobo still provides software updates for models reaching all the way back to 2011. For something like an English novel Epub 3 is backwards compatible enough that it'll still work fine enough even on something like a Sony PRS-505 that only does Epub 2. And there's loads of tools like Calibre to back convert files if need be.

Really the battery is the only problem but some models do still have 3rd party replacements available.
Ask HN: Good review sites and channels by humans
Inspired by the discussions goin on in an earlier thread I would like to ask you guys:

What are good review spaces, that are actually produced by somewhat reliable actual human people .

Some of the examples provided:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/

https://linusmediagroup.com/

https://www.notebookcheck.net/

H

Gamers nexus

Hardware Unboxed
I think the community must know more and better so please post them here.
And once higher labor costs drive up the cost of living, you just ship away the next tranche of people who are now below the poverty line?
"by including <Genre defining game NFT> in our game."
The part you left out was meant to imply that the "Genre defining game" developer created the NFT's for the purpose of other people integrat them in the game and them getting free publicity,. Therefor rights would have been included.

> Why don’t the mods just put the thing in? Mods don’t need to respect anyone’s NFT ownership.

For the same reasons that people buy games instead of pirating them most likely. "Right click and save" is a fundamental part of the internet yet digital things are still are bought and sold. (edit including DRM type mechanisms if this pattern became a thing that actually mattered money wise).
Why do you expect to have to purchase property in VR? I think this was just a headline that uninformed people ran with because it was so provocative. There may be a VR equivalent to domain squatting, but probably nothing that would require you to get a mortgage.
You're making a big assumption that making the world better isn't about helping paying customers.
I've got a copy of Mycelium Running with instructions, and I don't think it's included in the long list of no no's for my apartment.
It will just be a normal pair of glasses in 10 years. VR is in the pre-iPhone smartphone era.
They could have made the world a better place clearly. I guess when your father is a chirurgian, it's harder to have empathy for other people.
Or you need a “Queen’s English” standard way of describing everything enforced to all users.
Definitely. Housing in LA is not affordable. It would make more sense to build houses in the lowest cost of living area in California.
I think they mean if you wanted to book a multi-leg trip of which only one leg is DB operated, it's a mess to coordinate and buy for different operators.

(I have no experience with this, but that's my interpretation of the comment.)
It depends on how it is used. As a bug tracker it is perfectly adequate, and I prefer having all of the information connected to a given issue in one place. It took us some time to get the flows right, but what we have now seems to work well enough. It is certainly better than the crap system we had before we adopted Jira, though that isn't saying much.

Edit: weird that an honest description of personal experience with Jira was downvoted to zero.
Like many others no doubt, I invested heavily into the mapbox-gl-js library (pre 2.0). I was able to build amazing value on top of that library including a routing voice navigation app for an aged care facility that is used to this day 24/7/365. It was a very sad day when they changed their licencing model to lock in vendors and I had to walk away from that investment of my time and effort. Luckily I had also worked and contributed to OpenLayers and Leaflet, so with significant effort was able to move my clients to those platforms.

I guess we now have some more insight into why this occurred.

> "In order to use most Services, you must register for or authenticate into a Mapbox account. When you use our application program interfaces (APIs), including our SDK Registry/Downloads API, each request to an API must include one of your account's unique API keys."
I'm going to speak from a place of an engineer / hiring manager that's been in startups for the past ~12 years and recently bootstrapped an engineering recruiting with a friend.

- As others said, you should post your salary. You'll likely need to be competitive in the markets you're hiring for. If you're open to folks within the US as fully remote, you'll likely want to be targeting the 50-75th percentile of salaries for the YoE you're looking for.

- The take home of 4 hours is quite a lot of time end-end. I'd consider slimming this down to 2 hours if you can OR allowing candidates to have several days where they can work on it at anytime vs being timed.

- It is extremely hard to stand out as an individual company nowadays. There are a truly amazing amount of startups, mid-size, enterprise, and beyond, companies hiring engineers of all levels. Without a way to tap into a market which you may serve organically and leverage those users into potential candidates, it's just going to be tough to stand out.

- You likely will need to spend time sourcing yourself and investigating a variety of avenues where you either a) spend your time sourcing / using a tool that helps (such as triplebyte / AngeList AList) or b) bring on an external recruiter. I would suggest bringing on someone that is actually technical and has a history in engineering, which is likely tough to find.

- Feel free to email me if you'd like to just chat more about this bit (external recruiting). We're happy to help, email in profile so-as not to simply self-promote within the comments. As a simple plug, we specialize in providing mid-funnel engineers for hard-to-hire roles and are happy to take over the first third of most engineering hiring processes.
Every.io sounds interesting. Except I have never heard of the company, there are misspellings on the webiste and the address is a mail drop in San Francisco. And nobody else ever heard of the company with zero links or information anywhere online. So they pay 4% APY but its a company nobody ever heard of.
> We're really getting to the point where it's mainstreaming.

I thought this for a while when my Dad (68), wife (45) and kid (5) all got into it really hardcore. They each got their own and were playing everyday, so much they had to recharge multiple times a day. I was actually a bit concerned. Then they all just completely forgot about them and now only my kid plays it, maybe once a month, for 10 minutes.
A lot of people do not have a public portfolio however. Whether for writing or for code. (For perfectly valid reasons.)

Of course, portfolios are a perfectly reasonable expectation in a lot of professions including the trades.
This is pretty cool, but all the sounds I clicked on were only 2-3 minutes long and that surprised me. I was expecting several hours of material per location so that it can be used for meditation or relaxing but the purpose appears to be different?
You're doing it backwards. Tell me why you're worth working for. Sell me on it. We should be giving you the take-home exam.

You're a self-described "run of the mill" software vendor. That sounds like a workplace that is zero fun. Strike one. Good candidates who can help you are in it for the adventure. We're not in it for your average benefits and wet mop process. Strike two. You're pretentious declaring that your run-of-the-mill job "requires a reasonably deep understanding of the underlying platform" presuming that we software engineers with decades of problem-solving experience can't learn it in an afternoon. Strike three.

It seems to me as though you're going through the motions to check a box but don't really want to fill the position.
Windows UI for a Website
As someone who has been a hiring manager for the last decade, I'm absolutely befuddled by the "tenure => competence" assumption.

Tenure doesn't weed out mediocrity by any stretch. In fact, the more tenure someone has, often the more difficult it is to determine from their resume alone whether they know anything.
I only know this because once every two weeks my corporate Dell laptop will BSOD, forget that it has a hard drive, and then continuously try to boot over HTTPS until I enter UEFI setup and fiddle with boot device order.
Ex project manager (few years Jira experience with local and overseas teams).

I believe a lot of the hate comes from the input rather than the software; aka what others are putting in. If you've got a really bad PM/BA your experience with the platform is going to be negative.

As far as everything else what are the alternatives? Most other platforms are horrible or lacking features.
You sound like you're dismissing it, but even if it wasn't all that useful on its own, it's a part of defense in depth strategy - it's just one layer in a carefully thought out system. Pledge/unveil is another, so is privsep+imsg, W^X, (K)ASLR, syscall origin verification, boot-time libc/kernel relinking, and a couple dozen other features I can't even recall now.

Most importantly, all of these features and mitigations are enabled by default, and are pretty much invisible to the end user or administrator; and actually easy to use for a developer. Contrast this with e.g. seccomp or SELinux. Google is even hinting "selinux permissive" and "selinux disable" in top 3 suggestions...
We've had numerous cases of ISPs spying on the domains that you are using and throttling your network usage according to that activity at least in the United States, so a VPN goes a long way towards ameliorating this particular issue.
Once they are left with the largest customers (endefinied as to how large that is) those customers may feel there are issues and leave.
Steam has somewhat sorted the backwards compatibility.

Hooking up a Quest 2 to Steam works well and it means that you have a platform that will support numerous headsets.

Where that leaves Meta though is an interesting question.
Sorry I don't. But they were publishing various reviews based simply on product specs, or advertised/PR features. With affiliate links to buy of course. Maybe they don't do it anymore? I took a quick look across 3 random categories and didn't find any. I guess I have to apologize for the noise, since I can't back up my comment.
Weird to look up one number, then fabricate $100k out of nowhere to compare it too. Plus, you are looking only at the energy bill, not the cost of energy saved...

The top comment in this thread states that 1.7% of the upfront cost of the apartment, $17,000, is for energy efficiency improvements.

In fact, the codes that mandate energy efficiency improvements take a detailed cost analysis into account, and only mandate cost-saving energy efficiency improvements.
Get rid of the take home work and and presentation. If you want senior or staff engineers their resume and a series of human conversations with whoever the stakeholders are should tell everybody everything they need to know. Your process seems more like you're looking for new grads with little or no experience. Almost as if you're ignoring all their past experience and wanting them to start all over again.

In short: Most mid to upper level engineers don't have copious amounts of free time to spend on maybes. There are too many better options for them out there.
I feel similar but just want to add that letting people do a ~20 hour probation week could be useful for both parties here. Meaning they can keep their same job, but you're going to pay them to do 1-2 weeks at 20 hours per week. This doesn't sound like a sensitive IP situation, either.

Also, if you can't get someone up and delivering value in 20 hours that's good data about your internal setup. My goal is a minor commit on day 1. And if you can't spec out value that could be delivered in that time frame you probably have weak requirements.
No license, just a bunch of binaries and header files in a Github repo.

Not sure who will be willing to try it in these conditions when there are high quality open source alternatives like Raylib, SDL2 (for C) and Processing (for Java).

Also, the name Precessing is too close to the well known Processing and gives a strange vibe ...

I have no problem with closed source libraries, but you need to be open about this and write clearly what someone is signing for when using your library.
Problem, is mostly with bad PMs, POs, Scrum masters and all the other potato heads, not Jira itself.
Do you have any stats or other evidence that it’s taking off among kids? I know teachers in our affluent town and have not heard anything about it (though I haven’t asked).
It's not a giant failure if liquidation preferences are in play. Liquidation preferences help in literally every scenario that is not an IPO. It is very common that a startup exits in an acquisition, and usually when that happens, small common shareholders get a lot less than the "value" of their stock. The liquidation preference protects you (or pays out a bonus) in that case.

It has a huge effect on the EV of a startup investment, and that's why VCs and founders use them.
This isn't a serious reply either. What happens to planes if consumers choose to fly half as much?
> there's not a lot of computing equipment still in use (or considered usable) from that era.

George R R Martin works in Wordstar 4.0 from 1987:

https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin...
I fail to see your point, really. I'm not sure how your premise of "[trying] to build something like a new hardware device or systems" forces anyone into the app store, or even if it did compel them - say in the instance of the Roku app - what reason is there to charge for this? Bake it into your hardware price.
LTT makes almost all of it's money from floatplane, youtube premium, and youtube advertisements. The "deals" they work with companies are almost entirely outside of the product space they review.

This mud-slinging idea you continue to push (with zero evidence) is contrary to their financials and directly contrary to their business model.

Why on earth would Linus leverage his entire business in debt to buy a huge facility to produce hardware reviews if that would mean "his sponsors" (your salacious claim) would abandon him or force him to change?

It literally doesn't make sense. If they were truly bought and paid for and producing faux-content that is actually advertising, they would have legitimately zero need to spend millions of dollars on hardware testing labs.
Marie Antoinette noticed a similar stability in the price of fine cake.
> frogs may not have been intentionally buried by humans

this is evidence of the first frog civilization. If only they'd had more luck with fire they might've held on.
We can play this game on the Web3 side as well.

OpenSea takes the blockchain data, filters it and augments it with their proprietary data. Which means that as a user I may buy an NFT that OpenSea is filtering and which therefore is useless on other sites.

There is nothing inherently special about blockchain that prevents centralisation or allows you to have a trustless ecosystem. At some point I will trust Metamask with my wallet, Binance for my trades etc.
Don't toss out broken microwaves
As an Apple fanboy, I can easily say that Linus does not hate Apple.

Linus DOES hate a lot of what Apple does; cases where they make things more unrepairable for no real reason, or various socio-political causes (like opposing Right to Repair or unions or whatever).

Regardless of that though, I would trust a Linus review of a new iPhone or iPad a lot more than I would trust a lot of other sites, because I know he's not going in with Apple fanboyism (the way I would, for example), and he gives reasons for all his opinions.

Fundamentally, he always comes across as principled. If he has an opinion he'll tell you, and he'll give you a reason. He'll admit that he was wrong when he (believes he) was wrong. He'll contextualize his thoughts so you can decide if this or that opinion is really relevant to your situation.

As far as I've seen, his AMD/Intel/nvidia opinion changes follow along with the facts. He's pretty PO'ed at Intel for basically just sitting around with their fingers up their asses for however many years, and only actually trying to make good products at good prices (and largely failing) when AMD suddenly stepped everything up.

nvidia makes great video cards, the best on the market, but he's not going to avoid calling them out for shady or anti-consumer business practices. AMD makes great CPUs and good video cards, but if they have a disingenuous benchmark or claim he's going to say something about it.

I dunno, no one is entirely unbiased, but from what I've seen over the years, I can trust Linus more than most other people.
Seriously wtf
"All the way back to 2011" made me chuckle. Practically ancient times!
Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry
Second the network thing. I've done two interviews in the last 25 years. Mostly it's a 30 minute call or coffee with the group leader just to make them feel ok about the decision they've already made to hire you.

Same when hiring: I'd much rather hire someone who I've seen work before than go through a whole interview process, and still feel like it's a crapshoot at the end when making an offer.
> unless you're talking about Europeans and USians only

Nah. As Europeans we're getting more and more censorship. Just think that most Russian news outlets have been blocked, youtube channels and so on.
Plus until recently I couldn't read a good chunk of US news due to them refusing to adapt to GDPR.
No I mean I wrote it on a Macbook?
> We examined the wrecked-by-success hypothesis. Initially formalized by Sigmund Freud, this hypothesis has become pervasive throughout the humanities, popular press, and modern scientific literature. The hypothesis implies that truly outstanding occupational success often exacts a heavy toll on psychological, interpersonal, and physical well-being. Study 1 tested this hypothesis in three cohorts of 1,826 high-potential, intellectually gifted individuals. Participants with exceptionally successful careers were compared with those of their gender-equivalent intellectual peers with more typical careers on well-known measures of psychological well-being, flourishing, core self-evaluations, and medical maladies. Family relationships, comfort with aging, and life satisfaction were also assessed. Across all three cohorts, those deemed occupationally outstanding individuals were similar to or healthier than their intellectual peers across these metrics. Study 2 served as a constructive replication of Study 1 but used a different high-potential sample: 496 elite science/technology/engineering/mathematics (STEM) doctoral students identified in 1992 and longitudinally tracked for 25 years. Study 2 replicated the findings from Study 1 in all important respects. Both studies found that exceptionally successful careers were not associated with medical frailty, psychological maladjustment, and compromised interpersonal and family relationships; if anything, overall, people with exceptionally successful careers were medically and psychologically better off.
As I’ve said, I express no judgement as to whether any of this is morally objectionable, or good/bad for society in general. You’re arguing with yourself at this point.
I think all the 'social media' platforms really want you to install their software onto your device anyway. I suspect they could make it work in the browser if that made sense for their business, but they would rather be on your home screen.
People are missing out on a couple key points:

1. Vitalik is a billionaire and chooses this way to live

2. Vitalik isnt “traveling” but a true nomad without a home.

3. Vitalik is working HARD while being a nomad. This aint no “backpacking in Europe for a year”
I have 26 years experience and mine matches svillar in not having anything other than pro-forma interviews literally since my first job from college.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31817596
To add to that: most sites just compare the features at best. I’m interested in actual usability and durability, things you might need more than five minutes or just reading the specs to find out. E.g. how do headphones handle multiple devices, how long will the battery survive, what are the options when they are broken?
Counter-intuitively, food insecurity makes you more likely to be obese.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4584410/

> Based on self-reported data from 12 states, one in three food insecure adults are also obese. Furthermore, food insecurity and obesity were found be associated in the general population and many population subgroups, especially women. These findings corroborate the relationship between food insecurity and obesity found in previous research. Although the association between obesity and food insecurity found in this study was cross-sectional, contributing factors to obesity and food insecurity suggest a need to address the importance of increasing access to affordable healthy foods for all adults.
did you even read this?
It depends what you mean by "lawyer up." Having a lawyer look at any contracts you sign isn't a bad idea.

(Not that I've done it.)
Awesome work. I have been early user of Lexical building getstable.co.

Thanks for great framework and design ;)
At $150, how much of that is the cost of the Windows 10 license that it comes with? I'm assuming that it doesn't meet the specifications required for Windows 11, too.
Not exactly. I am saying that consciousness is fundamental; that matter, physics, our brains, etc emerge from consciousness. Physics is the OS, consciousness is the transistors/electricity, and we are conscious agents (to borrow a term from Donald Hoffman) using the OS.

So, instead of the physicalist paradigm of

Physics -> Chemistry -> Biology -> Psychology -> Consciousness

it is the idealist paradigm of

Consciousness -> Physics -> Chemistry -> Biology -> Psychology
That you are a hardcore cryptocurrency enthusiast
I don't understand how you can be a human with a real physical human body and seriously expect VR to ever be just like reality.
So if you wanted to give money to another individual (not a company which offers card payments) and you didn't want to use the internet, is cash the only option?
Reminder of why blocking ads is a security practice
PXE is one of those great old technologies which always excited me. I got the opportunity very early on to build an automated system to allow developers to install fresh operating systems to test on machines in the datacenter by filling out a web form which resulted in a hands-free install the next time they rebooted the target system.

I've wanted to replicate that kind of thing at home or work ever since but with cloud tech it's just not necessary (but I hear often done by the cloud providers themselves) and at home it doesn't quite solve any real-world problems.
>But don’t muddy the waters by calling it something fundamentally different.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582

"In total, it said the social network had special arrangements with more than 150 companies to share its members' personal data. Most of these, it said, were other tech firms, but the list also included online retailers, car-makers and media organisations, including the NYT itself, among others."

Suffice it to say Facebook's track record with PII is pretty terrible. At some point the word sell really becomes a matter of semantics.
If only there was some way to know! Some kind of... hyperlink, with text, where the answers you seek were available in a language you know, English, perhaps?