skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplicity of a normal webcam also has a huge value.

I hate waiting a few extra minutes at the beginning of a meeting while someone tries to get their complex webcam setup working. Some people can plan ahead and make it all work. Some people are always fighting with audio settings or restarting OBS or adjusting their webcam and so on. Wasted time for everyone involved.

I’m not looking forward to the new era of people messing with their iPhone mounts to their laptops to get the camera juuust right as we start every meeting.

Let’s just use the built-in webcams and get on with our meetings. Or if you want to use a fancy setup, you must have it all ready and tested before the meeting starts.
It means you're renting it and they're using your data for profit.
Good point.

Definitely not to the same degree. But to some small degree, you can choose to move.

You can also chose to vote a certain way. Although with a 2 party system, especially when both seem to support the military industrial complex, you don’t really have an alternative.

Sorry for the tangent: are most Americans content with a 2 party system? From the outside it feels so dysfunctional and divisive. (and, dare i say it, undemocratic)
> including transportation of goods and produce

Forgive me, if your rural land is on a major interstate then I definitely agree! For every branch off that major arterial the road becomes more and more specific to a few number of people, who rarely pay the full cost of the road/utilities that service them.

> It makes no sense to further incentivize moving to cities

I'm not asking for any incentives. I'm asking to stop sending my money to highway expansion, road repair and other services to people who live very sparsely. Let them pay for the extension (and maintenance) of service themselves, and then they can decide whether they would "rather" live there.
> systemd is incredibly useful and powerful.

In that one sentence I think you've highlighted what garners hate from the haters. It's powerful, and it's great when that power is used for good. Those times when it's not is where people get agitated.
Eh, it's the usual set of half truths and deception whenever the American oil industry is discussed.

I just got done arguing with idiot putinista troll boilerroom shit on another web site, I guess now it's time to argue with his greenie "opponents" explaining how it's all the oil companies' fault with _their_ carefully surgically sliced up halftruths.

Times like this I feel like I have no freedom of speech because I have no boiler room of my own.
Git scraping
This isnt a matter of believe. There are lots of prisoners who went on hunger strikes and perished from it. With them starting with a background of a normal western diet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike
45-73 days till death with most lasting 60 days.

Holger Meins lasted 58 days despite forced feeding.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Meins

List is obviously a lot longer but they offer a great dataset
Still applies today, oddly enough
If you're also getting thrown into dealing with COVID lockdowns and WFH-related organizational overhauls, and then get yanked back into the office months after that, that's going to do a number on your productivity, too.
How to Know if Your A.I. is Sentient
What's also great is you can install apps through Flatpak and Chrome OS Flex will recognize it and you can pin it to your shelf. There's a fork of VSCode called VSCodium through Flatpak, which doesn't send telemetry to Microsoft. I've also installed Steam, Discord, Libreoffice in Flatpak without any issues.
How worried should I be as someone who is relatively new to the world of programming? I’ve been freelancing as a dev/designer for the past few years and seen a lot of success, but I’ve been considering applying to some more traditional positions that have caught my eye recently.
There are many ways to solve this issues, and EU chose one of the worst ones, that for most people doesn't help at all.
GKE runs Google's "Container Optimised" OS. It's just a bare-bones Linux designed for security and performance running containers, very similar to Talos.

Edit: Was wrong, thanks for the correction.
This is well known for Android devices.

If you look for "longest supported Android devices", you might find:
- Nvidia Shield TV 2015: initially released with Android 6 and is currently on Android 11. It uses a CPU from Nvidia itself and is expected to continue receiving updates.
- Nexus Player: initially released with Android 5, last updated to Android 8. It uses an Intel CPU and does not require special binary blobs to support newer Linux kernels required by newer Android versions.
in Europe it's quite popular and widespread for legit purposes as well
So who here is using Telegram and for what? I'm consider myself pretty well connected, but I don't have the app. Tell me what I'm missing.
Some services have a yearly plan where you end up paying the equivalent to about 4€ a month - protonmail is an example that comes to mind.
You would be surprised. Universities pay substantially better than newspapers (likely with better job security), and writing jobs are typically hard to find and low-paying in general. Many former experienced journalists end up working at university press departments because of the better working conditions.

From an enjoyment side, writing is hard, but for a lot of people, it's much easier than research. There are fewer credentials needed for a career in science journalism versus scientific research (a Bachelor's only versus a PhD for many senior scientist positions). I know a lot of people who have a natural skill at writing who decided to major in a science field for one reason or another, performed okay-ish at their courses, and tried to get back to writing work.

The end result is also similar writing for a magazine/newspaper versus a university. A university may have higher standards for accuracy and precision (especially if an interviewed scientist wants to review it, while a newspaper/magazine may have a policy to avoid sharing drafts to avoid bias in the article). However, higher-end magazines (like the New Yorker) have more prestige. There is also far less room at universities for dissent (e.g. presenting an opposing scientific view or publishing investigative work).
So now HN is used to ask for shady business practices.

Just don't do business here, we couldn't care less.
Can't you just focus on those who do opt-in to tracking and ignore the others?
Thanks for submitting that link. It was a very interesting perspective although I doubt that the author (or Bourdieu, or both) really understands the nature of the Art MarketS (with a capital S to emphasize that it is not just one market but several, with similarities and differences).

Eg, in the text it is presented as if the actual producer (artist) is somehow involved in the value adding while in most Art markets I know of the production is really removed from the actual value chain and the market is largely a market that adds value starting on the second sale, ie. after the producer has lost touch with the value chain. Also, Art as such was really tangential to the subject matter of Media and Journalism.

So, that part of the article could have been left out, as it brings no extra clarity - especially as the main point was not really about market value for the product (neither Journalism nor Art) but instead market value for the producer (either "Artist" or "Liberal Arts Graduate" on a totally different market: The Job Market.

Still, it was an interesting read, and it did add another piece to the puzzle of "understanding some of the reasons we as a civilization are steadily losing our grip on reality" (here, I assume that "we" and "civilization" is lacking the unstated specifier "USA/American")
> As far as I'm concerned, V works as described in their documentation.

Really? Can you explain to me how memory management works in V?
"Jaywalking" as a term was a PR effort to reduce pedestrian fatalities.

The control of pedestrian traffic to clear roads was not a crime invented by the car industry.

It was illegal in ancient Rome to walk in the roads. In Pompeii you can still see the separate pedestrian routes.

In NYC, prior to the invention of the automobile, more people were struck and killed by horses than have ever been struck and killed by automobiles.

>Horses killed in other, more direct ways as well. As difficult as it may be to believe given their low speeds, horse-drawn vehicles were far deadlier than their modern counterparts. In New York in 1900, 200 persons were killed by horses and horse-drawn vehicles. This contrasts with 344 auto-related fatalities in New York in 2003; given the modern city’s greater population, this means the fatality rate per capita in the horse era was roughly 75 percent higher than today. Data from Chicago show that in 1916 there were 16.9 horse-related fatalities for each 10,000 horse-drawn vehicles; this is nearly seven times the city’s fatality rate per auto in 1997.

https://legallysociable.com/2012/09/07/figures-more-deaths-p...

If you were struck by a horse and carriage in any city street anywhere in the world, it was automatically assumed you were at fault.

Because pedestrians have been separated from faster, heavier traffic everywhere in the world since shortly after the invention of the working animal.

There are many cities all over the world that have pedestrian-exclusive zones, but until very VERY recently in areas where mixed-traffic was allowed the heavier "thing" always had right-of-way.

Please stop repeating the myth that cars (or horses, or oxen) "stole" the road from pedestrians.

The automobile was invented in 1886.

On or before 1886 every single city in every single industrialized nation had wide sidewalks for the use of pedestrians-- to keep them off the roads.

And yes, even in the "walkable" maze-like European utopian cities if a horse and cart was coming down the 2 meter wide road, you got out of the way, and on larger thoroughfares you kept out of the traffic lanes.

Note the sidewalks and bollards on Fenchurch Street IN 1750: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O873469/ironmongers-hall-...

Fenchurch Street is more walkable today than it was in 1750. Because of pedestrian safety measures and, yeah, jaywalking laws.
Leaving them in the room to complete the tasks was an early red flag here. If you have no insight into how people think about and complete tasks then you are testing the product of their time, not their approach to problem solving. You then shouldn’t be surprised by the lack of what you didn’t test for after the fact.
Interesting. I live in the US and nearly all of my fiends and I exclusively use Telegram to communicate.
Ask HN: What do technical co-founders look for and avoid when joining a startup?
Hello,

Curious what are top 3 things technical co-founders care about when joining a startup?

Also equally import, what are the top 3 things they avoid?

Thanks!
It's WhatsApp for people who don't trust Meta/Facebook.
Ah thx, was thinking about Lino Ventura so a place in Italy I guess; could be worse eg Ponte Vecchio
> a barrier was being built to stop anyone from ever working on it.

I looked in the grafana github issues, sort by +1's and the top one "Templating: Reuse template variable definitions across dashboards"[0] opened in 2015 has these comments (and others):

"yea, with Grafana 2.0 and the new backend, it would be possible in a future release (maybe next year or this winter), to add template variables as independent entities that you can reuse across dashboards."

"Torkel, this is exteremely important for us, any chance you could prioritize this?" +1 (23x), -1 (1x)

"no, maybe if it would get a lot of +1 :) People have been fine without centralized storage of template vars this far, just define them for one dashboard and then copy that dashboard. Not ideal. [...]"

This is exactly how I expect these interactions to go. I suspect the difference is that this is an issue that is on the radar and close to where the contributors are working vs many of the other 2.2k issues that are not.

July 2021 comment "[...] we do plan on tackling this issue as part of our evolution of Library Panels. We don't have a timeframe to communicate yet, but consider it 'on the roadmap'." So even ones that are on the radar don't necessarily get immediate attention.

What may be missing is clear up-front communication to set expectations for those creating, commenting, or up/down-voting on issues. We as a community can also default to interpreting a non-response as being 'lower priority or relevance than contributor bandwidth allows'.

[0] https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/1959
Yes, that is true. However, doing that often makes little sense, unless one plans on looking for new work.
Build times are a huge issue impacting how fast I can develop at my job (and I'm fairly certain that's the norm for my team), and I suspect that using a faster linker would mitigate that by a significant chunk. Unfortunately I'm just an IC and don't have the authority to look into something like paying for this, and I'd likely need to actually try it out and show numbers for how much things would improve to get management interested in actually looking into this. Because the project I work on requires interfacing with some cloud services that I can't connect to locally, I would either need to actually build on one of our cloud servers or compile the entire thing locally and copy it over, but I imagine the performance gains from multithreading would not be nearly as great on the 8 cores on my laptop compared to the 64 on my cloud server. I'm a bit hesitant to take initiative and just try this out due to the AGPL license though, since IANAL and I imagine if I tried to get permission for this internally, I'd run into the circular issue that without data to show it's worth it to look into, I'd probably just be told not to do it.

Basically, I think your best chance of generating interest from this is the bottom-up (since the individual engineers are the ones who would be feeling the pain that this could help solve), but I'm not really sure ICs at the companies large enough to be potential customers for this have any likely path forward with the way you've structured things right now. I'm not sure if you're flexible on this at all, and obviously I can't guarantee we'd get anywhere, but if you're interested in hearing more details about the potential use my team (and probably a number of other teams at my company would be able to make use if we were able to work something out), feel free to email me! Any prefix @<my username>.com will forward to my gmail.
I wonder if it’s worse this year than usual because of the switchover to AppleSilicon? I have a 2013 Mac Pro that I use daily and it’s gotten all updates until this one. 9 years is pretty good. But I can understand wanting to end support for as many Intel machines as quickly as possible.
I thought the whole point of crypto was to help the unbanked, save us from the evils of fiat, provide anonymous decentralized transparency that protected users, and serve as a hedge against inflation or market turmoil. /s
Nobody cares if what you built is sustainable and scalable if you can't do it fast enough to get your first customers, and there is plenty of time to make what you've built usable by the time you've left.

If you, as a founder, hire an incompetent specialist as your first employee, maybe you don't deserve to be successful.

Your first hire is either a "Brent", or you have to get very lucky in just about every way.
One of the themes in pro-crypto writings has been the idea that as long as you “do your own research” then the bad things won’t happen on your chosen cryptocurrency. The prevailing idea (among pro-crypto spaces) is that bad things only happen to other people who deserve them because they didn’t do the right research.

Recently we’re seeing the bad things happen in more and more mainstream chains. Even famous NFT proponents have been losing their NFTs to scams at a shocking rate. I wonder if this will drive people back to simpler chains like Bitcoin, or if we’re going to see enough bad things (including crashes) that it just sucks the enthusiasm out of the crypto space entirely.
From my experience that's the "final" phase of being a junior. Where you're perfectly capable of coming up with architectures, considering functional constraints and relationships to hardware. Maybe such a junior is fresh out of university, or has spent 3-5 years working programming jobs after high school. They'll have their head full of fresh strong opinions on what's good, and have had some experience with what happens when things go wrong, and maybe mistake code they don't understand or find hard to follow for bad practices.

I'd also wouldn't frown on just calling them developer. They just need a senior developer to tell them not to rewrite everything.
Telegram blows my mind.

Say what you want about their security; they have the absolute best UX of any (primarily 1-on-1) messaging app, bar none.

Discord is a close second. But the quality and polish of telegram blows me away to this day.

And it’s lots of small features and details such as built in translation for messages in a foreign language, all the smooth animations, quick look and summaries of channels with aggregated links media etc, a super fast and responsive UI etc. And their stickers are actually ridiculously fun to play with (I used to not be into that, telegram converted me).

Just yesterday I accidentally found out that it’s possible to replace a picture you have sent, with a new or different one - I sent a photo, realised it would have been better cropped, and just edited the message as I normally would have.

And with all that it’s the only popular messenger that is actually easy to programmatically interact with. (And cheap! WhatsApp has a business offering and it’s ridiculously expensive)
It's the only messenger I use; I guess it depends from your social circle and/or geographical location.

I am very happy with it btw; much better than whatsapp.
Retraction Watch (source: https://retractionwatch.com) and independent consultants like Elisabeth Bik (article about her in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01363-z) are good for this, though they aren't really traditional media. ProPublica and large newspapers (e.g. The New York Times occasionally) do publish investigative work on science topics sometimes too.
you influenced me to install it on my 2011 macbook pro! Thank you
For some reason people fixate on the mitochondrion in the context of the origin of eukaryotes, to the near total exclusion of the nucleus that actually defines the eukaryotes. I don't understand why this is. I can only cynically guess that it's a form of streetlight fallacy: we have a pretty good idea where mitochondria came from, so let's focus on that (and conveniently forget about the nucleus, golgi body, endoplasmic reticulum, ...).
I always opt for self-hosting, be it fonts or other assets.
Sometimes I am briefly envious of the ability to use things like Google Fonts, Unpkg or polyfill.io when setting up a project.
But I started doing web dev in 2018 when GDPR was introduced here, and I always was kind of paranoid regarding that.

Self-hosting is probably a better habit to acquire anyway, the only alternative being explicitly contracting with a company that offers edge CDN.

https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts

is great for quick self hosted local Google Webfonts
I think you are misinformed, coreos is still alive within RH products (openshift)
Similarly forall f x=y => f(x)=f(y) can do quite a lot of work given that you’re free to choose any convenient f and then substitute its body.
For most cities, you shouldn't hope to innovate; just partially emulating the Netherlands is the best you can hope for.
It's very popular is some (usually heavy censored) countries. It's also popular in the IT field.
Do you have an example of when systemd is not used for good?
which is such a halfhearted excuse too- "why are you randomly sampling audio around me and phoning home about it?"

"uhh.... shazaam?"
How does this explain the gap between wage increases and inflation then? Why does everything cost more but we get paid less (relatively)?
A large majority of HN users make their money from illicit data collection & processing. This guy is at least willing to admit to it.
In the absence of any specifics about how this person was measuring "performance" or "productivity", it's not unreasonable to extrapolate from the details he does provide which reflect poorly on his management ability.
Also, my experience with the 920
Is that it performs well (better than others I have) in low light. None of the samples from the article were low light. Most folks are in dimly lit conditions, and that’s where these tend to do better.

Fundamentally, webcams suffer from the same problem as n95 masks: prior to the pandemic, everything was geared towards cheap, it just wasn’t a huge market. To invest in retooling would be a risk, there is no guarantee the market will be there.

People are throwing a thousand dollars at phones with a significantly better profit margin. Webcams will NEVER catch up. He pretty much says this at the end of the article.
Per the reference in the article above (http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Library/riskfactors.htm) 8% of bicyclists were going against traffic.

Yeah relative speed goes hand-in-hand with head-on collision and less reaction time and expectation that I mentioned. I do bike a fair amount, but not on major roads. I am coming to realize that going with traffic is safer, despite it being hard to see cars coming from behind you. I also didn't realize that it's illegal in most places to bike against traffic https://roadbikebasics.com/ride-with-or-against-traffic/
I would agree the value of the CCP digital currency would be more trustworthy, ie. stable, than Bitcoin but it would be easier for a government to take the CCP digital currency from you than the Bitcoin.
But you can get away with that in most languages that are generally considered memory safe, so a sane interpretation of the term "memory safety" wouldn't care about that.
This is one those markets that clearly doesn't appreciate picture quality enough. I have at least 6 different web cams and have the same experience as the author that they are all crappy in slightly different ways.

It seems the point-and-shoot camera makers have all the parts and technology available to their teams to make a really nice pro-sumer web cam and given they are looking for adjacent markets I'm kind of surprised there aren't any out there. They all seem to have the equivalent of 'camo' (aka software that turns the camera into a web cam) but none of them seem to have packaged a camera specifically for this niche.
No, whatboutism is a lazy way to not present any conjecture but imply something else. And it sounds snarky as fuck at the same time, it doesn't foster any discussion and just devolves into exactly the kind of commentary you just wrote: shallow, combative and useless.
A few weeks ago I almost tripped over a fairly massive wild boar, dusk at the Hoge Veluwe. Super impressive up close (and the most dangerous animal in Europe right now). Fortunately I have very good brakes :)
all anyone needs to know is that bitcoin is the perfect ponzi. every 4 years it gets pumped, people forget about the ponzi, then they come back

the ever diminishing supply and narratives, technical or otherwise, only serve the greatest ponzi with the simplest ponzinomics.

dont have to overcomplicate a simple idea
Criminals will avoid laws, and lawmakers should write laws in a way that makes them hard to be avoided.

If they asked anyone with atleast a minimal technical knowledge, they'd get a lot better solutions.
There's a lot of people overindexing on the dangers of refeeding. It is important to factor in after a week (honestly more like 15+ days) but also trivially addressed.