skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fairly extreme perspective and probably reading a lot more into my thoughts and intent then you really have any insight.
Yep.

We use smart PLCs (programmable logic controllers - basically an Intel Atom powered realtime platform with modular high-speed analogue/digital I/O) for a lot of our projects. For one project, we were planning on deploying a cheap PLC plus a thermocouple module and some SPI modules. Because of availability, that turned into buying thermocouple and SPI interface chips ourselves, and designing a custom PCB to interface those to a Raspberry Pi. And now of course Raspberry Pis are impossible to get, so while we managed to get hold of enough for the first run of deployments, we don't have any more of them - we even had to ship our tester Pi! It's a real scramble, and we've definitely lost a bunch of money on that project.
I read this and was baffled. I've never broken a pair of glasses. The article made me realize I needed to clean my glasses. I wiped them off with a wipe from a pack of wipes I always use.

A few hours later, I just realized one of the hinges on my glasses has no tension anymore. It just swings freely. What a strange coincidence.
How is this different than doordash coming to pick up food from a restaurant and delivering to me? I think it's very similar, they charge an extra fee, restaurants might not sign up for this and it's not the restaurant employees handing me the food.
Ask HN: Do You Like Your Smartphone?
If yes, starting from what versions of hardware/software.

If not, why?
If the oleophobic coating is intact (and good quality) it should come off with just a clean cloth.
As I noted elsewhere here, but since it is relevant to your comment I think: What I would like to see, along these lines, is a language that is as easy to learn/use as python/ruby/etc, but based on rust and rust-like, using rust libraries if at all possible, with garbage collection, so one can have an easy entrypoint to Rust, and if ever needing the full performance etc of rust, change a compiler switch (or something) and the full rust kicks in.

In other words, a step-by-step learning process from simple to hard, maybe 2-4 levels, and you never have to throw away what you already learned and start over, when going to the next step.
> We're talking about my front yard. I can go on street view and see exactly what everybody else driving by sees. The only change is that they scrub faces and license plates, which I could do using AgentDVR + DeepStack.cc and some scripting.

I think a major difference is that a permanent camera allows documenting who is entering and leaving a house at which times, while street view or driving by do not. Even a nosy neighbour behind the curtains would most probably not be able to gather a complete history.
Well, you're wrong to have that doubt.

80 or 85% is the figure that people usually quote as being when solar and wind will start having issues (the exact division between the two varies by latitude mostly), but at that point you're saving money on 85% of your energy expenditure so things have to go pretty drastically wrong for you to end up in the negative.

As this post notes, with cheap power you can make liquid fuels for less than it costs to dig them up.

This web site here will give you example renewable only grids for most of the earth and how much battery and power2x renewable gas you'd need. It's generally not a lot, wind and solar do the heavy lifting.

https://www.wartsila.com/energy/towards-100-renewable-energy...

You get lots of batteries in sunny places, but that's just because it's cheap and we know it works well with solar. But yes anywhere with hydro gets to take advantage of cheap renewables much more easily.
Bill Gates mother having a seat on IBM's board was not a factor in IBM giving him such a sweet deal?
There's Ripcord[0], which is a native app that can connect to Slack and Discord.

[0] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
Depending on what sort of service you're running that might actually be justifiable, but I wasn't assuming a threshold breach for 404s would be waking people up in the middle of the night.
At any rate, any such alert is always somewhat vulnerable to that problem, regardless of how the error codes are being triggered. Sounds more hypothetical than likely-in- practice.
Absolutely. It worked from day one. There are issues with emulating x86 Linux, but that’s a different story. For ARM Linux — just ordinary qemu works fine.
I don't know enough about the system in the US and I might be talking out of my ass here, since most of my impression are formed by reading online discussions, but here goes... I was always under the impression that you can just buy into most unis in the US? There's the scholarship programs, but I was also under the impression they're often through sports rather than grades (and to me it's obvious that there's not necessarily a correlation between someone good at American Football and law).
I see $7 all over Burbank and Encino, especially off of freeways.
6 weeks per diagnosis. If say you had six weeks of Covid and break your leg on the way out of the hospital and need another six weeks, your salary will be paid. And you keep your vacation days.
When my 3 kids were teenagers (though younger than 18) I had an Asus Router that had pretty good access controls, I assume most Asus Routers still have the same controls. You could actually limit internet access by MAC address to certain times of day. For all of my kids' devices (phones, video game consoles, computers) I found their MAC address in the table in the router management website and limited the devices internet access to just a couple of hours a day that we agreed the kids could have screen time. For the most part it was easy enough to figure out which device was which, for a couple I had to do a little experimenting like just cutting off MAC addresses while they were playing a game until I heard yelling (;

I agree with the sentiment here that this is no substitute for parenting and having an actual conversation with your kids. But it is a tool that you can use to enforce you're rules. I caught my boys on multiple occasions playing video games late on school nights after we had gone to bed, and this was after we had discussed with them not playing games on school nights. Shutting down their internet access at the router put an end to the problem and grades came back up fairly quickly after that.
Young me always thought arc, then arj, then rar. But arj brings back fond memories of unpacking very large files
This is a made up scenario that fabricates "exploitation", but even in this case I disagree. If there are no jobs out there, then tough luck. You are still getting paid vastly more than probably 99.99% of the world's jobs.

The entitlement is simply astonishing and incongruent, completely untenable even in the most charitable interpretation.

Furthermore, I believe that in jobs like this, companies cannot afford to hire someone that is going to take 8 months parental leave, for example. That would be consider exploitation of the employer by the employee in my view.
Oh cool, I'll check it out then.
What I would like to see is a language that as easy to learn & use as python/ruby/etc, but based on rust and rust-like, using rust libraries if at all possible, with garbage collection, so one can have an easy entrypoint for anyone who wants that, and if ever needing the full performance etc of Rust, change a compiler switch (or something) and the full Rust kicks in.

In other words, a step-by-step developer growth process from simple to hard, maybe 2-4 levels, and you never have to throw away what you already learned and start over, when going to the next step.
The same way I feel about requiring doctors to go to medical school before they can do a residency.

The bar exam and law school have different purposes. A law school teaches the laws of the entire country. A bar exam tests the law of the specific state. While many laws are similar, they're not the same, and the differences matter a great deal.

And secondly, a great many people can eek their way through law school who have no business actually practicing law, and the bar exam is essentially the last filter keeping those incompetents away from the practice of law before they can harm clients. (The law provides recourse to clients when a lawyer's actions deliberately harms clients, however, there is little to no recourse for clients if their lawyer makes a mistake.)
I dislike these beliefs that idealize a world with no trust or cooperation

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
But do you enjoy that people in the US don't have this expectation of privacy? Do you believe those laws could change?
If experience has shown me anything in tech scene, humbly my opinion feels that designers make all crafty looks for businesses but do not change much with regards to their personal choices.

You could be right about the niche group. I would also love to know more about it. However, niche groups don't drive profitable businesses is also something you might agree.
Yup, my team did a little copy-paste lab if folks want to kick the tires: https://github.com/sadasystems/gke-multiarch-guide
What worked for me well is googling something and after adding word "reddit" or asking question by myself on specilized subreddit.
So no more updating of Unity’s base platform right?
You can allow cross-site tracking and third party cookie in safari, then use teams from safari. I have been using it this way without any issues for all my Teams meetings.
> But even ordinary people (much less corporations) rely on law school pedigree as a signal for competence and quality.

This isn't that different from any other profession though. A doctor, professor, or engineer from Harvard or Stanford etc is going to get a lot more respect than the one had no schooling at all (even absent licensing requirements).
> The war on domestic oil production

The way you worded that somehow makes me think you aren't talking about the OPEC+ deal from 2020 that drastically reduced oil supply. Because strangely, not a coincidence, domestic production has been up since that deal expired.

I don't disagree that oil prices drive inflation since almost everything needs transportation, especially in the US where even domestic goods have to travel huge distances. But a "war on domestic production" is not evidence based.

Closest thing that could be serious considered a war was OPEC+, which I understand why Trump did it, prices were plummeting and we wouldn't want the entire sector to crash.
You keep forgetting other scenarios - someone who works remotely and can just take Uber when he needs to go somewhere during the weekend.

In fact, my son started working at a pizza place before he had his driver's license. It was cheaper to pay Uber $350 a month than his current car note + car insurance.

Just to give you a hint about "affordability", we paid $335K in 2016 to have our house built - 3100 square feet - in the "good school system" in the burbs of a major metropolitan area.
D has contracts built in.

https://dlang.org/spec/function#contracts
It is just Fed printing money like there is no tomorrow.
If you are processing financial transactions (including something of “value that substitutes for currency”) between other people at their direction, you are a money transmitter. The whole point of both Bitcoin is decentralizing this function from banks to a network of miners, and a similar thing is done in Lightning with its nodes.
Seems like a kind of useless visualization?
I'm curious about the technical expertise that goes into making a good synth.

If economics force the synth-making hardware / software engineers into other industries, how long does it take to replace (or restore) their expertise once the economy recovers?
Kurt Vonnegut on the “shapes” of stories
They want young, naive people that acceot that kind of thing in exchange for saving the world and some petty RSUs, if any. All the while working to make early investors and founders rich or even richer.

In a way, being open about it actually makes sure you get exactky those candidates. As I said, exploitative.
At that level it's not wealth, in the sense that we think about wealth: it's relative power.

The power to make something happen. Like "Long range electric cars should be a thing, now" or "Reusable rockets should be a thing, now." Even and especially when most other people think it's impossible and disagree with you.

Or you can just build a gold-plated swimming pool and ensure your descendants never have to work.

Is that productive? Eh. Versus what? It certainly allows for more risk-taking than government, minimum-cost bidding projects would target. DARPA et al. aside.

It's certainly not fair.

But from a fairness of opportunity perspective, there are certainly more egregiously-born examples who have objectively produced less to show for it than Musk. Or than Ted Turner, to use another random positive example. (E.g. Barbara Hutton for a negative example)
Related:

Ex-Grubhub exec calls delivery apps “payday lenders for restaurants and drivers” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278157 - May 2020 (8 comments)

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852 - May 2020 (514 comments)
> but ads in games are a bad fit

Au contraire. Casual mobile games is the new television, and ads on television is a huge market. Or was a huge market; that spend will now eventually flow towards personal devices, a.k.a. mobile games.
>haven't gone batshit insane and started letting kids carry their phones around with them all day

Would you expand on why this is "batshit insane"?

Phones are one of the most ubiquitous pieces of tech on the planet, have several very beneficial uses, make it easier to connect and stay in touch with friends, etc. Teaching kids how to use the technology responsibly and appropriately at an early age seems the exact opposite of "batshit insane" to me.
Open camera (swipe from up side, then swipe from right side), click on latest photo in the corner, swipe if necessary. I very rarely open photos app.
You say this like it's either/or.... which is dishonest.

I have no car, but between grocery delivery and an e-bike, why would I want to continue paying an exorbitant tax to get shitty, cold food two hours after I order it?

Basically - you having a car or not has zero (zilch, nada, nothing) to do with the insane markup these companies charge.

And if the difference in you having a car or not really was doordash... jeez man. Go re-evaluate your life.
uPlot spotted in the wild! <3
It's literally painful to do an essay exam on pen and paper.

Only part of the exam is an essay exam, but modern law is going to be practiced on a computer, and it makes sense for the test to be administered on a computer.

(if only they could get away from ExamSoft...)
I'll have to build one of these when I find the time. I wonder how hard it would be to turn it into a SSB receiver.
I still haven't figured out the logic behind dismissing notifications. Sometimes they just get stuck forever.

But the worst bug is that from time to time the freaking arrow keys stop working in the edit box! Last time it happened to me it lasted weeks and survived reboots. I can find references to this issue from 2019.

How can such basic functionality be broken I have no idea.

Mind, it could be worse. It could be Webex.
S3 is owned and operated by a single entity (Amazon), with all data stored on and served by that single entity's servers - i.e. it's centralized.

Nowadays there are other companies offering S3-compatible file storage, so at best "S3-compatible" would be federated, but compared to something like IPFS that's much closer to the "centralized" end of the spectrum than to the "decentralized" end.

That is: decentralization is a separate concern from geographic distribution; the former pertains to control/ownership over the data and the hardware storing it, and in S3's case that control/ownership is centralized into a single corporation.
State Bars are so technically illiterate that they don't know the basics of how to procure technology. California Bar has no CTO and didn't know to require an SLA of ExamSoft. When ExamSoft blames the users for their buggy software, the Bar actually believes them.
I think you're right, it's what separates companies classing the same/similar behavior as unwanted, even illegal (grey market luxury watch dealers) vs encouraged (food delivery).
The relationship with the client and it's perceived value. Coming to think about it, probably a Michelin-star high-end restaurant would shoo away a doordash person coming to pick up takeaway.
Founder perspectives: Five tips for turning rejections into a successful raise
That's bad. You don't want to dry it, you want to remove the water BEFORE it has a chance to dry out.

If you just dry it out, the mineral residue from water will be left on your glasses.

More than that, mineral crystals are incredibly abrasive so next time you try to clean the glasses they will be abrading and destroying your perfect glass surface.
I worked in an optical lab some 20+ years ago to pay for college. Here's how I clean mine:

Fill a clean sink with warm, mildly soapy (dawn dish) water.

Let them soak in that for a few minutes.

Rinse them clean with fresh water.

Spray with lens cleaner (basically it's water with a touch of isopropyl alcohol), thoroughly.

Dry with an old cotton baby diaper. I've had a handful of these since my lab days. They're so freaking soft now, it's crazy.

Here's key: Never ever ever let your towel hit a counter. If you do, you'll scratch a lens. As author of the post writes, keep them in a bag. They come out of the bag, clean the glasses, they go back in the bag.

Inspect your glasses. Make sure screws are tight. Look at the nose pads, replace before they get funky. Seriously, they're touching your freaking face.

About every 6 months, I do the above, but I take them completely apart first. I'll spray the screws with alcohol and rub them back and forth on a towel to get the oils and such off. I'll clean the bezels where the lenses go. The nose pads fit in with screws. They insert into a cup and the screw goes through that way. I'll get a paper towel and make a point and twist it around in the cup to clean the oils out of there. Finally I'll wipe everything down as per above and reassemble.
I have only dealt with agents for apartment rentals in NYC, and there, the landlord hires the agent and agrees to pay them a fee, just like a house seller would agree to.

If neither a renter or the landlord have an agreement to pay an agent, why would the agent be owed any money?
Only if your wife can't remember your name when she makes the order.
I don't have time to memorize leetcode, and I'm just not good at it. Even considering it can just take time for everyone, I'm somehow unexpectedly bad despite my experience. I'm actually pretty good at actual software engineering work though (8 years). I'm also pretty good at OS level stuff across the board. I didn't know there non-leetcode paths without completely changing careers and abandoning my dev history.

I was just about to schedule my 1st-set whiteboard style interview with the recruiter, which always ends in a flaming disaster, but maybe I should consider their other routes.

I'm a full stack (backend main) software engineer but I'm usually exceptional at fixing server stuff and fully understanding logs to debug problems or find potential exploits through logs or when reading through code reviews. Everyone else I've ever worked with struggles at these things. I can just naturally comprehend other's code / architecture even across technologies.

If there's a career path I can show this in interviews instead of fumbling on even easy LeetCode problems or the other silly things I randomly get stuck on only in interviews, maybe I could actually shine for once.
> it feels more like alchemy than science.

I’d say it feels more like science than engineering to capture the same idea. The whole point is that we don’t know how it all works yet, hence the science.
I am indeed aware of this.
For coreboot there are actually some interesting low-level emulation options:
The PCH has "I/O Trap" settings, where you can set about 4 ISA I/O ranges to be trapped (generates an SMI, so the SMM code can handle it), so it should be possible to emulate the Sound Blaster I/O port behavior.

I don't know if the trap mechanism allows you to also trap the ISA DMA ports, which you'd need to do for DMA emulation.

Slightly higher level you could use classic VMM or more modern hypervisor functionality to do the emulation.
Go to Settings > Notifications and turn off activity notifications for reactions. Significantly nicer experience.
It's been doing that for a while, and I don't think it used to. I can't imagine it's intentional. Pasting formatted/styled text into Teams always ends up outputting some butchered version of what it originally was.
Because buying a laptop running a drastically new architecture increases the chances you'll run into software issues. This exam app is not the only thing Intel has broken.
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Requirements like the bar exam exist also to protect the insiders who also happen to make the rules. In economics it's called an insider-outsider problem. Not saying we should actually abolish the bar, just hinting at a possible reasonable argument.
If you use the built in "huddle" or voice chat.
In D you can do everything with automatic memory management (garbage collection) if you like. It does make for quick development.

You can also do explicit memory management, which of course takes more programmer effort.

It turns out most programs wind up using a mix of the two, as GC is better for some things, and explicit is better for others.
Posterchild of Pakistan's startups: Airlift announces complete shutdown
Control allows cheaters to be sometimes honest, and to the honest to cheat small
The ICO[1] and case law[2] corroborate that audio recording outside your property with CCTV is generally prohibited.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/domestic-cctv-systems-g...

[2] https://www.icaew.com/library/subject-gateways/law/legal-ale...
I hope someone preserved it, an amazing work of fiction. I can imagine someone just getting carried away with the world creation doing this, especially a talented person with perhaps limited outlet for the talent
I am not really fine with with them, but that's another can of worms.
Elon Musk doesn't have 300 billion dollars. He owns 17% of a company that, if all the stock got sold at its current price, would be worth 743 billion dollars (plus similar for SpaceX, so I think your estimate is too high). Similar situations are true for most billionaires. They're not hoarding money. They have built and own organizations that produce very valuable goods and services.

Hacker News is a forum for entrepeneurs. The idea that successful entrepeneurship results in valuable companies shouldn't be foreign. Nor the knowledge that societies that confiscate the fruits of successful entrepeneurship, will soon not have any entrepeneurship at all.

Maybe the consequences of that in terms of individual wealth ownership are unpalatable to you, but the alternative would result in an option that is net significantly worse for society.