skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rivets are useful for custom plastic enclosures for electronic components, https://www.essentracomponents.com/en-us/news/guides/how-to-...

> Plastic rivets are used in most things – from computers to panel fasteners in rockets. In most cases – not all – the rivet you use should have the same mechanical properties as the materials the rivets are intended to join. This means, for example, that plastic snap rivet fasteners can be used to join soft materials, such as other plastics, urethane and rubber.

HDPE and other plastic sheets are available online in various sizes, can be joined with rivets, rivnuts or plastic welding.
You're welcome and thanks a lot for the feedback :)

See https://learnbyexample.github.io/curated_resources/linux_cli... for more learning resources on Bash scripting.
Also: Lock Washers Don't Work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23584078
I was trying to imagine exactly how these work. Here's a video that shows them being used.

https://youtu.be/6D3oA_AvWh8?t=468
It just so happens that I am working on a versioned file system for sqlite based on its VFS interface. Planning to release it in a week's time. It will be in pre-alpha stage and its more of a proof-of-concept.

Having worked with FUSE in the past, there is always some performance penalty, but the advantage is that there is no change in the application.

The VFS will need change in the application but less overhead. Trade-offs!
Oh okay, you surely know what's in my freezer. I guess my stuffed freezer wasn't actually stuffed and I didn't need to buy the extra freezer.

Maybe, you know, chicken isn't the only thing in my freezer.
I end each day by writing everything on my mind in a journal. Todos, ideas to explore, details about work in progress, people to talk to, etc. Very stream-of-consciousness, no filter, no organization. Just get it all on the page.

Every time I find myself thinking about work in the evening, I walk back over to my desk and add to the journal entry.

I find the biggest cause (for me) is having ideas bouncing around in my head that don't exist elsewhere. Maybe it's an idea that's not concrete enough to become a Jira ticket yet, or a vague sense that "we should do thing X". Once it's written I can forget about it, and pick it up the next morning.
Does it really take 45 min to pressure cook?
You probably (and I definitely) have a flat color for your desktop, rather than a picture of some mountain (much as I like mountains) or garden or some such.
Because frankly all of that stuff isn't really a big deal (and I knew I'd get a rise when I brought this up, couldn't help myself).

I've seen a coup staged firsthand, directly experienced it happening in a country I lived in, watched the tanks rolling down the road to the government district which they proceeded to occupy, and everything that came before and after.

In the US there are a lot of people with loony opinions out there, but fundamentally there's a military which is on the side of the elected government. There's an elections process which is too distributed to suspend or corrupt nationally (sure it can get screwed up locally and does). There's also a free media and Internet. These are the pillars that hold up both the good and bad democracies around the world.

People with a lot of anxiety will poke holes in all of those statements, they will list the ways the US is messed up because that's what they know. But it's just not the same as a country where the elected government actually falls. US institutions today are all vastly healthier today than the countries where that happens.

I think it's good to have some degree of anxiety because it pushes us to solve problems but the US just isn't having a civil war or having its civilian government replaced any time soon, I'd stake everything I own on it.
You laugh, but there are still franchisee owned stores selling McPizza and *the horror, the horror* McSalads.
setting career goals seems pretty silly

though im nearly 20 years into my career i barely can predict where i'll be in one year, let alone five

for the first 10 years my only goal was to make more money and not hate work

not a great goal from a hiring manager perspective

as a hiring manager, i ask what folks like to do and see if that aligns with what we need them to do
Integrated into CICD and supports mirror blocking
I've enjoyed the analogy so adding onto it:

Google would open up 5 competing, different burger places next to each other and then close them all down a year later, confused that none of them did well enough. All to open a new Taco stand on the other side of town and claim it's got the same great food you liked before (it doesn't).
Oh yea, I think TV is just as bad in a lot of ways. It could arguably waste more time as the "nonsense" can be longer... but at least there's no magic DVR that is playing you carefully selected channels designed to keep you hooked, haha.

I totally get that ppl have been doing this forever... it just seems tiktok has taken it up another level. A real time/attention sucker on a truly massive and global scale beyond TV/Youtube.

And yep! I think 15 minutes is perfect. I think there is benefit to just having funny/mindless/interesting videos lined up to unwind at the end of the day or on a break... its just I can't imagine how some ppl rack up close to "part-time job" hours on it haha.
What??? You're not excited about rounded corners? You must be a crotchety old __ like me!
I think we would be in trouble way before that. Quantum effects would mean you would change a decent percentage of adjacent bits while setting one. We’re probably struggling with such effects already.
I can confirm that it does. I am working on it as I write this :).

Technically, an extension and VFS are separate things.

An extension when loads, allows you to register the VFS with the Sqlite. It can also register virtual tables as well.
I think the biggest hurdle is that you're a for profit business.

Bluntly: your business failed. That really sucks, but also: why wouldn't you run this as a 501c3? If I'm a benevolent billionaire, those yearly 990 filings actually matter to me because I want to know how you're spending the money.
HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia (2015)
This pretty much mirrors stored procedures though which have the option of running as the definer or the invoker. Breaking this with “when RLS is enabled stored procedures and views set to run with the permissions of the definer intersect with the RLS policy of the invoker” is crazy weird.

Maybe it would actually be good behavior but it would super super unintuitive.
I can understand this for sure! In my experience Facebook degraded and a lot of people that just posted pictures with small updates moved to Instagram. Again, anecdotally, I have a pocket of friends in Prague and they mostly used Instagram. But now Instagram is moving the same way with a clutter of suggested posts or 'reels' - or whatever their version is.
Your link sent me down a rabbit-hole -- their "microservices" video is very good, and excellent commentary on current trends.
With TikTok I do worry about the short form nature of it and impact on attention spans.

TV is also very passive, but most content still requires thinking about a narrative for an extended period.
Price and value are psychological phenomena with no fundamental basis in reality. The supply of housing and populations of a given area are material, and have obvious intrisic relationships irrespective of how one chooses to rearrange the numbers on a balance sheet.

The author seems convinced that when money and essential material needs are in conflict, it must be the physical world which bends to suit our shared delusions. It might be comical, were it not such a popular notion.
The feds surely won’t allow it for ever though. There’s already so much scrutiny.
Well, what people want if you define people as humans between the age of 18 and 24 and ignore the rest.
> …unless perhaps… we build a social network on the blockchain

Ah yes, the one thing that would be worse than the status quo.
At a guess: you pay for Windows and MacOS (or whatever they call that now). And because they need you to pay, they bring out a new version with a Fresh Look, Clean, Modern, New And Better (until they come out with a Newer And Betterer version).

That said, this doesn't explain new versions of Gnome, etc., nor why updating from Windows 7 to 10 was free.
Providing an education is utterly different from providing access to the tools to use more or less anytime you need them. Both are valuable, but they are quite distinct.
Age of Stagnation – CyberGunk 06 [video]
I would point out that email also serves here but with worse algorithms for displaying what you want to see :-)
> For the third one, nobody is forcing you to buy a specific product, but yes, it will be hard to avoid.

Yes it is being forced. We have single digit years before participation in society becomes impossible without a device that attests that it is not under the control of the owner. First it will be banks, then government services, then access to the social graph, and so on.

> But like for vaccines, individual consent is at odds with the greater good. Society needs computing that it can trust.

So not under the control of centralised corporations that get paid when they successfully manipulate you into doing something you wouldn't otherwise, and have a proven track record of unaccountable censorship.
You can reach out to me directly at: amit@revex.co
lookup Colin O'Brady, the dude who crossed Antarctica solo
Thanks, we need more DIY methods for quantitative evaluation of fasteners and joints, e.g. replication of this deck screw strength test, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eikOUFoIZ-Y

https://www.boltscience.com/pages/aboutus.htm

> Bolt Science was founded in 1992 with the intention of becoming the recognised worldwide quality provider of independent technical expertise in bolted joint technology. Our clients include many of the major engineering organizations of the world. We provide analytical, testing, and technical problem solving services. We can help you understand the issues regarding the structural integrity of bolted joints and provide engineering solutions based upon our considerable experience in this field.
fixing my brain
It's hard, but Matrix/Element still kinda manage it.
PEM studs are my favorite.
> wouldn't kill HDD's overnight

What's killing HDDs for me - looking at desktop use - is noise. Seems it got weirder lately, with wear-levelling ringing in every five seconds, etc.

Today I just "rebuilt" a brand new HP box by adding RAM and swapping the original 512 GB M2 SSD for a 2 TB one (Crucial P5 Plus, nice specs). Thinking of adding a 6 or 8 TB HDD for data landfill, but most any customer review mentions aggravating disk noise.

So, holding off the landfill for a while, peering at SATA SSD prices ...
Thanks, I didn't know about esbuild. I do not look forward to trying a different build system, but might be worth it.
I like averages for that reason. You can still play numbers go up, but is not nearly as devastating when you slip up. It is all about the trend
Exactly. I never really got it until I grew up and ditched the social media apps but when people say "its just nonsense" it truly is just nonsense. It's "news" for the sake of news. Do I need to know there was a robbery in some town a few states over? Do I need to know Selena Gomez celebrated her birthday in a pink brand dress? Do I need to know Trump recently returned to DC for the first time in a year?

(taken from just seeing front page of news site)

No, no and no. It's all nonsense. Yet to some degree, I will have to use energy to process and engage with it. If it "annoys me" I may comment, which wastes even more energy. (and yes, I do get the irony of complaining about this, lol)

I'm not saying all news is bad or to turn it all off... just that one has to realize so much of it is news for the sake of news and the world will still turn without your investment in it.
On the other hand, due to sovereign immunity, the government is uniquely positioned to completely ignore the (legal) risk associated with this kind of scheme. I don't think our government (at basically any level) is capable of actually doing something this useful anymore though.
The Other Drug War: Inside the World of Counterfeit Viagra
That's a pretty good take on the data (it's incredible how bad Baltimore is).

But we already knew that people worry about getting held up at gunpoint in the big city, but not so much about crashing their car on the way to the big night out (or even worse, on the way home).

I live in a small village and there is currently discussion going on about extending the legal amount of time a person can keep holiday decorations on their house. On one side are the folks that think Christmas lights are way too tacky in February or March and on the other side are the folks that say the weather could easily make it too dangerous to get them down within time limits (never mind how dumb and overbearing it is to have time limits in the first place). I lived in Chicago for 20 years and some people had holiday lights on their million dollar condo balconies year round - because it is never safe to take them down lol (kidding).
Imagine a world where a compliant implementation can get a certificate. You as a user might choose whether you agree to interact with non-certified clients.

It's a different business model. But it seems workable (see Bluetooth, USB, JVM), and it'd be more resilient than the current single-benevolent-vendor model.
Poor comparison was also my first thought. Taco bell and McDonald's fundamentally do different things (although they seem to be expanding into each other turf with things like nacho fries), but Facebook and TikTok really don't, neither does Twitter or Instagram or any other social network (even email for that matter, the oldest social network).

They're communication tools. On all of these platforms you can post video, images, and text either privately or publicly. I can use Facebook the same way someone might use Twitter. I can post only images to TikTok or Facebook and forget about Instagram. I cannot buy a hamburger and taco bell, or tacos and tostada's at McDonald's.

A better comparison would be saying that Chili's saw Applebee's have a great year and decided to make the inside decor and outside building look more like Applebee's. Both restaurants basically serve a bit of all types of food and the menus probably overlap heavily.
There's a few tricks that VR games can do to handle motion sickness with free movement. Some have already mentioned the edge of screen effects, but another would be tying movement to the "running" arm movements. That, for some odd reason, significantly reduces motion sickness.
Ask HN: What are folks using to track what shows/movies they’ve watched?
That was a fun read, and I'm really interested to see where Bun goes. That said:

> No more calling util.promisify(fs.writefile) just to get a function you can await

I'm sorry to say you've been missing out on `fs.promises.writeFile()` (or `require('fs/promises')`) for quite a while!
Many of my Amazon ads are for non products like financial services (specifically Amex)
That's my worry too. I feel no matter what, you will retain less with tiktok vs any other "medium" out there.
For those old enough to recall Nancy Reagan, perhaps the time has finally arrived to "JUST SAY NO!"
Somewhat out there, but what about:

a) by using the equipment you commit to providing a small percentage of profits from the job(s)/products/services that wouldn't have happened if the space/equipment/services didn't exist.

b) attracting foot traffic proportionally subsidizes the rates in (a).

The current model provides open-ended access to equipment for a fixed monthly rate. So any measurement of the value the equipment provides in terms of learning, experience, etc is basically being discarded. This makes a lot of sense from a purist "here's a giant pile of lego, go see what you build with it without any strings attached" perspective... but is it really the end of the world to wind the boundary on that margin back a few millimeters? For example Unity only imposes fees once revenue/funding is over $100K/yr - and (last I checked) this is only the case for interactive content, you can render (and profit off of) as much noninteractive video as you like. There's a recognition of the value of the product in there, alongside some *very* generous margins that arguably provide more than adequate "here's a pile of lego, go have fun" room to get lost in. Perhaps the argument is that the flat-rate subscription only works at eg Spotify's scale.
They'd also switch how one orders food every 18 months, and have them migrate to the new way of ordering food. Food ordering in gmail, food ordering as an app, food ordering using a kiosk, then back to an app, then merge it into the wallet app because why not.
Notes app (backed up in cloud)

I watch shows from 10 different sites, so I note it down which show/movie I watched and till which episode.
I'd say claiming that the concept of working in VR is discriminatory is at at the very least extreme hyperbole.
Terminology: CIA officers are US citizens employed by the CIA. CIA agents are foreign individuals recruited by the CIA officers.

CIA agents don't put that on their resumes. That could get them arrested or worse. I think the author was referring to ex-CIA officers.
SQLite v Postgres here is apples v oranges. Postgres is multi-reader multi-writer whereas SQLite is single-writer multi-reader among other things. They are both very fine databases but solve different use cases.
Amazing - this is my new default, thanks!
It's not just that the people over 40 are on it, it's that your grandmother comes and leaves confused comments about unrelated topics on your friend's posts.
I just started using TikTik, and it's not bad. It separates "todo" items from "habits". Maybe all todo apps have this feature or something like it, but this is my first time I've tracked my to-do list this way. For like 25 years I've just had a text file which grew longer and longer.

So, you add all your one-off todo items as normal, but you can also set up habits, which are things that you want to do regularly ("take a walk", "get some sun", etc.) They reappear in the todo list daily (or when you want) and keeps track of streaks. I even have a habit called, "get at least one todo done" which helps with my procrastination!

It's working out well. I tend to get distracted, so I really like checking off habits as I go through my day. And it keeps track of bad habits too, which I check off at the end of the day if I haven't eaten junk food or whatever.

The only real problem is it doesn't give a good overview of all the todos you've added, so it's sort of of sight, out of mind. Though I'm sure I just need to use it some more to get used to it.
“When the only tool you have is a nailgun, every problem looks like a messiah.”
> There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing.

Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal fill that place quite nicely.

I regularly check my Whatsapp contacts status messages. Most of them are filled with things from their daily lives.

I have a bunch of groups in Telegram, both personal and professional.

I feel FB style of "feed" thing has become a chore solely due to the mind-numbing complexity of the interface. WA is dead simple. I know what I am looking at, I can interact with the person who put the status message, I can block them or delete them or archive them.

SM has evolved itself into chat apps, which, funnily, was what we used FB for in the first place.

The likes of IG, TT, etc are a mixed broadcast medium, that are natural evolutions of the Twitter model.

Also, FB is finally evolving into a form that is close to how users use it.
I heard that one of the two hackerspaces in Chicago is handling money really well and for more than a decade. It is possible you just have to put someone that doesn't dilapitade or steal the money in charge of it and allow members to voice their concerns and have access to financial records. All the places I've seen failing they were kept hidden either by the institution or dishonest administrators.
I just remember (using my human memory). And if I forget I saw something before, then I maybe watch it again.
What is the mechanism by which the investment gets repaid? That seems like a pretty important aspect to this but I don't see it explained anywhere.

Also, what is the point of the NFT aspect of this? Just as a mechanism of tracking who has invested in a creator?
I'm interested to see what the lens advancements are going to look like. A good chunk of the weight/bulk comes from the current lens setup, so if the new ones reduce bulk and weight, that would make life a lot better.
Not really sure about that. Isn’t the write endurance of hard dives still much higher than that of flash?
For those wondering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32237445
Seinfeld is the King's Fool - the most ancient form of comedy. Feudal kings would keep a fool in their court to mock those who came before the king - a subtle form of power politics. Here is this insolent fool, who I will allow to mock you, with impunity. Now, laugh!

If the Fool were to start mocking the King himself, well, that Fool would not be long for this world. In today's system, that's been altered - the Fool just doesn't get their contract renewed. There was a brief period where Fools were able to break free and mock all those about them (see George Carlin) but that was quickly shut down, and now the Fools we still see know what subjects not to tackle... with a few exceptions, I suppose. Independent media and alternative venues, etc.
> Huge swaths of HN's user base somehow lacks this ability and shows the proof any time some of Dan's writing shows up here.

I've found this comment section to be a bit shocking, to be honest. I thought a message like "Trendy hiring managers will discriminate against you if you work for Walgreens or a bank or use a Microsoft stack, compared to if you have no professional experience" would be simple enough to be successfully transmitted to readers.
Except those special watch interfaces and apps have nothing to offer, that is why I do not use them.

I decided now that I want truly generic VNC-watch, which can view any screen anywhere. You could show the corner of your laptop or smart-TV. Or view the screen of an oscilloscope, when some critical process needs watching. DroidVNC is good VNC-server for Android, so this watch would work with a phone too.
You can hate Facebook all you want, but it's quite the stretch to call TikTok "amazing". It's very addictive, while the algo knows what you want, but that's mostly it.

Obviously anecdotal and personal opinion here, but me & many other people I know tried it a bit, spent MANY hours mindlessly scrolling, and eventually got bored. Nonetheless, it's still growing like a wildfire, but I deeply suspect it'll be a very, very fast fire. Which is a deep irony, since Facebook is following TikTok into the same cliff.
Step 1. You’re suspected of a crime

Step 2. They start looking for evidence

Step 3. They find uncommon actions you took to make your browsing history harder to track.

Step 4. Judge

Step 5. https://xkcd.com/538/

No one will prosecute you for using Mullvad but using it may be a red flag that you have something to hide if you’re already under investigation
Any word on DWPD or other endurance facts?
Phoenix – the next evolution of the Brackets editor
No one needs Zuckerberg and his shitty services.
Why is it so hard to have a site where I can share pictures with and for friends and see them in chronological order
Fits on every usb drive lol