skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - There is a TON of luck. A million people put in the same hard work but do not make it. But most of these people spin it as hard work.

The “Excel Girl” also spins it as manifesting. You can see more of that at r/lawofattraction, or you might be familiar with The Secret (2006).
Sorry to be blunt, these have nothing to do with Wi-Fi hotspots, they don't have the same use cases, they don't use the same protocol and it's as far removed from Xfinity and Comcast as possible.
Yep! Basically, it's safer if you don't own your PC. Think about users with a million toolbars and Bonzi Buddy installed.

Of course, the system for it is rudimentary, and puts a disproportionate amount of control in the hands of providers. And that works very well for them too.
Sadly seems like it's way too small.
Pioneer 10 is ~2.9m long [1] and 2.0e7 km from Earth [2]. JWST is just 1.5e6 km from Earth, so that doesn't make much of a difference.
Doing the trig, you get the arc-width of P10 is 2atan(w/2d) = 2atan(2.9m/4.0e7km) = 7.33e-14 rad.
JWST has a resolution of 0.1 arcsecond = 4.8e-7 rad [3].

So we're off by "just" a factor of 10,000,000 on resolution :-(

It's too bad, that would be so cool.

[1] https://www.space.com/17651-pioneer-10.html#:~:text=This%20s....
[2] https://theskylive.com/how-far-is-pioneer10#:~:text=The%20di....
[3] https://www.spaceanswers.com/astronomy/ten-reasons-why-nasas...
This is word soup.
"'When I use a word,' Humpty-Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'"
You're just being shameless right now.
There's only so many people who buy a Ferrari or an expensive handbag, and they only buy so many of them before they're done buying.

Taxing property perhaps would work. Or inheritance taxes. Big resistance on those for obvious reasons.
The Bubonic Plague and the resulting depopulation is the root cause of humanism, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and eventual recognition of human rights.
"On average, they spent $400-800 to buy a hotspot. They were expecting $100/month,". These expectations were soooo unrealistic! To have 100% return every 8 months is beyond crazy.
How do you choose what you put in your CPU? What when Windows forces you to have that kind of hardware?

You can choose not to wear that gear, but choosing to not use Windows is much more complicated, at least for most people.
There is a trade-off. Starting a new job is a roll of the dice. You might not get along with your new team, their codebase could be a mess, your manager an asshole, their business model a disaster. You might not spot red flags during the interview process because they'll be putting up their best front and Glassdoor is gamed these days. The higher salary reflects the risk that you might end up in a situation where you go from a secure job to one where you get fired because you're not a good fit.
> The other part is we got a lot of Azure Credits when we joined the [Microsoft for Startups]

Wow, Microsoft must have really drowned you with free credits to choose Azure. We also tried Azure 2.5 years ago when my small team (3 founding devs) started with our startup, but after 6 months of constant problems, broken services, outages, and completely out of the blue unexplained service failures we had to give up. We wasted a lot of engineering time on bending our app to Azure's needs and still had issues. We eventually migrated to Google Cloud and hadn't had any problems since then. I am not kidding, the first 6 months we must have spent at least 70% of our time on issues which we wouldn't have had on AWS or Google. Azure really under delivered on all fronts. Things looked extremely promising and then when we used a service we realised that most useful (often necessary) features were behind extremely expensive tiers and then it meant we had to either take huge hits on our hosting costs or build weird workarounds. We didn't want to go against Azure and often chose to pay, but even the higher tiered services then started to act up and often result in totally unexpected behaviour. Good luck to you though!
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Oh no, they're on to me!
> Scarborough on the beautiful Redcliffe Peninsula

I had to google that to discover that’s in Australia.

That’s symptomatic, and my big disappointment in all those copywriters for company websites: you get more information faster about a company by looking it up in Wikipedia than by reading its obtuse website.
Absolutely. Security is just a PR term for these, like how "think of the children" narrative is pushed when pushing for certain legislations.
"Is really the government doesn't need money as much as it needs a way to devote some portion of the economy towards public goods."

That much always seemed obvious to me at the federal level. For state/municipal governments there's at least some argument they do actually rely on the revenue, as they can't just go ahead and print/issue more money as needed.
Until access to the internet or methods of circumventing DRM are crippled without submitting to these technologies. That's the road we're heading down. Can't hack the current-gen Xbox, apparently. I'm wondering if someone will take that as a "challenge accepted".
Thanks for the advice; just put mine on. The world of the dead fascinates me.
I agree. Marketing is hard.

With nearly zero Twitter followers, posting to Twitter is a black hole. Even posting to reddit is posting to a black hole unless you get really lucky (lots of upvotes and engagement).

It's a chicken and egg problem. How do you get the word out when nobody listens to what you have to say?
And you can't get mortgage because... landlords with enormous leverage bid against each other, jack up rental costs and you are left with even less for mortgage.

I do like mobility tho - I've lived in 4 countries, 10+ properties, all rental. Unsure where is the right balance is tho. Banks in NZ won't let you develop property unless you already own land, so it's out or reach for first timers. IMO it's fair if we redirect investor capital into new developments.
Isn't that the way it's been for several versions now with scripts to disable all the telemetry and shovelware?
There's tasks where experience doesn't tell you ahead of time how long something takes. If you need to figure out a [novel take on an] algorithm, it'll be hard to predict the time even if you did things like that plenty times before. And you'll be able to judge the remaining work after pretty decently.
I would like a free as in freedom Libre Linux PC with open non bloated boot loader. Open hardware and open specs.

What I do not want in my next PC is more DRM and adtech spying on us.
DejaVu Mono is also my preferred monospace font. Have tried some other popular ones but always returned to it.
Remember when Snowden and Manning leaked huge troves of secret information about the crimes of the State? Remember when a bunch of journos got their hands on the so-called "Panama papers"?

Basically, this will make transparency even harder than it already is. That's a terrible danger for democracy at large. Stalin's wet dream.
Pickle Rick tech is real!
Somewhere between PHP and Objective-C?
The Java link doesn't describe a way to have a pointer to a subobject. In Java you must always point at the start of an object.

In Go, objects are segregated by allocation size, so the GC can round subobject pointers to keep the surrounding object alive.
Melting glacier moves Italian-Swiss border
Show HN: I embedded a book search into Notion
Hey HN!

(Full transparency: I've not been a very active member of this community (yet). But I want to change that and thought it could be a good start to showcase a project that I've built recently.)

I read a lot of books and always loved having some sort of digital bookshelf where I could easily keep track of books that were recommended to me, keep all of my notes & highlights and share what I'm reading with friends.

For the past 10 years, I've used Goodreads for this. But I became more and more frustrated with it - Amazon seems to mostly neglect it. At the same time, I started using Notion to organize pretty much everything else in my life.

I saw how other people organized their books and reading lists in Notion but I felt it was a burden to manually transfer all of the book data.

That's why I built a little app that's embedded into a Notion template to provide a book search natively inside of it. Now you can search for, and add any book to your Notion bookshelf without leaving the app and with no manual data entry. I also built an importer to transfer all Goodreads data to Notion (including beautiful book covers) with the click of a button.

You can check out my digital bookshelf here:
https://rbouschery.notion.site/Robbie-s-Public-Bookshelf-7d3...
All sounds good for enterprise IT admins - who are the target for these features.
Yes, "15-minute neighbourhood" is certainly the phrase used in UK urbanist circles.
Seems like it was a producer that sent it. https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/26/2127041...
I didn't know about Vlang, I checked it out, looks very cool.

Vely is really not a language breakthrough. Not at all.

I would say Vely is a practical workhorse. It is about power of rapidly doing business. Kind of like PHP but more in a declarative way like SQL, within C.

As in, you need a collection of libraries that do all the stuff you need to build an application (run queries, build strings really easy, execute programs, do web calls, deamonize programs etc.).

And you need it without writing C code or using API or procuring libraries and header files, but rather you'd just spill your thoughts about what to do in a language that sounds like a natural language, where even the order of how you say it isn't that important.
PHP is still a thing since time immemorial… And will remain there for a long time to come. (Seems like they made quite some improvements in the latest iterations as well.)
> When I left my job as an engineering manager at Uber in late 2020, I had nothing lined up on purpose, and decided to spend the coming 6 months writing a book, and then found a startup related to platform engineering

All these feel-good stories should start with "this is how I managed to save enough money to not worry about anything for at least 6 months"
Oh, so the purpose of this thing is political.
Louder for the Cheeto-dust-covered people in the back.
Where I am, Helium is would be the cheapest way to get data from a-b without draining batteries.

I can dump sensors anywhere in the city and they should just work.

But

When I last looked, it was really convoluted to buy data, you had to either buy them off a miner, which sounded dodgy, or mine the tokens yourself. I just wanted to buy $25 worth of data transfer and have done with it, but I couldn't figure out a way to do it at the time
Or, a daily 5x5, 7x7, etc. for the true addicts
Would the tunnel into lake powell 2000ft below not fill it up still? Is it not possible to fill a half full bucket with a hose at the bottom of the bucket? With storm drainage tunnels , they still fill up the bigger tunnels and reservoirs even though the tunnel terminates under water. What physics thingy am I missing?
> “StepN, a move-to-earn app reportedly made $120M in profit in its first year of operation. That might not be sustainable, but what business wouldn't give an arm and a leg to make $120M profits in just one year of operation?”

Shady securities in the past offered that kind of short-term unsustainable returns too. That’s why it was heavily regulated. This iteration of the same concept should be as well. It’s good news that SEC is now inspecting all of Coinbase’s listings as potential security offerings — better late than never.

Nobody wants to use these move-to-earn, play-to-earn and whatever-else token flywheels if there isn’t a market attached where you can dump the tokens. And those markets aren’t attractive unless the tokens are essentially securities.
That's the Prime Minimouse to you.
I doubt it will get built, but they really have people who understand the fundamental concepts behind Arcology. Honestly I'm surprised at how many parts of the design are well thought-out and well adapted to the desert environment. Sunlight from the sides, but not so much that it overheats the city. Heat escapes up. 5-minute walkable neighborhoods. The proximity to services of cities combined with the roominess of suburbs. At least in theory it's the perfect place to live.

One thing I'm a bit puzzled about is why so many people here describe this as a dystopia or prison. This is super similar to the old utopian sci-fi designs from the 60s/70s. Sure today it seems a bit dated/naive, but hardly dystopian.
Mostly because you’re right: Canal+ has its hands on everything.
Uniform memory access I guess
At the time I didn't know that. Perhaps .vely extension, I guess that would do it. Something to consider to be nice for sure. Thanks for that.
Souvenirs, souvenirs...
The way you'd deal with the lack of pins on a 40 pin package would have been to just no connect AD20-23.
Hey greentext andrew163623, I'm very pleased you discovered wikipedia! However the existence of that verse is already known by many Scots, it's not some Forbidden Knowledge that only nationalist papers talk about.
I refuse to buy wireless headphones as long as you cant user swap batteries in them.

I have a series of dumb/smart Sennheiser HD 650 cans. They have lasted twenty years. That is much better for the environment.

Planned obscelence. Yes its a real thing!
I see what you are saying, and at first I agreed. Thinking on it more, there are lots of things that when examined rationally we can all agree is a strategy but it's not being done with any forethought. Or thought at all. Puffing your chest up and getting loud when getting into a fight, mirroring behavior, basically social strategies are not the same thing as war game strategies and you can blunder into doing the right thing and just keep doing it.

They are strategies and they are very effective... much to my dismay, but they don't require intelligence.
CCC – Chaos Computer Club Invites to the First Open Hackerspace Day on August 27
> Mein Kampf is a banned book

Not everywhere in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Current_availabilit...)

In the USA, freedom of speech is in very high regard, and that’s in conflict with the idea of banning any publication.
You mean like this ?

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/11/lenovo_secured_core/
> no good use-case that can not be addressed by cellular or Wi-Fi.

Cellular is power hungry, and Wi-fi is range limited.

Long range low bandwidth, that is both cheap in power and money to use, is really useful.

Cellular is a pain in the arse, expensive to miniaturise, difficult to power longterm.
There are plenty of gloomy and dystopian cities that are not Russian, let's not get weird about this
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I think this still sounds very negative, and what the author says is basically "It's not that the person is smart, it's that the followers are stupid". I don't agree with that.

For me, it's about public demand, and some smart person playing into it.
Is it good? Worth getting?
Sure. But it still gives more impressive results as you would think.

If you’re smart, you use this strategy much more rarely, and just in the cases it’s really needed. But a lot of people forget to use the „please help me card“ in those situations, because they feel ashamed.
If the citizens of a democracy don't respect its laws, then it is not a democracy.
> Honestly, most software jobs, even "tough" ones with lots of domain knowledge are bullshit.

I agree 100% with this. If you are staying long time at a big corporation, you will eventually become an expert in the domain you are covering. Now, sure you can transfer some experiences to other companies, but mostly the domain knowledge is worthless outside of the company.
No, 'zuhayeer is right. For anything beyond the Scrum rent-a-jobs you should be outgrowing in your first five years, being liked is more important than being highly effective. You can be great at your job, but if you fail the politics, the best-case scenario is that you get assigned more grunt work. I don't like that it's that way, but enough people are inherently corrupt that castle intrigue outweighs competence. So, every time you change jobs, you're rolling the dice on a new set of strangers.

That doesn't mean, of course, that changing jobs is never the right move. Clearly, it often is. If there's a re-org and you're not promoted, you should probably leave--you're going to have to prove yourself to a new set of people either way, so you might as well get paid for it.

As for the comp increases, this is tricky. If you're increasing your salary but not getting promoted, you're actually putting yourself first in line for layoffs in the future, because HR people are going to see you as anomalously expensive within a band. This strategy can pay off, especially because 99% of corporates are too dumb to assess performance correctly and so often you can improve your perceived performance by becoming more expensive--but you have to be sure you're getting yourself a better position in the pecking order, or otherwise you're going to end up in a career cul-de-sac.

Also, the job-hopper stigma is real. It isn't right, but if you have three or more jobs under 18 months, people are going to assume you keep getting fired for performance or, worse yet, keep getting fired because you're disabled... neither of which they'll touch.

The last thing I want to advocate for is corporate loyalty. They aren't loyal to you, and so you should always have your eyes open and be ready to take everything that isn't nailed down (within the confines of enforceable law, of course) and jump. However, you have to be strategic. Remember that these people are a lot more skilled at screwing people like you than you are at screwing them--that's just how capitalism works.
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities
Think of how much cheaper per kg it is to _prevent_ new plastic entering the ocean rather than pulling plastic from the middle of the ocean!

Why on earth are we pulling ~100s of kg while there is still 8.8 million tonnes entering the ocean each year?! [1]

aka Ocean Bound Plastic, I've seen a few products use it (but I don't know how to go about certification): https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_apc/better-world/sustainabil...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_pollution
It’s really not that small in real life.
And Verilog. Not that it matters much since tools can utilize heuristics to figure out the actual language used.
>The final and most important lesson of Second Life was that most people do not want a 3D world chat room.

Isn’t this is what most teenagers use Fortnite and Minecraft as.
Exactly, you don't switch for a minimal raise if everything else is ok
Linux 5.20 potentially getting preemption control for RTOS builds
Hmm, a friend of mine worked in Saudi in the mid 1990's, and the (similarly metaphorical) story he told me was slightly different.

When picked up at the airport you are presented the two buckets. When either one is full, it is time to leave.

I expect all employment requires the same trade-off consideration, but I gather in those parts of the world, for ex-pats, both buckets feel like they fill up at an alarmingly brisk rate.
Google is a force for advertisement proliferation, data collection, centralization, and a driving force behind much of the movement to ad-driven maximum engagement rage-driven clickbait media. These are all, I would argue, some of the currently worst evils of our time.
There are places where this doesn't work, you can name them conservative (instead of agile), and long term they work just fine. Switzerland is one of them.

You have on your otherwise amazing CV job switch every year or two? Well we won't even meet since such a person wouldn't be a match for our bank, as for the rest of banks. And most other industries. When employer is choosing from pool of 100-500 often good candidates (since smarter half of the world strives to get here), this is more then enough to dismiss a candidate.

I get it, I've done it in the past (elsewhere) too and its true you get higher base salary. That's the end of benefits. People who are in only to start things, not to maintain/evolve or even deliver final product are largely not interesting to stable companies. its not a rocket science neither, everybody is aware of this. And its not some automated skill all people magically have, in contrary - some of the brightest folks I've met would fail exactly at this check.

And the more senior the role the worse it looks. In fact ie some department leader switching jobs every 2 years means something is very NOK.

Off to body shop consultancies, that's a perfect match from customer point of view. Use them for 6-12 months and them move on.
Because China and Russia might be hacking your hardware.

Don't people listen when a guy like Pompeo speaks he has pretty much outlined the plan with his Clean Network Initiative, I wouldn't be surprised that within a decade CloudFlare and other US cloud services will be used as the great firewall of the western sphere.
Because this is the exact opposite of trying to live at one with your environment. Not saying that cities aren't, but this just screams "wrong" on so many levels.

Why do people go camping? Because it feels so right to connect with the environment.
Experiences with ROS 2 on our robots and what we learned from it
The point is that most taxes except wealth and consumption taxes are very easily avoided by wealthy people. Perhaps even taxes on wealth are hard, since wealthy people can just create some kind of charity and move most of their wealth into the charity.

Make the charity fully controlled by the family and it's a great way to protect ones wealth. Most of the income can be spend on stock purchases and perhaps <1% of the yearly profit can be spend on the actual charity, while another big part of the profits can be used to provide secure income for family members and friend working for the charity. Also, it's a way to avoid inheritance tax and to prevent someone running off with part of the wealth after a divorce.

Taxing income is in my opinion both unethical and rich people can avoid tax on most of their income anyways if they put in a little effort.
Yeah, but then the characters downloaded HTML via a 1980s BBS.
> the rest are all expats

That's probably the point. It's a "city"/prison for people who have no other choice.
Ah that's a relief! Wait I voted Yes ...
Yeah, was just hoping it was available somewhere. Looks like the project has enumerated all combos here, at least: https://github.com/alcor/emoji-supply/blob/main/docs/kitchen...

And then just fetch them from gstatic.
I guess it's the same for other charities/thrift shops/second-hand shops worldwide. I've seen the same with Stockholms Stadsmisssion in Sweden: more centrally located stores have nothing of note, more remote ones and smaller ones may have actual treasures.
Those old cores are wildly efficient if you're just twiddling bits and shuffling data. And on modern processes you can run them at GHz clock speeds.
IoT is a real market. But I have no idea why anyone investing in probably rather big of a system wouldn't pick a reliable proven partner with support and guarantees that they can actually make it work.
I may be misunderstanding.

> “I’ve been working on this, and I’m not sure about it, but what do you think?”

Are you saying this statement conveys a sense of shame? Or a sense of shame is required to request feedback?
And here I was thinking that A16Z has started investing in the chemical industry...