skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I know one of the tricks to detect flickering: look at the emitter through a camera, e.g. that of a phone.

This would be a really poor driver, effectively using the AC freq. and shutting off w/ each cycle/zero cross. Unfortunately, many are exactly like that. However - some cameras do have compensation for exactly this issue, and they may hide it.

>How would you instead check EMI - in general? (I am not a specialist in this area.)

Use an AM radio. (That would depend on the frequency and what not, but AM radios are a pretty neat trick to check)
I hope this is an academic exercise because if absolute zero entails no air travel, no shipping, no lamb or beef, amongst other prohibitions, it also entails violence.
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Have you been living under a rock? The sheer amount of vitriol Elon gets rivals that Trump gets!
TensorFlow Lite – On a Commodore 64
Anyone know if any core level work on ZFS where there’s an effort to audit the code base for speed ups given the big differences in designs between spinning rust and SSDs?
David Thewlis in Mike Leigh's Naked [1] ?

1. https://youtu.be/N90sl94g7PE
Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds
What kind of notes do you take for Security research? Bug bounty tips?
Welcome to the 8 and 16 bit home computer days when OSes were written in ROMs.
Proprietary software with full system access tells that it's disabled. Do you trust that?
I am most excited about any research on dark matter that comes out of Webb’s data. That is one big puzzle to this day
You cannot boot the other OS at all if secure boot is enabled and Microsoft drops support for the 3rd party UEFI CA list. The machine will refuse to boot any kernel that has not been signed by the CAs already included in the machine. This is typically only Microsoft and sometimes the OEM like Lenovo or Dell.
> > Ouch, that's a pretty careless reason to start with

> I think it's fine. This is probably the reason that I used to have for using private until I started thinking about it.

I mean I understand if no-one would claim to have that reason currently because people like to have more specific reasons for what they do but it's still a valid reason for using private so I didn't want to leave it out.
Another reason for EAC would be a kind of cheat people built for a recent Battlefield game: a modded graphics driver that changed colors to make other players more visible. There's just no way to detect this server side.
The community has long forgotten those roots the day they started pushing for anti-GPL licenses.
In the Java dev teams I haven't noticed any common target that would be consistently shat on.
I ve been inviting people to try SL (opensimulator, the open source version of SL) and most people actually like 3D worlds. Many people don't even know these things exist because their mainstream experience is mobile games and flat websites. But SL has a terrible user interface and experience and it's so complicated that it alienates those users. Even an advanced user would have a hard time figuring out all those legacy things and concepts, it's the Unix of VR worlds.

As for the metaverse, people need to realize that it's not for everyone . Maybe in 10-20 years or so
It would prevent it in a way that you know that the mod you are downloading is not likely to work and you wouldn't download it in the first place.
That this post is [flagged] is of course deliciously ironic.
Really cool. I always wondered if something like this exists but could never find anything. Things like minio are quite different as they don't use the cloud native storage.

Amazing, one more step towards breaking vendor lock in!
The resulting "dish" is a png that you can open in a new tab, or just download straight away.
Does anyone have experience pursuing this strategy for tech roles in FAANG and other Bay Area companies? I definitely agree switching every two years is optimal for a lot of jobs, but I'm having trouble executing this strategy when I'm already in a FAANG.

I've been at my current (and only) FAANG for almost four years, climbing two rungs in the IC ladder over that span. Right now, I'm not sure how I'd begin my hops. My current comp is alright, which has meant that I'm having trouble finding alternatives that can offer substantially higher comps.

The only alternatives I've seen are:

1. Hop to a different FAANG, same level => Overall comp is roughly on par to what I'm getting right now.

2. Hop to a different FAANG, one level higher => Does this actually happen on a regular basis? How might one approach this?

3. Hop to a startup => Too much of the comp is based on stock options which are highly volatile. Particularly in this current economy, I want to go/stay somewhere with healthy cash flows.

4. Hop to a non-FAANG tech company => How do they match up in comp against FAANG? Is this worth pursuing?
The shamelessness of asking whatever you need or need to know, is quite powerful. I have a friend, that has the strategy to always ask for help. Whatever he needs to do, he just asks friends, coworkers, strangers, and whoever is around for help.

Of course he is blown off most of the time, and that’s fine for him, he doesn’t hold any grudges if you refuse to help him. He just keeps asking, until he finds someone.

I don’t want to be a leach like him, who just lives on other peoples good faith. But it’s really impressive how well this strategy works. And what kind of things he got out of it already.
Neither did trying to put my pen the the trash can. And combining the party emoji with itself didn't create a more excited party emoji. I imagine it's still a work in progress.
The vaccine is not taking away part of the pleasures of the child once they become adult, so the choice is between "bad" (vaccine pain) or "more bad" (sick).

The circumcision is between "fine and pleasure with some risks" and "very painful, loss of pleasure in some areas, annoying underwear rubbing, body mutilation, some reduced risks".

Finally, the reason why the vaccine is done without consent is because you can get killed (or kill accidentally due to lack of herd immunity) if you don't do it.

No one is affected by someone going through circumcision or not.
Apple HQ ?
I think what most people miss in replies to your comment is "building trust at scale".

Folks will launch courses that net $1m a year, sure. But what you miss is the years beforehand building goodwill with their community by helping out, writing articles, attending conferences and giving talks, etc.

I do this myself with React at https://maxrozen.com, and most folks that end up buying my book found my site dozens of times first.
> My newsletter is the #1 paid technology newsletter on Substack.

good for you but is this another survivorship bias thing...

reminds me of the 4-hour workweek, getting rich by giving advice others how to get rich

added: if you try to be in the creator economy, you will always be at the whim of some gatekeeper like youtube or instagram who can erase 90% of your income in an instant
Makes one think if remote work is going to find a home in those online worlds. The mechanics make sense and it gives a sense of togetherness.
The sky blue cocotte is a childhood classic :-)
Librem 5 and Pinephone smartphones are general-purpose computers.
If you ban and censor us, why don't you just tell us so?

Because you'll just make a new account.
Hard to imagine that what he did (in order to repair a single copy) doesn't have a massively greater negative environmental impact than obtaining a mass-produced replacement. Unless this were done at scale, it would probably be counter-productive.
Maxis actually distributed a model of Kowloon as one of the original cities included with SimCity Classic (before it was called "Classic").

I recall that it was from the Japanese Fujitsu FM Towns version of SimCity, which included several extra Japanese cities that weren't shipped with other versions, but that I dug up from my archives and included with Micropolis, the open source version of SimCity Classic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_Towns

https://www.mobygames.com/game/fmtowns/simcity

https://www.retroplace.com/en/games/46874--simcity

Directory of original Maxis SimCity save files, including Kamakura, Kobe, Kowloon, Kyoto, Senri, and Yokohama from the FM Towns version:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/tree/master/Micropol...

Kowloon save file:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/master/Micropol...

Tokyo was also one of the original SimCity scenarios, shipped with every version of the game. That was the one that caused Toho (Godzilla's owner) to sue Maxis because the scenario originally referenced Godzilla, and the box featured a picture of Godzilla. Maxis had to change it to a generic orange monster and call it a "large reptillian creature" instead, and change the Godzilla on the box to a tornado. Original versions of the box with Godzilla are valuable collectors items!

>TOKYO, JAPAN 1957: A large reptilian creature has been spotted heading for Tokyo bay. It seems to be attracted to the heavy levels of industrial pollution there.
Try to control the fires, then rebuild the industrial center. You have 5 years.

https://imgur.com/z5gy9GW

https://twitter.com/dancingcrab/status/928792064736874496

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_in_popular_culture#Vi...

>The "Monster" disaster in the computer game SimCity depicted an unnamed green monster that resembled Godzilla. A scenario in the game: Tokyo, Japan 1954 parodies the original movie. The depiction of the monster in-game and on the boxart led to legal issues with Toho, with Maxis changing the Monster's design in-game and swapping it on the packaging for the "Tornado" disaster instead.
> I don't see why other propaganda-filled books that are being pushed on unsuspecting children shouldn't be banned too

Face book, for example…

:sigh:
I started journaling 4 years ago. I have not missed one day in 4 years (except for a couple of days after a mild bicycle accident where I was sleeping in bed). I built myself a system that sends me an email every day, and the replies get stored in an sqlite db. The system accepts answers up to five days after the date (meaning, if the replies is sent more than five days after the initial email was sent, it's not filed). I did this to force myself to never reply too late.

The funny thing is, five days is waaay too long a time to remember what you have done. When I describe my day at the end of it, or the morning after, I usually remember incredible little details and thoughts. But after a day, only a rough outline remains. After two days, I usually remember nothing (save for exceptional circumstances).

That's why I started journaling: to be able to tell what happened in the past. Not just the big milestones, but all the little steps.
I use Gboard on my Pixel phone yet I cannot figure out how to use these for the life of me
VRChat exposes user IPs? edit: another comment mentions "partial p2p" (I assume to share user models etc? maybe more) which sounds plausible
Just catching up where IBM failed.
I have some bad news for you. I know of at least 2 occasions.
Just never read the past, problem solved. That shit also takes way too long, 400 words per day = 146k words = 300ish pages

The value of writing to me is to refine thoughts and then take action upon them. That is the here and now rather than introspection.
Get Started with Mash: monetize quality content, experiences and tools properly
Don't say the Mouse's name in vain?
Up to the community to prove their have a market value to be kept around and aren't yet another OpenMoko.
I know folks with thousands to millions of PDFs using the Jina framework and it works fine. I hear what you're saying about frontends and lightweight though. Jina doesn't come with any cross-platform frontends, though Jina NOW has a Streamlit interface that's responsive (so works across devices)
Proof-of-Less-Work (PoLW), how does it work?
That’s their plan.

https://theoceancleanup.com/waste-management-and-recycling/
Every time the so-called web3 is mentioned on HN, it's immediately obvious what it is and why nobody should touch it, in spite of very vocal fans and people with vested interest. It's just another fad just like NFTs - with big hype and no real substance.
It's overall quite true. But I found that the smaller stores, that live in the shadows of a larger one, do still offer the actual bargains. For example, in Emmaüs Tarare, a smaller city 30 min away from Lyon, you still find solid furniture that can be up to 4 or 5 times cheaper than flimsier pieces in Emmaüs Lyon.
I don't quite know what the dynamics are, here.
> 2. Germ theory! It can't explain [...] the behavior of influenza, for example, why it's seasonal,

Huh? I thought that's so well-known (must be, if even I have heard of it) that it goes without saying: Spring-summer, people go out and breathe fresh air a bit apart; autumn-winter, everyone goes inside and coughs their germs at each other.

> why waves peak and enter decline before everyone is infected,

The more people are already infected, the fewer and further between the as-yet-uninfected are, so that seems quite reasonable. (Pretty much inevitable, really, isn't it?)

> why variants disappear totally instead of coexisting, why flu season seems to start everywhere in season almost simultaneously,

See first point above.

> why there have been outbreaks of respiratory viruses in totally isolated environments like arctic bases, and so on.

Someone always flies in supplies...

I mean, WTF -- "Germ theory"? Isn't that what it was called in the 19th century, when there still was any doubt about it? What next; "Gravity is just a theory!"?
Are they free?

The following makes it sound like these websites pirate the graphics, so that wouldn't work for a keyboard for the App Store.

>If you have an Android device I recommend downloading Gboard and giving it a whirl. If you don't have a phone running on Android … you could consider getting one lololol or trying it out on a number of unofficial websites (tsk tsk! I don't approve!!! :Face-with-Symbols-on-Mouth-emoji:)

— https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitc...
I have netflix, but also a usenet server account and many TB of disk.
I might cancel the first, if the added value becomes too small.
We will never know, since the author does not expand on any of the subjects.
> In every case they said they were in a hurry and that they would “fix it later”.

This. We need to stop using time pressure as an excuse to do a bad job. Moving things out to a separate function might add 10 min but save 100x when everything comes crashing down.

Of course you shouldn’t overengineer but so much can be gained from spending a little time just thinking about how this should work.
Cholera has survived for thousands of years. Doesn't mean I want to deal with it :)

Seriously though, I agree. The fact that a file format can stick around that long is impressive.
About compensation there is an easy trick: decide on your limits before starting to negotiate and stick to them, really stick to them. Don’t be insulted if the other party doesn’t agree, that’s your price, and it’s their decision to take it or leave it. And tell yourself you deserve the compensation you decided on.

There is the risk that you fail at a negotiation, but you have to take it. If the job is not very well paid, there is probably another one just like that, you can still take as a backup.
Call me biased but I do indeed regard "the Jews are an evil scourge" to be more worthy of banning than "climate change is real".
That’s too scary, what if the product doesn’t find market fit? Let’s just build the complete product first with VC money.
I think you and I should start a support group!
Dubbed the experimental successor to C++, Carbon is available to try today
If you would be the designer of this thing, how soon would you want the gig to be up ?

The purpose of this thing is not economical, or political, or social - the purpose is to satisfy the ego of an autocrat, and as long as that ego is getting stroked, the money will continue to flow.
Comments on the New R OOP System, R7
For a lot of things a 6502 or other 8bit cores are more than enough. Don't need to put a giant ARM or RISC-V into everything to drive a simple display.
Nice thought experiment. Hard problem. https://davidcycleback.com/2020/01/30/humans-cannot-have-cer...
Could this be disabled by the user? Presumably doing so would mean you cannot boot Windows, but if thats a trade off Microsoft is forcing me to make, I'll accept it.

If you can't, it goes without saying that that is unacceptable
A friend of mine works on the NEOM project, and it really is like winning the lottery. Remote work with an occasional field trip to look at the place. But Google level salary to tell them how to save some data.

The scale of the feeding trough is unimaginable. I saw an advert for NEOM on Piccadilly Circus, the whole entire e-wall, and the place isn't even built yet, so I'm not sure if they're using it to recruit. It's not just what you think of as traditional civil engineering which would require you to be in the desert. The thing is supposed to be a smart city, whatever that means, but every buzzword seems to be required. Machine learning, green energy, internet of things, they seem to want everything.

I did read an article saying the Saudi guy in charge was a bully, so maybe it's not at positive, but worth a look if you can be a sub contractor.
Ahah yeah! We had the orange one at home :p
What does "every 2 years" mean when you're a junior? Once?

Staying at a company longer can help build particular skills like leadership and working in an organization. They are less relevant at junior-mid, but become increasing important at senior+.
> Reproducibility is a goal of science. It's not always an achievable goal.

And here I thought the goal of science was to find the truth[1] about how the world works, with reproducibility as one of the means to do that.

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[1]: Or at least get as close as possible, hopefully asymptotically ever closer, to the truth.
Accessible nature = scorching-heat desert. Great for cycling i guess

This whole project - Why? Whoever sold this to the Saudis, bit prankster
In many policy discussions on Twitter I see the stock reply “Land value tax solves this.”

Surprisingly often, it does. Unfortunately doesn’t solve the problem of clickbait headlines!
Or you could implement a system like in our country where national wire transfers arrive in seconds without any fees.
That would not be optimally efficient. Back to planning school for you. The happiness of the citizens was not a concern.
No doubt about it, switching jobs will definitely get you that immediate compensation increase. But you have to consider all the baggage that a new job comes with. First of all, its a reset on context. You'll start at 0, and you'll have to learn, wind up, and prove yourself again. And its a reset on your team, you'll get a completely new set of people you'll have to learn to work and communicate with. Experience is also valuable, if you're somewhere for a longer period of time, the more things you've likely started and finished. Often times people who switch a lot, end up getting stuck at a terminal level unable to advance further, because they can't go beyond the surface level to really deeply think about problems and see the solutions through.

Ultimately I feel like switching jobs isn't entirely about money, but more so driven by a lack of growth and fulfillment in your role.
> Switching to "leap hours" would involve a good part of the world living with about 9am sunrise (or a 3:30pm sunset) for hundreds of years.

Can we switch to leap minutes instead? In the worst case it would mean to adjust the time once in 30 years, which means that astronomers and software engineers would have to deal with this problem no more than 3 times in a century. Fair enough IMHO.
The quizzes are overloaded unfortunately.

Yes. GPT-3 can produce text that a human could have said. The important difference is that some text was said by a human. Some person whose work and live I admire, dit in, in fact, utter these statements. This lifts them from the statistical noise from which GPT-3 dredges.
It is a real thing on most phones, and has been for years. We're just lucky PCs haven't been crippled this way.
Shadow banned people on HN just have their comments automatically killed. If you have showdead on, you still see their comments.
I think it is because asking people for help is giving those people meaning.
I really disagree. Specifically when you have types nested within one another the complexity doesn't increase much. Whereas with C++ style declaration it quickly becomes type soup.
I'm not suggesting that he was right; quite the opposite, I blame the man for the sorry state of affairs today. But this idea was not restricted to "a few" - Bork's book was popular in circles around Reagan, and from there it became a part of modern Republican economic orthodoxy. What was unusual was a businessman, and in the industry that had already seen issues with monopolies at that, saying it openly.
I don't understand why anyone would choose that over a motorbike.
Fortnite definitely not p2p (my guess), can't talk about vrchat but it makes sense that parts could be p2p. Lots of users and they would want to minimize server trafic

People would want client side checks for variety of reasons. It is more performant (for your server), it is more robust (imagine you are not sending player data that are behind a wall. Now that player might be visible very quickly by moving but your server response might be too late) and some stuff is almost impossible (aim bots etc. Sure your server make some guesses but a client detecting existence of such programs is still a plus)
They're working on it. Microsoft's latest attempt is to disable the 3rd party UEFI CA by default.
Perhaps you can strike a balance between the 2 options of the spectrum?

I would not imagine still working in the company where I started as a Junior (and only receiving a 5% raise per year).
In the same time, after jumping a few times, my salary increased 7x and I found a place where I felt really happy working, too. (before starting my own business)
"very evidently"?
Where is this evidence that I haven't thought it through that you speak of?

As I hinted, I'm sufficiently experienced with precise timestamping to know that TAI is the proper way there, and that "improving" UTC is not going to help.
Their suggestion is that UTC should essentially be the same as TAI because there is code that makes incorrect assumptions about what UTC is. If you need a monotonic clock, there is already something for that. UTC is for the actual local time on Earth.
I wonder who would live there? Somehow I really doubt people from first world would go. Then third world? Doesn't seem like a cheap place.
I'm pretty sure some Windows 10 tablets from 2014 to 2016 are locked down to only allow Windows on them (Not S-mode).
Where is the (pure ?) CO2 needed from such a plant typically sourced from ? Does it have to be captured at a gaz / coal power plant exhaust ? Or would it make sense to use CO2 captured from atmosphere (once the tech matters ?)
It makes no sense. At 200k/year you should easily be able to afford a very nice house indeed. Perhaps op is spending it all on luxury, travel, ...?
This doesn't follow at all. Those other parties cannot authenticate as me.
Should be placed on a yellow formica table ^^
Yes, you can disable secure boot.
I don't see how this Babel tower of acronyms will not fail in a spectacular fashion, such as producing malware which is run upon receipt, cannot be by any action removed from your PC and installs crypto miner and ransomware on it.
Thank God for XKCD explained:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2650:_Deepfakes