skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to German Wikipedia, former Ex-Siemens-CEO Klaus Kleinfeld is in charge of the NEOM Project.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kleinfeld#Projekt_Neom/
Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of Fzf
I've had a Linxdot hotspot running in my house for the last few days. Apparently it's earned me 0.08 HNT so far (about $0.70 USD.)

I've been thinking about building an IoT device for my mailbox, so I can get a notification when we get a letter. It could be fun to build something that uses the Helium network. Maybe solar powered, and using a weight sensor or something. (I probably don't need Helium for this but it would be fun to try it out.)
Opportunity costs are a thing..
I'm working in this space and from my experience with 200+ founders of early-stage startups, they don't just contract offshore bc of money, they really have no leverage to attract local talent + retain it for long :(

have you seen median tenures startups have on Linkedin profiles? 1.5 years is great
Hints about SUSE's 'Adaptable Linux Platform' Emerge
I read this as a reply to sibling comment ("People just want a reason to dig on Meta"). It works surprisingly well in that role.
Same with TPM and why it had so many critics. Some people still seem adamant to say that boot viruses are the greatest threat in the 21st century, but the economic interest are far more dangerous for general computing in my opinion. And it isn't even close.
Ya, I think ideas coming from someone who calls himself "his royal highness" deserve some extra scrutiny.

It's so strange seeing these futuristic dystopian ideas coming from a ruling monarch that was born into the position. It's like they are preserving the worst of humanity's past and preparing to carry it directly into a dystopian future.
There is plenty of water vapor in the air in Nevada. We just need to extract it.
Yes, this is because emojis are created by committee. The Unicode committee to be precise.

If instead emojis could be drawn and inserted in messages and maintained and shared through emoji-libraries by actual users, then we would get an actual naturally evolving language. Much more interesting.
As usual in Saudi Arabia, more big PR about some magical technology city. Of course the other cities they have started with many of the same promises are now-where near complete.

Its an utterly absurd and incredibly dumb and expensive design. We literally know how to get the best cities already. This is just a way to hook people who have never thought about city design at all.

I guess you can't make nice marketing videos with the message 'we will design new city with traditional grid pattern and a mix of town-houses and apparent building designed with streets that are primary for walking/bicycle use while providing some transportation infrastructure'.

Even on a purely theoretical level, if you strip away all the practical issues, I still don't get how this city would be superior in anything.

P.S: MBS is literally an incompetent fool. His military and diplomatic policy when he came to office made him seem like a 5 year old who got on the computer to finish his fathers Starcraft game.
> To use it: You need an Android phone (sorry Tim Cook!!) 1. Download and install Gboard 2. Open it and set it as the default keyboard on your phone 3. In Gboard's settings check to make sure that Emoji, Stickers & GIFs > Suggestions while typing > Emoji is enabled. This is what ensures that the feature is on :-) 4. Tap two emoji in your keyboard and it suggests a combination of those two emoji

https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitc...
...if the schematics and tapeouts are entirely public.

Otherwise you can be assured that there will be backdoors.
I've always found the "hey Twitter friends, I wrote a guide, buy it for $90 now!" stuff super unethical anyways. First of all, the information they sell that way is 100% available for free somewhere else or is useless. They're usually mediocre in their fields, but have chops for social media marketing.

Essentially that economy is all about being perceived as an expert and manipulating naive/unsuspecting people with marketing tactics without ever actually providing any value. The entire focus of that community seems to be on MRR rather than products or solutions.

They make posts on HN, Indiehackers, Reddit, etc. trying to sell themselves as sympathetic by using the guise of "sharing their story" but they're actually just finding more customers. Btw, I don't mean that sharing your project on HN is sleazy, of course not. But it's quite obvious when you're lying with a blog post for example, and actually using the mirage of a real discussion to point eyes at your money makers.

That said, I think there's a subset of those people who do provide real value and don't play the MRR game. Instead they treat it more like a hobby (or craft) and just build shit while being practical about income. IMO, that's something to try to emulate. Stop worrying about "how do I make $1000 per month in passive income?", and instead build something useful or fun without pressuring yourself (or others, for that matter). Be practical, not hopeful and needy.

Some examples I can think of right now, though some of them are actually not making any money AFAIK:

- A cool library of playlists for programming sessions, run by Datassette: https://musicforprogramming.net

- Fabien Sanglard's awesome books explaining classic game engines: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

- Custom Thinkpads that look retro but are beefy bois, by XY Tech: https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/

- Cheap, no non-sense email service, made by a solo dev: https://purelymail.com/

- Nice repository of tips and info for software engineering teams, made by a burnt out team leader: https://principles.dev/

- The original AdBlock, which I believe was made by 1 or 2 devs and just had a donation box when it first started: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-%E2%80%94-...

- Had to add this classic from the Diablo 2 days, BoBaFeTT's trainer: https://www.geocities.ws/free_bobafett/main.htm

All of these projects have one interesting thing in common: there's no pretense. They had an idea for some tool or service and decided that they could provide it. I'm sure that most of these projects grew out of stuff they were tinkering with anyway and probably weren't things where they spent too much time obsessing over market fit.

IMO worrying about social media audiences, email lists, profit, market fit, exposure, pricing, etc. is a sign that you should be looking for VC funding rather than building a product. Those things can work as well, but you have to be someone who's trying to build an empire of sorts rather than provide immediate value.
This is literally Telegram stickers.
You heard wrong. And introduction of leap-seconds wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference to the location of the prime meridian.
> Would it not diminish my credibility?

Only with some people, but it probably works on the majority.

> Blatant shamelessness does not really get us very far, I think.

Collectively, no. Individually, yes. It's like lying in a society that hasn't discovered lying yet and takes everything you say as truth. It will leave that society worse off, but it's practically a super power for you.
Wait...what?

You’re complaining about VCs pushing vapor while simultaneously admitting you participated in pumping “ponzi-like” schemes on regular people?

You do realize those 7 figure returns you made were a direct wealth transfer from later-stage victims of the ponzi to you?

I’m astonished you’re claiming moral superiority over VCs while sitting on wealth you took from thousands of poor people in places like Vietnam, India, Brazil, Nigeria, etc. (whom were all later stage investors in these crypto schemes).
there's still a paper trail for buying a car (plus unreasonable prices stick out more than simply reporting to buy art in cash or whatever)
You want to leave it because you cannot cope with it.
time.google.com can.
I'm having a hard time believing that world's top talent in software development are fighting to get into Swiss banking. What makes you think that the brightest people are striving to get employment at your bank?
Thanks God this is not a part of the Unicode standard.
Just banning alfalfa cultivation in California would free up all the water anybody needs. Ban pistachios for even more.
Are these stickers inline? It's not a language if you can't make a sentence.
Those are different things. The promise of Neom is to be this amazing tech city that will attract people to live there.

The building you posted is most likely a public housing or some kind of government trying to build housing for the poor.
This is false and just redefining control.
The Fall of Terra: A Timeline of the Meteoric Rise and Crash of UST and Luna
People can’t seem to get enough of science fiction, but every time something is presented that would move the needle in that direction, the detractors line up in droves. With attitudes like this, it really will be the 25th century before humanity does do anything of significance (if we even live that long).
Most messengers have these stickers too
There's a limit to that trade-off. That why taking a passenger liner across the Atlantic isn't actually more efficient than taking a plane.
No. Their comment deserves <pinched fingers>.
A few days ago I opened a youtube video in chrome incognito mode so it won't pollute the feed, but in the middle of the video I decided it's quite good so I opened it in the main window. At this point the tracking code glitched out and the video started where I left it off in the incognito mode. Couldn't reproduce it since though.
>In response to an audience member shouting "Up the 'RA", Gerry Adams famously replied with glee "They haven't gone away you know"

You're talking as if this happened recently and not nearly 30 years ago

>Sinn Fein to this day praises and commemorates former IRA murderers.

So what? How often do unionists have a bad word to say about the British forces that have spent centuries terrorizing and murdering Irish people? How are nationalists supposed to reconcile with people who by and large vote for political parties that do not support the GFA (presumably they would prefer to go back to armed conflict? perhaps the protestant supremacist state formed in 1921?) or turn up en masse to prance about in July with the deeply unpleasant orange order?
Dang surely makes us look that way with his hard work. On hn, everyone is a better version of him/herself. Well, almost.
Hmm I read everything on PocketBook HD3, perhaps that is where we differ?
And C# code, but... yeah. At least they used an Amiga with its monitor set to green mode!

Even the Tandy 2000 wasn't shown completely accurately. It was shown with a monochrome monitor option, but the display was in color. And the font was wrong; this was the default Tandy 2000 font (it was reprogrammable, but almost nobody did that): https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/?4#tandy

There's a bit of wiggle room here for artistic license. "Just repeat to yourself it's just a show, I should really just relax..."
No, they are not. But almost no one uses emoji to compose sentences anyway.
Making stuff expensive (or cheap) is one surefire way to drive lifestyle changes.
> [...]it is quite common to be quoted a price "without VAT", which is code for "pay in cash, don't request a receipt, and we won't charge you the additional 17%[...]

It's also annoyingly used to quote one price and then "oh but you also need to add VAT", sidestepping the law that requires prices always be specified with VAT. (A store is not allowed to advertise a VAT-less price and then charge VAT afterwards, the price you see is the price you pay, they must deduct VAT)
No one in their right mind living in former french colonies believes France has stopped pulling the strings. Postcolonial Africa (fr) legit has a name: la Françafrique.

Also shouldn’t it be the domestic electorate’s business if it elected the Taliban ? Or are we all of a sudden, against democracy?
A motorcycle can't really be built to survive impact with a truck. A car can, so it makes sense to require them to build to that standard.
they used counterterrorism laws (which is of course ridiculous), and threatened protesters that they'll lose their corporate license (so they can't work commercially as truckers).

going after financing was surprisingly efficient, but not giving them the convenient out of "sure continue protesting without the trucks" was dumb.
An operating system that prevents other operating systems from being installed is the equivalent of a citizen that becomes a dictator.
No. The water used for these crops is not being paid for, at its value. So, the price of California alfalfa is depressed far below its true cost.

This is all consequences of utterly insane water allocation policy.
I would argue against that, because I don't see any way that this projects supports either the internal or external policies of the kingdom - in order to support that, it would need to be realistic and credible, and its neither.
To some extent both people can be winners. It tends to collapse quite fast though.
Correct time keeping is important whenever you have time-base events. Especially the billing ones.
Looong ago, while working on a mobile telphony billing system, we found out that a telephony system by Siemens (Germany, Europe) was creating billing events off by one our when processed by a system by Digital (USA, America) because of different DST switch date.
Shamelessness [1] [2] worked very, very tragically [3] for John MacAfee, for example.

Please think three times before you follow these ideas as advice for your life choices.

Analyzing implemented shamelessness strategies can easily lead to some biases. You don't see, for example, many winning strategies that are the opposite: based on discretion.

In today's world, being discreet about everything has the best "cost-effectiveness". Shamelessness is too risky.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/10809531369...

[2] https://www.foxnews.com/us/john-mcafee-trashes-irs-in-series...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/software-entrepreneur-j...
A lot of skepticism in this thread, even some form of jealousy

It's better than the soviet union like buildings they are promoting everywhere in the world, including in the US

We need to optimize cities as much as possible, that's for sure, this project is a step in the right direction
But she is right. After some time, the old has to make way for the new. There is no way around this. The pandemic has taught this lesson to many people while they were forced to sit alone at home.
Even if you like urbanism, this promotional video (from neom themselves) has convinced me that it would be dystopian. All the nuance and uniqueness of places replaced with a homogeneous form, nope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-10eEGEe0
"How would Manhattan look with the vertical urbanism being adopted for THE LINE?"
As a French, I really like Emmaus (and similar organisations). I gave them a lot of stuff over the years.

1. It's good to recycle
2. You help the people working there
3. You help the people buying second-hand furniture
4. I don't accumulate stuff I don't need at my place
> Can't hack the current-gen Xbox, apparently.

Yet.
More tools of the trade for scraping and automation
I was going for her explicit enumeration of ideas he/she, presumably, didn't like, and which ideas got equated to a virus.
IT services outsourcing is on a huge rise after the pandemic. If you want to hire a digital agency for your future project, first check out how the practices of outsourcing have changed with time:
For finance, it matters what order events occur in. I've never messed with control systems, but I suppose similar issues arise.
Sure, but the risk of losing sympathy is not as big as many people expect it to be. And maybe much less relevant.
FBI found Huawei equipment in Midwest could disrupt US nuclear communications
> There will come a time when there is no more oil in the ground that is economic to extract.

The qualifier about needing to be economic is really important here. We will never really run out of oil, but we might run out of cheap oil.

As market prices for oil rise, more and more alternative ways to get at it become economical. Shale oil was one example of this process. (Another one is to create something like oil from coal. The Germans did a lot of this kind of thing in WW2, because they had access to plenty of coal, but were short on oil. Similarly, world coal reserves seem to be much larger than oil reserves.)

However, renewables are getting better and better and thus prevent energy prices from rising as fast as the cost of oil extraction will increase.

Thus eventually making oil uncompetitive, as you say.
It looks great. It'd be cool to be able to zoom in-out on the 40x40.
That’s what does it for me. You live in a weird tube and all of the nature is artificial. If you do leave, you’re in the desert.
I'm a bit worried about the amount of pointer chasing here. Presumably on modern architectures that would kill cache locality? Or am I missing something?
>i don't get why so many software companies want to prevent modified clients

Perhaps not the most crucial reason in non-competitive gaming like VR Chat, but generally many companies want to have full control of their interface. It often totally makes business sense, but comes at a cost to the users.

I worry about the day reddit closes their APIs the same way Twitter did.
With the payment thing, isn't the main 'shamelessness' on the side of the business that will employ people, and not pay them what they're worth so they can cream off the excess? Only offering market prices when forced to attract new staff but already planning to not maintain that unless forced to?

It reminds me of my cable company and how they advertise all these great deals that aren't available for me because I'm an existing customer, and I have no negotiaton leverage as I don't currently have two competing providers that I can play off against each other.

So, shouldn't we be aiming for more shame on that side, rather than stooping to their level and celebrating shemelessness as a way to fight fire with fire? Or at least some sensible system that better rewards people for their effort, not for disloyalty to their colleagues (and I mean that in both directions, paying less than people are worth and job-hopping for more money don't seems like socially useful behaviours) and customers?
“Go hard or go Homer”
I agree to a certain extent, but think I would go crazy living in the suburbs on my own, although I'm not in a city like Paris, I'm in one of the major cities of Switzerland.

Cheap apartments with no sound insulation are not good it's true, more modern, or even much older ones than the ones built in the 60s & 70s are much better. But good thick walls is something I would check first before moving to any apartment.

On the plus side of denser living, I can walk into town, there's plenty of places to socialise, (I was very much surprised at how lively it all is), I have 2 bus routes into town with buses at max 10 mins apart, the main station gives me access to much of the rest of the country.

I don't need a car, haven't owned one for 15 years now, there's a car sharing scheme that has many cars nearby. I use one once or twice a year.
Your boss' boss.
Remember stuxnet? Supply chain security in its glory…
They don't have many votes. Furthermore, their share of the California economy is astonishingly tiny.

So it should be very fixable. Most of the US vegetable crop is grown in California, but there is practically no value in growing other things there.

Most of the alfalfa is exported to feed to foreign animals. In effect we are donating water to those countries.
I would prefer a city of the dark ages MANAGED by government of the present. And since the dark ages are just part of the middle ages and we stretch our definition a bit, that's mostly what we have in Europe.
What fascinates me is that for many here software and tech is their livelihood. You should be able to take care of access and ensure future generations still have the same opportunities.

Sure, you can sell yourself and make good money with software on some proprietary app store with proprietary tools. You are a freelance employee of the company providing that infrastructure at that point.

It is short-sighted, lazy and stupid in my opinion. There is merit for such security mechanism, especially for cloud applications, but it should be crystal clear that there are secondary motivations here. And that the security argument often falls short if you take a good look at current threats.
It's not a guarantee. Around the time when they built the palm island thing, they also build the islands that look like a world map. Quite a bit of what was built is now melting into the ocean, never built on and unmaintained.
You can go to the Helium Explorer and look at nodes and their earnings directly: https://explorer.helium.com/

Zoom in, click a cell, click a node, click "30D" and you'll see the amount of HNT and how much that is worth at the current market rate. I didn't see any $6,500 nodes.
The technology and adaptation is definitely not ripe -- yet!

But assessing the success of a web3 product by the ability of selling a specific product is akin to assessing the success of a country by its ability to sell passports.

The cost to offset the operations should come from the activity in the economy it encompasses -- these should not be assessed as traditional companies.
Not really. The US had its absurd large scale infrastructure spending. Looking at you Robert Moses. But they didn't just walk out into a field and start planning insane cities.
> Free access to route beta is not essential for climbing.

Viet Nguyen, OpenBeta's founder here.

As mentioned in my post above, besides climbing, many of us are hackers and data nerds. All we wanted is to be able to access and tinker with the community-generated climbing data to make maps of climbing walls, study Python Pandas and recommendation engines, etc.

Open access to climbing data doesn’t have to be about the physical aspects of climbing, for the same reason open source enthusiasts wanting to have access to the source code. It doesn't mean we're not supporting commercial derivative of a project.
A freshwater pipeline spill is pretty harmless. Oil, not so much.
Msn messenger had custom emoticons in 2003. Me and my friends had our own little vernacular of custom emojis. And then microsoft forced everyone onto skype. I keep being amazed how chat hasn’t really improved in decades, only churned.
This is fantastic. A true joy to play! I am seconding the suggestion that you make a daily challenge like Wordle, with the feature to share your time and somehow a "masked" solution like Wordle does.

I hope NYTimes buys this from you for lots of money! ;)
Such a small country full of illegal production points. I guess there is sufficient data to find them, I am sure others with geospatial experience share this thought.
Hopefully EU bans this.
Same in many countries where it’s just too inconvenient even if it’s legal. For example in Sweden some Ukrainian refugees who fled without their documents can’t open bank accounts so now can’t be paid despite having worked since may. It’s just not possible for an employer to pay employees any other way than directly trough a bank account. Which is good in most cases (less tax evasion and money laundering) but it gets silly in some edge cases. This (not being able to pass out a check or a few $100 bills every month) must sound absolutely insane to Americans.
Sorry; too distant an acquaintance. I don't know the website's URL or any more detail than what I posted above.