skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's me! Thank you for the nostalgia.

ViziCities was such a fun adventure and something that I'd like to pick up again at some point, or at least some sort of successor. The ecosystem for spatial visualisation on the Web has changed dramatically since I created ViziCities so I'd love to see what's possible using today's technology.
I guess I'm pretty bad.

Lots of folks, that I know aren't especially good (because I've looked at their work), take great joy in telling me how bad I am, which they seem to know, without looking at any of my work, so I guess I'm just terrible.

That's one reason I don't bother being competitive. "Good" is in the eye of the beholder.

If someone comments their code, that can be "good," for some, and "bad," for others.

If someone adds extensive, nested error handling, that's "good," for some, and "bad," for others.

And so on...

Usually, both sides have quite valid points.

I just do things the way that I do them. Seems to work.

WFM, YMMV.
Yeah I have been laid off once, at Fortune 15 company. We got, at least, 2 month of severance pay. And 2 weeks extra for each year with company after first 4 years. It wasn't a tech company, so I always assumed that this is pretty common in mass lay offs.
I've got a friend who still uses a Palm Pilot (circa 1998) as a daily calendar manager/notepad. Works at Google and delights in telling younger colleagues it's a Pixel 8 prototype.
If true, that's a huge layoff!

Though to be fair to Elon, 7400 people at Twitter is an enormous headcount. I'm struggling to see how even 80% of those folks could be doing mostly productive work. Especially since there's a lot of contractors as well doing content moderation, etc.

(Unless there are dozens of secret projects being worked on.)

7400x0.8x30 hours a week= 177 600 man hours a week.
Microsoft recently improved the math notation support in Word. You can press [alt]+[=] on Windows or [control]+[=] on OSX to enter "Math Mode" and begin typing mathematical characters. Word tries to guess what you mean as you type, and it's still much more cumbersome that typing plain-text code in (La)TeX; you still have to reach for a mouse for some notation.

Here's what it looks like if you're interested:

https://org.coloradomesa.edu/~mapierce2/mathsampleguide
Yeah if the car manufacturers are gonna start selling trims that do all the really scary stuff for you (like cutting a hole in the roof), and basically include that work as part of the car financing, it should lower the difficulty of a DIY conversion and make it a more reasonable option.
Ambient Lightning in YouTube
Random video. See how the edges around the video glow up. Works in Normal Mode afaik.
Read the comment above mine:

> I really despise the idea/existence of app stores.

> Why can't a publishers website be their store front, then from that site, you can run (or "download"/"install" if you must) the app?
I don’t know about your programming skills, but one of the most important and difficult things about programming is communication, and the grammar probably isn’t helping.
Not everyone needs to make $500k? I don't understand this argument. Many companies are hiring seniors right now for $200k base. Small, medium, and large companies. That is a great salary.

Don't compare yourself to the .1% of software devs.
Somewhere around here I have, or possibly I gave to my weird uncle years ago, a copy of "the worst-case scenario survival handbook", which has mostly-genuine advice for all sorts of interesting situations like how to stop a runaway car, how to stop a runaway camel, how to survive an avalanche, etc.

In the back is a phrasebook, with a few dozen common phrases translated into a handful of potentially-useful languages. It includes such gems as "I am sorry, I did not mean to offend you", "please take me to a hospital", "why is the water brown", "where is the embassy", and the last phrase is "you will never take me alive".
Word with integrated git-like history would be a godsend if someone could develop it. As it is, it's easier to either cripple along with track changes and friends or teach everyone how to use Markdown or LaTeX.
Note that this feature has precedence from Swift, where it's called `guard let`: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/quick-start/understanding-s... . Rust's syntax just drops the `guard` part.
At the same time (as much as I strongly support climate efforts, and am impressed by his approach, so give him a pass in this instance), that 'genius move' sort of needs to be flagged as his [Category #1 - Spam], which should be moderated. It really is inserting off-topic info into another thread.

The saving grace may be that both small enough volume and sufficiently interesting to his audience to be just below the threshold.
Love to see the combo of hardware and software being offered up to aspiring young game developers! I'm a huge fan of Pico-8 and other "fantasy consoles" so always welcome to see another one.

Awesome work!
Yeah that’s a terrible approach. All you’d get are kids who are good at testing and nothing else.
The Controlled-Pattern Offset Bipole Loudspeaker
Wondering if there's a video presentation to go along with the slides?
There are lots of tech companies hiring too. The hard part is finding them, and convincing them you are the one. Most of the resumes I see for a "senior" programmer don't have the experience.
HN needs Universal Paperclips to convince us that reading or commenting here most days for years on end is a better use of our lives. It's simulations all the way down.
Do you have actual technical explanation? (other than argument of authority)
Similarly in Russia where I am from, but I've always seen it as a sign of the education of software engineers being outdated. I work in embedded, so actually have some use for physics (thought a tiny part of what has been taught), calculus and signal procesing - but most other software engineers do not at all. They don't even use discrete math really at any deep level. So looks like a lot of time wasted that would better be dedicated to learning version control, cloud computing, up-to-date tools or just a second domain.

As of leadership and planning, I hope yours is better that ours. We f..g learned Gantt charts, but zero of Agile or modern project and product management, and equally zero about finance of tech startups (funding rounds etc.).
There are some backing covers which are laser cut. It's possible to swap with a 3D printed cover and use the same mounting holes.
So you have to be a publicly traded company to deliver a product now? A quick search shows several big companies — HP, HTC, Valve, Samsung, for example — that have highly rated equipment.

My point still stands. I’ve tried the HTC and Valve equipment multiple times. If your argument is “oh you gotta own it and dump hours and hours into it before you see the value”, I think you’ve already lost your argument with 99.9% of consumers. This is no demonstrated value of VR, and what it does offer is fairly lackluster once the novelty wears off.

Seems like you’ve fallen for the Meta ads about how this is life changing. In its current form, it’s not even close.
The fact is that the owner of this particular chanel is MD and the channel format is host talking while citations from relevant scientific research papers are highlighted on screen. Better then Nature..
>You can already do this in the Privacy options.

Whoa, that’s new! Thank the Lord.
I've been using it for years with great pleasure. I don't regret anything about lightroom and photoshop used previously. Some of my pictures I edited with it:

http://federicobonfiglio.it
Post-Quantum and Pre-Quantum Security Issues Grow
Is Jira integration planned? (I didn't see it on the list 'o sources above)
The salaries of Japanese execs are indeed tiny by US standards. However, as Kalzumeus says, instead of paying money so you can buy status, Japanese companies give status directly: company cars with drivers, company villas, very generous expense accounts, etc etc.
Wow. I should see whether there is a way to determine how much this catalytic converter is worth before selling it off to the scrapyard so I don't get ripped off.

If there is no ETA on when a new converter for your vehicle will be available are you not able to drive the vehicle at all? Is there no temporary option that can make it road-legal until the replacement arrives?

It seems like an exception should be federally issued for those caught up in this who have lost use of their vehicle. Dealers should be allowed to install a suitable replacement, non-OEM unit until an OEM is available. A note can be placed on the VIN with the state registrar that it has a temporary part so that it can be registered. I'd bet that if you did that and most vehicles showed to pass emissions with non-OEM parts in place that there would be a push to allow replacement with non-OEM parts.

Good luck.
Movement of Stars in a Spiral Galaxy
Literally from the thread I shared:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337381 (posted from a 12-year-old account)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333904 (posted from a 2-year-old account)
But you clicked.
They all run KDE, even when they don’t provide it out of the box. You can just install it and use KDE instead of Gnome.

I’m a big fan of Fedora. I primarily work on RHEL systems, though, so I’m biased because it’s what I’m used to using.
The "Venu" line of watches from Garmin are their "lifestyle" watches. They are more toned down from the more tactical look and feel of other Garmin watches.

The Venu Sq 2 was just recently released. I have the Venu 2, myself.

Missing from your list:
* <10mm thickness - it appears to be a smidge over
* hackable - You have a Fenix 7 so you're familiar with the ecosystem
* always-on screen - it's OLED and not always on, but works well enough - there is an always on mode but it's not recommended for OLED

As for the rest:
* >7 days battery life - Venu 2 is rated up to 12 days, I charge about once a week
* HR monitor - it's there, works reasonably well
* toned down - as a lifestyle type, it's a bit more toned down
* high-contrast - it's as high contrast as any OLED, and clearly visible in sunlight
* buttons - 2 of them

I'd throw in cost as a valid metric. The Pebble watches were really inexpensive and I think that's what brought more broad appeal to them early on. My Venu 2 was $400. That's a tough pill for some to swallow.
Who cares what this person thinks? They actually have experience tackling the problem. You or I have never been in a position of tackling the problem. Of course I am interested in the experience of someone who has seen this problem inside and out.
Yes that’s a good tip. I have been using the app recut to cut out all the pauses and unwanted bits.
> You can do this by archiving the groups, they will only appear if you go in the archived chats tab and won't notify you.

No you can't, read again, I *don't* want a red dot signalyzing there's new messages on my archive.

> You can already do this in the Privacy options.

Unless you're in some A-B test I definetely don't have this option on my Privacy setting. Just Triple checked.

> This is honestly stupid, there's no way you will be able to follow a conversation where some people's messages aren't displayed.

The hot take is: I don't need to follow any conversation that includes those individuals. But I need to follow notices, and important information regarding my job.

How about hide behind a notice: "You mutted this person, click here if you want to read the message anyway.". There, some middle ground.

> Leave your family groups and refuse to use WhatsApp for work.

I'm not even sure how to respond to this, if you're privilleged enough to say this, good for you. I'm definetely not.
The Fed is telling you as explicitly as they're allowed to that they'll induce a recession to halt inflation, yet many tech cos aren't getting the message and continue to hire frantically.

Doing their new hires a disservice, when in many cases they'll likely have to be laid off within the year. Looking at big tech here, primarily
Nope, it won't, as you say. How many people have Surface Pro X, or another Windows on ARM machine?

Less than 1% do. Let's say, though this is a high estimate, 0.5% of Windows users are ARM. Now let's say my app has 1 million installs at $1 each (pretty successful). That means my total value for optimizing for those ARM users is... $5,000. And they can already run my app with translation, so it's actually worth less than that. So... when you factor in costs of Project Volterra + Developer Time + Fixing Code Time + Lost Opportunities on More Productive Things... there's basically no way, even with 1 million users at $1 each, to justify the effort.

This device is great for developers who already care and love their users. Anyone who doesn't care won't care.

Edit: Also, at those numbers, it would be better if I didn't offer an ARM-native version. If even a tiny percentage of my userbase downloads the ARM-native version by accident on their x86 machine, the support costs will eat away at that too.

Edit @bartlettD: We're not - sorry if it reads that way. I'm just providing an additional argument, but I've reworded slightly to make that a bit clearer.
Germans are not, in fact, freezing in the dark.
Someone here on HN shared this link with me, maybe it will help you as well:

https://commoncog.com/g/burnout/#the-ultimate-burnout-guide-...
Nevada did this to California a couple years ago actually [0][1]. That said, a number of major em cities such as New York do offer homeless people the choice to accept a lump sum and a ticket to the city of their choice IN RETURN for them being ineligible to homeless services in the source city [2][3].

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mental-patients/san-f...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-patients-dumping/neva...

[2] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-sued-over-program...

[3] - https://www.nyc.gov/site/hra/help/sota.page
It's easy to install Flatpak on your current Linux distro. Flatpak officially supports 36 distros. Some of them already have Flatpak built in, while others (including Ubuntu) require just a few minutes to set up Flatpak and Flathub:

https://flatpak.org/setup/
I haven't used Ubuntu recently, hadn't heard of snaps, and this entire thread has been a horrifying introduction.
> Short of dissolution the state cannot simply ignore local agencies

No, short of dissolution, it can also adopt any restriction on or state immunity from local authority it wants. (There are some resrictions that might take a ballot measure rather than just the legislature, but since the hypothetical didn’t limit the methods by which the proposed program would be adopted, that is immaterial.)

> UC vs. Berkeley.

UC, while established by the State, is not coextensive with it and does not independently exercise the full powers of the State.
I remember using phrasebooks in the early 2000s in Europe. They were better than nothing, but never as useful as you hoped. If you were totally new to a language and didn't know any phrases, they best you could hope for was to point out a phrase in the book to someone as a way to communicate. And even if you managed to say something intelligible, you'd have no idea what the other person's response meant.

They mentioned it in the article, but these days the Google Translate app completely replaces that role. I've had complex interactions (work, baby sitters, house cleaners, repairs, etc) with people who spoke zero English through Google Translate's interactive translation mode across multiple languages and it works amazingly well.

On the other hand, I have a lot of funny memories about phrase books and things going wildly wrong. So I guess we will miss out those stories in the future.
Thanks for writing about your experience! I think too many educated / computer science focused creators get demotivated when they see the kind of low brow "viral" content that's plaguing youtube currently (yes, I mean Mr. Beast). Mr. Beast type content is to me more mind numbing than TikTok - it makes creators like Logan Paul and low brow comedy podcasts look like academics in comparison.

I recently started dipping my toes in AI again, even building some tooling for GPU deployments for stable diffusion etc after a friend (less technical) ended up with a GPU mining farm that was burning a $60k hole in his pocket every month when ETH mining dried up.

As a result, I found a curious niche and started making admittedly not very good videos of me attempting to create more approachable AI text to image content for a slightly less technical audience.

I've been pleasantly surprised by how warm, interested and excited my small audience has been.

If anyone would like to check out the channel here's a link - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCttqpACIkQqh83L2cHrY9Gg

I'm working on some internal projects as a part of my channel, a big part are some active developments with the Stable Hoard project.

Edit - goes without saying, many of my early videos are really bad, my speech is hard to follow etc. Ironically since I'm full remote, this has actually helped rehab my speech a bit and give me something technical outside of work to do sort of creative things with. I'd be lying if I didn't intend to turn this into a revenue stream at some point, probably starting with a mailing list.
What does free speech mean if its drowned in novelty, half-truths and a popularity contest? Is it free speech if the network itself blocks people from elaborating by artificially limiting the number of characters, thereby causing only the most provocative and shallow takes to take hold?

We could (and should) demand better.
I've had a good experience with Kopia [0] for over a year. Linux and Windows boxes all writing to the same repository, which is synchronized to both B2 and a portable drive every night. The one thing it lacks that I'd like is error correction, so I store it on a RAID1 btrfs system. ECC is apparently being developed [1], but is currently experimental and I believe requires a new repository.

[0] https://github.com/kopia/kopia

[1] https://github.com/kopia/kopia/pull/2308
boycott Snap!
"Propaganda of the deed" is as likely to make people think climate change protestors are crazy and just make them close their earflaps as it is to motivate more people to take desperate nihilistic actions. This spectacle at best convinces people to tune out.

It's got to me more like this.

You have to tell the ESG people that what matters about Exxon Mobil is (1) they have to stop fact investing in producing oil that other people burn, (2) it wouldn't matter if they became a "net zero" company by pumping CO₂ from their oil refineries in the ground and using synthetic fuels in their trucks, (3) it doesn't matter how many women they get on the board.

People who are concerned about climate change in the US should be concerned about institutional reform in the Democratic party. Namely, we shouldn't be in situations like

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/senate-debate-pen...

where a lunatic that could be beaten by a ham sandwich could win because the Democrats don't think that Pennsylvania deserves a senator who can verbally communicate effectively. (e.g. out of everybody in the state Philadelphia could get somebody in the top 1% of verbal communication skills as a Senator, why do they have to get somebody who is disabled?)
Snap is the reason I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora years ago. I couldn't have known how happy I would be with this decision :)
Debian has it too: https://packages.debian.org/sid/certbot

And even Ubuntu: https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/certbot

Though I guess there's a risk that eventually the Ubuntu package becomes a facade package like Chrome is, that has no content but uses a postinstall script to grab you the snap instead.
Yeah this is what I do.. One at a friend's house in his rack, the other one elsewhere with an external drive on a raspberry zero 2 :P

The good thing is you can add more storage. The bad thing is no enterprise class guarantees of course. But having multiple mitigates that.
A very funny example of this is that r/trees was long ago set up by marijuana users to discuss pot-related topics. So later r/marijuanaenthusiasts was set up for discussion of actual trees and dendrology.
It is not official.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1639

https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-desktop-for-non-a...
It also has the benefit of being able to get rid of that hideous ~/snap folder. With what were they thinking making that choice.
This is going to be a “How long is a piece of string?”. Each ASN will be unique, and even within any large ISP, there may be many OCA deployment sites (there won’t just be one for Virgin Media in UK) and each site will likely have subtly different traffic patterns and content consumption patterns, meaning the OCA deployment may be customized to suit, and the content pushed out (particularly to these NVME-based nodes) will be tailored accordingly.

Since the alternative for an ISP is to be carrying the bits for Netflix further, the likelihood is they’ll devote whatever space is required because that’s much cheaper than backhauling the traffic and ingressing over either a settlement-free PNI or IXP link to a Netflix-operated cache site, or worse, ingressing the traffic over a paid transit link.

Meanwhile, on the flipside, since Netflix funds the OCA deployments they have a strong interest in not “oversizing” the sites. That said I’m sure there is an element of growth forecasting involved once a site has been operational for a period of time.
When companies stock value tanks CEOs quit... after giving themselves some million-dollar exit bonuses.

Is that ritual suicide?
> Consolidation is the problem, not moderation.

Which is why I’ve taken the view that the actual solution is in the antitrust space, and not the moderation regulation space.

The problem isn’t that Twitter, Facebook, etc moderate in a way that’s biased, it’s that no entity should be so powerful that their biased moderation becomes a problem for society as a whole.
Which is not entirely helpful when the base premise is the higher density housing is needed near them.
Researchers find one crack on a Teflon pan can release – 9100 plastic particles
I had figured that ML would make one of the biggest splashes in maths, being that the field is applied pattern finding.
Oh wow I did not realize they were just $35, I expected a price around $150. I've never been a smartwatch person because I couldn't see myself wearing one over some of my mechanical pieces, but for $35 i'm very tempted to try.
What is crazy to me is that Bitcoin mining may be the only viable solution to this problem. Its the only profitable way to incentivize the capture of this methane, regardless of location.
I've always wanted a "watch" (bracelet) that doesn't show the time. Essentially a narrow bracelet with no display and a few buttons on it that I can program, and a vibrating function so I can leave my phone on silent. I already have a watch I like to wear.

wearchronos.com seemed to hit my use case, but the reviews aren't great.
Maybe they're under a gag order? Or there's a critical vulnerability they don't want to disclose yet?
> It should be in your contract, which means it was up for negotiation

I've never seen this in the US. The only things typically up for negotiation is the sign on bonus/equity and base pay. If you start trying to negotiate vacations and holidays, you're going to look pretty silly.
Business Plan Deck Thing
You shouldn't be using INT_MAX for the last decade or so. That's why std::numeric_limits exist.
One of the most important things I've found for making LaTeX documents is do not worry about what it looks like until you're almost done. Otherwise you fall into the rabbit hole of adjusting things for hours to find your work is wasted anyway because you changed that page later.

But once the text is done, it's really nice to work with, and you never "accidentally break the whole document by adding a table" - at least not irrecoverably.