skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great for screenshots to render in a video.
"Consumer electronics" consist of "telephones, televisions, and calculators, then audio and video recorders and players, game consoles, mobile phones, personal computers and MP3 players", "GPS, automotive electronics (car stereos), video game consoles, electronic musical instruments (e.g., synthesizer keyboards), karaoke machines, digital cameras, and video players", "smart light fixtures and appliances, digital cameras, camcorders, cell phones, and smartphones", "virtual reality head-mounted display goggles, smart home devices that connect home devices to the Internet, streaming devices, and wearable technology." [1] Most of them have screens.

As a general heuristic, one single person's decision tree is rather irrelevant in the long open game of average spending behaviours.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_electronics
Yeah, it seems that the HN crowd couldn't get it that a) the safe harbor provision is strict about it (it only says that the legal request is correctly-formed, not that it is sane or even to be true*) and b) legally Google is also in a bad predicament.

* Even if the complaint is patently false, precedent shows that the court decides on that matter. Even after Lenz vs Universal, it only asks for complainants to consider if the use is legal, it didn't really create safeguards that the OSPs can use to disregard a DMCA request.
Anyone know the best way to clean up your shell init scripts? Maybe rephrased a better way - what are all files my shell sources on startup? (fish in this case.)
Ask HN: Success stories from bootstrapped founders exit in the 8 figures range
My friend and I were talking about if VC funding is a good idea (ie: something like $1M at $8M post).

A $20M exit will be life changing for solo founders. But if you take on VC money, you will get the pressure to go all the way.

I am curious if it's common to see those successful exits with little to zero funding. Any case studies would be appreciated.
Any team starting with microservices on an unvalidated concept likely hasn't built a big project from the ground up before

If it's a small engineering team there is nothing more optimal than working on a big scappy vertical codebase in the early stages

In the fortunate situation you need to start scaling -- breaking that out into MS later is usually low effort and fun

If you break it up to early you often end up with logic ghettos forming in the wrong stack that become near impossible to relocate later

I was talking to a startup last year who were hiring several hundred engineers to build a handful of microservice stacks in anticipation of the traffic they may get at launch (success expected because of previous unrelated founder experience), and wanting to make it easier to deploy vast engineering resource on it -- they've still not launched anything
> Money must be backed by something. Bitcoin is backed by nothing.

Yes, it is:

1. Incorruptible supply enforced via a halving algorithm that can't be messed with without creating a hard fork or receiving universal consensus on the network.

2. Proof of work. In order for the Bitcoin network to function (meaning, for new Bitcoin to be minted up to the cap and for transactions to be validated/added to the blockchain), energy must be expanded. There's no way to fake it.

3. Self-custody that's difficult (near impossible if done properly) to confiscate by force. If you control your keys, you control your money. Full stop. Metals, cash, etc. are all subject to confiscation via force. At worst, they can throw you in jail and torture you and still turn up empty handed if they can't get your private keys.

4. Transmittable to anyone, globally, without limitation/permission in a few seconds to ~ 1 hour.

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These intangible "backings" are identical to being backed by "the full faith and credit of the U.S." or "the U.S. military." Neither of those are impervious to failure. For example, if the U.S. continues to pile on debt or countries start to dismiss the petrodollar concept, as we're seeing (BRICS), that full faith and credit is meaningless. If they can't pay the military (or foolishly discharge them for ideological reasons) because their money isn't of value, the military won't care to enforce anything.

This is why, ironically, fiat is the ponzi scheme. It requires everyone involved to believe the lie that printing infinite amounts of money and burning it on investments with little-to-no return (e.g., socialistic entitlement programs, moonshot nonsense businesses, dragged out government projects) is some genius-tier strategy. When in reality, it's just one giant cult where everyone is pointing a gun at someone else under the table.

It will inevitably blow up and when it does, the very people who protected it will walk around with their hands in their pockets whistling.
You can't produce any examples so you resort to personal attacks, it's a bit lame I must say. Since you couldn't produce any examples, I looked it up myself. [0] The conclusions are summed up in my previous reply to you. I do suggest you check out the article and its sources, next time this subject comes up you'll hopefully be a bit better informed.

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/ditch-the-batteries-...
BFF ?
Enjoyed your grug brain site immensely the other day!
Thanks for your feedback and support. Upbase doesn't support Jottacloud at the moment since there are very few requests for it.
Maybe we can ask a related question: How can we profit from these oscillations? If they're predictable, there should be an arbitrage opportunity.
I’m an old fart, but I don’t take calls from random, unknown numbers, or answer random texts or emails. Politely tell people at my door to go away unless they’re here on my business. Don’t do social media for the most part (HN being an exception). Thought everybody acted this way.

Sux to be a pollster when nobody talks to them. But it’s nicer than lying to them as that might backfire in some strange way. I’m sure my non participation skews the results but so it goes.
Right, when I said JS with static typing, I meant TypeScript. Python has type checkers, see mypy and pyright, and I use them regularly. Most bugs that could be found by static type checker no longer make it into test or production for me.
My favorite as an old-timer who is comfortable in most things from assembler to Mathematica has been "Programming Rust" from O'Reilly [0]

The book does a really good job at explaining the thinking behind the abstractions available in the standard library. To me, this was the book that made everything click, so that I did not feel I was fighting against the language.

[0]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-rust-2nd/97...
Google doesn't have a legal requirement to allow the app to exist in its market place.

Google does have a legal requirement to comply in good faith to DMCA and copyright claims.

It is really simple from a legal standpoint for google, which path to take. what "risk" are they exposing themselves too by not allowing this app again?
This is our future, driving cars for our robot overloads when they need to take a break for a firmware upgrade or whatever.
It's the Gallium Arsenide, from my understanding. There are processes to recover the Gallium, but it produces a waste that's very high in Arsenic.
I’m inclined to believe it’s a crap survey:

“All participants had to pass through demographic filters to ensure they were age 18 or older, currently employed for wages or self-employed, and manage at least 25% of the hiring at their workplace.”

Manage 25% of total company hiring? So what, they’re tiny companies with big fat DEI programs? Who actually got interviewed here?
Her dad is the former boss of the chairman of the SEC. That may be the single biggest political connection. But both Sam and Caroline's families are extremely well connected on the Hill.
Only four levels of nesting menus? How generous!
I love my Prius, but over my years of driving it my suspicion is that the regen braking contributes VERY little power to the battery, and I try to brake using regen as much as possible. I would guess that most Prius drivers (who drive the car like a normal car, which is even what Toyota says to do) get back a truly trivial amount of energy out of regen braking.

It wouldn't surprise me if full EV regen braking is much more efficient and useful, though.
What are you eating at 3500 calories a day that allows gluconeogenesis without intense exercise. From your comment this seems to indicate you are limiting carbohydrates. What does your diet consist of?
FTFY:

* Use GrapheneOS on my smartphone with nearly no third-party apps

* Use a VPN, because I don't trust my ISP

* Use NoScript & uBlock

* Use several ProtonMail addresses I change on a regular basis and use one-way trash mails. I also try to be on as few services as possible. If an email is leaked (didn't happened yet) delete it and create a new one.

* Use Qubes + Whonix with FDE on a seperate laptop for things, which should stay private. I classify every other data from other devices as public.

* Regulary check my home network traffic on my firewall. Especially when I do nothing on my devices or got a new device.

* Destroy every camera and microphone in devices which can only be bought "smart" like every new TV.

* Be aware that if I use an online service my data gets collected and act like someone is looking over my shoulder. Its not so bad, if you are aware of that. * Glueing my finger domes on a regular basis

* Scan my house regulary for new WIFI and bluetooth devices in range
Can you send a link please ?
Product Owner, Product Manager can be loads of fun and very creative at the right company - though both can be high stress in the wrong team/company.

Project Management can be fun if you are organised, Programme Manager if you want it to be a more senior role

Business Analyst can be great - and can get pretty senior.

In some companies the step out of programming and into architecture can be a very different pace, but all companies will vary. In my current company it seems full on but at the last it seemed a great role.

Strategy is really important and loads of people and companies do it poorly - great opportunities to do it well! Can be a lot of board papers and socialisation of ideas, but the pace will be very different, and while there can be some stress, will not be consistent.

Obviously ymmv - find a good company that you like and things will be a lot easier. Important jobs don't have to be high stress.
It's obvious what I mean. Everyone is clearly bending the truth to create the juiciest narrative but no need to attack people just because they're downplaying the most insane conspiracy theories. This is not a movie script.

You make it sound like the poster is defending her just because they don't agree that the world is secretly controlled by a bunch of economics professors.
The XPS has a 1080p camera. Were you trying to buy a 4K webcam and accidentally bought the super cheap 720p Logitech sells?

Opal C1, Instalink, continuity cam/droidcam, and a DSLR/mirrorless setup like in this article are essentially your upgrade options if you don’t want to pay for a 4k Logitech.
Yes, and that's debatable.

You can make an argument that women today are still being discriminated against or are in a disadvantaged position because of past discriminations against women. Therefore the women they hired was an appropriate beneficiary.

As research shows, there is still bias against women in hiring, especially in the resume selection process.

And as research also shows, women don't pursue STEM jobs because of historically induced cultural biases.

If you discriminated against women in the past so that the profession got taken over by men, had only men's in it, men became all the professors, men became all the role models for the profession, it shouldn't be surprising from a sociological level that women today don't find STEM appealing because it's all men dominated and doesn't seem friendly or inviting to them.

How do you break this cycle is a separate discussion, and there's a seperate argument that affirmative action doesn't work.
I'm not sure what's the error, can you enter it from here: https://news-classifier.streamlit.app ?
That's not the point, breaking trust, manipulation and betrayal are, if you don't care about that, then you should not complain when one random dude changes his popular library to spread a political malware [1]

[1] - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/sabot...
Yet I see people staring at their smartphones even in settings that would be perfect for some real social interaction. These things are just way too addicting for our primitive brains.
> These would be reasonable thoughts if this was an industrial process that was done regularly, but it’s not. It’s done once every 2 years, and the voting machines are relatively new. There is no reason to assume they’ve done all this testing and contingency planning, and frankly they don’t need to.

Fair enough. But then THAT is where the reporting starts. Lede'ing with "blah blah blah conspiracy theory..." is lazy and dangerous.

If The Fourth Estate is going to play the "omg...preserve the democracy" card then The Fourth Estate needs to do a better job of keeping its own house clean and fulfulling its obligations to the democracy. TFE feeding status quo tropes - for profit - is not a good look, and it's dangerous.

Otherwise we're going to be stuck with what we have, or worse.
I haven't seen any government want to use blockhains or anything decentralized for their CDBCs. They are not a copy of cryptocurrencies. There are countries that issued their own cryptocurrencies and it didn't really work out. It is more appropriate to consider CDBCs to be the digital equivalent to cash.

A database at the fed isn't really equivalent to cash so there have been attempts like GNU Taler to build a cash like system.
That's probably just a yellow bike shed, though?
The spontaneous combustion part here feels bit weird; I imagine the phenomenon is more like when you hit metal with angle grinder and sparks fly out, where the abrasive action heats the particles up to ignition point. At least I wouldn't call that very spontaneous.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321411
Similarly, I feel like microservices are implemented to help with "scale", but it's often fuzzy which metric is being scaled. You can scale

1. Number of developers in your org
2. Number of users on your platform
3 Amount of data or compute used

Not all products need to scale all of these dimensions, and a microservice architecture may or may not help much. I'd argue that you probably get better results for #2 by optimizing database queries and implementing a good catching layer
Parent is referring to the "collapse," which was post-tech bubble bursting and due to accounting fraud (not a bubble pop).
I absolutely despise this post. As an open source dev, politely fuck off with your expectations of me. The source code is right there, MIT licensed, go do the work on your own to work with it. Its not obfuscated, it's the same stuff I work on every day. I'm not required to accommodate or cater to other people wanting to develop it.
I would think Chromium is just the opposite. If you have the resources and the knowledge, you can fork it and make it your own. I doubt Microsoft’s version has any Google dependencies.

Also, if I recall correctly, MS has been able to get changes pushed upstream.
I agree. That should be the "pitch" in the marketing copy. Something like "I got frustrated with Trello, Asana, etc. so I decided to fix it" and build the narrative from there.

To the OP: this is extremely well done. Congrats on launching. Love the design and the packaging.
You can make PDF or PNG from SVG.
> In practice, however, discrimination is measured by diversity.

How?

Doesn't make much sense to me.

measuring diversity is the equivalent of filing the workers, which is illegal, at least in my country.
You’ve Just Been Laid Off. Now What?
This is frustrating, I thought that the pandemic was going to create a demand for high quality webcams. I'd settle for a 4K phone quality. I bought the Logitech Brio thinking I'd get better picture than my phone (since it's a dedicated camera), which was a bit of a disappointment. I don't think it's terrible, but I had higher expectations of it.
Doesn't Notion have offline support these days?

I just launched the Android app with all networking and mobile disabled, the app showed me all my pages etc and allowed me to enter new data.
Our morals are driven much more by a desire to fit in and be liked by others than by a sincere search for truth.
There is a Ruby form library named Forme that works this way for Roda and Sequel (https://forme.jeremyevans.net/files/README_rdoc.html#label-R...). As you expect, this makes handling normal HTML form submissions much easier.
Thanks for your feedback. Probably on our website, we're trying to sound "smart" with fancy words. We'll work on the copy to make it more clear.
"Our app has performance issues even though we fired all the engineers who could fix it" is definitely a leadership take.

EDIT:

> As the former tech lead for timelines infrastructure at Twitter, I can confidently say this man has no idea wtf he's talking about

https://twitter.com/bgleib/status/1591875679377031169
List of inventors killed by their own invention
But that right there is a difference between you and other humans. The idea of "searching for a diet that allows you to gain weight" is absolutely alien to me. I can easily get to 5000 calories a day without even thinking about it, while you have to make a conscious effort to reach (I assume) much less than that.

My sister and I grew up with the same diet. We didn't starve, but neither of us had lots of access to junk food. Yet she could be hungry once she got home and after half a plate to be already satiated.

Today she has tons of junk food in her house yet she doesn't feel the compulsion to eat more than a few bytes. I'm down to 71 kg from 83 kg back in June, but I still can't have a single cookie package in my house.
To say that interconnected humans behave like a flock of birds is very flawed in my opinion. Each bird in a flock sees the REAL behaviour of the other birds but this is not necessarily the case with the internet since an entity can heavily influence your perception of the other people by controlling the communication channel. The Internet and social network is more like adding the possibility to create one virtual bird for each real bird and then remotely control the whole flock.
Letting in all willing immigrants doesn’t really make sense in context of a Western welfare state. Migrants simply need sufficient educational background to find a job, without one they are just more burden to the public sector. So it’s not always about racism or classism.
ARPANET was started in the 60's. I'd call the WWW more of a killer app than a disruptive technology.

Crypto does have to compete with alternatives that are protected and funded by the govt itself. And the main problem is the slow transaction processing as I understand it. Still not technologically competitive for big systems.
Probably worth noting the actual project page: https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
In terms of carbon footprint, Hong Kong is actually very good.

2021 is showing about 4.37 metric tons per capita, and if you assume the rough contribution of power remained constant after 2011 ([1]) the overwhelming majority of that continues to be simply their almost complete reliance on coal, natural gas and oil power. If you exclude power, the per-capita CO2 emissions are around 1.6T

For comparison the lowest CO2 footprint city in the USA is New York at 5.38 and second-highest is San Francisco at 7.12 [2].

The HK figure is from 2021 while the US figures are from 2019 so that's not entirely fair. In 2019, HK had roughly 6T per capita CO2 emissions, putting it directly between NYC and SF - the two lowest emitting cities in the US.

With respect, I do want that! I want that very much.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/china-hong-kong-...

[2] https://www.magnifymoney.com/news/cities-with-largest-co2-fo...
let’s say you’re a farmer. you get selected to be a representative. then your term ends and a big company wants to hire you. so you take the job

how on earth are you going to legally differentiate this from a company simply hiring someone with experience in the political sphere? how are you going to prove that an after-dinner speech is proceeds from corrupt behaviour, and not just a speech from someone interesting that people may want to listen to? you’re going to ask a court to decide if someone is genuinely an interesting speaker?

there’s a good reason they're able to get away with this right now: it’s nearly impossible to legislate for. it’s very easy to spot, but without direct evidence of prior communication between the parties it’s extremely difficult to prove

my solution would be to give each of them a huge pension and ban them from ever working again. but that has its own problems
It makes you wonder if artificial sweeteners can also do this. Has that been studied?
That reference is from 1993... I think people's attention span has shortened since then...
Mhm. The Scandinavian countries has produced made many movies and tv-shows about the vikings. Almost all of it has been utter garbage. Then one American comes along and creates a show for Netflix. And it's amazingly good. Go figure.
if we can reduce the size of the basis footprint for a browser implementation, we can more easily produce new browsers (i.e by implementing a fully general Path, and font rendering)
Of course you can also get the following, if you have slightly deeper pockets.

Phase array X-band radar unit with electric azimuth/elevation mount and >10km range for UAVs, i.e. not limited to targets flying below 1000m. Can be set up to aim and trigger electronic countermeasures.

https://m.alibaba.com/product/1600180136523/10KM-X-Band-Phas...
Are those tabulated? And published? Are they promoted as a proactive vote? Are they perceived by voters as a vote?

Saying "no thank you" is not the same as not answering.
Q&A with Mart Noorma, the new director of NATO’s cyber brain trust
I spent several years as the lead on what was at the time the most widely deployed DDOS product in the core of the Internet; I do not know what you are talking about. Could you maybe be more specific about why this particular DOS attack requires extreme statekeeping from middleboxes? I don't think it does.
I had a lot of people reach out this week-end for PDF support, so I'm planning on implementing it with PNG support this week. Thanks to Skia, it should just require a few lines of code.
How does it save the data locally? Sqlite?
If it were remotely feasible to create a competitive operating system kernel in a memory safe language with a tracing garbage collector, a kernel written in something like Java or C# would have taken over the world by now.
And people read newspapers back in the day too...
Others have integrated io_uring with asio, and asio with co-routines. The performance is about the same. The complexity is a matter of taste: asio offers lots built in that you would need to code yourself for the next project.

I generally lean toward lower total complexity at cost if more custom coding, but it is a big tent.
> Yes, and that's debatable

You said it, ok, but what do you wanna debate about?

Data shows that, at best, some people in some categories are being hired.

> And as research also shows, women don't pursue STEM jobs because of historically induced cultural biases.

Doesn't imply that women hired today have ever been discriminated or come from families that were.

My family was anti fascist and discriminates during fascism, more than that, they were persecuted.

Should I get some kind of preferential lanes, even thought nothing of the sort ever happened to me?

> got taken over by men, had only men's in it, men became all the professors

this is at best unprovable.

in the worst case it is simply bad faith.

What about truck divers' industry, where what you are claiming as discrimination is undisputable?