skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And we are supposed to buy cartridges? I can't see if you can actually hack on it, so is probably closed source. At this point if I wanted something like this I would opt for a: https://www.clockworkpi.com/gameshell Not the same, sure, but certainly way better option in my opinion.
Wouldn't it be something if the title of this article was: Nigeria suffers national power outage as gov't refuses to negotiate with labor unions on minimum wage
It is going to give muscle, bone, joint and tendon problems but hey, these are the same people that don't exercise anyway.

Just take the slim pill and stay put, everything is going to be alright
> And can we beat the Shannon limit somehow, eg collect for longer

If you turn on a faucet for longer, you're not beating the "gallon limit" of the system. The limit is not a fixed number, it's directly based on how much you do to improve the signal.

And they have already slowed down the transmission speed repeatedly.
I'm curious about the feasibility of combining the two problems of propulsion alway from Earth and communication with Earth into beam-powered propulsion aimed directly at Earth, pulsed for use as communication.

Probably infeasible for several reasons (only useful when accelerating DIRECTLY away from Earth, incoming light to power spaceship is probably coming from the sun and therefore likely also in the directly of Earth, so net zero acceleration at best from firing the photons back towards the sun), but it'd be pretty neat.
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I'm confused why most of the discussion about these issues is based on blocking the means of access to the content rather than making those hosting the content responsible for it.

Here we're talking about banning smartphones, rather than making the social media companies responsible for their various harms. There's an idiom of 'internalise the externalities', which basically means making the party responsible for a cost bear the cost themselves. It's a useful way of making a market efficient and self-regulate, by making something that costs society also cost the producer.

This kind of narrative seems to be pervasive. For example; we aren't asking the biggest polluters to bear the cost of their pollution (e.g. airlines having to reduce carbon in the atmosphere in line with the amount they produce). We didn't ask the tobacco companies to bear the cost of the public health impact they create.

Instead of blocking or banning the means of access (smartphones), we should be 'internalising the externalities' and making the social media companies bear a cost inline with the negative social cost they create.
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I have 2 years of experience and a degree in computer science. Why is it so hard to find a job as a junior?
It still does generally pay off at a lot higher rate per hour spent than just about any other type of work though
This varies from virus to virus; some generate droplets, some generate smaller particles ("aerosols" / airbone transmission). Measles is so infectious because it travels in smaller particles that linger in the air longer.
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I’m not even 40 and I remember growing up without internet access, much less a cell phone. I had to walk to a library to use their computers.
I think the thing with the N95 masks is they could stay moist all day from your breath's condensation. Covid was very dependent on moisture to spread, and much of the evidence about surface contact implied that the surface was dry or dried out between contacts.

Though to your point it was probably a lower risk than what might have been implied.
They are the owner. They can change their mind and decide something bothers them.
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Crypto projects had papers available from get go at least.
Who else is savage enough to do something like that?
Or the kids. We messed the kids up so badly.
I signed the patition, hope that helps: http://save.tf
The website is very pretty.
> Each time I hear (paraphrased): "It is different this time.", I try to imagine the world 25 years ago. Then think: Is this really that different? Most of time, I think, "No, it isn't that different."

Just be careful not to base your conclusion on anecdata. There are legitimate differences amongst generations in addition to the many commonly held misconceptions, e.g. Millennials are poorer than Boomers were at the same age.

I'd you're interested, check out Jean Twenge's book "Generations" for a look at the differences backed by the best available data.
Palmer Luckey founded Anduril which makes military drones.
Too much smoke for there not to be a fire.
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According to the article, this scientist and the doctor caring for the patients think it's environmental, possibly Roundup related.

> But in the leaked email, [Coulthart] wrote that he believes an “environmental exposure – or a combination of exposures – is triggering and/or accelerating a variety of neurodegenerative syndromes”

> Coulthart’s email emerged more than a year after [neurologist] Marrero pleaded with the Canadian government to carry out environmental testing he believed would show the involvement of glyphosate.
So, cancel all the one-to-one laptop programs as well, seeing the primary culprit tagged is social media, which is totally accessible from laptops.
Looks like 5MP but saves as 3MP files.
https://github.com/toasterllc/MDCCode/blob/6afdde594861264f8...

Pixel resolution
Size = 2304 x 1296 = 2,985,984 pixels
Pixel count = 2.99 million pixels
Resolution = 2.99 mega pixels
Aspect Ratio
Width / Height: 1.78
"landscape" (horizontal) orientation
Type of aspect ratio = "HD 16:9"

Couple photos here too:
https://github.com/toasterllc/MDCCode/tree/6afdde594861264f8...

I guess its for hiding a camera near where you park your bike and see who stole it or looked at it.
No time to watch the video.

Does he at least acknowledge the groundbreaking engineering for a production vehicle with things like 48V architecture, data CAN bus, and steer by wire, and how this will all likely roll into future Tesla vehicles for a big potential competitive advantage?
This is a relatively new and carefully cultivated state of things.

I mean, the early phases of this era are a half-century old at this point, but it’s not like it’s a law of nature that at least half the population of the US and about half the politicians must regard government as rarely-useful. It didn’t used to be that way. It’s not an American trait in some holistic historical sense.
New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds
I always find these discussions interesting.

I've been working for the same company 10 years. When we built project A, I was surrounded by people who had built the same product for the past 20 years together. As a younger dev, I deferred to them as they were much older and had done this before. You would probably admire them. They pumped out code and delivered immense value. We had no over-engineering because there was no upfront design discussions. When we needed to use some service, we just wrote that directly in our normal framework code instead of using some over engineered abstraction. That's usually highly praised here on HN.

Years later, that project became an extreme maintenance burden. There is no separation of business code from framework code, so the first major framework migration took... years. When they completed the framework migration it was already 2 versions out of date. Subsequent upgrades were faster and given more priority, but still took multiple months. Onboarding new clients took whole teams. The code is fragile, lacks test, etc. The app is classic "spaghetti code". But they sure got to production quick!

Around 2.5 years ago, I was tasked with building project B. There was no development team. I worked with two domain experts, but ultimately the development of the product was in my hands. This is a product that will live on for at least another 10 years and will likely overtake our core product in revenue. There is no one to blame, but myself, if in 5-10 years this app becomes another unmaintainable mess. If you're in this position, what do you do? For me, all I could do is draw on my experience to try to avoid the mistakes I've seen made in the past. We made a lot of mistakes in project A, but I knew a big one was tying our business code, the core of our business, to the particular flavor of web framework that happened to be popular at the time the project started. How do you avoid that? Well, "Hexagonal architecture" sounds like a big scary buzzword, but it's a damn simple pattern that solves that elegantly. When we started, I basically received an indirect mandate that we use the same framework as project A. After we had written ~25k LOC, I had enough and we dropped that legacy framework and migrated to something much better. And we didn't have to change a single line of our business code. Our new framework allows us to iterate much faster than legacy framework. 2.5 years in and our code looks as clean as that initial POC I built. Hexagonal was a small bit of the initial architecture I did. I only point it out here as a counter example. But all the little things I've done which are considered "architecture" have paid off years down the road.
Defense Innovation Unit seeks modular test system to scale drone tech
I really wouldn't go so far as to say it's "viable" for me, as much as it's had it's benefits and sometimes severe drawbacks. For example, I will literally run out of money again if something doesn't come around soonish, and that's not a good place to be. I have no upward or horizontal mobility, no true dependents, no investments. I can however occasionally go on a trip if I'm not in such a risky position, say within a few months out of a job, and I've had more free time than most, but I really just have living expenses. It's good to take whatever positives there are though, because I absolutely do not think if I'd made other decisions things would be different, or that my personality would magically shift into being a perfect corporate drone, nor would I want that.
Ouch, there's some bitter irony in all of this. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/ProjectRidley for an explanation of the goals of this project, which now seems to be what GTK is trying to get away from again.
That's generally what people mean.

However, it doesn't matter how good the N95 material is if the virus travels on a water droplet _around_ the mask. This is what all the comments about fit means.
As exercise in power; after all, motorcycles still exist.

Sure seat belts save lives. Thats why I wear one. But it's also true that many people get off telling other how to do things.
In my opinion all maps of single airplane routes should be shown with a two-point equidistant projection. This clearly shows the straight line between the start and end as the shortest direction, and minimizes distortion along that line. Additionally, all points on the map have accurate distances from either point, and deviations from the geodesic (such as for administrative or weather related reasons) are easily seen.

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/two-point-equidistant/
Valid! Energy and Civilization didn't live up to the hype for me so I'm happy to include this possibility

For completeness we should also mention the other possibilities:

* The author(s) had no control over the cover design (which I hear is common)

* There aren't many readily available paintings out there that capture the vibes of the industrial revolution as well as this one

* No one cares, stop talking about this
Banning phones is a waste of time, the children will find a way. We need to embrace phones and teach responsible use along with holding content providers accountable. A war on phones will be as effective as the war on drugs.
Kefir, a food similar to yoghurt, is fungus-based fermented food. The Kefir grain contains a symbiotic culture of yeasts and lactic and acetic acid bacteria.
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Through many iterations of home theater setup I have enjoyed a single, brief, period of harmony where a TV remote seamlessly controlled a PS3's navigation bar. That was a nice couple of years.

Such periods of unity must be savored, knowing the fleeting peace will vanish with the next device upgrade.
> My Playstation can accept directional and OK button presses over CEC, but my Roku can't despite that being much more useful.

To be fair, in this case, the issue not "CEC doesn't work", but rather, "Roku broke compatibility".

You can control directional/OK on a Roku STB built into a Roku TV via CEC, the hardware supports everything just fine. But in software, Roku (intentionally?) implemented unusual (arguably proprietary) control codes to do it, instead of the normal ones everyone else uses. Roku will, however, happily pass along regular codes to a connected Playstation or Google TV stick or whatever other 'lesser' device you connect.

(assuming HDMI-CEC) You can work around this by injecting Roku-specific codes into your CEC stream. But like, no one should have to do that...
Not if you put something into the world with a specific license. You can of course relicense later on but that won't stop people from using the previous version.
Firebase. Thanks. Got it swapped for the YouTube channel.
It's definitely worth a discussion. Owning a smartphone is practically mandatory in modern society, and kids are more online than anyone. I've held the line at 14 before first smartphone, and it's been challenging. I just picked up my 11yo from a GT test where he was expected to phone me after he was done. He used his mother's phone for that.

In the US, there's also all the murders to consider. My wife absolutely panics at the idea of not being able to contact the kids, and no amount of reasoning can reassure her. She is not alone in this sentiment.

My niece also almost succeeded at suicide, and her parents blame social media. This is specifically what we're trying to address with this article.
Definitely not, there are several other topical areas that currently have significant VC appetite.

If anything, the enormous amount of social media attention on AI has made it easier to raise VC in other trending areas because all of the low-quality "me too" startups have gotten pulled into the fashionable AI orbit. This has significantly improved the signal-to-noise ratio in these non-AI areas because the legions of trend-jumping founders are all doing AI, the startups that remain tend to be founded by people with substantial investment and expertise in their domain without regard for fashion. This is good for VCs and for founders.
It's actually primarily from the AMOC which is bringing warm water up to the Northern Atlantic from the gulf [0].

Fun fact: a possible consequence of climate change is the near term collapse of the AMOC which would cause drastic cooling in Europe (it also has more severe long-term consequences like leading to an anoxic ocean that emits hydrogen-sulfide instead of oxygen, such events have happened multiple times in Earth's past and played a part in major extinction events [1]).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event
There's already straightforward legal precedent around privacy re: what my neighbors can see from their property. If police want to set up surveillance from my neighbor's house, they can get permission from them, and/or a court order for it.

The question is, can the government put a camera in a place you can't (in principle) walk to, even with permission, specifically to perform surveillance on you. And part of the threat here is that an independent "researcher" could just habitually fly a drone over a bunch of houses, then offer to sell the footage from those flights that they were already doing to the government. And so it doesn't violate any currently existing laws or obvious extensions to those laws, but law enforcement still gets to see into "private" spaces without a warrant.

I think the straightforward answer here is that the police cannot use footage taken from places they can't walk to, without a warrant, as evidence, period. Further, warrants for aerial surveillance must be closely tailored such that "incidental" surveillance of things not named in the warrant (e.g., the neighbor's house) can't be used in court either. Want to use google earth images as evidence in court? Fine, but first you use the images as justification for a warrant and send up your own drone.
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I suffered through two or three to get a feel for them, bought a copy of McDowell's Cracking the Coding Interview and did a few exercises, reviewed some basic algorithms, and decided no more leetcode.

Having done all that, I figured out that the answers to leetcode questions always involve knowing the trick or hidden clue, then kind of laboriously grinding out the code.

It's a kind of gatekeeping while appearing to be merit-based, because knowing the tricks is like being in the right club. In fact, McDowell's blurb for his book says it right out: "Learn how to uncover the hints and hidden details in a question" [1]. Getting the answer doesn't depend on knowing how to do software development, it depends on being in the right circles to know and share the tricks.

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Do you have a grip for phone-with-controller use that you could recommend?

I've been meaning to look into this but can't imagine that these mounting brackets that hold the phone above the controller are very ergonomic to hold for longer sessions.

There are also the "phone in the middle" style ones, but for those I'm concerned about fit with phone cases, as well as wearing my phone's port out when twisting/bending the construction while playing.
Most the tools today didn't exist when I started. At each point in time I looked up and didn't see a better tool. The initial competition was focussed on DBA tasks, my colleagues and I mostly analyse large data. So we don't perform a lot of DBA tasks or manual editing of data (it's too large for that). We mostly select or create new tables that are cleaned up version using coded fixes.

There are better tools now, partly why qStudio is free as I don't believe it could compete with the paid offerings. My main profit making focus has moved onto a new niche that I think is underserved....building real-time apps based on a database. qStudio acts as a good advertisement and brand awareness for that much heavier product.
Anti-mask sentiment is amplified by state actors? You have to tell me more about that theory.
Can’t justify their valuation based on being a utility.
Replies summarized: that already exists
TFA directly refutes the "CAN work great at blocking absorption" claim. It says N95's work great, even when not properly fit tested.
It was funny how the closing statement was admiring rugged individualism too when that philosophy is encouraging a lot of the damaging effects similar to how social media has been harming the world.
> Those two major fields aren't especially prone to dealing with children.

Neither are software developers, so why aren't we exempt?
for antisymmetry via oriented measures, compare Stolfi, Primitives for Computational Geometry (1989):
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/tech_reports/SRC-RR-36.pdf
It is called accessibility : 1px border on an UHD monitor.
Someone on here recently pointed out that a FitBit-style watch where the kid can still be tracked-by-location and maybe receive pager-style notifications is a decent compromise to giving your kid a whole smartphone. That way you still get to limit technology but still reap the benefits of being able to track your kid and also ping them to contact you if you can't get a hold of them.