skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how to frame it constructively

At the very least, you would need to run websites with an increased zoom which would give you an insight into what sites look like at non-standard sizes.

You'd also understand better than most the difficulty with but also how to improve tap targets or set better contrast, etc.

I think you can start just by making existing sites easier to use for yourself.

You can follow that up with learning how to improve sites for users with ever more difficulty seeing and then branch into hearing.
>Poland's top universities - both of them - are at the very end of international rankings.

It's hard to compare universities, unless you have attended both of them

Innovation output != Quality of teaching

Polish "computer-related" people are very often in top when it comes to e.g security (src: https://ctftime.org/) and top universities grads tends to have open doors to faang

I've seen people from both of those groups speaking very good about the schools they attended
There are a lot of industrial physicist jobs out there which are fairly unknown. After my fusion startup went under, I had a lot of trouble finding a position. I had engineering experience, but no engineering degree, and I didn't have the academic credentials to get a decent position in academia.

After months of searching, I ended up working for a medical physics company by complete chance. I was getting a haircut for a job interview at a defense contractor, and I mentioned to my hairstylist that it was really tough to find a job as a physicist. She said, "Oh, I know a guy who's looking for physicists". It turned out she also cut the hair of another physicist who had started a small company. She gave me his number, and I got hired.

It may be helpful to look at industries which hire physics undergrad degrees. These include anything which uses radiation or high vacuum. Math-heavy industries do as well.

It's a bit out of date, but here are some articles from the old Industrial Physicist magazine (check the careers and hidden physicist sections) which may provide some ideas: https://web.archive.org/web/20071017063629/http://aip.org/ti...
If you search for "science" in this article, you will have great difficulty in figuring out what the title means, unless you are smarter than me, which is entirely possible.
Looking for a new business bank for the small reselling business I run with my wife, so I thought I'd sign up.

All attempts are erroring out; signup endpoint is returning a 500.
Wow, if this isn't a thinly-veiled "Hey guys look at this ha ha can you imagine being fair and impartial and presenting more than one side to this story? Guess we don't have to do it for anything else either!" attempt it makes me cringe.

The amount of mental gymnastics I have been seeing around the, uh, "blessing" of hypocrisy has been Olympian. "Whataboutism," "both-sidesism," and so on. Make no mistake, the author has zero interest in dowsing as a topic, it's just the camel's nose in the tent to get you used to the idea that only one side need be represented in a story.
Appears so, had to click twice to get back. First click did nothing.
The article is essentially repeating Adam Savage's words on the topic in his video linked in the article, re "laws of physics".
The companion site, rekt.news, is hilarious. Love the noir thematic overlay and the daily updates.
I'm not a WP expert either, but I did implement a CMS for my company. Caching interferes with people editing the site and getting to see the updates immediately, and the easy way out of that is to disable caching. My guess is that default WP takes the easy way out, because of their largely untrained userbase.
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Who could have possibly predicted that a company which mechanized the process of targeting and turning young teenage girls into prostitutes would have a dark side?

If onlyfans happened in person, the people behind it would be in prison. They market to teenagers, and as soon as they turn 18 encourage them to prostitute themselves to men over the internet. It is a disgusting, horrible company that we should be ashamed exists.

This company, like other pimps before them, have persuaded young, often times desperate women, into packaging and marketing their humanity to people. It taught them that their friendship and companionship is a product to be sold.
That first sentence hit me the same way. We have all kinds of above ground fancy sticks that react to the presence of things hundreds of feet below. It doesn't break any laws of physics!

What matters is that, as you note, we've tested this pretty thoroughly and under controlled conditions, and have strong evidence that dowsing is bullshit.
I found out recently that the author of this article only really cares about science in his own field. In other fields, specifically medicine, he parrots the establishment line without thought to the actual evidence.

I read this article before I found that out, and afterward, it just seemed hypocritical to me.
> Still it's neat, motivation to learn C++/GTK when I have the time.

You might want to have a look at libhandy[1] for GTK/GNOME, to "build GNOME applications scaling from desktop workstations to mobile phones".

[1] https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy/
Quirky diners are one of the biggest things I miss from seacoast NH.

What is there to do for tech work in Baltimore? All jobs I've seen are in the MIC, which I dislike.
Reminds me of the twist at the end of Contact (the novel, not the movie).
I agree the story seems to be about the desperation of these people.

I kinda wonder if ANY portrayal of these people would be ok with the author if it didn't constantly have notes about how foolish they were ...
I read an article a few years back about one such "whale", the guy played Clash of Clans or something similar and claimed to spend something like $500/wk on iAP purchases.

Thing is when they asked him if he felt bad spending all that money on a game he said "oh no, I'm saving money, before I picked up this game I would go out in NYC with my friends and blow a grand every weekend".

I guess it's all relative.
I've had great ideas for novels ... until I started to write them. Then I realize there has to be a middle too. And it has to be interesting to read.
> Kubernetes is far easier to learn than some random bespoke setup

This, to me, is the biggest advantage of kubernetes. Yes, you can do all the things yourself, with your own custom solution that does everything you need to do just as well as kubernetes.

What kubernetes gives you is a shared way of doing things. By using a common method, you can easily integrate different services together, as well as onboard new hires easily.

Using something ubiquitous like kubernetes helps both your code onboarding and your people onboarding.
From NYT

> A version of this article appears in print on July 17, 2021, Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: In Tech’s Backyard, the Hottest Search Engine Uses 2 Steel Rods. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

Bold choice, trying to upsell me with a monstrously bullshit headline
Thanks! This looks like a really useful contribution to the open community of research tools. One feature which would be a prerequisite for me is a structured export of data I produced through interaction with PDFs.
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All I know is my 6 year old daughter was able to login to my admin account because of Windows Hello on multiple occasions.

There is certainly some resemblance, particularly what I looked like when I was 6, but not a huge one.
Government funding (eg. DARPA) or from large corporations that have skunkworks teams (Google, IBM, Microsoft, etc.)
I think we can all agree that ideas, at their base level, are worth very little. In a sense, it's baked into the word itself -- the "idea" stage is basically just a thought; the beginning step before a long series of additional steps needed before success happens.

We've also most likely encountered an "idea person" at least once in our lives -- someone who has a thought, and wants us (or just someone else) to build it for them, in exchange for a "generous" 50/50 split (or worse).

With the above being said, some ideas probably are worth more than others. Imagine someone with decades of experience and success in their industry comes to you with a novel new approach to something they know deeply about -- you'll probably treat their idea with a good amount of respect, vs someone pitching you an idea in an industry they have no knowledge or experience in.

Normally, however, someone with decades of experience and success will also have the means for execution -- they won't need help from anyone, unless it's someone they know they can similarly trust to help in their execution. So you might not hear these type of ideas through an idea pitch competition.
Pretty soon we will be awash in cheap high end semiconductors. Very exciting.
The influence of private corporations are the reason why NASA was stripped of funding, because of lobbyism and having politicians in their pockets.

It's the same old game, lobby for politicians to reduce funding to public agencies and institutions, demand ever-higher profits and put hack-and-slash stooges in charge.

Then after a few years of letting them struggle, publicly declare the public sector horribly inefficient and call for widespread privatization, with the contracts coincidentally going to your biggest sponsors.

The USPS is just the latest in a long lineup of examples of this method. It's corruption, pure and simple.
We have to do embodied energy calculations for fuels as well, but yes, this is promising.

While noting that methane and higher hydrocarbons can also be created from thin air and water...
This is peculiar because it treats security guards as humans and challenges unspoken hierarchy. It also implies the museum doesn't save on security (17 guards is a lot) and there isn't a big turnover (unless there's a special type of security guard that mostly works in museums). It's borderline unthinkable in the 5th roundest country in the world where I live. They would hire students.

I was hoping it would be more about burglaries, stealing famous works of arts, selling stolen works etc. The law enforcement / security perspective. Instead it appears to be a pretty standard exhibition except with an unusual method of selecting curators.
Eat well. Sleep well. Exercise daily.

Are you seriously saying you can't figure out how to do these things without bullshit "studies"?

Get some weights. Ear high-quality meat. Sleep 8 hours. Tweak as necessary.

That gets 90% of people to ever-increasingly healthy.

You've been totally neutered if you think you need more than that.
Those people are stuck in a legalistic framework that privileges labels above reality.
Off topic but: The chat icon obscures the x to close the cookie banner. Safari on iPhone X.
I would imagine they must be building that in, or it just becomes a random collection of art.
It’s very funny that this is the top comment, because just seeing the headline before seeing the comments or article the first thing that came to mind was all the people that have approached me to be 50/50 partners where their 50% was having an idea and mine was spending months programming and designing.
What's better?

Making a strong case for the desperation of the drought and advocating for practical solutions? Or helping con artists steal huge sums of money from desperate people?
After a really bad experience with Chase (and negative experiences with other big banks) I decided to try something different. I ended up settling on Capital One - they have branches, but depending on your area, it may as well be an online only bank.
Thanks for the quick answer! Follow-up around this as it's a space I'm actively working in: did you use or build any tools for the labeling process, or was it Excel? :D Also, do you ultimately see/position your solution as an AI-powered exploration tool that allows humans to derive better insights, faster (but where the NLP side of things is simply to assist in this discovery process), or do you see the models (and resulting flags) eventually being able to completely replace the human intuition?
This is one reason why I shy away from reading anything posted on substack.

It usually lacks any substance, and often - like this post - just says stuff.
Was fascinated by NFTs and crypto. Now space flight is the new jam. Would love to see what the future holds.
How is the fuel obtained though? Is that zero emission as well?
This is an excellent idea. The guards are doubtlessly more in touch with the culture of the common people of Baltimore than the professional curators could hope to be.
Are there any good examples where the opposite is true, i.e. a relatively terrible idea executed so well it succeeds?
What do you mean exactly by annotations?

Sioyek currently does have a bookmark support which is external to the PDF (you can bookmark locations in PDF file and you can later quickly search in those bookmarks).

But I assume you mean some sort of visual annotation that is drawn on top of the PDF?
Well said. Their main service and offering is still up. They are not hosting blogs or websites as their business.

This reaction is a storm in a tea cup left inside of a sunny cottage.

Downvoters: I don't see anyone screaming at this stock trading app that also stopped using Kubernetes [0].

[0] https://freetrade.io/blog/killing-kubernetes
GloFo has over the years not had any trouble spending billions. The problem is neither the 10nm nor the 7nm process actually works. This just smells like the governments of the United States and the state of New York are going to get robbed.
Darwin is ever ready to cull the herd. If people are ready to believe internet quackery - so be it, let them bear the risk.
I have argued with a few of these fools, but they have closed minds. I sympathise with those that die or are permanently damaged, and I will always vaccinate myself as recommended by my Md.
I don't understand where you're coming from / what you think a given journalist's role might be.

Sometimes it's just documenting what people are up to / what their lives are like, what they do... even if foolish.

Are you saying that NYT is supposed to be advocating for solutions you like and not writing about these people?
Its nice to see my city on the front page, for a good reason.
A lot of the best device control stuff has been written in good old C.

I am not a Linux guy, but I’ll bet the Linux Kernel has a bunch of stuff.

Platforms tend to have foundation-level device support, and, nowadays, it’s unwise to go around it.

I’d definitely look at the device control foundation library (C#, maybe Windows?), as a starting point.

One of the lessons that I’ve needed to learn, was to get out of the weeds, and use the tools at hand.

Most communication and device control stuff tends to have two main characteristics:

1) They are composed of “layers,” with increasing granularity, as you get closer to the hardware.

2) They tend to be highly asynchronous, with a lot of “reactive” behavior.
Split? How good of an idea would they still think it is if you told them to pay you hourly ($$$!) and they could split the profits five ways?
That approach just helps con artists rip off desperate ignorant people, promoting a worldview that magic is a viable alternative to scientific reality, a view held by a dangerously large and easily exploited percentage of the population.
i think this is one reason that, at Canonical, you can't really get an idea past the starting gate unless you have a decent engineering spec to go with it. how will you build it? how does it actually meet user's needs (even if you're inventing a need)? what are the detailed scenarios that explain how users will interact with the executed idea? is it suitable for FOSS/crowdsourcing PRs? And most importantly, can you write down how someone off the street would easily be able to tell that you've implemented a useful idea? Ideas don't go away -- we use Trello for those, and they go in our backlog -- but engineering-wise, NASA-countdown-to-launch-wise, HTH do you get that idea into something practical, useful, and presentable?
I mean, that is the goal, isn't it?

Just imagine the increase in productivity per capita!

I look forward to viewing the mental gymnastics routines that will be required to keep up the facade that we still live in a scarcity-based economy.
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Do you use the "Multi-container Docker running on 64bit Amazon Linux/2.26.2" platform?
The data is stored on a sqlite database file next to the executable.
I mean okay, it's really just a very very high plane ride to edge of space, not actual space?

So assuming an evolution and not revolution in technology, how long until the first civilian orbits earth? 10 years?
It works like that in many countries...
Seeing it live indeed felt like it was so short.

This is a milestone for that company, but not a milestone for much else: it really looked useless. Let's hope they will extend their technology for something bigger than this.
Happens regularly. I am surprised you haven’t seen it happen before, given that you’ve been on HN since at least 2011.
EU is built on the European thought at least, it is the child of Christianity, strongly influenced by Greco-Roman world sprinkled with some Germanic austerity. No wonder why countries with Muslim minorities cannot join the Union. UN would never work because what binds Europe together is exactly this shared Christian past starting from the division of Catholic and Orthodox Church and ending with Protestant thought. Even if our European elite act as religion does not play a role anymore that is simply not true. Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. From Western France to Eastern Romania, the legacy can be felt in everything, from language to cuisine, from architecture to music. Imagine that those countries are on opposite sides of the EU but they both speak a Romance language.
I've had the "I have an idea!" pitch happen so many times I can't count. "You're a programmer? WELL! I have this idea and if you partner with me to build it, I KNOW it'll make a million dollars as soon as you put it on the App Store!" I'm seriously considering printing the URL to this blog post on a business card so I can hand it out to people when they say that.

What gets me, though, is the "I KNOW it'll make a million dollars..." part. How do you know? What market research have you done? Do you have any data at all that backs that statement up? They never do.

It's never been easier to build amazing things in technology, but it's not magic.
You still have to do the damn work!

Edit to add: And the work doesn't stop once the app is built. You have to market it. I worked with a guy who had an idea, had money to put into it (e.g.; to pay me to build it), was in the industry so he understood the problem he was solving, thus, and most importantly, needed this product himself. He even put money into hiring a professional designer so the app looked great when it was done. However, what he didn't factor in that at that point, he had to go sell it. The app hasn't made a dime since it launched because he didn't want to do the sales and marketing work.

By the way; I've had that same scenario happen twice.
What barrier is that?
What I do is I explain to them the concept of MVP and tell them to come back with specifications for one. Noone ever came back yet...
The truth matters!

I have a bunch of lies I'd like the Times to publish to promote my business. How do I get an article?
Here is a brilliant idea: Like Tinder, but for basketball pickup games.

Why do I mention this one here? Because I teach at a University, and I have heard this one at least once a year for over a decade.

(My response is pretty honest - e.g."it really sounds like a great idea, and I don't know why it hasn't been done. Go for it, and I'll be happy to help if you have specific questions." But "how do I get this off the ground?" Nooope. Figure it out.)
yes, yes, yes. the middle. if you can't keep a reader from taking a bathroom break until page 140, you can't write a novel.
I’ve been wondering how much the federal government of the US has been involved with these recent fab developments, given the past year or two has made it so clear the US is vulnerable to the semiconductor industry being mainly in Asia.
I don't believe dowsing is real - but Arthur C. Clarke had made a statement at one point that it didn't seem completely outside the realm of possibility that there could be an evolutionary advantage for people to have some subconscious ability to notice environmental signals of the presence of water (assuming such signals exist.)

These statements were made back in the days of "In Search Of ...", etc., when there were a lot of books and shows about pseudo-scientific phenomena like The Bermuda Triangle, Ancient Astronauts, Bigfoot, etc. It really wasn't all that long ago that it wasn't considered complete insane to be studying these phenomena and have details published in peer-review journals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology_research_at_SRI
> If they just don't want to deal with k8s because they like their home grown thing

This is another way of saying that they don't want to read too much documentation.
our company actually encouraged people not to come back. they literally said that productivity went way up during covid and work at home. I suspect they also want to close offices to get savings there.
If anybody ever visits Washington D.C., it's very easy to get overwhelmed with the world class Smithsonian and National Gallery museums (amongst the dozens of others). But I highly recommend taking the time to go to Baltimore and visiting this museum as well as the nearby Walters Art Museum, both also very very good museums.

Other great places for awesome museums within a day-drive of D.C.:

Richmond, VA - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Dulles, VA - Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum

Various National Battlefields sprinkled all over the area

A bit further out, but possible in a day and easily world class, the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Does it allow business sign up? Like for accounting and limited liability?
We've heard breathless claims that AI will replace people coding ever since the advent of AI in some form or another. If we truly were going on past trends, we would conclude it is not very useful and will probably stay that way.
I suppose it depends on who you tell your idea to. But I would guess 99% of the time the person you tell would not have the agency to act on your idea anyway.
Huh, I always think of "Brutalism" in the context of web design as "no CSS, no JS, lots of <h1>." I guess maybe it needn't be unstyled, but certainly is unsubtle.

To me this page is architecturally would be something overloaded with pointless decorative elements. Baroque?
Downside to anything associated with @jack is that every tweet is flooded with spammy and low-grade crypto comments. (was checking to see if there was info re the 500 errors)
There's also nothing preventing a megacorporation from preemptively inventing and patenting everything under the sun. They also have infinite money to fight patent lawsuits.

Moreover, these patent lawsuits mean that said inventors spend more time talking to their lawyers instead of getting these inventions to market.