skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working with Elixir full-time since ~2014, and while I'm probably a bit of an outlier due to my open source libraries and speaking at conferences, I've so far found that there are always opportunities available if I look around. I also get the periodic recruiting emails as well, so there is certainly interest out there. I think if you've got the ability to demonstrate a good programming background (particulary in other functional languages), you won't have much trouble, Elixir is a pretty easy language to start being productive with in a hurry. I know of at least one organization that built up a whole team from people that were essentially brand new with the language and had success with it.

How long will it take to be good enough to get a job? If you are already a senior-level developer, with experience in a functional language, you can probably get hired without any experience at all. Otherwise, you probably need at least a couple months of getting familiar. Publishing an open source library as a means of demonstrating your skill level, and that fills some kind of niche, and allows you to get a feel for the conventions and tooling, is well worth the investment in time IMO. Someone really passionate about finding a job with Elixir could probably get up to speed in just a couple weeks, enough to be productive enough to contribute as part of a team - but that would be basically spending all day every day building something, reading a book like _Elixir In Action_, and actively asking questions on the ElixirForum, IRC, or the Elixir Slack channel.

I think its very doable, but you'll always be at the mercy of who is looking at the moment, and what they are looking for.
What do you mean "allow" or "disallow"? It is common sense for scientific purpose, limiting your research subjects to one political group will lead to biased/distorted/misleading results, unless the purpose of the "research" is non-scientific but simply partisan hack.
Yes is very good, capital and some beaches has very stable connections.
You have to remember that for employees or perhaps aspiring employees, solving the problem is rarely the only priority, if it is one at all.

Impressing others on the team, impressing the boss, making complex stuff for the resume, seeming like a contributor in meetings, having interesting tasks, etc.
Road usage fees can solve many big problems:

- Congestion, aka "traffic". Road usage is currently sold for pretty much nothing. Which means highly desirable road usage is overused, turning 20 minute commutes to 2 hours.

Setting road prices so that road demand matches supply would solve many such problems.

It also seems politically impossible, since most people have a strong emotional reaction against it. Maybe it can be eased in. I have some hope.

- Pay for real road wear. The gasoline tax is a very imprecise measure of road wear. Trucks cause orders of magnitude more road damage per gallon than cars, but a gas tax can't fix that. With each vehicle category paying closer to its actual costs, the system would be healthier.

- Electrical vehicles. The instigating cause for this. If we're abolishing gas driven cars, a gas tax can't really keep paying for roads.
I have worked with founder-CEOs who saw their roles as solving all the problems. The message was, if anything is ever not going by the book, call me, I'll come look at it myself. Not only does this alienate smart employees, but it grinds the company to a halt once it's at a scale where two or more of these situations can happen concurrently.

The best leaders I've worked with have (implicitly) spun narratives about the problems we're solving, the ways we're approaching them, the kind of people we are, etc. which lead everyone to find within themselves the (mutually agreeable) answers about what to do next.
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Erlang has a bit of Prolog heritage. You can see it in the Variable-constant and predicate/n syntax, pattern matching, multiple clauses, immutability etc... Do not know eilxir so can not say how much it affects that.
"The epitome of genius in my mind is finding the solution that solves the problem without introducing anything at all."

Agreed. Albert Einstein once said "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." This tautology sounds a bit silly, but I think the point is that the escalation of complexity needs to be fought with intentional focus.

That said, I think abstraction can be a useful tool for fighting complexity, even if introduced before business needs demand. In other words, developing a series of independent one-off solutions could add more complexity to your system in the long run than finding the right conceptual model that unifies them proactively.
Hey HN!

This is a website I've been working on over the last couple of weeks. I wanted to experiment with crypto payment gateways and this side project was a good way to try that out. The payment gateway used is a tool called bitrequest, which is a non-custodial gateway, meaning users are paying directly into the merchants wallets and the gateway is just observing the mempools/blockchains to watch for transactions going through.

As for the site itself, it allows you to "name" a star, quotes of course since there is no official authority that actually lets you buy stars, but yet there is an industry around it nonetheless. There are different packages available, it shows you information about the star purchased, and for the top tier I'll actually mail a "star deed" internationally to you.

Let me know what you think! What key features do you think would be a great addition to the site?
Looking Busy – The rise of pointless work (2018)
I remember when the Arduino became popular, my first reaction was "why do I need all these extra layers, just let me program my ATMEGA328 in good ol' C and call it a day".

I guess it all boils down to finding the right level of abstraction that you're comfortable with.
This is the premise of a book by Thomas Wren:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2335064.The_Doomsday_Eff...

From (distant) memory it was a fun read with some science but not overly realistic wrt to how humanity would react.
It absolutely is a straw man. There are many ways to combat something without resorting to —as you strawmanned their comment with–“authoritarian means.”

We combatted the ridiculous notion when masses of people thought they could cure diseases by burying a rotten fig under a dogwood tree on the 13th tuesday of the year if it was raining, and we did this by teaching people why that is ridiculous.

Understanding how and which absurd ideas enter people’s heads is incredibly important. And for many reasons that have nothing to do with “authoritarianism.”
> I don’t believe Americans would have the experience, social customs, physical stamina, emotional fortitude or knowledge to survive reasonably well if conditions took a serious turn for the worse.

It wasn't flag football or nerf that got us to the top.... We literally dominated everyone in everything, and continue to do so. Whether it be the military, sports (we just got done dominating the Olympics), tech, whatever.

It's absurd to think that given societal collapse, it would be the American's that struggle the most, and not, you know, the people that can't even make it when times are good...

You can knock us with a bunch of made up criticisms, like "emotional fortitude". But at the end of the day, every country still bends the knee to our "physical stamina". So that doesn't really say much about the rest of you surviving if conditions took a turn for the worse.
not to be dismissive, but it reminds me of this one: https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...
Reddit proves it. Case closed. Just kidding. No seriously that thread is long and there's no singular point, it's a debate.

Take a look at this (not the same link above I target a single comment):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/mn11r/the_dome_a_s...

I'll have you know you're debating with higher powers here. Some people here are not your typical people who just took a physics class.

Either way intuition without the math is enough to break your brain.

Imagine the opposite scenario you flick a ball up the dome with just the right amount of force that it comes to rest right at the apex. One property of Newtonian mechanics is that motion is time reversible. Meaning that the opposite motion here should be valid. And the opposite motion of the scenario I described is indeed what occurs. The particle is at rest on the dome and arbitrarily just rolls off randomly.

Note that this is caveated on the site with the fact that this intuition doesn't work with hemispheres. Apparently with a hemisphere you can flick the ball with a certain amount of force and it takes infinite time to reach the apex of the dome. So if you time reverse that it means any ball resting on a hemispherical dome can roll off of the apex arbitrarily but it takes an infinite amount of time. The un-determinism only works for the special dome here called "Nortons Dome."
I'm pretty sure that's SOP for Nvidia conference demos.

Was in a breakout after the main Jensen presentation and the engineer was talking about how they were fiddling with K8s to get the demo to work right, the night before. And this was the money demo in the middle of the presentation.

On the other hand... I actually kind of like a company that half-asses demos. It suggests they're spending their time on more important things.
> Unfortunately, the myth that this shortage was entirely an induced panic

People don't get that even a 25% jump in consumption is going to take quite a while to rattle through our optimized supply chains.

Everything has been optimized to the penny for exactly the consumption as it exists--and not a whit more. Inventory anywhere is seen as a dire business failing to be eradicated. As such, there is zero cushion against even small demand changes.

Maximally efficient is minimally robust.
Wow. That explains a lot about our lab HPC "facilitator's" attitude towards us haha.
The ideal configuration format is really powerful and expressive for the author but resolves to a dead simple data structure for the consumer. If you need to template your config files for anything other than supplying external data it’s not expressive enough. I think YAML is closer than many of its contemporaries to this.
When you get more bug reports inbound than you can fix, you have bugs that will never be fixed. A good method of keeping your list of bugs to a manageable size is to simply declare that if a bug cannot be fixed in $timeframe, it should be closed as WONTFIX. Acknowledging that the bug or issue will remain because the projects resources have more important things do do, and it will never be dealt with unless some external factor is added (eg. a volunteer with skills prepared to prioritize the work). It also acknowledges that the longer bugs sit open, the less relevant they become. The feature they apply too may have changed beyond recognition, becomes deprecated, or the bug metastasizes and becomes a feature. It acknowledges that long open bugs are going to be reported multiple times anyway, and at least this way you get fresh, current reports rather than everyone dog piling on an ancient ticket that nobody wants to get near. You know the ones, where it has mutated over time that the initial report from 2008 bears no resemblance to what is currently being discussed, but everyone is cranky because it has been open 12 years and obviously the devs all suck... doesn't really inspire you to deal with it.

So you triage your bugs into roughly the same size chunks. You measure how many of the issues you deal with per month. You prioritize the issues. If you have more issues than your monthly velocity, you close the lowest priority WONTFIX because, well, they will not be fixed. But nobody does it this way for public projects, because then they have to deal with entitled people who want their priorities to supersede your priorities, and instead you end up with an eternally growing list of bug reports that are harder and harder to maintain. And try other approaches to make it maintainable, such as making it harder to report bugs.
I suspect you are being knee-jerk downvoted because in the USA being critical of anything "socialist" often implies you have right or far-right political views.

People should be aware that the current ruling party in Spain is the "Spanish Socialist Workers' Party", so "socialist" is not being used as an insult here, it is an accurate description.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Socialist_Workers%27_P...
Yikes. You know how much we all hate toll roads. Guess what now every road is a toll road.
Indeed.com covers a lot of companies, sure. Are they necessarily the ones you want to work at?
A propane tank can have a useful life over 20 years, while a battery pack will wear out quicker than that. Or become obsolete because new technology is developed, or the vehicle manufacturer changes the design making older ones incompatible. So you'd have to account for that possibility in what you charge.
Main product URL:

https://polyend.com/tracker/

(it's out of stock directly from Polyend, but check with music stores, local and otherwise)

Just got one too and still learning about it (and really really like it). Have you seen this great video? It's a good high level tutorial of most features (it's a tiny bit dated when compared to the latest firmware, but it's still mostly the same UI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQufJBVvAtY

Also... the Tracker supports .mod files..!

https://help.polyend.com/944600-Is-the-Tracker-able-to-impor...
I'll always upvote SCP...

But I think there might have been better ones for submission to hacker news: "old AI" (1), "Malo"(2), or even the joke "working computer" (3)...or basically anything with Anderson Robotics or Professor Wondertainment.

1)http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-079

2)https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1471

3)http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1111-j
> As a startup founder, 90% of your job is storytelling.

How can we fix that?

To the extent that this is true, startup funding will go to the best storytellers, like Stephen King or John Lasseter (or, perhaps, Elizabeth Holmes), instead of the people working on the most important breakthrough technology they could most easily bring to market. How could you run a VC firm that funds the best hackers instead of the best storytellers? Or a company that works on the best ideas instead of the ones advocated by the best internal storytellers? Or a trade publication that touts the best ideas instead of the ideas with the best storytellers?

One way to think of this is that storytelling is an attempt to hack investors' evaluation function; as pg says in http://www.paulgraham.com/lesson.html:

> But wasting your time is not the worst thing the educational system does to you. The worst thing it does is to train you that the way to win is by hacking bad tests. This is a much subtler problem that I didn't recognize until I saw it happening to other people.

> When I started advising startup founders at Y Combinator, especially young ones, I was puzzled by the way they always seemed to make things overcomplicated. How, they would ask, do you raise money? What's the trick for making venture capitalists want to invest in you? The best way to make VCs want to invest in you, I would explain, is to actually be a good investment. Even if you could trick VCs into investing in a bad startup, you'd be tricking yourselves too. You're investing time in the same company you're asking them to invest money in. If it's not a good investment, why are you even doing it?

Investors want to invest in the companies that will make the most money. As Ashwin points out, the founders' storytelling ability is a component in making money, because it affects company morale and public relations, as well as future funding rounds. But there are a lot of other components to making money, as Theranos found out. If Ashwin is correct that 90% of a startup founder's job is storytelling, then investors are vastly overvaluing storytelling ability when they make their investment decisions, and there should be a lot of startups out there with mediocre storytelling and genuinely great technology that investors could get exposure to for a much lower price.

The information asymmetry here is a real problem, though, because how do the investors find out about the great technology? The people who are working on it have to tell them about it, and if they're bad at communicating, it's going to be hard to understand what they're saying. Maybe "due diligence" should start earlier on, with proactive due-diligence teams going out and scouting out ideas that could turn out to be big. Linux Weekly News, of all things, is the closest approach to this I've seen in the real world.

Sounds pretty hard. But better than investing in Theranos and passing on Dropbox.
I take it in, and they don't know what is wrong with it.

Modern vehicles are disturbingly complex so I'm not surprised, and a lot is being done in software. For your sake I hope the replacement solves the problem, but I would also not be surprised if it was ultimately a software problem elsewhere.

(As an aside, you may enjoy the Precision Transmission channel on YouTube, although that focuses on the mechanical side of things.)
There'll be a lot more people driving on the equivalent of racing slicks to avoid replacing their tyres and, I imagine, a black market for retreading
Why not take a small part of the defense budget to pay for roads?
On Linux, don't bother trying to compile it yourself (tons of compilation errors)

[EDIT]: and wine won't run the windoze version either.

ugh.
I use one of these two, whichever is better for a given case:

- install it using debootstrap from some live system (https://www.system-rescue.org/, or Debian on a usb stick). Internet works in this live system, so I can install wifi firmware and other required packages

- install it into a VM (I have a VM with prepared Debian system -- e.g. with my SSH keys, with my .bashrc and .vimrc), boot live system on the target machine, rsync the prepared system there
Decent article, although I really could have just skipped to the "Configuration" section and started reading there.

One thing is I'm sad this doesn't accounting for actual physical keyboards instead of letters on a square grid.

D to R is much closer than D to W, for example (on a standard qwerty keyboard, typical row slant).
How would accommodations be made for people such as myself, where around a third of the mileage on my truck is not on public roads?
> I have multiple machines running Arch (some over a decade) with no problems.

This sounds extremely unlikely. Rolling vs versioned release both have breakage, but with rolling its in constant tiny ways so it's less memorable. It's also a point Arch evangelists consistently fail to bring up.
Yes! I mentally sort of rolled it into "going from 2 to 1 operators", because fucking around like on becomes easy and less attractive when you aren't alone, but it absolutely should be stated. Thank you.
And I guess, plus the person going across the highway at night. Just, a whole lot of things had to go wrong in this case.
I find it slightly interesting that Enrico Dandolo isn't in this list.
Depends on how it’s configured. It could still serve plain HTTP and redirect (HTTP 300 family) to the domain name and TLS.
If Dhall was more popular, would it meet your criteria?
It is hard on my eyes and the use of emoticons and images seems juvenille, but this type of article and formatting seems to be a popular trend on LinkedIn, Substack and Medium.

As to the content of the article itself, I am curious how many of the hundreds of the founders Ashwin has worked with have used this approach to acquire funding?
radix is one my favorite artists, “tpolmgirl” and “ma petite fleur” are also great. The first was actually played during the art scene part of the BBS documentary which is where I first heard it.
People still regularly do odometer fraud in the used vehicle market; if you incentivize that metric, some people will game it. I agree that odometer readings do seem more appealing than omnipresent surveillance.
> It is troubling that visitors cannot easily tell what parts have been reconstructed since it became a tourist site.

Yeah the "partial restoration" always rubbed me the wrong way, basically choosing an arbitrary level of insufficient repair and maintenance.

If the residents of Machu Picchu were alive today, how would they feel about their city being half-assedly fixed? Why not just rebuild the city to the best of your ability true to its original architecture and building methods? It's arguably a disgrace as-is.

I have similar feelings about the pyramids in Egypt. Calling them "historic ancient ruins" seems like a convenient excuse to neglect repairs/maintenance and let them slowly deteriorate back into the earth. Get on it, show us what the pyramids are supposed to look like at their finest! I hear their flat stone faces would gleam in the sun.
> With each vehicle category paying closer to its actual costs, the system would be healthier.

Yes, but consider that road damage isn't the only thing that it makes sense to charge road users for. Even in a hypothetical system where road damage from weight didn't exist, roads would still deteriorate over time, plus as you say, there's the value of the space itself.
I found a few great JS-based trackers (and successfully tried a few mod files):

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=demomods%2Fspacedeb...

https://mod.haxor.fi/Groo/mod.electrification
(many songs available in the 'load' interface)

I also did find a wrapper around an emscripten-JS'ified version of libopenmpt (a popular MOD player library..?):

https://github.com/deskjet/chiptune2.js/
How Seattle’s Scarecrow Video plans to share its vast 140k library nationwide
Apple seems to be adopting doublespeak PR as its primary strategy.

AKA lying:

* Privacy

* Innovation

* Repairability
you can only add bookmarks from the home screen from Safari. Chrome, Firefox, etc do not have this capability
Usually missing wifi firmware can be solved without internet this way:

- look into dmesg. It will tell you which firmware file is missing.

- go (on another machine) to packages.debian.org, enter the filename into "Search the contents of packages" form

- download the package and transfer it to the target machine (usb stick, smoke signals, whatever)

- either install it as is (dpkg -i) or extract it (dtrx package.deb, then dtrx data.tar.gz), pick that one file and place it to /lib/firmware
> No
Yes
I completely believe you, but anecdotes are not data. There are exceptions, but most of the VC world is a circle-jerk of nepotism and "social proof".
RIP: Evernote vs. Notion
I'm not quite sure why you don't understand his point. He's arguing that the shortage of beds is due to a spike in RSV hospitalizations, not covid hospitalizations. You can dispute that claim but it's not clear why you are unsure what his argument is.
Clarifying question: do you buy tax-free gas for the off-road miles today, or are you paying gas tax on all of the use anyway already?
> - Congestion, aka "traffic". Road usage is currently sold for pretty much nothing. Which means highly desirable road usage is overused, turning 20 minute commutes to 2 hours.

> Setting road prices so that road demand matches supply would solve many such problems.

Finally, a solution to help poor people work from home too /s
I think it's more the opposite, no? You go to the store for something you need, but then on your way out you pick up a bag of chips or a chocolate bar or whatever. I suspect that's why they often put them on display in the check-out line.
No, I wouldn't, because I'm talking about the very recent decision to not winterize the Texas grid, even though all of the data presented pointed to the fact it would be a very good idea to winterize it.

Specifically the Texas grid is what I'm talking about, I care not about anything else you may feel the need to refer to
I want many updates on my desktop, therefore, I use Debian (unstable) ;-)