skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the answer you're looking for, maybe...

Life. Whether it "succeeds" or not (ignoring the biological succession pun) is in the eye of the beholder, but choosing whether to care or not is a fairly continuous active choice for the individual. At some point in life some of us may reach a state of not caring whether personally or societally important individual life goals are reached. Not caring can offer some nice freedom, although it might be unsettling for some people (akin to being disassociated from reality).

Non-commercial endeavors, aka hobbies or passions. Dancing, playing music, woodworking, etc. For me it's music, dance, massage, and building things. All of these can be shared, directly/physically or at least in ways other people see and experience.

Massage is my most practical example. I have some training, but I don't do it for money or profession. With friends, family, and lovers, there are many opportunities. And when traveling in places where massage is common, I occasionally offer to trade places with the therapist in the latter part of the time. Many therapists who work for a living are in great need of massage and therefore most appreciative. It is very rewarding. (I still pay the full price for my massage I received.)

People who blog (not me) are very admirable. Most of them earn nothing, and often what they write is of value to others. This is very true for tech people who write solutions to bugs or problems or who build tutorials just to share. These latter cases often result in financial gain for their readers!
Now imagine how many similar cases there are around the world that haven't been "discovered" officially. Both China and Russia are using similar tactics. I guess, at the time being, China is the more dangerous one as CCP is much richer than poor war-focussed Russia.
That is the exact point the comment you replied to was making.
If renewables provide 100% of power on good-weather days, doesn't this mean they've picked the low-hanging fruit, and additional renewables no longer have a stable source of income?

What incentive exists to decarbonize the remaining 26%, and provide clean power on bad-weather days?
I am making a level editor for Super Mario Bros 3. My ultimate goal is to fully reverse engineer the game and support all versions (NES, SNES and GBA), which will likely take me years.

https://smaghetti.com
Yes and this is why we should add negative interest rates to money and land value taxes to land so we can finally concentrate on more meaningful things than to engage in an endless over employment and under employment spiral.
GUIs actually map quite well to that OOP model. Different sort of widgets where only the behavior is changed In children.
> France is the only country I know that's managed to make nuclear power work.

Hello from Ontario, Canada! Have a look at the 'supply' tab of this page: https://www.ieso.ca/power-data. Most of our energy production is from nuclear. It works well, and is relative inexpensive and consistent (I mean, look at that graph, it's INSANELY consistent).
> Hitler (far right Fascism)

Hitler was nationalist but also heavily inspired by Marx, in Hitler’s own words.
I can't think of anything worse than a government led by nerds. Every agenda would be packed with "here's a new package we can install and try to run the meeting" meta-level disfunction, and it would be very rapidly obvious scrumban didn't work for public policy outcomes.

Maybe the revenge of the nerds is a robot, watching re-runs of Buffy because nobody else is around to do it, from the great mobile-phone-sanitation disaster of 2023.

"Nerds" here has to contextually mean rich nerds. Thiel doesn't want programmers in charge, he wants people who will do what he asks, for suitable renumeration. He, and his friends, are not "anti democratic" in as much as they don't much care what people vote for, as long as they retain power which is what money is for, after all.

I think from the press I read, Thiel is also motivated by revenge. He was disliked at university and has decided to show people how wrong they were about his power and capability. Not surprisingly I think Trump shares this world view. "you'll be sorry you said that" is a remarkably strong driving force for some people.
Inflation is easily caused without a fresh supply of money.

Destroy your productive capacity => inflation.
Congratulations, you created the Argentine Peso. You ended up in a debt crisis and had to hyperinflate your currency.
This could be put into the speaker driver, to do something like an impedance measurement, to verify that something that looks like a speaker coil is still present. If you wanted to make something hard to defeat, you could measure the capacitance between the coil and case, as a deflection measumerent, to verify that coil was actually moving in a way that it should be. Both would probably add a relatively large amount of power consumption, completely change the design, and add a bunch of cost, where nobody would be interested anymore.
Burner phones. All you need.
Interesting I was aware of the first though it seems more limited. However, I agree the second is a much closer equivalent.
Lightyear One solar electric vehicle taken for high-speed test drive
Ask HN: Does your company do online coding assignment (DevOps Roles)
Hello HN,

I had to make an alternative account to ask this question (privacy reasons)

I would love to hear if your company does coding assessment when hiring for roles such as DevOps or IT infrastructure where you work mostly with writing YAML, Python or Bash
Yes, though I'm not sure how long it takes for that warning to pop up.

In my experience, it's generally more than the few minutes someone that grabs a purse will keep the purse before looking for cash/whatever.

A car is, of course different. I had the brilliant idea to put an airtag in my car so I could find it if I forgot where I parked. Then I got a call from a very worried SO that borrowed my car that thought they were being stalked (there's a history there of issues, so yeah, fun times).
On Test Driven Development (TDD) [audio]
> "Fresnel" is not a noun

Says whom?
This seems to be a cool service, I was actually thinking of creating something similar (but was deterred by the hassle of setting up billing and user management apart from the interesting technical stuff). I sometimes get asked by someone not owning a server/account they can use for ssh -R 0.0.0.0:1234:localhost:22, who are behind NAT and need to publish some service on the internet.

Why is the traffic rather limited? You seem to be hosting it on Linode and they offer like $5/TB traffic, I think you could easily offer several times more traffic, at least with the bigger plans.
Which is the same advice given for disk-based RAID arrays.
It is good advice and should be followed.

Just back sure they all use the same block size.
a shell: http://github.com/nixpulvis/oursh/
Encapsulated state is bad when it encapsulates the wrong state. The wrongness becomes less visible, but appears more correct, because by mere assertion the encapsulation can boldly define the correctness of something wrong. In novice hands that's very dangerous and long-lasting and is the unsafe pointer equivalent of architectural design.
What’s the Chinese equivalent? As I understand they have multiple distinct spoken languages sharing the same writing system.
This sounds very similar to Hasura, which compiles graphQL down to SQL. Have you considered adding the subscription feature like they have?
F5 and clicking close is enough
I had the opportunity to hear him speak about language design at an MS Build conference and was very nearly actually fanboying; my coworkers were more than a little bemused.
Yes, we should abolish inflation by implementing negative interest rates on cash and adopting price level targeting. Long term interest rates will be 0% on certificates of deposit. This is consistent with saving for retirement.
It's a completely client side implementation. You can download it and point any static webserver at it and it works. I.e. making a perfect clone of it is a minute's work and practically free to host.

So I don't agree that "couldn't last" is true. I mean zombo.com is still around, with essentially the same ongoing maintenance burden.
Is there meaningful, comprehensive data on anything like "What cities are focal points for technology work"? For example, number of software engineers, total software workforce compensation, number of funded startups, etc?

Edit: As a poor proxy, checking the most recent 200 levels.fyi entries for ", CA |" finds 37 entries when I checked, vs 12 for TX. Wikipedia says the San Francisco CSA has 9 million people, vs 2.2 million for the Austin MSA. There's lots of issues with that analysis (first, I think CA programmers are more concentrated than TX programmers), but to my surprise, it implies the the bay has more programmers, but Austin has more programmers per capita?

Do people have suggestions for better data, or better analyses of data?

https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer
does 2) really mean that, or does it mean that many people have downloaded it.

does 2) get updated if someone deletes the app?
When you go into "Find My", can you see your wife's devices and keys?
This honestly makes me suspicious. Arm of government says opposition of current government is corrupted. How convenient.

I don't know if ASIO is/isn't/could be weaponized as a political tool or if the sort of person that ends up there can/does use their position to push their personal politics. But it is plausible that it happens and by the nature of the organization such a hypothesis can't really be scrutinized.
From the sound of things the airtags have been legitimately life changing for him. I know that sounds hard to believe, I certainly didn't at first but never losing stuff really seems like a weight off his mind. You're right, there's probably no evidence of people switching to apple for airtags, but that might be because they're such a new and relatively unknown product.
Glad you like it! But I thought the UK duckhead already has a ground pin?

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MKU63B/A/67w-usb-c-pow...
> I just don't understand what they've been doing all this time.

They added NFT profile pics. What more do you want?
For sure, and I strongly believe that a dual mandate was a grave mistake because a single-output controller simply can't control two variables that respond in opposite directions to that output. This allows their policymaking to be politically influenced and pick winners, and is one strong reason their inflation-fighting credibility is low.
There is no reason for any of those to be exposed to the web.

For web specs you can't just think "I could do this cool thing", you have to say "what can a random popup ad do with this". Our experience with WebGL shows permission dialogs are a bad experience, and people will also click "yes" to make them go away. Most users report "would you like notifications" from websites as being spam/annoying.
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Link for those who care: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/16/macron...

Cmd/ctrl+f "colonial penetration" for a brief overview of the subject.

Not sure why so many people here seem to think the historical source of much of France's uranium is irrelevant - people in Niger are still paying the cost of long-term uranium exposure.
Compromise between business owners and workers. Workers are often capitalists. But yes that’s correct.
If you're the EU yes. Not so much if you're the US.
Don't forget the Samsung SmartTag app!
Is there a clone that keeps the old UI and the same answers? (Could possibly scrape the site or twitter posts to determine the answer each day) Wordle isn’t even gone and I already miss it.
Wind/solar generation have fundamental availability constraints that require supplementing with on-demand generation capacity. Nuclear is not exactly an answer for on-demand capacity because it is not possible to rapidly spin up and down, but having additional nuclear availability should allow France to have greater clean, stable energy capacity. It additionally introduces the possibility of broader energy exports to other European nations.
> If the metric is to stop all the bad, then technology needs a huge lobotomy!

I think we need to change the metric. Every tool humans have ever invented can be used maliciously. So we have fallback options, like punishment, to mitigate that. Apple needs to make you read and acknowledge a notice when you get an AirTag that says quite clearly that they know the serial number and will happily provide your contact info to authorities on request. And then police need to actually arrest people for misusing tags to stalk.
> Imagine an economy where you are self sufficient and sell but never buy anything ( cough germany).

> Selling and selling isn't a free market, it's not even a market.

You are not describing much of a problem. What you are asking is "What if there was an entity, that provided the rest of the world with lots of goods and services, and the only think they accepted for that is green pieces of paper".

That sounds pretty good to me. Someone never spending their green pieces of paper, is just doing the rest of the world a favor, by providing all those goods and services.
The title image is so reminiscent of Age of Empires ;). No harm there. Is it safe to assume that AoE series was an influence?

As it appears to be targeted only for Windows, I will not be able to try it (on Mac). But the premise sounds good and pretty unique!

Best of luck with it.
I’m happy to be corrected as I’ve only really dabbled with Indie game development on and off but my general impression is that the paradigms have gone procedural -> object oriented -> ECS.

For example, Unity is designed around GameObjects but is now adding building out the DOTS framework stack that’s more of a first party ECS system.
If I were in charge of math, I’d call them placeholder numbers, or something like that. They’re there to get you to a solution, but the solution to a legit problem will be a legit number.

It allows you to use the same algorithm to solve polynomials, and stuff like that, but you end up with these placeholders that will vanish along the way to the final solution.
> I would love to hear if your company does coding assessment when hiring for roles such as DevOps or IT infrastructure where you work mostly with writing YAML, Python or Bash

It doesn't really make sense for a company to ask for algorithmic programming challenges if the role is going to be limited to modifying YAML and writing basic shell and Python scripts.

However, most companies I've worked at haven't had such limited DevOps roles. DevOps were expected to code and were very capable developers.
International Space Station Photo Explorer: I made 2 versions - a 3D one https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer/ind... and a "flat" one - https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer_fla...

I feel like there is a vast untapped potential for exploring the amazing photos that are there now and appear every day as well as new functionality - for example, I think there is probably a good way to tag the start/end of a sequence of photos you come across and use them to generate a movie clip which would be neat.

I still haven't found the right UI/UX and my web skills are sorely lacking so it all feels a bit clunky. It's fun to experiment with though and lots of eye candy to see - my daughter (8, now 10) and I worked on the first version which was nice too.

All open source if anyone wants to fork and play.
> He is a brilliant engineer whose work ethic is deplorable. He only gets things done if he's either entered a state of excitement about something, or in a state of panic. He's completely unreliable professionally, and notoriously difficult to work with.

Are you sure that your friend started acting this way after reading this, or were his actions much more noticeable so after reading? You describe being unable to work unless exited or panicking, neither of which is a common/normal or comfortable state to be living in during your 9-5. It doesn't sound like your friend is necessarily happy at this time, and at the risk of sounding like an armchair doctor I would highly recommend your friend to talk to a real doctor and ask about A(D)HD. The average person can stop procrastinating if they want to. The ADHD person will get stressed before they stop procrastinating, because their executive function is, well, not very functioning.

(Do note that other conditions like ASD/C-PTSD etc can also show similar symptoms including executive dysfunction which is why a doctor is so important).
> This sort of begs the question: where does classical OOP, the one taught to all undergrad CS majors in programs that use Java or C++, really fit in nowadays?

Hot take: nowhere. I mostly kid. But really I don't know of any domain in which strict inheritance and data hiding beats mixins/composition, interfaces, and dataclasses. It's so much easier to reason about the behavior of an interface in a given role, than an "Object" which spans all kinds of scopes.
I work in data and ML and it’s mostly plumbing and glue code lol
I agree. Maybe thats just a matter of time? They have similar operational models but different kinds of questions lie in each space. I would not expect to be told about cool ways to kill people in a room where syntax issues in python are discussed but I would be totally unsurpised to be told that in a room where kids ask each other which is the worst way to get out of bed in the morning
I care if this succeeds, because I want it.
Depending on how good the support is in the part of the service, a temporary ban can quickly turn into a permanent one.
I'm on the Images team. We've seen the feedback post even before it hit the HN front page. We do listen to the feedback, and release improvements as fast as we can.

We were able to fix some of these issues immediately. Some took more time due to deeper back-end work required, or design of alternative APIs which we've piloted with some customers. There is of course more in the pipeline.

We're aware that the file size limit is still very low. It's tied to the pricing model, and we don't want to overpromise. We're internally debating how to price the product it in a way that is simple to understand, and still makes sense for different image sizes and usage patterns. It's a surprisingly tough problem. Many "why don't you just…" pricing models don't work for some usages, or create perverse incentives, or are difficult for customers to estimate how much they'll pay.
Some background articles on the Diaz case, in which Tesla was ordered to pay $137 million for tolerating a hostile, racist environment (by the jury's determination). And no, this was not a matter of "racial slurs delivered by black people to other black people in a friendly manner" (per the sibling comment).

Jury orders Tesla to pay $137 million to former employee over racist treatment

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/business/tesla-racism-law...

https://archive.fo/2fbLc

Menial tasks, slurs and swastikas: many black workers at Tesla say they faced racism

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/business/tesla-factory-ra...

https://archive.fo/KGXEK
I've been working on an Excel tool to procedurally generate Powerpoint value driver tree graphics from spreadsheets.

https://aaronbrooker.com/vdttool

Most corporates only have MS Office so I've had to stick to using VBA.

Built to save me time in my day job, but has become a passion project. The most challenging part has been improving the algorithm for displaying the trees in a compact form but with an eye-pleasing amount of whitespace.
ArgoCD with Portainer
Two new blogs that might spark the interest of the community here. ArgoCD with Portainer.

https://www.portainer.io/blog/deploy-and-use-argocd-with-portainer

https://www.portainer.io/blog/deploy-and-use-argocd-with-portainer-part-2
"Why are you assuming that your guests’ shoes are dirtier than your floors?"

Um... ever get gum on your shoes, mud on your boots, road salt, water, snow, dog poop, etc. The list goes on, and it's not all about germs - it's about the longevity of your floors. Be that increased wear on carpet or scratches on wood. I certainly don't want to deal with gum in my carpets.
There's already a thriving market in muted airtags, a quick ebay search will get you there.
FWIW, I find glue code and integration to be quite rewarding sometimes. You take other good, useful things and connect them, resulting in a new/bigger/better useful thing... without "doing anything"! :)

Seriously, for some of the things you mentioned, I suspect the key is to NOT be highly focused on the career path which pays the most. I kind of doubt that audio programmers are paid as much as Sharepoint developers, but I would hope they have more fun.
I've written one fiction novel and I'm working on another one, and have ideas for the early stages of two others. While I would like to be published one day I don't think it would hurt me too badly if I wasn't. I love writing and the process of breathing life into a story and characters from nothing. I've got my manuscripts listed here in case anyone is interested https://writing.martin-brennan.com/works/#manuscripts
I wish we could finally end the inflation farce. A demurrage fee has only to be paid on liquidity i.e cash and demand deposits. If people lend their money at 0% interest they can save money. Since financing is much cheaper companies can afford to pay workers more. Inflation can be controlled via price level trageting all the way to zero.
The Polaroid 600 Plus Radio!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52013582@N07/34336986451
And Apple's device have vastly superior anti-abuse features than every other product, and clearly apple has not stopped fighting said abused.

What's happening now though is people are attacking apple because AirTags anti-abuse features work, and people have identified when they're being stalked.

We haven't heard stories like this about tile, not because it doesn't happen, but because the complete lack of any anti-abuse features mean that victims are unaware they're being tracked.
You can just do that by adding large hidden layers or more hidden layers, up to a point. But eventually the signal that's coming from the input data is so diluted through all the neurons and layers that your models stop performing better as you add more neurons. Many of the advances in NNs come from structuring the neurons in particular ways - for example, in computer vision, convolutional neural networks. These are kind of a small neural network that looks at each part of the image and gives an output - basically, shrinking and summarizing the image - which is then fed into another small neural network that shrinks & summarizes some more, and so on until you have only one result, like "is this a cat" or something like that. Transformers, which are mostly used for natural language processing, have small neural network layers that let the network figure out which other words in a text are relevant for understanding a given word (or, token, really). These help simplify the problem for the NN so it doesn't have to sort through all the data it has at once, which is a bottleneck on scaling NNs.

Not sure that explains it like you're 5, but hopefully it addresses your question
Isn't that dead? They no longer support macOS, for example.
Wait, what?

William Barden's "TRS-80 Color Computer Assembly Language Programming" most certainly did cover the peripherals.

Even Lance Leventhal's "6809 Assembly Language Programming" covered the 6820 PIA.

The big problem was that Lance Leventhal's book wasn't strictly speaking compatible with the EDTASM assembly language disks and cartridges. That caused a lot of grief for me until Barden's book came out.
For one they need to engage in metabolism and reproduction, but I'd like to see some argument of how neurons are more complex without those needs, e.g. do they compute some radically different class of functions than typical ANN's do, or require entirely different interconnections, etc.