skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like zillions.

I wired up all my house electrical circuits with a TED[1] unit and wrote code to track electrical usage by circuit.

I've written scripts the automate the creation of parts like screws that can be imported into 3D CAD tools.

I've written code that processes processor data sheets to generate include files for the register definitions.

I wrote a simple CMS to manage web pages.

I've got a bunch of programs that are part of some ML experiments for converting text books into knowledge graphs.

I wrote a simple database to manage all the DVD/Blurays I have so I can know quickly at a yard sale if the movie is one I don't have.

I wrote a 3D graphics package that would talk to the 3DFx libraries for their VooDoo graphics accelerators.

I wrote a filter designer that would optimize RF filters based on standard available parts and a minimum of winding my own coils.

Libraries for STM32 chips so that I could easily go from idea to something I could test.

The list does go on, but you have to understand that before I ever wrote code "for money" I wrote it for fun, learning, and exploration.

[1] https://www.theenergydetective.com/
> Eh no

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> HN hates on bitcoin because it’s incredibly wasteful and overhyped.

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> HN hates on blockchain because it’s a convoluted way of solving problems that could otherwise be done simply.

There is nothing in your comment that isn't accounted for in my original comment.
Your not muted at an operating system level, your muted at an application level when you hit the zoom mute button.

I have a switch on my headset I use to mute at a hardware level on top of the software mute button.
I work on a couple of reasonably small products but generally government customers have a long list of questions (mostly but not entirely about security).
You can’t pin down the when, how much, what and how all at the same time. Like the old adage says, “better, faster, cheaper” - choose two. Most teams have a fixed set of resources, and therefore a fixed cost. So, if you set a deadline then you’re setting quality as the variable.

Low quality software generally fails to achieve the business goals either because it results in poor customer satisfaction or low reliability, leading to high OPEX.

Like most things in life, there is a trade off to be made, and setting some magical “due date” is just a lazy way to manage a team. In my experience it’s a blunt instrument used by people who don’t know how to build good software.

> "A goal without a date is just a dream." - Milton H. Erickson

Milton Hyland Erickson was an American psychiatrist and psychologist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. [0]. Clearly a guy who knew all about dreams, but nothing about software engineering.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson
I write CLIs basically all the time. It’s fun. Everyone should do it. https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2018/go-cli-tools/
Forget the Jet. The ‘World’s First Private Helicopter’ Is Hitting the Skies
At first glance, this approach appears to re-invent an applied mathematics approach to optimal control. There, one writes a generalized Hamiltonian, from which forward and backward-in-time paths can be iterated.

The Pontryagin maximum (or minumum, if you define your objective function with a minus sign) principle is the essence to that approach to optimal control.
> Evaporating naturally occurring brine in poverty stricken shitholes

Come to think of it, I guess Nevada is a poverty stricken shithole, but it's my poverty stricken shithole and I'm proud of it.
What label printer do you use and did you end up automating the printing process or just the QR code generation process?
You are living the future my friend
"I'm really passionate about working for you... and physical fitness" AirPod hits you in the face mid-stride
Some folks are doing multiple tech jobs at once and still staying on top of things because some of these positions are really easy.
It's a great idea!
Correct, but miners are operating on the assumption of revenue now, and not 8 or 12 years down the line when transaction fees eventually exceed the block subsidy.

By that time, the network effect will be so large that Wikimedia will not be able to just ignore it to pacify a small group of whining overgrown children.
Some people care in the intelligence community ;)
It's better to have LetsEncrypt and CloudFlare in the loop to protect national interests and fight against maliciouses actors.
High prices also lead to more destructive and less understood methods of extraction like hydrofracturing, that uses a shit ton of water and may lead to immediate but long lasting environmental impact.
why do you say the page size apparently can't be changed for larger memory setups?
Lol do you really need to criticize someone else's code written by that person to solve their own problem in their own sphere based on your personal (sharing-positive) ideology? This is peak Hackernews.

Live and let live is what I say. Writing code for yourself and your own problems is fun.
Right before seeing this, I was using a JavaFX application that I wrote to extract highlights from videos that I shot this past weekend for my daughter's volleyball team.

I wanted tool where I can zoom in using the mouse wheel and have the zoomed clip extracted. Needed the basic features of HUDL (https://www.hudl.com/), but the generated videos are local files and not controlled by HUDL.

Another UI tool I wrote and use is a tool that scans a directory for JPEG files and uses the EXIF data to create a hierarchy of directories in <YEAR>/<MONTH> format and moves the files to the directory corresponding to its creation date.
China is building a simp army
... Who now?
This is fantastic, well done!
I know plenty of places (small/med startups) with "undelete" and "restore" account/data options built into their admin panels. Engineers shouldn't be flipping bits by hand, under duress.

I really wonder what these Altassian restore tools look like it if takes "hundreds of engineers across the company" to restore 400 accounts. Are backups siloed across many teams?
GitHub – Pimox/Pimox7: Proxmox V7 for Raspberry Pi
I'm not seeing heated sidewalks in your citation, and part of the large reason for the bill was that he went out of his way to get the energy from renewable sources back in the early 2000s when that came at a premium from grid suppliers. And his energy bill even then was <$2k/month for a hundred year old ten bedroom mansion which is not that nutty.
Valve predicted this in Portal 2 ;)

"Welcome to the Enrichment Center- [violent coughing] (...) The bean counters said we could literally not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Did it anyway! Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground-up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill."

—Cave Johnson
You can imagine problems restoring one individual tenant's data to an otherwise active database with many tenants; i.e. any cross-tenant primary keys which will have shifted since one tenant's last backup. Separating the backups wouldn't help with the restoration.
I think you need to give away enough that people who want the entire book know they are getting something worth paying for.

I have been disappointed too many times buying a fully locked down book to discover it's not as useful as thought.

Obviously there are some well known/recommended books that overcome this, but it's chicken and egg for a new book.
Amazon doesn't want any unions, they said this before in their manager learning videos and they saying this now https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/05/amazon-ba...
Most recent attempts thus most applicable to today’s world. Yes.
Yes. But it’s much more dramatic in the movie when the villain runs his finger along the spines of the books in your library idly but then his eyes narrow and he aggressively pulls a book off the shelf and flips it open to a well worn spot. Checkmate!
It's incredible how it sucks people in. The skill floor to expressing yourself is _damn low_; if you can draw 2D polygons, then you can make a Doom map with DoomBuilder[0]. But the skill ceiling is high. And the ease of creation allows for equal ease in iteration. And the source ports add loads of neat little features to add even more capacity for variety.

So you start by throwing together some boxes; and before you know it you've spent 11 years building a monster of a map in your spare time[1].

0: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_Builder_2

1: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/UAC_Invasion:_The_Supply_Depot
I did not know that. 25kph is indeed very slow as road bikes regularly go well above those speeds just being peddled. When I lived in NYC it was a mess- all kinds of custom ebikes electric mopeds and delivery drivers blasting around on the sidewalks endangering pedestrians. But the city would kill the food delivery business if it banned them.
free is never free and it has nothing to do with Oracle. If it comes to you at no cost from a commercial company, generally but not always, you are the product for sale.

OTOH, and for your consideration, both Solaris and VirtualBox are free (for noncommercial use) products from Oracle.
I’ve both told bosses and been the boss who has been told by my direct report that they’re interviewing. Not all of those cases ended up in someone changing jobs, but some did. I’ve given relevant advice to my directs who were considering changing roles.

Sometimes someone up and quits without saying anything (and that’s their right), but I think it’s more productive if we can have a real conversation about the situation and maybe we can change something or maybe we can’t.

The very worst that I’ve done knowing someone was looking was not putting them onto a long project that would require substantial personal commitment to accomplish if I knew they were looking. Otherwise, no impact (and even there it made their departure easier on both sides).
One assumes the backups will rotate out and be discarded after a fixed time, so everything is "truly deleted" for compliance reasons.
I've worked on a lot of these processes. If you're interested in talking, my Twitter is linked in my HN profile.
We would likely have gotten a lot farther, a lot sooner. It's not so much that the tech was advanced back then or directly transferable to what we have today, it wasn't and isn't. But we spent decades with individuals and small companies basically operating in the wilderness due to lack of funding and demand to advance the state of the art faster. Had the funding existed back then it's entirely possible that there would have been developments in directions (out of necessity) that no one is even thinking about today.
Ouch. The article resonated with me and seems to indicate the author has gotten some good personal growth out of this, but the final sentence kind of killed me: "I could have carefully avoided leaving evidence that I would always choose my feelings and my preferences over hers."

Perhaps it was not the intent, but that really sounds like he thinks the solution here would have been to cover up the evidence. Not to, say, figure out how to reconcile their feelings and preferences.

I'm not sure if it makes me more or less an expert—I screw up stuff like this all the time, but I do recognize that I am screwing this up.

My take: it's not about the dirty glass. It's not about faking that you care. It's not even about communicating, because if they were to read each other's minds in this situation, she'd discover that she was right all along.

My best guess: there was a problem, and no will or desire to solve it. It's the visible manifestation of the same lack of will to solve other problems, the same lack of interest in figuring out what the other person wants/needs and doing what is necessary to make it happen. From her point of view, the dirty glass issue is proof that he's not going to work to make anything go better. From his point of view, it's proof that she's willing to throw out the whole marriage rather than address what's underneath that surface-level problem. Maybe she's afraid of looking petty, which ironically ended up making her look even more petty if you just look at the surface.

If this couple were to open up enough to each other to attack the real underlying issues, would the dirty glass continue to be placed by the sink? Who knows. Who cares? I doubt either of them would, or ever did.

Every marriage needs a functional conflict resolution process, and they never found or made one. (It's tricky, because in the first M years you can just have sex with each other and then it's all good. The next N years you can have a big blowout fight and then it's better. M and N overlap. So the need only becomes critical after some number of years.)

I would suggest my process, except I haven't worked it out either. I can say that it depends on the specific two people involved. Stuff like love languages may be sufficient for some couples, but it barely starts to address what's needed for my relationship.
I have! I've always found GitHub's default diff to be annoying to track changes. I needed a way to align the left and right editors right next to each other so I could get context. So I wrote an app and published it on the GitHub marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace/difflens. I use it everyday and have other (regular) users too. It's free to try
Somehow I find those high-class wads to be tedious and frustrating. But I find slaughterwads to be a great way to clear my head and truly escape the normal world. They get your heart racing. No time to stop for a breath. If you even turn around, you'll be dead. They're all I play on Doom. Some of my favorites are Dholes and Royale Arena - Cannonball which have beautiful architecture and some puzzle elements but still swarms of monsters. Working through Oreo Cake Massacre at the moment which is more crude.
>“What could we have ready to demo by next Friday?”

>In fact, most team members will say, “I don’t know about next Friday, but if we aimed for demo on Tuesday we could show this cool new feature.”

This is really doing a lot of heavy lifting. The author's idea of "most team members" is really "most team members that are already committed".
The CIA lying!

chews popcorn

Tell me more.
The first time lasted three months of relief. I had a bad day that sent me down the spiral, but a psilocybin chocolate bar brought me back. It’s not a panacea but it certainly ..gives me breathing room to let other therapies work.
That's what I like about it, it feels like a natural continuation from the original.
Don't forget

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Jap...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Sou...
Is "engine" the right word for this? I'd call it a generator if anything. I thought an engine took in power and output mechanical energy.

I understand there are other kinds of engine, such as a gaming engine etc, but in this context it seems like there are better descriptors. "Heat to electricity converter"?
You are correct. There is a shutter over the eye of Sauron.
Kagi.com allows such blacklisting.
They'd test monthly, but a full restore take a quarter XD
Right, and I view as the best possible job I can do and the other is best possible job I can do a given day.
Ya-who, that's who!
> False. Meta bought the best selling headset at the peak of VR fever.

You might want to double-check your claims before making such definitive statements.

As far as I am aware, the acquisition happened in early 2014, and Oculus Quest was released in 2019, 5 years later. Oculus Quest outsold all earlier headsets, and then Oculus Quest 2 (released a year later) outsold that. And by a giant margin.

What Oculus had at the time of the acquisition (Rift headset) was imo inferior to HTC Vive. It was the first consumer-available legit VR headset that gained some good adoption, but Vive outsold it 2-to-1.
With my other comment upthread taken into account, and some awkward but necessary discussion about mental health gotten out of the way, I wonder if it might be an interesting idea to try track/rally racing.

My thinking is here that if your friend has ADHD, that naturally imposes a "don't want to develop focus on details because not interesting" <-> "unaware of details in everyday life because no developed subconscious awareness of them" problem.

Track and rally racing could neatly solve both sides of this status quo by merging them a la "oh no must learn to focus on details so as not to flip car and die". The idea would be to create a situation that is interesting enough to supercede the "I will treat this situation like a TV remote I have no idea how to use and push all the buttons on it until it works" instinct, by tuning the mental stimulus on the situation to correct for the inattentiveness threshold. A bit like putting music on to concentrate, just... faster. It's crazy enough it might work, *if* the caveats and risks can be managed.

Apparently race drivers have the lowest reflexes of any sport. That sounds both like a good skill to have if you're inattentive, and kind of mutually incompatible with inattentiveness in the first place (like if you're a race driver it would basically just kick the inattentiveness out the window to some extent).

Obviously this is a vErY bAd iDeA on its face, and would only be wise after some analysis of mental dysfunction and if this person was prepared to listen to everything the trained driver in the passenger seat was instructing them to do (in terms of pacing and learning and not simply just going "yay!" *floor accelerator*).
Thanks a lot everyone for your recommendations, really appreciate them!
Mainly reinventing all wheels for myself, operating systems, code editors, game engines, programming languages. Nothing really hit a state that actually replaces my current tool yet, but definitely fun.
You can't completely set aside national ties until everyone else does.

Otherwise, those who still operate with that mind set exploit you.

It's a nice thought, but unrealistic.
i don't see how that really changes anything - your keys should be backed up just as much as, if not more than your data. and any process for deleting the encryption keys should allow for restoring from backups for some period of time just the same as your process for deleting data should allow restoring from backups for some period of time. either way, permanently rendering data as unrecoverable takes time.
Interviewing has become so much better. Final rounds used to involve travel so you almost always had to take time off to do it. Today, final rounds are done remotely, and you can split them between days reducing the stress involved for the candidate. No longer do we have to do the stupidest, most idiotic idea invented by anyone ever: Whiteboard programming. Instead, we can use excellent tools like Coderpad which are so much more easier to work with.
This is absurd. If you make a bet that you're unable to honor which forces you to shut down the market, you've lost control. If they can't account for this then they can't account for the trades they're supposed to honor.

Yes, it's literally their job to account for situations like this. They failed. Pointing out how insane the situation was only points out how poorly they predicted what might happen with private information they still haven't shared publicly. If they can't account for the bets placed then we don't have functioning markets. They knew what the short interest was, they knew what the options chain was, they have data about trades the public can't even see. There were multiple traders pointing towards a potential short squeeze in GME going back well into 2020, so if they could see it why the fuck couldn't the DTCC?

Your stance is "their job was hard therefore it's not their fault." That's quite frankly batshit insane when we're talking about the stock market which is an enormous functioning part of our economy. Yeah man, I'm concerned they don't know what the fuck they're doing because they've already proven they don't. If they didn't care they wouldn't have changed the collateral requirements - you're contradicting reality with your argument.

You can have the last word, I'm not going to respond any further.
My local Caesar's Pizza has bulletproof glass. With a slot shaped to slide out a pizza box.
>Everyone has the same amount of time in a day. A better way to phrase this is that some people produce more wealth per unit of time than others

How we value labor, other things matters.

Say we talk about the people who make our shit dissappear, cleaning up, etc...

Much of this work is done at a loss to those who labor to do it. They are poor, having to labor most all of their time.

Without them, the cost to us is much higher. Having to manage our own shit, where to store it, who takes it away, amd so forth. Doing that work would deny us our time, we would be less wealthy, and or need to pay more to have these things done, make arrangements, and forth.

Further, our current society is one that requires, does not even provide for people not doing that work. Essentially, no matter what any of us says, a large number of us will be doing that work.

How then is that work not valued well enough to provide for those doing it? We all have the same hours, and theirs very seriously improve our ability to make use of our time each day.

Which is it?

Do we value them enough to insure their labor is not performed at a loss?

Or, if we are to subsidize their labor, and any reason is fine, how come it must be so painful, looked down upon, seen as some crime or failure to obtain this subsidy?

You write about basic economic realities.

The fact is, how we value things, why we value them matters and those valuations are not physical laws. Economics is not an objective science either.

Perhaps we place too high a value on some things and people, while ignoring value on other things and people.

None of this says we need to work for others, but it does strongly suggest we could be valuing things a bit differently and arrive at a much better overall outcome for people than we see today.
I agree with that. But there is no reason for them to transmit any data over the network while "soft muted".
Probably it doesn’t count yet but I have a substantial spreadsheet (20+ sheets) that tracks all my financial life: net worth over time, expenses, taxable lots positions and loss harvesting opportunities, RSU vesting, investment returns, 1040 tax approximations, ideal portfolio allocations and rebalance thresholds, taxable equivalent yields for municipal bonds, safe withdrawal rates approximations, …

I built that incrementally over 10+ years out of necessity and one day I’d like to convert it to a little SaaS and see if anyone would pay money for it. Probably not but it would be a fun exercise so I could add automatic scraping of bank/financial accounts.
Well, we can quote statistics and cite studies, but the point is that the entrepreneur himself attributed his failed marriages and heart attack to the entrepreneurship.
If they didn’t pay, Google would be showing the competitor’s ad instead. Base camp has called it a shakedown.

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016
It's clearly a matter of taste, for sure! Ain't nothing wrong with slaughter wads. If they're your bag, then I'm glad you enjoy them.

I think the last I played was Sunder[0]. Good times.

0: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Sunder
God bless Let’s Encrypt. I used to tell my clients they need to cough up $100+/year for a cert and jump through a bunch of hoops to get it working. Now it’s built into the UI of many of the control panels I use and I simply click a button. The pre LE days were the dark ages.
That's unfortunate. The submission page says link or text, and I wanted to say something.

Thank you for the suggestion!
You need to view it in the lens of Modern Apple.

It doesn't hurt their bottom line, while able to please policy and regulators. The repair and components will be charged the same as BOM cost + margins. 99.9% of its billion iPhone user are highly unlikely to do self repairing.

So i dont think it is a PR move at all as in all words but no action. But they did make try to make lots of PR points out of it.