skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean this positively and am in basically the same situation: it sounds like you want to find someone to build your business for you and hire you to do the engineering work you want to do. That would be great, it's never actually possible outside a few very lucky and sheltered situations.

If you want it to be your business, you need to find the customers and investors (you can probably hire someone for the paperwork, but not as easily as you'd think I've found).

What makes it a business is lining up the money / customers. Otherwise it's a research or engineering project. If you're not part of that work, you're working at someone else's company, which there is nothing wrong with, but it's a different thing, and comes with less ability to influence direction of the company.
The vegan fascists don't want sustainable animal cultivation, they want everyone to choke on soy products produced on land that was once full of diversity but is now a monoculture wasteland.
> By not using Grub you lose the ability to fallback on a safe kernel

That is factually wrong: if you create other EFI entries with different kernel payloads, then enroll them in your UEFI bios, you can select them at boot time in a menu.

This is how I test cmdline options (same kernel packaged in different .EFI)

If you forgot to do that before a problem, but still have the old payloads around, you can even use the UEFI to add EFI payloads by selecting their files from your EFI partition.
I used to not drink caffeine at all, and I was always perplexed by this belief coworkers seemed to have that you simply can't work without caffeine. It's only because your body is used to it and your mind thinks you can't work without caffeine. "How can you do it?" they would ask.

Treat it like a drug. When I do actually have an exceptional need to stay awake and focused late at night, yeah an energy drink can help me keep my eyes on the road for hours without fading or feeling bored. But then if I drink them every day because I like them I do start feeling dependent. Just step yourself down, or go cold-turkey when you have a few days of down time. You can reset yourself fairly quickly.

Same goes for athletic performance. I used to do jiu jitsu regularly and everyone would drink energy drinks right before training or competing. I tried it and it seemed that I could have bursts of exceptional energy but I would drain my batteries a lot faster. Just help your body learn to bring itself up and down on its own. It can do it.
There was an interesting discussion on their "download" button a few years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21530891

Original article has disappeared but is on archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210615211240/https://bowero.nl...
It'd probably be cheaper to just solve global warming.

Capturing 100% of carbon produced from burning gas would cost something like $1/gallon.

Much better to go extinct as a species than make our cars 20% more efficient, or somehow oust Putin.
This feels like a bad joke. Apparently Californian farmers have an innate right to water that overrides the water needs of every other state.
T#;DR : also try KiCad (or Eagle).
> It will happen either way, mind you, the only question is whether it destroys the ability of everyone else to live there at all.

With how expensive California is - desalination will not make it uninhabitable for the average person.

It will be cost prohibitive to desalinate a gallon of water to grow one pistachio, though.
Or don’t run a business you can’t do yourself

That’s where we’re at right now. You really don’t want a clueless bizdev manager person. This group of people have no qualifications and making up unrelated metrics of validation is their job. “So and so was a lawyer, so I trust their attempt at this obscure engineering problem” is the kind of logic this group will try to sale you on, and theyre going to trainwreck you to their clients the same way.

Finding a good one for you doesnt come from apps. It comes from human relationships.
>I think people just love being contrarian or insufferable know it all's.

Or, you know, case in point, people just disagree? You know, like your comment disagrees with the premise of the article :-)

Why would they have to be "contrarian" (as in, for contrarianism's sake) or "insufferable know it all's" to have an argument?
That attitude is the main beef I have with highly qualified, up to PhD level, data scientists. they could bring so much to the table, in any domain, by working with the domain experts. Instead of doing that, and trying to learn, most (basically all I encountered so far) try to understand any domain they encounter based on their data sets and some first principle. Kind of re-discovering gravity, and then expecting praise for being geniuses for doing so.

A shame, really. Because my skill in big data analysis stops at what Excel can do without macros. I'd love to get more data insight, simply turned out that it is hard to get.
Practical bruteforce of military grade AES-1024 (2021) [video]
A right is just another cultural concept.
It probably would have looked a lot like Islam.
Ok but my tooling defaults recognize TODO and I have many pending deaths on other hills of higher precedence.
I have written something [once] that de-dupes on just the URLs, you could take this way further with images and content analysis.

This is also manly an app to stop me from scrolling across the same stories on HN and lobste.rs again and again multiple times a day. So it lacks reddit specific features.

[once] https://github.com/batram/once
I think a lot of people who work in high stress coding environments try to overcome their human limitations (e.g requiring rest, sunlight, communication) via stimulants or some other, and chalk up the neuroses produced by the vicious cycle of stim-work-stim-work as a weakness inherit in themselves
> Anomaly Six LLC a Virginia-based company founded by two U.S. military veterans with a background in intelligence, said in marketing material it is able to draw location data from more than 500 mobile applications, in part through its own software development kit, or SDK, that is embedded directly in some of the apps.

> Anomaly Six says it embeds its own SDK in some apps, and in other cases gets location data from other partners.

> “We leverage detailed location data from numerous first-party sources to provide insights into groups, behaviors, and patterns.” The company said it acknowledged the “intense scrutiny” around the government use of such data, but said all the data it works with is commercially available and compliant with all laws.

> The exact apps the company partners with couldn’t be determined and the company declined to comment, citing confidentiality agreements.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-government-contractor-embed...
The residents see it differently. They have been farming there for several generations and it's been mostly fine, the land is very productive when irrigated.

The fact that it all depends on a massive public subsidy (both cash and water) from the rest of the state is ignored by then. They focus on arguments like "stop dumping water in the ocean" - eg make all the river run dry before reaching the coast, and "this is where food comes from" - as if it's the only place in the country you could grow food, or that other nations/regions manage to grow plenty of food in a similar climate with a fraction of the water.
When it comes to Maven Central Repository, PyPi, NPM, Ruby Gems, etc. I'd say that Linux is irrelevant.

That is, people use those systems to install software on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Insofar as those systems are effective they are cross-platform, I can develop on any of those three OS and not (usually) think very much about the OS.

Systems like that also fundamentally disagree with distros in that they scope libraries to the application rather than the system.

Probably the worst thing that happened to Python was getting incorporated into Linux distributions such that (1) people felt entitled that you could type "python" and get Python 2, and (2) essential system scripts were written in Python 2. All this held back Python 3 by 12 years, which is more like 120 years in internet time!

(I was the engineer embedded in a data science team and I could never get some of the members to be disciplined about how they maintained their Python. Today it's close to being possible to make a system that "just works" but you often find the people who built the distribution were vandals who configure the character encoding in some strange way that makes the system work OK in development but when you really run the script against an 80GB file it blows up because some incorrectly coded text gets passed to print by a library you don't control.)

I like Ubuntu precisely because I don't have to think about it. I was piling up a backlog of problems that I didn't have easy solutions for with Fedora and one day I installed Ubuntu and... it just worked! I'm likely to stay with Ubuntu as long as that's the case and move on when it isn't, that's the basis for my "loyalty."

As an open-source developer it's unimaginable that I'm going to make package files for a large number of distributions: I might make one for the one I use, but unless I have volunteers to do it for me there are too many distros out there for me to be bothered.
A mere 18 years after it was published in the SQL:2003 standard.

I guess better late than never.
I keep hearing this reference on how most (80%?) of women compete for the 20% of men, it just doesn’t make sense to me. It can only be true in a narrow sense… i.e. on a specific dating app 20% of men get messaged by 80% of women (that’s where the figure comes from IIRC?).

But looking at the larger picture of how relationships are formed, there is no way for it to work this way. And if it were true, it would be just as bad for women—as most of them would stay single! These 20% of men might have an easier time on the apps, and casual hookups might be simpler, but they can’t be in relationships with 80% of women. And a committed partnership of two people keeps being the long term vision for most in the dating game.

And people still have relationships. From the US numbers I could find, the bracket with the most singles is males 18-29, at 51%, which is a lot, but not exactly ‘close to doom’.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/a-profi...

EDT: This 80/20 figure initially came from an OKCupid study, and it’s about perceived attractiveness. In this study, 80% of men are perceived as of less than average attractiveness. However, that did not necessarily stop them from getting messaged. https://archive.ph/ZJymw#selection-600.0-633.275
Try criticizing bitcoin in a forum, as a male, and see how far it will take you...
[ FD: CMake developer, but this is just my personal opinion. ]

I find Bazel, Buck, and other similar tools from other FAANG-like companies to mostly target monorepos because they expect to control everything from the toolchain up. Dependencies get vendored and use of things from outside the repo is difficult and actively discouraged. It solves its problems, but that's not the realm I work in (or, frankly, care a lot about as these projects have enough zeroes backing their development anyways).

IME, these kinds of things doesn't really happen in FOSS codebases organically. I also don't see Rust taking over much of the C or C++ world in any kind of replacement way. Rust will become more popular and as projects die over time, they'll just be more likely to have been in C or C++ than Rust. I have no doubts that Rust will have this time in its lifecycle too. But the languages will never truly die.

The best thing that could happen to C and C++ ecosystems is for projects to stop caring about and relying on build flags, `-D`-directed configuration, and flag soup-based dependency management (`pkg-config`). An in-language way to do conditional compilation based on concrete queries (e.g., ask the compiler about itself, the target, some dependency info) would do wonders here to replace the inscrutable black box that is the preprocessor and its magic names. It would to enable projects to just say "I use X" and have that mean something other than work for build systems to discover, extract, and then communicate to the compiler about what that actually means through each one's local command line flag dialect.

But I don't expect that to ever see the light of day before C++32 and C40 nevermind being something one can rely on until after 2050 or so.
Hum... Good thing you got a distribution package, and not a development one. From your comment, I expect you to have no idea what to do if you get a development package, as `configure` isn't even there.

You just said that half of the procedure is simple enough. And then, I don't get your claim that nothing is comparable. For example, how is `cargo install` more complex than that? Or less discoverable?

(Oh, and notice that there is no distinction between distribution and development packages for any other system, it's autotools only. Also, you may say "cargo is Rust-only", what is true, but autotools are C-only while pretending all over the docs that they are cross language.)
I hope you're right, but I think you're wrong...
Someone else had an interesting idea: We could set up a transcontinental pipeline to the desert, and in exchange we would receive their solar power.
Lawns in general are a truly horrendous idea. Lawns in a literal desert are probably one of the worst ideas that have ever became popular.
> If the true externalities of your consumption are not priced into the product then you're not really paying for it.

This is true, but other than showing up to the butcher with my money, what else can I do? Some _other thing_ needs to motivate these externalities into the price; not the consumer. The only thing I could conceive of doing is voting with my wallet, which I do when I buy grass-fed meat.
Find someone you trust and hire them. Initially you don't need a high-end, expensive expert in everything, a mid-level manager from a big company will do just well. Or find someone that owned a small business, they have wide knowledge on running a small startup. When you get in millions of revenue, upgrade.
I'm an engineer who runs a business and has transitioned more and more of my time to that.

I'd start by saying, don't discount the challenges involved in running a business. Yes it is talking to investors, paperwork, etc. But it is also lining up your vision, architecture, tech choices with available cashflow, recruiting efforts, etc.

In many ways it's actually totally different from coding (obviously).

But in many ways it isn't. I often use the same skills that I learned in technology to run a business. Am I always successful? Absolutely not.

But the same ideas of reusable, composable code (which becomes reusable composable processes for sales, recruiting, etc), making performance optimizations (not getting millisecond gains, but shaving multiple hours off an employee's workday) making some technology choices because it makes the makeup of our team stronger, are all similar skills that have made it a fun challenge that exercises the same creative parts of my brain that coding often has.

I still love coding and miss it as I do less of it. But running a business has its own challenges that will tickle those same neurons. And solving larger scale problems for customers will give you a lot of that same satisfaction, especially if you've coded for many years and are looking for more novel approaches to problems.

But especially nowadays, depending on what kind of company you want to run, you can still minimize the work needed in the business end, and maximize the tech work. But that's entirely up to you and what kind of company you want to run, and how much you want it to grow.

All that to say, you CAN do this yourselves. But it all depends on what you want and how you want to spend your time.
> ACPI, power management, and UEFI are consistently causing problems.

> Suspend on lid close is unpredictable.

Yeah, same experience here. The worst part is I can't even figure out how to debug this stuff. No idea where things are going wrong. I've gotten as far as dumping ACPI tables and disassembling some of its code but I can't find anything relevant.

What is Windows doing that Linux isn't? It can't be so insanely difficult, can it?

> The dual-GPU (Intel and nVidia) situation is unworkable under Linux.

Yup. Gotta choose one of them, can't use hybrid graphics.

> The battery life under Linux is about half of what you can expect from Windows.

I think it's due to power management issues, especially the dGPU which can't be turned off due to lack of hybrid graphics. On my laptop I got great battery life after disabling the GPU in the firmware settings.

Also, pretty much everything is GPU accelerated nowadays. Even terminal emulators. Kitty for example will cause massive power usage spikes.
Actually no. Just go KiCad first and skip the mistake of using Fritzing.
Is Hungary's corruption a result of "American democracy failing" or is that homegrown?
Similarly why it's often a great idea to get an accountant to do your taxes, as this is also an interface with the government you can just hire someone to do
Exactly. Plus if I want to find things to fix in my code, searching for TODO is much easier than searching for each of a dozen or so other strings.
Ok, then why are all the redwoods dying, including ones way over 150 years old?
Why aren't there MPG-like standards for farming, and if we had such standards, how much water would be saved? Maybe there are irrigation standards and I just don't know.
> With how expensive California is - desalination will not make it uninhabitable for the average person.

Which is exactly why they have a dozen or so desalination plants in operation, with a couple dozen more set to be spun up in the coming decades.

> It will be cost prohibitive to desalinate a gallon of water to grow one pistachio, though.

This is it, which is why ag and other industries lobby so hard for "water rights" for commercial use; to offload the bill to the taxpayers.
Your comment is so incredibly divorced from reality.

Plastic doesn't grow on trees either. Its production has huge impacts on the environment.

Aluminum is highly and easily recyclable. In fact Apple makes their MacBook enclosures from 100% recycled aluminum. No other computer manufacturer can make the same claim regarding the production of their plastic body notebooks.

The idea that plastic can be infinitely recycled is just that: an idea. The infrastructure for recycling plastic is far more complex than recycling aluminum, as well as essentially non-existent.

Apple computers have a history of having high resell values and long lifespans. You can see the evidence of that just by looking at eBay. And when they do eventually get tossed out that aluminum body can actually be recycled, where the same claim for plastic bodied notebooks cannot be factually made.
Basically just LAPACK in Python or is that SymPy!
Maybe I misunderstand you but institutional funding does almost never enable research. Almost all research funding comes from competitive grants. So "researchers" in research institutions spend most of their time looking for funding. I was talking with a colleague the other day and he said the head of a research group is essentially running a startup, except you're constantly in the search for funding phase without the prospect of it ever becoming self-sustaining. The process is completely broken.
The 4-day workweek is great! Have you asked your current employer yet? If you like where you're at, it's not necessarily a reason to leave. Twice in my career I've started at a full time schedule, built trust for years, and then asked to work 20% less hours for 20% less pay. Each time with success.
Last time I encountered this was creating random IDs for things, either as a random string of characters or when selecting from lists of attributes and animals like all the tools that'll name things like "curious possum". It's not actually a hard requirement to hit every possibility before repeating, but if you do see 2 or 3 clusters in a sample it gives people the impression it isn't random.
Tight knit group of 8, broader group of ~20+, met almost 15 years ago in NYC, and Beijing on a school trip. Most of us went to the art school (New School/Parsons), others the liberal arts (Lang) and music (Jazz) schools.

The 8 of us still talk daily, most of the rest on a monthly if not weekly basis. Still live in the city except for 1 who moved out West, but is still in touch with us at least weekly. Post graduation, we used to meet up 1-2x a week before the pandemic and during the pandemic outdoors, but have Steam nights at the same frequency. We always have a good time, always showing love for each other and each other's work. Always open and honest to each other's constructive criticisms/suggestions (regarding our personal and work projects) and there to support one an another. Which is of huge value, as in most of our cases it's rare to get that honest/altruistic insight in a work environment or situations where money and time is on the line.

The 8 of us alone are a mixed bag, but even more so the broader group. We range from introverts (myself included) to extroverts, male/female, many of us skaters, we look like the UN both in terms of ethnicity, origin, languages, but we're one fam. Some of us partied hard during our school years, some didn't at all but still attended/enjoyed parties, most of us were in moderation (my belief = work hard, then blow off steam but never to party too hard), but all of us were/are dedicated to our work and helping each other along the way.

Our professions range from animators/motionographers, plumbers, illustrators, devs, ux/ui designers, graphic designers, musicians, fashion designers, painters, doormen, game designers, marketers, critical/political theory writers, hospitality workers, photographers. Some work a mix of those by nature of our schooling, some by necessity, some focused on one skillset more than others.

Having this kind of diversity in our group is not only beneficial in the selfish sense of networking, but more so in opening up one's perspectives on life, the world, practices, general thinking, etc. And aside from the diversity, even though we're all different in some way we have this bond where we feel like we've found "our people" and that we've known each other our whole lives.

It all sounds corny, but really it's an incredible thing and something I'm more and more appreciative and grateful for with each passing day. Sure the debt sucks ass, but I wouldn't trade my friends, our love and respect for each other, and our experiences together for the world. We're family.
Nice to hear someone else having the same thing!

In a way perhaps it's kind of an abstract "powerlessness in the face of chaos" nightmare.

Not sure why exactly it went away. But I do remember being conscious of it in my 20s and trying to understand it. I think I tried to understand it consciously and accept some of the powerlessness perhaps. Or maybe later on, it was meaning general confusion and anxiety which was suppressed.

At any rate the nightmare was very scary and awful, as if something evil and wrong was there.
A pipeline like this is so naive I can't figure out if the op is serious or not. The cost alone would bankrupt multiple states. For example the Central Arizona Pipeline goes from lake Mead to Tucson. That's it. It cost on the order of $10 billion and provides barely enough water to cover the needs of the cities and farmers along it. Doing a pipeline from Iowa over the continental divide and into the Colorado River basin that was big enough to matter would cost hundreds of billions to a trillion dollars.

Forcing water intensive ag to move by actually charging a reasonable rate for water is a far more sensible answer. Just requires political capital.