skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, not completely terrible.

It repeats some common nonsense, like the idea of "highs" and "lows". Everyone is going in and out of trances all the time. The "hypnotize-ability" of a person isn't some intrinsic thing, it's a quality of the relation between the two nodes in the network. In Cybernetic terms, when you connect two devices (like two people in conversation) the element with the greater variability will be the control element. In the case of "lows" the "patient" is hypnotizing the "therapist".

Anyway, one the one hand it would be awesome if the knowledge and skill of operating your own mind became more mainstream. Ever since Ben Franklin debunked Mesmer there's been this antagonism in Western Scientific thought for hypnosis, so it's been largely ignored or even ridiculed.

On the other hand, once the current semi-underground art of hypnosis starts to go mainstream we see people, like the author of TFA, advocating for government intervention and regulation. I think that's extremely sketchy, because we are essentially talking about the structure of your own mind. You're probably familiar with the idea of "the war on general purpose computing", eh? Well, imagine that but for your own thoughts. We could see patents on "algorithms" that run wholly in the mind.
My theory is this happens for two reasons.

First reason, product managers at a company start getting pulled into a lot of client management stuff. They have less time to spend on the product itself and the resulting vacuum is often filled by the lead dev. The lead dev demonstrates they can fill the vacuum, so starts getting asked to fill other vacuums relating to management and hiring.

Second reason, management doesn’t have a clear image of what a “developer” role should look like in their company. E.g. at tiny startups a dev might be entirely responsible for a product and even help answer customer emails. (I’ve done that and I actually think it’s fine, as long as you and the rest of the company know that’s the deal.) At the extreme opposite end, a dev might have little autonomy and be practically writing the Python syntax version of tightly specified business logic. But most companies operate in the fuzzy middle and I think many struggle to define their concepts of dev / QA / product. In those companies, it’s easy for a dev to become someone who is officially “a developer” but with a bunch of semi-official hats.

I might have to add a third reason to my theory, now that you’ve reminded me about cost cutting.
Also factor in the people trained to use VMware. There is always a pool of individuals to hire.
> mass murdered on a regular basis?

That doesn’t happen — it’s been four years since a similarly deadly shooting.

> They are outliers of outliers in other countries. In the US, it's once a week.

You forgot to exclude gang violence.
If they are "not exactly concealing their intentions", then how do laws about concealed carry help?

Either (a) they are concealing illegally, in which case nobody will know; or (b) they are not concealing, in which case a law about concealed carry is irrelevant.
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I really struggle with the analogy of technical debt as equivalent to financial debt. The analogy works great in theory, but it doesn't translate to the real world. The technical decisions we make today will influence the decisions we make tomorrow, and the decisions we make tomorrow will influence the decisions we make next week... and so the system we have a year from now will be layers and layers of deeply interwoven technical debt that you can't just have your accountant pay off at the click of a button.

If we're married to the financial debt analogy, then technical debt has compounding interest like a payday loan... and payday loans are typically used in very distressed circumstances, and are very dangerous. There's appropriate times to take a payday loan, and there's appropriate times to take on technical debt, but it has to be handled with great care and be an immediate wake up call to address the underlying cause.
It doesn’t look quite that simple. The paper describes the procedure as follows:

> In a typical fabrication, LiCl powder (0.32–0.82 g) is added into 10 mL HPC solution (0–2.0 wt%) forming solution A. The pH of solution A can be tuned by NaOH or HCl solution. 0.44 g KGM powder is added into solution A and quickly cast into the petri dish after vortex. The gelation takes place within 2 min, and sit in room temperature for 15 min. Then, the film is placed in the fridge (−4 °C) for 3 h followed by 15 min freeze in liquid nitrogen. Last, the gel film is ready to use after 12 h freeze-drying.

[https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30505-2]
I lease a car every four years in part so that I don’t have to deal with the inevitable car repairs that come after that point.

For some — but not all — people, that’s a preferable option.

For some — but not all — companies, enterprise tech is a preferable option.
> Defensive Use of Guns

> Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed (Cook and Ludwig, 1996; Kleck, 2001a). Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010). On the other hand, some scholars point to a radically lower estimate of only 108,000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997). The variation in these numbers remains a controversy in the field. The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2013. Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/18319.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18319/chapter/3#15
Am I missing something?

&& are || are short-circuiting operators in C, so in that example b and c won't always be called either.
I can see this being useful for technical interviews and quick demos.
Only true on the large scale but locally you'll still create a depleted zone near the ground down wind of a hypothetical extraction plant.
Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be relevant to this problem.
What challenges you have doing pomodoro technique
Hello everyone, so I've been doing pomodoro technique for last couple 3 months and results are pretty impressive. I've learnt Blender, watched 80% of lectures in YC Library and started to read books.

All thanks to this technique. Does anyone practice it? If so what is your process and what challenges you have with it?

I've created Discord channel to talk about it https://discord.gg/dBqnYz8q.
Oh come on, this isn't difficult. Who do you think the ruling class is in North Korea? Who do you think the ruling class was in the Soviet Union?
Looks like a great sandbox, perfect for testing ideas and queries without having to spin up an environment or log in to something like Big Query
Yes, I mean dot matrix printers.
Legacy.
Interoperability with other similar companies.
Manpower requirements (far easier to onboard a junior developer with boring technologies)
We can finally get rid of IndexedDB, and it's only 900KiB extra bundle size!
The Bots Behind the Game Console Shortage
The market for them is in the comfort. While cooking you notice that something is missing, oh can't leave as the oven is running, so you order what is missing. Or the baby cries and you don't want to put it in the stroller and go out to get something, or you are watching the championship game on TV, but chips and beer are out, so you order.

How to make a working business out of that, however is the question. Margin and value isn't high enough, especially as the space is quite competed.

It works better for the weekly groceries run. Instead of wasting time in the shop and carrying into the apartment just order the things needed.
I was in a startup that failed in part due to tech issues. The AI model just didn’t work. There were a lot of other problems but if the tech worked, they could have easily gotten paying customers.
In some jurisdictions, deepfakes of any kind are treated as a form of defamation. In others, adult deepfakes specifically are illegal.
Recent-ish experience:

- Wrote a distributed app in Python (it aggregated a few GB / day of info from several thousand servers). Performance was terrible, though I was doing all the right things (async I/O, etc.).

- Rewrote it in Go. That worked really well, and took just a few days. But management freaked out, forbade Go in engineering, and so:

- Spent several months rewriting the whole thing in C++. What a fucking misery. Just getting HTTPS working was a depressing experience. Package manager? No, you get to trawl the internet for semi-busted projects that sorta kinda maybe work, and then bend them to fit.

Go is the sweet spot between "Python isn't fast enough and never will be" and having to reinvent the wheel in C++.
Fake science Part II: Bots that are not
And Phil Zimmermann. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann#Arms_Export_Co...
For SSO? The biggest advantage (besides being stateless) about a JWT is that it is signed with an asymetric key and the client can validate the authenticity of the content. You can encrypt the content of the token, but that does not make to much sense (because the client anyway needs to decrypt it).
Storefront. We have our own headless e-commerce platform, with iOS, Android, and Web clients. We also have our own order management system that mediates between storefront and our ERP (which is commercial SaaS). And a handful of other smaller applications for everything from outbound carrier rate card testing, to customer service tooling & automation (integrated with ZenDesk) and all sorts of other bits and bobs like ETL code, integration layers, marketing tools, etc, etc. We should not have quite this much custom software, but it takes time to migrate the non-strategic sub-systems to commercial solutions — and even then you’d be surprised how much custom software we DO actually need in a business like this.

My role also encompasses many “CIO-like” functions, but my area of expertise is in application development and I look to hire strong leaders in the other areas (or move certain tech domains entirely into other functions — eg our warehouse management system lives within our operations group, and me and my team help in an advisory capacity but don’t “own” the budget or WMS strategy).
Zoopla. It's been a couple of years I left, but I believe they still use Perl for the core business logic. There are wrappers/docker images built on top of them, but Perl is doing all the heavy lifting AFAIK.

IME, big older companies have Perl code chugging along, but not very visible. Part of this is also because there's the perception that it is hard to attract developers if the company mentions Perl any where in the job description.
"Senior developer " is the worst role you can have. You are the architect, manager of your devs, heat shield, meetings attender, and you still full time coding job. You get 2% annual raises for your trouble because you are salary capped.

I jumped ship to a tech lead job. Now I do what I always wanted which is to direct a team (dotted line) by scaffolding out the project using diagrams and shallow coding. Very few soul sucking status meetings. .Dream job and a nice 25% salary boost.
>if you dont care about performance or features and believe the marketing

I don't except to the degree that the product is more or less suitable for my business needs. And note I said product, which KVM by itself is not. If I'm going to use KVM--and, yes, I likely would rather than VMware unless I otherwise needed VMware for some reason--I'd be buying it as part of a supported commercial Linux distribution.
Does anyone else read F* as an explicit word instead of F-Star?
> No, guns aren’t exclusively designed to kill.

Um...

I know you can shoot targets with them, but that doesn't seem like the principal use.

What else do you think a gun is designed to do, beyond killing things?
virt-v2v can import VMs from VMware to QEMU/KVM-based systems. https://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html
Microsoft’s grand plan for the future Windows is basically an M1 Mac mini
> Actually, the parent comment is on to something. "Brand name" enterprise software is a buoy that certain types of careerists handcuff themselves to

Or maybe, just maybe, really big corporations that make software solutions are often really big because their solutions are, if not feature-wise the absolute best, by far the most stable and reliable?

If one were to buy your argument, that would be like saying that businesses buying the Google Apps suite is nonsensical, because the only reason you'd ever use Google is because you're a "careerist" that "only know" Google.

That's obviously not true, Gmail and the rest of the Google suite have been market-leading for many years, because they are good solutions that solve real problems. Presumably the same thing goes for the Microsoft Office suite, and so on.
Thanks!

Wrt the speed, I worked very long and hard on finding the right NN architecture to do this without too much overhead.

My concern wrt super-resolution H264 is that you are going to have to encode and decode the full image anyway, so the cost should be very similar to doing encode-decode with network transmission in the middle. I've tried various DCT and DWT approaches, and yet not found them to be a win, but I'd be happy to learn what you guys found out.

I have sent you an invite to connect at Linkedin, I am https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-gorm-hansen-85b724/ if anybody else wants to connect there.
As a counterpoint, a few months ago I helped out a small manufacturing company with their Excel overload. Every day, they start with a new document based on a template someone made years ago. Every shift has their own worksheet in the document, every machine and job has its own set of rows, with lots of columns for capturing relevant information.

Everyone there is used to dealing with it and for every use case except this particular one, it does what they need.

All I did was write a little program to consolidate data from many thousands of spreadsheets, do some aggregations, etc. allowing them to get better insight into scrap and downtime rates per machine and per contract.

I charged $500 for about 1.5 hours of work, and they were thrilled.

Anyway, what I wanted to point out was that totally eliminating Excel is, for many businesses, probably not worth the hassle and productivity problems associated with the switch. But you certainly can move complexity out of Excel and into a place where it is much more manageable. Reading/writing Excel files is ridiculously easy and doesn't need to occur on a machine with Office, or even Windows.
This is why languages like Go offer automatic dynamic memory management, or more simply, garbage collection.

https://medium.com/safetycultureengineering/an-overview-of-m...
Moochee[1] is an interactive quiz game for teams. One person starts a game on PC/Mobile as host, the other people can join by scanning the QR code with mobile camera as players. We can easily supporting 100+ people playing in one game.
It was built by two of us during pandemic. We have the need to run online quiz game but the commercial solution like Kahoot! is too pricy and only support 20-50 players in their affordable plans.

There are 2 options to experience it: 1. Try Out: no log in required, you can host/play existing fun quizzes 2. Sign In: log in with google, then you can host/play any quizzes and even create your own quizzes.

Our tech stack: node.js, websocket, preact, htm, no any frontend build, pure ESM

Give it a try! Any feedback would be really appreciated. :-)

[1]: https://moochee.fly.dev
Mandatory veganism isn't going to prevent kids from being murdered in their schools, which is the salient issue.
In the book Superthinking by Lauren McCann & Gabriel Weinberg the model is described as a sort of shortcut.

You can have
2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 12

or

2 x 6 = 12

2 x 6 isn't always obvious, but it is a faster way to get to the same (or better answer)

And this is how I think of the models, not as a way of thinking but more like a way to tune my thinking.
Fair enough, there are certainly cases where Go is an awesome tool to use.
> I'd like to ban all automatic, select-fire or semi-automatic firearms

You're looking to ban at least 75% of all guns in the US. It might even be more like 80-90%, but I'm too lazy to look for a source. How do you intend to accomplish that?
When speaking colloquially, making a distincntion between a "rewrite" and a "language evolution strategy" sounds like nit-picking to me.
This is an extremely well written article and like mentioned elsewhere the link for this should be changed to: https://magazine.atavist.com/a-crime-beyond-belief-vallejo-k...

Once again we have irrefutable evidence that the police, as a whole, are incompetent and concerned only with making the "facts" fit their preconceived notions. That they are incapable of even considering they could have gotten it wrong.

When faced with pretty damming evidence against their idea of this being a fraud the captain said:

> “We don’t know what the final outcome of this case is going to be,” Captain John Whitney told the Vallejo Times-Herald. “It’s important that we don’t jump to conclusions.

They have no issue at all jumping to conclusions when it makes their job easier or when it lets them bend the facts to their initial suspicion. It's disgusting that we allow the police to lie to and treat suspects like this. Hours and hours of questioning attempting to break them down and have them question their own sanity.

Let this be a lesson to anyone who hasn't already learned it: never talk to the police. Ever. Under no circumstances. They are not your friend, they will not help you, they are looking for an easy way to wrap up the case. If the police are trying to talk to you then you are in their sights and they would much rather pin it all on you rather than do their actual jobs. Always ask for a lawyer and never think "Well if I just tell them X they will let me go".

I see no path forward for our current police in the US. It's not just bad apples, it's bad barrels and they will always choose to close ranks over rooting out the worst among them. Be sure, the cops who help cover up or know but stay silent are just as bad as the ones we would call "bad apples". The system is horribly broken.
https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/4014/
The potential fines can get pretty enormous, enough to even make the big players worried - up to 4% of the company's global annual revenue. There's a reason Amazon, Google and Facebook haven't just eaten the fines and are paying a fortune fighting tooth and nail to appeal the fines that they've been issued so far.
It’s not about liking or disliking what you said. You did not answer the question. I asked about Where limits should be and you responded with tangential facts about current lack of limits and a lynching meme.

I’d love to hear your answer if you have one to the question that was asked.
Is DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckDone?
Some popular firearm magazine a coworker used to keep on their desk always had references to news stories with summaries of encounters of legal self defense using firearms. Some months they had as few as 5, some as many as 20. If you assume they found as many as they could, that would be not much more than one hundred per year. They only used cases where the assailant was actually shot, and only cases that made the news. But it is still indicative that millions is probably a vast inflation just as your link indicates. Is the fact that excercising the right is rarely warranted or effective, and outweighed by the danger of doing so a valid reason to abolish it? My intuition is that it is not, but I'm not at all sure. I tend to gravitate towards fairness of a policy over its actual outcome. The notion that doing an injustice to accomplish a good is immoral is probably naive, but it is my instinct.
I think the point is not that Rust has less ceremony (it certainly has more), but that you want the “ceremony” for larger scale projects.
Holding my breath...and turning blue.
I don't care; I'm just avoiding the terminological confusion around "assault weapon" and all the noise it generates.
Seems exactly false. DALL-E 2 seems to end much of the illustrator industry and if the endless array of Twitter posts from early adopters are any indication it works great.
Quantum teleportation expands beyond neighbouring nodes
About 4 months for the version 1.0.0 - all outside of a full time job (I was really excited and spent maybe 20-30 hours per week on it maybe). Since then it's been about 3 years of intermittent work - adding features, fixing bugs.

The announcement post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992
Does Facebook have problems recruiting?
Cool thing is you don't need very good recording gear, "inexpensive gear, used well" can do wonders.

I agree those sounds are great, and I even (had) about an hour of them too, to share! but they're inaccessible right now due to a combination of disorganization and bad planning. :(

And they're all 16 track recordings, so might be unwieldy ;-)

I know next to nothing about cars, but love that one can use sound to diagnose and pinpoint problems sometimes.
> And people with non-Western, especially Moroccan or Turkish names are recognized as immigrants and automatically thought of as lower class.

Or maybe harder to communicate with?
The Tech Rout Isn’t Just Cyclical–It’s Well-Earned, and Overdue
The one that came with my Nokia (actually a nice phone) also ended up yellowing. Good thing the phone itself is almost black and it doesn't show, but I would be upset if that happened with a white phone.
> start forcing time tracking for the first time

Is it just a time sheet/app where developers track their time or is it spyware like Upwork's screen capture tracker?

Be wary of any developer who agrees to install spyware. These are either entry level developers or really crappy devs.

I have both worked as freelancer and hired freelancers. I find these spywares extremely insulting. We are not high school kids working in fast food joint. We are professionals & business owners.

As a freelancer, if a company asked if I would install spyware on my machine, it indicated that it was probably badly run company. If it was optional I would ask how many other devs had the spyware on their machines. If there were more than 1 or 2 devs, it just meant I would be working with bad devs and just declined contracts. Same if it was required. Pretty much all those companies had issues with their devs and had to scrap projects or start over.

And when I hired freelancers, if a freelancer indicated they had no problem with spyware, it set off all kinds of red flags. And every single time if I hired such developer, they were horrible and needed a lot of hand holding.
Deep Insights into Web Frameworks
Granted, but culture changes, and in fact even if you were to focus exclusively on the mental health angle, you would have to leverage changing culture to make an impact grand enough.

Qua guns, teenagers in other countries don't have easy access to concealable firearms. Dad doesn't have one, and you can't waltz into a store around the block to get one.
We really should just have a bot that automatically posts archive.ph links

It's so useful in general and also helps when the source site goes down under load.