skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "article" sucks. There are huge holes in the story. For example, it says:

"Barry Altman is ringing a tiny bell but you can't quite put your finger on it, he was the founder and CEO of Commodore USA from 2010 until his death in late 2012. He had founded Commodore USA after successfully acquiring the exclusive trademark rights to the Commodore name."

And then it quotes this Donohue saying, "After his death and the fall of CommodoreUSA I made some enquiries and managed to acquire [his] website, molds and some stock"

Nowhere in there does he claim to have acquired the trademark. Nor does the article address the obvious question: WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?

Trash.
Hmm, don’t think so. The function does not operate on a string, it seems to read a character using read() and write it back, transformed, using write(). Given that the function is named main, it’s probably the top level function anyway (from the programmer’s point of view, often the OS actually calls into a different function that is part of the language runtime, e.g. _start, which in turn calls main eventually, but that is usually hidden from the programmer).
The biggest piece of evidence of the impact hypothesis is the YBD black mat with impact proxies in it. Mega-fauna and clovis culture below the black mat and...none of it above.

As far as I know the only way to get a black mat layer with impact proxies is with an impact. For the Chicxulub impact the black mat with impact proxies was the clincher that settled the hypothesis that an asteroid wiped out the dinos.
> A 2015 study found that trayless dining decreased the percentage of diners who took salad by 65.2 percent but did not decrease the percentage who took dessert.

Seems like an important finding, and one that could cut against removing trays. Don't we want people to be eating salads?
Do good founders eat breakfast?
With regard to 3:

> In Google’s case, more than 45,000 changes are made to its monorepo every day. This code management becomes an exponential problem in overhead as the number of developers of an application grows, and the number of components within the application expands.

Speaking from experience, the overhead of code management is far less at Google than any other place I've worked at, even on projects with just a couple hundred lines of code. If this author is imagining a monorepo means each engineer having to constantly check out terabytes of code to make any change and race with other developers to merge to HEAD, they don't really understand the landscape well enough to write an article criticizing monorepos (which certainly have real cons, particularly with the source control tools that are available to most companies).

Of course, you need actual tooling and infrastructure for that beyond what git offers.
This comes to mind for me:

https://observer.com/2011/05/keith-rabois-says-great-founder...
That's a nice little trick, cheers for sharing. (Not that I'll get a chance to use it these days, but still)
But it does? Agisoft will first estimate depth maps and then project them into a voxel volume for extracting the high-resolution mesh. Debug logging even lists the voxel grid dimensions.
Nice! My wife is becoming a teacher and I already though about this as well.

There are options out there but half good build but not good or easy.
No, that's not correct. It reads the string from standard input. A C translation would look like this:

main()
{
int ch;
while ((ch = read()) != 4) {
if (ch > 0100 && ch < 0133)
ch = ch + 040;
if (ch == 015) continue;
if (ch == 014) continue;
if (ch == 011) {
ch = 040040;
write(040040);
write(040040);
}
write(ch);
}
}

A more modern C version would look like:

#include <stdio.h>

int
main(void)
{
int ch;
while ((ch = getchar()) != -1) {
if (ch > 0100 && ch < 0133)
ch = ch + 040;
if (ch == 015) continue;
if (ch == 014) continue;
// No need to handle tabstop specially
putchar(ch);
}
}
Why not? See for example N1QL used by Couchbase (a NoSQL database).

Couchbase doesn't seem to get a lot of positive feedback but I kind of like it. Flexibility of a NoSQL database combined with a powerful SQL like query language.
https://twitter.com/amilajack/status/1484970825568505856
Barbers do more than just cut hair. Their responsibilities are more complicated than safe handling of a gun, and also include tasks that could potentially harm people. The safe handling of a gun is much more straightforward.
We're working on improving our bare metal support. Once we embed a TCP/IP stack your redbean will optionally be able to run as its own autonomous operating system with the absolute lowest network latency and minimal attack surface area. It's a idea whose time has come now that everything runs under a hypervisor in the cloud. If the hypervisor is the new operating system, then it'd be nice to not need a second operating system too.
All the ACA did was help some poorer people with insurance, prevent denying accessibility to insurance, and help with "kids" up to 26 with insurance.
It's about the VSCode ecosystems becoming more and more close source to accomodate the dev env as a service strat while using the FOSS root of vscode for PR that deserved to be underlined.
bad comparison. HTML encoding inherently is incompatible with dynamic presentation of data.
Yes: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/psub.html
I thought of the privacy implications too, but I wouldn’t do anything sensitive on this like enter CC details. An on-prem browser would still be useful for more sensitive/NSFW stuff. I think Mighty caters to the tab-hoarding crowd who notice their computer fans whirring during casual surfing. I never hoard tabs and can’t understand why people do that. If something is interesting I have a bookmarklet that posts a URL to Pinboard and call it a day, and close the tab.
Better training is required, not longer training. A degree program is not the answer for everything.
The same is true for some large US based ISPs. Lot's of home users would be considered bots using this rule.
>Perovskite PV involve organic molecules - you can't make them nor to they work without these organic chemicals.

I was under the impression that perovskites were fully inorganic? That they may or may not use organic precursors in synthesis is irrelevant.

The interesting question[0] is what is the specific nature and mechanism of the failure reactions in perovskites, so that they may be mitigated or eliminated by alterations to the chemical structure of new perovskites. There is nothing trivially intrinsic about the class of materials that precludes stability.

A good comparative example where a similar problem has been reasonably overcome is with oleds, especially those of higher wavelength (higher energy photons to kick off negative reactions). Yes they might not last as long as an inorganic LED but offer other compelling advantages.

[0]That the researchers appear to be at least attempting to answer
probably because the plan is to mix it with their ML code generating tools
Before Michael Crichton wrote fiction, he was a doctor and his first book, "Five Patients", was actually an examination of different topics in healthcare in the 1960's. One topic was the massive cost increases even back then. It's a pretty interesting read too.
Rust instead
This acquisition is...unusual. I strongly suspect it's not a 10x exit. (last raised $15M in 2019: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spell )

Reddit obviously has the data for robust machine learning, but not sure how an experiments-management startup aligns with it unless it's an acquihire.
I thought the whole appeal of Reddit was community moderation and escape from algorithms.
Yes. Scaling up solar and wind is much easier. Nuclear reactors require very heavy industry (look at what's needed to forge the reactor pressure vessel of a PWR). Nuclear also requires much higher quality manufacturing. A 1% failure rate on PV modules is acceptable. A 1% failure rate on reactor components is not.

Installing wind and solar is also much easier than installing NPPs. Solar installation does not require expensive highly trained labor, again because the installations are robust to installation mistakes.
SpaceX employees denounce CEO Musk as “distraction”
Hugging Face Transformers – Big Model Inference, Bloom, GPT Neo-X, LongT5 etc.
With 50M DAU its going to be the population average, no?
Dropshipping?
I think this is a by-product of some internal dynamics. A lot of teams push staff really hard to be interview trained because they see it as a funnel to get applicants for your team. I assume they think the interviewee will tell the recruiter "oh, I heard about foo team, are there any openings there?". This has gotten worse since perf started having a citizenship component. The easiest way to get citizenship points is to interview.

The worst was when you got picked for G&L interviews (Googliness and Leadership). Nobody defines those terms, so nobody knows how to interview for them. They give us a few sample questions for people at each level, so most people just blindly pick one or two and go with those. "Tell me about a time you rallied..." is definitely on that list.

Let's be honest, for most employees interviewing was a chore, and not one that they could see the outcomes of. So of course the experiences are going to drag out and be monotonous and robotic.
To answer with a little more in depth, yes it was an mmo, but everything was above board - no gold selling or similar shenanigans.

Sometimes the profit margin was above 50% because I could source the product myself - but then it became an issue of what was my time worth and did I feel like quitting my day job which wasn't in any way stressful? I also had to consider the lifetime of an mmo, who could say how long the game would remain popular?

In hindsight, I should have gone all in and captured the whole market vertically, but then again it wouldn't have remained a side-gig that was on autopilot.

I'll probably write about it all some day, I think some people would find it interesting. I had to put a lot of hats on to make it work: developer, designer, marketer, customer support, accountant, security, ops, affiliate manager, ...
No, my hourly salary is 1/10 of that. I would still pay for the license for Sciter if I had a use for it right now, but it isn't a trivial cost.
This is indeed the relevant question. There are similar scenarios where the answer is the 100 guys, like some markets, that when organized centrally by "smart" people, they stop working.
How many years have to pass between respecting the burial sites of the dead and a scientific dig that unburies everything in the name of research?

Not judging just asking a philosophical question.
The difference between them and most YouTubers is that they came at it backwards—they understood video production before they became YouTubers.
What are your thoughts on Swift vs Rust? I’ve used Rust and another engineer showed me guard let statements from Swift, which gave me the impression they had some of the same sensibilities.
"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." Bertrand Russell
Please don't perpetuate the misuse of this phrase, which is so often used to denigrate those with expertise and desire trying so hard to pass them on.

Consider the possibility, say, in a guild context: those who can, do. They work for the guild, and do whatever the guild does. Those who can't, from age, infirmity, injury: they teach, passing on knowledge and wisdom.
We're hoping we'll be part of future threads like this one with DiffLens (https://github.com/marketplace/difflens) for language aware diffs on GitHub :) The next step for DiffLens is potentially a VSCode extension to make it easier for developers to use
I was a smoker for many years... everyone in the family smoked - father, mother, and brother. I was a dumb kid in an industrial town in Iowa - constant opportunity and social pull to consume nicotine.

After awhile I didn't want to be a smoker anymore and found a self help book - "Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking." Friends of mine suggested it, and I found a PDF and read it during a dead afternoon at work.

Instead of focusing on the "hard" trope of quitting smoking it presented it as easy - hence the title. It framed the habit for exactly what it was, a drug addiction, but it never talked harshly to you about how you became a nicotine addict or the quitting process. It focused on telling you exactly what to expect if you decide to quit, and then gave you a positive framework to help overcome the effects of quitting. The overall message was always "think of how much you're going to gain by quitting... health, money, etc."

It worked, I am no longer a nicotine addict. I don't think I would have had the capability to quit without some mental reframing which that book 100% helped me accomplish.

> That's were the focus should be, not on the people who always walked the happy path and just "worked hard". Overcoming hopeless situations, stigma, bias, ego. That's actually hard.

Agree.

There's always the "work hard" narrative and I find it's often coupled with a discrediting attitude like OP's comment. The effect of that attitude demotivates more than it helps. As cheesy as it was I found the tools to fix my nicotine addiction in a self-help book ha
Zsh Completions is a pretty good alternative for anyone using zsh.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions
This is an excellent video on the topic. https://youtu.be/u7UmGEMduI8

In short, the 4,500 year old date is based on very, very thin evidence, and much other evidence of longer timeline is simply ignored because "it's not possible".
Also as food is quite a lot of water I would imagine cooking or even heating it is not very low point of consumption either. And I don't think we are very efficient with waste heat of the process.
I really love fish and used it daily for many years. Then I started work at a new company that had an existing library of internal shell tools that weren't compatible with Fish and the effort to port them was too much.

I found that ZSH managed with OhMyZSH plugins gets me similar functionality without the syntax incompatibilities. Unfortunately unless Fish moves back towards compatibility I don't see myself ever going back, it's just too much hassle dealing with little syntax issues all the time.
From my link above:

"Research published in 2012 has shown that the so-called "black mats" are easily explained by typical earth processes in wetland environments.[e][96] The study of black mats, that are common in prehistorical wetland deposits which represent shallow marshlands, that were from 6000 to 40,000 years ago in the southwestern USA and Atacama Desert in Chile, showed elevated concentrations of iridium and magnetic sediments, magnetic spherules and titanomagnetite grains. It was suggested that because these markers are found within or at the base of black mats, irrespective of age or location, they probably arise from processes common to wetland systems and not as a result of catastrophic bolide impacts"

As for, "For the Chicxulub impact the black mat with impact proxies was the clincher that settled the hypothesis that an asteroid wiped out the dinos." the black mats in YDIH are completely distinct from the global KT boundary, not comparable. And the shocked quartz, crater rim, gravity anomaly, expected spherulite distribution around the world, and myriad other pieces of evidence at the Chicxulub site that lined up with the KT bound based on multiple time estimation techniques (as well as much, much better fit with observed extinction patterns in existing biota).
How would you characterize their current incentives?
Isovalent Open Sources Tetragon, eBPF-Based Observability Platform
Haha. I would guess that >95% of NET developers have no idea what you are even talking about.

This really seems like the recurring bubble where posters on HN somehow things that a large majority of the industry is hitting F5 on HN while they are instead busy doing actual work.
Or months. What's the chart say is the earliest/longest recovery time?
That's terrifying. The healthcare issue with the US is what seriously makes me want to live in Europe, at least to try it. The thought of your whole life falling apart just because you need medical care is horrible. I'm living the double-software-engineer-income, no kids life with my partner, and even then I think a major medical issue would be life changing. As a risk-averse person, the US feels like a place to get high rewards as a SWE, but there are massively high risks that don't get talked about often enough.
I agree that training is a good thing when dealing with people who hold power or responsibility over others - armed or not.

I would imagine that many people don't see it as a huge issue given that 25+ states don't require training to carry a gun in public; that school children are also in the public areas where those people carry; and that there are exceptionally few issues with those carrying a gun legally, even more so in the context of school children being affected. Add to that the idea that if a teacher can't be trusted/responsible with a weapon around a child (responsibility could include choosing not to carry if they don't feel competent), then they probably don't have the trust/responsibility necessary to be a teacher in general.

The predominate threat of guns to children is that they gain unsupervised access to one. I imagine/hope that a large part of the training focuses on that. No leaving it in a purse/desk/etc.
Who holds the canonical unix repo?
I agree with you, but the obvious retort is that altruism is "just" one possible medium-to-long term emergent strategy whose purpose is to ensure the survival of your genetic material. :)
Ukraine now has killer robots with machine guns
I mentioned this before in HN, will mention again.
There is definitely something about vasodilation and hair growth/mobility, especially when it comes to in-grown facial hair.

If you have in-grown hairs, take Viagra once and they'll start coming out in a few hours on their own or with minimal mechanical force. The effect continues for a day or two so I am sure even the secondary metabolites might be somewhat active in inducing this effect.
@OP you should reach out to my local University and its Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) here in PEI, Canada.

https://www.upei.ca/avc/research
juice is not worth the squeeze
I've thought about selling my code snippet for handling payments on something like Gumroad or similar. However, it's not a great solution since people still need to sign up somewhere and then install add-on. Plus they need to subscribe on stripe with their same email that the add-on will use (since the code grabs their email programmatically). As I'm thinking through this, there could be ways to mitigate some of these issues but who knows!

There is someone that built something similar but for browser extensions (https://extensionpay.com/).
Acquihire.

"Our next challenge is to apply what we’ve built to improve the user experience for redditors"

"we’ll no longer be signing up new commercial customers to the Spell service"

https://spell.ml/blog/spell-joins-reddit-YqtKRhEAACMAgbU9
Panchan: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet
Try Yoga Nidra. This might help. There are a Lot of videos on How to do this on youtube.
As a person with ADHD: I get very easily distracted if the tempo of a video is low. I use the “Video Speed Controller” browser extension to run most videos at 1.5 to 2x speed.
Selling at the bottom is...difficult to empathize with.
You can say "We'd need something that emulates the Windows ABI like Wine does" and you will get a misinformed person derailing the discussion.

You can explain your tinc mesh setup, but as soon as you call it "VPN" some people will believe its some sort of proxy to hide your IP address while watching porn.

You can explain how PHP interacts with the server environment, but as soon as you call it "Server API", some people will think its a machine-consumable REST/Json/Xml service or sth like that.

This generates many landmines you might step onto. Sometimes you need to argue total nonsense to work around these people. Painful. So yeah you are right, but it doesnt solve the Problem.
> I felt good! The next step was in sight: a test of the drug in humans, to see if we actually saw the blood levels of cyclosporine that I expected we would. We had contracted with a CRO in the Netherlands and were raising the $1+ million needed to actually carry out the test when – pop! – the biotech markets imploded. Suddenly, investors literally stopped returning my (and everyone else’s) emails.

That sounds like a Phase 1 trial for safety in human volunteers. If the plan was to sell the IP to or partner with a major Pharma, maybe this could work. But the IP situation may not be that clear-cut with a drug repurposing, especially given this:

> This is still a tall order for a guy whose background was, again, science blogger. But things went surprisingly ok, all things considered. I linked up with an excellent corporate attorney and patent attorney, both of whom agreed to let me use their services on a pay later basis. ...

You really can't do this on the cheap.

People in tech (or even science broadly) trying to get into the drug industry frankly have no clue about what it actually takes to get a drug approved for humans in the US. Hundreds of millions are table stakes. The bar is higher than just about any other industry for new product introduction, even for a repurposing.

Even if the bear market had stayed in hibernation for another year or two, the fundamental problem is that human drug approval is a massive resource drain that requires very deep pockets and an ironclad IP position.

Failure (after massive expenditure) should be considered the base case.
> ...to be read as "63% percent of Americans".

> The 100M in the title is extrapolated, and is likely correct,

What's the problem with their comment, exactly?
Primarily for ads I would guess.
I'm running fish for at least 8 years now and I'm very happy with the out of the box experience. It's one of the first things I install on new machines.
It looks like A53 was announced in October 2012, but I’ve found no indication of whether the design was actually finished by then [0]. And remember that ARM just sells IP and other companies are responsible for manufacturing it; it doesn’t look like anyone actually produced A53 cores until 2015 [1] — whereas Apple was shipping actual consumer products with A7’s in them by October 2013.

[0]: https://www.techspot.com/news/50656-arm-announces-64-bit-cor...

[1]: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures...
They see 'estimated earnings' which is a combination of tip+base service fees, but obviously the higher the tip the better the 'estimated earnings'
I wonder how much of this is left over from the days of straight shaves and teeth pulling based on the lobbying of the schools.
These are fantastic. Thank you! I can't imagine how in the world that person in Trio Mocoto played the melody on that instrument. Mind-blowing.

As an aside, I recently heard on the radio a cover of this by Art Garfunkel, which may be one of the worst things I've heard. As you may expect, he mananged to strip all of the life out of the song, which made me sad.
It used to be, but the push for monetization has poisoned that well. I don't know what comes after reddit but I'm keeping my eyes and ears open.

Had a reddit recruiter reach out to me recently looking for engineering leadership for their upcoming product road map. What's in: ads, influencers, crypto, NFTs. What's not in: improving the core feature set of reddit like community management, curation, search, or user interface/experience.

Hard pass, and a bad sign of what's to come.
I signed up for the waitlist! I noticed it asked about AWS, Azure, and GCP but we use Heroku. Hopefully, that won't put me too low on the list.

Do you have a sense for when people can try it? Most of our app is reads and we're using Rails + Redis and it's fine and sometimes a pain. Would love to try it.
We just added the ability to automate DNS management with NextDNS using Pipedream - https://pipedream.com/apps/nextdns/