skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They take a long time to build, but they can be destroyed very quickly.

I agree with the vast majority of what you've shared, but this one is a bit trickier.

Reputations can be destroyed quickly, but it isn't normal or easy for them to be destroyed quickly. Someone can end up in the press for something flagrant, sure, but usually what happens is that the people that have seen your work first hand may hear of a lapse of judgement or a flub with technology, raise their eyebrows a bit, and think to themselves "that's not the person I know, but I'll keep an eye out for next time."

A certain degree of humble appreciation for our shared fallibility is a marker of maturity. I've had the opportunity to be both gracious and the receiver of grace in situations like this, and I don't think the message we should be sharing with younger software developers is one that would inspire paranoia. Treat others as you would want to be treated, even when it hurts, and the rest will work itself out even if you mess up here or there is a better orientation to adopt in my opinion.
...if you get it in front of the right people.

I have tried to do this twice over the past ten years. The first time was in equity research. It was actually easier for me to start a business myself than get people hiring to just look at my work casually. And when it came up, almost always suspicion: why are you doing this? Is this legal? Actually showing interest was almost regarded as negative (in one of my last interviews, I remember turning up with a deck that I had deliberately made look amateurish..."best research I have seen"...but we don't hire grads...I had a subsequent interview with the same guy in which I pitched a stock that doubled in the next six months to give him the hard sell, I knew the idea was good, I knew it would double, he said he didn't invest in the industry because he lost money in that sector once in the 90s...I stopped looking for jobs in finance after that).

Largely the same experience in tech (but worse, in tech you find that people are more prone to invent reasons to say no, in finance people said no but told you...in tech, they will say "you don't have experience in X"...as if the tech is going to exist in five years, like what is going to happen when no-one uses X anymore, lol).

So you have to work outside interviews, once people get into that scenario they are looking to say no (and you will need to hard sell). Things that you think would be important aren't. Spending your time doing something useful is less important that more visible, arbitrary factors (get a degree from X, look like a Y, be friends with Z). It is actually easier to do your own thing than get hired this way (and btw, for some people this road to nowhere will suck the joy out of it...I loved investing, I researched stocks when I had no money to invest but the experience of putting years into it with the hope of work and getting nothing...it felt like being suffocated by a parent).

Btw, my experience is based on doing this for ten years across tech and finance. It was a very hard lesson for me because I believe heavily in presenting people with choices/information...this isn't how most people work. You have to bring the horse to water, and then force its head in the trough, the horse won't drink itself.

...I will offer positive advice too: use your personal identity. I didn't because of a family issue, and it really hurt down the line. I got a job, had to shut down what I was doing before, came back...had to start from zero. People should have a name and a face to put on you (unf, this will hurt some people who don't look the right way...it isn't fair).
yea. i do on most of my YOU-related posts but forgot here.
At the time I attended, the CS department at my school was still a subset of theoretical math. So my classmates nearly all were polite, if shy, math majors. If it was more oriented towards the brogrammer culture, I’m not sure I would’ve stuck with it either
Not trying to underscore this incredible achievement, but I'm curious if we could use AI techniques to upscale the Hubble images to achieve similar results as the Webb telescope. Has this been tried before?
I run a mobile app agency like you and we do pretty well selling GaSaaS.

I'm a developer but have studied sales quite a lot over the last 10 years. The most important thing I learned is to find clients that fit you really well when it comes to skills, culture and budget.

To do this you have to give a shit and not be afraid to ask potentially off-putting questions. Stuff like:

"Are you sure you want to build this app, your business case doesn't add up so why bother?"

"Can you demonstrate you're in this for the long haul? There's no joy in building an app that fails, which is what happens if you don't budget to iterate your app."

"How come you don't hire freelancers or contractors, it will cost you less?"

Obviously I ask nicer questions too, but these are good "give a shit enough to risk losing the sale" kind of questions.
What are you expecting to see exactly? Aliens?
I'd argue that the old-school criterium for a "successful" Pixar movie was that it needed to be great, not just good.
Parts of what I do are quantifiable and I've highlighted that (deals won, etc) but lately we've been struggling due to the quality of the product and strides being made in the industry. Definitely not an excuse but it's made winning deals more difficult. For example, we are trying to enter the SaaS space but it is a new space for us and we're losing deals due to it.

On the product side is where I think I am struggling most to articulate things. In its current state, it's an MVP and we're pushing an investment case. The software is strong (and actually really cool) but we're still trying to get our first sale made.
You're right in that the term Hellenes appears later, however it is worth noting that there was still some sense of collective identity, even that far back, as evidenced by the tribes coming together when facing external threats (e.g. the Persians, or even against Troy in the Iliad), common language, culture, competitions that everyone participated in, etc. etc.
BMW is now charging $18 per month for heated seats in some countries
I would argue that this is more about the departure / firing of John Lasseter then a side effect of Disney. Lasseter's mandate was to rescue Disney animation, and while Pixar went down a bit, it very clearly re-emerged for a while.

Where Disney is now is more about destroying the parks as cultural touchstones in the USA.
The industry is not dying, it's returning to its former prosumer/pro territory, and in that section it's very much surviving. Prosumer may even be thriving.
> The erratic scheduling and the "cut" shifts were a feature, not a bug, we were told. It kept employees from getting a second job that they might dare prioritize over their current job.

I always suspected that this was the reason for abusive retail scheduling. Thanks for confirming my suspicion. This should be illegal.
> overturning abortion

More accurately, the US Supreme Court returned the situation in the US to the status quo in most advanced countries: regulating abortion as a legislative matter, not a “right.” It did what the EU Court of Human Rights has repeatedly done in declining to recognize a “right” to elective abortions,[1] that can override legislation. A putative right that, 100 years from now, may well be seen alongside eugenics (alongside which it originated) as a mistaken wrong turn in the arc of progress.

[1] In a series of cases, most recently RR v. Poland, the EHCR has declined calls to overturn Poland’s near ban on abortions, deciding them on narrow grounds that the government had prevented abortions that were legal under exceptions to Polish law. It has gone only so far as to suggest there is a right in case of risk to maternal life.
Very nice description. Thanks for your time and effort.
I am canceling my BMW heated seat subscription over the warmer months.
Interesting, do you have a reference? I'd say it affects my theory a lot, haha
You should be paid for those extra 20 on-call hours.
Psilocybin Microdosing Study: Improved Mental Health and Psychomotor Performance
The last two jobs I've got have been where they contacted me after seeing some code/writing/work I published or spoke about in public.

I've been careful about contracts to ensure that I can continue publishing my own stuff (even if there's overlap with work related stuff) on my own time - publishing semi regularly is a pretty solid hedge against future long term unemployment.
I don’t remember being able to do ANYTHING with a locked dumbphone, apart from answer calls.
Rat investigation reminds me of that one Love, Death + Robots episode. Very industrious little guys.
Not something compiling to WASM. Nor something compiling to JVM Bytecode.
Had very similar experiences. Setup QR readers for a convention where users could scan for our website and a text bot... Absolute disaster, on both accounts.
I think it's very unlikely twitter gets $44 billion. More likely elon will pay a fine or negotiate a lower price.
> To stop seeing the world as purely an evil constructed on the mass graves of the innocent. Even if it were true (and in some sense it is) this is still the world we have. [...] To be sure, some things can be done, within a generation or two. Maybe three. But after a while, what's done is done and you have to move on.

Putting aside the rhetorical tools you're discussing, what would you say to people who currently feel the effects of these historical, and contemporary oppressions? People with unwanted pregnancies who find themselves unable to access abortions, African-Americans who are descended from families that were unable to purchase property they would have been able to afford due to redlining and are thus at a disadvantage, Gen X Jews whose parents were denied entry to elite schools and whose families thus suffered economically, gay and trans people who are currently, in the US, facing a government that has all but stated it wants to eliminate even the tenuous hold on legal existence they have?

I am all for telling people to find the good in the world. There is a lot of it! But some of these negative phenomena that sociologists describe have real consequences for real people in the present day, and I don't really see how "just stop thinking about it" is a solution for them.
> Just like how it pretends Taiwan isn't a country

That's because it really isn't. It really should be, but a) they don't really claim to be one (until recently they officially claimed they're the "one and only" China, same as the PRC) and according to polls most people there support that status quo; b) nobody of note recognises them to be.. anything really. As far as most of the world, including the UN, are concerned, Taiwan is the losers of the Chinese Civil war that have some limited exceptions (like performing at Olympics). Contrast this with Kosovo who claim to be an independent country and are somewhat recognised.
In the US, too, it seems like there's a high amount of empty commercial/industrial real estate. Zoning keeps it from being usable by anything else.

I also often wonder if something like a hybrid employee owned business+occupant owned housing could ever be bootstrapped. Something to function like a small village in the modern era/larger surrounding. But that wouldn't just be a hippy/cult commune.
Dude RKE is not the keyless you think, your probably thinking of passive keyless. This is pressing your LOCK/UNLOCK button, and if you have buttons on your FOB than you have this issue.
AOL/Time Warner

(Time Warner was the acquired company.)
> But god forbid you raise the point that perhaps we need a political shift that removes some power from corporations and restores it to labor, you get painted as socialized nazi commie scum or whatever. It's so insane and frustrating just how good a lock these businesses have on the situation (Don't even get me started on Walmart et all).

To rational people this should be a no brainer. turns out a lot of people are not rational. the current system is not tenable in my opinion.
U.S. News, the root of all evil (2012)
For STEM applications, nothing beats Mathpix OCR.

FB Research uses it, London Stock Exchange uses it, Chegg uses it (in fact even recently transitioned to Mathpix OCR from Google vision), and many, many other companies and individuals.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
Hey, I’m kinda new to this area, can you show with examples what the differences are? I read the article, he does a lot of explaining but doesn’t do much showing. Like why is a specific api more RPC and why a different one is a perfectly constructed REST api?
> High-action environments demand super low-latency, high-resolution viewfinders. No mirrorless I've handled so far can keep up with an optical SLR. And the crummy digital viewfinders make low-light manual focus into a painful chore.

For low latency maybe it's now feasible to use a 30fps or 60fps motor drive (aka video camera) all the time? And I thought AF systems now work well enough that MF is just for use with old lenses with no AF.
I've spent a lot of my career doing A/B testing, including doing that role exclusively for a number of years. I specialize in ecommerce, so maybe I have too narrow of a view here, but in that vast majority of cases, I am optimizing for revenue per visitor, which is a function of conversion rate and average order value. There are sometimes leading indicators like engagement, but in ecommerce, you're afforded the luxury of basing things on revenue or even bottom line.

I really don't like the positioning of ALL A/B testing as unethical behavior where you're hostilely trying to take advantage of a user. It's quite the opposite. There are a lot of extremely poor user experiences out there and a quality testing program can help improve user experiences, remove risk from making sweeping changes, and help you learn more about your audience and market.

The vast majority of the successful testing I've done is done around trying to HELP users navigate the site and product catalog, understand the product, and purchase the product. Attention spans are fleeting with online shopping and even the smallest points of confusion or friction can turn shoppers off.

Additionally, often times I'll read into test results after a month or so to see if there were any issues with orders that might indicate purchases from disinterested people or misaligned expectations.
As someone that dated an Atlantic contributor (as well as her being the senior editor over at The Walrus, Canada's answer to The New Yorker) I can very clearly give you an answer here:

The Atlantic is great, but it is in no league with The New Yorker. I wouldn't have called it "dumbed down" but it's still not as sharp and that is ok. The world appreciates both.
Twitter sues Elon Musk to hold him to $44B merger
In my math it's a $210 annual delta.
Recent Plasma Desktop lets you show a network QR code right from the right-click context menu.
Finding and reporting bugs in software you use is a good start.

Better yet is fixing those bugs and opening pull requests.

Or just mining the bugtracker to fix bugs other users encountered.

Its a solid place to start - getting known as a useful contributor to a handful of projects can work wonders.
Grace and Grace-FO Satellites
Well.. Tuscany, Apulia, Lombardy, Sicily, Sardinia, Piedmont. Where did you find that regions don't get translated?
recently had to implement malloc in an interview, this would be handy
“Site:aliexxpress.com bmw heated seat unlocker”
Twitter Sues Elon Musk over Attempt to Walk Away from $44B Deal
AI upscaling works if you want a prettier picture, but not if you want to actually know more. AI can't magically conjure information that isn't there, so if you upscale it has to invent details to fill in. Which is fine for some use cases, but not for science or truth-finding.
Life lessons from books I read
The real disclaimer should perhaps be that this stuff is something that's still being worked on wrt. production use, just like many other kinds of PL research. Once it's ready, Rust will probably be in a very good position to adopt these features.
Oh, thank you that makes sense. And due to the folding of the mirror and launch envelope constraints they can't equally space the three struts such that ALL are inside the diffraction of the hexagonal mirror.
Frankly, we still don't.

It amazes me how many interesting private (never published) ideas is in any proprietary codebase that had high-caliber engineers working on it.
I'm convinced that cybersecurity is impossible. Any entity with the resources and command over talent and determination is capable of defeating any counter measures in the long run.

It's like trying to fill up a bucket but by the time you find the hole and patch it, another one appears constantly, leading to exhaustion.

Perhaps with AI we can drastically lower the cost of this exhaustive effort but so can the other side, employing AI to increase the cost.

It would be like a never ending tug of war that just ends up taking up more and more resources, sort of like the nuclear arms race of the 60s which was only curtailed by both sides agreeing to commonly beneficial compromises.
Please don't let apple block this proposal like they did for browsers. We don't have tail calls because apple decided they couldn't be bothered to implement it.
I'm talking about running week or month long tests with control and multi test cells containing new functionality, configuration, or code to determine the viability of a single or combination of changes by analyzing statistical output driven by p-value and pre-determined target metrics.

These types of experiments are extremely valuable in uncovering hard-to-find bugs, assuming you have sufficient logging and confidence around your metrics. They let you know a problem exists and roughly where it is in the product. From there you can drill down and investigate your source code until the discrepancy is found.
Read Walpola Rahula's "What the Buddha Taught". You will know how far deviated incense burning and bowing to pictures are from Buddha's teaching.

Buddhism is a very rational philosophy. If you study Buddhism in the light of it being a protest against established thiestic, ritualistic religion in India, these will start making much more sense.

As far as McMeditation is from Buddhism, the same is true for regular people worshipping Buddha like a god.

Religion might have democratic elements, but truth isn't democratic.
The famous Munger, Buffet, Graham adage is to only invest in a quantity that you understand, with the implication being that you understand how its operations are going to make you money. Munger might also advise against investing in internet companies that are difficult to distinguish from crypto projects. You can, of course, due to your misunderstanding call something nothing when it is really something, and thereby miss out on the windfall. But the other adage of the Munger, Buffet, Graham school of investing is that there are no called strikes in investing.
Squirrels don't always bury nuts. They will drop them into a convenient narrow opening. You may be able to exploit this behavior if you have, say, a walnut tree. Drive a vertical pipe into the ground, let the squirrels drop their nuts into it, then take the pipe and the nuts. You effectively have gotten the squirrels to harvest the nuts for you (with some inefficiency).

On the other hand... squirrels can also carry disease. Around here it is not unknown for them to carry bubonic plague.
Sure you could try, but without getting real higher fidelity photos you’d never know how realistic the synthetic images are.
Tailwind is not part of Fastify DX.

It's just part of the starter template, through unocss.

unocss goes beyond what Tailwind does. it's general CSS processing engine and provides quick access to some rather essential goodies, like an icon set. I think it's a worthy addition to the starter template, but easy to remove. Literally remove one import and a vite.config.js plugin entry.
Most admiration is silent, whereas criticism is loud.

When people see something disagreeable online, they tend to interact (leave snarky comments).

When people see something neat? They go "neat" to themselves, and often don't comment.

Hence the somewhat common engagement hack where people post semi controversial takes to generate engagement.
So this here is why when people say "there's no nuclear industry conspiracy" I call bullshit. There absolutely was a nuclear industry conspiracy, and that conspiracy was to produce reactors that are complementary to nuclear weapons programs.

Part of the draw of thorium and some other options is that are anywhere from difficult to nearly impossible to weaponize, but they were ignored because they didn't support the Arms Race. The narrative and the precedents were set around a losing strategy.

Not unlike how some people think that the Space Shuttle fucked the space program, because it elevate pilots above progress. Neither is as simple as that, but these choices had huge and long lasting consequences, and I wonder where we would be if we had decided not to choose and we had pursued both.
I don't agree, sorry to say:

1. If your work sucks, the criticism and reputational damage may make it worse than having not published at all.

2. Even if it's good, its unlikely that you will get enough traction for it to matter

3. the 'right people' are inundated with pitches, the odds they care what you have to say are tiny, and trying more times will not help of you're on the wrong track to begin with.
I just tried ordering, it is sold out.
"Above all, no zealotry."
--Talleyrand
I don't have any, and try to avoid taking on any new ones. They add up quickly.

For hosting I use GitHub pages. No vpn. Free Dropbox plan. YouTube for videos and music. Might buy a few months of Xbox Game Pass if there a bunch of games to play.

OTOH the amount I've lost via index funds this year outweighs the cost of all these subscriptions many times over, so you do you :P
Interesting, my trip through there a few weeks ago was smooth and the crowds were minimal (US to Europe connecting in FRA).
Python 3.11 may be delayed
It's too late for both possibilities.

The only way Elon pays less money is if it's a settlement in which he does not get ownership of Twitter. (or wins the lawsuit)
so basically passwords are useless on these CPUs? What can we do? Use playstation 2 hardware to run linux?
me omw to go demand that people call us The United States of America in spanish instead of estados unidos

like if people really gonna apply this standard they better do it consistently.
everything everywhere all at once
Lead acid batteries are widely available, cost effective and have an extremely good safety profile. Getting similar capacity from lithium ion batteries is expensive, and the failure modes are quite nasty in comparison (nobody wants a high capacity lithium ion battery that undergoes thermal runaway, and yes, lipo helps). Maybe that will change over time as better battery chemistries are developed. Lead acid batteries have been around for ages and are well understood. I agree that if you're cycling your batteries, li-ion chemistries have advantage, but lead acid are great for standby use in UPSes.
Glad it was smooth for you. Are they still doing the line down the outside of the terminal to check people in or have the reduction in flights kept that from being needed?
The entire service industry is based on this manipulation.
Conservative towns have had tough jobs for decades and we're better aligned and more stable than many liberal towns who desire for easier jobs.

Sometimes it's better for people to suck it up and tough it out.