skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Learning to vectorize a raster is something that can be done in a weekend with Inkscape, there's no reason to involve an actual graphics designer with this anymore.

If you lined up 100 resulting images, 99 from weekend beginners and 1 from an actual artist. I guarantee you that you would pick out the artist every time.

It might be simple to trace over an image but you are probably better getting an artist to spend 2 hours on it, it will most likely look better than 2 weeks of tracing.
Getting from rooms full of vacuum tubes to surface mount technology (SMT) on a postage stamp sized pcb is a good example of it. And we're doing the same thing with quantum computing today, since when most of quantum computing concepts were developed, there was no possible way for them to be developed into actual machines. Now we have several variant solutions all vying to be the one that first realizes the concepts usefully.

Also, propellers are really just very short but wide screws with all the extraneous weight removed. I don't know why they don't get discussed as such for this use case.
Coming wave of opioid overdoses ‘will be worse than ever been before’
The author is being obtuse. They mean that clones have been made of those projects that include malicious code.

It's like if I make a copy of the New York Times website but replace the cover image with nudity and put it on a different URL and someone tweets "omg NYT has nudity on the front page" and clarifies, vaguely, 10 tweets down that it was actually not the real NYT but a clone.

I'm not convinced that the author is spinning it this way on purpose (ie for maximum emotional effect / retweets / internet points) or if it just comes from being too close to the subject matter, but it's pretty misleading either way.
Write some Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey scripts as a hobby and forget Node, and insecure npm. Forget $frameworkOfTheWeek and just hack.
Sarcasm loses its fun if one is obligated to add /s tags to everything.
For states like California where it is legal, can you only buy Teslas directly?
I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but the answer to your question depends on your analysis of the problem.

If you're an ecomodernist, who believes we can stop and reverse the transgression of planetary boundaries (climate change, biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, ocean acidification, etc.) without any meaningful system changes, the sibling comment tips might help.

If you are, like me, unconvinced by the ecomodernist argument – and have a grasp on all of the different ways the environment is being destroyed (not just "climate"), know Jevons paradox and rebound effects, are up to speed with the empirical knowledge of decoupling rates of both energy and material flows compared to "safe" limits – then "working for climate" almost exclusively means working to bring about a big political change.

Unfortunately that limits quite a bit the income potential of the work, but for me that's what "working for climate" means.
Broadcom seems to generally have issues with open-source.

It’s one of the reasons OpenWRT has poor support for Broadcom SoCs and Broadcom WiFi-controllers, and in general Broadcom-based devices are shunned in the OpenWRT community.

It seems to be a company-wide thing.
NNTP wasn't a thing until 1986
You don't have to hire all of them, You just have to raise the market rate and raise everyone's expectations. That's all.
The more money you got, the more you can manipulate the market.

Its the inefficiencies of the first price auction.
Basically working with code manipulating a couple dozen GB of data and then keeping a couple dozen copies of that to examine it after various stages of manipulation.
I think that php has some weird disk usage behaviour that makes running Wordpress in a docker environment slow. I don’t know exactly what it is but I would say it is a weird behaviour of php anyway.
I know the following makes some assumptions based on evidence that does not exist at present, and may never turn up even if does exist, and may never exist at all. It's just my speculative thoughts on the situation and I'm not assuming anyone did anything... This is all as hypothetical to me as the Nazi's developing nukes in WW2. It's just a 'what if' type of thought.

Given the current tensions and military exercises, and lacking additional information to make decisions on, I can't help but wonder. Deliberate top down order and denial is an option, non-state individuals hacking or doing it as an inside job is possible, but it also could have been China... and if it was then its quite interesting. If there was enough technical proof this would be a nice textbook example of an offensive cyber-warfare psy-op. It has excellent social and political plausible deniability based on established elements, puts a time relevant psy-op relevant message into a targeted area in a way that gets the message in front of many people to achieve the desired psy-op goals. Pretty impressive and well executed if this is the case.
About transport - we can always switch to greener alternatives. Forbid oil-based flying, and the need to travel will bring new solutions.

Plastic is a crap and poison from the time of manufacture, not enhancement of quality of life. There is nothing (except medical equipment maybe) positive about it.
Holy cow, I really didn't read into the MPCI interface enough. Some of the capabilities mentioned in the docs are impressive regardless of system, let alone an embedded real time one...
It might if you're really good at making money and really bad at climate stuff, but your donation enabled people who are actually impactful to work on it. At an extreme, a finance person's salary could pay for a dozen good teachers who could go on to inspire hundreds to work more directly in climate, vs that finance person trying to become an educator themselves (if education isn't their skill or desire).

But yes, we don't have a good system for quantifying those differences in individual effectiveness per career path across society.
People drink coffee in cars all the time without straws. It's perfectly fine with just a lid and a small opening.

Drinks with takeaway food here have been using that style of cup for years now.
Something I've never understood about these pivots from successful, revenue generating products. Sure, some users will leave Instagram for Tiktok. But isn't it a different product? Wouldn't Meta have been better off creating a new product and integrating it with Instagram, rather than killing the golden goose?

This kind of thing seems to happen really often.
Like a Zestimate?
I'd rather have the manufacturer decide. They should know more about the reliability of their own device than a consumer possibly could.

I have a Samsung SSD. How do I know how much to overprovision? 100Mb? 200Mb? 1000Mb?? How would I know?

When they sell an SSD as, say, 2Tb but then I'm expected to assign 20Gb of that just for reliability, that's materially worse than a drive that advertises 2Tb but doesn't count the overprovisioning. But they're both advertised as 2Tb.

If they're selling a 2Tb drive, it should work as a (reliable) 2Tb drive.

Just like hard drives that manage bad blocks themselves.
You’re not wrong but there has been a big shift in the Indian tech education scene the last couple of years. All these startups raised an insane amount of money and are suddenly hungry for product-focused talent.

The average Indian engineer used to aspire for consulting jobs (think TCS, Infosys) since product-focused jobs were so few. Now their goal is to get a job at a startup.

Consequently, the tech stack and skills they’re learning is entirely different. Not .NET and Java but React and Rust and UX design.

I really think the quality and type of Indian engineering talent you will see in the next 5 years will be radically different. The market has shifted drastically.
>A large number of stores around me, including some grocery stores, no longer take cash.

That's illegal where I live (New York City).

I have no interest in outing/doxxing you, but if you'd care to share where you live, I'd love to know where that is -- so I can make sure never to go there.
Thanks for this. It's not just the interview process either, it's the entire industry which works against utilizing decent developers. If we really needed more decent developers, we've got thousands of companies pushing them into management, obtuse hiring practices and wades of middlemen to account for.
I mean I get it. I've read the GNU manifesto when it was fresh and nodded along.

But the adult thing is that 90% of the freedom to be had is outside of computers. The total calculus might very well give you more freedom if you go full Apple in 2022 compared to many of the other options.
What percentage of authentic (human clicked, human viewed) web traffic do you think mobile is? It is no longer 2008.
>"excels other large language models"

It's also good that its announcement excels at having a grammatically correct subtitle.
PogPrice – Your Price Manager
If you want to keep and compare product prices saved on your device, then check out this app!
> A ton of people I’m know made some seriously impulsive moves into houses way out in the middle of nowhere thinking this will last

I've seen it too, and I was really surprised because a house is a 5+ year commitment, and it wasn't (and still isn't) clear WFH will be commonplace that far out.
Because they don't care? They're an ad company and seem more interested in their bottom line than what users feel about their services or having a consistent portfolio. I think right now they're trying to ensure tik-tok doesn't eat their lunch by promoting shorts, whilst also still trying to get youtube to make a profit.

I can't think of a single google service they offer that I really like, they all kind of suck in a variety of interesting ways.
This just in: Developer discovers quirks of floating point numbers, declares outrage.
People who spend it before it gets inflated but yes you are right, if everyone is posting sell orders and nobody is picking those up then the Bolivar will plummet vs Bitcoin.
> If you don't want to learn new things, buy one big server. I just pray it doesn't go down for you

You are taking this a bit too literally. The article itself says one server (and backups).
So "one" here just means a small number not literally no fallback/backup etc. (obviously... even people you disagree with are usually not morons)
Pray tell how your threat model would handle this: https://xkcd.com/538/
Why is the creator the only one that needs to be happy? I assume they created that project to be used by others and to possibly monetize it. That sounds more like the users / clients are the ones that are supposed to like it...

I never understood this logic, where the creator of something does something seemingly stupid and people are like "Well, don't use their project then if you don't like it". Instead of constructively calling the problem out, so the creator can try to make it better.

If my logo sucked, I'd like people to please tell me...
It's just a mask, and since we have data that shows that they work, you should just put one on without anyone asking you.

Just do this small irrelevant thing and move on with you life, caring a bit about others doesn't really take much effort. I reserve my desire to rebel for actual tyranny.
Ask HN: How can I improve my team's approach to internal testing?
Hey everyone,

I'm an engineer at a company that’s building a SaaS product. We use the product internally as it serves as a productivity tool for some use cases we have. A byproduct of this is that we are always internally testing, like running our own testing sessions for new features/versions or just using it internally to do our work.

When we internally test features we document findings through a Confluence page and then export everything to Jira. If we find an issue in something unrelated to what we are testing then it’s likely we don’t know where it should go. This is the same for when we just use the product ourselves, for example, I end up just not sharing problems because I want to save myself from the hour-long Slack rabbit hole that it puts me in.

I’m keen to know if there’s a way I can make this better for my team or the company as a whole. Or if there are any other ways we can go about assuring quality before releases.

FYI we don’t have QAs, developers are expected to handle that part. We also have automated tests but we still find issues when we take a manual approach, ofc depending on the size of the change.

I would appreciate any and all feedback! Thank you.
Greed... the primary motive behind NFTs.

What a shame, Pearson has gobbled up great publishers such as Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall - and, amazingly, also the German "M&T - Markt und Technik", which was known in Germany in the 1980/90's as "Müll und Tonne" - "Garbage and Bin"...
Yet Asians earn more than all other ethnic groups, even the “mildly” discriminated whites, and Asians are far from a small population amongst those applying to these schools. This is another reason why picking and choosing admissions by race or even just test scores is nonsense.

Create a minimum criteria to succeed in a program and simply randomly choose the students from that pool is a reasonable solution that avoids much of the discriminatory issues and likely results in a more diverse student body.
I feel the commit data could be extended to include some metadata that isn’t used to compute the hash. GitHub could then make use of this data to populate whatever.

(Not sure if such a field already exists in the commit blob)
Wain: WebAssembly implementation from scratch in Safe Rust with 0 dependencies
Thank you. I feel pretty lonely having this view myself. Hearing it from someone else at least makes me feel more confident that it's everyone else who is slightly nuts and not me.
I think this is a great idea, and probably sqlite bigger sibling PostgreSQL adopts it one day.
So, in essence you want a language that will tell the AI what to do? A programming language, if I may say so?

It's almost if that natural language thing is highly ambiguous which is why we needed to create a new grammar to give precise instructions for machine-driven processes.
Peak click bait
that song sounds good tho. but the lyrics are sad. huh, an apt comparision in more than one way
Very informative, thanks for sharing. I guess one of the assumptions behind this is the overall economy is good so the private companies can raise funding easily without going public. Emm but on a second thought, it shouldn't matter when economy is good as companies can always raise funding easily no matter from private equality or public, vice versa, companies may find challenging to raise money when economy is downturn no matter from private or public. So, maybe what you mentioned are the main reasons.
> Greed is the central axis around which capitalist economic activity is oriented.

It's hyperbolic, but yeah self-interest is a pretty good approximation for behavior of all living organisms. Powerful natural forces like self-interest should be utilized to produce a good outcome, but they don't guarantee a good outcome just by being powerful. Jealousy and hate are powerful forces too.

For capitalism to work, many supporting structures are required. One is information symmetry. If you have to drive 10h and speak with a sales rep for 1h before you learn the price, you don't have a free market. Aside from this being deceitful and false advertising, it introduces economic inefficiencies in the most basic sense. All efforts that bring transparency are to be saluted.
Abolish the PhD (2016)
The effect of deduplication is mostly related to reducing regurgitation of training data, the decrease in perplexity is small (fig. 2).
So I agree people are less efficient, but I think it’s here to stay.

I started a new job during covid and it took me a lot longer to few productive than I was comfortable with, and it’s because I couldn’t just grab someone and ask them to explain something quickly. Knowledge was way more siloed.

But the convenience of working from home and not commuting and not dealing with the office is hard to shake.
When did Unity get their US citizenship?
They have to because that's the status quo now. Go back a few decades and ask yourself who started this trend.

If paying 250k+ for a developer is insane, then so is a company able to pay 250k+ without running huge losses. Those developers still make peanuts compared to what the stakeholders and executives do, despite these salaries. It's ignoring the elephant in the room which is fat profits being with a few companies, subsequently making it tougher to compete for anyone not born in wealth or able to get VC money to play with.

SV could both bankrupt dozens of companies outside SV, slash that 250k locally and up to ante globally if it had a mentality shift, in less than a few years. That's how insane the profits are.
Great. Now I just need an app to fix my crackling audio on my M1 mac.
House hunting bot. User specifies area by drawing on a map. Filter criteria like number of bedrooms, driving minutes to any particular address, etc.. Display as a sortable table.
Worked in that space for a while and found it through a Recruiter on LinkedIn. Generally I think the average salary is a bit lower but now there are a lot of Climate techs which to my understanding work like Fintechs. There is everything from solar tech to CO2 budgeting systems. Surely it has an impact although of course the companies are still businesses so not everything they do is for a greater good
I like Lua but it’s not my religion or anything. Your use of a throwaway for this signals I probably shouldn’t even engage with you, but why do you hate it so much? I’ve found it to be concise, yet powerful.
Doug, is that you? :-)
Show HN: Web3 AWS Lambda
Ever since I've been building in web3, one problem I've always faced was listening to and responding to on-chain events with some processing on my end. I've traditionally maintained my own server to make this happen - especially for any data sync, notifications, etc

When I discovered the ThirdLambda team and what they were doing, I found it super useful - they let you run serverless cloud functions responding to on-chain events.

They're currently onboarding users off a priority list, so check it out and let me know what you think!
> The device worked for a week straight with no signs of salt accumulation, but we still don’t know exactly how long it could operate.

Let’s maybe run it for a couple more weeks before we talk about it again?
You have to start somewhere and the AI suggestions are already a big time saver.
They are still ICs, not people managers.
Can you trust your local supermarket to accept Bitcoin if it is banned? The point of a currency is primarily to facilitate trade, everything on top of that is just there to make the process more efficient and lower transaction costs.

I personally think Bitcoin is a terrible currency for non speculative trading due to scaling problems and it's volatility.

Your own way is a deadend. There is nothing there. A currency is about relationships and trust. You can't own those things, you can at best only enforce them against people's will if they don't maintain them voluntarily.
It's kinda funny to say this because one of the early problems with PTFE was the nerves in the hands of people handling PTFE-insulated aircraft wiring dying - due to residues from manufacturing in the PTFE. Sure, the polymer itself is non-toxic and non-reactive as can be. Everything that went into it is absolutely not. The way to minimize that is expensive process and quality control => don't use cheap polymers!
Sounds awesome, would love to test it! Exciting topics coming up!

I added an email to my profile where you can contact me
Fresh water cost $1 per cubic metre. The availability of fresh drinking water in some countries is a political problem not a technological one.
Fact or Fiction: passenger fined $1,800 for leaving egg McMuffins in luggage?
Why not add this as placeholder value directly to your search input field? “Try 19130”. For those who come to the site without reading the comments here.
The fundamental difference is not perfectly clear to me.
Don't panic! Do not despair! Solve it like any big problem: you split it into smaller, managable chunks and tackle them systematically, one by one.

For the syntax thing you might wanna pick out one particularily "bad" one and have your collegue explain it to you. Takes him maybe 15 mins and will safe you a good chunk of time. Where I work asking is expected. I ask our Network/Linix guru for things all the time. He asks me as well when I use something he does not know. Pretending to know everything won't get anybody ahead.

As for the regex hell: I always found tools that visualize the matches in realtime useful (like this: https://projects.verou.me/regexplained/). Just make sure the flavour of regex matches yours.

Edit: I suspect your collegue relies heavily on ES6 syntax (as I would). A overview of that can be found here: https://www.w3schools.com/Js/js_es6.asp

Make sure to give yourself a little time to play, e.g. try to replace something where you would use a for loop with an Array.forEach loop or something like that.
Raspberry Pi made a desktop Linux distro that I think really gets the desktop idea down quite well. It was developed to make it seamless for children to work on the rpi SMB's at school, so the learning curve is not as steep as it may be for other Linux distributions. A few years back, they developed the desktop version, which basically looks and feels exactly the same as the rpi SMB version. Perfect for anyone using both types of hardware, with the side effect of being able to use it competently without first reading the manual.

As Linux tends to be, you can modify it as you wish in the same way you can with absolutely every other Linux distro. I have clfswm running on one of mine, and that's about as far off the beaten path as you can possibly get.

It never gets mentioned in the Linux comparison charts, but it is so well developed for desktop use that it should be. It is based on Debian, so you have access to just about everything you can think of as well.
In theory the 2B model should be somewhere in between, whenever it gets fixed.
The architecture of our systems has gotten a lot more sophisticated and complex over the past 20 years. We’re not running monoliths on a few beefy servers these days.

I am running a monolith, and troubleshooting is still pretty easy.

We’re operating distributed microservice ecosystems on top of a deep stack of frameworks, abstractions and runtimes that are all running on other people’s servers (aka 'the cloud').

Yikes, good luck.

Snark aside, I just want to remind most people out there: you do not work for Google or Facebook, and your systems do not have to be architected as if you are the next Google or Facebook. Neither of these companies started existence with microservice architectures or whatever. Save yourself the pain. Build a product. Find some customers. Worry about the architecture astronautery later.
I’ve heard a lot of tech people not consider stability because it’s so easy to just get a new tech job. Everyone was hiring. Everyone was throwing money everywhere. Why be stable when you can find an employer easier than calling a taxi.

Obviously that’s over now.
Because true and false used to just be 1 and 0, not for any good or thoughtful reasons (much of tech is the way it is because of constraints we no longer have). Today, new languages should avoid pitfalls like truthiness and null values.
except what stops apple and google from building basically the same features and also having full control over them? and you bet that people would rather use apple <whatever> than shady crypto scam <whatever> if they really want to. the takeaway is that crypto is going to change practically nothing and produces nothing of value anyway.
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