skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stripped a bolt. Luckily our town also has an auto parts store (we have a lot of stuff!!) and they had those giant stripped bolt extracting sockets, but no replacement bolt.

Have you ever tried to find the rear brake caliper housing assembly bolt for a 2nd gen Scion xB? Not the slide pins or bracket bolts, the housing assembly that holds the whole caliper onto the wheel. Nobody sells it, you have to get it from a dealership, who's 2 hours away and ships via USPS (there is no way to get there without a car). They then screw up which part it is because nobody ever orders this bolt and the parts diagrams don't label it well. So you wait for a different part to be shipped again. All after getting the normal brake parts shipped and trying to install them which took a week on its own. So about 3+ weeks.

(If you have a second car you could maybe go around hardware stores looking for an identical bolt, but even then the steel and threads may be different, as different bolts have different torque specs due to whether that bolt's threads are supposed to stretch or not in order to bind. These bolts are very low torque even though they are for a caliper assembly)
Basically a one-liner version of pwgen.
I'd give an example with a printer.

Refillable Ink-jet - a very low cost per page, indeed. After some time (approx 2y - warranty time in the EU; 5-6k pages/year), it started having an issue feeding paper, press the button to retry, it may work - frustrating, I know. 'Till one day it stopped altogether. It took me some time to figure it out - in short the tension springs were anemic to a high extent. So no tension on the paper rolls - no feed. Replacing the springs with imported ones (around 5-6 times more tension force) has made the printer not skip a page.

The original springs like 1 cent together. The replacement cost was like 40cent for 10 - retail. There is no way the manufacturer was unaware.
In a way I feel the more approachable something becomes, the less value will be derived from it by those who "consume" it.

It's dreadful browsing a book store and wondering how many of those books are a waste of paper, worse still a waste of time.

There's more to be said about the "aesthetic" of books, both from the author's and reader's sides. And today it seems that a book's content isn't the only thing that matters; Or for some authors (particularly in tech) book sales aren't the main goal, neither something more altruistic. For them a book is validating their "authority" in the field, a strategic move.

I'm sure someone would make the case for subjective and objective values of a book, and they'd be right in an universal sort of way. What I yearn for is a way of knowing which books are valuable to me in a practically endless supply. Therein lies the rub because a book is a bigger time sink than a song, movie, or video.
Math isn't characterized by unmeasurable magic phrases

Higher order thinking is a trap phrase for people who want to sound deep by filling in details on the fly from their imaginations in the clothing of science

Nothing evidence based supports any of this
While I do appreciate visiting homes where you can see the physical library, I do greatly prefer to read on my smartphone. Having all titles available whenever and wherever is a huge luxury (likewise with music streaming services). Not to mention the build in dictionary and the well-made books app on IOS.
Just on the vacancies and 300+ applicants:

Writing a good and "personalized" cover letter gets me a really decent interview rate I think.

I'd be up to read yours and make suggestions. Just let me know here.

My usual receipt:

- start with a custom paragraph. Why are you a match and why do you like this company.

- 1-2 copy+paste paragraphs about relevant skills (at most a buzzword or two added)

- ending with a curious question to discuss in the possible interview that shows you thinking along and grasped their situation (or at least made the effort). This might be more important for the product roles I aim at though :).

.

For preparation (I do this quickly for the letter, a bit more if I get an interview):

- save the job ad (it's useful for interview prep and might get taken down)

- read any blog that hints at upcoming projects you might be hired for

- try to find out their tech stack, highlight if you have relevant experience (https://www.wappalyzer.com/ makes it easy)

With all that: brace yourself for rejections. It's still a numbers game (and you'll get better with every interview you get). If you happen to find something you can actually get behind it also elevates your chances. People feel that.
ARR is a forward looking number, so more accurately, they’re claiming to be the first software company to ever reach $100m / 12 = ~$8m/month in recurring revenue commitments from today (their 18th month).

I don’t know if their claim to be first is true or false (or even if it matters at all) but it feels a little unbelievable that no company has ever reached this milestone before — surely there’s a few companies that have reached $8m/m within their first 18 months?
That is in fact what he does in the article!
>So, my suggestion - start transioning ASAP from just coding - move to managing people who code, then to managing people who manage other people who manage the people that code.

But how? In my woods, that's nearly impossible unless your boss has that planned for you and has the blessings of his bosses. They're the positions with the most gatekeeping therefore the nost difficult to get.

And less stress is not always guaranteed since you'll be taking shit from above and from below now.
> That level becomes the new norm

In my nonprofit public policy advocacy (lobbying, really) job out of grad school (I was 33 when I got my MSW), I worked my butt off. Went in early, stayed late, worked most weekends. I LOVED the work. This continued until I got married at 40. And then I wanted to spend time with my husband and his kids. Guess what. . . The weekend work stopped, at least the bulk of it. My board chair said something to me one day about my productivity tapering off. I took it as an observation, not complaint or criticism. And then I explained I got married blah blah blah. She totally understood.

I have to say, though, that the hard work and commitment was worth it. Not long after I was married, my husband had a cancer scare. The board and executive director gave me all the time off I needed to help him recover and none of the time was charged to PTO. A colleague was given the day off of work to hang with me while he had surgery. I took a month off and then left work early for probably another month. Work sent food the day we got home from the hospital. Sure, I worked when my husband was sleeping, but I was not anywhere near 100%.
Alternate title: "I've chose to use a C stdlib which sucks on this OS"

I dunno Z/OS, perhaps everything sucks that bad there. I strongly suspect that there's alternate interfaces available that hide this complexity from those afraid to trip over it.
If you care about a route, you can have the GPS calculate a path and you memorize the closest part of it. Once you’re out of the memorized part you either continuously look at the GPS or stop and memorize the next bit, and so on.

I personally find it more secure and also more engaging towards the path I’m taking.

Also Google Maps often spouts partly weird routes for no reason, and checking+correcting them mentally helps a lot.
What if you just have one server (VPS)?
Probably an example of a name, so that the added commit comment line has “Coauthored-by: Thor”
Unity Board Rejects Unsolicited Proposal from AppLovin
>We’d likely both be happier in a town, living just off some Main Street with 20 or so shops. The city is great but honestly I don’t need more than a good diner, a supermarket, and a friendly bar. Nice to haves are a pleasant climate (not too cold), an airport within an hour or so, and decent public schools.

Study. You can type "Las Cruces NM climate" into Google and get a free graph. You know your interests better than any of us, and you can look at local event listings, restaurants, venues etc to see what's a good fit. Zillow will tell you about schools and crime, and airports are on the map.

When people go by word-of-mouth based on where other people went, you get a situation where everyone moves to Denver^W Austin^W Nashville, and then it isn't fun anymore. Nobody goes there, it's too crowded. Especially when the discussion is on the Internet.
Can I leverage your research for myself...Which hand grinder did you go with?
Oops, sorry, pasto error in there. The last line was (meant to be) a quote:

> But net's problem re: documentation is just a question of manpower.

Yes, I can imagine, and I take your point. But given limited manpower, then the question of where to spend it becomes even more important.

I suggest that a categorized wiki with lots of little pages would be much more helpful than a single great big PDF file.
Their podcast 'The Knowledge Project' is essentially a book tour for authors flogging their new book 'Framework/Mental Models to achieve X'.

Modern day magic beans to make you smarter.
Keeping Governments Accountable: Interview with an OSINT Researcher
My interview with Jeffrey Lewis, a Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and one of the most influential people in the Open Source Intelligence Community.

For example, him & his team saw Russian Troops heading towards Ukraine using Google Maps 1h before the invasion happened.
What's fascinating to me is how many of the people decrying what's happening as unfair to artists also brag about being software pirates, where actual human labor is going unpaid for
Also your opinion strikes me as very Japanese... and to argue why individual rights are important or why you should develop strong, objective, even antisocial anti-government personal opinions is, on a Japanese level, an entirely different conversation from me trying to convince a westerner that objective reality exists and has ethics whether we want it to or not.
Some context: they raised $600M total, including a $100M series A in December of 2020. Which is mind-boggling since, if there “18 month” timer is true, They raised $100M with no revenue and no growth numbers or retention numbers.

I’m not sure when they started their “18 months” timer, but this seems disingenuous to compare to other companies.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wiz-inc
I wrote a small script to stick my local weather (based on IP address) in my tmux status bar.

https://jezenthomas.com/showing-the-weather-in-tmux/
Another advice: you need to become a funnel for information and switch to delivery mindset.

Let's say there is a big project in your company called DigiRefresh - the projects aims to consolidate all data sources, standartize them and in the future extract correlated value via AI/ML - one of the most common projects in modern-day IT.

Now, someone at the TOP has secured N million dollars for this project, but he has also 5-6 other N million dollar projects. Such big projects are more or less the soldiers/power point slides of the C-level executive by which he justifies his existence to the board of the company.

All these projects on high-level sound like a must-do. Your job most probably will be to make the vision of the big guys into reality - deliver it. Which is a messsy process. Big guys don't care about the technology that much, they don't care how it will be done - they just want it done, because somebody commited to someone else for a date that makes somebody look good :)

So, your job 99% of the time is to deliver and deal with the small details like what techology will be used, how many people are needed for the tasks, orchestrate it and give yellow-green-red style reports to the top management.

The more you take away from their worry and the more time they have to play golf and the more seamless delivery you provide - the more you will raise in the corporate ladder.
Yes, but the reference is irrelevant because the OP of this thread never said anything about this service having no market value.
python3 -c "import pyotp ; print(pyotp.TOTP('<MY_TOTP_2FA_SECRET>'.lower()).now())"

This is a bash one-liner that takes the place of an RSA/2FA token/AuthyApp
This is a very interesting thought.
If the image is very generic, IMO it should not be copyrightable, it should be public domain.
Was about to make the same point. Obviously well done to the team all the same.

Security continues to be an amazing market to play In which is advice I’ve heard for many years. A lot of vendors seem to experience fast growth.
Wow what a story so far, I would document more and try and get some media attention to help you.

Or go a level above local government and get some bigger guns?
How to Open VS Code from the Terminal/Command Line – Techstacker
One thing that it wasn't clear to me is, the check only verifies that there is an active SIM card, but how is that tie to a person? With one-time-password via SMS, we are not only verifying that the phone number is active but also a specific person (with the registered phone number in their account) have access to the phone. In the first case it is enough to use any phone number as long as it is active.
I don’t think it makes sense to talk about these systems as though they have any agency (and I think I was careful not to).

Of course there is nothing that necessitates letting these systems do what humans do.

What I am saying is that I am allowed as a human to ingest copyrighted material, learn from it, form mental abstractions and use those learnings to generate new art. Why then, would I be forbidden from externalising some of that process into an artificial system that operates on similar principles.

The trained model obviously does not have agency. It is a creative and computational tool, much like any other digital tool or product.
>ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down.

This is incorrect.

Translators employed:

2005 - 29240

2021 - 52170

Yearly salary:

2005 - 38300

2021 - 52170

Source - BLS (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm)

Employment growth was ~79% on a US population growth of ~13.5%.

38300 2005 $ equal 52854 2021$.

So pretty much demand for translators exploded while real wages stayed flat.
> ideal environment

Naturally we're not discussing imaginal worlds, but the planet that we inhabit.

Nature shows us that it is possible to have richly diverse, highly competitive, and extremely long running species operating in that non-ideal, resource constrained environment. And I think we should pay attention and see if we can emulate that in our socioeconomic constructs.
It’s always a question of accessibility too. Should those things be truly necessary how long would one be willing to drive to attain them. Then are they still as important compared to a two hour drive or do they not stack up that high? Are they only important because they’re about 25min away and fit into the conveniences that proximity affords? It’s something to think about because that distance pushes the calculus out for doing things spur of the moment that now have to be scheduled and planned. That kind of activation energy and transportation costs I could see nixing many activities by default.
That's great!

What about iOS?
I do not disagree with any point you made. Not at all.

I just think an introduction to the language in the year 2022 should at least aknowledge that the form of string handling shown in the first part of the book should not be imitated. I can see how those examples would make perfect sense in a different age. Maybe I can give the book the benefit of the doubt as it was published in 2012.

Do you have any book recommendations for a more modern C approach?
When someone uses the “But my HTTP requests!” defense, they’re either being intentionally obtuse, really do believe they’re in the right, or both.
Yeah I came here to say.....wiz who?
It may not have been well articulated, but one should ensure they are welcome in a small town before investing in it. I live in a small city where people like to point fingers at newcomers for pricing locals out of the market (and yes, that includes people who move here to WFH). It's a big enough and anonymous enough city that it isn't going to affect one's life. The small towns I've lived in were small enough that it would affect one's life. That isn't to say that one shouldn't look to move to small towns. If you're willing to live on their terms, they can be welcoming places.

As for judging where people get to live, I understand that sentiment. We certainly don't give governments that power because we love freedom. Laws also exist that try to limit discriminatory practices when people try to find housing. Unfortunately, it is near impossible to regulate how a community will respond to others.

Just something to think about, particularly if one's approaching a new town with only their personal desires in mind.

EDIT: word choice, for clarity.
People do realize that other people might like different things than they do…right?

At least I hope they do.
That's like claiming that gas mileage is the only way to evaluate a car, and when hearing someone say "only a fan would think you can make a decision like this from a single number," asking what you would use instead of gas mileage

You can't even evaluate if a good choice for location 1 is still a good choice for a different location without knowing what the other location is

There is no easy number for a casual to try to make these decisions with
I have about 200ish passwords in my password manager. No matter how memorable any of those is individually, remembering 200 secure secrets is not practical. Nevermind the fact that many of those are used extremely rarely, good luck rembering diceware password that you use once in couple of years
I was thinking you were too worried, and then I went back and saw the UPS. I wouldn't put that inside any enclosure.

From the manual
"• Provide 5 cm clearance on top and sides for
adequate airflow around the unit."
They're B2B so not really something the average person would hear about or even be interested in.
By taking more responsibilities and delivering beyound your pay scale.

Prove that you can be trusted with deadlines, build a reputation for relentless on time delivery and take responsibility.

You will be suprised - that if you start taking OWNERSHIP of what you do - how fast people will come to you and literally beg you to be in their projects.
I was expecting it to be about the rhinogrades, which Atlus Obscura correctly describes as "Zoology's favorite hoax" [0]. But then, the number of biologists in the world is pretty small, most normal folks won't have a copy of Strumpke's book laying around their house like I do.

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sciences-greatest-hoax...
Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking
Goes to show how formative those years are/were. If this isn’t PTSD, I don’t know what is. Might as well have flashbacks about Vietnam.

I’d imagine todays kids will one day have nightmares about their Insta pics being ugly, or their social media identities being tarnished. They start this stuff so young, so I really think there is no way their mind isn’t going to be warped.

The war never ends I guess.
Zeynep's Law: "Until there is substantial and repeated evidence otherwise, assume counterintuitive findings to be false, and second-order effects to be dwarfed by first-order ones in magnitude."

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1478766408691556353?s=20&t...
I think it’s clear that what’s happening is (mostly) legal, but the better question is whether it should continue to be. It will be a bad outcome if a few people profit off of a huge group of people’s labor without their consent and without compensating them, in order to put that large group out of work.

Technological advances change the labor market all the time, but it’s absolutely different to exploit your own labor in this kind of way to put you out of a job.

I think if someone wants to build a research ML model, it should be fine to use whatever data you can get your hands on. But if you want to make a commercial model, you should have to have the content creators’ permission to use their data to train your product.
this hypothetical best case is an exception to the reality of factory farming and animal "products" included in most dishes ("1% milk powder"). And in even then it would still include animal suffering. For those not too set on their habits, considering the arguments in https://veganspeak.info/ (e.g. #29) might be inspiring.

It is a personal decision in the end, our society allows for mass-producing and killing living beings despite better alternatives. As with other personal choices that are harmful and arbitraty, this is not something I see as worthy of further appreciation, or beneficial for further discussion.
Do you mind sharing your fork with the font change?
I tried to get a font that supports other characters but the mkfont_bdf tool didn't like the files I fed it.
Agile vs. Introverts
Sweden is even more "everyone gets gold medals just for participating" than California.
"In there I found Nat Eliason’s fantastic headline: No More “Struggle Porn” which gave me the idea to title my essay No More “Insight Porn”. In a final step, I went through my essay and replaced “pseudo-actionable advice” everywhere with “insight porn” so the new headline would make sense. Note that I didn’t steal Nat’s headline or anything. I got inspired by it and tailored to my own needs. This is what the Epsilon Method is all about, not blatantly copying other people’s work."

Feels like the epsilon method is to copy but an infinitesimally small amount short of blatant copying.
Not having agency is not the issue here.

Usage of the model can (and will) be automated. Also, unlike you, the model scales. This is a qualitative difference in the output produced. You are left only with the superficial similarity of the input process.
A hierarchy of alienness: Pictures of animals from least to most related to you
FTA:

> Here, we simply copy an existing and functioning machine and then focus on modifying one or maybe two of the moving parts.

Here "machine" is understood to be "business model".

This is in response to "moonshot" (or "unicorn"?) ideas/business models:

> That’s the problem with zero to one ideas. You have to be lucky enough to find a functioning combination before you run out of time and money.
Removal of Small, Asymptomatic Kidney Stones and Incidence of Relapse
After subtracting the cost of the book, and time wasted times minimal wage, I highly suspect the average wealth generated by reading it is negative.
SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer (PyTorch)
I actually think something like ROT-13 is fine in applications where obscuring it from humans is all you care about. It's serving the same purpose as the "Staff only" sign on that door in the restaurant. Does it somehow prevent you entering without an employment agreement? Would it stop a robber or thief? Nope. But since there's a sign you know that's the wrong way and will stay out of where you aren't wanted.

AES looks like security, ROT-13 is clearly not security, so there's no illusion.

Suppose a maintenance programmer is looking at logs around a weird issue, scrolling through hundreds of entries they happen to notice that the phase "FuckDonaldTrump" appears in the logs - huh, what? Oh, it's the password for the administrator user. Well, the way human memories work that password is stuck in their head now. They didn't try to learn the admin password but now they know it, whereas if the log said "ShpxQbanyqGehzc" well even though that's the "same" information your brain doesn't retain it automatically because it doesn't mean anything.

They're not trying to learn the admin password, and with ROT-13 they are less likely to accidentally do so, that's actually a benefit.
This has apparently been possible for a long time on iOS but you have to use an MDM profile to change the setting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28573354