skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, after contacting Bob Wise via Linked In (as he graciously invited readers of his blog post to do!), I constructed a concise but hopefully persuasive email about why they might want to sponsor me, to eventually successfully get this form response...

> Thank you for reaching out to ospo-heroku-credits@salesforce.com in reference to requesting Heroku Credits for qualified and selected Open Source Programs.

> We are in the process of finalizing the selection criteria and will contact you when we are ready to start the process; we anticipate this as no later than Dreamforce.

> In the meantime, should you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us via the above email address.

["above email address" not sure what it means, the email was sent from a personal email address, which i won't share on HN]

So... not yet, in fact!

I had to look up what/when is "Dreamforce", looks like Sep 20-22.
>> just collapsed under its own weight.

I mean, it suffered a series of military defeats at the hands of Germanic peoples.
Aside from being OP, it would be nice if you included why they are notable and important to you.

Simply stating that someone deserves dignity and respect (which is something everyone deserves and I hope I didn’t take that away from OP) because they are important to you is empty without additional context.
Similarly, when I was doing 500 calorie a day cuts, watching people binge eat food kept me sane and satisfied any food cravings I had.

Luckily, ever since eliminating sugar from my diet and doing monthly one day fasts I get no way as hungry as I used to
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Alternative HN Front-ends (2008) (PDF) (Embedded Second-Life Metaverse)
Ask HN: How to prepare for your next job?
Congrats! You passed the interviews, you got an offer and you have put your 2 weeks notice. So now you have a month or so before you start at the new place!

Do you prepare at all for it? If so what/how would you prepare?
Did they add this in the last 40 mins?

I'm seeing a pretty good description:

"
GitHub Next investigates the future of software development.
We explore things beyond the adjacent possible. Tools and technologies that will change our craft. New approaches to building healthy, productive software engineering teams.
"
That seems to be changing. I've had a couple give me an estimate over text/email and when I ask if they want to come look at it, they are obviously reluctant to do so.

They're probably also being ghosted by their prospects and don't want to waste the drive time.
Math Can’t Explain the Markets
Most accidents by humans are due to intoxication. Could autopilot/FSD do better at paying attention to a street light than a drunk 21 year old texting with his cheating girlfriend at 3am? Yes. That’s where humans make fatal mistakes.

Where do Teslas make fatal mistakes? Driving into road barriers at freeway speed. Driving into stopped emergency vehicles. Driving under semis. These are fundamentally sensor problems. Basic issues a 16 year old can handle.

If we want our new drivers to be safe, they spend hours in driving education class, watching footage of car wrecks, so they understand simple things like - don’t drive around railroad crossing barriers. Why shouldn’t we have training of - don’t engage camera based full self driving when driving a curvy mountain road into the sunset with intermittent freeway dividers. There are a class of failures that FSD can’t deal with. And yet it feels like people are telling me that - cars being hit by trains are rare, why are you edicating drivers to be careful around trains? Don’t you know how much safer trains are at hauling freight around the country. You’re just making people scared of trains.. all the time, the railroad barons are employing lawyers and lobbyists advocating against putting up railroad crossings, or letting the public know that a car on a train track is a bad idea.

There are likely basic failure modes that Teslas are bad at. But, as an informed consumer, I should have the right to know what those failure modes are, so I can assess if I want to engage autopilot in a school zone. Should I engage autopilot while approaching a school bus that just pulled over? Will the Tesla stop when the bus’s stop sign pops out? At what angle does that stop sign not get detected? What if the sun is behind the bus? Again, these are scenarios that a 16 year old can handle, and yet, there’s nobody on this forum who would be willing take a $1k bet that today, a Tesla would properly handle that situation in all angle, timing, lighting conditions, but are instead willing to say, those pesky kids, crossing from their school bus, are acceptable collateral damage… don’t want people to understand these corner cases, because Tesla can detect a few red pixels better than distracted drunk teen.
Case 33: Fear
> US "beer"

By now, this joke has been out of date for decades.
Anything like this is worth trying. Enhancing the reliability of peer-to-peer peer review on preprint servers so they become the de facto publishing base would be ideal. Think how many younger students could start publishing at undergrad and earlier.
I have Hexlox on all the components, and both wheels will usually get a U-lock or cable securing them.
I'm impressed that you managed to get an outside IR35 role with an investment bank in 2020. The rate looks decent or even a little above average for the industry as you say. However IME 100% of big financial firms went umbrella to avoid the IR35 risks that were about to arrive (even if those risks then got deferred by a year) so in reality what they were offering was more equivalent to something in the low £600s outside IR35. Getting £800 for an outside gig would have been a good win at that time.
> So, if they make so much sense, why are queues left out of the first implementation

Sorry what? How do they make so much sense? The article gives a full backstory and diagrams for event sourcing pattern it says every one knows but has no description as to why a message queue makes more sense than event sourcing?

I am so fed up of reading half way through an article just for the author to throw away their attempt at being informative and go straight into a sales pitch.

I think I am just going to say event sourcing makes so much sense and call it a day, I clearly don't need their product.
The Glicko[0] rating system is different from Elo[1], and it's what Lichess and Chess.com use

In Elo, the rating gain for one player equals the rating loss for another, because each player's rating is the only independent variable.

Glicko calculates a kind of 'certainty', aka 'rating deviation' which is based on the number of games played in some period of time. The idea is that the ratings of players who have not played in a while are more likely to be wrong.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system
Those things were fair use, what Microsoft is doing is copyright violation pure and simple.
Lots of large corporations have (or at least, had) archivists.

The last time I dealt with one was as a subcontractor for Lockheed Martin. The archivists I worked with were responsible for maintaining the code and documentation for all of the satellites they had ever worked on.

If you need to see the design documents for a satellite that was built 40 years ago by a company gobbled up by LM four or five acquisitions ago, whose engineers are all gone (or dead), you shoot off an email, have about 20 managers sign off on it, and in a couple of weeks someone goes and finds the actual, real, documents that have been rolled up in a tube in a cave somewhere since the 80s and either ships them to you or emails you a scan.
Maybe without a large international market to sell to, mass production isn't very useful?
It is not all any one thing. If you’re completely lacking in soft skills, you’ll probably have more trouble the higher up you go, and you may get stuck at some point. Hard technical skills become less important the higher you go, but even the CEO of a tech company probably still needs to have some basic understanding of technology. Being good at both things is obviously the best way forward.
But the romans actually did innovate. Or at least put other's knowledge to massive use.

The scale of planning and engineering put into their infrastructure is just awesome.

It's not just roads. Their sewage systems, water treatment plants, siphons, aqueducts, pipes... IDK if any of you had a deep dive into this, but I watch some YT channels by spanish professors and this people were no joke.

And they seemed to have some research on materials too.
I don't see the reason why the streams couldn't be implemented _on top_ of single stream filesystem implementations. The usecase you mention is probably solved with Virtual Memory and ELF today?
> For some stupid reason, I'm not allowed to use Joplin by myself LOL

Not sure what this means, could you clarify?

Obsidian is a neat alternative that stores all documents in just a directory as markdown files, so it's easy to move to/from in case you want to change in the future/migrate existing files to it.
It exists for Neovim or jetbrains.
The second paragraph is silly. Their business would collapse in a heartbeat.

If a large percentage of customers did this, then there would be pressure on legislators to crack down on it, but the compromise to emerge would be that online services ALSO have to make it as easy to cancel as it was to join.
I do consulting, but not as a developer, more business growth/strategy.

I tell all my clients, you are not paying for my time spent on a specific task, you are paying for access to my 25+ years of experience, learnings, and contacts.

An email that just says "OK" might be the net result of a set of experiences and knowledge that would take the client 2 weeks and $2,000 to obtain on their own. $75 would therefore be a bargain.
I am on a mission to make YouTube great again with my next project – YOUTALGO
I am Amine, a web developer for 20 months now.

I am currently building Youtalgo which is a platform that helps you 10x your Youtube watching experience by providing you a personalized feed.

No irrelevant recommendations
No content loop
If you don't like shorts you won't see them at all

I published a post on Reddit three weeks that got a huge engagement so I think the idea was validated.

You can see the post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/wgtpbf/how_mu...
I mean, I get it, like I can't imagine being new to the scene and starting with "Unlimited Love" or something as your first listen, but of course - if you were there for the "Mothers Milk" era, it's obvious why you'd like the peppers.
I think it will survive in Japan, because of their ritualized two-hand business-card swap, whenever you meet new colleagues. For them it's not just contact information, it's a ceremony.
The link supplied by @ZeroGravitas above does prominently include the lifecycle analysis you seek.
> What is the aim of your chaotic and pugnacious dialogue here?

To point out the absurdity of this statement:

> The world champions in chili eating contests are caucasian.

You'll note that I did not bring race into the picture. Tolerance and preference for chilies in all probability has more to due with nurture than nature The OP decided that minority had an ethnic connotation.
What I really want is to be able to do things like spin up an isolated postgres instance to run my unit tests against, with zero config on my part except specifying a postgres version in my "docker-compose.yml" equivalent.
Imagine the road trip with an EV.

We're driving from Chicago to Memphis (about 600 miles or two full charges of a Tesla).

First question is "is there sufficient charging in the 200 - 300 mile distance? If you run out of charge, its a bit more difficult than "call AAA to bring you a gallon of gas" ( https://tiremeetsroad.com/2022/05/28/aaa-members-will-tow-tr... ). I'm sure that tow trucks will get to the point where they also have a charger, but we're in new territory here.

The next issue is the time to fuel. With a road trip, this isn't a "park in the EV vehicle spot at Fry's while you go shopping". With a gas station, I'm in and out in about 3 minutes tops. A Tesla super charger station takes 15-30 minutes - 5x to 10x longer than regular combustion. Aside from the "you're there for 5x longer", this means that to get the same throughput of vehicles served at the station it needs 5x to 10x more space than the gas station. This is where its going to be real interesting.

The image at https://electrek.co/2022/05/19/tesla-building-new-worlds-lar... claims it will be 100 stalls (There are about 30 in the picture, so 3x larger than the picture). That's 200-400 cars per hour. That's a 20 pump station - here's a 28 pump station ( https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5755315,-89.7774477,3a,75y,2... )

EVs are great if you are returning home each night or are in an area where there are EV stations while daily errands are run. I have difficulty seeing them useful for distance travel and the situations where one charges midway each day.

One such road trip / distance travel experience - https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-rented-an-electric-car-for-a-...
At the same speed as the on-premise vms.the difference because of cloud-init is minimal.
Rome wasn't defeated per se; it more or less rotted from within, as the value individuals got out of the society did not match the value put in and the center failed to hold. That was a risk of their economic and societal model independent of the existence / non-existence of an industrial society contemporary to them; there was nothing about Rome's arrangement that guaranteed perpetual stability.
A fees dollars saved from not paying ARM will guarantee adoption in low end laptops, tablets and smartphones.

$100 Laptops, $70 phones and $50 tablets will be a big target for RISC-V.
I'm pretty sure the chipsets in a modern phone still support waking up at a given time even from 'off' state.

Just no OS exposes an API allowing that to userspace.
In that case the poster originally thought that the email address used was the private one used to connect with HN. They didn't realise, and hadn't intended, that it be accessible via their public profile. If their suspicions had been correct then there would somehow have been a breach in HNs security.

But they had, inadvertently, made their intended-to-be-private email available in their profile, so everyone thought it was all a misunderstanding.

Hence the flagging.
Here [1] is part of that related discussion on youtube. They start talking about the laptop around 5 mins into the video.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN3PIGLDscQ [video]
Sure but we pay thousands of dollars in Insurance Premiums, copays, deductible and even then there is no guarantee. I would rather pay a VAT if that can give me peace of mind.
It’s still energy. The difference in power output between a horse and an engine is quite large. You also need cheap energy in order to automate anything. Energy derived from people and horses is expensive.
No, it's completely random! After each announcement ends there's a random delay of between 0 and n seconds, where n is 15 by default but adjustable with the 'frequency' slider. I think you just end up with bits that sound synchronised because they happen to fall on the beat
I see, so you're saying the author of the post got the order wrong.

In other words, Britain discovered coal, to some extent, then started using it earnest and neglected the forest-as-fuel-source infrastructure that was needed to keep repopulating the forests.

So you're arguing that deforestation was a consequence of using more coal, not a driver of using more coal.

So the question still remains, why was coal only discovered then? What prevented people from using coal earlier?
I used to take 125$/hour but haven't felt the need to take on clients for a while (dayjob is plenty for me).

If I were to joint the hustle again, it wouldn't be at less than 250.
In practical terms pretty much yes. The CEO gets pretty wide latitude. Let's start from a pretty standard premise - there are security holes in every company. Clearly we're not going to disclose every single one to the board.

So it's up to the CEO to make the judgement on when something rises to the importance of needing to notify the board or needs input from the board. The board is there for strategy, not for operations. So as long as there's nothing relevant to the high level strategy, there's no real reason to tell them about individual operational issues.

An obvious example here, is that Mudge cites that Agrawal tells the board that they have end point management, but Mudge knows the end point management shows lots of devices aren't secure. The end points being insecure isn't a problem to bring to the board, as long as you have a strategy to rectify it- which presumably they do, since that's why they've instituted end point management in the first place. And remember, the board knows that they've got security issues and they're addressing them, because the board approved them hiring Mudge as head of security in the first place. So the question is why the Head of Security thinks he needs to go and advise the board of all of the operational issues he's tackling. They know there are issues, that's why he's employed.
In my experience (from a few years ago) Mailgun had terrible deliverability to Microsoft and Yahoo. There would be long periods where those providers would return nothing but anti-spam errors, based on Mailgun's own logs.
You are really on a role today eh?
For python i like the builtin argparse.
It would be great if devbox displayed the recommended command to install Nix upon first run. First users of devbox shouldn't be expected to know the details on how Debian packages Nix.
In 2005 I was doing PLC programming and didn’t even have my degree finished yet. I always quoted $100 per hour and was never turned down. Being that it’s 17 years later and I’d assume most of you have some sort of formal certification then I’d say you’re undervaluing yourself.

Is it still typical to register a business as a contractor and invoice for your hours as an independent? If so you need to add at least 35% just for business overhead.

IMH0
Maybe, but then every large AI project is also committing copyright violations because as Microsoft notes this is currently a common practice in the AI research community.
> Even at the level of key bindings, the user needs to understand the relative frequency and importance of an operation to choose an appropriate key combination. Universal reconfiguration may even make the system less learnable, if documentation and tutorials can't assume a reasonable default configuration.

i have a feeling that people who write these things have never really tried emacs beyond opening it and getting annoyed that ctrl-c/v/x don't work (at first) the way they are used to

emacs is not key-binding-based, it is command based. if you change a key binding its not like you can wreck anything as you can always call the command prompt by M-x and search for the command that you wanted some key binding to perform. key-bindings are just shortcuts to commands so i think its best to listen to your fingers and form muscle memory and then assign them

what are your most basic commands? copy, paste, select, start/end of line/function/class/paragraph/etc, move by word/sentence/etc, save, exit? these are not that many to set to whatever key combinations you want. i wish my browser had at least this level of extensibility
When I started uni the program was switching from Pascal for existing CS majors to Ada for new majors.
Nice! I should've expected this could be that short, but I didn't.

Here's my favorite approach to "rediscovering" efficient regex matching: https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2013/11/antimirov-deriv...
It's implicit in the Thompson paper I linked above, but imo not obvious from it.
I've been to actual trials, and yes it does happen.

You're right about one thing, though; it's much briefer. All the lawyer says is "Objection. Leading." They do it so much that they don't waste words like on TV.
Private conversations aren't really very private on Discord. Attachment URLs are globally visible.
> This board itself is flooded with engineers with great ideas being dismissed because of “realities of the business” or “changing priorities”, much less “political realities” etc

Your argument would be rock solid if those great ideas were only applicable/useful in huge bureaucratic organizations (which is the type of environment where bullshit ideas are given more attention than truly innovative and impactful ideas). We've all probably been there before, and I get your point 100%.

However, the next step would be to go where your ideas can be heard. And if the idea is good enough, people will listen. Shouting into an org chart 10 miles deep to narcissistic C level executives has always seemed like a waste of time. So I don't disagree with you, but if you aren't being heard, speak to someone who will listen.
Implement private message transfer then I will get rid of email.
Academia as a whole is such an interesting place. I value it highly because I value learning. I love school, I loved the conversations and deep dives into interesting waters that nourished me in both college and graduate school, and I loved the opportunity to be fully immersed, without needing to get a job, in an atmosphere of learning.

But the rest of it? The petty hierarchies, the papers born of countless hours of hard work by extremely talented people that few people will ever read, the wage labor of adjuncts, the elitism, the comfortable cowardice of tenure - that all should be burned in fire.

I once read a book - I wish I could remember its name - that noted that even though we live in a democratic republic fueled by at least somewhat meritocratic capitalism, institutions from the feudal era still exist, the most notable being the church and the university. That was eye opening when I read it, and to this day it has jaded my view of academia and the people who tether themselves to it. All of those noble, high minded academics, fighting for their place in a feudal structure that they don't dare challenge. I know I sound a bit like an asshole when I write this, but: I can't truly look up to anyone who would resign themselves to a structure like that.
This amazing demo of a in-progress operating system (writen by a single person) which has been discussed previously on HN. The developer says near the end of the video:

"I'm not a big fan of unix myself and so 'essence' is designed without any sort of unix influence"

Essence OS demo (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGxt-tQ5Bt
There's a rating feature on the website that let's you rate the results. It's greyed out for me so I'm not sure if it's a timed feature or a premium thing, but it's there.
Don't be so cold...at least it wasn't a Samsung...
just... scroll the first page of their twitter feed?
I think it's more about a potential future usage of ARM in a sanctions package. Somewhat similar to how Hauwai was was hit with a list of narrow prohibitions like access to the android store.

Having an openly implementable ISA is just one less thing to worry about
The United States was a slave economy too, and still industrialized. That is not a sufficient explanation for Rome.
Comet impacts formed continents when Solar System entered arms of Milky Way
the Roman Empire institution collapsed, their form of society still exists and it's still at the hearth of many western civilizations. roman law, sewer and water systems, flushing toilets, aqueducts, roads, concrete, wellness centers, baths, and much more.
they are all inventions of the romans that shaped the western culture, helped the social aspect of what we call "society" develop and brought higher living standards where they were not present, things that today still define the difference between developed countries and developing ones.

Paris, Milan, London, they did not know what a sewer system was and what "hygiene and cleanliness" meant, before romans made them a standard for the empire.
By any means necessary

Ask for forgiveness, not permission

Crush it