skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
older than humanity?

i guess in the sense that we aren’t the only animals to enforce territory. on the other hand we probably are the only animals to have conceived of “rights”.
I loved Koyaanisqatsi, trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ Not your typical documentary.

Anything by Werner Herzog is incredible as well, I find his approach extremely sympathetic and respectful to the subjects but without sacrificing detail (EG Grizzly Man)

Not strictly a documentary, but Threads by the BBC is a researched film depicting life in the UK if every city was hit by a nuke and it was incredibly disturbing and informative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

Carl Sagan's Cosmos has to be one of the most charming and moving documentaries I've ever watched - arguably a little out of date now but it reached a place the subsequent Cosmos series just couldn't reach.

MayDay! Air crash investigations are all amazing documentaries that manage to balance pretty intense technical information with real life suffering very skilfully and they are incredibly engaging.
That is a good point. I have not seen any low level positions that require a masters degree. I've only seen some that express a preference. At the same time though, many of those positions don't even seem to require a degree at all.

I suppose my problem is I have vaguely seen software engineers reference the utility of a masters degree, but I can't say I've seen good evidence for their utility. Additionally, a number of those people probably moved onto non engineer roles.

I will follow up on the different master's programs.

Thank you very much for your help! The perspective is very useful.
I don’t know. I mean, even classic Win32 has around two and a half object systems: windows+messages, standard COM, and IDispatch{,Ex}; and they are all rather different. (IDispatch and IDispatchEx, while a bit different from each other, are also neither particularly easy to use from C nor particularly good at their original purpose[1], so I’m counting them as half a system.)

Then there is Objective-C... OK, I don’t know that it’s that usable without a preprocessor, but there are Piumarta’s id[2] and Finch’s cobj[3], which are reasonably different from either of the Win32 systems.

(I don’t know to which degree DCE is relevant to COM in this comparison, given that in the intraprocess case all it inherits from there is the IDL and the non-exposed wire format when marshalling between apartments. Technically RPCRT4.DLL does contain obvious counterparts of DCE functions, but I haven’t yet found any Microsoft documentation suggesting you actually use those for anything.)

[1] https://ericlippert.com/2003/09/16/why-do-the-script-engines...

[2] https://piumarta.com/software/id-objmodel/

[3] https://dotat.at/@/2007-04-16-awash-in-a-c-of-objects.html
Only in the past few years has it been remotely expected that you'd have to tip someone who didn't actually take your order at a table and then walk your food out from the kitchen.

We've all been tricked into tipping in situations where, honestly, the management should be paying better. And yeah, I know that means that the cost of things will be higher on say the menu, but the real cost of a $20 dinner should be $24, why not just pay the $24 up front and raise the base wages to what they should be.

I'm pretty sure this is only an American lunacy too.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this.
Got great responses and need your feedback
I posted a WFH question on here 6 days ago. I got tons of good responses. I am still responding to the messages I got on my last thread.

Since this community is so helpful, I would really like to know what you all think about a platform for corporations that takes out all the leg work needed for building one-to-one connections and social communities between coworkers?

We wrapped up our MVP while still getting feedback. Actively trying to get into YC as well.

https://www.getparallel.io/

^ Please let me know what you all think about the idea!
Adding search to an Astro site with Preact
You need to come around to the fact that people who live in areas have the right to live they they want.

You need to come around to the fact that 'density' is a worthless metric, that has little advantage.

It's laughable that you think 'boomers' are the one's who want to live in peace and quiet, that's 99% of people. Almost anyone, were they able to move to Atherton, would not want low cost density next to them.

FYI people are leaving Cali, build better transport and it'll solve a lot of these problems.
I might be wrong but I hesitate watching old science documentaries, because science usually gets outdated.
Is there a good example of this style?
Zillow has sent cease and desist letters, and sometimes sued people using the data from their site. You might be okay if you're not in the US though.
It depends on how it’s engineered. The lithium itself wouldn’t be “radioactive waste” but the vessel for the lithium would likely be.
This surely isn't what was meant in previous conversation, but Unreal Engine 5 added MassEntity which is uh... an Entity Fragment Processor approach. (Because Components are already an object that exists, it probably would have been an extra special kind of confusing if it adopted typical ECS naming.)

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/overview-of-mass-ent...
I generally like Michael Moore, but I think there are better documentaries about 9/11.

I think George Bush's politics were abhorrent and his war in Iraq was probably the worst US intervention in history in terms of consequences, so I'm far from a defender of Bush. But conflating a documentary about 9/11 with a documentary about Bush's politics makes a worse documentary than doing both separately IMHO.
> Silly question but why is the Pi necessary?

Not sure about this project, but generally it is not. All it needs is a small board capable of running Linux and the necessary drivers for external ADCs/DACs where necessary, plus the digital fx software. As an example, Guitarix runs also on ARM and can work on cheaper boards such as the Orange PI, Nano PI and many others cheaper and more obtanium than the Raspberry PI. https://guitarix.org/

In some cases you don't even need to run Linux. There are many effects projects using a cheap Teensy board plus its piggybacked audio card; it features a really powerful audio library and is compatible with the Arduino IDE.

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_Audio.html

The Teensy is truly amazing, to the point one can build synthesizers that just a few years ago would cost hundreds of bucks. Take a look for example at the TSynth, 100% Open Hardware & Open Source, also available in kit.

https://electrotechnique.cc/

Demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCA2L7CeWSE
It has nothing to do with 'yimby/imby/anarcho' anything.

People who live in quiet communities generally don't want their areas turning into Manhatten, that's it, it's the same everywhere.
individualism (...) was marketed uppon us

Maybe but I tend to favor materialistic explanations before anything 'concerted'. So I'd say individualism was always here but blossomed fully when abundance came.
The 1.3% number is clearly nonsense. It links to this paper:

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Land...

The biggest line item in the estimate is oil wells. They assume an active oil well consumes 12 acres (0.05 sq km) of land. There’s no way that is close to accurate. The well and pump head use a few hundred square feet, max. They usually have an area around the well head that’s mowed for access, and also an access road. Typically, there is also a pipe to carry the oil away. Even if there is on-site storage, the tanks are at most 100’s of square feet.

An acre is over 43,000 square feet. My estimates would have to be off by a factor of 1000 for a well head to occupy 12 acres.

The idea that we would use ~ 1% of the earth’s surface for wind, solar and hydro is similarly nonsensical. Wind farms can be dual use (e.g., cows can live on them).

Solar panels can more than power a one story building on average while using less than the entire square footage of the building. The earth’s surface is no where near 1% buildings. Cities account for less than 1% of the surface.
Odin does not allow for negative shifts to begin with. To copy from the Overview[1]:

> The right operand in a shift expression must have an unsigned integer type or be an untyped constant representable by a typed unsigned integer.

and [2]:

> The shift operators shift the left operand by the shift count specified by the right operand, which must be non-negative. The shift operators implement arithmetic shifts if the left operand a signed integer and logical shifts if the it is an unsigned integer. There is not an upper limit on the shift count. Shifts behave as if the left operand is shifted `n` times by `1` for a shift count of `n`. Therefore, `x<<1` is the same as `x*2` and `x>>1` is the same as `x/2` but truncated towards negative infinity.

[1] https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#arithmetic-operators
[2] https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#integer-operators
What a flex. Can you also specify a custom link?

Like aka.ms/mango or aka.ms/inglor?
Sulphuric acid: the next resource crisis
Except that in most areas, tips are legally required to go end workers (not management or ownership) and in jobs where tips are allowed, end workers make more than in service jobs where tips are not allowed on average. We're talking about America, I don't know why you would expect restaurant owners to pay workers a dime over the market clearing price. The chances service employees get employer provided health insurance is very low.

I don't know your financial situation and noone is forcing you to tip. But if you make, say, more than 3 times what the people servicing you make, and you choose not to tip, I think that's quite selfish.
The extensions will just be disabled until the script is rerun.
Check out National Indoor RV Centers (NIRVC). They are a perfect signal of the terrible engineering of even current high-end Class A’s because they built their business around how much these contraptions need servicing. They themselves do an awesome job of that servicing, but generally the industry needs to ship marine grade engineering design and instead mostly opts for very unsustainable and marginally serviceable designs that don’t nearly stand up to what marine engineers are expected to deliver. I wish there was a Dashew for RV’s.

If there is highway self driving in the near future for RV’s, I’d expect it to piggyback onto what the commercial trucking industry builds and uses.
I've found https://ehomerecordingstudio.com/acoustic-treatment/ to be a well-written and informative guide.
For the life of me I just can't get over how different the g is from the rest of the letters. I find it incredibly distracting, so I can't use this font.
I wish there was a bot that automatically archived [flagged] posts. the fact users here can use botnets to flag/remove any submission or post they dislike makes Hacker News positively useless for whistleblowing. I learned from experience anything even tangentially controversial is almost guaranteed to be false-flagged and taken down.
I am stupid, too. I generally do not use git(1). I wrote a short script to download the manual as a single 639K text file. I do not use a GUI or mouse so this makes it easier for me to work with code snippets. I also reformat the text to match personal preferences. Here is an example script using popular curl program to make the HTTP requests.

# requirements: curl, links, perl, texinfo (Linux), texi2html (BSD)

#!/bin/sh
set -v;
x0=c-intro-and-ref.git;
x1=https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/;
test -d $x0||mkdir $x0;cd $x0||exit;
for x2 in Makefile c.texi cpp.texi fdl.texi fp.texi texinfo.tex;do
echo url=$x1$x0/plain/$x2;
echo output=$x2;
echo user-agent=\"\";
done|curl -K/dev/stdin -s;
case $(uname) in :)
;;*BSD) texi2html --no-headers --no-split --html c.texi
;;Linux) makeinfo --no-headers --no-split --html c.texi
esac;
# personal preference for ~15-inch screen: 4 space indent, 60-70 max chars per line
links -width 70 -dump .html \
|sed '/^ *Link:/d;/^ *\*/s/\*//;s/^/ /;/Jump to: /{N;N;d;}' > c.txt;
exec less c.txt;
Didn't this have to add a lot more automation that goes beyond what a typical Cirrus with Perspective/Perspective+ would offer? Not just the radar altimeter and automated gear extension but autothrottle, flaps, braking, an auto-flare, etc...
You need a slash for it to work in Chrome: "ai./" and "ai/" both work in Chrome (obviously without quotes.)
(Testes btw)
Ask HN: I want to build a product using AI. What are my options?
I don’t have any specific idea or anything. I’m mainly wondering who, if anyone, is building “general purpose” AI tools designed to be used by other companies in their products.

What’s currently out there? Where should I be watching?
You can turn a primary residence conventional mortgage property into a rental after 1 year of owner occupancy. FHA and VA are the same.
No. No we don't. I'm sure sure people love them. But not everyone does.
FYI we are big fans of WFH and want WFH to stay!
> Most of the documentation materials I see maintained in the Rust project are sufficiently nuanced.

I appreciate that you likely don't want to name and shame the documentation materials that aren't sufficiently nuanced, but do you think that any appreciable portion of the problem of over-zealous advocacy originates from those materials?
I don't know about "shutting down"; I'm just too busy at work to think about anything but work.

(Maybe it's also a bit that I have ADHD, and know that a 15-minute conversation about non-work subjects, that I actually focus on rather than practicing "active listening" toward, would flush 100% of my built-up mental context for what I was doing down the toilet, and so blow an hours-plus hole in my productivity for the day.)

I talk to my coworkers about non-work subjects if we head out for drinks. But at work, I work. Or at most talk about "light subjects" that can fit on top of my mental "stack" without having to pop anything.
> one tenth of a square mile

Oh no, the ocelots!
Yes, you actually know SQL, unlike other people who don't even know window functions exist.
Serpentine!
Yeah, no, we secretly don't.

One of these articles pops up every now and then talking about all these supposed social benefits of meetings, but that fundamentally has not been my experience with meetings.

As many people have pointed out, a good many meetings could simply be replaced by a decent email. In my experience, the only people who seem to "get" something more than the pure nominal reasons that the meetings were called for are managers who really like talking about themselves.

I worked for a distributed team for a large company [1] in the past, where about 10% of the team was in NYC (where I was located), about 70% of the team was in California, and the remainder were in Singapore. The team leader had the astonishingly brilliant idea to hold meetings at 8:30pm NYC time, because that was the time that "worked best for everyone".

This was bad, but one could argue it was necessary if the meetings were necessary. However, this genius thought it would be a good idea to routinely spend the first fifteen minutes blathering on about his opinions on various tech non-work-related things, or his kids, or some other such nonsense in most other meetings, and the rest of the meeting could be, you guessed it, summarized in an email.

You know what I would "love" a lot more than having intimate conversations with my coworkers? Spending time with my wife, or my friends, or doing nearly anything else.

[1] No doubt that you can find out which large company I'm talking about given my work history, but I politely ask that you don't post it here directly.
In a similar vein to Dick Proenneke's book, have a read of "An Island to Oneself" by Tom Neale. It's about a guy who lived alone on a remote island in the Pacific. Incredibly calm and peaceful book about living a life completely removed from the endless complications of modern life.
It's out of print but pretty sure you can download it as an ebook.
Can we please get some sort of code escrow system going, similar to how the national libraries collect all published works in a country? Video games are culture too.
Right, there's a big difference between views and the kind of generic abstraction that I think the original poster seeks. You do need something like macros or generated SQL to build a library of algorithms you can apply to data.

Imagine wanting something as simple as "find_percentile_value(table, column, percentile)". There is no portable and standard way to write this parametric abstraction and then reuse it on any column source you need to interrogate later.
Love seeing Dick Proenneke mentioned here. My grandpa (also named Dick) built a hunting cabin with Proenneke on the adjacent lot.

Both structures are still there at Twin Lakes, and are operated by Alaska State Parks now.

We have some cool photos and stories from that time.
SQL is one of, if not the most, common programming language out there. I agree it isn't known well, but it not lending itself to being known well, and tricking people into thinking they know it well, is a flaw of the language. This is a much bigger problem. A good language would not lead people down that path. It not being known well certainly is not for lack of exposure.

They used to say the problem with C (especially with respect to memory issues) was that people didn't know it well, which was also true to some extent, but then we realized that we could improve language design to not leave people in that situation in the first place. Something like Rust would have never materialized if people simply took the attitude that you just need to hunker down and know C harder.

SQL is ripe for a similar evolution, but such evolution is difficult when the only reason we settled on SQL in the first place was to be compatible with Oracle and Oracle has no reason to change as long as the money keeps flowing in. The competition was going down some other interesting paths for a while. Even Postgres originally used QUEL, which is much closer to Codd's original vision, instead of SQL but eventually had to accept that Oracle won. But does Oracle need to win forever?
I did a high school science fair project in computer vision on one of these in 1996-1997. I'm still bitter that Logitech bought them out and cancelled the Mac version of the product and to this day I won't buy Logitech products.
So first off, it's a pleasure to interact with a senior and mature member of the Rust team and community. I mean no disrespect when I observe that I too was once young and hyper-enthusiastic about this or that technology, and now being old I regrettably still go "Internet tough guy" more often than any adult should (cue obligatory XKCD), less with time thankfully: so I do in fact get it on some level where the more zealous Rust community members are coming from.

I can't add a lot to what is clearly a thoughtful and passionate analysis from someone who has spent serious time in the trenches of trying to keep both the haters and the zealots at least somewhat on the rails of reality and I applaud your efforts to do so.

Rust is an interesting phenomenon in many senses including this one: it gets hackles up on hackers like me who on average kind of already went through that phase. I think this is because I can already see that it's going to be a Really Big Deal™ for the rest of my entire career, and so at any present-day level of participation, before I hang up the keyboard the culture of Rust is going to be a big part of my world.

And I am far and away more concerned about the former "chunk" than the latter: any remaining loose ends (if there even are any) on Rust's backcompat story will no doubt be tidied up quite soon. I am not only willing but eager to concede the entire latter "chunk" because it's a distraction at best from the importance of the former one.

I'll sort of leave it here: I know that the core team is composed of serious, tenured, hardass hackers who know both C++ and Haskell and made all the decisions that C++/Haskell people criticize thoughtfully and deliberately, that is obvious from reading GitHub. With that said, technically amazing things (like Rust) routinely "fail to achieve their potential" because of culture/vibe/tone factors, and I regard this as the only serious risk to Rust's long-term success. You want the zillion people like me wholeheartedly rather than reluctantly advocating it.

My suggestion, however clumsily phrased initially, is to use your influence in the community to put downward pressure on the zealot stuff even if that requires you to err on the "under-promise and over-deliver" side of things in places like HN.

In the big picture view, this is detail stuff: you folks won, from here it's execution.

P.S. as an `rg` fanboi: I <3 @burntsushi
Test Smarter, Not Harder (2006)
Yeah but if you are in America where higher minimum wages or public healthcare are not happening anytime soon, maybe you should tip the hourly workers if you can afford it?

I think people just don't want to be confronted with the idea that the people servicing them make a pittance. It brings up uncomfortable feelings to have to decide how much a service employee "ought" to be paid, each time you eat at a restaurant.
Evidence isn’t great for either of those. Definitely not good enough for you to be so flippantly dismissive of the OP.
Not a lot of details here. It seems a bit sloppy to me that routine engine testing ("six engines were lit up for the test") would cause a wildfire, and while 68 acres is a bit below the average wildfire size it's still not of insignificant size for an event I'm assuming happens regularly.

I have no idea what regulation would look like in this domain though so it's not clear to me that SpaceX did anything _legally_ wrong here
"Talk money" can mean "talk compensation", but it can also mean "talk relative wealth and socioeconomic privilege." It's the latter thing that's a bad idea.

Imagine having grown up in poverty, having self-taught and bootstrapped your way into your white-collar job to have a better life than your parents; and then your coworker turns out to be a trust-fund baby who's doing this for fun. Things can get awkward quickly.

If the idea that this could be a problem has never even occurred to you, that's probably because you've been working for companies that have tightly constrained the socioeconomic class range of their hires so that everyone is around the same. This is most of what HR departments mean by "culture fit."
Pretty sure the system doesn't parse ATC audio but as other posters have noted can use machine readable METARs and other data to get a sense for weather and available runways. (Note that the system does NOT parse NOTAMs yet per https://skiesmag.com/features/virtual-co-pilot-garmin-autola...) Beyond that am guessing that it declares its intentions and hopes ATC can pave a clear path. They are generally exceptionally good at doing this for aircraft in distress; just squawk 7700, state your intentions on 121.5, they will make it happen - you're allowed to do literally anything and violate every rule in the book if it's required for safety of flight. You can land on an active military base or a major commercial airport runway if you need to. Mind you, there may be some paperwork to fill out on the ground after, but while you're in the pickle everyone is there to help.