skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember in one job the company had a set of questions we had to ask candidates on top of the technical questions. One of them was “what would you describe as your biggest weakness?”

I always grown when I have to ask that question because you always get some stupid answers where people say things like “I’m just too organised” or similar spin to make a negative sound like a positive. Frankly I can’t blame them because it’s a ridiculous question to ask.

However this one candidate not only listed off one flaw but three of them. I remember thinking “shut up, shut up, shut up. You’re not supposed to answer this honestly!”

However this ironically turned out to be the reason I hired him. I figured if he is that honest and able to identify his flaws then he must have a good work ethic.

He turned out to be one of my best ever junior hires.
The difference in "who you have to trust" is reason enough.
Somewhat related; recently, unidentified drones have been observed at several oil installations in the North Sea, including Johan Sverdrup and Gullfaks C.

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Better engagement for new features you develop
... build housing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Automotive#Vehicles_wi...

Seems like there's quite a few cars out there with Android Automotive?
As a Developer or Product Manager that build new features all the time one of the most pain points is the low usage of new features to the users, sending emails and telling your CSMs to spread the message isn't always working and you can find yourself wasting a lot of dev time (which costs $) for good features but with low engagement.

This is why I created Thatsnu package that handles this challenge and even more, I'll be happy to get your feedback on it and hopefully usage in your products as well.

p.s. there is a demo site as well :)

Thanks!
I do just want to say it because if you don't clarify all possible context on the internet you're an absolutist: I'm really excited to see more AI in games over the coming years! It has soooo many potential applications
> but you can't make the circuit board yourself

True. Thankfully, they have become dirt cheap. I can design and push a button to order a multilayer board from China, which is going to be done by the same industrial processes as any commercial boards, and will even be tested for me. I don't have to worry that I left it etching for too long. Or drilling holes. Or silk screening text. All that, and shipping costs more than the board.

> I suspect a lot of would-have-tinkereds give up when they take apart their x with a screw driver and can't figure out what anything is

I suspect your memory is playing tricks with you (as it does with everybody). Open an old CRT monitor and you won't know what anything is. Sure, you may learn what the individual components are, but you need a lot of schematic study to even understand what all those components are even doing. Today, we can just open a phone and go "oh, that's the wifi chip".

It is still possible to do SMD work at home. Air rework stations have dropped from 4 digit dollars to 2 digits. Other tools are getting cheaper too. Oscilloscopes have never been cheaper (and, if you don't need anything fancy, at least in the US there's a flood of perfectly good used models).

Microcontrollers are incredibly cheap. A lot of what was done by hardware today can be handled with software. With <$1 parts.

3d printing allows us to not have to drill soap containers for our electronics cases.

Also, all those old electronics magazines? Most of those circuits can be built today just fine.

People dabbling in electronics were always a small subset of the population. I am willing to bet that, percentage wise, those numbers are way bigger today.
A Sweeping Plan to Fix Everything Still Wrong with Student Debt
At a big telecom we had an employee that maybe closed 10 tickets in two years. He was the highest paid team member (as reported by our director) and worked remotely from an RV in Oklahoma. When he was finally discovered by our director, he was fired and his immediate manager was fired.
So I’m one of those people who doesn’t know how to fix anything; I wish I did! I’ll tell you what holds me back: I didn’t grow up around anyone particularly handy, so I don’t know what I don’t know.

Simple example: I was trying to hang some shades in my kid’s room. First set went in fine, second set, my drill hit something too hard for it (brick? Metal?). At this point I’m kind of stuck. I can search Google for this scenario but it’s hard to know conclusively which situation I’m in, and I don’t know how dangerous or destructive what I’m doing could be.

This is probably laughable to lots of you who know, intuitively from experience, what’s happening and what to do, but for someone who had no idea like me, it’s pretty intimidating.

(Coda: we bought stick-on shades and they were trivially easy to install and worked great)
> You just can't afford to do it with all of your requirements.

Yes, and as I mention upthread, to drop those requirements is essentially telling middle class youth that they have to accept a regression in living standards compared to their parents', which runs counter to the messaging they were raised on. Not only parental/cultural expectations but the developed world middle class suburban ethos of "work hard and you'll live a good life", the whole post-Cold War End of History that humanity was supposedly marching towards.
Yes, PPT is the setting, expressed in watt.

This definitely works on Zen2 onward, unsure about Zen/Zen+.
Psychotherapy is usually not a covered benefit in public mental health plans. Most poor people are drugged, locked up, etc. Therapy requires trust, commitment, funding, and stability on both sides. It's the most effective cure but it's also the slowest and most expensive treatment.
How much traffic will you be getting? Would the traffic bring in substantial revenue, as in, enough to pay rent, eat food, etc?

You could always go AD-free and offer a premium-only app. I prefer this model since ADs invade privacy and I block them anyway with ADGuard.
Mils are a terrible compromise. On the one hand, they acknowledge that dividing by 1000 is useful and that it's easier to work on a linear scale instead of mixed units and fractions. On the other hand, it stubbornly clings onto the inch instead of embracing the millimetre or micrometre.

As a side note, I heard of carpenters who work in decimal feet. Yeah, that's great, adding yet another option to the mix. Everyone else talks in feet and inches.
How about gathering as much of personal data as you can for the sake of selling it to Facebook/Google/Bytedance?
What people seem to miss is how awesome UCSC is. In typical HN fashion I see multiple comments talking dryly about college selection like it's a business decision. People flock to UCSC for its exceptional natural beauty, idiosyncratic culture and slightly unorthodox academics. Not because of a cost-benefit analysis. For people like me, it offered a big-campus college experience without the emphasis on sports and the Greek system. And it offered it in a culturally bizarre and incredibly beautiful corner of the country. That draw isn't going away anytime soon, especially since students can subsidize those crazy-high rents with student debt as I once did.
Or E) Buy the same exact appliance on Gumtree or whatever Craigslist approximator is currently available for probably something like 400 :-)

You could also guilt trip Samsung on Twitter and they might replace it for free
> Remarkably enough, no matter how close any two distinct real numbers are to each other, there will always be infinitely many real numbers in between. By itself this doesn’t mean that the sets of real numbers and natural numbers have different sizes, but it does suggest that there is something fundamentally different about these two infinite sets that warrants further investigation.

This seems a really odd example to start with, without coming back to, because the same is true of the rationals and they do have the same cardinality as the naturals.
It's not just the awful UX of today. It's the awful UX of yesteryear, except this time it's the website owner's fault. https://i.stack.imgur.com/pOAAU.jpg
This is interesting. There is a correlate to legal realm called 'Confession' and 'Penance' - the former a sacrament (a judgement) and the latter the atonement (a sentence) for the sin, in the religious context introduced - which I believe does play a role. The context I tried to speak to is for those who have these stories engrained as world view shaping, which begets how one even goes about finding the proper judgment and atonement.
I don't think improving housing for UC students solves the problem for the area. I was just referring to them building more on campus housing. Might take a bit of heat off the rental market.

The turn in the story is ... let's revisit this next year and see how the housing situation is .. I think it's about to melt down a lot. I suspect this blog post represents an unfortunate temporary thing.
It wouldn't be hard to have it be John Doe all the way through, at least for folks doing this. Setting up things like this is a common tactic in a lot of common financial crimes now a days.
This sounds like it’s written by a male engineer. Everyone in my life I’ve ever bought a car with/for has been focused on the shiny objects and features that were so ridiculous they appeared to be purely designed for marketing. People care. That’s why every surface is going digital, because people care. In fact, that’s a move towards worse UX, likely higher maintenance, yet only makes sense because it looks cool.

See smart tvs and good luck finding an old dumb tv these days.

That’s not to say I don’t agree with your conclusion. Apple has to do a lot more than make the best dash app ever to sell cars. But then again, they don’t manufacture anything themselves as is and do just fine. I’m sure they could find a Foxconn like partner in the automotive space.
> Also would this approach work with crypto?

Some of it works on crypto. TBH I've stayed away from the asset class, but only because I find it difficult to build mental models and think about features (in my mind, it's a mix of commodity factors and currency factors, but I'd have to test it out).

I seem to remember coming across papers that have tested momentum factors at larger time-frames (e.g. weeklies).

> Could you recommend a base system / reference one could use to get started which explains or bakes in some of the feature / signals engineering work?

The references I put in at the end of the post will really help with this! I might actually write out a separate blog post about starting out in this space from an ML perspective. Thanks for the idea!
Really amazing to try and offer perspective of a "native" with some unique insights about a community only to offer up the same tired NIMBY arguments you hear in every housing-starved city.

ANd then to claim that your homeless problem is fine because you put them in a slum tent city with "services" is truly the icing on the cake lol
People will just incorporate in Delaware, or other, similarly limp wristed jurisdictions instead of doing something somewhere where they face that type of risk. See current behavior for evidence of that.
He did. The question was, "create more stuff" or "redistribute existing stuff", and the answer was "redistribute existing stuff", with a side helping of "increase existing stuff by reducing deadweight loss".
Counterpoint: Seams (2014): https://adactio.com/journal/6786

Edit: related, from the same author: Regressive Web Apps (2016): https://adactio.com/journal/10708
Interesting. It looks just like the NASA guidelines, but with military slapped all over it.

I wonder which ones came first given how much aerospace is miltary work.
Yes. I would think it unreasonable. I know a ton of remote people including myself and we all travel quite a bit. Now a job with 25% travel should certainly state that in the job description but if zero travel is non-negotiable you need to specify that up front—and don’t be surprised if you run into issues if managers change.
Pretty sure European clients are paying for Russian gas regardless of whether it is delivered or not
If you're planning on sending them a multi-thousand dollar work computer, why not invest in a plane ticket and overnight hotel just to be able to have a conversation with them in person before giving them an offer?

You would save so much hassle with a (relatively) small investment.
Yeah, that's a pretty wild one. You essentially have some free product, and happened to have a card on file and now suddenly you're subscribed to something.

I don't know about US law, but in most of the northern western countries, companies aren't allowed to arbitrarily sign you up for stuff. Even if Amazon were to 'hide' this behind a "it is the same product but we changed the name and started charging" it wouldn't fly because they would then also have the service agreement changed which should be grounds for termination of the subscription rather than suddenly getting signed up for automatic payments.
Difference between venv, pyvenv, pyenv, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, pipenv
It’s a trade-off that needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis. This is one of those cases where “one rule fits all” doesn’t work.
The Obama-Biden admins definitely induced the current crisis over Ukraine, but it certainly wasn't because they were too permissive.
The folks who live near me are either students, immigrants, or they work blue-collar, minimum wage jobs. How many Wal-Mart greeters get fast-charger access in the parking lot?
Right, but I think we know how to optimise all these things. It's all solved problems.
I got curious, I live in Oregon and could grow them but never seen them but it sounds like some people grow Bramleys. Of course there are about 10 million varieties here and probably some similar thing exists, people get very particular about their varietals.
Bicycles have actually gotten much easier to work on but I totally know what you are talking about. Bottom Brackets are actually the one thing I now refuse to work on (too many god damn specialized wrenches just to open and close them). Cartridge bearings are so much easier but as you probably know not really repairable (I have a late 1980s touring bicycle that I regreased the bearings and it rides better than new) but also crazy easy to just swap out. Nobody uses 27" anymore and everything being 700C (even many mountain bikes now with the "29er" trend) makes it all definitely better.
I have this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/ installed on Firefox. Use it more than I'd like.
You should use their one time payment cards to be safe
1. I'm not saying the US did it.
2. I just want to remind you, that you're talking about a country literally renaming their national dish to "freedom fries" over France not wanting to join in a war, started under provably false pretenses.
Someone asked about how difficult it is to get outside investment....

It's usually very difficult and it takes a lot of money to run a proper fund.

Let's say you raise $50M. You can maybe charge 1 and 20,meaning you get 1% of assets each year for running the fund and 20% of profits.

1% of $50M( and keep in mind this is a large raise for someone without a track record on the sell side or inside another fund) give you $500,000 a year to pay:

- salaries( lets say you pay yourself $100,000 all in plus the same for a single analyst

- a Bloomberg terminal $30,000 including data feeds

- market data feeds you need $25,000/year for basic market data and fundamental data that you are allowed to warehouse(you can't store data you get from the Bloomberg terminal).

- rent $50,000/year for office space

- outside lawyer fees and outside accounting fees $100,000/year

- similar fees for someone to run your back office, roughly $100,000/year.

And on the other side of expenses you have the money making side of things. Which as the OP pointed isn't great.
If you return 10% on the 50M you get to keep 20% of that so a 10% return gives $5M in profits and you keep $1M.

That allows you to bonus out yourself and analysts on good years. If you lose money one year then you get no bonus and have to bonus out the employees out of the retained earnings you kept from previous bonuses.

it usually gets worse as most funds have what's called a high water mark. This means you don't collect the performance fee until your fund gets back to the high water mark. So if you are down 10% one year you need to make that back before you start to make any performance fee, which is why most funds shut down if they go down more than 20%.

As to raising money.....Anyone can show a model that makes money. that doesn't mean its easy to create a model, its just that there are alot of people capable of building such a model.

Its the risk management that people with money are really looking for and sadly that's just really hard to show out of a model as part of the risk management is things like positions sizing and showing your model doesn't pile into one asset class or trade correlated products.

it bodes well for the OP that they talk about market regimes as, IMHO, this is one of the biggest risk management tools that aspiring traders ignore.

And this risk management is why people ask for a track record of more than a year.
What a small world! Unless you are also making up that story (which I would get a huge laugh out of) I'm 99% positive I was in the room with you when this happened. :)
Try the keyboards for yourself: https://adumb-codes.github.io
Can you dynamically push/deploy things to running daemon or you always have to explicitly specify it up front, before booting, in cap’n proto config?
Don't ever rely on Google. They don't care about you.
Call it what you want, but the goal was to keep Santa Cruz from turning into Waikiki, Hawaii with high rise apartment buildings lining the ocean. We fought to keep Lighthouse Field from being developed. I think it was worth it even if I can't afford to live there. I'm leaving behind a city that is as nice as when I grew up there, except now there are far too many surfers to make going out enjoyable.
Regarding the HTTP limitation, we are working towards adding raw TCP and other protocols soon. (I know we've been saying this for a while... too much to do, too little time, and this one got reprioritized down the list a bit, but is getting close to the top again.)

But as far as JavaScript/Wasm, that's a pretty inherent design feature to the Workers architecture. Cloudflare will probably provide containers eventually but that'll likely present itself as more of an add-on than a core part of the platform.

The problem is, containers are just too heavy to support the nanoservices model as described in the blog post. JavaScript and Wasm are really the only viable options we have for something lighter-weight that meets our isolation needs. Other language VMs are generally not designed nor battle-tested for this sort of fine-grained isolation use case.
Ok, cool. Very interesting use case IMHO. Never thought about SVG from that perspective before.
This has been used for ages, goddammit. The question mark idea kinda stops half way. In most of languages, the question mark is always there, implicitly. You have to add ugly code to say "this failure doesn't require bubbling up".

Go is an experiment in the exactly opposite direction: language puts pressure to really handle the error in a meaningful way every time. And if you bubble up, at least describe the situation a little bit better. Or explicitly give up and receive a penalty for that: the `return err` is nothing to be proud of, it's just a visual penalty for _lack_ of error handling.

I'm not saying it's better in every project, I'm saying it's valuable on some projects.
I tell people I still do some of my shit "on prem" these days and get weird looks but its a skill I can't help but think is going to become very useful someday soon
This is why I buy Toyotas: someone in the world knows how to fix it and/or makes/warehouses spares for it.
When does growth stop ? What’s the end-game ?

As a techie, Santa Cruz renter and UCSC parent, I sympathize with the author

But living here and going to school here are choices, UC Davis, Merced & Berkeley exist

I’m sure someone can complain that I outbid them to rent a house

But driving up from Berkeley, seeing the housing issue, the homeless problem, and then saying “this sucks, but make room for me” strikes me as naive
I always liked the Q&A format for posts discussing startups, instead of articles which read like a gigantic AD. Also I don't like Wired's 'long read' type posts which go into insane detail about a subject. Not that it's bad doing that, I just don't have the time. Having a wordcount and estimating how long it will take to read is something I always liked seeing in a post. I can't go more than five minutes, and anything longer, I skim or speed-read.
Not a local, but I've been here for a while.

Santa Cruz was already ridiculously unaffordable before the pandemic. Then the pandemic hit, the students went away, and other people moved in. The CZU Fire destroyed many homes in the mountains. Wealthy people from the Bay Area realized that Santa Cruz could be a nice place to live in if they want to work remotely while having the option to visit the office on short notice. Now the students are back, and there is much less housing available for them than there used to be.

The university shares the blame, but it's at least trying to build new housing. The NIMBYs are simply doing their best to prevent that. There is a wide coalition consisting of students, alumni, locals, landlords, and so on that opposes building anything new on university lands.

I came here to work at UCSC, but I've pretty much given up on the city and the university. Santa Cruz is not even particularly nice for its price. It feels more like a missed opportunity than a desirable area.
Yeah, every time I see a soldering "tutorial" that doesn't use separate flux--I facepalm.

Flux is probably more important than the solder for good joints. A syringe of paste flux makes life ridiculously easier.
The key component is stuff being one hell of a lot cheaper than labor.

This is a natural outcome of a combination of rising wages and dropping prices for finished products, plus, in some cases, increasing standards—for example, single-pane windows with glass held in by paste were really easy to repair but provided almost no insulation—modern windows are really hard to repair, but insulate well.

If we want repair-culture to come back we have to make everyone materially poorer first. Everyone who's not crazy-rich would know how to sew if a t-shirt cost $100 new and could be sold used for $50, instead of like $10-15 and $0-3, respectively. Nobody pays a cobbler $150 to re-sole their $50 sneakers—their $400 leather oxfords, maybe.

We stopped repairing stuff because stuff is cheap—it's not worth developing or maintaining repair skills to try to get another year out of the odd $20-$150 appliance, or tens-of-dollars pieces of clothing, or paying five times as much for floor trim that can be re-finished or repaired when it gets dinged up, over cheap crap that'll just have to be replaced if it gets damaged, when the labor to replace it's not much different from the labor to repair the nicer stuff. We stopped having experts repair stuff because labor is really, really expensive relative to goods, now. We just throw away the broken thing and replace it. The fix, if we want one, is to make stuff way more expensive.
I went on desktop and looked at the email’s html, it links to real Amazon URLs. If the hackers own my iPhone and my Windows desktop I am truly fucked!
Yes, surprisingly good. Our neighbor always brings over big paper bags full of Gravenstein and they are great for baking and also drying.
Same for Swedish - it asked me ”Hur ser din typiska dag ut”. For any Swede who understands English, I get what they’re saying, but it’s an unnatural sentence to make.
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