skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah! I didnt mean to show it off, just my desk is a mess..

Yea its a cyberdeck I am building with hardwired Atreus directly connected to pi zero gpios and using libuinput to make a software keyboard, which works amazing btw.

I am making it to init directly into getty without login (with busybox init), so it boots directly in usable /bin/bash in only 2-3 seconds, and all the available programs are simple python programs (ls, cp, mv, a basic line editor, touchtyping game, hangman etc) and the keyboard itself is a simple python program that basically scans the matrix and emits events to uinput. The frame is from plywood.

And I am trying to make it like a 'scavenger hunt' experience for my daughter, I will put special codes in various places in the programs or on the file system with different difficulty, and I can challenge her to find them.

The goal is to have < 50$ scavenger hunt computer kit (thats why I cant afford teensy or something)

This is just the prototype to see how it feels to write code using line editor, and also to test the effect of thinking of the keyboard as a program with a nested for loop, on her thinking about 'what happens when you press a key'

for r in rows:
send(r, 1)
for c in cols:
v = read(c)
if v == 1:
# (r,c) is pressed
send(r, 0)

I just uploaded those to show you how it looks, but again, its just to test the software and the screens size:

https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...
https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...
There was some very excellent work done in Node.js's libuv, but it never got across the line & has sat around getting more out of date for a while.

https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/1947#issuecomment-4852...
I’d be very curious to see AI applied to food flavors.

The permutation space is so absurdly large, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were obvious combinations hiding under our noses.

I also like the idea of a professional robot chef that has vast database of flavors humans are most likely to enjoy.

Always feels like endless trial and error when I’m cooking something new.

Very much looking forward to the robot revolution.
What if you show up to the games without a phone?
> You wouldn't say that a study into a rat's retina is completely irrelevant to human eye sight, would you?

Er, probably? Not completely irrelevant, and perfectly valuable in laying out the groundwork for how we suspect things might work, but I also wouldn't trust it until somebody had it separately verified that human retinas actually worked the same way.

> and (from my lay understanding) generic enough

Yes, if that's true then it's interesting. I'm just extremely cautious of assuming that the things in question are in fact the same. I think the drug analogy does in fact hold, because if the mechanisms were the same them I would expect artificially chemically altering them to play out the same. And also in fairness, that frequently does work! But it also doesn't work in many cases, hence my being extremely cautious until somebody actually does the leg work to verify that humans are actually the same.
DarkForestSim: A Netlogo Simulation of the Dark Forest Hypothesis
OP please do not focus on features, focus on benefits that address bite sized tangible pain points.

To be honest you're not going to get far smiling and dialling either. After a week you'll be burnt out and miserable.
If their reasoning was to spur on development in the reverse engineering space they've done amazing things by releasing this.

The obvious step 1) Lots of people use & improve ghidra, write plugins etc. It is good now, but in 5 years it could be best in class.

step 2) their biggest & bestest competitor IDA has massively accelerated the rate of their development, engagement & community responsiveness. IDA was this slow moving dinosaur that had good ideas and people that has been poked to life by a proper competitor.

If the NSA wants a robust RE scene, with experience engineers and good tools, then I think they've done themselves a massive favour by releasing and stewarding the development of ghidra as an OSS tool.
Because we have an overabundance of housing for one. Massive portions of our housing supply are sucked up as STRs and and second and third houses due to a decade of free money.

On top of that we have all time record numbers of houses set to be completed over the next few months which are still being snapped up by investors.

We have a shortage of available housing. Not a shortage of housing (there are individual markets where this isn't true and there are actually shortages of physical units). Fortunately, this is to some degree in the process of correcting itself but I doubt the place we get to is going to be a solution that very many people are happy with either.
If the car isn't crushed, is a bunch of shaking back and forth really as bad as saltwater damage with effects that happen over time?
Static generators like HUGO hosted on Github Pages or some CDN.

Zero maintenance. Zero cost except for domain name.
AWS Smithy
> All agreements I ever signed had something along the lines: "I guarantee, that I perform my work up to my best knowledge and experience". This is flat out impossible, to bear cognitive load of doing it 16 hours a day without compromising quality.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Unless those agreements you signed specifically say "I will not work other jobs" or something along those lines, it ain't fraud. At worst, it might be a fireable offense - but so are all sorts of frivolous things, like "the boss simply doesn't like you".

> Of course there's argument, that you've completed given tasks earlier. Surely, there's no review to do, no questions to answer, no backlog to pull from? Surely employer hired experienced SWE, with intention of having code-monkey, who has no interest beyond current ticket?

In a lot of cases, there ain't any of those things to do. Besides, "questions to answer" is trivial to juggle around without affecting one's ability to answer them.

> You hire senior and get zero senior-insight, as he/she is interested only in half-assing task, because of pressure they get from the other side.

Maybe pay better? Per the article, most intermediates/seniors considering this will do so with junior roles, specifically due to the relative lack of obligations. Most employers don't really give more than two shits about "senior insight" anyway. If your seniors are working multiple jobs, it's quite possible that the positions are senior in name only.

That is: if the task was actually engaging (or the money was worth it), they would find a way to not "half-ass" it.

> But for any creative work, reporting 8h a day to multiple companies is a fraud - plain and simple

For any creative work, reporting 8h a day to even a single company is a fraud by your standard. I know of exactly zero programmers who spend every hour of every shift engaged. Zero designers, zero writers, zilch, nada. The brain doesn't work like that - sure, flow states happen, but in between the brain needs to be thinking about something else while it chews on whatever problems in the background. A second job if anything would help performance, given that it allows for that "thinking about something else" while maximizing the opportunities to notice insights / a-ha moments.

If your colleagues working second jobs are unproductive, I can basically guarantee you they'd still be unproductive with just one job.
The problem with the “decentralized web” that everyone dreams of is that there is no way for it to truly work.

Either everyone has a home/office server for everything and then a company makes routers that “automatically” set up a DMZ and firewall rules and whatever, OR

Everything is just on a conglomeration of smaller hosts, which is still not ideal because that means each user pays higher prices and gets less performance, lower bandwidth, higher latency, etc because of the lack of hardware scalability with mom-and-pop server hosts.

Some level of single player (or few large players) is necessary for the modern internet.
Filtering themes of our modern world through the lens of reality TV [audio]
I can no longer find the thread as this link has spammed Twitter search, but there was some drama earlier in the week about this same issue. Apparently some security researchers were unable to make the feature work and reached out to Microsoft. A Microsoft VP then condescended to their good faith questions and gave a weasel-wordy response that the fix for the feature is in the pipeline. However, if you're not aware of this specific issue, his response reads like the feature is enabled.
Nice, I've actually tried a trackball myself, but with the way I use my desk (sit/stand) it caused more problems than it solved (shoulder issues). Ergonomics is an art I suppose.
For those unaware of the Dark Forest Hypothesis (DFH):

> “Dark forest theory” holds that civilizations fear one another so much that they don’t dare to reveal themselves lest they immediately be considered a potential threat and destroyed.

* https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/20/technologys-dark-forest/

> In The Dark Forest, a 2008 novel which Discover Magazine calls "a dark answer to the Fermi paradox",[138] Chinese writer Liu Cixin envisions aliens as being paranoid and wanting to kill life because it might be future competition. Other aliens dare not reveal themselves because they might be considered a threat, and they stay quiet as if in a dark forest.[139]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Communication_is...
Your web page and those similar excel in relation to my own interpretation of what a “digital garden” is by being architecturally sound. I mean that I can visit your page not knowing what to expect but after reading the headings, I can instantly tell that I am interested in what’s being offered. Good information architecture is really what makes personal websites or blogs that are given the label “digital gardens” stand out to me.

I’m still working on mine, if it is destined for me to ever share…
Ask HN: Is Twitter's blue check mark best for authenticity?
I don't know if people still use that as proof of authenticity, or if there is currently a better popular place to talk to developers

I just posted a two links to Dev.to article on HN and it doesn't show up on the main feed,

I never use FB for work, LinkedIn is for recruiters.

is twitter blue check mark a forever seal for web brands authenticity? or is there a better alternatives?
>But according to many, that shouldn't be possible because those characters have different skin pigmentation and genitals than me.

[Citation needed]

I don't think you could find an example of even one feminist claiming that you can't find representation from people with different demographics to you. This is not what people are claiming when they say "representation matters". In fact, minorities are MUCH more likely to find representation outside their demographic, out of necessity if for no other reason.
What people are claiming (many from personal experience) is that a lack of representation in a given pursuit makes it harder for people to imagine those pursuits as something available to them.

In other words: Yes, a black woman can empathize and relate to characters of any gender and race. But that's not a good argument that we shouldn't correct the underrepresentation of black women in media and STEM. It's also not an argument that black women won't be helped by seeing increased representation in media and STEM.

I'm assuming this is a good faith misunderstanding, but if it's not, it's a very good example of what you call "twist and manipulate words to fit any meaning they want to ascribe".
That effect is much smaller than facing in the wrong direction.
> The legality applies to American residents. I assume the surveillance can be uncontrolled with foreign citizens.

This is one of the reasons the 5 eyes nations are in bed together. I'll spy on you if you spy on me.
Exactly my thoughts. There are so many great metrics available for the repo for anyone to easily evaluate. If anything seeing an obviously massive mismatch of stars is an even better indicator of the project - it's potentially untrustworthy.
"The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking" by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird
This is great!

I'd consider making the search experience more like https://www.flaticon.com/. The drop-shadow boxes are too distracting. Adding consistent spacing will help too.

I love that it's easy to get to the source, but having a page in between would be nice to see other icons from the set and information about where the icon is from.
Why is Haskell, a comparatively obscure language (to Python, C++, etc.), so popular with topics in the orbit of "web3" (blockchain, crypto, metaverse, etc.)?
If this, hypothetically, isn’t the solution, then what is?

It is literally not possible to get everyone to stop emissions. If reducing emissions by planting trees and building carbon banks isn’t enough, will anything be enough?

Seems kinda fatalist to just say “ah, we’re fucked”
Projects – OHSU
Ghidra was already best-in-class, and the goal isn't to build a community around Ghidra -- it's to spur recruiting by giving people a taste of how far ahead the NSA is of what's commercially available. If this is what they can give away for free, imagine what you can use if you go work there.
> Wouldn't you expect higher-order code to be easier to optimise, since it comes closer to telling the compiler what you want to do, so that the compiler can figure it out, rather than forcing the compiler to divine the big-picture intention of a bunch of low-level instructions?

Optimization is an NP-hard problem. What compiler backends do these days is mostly to pattern match known optimizable code blocks. Some of the other optimizations are an approximation of the actual solution. The order of optimization type being made also affects the result.

So in a perfect world where we could solve NP-hard problems, higher-level code (with more constraints put on it -- as in Rust traits, not C++ templates) would be easier to optimize. But since we don't live in that utopia, nope.
This is a huge and looming legal problem. I wonder if what should be a big uproar about it is muted by the widespread acceptance/approval of github and related products, in which case its a nice example of how monopolies damage communities.
See https://medium.com/alex-couch-s-portfolio/type-hierarchy-and... for some of them. The “blurry eye test” mentioned there is related to the typographical term of color (see https://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2015/04/... and https://practicaltypography.com/color.html) which is affected, among other things, by the actual shape of the glyphs. Font contrast has little to do, if anything at all, with anti-aliasing.
I don’t think many people have a problem with the concept of representation. Eg conservatives can have daughters and want them to be happy as well.

The issue that rubs many the wrong way is that advocates often simply replace one form of exclusion with the other. For example, at my local children’s science museum they have a large exhibit titled “this is what a scientist looks like”. It includes six large posters of women scientists. This is not “inclusive”. It’s also not uncommon. I’ve seen similar within some of my kid’s science classrooms.

Lastly, I think it’s not surprising that the example you quote is from the 1930s. Today’s bias (in the usa at least) is most definitely towards promoting female achievement.
Show HN: Carefulwords.com, a more inspiring thesaurus
I began this in late September purely on the whims of frustration with thesaurus.com, which does not bother to focus the input box! So I made my own site that focuses the input box. And because I wanted a thesaurus where I could type just the term in the address bar (eg type carefulwords.com/word) to get my results.

It is very rough around the edges right now. There are far too many synonyms, which themselves are only organized alphabetically. I hope to take the site in a more inspiring direction over time than merely synonyms. Perhaps euphemisms, or other poetic uses from the past, or author commentary, or something altogether different.
Ah, to be in a stable democracy where political campaigns can be whimsical!

Here in [insert country], it's a grim struggle against the forces of [disliked party] who want to destroy our way of life, and it's dangerous to risk losing a few voters to silliness.
Ask HN: Has anyone applied for GCP's Google for Startups?
We are quickly running out of $300 GCP credits for our MVP. We use CloudRun, but because of stupid GCP implementation details, we can't scale to zero to save costs.

We are looking to GCP's Startup Credit which promises $2,000. That should give us some runway for a few more months. We went to the application form here: https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/startup/dl-cd.html

First thing to note is that it asks for ALOT of details about your startup. Second, it's not a well thought out survey. For example, if you select the "bootstrapped" option when specifying your funding status, you are still supposed to specify VCs, funding date, and verification / social proof of funding. Then, there is a section about the startup's country with a footnote "Your company’s billing entity must be based in a [Google Cloud territory]." When you follow the link to Google Cloud Territory, you land on this deadend page: https://cloud.google.com/gcp-territory-list, mentioning instead "Please refer to the Program Guide definition of Territory to access the current list of countries in which Partners may resell Google Cloud Platform" but it's not obvious what this even alludes, at least no meaningful results came back from Google search.
They open source stuff that is no longer a differentiated capability (hence no harm in releasing it to the public), and the goal is recruiting. Same as any tech company that open sources projects because it'll attract positive attention from hiring prospects.
> off the back of the promise that nobody else would have decent EV tech (turns out, they do)

That just simply not true. He became one of the richest people in the world when Tesla cracked really high volume productions of EVs at a quite amazing margin. That is what people didn't believe was possible when they did it in 2018.

And at the same time SpaceX, where Musk owns much more stock off, managed to re-usability operational and started to launch Starlink.

> production capacity (turns out, they do, plus super ironic when Tesla is partnering with Panasonic for battery production)

Tesla is by far largest BEV producer in the world so its actually true. And if you think all Tesla does is partnering with Panasonic you have not been paying attention.

Telsa has its own battery production and also is one of the largest costumers of CATL, LG and Panasonic. For quite a while Panasonic and Tesla have co-developed technology that Panasonic can just sell to anybody.

As you can see, Tesla has to be both a producer and a major consumer of most battery companies in the world to achieve the volume they do.

And others can not simply replicate it because the industry is supply constraint.

> I don't have a good term for this, but it's basically corruption

Tesla is the largest BEV producer in the world, and just recently made a larger profit then Ford/GM combined (if I remember correctly). Tesla has industry leading margin and is still the fastest growing car company of any size.

SpaceX is one of the most advanced technology companies in the world and I don't think you will find anybody serious who disagrees with that.

The only argument you have that makes sense is that Musk over-promised Self-Driving. That is certainty true, but I wouldn't call it corruption. And I don't think that today the stock price of Tesla is hugely inflated by this as there is so much pessimism on self-driving.
One of the strategies of all time
> I guess they can, but they are running a business and their goal is to make money, so they'll eventually take what they can get.

Oh, sure but the point is just that the market dynamics favor sellers pretty strongly. For example, how much does the hassle of moving or leaving a neighborhood deter the kind of negotiation which would normally be key to keeping a market stable?

Note also that regulation doesn’t need to directly control pricing to make a difference. Since information asymmetry is a lot of the problem here, increased transparency could help improve the situation and give people better negotiating positions (e.g. if a building owner is profitable at 30% less than asking for all of the current leases, you can probably negotiate better with that information than if you don’t have it)
I'm stuck on sluggish remote desktop connections for some fraction of my work. I despise animations. They do nothing but slow me down and waste bandwidth. I don't need cutesy animations-- I need software that allows me to work efficiently.
On the synchronization front, Mutagen's only goal is to facilitate the synchronization of files (albeit with a focus on development-related settings and low-latency for a "real time" feel). It doesn't attempt to integrate with any higher-level tooling (except in the cases of Docker Desktop and Compose, which is facilitated via external projects). That sort of tooling, language, and framework-specific integration is a bit outside the project's target scope (and something that becomes very domain-specific).

Mutagen will, however, happily operate between different operating systems and architectures, so things like working with a remote amd64-based Docker engine from your local arm64-based laptop are totally possible.

Also, several external projects (such as DDEV[0] and Garden[1]) do use Mutagen as a low-level component in their stack to provide synchronization that does "know" a bit more about the framework that you're using.

[0]: https://ddev.com/
[1]: https://garden.io/
Flagged and censored. These people. I swear.
That same reasoning would seem to apply to heroin, wouldn't it?
I've had the same complaint about Spotify search, sometimes nothing will be returned from my search, despite me having put in the name of the song I know exists on the platform.
it's totally AI, in the "legal responsibility laundering" sense. This is the main present day use case for saying "AI".
https://notco.com/ makes vegan alternatives to meat-based products, with an AI creating the recipes. Not exactly what you're looking for, but close enough I think.
As someone who's spent many thousands of dollars in the last 5 years on coaches and therapists- there is a considerable difference between the two.

At a the most basic a therapist looks at your past- the emotions/feelings involved and helps you process and understand. Vs a coach that looks at the future, helps identifies goals- personal and/or professional keeps you accountable to those goals. Especially when you don't feel like doing them.

Therapist = healing past. Coach = creating future.
I find using them both in parallel very worthwhile.

I am not even close to an executive and I had hired an executive coach that was beyond amazing. He helped me identifying where I wanted to go, but had a h ard time expressing. Then helped me over my roadblocks and doubts.

Coaches keep you accountable. He would probe to find exactly what I needed,tell me what to do and I would agree to that commitment. Where I therapist almost never tells you what to do- but through a slow sometimes painstakingly process, you figure out on your own.

I good coach will skyrocket you to your goals, a good therapist will help you heal. But they can be hard to find, and one that is good for one person won't be for the next. .

There is a whole subsection of coaches that write books and you can sometimes find their students who are also good coahes. I'd check out Rich Litvin, John Patrick Morgan, Steve Chandler, Steve Hardison, Tripp Lanier, Jamie Wheel- If they are out of your price range see if they have recommendations or referrals.

Interview with people, see how you get along and move to the next. But pull the trigger. They can be worth multiples of their sometimes extreme fees in the return you get back.