skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What am I passionate about at the moment?

Hmm. Last week I got "on the air" for the first time in years. Operating on 20 meters with a well designed but temporary home brew wire antenna. I made contact with people from Italy, the UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Japan in a period of two hours. It went very well.

Right now I'm designing a permanent, high performance antenna system, planning it out and lining up the materials. It's not easy. There are many factors involved; the compromises of engineering. My hat is off to anyone that ever manages to build a low cost, large antenna that can survive the elements and perform well.
I built an app that integrates with Strava to automatically log the summits you've climbed.
Now I'm working on adding summit lists to it, e.g the "New Hampshire 4000 ft. Peaks". And other types of lists, like "you've visited 23/42 National Parks".

There's an old site, PeakBagger.com that is already the de facto resource for summit lists, so I looked to see if they had an API - they do, it's a 7132 meter summit in Nepal. https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=10613

It's fun. I revisit this project every few years, and experiment with different tools. Currently balancing Rails and React, deploying to fly.io. It's a very small hobby project.
Microsoft's major arguments:

- as long as the reuse of code is transformative enough, they consider it fair use

- yet Microsoft's Copilot is not trained on Microsoft codebases, and not on Windows source code

- yet Microsoft files DMCA takedown requests on Windows source code leaks

As long as these are the case, Microsoft's argument of "Everything is considered fair use, except our stuff" is flawed in a lawsuit. That is not how copyright works.

That is why Copilot has to be considered an attack on a specific group of software, and a specific group of people. And that is my own opinion.

Either get rid of copyright alltogether (including Microsoft's arsenal of patents for it) or not. But don't try to play the hero of open source while you are stealing their stuff, specifically.
> Starting from the left, the power comes in through screw terminals (J201, J202). The extra screw terminal is for daisy-chaining power to other boards.

Sopa-box time! Screw terminals suck. They're just... the default.

Great Scott had a good overview of some alternatives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE3CjZ0BUFo
> Does anyone have any useful experience to share on working in a VR headset?

Tried it, returned it.

> Is it comfortable for longer periods of time?

No.

> How is it on the eyes?

Strain.

Any extra screen real estate VR gives you if is vastly outweighed by the negatives. It's a sweaty glowing device right in your face that causes significantly more strain than a laptop monitor. It's cool to think about but I think you already know the answer to this. Try it yourself if you'd like.
It's pretty great, you don't get immediately banned just for calling someone a slur. I prefer it.
The worst part about their response is they're basically admitting that any $10 lock would be roughly as effective and the $330 price tag is for unlocking via the app.
UI is replacable, there are quite a few frontend compatible with Mastodon API, some of them very closedly resemble Twitter.
I wish this had a "monthly users" column.

It still has joindiaspora.com at #4 which is not even active anymore.
Ham radio is still like this. ;)
You separate out the core logic so it can be tested on any platform, and only the truly OS-dependent code needs to be target-specific.

I should be able to run the test "expand this glob as if on AmigaOS, with given homedir path" on a Linux desktop.
I'm happily messing around with Racket, trying to do LeetCode and Project Euler problems in it and trying to figure out how to translate the programs from The Big Book of Small Python Projects into it. I'm trying to get comfortable enough with it that I can use it as a viable replacement for what I would do in Python - with the end goal that I can write my website and a hopefully useful web app in it.
Hello from Trivandrum, India

Spending an idle Sunday with fellow hackers in HN!
I have been toying with the idea of a decade long learning journey, but I'm yet to decide what is that I want to learn. I want to see what difference does a decade long learning of a single skill make. I can already see how big difference it makes from my experience with my work in Software Engineering, but learning an entirely new skill would be a great and rewarding challenge I feel.
That does help a bit, but I'd still rather have all my keys in one spot instead of some in iCloud, some in Chrome, some in Firefox, etc.
This paper has a very interesting claim, that they can integrate arbitrary non-linear differential equations on quantum computer, with advantage. If their analysis is correct, this makes the case for weather prediction on quantum computers much stronger.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.06571.pdf
I'm playing with remedial graph theory and geometric sums. It's for a silly hobby, helping my friends and I write branching fiction novels together. (It's like choose-your-own-adventure but literary, not second-person.) Each chapter has x choices at the end - usually 1 or 2, sometimes more, 0 for conclusions. Threads can merge. Moderators have a desired average thread length. Chapters have an average word count. And there's a maximum story size for each.

Quite a knotty problem! Most of my authors hate math, and they all invariably love putting as many choices at the end of a chapter as the system will allow, so if you let them, you'll pretty quickly get to "heat death of the universe" estimates on when the story will be completed. So I have to code in some controls that project how big the stories will be, given what has been written so far. Then introduce some automated controls that communicate things like, "No, Moderator X, you cannot ask for three choices at the end of every chapter anymore, because you already want a desired thread length of 13 and your authors are averaging more than 1100 words per chapter. Only single-choice chapters are allowed for the time being. Merge some threads, that will help. Tell your authors to write shorter chapters."

Anyway, I'm writing those controls now. And that doesn't even get into the shape of graphs - how some can have more choices (edges) early in the story (graph), leading to shorter path (thread) lengths, and how so can have more choices later in the graph... and all of this affects the projection of how big the story will end up being, given a probable path length.

Oh and I also had to figure out how to solve for r in the geometric sum formula, which you can't do, so I got to write an approximation algorithm to find it.

Anyway, it's pretty fun. Exponential math can be addictive. It's similar math to projecting covid or the money in your retirement accounts, except more fun and less depressing. Plus, my authors are good, funny writers, and I think this will make the stories better with good plot and good conclusions, as opposed to soap operas that meander along forever. One of the stories is almost done, which means I'm also playing with markdown export, LaTeX, Pandoc, and KDP to get actual printed books.

It's all just for stupid fun, no sane hope of commercialization, just books for our own bookshelves. We've also been surveying our friends to see if we can find more authors.
You didn't finish your argument. It could also be not just "whenever he intervenes he makes it worse, any company that is successful is so because he gets out of the way" — but also "whenever he intervenes he makes things better, any company that is a failure is so because he got of the way". That too is not mutually exclusive.
I don't understand why you're talking about statistical sampling. Aside from random functions, functions are deterministic, unit testing isn't about random sampling. That's not the problem here.

Problem is you have a python function that takes, say, 5 arguments. The first one is supposed to be an object representing json data so that's how it is used in the implementation. You may have some unit tests passing a few of those json objects. Great.

Next month some code elsewhere changes and that function ends up getting called with a string containing json instead, so now it blows up in production, you have an outage until someone fixed it. Not great. You might think maybe you were so careful that you actually earlier had unit tests passing a string instead, so maybe it could've been caught before causing an outage. But unlikely.

Following month some code elsewhere ends up pulling a different json library which produces subtly incompatible json objects and one of those gets passed in, again blowing up in production. You definitely didn't have unit tests for this one because two months ago when the code was written you had never heard of this incompatible json library. Another outage, CEO is getting angry.

And this is one of the 5 arguments, same applies for all of them so there is exponential complexity in attempting to cover every scenario with unit tests. So you can't.

Had this been written in a statically typed language, none of this can ever happen. It's the wrong object, it won't compile, no outage, happy CEO.

This isn't a theoretical example, it's happening in our service very regularly. It was a huge mistake to use python for production code but it's too expensive to change now, at least for now.
Yup. I'm trying to learn computational fluid dynamics for fun, and realised it's basically all numerical methods for PDEs, with some fluid dynamics-specific shortcuts. I know I've previously seen this stuff in relation to pricing derivatives in finance.

It's clear the underlying techniques are very powerful any time you have a thing whose rate of change varies as other things change. Once I understand everything better I will try it on e.g. capacity planning cloud resources and such.
I just spent the night dancing. That's what I am mostly passionate about, discovering peer-to-peer and building trust. Hoping to see people participate in the future they want rather than suffering the present that they believe inevitable.
There's been some interesting work on rigid body attitude control with sliding weights of late (as an alternative to gyros) - all fun stuff.

My main hope for internet satellites and other massive constellations is they all shutdown over radio quiet zones and ideally do something about being so shiny in the sun .. I'm a fan of radio astronomy and the night sky.

Fingers crossed. :-)
So long as the battery is on the inside piece, it really isn't much different from a manual deadbolt. There's some extra gears and the motor, but they're going to be behind plates of metal- if you are taking a crowbar or hammer to one, you'll make enough noise that you might as well just break a window.

On the other hand, a super distinctive deadbolt on your front door that is known to be easy to open with a bobby pin is basically anti-security as you are advertising that your home can be entered without leaving a trace.
ATL

been thinking about 'refill stations' a lot lately (avoid using single-use plastics / materials) - based on the idea that actual recycling in america is not really a thing.

not so passionate about it - just give it 30 min of thought a day, then move onto the next thing.

but now thinking, maybe other countries actually do do recyling, so maybe it's just a matter of doing more education / legislation activism?
Glad you were able to move back and muster up some interest in life again. I have the IQ and demeanor of a Labrador and somehow never lost my interest in tech 40 years after I started. Who knows, maybe your journey will lead you out of it now that you’re safely back home.
Weird how people can arrive at the same ideas but I have never called it by any physics terms. I have been focusing on daily occurrences that bother me because those are the ones that grind down your soul. For example, our shower towels were gross and I shower every day so I got new ones. I also got a really comfortable pillow because I use it every day. I make financial decisions based off of how often things bother me.
> you're just blind to them because you have somewhere between a mild dislike and a hatred for the company.

Sophisticated enough to understand the utility of Github, but too stupid to understand their own biases? The idea that someone is faulty in their understanding is an uncharitable take. The benefit of (MSFT's) history, is you can learn from it, or ignore it and claim that those who have are being irrationally ornery.

> Oh stop it.

Microsoft is one of many indifferent profit-seeking tyrants. I will never stop pointing out how positive characterizations are, at best, misinterpreting their intent. I'm much more likely to believe any feature is a stepping stone that MSFT plans to leverage later to extort its own users. This plan may or may not come to fruition, which is incidental.
Hello friend, from Launceston, Tasmania.

Right now I'm procrastinating on building a backyard sauna. Each of the plausible next steps has considerable activation energy to get started. I'm thinking about that resistance and what it means.
Judging by how all the Mastodon sites seem to have minor CSS changes at most, I'd say not in any significant way. But there are other front ends for the Fediverse network. Perhaps check out instances running Pleroma, Misskey, or Soapbox and see if any of those suit you further. Some instances even run multiple front ends at once (typically on different subdomains) and you can use the same credentials to log in to all of them.
For some reason this post reminds me of the game Journey, which has drop-in/drop-out anonymous co-op where you just chill with a stranger for a little. Highly recommend it if you like games, it's on sale currently.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/638230/Journey/
Hello from Vancouver. It's cold and windy here. My line-drying gym equipment is a mess, flying all over the balcony of this rented (obviously) apartment.

Not a tech guy, just curious. I'm in finance, suggesting ideas to people. Tech has been an escape. It feels so structured somehow.

Reading "Pride and Prejudice" for fun. Just want to connect with people across ages. I'm 36, friends are getting cancer, the image of death has been rendering itself in ever higher resolution.

What I create will perish for sure. I hope my daughter feels like the world is huge and hers to discover.

Peace to you all.
Somewhere between 3 months and 3 years you left off being a digital nomad and became a digital immigrant (or as we used to say, you moved to Colorado).

And the reason companies will start to take notice (I agree they often didn't back in "the day" especially if you still returned "home") is that governments will start to take notice; if you're in Colorado then Colorado wants your company to establish a nexus and correctly withhold Colorado taxes.

And that begins to apply to other countries as well. We're still ahead of the curve and many countries can't really determine tourists vs digital nomads, but they'll start getting better at it. And hopefully that'll make it easier for people to take advantage of it.
Howdy stranger!

With the debatable demise of organic community platforms and the rise of curated social-media recommendation by algorithms it is always nice to facilitate interaction between two vaguely-human entities. :-)

Take care!
The problem is your comparisons are off.

It's like the $3k MacBook pro has worse performance than the $500 generic, the $20k car is a better drive, or the $10 meal is better food than the fine dining.

Sure, the aesthetic and convenience qualities of the expensive versions are better, but basic functionality of a high-end product has to be at least comparable to the mid-range, and definitely has to be better then the low-end.
That'd be cool, but it just uses publicly available APIs for this. Most of the data like that isn't reported through the public APIs across various types of software. Bad data is tossed out (e.g., the you-think-your-fake-numbers-are-impressive.well-this-instance-contains-all-living-humans.lubar.me lists over 7 billion accounts) but data that is (as far as I know) accurate is presented as-is.
Is there examples of some sort of github copilot but on an architecture level... like a way to describe the digital product in words and the system would bring back an MVP out of the box ...???
There are issues with the physical lock, nothing to do with the electronics. So it's likely a real lock company like Schlage should be more resilient.
It can be helpful to frame things from a perspective of self-discovery. You may uncover new truths about yourself and the world that you would otherwise never have found. It builds character, good luck!
JavaScript has, for better or worse, become Flash.
Neat project! You seem like a super interesting person! How’d you get into parkour?
I'm replying to your thread. Will our interaction remain visible to visitors of Hacker News in an hour? A day? A week?

The element of human interaction that you're missing was lost when social media gave up on archiving threads the way forums did, and where followup replies to the thread bumped it to the top of the index.
You follow people you know. Friends. Family. Anyone you're a fan of. That's the best way to get the most out of any social network.
Best of everything, friend. Many of us are pulling for you. My pal somehow got through stage 4 brain cancer. There’s hope.
Re. moderation, I think you’re right to be skeptical of all-volunteer moderation, but I see it as a return to the phpBB days. My big worry is that once spammers/trolls start their own instances existing instances will have to lock down federation to other known instances, similar to what’s happened with email.

I’d argue that the things you don’t like about twitter have more to do with its business model than tweet-form content in general.
Meaning you can change out the mechanism that is easy to pick, but keep the smarts and motor?
I think tech lead or something like that. It sounds more serious than it actually is. Electrical engineering is done by someone who knows his stuff, I'm more software guy. Actual ADC is Texas Instruments chip built for ECG applications. So we basically interact with it and deliver a recorded signal to UI and finally to our servers. We have working business and we integrated with some ECG devices which are used on the local market, but having our own device would allow for much better integration and interesting features. Well, management always have infinite stream of ideas.

The hard part is going to be a certification, I guess.
Yeah I've been there. But I don't think you can improve your working memory or your "intelligence" (however you choose to measure it) much beyond your baseline (which could be quite high already, compared to the average). And the only way to stay at your baseline is by having a very relaxed life (good quality sleep, good nutrition and water, exercise etc).

Yearning for a bigger brain only made me feel worse.
If people make fun of you when they discover your blog: these are not your friends. Real friends don't do that.
> and should be expected to pay taxes.

Simple, force all landlords that have short term rentals to pass along tourist taxes like hotels already do.

The issue is with all of the illegal AirBnbs.
Exciting! What a feeling to know you can do it!
And the opposite. I had seen this and was waiting to buy one when brass is available. Now I’m going to pass. If they can’t take very basic measures then I don’t want it as a product. It tells me a lot about their process.
Oof. Too right.

But honestly, it's too early to worry about who runs what. Let's focus on progress towards transportation first.
Do you have an email / another way to apply?

I don't have linkedin (intentionally)
So far, those who claim to be fired Twitter Japan employees are all jocks and queen bees. No nerds. They are crying for their PCs are suddenly bricked and can't use at all. The way their talking sounds like they don't even own a PC at all.

A self-claimed Twitter Japan engineer, who hasn't been fired yet, said remote work is hindering their productivity for there are so many video meetings and hardly any time to code. He hopes ending the remote work to reduce the cost of communication.

There is no way to fact check those people, but seeing all the stupid moves from Twitter Japan, like announcing to partner with infamous far-right organization to combat the human right issues, or offering a old man who repeatedly commit dogeza for those whose Twitter account are locked for unknown reason and there is no human response from Twitter, so they chose to visit Twitter physically to negotiate the account unlock, indicates Twitter japan was hiring morons.
I am not a hardcore game player but I enjoy non-graphics-heavy games, and I loved FTL.

It's hard but not frustrating, varied, and short enough to play while waiting for something :)

Runs fine on Mac too!
It's a solved problem, it's just only gets applied to sports stars and other high-earning people: https://www.mondaq.com/canada/tax-authorities/968614/how-doe...

Now you could argue that it makes sense for a baseball player to be income taxed in Canada when playing there (as his job is to play the game that is being played in Canada) but it wouldn't make sense for the laptop jockey who could work from anywhere.
> It already has changed. The Twitter from two weeks ago is gone

Is it though? My own experience is that Twitter is exactly the same as it was two weeks ago. The only difference I'm seeing is that a lot of people on Twitter are currently preoccupied with the topic of Twitter.

As far as I can tell it's not really much different than when a lot of people on Twitter have been preoccupied with some other controversy. And in every case, the same discussions of general news and domestic politics go on entirely unaffected.
Spent most of the year building an origami folding webapp via English-like structured command texts. I've been asked why I choose this difficult endeavor, and I don't really have a true answer to it, other than being too naive about my ability to make it work and falling for the sunk cost fallacy. It's now beyond where getting away from it makes sense, so hopefully the remaining blockers are solvable and people will enjoy using it.

Find my contact in my profile and ping me if you're interested in seeing it before launch.
Would love to see the progress of this!
This is interesting to me, because I've grown up in a time where I have (largely) not had the opportunity to see what the internet was like in the earlier days. It's only recently that I've come to realize: the internet used to be very different.

Anyways. I'm currently interested in healthcare, specifically medicine. I think that it would be satisfying to treat patients and potentially save their life, and then to realize that the doctor and patient have probably never had contact before, and might never have contact again in the future. Just one stranger caring for another.

I'm not completely set on it, but there's many paths to follow at this point. I'm currently a SWE, and just feel that I want something more. To help people. To make their lives better.
Lots of bussiness use Facebook and Instagram for ads and reaching clients. I know few people who run shops selling clothing exclusively on Instagram and Facebook. They got rid of their websites and even communicate with client through IG messaging, etc. Not sure what impact disappearance of Meta would have, but I think there are many niche areas for which it wouldn’t be negligible.
Hi from Idaho, United States. It snowed here this week, first time this season.

Software engineering is my job, but I'm 41 years old now, and it isn't as fun as it used to be.

I became a pilot 1.5 years ago, and now I'm selling my first airplane and buying a larger one.

I've also done some woodworking projects recently. What a pleasant way to do something useful for my family.