skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read the comments before posting but I will add.
I am wanting to do a few "passion projects" I have wanted to do for awhile.
One is make my own router like device. Not at a commercially made level just take a computer and add parts to do what I want. And I want to expand on it having it perform virtualization server functions (and a bit in depth like gpu pass through and maybe other device pass through) and NAS functions and further.
Computers captivated me when I was young and hardware and software in general really is what I think got me here. I remember seeing a computer opened up for the first time and wanting to know what every little piece of it did especially the larger chips and expansion boards.
Cost is my factor right now, but I am starting to look into it.
THe other is that I have wanted to get into a more electronic engineering area but didn't really explore it. And I see a lot of expensive products and lately have been looking at them and thinking: I can make a comparable or better product for much cheaper! So I think looking into this area could give me a push to look more into electronic engineering.
Seattle, checking in.

I'm tinkering with my homemade Raspberry pi powered NFC Sonos jukebox. Uploaded code, rough design instructions, and a demo video here for anyone else to build: https://github.com/zacharycohn/jukebox
Hello from Melbourne, Australia.

This weekend it finally started to feel warm, and I'm ready for summer.

I ran a software development agency for 8 years, sold it at the start of the pandemic, and been travelling with my wife in an RV around Australia thinking about what's next.

One of the issues we faced in our business was around centralising project requirements, and ensuring both our clients and our team could refer to a source of truth. I spent years thinking documentation was bad, but slowly started to realise in an agency setting, when you're working on possibly many a few long-term projects - it's impossible to keep it all in your head.

So my wife and I started building Userdoc (https://userdoc.fyi), and over the last few months have been doing a lot of customer interviews and and demos, along with finalising the product.

This weekend we've finished the last couple of items on our todo list, and rolling it out to our initial users very soon.
Yeah, what he has done with SpaceX is incredible. Love him or hate him, but Falcon launch system is the most viable alternative to Russians. Starlink already provides internet in rural areas and is literally battle-tested. I am skeptical about Tesla, particularly because if their self-driving claims, but he scaled it up and the vehicle itself is solid. That is what many who hate him, don’t want to admit. His companies did create some nice tech. Maybe he just burnt out and lost focus.
i know right looks more like a vehicle. we sit in a car and operate it but do not call it a exoskeleton.

i think a true exoskeleton is something that accentuates our form to improve how we can physically do something.

i think alien(the movie) has a good image of a exoskeleton basically a fork truck in effect that can move things though.
Windows 11 was released in Oct 2021. In Oct 2022, its market share was 15%.

Windows 10 was released in Jul 2015. In Jul 2016, its market share was 28%.

Not all that much of a story here, when you look at the numbers.
Congrats

Starting drinking every night is so easy, but stopping altogether is so hard. very commendable to those who decide to stop.
Isn't this simply being organized?
I know they framed the statistic as “only 4%” but that’s higher than I would have guessed, given that modern locks (should) have anti-picking security features. If we could calculate the fraction of break-ins by the picking where the lock was vulnerable to raking or bumping, we should expect it to be higher.
I can say that they have multiple station keeping and orientation methods. The ion thrusters are public info!
For the past five years or so, I've taken singing lessons. I really recommend it to anyone who has even the faintest interest, even if you feel like you can't carry a tune in a bucket. What I learned the first four to six lessons was enough to make a substantial difference both in my vocal quality and in my comfort in singing for long periods (one of the first things you learn, essentially, is how not to shred your vocal cords). One thing I love about singing is that it's one of the most democratic arts. You don't have to buy or maintain instruments -- you were born with it. Almost everybody is capable at least of some degree of singing. There's no gadgets to buy to improve it. And no matter what kind of music you like, there is a place for vocals. You can sing by yourself in the shower or in front of a band or in a chorus or in a congregation, if that's your thing.

Aside from the benefits of being able to produce aesthetically pleasant sounds and the fundamental pleasures of mastery of a skill, I recommend it to anybody who wants to become more aware of and comfortable with their body and/or with expressing their emotions.

I'm sure that there are good free online lessons for singing, and I've used a lot of videos for practice, but I really encourage seeking out a teacher if you can. Covid has been bad for their business, and there's no replacement for face-to-face instruction. (The good news is that, unlike something like the piano, it's absolutely feasible to get useful instruction over a video call!)
> You don't turn a plane in flight by slamming the yoke as far left as you can. If you know how to fly, then you know how to make a fast turn, but that means knowing how flying works, how the plane responds, and how your current state will change in response to your inputs.

I'm sure that's true for planes, but I see no reason to believe it's true for Twitter. He's fired a lot of people, but as far as I can tell most of the teams that were killed weren't mission critical.

> Twitter's business is advertising sales. Musk destroyed a billion dollars in committed pre-sales for 2023, then drove away more advertisers in his attempt to fix the situation, then threatened prospective advertisers with "thermonuclear name-and-shame." He's basically destroyed Twitter's ad sales model without a replacement revenue stream ready to go. $8 for various perqs won't replace a fraction of it even with significant uptake, and this is in the context of adding a billion dollars of annual debt servicing in a company whose revenue was only marginal profitable with the ad sales.

This is true, and an ordinary business owner (particularly of a public company) wouldn't do this because they're afraid of losing money for a quarter. Elon isn't as afraid of that, for obvious reasons. He clearly didn't anticipate the advertisers would do this this quickly, especially before he even made any changes. I'm not sure most people anticipated that.

However, the speed with which he's moving has its advantages as well. He just fired 50% of the staff, which presumably nearly cuts their costs in half, since most of a company like Twitter's costs are salaries. So, he does have some breathing room to lose some revenue.

> On top of that, cutting half the staff with zero notice and ordering a billion dollar reduction in infrastructure costs is a massive amount of organizational chaos added at the same time as he's expecting to iterate quickly and replace a multi-billion dollar revenue stream.

This is true, but thus far that chaos has been completely manageable. Twitter hasn't gone down or had technical problems that I'm aware of. It's still very early, of course, and it might have some soon. But I don't see any evidence that anything he's actually done has caused problems yet.

The teams that got cut entirely all seem to me to be non-mission-critical, in a revenue/uptime sense. The mission critical teams got minor haircuts. It doesn't seem at all to me like he's putting the site at risk of going down in a technical sense.
> "By next month I will have had run 50 km" - is there a BETTER way to say this sentence?

By next month, I will have run 50km. This means that "I run 50km" completes first, and then next month arrives afterwards.

> By my English textbook there's 16 tenses, 4x4

Depends on how you count tenses. Different textbooks will give different counts, depending on what is considered a "tense". Which is not a reflection of the complexity of English, but a reflection of how hard it is to come up with definitions for terms in linguistics. "Would" is often not counted as a tense, but it may be counted as a tense, particularly if you are explaining English to speakers of a language which have a tense expressing something similar.

> Point being, English grammar is far from simple, as this conversation clearly demonstrated

Most languages are far from simple, I don't think English deserves special attention.
I, for one, am eager to see any random billionaire go to Mars, provided they stay.

I would bet any amount of money none will.
A lot of people seem to think changing the variable names makes it new code.
Wow I didn’t think about this for 3D space, thanks for the links!
I play piano outside of work. I came to the realization recently than friends pretty only ever see me play through the internet, because the venues they choose for meeting up are never ones with pianos.
Didn't think I'd find something like this on hn. Good luck to you mate. I'm on the journey too. Almost 2 years now, was on the verge of brink and posted something on hn to which Dan, the moderator emailed me and told me to hang in there. At the time had no one, still keep a small circle and no immediate family. His words gave me strength to survive and possibly how I ended up in recovery instead of the other side.
Hello from Vancouver! I am passionate about movement, but recent injury is preventing that. My new focus is trying to find connection between what I can currently do and what brings joy. It’s a hopeful journey of rediscovery. Thanks for the post and for the real people reading my comment now! I truly hope you all have a moment of happiness tomorrow and know I’ll be thinking of you.
Ha, indeed. It seems to be up for me, but that's why I put it on the demo subdomain and left off HTTPS: it's a demo, not quite ready for production.

(It's also getting flooded with vulnerability scanners at the moment, but that's not affecting the load, just the pipe.)
It doesn't include even the most basic of security features. It even lacks security pins which have become standard in all but the cheapest locks. The security this thing provides may make it adequate for securing a wardrobe, but it is in no way appropriate for securing a front door or even a room.

This thing can be opened in 10 minutes by a 10 year old with no experience in lock picking. Level should be sued. This product is not fit for the purpose it is being sold.
The Internet needs decentralization again, how are we going to do it on the infrastructure level?
I like the webring implementation on your personal site. I wish academic researchers did this, that'll make knowing people in different fields so much easier and fun.
While sun always moves from east to west, in northern hemisphere, if you look at the sun then it's towards the south and moves left to right; and in southern hemisphere the sun is towards the north and thus moves right to left.
In any tech company out there only a small number of employees are tasked with keeping the lights on. The majority are working on new feature development. So "you can run [company] with fewer employees" is trivially true.

Of course the flip side of that is – without these employees you will also not be able to deliver on all these new features. In Twitter's case Elon has decided that whatever new features the previous leadership were cooking are irrelevant now.
It was a stupid thing for the article to say. Musk knows exactly who the current customer is, and he obviously wants to change it.

The current customer is the ad buyer. It would be a lot better for the users if they were the customer (rather than the product).
Hello from Atlanta! I'm working on my first academic paper, on f-expressions, which I'm very passionate about. Ran out of time on the first go-around, and submitted to a big conference before it was ready - got rejected. Hoping to avoid that fate this time - it's definitely going to be a lot better, but there's still a lot of work to do.

I've quite enjoyed reading the other responses here - this hit at a great time for me, between the two 1AMs Eastern, when all is quiet and dark outside and I work by lamplight, feeling a bit of that electric connection to everyone here.
It's all about form! Good form = less risk of injury. Good form = opportunity to reach higher potential. As a former personal trainer it makes me happy to hear this. :)
Thanks for pointing that out. I assumed it meant only the latest / top of the line devices would work.
Firstly, locks should be immune to raking. If I can enter your property with a piece of metal in 20 seconds and with no training, the lock manufacturer fucked up. That's casual and you want to deter casual opportunists.

So, other than picking, there's a bunch. There's snapping the cylinder, which is common in the UK and only takes pliers, there's using a crowbar against the door to move the frame out of the way around the latch, breaking windows, and more.

My threat model doesn't include pickers, for sure, but I'm particularly angry about this product because it's visually distinctive and famous, so unlike a regular lock which is basically a roll of the dice as to its quality, this quietly screams for attention and that's a problem. Thieves do canvas houses looking for targets.
The expensive, fraught saga of Faraday Future
Hello from South Korea.
I spent my whole day trying to install the latest NetBSD 7.3 onto my Compaq Pentium 3 laptop. I'm passionate on these old computers recently, trying to bring them back to life. A 750mhz Coppermine with 128mb SDRam, or a 1.8Ghz Willamette with 384mb DDR ram.. I love that old times and old machines, similar to my first computers.
I can't really think of more to write, but have a nice day. :)
What's hilarious is what you're actually saying (and don't realize it).

You're describing many of those who are what we would call "non-normative", if you will. aspergers, autism, and the like. Yes, it's statistically understood those who choose this career are more likely to fall into that category.

So what's really being said here is that women are being chased out of well paying STEM field because they're too judgemental to deal with those who are non-normative.

Is that really the fault of men, or maybe we should blame these self-same non-normative folks?

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Can you imagine if someone were to claim the reason so many men choose not to go into nursing is because of the smell that happens roughly once/month?

Think about why one is acceptable and the other is not.
One of the arguments in favor of the "schools bad" argument (or perhaps against?) is that there's a wide, wide variance in the quality of schools. The author alludes to this with respect to people. He suggests that some of his friends were probably bright in school, thus bored in school, and now their life is awesome because they can do what they want. But there are some schools in which it doesn't matter how bright you are, it still sucks, and there are other schools where even the below average students are treated well and school is generally a positive experience.

The other stuff? Sure. Kids bully kids -- that sucks, we should figure out how to stop it! Schools have budget problems and cut off A/C -- that sucks, we should figure out how to solve it! Kids shoved into rooms in identical desks and unable to fidget and have 3 hours of homework per day -- that sucks, we should figure out how to solve it!

I'm one of those who thinks school is good in the aggregate, for all of the reasons the author did. For the "fake" reason (science doesn't support the "school = bad" narrative) and for the "real" reason which is that I actually really enjoyed school.

But of course, that's in the aggregate. Overall, it's a net positive. It's hard to argue that schooling hurts our society.

It's also important for us to recognize that there are individuals and marginalized groups for which traditional schooling is not helping. I got bullied as a kid, as do many kids in today's world. There are kids that are truly bored because they understood the lesson the first time, but the teacher must repeat it 4-5 times for the sake of the entire class. There are kids that do better in highly structured programs, and others who do better in more free-wheeling programs. There are kids with disabilities and socioeconomic factors that make schooling difficult -- things like whether they can afford lunch that day, or have an abusive or helicopter parent.

It's important not only to recognize those, but to think: how can we solve those problems?

Of course, if it were easy, we'd have done it by now. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
Love the post and really digging reading through all the passion projects everyone is working on. My current passion project is actually planning my next passion project. I currently work for a FAANG company and I'm incredibly burnt out. I have two more rounds of stock grants I'll like to go through (last one is in March) and then I'm taking a year off to explore the stock market, AI, and would love to build websites and apps for non profits for free.
It's not like very few people can do everything right, almost nobody can do everything right.

I think he's outstanding for building a trusted core of executives who can carry out his projects like he wants them to as good as anybody can. He has prevailed when the odds were against him, which may be the case with Twitter now.

It might have been better to build the same level of trust with the top Twitter people before letting so many go, bringing in Tesla outsiders as axmen is more like a hostile takeover.
Or they could have been excellent test takers and not much else. Unless you’re trying to say that cheating on standardized test is commonplace, which would be yet another black mark against them.
Same, I still like tech stuff but I’ve put an end to caring about staying updated on the bleeding edge and started new hobbies that are not in front of a computer screen.
Congratulations and good luck. I think it's the hardest habit in the world to break for some of us, in part because the rest just can't understand. People are either unsympathetic or too sympathetic, if you get me. Keep on building those "muscles" to carry you through social situations. Sobriety has many rewards.
I'm getting ready to spend a week playing the Interactive Fiction Competition games! Every November I get excited to play the new entries. It reminds me of being a kid in the early 1980's and getting a new Infocom game for Christmas. I makes me so happy that there are other people who not only feel the same way I do about IF, but they actually write spectacularly fun games!

https://ifcomp.org/
I would say it's pretty good. This area has long had two primary economic anchors: software / digital tech, and life sciences / pharma. You have companies like IBM / Red Hat, SAS, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. here, and a burgeoning startup scene on the "digital tech" front. In terms of life sciences, well, TBH, I can't name most of the companies because I don't work in that space. But lots of pharma stuff. Glaxo-Smith-Kline is probably the biggest and most well-known, but there are a ton of smaller players in that space around here. There's also a lot of the "tech jobs with non tech companies" stuff here. Big companies in fields like finance, insurance, logistics, etc. set up development shops here and do a lot of their software development and IT work locally. You have companies like MetLife, Credit Suisse, Fidelity, etc. here in that sense.
True. I'm not an insomniac or anything close and I exercise regularly. I think sleep hygiene and sleep posture (and breathing during sleep) are the last pieces of the puzzle. Still working on it.
So true. When abused like I did, it created so many more problems than it solved. I wish I had the clarity to realize that in the moment.
If cost is concern, consider Elixr-based Pleroma(or its forks), way less hardware requirement with most feature parity w Mastodon.

Ops is good q, based on my observation, most of these implementations has a Dockerfile at best, CloudFormation/K8s is very rarely considered. And probably bc where this community was originated from, Amazon is pretty much suggested against.
Oh awesome. Ftl has been sitting in the queue for a long time now, might be time to redownload and get that mod
I believe it was Musk that said Comedy is now legal on twitter. It was bold for him to post a joke while doing a comedy on Twitter considering he could've been flogged (or worse!) but I believe we shouldn't be retroactively looking for crimes he might've committed.
More countries are actually starting to codify how this can be done, but mainly aiming at digital expats if you will.

Of course the vast majority don't bother with the legality, knowing that they're just dicking around on a laptop and unlikely to be noticed or fined.
I'm passionate about a particular orange-patterned cat. Come join us at rdrama.net.
In my experience, this is one of the ways that valid problems are dismissed. Engineers (and people in other disciplines) dogfooding and building the product should be listened to when they bring up these issues. They have T-shaped skills and an understanding of how the software works, as well as whether it can meet consumer expectations. There should not be gatekeeping about who can have insights into the product and who can't.

I think that you hit the nail on the head with the word "trust" - in many companies there should be more trust from management that engineers understand the context within which they work, and could have very unique and valid insights into how their software and hardware will be received by the consumer.
Twitter has lot of algorithmic control already and it has worked pretty good for more than decade. This is not to say more staffing wouldn’t be useful and improve experience but I don’t think Twitter is in sudden risk of turning into cesspool any more than it was 5 years ago. People will always point to XYZ examples but you need to look at big picture.
If they can fix the bot problem and allow for better long form conversations (even as a paid feature), true engagement will go up and advertisers will return. I run a lot of conversion (not brand) ads on Meta, Google, and Reddit but haven't had predictable success on Twitter in years because of the bots. Large brands will shy away for awhile because of the controversy, but small businesses will advertise on Twitter if the cost per click goes down due to fewer bots.
If you are referring to the official mobile client not having the local timeline, I disagree with the approach, but there are a round dozen alternative clients and this didn't affect the web interface. As usual, everyone has their own vision for what the absolutely correct decision is in every instance, but it's Eugen's project.
Layoffs are great. They weed out the unproductive, the weak, the ones that don’t deserve such salary.

The good employees will find employment regardless. The bad ones won’t.

Nothing to see here. In fact, the world could use way way way more layoffs now.
How do you go about finding a good teacher that will teach you to sing safely with proper technique? I've had a singing teacher in the past that caused vocal issues and didn't have the faintest idea on why the way I was practicing was causing issues, except for "my other students don't have issues".