skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not in hi-tech or engineering. In fact, I'm a photographer who has made a living in the this field starting in 1989. This forum is a wonderful resource for me, so I thought I would mention my particular contribution to the world as I contemplate retirement.

I've traveled North America photographing native bats. This was born from an obsession with documenting creatures that are not easily observed (this goes far beyond bats).

To accomplish the bat project, I built my own high-speed photo systems, designed specialty gear, and developed a processes for capturing extremely detailed images of bats in flight. Others had done it before me, but never shared the technical process. So I had to build it myself. Then I collaborated with biologists and institutions around the country to learn about behavior and more. It was a hell of a journey.

I'm so proud of the project. This work is very hard recreate these days because of a pandemic amongst bats (WNS) and humans (Covid). I think bats are among the most interesting creatures on the planet.

Working with all of these bat biologists, I learned of the holy grail of bats. Its a species that was once considered one of the rarest species in North America. Up until the 90's only a few specimens have ever been observed or documented.

But if you want to see images of the most spectacular bat in North America - the spotted bat - I am in a rare group who has ever seen one much less photographed them.

Some day I'll have to tell the story of Kentucky cave shrimp and how I traveled to the deepest bowels of Mammoth Cave with a crew of 20 - A combined group from the National Park Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service to photograph these tiny and rare shrimp.

Don't get me started on my journey to photograph red tree voles (that only live at the top of mature douglas fir trees).

I'm bragging - yes. I never imagined I could make a six figure income from this work. I expected to be poor. I genuinely hope this work has lasting impact.

Coming from a family rooted in poverty, addiction, and early death - this path has been a surprise beyond description.
I hate, loathe, and despise that fucking thing!

It prevents me from being able to see the credits! Sometimes I want to know who played what part!

I'm okay with an optional prompt that lets me skip the credits if I want to, but that should NEVER be the default!!!
This is meaningless. Everything is metric and nonmetric at the same time by this definition since you can always find a linear equation which let's you convert between the systems.
I have the old Ioniq model (2017-2019) and it has truly gone under the radar with many car/EV enthusiasts. The top of the line model has most features us in colder climates (heated steering wheel, seat warmers for the rear seats, even cooled seats for the summer) as well as nice tech features such as a pretty good lane assistant and CarPlay/Android Auto.

Charges from 20% to 80% in about 20 minutes at maximum speed (70kW) and can go 200km on a full battery.

It has to be the "best of the rest" when it comes to budget EVs and it definitely seems reliable due based on me browsing the used models online and seeing how the Ioniqs didn't have a lengthy list of fixes that are attributed to a make or model (kind of like the several problems that plague slightly older Model S).

The only thing missing from the old gen is a smartphone app connection to preheat (newer Ioniq has this, but has a slower fast charging speed).

For someone with a predictable driving pattern in Europe I can highly recommend it.

If the Ioniq 5 is as high quality as the old Ioniq, and the 6 builds upon that more, it should be an exciting model.
> mad dash to pump all the oil and gas they can get out of the ground

Might not be a bad idea to leave some of it there in case, you know, the future might need it to bootstrap its future.
Building on the shoulders of giants: I've made Google's Web Search >10% faster.
Some thoughts around bad code
> Which on the face of it is not true -- trans men can give birth, and aren't women

I think you're missing the point.
A poll hosted on a platform he controls is an easily-manipulated outcome.
LinkedIn.com type content, in my opinion.
unban Trump it does not matter he is now the classic quote If you cant dazzle them with brilliance than baffle them with bullshit
The quantum uncertainty principal and the speed of light are quite convenient if you are trying to efficiency simulate a universe without infinite computational power.
I’ll have a few more years, but let’s hope the stock market won’t crash just before retirement. :)
Do you use NixOS? I've found it a little too clunky for my taste, as a Gentoo Linux user. But maybe Nix is still worthwhile for me as a standalone tool.
I went to college for a number of years in electrical engineering technology. I started working even before I finished my degree. My first gig was PLC programming material handling systems for the pharmaceutical industry. It made sense, in order to maintain safety and a sterile environment it’s much better to have a stainless steel robot handle pails, jars, drums, etc of pills in a clean room instead of people touching them.

Next up was a table to help workers move large objects with hydraulic movement and pins to hold the material in place via compressed air activation, and all the associated limit switches electronic eyes etc. cool enough.

Then the big leagues, a 300k (17 years ago) A-B (Allen-Bradley) robotic arm in an auto parts plant. Day 3 inside / outside / on top of the cage, I become aware of a number of people standing behind the yellow line staring at me, later cursing me, one threw some crumpled paper at me… I’m asking the plant foreman wtf is with those guys. He says well as soon as your robot works they’re all laid off. I left that day and never went back. Someone finished programming and set up I’m sure, I could care less, I didn’t. I thought one day I’ll get stabbed in the parking lot.

I realize that my automation didn’t take jobs away from society, I didn’t do anything evil. Those jobs would just move and hopefully spawn better jobs in the community (medium to long term). But in that small short term microeconomic moment, there were real consequences, and I was the face of them. I was not happy, I changed careers that exact day.
Why does the E12 resistor sequence use 27 and 33 instead of 26 and 32?
And that's the point; it's his farm, they're his robots. You're an employee.

You got a job in an industry you like, that's not the same thing as, "I partnered with someone to build my idea."
Oh, so it's like a viral thing? If your instance follows an instance that has blocked all other instances, then your instance cannot view those blocked ones.

Maybe I don't understand it. Or maybe that's the idea of federation.

So, the solution is then to have your instance join the larger federation (for convenience), and then sign up as just an account on all other blocked ones. I guess.
I was asked to solve a relatively minor problem. I then turned it into a much larger project, more or less to entertain myself. Years later and the project just won't die, we've tried to get everybody off of it, but they just won't leave. Nobody wants to run this thing any more, it's just too big. In retrospect I should have focused only on just what the business really needed, and not turned it into a magnum opus.
Trump apparently has said he won't come back and will stay on Truth Social, even after this was announced. This is actually interesting, because it has put Trump between a rock and a hard place. If he goes back to Twitter (even if he stays on both), Truth social will collapse, and he'll lose his investment there. If he stays there, he loses million in exposure. Will be interesting to see what he does. If he does come back to Twitter, it's an absolute gift to Democrats as well. I'm sure Republicans are wincing.
I recall Elon saying he wanted to unban Trump as far back as May, so I see the poll as just another example of his fake 'power to the people' rhetoric.
Every year there are books that end into public domain, either because they were published long enough or they were released in that way recently. Are every one of them in the Gutenberg project?

Some of those book even are in their own github project, but it would be nice to have them somewhere, and maybe in a way that could resist censorship o blocking.

Or other things than books, like projects or research released in public that some commercial platform centralizes and put a price tag to access them.
> quakes triggered by fracking

Where do you get your misinformation from? This seems to be a widely held false belief.
I have to say that in the current economic climate EVs win against petrol vehicles so esaily when it comes to running costs that the tax credit is not needed in countries with a healthy amount of resale EV market. Discounts for city toll traffic due to no emissions should still stay in place to help protect air quality but running a reliable budget EV is definitely a winning strategy.
Glabios is GPL3, although unfortunately based upon MASM (non-free and quite old-fashioned assembler).

The other two are sketchy and no license (i.e. unusable), respectively.
All penis transplantations were made to males.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_transplantation
> The nice thing about openbsd having no abi guarantees is that they can fix this problem the correct way. they made time_t 64 bit on all architectures.

The correct way is to create APIs that take a 64-bit time_t and migrate applications over to them. No ABI guarantee means the old APIs can be removed if they are a burden to implement, but obviously for the case of time_t they aren't, so sticking a warning message in there is sufficient for the next 15 years or so.

> All things considered, if you have the source to everything, abi is overrated, if you don't, it is vital.

ABI might be, but API isn't. Even within a single application, the correct way to do internal interface changes that affect a lot of code is generally to create the new one, move callers, then remove the old one. Certainly in a case like this where keeping the old APIs around is trivial.

And OpenBSD does not have the source code to everything, and even in ports, there tends to be an upstream and issues with porting.
Spent a year building a financial analysis engine for automated commodities trading, including a home-baked distributed computing system. Ran it on servers at work (which was unethical) and ended up losing some money (not a lot) on trading a system it produced. The trades themselves did make profit, but I failed to account for broker fees. Good learning experience but wasted a lot of time writing code that I ultimately threw away.
I wrote the first version of SafeSearch, Google's family filter. That led to the insight that Google could be spammed. That led to fights with Google's founders--Sergey thought Google couldn't be spammed, for example.

Eventually the founders realized that Google could be spammed, so I helped build the team at Google that tries to keep Google's rankings from being manipulated.

I was also proud to serve in the U.S. Digital Service, which is the groups of geeks that rescued healthcare.gov. The U.S. Digital Service has done a ton of impactful things for Veterans, immigrants, students, small business owners, and many others.

Most recently, I served as an expert on spam and bots for Twitter in their lawsuit against Elon Musk.
Examples are numerous.

Republicans questions election results without proof and they are "undermining democracy". Hilary Clinton calls Trump an "illegitimate president" in 2019 and it's crickets.

Of course they'll wave their hands saying "it's different", but it's not. Either denying election results without evidence is wrong or it's not.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trum...

And the Republicans do the same thing on different issues - talking about wasteful spending and then turn around support wasteful spending themselves.

It’s hypocritical and unsurprising most voters don’t believe anything politicians say.
Ask HN: What if Elon Musk is tanking Twitter on purpose?
Thought experiment: What if Elon Musk is ensuring that Twitter fails on purpose? What would be the benefit?
Did Twitter-the-conpany have enough people left to collect this info, process it to find bots and bad actors, and then act on the results? Seems unlikely.
Maybe it's time to write a guide for employees on how to detect that this is running.
Sounds like I should get back into Unix dev around 2034 maybe.
That's a nice, beautifully-rendered project. I winced when you mentioned copyright. On my sites (eg GiveThemLife.com), I try to avoid copywritten material in on-site content. I can't tell people it's free for any use if my dependencies might not be. That God gave us His Word as a free gift, but His children restrict it, just bothers me.

I'm so grateful for MPJ and others who made the World English Bible. It's good enough most of the time. If not, I sometimes customize the passage by mixing it with synonyms from other, public-domain translations. Even the dynamic translations, like Weymouth, are good for mining words. Many are on studybible.info, e-SWORD modules, and even on eBay in book form.

Far as your tool, I don't see how you could merge copywritten content into the main interface. However, you might add a button or menu action for each verse that generates a pop-up to an external page with many translations. BibleHub is good for that. One side effect is that your site causes people to bump into other content that may help them.

Re licensing. I am curious how much they wanted to charge you. Especially for ESV. For one translation, WEB's author was quoted $10,000 plus $10 a copy for use in free software.
Worst case scenario, huh?

So how much does enough storage to cover a months long unplanned nuclear plant outage cost?
To us or to him?
Maybe you can make it a sort of cage fighting ring for chickens? Apparently needs to be strong enough to keep out a bear.
Yes precisely. Closer than the average
A PBX extension to remind customers of a renewal they opted into. Highly successful but also no ability to determine time zone... so not great
>I can understand why you believe this, because it's part of the ActivityPub marketing, but it simply isn't true. ActivityPub is extremely loosely defined, and the protocol it builds on, ActivityStreams, places no limitations on the type of data that is transferred.

I'm literally using ActivityPug this way right now. I follow Pixelfed and PeerTube accounts as well as Lemmy feeds using my Mastodon account right now. The developers of all these platforms are actively ensuring that they are interoperable.

I really have no idea what you're basing your claims on here. You can use your Mastodon account right now to follow my Pixelfed @yogthos@pixelfed.social and subscribe to my feed. You can even leave comments and I'll see them on my Pixelfed.
IBM's documentation for the original PC includes its BIOS source code. Not sure if in its entirely, or a good portion thereof.
If you haven't already, you might wanna check out Sendgrid, Mailgun, Mandrill, etc.
I only recently had this same thought. It's making me think hard about how to reorganize all of these services I have set up for my family.
In this context, whether it's written by you or by the user. Never trust user input.
The reason people will say that sounds unreasonable is the fact that the vast majority of people will probably be discomforted more by having to drive almost 1000 km with only one stop compared to having to stop two or three times to take bathroom breaks or eat. Not to even mention the fact that it is not safe for you or others to drive that long just one break.
Are these hallways for staff only?
This would actually probably be a great feature add-on. As soon as an elected official gets assigned an email address, sign them up on a long list of bullshit newsletters, spam sites, porn sites, and merchandise lists. See how long it takes them to pass legislation to clamp down on user tracking and spam.
In many cases, software is like a tool. I provided a screwdriver: generally it's used for good, but sometimes it's used for assembling a bomb. By providing the screwdriver, I have no influence on how it's used. For me, it's important that most software I write is free software with few restrictions on its use. That way, I ensure that my screwdriver is available for all good purposed, even though I acknowledge that I cannot prevent it from being able to be used for evil. It's a tricky balance, but I trust that the good uses of new tools outweigh the evil. A war on screwdrivers won't prevent missiles targeting civilians.
>n Friday, Musk asked leaders in those organizations to agree to fire more employees. Robin Wheeler, who ran marketing and sales, refused to do so, the people said. So did Maggie Suniewick, who ran partnerships. Both lost their jobs as a result, the people added.

Refusals? The rot in Twitter seems deep, with these fiefdoms.
Who isn't a fool?
Watch the World Cup be the death of Twitter for this type of thing?!
So glad I entered the game as ActiveX was being phased out haha.
> What could surprise us next year?

Hopefully, nothing. I’m really tired of living in a historical moment.

I was a teenager in the 90s and was angry with the dullness of the world back then. I’m now convinced that revolutions are for those under 25.
Do you mean a dryer-type outlet? A regular plug would give cars 20 miles over 8 hours tops.
This is one side story, with no "oh I didn't knew it'll be used that way!" gotcha moment - I've worked in private milsec for some time, and I'm responsible for few device designs / ammo improvements/mk's, while I take pride in job well done, just because someone dies more quickly, doesn't mean its a good death - so after some years, I've started having doubts of that career path.
I'm fully aware of the named things.

But I tried already to explain why I think those things failed: It's all about the software.

You can't build a "sufficiently smart compiler" if the task is to parallelize an inherently sequential command stream.

This endeavor failed because it was part of the wrong effort.

The whole point is that people didn't think in terms of systems design any more at this time! They looked on "the hardware problem" in separation.

The expectation was that you can take a program written for "a fast PDP-7" add some "smart compiler" magic on top, and let this run (hopefully) faster on an improved hardware architecture. This didn't work out. Imho to no surprise.

I think the problem lies in the mental model behind computers which dominates the perception is since some time. We're almost exclusively (at least when it comes to general computation) left with the the model of a sequential command stream machine. CPUs execute (interpret) a sequence of instructions. Those instructions may alter an "infinite" (or at least "gigantic enough") global state in arbitrary ways. That's the basic model.

As long as your software is basically written with this model as background you can't "fix this on the hardware level", at least without real magic.

What we no do is to mitigate the problem as best as we can with methods that reached imho completely insane levels.

I think that we could find much better solutions if we would take a step back and rethink the machine in whole. I mean, software hardware co-design is a thing, only not when it comes to general computation especially not together with also OS / runtime (software) design.

My current personal favorite idea how thing could be improved and simplified is to see a computer as a graph of event-stream processors. This mental picture scales nicely on different "zoom levels". From raw hardware to the runtime level to (distributed?) application design. Only that it would require languages that compile down to such a model in an efficient way. A command stream language wouldn't map good or likely even acceptably (same problem as with the old "more exotic" hardware designs).

BTW: For number crunching VLIW and compiler guided parallelism works quite fine. Vector CPUs anybody? That were the fastest computes once, afik. And since MMX up to AVX the whole idea is a big mainstream success. (We're not even talking about GPUs here of course, that's not the topic; nobody tried to replace "typical" CPUs with GPUs so this does not count).
There is a useful service Pantone is providing: when I want a physical thing to be a certain color, I can buy that color ink from them to get it consistently. But once I've applied the ink to the thing in question, it's mine like that forever. Imagine that Pantone demanded all of their customers to pay them protection money every month, or they'd send their goons to spray-paint black over everything you ever used their inks on. That'd obviously be completely unacceptable in the physical world, so why is it acceptable for them to do it to your .psd files?
Not the media, the justice system. Any normal person who mishandled information post-presidency or fomented insurrection would be in jail.
amazon.com
You can organize.

Why shouldn't workers in a factory have a say over how their labour is used by those who appropriate it?

Baffled by how obvious solutions appear to have fallen off the radar.
Not as far as I was ever aware. They were intended for guest areas.
Go have a blast with Genode[0] and Managarm[1].

0. https://www.genode.org

1. https://managarm.org/
But have you tried compiling V8 to WebAssembly to run the JS inside a VM within JS? /s
This is probably the best chicken song of them all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miomuSGoPzI (and turn on captions).
dang, is there some reason as to why links to Truth Social are being suppressed? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1093727430642...
A lot of "tech" companies are really just marketing companies. No innovation is being done, just optimizing some funnel.

Working on useful software is good, glad you're doing that now.
Poetry is currently not useful for extensions: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2740
I basically helped in whatever I could to give them a better shot at landing their first job.

Company selection, CV review, coding exercises and question prep. With one guy he actually recorded an interview without my asking him to do it, but it turned out to be really helpful as I discovered he needed help with basic small talk type skills as well.

The main challenges are:
1) Finding people that are at that point in their career
2) Most people actually are lacking in technical skills and need to up their skillset
3) The obvious challenge that people without jobs don't always have a heap of spare money floating about
4) Tech stacks are often quite different (although not really a problem for me personally).

It's not too hard to sell people (still a numbers game though), but the price point was Def a sticking point.
I've coded the firmware for a CAN-based communication bus for a medical device with lots of different boards talking to each other. This same company had a war industry department and they used this code in a missile project. It left a weird taste in my mouth.

Btw, they got an early version that had a memory leak, and when I went to warn them, they just said: "It's okay! It's just going to run for about 20 seconds!"
Nah, that’s for HTML
I almost forgive you and your team mates.
I'm from AUS too, have you considered importing a smaller EV directly from Japan? It's a pretty easy process, and the options are starting to get really great and most are sub 40k AUD. The new Leaf looks really great, they've dropped the "Bubbly EV" aesthetic and it just looks like a regular hatchback now.

Check this, https://www.j-spec.com.au/lineup/all/Leaf/ZE1/id-D49

Then click "See prices", they're importing for around 30k AUD (which includes all shipping costs and compliance).

For me I still need a bit of extra range for inter-city trips (for those playing at home, that's thousands of KMs per trip), so I am looking at a Nissan Note Nismo, which is a series hybrid (electric drivetrain with a tiny petrol generator).