skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
an Android watchface creator app...

I regret building it, but not for any ethical reasons, except for maybe that it's become nothing but corporate ads.

My real reason for regret is just the entire process that happened after it became successful. It took off and was over 50k DAUs ~5 months after I launched it. I tried supporting it the best I could, and had aspirations for the future of it, but I was young and dumb. I got caught up on feedback, took it too personally and started having trouble in my personal life due to it.

I ended up selling it to another company for far less than what it was worth, even while I had 2 competing bids because I let one of them get to me emotionally at the time. I also agreed to continue working with them on it, at what I found out later was vastly underpaid, to the tune of being ~10k below the CA minimum for a salaried SWE. Our time together lasted less than 9 months for a myriad of reasons.

I regret it, mainly because I always look back and think of what could have become if I had the strength to continue it solo, or had spent the time to look for a better partner to carry my vision forward. Instead now, you can get your latest [insert corporate media here] watchface from it for a mere $4.99/mo.
FWIW I remember IronRuby quite fondly. If not the outcome, the effort.
You can still sign up on any other instance.

OP was even permitted to migrate their followers and setup a redirect after reaching out to the mods.

Your not entitled to free hosting by an instance, if they object to your content or actions they will ban you.
My experience with heat pumps has been that I've had to replace them much more often, they didn't offer a significant cost savings and frankly didn't provide the same level of comfort compared to a gas furnace for the trouble. That was in a relatively mild climate, I couldn't imagine using one where it gets properly cold.
> requires an extreme amount of maintenance through its life cycle

Precisely. Calling a plumber to plug a leak or remove a clog 10 miles underground is astronomically expensive.
Found this blog post about it [0] but not a landing page for the actual product.

[0] https://chatbotsmagazine.com/ivy-is-a-a-24-hour-virtual-conc...
but again, I can find nowhere where animals are "forced to drink it's own urine in a desperate attempt to recycle the little iron it has in it's system"

so lambs and calves are not the same, and drinking urine is not a thing. it's possible you might be getting overly upset about stuff you don't completely understand.

for a more balanced and professional take on veal and eating meat: https://youtu.be/bMGIAZDqYYs
> Shouldn't this mean a ban on one instance allows you to still access other instances?

Not on the instance that's your "account provider" so to speak. (the obvious difference with reddit is that reddit.com as central "provider" for accounts exists)

> Even moving the account was not permitted after the ban.

According to the thread, the admin re-enabled the account so they could move.
That's beautifully worked.

o//blink/blink

What's the double slash for?
We are stuck in the 70s because Unix is free. Those mainframes and such were more advanced but they were expensive. The LISP machines and the connection machines were expensive.

Free doesn’t just succeed because people don’t want to pay. It succeeds because you can just copy it with zero friction. It’s viral.
I built a tool for an influencer marketing agency that would log which instagram pages they visited. This info could be used for machine learning and discovering new influencers which was a major problem for the agency.

The first changes I made to the poc was making the ability to identify which employees did what and when so hard that if they asked us to do it, it would either not be possible or cost so much that it wouldn’t be feasible.
It's hard to articulate but whenever I find myself wishing I could inherit methods in a wrapper type, the design is bad. The designs where it ends up not being necessary are always much friendlier.
Yes, an M2.
> Printing presses tend to only have cyan, magenta, yellow, black ink in them.

This isn't right. Printing presses don't come with inks, you mix inks and load them onto the press. Printers tend to only have CMYK, and that's also not true for many high end printers, because CMYK is a very restrictive gamut. Hell, the reason for the K is because CMY can't do a good black.
Javascript does a ton of things that are extremely questionable, so it's not a good source to say you should do something. Rather, it's a better argument (though still flawed) to say that because it's done all the time in Javascript, it's evidence that you shouldn't do it.
if Elon had any backbone next would be Alex Jones
> It probably would have been smarter for the EU to just pay up instead of paying 2x or 3x more for less than nothing

So moral compass doesn't matter for you. "Pay the shake down" is your take.

> Which the EU will likely have to pay to clean up and restore in the future.

You say clean up, but forgetting that Ukraine has an incredible amount of highly skilled/educated population. They're not some 3rd world lost country as you imagine.

Investment in Ukraine when things finish up might actually be beneficial.
Not at all.

If I get floats from $somewhere, I might want to index them into a hash data structure without creating a huge sparse array.

If you assume float numbers have "identity" such that, whatever the precision, "x == x" always holds (other than NaN), then this is a perfectly valid thing to want.
I dunno about using it with SWIG but I've had a pretty good experience using Poetry [1] for pure Python stuff myself. That uses pyproject.toml to declare all your project's dependencies, but no idea if it can be used with SWIG or not. I'd have to research it…

[1]: https://python-poetry.org/

Edit: Some quick cursory research seems to indicate I'd have to do some custom scripting to integrate SWIG into the process.
Original ban thread — Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691912
So we drilled core for gold. There are two main types of drilling RC and diamond core. RC is like a pneumatic hammer system i didnt work with those so cant say much about them (they recover a dust pile as their sample type, diamond core pulls out preferably a long cylinder core sample that has orientation marked on it (e.g. north).

Diamond core drilling tho is basically a cylinder shaped drill bit attached to a hardened drill rod that is attached to a rod string (groups of 3m pipes). Everything is basically done in 3m lengths, mostly for transport reasons. When your drilling you work with the rods in bundles of 3 so 9m lengths. I worked mostly on UDR 1200's and a prototype surface rig that there were like...3 built? partnership between a few big companies. That rig was the one that could do (estimated) up to 3000m or so. Deepest I worked on was 2200m. Drill bit sizes if your interested in looking them up that we worked with are BQ,NQ,HQ,PQ. So external diameters ranging from 60mm with bq (core size of 36.5mm) to PQ @ 122mm ext. and 85 ID. We worked all manual by hand so PQ with a drill barrel weighing like 50kg was our limit. Shaking core from 3m HQ drill rods nearly broke me the first time I did it.

The drill barrels have a inner tube that is the core holder/lifter that hangs like a few mm from the spinning bit at all times while drilling, these are 6m long. After you have drilled 3m, you clamp the rod string so its hanging from the drill rig and add 3m until you have preferably 6m drilled. Drilling stops, you pull back on a wireline that is holding the core tube to engage the internal clamps on it and haul up your 6m of core. A empty tube gets sent back down, you add another 3m rod to the string and repeat the process. While this happens the full core tube is orientation marked, shaken out and cleaned and re-assembled as it comes out of the hole in core trays. ^^^^ Everything above is if things go to plan. Rough ground, broken bits, hard ground, loss of water return all kinds of things can cause problems and make runs stop, go short, loose rods, drop core, require bit changes, cause equipment to overload and break so on. Been a few years since I did it but I do kind of miss the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUMftmjpdNg This is a video of after a bit change. they are pushing rods back down the hole to hit the point where drilling stopped. They are moving real slow. 111 rods roughly to 1000m. Worst shift I had was 16 ton of rods moved. >1000m down, started shift pulling rods for a bit change, bit snapped a tooth after we got it back down in under 5m of cutting and had to come straight back out. Hell of a night. If your lucky you have 3 to a rig (driller and two offsiders) if your unlucky its just 2 on a rig. No breaks. You eat while you drill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF3_TqN6AQA This video also covers the whole basics pretty well.
(One of) the old woodworking mottos; why buy it when you can build it for 3x the cost and 10x the time?
I ran the web frontend team at Facebook.
Yes the ticketing app that people were required to use to get into the events.
> heat and chemical factors might have had an impact

Pretty much guaranteed by the fact the pages are yellow, presumably paper acidity? When I wrote my thesis, it was supposed to be on acid-free paper and archival, but I snuck in some color printed pictures, and boy did that not work out so well. 20 years later and the pages are yellow and the colors are fading.

> the photos might not be completely color-accurate

It’s hard to imagine how the web version could be accurate at all, I wouldn’t count on it, and none of the blogs nor the book mention their methodology. Even with a lot of knowledge and care, you need to know the illumination conditions (spectra of the lights) and the camera used, and the color space it was encoded into, and your display device has to be calibrated.

The best way to reproduce the colors might be to follow Boogert’s recipes for the paint, which I think is what he documented?
Hey man, I know this might seem patronizing, but I'm proud of you for recognizing what happened and why, and I hope you can give yourself some compassion (especially because well, you were young. It happens).

You've learned from it, and it shouldn't be a continued weight on your shoulders. You did nothing wrong.
Ya, that's not whybthey can't scrape together the down payment and it isn't a viscious cycle. At best its a catch 22, not a cycle.
It's pretty common – I've seen a wall o' patents in at least two (non-Qualcomm) offices!
I wrote a web tracker that was oversized and inefficient, which got deployed to a lot of websites. At the time I lacked the necessary experience or guidance to do better. It should've been much smaller with a drastically reduced network footprint. At the scale it was deployed every byte counts.

I still feel really bad about this. Sorry.
klinefelter males are still males. Turner syndrome women are still women. Chromosomal abnormalities are not separate genders. Otherwise Downs syndrome would be its own gender.
This makes me even more pissed about the EV tax credit changes (only US-made vehicles count). Still don’t understand how it was legal for that to become effective immediately in mid-August.
It’s unclear to me how removing the requirement for an undergraduate degree (side note, it is not actually required at many or most US medical schools) will lower healthcare costs.
IBM has done this as well.
I think you overestimate how much energy humans use. We are just very inefficient.

Also, said "dynamo" has been running for a few billion years. We've no concept of how long that is. No mental model. Im sure the the planet will be just fine.
You ignore them. And if that doesn’t work, you politely - but firmly - ask them to leave.
No. Being trans marks you for ridicule and violence. People don't generally opt in unless they really mean it.
Work is continuous and pay is discrete. At the very least a leader runs a company that pays for continuous labor with discrete paychecks in the hopes of seeing discrete revenue events (selling a cup of coffee, signing up a new subscriber). Even reduced to absurdity I think the analogy holds up pretty well.
Nah, not patronizing at all imo.

I look back at it like I assume a lot of people would if they got scammed out of money. You gotta learn from mistakes in the past, and I think that combined with some other issues soon after it have led me to be a lot more thoughtful with large impact decisions.

It had some good upsides, like the fact it launched me into my SWE career ahead of schedule (i.e. No college degree). But that comes with it's own issues, like companies just flat rejecting me due to it.
>redirect after reaching out to the mods

That's the thing I find noteworthy about the incident. I guess it's a disagreement with the definition of "decentralized." I suppose the mods were kind enough to allow it after appeal, but I don't see why they should be involved in the decision. I would expect it to be the minimum functionality to remain.
Imagine if the power company could see everything you do at home, and control your lights, laundry machine and other electronics to influence your behavior. They don't have that kind of power, but social networks do.
Speaking of CO2. Capturing CO2 seems to be much less technically difficult than drilling 10 miles down. Various technologies already exist, and pilot plants are running. Perhaps focusing on the practical would be more productive than an illusory silver bullet.
Nah no photos allowed as it was gold core work. You basically see if a mine is going to strike gold over next few years before everyone else does (think stock market performance impacts). Too much risk of data exfiltration given they had enough of a problem with word of mouth.
The courts are independent, but for criminal matters government prosecutors decide whether someone even makes it to court.

Consider the case of Hillary Clinton, who by textbook definition mishandled classified documents, which other people have been jailed for. She was not even referred for prosecution because of her widespread connections and political machinery.

There's numerous other examples of connected people getting light or no sentences. Jussie Smollett is another one.
Wrong. He likes Trump, simple as that.
Politicians, like many performers, are addicted to attention. Perhaps as much as they're addicted to power. The Internet is irresistible catnip for them and part of the reason why the chronically online are able to have so much impact on our 'leaders'.
Trump has already been unbanned, it wasn't a honeypot.
That’s how it is justified. However, there are always moral implications of the work one does.

Sometimes, the moral calculus is done only retrospectively and that’s when it really becomes problematic.
Save money and prepare for the worse to come
> This argument is applicable to all digital things, but for some reason it is usually only applied to books. It seems that a lot of software being free would be much more beneficial than free access to Harry Potter.

The problem with distributing illegal copies of software is the (depending on the crack website possibly rather small) risk of malware/ransomware, and additionally the risk that the software contains phone-home functionality to detect illegal copies (BTW: my personal opinion is that one should avoid software with such phone-home functionality (even if you obtain your copy legally) like the plague if possible).

These are, I think, plausible reasons why the software scene is more biased toward FOSS.
It's one thing to say "guns don't kill people, people kill people" to ease your conscious. It's another to worry about how someone will use a soccer stadium.
Patent walls were (are?) a patent feature of many BigCorps. I've seen at least three, and none of them were QualComm.
This is entirely contrary to my experience. I’m a very senior person at a company whose name you definitely know, and I am constantly talking about how things I did could have gone better if I had done things differently.

Aspire to have, and work with people who admire, integrity.

Edit: I also talk about my weaknesses during job interviews, and I have never had it keep me from getting the gig.
A set of floats sounds like an equally questionable idea as a map of float keys, for the exact same reason.
People get triggered when I say this but I’m holding out for something over 400 miles in range.

By the time you account for the range being exaggerated, then that you’re not supposed to charge to 100%, and then that you want to be able to drive fast on the highway, your available range is dropping fast.

My goal would be only making one charging stop a day on a road trip for going at least 600 miles.
Donald Trump is unbanned from Twitter
"Thing is, when the company that pays you actively wants to track everyone, there's little you can do as the person that creates tech form them."

You can quit. Literally, there is something you can do. If your boss asks you to write or adapt something to surveil, then you can quit.

There may be consequences to quitting, perhaps disproportionately felt between you and the company, perhaps consequences that you won't enjoy as much as your current job stability and paycheck, but the choice is always there.
Why is using a defining characteristic of someone offensive in and of itself? If you're in Asia you might say "that white guy over there" because it's the most easily recognized characteristic when picking a person out. If you're in a minority, no matter the characteristic, it's a matter of convenience for others to use it to denote you. The priest, the tall woman, the handicapped person, etc...
There are certainly others. Micron has a patent wall. For a period of time under CEO Steve Appleton, meetings with engineers were prohibited [Fridays or half of Friday?] because the engineers should be working on parents during that time.

My understanding is their strong patent portfolio was a good part of why they are still around after the massive consolidation of DRAM manufacturers through the 80's and 90's.
Exactly.

It might be bubble compared to entire planet, but its still pretty big bubble. Once you have hundreed K users, you should have responsibility to deliver.

Especially becasue people in that bubble are those moving the others forward.
The drilling fluid/mud is pumped down the center of the string and flows back up the sides of the bore hole. The material removed comes up with the drilling fluid.

The drill string is a chain of threaded pipes.

There is tons of good information online, just search for oil well drilling on YouTube.
For my own projects, Redmine or plain text to do lists. My customers are using / have been using these systems in the last ten years: Jira, Trello, Kanbanize, YouTrack, Confluence. The best balance for medium sized projects IMHO is Kanbanize, not too limited, not too complicated. For a single developer probably everything will do.
I think you misunderstand who the inflation reduction act is supposed to help...
> There are few, if any, silver bullets capable of solving major problems

I'd argue that there are silver bullets for major problems, but once we find them the problems stop being major.

- Sewers were a silver bullet for sanitation

- Many medicines have been silver bullets for many diseases

- Printing press for information distribution

- Telegraph (and later Internet) for fast information distribution

- Rail for moving stuff
I wrote a largely autonomous agent that seeks and builds data dossiers on everyone you point it at. Then you buy legally encumbered data, genuinely sensitive stuff for fractions of pennies, and you reverse identify the person, unencumbering the majority of the data, because writing privacy laws that don't cripple well intended business is very difficult.

It is not inherently bad. Some of the real life uses are practical and beneficial, but it can also be weaponized.
A trove a comedic source material awaits at least.
It seems like a mailing list is still the more decentralized form of decentralized social media.

Nobody can stop you from using the same email address (ie identity) on a different mailing list.

I remember there being an attempt to make implement chat using the IMAP protocol. I'm blanking on the name of it.
Although not an app, I think the most impactful thing you've built is your reputation on Hacker News. You helped a lot of people. What's left of the discussions will help many more over time. I learned from you, too.

I've been off HN a while with a new life (see profile). In case I didn't, I wanted to make sure I apologized to you for being such a troll on here. You and anyone else. I hope you're all doing well. I've prayed God blesses all of you, your families, and grants you the forgiveness and eternal life of Jesus Christ. :)
I always wonder why places like Yellowstone aren’t used for power generation. Seems more accessible than most geothermal heat sources. Also Hawaii is another place where geothermal energy could make sense.
²⁰⁹Bi decay to ²⁰⁵Tl is alpha decay — the bismuth nucleus splits into an alpha particle (helium) and a thallium nucleus. I think you’d be hard pressed to find a nuclear physicist or engineer who calls that “fission”.

Here’s the Wikipedia article on fission. It’s a rather different process:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission
I don't disagree with the direction of revenue or the size of the hole. I just don't think it is impossible to get the revenue back.
I've spent a lot of time with Vim and Emacs (with both the default Emacs keybindings and using Evil).

I haven't made it through all of vim adventures, but based on what I have done, I think that a significant portion of what you would get out of vim adventures would transfer to Emacs using Evil mode (or derivatives like spacemacs or doom Emacs).
It's not something that can be rationally explained. Sorta like trying to explain why you don't like a taste. The mix of cultural history and labeling myself by entering a "men's" space is ... stressful. Same with people using "he".

It's a automatic response I don't have much control over, but I've adapted to fairly well. Brains are wired to find different stimuli impacting or not.

I've wondered if I am high functioning autistic at times, for a number of reasons unrelated to gender. Some of the "fight or flight" responses to, eg, the sounds of someone eating are very similar to the fight or flight response I have in a men's room.

Ultimately, it's fairly textbook dysphoria and I've built up a lot of strategies so it's not super impactful day to day. But when I don't have to expend any of the energy employing those strategies, it's better.
You seem to be arguing for more aggressive American interventionism, a perennial national political debate of rather global concern. I think you can rest assured it will be on quite the rise for the foreseeable future.
Systems like that are commercially available now, even as far as pitching "we don't know what to do with all the data but by golly we're collecting it for you."

For location tracking they specifically called out things like equipment carts, but it was implied that it could track other bluetooth devices.
> and because it's unreasonable to expect userland processes to cleanly handle a restart of things like that

Why would it be more reasonable to handle this in kernel space? Doing well anything in kernel space is always harder and less safe than user space.
>That it's not "personnel changes" but thousands of their best employees leaving?

If you pick a random 50% of people from ANY company, only 10-20% of that group are actually high performers. As Musk pointed out, there were several developers laid off who wrote zero lines of code in three months. Sorry, but that's unacceptable and is not indicative of high performance.

Top performers may write 1,000 lines of quality code per quarter, but it's never zero. If you're writing docs all day, you're useless.

Also consider the leaked Project Veritas videos of a Twitter senior engineer admitting he worked only 4 hours a week.

The "top performers" laid off you defend literally work less than 1 day a week.