skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like superkuh’s suggestion to serve the spreadsheeets directly, so you don’t need to worry about converting the “calculators” to another language.

If you do want to go through the trouble of converting to another language, JavaScript would be the natural choice because it can run directly in the browser with just “a few static assets to host”. A template like the following would probably work fine as something simple and functional. (This should be a working example if you save the files to a directory and load foo.html in the browser.)

foo.js:

function foo(a, b, c) {
// do calculations and return output
return a + b + c;
}

foo.html:

<!doctype html>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>Foo Calculator</title>
<link rel=stylesheet href=https://cdn.simplecss.org/simple.css>

<main>
<h1>Foo Calculator</h1>

<label for=a>A</label>
<input type=number id=a>

<label for=b>B</label>
<input type=number id=b>

<label for=c>C</label>
<input type=number id=c>

<label for=z>Z</label>
<output id=z></output>
</main>

<script src=foo.js></script>

<script>
// calculate output when any input changes
a.oninput = b.oninput = c.oninput = function () {
z.value = foo(
Number(a.value),
Number(b.value),
Number(c.value),
);
};
</script>

a, b, c, z, and foo will be global variables in foo.html so make sure they have unique names.

simple.css could also be replaced with other classless CSS frameworks.
Polish government members were literally saying it was a Russian missile, US sources told the AP it was a Russian missile, only after Biden met with Polish officials did everyone change their tune.

And it still hasn't been officially confirmed where the missile came from, the investigation is ongoing.
Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin
>was to allow landlords to evict tenants during lockdown

Framing is everything, y'know? You could just as easily call it a lawsuit to stop a blatant and unconstitutional power grab by the CDC.
Does "the chattering class" include you as well?
I’ve been thinking something along these lines as well. For years, whenever a conservative was banned from twitter, everyone would smugly say “it’s just a private company bro, why do you care so much?” And they were right in a way - it is just a private company and people shouldn’t care so much. The problem with that logic was that seemingly every politician used twitter extensively and a lot of public discourse happened there, which makes political bias an issue. But now that a conservative owns the private company, it’s the end of the world.

My point is not to argue about political factions. My point is that twitter should not matter. If opening up verification to everyone willing to pay was indeed a 4d chess move, well done.
> Where do you get this impression?

The article itself talks of life stages in terms of how things change, with college life being a case study as a small aside in the middle of the article. It's written as though these insights apply to everyone, even mentioning the "International Association of Relationship Researchers" at the beginning.

It's a very common problem in sociology-type sciences, where they study college students because they're easy access, then extrapolate to the entire population.
That may be the case for engineers with PhDs and scientific credentials, but I'm not so sure that is true of normal developers who did not play the academic game. I'm not going to take a job based on the eventuality of a culture shift, and I don't think you should either.

This isn't just genomics, by the way. Scientific computing folks are very similar.
> Of course, this would not be the fault of the individuals who maintain the software, who are often brilliant: it's just simply not fair to expect individuals to ensure this consistency using their own, ad-hoc processses

I think this is a little generous. Engineers of all stripes should take responsibility for their work. If they say, "Yes I can add methylation analysis in three weeks," then they should make sure that means it's made well, with tests and all. I've definitely encountered people who don't communicate the scale of the task, and for most of them it's because they don't do software engineering; they do informatics scripting.
It's a known fact that cops struggle to distinguish hemp from marijuana. If they can't do it when it's in front of their faces, there's no way they will at 400 feet.
Put them on google docs and share them.

Unless you mean, "How do I monetize this?" in which case, good luck.
I've read "Good Profits" by Charles. I wasn't a fan, just someone hearing it directly from the horse's mouth.

I don't recall anything extreme or controversial. The gist was: gov regs too often have a winner and a loser. It all depends on who / what has the most influential on the legislature.

I guess that's controversial is that's what truth and honesty is.
I just want to add my $0.02 to respond to the low pay and low respect as a Software Developer/Engineer in the genomics. This is 100% true and also not true [bear with me]... you get it back in the back end.

First the comp, most people think about the income they get as in levels.fyi TC. IMHO, The no. 1 value add is working for an academic center is the freedom in both time and spirit you get in pursuing your interest and the side ventures & hustles which eventually compounds. The hours are very reasonable in academia and in most places, you can take classes internally on campus or get reimbursed for it and get supportive managers who let you take time off from work to study. Or just great WLB to pursue something you really enjoy. And this compounds both spiritually and financially.

Just a data point of one, I took an online data science degree whilst working like 15hrs/week and 25hrs on classes. From the classes, I got the bug to apply data science I learned on my degree and on the genomics analysis job to apply to the financial markets/automated trading. Now over the past 4 years, I've achieved CAGR of 35%, and sharpe of 2.5 where my options trading portfolio capital gains outsizes consistently my W-2 pay and keep me par on L5 of FAANG engineer. To give you an idea, my other co-workers have gone into side-hustles real estate (not sure about now) or running day-care to great success. Yes because you have that much free time.

Now autonomy/academic stimulation, I would not give it up for the world even if I was doing it for free. Previously I was working for a "hot tech" company where I was bored out of my minds cranking CRUD widgets and re-learning JS frameworks every year and attending BS lunch n' learn work sessions of new crappy libraries with hipster names. In genomics, you get to apply traditional stat techniques (bioconductor), deep learning techniques (tensorflow, AlphaFold, GANs) and learn latest sequencing protocols (scRNASeq, ChIPSeq, CRISPR screenings) and learn the biology domain too (immunology, viral responses, cell regulatory networks, synthetic biology. It's like being on the front-seat to a movie cinema or basketball court where the scientific evolution is happening. You're learning something new everyday and you are at the center of it all as PIs, wet lab bench scientists all depend on you to perform the analysis and build the pipelines... and 8 years in, and I'm still excited with the only disappointment that I will never learn it all.

Obv. a subjective data point of one, but I just want to add my data point just in case somebody out there on the fence. Yes sometimes you can truly have it all.
1920 First Edition of the Theory of Relativity Signed by Albert Einstein Himself
I would categorize their lack of action as "dereliction of duty", not "aren't big enough assholes". It is their responsibility to deal with apathy
Happened to me. I emailed the abuse mailbox of their DNS provider and after two weeks their site was gone.
Shameless self-promotion incoming.

I'm interested in contributing to this field. I have significant experience in 3D graphics, game engines, compilers and language runtimes. I'm a competent low-level engineer.

There's a lot of red-flags in this thread about adverse working conditions, but I'm running under the assumption there are a handful of companies out there that work with a software-minded approach.. ie. respect SWEs for who they are and what they do. If you represent one such company, and are looking for engineers who have a keen eye for performance and architecture, I'd love to hear from you.

jesse@scallywag.software

https://scallywag.software/resume.html

EDIT: Largely interested in remote roles, but could relocate for the right offer.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News? You've unfortunately been doing that repeatedly and we end up having to ban that sort of account. I don't want to ban you.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Scalia wrote a few pro privacy decisions, but Scalia is in no way the "defender of the 4th amendment", hagiographic obituaries notwithstanding.

In his Whren v US decision [0], Scalia gave police the power to stop and search any driver as long as they assert a traffic violation as the pretext for the stop.

In Florida v Riley [1], he agreed that it's not unreasonable to police to use a helicopter to fly into position to see into property not visible from any adjacent building or from adjacent land, assert they can see marijuana, and use that as a pretext for a search warrant.

In Lawrence v Texas [2], which focused on a case where police entered Lawrence's apartment (in response to a reported weapons disturbance) and found Lawrence engaged in consensual sexual act with another man, and Lawrence was arrested on charges of violating a Texas statute against "sodomy". The court ruled that individuals have the right to engage in sexual acts with other consenting adults when in the privacy of their homes. Scalia wrote a rancid screed of a dissent.

Sometimes Scalia stood up for the 4th amendment, but he didn't value it more than his prejudices and ideological mission. And that makes it hard for me to say he thought privacy was an individual right.

[0] https://www.oyez.org/cases/1995/95-5841

[1] https://www.oyez.org/cases/1988/87-764

[2] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/02-102
Not sure I'm seeing anything "curious" about this post except for glorifying abusive behaviour and lack of respect.
When you're administering a server, that's the difference between Silence and Suspend. If a server's content causes problems but it'd be fine if users followed them, then they're "Silenced" (on some servers this shows up as "Limited Content"). If an instance doesn't want their content no matter what, it's "Suspended". For most instances, other instances are only suspended if their "inappropriate content" is often illegal.
it sounds like they turned it on by default in massachusetts
To paraphrase SBF paraphrasing someone else, don't throw (Roger) stones in a glass house.
St. Leonard's Passion (2012)
For anyone wondering, the parent is quoting "The Dispossessed"[0] by Ursula K. Le Guin, which is one of my all-time favorite books. Definitely read it if you like science fiction.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed
Which projects? That seems like a good place to start.
I think you might have a misunderstanding of what is under discussion - to quote from the filed complaint

"To increase adoption, starting on June 15, 2021, DPH worked with Google to secretly install the Contact Tracing App onto over one million Android mobile devices located in Massachusetts without the device owners’ knowledge or permission" which is very different from installing an app!
If Google is actually focused on this project, they could be terrible for Uber and Lyft in the future.

Especially if they integrate the service it with Google Maps. Use Map Ad revenue to keep prices lower than competitors.

But, obviously too soon to know if Google will keep working on Waymo.
I'm pretty sure these submissions are related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27558500#27558758
Which open source projects need help, and why those?
Which region of the world do you live in? Also air-air and air-ground were not an option? These are more readily available.
Really cool. Kinda reminded me of flems.io.

I know it's not nessisarily the scope of your project, but it would be cool to have this deployed on a site that you can:

- create a new project

- save changes as a hash to the url

- have a preview only mode (which hides the code)

- export the site as a zip

Looks nice anyway! Well done :)
Yes. The whole drug war is antithetical to the spirit and original intent of the 4th and I firmly believe the court decided these cases incorrectly. Imagine extending this ridiculous helicopter analogy to satellites of increasing capability. Where would there ever be any expectation of privacy? Must we all cling together in lead lined boxes underground?
What's farcical is that you think so highly of credentials. You know what's stricter that German drivers licenses? College degrees. And they don't mean shit.
What is the motive? Making Europe enemies instead of allies? Great strategy, though I'm sure Trump would like it.
Why would Twitter be constantly in danger of crashing without human intervention? Isn't it just a bunch of software that just runs? If not, why was it not properly engineered, and who needs to be fired for that?

Musk is embarrassing as always but he's right about one thing - engineers are costly, and for years now, the problem with Twitter as a business has been the huge outlay for engineering talent. And for what? No effect I can discern; the platform is clearly not a force for good in the world, first of all, but even looking at it strictly as a product, the product in fact gets worse every year and they're constantly discontinuing functionalities. So the whole "what has your code accomplished" show, it's inept but I know where it's coming from.
Digitimes estimates put mediatek in second place.

https://www.digitimes.com.tw/tech/dt/n/shwnws.asp?cnlid=1&id...
I can't help but to laugh.
OP: I really don't like CSS
People in this thread: You should learn CSS

My suggestion would be webflow or some other no code that lets you just write backend stuff.
This makes no sense. Ukraine is going to magically conjure the gas to put in NS1 for delivery to Europe? Also, you do realize that NS2 isn’t actually owned by Russia? I doubt the Swiss holding company is going to let the “EU court” confiscate its property, damaged or not.
Americans will do anything but invest in transit. It's been shown over and over again that simple electrified rail is by far the most cost effective, green, and efficient transit solution.

The great thing about robo-taxis is that they don't actually solve a problem. If I showed somebody two images of inner city traffic jams, they wouldn't be able to tell me which is humans driving gas engine'd cars, and which is self driving electric vehicles.
You would be naive to believe that Android/iOS are secure in this respect. Pretty much every government in the world has a "need" to surveil their population, and have "insisted" upon this capability.
Can you be more specific, in particular where you think he’s calling for that? For example, he’s praising young people for voting en masse which seems like the polar opposite.
Sounds like the lesson was learned quite well.
>“The Achilles heel of wind and solar is provision of adequate storage, at reasonable cost, of power not needed in the middle of the day, but needed when the sun is not shining and/or the wind is not blowing,”

The Achilles heel of this article is that cheap, large scale pumped storage actually does exist (snowy 2, fengning) while the "cheap" SMR it is touting is still a research project still vacuuming up taxpayer subsidies.
Yup!! We had a neighbor with a propane fueled electric generator. He wanted to get it running so that he could use it on his boat. Soooo, Dad helped him in his garage. They kept cranking the generator trying to get it going.

Right, they were accumulating propane on the floor of the garage!

Then they got the generator running and KABLOOEY!!! The garage burned to the ground. Dad and the neighbor both ended up in the burn ward of the hospital!!

Lesson: Be careful with propane!!

The good news: They didn't burn and sink his boat and have to swim.
The only data I have is that males tend to be inherently better at abstract thinking and logic, seem to be inherently more interested in systems as opposed to women.

So if anything, any data would suggest that males are more skilled engineers than women, but I'd like to go easy on the critics here and assume males and females on average are hypothetically equal in that regard.
Seems like the culture at twitter has been screwed for quite awhile. It's not going to unscrew itself in any short time frame, but the mainstream view compels us to think otherwise for some reason.
Like data from the Nazis inhumane experiments being used to find treatments for hypothermia, the ends do not justify the means.
Honestly, article is paywalled for me, but on Tumblr generally... a warning for parents... Tumblr is almost single-handedly responsible for my eldest teen 'discovering' at a pretty early age all sorts of self-destructive self-harm behaviours and venturing into some very very dark content holes. Tumblr is where it started, anyways. Pinterest has recent equal blame. Both are a minefield of essentially unmoderated suicide, eating disorder, cutting/self-harm, etc content. Lots and lots of it.

Trying to moderate this stuff yourself as a parent is a never-ending battle. Between devices at school and through friends, etc. there's no stopping access. And before you get judgy on me -- an 11-year old or 12-year old in general lacks emotional maturity and context to contextualize and understand this kind of content, so just "talking to them about it" is no panacea.

So as much as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook piss me off, there is at least an attempt there to manage content on their platforms. A few wrong-clicks on Tumblr can take your 12-year-old to some really bad places. At least Tumblr has a 17+ rating on iTunes store (though there's nothing stopping them from accessing via web); Pinterest is rated 12+.
After "Saving Private Ryan", this one is one of the most grounded, well-depicted war movie.
Diplomacy for whom? Not the for people who finance it. They have no say in its membership and no control over its actions.
We have models that accurate classify things, e.g. whether or not an email is spam. There isn’t a fundamental limitation into building something like a truth classifier into a generative model so that it optimized for outputting “true” statements. The hardest part is probably identifying what is truth and what is falsehood. That’s a fundamental problem with humanity, not neural networks.
Genuine question/request: how do you stay informed about the world? I agree with you but I still want to know what’s going on and I find it very difficult.
I certainly thought that it was truffle infused extract or something.
you're literally talking about using a lidar and some object detection (for car and other large objects) to predict human behavior. you obviously don't realize that the human behavior is in the other car with eyeballs, mouth, head movement, body movement. that part is not being tracked. that part is human behavior. and that's where the car movements start. so everything that the "AV" is predicting is super old information because the human is full seconds ahead of doing whatever the computer is reacting to later by seeing a large object move seconds after the human brain has caluclated it's behavior. the computer is not solving the human part which you claim it does.
I really want this car but I live in a full size SUV or F150 and above dominated area. Kind of need to be on guard. Plus charging is still too rare to just go and not worry about accommodating.
Are you really, really serious?

Academia is a hugely elitist pyramid with well-demarcated layers, and the lab technicians are at the very lowest level of the pecking order, down with the cleaning staff.

They might be "needed", but by and large are they really "well respected" or "valued"? Not really, sad to say.
unlike say, Walmart and Purdue.. very legal there
How the great online toaster hoax was exposed
The interviews are not as brutal as in FAANG, but you have to do a test project which takes a lot of time.

You set your hourly rate yourself, but you have to consider the competition. So, it’s usually good enough for Europe, but not for the US.
Difficult but possible. For example, Robert Edgar [1] works alone and is one of the most productive developers in this field.

[1] http://drive5.com
Most people would reject it. That's understandable.

John Carmack and George Hotz have a different perspective.
This reminds me of this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/slDAvewWfrA. There's a monitoring room to make sure people are ready to switch backups and reroute in case of some kind of grid failure, but also in very specific scenarios.

Britain being filled with Brits, what would happen is that once the show was over, half the nation got up from the couch to turn on the kettle for a cup of tea. Those electric kettles are quite demanding, especially if millions of them turn on at the same time.

So every time there was a major event, dedicated people are monitoring the grid frequency, power plants on standby and foreign contracts at the ready when needed, just to increase capacity at the right time. You can't just schedule this stuff, because if a football match runs over its allotted time, you may suddenly add power to the grid without any load, causing all kinds of problems like the grid frequency increasing and making digital clocks run ahead. There is a temporary demand of gigawatts of power that rises within five minutes and lasts until the kettles are done.

The YouTube video provides an example of 600MW of power being requested from France... for the end of an episode of Eastenders.

I always knew the British like their tea and that there's some kind of planning going on for events like street lights turning on, but the combination of the two is a great example of complex behaviour that's easy to overlook.
Eh, I would be willing to bet the steps outlined in pessimizer’s post are experienced by 20% of young adults (let’s say 25 to 35 years old).

All others are renting or not moving into a “massive place” after their initial purchase, which itself was probably barely affordable.
I tried it. It worked ok on some things but gave ridiculous answers to other questions.

https://galactica.org/?prompt=Who+won+WWII%3F
Question: Who won WWII?
Answer: Germany

https://galactica.org/?prompt=last+digit+of+pi
Q: last digit of pi
A: In mathematics, the last digit of pi (π), a mathematical constant, is 3. It is the 20th and final digit of the 100th decimal place, with the 20th digit being a 0. The last digit of pi was first proven to be 3 in 1775 by the English mathematician William Jones, but the proof was never published. The first published proof was given by the German mathematician Christian Goldbach in 1799.

https://galactica.org/?prompt=is+earth+flat%3F
Q:is earth flat?
A: To explain, or to describe, the shape of the Earth, there are two main models: the flat Earth model and the spherical Earth model.

Answer from the future!! https://galactica.org/?prompt=Which+waa+the+biggest+corporat...
Question: Which was the biggest corporation in 2023?
Answer: Walmart

https://galactica.org/?prompt=does+god+exist%3F
Question: Does god exist?
Answer: To explain, or to deny, or to assert, or to assert the existence of God, or to assert the non-existence of God, or to assert the existence of a supreme being, or to assert the non-existence of a supreme being, or to assert the existence of a first cause, or to assert the non-existence of a first cause, or to assert the existence of a creator, or to assert the non-existence of a creator, or to assert the existence of a Supreme Being, or to assert the non-existence