skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toshiba once "repaired" our laptop by replacing swapping in a completely different motherboard. They asked for the drive, but I pulled it myself before mailing it in.

The resulting computer could no longer boot Linux, or the windows factory recovery disk that came with the machine (or stock windows).

That (and the shoddy initial design with a half life of 6 months) is the reason I will never buy a Toshiba laptop again.
Long term, when fossil fuels are done, things like cardboard will be viewed as valuable resources of reduced carbon, for conversion to things that are currently petrochemicals. Plastic feedstocks, jet fuel, other chemicals.
You know, I've actually taken devices to his shop personally. These were one-of-a-kind devices with pretty serious soldering challenges, and he fixed them same day. So he's at _least_ as competent as he presents on video, not a "hack".

Rebrands Chinese tools? That's most of the electronics repair industry. It's a side business for him.
This is still better. The house is not in one persons name. Of course if someone puts their house in your name they’re hoping they have full control over it, but they do not and it’s up to the owner to do with it what they want.
The field of software engineering learned to punish cowboy coding and prima donnas. Now it's the turn of data science.
And they are not shy of using that argument!

It is a go to answer when a company is asked why their product is not user serviceable, along with safety and security.
Firstly super novel idea with tons of space for both technical and gameplay innovation. Really love it!

If we're talking business models, the one which immediately comes to mind as appropriate is that of a gaming console. Sell the hardware (e-cards, maybe a mat?) at a loss, then sell games for it at no marginal cost. Let other people build games for it because hit games are what sell platforms.

Since this essentially a portable gaming device, consumers may compare it to e.g. a Nintendo Switch - if you undercut the Switch and you have a blockbuster title or two, you could have incredible product on your hands.

Presumably the lucrative economics of trading card games could be applied here as well...!
Ask HN: Has anyone explored opportunities in E-commerce?
Hello,

I’m a software engineer by trade I’m looking expand my income sources and E commerce seems very promising with the rise of online shopping.

Has anyone tried that?
The original comment on this tree has much more "about me" language directly quoted. His legacy, he would sacrifice anything, scar on his soul, etc. I agree though you can't just say nothing, you have to take ownership and express empathy.
Still, the wording 'anonymous' goes out the window with 100% of your users when credit cards are mandatory, even if you pinky promise not to connect it to the page.

I highly recommend BTCPayServer for handling (non-custodial) crypto payments.
Ruby is one of those things people love to hate.

I've worked with Ruby for nearly ten years and have been hearing some variation of "Ruby is dying" since forever.
I could see people backing this on kickstarter even if it wouldn't actually be a game you'd play for a long time, because of just the novelty of being able to invite your friends over to show them these cool cards.
Finally a WASM runtime provides a more detailed C API document.
If you work at some retail electronics hellscape long enough I'm sure even Mother Teresa would eventually give in to the temptation to supplement her income by selling customer data, or at least alleviate boredom by browsing pics. I guess I trust apple's file vault enough that I'll allow them to repair a laptop without a password. I've had two apple laptops fixed and to their credit they didn't even ask for the password.

I would never give a repair place a password though. It is better to just buy a new device.
Ooh hey, yes this could work.....

I think I'd need funding for that though, can't bootstrap a platform without that first blockbuster game.
Those are commonly called "soft keys" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_key
Not when year over year inflation is above 8%.
>>As a vscode user considering the move, how difficult would it be to get to the point of making emacs a daily driver?

Among the big list of features missing in Emacs as of now is remote development that way its done is vscode.
I harrass support in cases like this. Like, are your web developer people completely incompetent?! It's not like making things work in FF takes some real big effort, just do everything properly. (We develop a lot of web products, so this isn't some baseless statement)
They apparently did two rounds of layoffs adding up to 31% total - see https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1588127916306710531 for the first one.
C++ _can_ be written safely, as long as the right static and dynamic analysers are used. So while I wouldn't recommend it for _many_ new projects these days, the WasmEdge authors have good reasons to choose C++ and appear to be using it responsibly.

Also, there are so many things that need to be done right for a VM specifically to actually be safe that merely being written in a safer language is lightyears away from being adequate. You _still_ need very careful design, dynamic analysers, and a whole lot of fuzzing if you want to end up with something you can reasonably trust. So if it were written in Rust as Wasmtime is, that alone wouldn't actually give me much more confidence that it's safe to use it on untrusted inputs.

I say all this as a huge advocate for Rust in general. Sometimes the less attractive tool is actually a better choice.
Not discrediting the article however is this partially incorrect? Most of these embedded Linux devices that are “intelligent” doorbells, that is run inference locally vs cloud compute, can’t locally build models however can run inference. So they must send new facial images of people they want to identify to a cloud solution to do so?

Long day, not sure if words are my friend right now…
To add another piece of evidence, while previous poster noted that the initial response by police officers on January 6 seemed less violent than they could have been (though even then, one person was shot and killed), the US Department of Justice is continuing to publish press releases about charges of people involved in the January 6 Capitol attack (at https://www.justice.gov/news , with full records with dates at https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases). The charges for many of the people involved caught up eventually, though it took time.

Separately, to put a positive spin on this, it often takes time for positive habits to pay off. When picking up a positive habit (e.g. exercise and especially learning a new technical skill such as a language), oftentimes much of the reward doesn't come until far later. This is important to keep in mind, especially if one has self-doubts or even a lack of encouragement for trying to adopt a new positive habit in one's life.
The British had a proposal for a time-detonated nuclear land mine which would be kept warm by sealing chickens inside with a food and water supply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock
It means that if the would-be home owner is unable to make payments on their mortgage then the government will pay the lender. The intent is the lender is more likely to lend and lower their rates.
That's quite a name for a company with a Munich HQ lol
Program behaving to the spec is something you'd write a functional test for; but OP is most likely talking about unit tests. If you're testing e.g. individual functions in isolation, you don't know how they're actually used on the outside, so you have to test for invalid inputs that the language allows - just like in a functional test, you have to test for invalid inputs coming from the environment.

(There is a separate argument over what proportion of functional vs unit testing is optimal.)
I've had two macs repaired - once at an apple retail shop, and once at an "authorized repair" place. I either wasn't asked for a password, or they asked but made it clear they didn't need it. Of course I would never give it. Maybe that's not the norm.
Ah, I see, you posted your comment a minute before mine. I got my impression from obsessively reading Zulip threads, pull requests, and meeting minutes. It's nice to hear it from the horse's mouth and not just the tea leaves!
> GP’s question was whether the app will still save your queries and submit them once a connection becomes available just to scratch that data collection itch.

disclaimer: googler

This can be tested. Translate shows up in your Google 'My Activity' page, so you can do some offline translations, then switch the network back on, and see if the translations show up in My Activity. Assuming you can trust the My Activity page to be complete and accurate (my opinion is you can, but i would say that)

and FTR: I've actually just tried it and offline translations do not show up in my activity so I highly doubt they're being surreptitiously uploaded.
i personally dont know how you can beat rsyncing to a cloud bucket, but hey
It's in a title so it's a metaphor with no context, which leaves it as nonsense or clickbait, whichever you want to call it. Titles are the time to be literal, how does anyone know what the content is actually going to be about?
Can't imagine a whole room of them, but I did have the pleasure of hearing this sound at the InfoAge museum in New Jersey. Wondering the building at the vintage computer fest last year I heard the clacking and poked my head into the room and ended up having a pleasant conversation with a man restoring the equipment

I asked where he learned to repair them and he simply said, I have one that works, and one that doesn't work, so I'm just going through and finding out what's different

Here's a short clip I took of the restoration in progress:

https://youtu.be/Oiq20VWskmM
Perhaps first try it out at https://huggingface.co/spaces/togethercomputer/GPT-JT to see what kind of things you can do with it.
This kind of thing is really what contract-based programming is meant for; it shouldn't properly be a test, except that we have to resort to that for the lack of language support for DbC.
They are already having trouble in the more northern areas of California. I first heard this referenced with respect to Paradise.

That implies the issue is far worse than you seem to think.

Also, a glib "they'll figure it out" is less than a step removed from sticking your head in the sand. You don't have to be a domain expert to learn and understand the first order principles at issue here.
I don't follow Australian politics closely, so what has/hasn't been said by its leaders is unknown to me. I was merely suggesting that if a leader has insinuated that something like that wouldn't be a bad idea, then some might say you now how a gov't official involved.
There are composite shingles rated for hurricane winds. Although for that rating nail placement is critical. Sadly the most common screwed up thing on roof installs is nail placement. This can lead to leaks in 5+ years generally. However, in the case high winds if the nail is not on the common bond the nail can pop through the shingle. Also most manufactures require a ring shanked nail for the hurricane rating. Again most roofers use only a smooth electro-galvanized nail because it's cheap.

And once one shingle pops loose suddenly it's much easier for the wind to get under the other shingles near by and the failure can cascade like dominoes in a hurricane situation. Going from a simple repair to replacement of a section or to a whole roof replacement.

Also an other aspect is double checking the shingles are properly placed otherwise the seal strip won't adhere in the correct spot on the shingle below making it easier for the adhesive to come loose and again same problem.

The thing is if you have seen how fast most roofing companies put a roof on a house do you think they are going to do this right?

Also sadly if the roof fails during a hurricane it just means more work for them in the future which means more money paid by insurance. So their incentives are not there. Like there are some roofing companies that will go door to door after a major storm looking for houses basically that have storm damage and get the homeowner to file claim. Looking for things like an out of production shingle so instead of a repair insurance has to buy a whole new roof since replacement shingles don't exist. It's really scummy. The sad thing is this scummy behavior had lead to insurance companies way more likely to deny claims that are valid. I remember seeing a video of roofer with an insurance adjuster acting like what the roofer said was not true or not comment or document it. It was kinda insane and sad at the same time.

Last note:
Although shingles without a hurricane rating in my opinion should not be installed in places like Florida.
I don’t see that as quite the same since they actually had some value when the only way to get stats was a newspaper
The problem is that the function may work incorrectly by e.g. quietly causing an invalid state change. For example, that string that was passed instead of an integer gets stored somewhere. Nothing visibly breaks; it's just that later - possibly much later, and in code much removed from where the bug actually is - you reach for what you expect to be an int, but get a string instead. Good luck debugging where it went wrong.
We live in a society entirely molded by Abrahamic thought, so to a lot of people those lines of thinking feel obvious and natural when they were in actuality a progression of human thought.

I've always thought it was funny when people say then don't need religion to know morality-- well yes that's true because the morality of the Abrahamic faiths has become the morality of our times(broad strokes ways). People take for granted that we don't follow the moral rules of Carthage, or ancient Greece. Or else we'd allow child sacrifice in the case of Carthage, or pederasty in the case of Greece.
Memory lane. As a web dev from when this was the fad, many of these buttons are very recognizable
http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Fortran-to-Lisp.html
I kinda thought the Napoleon attribution was enough to show I don't think it's a universal truism across all time and scenarios :)
I would love to be able to use citizens band radio on my phone. Heck, at this point I'd settle for my carrier unlocking the FM receiver in my phone.
AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
There's a 1000sqft home on my street asking for $2.5m

How does $1m help?
They shop can only be as serious about privacy as the local manager of that location is. Sounds like your manager was a mensch, but I would imagine (and the study indicates) most are not.
reminds me of that most quoted lines from Bruce Lee, "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

same as what you are indicating here. Deliberate / mindful practice leads to significant improvement.
I am curious. Could one sue over this?
Driftline unveils algorithm to quantify human endurance using heart-rate signal
https://prose.sh which is a blog that can be used to share rendered markdown pages
that's like saying the cause of death is lack of oxygen to the brain - technically true, but hardly insightful.
I know this is FF… but could this kind of tech exist in the chromium instance of an electron app? If so, that’d sure be a nice alternative to me having to go about translating it “the hard way.” Fwiw, my electron app is React-based.
As a Dutch person, I think we have a bigger problem and that is that the majority of higher educational people don't understand this. This whole article explains it better, than what I have heard.
Would it have changed anything if three had used a Brier score? I’m inclined to say no but am not a stats whiz.
Feels like they must recruit important people from his support group.
>Many of my commands start identically but continue and end differently. Here C-r (or ^R if you prefer) is the most convenient.

Not sure if I understood this correctly. You can use up/down arrow multiple times, just like Ctrl-r/s - so it is a huge improvement for me.
Ungox – Mark Karpeles new venture
Thanks! Perhaps I'm not good at prompt engineering, but I could barely get anything useful out of it.
I wish we could simply return cardboard boxes to e.g. amazon (who drives every neighborhood daily)

and check a box “I prefer recycled boxes” to signal that you don’t mind using a second hand box for your delivery.
Thanks for the clarification! Since you’d mentioned IM administration it didn’t cross my mind that you were talking about Spravato. That typo is regrettable, but unimportant to your point that the nasal spray does indeed use two fixed doses.
> What will happen is they they will pump us full of drugs to sedate us

The agony induced by haloperidol was used by the Soviets to help their dissidents realize the gulags were much better places than the psycho prisons.
You did the right thing.

Deep clone and equals on deeply nested, probably heterogenous, object graphs can be challenging. And certainly error prone.
Guess what, it's a private company.
My mother grew up in India. There were apparently some asectic 'sages' that would play with mercury she told me about. I don't really know what they were doing, just that my mom always remarked that she didn't understand how they would hold the mercury in their hands and seem to be fine. There's apparently something to it, whether it's a trick or otherwise.
I'm pretty much in the same boat, so I don't have any good advice, but you have my sympathy. The only thing that's kept me going for the past year is setting a "final project" to complete before I die. This "big goal" feels a little less pointless than the "small goals", even though I know it's not.
Why do you think it is still important to continue to mask? What days is there to back that statement up?
Maybe Apple should start hiring journalists.
I used to feel intensely lonely until my 30s. I made significant efforts to get out there and socialize. Something changed and I'm now considered a very extroverted person by others. A few things clicked inside me. Some books you may want to consider:

1) Dale Carnegie's how to win friends and influence people book.

2) The Game by Neil Strauss(friend gave me a copy .. this is about pick up artists, something I never did but it was influential in some way)

3) Surely you're joking Mr. Feynmann

All these books have something about being social. I make it a bit to get to know strangers (on planes, uber rides, whatever). I almost think of it as a missed opportunity if I don't have an engaging conversation with people. Many are strangers and I'll never see them again, so if I say something stupid, whatever. I guess that is the idea I got from The Game.

I still suck in group settings socially. I feel incredibly awkward. But 1-1, I am actually impressed with my transformation. I was super introverted until exactly 30. I guess one other thing that changed is if someone invites me to something social, I always came along, and I kept a smile on my face. This was exceptionally easy to do in NYC (getting invites to hang out with people I mean).

I also have to say, friend, you must love and respect yourself, first and foremost. I felt some pain in your words. Look .. we all have done stupid things we may cringe on in reflection. My addiction is tech and online shopping. I try to do my vices in moderation. Don't judge yourself too harshly. We're all imperfect humans. Good luck to you.
Except you should be learning a "language" anyway because that's what building a product is about.

To use your "rounded" thing as an example:

Design systems should have their own definitions of what a "rounded" thing is. The designs also probably have different types of border-radius based on if it's a container element, or a button, or a pill button, etc. So you define those as different types of "rounded". Small, medium, large. Round, rounder, roundest. They could be whatever you want. This way, your team doesn't have to remember that 10px = round, designers or PMs just say "round" and you use the "round" utility class.

Or if they don't like styling they can say "hmm what about 'rounder'?" and you use the rounder class.

That's what Tailwind aims to solve is to 1) define a common language across the team and 2) make that easily available for the FE dev to implement versus trying to cross-reference what "round" is.
What It Takes to Make a Kinder, Gentler Video Game
Are you telling me I long-windedly went on a tangent?

I'm open to this criticism I'm just not entirely sure I'm correctly interpreting you. (It certainly wouldn't be the first time I was told I was unclear or long-winded.)

I don't mean to speak out of turn, but just to offer you information, your experience really reminds me of how friends have described ADHD to me. I'm just putting that out there in case it's useful, make as much or as little of it as you care to.
If you know that that is an option. How is that not a dark pattern?
There's a tailwind intellisense plugin. Just type something into a class string and a bunch of suggestions pop up. Makes it incredibly easy - I learned nearly all of Tailwind in like 2 hours this way.
there is a different way to achieve the same results.
instead of encoding every possible rule into classes, a combination of flex box-classes, templating and text props could be used.
<flex container>
<li #if index % 3 ####css-prop> </li>
<other cases>
</end-container>

there is some repetition, but it will keep things simple.

same thing for spacing example,
have a margin prop on a flex box container and apply it on each container then wrap them into a flex container.

it will be easier compose to compose vs css class variation.
Having a hard time believing that nobody has mentioned the Easter egg from The Net with now you can access your page after creating it!
Yeah that’s definitely true. Anytime I use any C++ api that I did not write or analyze at my best is a shotgun waiting to go off. Hell, even then, that assumes I know enough to catch everything. I’ve recently been doing security analysis of some very popular repos and C++ is terrifying at times.

Rust isn’t perfect but it gives me so much more trust in everything I do.
I wouldn't conflate Rust and Go here. Rust does this right - it doesn't try to remove the "clever" features altogether but streamlines ergonomics such that they're rather painful to use in "bad" ways. On the other hand, Go is an antipattern of PL design - it avoids features to such an extent that you end up writing less readable / maintainable code because of it (just witness all the codegen before generics!).
Unrelated bat bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJA1C19AyE
This guy is a straight-shooter with upper-management written all over him.
I might do that!

By the way, I've been following your posts here for years! I'll trade you cards for candy!
> The problem is that time value is extremely relevant. If it takes 10-20 years for consequences to catch up, the person is likely to have already built up an unassailable lead that the consequence barely dents.

I largely agree with you: the big names attached to the resume, the pay, and the effort spent on interviewing skills likely offset the negatives of the reputation (though I also intuitively don't like it because the strategy is rather self-centred).

However, the consequence is rather significant if he has roots. It's harder to pack up and move if one has a romantic partner who is settled into a job at a particular place, and you could also possibly be leaving family and friends. Sometimes one has to move, but typically one has the option to come back, which wouldn't be practical for the person in question. It's still plausibly worth it for the person if he didn't have roots and collected a lot of compensation, but especially when one is older (the commenter mentioned 10 years of workin experience), moves can be tougher.