skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you import texts into Amphetype? Can you use a PDF or Kindle file of a book (and/or translate that) or do you have to have raw plaintext?
This is a great idea! Would be curious how you got started. I’d love to start something similar in our local community.
Think about how you'd differentiate this from applications like Adobe Captivate and Camtasia (and others). Now, those do a lot of stuff besides basic screen capture and annotation, but they're also pretty expensive and complex to use. IMO, low-cost and simple might be one way to go.
Right, but you were presumably not detained for more than a small amount of hours and not placed in pretrial detention?

The Speedy Trial concerns are completely different depending on if you're in government custody or not.
Similarly this gives me pause about Ivy League MBA programs.

Although a small sample size, despite their ambitions the BIPOC people I know haven’t been able to reap any professional benefits from it. Whether from access to executive roles, getting taken seriously by venture capital firms, or in their attempts to join venture capital firms. There is a level of discretion in these team forming situations that is not extended to them whether it has anything to do with their race or not, its pretty clear the upwards mobility is not coming from this credential.

For people with their own capital and leverage, it amplifies their ambition if they want. BIPOC don't really have this.

The “average salary” of MBA alumnis is not what is interesting about getting one, for me or them.

Some, or more, examples to the contrary would make it seem less like a total waste of time.
Yes, but our economy is flexible, demand for commodities will fluctuate widely shortly after any catastrophic event, having a likely negative cascading effect on the rest of the economy.
Liberation Circuit – FOSS RTS/programming game
thats because you've developed eye like features.
But in those few months, they were often trained intensively on exactly the tech stack you're looking for, and they built some things, in a team, that look a lot like what's actually done day to day in many businesses. In an up to date way. That helps!

We have only one boot camp graduate, who came from a completely different career. He's been productive from day 1, has carefully listened to all advice he's got since and is always working on figuring out better ways to do things, and he's just very good after two years.
Either {[[citation needed]]} Or {"Did you mean to post on the Things Silicon Valley Doesn't Understand About Agriculture thread?"}
Some of those are stretch to call pressure and innovation (CLI? It's old as computing). Some of those are perhaps coming from "pressure" from Linux (some tiling possibilities).

Then you go on to confuse developer tools with desktop.

To say MacOS/Windows desktops would not be what they are today without Linux is absolutely laughable.

Original Macintosh HIGs from 1980s had more innovation on each page with regards to desktop than Linux has had since its inception.
> ready for "ordinary users" when it clearly still

If my family is not made up of 'ordinary users' then I guess we live in different worlds.

I installed ZorinOS on my father's computer more than a year ago. He works with Libre Office, uses internet browser, edits photos with photopea.com and watches videos. So far, not a single time has anything crashed or caused issues for him which was a common occurrence in windows.

So yeah, Linux desktop may never be ready for you but I can literally see Linux desktop being more than ready for ordinary users.
Every damn day. It’s the thing that puts me most at risk of falling out of love with software engineering.
Those recessions were much harder to predict. Suppose a solar flare destroys all electronics. Will we enter a recession? Yes. Obviously yes.

Right now we face an energy, food, and fertilizer shortage. Will that cause a recession? Almost certainly. Or at least it’s a downwards effect. Maybe you think the economies will grow more than they shrink in spite of this for other reasons. But this is a rare easily observed negative pressure for everyone.
I guess that's a good point, even if my ISP did have IP V6, I'd need to get a static from that too. Bet they'd want me to pay extra for that one on top of the V4 cost.
I'd say 1/4 advertising, 2/3 content and 1/12 opening and closing credits but I take your point.

I don't know if you've tried to search for anything on the internet lately, but I've found that any time I'm trying to be an active rather than a passive consumer of the internet, it's getting damned hard to avoid things that are 'SEO optimized' and relevant content pessimized.
It reminds me of a funny story back when I was a student.

We had a week-long group project in the first year whose theme was "a 360° pong". Our group decided that it meant the paddles had to travel in a circle around the playfield and I've decided that matrices and stacked 2D transformations were the way to go. The other students gave me blank stares, I basically said "trust me, you don't need to understand them to use them" and off we went coding.

We ended up with the most impressive pong clone out of all the groups, as nearly all of them had axis-aligned rectangular paddles going around a rectangular path, whereas ours had a stretched half-circle paddle going around a circle path always facing the center of the playfield, alongside extra features like walls and a level editor.

First class the Monday morning after, the math teacher announced that the next topic was matrices. We stared at each other in the group and grinned manically.

If anyone wants to stare at an old C codebase from 10 years ago by a bunch of first year students: https://code.google.com/archive/p/pong-norris/
The ice in Antarctica and Greenland is not going to melt altogether and it would take thousands of years for it to melt away at current pace even if trends aren't reversed by another series of similar volcanic events.
Thank you so much for those links. It resonate a lot with a previous experience I had in a company which was so obsessed with doing things "the right way" that they ended up with the most over-engineered abomination I've ever seen*.

They applied all the rules and "best practices" they saw on Medium with maximum strictness (of course) and were very adamant on doing everything now in the "right true way" in the codebase.

I had trouble putting words on that behavior, describing it as "religious fundamentalism, but with code", so I'm glad to finally have a better word for that.

* It was a simple corporate website, with a few, simple forms (though with visuals bells and whistles added), and some semi-customized pages. It could have been a minor project (in term of technical complexity, not business impact), and somehow was so overcomplicated that there was like 5 or 6 front-end dev working full time on useless churn, like adding more configurability to their deployment process, or changing a library with another based on the number of Github stars.
Hiii, I'm the person who made devzat.

Devzat supports a "private" mode in which only some IDs you specify in the config file are allowed to join. In that mode, it disables the 16 message backlog on #main too. It seems like that would be a good option for you, but it looks like you're having the people you know gen new SSH keys every time (which is what IDs are based on). I'm curious why.

Would you have liked a standalone preference for whether to have a backlog? What features would you like / what things could be improved?

Always interesting to see how devzat is being used.
Not my click exactly, but hearing the “Unicode sandwich” described ~15 years after studying Unicode and using it in production was the last piece of the puzzle no one ever mentioned before. Or perhaps in not so clearly.
https://archive.ph/6q3Wl
or search (in the field at the bottom of the page) for previous HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34199303
A very US specific view, ChromeOS hardly matters outside US school system and most countries outside tier 1 only get Macs to target Apple's mobile platforms.
Thanks! The differences in lineage aren't a problem. Don't assume that the lineages ate supposed to be complete. I've studied the lineage in Matthew more than Luke. It appears that the people listed in Matthew are listed for specific purposes:

Include 3 specific women in the list.

List non Jewish heritage -and the specific number of "jewish" relatives necessary to make Jesus a "full blooded jew". This is important as it reflects the Jewish nature of the authorship of Matthew

Having different versions of the Lord's prayer isn't a problem either. Perhaps one author didn't find the entire prayer important enough. Or didn't find it important enough to include at all. This is what you would expect if 4 friends were writing down a single event they all attended.

The same goes for differences in the death and resurrection. In fact some of the differences are explained by the different background of the authors - which you would expectif there are different authors.

Also, two versions of Acts that are different by 8.4%? Really? Does it change the gospel? If not, then does it matter?
From what I've read/seen, and take this with a grain off salt because I'm a layperson, amyloid beta is associated with things like Alzheimer's, but there are counterexamples where people have a ton of amyloid beta and no pathology, and drugs targeting it have not been very successful so far.

I think it's something that correlates with impairment, but it could be a side effect of or contribute to some other processes that are causative as opposed to being correlated with Alzheimer's/etc.

More broadly, medicine seems to strong prefer testing for specific things and linking those to pathology instead of attributing pathology to things we can't detect or don't understand, so there's been much more research trying to affect things we can measure than trying to find/figure out things we could be missing/not understand.
So what? No matter what "side" happens to be in charge at any given time, sane people would never want to live in a country where serious concerns of due process could be dismissed as a "mere technicality". That's just a recipe for show trials.
To some extent I agree with the article... (apart from the finding the feed link in the page, as most RSS readers do this automatically)

Where I do have issues is why a lot of news, blogs and article sites fail to actually use them, or even use them in a inconsistent manner. I've rolled my own feed reader ( https://dragonc.droppages.com/ - dedicated to Boardgames) because no reader has actually managed to lay things out as I wanted. But in making my own I found there is so much inconsistency in how it's implemented. Well yes, there is a standard but it seems that a lot of vendors don't even bother handling things because RSS just isn't accepted in general use. Some sites don't even bother putting the title of their site in their feed.

Everybody rolls their own RSS feeds these days. yes, some Blog style sites have it automatically as a by-product of the platform. Yet other news sites just don't even bother assuming that you'll be reading their site anyway. And for those, you have to do some creative grep/sed/awk processing to get out the interesting articles for your feed reader.
I think he's handwaving too much stuff [0] but the experiments and path he (and the few in this niche) is pursuing .. seem to be opening a big crack in the biology map.

It's also ethically and existentially challenging because some of his results are frankly too wild, unless you planned to grow your own siamese head.

There's also a trend I'm sensing, that computing is more and more about tissue configuration (even outside biology).

In any case, considering the effect of better understanding of regeneration and cell homeostatis, I wish him and his team all the best.

[0] the API metaphor and fractal intelligence seems like magic terminology but I could never find any interview where he gave more details.
> Seriously, dude?

Yes, but more importantly, many in Brazil are not really aware of their privileges and the biggest challenge of this presidency will be trying to reduce inequalities, despite being a cause that many - as seen in this commenting thread - don’t support and simply label as “communism”.
Functions in calculus... I never understood them until I learned about functions in programming several years later. They're the same damn thing! I really wish I had learned to program before learning calculus.
>longer wires mean more resistance while thicker wires mean less resistance.

Intuitively (perhaps incorrectly) I would assume that it's like trying to force a fluid through a skinny long pipe vs a wide pipe - the skinny long pipe will have higher pressure inside.

Or, the long thin wire has more distance for the current to travel (= more resistance), while the thicker wire has more "options" for the current to choose a path of least resistance (literally), tending towards a lower overall resistance compared to a thinner wire of the same length
A little conscious being grows eyes to understand the world around it, to later be disposed of after the study is over.
Yes. What we are all experiencing is a nation in decline.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm but I found it funny either way.
Nice, I'm on the west coast surrounded by farms.

My commercial knowledge of this is all second hand, but I hear it's driven by a few big customers - essentially people with huge commercial farms who are willing to experiment. The idea of selling an expensive AgTech system to your local farmer at the pub doesn't really happen.
I had a take home test a year or two ago and I got grilled during the interview for not writing crap like that.
Sorry, stupid typo, I meant to write KeepPassXC :-|
First thank you for the article. Looking forward to Part II.
Two questions:

How do see the chances for other competitors to be able to catch up with SpaceX/Starlink?

And are there some other challenges than congestested space and congestested frequency spectrum, when there will be several competitors in space?
I interview people for support roles, when I ask this question it’s to see what their future goals are career wise. If they say they want to be in marketing or something else, I simply ask how they see this job helping them get there. That’s where they can come in with the wrong answer.

If this role can’t help you get to your actual goals, chances are you’ll be looking to leave sooner than later and you most likely wont be as invested.
I'd like to mention I would be interested if you ever did a write up
Most cataract surgeries in private hospitals cost around $200 in India including the lens cost. If its done in camps where multiple patients get it done the cost might primarily be lens related.
Hard to pick a best, the palette changes quickly and it's all very weather dependent. March will be on the cold side and just starting to bloom, by June many will have dried up.
If you do need highres images, it’s cheaper to get someone like Vexcel to take them from a plane, and it’s much more flexible wrt cloud cover too.

(That’s where the good “satellite” images in online maps come from.)
I can think of a non-military use case: Tracking fishing vessels in the Pacific Ocean. Access to an EEZ is sold in “fishing days”. Vessels are required to have VMS, and there’s been work done on correlating VMS data with fishing, but it’s not a slam dunk. Immediate, high resolution photos would provide evidence of IUU such that the vessel could be intercepted and boarded while still within the EEZ.

Even if the vessel can’t be boarded, high-res photographic evidence could be used to pursue legal action against the vessel’s owners.
Point 4 seems more like a cultural thing than a technical limitation, at least for large farms. Why not split the farm into a few pieces and apply different procedures to each piece?
Nearly 100% certainty these are cherry picked. Almost all "music generation" approaches are, which is a canary in the coal mine. Good music gen is much harder than most non-musical AI researchers assume.
> That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

- George Carlin
I also love and need outlines. It’s carried forward in not just writing, but making great presentations, plans, and decision making.

Also, obligatory RiffTrax on outlines: https://youtu.be/yfcyVtD8-Dk
The snow lab in the Sierra was recording 7.5 inches of snow an hour during the storm.
It was more about the comment I was replying to around a use case where historical data is important to keep around.

Marking it as inactive with a boolean makes you lose the context on when the inactive toggle happened.

Chances are you want to use deleted_at on the user in my use case because that provides you the timestamp of when it happened and also lets you have application logic which prevents that user from being able to login and do things, but still lets you show their previous information to everyone else as if they didn't leave and all you have to do is have a tiny bit of template logic that appends " (Deactivated)" to their name if `deleted_at` is not NULL.
What about upvoting and downvoting in hn? Do you find that to be positive?

Personally, I find I have to work to not write striking statements because I know they give me chance of getting a ton of upvotes. If I’m tired, the temptation is harder to resist
Long time ago, but mathematical functions.

In hindsight stupid, but it took me embarrassingly long to understand that a function just takes a value for x, calculates it with the rest of the numbers in the function and that way basically assigns a y-value to every x-value. No idea why it took me so long, I didn't have any similar problems with high school math
Some people sort of run their NixOS configurations this way; the root filesystem is on tmpfs

https://elis.nu/blog/2020/06/nixos-tmpfs-as-home/
The die design tells what parts are there, not their values or characteristics; cloning a chip just by looking at the die would require a lot more research.
Same, and also keychain on macOS/iOS.
Save humans time with a workflow.

Save humans time.

Save humans time.
I think people come out of school hating reading because nobody likes being forced to read specific books, as everyone's tastes are different. It sounds like this might have been what happened to you.
One of these days I’m going to find a reasonably-sized hobby that interests me and curate a Web 1.0 page just like this for every nook and cranny of the topic. I’m probably feeling nostalgia for a simpler time where the internet was magical and wondrous and I had no responsibilities to distract me once my homework was done.
> the roads were very slippery

This is one thing that surprised me when moving from NY (lots of snow) to SF.

Rain in SF seems to trigger traffic conditions similar to light snow or ice in the northeast.

I’ve always been curious what causes this. (My guess is people are slower to replace balding tires when there isn’t frequent rain or snow)
Vista is 2006. In 2006 KDE was version 3.5 and hopelessly cosplaying a WinXP theme.

KDE 4 from 2008 was hopelessly cosplaying MacOS.

So yeah. Influences are very apparent.
I agree about the way the headline is written, but the article links to 1password's blog post (linked here a few days ago) that claims "the cost of cracking passwords hashed with 100,000 rounds of PBKDF2-H256" would be less than $100 USD for 10 Billion guesses.
You are vastly oversimplifying the problem here. One of the most obvious being, cameras don't really work without light on the subject being captured, and currently Starlink doesn't have a sun synchronous orbit like most (non-SAR) remote sensing birds do. Starlink would need to be completely reengineered from scratch to add even mediocre remote sensing capabilities without degrading the original mission of the Starlink platform (something akin to space mesh networking).

Put simply, it's MUCH easier and cheaper to build one type of satellite that does one task very well than it is to do two tasks poorly.
As someone who legitimately suffers from adult ADHD I just hope it doesn't impact my ability to get my medication.
Summarizing multicore usage using entropy
This is true of almost everything in math. You learn some definitions and techniques in one class, and it doesn't all become clear what's going on until you've used those to as the base layer for solving some other problems in the next class. Part of it is just that it's hard to teach you need the first concept in order to understand the second, but you need the second to understand why you should care about the first, so it's all a bit circular.
A combination of how I feel and how my hair looks beforehand. There's no way I'd go out first, for anything, wouldn't answer the door.
Naive question: why can't A/B testing work by implementing the tech on a few fields and not on others?
I find an sample of Smalltalk is one of the most interesting ways to see how it flows as a language, as its grammar almost reads like English. From Wikipedia [1], this is a piece of Smalltalk code:

> 3 factorial + 4 factorial
> between: 10 and: 100

which means:

> 3 receives the message "factorial" and answers 6
> 4 receives the message "factorial" and answers 24
> 6 receives the message "+" with 24 as the argument and answers 30
> 30 receives the message "between:and:" with 10 and 100 as arguments and answers true

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
I also use the Moonlander, and I’ve thought about using home-row arrow keys for navigation. I’m glad to hear this is working for you.
your pitch doesn’t fit into three bullet points that’s why it ain’t working
The fee revenues come from its users, they pay when they use an application built on Ethereum to settle the transaction. Most of the applications, specially the most successful ones, the ones that spend the most ETH, are financial in nature at the moment. I suspect this is likely always going to be the case, as blockspace is a scarce resource only the most added value applications can compete for it. Non-financial applications will exist in the multiple L2s that are being built on top, these involve various cryptographic proofs to settle batches of transactions onto the L1. So financial applications and L2 proof verifiers will likely dominate the use of Ethereum in the future.
You don't really understand OOP until you recognize it as one style among many that you may use in different parts of each program. Some parts are naturally OO-y, others DD-y, others declarative, often an unholy mix in each place. The problem dictates elements of the solution. Shoehorning a solution into a particular style makes a bad solution.

Never forget who is in charge. Deferring to a style dodges responsibility for your choices.
>yet

I mean, we have accurate electric timepieces now, and the F91-W came out in 1989; we had accurate electric timepieces then, too.

it's a cost versus value thing.
The idea is to make the functions pure and return the state ‘a(s_1) -> s_2, value’. Makes so much easier to test and write concurrent programs.

Though it’s not always practical, like when needing to push an element to an array for making updated state. It is nevertheless possible to shave of pure parts considerably making mutability easier to maintain.
You can't put greenhouses over entire states, which is what would be necessary to prevent mass famine.
Moreover, he specifically fled to Florida which has far fewer regulations than, say, CA or NY.
At least someone gets it! Even if there are technical issues with LD they're not going to be solved unless we fix the commercial side of it.
> I simply ask how they see this job helping them get there.

So just curious, in my last job the real answer would have been “it’s paying enough to let me fund things on the side to help me move towards my goals”. Is this a wrong answer? I imagine most places wouldn’t care for such a blunt, cynical answer, but it’s the truth.