skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was working for an aerospace manufacturer for a while. We were getting 40/50 year old apprentices for the trades, guys coming off the production floor.

Electricians, millwrights, CNC machinists... we couldn't find enough of them.

I get it. Nobody wants to stand in front of a machine (or 5-6 machines) for 10 hours a day. Nobody wants to be in a 90 degree factory all day. Nobody wants to work 2nd or 3rd shifts.

The pay isn't incredible. $25-30/hr. You get overtime. You get health insurance. You're a union member. As long as Boeing and Airbus are still flying planes, you'll have a job.

But we just flat out didn't get many applicants. And the people that we'd get, would only work for a couple days, or a couple weeks.

Some people think it's because there's drug testing. Some people say young people "don't want to work". All I know is if I needed a job, I'd apply.
Winter Hardware Wonderland – $250 Electronics Grants to Teenage Coders
The article is a terrible on critical details. No mention of hit confidence levels, software, hardware, or review process.
Looks cool too! Python!!
Related:

Rows.com – Spreadsheet that supports external API integration and collaboration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29171490 - Nov 2021 (75 comments)
Yup the "minimalism" in Teslas is just a hack to forego complex interior designs that they are holistically unable to reproduce in their "giga"factories. It helps to reduce complexity and weight if you just slap an iPad next to the steering wheel.

What's REALLY bad though is that other manufacturers rushed after Tesla and turned their brains off. Now we have a bunch of electric cars with crappy plastic interiors (light weight for range) and shitty tablets as user interface. Some are recognizing these horrifying mistakes that will cost lives but it will take years to recover because a lot of projects are too far ahead already to be changed or canceled.

I mainly speak from extensive experience with Volkswagen - the crappy capacitative touch buttons on the steering wheel will finally go. The new CEO Blume is not as blind as Herbert Diess - he doesn't view Tesla as the second coming of the iPhone, especially since Teslas continue to stagnate in quality and other manufacturers are quickly catching up.

Good luck outproducing Hyundai, Kia, Volkswagen, BMW, Audi... time was Teslas ally especially because Toyota kept insisting on Hydrogen cars for so long and VW fucked up software development so bad with CARIAD that Konrad Zuse is spinning in his grave ready to produce energy for all EVs sold.

I credit Tesla with 2 things:

- Opening the EV market and pushing other manufacturers to invest

- Great engineering regarding battery and range (in the past)

The list of issues is longer nowadays and I am not willing to forgive quite as much as in 2014 with great alternatives on the market.
This is almost certainly false. Derivative work is a category of copyrightable material where an existing work was further creatively transformed in order to create said derivative work. For example painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa.

That creates a derivative work, which has a separate copyright on the creative addition (the moustache).

Training an AI has been found to be not creative work. The AI weights, as a result, are not a derivative work, and likely cannot be copyrighted.

Your GPL example is an unexpectedly poignant one, as well, though it will be to your chagrin.

If you publish your GPL code, and I learn from it and produce code that does the same thing, that is not restricted by copyright. Furthermore, if it's found that the expression of the code itself cannot be separated from the function, the expression is not copyrightable in the first place, and the GPL is redundant.

It's only in the instance that I reproduce your code exactly and the function is separable from the creative expression that your copyright is valid.

Regarding your JPEG compression, it's possible that a ML model will produce outputs that, of themselves, are copyright infringement. A recognizable picture of Ariel, for example. That doesn't mean that the training, the model, or anything else it produces is infringing.
I first learned about the idea from SimCity 2000[0]. Not saying it was the impetus here, but I wonder what amount of the continuing interest in orbital power is due to SC2k. (I suspect my experience is not unique here on HN, but I wonder about the "general" public.)

[0]https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Microwave_Power_Plant
My dad is a licensed electrician and sewage treatment plant operator. I made more money than he did by the age of 19 with a semester of community college under by belt. He owns a 1/4 share in a business and I'm far from working in a FAANG (meaning, he's near the top of his game and I'm close to middle of mine).

In 2009-10, he had no work. I don't think people realize how hard recessions hit trades. You don't become "unemployed." You have to go to work then stand around half the day not getting paid until enough people stop showing up that there's enough work. All of my friends working in trades from when I was younger switched careers in the Great Recession (the military was a decent option, since they'd fast-track skilled people to E-5).

This is the real reason why millennials are under-represented in the trades. The media prefers to just call us lazy.
It doesn't matter because there is only around a quarter of the copper needed in the world, so unless there's space mining the lithium wont be the problem any time soon.
Is there a point to this? Wouldn't you always want to strip those from your code before shipping to the browser, both for size and compatibility, making support irrelevant?
It’s all corruption and fraud.

Speculative trading on known garbage is certainly some kind of moral corruption and ethical fraud, although not illegal.

I say this having made a little under $1000 doing so occasionally for the past 2 years.
It's a crying shame that a commercial lab found this (and presumably patented it). If it had been a government lab, we could theoretically have dozens of groups all making progress with memristor tech.

I remember breathlessly telling friends and family how memristors were gonna change everything. I didn't (and still don't) have any particular understanding of memristors other than having drunk the cool-aid in terms of their popular science value. It feels like a huge letdown that we don't have memristor tech in the wild yet.
Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe (2019)
"Common sense", "laws of supply and demand" imply kids probably shouldn't all rush to go be plumbers because it will decimate the pay and most of them will end up in poorly compensated jobs because on they are, on average, not special.

And wow, look, we're commenting on an article about how kids aren't rushing to go become plumbers so you're here saying what exactly?

Or did you just want to go on about kids-aint-shit and the die landed on joecot this time.
jeff. We've been through this multiple times already. You working for the ad portion of Google has made you madly in love with ads to the point that you pretend that not letting you siphon and sell my personal data wholesale means you can't show ads. This is not true. Multiple people have told you that already, across a multitude of threads.

You can still have ads on your site. GDPR does not preclude you from using ads on your site. GDPR doesn't care if you have ads on your site. Nothing in GDPR prevents you from having ads on your site.

How more clear can I write this?

Stop spreading lies and bullshit.
Epic gets hate for anticompetitive behavior and essentially trying to buy success with exclusivity deals. They aren’t winning business by being better at anything they do, just by owning things and using that for leverage, and then people who care about a game feel forced to use a store they don’t want to use, sometimes after a last minute rug pull before release.

Content + distribution houses shouldn’t be allowed to do these things in any industry.
They were told many times that the systems needed to be upgraded, but did not because ignoring it would mean higher short term profits. When executives choose profit over responsibility there is no negative consequence.

So for example when there are crashes or massive delays due to negligence, the executives should possibly be criminally charged or companies need to pay very high fines. If the consequence is any less than the increased profit, then they will continue to choose the increased profit.
Related:

GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854 - Jan 2020 (136 comments)
Hasn't that developed into one Fediverse per continent? Many major instances seems to defederate with alt-right instances and porn-infested instances, except they seem to correspond to EU, NA and JP.

With the 2nd and 3rd largest along half of top 10 being such "global pariah" instances, it isn't convincing to me that the Fediverse has a working fine grain federation control but seems like there are just handful disjoint Fediverses.
I tried asking a simple how does ActionMailer work with the rails repository link and I'm receiving an error response.
Block any number that costs more than 25th percentile would be a start and so on... I can come up with plenty of heuristics that would be better than nothing.
As long as you pay some minimal level of attention this shouldn't be a problem. 10s delays between stages won't prevent something with a minimum TWR of 2 and 4000m/s of combined dv from reaching orbit.
Whenever asked why there's a gap in my resume, I take insult, laugh, and say I didn't feel like working. I am compensated handsomely for my skills and that offers me the opportunity to be away from FTE as I so desire. I also have this and that side project I worked on because I'm obsessed with this coding shit. And then I ask them why is there no break in their resume? What are they afraid of? Are they not good at saving $? Have no desire to see the world outside of work? Never seen the-- you get the point.
also listening to how rickety it is, probably not so great for your knees.
These are 120W CPUs. I'm not sure what your comment is supposed to communicate.
That's the plan, but reality currently falls far short of that. My sister's currently looking at modular houses. There isn't much of a price difference between them vs. building on site, and you deal with a lot of hassles around transportation, site preparation, and permitting/paperwork.
I believe the vim.wasm is pre-compiled and checked in as a "binary." The javascript written is a runtime wrapper
I'm going to have to express my ignorance here: are sanctions not 'transitive'? I was under the impression that if a 3rd party violated the sanctions, then they would no longer have parts sent to them.
Can I state the obvious? They look dumb as hell
Steam has many problems but given it's been out there for two decades it's inevitable that people will compare it to newcomers.

Personally, I think EGS has much worse UX than Steam.

1) Slow on older computers: minimized it to the tray and brought it back? Keep looking at this blank screen and loading bar for 10 seconds now. Want to see your library? Here, wait 20 more seconds.

2) Got a free game, played it and didn't like it? Can't hide it from your library!

3) Want to know how large a download will be before you install a game? Good luck hunting that information!

Steam isn't a perfect launcher, but it had a long time to iterate and gather feedback.

(FWIW, Epic has a "Feedback and UX User Research" [1] program but it's only open to US residents — which I'm not.)

[1]: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/ux
> Problem is earth observation, as a market, sucks. With low-latency optical imaging en route, I'm not sure what premium radar would command.

One advantage of radar is that sometimes you can see through things that aren't transparent to visible light. I don't know if it's true, but I've heard that modern SAR sats can see through petroleum storage tanks and some warehouse roofs, so they can collect data which may be valuable to traders. These modern sort of radar satellites are apparently fine with solar power, but maybe they'd be even better with more power.
Yes, a selenelion will happen just before sunset or just after sunrise when the sun and moon are at opposite points of the horizon. This is also called a horizontal eclipse and is due to the atmosphere not the planet. [1] [2]

[1] https://sciencenotes.org/selenelion-eclipse/

[2] https://www.space.com/27338-total-lunar-eclipse-rare-sunrise...
Tangential, but I'm curious about the installation command:

curl https://clickhouse.com/ | sh

It seems like it just detects curl('s user agent?) and serves up the script, serving HTML otherwise (ex. `wget -O- ...` would print HTML). I wonder what the design decisions here were.
then there is https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
Is it broken?

I tried adding https://github.com/torvalds/linux and asking it to write a simple kernel module for me, but it gave me this error:

"Something went wrong, please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact us."

Edit: looks like it is, I see it's making a POST request to https://gptduck-production.up.railway.app/query which responds with a 500 Internal Server Error when I use a URL that looks like a GitHub repository (whether it actually exists or not), and "invalid repo" otherwise.
Which fields would that be? I can't think of any field that, once dug into a bit, doesn't reveal that lots of plausible sounding ideas are false.
Yes always possible. If you consider the light spectrum is split during sun set and rise. So you will get more red light spectrum, during set/rise. You will see more green during night ie Nothern lights. And obviously mostly blue during the day.
I feel like if the post repeats its premise or headline too many times within too close a margin, it instantly goes into my "written by an AI" box.
In general, reasonably lucrative part-time work for someone coming from a professional role is tricky. And even more so if you really want to have fairly fine-grained control around both weekly workload and longer vacations. Well-paying work that lets you just pick and choose something here and there and then take a month off if you feel like it are pretty uncommon.
The cohort used for the study was overwhelmingly white and female (95%+ for both), so I think your first point is fair, its not possible to generalize to the population from this one study. That said, in these groups, that study did definitely find that long covid was strongly correlated with preexisting psychological conditions:

>All types of distress were significantly associated with increased risk of post–COVID-19 conditions in a dose-dependent manner after adjustment for demographic factors (probable depression, RR, 1.39 [95% CI, 1.19-1.63]; probable anxiety, RR, 1.47 [95% CI, 1.27-1.70]; very worried about COVID-19, RR, 1.43 [95% CI, 1.22-1.68]; highest quartile of perceived stress, RR, 1.50 [95% CI, 1.21-1.86]; lonely some of the time or often, RR, 1.35 [95% CI, 1.11-1.65]; all P < .01 for trend)

This is consistent with other studies, e.g.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4905

>Increased risk for PASC was noted in women and those with a history of anxiety disorder.

As an aside, the inception of the "condition" is always worth considering in any discussion of long covid:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dubious-origins-of-long-cov...
It is not strictly true that SFTP must be accessed through SSH.

I actually jacked it into stunnel once, full details in that past post, which google remembers quite well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19520422

Tinyssh also has no config file; if you want it to service sftp, it must be passed in argv at startup, so less confusion there.

And there are two rsyncs now, so you have to be specific about which one. You likely mean the original, and not this one (the same people who wrote this had a showstopper bug in their new mail server):

https://www.openrsync.org/
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-j...
And I bet he wears a non-American color tie now and then. If he's still around on March 17, have a look.
UO components?
I assume the opposite. like other sectors in the US economy (MDs), its likely we're going to have to keep importing people to take care of us since we're all focussed on winning and don't have time to wash our own socks or bend our own conduit.
The Mitchell voice also sounds almost exactly like Ray Porter, another real audiobook narrator.
You can feel the pavement fine with a skateboard at least
That is a nice podcast rec! Got any more similar? Like this one or Hardcore History?
> everyone learns the law of supply and demand before adulthood, or if they haven't then they shouldn't be going to college anyway

People learn it, but I don't think many Americans actually believe it. Exhibit A is housing. Exhibit B is this bandwagoning effect around career choices.
What was the rationale?
Honestly, as much of a pita it is to maintain two native apps, is this really worse than the huge overhead that was migrating to RN?
$1400 doesn't seem that bad for the very first product of this type compared to other e-mobility stuff. E-bikes can cost around that price point (and way more of course) and they're a mature category. Scooters are much cheaper of course, but again, this is the first product of this type.
Twilio works with phone companies across the globe; this is not something that would be that difficult for a company of their size to implement (even if it means one employee whose job it is to keep this up to date). Consider that the timezone database (a similar problem) is administered by one person (a volunteer no less)
It's all true?

I've played plenty of KSP, and when you launch the game the first time there's a popup where you have to agree to have your privacy violated (there's a link to iirc unity analytics where you can supposedly opt out, but it always gave me a page error when I tried to go there. In Linux, it wouldn't even launch the browser and it doesn't give you the URL, so it would be impossible to opt out even if it worked).

Their integration with the redshell spyware is well documented too.
This article reads like they ran that thread through ChatGPT.
It is possible (atmospheric effects as stated by others/the article), but not in a useful sense of having something that looks impressively like a lunar eclipse.

In other trivia, expect that a solar eclipse will also happen somewhere on Earth in any month that has a lunar eclipse. (exactly because of similar alignment issues)
I get that you can manage the values in Circle, but you can't actually generate the values. IE, if you have a API token to write to Salesforce, you have to go into the Salesforce admin and generate a new token. Pasting the value in the Circle UI or a terraform descriptor are not the hard part. For lots of services, you can only have one key at a time meaning that generating a new one invalidates the old one meaning you'd have to have an outage while you're pasting and deploying.
The younger generation of programmers seem to think that a $1000 computer is crazy expensive these days. How spoiled we have become! When I built my first computer 30 years ago, the components cost just over $2K (and the components you wished you could afford were closer to $3K) and that is not inflation adjusted.

That wasn't the first computer I owned, just the first one I built. I am sure some really old timers remember the ones that cost more that $5K.
Yeah and for $1400, wouldn't it make more sense to just get an electric scooter or bike?
ChatGPT is generative word salad with high accuracy. Your previous comment was somewhat doom and gloom without providing interesting content for discussion — like the conversation, output, and a running example as a peer mentioned. There wasn’t much interesting to discuss which hadn’t been said about chatgpt already.

Fwiw, I think it’s a force multiplier, not a replacement. It requires skill to determine the quality of the output, can raise the bar of inexperienced developers by producing output more quickly and accurately than they could, empowers experienced developers by generating boilerplate faster than they can, and can improve learning by providing examples for specific use cases.

But when it’s wrong, it has no idea. It often answers riddles with intuitive but wrong answers. It provides code that doesn’t compile. Explains answers with logic that is entirely wrong. Push it and you’ll see.

It’s impressive but not apocalyptic. See another highly ranked post on the idea of “AGI hard” if you think I’m moving goalposts.
I think it's safe to argue that every single thing in a contract is for the benefit of the employer and has zero to do with morality. And it is up to the employee to have their own internal contract that the employer must align to. It's like legal court where the prosecution and defense go full court press not out of morality but because the belief that if both sides pull their hardest then the truth will be found.
> imply kids probably shouldn't all rush to go be plumbers

Correct, every kid shouldn't go be a plumber. Kids who might enjoy being plumbers (or electricians, or HVAC etc) should know that they can earn a good living doing it, they don't need to rack up $60k in student loans to go to an out of state college to get a useless communications degree or whatever.

Makes sense, right?
Just replied this to someone else. Instantly recognizable as Ray! Phenomenal narrator. He and Nick Podehl are my favorites
I understand this sentiment. I've been an audible subscriber since 2002 and have listened to hundreds of audiobooks, mostly fiction. The ability of the narrator to provide distinct, interesting voices for each character figures prominently into my enjoyment of a book. This technology sounds fantastic, and will likely enable pleasant narration of texts that would otherwise never have it, but I don't think it's likely to replace professional narrators for a large number of cases.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd rather walk slowly than look like a tool.

(To say nothing of the invasive rent-seeking that others have noted.)
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>I personally know several people in my state who had their careers impacted due to threats from former employers over an NDA

I'm curious, was there any actual legal action or was it just the threat? I'm not dismissing the fact that a threat can create enough risk to make someone change their behavior, but I've also heard these NDAs are tough to legally enforce. Of course, nobody wants to be the one calling their bluff only to find out it wasn't an idle threat.
They start out insanely great when riding high on VC cash, but over time they become the gorilla in the room and their service and support and quality begins to diminish until they're more annoying than they are helpful.
If you write out an idea that sounds plausible and well-thought-out, it doesn't mean that reality will agree with you, it means you have become a better politician. If you have passed it through a committee, and they agree with your idea, it means you are closer to the zeitgeist, not to reality.

As any one in here knows from troubleshooting complex systems, the first seemingly sensible idea is usually wrong. To understand, you need many ideas, and to systematically update your model and disprove each hypothesis, using the evidence, and the build up in your intuition, to tune your next hypothesis. Science is more about hacking than it is about getting a well-written paper past a committee. The feedback loop shouldn't be slowed down with a political step.