skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on where you live, simply electrifying your home and driving an EV should be enough to get you within a few percent of your peak summer output. You won't be wasting that much. Buy the heat pump water heater, the induction range, etc... Pick the low hanging fruit, then worry about using that last bit of juice in June.

FWIW: net metering seems like "trash tier" precisely because that summer PV excess really is mostly wasted (this is true for big panel farms too). The utilities were taking a huge haircut on the old 1:1 billing that California just rolled back. It wasn't sustainable.
There already has been a sharp downturn in the markets. Equity markets are forward looking so not sure why wait? Why not dollar cost average from here on out?
In a deflationary spiral, both unemployment and the cost of goods go down. It is considered a time of prosperity for the layman. Any worldview in which this is a bad thing can only be considered an evil one.

Sure, inflation is cool because it shrinks our debt to nothing, but then what is our economy and social structure based on? Only lies. Even children can see now how this system is collapsing under the weight of its own absurdity and demoralization. I've had it to here with these banker-centric rationalizations of why it's a good thing that the average employee gets screwed harder and harder each year.
A short squeeze on a stablecoin? lol
Ask HN: What are the best places to find a job? (job boards, slack groups, etc.)
Hey all, I am trying to piece together the best / most pragmatic experience for a job seeker finding a job in startups/tech.

As a developer, I have had a lot of success on AngelList and Slack communities getting interviews.

In particular, the work on climate slack group has been fantastic for connecting with folks hiring.

AngelList is nice because it’s often a conversation with a cofounder right from the beginning.

For me, the best experience is talking to a real person immediately. Not applying to a careers pages and either never hearing back or getting an automated response no with no real feedback.

I was wondering if there are any other tech focused job platforms or communities that are a good experience for candidates.

I am also curious what a “good experience” means to others here.
Is there a reasonable assessment of where LaTeX's capabilities are falling short? One of these may be laying out tables without need for manual intervention/adjustment.
Another could be easier ways to customise look and feel of documents.For example the "letter" document class is too bare-bones.
I don’t think that’s a problem. Kiev had basically full narrative superiority in the conflict. The bigger problem will be to arm the volunteers with weapons that are effective, as opposed to just using them as artillery targets to slow down the Russian forces.
>Otherwise, it's not going to get noticed.

I'm afraid that's not the case, the ANPR data for all cars is stored (currently) for 1 year whether your plate is on the search list or not[1]

1: https://www.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/rs/road-...
I always have too many books started, but one on my to-do pile is Shoshana Zuboff's, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism." I ordered the paperback, so it's here, glaring at me.
I think (though I can’t find a reference) that Knuth hoped that some of the algorithms developed for TeX, such as the hyphenation and line breaking algorithms, would catch on and be used by other, non-TeX typesetting software. If that has ever happened, I a unaware of any examples. That’s a pity.
> take the slowest machine you can get your hands on, and program something for that hardware using C++ or Rust

that's a lovely idea and a great limitation for inspiring creativity!
Wow, really impressive. Not only are these super beautiful, they also all seem to immediately evoke something in me. They are expressive. Not just something pretty, but something meaningful, like a logo should be. Great work!
To be clear, my stance against meth comes not from "anti-drug propaganda", but from knowing people whose lives were ruined by it. I'm pretty open about drug use, and after hearing their experiences with it, it is absolutely a drug I would refuse to touch.

I'm not arguing these anecdotes are data, but for me personally they are enough to highlight the unequal danger of meth.
You're not really making coherent points here. No one is arguing that vertical monopolization corners a market on components.

When Apple bought Authentec, they increased their market power and reduced the market power of competitors.

As an independent company, Authentec could sell to Apple AND Apple's competitors. Apple obviously won't sell components to their competitors. They were incentivized to purchase Authentect to restrict competition.
The Pursuit of the Ideal – Isaiah Berlin [pdf]
For context, I learned to program via hobby game development, eventually going pro. But I gradually transitioned away from the game industry, into adjacent territory like simulation and visualization. Of my six jobs thus far, the non-game ones were the best two overall.

Today's "mid-size" to AAA game development culture is ultra-conservative, both technically and creatively. Ballooning team sizes and budgets mandate this. Do not join a studio bigger than ~10 people. Smaller teams/studios imply better jobs, in my experience.

They say not to make your hobby your job- unfortunately, there's no other way to break in to this highly competetive industry (echoing others here). So start with hobby game dev in your free time. It's worth learning C++ while doing so. C# is another option, but one that mostly locks you in to studios using Unity.

Beware of relatively low compensation and "crunch time" (really a perpetual, cyclical issue in game dev). I largely escaped the latter, but most in the industry can share overtime horror stories.
You think if Google or Toyota or Maersk or HSBC or AT&T stopped paying rent on their offices it wouldn’t be a major news story? It would be because it would have a dramatic impact on their perceived solvency and their share price.

I’m quite familiar with the Elon fanboy who says “masterful move sir” when he sees Elon slam his dick in a car door. But you’re in a different category. Your response to dick destruction seems to be “nothing to see here, it’s a regular, normal activity. The mainstream media is persecuting Elon!”
> You want to imply that the short is unprofitable because the asset is so good that it'll never decline in value.

Absolutely not. I think tether is garbage that benefits almost noone except its creators.

I'm just amused by the fact that stability of a bad thing is increased because betting against it is worse than for it.

> The point is that shorting tether is likely to be enormously profitable, but you won't be able to collect your profits.

Hence not profitable at all. :-)

Betting for it is risky, betting against it is risky. Maybe that's a huge part of its stability? Like stability on the edge of the knife held over lava pit. Nobody benefits from going to either side despite equilibrium being uncomfortable?
The difference between the two things being mountains of evidence about the risk one, and little reputable evidence about the risk of the other.
> In the US, ..., because you have no privacy and no data protection laws.

> In the UK, ...

Thanks for the chuckle
I don't think there's any evidence that tinnitus can be caused by open office floor plans.
I agree with you. I was quite shocked that, with Apple's reputation and the amount I paid for this computer, that the bluetooth wasn't working as I expected. But then I try and remind myself that tech is hard and there are so many moving parts to try and juggle it's a wonder that any of it works at all and for the most part I'm pretty happy with it and wouldn't want anything else. If you do go down the transmitter route you may want to look at trying this out, makes selecting your sound output a breeze https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/
LAMP with PHP/Perl/Python has been common for a long time - at least since 2006 https://www.computerworld.com/article/2553939/lamp.html
I was just using 400 as an example...I have no actual idea of how many hours police helicopters fly. Well, I do now...
You are reading in to what I wrote something I did not say.

I said that "OOP has become the foundation," not "OOP is the foundation." There is a very big, historical, fact-based distinction between those two statements.

Modularity and reuse are completely different things. A highly modular codebase is more amenable to write reusable code, but many modular systems have been written with very little concept and code reuse.

Of course there was a measure of reusable code before OOP was a more formalized language for discussing it. But to say "you can do these things without OOP" is like saying you don't need structured programming to write maintainable systems. And it's like "ok, but you're still using "if," possibly "return," and you know... functions." Essentially the exact same ideas that the paradigm gave formal language to.

I think people who say that OOP wasn't responsible for the understanding of modern
paradigms haven't read much of the theory behind it and have hyper focused on the poor series of books and articles that came out from the 1980s through about 2010 that encouraged hidden state ownership and inheritance of state.
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The Alan Watts Delusion
What: Kubernetes and related software: Helm, Argo. And related infrastructure tools (Server Security, CICD, Monitoring, Logs analysis, etc.)

Why: I've already built full stack applications (FE, BE, DB). I want to go deeper down the rabbit hole: learning the infrastructure which supports applications.

How: KodeKloud.com (fresher content than ACloudGuru.com), Udemy.com , IRC , eBooks, Various articles.
‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
I think Tim seems like the type that would be a bozo but he is really admirable in that he recognizes what he’s good at and what he isn’t. And has been willing to change the leadership to find the right people.

There have definitely been product missteps and the typical nickle and diming of storage but it hasn’t seemed like the quality has suffered too much as you’d expect if he was a true bozo.
Algorithmic stable coins are the future, they just need a reliable utility.
1. Real-world assets by exploring MakerDAO’s foray into commercial real estate

2. Optimism’s token valuation & upcoming unlock

3. A post-mortem on the GMI token: it didn’t make it
Google Might Need to Be Un-Google-Like
Part of my thinking was for fully off-grid homes. Are we approaching a point where they could capture the excess for long-term storage? Batteries are not the answer.
> So if you want to prepare, take the slowest machine you can get your hands on, and program something for that hardware using C++ or Rust. It doesn't matter what it is. You'll learn a lot and have something nice to talk about at the job interview.

As an aside, "slowest machine" seems an easy way to bench things - is there not a common way to wrap an executable in something that limits performance, network, etc?

It's a trope that developers tend to have beefy machines and so we often miss pitfalls of lesser machines unless we're explicitly benching code. I'm kinda surprised there isn't some CLI for `slow --ram=2gib --cpu_clock=3ghz --core_count=1 mybinary` sort of program.
A Chat with Dead Legends and 3 Forecasts
It can be caused by wearing headphones and playing music loud enough and long enough, which I had to do extensively in order to do my work and focus, because if I didn't have them on there was often 4-6 conversations that I could hear from my desk at various times throughout the day (and not too uncommon there'd be 2-3 different conversations literally next to and across from my desk, it was apparently a hotspot for BAs and scrum masters to congregate and chat for 45+ minutes at a time. I tried to get my assigned desk changed but had little luck with that).

I think at one point I got noise cancelling headphones and that helped a bit more, but I still had to play music at a certain level to cover the sound. Don't quite remember anymore though since it's been four years since I was in that situation.

I'm sure not every open office is like that. In particular the one at my current job, the one time I went in, was significantly quieter. Although the office was only a third full as well, since things changed a lot since the pandemic started for how many people show up to the office (I work remote almost exclusively now).

To be clear, I don't know for certain it caused it, it just seems the most likely culprit out of the possible causes in my life.
"Learn how to onboard" goes nowhere. The Terms and Services link also goes nowhere.

Speaking of which, this is a service that apparently operates on secure data. What are the safety concerns from that? Does your service retain any data?

> Sonya.ai understands your natural language questions, converts them into SQL, and queries the database for the answer

So this is effectively "run SQL queries from Slack." What happens if I ask it to "DROP TABLE Students"
Here is the relevant text from the source:

> Making the leap from mouse to man, however, was not so simple. “This is where it gets controversial,” Ramsden said, describing how other scientists tried to replicate Calhoun’s results in human populations.

> “How do you map Calhoun’s pathologies onto human society? How do you measure sexual deviancy? [Researchers] chose venereal disease, illegitimacy and divorce. That stirred up some controversy. How do you measure breakdown
in maternal behavior? They chose public welfare and child assistance rates.”
Others turned to the laboratory. The psychologist Jonathan Freedman recruited high school and university students to carry out a series of experiments that measured the effects of density on behavior. He measured their stress, discomfort, aggression, competitiveness and general unpleasantness. When he declared to have found no appreciative negative effects in 1975, the tide began to turn on Calhoun’s utopia.

> Freedman’s work, Ramsden noted, suggested that density was no longer a primary explanatory variable for society’s ruin. A distinction was drawn between animals and humans.

> “Rats may suffer from crowding; human beings can cope...Calhoun’s research was seen not only as questionable, but also as dangerous.”

> Freedman suggested a different conclusion, though. Moral decay resulted “not from density, but from excessive social interaction,” Ramsden explained. “Not all of Calhoun’s rats had gone berserk. Those who managed to control space led relatively normal lives.” Striking the right balance between privacy and community, Freedman argued, would reduce social pathol- ogy. It was the unwanted unavoidable social interaction that drove even fairly social crea- tures mad, he believed. Culture and upbringing also play key roles in adapting to environment, others suggested.

> Further studies of space design seemed to prove this. One such study compared students living in two different styles of college dormitory—corridor versus a suite style. Those in the corridor perceived the environment as crowded and exhibited increased stress levels. Those in the suite style, where the dormitory was partitioned into a series of separate communal areas, fared better, even though the level of density was similar, Ramsden said. “By comparing the two, [researchers] were able to provide evidence both of pathology and its amelioration through more effective design.

> “Calhoun’s studies remained influential in places,” Ramsden concluded, “but for the social sci- ences more generally, it seemed that simply associating Calhoun’s rodent universes with pathology instead of its amelioration was an opportunity considered too attractive or per- haps too convenient to miss.”
Many people who read about Lisp Machines are not aware that the InterLisp-D world and the MIT world (CADR, LMI, Symbolics etc) had significantly different approaches to how the systems should work, so even if you have read or used the MIT-style systems you will learn a lot by using Medley. I came from MIT out to PARC for a year, and later moved CYC from D machines to Symbolics machines (a complete reimplementation using a different fundamental architecture) so have good experiences with them both.

At heart, the InterLisp language itself isn't that different from MIT lisps, as Interlisp started down the road at BBN and there was a lot of cross fertilization in both directions. And CommonLisp, while heavily based on the "MIT" model has a lot of Interlisp influence in it.

But as far as the interfaces are concerned things are quite different. Writing code on an "MIT-style" machine was like writing it on the '10: type into an emacs and away you go. Interlisp-D's conception was heavily influenced by the SmallTalk experience: structured rather than text editing, mouse as a primary interface tool, and development based on images rather than files of code. It was much more intensely networked even than most computing today. Although I ultimately still preferred the MIT model, I learned a lot from Interlisp and there are many things I preferred in that environment. The most annoying part for me was the dependence on the mouse.

A nit:

> "The learning curve of such a complex system is steep, almost vertical."

This means you could effectively learn everything overnight. A shallow learning curve is the terrible one: takes a long time to learn.
SpaceX Aims to Increase Launches as Rivals Prep New Rockets
Yes,

You tell everyone to change the git set-origin.

Hardly anyone uses GitHub’s rudimentary issue tracker and reconfiguring a CI/CD pipeline is child’s play unless you use GitHub actions and very few if any large companies use GitHub actions.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's about an AI, which is becoming an important future possibility, and it's newer than what I usually read. I wonder if it's more shallow-entertaining like Her, or more serious like Asimov's robot stories. Or maybe an entirely new take?

Unsong by Scott Alexander. Yes, the famous blogger with original takes on society, politics, and philosophy. Will his solid reasoning and surprising conclusions carry over into a long writing form?

Glasshouse by Charles Stross. No other reason than it's been recommended as a series here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33146896 , and I'm done with the previous entries.

The Kalevala by the Finns. One of the four ancient epics. Even if a bit of a slog, it's a refreshing change from modern reads. https://sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune15.htm

Type-Driven Development with Idris by Edwin Brady - Idris seems different enough from the mainstream that learning it might prove eye-opening. Or spoil me for coding in normal languages forever. A bit of a gamble, this one.
This project (along with many Gnome improvements over the past 2 years) was pivotal in making me switch from a MacBook to a more ergonomic travel setup (https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/vzs8mm... )

Thanks again!
Is there something like this for Java?
The guy who runs Stuff Made Here is quite frankly the best example of a "full stack engineer" I've ever seen. He's mastered physics, math, software and hardware and commands most of this entirely himself.

He reminds me of friends in college who would simply sit down and grind through problem sets in one sitting that would take me multiple days.

Very cool guy, but be careful if you're young measuring yourself against engineering talent like him and thinking you aren't capable!
You seem to have lost track of the topic.
ISS Astronauts Are Building Objects That Couldn’t Exist on Earth
During the '07 housing crisis people bought "Synthetic CDOs" which where actually bets on a particular set of mortgages defaulting.

For example, they bet that a group of mortgages where the borrower had no proof of income and a mortgage with a very high interest rate in a location where prices were falling would fail. It seems like a reasonable bet, but they didn't take into account that the people taking these bets had no limit to how many times they could take the bet. Eventually they had enough money to just payoff the mortgages and win the bet.

I would be very concerned here that the same type of risk could happen
> broken code / back-end systems

Young programmers might want to put down the leetcode for a bit and spend some time learning about legacy code: how to understand it, how to fix it, how to improve it, and how to determine if it needs a rewrite. When the re-hiring begins, there will be a lot of code out there where nobody who worked on it is still around.
The rate of taxation depends on what is the maximum possible rate, what is the available surplus that can be extracted while still enabling the workers to survive and 'reinvest' in things that affect productivity.

In earlier times a farming community of e.g. 20 farmer families simply did not produce enough surplus to feed 20 other families; if someone would tax them half of their harvest, then they would starve, eat their seed grain and breeding animals, and there would be nothing to tax next year. A 10% tax was probably the limit of what could be sustained long-term.

On the other hand, as people become more productive, it became possible to devote a larger share of that production to goals beyond the survival needs of the household.
If you’re willing to go to where the jobs are and, perhaps, take a pay cut you can contribute software engineering or UI expertise to many stem projects. There’s a number of little companies doing such work and they have domain knowledge in spades. What they probably don’t have or have enough of is how to make modern, robust, maintainable software. Particularly user facing software. Things like ai or modelling applied to medicine, material design, etc.

You won’t sell ads or collect data. It’s probably licensed code and it helps people make stuff.
>Continuing to study this in humans are impossible given the ethical concerns and obvious cruelty

many non-Westernised cultures survive in cramped living conditions. they submariners were not accustomed to it and so suffered more
Get more fluent in Spanish, jazz piano, Go, Docker. Bee keeping, gourmet mushroom cultivation. Make short animation films with CSS, SVG, Web Audio, MIDI. Build "smart" systems with ESP32, sensors, actuators, interconnected and remote-controlled devices.

Keep brain and body happy and productive with a jungle of wide-ranging and diverse interests. Breathe in: many books for inspiration, information and theory, thoughts and discussions. Breathe out: the patient practice, regular exercise, and joyful expression.

More than personal satisfaction, I hope to apply any skills I gain to contribute to the social good in my local habitat, to entertain and have fun with family and friends. Bonus if it also creates economic value.
I'm continuing to read a PhD thesis that happens to spend a lot of time talking about the migration of my great grandmother's family (and ancestors) through western Virginia and eastern Kentucky (and then on to Oklahoma and Arkansas) starting in the late 18th century.

"Who's your people?": Cumulative identity among the Salyersville Indian population of Kentucky's Appalachia and the midwest muckfields, 1677--2000" by Carlson, Richard Allen, Jr., Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2003, 711 pages; AAT 3115947

https://d.lib.msu.edu/etd/47376
If this article gets even one author to stop using < and > when they mean \langle and \rangle, it will be worth it.
How's that job market going for journalists?

Right, markedly worse than engineers for a skillset that will literally be engineered out of existence except for journalists with true talent (as someone who does genuinely love reading independent journalism and long form content from the New Yorker).
> The whole ecosystem currently remains a giant confidence game

Money is also a giant confidence game. Any human system is that. It’s all made up.