skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a victim of bullying in primary school and college. I was looking at some papers just a moment ago about the lifelong damage it does to every aspect of people’s lives.

I guess people like Sam Altman can afford to send their kids to safe schools but for most of it it is a luxury we can’t afford. Maybe it is a good thing my potential was crushed as much as it was because if I got rich like Sam Altman and had the money I would create an NGO that finds bullied kids and sues school districts out of existence.
The complexity of cloud deployments tends to grow wildly over time. What starts as an ECR repo with a single ECS deployment turns into Route 53 zones, S3 buckets, ELBs, multiple deployments of ECS, security policies, the odd EC2 instance (there's always one somehwere), etc, etc.

Terraform gives you a commmon language to make sense of it all that can grow as your cloud infra does.

When combined with git and CI/CD it's also an amazing self-service experince. For example you can put the Terraform code that describes your environment in a git repo, and allow any employee to open pull requests, and deploy changes on merge automaically, and require IT approval to merge. Now any engineer can self-service request access to a prod environment (by modifying IAM in Terraform), or configure a production deployment without ever needing actual access to prod. IT gets an audit log, they get a control gate (the code review), and engineers get to self-service changes which reduces the load on IT.
Can I ask you a couple of questions? I am in a patricular situation, I'm a mathematician who does FEM and I think my training has been too abstract. My most recent work involves programming custom code in C++ for the study of buckling of thin shells (finite element method, continuum mechanics, differential geometry of shells, and all under the umbrella of functional analysis). Still the region I live in has virtually no relevant positions for FEA, which prompts me to ask:

(1) I've been thinking of getting a certification in ANSYS or Abaqus (it's relatively cheap). Would it help if I get some certs, or would it be enough to have expertise in several open source finite element programs? - think deal.ii, PETSc, MFEM, MOOSE, FreeFEM, FEniCS and the like. I really like to use the latter because apart from being free, they give me more freedom and I can use them with parallel computing on UNIX machines.

(2) Regarding manufacturing and machines/machining, any book or resources that stood out? I'm most familiar with the Machinery's Handbook.

(3) For design, did you use a tablet? I've been looking into buying one and use it for design, preferably with FOSS. Any recs?

Thank you for your comments,

M.
Ask chatGPT
AWS, the bill, the AWS bill, and off by one errors.
Fortran is better than Julia and interoperable with Julia and any language. Any language as of today is better than Julia.
Currently, Julia is a collection of nerd lies and false promises. Look at the recent Julia Discourse post "What is the status of AutoDiff in Julia"? Then read how gloriously the top response describes the situation. Read a few lines more, and you realize there is yet to be a single AutoDiff tool that works effectively and flawlessly in Julia.
"Deny the weakness until we fix it" is a typical speaking pattern among JuliaComputing leaders. There is a good reason for it. JuliaComputing is a for-profit company. They have to find a way to return the stakeholders' million-dollar investments. The easiest way for them is to take a Machiavellian approach rather than being realistic, honest, and fair. I know the nerd culture very well. I am familiar with their denial of their weaknesses and flaws, and their nightmares of being the runner-up. I work with them daily. And JuliaComputing staff is a nerd community from head to tail. For a longer list of Julia's flaws that JuliaComputing pushes under the rug, see https://yuri.is/not-julia/
Regarding fairness and honesty, JuliaComputing staff are responsible for >99% of web posts (including HackerNews) that speak highly of Julia and bash any other language, particularly C++, Fortran, MATLAB, Python, R, Rust.
That's my impression too. If anyone legitimately believed alien remains (or parts of an alien spacecraft) was six feet under that rock, the government would've gotten it either by not caring what people in the area thought about it, or literally tunneling under the earth and taking it covertly.
I have this guy

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D7KP8S4

But am not partial to this brand or anything. But it seems to do what it says it will do.
Turning right on red is the one thing I'll defend here. You can only turn right on red after coming to a complete stop, and you have to yield to any traffic (including pedestrian traffic) before you make the turn. Given those restrictions, it's strictly an improvement as far as traffic flow is concerned.

Totally agree with you on exits though, especially left exits. Since moving to Texas I've become a big fan of frontage roads, but not everyplace has the room for that.
> only 25-50% of my contacts have WhatsApp

In many countries, EVERYONE has WhatsApp. In Israel it's how your boss, your work team, your kid's daycare, businesses and government offices communicate with you.
There's a version with fewer errors and typos here: http://neilsloane.com/doc/HIS50.pdf
http://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss
$5 billion of cash, liquid cryptocurrency and liquid investment securities + nonstrategic investments that had a book value of $4.6 billion

$9.6 billion of assets against $8 billion of customer deposits ... that would be quite the twist
Hey HN! I'm Suraj, one of the authors of this blog post. Andy (@acarl005) and I came up with the idea to write this post when we realized there weren't many existing resources on how a terminal works under the hood, end-to-end. If folks find this useful, we'd be happy to turn this into a series and dive deeper into sub-topics. Let us know what you think :)
IOT was largely leveraged as a get rich quick scam... You pay a premium for a device that expires or becomes obsolete one year after it is sold.

There is no need for a toaster to be connected to WiFi, yet somehow, it's fast becoming the only option available.
if by "do" math and logic, you mean spit out what seems most reasonable then yes.

ChatGPT doesn't "know" anything, its just a prediction engine. if you ask it what 2+2 is, it will tell you 4, but it didnt actually do math. it only said 4 because everyone else said it.

there is no generalizable reasoning going on there.
I'm glad to hear that it's open source now. I specifically took issue with advertising that it would be open source before the Kickstarter, but then open-sourcing it became a Kickstarter "stretch goal" implying it would have remained closed if that funding goal wasn't reached. I was on board until that surprise.

Looking at the Kickstarter right now:

"Stretch Goal 3: Modding Support

This goal includes three things in specific:

The game source code will be publicly available!
...
The code will be released under a license that prohibits using it for any commercial activities, and requires you to share-alike any modifications you make. The release will also not include any assets, so you'll still need a copy of the official game to play it."
All of my dependency management issues are handled by npm.

The main problem `make` solved was not wasting work rebuilding dependencies that hadn't changed, but in 2023 on modern computers I don't notice the CPU cycles burned on that kind of thing.

(... if I do start to notice them, I reach for a tool like bazel, because it can handle spaces in filenames).
Article screenshot text:

> A Windmill Demolishes It.

> Aurora, Wise Co., Tex., April 17.–(To The News.)–About 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing through the country.

> It was traveling due north, and much nearer the earth than ever before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed direct- ly over the public square, and when it reached the north part of town collided with the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went to pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden.

> The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one on board, and while his remains are badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.

> Mr. T. J. Weems, the United States signal service officer at this place and an authority on astronomy, gives it as his opinion that he was a native of the planet Mars.

> Papers found on his person–evidently the record of his travels–are written in some unknown hieroglyphics, and can not be deciphered.

> The ship was too badly wrecked to form any conclusion as to lis construction or motive power. It was built of an unknown metal, resembling somewhat a mixture of aluminum and silver, and it must have weighed several tons.

> The town is full of people to-day who are viewing the wreck and gathering specimens of the strange metal from the debris. The pilot's funeral will take place at noon to-morrow.

> S. E. HAYDON.
It sounds similar to Barnes and Noble shipping ADUPS on their Nook tablets.

https://www.engadget.com/2016-12-22-barnes-and-noble-nook-sp...
> newsletter

> the purpose of Medium

No thanks, Medium and Substack are already bad enough.
I cannot find any new homes with smaller than 150. What I have seen is:

Smaller House: Default 150, pay a little more to get 200

Bigger House: Default 200, pay a little more to get 2x200
So, what you're saying is that the options for race should be chosen from a colour palette rather than a dictionary?
I maintain that a graduation requirement for ALL students needs to be the ability to identify logical fallacies. If not by the end of middle school (~age 13 in the USA), then by the end of high school (~age 17).
Tell me I'm wrong.
Are you emulating the way people write in this forum? Because I'm not detecting those syntactic differences in your own posts. It looks like normal English to me.
Maybe I'm being naive, but isn't that just email?
Buying an Old IBM PC or Compatible on eBay or in Person: Tips
Any reason why it's collecting dust? I have a few RISC-V boards and I haven't had any issues with them other than having to compile almost everything from source.
Yes, I agree with both points. When done right, they're slightly safer and more energy efficient, because there's less current flowing on the full length of the neutral line. I've even seen installs where the inspector was okay with a handle-tie made with a scrap of copper wire, although I'm not convinced that was actually code.

The handle-tie would get you common-trip too, wouldn't it?
We were really happy with Google App Engine for the same reason. It's a product that feels like it was "10 years too early".

Like you I feel the whole microservice debate turns into a "depending on definition" kind of thing and feels odd. Write stateless code that can infinitely scale -- is it 1 or 100 services? Just depends on the perspective really...
240V circuits are simply both legs of the 120V split phase connected together, so the amperage is measured at 120V. The circuit breakers for 120V and 240V circuits are the same, except 240V circuits use two breakers with the handles tied together[1]. Electric resistive heaters like ovens and clothes dryers are always perfectly efficient, so I'm not sure how you even thought it would be possible to have an inefficient heater.

[1]: The 120V rails in the middle of the breaker panel alternate between each split phase, so if you connect a circuit to any two adjacent breakers you will get 240V. A 120V circuit is connected to neutral and a single breaker.
Hi,

What's your sales process like? High-touch or low-touch? Do people sign up themselves or do you sell to every new user yourself? Do they require you to onboard them and teach them how to use the product ? Are the user and the buyer the same person? What price range and price tiers are you offering?

If you are the one personally selling the product, can someone else sell the product? Have you made a list of all the objections and arguments? Have you developed a sales-script you can give to someone in order to execute a sale? Which of these steps truly require someone to do them and have you reduced the "motions" requiring a human to their most irreducible form possible to date?

>recently hired someone to help me with customer support.

Why was your first hire in customer support? What do customer need support with? Do you have a list of all the tickets/issues and have you noticed patterns for the issues with the most impact? Which of these issues require human intervention, first by you then by the new hire? Can you reduce problematic aspects of the product that are generating these tickets through technical means? i.e: can you reduce or eliminate the underlying causes of tickets/issues that require support which are consuming time/resources?

>I could raise 2-5MM for less than 20% of my company and this would give me some security at a decent price (help with hiring and growing).

How would you deploy these funds? Hiring for what positions and why? Growing what? You want to accelerate and gain more speed: which part of this process do you want to go faster and why? Can you imagine ways to go faster by releasing the brakes and removing friction in some parts of the process as opposed to injecting fuel? The analogy is a car that's going slow that you can make go faster by releasing the brakes as opposed to hitting the gas pedal. What's holding your growth back?
Stop using SMS? Pssh. Lots of stuff still relies on POCSAG paging, which has not been entirely replaced by SMS for much the same reason that SMS will never be entirely replaced by third-party apps.
AC and Hot Tub full blast would almost never happen, Hot Tub is more a winter thing.

But A full EV charge can be 6-7 hours, so could easily be all evening. A hot tub could easily be an hour of overlap in there. So someone turns on the Oven? Would def pop 100.
Many who grow up in the NY area grow up on pizza. In childhood, it's often eaten as a quick meal that doesn't require cooking. In adolescence, pizza is one of the only foods you can afford to eat out with your friends after school. In college, there's nothing like a drunken slice of pizza at 1 am. It's hard to overstate what a satisfying comfort food pizza is. There's truly nothing like it.
It is already here to be honest. I know BrowserStack and other mobile testing platforms (at Facebook and Amazon) do host real devices, both Android and iPhones, in server farms like this. Meta wrote a blog post about it: https://engineering.fb.com/2016/07/13/android/the-mobile-dev...

At one of my previous workplaces, we discussed running the Z3 theorem prover on an iPhone cluster, because they run so much faster on A series processor than a desktop Intel machine.
Swift has the distinction (for better and worse) of not being tied to the JVM.
>"Maker youtube" has been popping off for years. People love small shops and DIY.

People love watching small shops and DIY, not actually doing DIY, or paying small shops.
The idea of charging $8/mo for someone to look at anyone's photos online is pretty far off brand for us. We're really looking to help people find just their own photos. I do agree the market would be larger but that's not something we're interested in doing. That breaks ethical barriers for us.

We have to charge money to cover our expenses, most people don't realize how expensive GPU's are and that's the only way to do this cost effectively at scale. Even a non-profit would incur enormous expenses because there is just no way to do this cheap.

There is no abuse of the DMCA process here. Customers are asked to sign an affidavit and we don't allow them to DMCA outside of their facial profiles.
I have a private conspiracy theory that one of the reasons for the recent remaster of The Last of Us is to move all of Naughty Dog's go-forward IP off a Lisp-based workflow. Through at least The Last of Us (2013), ND had been still sneaking in Lisp through the back door: while the engine was in C++, a toolchain in Racket would generate all the entity component types as well as data for various animations, etc. I think there's been a shift in developer talent at ND in the past few years, and Druckmann wants to get rid of all the Racket stuff (because it's hard to find maintainers for it) and stick with a standard C++ workflow.

All of which makes Kandria even more refreshingly welcome.
ChatGPT is a chatbot, not a resource. I would avoid using it to learn topics because there is no guarantee that anything it says is actually correct.
Yes, and it means Swift scripts and modules that don’t reference UIKit/AppKit/SwiftUI/Combine will run on Linux and possibly Windows with zero or little modification.

I‘m a little sad though that they didn’t start this endeavor years ago, because IMO Rust has already built so much momentum that it will win (for the popular, medium to long term definition of „winning“).
Yeah, while not my favorite, Sal & Carmines is great. Only other truly great slice joint on the UWS is Freddie's (which is phenomenal). A new-ish place, Mama's Too on 106th, isn't too bad either.
Mastodon is looking for a DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)
I cannot remember last time I sent an SMS. Seems like SMS is still very much alive in US
Cheers, thank you!
I had a lot of fun learning Python with this years ago. It get's rather tricky as you progress futher, but that makes the satisfaction of beating a level even greater.
The first few Jak & Daxter games were written from the ground up in GOAL.
Really excited about the sway spin. I've been using sway since early in the project's history, and love to see it become more stable and widely adopted.
Triple Fault
good news! the delta chat application is available for PC, Mac, Android, iphone and gives you signal-style clients but powered by (encrypted if you want) email messages.
How will 2023 TVs address OLED’s biggest flaws?
TBH I don't know the last part either. I just see it being said time and time again that I have started to assume it is true.

But I do find the idea weird that they would jump through the hoops for it unless there is a major reason for it. Like we (US) had unlimited SMS a while ago that I think also helped.
For dumber people it means that, not for younger people.

Younger is not a synonym for dumber.

There are young people who look up words and use them correctly, and there are old people who just ape other people's random shifts and misuses of a word in order to fit in.
Openness > Vendor lock-in
Almost all big appliances are 220.
Fridges are 110, but the big guys

* EV Charging

* Electric or Induction Oven

* Electric Dryer

* AC

* Electric Water Heater

are all doing to be 220. The amps will vary, and most will not peg the required wire 100%, but may for example do a big pulse to startup (ACs are famous for this).
I think UnicodeMath [1] is really interesting and approachable and is a standard that Unicode themselves have been keeping an eye on/helping maintain. It takes advantage of the richness of Unicode in interesting ways that makes the formula encodings in plain text better resemble their formatted counterparts. (You just have to forgive that the standard originated from the Microsoft Office team.) The interesting thing to me that UnicodeMath partly implies is the idea that math formatting could be considered similar to "regular font rendering" in a similar way to how ubiquitous emoji have become.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1....
It's not ideal to give Facebook that much control over communications.
This is sweet but `just` is even sweeter - can use multistage build files to elegantly add it to any Containerfile, no?

Edit: I don't see a publicized image - added an issue: https://github.com/casey/just/issues/1497

However, anyone could add a docker just for just for their own project and use it to pull in just for all their projects, avoiding a download command to get just in other Containerfiles.
I can't remember the last time I saw Firefox hard crash to desktop like this, instead of the individual content tab dying. Impressive!
This. My barber rents about 600 square feet in Boston near a major college, and that is $8000/mo. And that’s a good deal considering both the area and that he’s always had so much business he’s forever booked solid.

Folks, actually go look into how much commercial retail (not office space!) real estate costs in the nice, busy parts of your area. It’s an eye opener. Food service is even more. Then NYC (especially!), SF, DC, Seattle and Boston can be positively withering.
I Am VulcanWM
Anecdotally, I've felt the same way. Didn't properly record it.. but, slices these days in NYC (and outside) are definitely lacking in sauce lately. Some places even feel like they're cutting on salt and oil too.

I will add that the quality also highly depends on when you go. Generally, the busier it is, the worse the quality.

The author states that Joe's is one of the better ones, but I think the quality has gone down too. I was there in 2014, 2017, and 2022. Digging up my photos to review the sauce amounts, but I felt 2022 was very lackluster to previous memories.
Hey thanks for that!

I tried to remember what I was like ten years ago and was definitely “severely depressed”, the first link said that. I was constantly agitated and anxious, had insomnia, would call people crying at 3am, and was obsessed with thinking I had some terrible illness all the time.

Despite some mild anxiety the same rubric says I’m normal now, so that’s nice.

The Adderall doesn’t really improve my mood so much as it lets me accomplish the things I need to do in a day, so instead of having a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach like the sword of Damocles over my head, I can relax.

Most interesting to me is how I was completely self absorbed and only had myself to worry about, and now that I have a wife and kids, I was less depressed in the years we didn’t know if our young daughter would make it to adulthood due to illness. My remembered experience is that my mid-20s when I was flunking out of college and playing WoW 60+ hours a week was a way more painful time in my life.
Another commenter and I both wrote some simple wrappers around Ninja in Ruby and Python -- I would recommend that approach

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32303692

I started from ninja_syntax.py and then improved it based on what I needed. Ninja is fast and simple, but it's (intentionally) lower level than you might want.

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/10/garbage-collector.html...

It does seem like there should be a "standard" thing that is maybe not so C++ specific (like CMake and Meson which both seem to use Ninja), i.e. for the use cases in the blog.
and MacOS Safari.
Curious why AGPL was the optimal license choice? As a license, it will preclude a number of the same companies that would want to run it on-premise for data security reasons. (Some large companies that might have the same need to run on-prem or private cloud, also blanket won't approve GPL/AGPL licenses.)
Mogan fork of TeXmacs running on Android via Termux
Not to mention when credits are applied and how their whole billing cycle works
- there are plenty of companies trying to approach this but when you get into the bigger more complex bills it is still a mystery all around (especially for finance people)
The subjective nature of reality disagrees with you, sorry.