skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding "hospitals" then, no, I'm not really sure, you seem to have some data although the time period I'm referring to was Winter 2020-2021.

Regarding lack of availability of emergency services due to some bottleneck of medical resources and personnel? then, yes, I'm really sure.
webflow is probably the most well known startup directly inspired by bret victor. vlad has mentioned it multiple times in every origin story interview.

whats funny is Bret’s message wasnt actually “you should go make direct manipulation ui’s”. it was “you should have design principles” and direct manipulation happened to be his baby (to the point where he went off to do dynamicland). i have heard he feels most people misunderstand his talk for the superficial wow moments.
The fundamental objection is quite real: Distribution. Hydrogen, due to the small size of the atoms, requires perfect seals and even then can slowly penetrate even metal containers. Cooling it enough to liquify it requires extreme temperatures and pressures as to destroy any efficiency gains.

Someone has to build that infrastructure, and do it on a national scale, for hydrogen to have even a chance at beating EVs/Hybrid/Gasoline cars. Say what you will about EVs, at least we already have an electric grid.
> No we can’t. We don’t have the industrial manufacturing capability. Not even by a long shot. And even if we did, we don’t have enough minded minerals to supply the manufactures, and even if we did, we don’t have enough electrical infrastructure to charge all the electric cars.

We don't have it today, but none that it is out of reach within a decade or two. Also, EV manufacturing is strictly less complicated than ICE manufacturing (as many engine parts suppliers are discovering). That's part of the reason you see so many EV startups (Aptera, Canoo, Lightyear, Rivian, Fisker) able to bootstrap vehicle manufacturing. That hasn't happened since the days of Preston Tucker.

The claim about never having the electrical infrastructure is similarly unfounded. We don't have the infrastructure for all 100M passenger cars in the US to switch to electric today, but with enough time we can certainly evolve the grid to not only charge them, but also utilize them for the purpose of grid stabilization.

> The best path forward for immediate success is public transit, using whichever technology is available (hydrogen, battery, overhead wires, diesel, whatever).

I agree that public transit is the ideal - and follow through by being a daily public transit rider myself. We absolutely should be providing better alternatives to individual car ownership, but that won't happen overnight, and it frankly requires a cultural change in much of the US that is a generational project. We can't make the perfect the enemy of the good, so in the meantime, we need to evolve the current paradigm - passenger cars - away from ICEs.
Just a few random thoughts from ~10+ years of doing this. These are not ordered, as I've been out of this for the past few years.

- Contracts, contracts, contracts

- Immediately stop all work when any customer doesn't pay an amount owed. There's a natural inclination to keep going, but this is a firm of pathetic cost fallacy.

- Work with an escrow provider and eat the fees. You'll generally have a 10% non-collectable rate, until you work with an escrow provider. This can be lowered to 1-3%, meaning you stay far ahead. More importantly you reduce the time spent in administration, and running after customers.

- Downpayments / upfronts are key. Any customer that is unwilling to engage in this practice, is a customer likely to not pay.

- Maintain ownership of your code, if you can. True, consulting code has little value - usually. But sometimes, you can legally, reuse the same blocks, or segments across multiple projects. Your rate of return increases dramatically here.

- Your name is your bond. When people learn they can trust you, even in just a handshake (remember: contracts!) they happily recommend you to your friends

- Digitize it all. Do everything in your power, pay for every web service that makes sense, to reduce your overhead. I was incredibly happy to pay for receipt scanning (shoeboxes), book keeping / invoicing, and accounting (xero). Most people view this as an expensively monthly cost - which it is at the beginning. It will also, eventually cost less than an hour of your consulting time. Scale.

- Never price at the top of the market. It's better to be 100% busy at 80% of the fee structure, than it is to be 50% busy, at 125% of the base rate.
Kill any bacteria? That sounds like a perfect antibiotic, a Holy Graal of medicine.
In the generative synthetic world who’s actually reading websites
I guess I imagined that "store in a store" I involved some kind of API that allows third parties to integrate with the Google store and list its own apps along Google-vetted apps. If all it requires is that the Valve store app be listed in the Google play store, I guess that's not so hard.

As far as the time since the initial ruling, why would you spend immense resources implementing something that you were fighting in court?
I built KTool (https://ktool.io) — it allows you to forward web articles, newsletters and RSS feeds to your Kindle.

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I did a Show HN 4 months ago[1].

The reason I started KTool was to spend less time on computer screens, and more on e-ink Kindle. I was afraid of going blind.

After 4 months improving KTool, it now becomes a tool to help you combat doom-scrolling. Instead of mindlessly scrolling the web, I deliberately send interesting articles to my Kindle.

Recently, I added newsletter & RSS support, it's 100% automated now.

My favorite source of content is Hacker News RSS[2], Stratechery[3], Indie Hacker Newsletters[4] and a few other Substack newsletters.

I can enjoy reading HN latest stories or my fav authors' latest pieces on my Kindle without spending hours browsing on my computer.

I just reached $620 MRR today (Jan 23)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996

[2]: https://hnrss.github.io

[3]: https://stratechery.com

[4]: https://www.indiehackers.com/newsletter
So you’re around 45-50 years old, which no offense is quite old if you’re a swe.

I’ve had around 5 jobs, am much younger, and none of them were due to connections (which I have well over 100 professional people who would vouch for me)

I think you’re either in a very fortunate place in society or you’re old enough in this industry to feel the small world effects

Trust me, for the vast majority your situation isn’t normal.
The breaks are really the key. At first it might seem wrong to stop when in the middle of something, but making a habit of jotting down a quick status note when the time is up makes it possible to pick up the threads again for the next round. A 5 minute break won't completely break a train of thought, but it will push it to a different cognitive level. Often the result is better than pushing through on the same problem without stopping.

On the rare occasion I'm genuinely in deep flow, I can ignore the timer, but I don't do that very often. The rest time – proper, deliberate, undistracted rest – improves overall focus and productivity. https://maxfrenzel.medium.com/in-praise-of-deep-work-full-di...
No, it isn't. It's just a tool designed to work with complex software development workflows, which 90% of software projects do not need. 8 commands (pull, fetch, merge, push, add, commit, checkout and branch) are all you need to get going for git, which is like 2-3 more than what you need for svn/cvs. It's like getting upset that cars that are manual have an extra pedal (clutch) compared to automatic cars with their 2 (brake, accelerator).
Waiting for the API
So you think hard coding credentials, or other variables for that matter, is a good idea?
The landing page desperately needs more screenshots
What kind of website?
Yeah, CEO's likely optimize for their bonuses...depressing to think about it; but most likely the CEO's compensation is aligned to what the company wants to be the outcome financially.
PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework
According to [1] US freight rail already transports 40% of long-haul freight and is the plurality of freight transport.

[1]: https://www.aar.org/facts-figures a biased source probably
Without revealing details of your ideas, how did you go about getting the ideas in the first place? Were you bumping into problems and encouraged to solve them in a more structured way? Did you have conversations or read some stuff that inspired you to create something? Did you work on a project purely for fun that led to being a potential business?

Seriously asking as someone who is grateful to have a wealth of resources at their disposal, but suffers from a complete lack of imagination in the idea department—that is any idea that would motivate me to the point of starting up a startup.
So consider a first person shooter with no rollback you're probably going to be aiming slightly ahead of the person to compensate for latency lag. And maybe you'll aim to the other side of the person if you think they changed direction before you saw it actually happen. Here because you feel the lag of your own movements you can take that into account in knowing how far ahead to shoot on the left side or the right side of your opponent.

With rollback if you guess they are going to continue moving in the same direction you just aim right on where you see them because of the prediction. If you think they are moving in the other direction you need to guess when they started moving in the other direction. That we are using rollback networking can't get rid of the need for you to guess this. To make that guess you'd like to know how far back they could have changed direction so you have some time interval in which to guess. From your perspective that time interval is based on the difference in time between the server's state now and the last server state you received. But my point is doesn't rollback make it impossible for you to know that while playing the game.

Whether you're using rollback or not you as the player need to know intuitively what is the time difference between the server's state and the latest server state received.
Seen this at least a dozen times and I still remember watching this live.

But what is the context here? I mean why the submission now?
keypassxc
You can get a lot of sound proofing by double layering drywall with an air gap in-between in exchange for some floor space.
iOS and Mac App Stores are still helping scam users with fake “ChatGPT” apps
> even though the conversation was about ARM.

Apologies, I wanted to be specific which standard is being followed. Nonetheless afaik the ABI is the same for all arm distros.

>> with very few problems beyond using a symbol that doesn't exist on older distros.
> ... Oh, I shouldn't even need to explain it, because you're already aware of it.

A missing symbol is a problem regardless of where you're compiling. If you're linking against something that doesn't exist it'll fail; whether that's on your client's machine running an old distro or when you're compiling on that old distro yourself. You could argue it's better to fail early here, but the work in fixing this bug is approximately the same.

> I'm amazed I even have to argue about such basic knowledge. If you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe OSDev?

OSDev is incorrect here. Take it from GNU themselves: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/abi.html. Symbols in libgcc are versioned; either your code runs and links against the exact correct version or it fails. If you want to run on old distros with libgccs that don't have newer symbols either use an older gcc, statically link libgcc or use clang.
For last few months, I had been heads down on my own startup and totally ignored all the noise around generative AI.
This weekend, I finally decided to spend time to tinker around, explore how GPT-3 works and try to get a product out.

Few days back - I had this craving to solve random math questions but never found anything. So thought could be a good idea to actually do it using GPT-3.

After 24 hours & a few stupid mistakes, learnt the following:
* GPT-3 is not so good for Math (all the gurus saying "obviously, it's an LLM".. yeah, I get it, now!)
* It's hard to actually parse text from GPT-3 into a JSON / structured format
* DONT ask chatGPT for gpt-3 code snippets! It's not updated to the latest openai documentation :p

Yet to fully try: Fine-tuning model
Mind speaking to the monetization component of your app? It's not readily visible from your links.

I ask as I've built a similar tool that supports portfolio rebalancing and helps generally understand portfolio health. I found the niche of "DIY" investors willing to pay for software somewhere between fully automated and hands-off is small and although I've never pushed towards aggressive monitization, it always seemed like most self-service investors are conditioned to only pay for data (which I suppose in part your application presents).
yeah, i should have been more explicit -- i want not only new-to-me podcasts, but actually-new/newly-created podcasts -- as in podcasts that were created in the last day, week, month, year, etc.

but after all my searching, there are no new-to-me pods, unless i just can't find the newly-created pods, which is very possible, even likely.
> I'm much more curious about a programming paradigm that no longer uses text to communicate with computers but instead just directly manipulating data

I don't think there's any way to get away from this abstraction. At it's lowest level, everything is encoded in binary. All abstractions on top of binary are just interpretations of the underlying stream, text being a relatively simple encoding (ASCII table or UTF8's multi-byte structure). Structure data is similar, just multiple pieces packed into one contiguous space. You will always have to build on top of this fundamental, there is no simpler

That being said, I quite like:

* Datasette - https://datasette.io/ - I have a feeling ou could connect a lot of these instances and truly make something interesting there

* Lightable IDE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=H58-n7uldoU

* I have at least 2 more but I can't find them in my favorites

I'm trying to make my own as well. Hardest thing is giving myself enough time to do it, but I'm currently starting to structure my life around it.
My dad said guys he worked with back in the 1960's would have stacks of library routines on punch cards that they would assemble their programs from with a minimal amount of purpose written code. Once it was finished they run the stack through a duplicator that would also renumber the cards. Then they'd take the original deck and stick the library functions back in their library.
>Listenership fell for shows that have remained consistent. Some of my biggest customers have half or less than the number of listens they were pulling per week in 2019. And that's without changing cadence.

Do you think QCode has a viable business model? Producing scripted podcasts that are designed to be trial runs for TV shows/films?
yeah, i should have been more explicit -- i want newly-created podcasts, which will probably be new to me.
being layed off is not a 'vacation' and frankly it's not easy finding a new job even remotely as good as your current one in this environment
My Dream Computer
Not particularly.
I earn a bit north of $5@@ monthly writing and selling puzzle books on Amazon.

(I suppose it’s relevant as, at its core, the books are made via one-off programs I write for each kind of puzzle. In addition to the LaTeX crap that turns the output of the program into a nicely formatted puzzle.)
This is awesome! Convenient for folks who use the Express/Angular stack but conceptual stuff should be pretty universal regardless.

Wasn't aware of this project at all but found the following links useful for context:

The actual Juice Shop website can be found at https://juice-shop.herokuapp.com/#/

and the github link for viewing code is https://github.com/juice-shop/juice-shop/releases/
This MS/Stanford project looks relevant, https://web.stanford.edu/~mkotaru/wicapture & https://www.science.org/content/article/wi-fi-could-protect-...

Commercially, Plume has 200K early adopters of Wi-Fi Sensing for human presence, but not VR specific, https://www.protocol.com/plume-wifi-data-intelligence

> Plume began testing Wi-Fi motion detection technology developed by Cognitive Systems in early 2020, and the company is now considering offering additional services atop of that technology. These could include triggers that help consumers save energy by automatically turning off lights after someone leaves a room, or even provide security and elder care products.

Amazon Echo uses ultrasound for motion detection.
> Welcome to that there meditation class. I’m Vinay. This is intended as a private recording (and transcript) so please don’t stick it on YouTube. I will pass it around to people who should have a copy.

I guess this technically wasn't stuck on YouTube...
Computer programs needn’t be Turing Complete. There are plenty of useful languages that are not, the Relational Algebra being example 1, which is equivalent to First Order Logic, and is in a pretty strong sense about as good as you can do without Turing Completeness.

The entire industry’s understanding of the power of the relational model has been destroyed by SQL, which is the largest foot gun of so many in our industry.

In fact, much more of most business applications (hell, just about all applications) can and would profitably be expressable in First Order Logic. The resulting programs would be simpler, easier to modify, easier to get correct, and other things besides.

Much of what Bret Victor has shown could be expressed in First Order Logic.

Would you still want Turing Complete traditional programming languages? Of course. But both programmers and non-programmers would benefit from being able to express more of programs using the sorts of declarative idioms that Bret Victor has shown and that the relational model provides.
Unison has potential to underpin a paradigm like that: https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/the-big-idea/
1. Without knowing exactly what counts as an "end-user", 15%. This is low for two reasons, 1) because I can SSH into a plethora of non-graphical systems, which I assume are the majority; and 2) just to be difficult and pedantic with the new Wayland systems for example.

2. Should be like 95% ;)

3. Without ever having used KeePass, I'm quite confident of the answer to this one... 100%. Is it officially supported and easy though?

4. Also 100%! But not happily.

Sorry, without some additional context I can't really give you satisfying answers I fear.
The people who think everything would be great if only we had visual dataflow programming remind me of people who get into crypto. They have mystic beliefs about computers rather than being able to figure out how something will actually work.
Line lengths, or the Pro Puppy Punting League is now open (2012)
It is not outside the realm of possibility that Github itself had a problem. I've seen instances where "git fetch" pulls refs but not the objects pointed to by the refs, then it gets cleared up an hour later and my builds suddenly start working again.

It's almost pure happenstance that Linus's idea of Git being distributed lent itself to the Cloud hosting business model. And the hardest thing to teach is the mental mapping of local and remote refs.

So this isn't just Git being too complicated. It's a confluence of several factors that would never have been possible if Git had never happned.
Thank you, I've just learnt something this morning, almost before the first sip of coffee...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
> Or is it saying that a passive bystander who is not connected to your network can infer the wireframes as well? That seems unlikely to me?

Also known as passive radar
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https://github.com/blob42/awesome-explorables

https://futureofcoding.org/ --> https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/
I used to listen to Planet Money, but it’s devolved over the same dumbed-down drivel that dominates NPR these days:

“Money has always been used to buy goods, but did you know you can also use it to buy services? Here’s some pop culture reference comparison to fake a narrative.”

I think the show started suffering when NPR turned every show into a podcast; it removes the ability to cater to a more focused audience because you have to waste half the show doing background.
I meant letting other players control your character, why is teleporting someone else to anywhere on the map a valid action?
The bobbles retain their mass. There is a scene in the book where a bobble floats aways because it was created during the day, and at night the surrounding air cools enough for the bobble to effectively become a hot air balloon.

As far as I know, the book doesn't cover if the bobble retain their angular momentum or charge.
I’ve found it immensely frustrating in numerous roles when discussing security, audit and compliance requests that the requesters can seldom actually explain their reasoning.

I want a clear statement of risk and why their proposed compensating control actually mitigates it.

Far too often the answers are just “it’s securerer” or “it’s the way we do it”, and actually proposing something that genuinely mitigates the underlying issue is ignored.

All that said, I’ll end up referencing this in the future as somewhat useful steps in a number of situations.

Some have simpler approaches - eg for password security can just reference NIST guidelines which currently clearly state not to rotate and just require length above complexity. And they’re backup to with tested evidence and a clear rationale.
Coding is the tip of the 'working in software' iceberg. If you don't see value in being able to communicate the reasons behind the technical choices and trade-offs you've made, both within your own team and to other stakeholders then you'll quickly find that your coding time is quickly eaten up by people asking you to explain it.

If you value periods of deep focus or 'flow' then believe me, having concise, accurate documentation that explains why, how and what you are building pays off - if only to help you separate the planning from execution process in your own workflow. I don't think any moderately complex software can be written without some degree of planning - but maybe your experience differs
Cartwright on Theory and Experiment in Science
If those were unit tests they weren't real credentials.
Ask HN: An API to schedule emails much later?
On my website, I let users schedule reminders up to 3 years in the future. These are reminders that you are eligible for a pension refund 2 years after leaving Germany. Each email is a few fields rendered into a simple template.

I was surprised that none of the email delivery API let you schedule an email more than a few weeks ahead. I had to write my own, but I'd rather outsource this to a service.

Is there such an API? If not, why not?
and this ruling will prove to be a disaster for music creation as there will be fewer copyright free spaces for music as time goes on.

a similar ruling will also be a disaster for software as our tools of expression are very restricted. code is based on boolean algebra and predicate calculus, practice guides like design patterns and books teaching algorithms and data structures.

there are lots of ways to write bad code and only a few for good, correct code. Recognizing this led me to replicating known working code, code I had created, for multiple employers. so who's copyright did I intentionally violate?

I think we are attacking the wrong problem WRT ML and copyright. to me, ML shows the foundation on which copyright is built is a lie. we should use ML to break copyright for code.