skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks pretty cool. Any support for Spencerian Script or Kurrentschrift? If that's the case I'd really love it!
> So "give me reasons to say yes" is great advice, along with "don't give me reasons to say no" (like lying or being an arrogant douchebag).

Ultimately, you have to decide if you actually want to work with the person you are hiring.
‘Immoral’ to advise family and friends on life choices, says philosopher
By giving us this advice, isn't the author violating his own advice?
- "Especially since that reduction in temperature was only temporary."

It still seems a useful tool to have in reserve, if you later decide you want to halt a runaway feedback loop linked to temperature. E.g. an albedo feedback from melting sea ice [0], or methane clathrates thawing from a warming ocean [1]. Temporary changes can leave permanent effects.

It'd be nice to R&D this stuff sooner, and not really need it, then delay and debate and suddenly there's a black-swan planetary apocalypse and the one tool you need right now isn't available.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%E2%80%93albedo_feedback?us...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis?usesk...
So if a senior engineer applies successfully and gets offered a role at 150k then they will be motivated to tell people through whatever review site that the company is acting disreputably.

It would count as a red flag for the senior and negatively impact hiring.
Low comment/response velocity is what keeps it from turning into reddit IMO. Meaning, high velocity encourages arguments, negativity and other low value response posts which is what I see all over on Reddit.
Explained: What is BharOS; how is it different from Android and more
The dude who owned it was kind of a douche to start with, as I recall. That being said, I think I'd be hard-pressed not to sell something I started as a hobby that grew and grew.

Speaking of which, I created my own site[1] within the past couple of years...have a few friends feeding data. I set them up with Pi's, antennas, cords and the proper software. Would be super stoked if anyone else wanted to feed me!

[1]https://radar.airport-frequencies.com

Hit me up if you want to join!
Understanding the Bogleheads philosophy is a great place to start. Along those lines, the book “The Simple Path to Wealth”, by J. L. Collins is great for developing an initial mindset on how your money can work for you.
Heroku/Node.js/Express/Bootstrap/Three.js

Old school, but it works.

I keep that side of the stack simple because the front-end is ESP32/MicroPython/3D-printed-parts/aluminum-extrusions/lots-of-motors.
That's exactly what I'm saying though (and everyone seems to have missed it, maybe I left too many dots unconnected)

Negotiation is typically lopsided in favor of the employer. With a range like that, they've handed you a piece of information that tilts the balance in favor of the candidate. Even better if it's a lie, it still works in your favor. Use that nugget of information to your advantage.
“AI” is already vetting your information stream.
'hoon is weird' is a valid criticism, especially because it's weird on purpose, to increase the barrier to entry
The motivation is to have savings so you don't end up at a check cashing place and stuck in a spiral of debt and despair.
You described something the qmail paper said and I corrected you. If the paper is inaccurate that’s orthogonal.
If you are living paycheck to paycheck. You can not afford to lose your job, or not have one while you are looking for another one. This economy should make you immediately do anything and everything in your power to quickly amass at least 3 months of living expenses. This will give you that safety net necessary to be able to find a new gig if the need arises. You will be amazed at how much stress it can take off you and your attitude towards your job.
> The special quantities designated by the system are still 10, 100, and 1000, an obvious sign that the numbers are conceived of in base 10.

I actually gave an example of this. "Four score and seven" = 4 twenties, 7 units. That's base 20.
This is where I came out a couple of years ago. I love Django and it has worked out perfectly. But I'm far from an expert.
SvelteKit+Typescript+tRPC+Supabase.
Ultimately, I think you'll get there! :)
>Nobody demands you to give out the stuff that you don't use for free, why should we demand it from a company?

The two aren't comparable. IP is not the equivalent of physical objects.

A better way to reframe it is that the company is effectively keeping ideas hostage.

They aren’t doing anything with them, but are preventing anyone else from making something as good to do the same job, for no good reason.

>Nobody demands you to give out the stuff that you don't use for free

People are demanded to give up land for the public good. It's "eminent domain" in the US, but called different things elsewhere. Compulsory Purchase Order in the UK.
I'm currently approaching MVP / ready to pitch stage on something and these are my choices-

Rails 7.1 w/ Tailwind (esbuild, not import maps)
Postgres
DaisyUI for Tailwind UI components
View Components for Ruby
Nothing particularly "hot" but there are some newer tools

Post MVP, the only thing I'm looking to change is potentially replace a very heavy data analytic background job with a Crystal version of it. Will be super easy to port, and since I'm using Sidekiq, I'll drop in Sidekiq.cr and thus won't need to make any other system changes.

I'm thrilled about it, it's taken a month to go from zero to everything working and I'm just tidying up the marketing site
Rather than trying to one-up the last great breather (writer), imo it's enough to breathe (write) because it's an enjoyable pursuit that sparks your imagination and connects you to other humans.
I do sometimes wonder to what extent and at which point should we start questioning the reality of the discourse happening here in HN.

However, in my work, one of the things I’m tasked with doing is the tedious process of writing and rewriting instructions for training exercises. A non-trivial amount of unnecessary energy is spent on restructuring the grammatical structure and flow of this text.

I seriously wouldn’t mind focusing on the details and let an AI do the work.
Given the rise in social media, it's unlikely that Google plays the same role that they used to. There's also no reason to think people are putting "blog" in their searches these days either. That would at best be a weak measure of blog readership.
Opinion on safety for ISO C++ [pdf]
Crazier case is places that braid hair and pose. In some states they are now required to get a license as a cosmetician (which takes longer on average than becoming a police officer in the US). The classes required for the license teach no skill relevant to the hair braiding. However, the hair braiding is in competition with the hair dressers who also control the licensing board.

Longer discussion of the topic on Econtalk: https://www.econtalk.org/dick-carpenter-on-bottleneckers/#au...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Index_Card

This is a nice starting point
You talk about a bureaucratic web, but this is really just about posting a pay range, which is entirely reasonable. Job applicants don't want to spend hours, sometimes even days, on a job application process only to discover at the very end that the pay is way too low for them to realistically consider. It's easy information to share upfront, and can save both parties a lot of time and effort.

Now if you don't want to hire from CA because people expect too high salary, then posting this salary range upfront will actually accomplish exactly what you need: people for whom the pay is too low will not respond and not waste your time.

> In effect, this is The State attempting to Price Fix around jobs-of-a-feather. No matter the intention, this is not The States business.

This has nothing to do with price fixing. You can still decide your own pay range. It's just for transparency.

> The only possible purpose of making laws like this is so that the state can try to enforce some remedy whereby we're told how much we have to or are allowed to pay someone.

No, the only purpose of laws like this is to increase transparency and thereby make the labor market more a free market. I really don't understand your concern here.
Vercel has been great for us for per branch deployments. Just so many nice things about having every release and branch ever available.
I saw the ceo of this company offering a million dollars to anyone willing to use their AI in a US Supreme court case (I'd be surprised if that tweet was still up).

Safe to say that even if they had a solid product they are being recklessly Gung ho about its application.
High-quality blog content, written by people who have a deep understanding of a subject that they want to proudly share with their peers is pretty much dead.

I built my professional career on blogging from 2004 to 2012, and attribute my 'public brand' to what I did then. What I currently see is that blog content is generated by corporate PR writers who write very good-looking content that covers a topic yet mostly meaningless. But it does, importantly, gets clicks and engagement from prospective customers. It is far cheaper and easier to get English grads to churn out content based on basic content and brand themes that to get engineers to write content that they believe in. Eventually those dedicated writers will, in turn, be replaced by AIs (see copy.ai).

Also, remember that in the early 2000s, technical people had few options to show their skills other than a personal blog. It was replaced by Stack Overflow (one of the original intentions of the platform), github repositorys and other things that are now available to show off.

Sadly, the days of technical people or other specialsts (say artisnal brewers) creating written content that a lot of people see, is largely behind us. Blogging of old is drowned out not just by video (as OP suggests, and where corporate writers struggle) but by armies of robotic (whether people or AI) corporate content generators.
For pure technical content: https://spectrum.ieee.org/contactless-ecg

I'm a contrarian, relative to HN, so on the technical/policy side: https://thebulletin.org/premium/2021-07/can-small-modular-re...
is it different from https://dothinking.github.io/pdf2docx/quickstart.gui.html ?
So, I will change the secret word for now (1-2 hours) to fix some stuff the user mention here (thanks!). And to the one who post the snake game, stop it, I need to code! ;)

After then, the word will be the same as before.
> sixteen year-old me spent quite a lot of time coding in it for a year or so

I always assumed this was what I would be doing for a living when I grew up - I was honestly a little disappointed that high-level languages had progressed so far by the time I joined the workforce.
As somebody who worked with them as a client, I can confirm this. There is currently a spec-level bug with their core Pillar engine and it was essentially bounced between several different teams and ultimately ignored as nobody's problem.
There's an article about it https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/CONFLUENT-INC-124...
We don't all need to be good at everything. Your average human is absolute shit at hunting these days, and it straight up doesn't matter.

Unless the apocalypse comes we'll be just fine, and at that point hunting will be more important than math again anyway.
I feel like ideas like this suffer from the same issue, namely when you have an event that’s generically for lonely people you end up with a bunch of lonely people with an odd vibe. It’s like the Meetup events that are for “meeting people in your 30s”. Just ends up being the kind of event no one really enjoys going to because the people who show up have odd vibes.

In my opinion it’s probably far better to have an app that aims to be an alternative to Meetup but isn’t marketed as being for lonely people. Non-lonely people want to do things too.
How thick is sea ice and how do we know?
Choose something from bucket 1 and pair it with an own-cloud PaaS such as what we're building at withcoherence.com! There's nothing that will help you move faster than using well-understood tools with huge ecosystems, and freeing yourself from glue code and internal tooling.
The Simple Path to Wealth by J L Collins

https://jlcollinsnh.com/category/the-book-the-simple-path-to...
Same, Next.js, Vercel, Prisma, Supabase. I push to my GitHub repo and the site is live and deployed in less than a minute.

With the stack you can use the same language, DTOs, libraries, etc.. both server and client side.

Server side rendering ensures a graceful handoff between server rendered state and the resulting app state on the client.

I’m also using MUI which includes all the components you need for a front end app.

I also just really like react/JSX, very strongly typed coupling between the html and JavaScript. Makes it very easy to refactor and pull out new components with confidence.

I really think this is the best stack for an MVP CRUD app right now. Interested to hear of anything better.
While I agree that blogging isn't dead, I think that blogging serves another purpose as well. It's a great way to solidify understandings about certain topics.

I have a substack on programming and technology, and when I'm working on something I know I will write about, I definitely understand it better. I think it fulfills the same purpose as learning through teaching.

And it's also just extremely fulfilling. Writing about a niche part of a field you are interested in and wished had more spotlight is satisfying, even if no one reads what you wrote. Or at least that's how I feel about it.
I like that HN didn’t act like other forums where 2 commentators go on a long threaded discussion. I like the fact that other people pick up the idea and carry it in the comments.

If HNers wanted notifications they would’ve implemented it in the last decade.
Get a degree in STEM, they said. Don't want to end up flipping burgers, they said.
Try 'XXX'. Definitely too much variation with what should be the same glyph. It doesn't seem to know about ampersands either.
Authorization back end that comes with a UI for RBAC and ABAC
This is an excellent way to do what-if scenarios
https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/
To the people who downvoted me, I challenge you to find me one company or even one person using this technology privately without showing anyone what they're doing. If you can't find that, then it's all just dramatic theatre for handout money or pats on the back. That's it.
If you thinking of anything closely related to ML then python/django is the way to go.
This company is either run by someone who doesn't understand the tech or is willfully fraudulent. ChatGPT and company are far from good enough to be entrusted with law. Having interacted extensively with modern LLMs, I absolutely know something like this would happen:

> Defendant (as dictated by AI): The Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. Smith in 1978...

> Judge: There was no case Johnson v. Smith in 1978.

LLMs hallucinate, and there is absolutely no space for hallucination in a court of law. The legal profession is perhaps the closest one to computer programming, and absolute precision is required, not a just-barely-good-enough statistical machine.
I don't think that I am understanding the objection. The idea is that the legislature should roughly match the popular vote. Having a legislature that proportionately represents the demographics and opinions of the populace is essential for a meaningful democracy what is the problem?
Fun with Gentoo: Why don't we just shuffle those ROP gadgets away?
Ben Felix on YouTube is great at explaining things in an understandable way, while linking to the research that he bases his recommendations on.
What tracking one Walmart store's prices for years taught us about the economy
One irony between investing and spending is that people often use "investment" to refer to a big expense whether it provides a return or not. It's a dangerous mindset.
I'd use Yesod and SQLite, and run it on a Hetzner machine.

KISS.
An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit
I think support shouldn't be 100% automated. The big tech companies are automating everything and sometimes those false positives need to be corrected and there isn't a way to actually do so. I don't know how the government could enforce proper support but I believe something as simple as requiring the ability to discuss your critical issue with a human being as a start.

Then you get into what is a 'critical' issue but I think being locked out of your account that is used as a gateway to multiple other accounts qualifies.
Totally. Even the regular search is mostly made of selling links.

And in quantity, it seems like 9/10th of the content is gone.
I got $300k stashed in cash and a mix of investments

Why?

I can understand if you're saving to buy a house outright for cash, or to invest in a startup that needs a chunk of capex at the beginning, or something, but just sitting on a pile of depreciating cash assets is silly in an economic market where retail inflation is running at ~10%. If you're literally just holding cash because you can't think of anything fun to spend it on then that's quite sad.
No, I don't believe any argument that burning a flag isn't protected speech is reasonable.
Ask HN: Best API format for recurring schedules?
I'm trying to develop a standard by which people can submit recurring schedules for things like thermostats and access codes for smart locks for seam.co. I couldn't find any standard for recurring schedules other than the iCalendar format, which seems a bit unwieldy for a JSON API.

Cron is a bit limited, e.g. doesn't represent ranges of time.

This seems like a really common problem, anybody solving this in their work today?
So N,Z,Q,R,C -- are not subsets of the set of all possible numbers?

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The richest man in babylon - a book of parables about an ancient babylonian who accumulated wealth - is a fun read and a nice way to pick up some essential concepts in an entertaining way.
Great work! How much did it cost you to fine-tune the model using ~15k jokes?
Which of Adam Smith's principles was it that said that state regulations are needed to secure the wages of labor?... Oh wait, that's Marx.
> A case for polish

I run it few times and some in some variants algorithm just gives up and produces some noodles similar to "szlaczki" - the patterns kids train before starting hand writing. Definitely the issue of diacritical mark presence - maybe the input should pick the closest "clean" Latin letter before algorithm becomes aware of accents?
“Decent value.”

I can’t agree. It used to be within reason, never good value. I went last year, just wanted to splurge and not cook that night, but was made to wait an unreasonable amount of time while the kids running the place chatted with their friends and when I finally ordered and payed, was shocked that it was nearly 15 dollars for burrito! A burrito, especially the simpler ones I eat without the unhealthy cheese, guacamole etc… cost at most a few dollars to make, even with premium ingredients. That’s without economies of scale, which chipotle obviously has. The most amazing part of that outing was seeing high school kids in there ordering this high priced food as though it were a regular event for them. Not even a special “night out” or Friday night date, just “another day, another 15 dollar burrito bowl.”

No wonder kids are in debt and can’t pay off their college tuition loans! 15 dollar burritos is hard no from me.
It would be interesting to know what these levels would be (likely lower) in fish that are closer to the bottom of the food chain, such as Krill, Sardines, etc.
I made https://welovefreemovies.com

It's a showcase of movies that people made and released for free on YouTube (my original submission has better details). I'm pretty sure it got hit by the auto spam filter due to the name.

OG submission if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34288257
> So you are providing sensitive business information/facts to a third party service that's likely going to use those for training, analysis, store it, etc. ?

Every business needs to make their own decision. Personally, I’m not worried about OpenAI using my data, but I understand others might be. That being said, I already give Amazon literally all my data about my business via AWS and Google gets a copy of all my documents, so providing this data isn’t entirely unprecedented.
People check in fake private keys to git repos all the time for testing. My own tests have private keys too. They're just sample, unused, publicly advertised private keys I found online. They're useful to make sure your code is working end to end with some private key.

EDIT: For example, here: https://ospkibook.sourceforge.net/docs/OSPKI-2.4.7/OSPKI-htm...

or here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-Data-Center-for-vSpher...

or: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bre-openpgp-samples-01...
> Wouldn’t it make sense to geoengineer while we get rid of fossil fuel usage?

No it doesn't because even the perspective removes the incentive on fixing our unhealthy dependency on fossil fuels.
Even if this paper is correct, the approach is not practical. From table 1 in section 6.2, the LP representation of a 25-city TSP requires 24,580,032 variables and 3,643,825 constraints. Merely formulating that model will require significantly more time than fully optimizing a TSP of that size using an assignment or 2-matching relaxation and adding subtour elimination constraints as they are violated. The former will likely take seconds (or maybe minutes) at that size, while the latter can be accomplished in milliseconds.
> larger companies must certainly be at least taking this into consideration.

For many of them, it's probably a small compliance burden added to their already massive pile of existing ones.
Another instance of the irreconcilable dichotomy of: "no one shall ignore the law" and "only lawyers can understand the law".
> People who are de-platformed are almost always people who others WANT to hear. Think of all the famous people deplatformed from big tech social media...10s of millions of followers each. It wasn't that "no one" wanted to hear them, but that the people that controlled the platform didn't want others to be able to hear them.

They have platforms they could go to. Parler, Rumble, Truth Social, their own blogs/websites, running a Polermo or Mastodon instance.

Twitter was a giant public pool. For the most part everyone was chill. And then the trolls arrived and started shitting and peeing in the pool. Swimming in that pool (the algorithmic timeline and such) became horrible.

My idea that it was less about the "powers that be" deplatforming people and more not owning the platform you post on. I love the federated social movement and the push for people whom I agree with and disagree with to own their platforms I am just saying that the "wo is me, my megaphone was taken away from me and now I have no way to access the hordes of other trolls that think and spew the hate that I do" is a false narrative because nothing was stopping them from creating their own platforms with off-the-shelf tools or spinning up websites like the Drudge Report or blogs or going to the other places where they like the alt-right or other fringe folks.
Whether or not posting salary bands for a given position is a good idea or not a good idea, It rubs me the wrong way that a state government somehow imagines it has the authority to mandate this. And for what purpose? Why does a state make a law if not to enforce some as yet undefined remedy? What will this remedy be? I don't think we know yet but I for one do not want to find out. I have enough other problems to be concerned with.

There are 2 boxes in front of you each containing a tasty red apple. One of those boxes is filled with barbed wire, razor blades and broken glass with an apple in the middle. The other is just an empty box with an apple in it, and it happens to be priced lower.

Which apple do you choose?