skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For one thing, you get to control your own time, but just as importantly, that $18k/month is an asset you can sell for ~$1mm.
Why going viral could destroy your startup
Why should anyone take you seriously when you openly admit lacking the courage of your convictions?
Yes, I have encountered this often from DEI folks as well. Thomas Sowell calls this the "soft bigotry of low expectations." It's definitely compounded by lay-people thinking that STEM disciplines are somehow less critical or dangerous than medical functions... not realizing that STEM functions often become medical (or other life-critical) functions. Someone has to design the medical technology, write software for the machines, and design the vaccines, design the medicines, all of these are STEM roles.
>iT's NoT a PiPeLiNe PrObLeM!

Opinion piece by leftist Karen

Former editor at Woman's Day

All pronouns welcome[0]

"Here's your chance to nominate queer women and non binary people who are making an impact"[1]

Every time. It's all so tiresome.

[0] https://twitter.com/KathleenEDavis

[1] https://twitter.com/KathleenEDavis/status/161362741211319911...
This is yet another formula for a buggy app, courtesy of a man who doesn’t think critically.

Somehow the image of 50,000 e-bikes in a landfill comes to mind, with a bankrupt founder pleading “but it was a cool idea!”

This is a cool idea, but nothing in this article explains how it is a responsible idea.
Do... you invite people who've made those mistakes in to interview, at least? Else I'm not sure how you could have even a fairly unscientific sense of whether applying this criterion has failed you or not.
That'd be USB BC 1.2 spec. The phrase to look for there is "CDP" or "Charging Downstream Port". There are quite a few options for this, though most hubs with USB-A ports do only provide Standard Downstream Ports (500mA max) and often there are only one or two CDPs on the hub (with the rest SDPs).
You won’t be alone in having memory leaks in your gem, unfortunately. Using Ruby’s C API is hard as a user, and it’s a bit of a pain from an implementor’s point of view as well.
I don’t understand the British fixation with ID cards, especially if they are conservatives and want people to show an ID to vote.
Artificial skin can detect nearby objects without even touching them
Here is the source https://twitter.com/mddanishyusuf/status/1168820069985443840
It is often very difficult to test networking changes in production. For example, firewall rules. What sort of tools do people use for this?
They aren't when you factor in labor and the other components involved (wiring, breakers, terminals, steel box, etc). I've built my own system in my RV but will be going with racked batteries for my house due to how much time and effort they will save.
Or bootcamp grads.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34513802
It may be calculable, but is it economical? That 8 cents isn't free. If the power company pays, that means customers pay. If customers don't pay, society has to pay. There are other power storage solutions like pumped hydro that don't have to deal with battery chemistry degradation, for example, but they have higher investment costs.

This study is great but a energy storage comparison study that calculates total cost would tell us much more. Wouldn't be surprised if the Department of Energy already has or is [1]

[1] They do a lot of these studies already. i.e. https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/ae17da3d-e8a5-4163-...
Why do VCs never sign NDAs
Except humans can be held responsible.
How far is the Indian Ocean from the west pacific?
Sounds like the solution is to kill patents so they can forget about money entirely.
> has 500ish cycles

That's on the low end, like if you're fully charging/discharging the battery frequently.
Do you think the people who play the ATS game are doing it because they don't want to work at the place they're applying to?

That's a pretty specious conclusion.
What Is Jack Dorsey Up To?
This is great~ There's been some really rapid progress on Text2SQL in the last 6 months, and I really thinking this will have a real impact on the modern data stack ecosystem!

I had similar success with lambdaprompt for solving Text2SQL (https://github.com/approximatelabs/lambdaprompt/)
where one of the first projects we built and tested was a Text-to-SQL very similar to this

Similar learnings as well:

- Data content matters and helps these models do Text2SQL a lot

- Asking for multiple queries, and selecting from the best is really important

- Asking for re-writes of failed queries (happens occasionally) also helps

The main challenge I think with a lot of these "look it works" tools for data applications, is how do you get an interface that actually will be easy to adopt. The chat-bot style shown here (discord and slack integration) I can see being really valuable, as I believe there has been some traction with these style integrations with data catalog systems recently. People like to ask data questions to other people in slack, adding a bot that tries to answer might short-circuit a lot of this!

We built a prototype where we applied similar techniques to the pandas-code-writing part of the stack, trying to help keep data scientists / data analysts "in flow", integrating the code answers in notebooks (similar to how co-pilot puts suggestions in-line) -- and released https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch a little while ago.
I don't deny that there's historical things to be said about light being good and darkness being bad. That definitely has nothing to do with racism. I have nothing against yin and yang etc

But modern America has a modern lens, not a 600BC lens. Why ignore that?
I don't think "modern" flat UI designs will fare any better with time, and maybe even worse. Already, the earlier variations of flat UI (Windows 8, iOS 7, OS X Yosemite, Material 1.0) to my eye look more dated than Aqua during its prime (OS X 10.6-10.9) does.
Because profit motive is the usual problem, you can deliberately design that out if you're careful.

England (where I live) had a lot of Building Societies - mutual institutions where some members are saving money, and those savings are lent to other members (borrowers) to buy homes to live in, the interest from which of course makes this a good deal for the savers done at scale (so as to smooth out inevitable losses when some borrowers default). This can be a very lucrative line of business during a housing boom, and many of these societies found themselves with a considerable cash positive position in the 1980s. Since the members own the society, they can just change the rules of the society and "demutualize", extracting the cash for themselves. Of course this destroys the society, an important institution which has helped so many people to own somewhere to live - but hey, you've got some money and isn't that what's really important?

My parents voted "Yes" to demutualize the society where they'd saved money and from which they had borrowed to buy the house I grew up in, I (as an idealistic teenager who had my own modest savings) voted "No", the "Yes" votes won and the resulting entity, now a bank, eventually was mired in scandal and no longer serves the purpose the proud building society had served before. But hey, they got their money. People like them were nicknamed "Carpetbaggers" in the UK as a result, by analogy to the US concept.

Now, I mention this because as several larger societies were demutualised this way, the remainder realised that the same fate could be theirs, and many swallowed a "poison pill" to prevent it. They changed their rules so that all future members (savers, borrowers, whichever) signed away rights to the proceeds of any demutualisation (e.g. giving it to a charity). So you could vote to tear the society to pieces, but you would no longer make a penny from doing so, and suddenly that's not very attractive.

It worked.
Hmm. I don't think I am above anything or that I have any sort of higher calling.

But I have 0 desire to start a family.

I just do what I like to do and have fun doing it and that all seems to work out pretty great for me.
PEP 704 – Require virtual environments by default for package installers
This looks very cool and I'm excited to try it out later today. In the past I've tried Huginn but I have always found Ruby to be particularly unapproachable and the first integration I tried was broken (the weather integration) and despite submitting a PR to fix it, the PR has languished for years.

Here's some questions:

- How does this differ from Huginn?

- How easy is it to install integrations from outside the main source tree? In other words, can I create an integration and publish it on my own Github profile and have others use it with ease?

- Is Automatisch a purely OSS project, or are you planning to build a business around it? What type of business model?

- Is Automatisch primarily focused at home users or business use cases? The integrations listed in the docs seem primarily home-focused.
I assume you're being downvoted because of the unnecessary reference to "white men". The sentiment here is spot on, but really, this is one area where race doesn't matter much. There are plenty of white people suffering from this stuff as well. There's definitely some value in looking at this through a critical race theory lens, as with most issues in the USA, but in this case you might say that the CRT model has poor explanatory power.
Just use a sensible buffer or add in some extra cardio.
Does anyone pay attention to the doomsday clock outside of such articles like this?
Everything you mentioned worries me.

> What happens when the computer does tell better stories to your kids than you do?

Others have answered "but ChatGPT will never get as good at this". Let's, for the sake of argument, suppose that it does: suppose ChatGPT does get better.

What then? Why is it a net win for mankind that a computer program can tell better (or "good enough") stories? If mechanical tasks get done by machines, and creative tasks get done by machines, and games get played by machines, and everything under the sun gets done by machines...

...what's left for us, then? Writing is an enjoyable activity for humans. It's not something to "optimize", it's fine as it is. If we optimize humans out of the activity of writing (or composing music, or drawing, etc), have we truly "won"?
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My personal ranking of changelog styles I've seen in the wild:

1. Categorised list of human-written points, e.g. breaking changes/features/bugfixes for developer facing software, features with overview of how to use them for end user facing (see vs code)

2. Breaking changes, followed by git shortlog

3. Developer picked highlights only

4. Literally just the git shortlog

5. A bunch of issue tracker links (especially if you later decomm that issues tracker)

6. Nothing
Thank you for sharing here on HN. Would you mind mentioning the tech stack? Looks like the site is built on WordPress / Elementor.
The correct move seems to be to replace the team with a set of oracle bones. From the very limited information we have it seems to me like the team was used to justify whatever conclusions were already made before consulting them.
When you think of this in terms of Western understanding of war, and the perspective that trench warfare was the expectation until post WWII; the conclusions seem incorrect.
I've worked with Surojit; he was an absolute superstar. He rose through the ranks on the basis of mountains of backbreaking and incredibly impactful work.
the larger the company the worse this becomes. When you hit mega level like government the IT side barely knows what the business does and has no idea what anything means. If you're lucky they may know how to support your application from completely failing. If you need any major development you need to compete against everyone else in the government for IT resources.
I don’t mind feeding FlightAware and Flightradar24 - they’re for-profit companies, and are clear about the terms of exchange something of (dubious) value for the data they receive.

This feels a lot more skeezy. Oh well, fool me once, and all that. I do look forward to shutting down my feed once I’m back in front of a computer.

Something something, why we can’t have nice things.
Excellent point.

Humanity has made all of our basic needs (shelter, food, water, land) inaccessible without lots of money. And, so we're forced into being slaves of govt and capitalism for most of our lives to earn a living. It's just something we have to accept. The material standard of living (as far shelter goes) has been dropping for the last 50 or even 200 years now, so people need to work harder and harder to reach basic needs.

There's no end to it until you've got more than enough investible assets to cover your future rent. and since there's no real such thing as land/house ownership, it makes that even harder.
congrats, but title is misleading, you was not founder first two years, so it should be from 2000/month to 18K in 4 years, since you also counted years wrong, 2017-2022 is 7 years if you include first and last year and more importantly I'd be curious about net profit after expenses, those numbers are meaningless if your expenses grow exponentially
I am not sure about the literature, research is always changing.

Here is another take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570396
Slightly disagree, they're just providing one potential way to signal experience. I'm sure there are other ways not listed (firth author publications from tier 1 conferences or journals) that are more valuable. I think you're right that this could be used as a tie-breaker, all other things being equal.
I haven't been to india myself, but giving the UK as a low cost of living example is laughable
the only value for me is having no ads. which is, in fact, something i value, but not at the $80/month it would take to subscribe for. But it's worth sending my feed.
Cool idea, why don't you have a go at it and share the outcome on HN.
If I didn't have a purpose in life already, I might think of reaching for the stars -- literally. Make human society better (constitutional and principled behavior, honesty, Golden Rule, etc, but without restricting freedom, i.e., as founders of USA saw freedom), but then become multiplanetary, advance science etc etc. Like in Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy or such books. Or something along those lines.
Can you think of some `x` where `x + NaN` is not identical to `NaN + x`? I can't.
So you're saying the only thing keeping the economy together is the fact that not too many people have decided to strike? Considering that strikes are acts of desperation, I guess that means we should hope, for the sake of the system, that we don't come across too much desperation any time soon.

Speaking of prisoner"s dilemmas, I wonder how employers manage to agree on how much employee desperation they can get away with...
I've wondered the same thing, he leaves in August 2022 and there has been no update on his legal standing. Presumably he is a witness/cooperating?
Generally agree with the sentiment, but here is likely why we continue to talk about MRR.

1. It's likely inherited from how investors look at startups. They are just focused on growth more than profitability.

2. In the US there are tax advantages to running costs through the business so these costs might be inflated and profit artificially reduced.
Could also be that the incredibly complex digestive system isn't just a food mulcher but is capable of moderating caloric intake based on any number of parameters.
It's sad how many Americans don't realize how many white people live in Latin America - they've lived all their lives in Latin America and their families have been in Latin America for centuries. We definitely have a stereotype for those living in Latin America. That and not everybody in Latin America speaks Spanish, either. But hey, I'm a white guy! What do I know about other people and cultures?!
Let's say you want to run a huge number of databases for customers; too much to run on an individual server. Now you have to shard. You can either try to split them between multiple MySQL/Postgres etc. servers, that are now each individually major risk factors, or you can design your system so you can just hook up more servers at will as long as the largest individual customer database can run on a single instance.

I've run large numbers of Postgres databases, and it's not hard to automate, but it's hard to optimise for a setup where the usage patterns of individual databases are hard to estimate. Is your customer using it for batch jobs, or for persistent streams of data? Who can you colocate with whom? When the cost of shutting a database down one place and migrating it elsewhere becomes very low, this kind of scenario can potentially become a lot easier.

In terms of from the user perspective, I'd expect you really wouldn't care, other than in terms of cold start times and cost. Except perhaps for batch jobs etc., where being able to write apps that checks state, obtains a lease, downloads the most recent version does it's job and uploads the result to durable storage might well be convenient rather than having to e.g. keep a bunch of databases constantly running.
What's the permissions model like? I'm on board with

"Because we want to run apps from unidentified developers that need no blessing by the operating system vendor"

but I also don't want that cool calculator application I just downloaded have access to the network, my webcam or microphone, my photos, email, or really any files outside of the ones in its directory.

I do have nostalgia for the way computers used to be, but there have been a lot of OS improvements since then that I don't want to give up.
The largest financial crime in the US pretty much every year is wage theft. Wage theft isn't the grand larceny of millions - it's small business owners shaving tens or hundreds of dollars off the paychecks of people who are too powerless to object and accept the mistreatment because it keeps them out of poverty.

This is an issue from the top to the bottom.

We romanticize it when it's punching up (like at a crypto company that's probably been responsible for bankrupting a whole lot of suckers) but accepting it as a virtue also lets all those terrible bosses bask in the glory of how "keen" they're being by shaving off a bit extra for the retirement fund but punching down.
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That's part of why an unfiltered ADS-B exchange is valuable. You can track senior executives and try to get ahead of the news. Flying in to Davos is pretty uninteresting compared with travel to factories, competitors' offices, mining operations, international travel, etc. It gives you an idea what executives are thinking about doing.
> [CEOs] are being rewarded because they were the ones who took on the risk of embarrassment. They opened themselves up to criticism.

Jamie Dimon must be so embarrassed.
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How about BBS software for hosting a BBS on an iPhone?
New buyer change the marketing website to Wordpress.

Before it was build with React(Gatsby).
I don't see much good or promising about this; putting an entire "industry" (in this case, open-source) under one roof seems bad and potentially anti-competitive no matter how you slice it.
The entire market is down. Sounds like every product person everywhere is doing a bad job, then.
For C# that's basically LINQ, no?
Keepass encrypts the whole database. There are no unencrypted parts, in contrast to some other password managers.
And thus competition pushes those prices down.

Either way I'd personally pay more to use an app, so win-win for me.
capacitors are very low energy density and very high cost per joule of storage so they are never used this way
Is there a reason why I shouldn't just store my passwords in Firefox?
It feels like if they really wanted to go for the original Mac philosophy, it might've made more sense to use something like GNUStep as the base instead of Qt.

There's even some precedent, but it never really took off: http://etoileos.com/etoile/
One of the major points of the qmail paper is that the structural locked down approach wasn't successful.

(I disagree with the paper in this regard, but it's a weird thing to hang your argument against vulnerability research on).

Georgi Guninski would have a thing or two to say about the applicability of vulnerability research to djb software.
Discussed at the time:

Semaphores are surprisingly versatile - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9212868 - March 2015 (17 comments)