skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Five years in, no salary, and not enough earnings to pay for basic living expenses? That sheds a pretty poor light on venturing out on one's own.

The author seems like a pretty bright person, and the About Me page lists an ivy league education and some prior work experience. What prospects, then, would someone from a more humble background have? Or is the point of the "bootstrapped experiment" not to earn a basic living?

The media paints entrepreneuship as a high calling and "founders" are seen as stars of the show, but is the reality much bleaker?
Find My Kids app is basically AirTags for your offspring
Time enjoyed is never time wasted.
DuckDB is awesome!

Last year I was working on something using SQLite, users could perform analytical queries that would scan the entire 3gb db and generate aggregates. It would take at least 45 seconds to do the queries.

I did a dump of the db and imported to DuckDB. The same queries now only take 1.5 seconds with exactly the same SQL.

Obviously there is a trade off, inserts are slower on DuckDB. But for a low write, analytical read app it's perfect.

I tried to use the SQLite connector but struggled to get it working. Need to circle back and have another go.

With their SQLite and Postgres connectors, as a Django dev I would love an app that lets you run specific queries on your DB via DuckDB almost transparently. Would be awesome for analytical dashboards.
How do you think this person acquired these brains/skills?
Well, not exponentially, but proportional to n^2 where n is the number of people.
> It probably depends on what you mean by "grocery store." In dense urban areas, bodegas, chain convenience stores, and pharmacies with a small grocery section are pretty plentiful. Supermarkets a lot less so. That's probably part of a shift over time. In general, we probably have more relatively large but spread out businesses than little mom and pop places on every corner. (This is sort of a US comment. There seem to be more serviceable smallish grocery stores in Europe that are in between a supermarket and a convenience sore. That's less common in the US other than one-off markets.)

While on a business trip I stopped at a petrol (gas) station in the UK a couple of weeks ago, the sort on the side of a major road outside a city, and with a mini-supermarket attached, and was literally speechless when I realised they had a whole shelf rack containing gluten-free products.

I have coeliac disease, and had been assuming I'd have to travel specially to some large supermarket to get the stuff I can eat, but thanks to this place I grabbed loaf of gluten-free bread and a pack of gluten-free cornflakes, and I was good to go.

I'm discovering that coeliac and mid-range hotels don't always mix :/
"Meddler-in-the-middle", I hope this catches on.
That's a neat find. Thanks for linking to it.

I think I found the full interview on YouTube [1] Managers: From Italy to Top Global Businesses. Luca Maestri, CFO of Apple

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHWwq5--nEw
I do not care about fan noise because I am always listening to music. I'd rather have much higher performance for louder fans.
Why did they want to see your client list? Genuinely curious. What a turn-off.
And yet, it wasnt rated by this population of people. It's pretty obvious there is some form of significant sampling bias happening here, and that each culture in the world wasn't polled proportionately, or even has the means to travel and try other dishes. This is the worst rated dishes, as rated by this population of voters.
I'd love to see the source code and compare it to the open source code, before they went closed source. I bet there are some real fun things in there, from an attack surface standpoint.
I'm actually struggling to find the usefulness of this. The person needs to be in an fMRI machine, so we're not talking about some sort of unobtrusive scanner in a public area. On top of that, in cases like what you're describing which basically just classify thoughts to a binary level, then it's pretty much useless because if someone knows that they're being scanned to see if they're actively thinking about pink bunny slippers, then they're going to think about pink bunny slippers.
Involve a few layers of unneeded steps of indirection via a few hyped technologies. Now obfuscation is not easily removed. Beware, it may bite the creators themselves
I live within 30 seconds walk of 2 cafes, 2 grocery shops, and a pub (I can see them down the street from my window as I type this). And you literally can't hear them from my house. There's also a primary school nearby which occasionally gets noisy, but there's no noise from the shops.
Because the priority should be people who have nothing.
Yes, but that is a separate purchase (that is usually extraordinarily expensive). You don't just get continued coverage.
I'm saying they have over-extended to the point where they are begging for regulation. Much wiser to not over-extend to the point where regulators are pissed off. Now they could lose it all instead of having a more reasonable rate.

At this point they should self-regulate, like any misbehaving child who realizes they are in the wrong should before they get punished. It's not a risk and it's not going to hurt their stock if it's self-imposed. People always praise anything that comes from within with Apple so it would actually be a pretty savvy play, given what's on the horizon.
Grocery, pharmacy, schools, and a public transit stop, only after those would I rate restaurants or coffee shops. This isn't some moral statement about making your own food, outsourifood preparation to a professional makes sense from a specialization standpoint if you can afford it, but if you can't and for daily life, being able to get food and medicine seems a bit higher.
Why is it flagged ?

I don't think I broke any rule...
I've been working on a single website for a Fortune 50 company more than 20 years. For the first 12 years years it was just me. I built the entire thing from the ground up. Provisioned servers, installed software (database, web server, application server, etc.), hardened software, optimized software, designed database schema for hundreds of tables, wrote tens of thousands of sql scripts, optimized queries, wrote server side software, wrote apache config file, built front end, etc. After 12 years they hired another developer and the two of us have been the only ones working on it since. Now, our website isn't used by hundreds of millions of users, but it has been used by millions of users and we get about a million unique users each day. Obviously it will take more than 1 or 2 developers to create and maintain a website of Twitter's size, but 10s of thousands of developers? That seems pretty crazy.
IIRC I also think the OpenSCAD language has its issues but I wouldn’t call them “functional” annoyances. The composition in OpenSCAD is really weird in a way that I haven’t seen in any other language. The unnamed arguments you must access by position. The inability to create new types and thus the limitations of the kind of types you can work with. The workarounds to these limitations are much clunkier than having such things supported first class.

I guess it’s trying to be accessible to non programmers by maintaining a ‘simple’ interface. But as a programmer I find the language really lacking. In theory a restricted interface could improve performance but there are so many low hanging fruits that OpenSCAD doesn’t do that it’s hard to imagine that performance was a priority and the workarounds end up costing much more in performance.
Could be the time thing. Some of our apps at work have big-ish gem sets, but our ruby version upgrade cadence is much closer to update the version when the current one is about to go out of support for security updates than grab the new hotness within a week of it being released.
Ah I've been quite happy with LizardFS (which is a fork of MooseFS) and I found Ceph to be a bit of a letdown (too complex to manage). Well, time to try Seaweed then :)
How creative! Did you consider adding wrong comments? Because those are the worst! like flip the logic from arithmetic to subtraction and then have the bot summarize that.
Spamming the ISPs form for checking service isn't the best way to see if they provide service. Since, at least for windstream, they'll tell you (online) they don't service an area, but do.
Heavily penalize patent trolling with patents that never should have been granted, prevent mafia-esque lawsuits from districts like east Texas, and drastically reduce the cost for someone to defend themselves through some form of pre-trial mediation where independent experts review the validity of a claim.
There are dozens of us! This looks nice and the UI is better than I would have done. Good job, OP. I guess I can stop running my GPU every night.

I might still try to release a nice bundled-up docker container that can STT a podcast RSS into a text RSS. Some podcasts are enjoyable to listen to, but some I just want to skim the text.
None of the other companies really had to do layoffs. They are still printing money.
There is a portable mini-split that recently came onto the market, and its form factor is similar to that of a window AC: https://www.gradientcomfort.com/

The only problems I can see are:

-Size/Price ratio: The tonnage (9,000 BTU) is relatively low for its price--it can only condition a ~375 sq foot space. Though the lack of install costs probably makes up for this unless you're doing a DIY job with a Mr. Cool Ductless HP.

-Incentives: Utilities may not want to spend energy efficiency incentive dollars on these, since someone could easily move and take the heat pump outside of the utility territory; which is not a problem with permanent HVAC installations. Might be covered by the IRA's rebates for Heat Pumps though.
What's up with the tweets that come immediately after (but not in thread) with the Wolf's Fangs mace tweet?
IOW - learn to delegate

A lesson dating back at least to Exodus 18:

`When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God. When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good! 18 You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself. 19 Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you. You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God; 20 warn them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do. 21 But you choose from the people capable men, God-fearing men, men of truth, those who hate bribes, and put them over the people as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. They will judge the people under normal circumstances, and every difficult case they will bring to you, but every small case they themselves will judge, so that you may make it easier for yourself, and they will bear the burden with you.`
> the abstract concept behind XML is just to provide a metalanguage for the representation of hierarchical data

What you are describing here is s-expressions, XML represents a far more specific type of data structure: a tree of nodes where each node is either a text node or a tag node. Text nodes are always terminal, tag nodes can either be terminal or not. Tag nodes also have a list of attributes, while text nodes do not. Each attribute is a key value pair where both the key and the value are text, but the key can only contain certain characters, whereas the value is unrestricted.

This is all fairly complicated and it doesn't really map well to almost anything.

Even the description is longwinded. You say:

> JSON got closer to the representation of list and hashmaps, but I see this as a mere convenience

I say that calling it "mere" convenience is underselling it. The data model of XML is of so little use that no programming langauge, besides XSLT, offers it as part of the language.

Vice versa hashmaps and list are nearly universal.

> I think it's incorrect to part from the assumption that nobody's gonna need a schema language, a query language, a mapping language or whatever

I didn't say that. I said that with XML the need for those tools is especially pressing because XML is such a poor fit for any programming language.

> you see many people creating their own version of a json schema because it's really needed

Sure, but you also see very low adoption for json schema, because it isn't needed as much as xml schema was.
Hm. That wasn't what I've been referring to.

Near the end of the movie Contact, where two higher ranking TLA-agents discuss the lack of evidence for the things the protagonist told, which allegedly happened to her, but weren't captured on anything.

Out of my head...One: 'Bla bla bla.' The other: 'Bla bla just static.' One: 'Yes, exactly 18 hours of static.' The other: 'Continue...' Or something like ironically: 'Interesting. Please continue?'
Yeah, I think taking myself out of the critical path and making the business more location-independent will make it more attractive to a buyer if I decide to sell.
Nobody’s ass is hanging out except the whiny pedant who has nothing better to do than to go on ad hominem-filled diatribes based on nothing that is grounded in reality. And who’s comments are clearly absurd enough to get downvoted and flagged. Because they in no way shape or form are about the topic at hand.

I wonder who that person is in this conversation.

Once again, and for the last time, do you have anything to say about the comments themselves, or are you just going to keep breaking the guidelines to get your rocks off on insulting others and their grammar over a single word?
> How much "fan noise"? Compared to what?

It doesn't need to be "compared" to anything. Just a chart of noise in dB vs. performance would suffice.

That way you can glance at the chart and say "at this performance level, I can expect it to make this much noise"
Challenging is different from impossible, and yes we are talking about Apple, a company who’s proven time and time again that they’re up for solving UX challenges
The bottom half of this list doesnt seem remarkable to me. Smaller DOMs like Deno.DOM[1] or jsdom also can do that: we dont need a vdom to do that.

[1] https://deno.land/manual@v1.25.4/jsx_dom/deno_dom
NYCHA is currently running a contest to develop a heat pump window unit. All of the proposed units are expensive to get those contest dollars, but should come down in price after.

https://www.gradientcomfort.com/pages/products-air-condition...

https://www.achrnews.com/articles/147122-midea-heat-pumps-to...
In theory, but "no bundle step" becomes a much less attractive pitch once you have to start manually maintaining something like that.

IMO the advantage of ES module support in browsers is not needing to bundle in development (although with native bundlers like esbuild this is less of an issue) and for deploying small apps where the tree is shallow. If and when your codebase starts growing, you should use a bundler.
Its using open cascade.

I am not a mechanical engineer. I am a software developer however I have worked closely with engineers and have some experience with CAD applications.

Really most of my decisions come from working on larger projects in OpenSCAD as well as my contributions to the OpenSCAD project (WASM port).
Cacti replacing snow on Swiss mountainsides due to global heating
Highly unlikely? Tim cook literally said in the quote "You can never say never."
This looks worse on NetBSD than it really is; I'd estimate a lot of this is just the sheer number of devices it can run on and how impossible it is to run clean 100% of the time on 100% of systems.
> Adulthood is a known and documented expectation of childhood.

> Life after death is not. Not sure what analogy you think you're making here.

Not from the perspective of the people who made this church.

Sci-fi fantasies aside, physical death is a transition everyone's going to make. What's so discomforting about embracing that? It's not like they were committing suicide to get to the afterlife faster.

> To add to your unmentioned editing, since you rewrote it completely:

No, I just made the transition a little more specific, less than a minute after I posted. In any case, I changed it back.
Just do the math, all you need to know is furnace efficiency and COP of the heat pump along with the efficiency of your local power plant. I did that in my post, its not super complicated.

Gas is burned creating a certain amount of heat, in a furnace some is lost to exhaust the rest goes into your house. That is the furnace efficiency.

When gas is burned at a power plant the same number of BTU is released, but it is used instead in a heat engine to create mechanical power which is then turned into electrical power, the rest is lost to exhaust, this is the power plant efficiency.

Heat pumps are over 100% efficient because they capture heat from the environment around your house which is warmed by the sun. So even though more energy is lost in creating electricity than burning directly in your house, this is more than made up for by using the ambient heat around your house, it is essentially solar assisted (in the case of air source).
Fixed. Thank you :)
Seriously, this isn't rocket science. Ethereum provides a service, namely it stores data and does some computations in exchange for a fee. Ethereum users pay a fee and in return they have their computations done. By definition, Ethereum is profitable if and only if the fees that are paid by its users exceed the costs that are incurred by whoever is in charge of doing the computations and keeping the network running. (I thought these were the "validators" but I might have got the terminology wrong, apologies if this is the case.) Therefore we need to know, on one hand, the total amount of fees paid by the users and, on the other hand, the total amount of costs incurred by the network (i.e. by all the entities that do the computations and run the network), over a particular time frame.
to refer back to my original point: Other nations have a more common ground so the study result might not apply to other countries. I think I showed enough reasonable arguments for that potencial case.
There are some recommendations on another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34729483
It's pretty clever - they use SNAP benefits as a proxy (you can buy what they call staples; fruits/veggies, bread, meat & fish, milk, etc but no hot or prepared food: https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/snap/SNAP-...) but they map to all of the stores who accept SNAP and combine that with a map of supermarkets from a Nielson directory. They then map the number of census tracts and compare against that map -- the 6.2% figure is the "1 and 10" method which counts households >1 mile from a store in an urban area and >10 miles in a rural one.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/82101/eib-165....
Not only survived the Wii U but followed it up with a smash hit. The Switch is now the third best selling console of all time, behind only the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 2.
Fixed, apologies! I had finished the PoC last night but the repo was still marked as private.
This is the key. People aren't looking for "freelancers". They are looking for solutions. If you are a "company" offering a "solution" to their problem, they will pay you for your solution.
I haven't spent a lot of time in Seattle so I can't comment there, but in my experience urban supermarkets are more likely to have a parking lot underneath the building or in general have less parking than a suburban supermarket.

Example: https://goo.gl/maps/AeXZhm6ZfYntEE1p7
My hope is that if not Gen Z then the following generation will push for American cities to get their act together and become better for people to live in. It is going to take a lot of political will to make it work as the entrenched older generations want things to stay the same as always and/or cannot envision a different way of living. A walkable city with car free zones seems like a fantasy and that is a real shame.
I looked for an up to date elasticsearch compatibility chart but was unable to find one.

I found an article from 2022 that did a compare/contrast but I wanted a feature by feature breakdown.
Hybrid was discovered in the 1930s. WWII needed all the farm production the US could get to feed the rest of the world, so hybrid crops were pushed heavily on all farmers. Since then few farmers have gone back.
Cry me a river....
The SaaS Org Chart (2021)
Wow, fast talkin' 1930s gangster documentation is pretty remarkable.

>> Listen up, ya mugs! I'm gonna give ya the lowdown on dis here function, getSourceImage().

>> Dis baby is the real deal. It's gonna give ya the goods on the source image. Ya got it? The source image! No more guessin' or snoopin' around, dis function'll give ya the straight dope.
Well, that's confusing. The one, that says Ask Jeeves, isn't, and another site, that doesn't say Ask Jeeves, is.
Many business sectors go out of their way to dress up as tech in order to get "tech valuations". Being able to project an image of owning the future makes wonders for stock price and thus incentives. But the big picture in the last few years (pre-pandemic) has been that tech was maxed out and saturating.

With the pandemic there was an excuse to pretend again that the sky was the limit. That attitude seems now being corrected - reverting to a cash-cow model. Some companies can do cash-cows better than others ;-)

P.s. another factor where Apple tries to differentiate itself is the privacy front. What it believes in practice is a different matter, but to the degree that there are visible legislative headwinds this would make any tech company that directly or indirectly draws revenue contingent on current rules might be more cautious going forward.
As another commenter said: lifetime identifiers and functional constructs. To which I’ll add reference overuse.

The C++ programmers that love over-complicated, read-only code would be right at home in Rust. In fact they’re probably working on it right now :-)
Apple went public in 1980, Google went public in 2004. Apple has seen many more cycles than Google and Amazon. I'd suggest they're a little more gelled out?
It's not illegal to purchase and bulk-spray Round-up to an incompatible crop. It's just stupid. It is expensive and it will kill the plants.

The lawsuit alleged that the farmer's behavior was so stupid that he must have known his crop was Roundup-Ready.

That's not consistent with accidental pollination. It suggests that he deliberately cultivated or obtained seeds that were Roundup-Ready and that he knew his crop would survive the pesticide. Bulk-spraying Roundup establishes awareness and intent.

The farmer was unable to provide a convincing explanation for why he would attempt to poison his entire crop, year after year, so the court concluded he was engaged in deliberate patent evasion.