skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're either one of the best developers in the world

I'd say this is the approach used by anyone in the top 5% (give or take). Which is probably most of HN. You don't need to be Linus or Fabrice or DJB to know most programmers are bad at programming and realise you can do a better job.

Does that mean he writes his own kernel and C compiler? No, OP writes:

> I avoid using third-party libraries for anything I can write myself.

Which shows awareness of his current limits, another trait of good programmers.
> Successful software rarely dies, successful networked dies even harder and slower.

Please follow me on MySpace and make a cool post on digg ;-)

However, I agree with you that Facebook will be around for a long time.
Are Chaplin movies in the public domain by now? Are they hosted anywhere?
CSI Plugins for Docker Swarm
Make me appreciate more and more the login/create account flow of HN [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/login
This worked for me once then it went back to refusing to answer.
> The apartheid occupation has a nuclear bomb that threatens the entire area, yet it seems fine for you?

You mean Israel? How is Israel a nuclear threat to anybody? They don’t even admit that they have them, let alone threaten anybody.
I do agree. While I made all my projects in mostly Clojure, I absolutely cannot imagine hiring & onboarding other drvs.

And if I had a tough day, my clj code will look like rubbish, while my typescript code will still look decent.

It's really not a language for big team.
Map vs Territory
Thermal conductivity (W/(m⋅K)) is a counterexample. The meter is a trap.

You can't just multiply the thickness of the material (scalar meters) to get Watts vs. temperature difference.

You need to DIVIDE by it to get conductance (W/(m^2⋅K)) and THEN figure out the area the transfer is occurring over.
Service Manuals – Consumer Electronics Repair Information Platform
Could this “flying Tic Tac” patent possibly work?
if this all interests him he should in addition read up on SOR.
There's an entire subsection of politics that's appeared, made entirely from the worst possible misreadings of sensible boring policy wonkery. The most recent example is people going bananas about "15-minute cities", as if being able to walk to the shops is some sort of communist plot.
No, when both parents work it means wages are high, that's all.

When one parent doesn't work, it's because the marginal wage added wouldn't pay for childcare.

In recessions one-parent households actually increase, because it's not caused by things being too expensive.
He can do what ever he wants, after-all he owns the platform.
If you own the game, you always will get the first-turn to play.
Now that I am interested in large language model and as I begin reading Street Fighting Mathematics, the first thought is that large language model can learn a lot (statistical approximate inference) from dimensional analysis, that is using words like meters and seconds they can predict the formula for the velocity using only words related to physical dimensions
It looks like Denis is actually supporting russian government and their lies about this war - https://twitter.com/roman01la/status/1625254253156528147 . He literally spreads russian propaganda points and blames Ukraine for being attacked.
I respectfully disagree. I find docker to be more-or-less unavoidable in ML work, but thankfully conda is still avoidable.

My recommendation is not to touch conda, unless you're on Windows and not don't know about cuda drivers or WSL. Otherwise IMHO it's far less trouble to stick with pip (and virtualenv/pipenv/poetry) and it's not difficult to translate the environment.
You failed to understand my comment and then made an ad hominem attack, how impressive
Andale Mono - one for the ages. Tried a lot of others and always come back to it. How can anyone use anything else is beyond me ;-)
I live in SF and rent.

Induction cooktops aren't as inherently expensive as the price implies: here in the US we don't really use them, so there's just little demand.

When I went to buy my parents that induction stove, the bottom of the ranges offered were induction versions of the top non-induction stoves because they need the highest possible margins to justify the tiny market.

Just an induction cooktop starts in the $700 range, when they start for less than half that in the UK. This could easily be the start of normalizing induction in the US, and that's not a bad thing.
> The idea that might can make right in the modern world turned out to be false;

The idea of racial might has been disproven, but international might (including allies) very much still makes right. The undisputed winners of WWII were the USSR and the US, both with internationalist ideologies and very strong industrial bases. One might say that inclusive might makes right. (Another lesson would be to stay out of the fight and build up industrial capacity, supporting your allies by proxy while the other parties wear themselves down.)
From the About Us page:

> The Chaplin office in Paris represents the Chaplin rightsholding companies (see below), as well as the Chaplin family.

It’s not really in their interest to mention his failings.
Sellers aren't free to increase prices whenever they feel like it. Most of them are price takers.
New startup can help you give equity out without messing up cap table
Yes, they're called peasants.
The secret “handshake” is just using Comic Sans for everything.
Ask HN: I want an app that can help me find back my memories by entering keyword
Do you have the same experience like me? When something come into my mind(for example, "waht is survivorship bias"), it's so familiar, but just don't know where I have read it, that feeling is too bad! I'm not a smart guy, and I don't have the ability to remember all things I have read. So, I'm want to kown if there's a tool that I can put all things in it(articles, videos, images, podcasts, etc. I don't want to manage them, just want a place to throw them in), and when I input a keyword like "meditation", it will offer me the sources I had put in. I think the difficulities is to parse the videos, images and audios instead of text files.
Yeah, amazing how that works. People do things when it’s working well for them. And stop doing things when it’s not.
Never follow your passion, but always bring it with you. The last part is important.
If you have no idea where to go then a straight direction is likely not optimal as it is literally hit or miss with a high probability of miss if shade is sparse.
I think Meta does reviews every 6 months, which makes it basically perpetual.
I mean it's not a union leader but it is about train derailment in northeast ohio

https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1625295841769431046
.. in which direction?
Native Windows support would conflict with the WSL2 stack, at its integration level. File system drivers aren't generally designed to share the underlying block device between different kernels concurrently. The block device isn't consistent with the latest writes without flushing caches, and a native driver wouldn't see those caches without hooking the Linux kernel, but that's not the WSL2 integration point. WSL2 is based on virtualization not kernel hooking.

Native Windows would be able to access the file system as long as you killed all WSL2 processes first, and vice versa: run any WSL2 process and lose native access.

Access via network makes far more sense.
It looks like a "classic" Ruby on Rails + Bootstrap setup
I agree with some of your comments, but the problem we are facing is that without democracy, we don’t know what the people of China or say Russia (or take your pick) really want. The power is concentrated at the top of pyramid and so this immediately makes it a precarious situation where a few determine for the many.

In the 00’s there were some hopes and signals and work done to see more democracy in those spheres, but it never materialized.

So while you are right in the sense of China doing China things as it has, or Russia Russian things, the fact that one guy could wake up in a grumpy mood and start a war is what makes things a lot more fragile than they ought to be.

Democracy is a bulwark against this type of fragile type of government.
Consider that of the four fundamental forces, we can only directly probe two: gravity (via the inner ear) and electromagnetism (all other sensory organs).
> And you'll find bugs, because there are always bugs. You need some strategy for what to do when that happens.

Fix them, I imagine. Which is easier if you're better at writing code than the author of whatever someone threw on (package manager of choice).
One of the best sites with service manuals for almost everything, helping to reduce e-waste by giving us information to repair our devices.

This is something all electronics manufacturers should do, have all the service manuals freely available.
Both Motorola and Google's Pixel are better alternatives than iPhone IMO and neither will show you ads if you don't explicitely install an app that shows them.
Yes, agreed. It does present scheduling challenges. It would certainly work better in a society that had other people on 28 hour days.
This seems like goalpost moving.

You yourself say in a different comment that you are currently assessing Element:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34779070. Either you have a formed opinion Matrix, or you don't. Which one is it?

You keep saying Element instead of Matrix, and obviating the whole Matrix ecosystem. Matrix protocol has several server implementations, and many more things around:
https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now

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Ask HN: Is it possible to ship a physical product without infringing on patents?
I get the sense that it's not possible to build an interesting (non-computer) physical product anymore in the US/EU without accidentally crossing into someone else's patent portfolio. Am I wrong?
Sounds like your company had no idea why they were doing the lay offs so just go rid of workers lower down the chain while keeping their friends.

I've seen the same thing happen in a large corp I've worked for directed by the advice of McKinsey.

The funny thing in this case though was that it was Accenture which advised them to hire the engineering department two years prior to help with innovation. Then after a couple of years of building out the team they advised them fire the whole department and outsource it to cut costs. The only people who remained were managers.
Maybe not as simple as OP thought :)
> but is anyone going to seriously defend that the US is less warlike than China? Come on.

Nobody wants to live in a world where China defines the world order. They don't care about their own citizens and will care even less about the other countries they plan to control in one way or another.

Also, the US is war-like but it's still a functioning democracy despite all its flaws and the power can change every x years. With China you end up with a dictator-for-life and good luck with that.
> You have to be OK with the thanklessness of the task, and you have to seek your rewards elsewhere.

Is this really how we want the world to be? Someone who is trying to help needs to be ok with being treated badly? I can understand not being put on a pedestal, but I think a "thank you" and a bit of gratefulness is warranted by people actively being helped.
Coal is only "dying" in areas with access to cheap natural gas. It's currently not being replaced by renewables. Developing countries still build a lot of coal plants.

Total global electricity generation from coal has nearly doubled since year 2000. In absolute terms the amount of new coal based electricity from coal increased by almost 5TWh from 2000 to 2021, about twice as much as wind+solar combined. (Also natural gas based electricity grew by 3.5TWh in the same period).

As long as Russia is being sanctioned and Canada refuses to export their NG, I expect coal to continue to grow.

Maybe someday in the future, wind+solar can provide stable electricity supply without relying on fossil fuels for the non-windy cloudy days (and nights). Like nuclear has been able to since the 70s.

Nobody knows exactly when, though. But simply based on the mining capacity of critical minerals, it's really unlikely to happen within 20 years at a large scale. The world is simply not planning enough mines.
I see what you mean, but it's not necessarily true. You could pick an initial direction and keep jumping that way. I don't know what kind of environment would favour this behaviour, or if the beans can "jump the same way as last time" but it's certainly plausible.
That looks .. disappointingly small? 100MW for one hour, made up of what looks like 24 containers in a yard? I guess there's a very long way to go.
Fate-Sharing, islands architecture and O(1) frameworks
many gaming mice comes with this sort of functionality. with mine (g304/5), i tend to not change what the buttons do, but i use them as "keybinds" for individual programs.

middle mouse click (mouse3?) is great for "ping" functions in games, besides the opening a link in new tab ofc. the page up / down default feature of the side buttons (mouse4 and mouse5) can be bound for voice chat (push-to-talk, toggle mute), for example.
Just out of curiosity: who is deciding where the cuts need to be made? I mean does the consulting firm prepare a detailed proposal or is it all decided by management in-house?
> adjusting comp or termination.

These usually have legal strings attached. The contract saying "it has to be remote" should restrict comp adjustment without negotiating. Termination may mean a severance, depending on the locality and laws and the contract.
The U.S. has been trying to divest itself from NATO for at least a decade now, since the Obama administration.

It’s Western Europe that is unable to wean itself off the sweet sweet American funded protection.
> If you were an internal tech company in 2000s, hosting your own servers was a "core business function", as being a tech company meant that tech was core business function.

We have a modern version of this - people that aren't selling cloud services running their own Kubernetes farms rather than just buying cheap k8s or whatever other orchestration solution they like from a cloud hosting provider.
Please allow me to share my favorite paper: bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Most of great papers I have read are located not on arXiv.
And maybe consider to do the paperlist.io a torrent tracker because of availability issues of some papers over time like there is happening with links on Wikipedia pages.
> Distributing based on these criteria means most of the funding will go to those who already receive most of the funding.

It depends on the strategy used. If we define "popularity" as "number of our projects that depend on this OSS project", then the distribution should be fair, and projects like core-js would be well compensated. This could all be automated, and the popularity ranking could be fixed and used by default, so that employees could add additional funding by voting on their most used and loved projects. I think both approaches would work well.

In any case, my suggestion was to create a company-wide OSS fund to begin with, which most companies don't even bother with. The strategy of how they're appropriated can always be improved after that.
Edit: I see you work for thanks.dev, which doesn't seem like it would cover the projects I mention below. I leave my original comment in case anyone else is interested in sponsoring the things I mention.

I'd like to find sponsors for a few non-web-related projects. In particular the Linux USB Gadgets userspace stack (libusbgx/gt/gadgetd/etc), a library for the Microsoft PST email format (libpst) and a tool for running linters/etc (check-all-the-things). Happy to chat about these over email.

https://github.com/linux-usb-gadgets
https://github.com/pst-format/libpst
https://github.com/collab-qa/check-all-the-things
> You can do science without holding any beliefs just like birds can fly without a theory of aviation.

In which case your metaphysical assumptions will simply be implicit rather than explicit. For example, in doing science, you'll be "explaining" things, which assumes a certain position of the nature of explanation and causality. You'll be choosing a theory out of a number of competing ones, a choice which will rely on some assumptions (e.g. simpler is better?). You'll be trying to uncover "laws of nature", which would assume their existence in the first place, etc.
The missile is likely the smallest line item in these operations. It doesn't really matter
dunning kreuger strikes again
Lua really is a joy, and after 40 years of software development is still one of the top ways, in my personal list, to get serious software built.

I've done quite a few projects where I built a library of C modules to do the heavy lifting for some particular purpose (data in/out mostly), glommed these functions into the LuaVM, then built the application logic, very rapidly and smoothly, in Lua - outcompeting others working in my group with their big fancy stacks of stuff, time and time again.

I think its really important for any developer, whether they are encased in the glories of the browser or otherwise, to understand how to add the Lua VM - to anything - and then use that as a means of productive application development.

Its very rewarding once you get the VM glomming happening and can start accessing everything you need from within your own scriptable execution environment. More programmers should learn this technique, imho - it moves us from being effected clients of someone elses' ball of string and wax, to actually causative developers building architecture that really, really works.

Whether you like Lua or not, building-in a VM for your higher-level application logic is just good architecture.
am i alone in thinking that the people sifting through research papers are least likely to spend time sharing it with the crowd?
So 70% of girls in tech go on to become tech undergrads? This seems very good, though there is no comparison to boys in the article.
> nameplate capacity; what about production

You want actual production figures for 2027?
The key here is to have all the relevant dimensionless numbers (e.g. Reynolds number, perhaps Mach number, Froude number, etc.) as well as the geometry (which is also dimensionless: it's a set of angles and ratios), of your wind tunnel model consistent with the real-world situation you're testing. Then you measure other dimensionless quantities (e.g. drag coefficient).

The tests give a correlation from one dimensionless quantity to another.

That can mean, counter-intuitively, that a wind tunnel model needs to have a higher wind speed than the full-size object - so that the Reynolds number is correct.
> Latin Squares are ‘n’x‘n’ grids containing exactly one of each of ‘n’ symbols in every horizontal row and vertical column [...]

> Although mathematicians have been unable to determine how many different 26x26 [Latin] Squares can be created, they have been able to determine that the number is at least 9.337 x 10^426, or approximately 2^1418

Seems surprising that the number hasn't been calculated exactly. I'd have guessed it's a mechanically solvable but tedious combinatorics problem, but obviously not.
Someone have claimed that this is broken: https://github.com/Sc00bz/break-uheprng

The first criticism, while valid, is an anachronism as there wasn't Web Crypto when this RNG was written. The other criticisms are fully valid though and should at least make everyone do a double take whether this is fine for their needs or not.
How failure-driven development makes you successful
Actually it is not that hard:

- default: https://vaporup.github.io/books/the-pragmatic-sysadmin/debian-packaging/
- quick: https://nfpm.goreleaser.com/usage/
Unrelated, I've never seen this dude without a leather jacket on.
These are great resources, thank you for taking the time to link them to me.

It seems there are a lot of learning stuff out there, it can be overwhelming. It's nice to have someone that has been there, and done it, especially not with a CS background.

I will certainly reach out if I get stuck, thank you!
> I don't think they'd have learned much from the visuals of a balloon

I suggest a balloon payload would be better aimed at monitoring (and establishing patterns of) RF traffic rather than visual data.
yeah but ill get the 100mil either way, just gotta abuse hetzner more
I witnessed this firsthand. I worked for a decent sized public company but large gov contractor in DC. Super smart people, I was learning a ton.

Then the layoffs started. In honesty, mostly OK decisions but a few really bad key ones. Then I watched the super smart people see the writing on the wall and leave, mostly to Google.

Then I felt stupid, if all the smart people left what did that make me? Well, it made me a big fish in a small pond, and I probably learned little of value over the next couple years, until I inevitably left too.

The company now is a sad shell of what it once was. I guess this type of story is all too common.
"Corporations" don't have interests. Their shareholders do and those are individual people.

Corporate income tax doesn't matter much when the same money's going to go to an individual and can be taxed there.

…by "90% of Americans were self employed in 1900" do you mean they were farm workers?
Yes? If I were a minor, they would.
>> since the bank itself could never prove its reserve level of deposit met the percentage set by government

There’s no minimum reserve set by the fed anymore: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
I used to go kayaking with my buddy in Monterey. He lost his eyesight due to war wounds, mine stayed-we bonded over that. He taught me something similar so we could go kayak in the sea together, all I had to do was make a noise every so often (~20-30secs) and he would be able to navigate that way, free. Good times.
Read the Forde Report and then come back here with this "left" and "right" nonsense. The problem was everywhere, and no-one should be feeling vindicated right now at all. Five more years of Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and whatever godforsaken attempt at leadership might follow him, and all because the Blairites and the Corbynites were so wrapped up in being Blairites and Corbynites that they completely forgot to do anything useful and actually present a functioning alternative.
You may also save money if it turns out you don't need that thing after all, and if you keep the cash on hand instead what you have is insurance - the ability to deal with a new problem you weren't expecting.
> Yes, the vacancy tax encourages economic activity, which is the opposite of the income tax which has a side-effect of reducing economic activity.

I feel like everyone replying with some version of "well actually taxes do disincentivize blah blah blah" is responding to someone else. Taxation is not compulsion. I'll say it as many times as I have to.

> It is similar to the Obamacare individual mandate, which also forced people to enter the marketplace

Here it is again. Taxing someone if they don't do something is not forcing them to do that thing. The case you cite says so! National affirmed Federal power to tax behavior or non behavior. It supports, rather than undercuts my argument.

> Another reason that camgunz’s analogy is flawed.

My point with taxes is that oftentimes the main goal is to raise revenue or address an externality. That's actually what the income tax does and what this tax does as well. The income tax (and payroll taxes) addresses income inequality and uses the proceeds to build a social safety net. SFGate notes that the vacancy tax in Vancouver helped to lower vacancy rates and funds affordable housing initiatives. Also Vancouver's vacancy rate is greater than zero! Looks like no one's being forced to do anything.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/how-many-vacant-homes...