skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eventual, but needed. Kids feel pretty isolated during various pandemic lockdowns and maybe their parents have a lot of childfree friends, so they'll need companions, more than just a toy, even if technology marches on so quickly they'll be outdated soon enough. One day, you'll hear that supertoys last all summer long.
You start off low, it takes a few years to start making that kind of money. In terms of dollars made per effort expended, I think it's quite an easy job.
I have never written cobol, but I wonder if there is a market for a COBOL transpiler to something like C#/Java/typescript, or even python would be a viable business?
Caganer: Figurine depicted in act of defecation in Catalonian nativity scenes
If you get to know small business owners in these areas, you find that a large number of them have NOBODY to take over the business, for love OR money.

Being a competent employee and you'd be surprised what can happen.
Pretty good curriculum, I’m not sold on MongoDB, I’d prefer someone with Postgres or SQLite experience so they can be immediately useful on a project, but it’s better than nothing, which would be even worse.

There’s a rather deep rabbit hole really about figuring out what the best beginner curriculum should look like, because if the diversity of the applicability of Python. They might be doing to a data science role, a sysadmin role, an infosec role, an educational role, you just never know. I think it’d be prohibitively difficult to unify these tracks, and might even play a role in the perceived difficulty for a lot of people coming to computer work from zero programming experience.

Someday, I’d like to see some sort of AI platform that can gauge a users intuition about the concepts on the whiteboard and tailor lessons to be impressed upon that user the best way. I’d teach a 30yo with ten years of Excel munging experience different than I’d teach a 20yo with no CS education at all besides video games. That could be automated to great benefit, imo.
Plus it brings us into the world of the crass and stupid, where Trump has the home team advantage.
Good idea to make a throwaway account for this question.

If I were in that situation I'd send a get well soon card and flowers. I wouldn't call or visit. Usually the only thing you have in common is work, so you're left to speak about either work or their heart attack. The latter is not really your business and the former is something they shouldn't be worrying about right now, so keeping these gestures one-way is a nice way to say "we're thinking of you and hope you get well soon" without the risk of putting them in an uncomfortable situation.

Good luck, and I hope they make a full recovery.
> They won't stop

They are already stopping:
https://www.ukri.org/publications/ukri-open-access-policy

> the reason why is the same reason

And which reason is that?
You did not define, rigorously or otherwise. As to needs, when we turn to conversations on how to structure a society, subjective meaning is not sufficent - definitions are required.
Anywhere where there's a bunch of endorheic basins.
> Large scale protests like this are frequently externally influenced

They are often externally helped, but considering the casus "belli" in this case was an extremely natural one (a popular reaction against a brutal abuse of power that resulted in the violent murder of a woman for not properly wearing the mandated veil), it's very doubtful the protests were started by foreign-affiliated/financed parties.
RISC-V Business: Testing StarFive's VisionFive 2 SBC
Should probably create an issue for this. I'd have never imagined this so I'm sure the author doesn't know.
Automobile dependent zoning regulations favor making driving easy to the detriment to everything else. Entire neighborhoods were bulldozed to make room for highways. Preserving unlimited free parking comes at the expense of rent zooming up due to the new supply of real estate being blocked.

There are other ways for people to get downtown. Parking can be pushed to the periphery of the business & entertainment districts. Walk, take a shuttle, or taxi in from there. Parking in a parking garage and walking two blocks is reasonable. Pedestrianized main drags are more lively as people don't feel the pressure of cars bearing down on them as they cross the street.

Cars are great tools. We've just gone overboard and don't even throw pedestrians (and dismounted motorists) a bone in the form of sidewalks, safe ways to cross the street, reasonably useful mass transit, and ways to cross over highways without walking an extra mile.
I think you could reasonably describe a single person as 'diverse' in the 'diverse set of skills or experiences' sense. Like a jack-of-all-trades handyman. Or maybe for somebody that has a wide array of personalities which they reveal in different social contexts.
Not a conspiracy at all. See also IE, Android, Kubernetes...
In fact, the development of the world is based on constant levels of abstraction, just think of assembly language and computer punch tape programming, those days are not long past.
IIRC China is the worlds largest refiner, but they are not the largest producer.

The largest producers are Australia and Chile.
It's especially funny because we can't desire for it to be otherwise.
>“Python is eating the world and you are killing it before it eats you.”

Whoa, took a dark turn there
More common than you think on educational repos like this.
I know another person laid off from this same company last Friday. Pretty sure it was a layoff that impacted him.
Which is totally fair. I kind of despise the Emacs vs Vi(m) flamewars. I like them both. If I don't want to launch a several hundred megabyte program to edit a quick config or something, I'll launch any of Micro, Neovim, or Helix (yes, I like to experiment - side note, I recommend Helix a lot) and that does the job more than adequately. But if I want to work on a big project, take notes, write a blog post or article or document, track todos, check RSS feeds... I personally prefer Emacs.
It does!

A couple weeks ago I wrote about Nostr too: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2023/nostr/
Indeed. Different tools for different use cases.
Well I don't think anyone is buying politicians for PRO environmental legislation but...

I have to give you credit: at least you are just up front about not wanting this. That's fine. You're a citizen with a right to a view etc. I only object when people start pretending it's all part of some shadow government, new world order, lizard people plot...
A lot of libraries both public and private are failing at this. Unfortunately I've asked a few librarians and IT folks in the same libraries, the consensus seems to be that it does not make sense financially for the libraries. Yet. I hope there will be change along this but we are not there yet
EU delays vote on combustion engine phaseout after German pushback
> vocal minority angry that their public posts are being scraped

That's the problem here: there have been scraping efforts before, but they always receive a tidal wave of community backlash.
> So, in the magnet-less design, are they saying that you are more efficient because your motor won't pull away energy/speed when not powered? As opposed to a permanent-magnet design, where you have to constantly add energy to maintain speed?

Yes. And the magnetless motors are still able to regen when you want to slow down.
This is nitpicking but it's good engineering practice even today.

Similarly, we don't have evidence that suggests lead engineers would be killed or anything if there were engineering problems.

My main point is just to deexoticize the work and work environment. They were engineers -- clearly good ones!
>I am 100% blind, and guess what, I prefer the term blind because it is pretty descriptive and relatively short.

Have you ever listened to the tv show Avatar the last air bender? There's a character who's blind named Toph and she always goofs on her friends who aren't blind throughout the series. It's quite amusing since it's not done in a manner that insults her for being blind but that they sometimes say things which might be insensitive which she makes fun of in her own way.
Extending this idea beyond technical topics is why I stopped bothering to put effort into most humanities or liberal arts and advise those younger than me to do the same. Most new work in the sciences is driven by an obvious gap in current theories or disagreeable data. Dramatic exaggerations of "scientific revolutions" aside, the relationship of the old to new knowledge is generally as either a subset, a superset, or an approximation of the other. See Newtonian to relativistic to quantum physics. See set theory to arithmetic etc. If you got a PhD in physics in the 70's and didn't learn a thing since, you're still in a great position to help a teenager with their homework.

This is simply not true of a subject like women's studies or even psychology. If your knowledge of these subjects froze in the 70's, at best your attempts to help a teenager with those subjects would result in eye rolls and at worst you being literally labelled as evil. Why invest time and effort into a subject where the reward over any gulf of time is so slight or is even negative?
You assumed and claimed falsely that Lena regrets the “business transaction” with the photo. I asked for evidence of that. You claimed this wasn’t about ethics and framed it as only about Lena. I asked for evidence of that. You could maybe use some evidence on account of my belief that your claims above are not true.
Given that they have literally switched their nodes to be diskless and released lots of their work to strongly disable logging in systems, that may be acceptable for most users.

The risk model determines your behavior.
I read that "88.318 meters" as 88 kilometers and was kinda impressed. then I realized they use periods has commas.
Amazon pauses construction on second HQ in Virginia amid job cuts
It's strange to me how spiritually alien people can be.

When the Charleston historic black church was shot by a racist mass shooter, the family of one of the victims had a chance to speak to the killer. She took the time to say she forgives him and prays for him. This powerful moment is more than theatrics-- it's clears then of the emotional labor of continuing being angry. Forgiveness is required in order to heal. Holding on to anger feels logical but life is more than logic.

Telling someone that it could be worse isn't a horrible affront to their suffering. Hearing it put into context of the suffering she regularly sees-- ie things like people slowly dying while their flesh rots with maggots-- mother Teresa is offering people who feel their world has ended an alternative vision. There is a reason she was so lauded, and it's very colorblind to ignore all the people she affected to say she could have done better.
Imagine if they could transform the AI companion model into an extortionist model.
What I like about Meow is that it replaces a lot of stuff for me -- Evil, evil-collection, general, expand-region, and maybe something else. And it does not seem to be as invasive.

But the killer feature is meow's macro system
Japan's infrastructure is light-years ahead of America's.

It's not even close.

You can flex all the exceptionalism you want, reality won't change one iota.

There's barely electrical passenger train lines there, let alone high speed rail.
I'm on some strong hopium that those DC's run on renewables or nuclear, green energy.
Playing along with the idea, one risk would be a single point of success. A cert provider goes offline so do billions of dollars of transactions. Outages can easily last 90 minutes. They are less likely to last 90 days. Another risk would be that cert providers get pressured by governments to be used as a tool to silence website operators thus rendering CA's into a real-time semi-centralized censorious infrastructure.

Another aspect is load on the CA's. 90 day windows to 90 minutes means each CA would have to significantly increase their processing capacity. Unless LetsEncrypt were secretly funded by tax money they would probably fold.
I've been on Mastodon/ActivityPub since 2019 and, honestly, this problem Bluesky is trying to fix has never been an issue there.
Their open source branding was brilliant.

They’re not an open source friendly company. They’re actively hostile to open source, even defaulting to providing you with a non open-source free version to self install, and making it hard to find the actual open source version.

And their management of the open source repo is also highly restrictive.

Which is their right. And maybe even the right thing to do, but what doesn’t make sense is giving them any brownie points for being “open source”.
I have python on my phone and use it to calculate tips sometimes.
Right, but these sort of narratives are rarely linear. In either case they would have been working compilers. At least in this version of events, they got to take a shot at a passion. They could also try again and have a roadmap and the courage to take a leap like that.
I suspect it's not the language itself but the systems already in place. Transpiling to something else wouldn't help.
What do you mean by transparent? If you mean that a VPN can see you are using Tor and when, sure, but I'm not aware of circumstances where that would matter.
> "It sucks, but I can't substantiate that" is not really good discussion.

Agreed! Fixed that. See sibling comment of mine.
It is a post code for a specific building/business, and it is therefore also a valid address. It will work. However, it is not the recommended address, which is:

Royal Mail
Sheffield Delivery Office
Pond Street
Sheffield
S1 1AA

For large businesses to get discounted posting rates they must use the recommended address, presumably the redundancy makes for more reliable OCR and less effort for the postman at the point of delivery.

It's fairly common to use the abbreviated addresses when handwriting a return address.
What’s cool about the Redox design?
The USB cable is just a fancy screw driver. You could use a crushed bottle cap, but it's easier cutting the end off your school mouse -

Youtube - https://youtu.be/OjBvVX3ujz4?t=95

Never seen this explained on TikTok, usual fake news.
Using brushed motors in 2023 is really stupid. Yes I know there is a semiconductor shortage, I know Silicon Carbide is expensive and silicon is not very efficient. But seriously. Batteries are also expensive. And brushed motors are very inefficient.

This is just another sign that BMW is way behind in electrification.
Yes, but you have to know to improve the results, and the techniques don't alway work. I asked for a table of sports results from a specific date in the past that's easy to lookup, and it gave me wrong results. But they looked plausible. When I asked it about specific result, it gave me a completely misleading answer, but one that would be plausible to someone who doesn't know the sport very well. After informing it of the wrong answer, it corrected itself by giving a different wrong answer. I tried that a couple times with the same result.

This becomes a problem when people start to treat LLMs as authoritative on facts.
The issue is thinking that this is simply a bolt-on ux improvement when it's really a core part of the ux. Such a service would quickly rival the value of mastodon itself and soon overtake it. It might even eventually become what non-technical people refer to when they say "mastodon", kind of like how many older non-technical people think of google as "the internet".
Yes, but those bus lanes shown are also allowed to be used as turning lanes by private cars.

What those busy streets don't show is that there is almost always a calm street one block over and parallel that is frequently a designated bike route (not that the designation means much, but they are better streets for bike riding).

I used to commute by bike in Denver, and it isn't the worst major city in America, but it certainly could be improved, especially in the downtown core where bike lanes exist, but drivers constantly cut across them/parked in them. I normally felt safer using a traffic lane than the bike lane downtown for that reason
I was an early boot camper around 2012, taught myself the basics of web dev and did some contracting for about a year. I had some job offers but I didn’t feel right about the people and just the whole industry, so I moved back to the Midwest and ended up working in a factory. I’ve kept up with HN the whole time. I work very hard and my base wage isn’t that impressive but I can make 6 figures if I put the overtime in. It’s a tough but honorable way to make a living and I’m stronger mentally and physically that I ever would be in any sort of office environment. When I come home I’m totally guilt and worry free, I’ve done my part and earned my relaxation time. I plan on staying busy physically until 55 and making as much as I can. After that I’d like to consider doing something less physically demanding. My choice has its trade offs but I’m doing better every year and IT seems to constantly boom bust so I feel pretty confident in my choice.
Visualising your photos on a map with React Native
I did not even know this person until today, and I just learned he is living EXACT life I dreamt of (as a kid).

This person deserves a lot of kudos irrespective of HN finding his work "necessary" OR "worthy". There is a joy in solving a problem (scratch an itch) for the sake of it.
As someone who learned COBOL in British college in the late 1980's, I can confirm that the language was/is quite readable and accessible. I still have the COBOL textbook from back then; Andrew Parkin, COBOL For Students, second edition, ISBN 0-7131-3477-1

I distinctly remember at the time really enjoying learning to code in it - it spoke to my logical-thinking (but quite young) brain a lot.

However, after college, for whatever reason I didn't use that COBOL knowledge at all. If only I knew then what I know today - that COBOL is still somewhat in demand and that if only I kept in with it over the years, I could quite probably have made quite a good living from it.

Young me was quite naive and silly ;)
ah, so focus on the inherent void behind all reality... very zen

...this is a skill that is difficult to develop, hard to teach, and impossible to test (if somebody can do it)
It's not a scientific law. It's a meme law, broadly applicable but not always true.

Scientific laws have no counterexamples, only refinements.
Site is not loading for me (maybe hugged to death).

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230303122025/https://commoncog...
Huh? The DOE works for the president, and if you read the article you posted, the 50% number is dubious.
Can clothes ever be fully recycled?
Right now it's a nonissue because there's only one server/instance. No idea what will it look like when this changes.
Yeah, but I’m in my 20s. I’d rather live out my life, get married, have kids, etc. and die old with a life well lived rather than die in 5-10 years having done none of that.

Though of course that assumes I will live to at least 70 or so which obviously isn’t a given.
It's like acting, there are actors and actresses that make millions, but there are so many people who WANT to do it that you have to eat shit for years to even get a chance at the top of the line.

But if you're willing to make $40k-60k you can start out at a small commuter line in a few months, and slowly work your way up from there.
You can achieve the same type of independence with AC induction motors - that's even what early Teslas used. Overall efficiency is worse though.

There's a lot going on lately in the magnet/motor space - all to wean us off rare earths.
I was responding primarily to parent's (a): "As these AI constructs become more advanced (especially around memory and personalization), we will eventually be able to treat them as people."
Anything that stores data on a computer is essentially a database. It's all about representation and what kinds of operations you prioritize for performance.
When SD1.4 dropped, someone here described how those models are a form of lossy compression.
Almost any proxy configuration could be useful in a specific scenario. It's almost always a tradeoff.

For example, you could trade off your ISP knowing that you connected to Tor for your ISP knowing that you connected to mullvad and mullvad knowing that you connected to Tor.

Who do you trust with that metadata more?
Hashing also allows you to be more confident in the tests for that code. Tests cant catch when additional side effects are added. If the hash changes, you can trigger behavior like restarting the QA on it.
Keep in mind that the ~1.5B cars + trucks in the entire world combine for only ~10% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Also, if your electricity is made by coal power plants there's no point using EV.
You not liking Amazon's goals doesn't make them bad for Amazon.

Unless your concerns lead to >$500B loss, they are merely tradeoffs in the overall optimization.
I would argue that, despite the design failures, more of modern society runs on JavaScript. I know that it is hard to accept, but a crappy piece of ten year old JS with JQuery submitting a basic XHR request to a server to book a seat on an airplane or at a show matters just as much as your insurance operation that squeezes out a fraction of a point of return for an insurance package.

We live in a world where many of the software languages we use really do matter. If all Ruby interpreters disappeared overnight it would cause global havoc. Real panic. Trillions of dollars of damage.

But because we've learned to rely on these languages continued existence we can undervalue any one of them, including COBOL. I don't because I've thought about it and concluded that we're essentially building on things akin to writing or mathematics. Our building blocks are vital, even if they're easy to take for granted.
"If you don’t have [nice things], they can mean a great deal to you. When you do have them, they mean nothing.

To me, the unhappiest people in the world are those in the watering places, the international watering places, the south coast of France and Newport and Palm Springs and Palm Beach. Going to parties every night, playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. Drinking too much, talking too much, thinking too little. Retired. No purpose.

I know there are those who would totally disagree and say, ‘If I could just be a millionaire, that would be the most wonderful thing. If I could just not have to work every day. If I could be out fishing or hunting or playing golf or traveling, that would be the most wonderful life in the world.’

They don’t know life. Because what makes life mean something is purpose. A goal. The battle. The struggle. Even if you don’t win it."

-- Richard Nixon
Meh I don't find the man unattractive personally. But I also wouldn't say he's attractive. Different strokes, may a hundred flowers blossom, etc. I certainly don't think it's ethically wrong to show this to people, or at least not for this reason. I do question if it's appropriate for the workplace though. I guess it depends?

But I think it's fairly clear that the point wasn't to be attractive.
i think it has to do with the vast oversupply of labor (at least for white collar jobs). employers generally pick people with degrees of people without because there's just too many candidates.