skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought an Elgato Cam Link 4K to use my Sony A7II for video calls. I didn't have a webcam before the pandemic so I would have spent at least 100$ for a passable one. Sound was already solved with an Antlion ModMic 5 on a good pair of open headphones (Drop x Sennheiser HD6XX). I like to have a modular setup to reuse/upgrade independently each component.

I use the Logitech MX Ergo as my go-to mouse. Once adapted to the thumb trackball, it's really comfortable. As an added benefit, you need very little space on your desk and no mouse pad because it's stationary.
Location: Silicon Valley
Remote: Strongly preferred
Willing to relocate: Probably not, but I wouldn't rule it out
Technologies: Jack of many trades (except front-end/UI). Python and Common Lisp are my first picks.
Résumé/CV: https://flownet.com/ron/resume.html
Email: Listed at the top of my resume

Intel is laying me off so I'm looking for a part-time gig and/or consulting work. 40 years of experience doing everything from chip design to AI and just about everything in between. I've worked at NASA, Google, and been a principal (co-founder or lead investor) in half a dozen startups.
You're describing discipline. Habit is discipline.
Show HN: Do androids dream of climate change? A visual experiment
Hi HN! I'm an environmental economist specializing on climate change and I've run a little visualization experiment using Midjourney (v5) this weekend on the latest IPCC report:

https://aureliensaussay.github.io/nightmares/climate_nightmares.html

Essentially, I have gone through very single headline statement of the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report (SYR) released last week, and used each sentence as a prompt to MJ - tangentially getting to it to illustrate what it "thinks" of climate change if you will.

I've found the results quite fascinating - hope it'll provide a more attractive format for people to actually read the Synthesis Report's headline findings!
What did you expect from this technocratic hustling website. A downvote is a proof of no counter argument in times like this.
It's not necessarily a bad move to get them back in the game after many years of being useless. Deepmind is one of only a few thin threads that may hold Google together in the coming years, but it really doesn't look good for them
Clearly Superior Technologies (CST) is the brand :) After a quick search, I think they're being manufactured by a different company now: https://xkeys.com/xkeys/trackballs.html
Interesting. I tested out a bunch of positions before landing on the current one, but I'll go ahead and try to replicate this. Thanks!
Squeezing Secrets Out of an Amazon Echo Dot
Parquet doesn't really do timestamp with time zone. Also relevantly for processing Parquet, Apache Spark doesn't really do timestamp with time zone. Meaning that if your data go through parquet (e.g. in a data lake) you have to store timestamps as strings, or lose the time zone.

It sucks.
I use a clear acrylic keyboard protector to prevent my cats from treading on the keyboard, while still allowing me to type. Oddly, the version I have was originally marketed as an underwater camera stabilizer for divers called "Sea Cine FISH". Because I use it with a laptop, I had to cut gaps in the sides to allow cables to be plugged in. You can now find ones where this has been provided for.
>This issue at hand with Japan having folks who “evaporate” seems to have been around much longer than this particular pandemic, though the recent lock downs seem to have exacerbated the problems.

Japan didn't have lock-downs.
I mean, a C spec compatible compiler for the MSP430 would be an example (see paragraph 7.20.3), TI has just decided to deviate from the language standard here. It's an example of a platform that would meet the requirements, and chooses to not offer a (compliant) C compiler instead.
Hey there! I just released version 0.0.5 of trrex, a package with a pure Python function that enables you to represent a set strings as an efficient regular expression. The package's name comes from the internal trie used to build the regular expression (trie to regex).

It is easy to install:

pip install trrex

And easy to use:

import trrex as tx
import re

pattern = tx.make(['baby', 'bat', 'bad']) # \bba(?:by|[td])\b
hits = re.findall(pattern, 'The baby was scared by the bad bat.')
# hits = ['baby', 'bat', 'bad']

It is fast and integrates well with pandas, spacy, and the regex library. For more details, please check the documentation.

Give it a try, and let me know what you think!
Portable screen. Didn't know that such exists, till about few weeks ago.
Have a small apartment and sometimes have to work at the dining table. Using a big screen is not an option.

Portable screen is light, size of the laptop and charges/sends data through one cable. Perfect!
> Have you actually talked to anyone in the cargo ship industry about your idea?

I worked in the container shipping industry. It doesn't sound like this person ever talked to anyone in the industry. It's not like "add a sail" hasn't been thought off loads of times before. I've seen a few times where people spend 6 months to run a project where they never talked to a person with experience. Then that project would eventually fail. Circumstances and restrictions sometimes change over time, so trying to solve the same thing every few years is a good thing. But "sail in a container", ehh..
I don't think I do any less (or more) of that than normal/average. I managed to buy a house without one (by which I mean it never came up, not that I could work around it).
A picture would have been worth a thousand words in this article.
I have a electric scooter that I use for shopping. It's pretty nice if you just want to buy enough to fill a big bag.

It is definitely more expensive (if you want something decent) than a e-bike but it occupies less space in the house.
more importantly, people can make perfectly intelligible speech using a completely different set of symbols, for example writing, whistling^1, hand gestures (sign language), pictures, etc.

Of course language is purely neural!

^1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language
Here’s a clickable link:

https://aureliensaussay.github.io/nightmares/climate_nightma...
Geomotion Australia | Senior Software Developer | Remote within Australia/Singapore/Malaysia or -/+3 hrs from AEST timezone

Geomotion Australia is a fast growing business working in the civil, resources and energy sectors. We are a leading provider of geotechnical and structural monitoring instrumentation and services across Australia.

Our projects include many of Australia's largest civil and mining construction projects. The instrumentation data is hosted on our in-house developed software; An integrated online software package designed to streamline critical data management for construction projects of all sizes. Find out more at https://www.geomotion.com.au.

The position is for an additional developer at a senior level to join a small team to assist with the development and maintenance of an in-house customer-facing application, using a modern and interesting stack - Python/Django/Javascript/Vue/Tailwind/Postgres/AWS. You will be joining a small team and working with a tech lead to scope out, implement, test and deploy code to deliver functionality necessary for the business operations.

What's on offer:

- A salary range of $110,000-$150,000(AUD) + super for the Australian role or an equivalent above-market salary range for different locations. This is negotiable and dependent on experience.

- Negotiable flexible working hours or shorter work week. We believe a work/life balance is very important and happy to work with you to define a suitable schedule to suit your circumstances.

- An interesting problem space working on an application that needs to scale.

- Short hiring process because we respect your time.

You'll be joining my team so if you have any questions or would like to apply, please feel free to email me at alaa@datatheoremlabs.com. Make sure you mention that you're an HN'er.
how much storage capacity do you think is needed to deal with the worst cases for solar/wind that are encountered during the year? Last time I did a rough calculation on this, I quickly realized there is a fairly low upper limit on how much wind/solar capacity one can install, because the storage required is so immense.
No … just no.

For one thing, pharmacists aren’t just retailers. For example, I take a very powerful medication. It’s essential to get the dose just right.

My health care organization employs a pharmacist who sepecializes in the medication, and sets the doses for patients in the program.

This pharmacist doesn’t dispense medication. She instructs the physicians on what dose to prescribe.

I recently had an extremely painful medical event. I was given hydrocodone, but it didn’t have any effect. A pharmacist was called in, and they figured out a drug cocktail that addresses the pain.

Pharmacists really are medical experts and a knowledgeable part of the care team. Doctors should use their expertise more than they do. And it’s completely appropriate for a pharmacist to assertively demand an explanation for what’s going on.
Large in the quantity of money printed, but anaemic in the sense of it being a band-aid, maintainging ther status quo. It did nothing to address stuructural problems or course correct. It just set us up for the next crisis.
Funny you should say that: Poland installed 4.9 GW of solar in 2022 [0] compared to 5.3 GW capacity (nominal) of nuclear connected to the grid worldwide in 2021[1].

For many years, this has been a debate about nuclear’s supposedly huge potential in the face of actually existing solar and wind capacity running circles around actually existing nuclear.

0. https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/12/20/poland-has-installed-...

1. https://www.world-nuclear.org/world-nuclear-performance-repo...
What you can do is rapidly approaching the same set of things you can do by asking a human who speaks every natural and programming language, and knows all domain jargon; the downside being mainly that it's like asking someone to answer off the top of their head, without pencil and paper let alone a search engine, and they also have Alzheimer's and are prone to confabulation.

It's not useful to think in terms of examples any more; you can ask it for those.
Women's clothing at the time of the Rational Dress Society (1880s) was beginning to shift moving from huge pockets, to adopting menswear integrated pockets. Older pockets were typically little bags that were worn under the dress[1].

Modern people interested in historical costuming and clothing are trying to bring back the pocket[2]. Bernadette Banner also has a video on the history of pockets in women's clothing[3].

Personally, I don't care about pockets in pants--pockets in skirts/dresses are where it's at.

[1]: https://kingandallen.co.uk/journal/2020/the-surprising-histo...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phFUTqoW5B8

[3]: https://youtu.be/uaRoWPEUTI4
But that's not a counterargument; if anything, it's kind of my point. The standard seems to be catering to a hypothetical machine that seems to lack real-world demand/usage/market/utility/etc.

If an abstraction is placed into a standard, its answer to "how many people are benefiting from this headache we're giving everybody" really ought to be noticeably greater than zero.
This is not exactly great, but not as terrible as sundown towns, segregation in schools and in transport, or denying the right to vote.

The US do have problems with large swaths of its Black population, and most of them are, to my mind, (self-)inflicted by segregation and oppression policies ranging from 1880s to 1950s.
Virgin Orbit: Richard Branson's rocket firm files for bankruptcy
Virgin Orbit files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S.
> Seriously, no other technology I've ever used has been as prone to breaking between uses and straight-up refusing to work when it was fine yesterday.

This means you didn't use Windows ME.
Automatically? Many high paying jobs that aren't software engineering do in fact require decent competence in Excel.
Yes, in a conventional, form-based UI the output is a deterministic result of the input.

In a LLM that will probably never be the case no matter how advanced they get. That's not the design. If an LLM's output can be called deterministic at all, it's not so in a way that a human can grok.

Where LLMs are most interesting is the vast green field of nondeterministic applications, and coincidentally computers have been terrible at most of these up until now. The fuzziness is what's exciting, it is the advantage. For example this nondeterminism grants LLMs the potential to be great idea generators in a vast number of fields. LLMs will spit out ideas that are synthesized from a vast corpus of information far beyond what your own brain could ever store. They'll be great sometimes and spastic other times, it's up to you to determine which is which.

This is why I'm of the view that LLMs will not be the job decimator some people are predicting, maybe they will be in a few applications like outsourced call centers... but I think the bigger phenomenon will be that someone who is creative and responsible for creative output, who also becomes good at operating a sophisticated LLM, has the potential to become really awe-inspiring in terms of their output.
Some people called that, others expected moon colonies, space tourism, Mars mission by 2024 and other BS.
> Not to take the wind out of your sails but adderall is also schedule II.

OP was correct, cocaine is much more highly controlled despite sharing the same legal category. It’s only used in certain surgical procedures. You can’t get a prescription for it.
That video shows that they have no clue about containers or the container shipping industry.
>> And once again, Darwin was right.

We should write that on the sky. A terrifying amount of things can be explained with evolution and natural selection. It can even be applied to social groups and systems of thought, i.e. religion, politics and economics.

The article is also an illustration of how dangerous is to attempt mechanistic explanations in biology. It's almost never one factor that bolsters or prevent an outcome, but a lot of factors working together in ways the human mind can only very poorly model without mathematical and computational tools.
jupyter books on github pages
https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/
you could get a usb extension cable and mount the dongle anywhere.
Seconding the magnetic adapters. I use one to quick switch my keyboard between my work mac and gaming machine.
This isn’t particularly uncommon or without precedent. This is just treating SIZE_MAX as the sentinel value of an otherwise unsigned type. This is what is done for std::dynamic_extent in C++ for instance.
There is a fine line, and he is clearly on the side of low emotional intelligence to anyone who does not also have low emotional intelligence
But understanding the issue intellectually does not necessarily mean making peace with it.

Especially when it comes to the key question, why should I bother struggling today so that I can struggle tomorrow again so that I can struggle the day after tomorrow again etc.

What do you do when recovering from surgery? You watch TV to distract yourself from the pain, you don't touch it.
This comes with its own set of problems though: I've done something similar and the mechanical stress from difference of temperatures caused the motherboard to crack.
People usually perceive a trade-off between precision and ease of use. I think that, if done naively, natural language interfaces will indeed lead to imprecise and inconsistent answers. But it doesn't have to be like this.

From my experience building Veezoo[1], natural language interfaces for data can be very powerful for business users as long as it explains back understandably what the query does, allows to modify them by clicking and it relies on a set of vetted dimensions/measures, e.g. in a semantic layer. Also, UX solutions[2] like Autocompletion (for discovery and disambiguation) are way more important for these more specific use cases of natural language interfaces than for an open-domain chatbot like ChatGPT. This usually helps a lot with the issues you've mentioned.

There are many questions that are hard to write a query for but are simple to formulate in a relatively precise way (or allow the user to correct it by clicking). This is especially useful for the average business user that doesnt know SQL or struggles with "precise" tools for data analytics.

[1] https://www.veezoo.com

[2] https://www.veezoo.com/reliability-and-accuracy/
Yes, discussion over, you learned nothing, you'll carry on defending your fixed beliefs, and you got in a cheap comment about a serious comic. Well done.
Don’t have the number in my head, but my day job is building software to enable (among other things) moving load around to avoid the “worst case,” which is just as good as building the storage.
A 2-1 HDMI connector so you can hook up 2 computers to 1 monitor without having to wait while switching from one computer to the other
Awesome, do you have a list of the few thousand maintainers that might be relevant and actually maybe just the ones that similar to the repos I maintain? Also just the ones that are interested in connecting?

Also when someone new comes in, should I forward all the previous emails? That way it's not even more closed than a random company community?
Maybe not ”equate“. Let’s say it’s 10.000 times less harmful. 3M/10k = 300. You owe that man 300 bucks.
best info i got on this topic is from weight training videos. applies to everything though, give it a shot. it's long but you can easily see from the slides what he's saying https://youtu.be/zNePCoXjC4s

quick gist is when people say motivation to train or do anything there's really a specific process we go through that determines to what extent we stick with anything

1 inspiration
2 motivation
3 intention
4 discipline
5 habit
6 passion

discipline is great but it's the part that takes willpower and it's not sustainable so if you don't like to do something you need the willpower to do it. it's not gonna last ever day for years. that people have to suffer to sustain things is misguided advice. the math doesn't check out.

sibling comment is correct here, discipline is necessary but only 1/6 of the framework. for long term sustainability we need habits plus higher order reasons to want to do it. passion ideally, or boosts of positive energy from inspiration and motivation.
isn't magical development where you do things just because it "works for me" building technical debt?
The only reason you think it's facetious is because you disagree with his specific point
>LLMs do not "reason"; they do not "learn" or "develop" anything of their own volition. They are (advanced) statistical models.

As a non-expert in the field I was hesitant at the time to disagree with the legions of experts who last year denounced Blake Lemoine and his claims. I know enough to know, though, of the AI effect <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect>, a longstanding tradition/bad habit of advances being dismissed by those in the field itself as "not real AI". Anyone, expert or not, in 1950, 1960, or even 1970 who was told that before the turn of the century a computer would defeat the world chess champion would conclude that said feat must have come as part of a breakthrough in AGI. Same if told that by 2015 many people would have in their homes, and carry around in their pockets, devices that can respond to spoken queries on a variety of topics.

To put another way, I was hesitant to be as self-assuredly certain about how to define consciousness, intelligence, and sentience—and what it takes for them to emerge—as the experts who denounced Lemoine. The recent GPT breakthroughs have made me more so.

I found this recent Sabine Hossenfelder video interesting. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5zGh2fui0>

>Anthropomorphizing them is not just technically incorrect, but morally disingenuous.

Wat
If you're saying that you've got muscle memory for JetBrains keyboard shortcuts and you want them elsewhere, most IDEs let you configure them. There is a JetBrains-style keymap for VSCode, for example.
That's irrelevant. The HN comment forum is not government by equal opportunity employment law.

The definition of a hostile work environment is not "said something to me I didn't like". Quoting the EEOC at https://www.archives.gov/files/eeo/policy/facts-about-workpl... :

"... the anti-discrimination statutes are not a general civility code, Federal law does not prohibit simple teasing, off-hand comments, or isolated incidents that are not extremely serious. Rather, the conduct must be so objectively offensive as to alter the conditions of the individual’s employment."

The juries - in two different trials! - have determined that the conduct at Tesla meets that threshold.

Tesla is legally obligated to prevent workplace harassment, and respond to complaints about harassment. They did not do so. Punitive damages for Tesla's illegal behavior form the large part of the awarded amount.
Cofounder matching works well but it's a bit of work and it takes time.
you'll eat bugs and you'll like it
Show HN: A GDPR compliance portal for your B2B SaaS
Sure. The C standard has always erred on the side of supporting odd platforms -- see ones complement, decimal floating point, sizeof function pointer != sizeof data pointer, etc. Most platforms today have converged around an approach that doesn't require these escape hatches. But if you're trying to e.g. bring up C on CHERI [1] or other platforms that don't make the assumption that memory is all one big flat address space, it's not only nice to have flexibility in the standard, it's nice that LLVM and other tools maintain that flexibility into their implementation.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-947.pdf
This isn't 2011 Facebook, your emo angsty vaguebooking isn't impressing.
Definition and declaration have specific meanings in C and C++. A typedef is part of a declaration.

Declarations can be definitions but a typedef is not a definition in particular.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/typedef
from the beginning of time people have been overestimating the complexity of things like the human brain and attributing it to magical things (like a creator) far beyond our comprehension but what seems to be happening now is that some people are underestimating it.
C++ being horrible has less to do with its widespreadedness and more with the committee-driven design and being intentionally designed as a C derivative in order to gain maximum backwards compatibility.
Nothing useful, just an insult. ok. Can we talk to each other like we're friends or co-workers at least?
Have you got the precision of the regular mouse with this trackball?

I have tried a number of trackballs, and haven't been able to reach the precision of a regular mouse from any — after a week of usage of each of several trackballs I only got to the convenience/precision of trackpoint or bad touchpad.

Moving in straight lines, predictable directions and moving just a few pixels was the biggest issue.
How do you switch then, is there a toggle? Mind sharing the link?
Unrelated to the article per se, but relevant about the author: I really admire Andreas positivity and his ability to spread such joy to the audience.

This guy is awesome, and his positivity is outstanding. Just watch a few of his YouTube videos and you'll understand what I mean (:
Article from March 2022
Indenting your lines wraps your content in <pre><code> tags. Remove the indent and your links will work again.
> In my coaching practice in the present, I try to cultivate these qualities in how I show up with a client. When I notice my mind getting overly analytical or wanting to say something clever, I try to come back to the intention to be loving and playful.

I don't agree with this mindset. being "loving and playful" doesn't solve client's problems.
It's a hobby OS. That makes cuteness a lot more okay than other contexts.