skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because PHP is a memory-safe language?

The problem with Java and PHP is not that they are insecure, its that there is barely any barrier for entry and thus much of the existing code is very low quality.
I've build BlueRetro [1] an universal Bluetooth controller adapter for nearly all pre-USB gaming console.

I made a gross income of around 3K a month last year out of Royalties on the soft for each device sold.
It's Apache 2.0 software so people can do whatever they want.

I started making money when I decided to list on the GitHub README the list of manufacturers/makers that where sponsoring the project. (Only one person at that time)
Soon after the others offered to give royalty as well.

I even got a Chinese company, notorious for selling "clone" of OSHW projects, to support the SW development as well via GitHub sponsor.

I've been working on it for the last four years. I entertained the idea to make and sell the hardware myself. But in the end I learned that's it's not something I'm interested to get into. What I really like is working on the software.

It naturally pivoted into a more community driven project where multiple makers are selling various variations of the HW.

I wrote a retrospective last years [2].

[1] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro

[2] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro/discussions/289
Africa, Europe and Asia are continents, so can’t be Islands
If you're in Europe, this is easier to read at https://web.archive.org/web/20230414110456/https://www.money...
I suspect HNers in China use VPN?

UK and Germany are also hotspots for startups, with large English speaking IT populations.
I think it's also missing something pretty critical here - giving each employee $20 could be seen as kind of insulting, whereas combining each employee's $20 into a pizza party at least looks like a grander gesture
> has a slightly old-fashioned flavor

When people use things like this I try to catch it. This isn't a reasoned argument. It's meant to have the reader or hearer feel a certain way to change minds.
Pizza parties should be during work hours.

What kind of party is it if you aren't paying me to be there?
This is a form of pedantry that people consider insufferable. The reason is because everyone is well aware that the Ukraine was in conflict with russia since 2014, and even before really. Imagine your irritation at someone pointing that out, when you already know it also. We are all comfortable calling the recent full scale invasion "The war".
I think this is something OpenAI is working on, updating their RLHF practices so that there is a wider variety of input shaping the selected responses. There's a huge difference between 3.5 and 4 due to this. Sam Altman has mentioned it a few times in podcasts he's appeared on so they are aware that it is a problem to have too narrow of a selection of reviewers. Ideally, you'd have a really broad selection of people from many different areas of expertise and tacit knowledge train a generalist model. You could then have more specialist models as well that were trained by different professions although you'd probably still want some amount of training from other areas for cross-pollination.

It's kind of crazy how the model learns to act this way, we funnel in more knowledge than any one person would ever be exposed to in their lifetime and it learns some latent structures in language and knowledge from this, then we teach it to interact with humans in a more natural way. It's both different and similar to how humans learn language and then social skills. Makes me wonder what else we could teach it to do through interacting with it.
Well, it simply doesn't answer the question of why employees hate pizza parties.

We get some anecdata about one person who didn't want a pizza party and would have preferred cash or coupons.

The rest of it is just some waffle about what some HR people think, and some wild speculation that it's because senior people get an ego boost from it.

Not worth your time.
Juice launch to Jupiter [video]
(Copy-pasted from other comment:) The author of that website claims that they’ve seen multiple comments that complain about headaches and eyestrain. This is the first item in the FAQ, which suggests that it’s one of the most common complaints.
It's a poorly written article, and that's not the only example. But that first paragraph is brutal with multiple, consecutive descriptive clauses
Can you share your company's website?
I absolutely love how easy it was to capture requests through ADB with your tool, only solution i could find which just worked out of the box.
I really like the UX on the homepage of emailing a download link to myself.
Do you work in HR?
> W3C comes out with HTML6?

W3C's hasn't come out with anything HTML for a long time now. What we're calling HTML5 is spec'd by a Google-financed group of individuals (but mostly Chrome devs) collaborating at github.com/whatwg.

The last WHATWG HTML revision W3C has put into recommendation status is WHATWG HTML review draft published January, 2020. Last year's review draft was rejected due to privacy concerns, and also due to long standing issues with HTML5's so-called outlining algorithm ie the spec's written interpretation of heading levels for landmarks in navigation as a left-over from back when Ian Hickson was editor which didn't meet with the reality of what assistive technologies are actually doing. Meanwhile, the WHATWG spec has been edited (by a long-term W3C efitor) but no new consensus for a new W3C HTML recommendation has been achieved [1].

[1]: https://sgmljs.net/blog/blog2303.html
If you can convince everyone else at your shop that nobody perceives pizza parties as valuable they’ll stop offering them.

Until then, these sorts of low cost rewards deliver value. Only you can fix this. Only you can ruin pizza parties for everyone.

The reality is that they’d offer nothing given the choice between something real and something like a pizza party.

No number of pizza parties equals an annual bonus that matters. So enjoy the small things. It’s what's available. The rest is between you and whomever authorizes your promotion/bonus budget.
Xu Shen's lexicon compartmentalised by tree-indexical has ”to weigh“ in wordlist
I just checked toptal minimum for react quote is $75.
The assertion in the article is that gender is socially constructed. You don’t seem to be defending that point. You’re making a different argument nobody disagrees with—that humans also express learned cultural and individual behaviors. You could walk into CPAC and say that women would still be women if the social convention was for them to wear pants. Nobody would disagree with you.

Ironically, the social changes in gender expression you’re referring to are actually premised on the opposite of the assertion you’re making. They posit that gender expression is biologically rooted—because otherwise it would be within the purview of society to regulate it as a matter or culture or individual expression.
> The phenomenon described in the article does not require any non-naturalistic explanations.

That would depend on:

- the true metaphysical nature of reality, which is not known (though it typically seems otherwise, human consciousness & culture, 2023, being what it is)

- whether you want your explanation to be consistent with the true nature of metaphysical reality
> From what I gathered I think it's missing the point, which is that pizza parties are for social bonding.

I think you missed the whole point.

The point of pizza parties as exemplified in the article was to commemorate purely monetary milestones. Your boss rakes in a few millions, and all you get is a pizza that you need to share with coworkers? That's bullshit.

But hey, some people like the bones that their boss throws at them.
Yield farming crypto currency, make well over $2k per month. Some farms pay 50 to 70% interest
That's the one I was searching for. Thank you!
For me the most interesting thing about ZPU is that its instructions are only a single byte each, which means that while the CPU is much smaller than most RISC-V implementations, the code density is significantly better than RV32 code. (Compressed RISC-V code can beat ZPU, but adding the compressed instruction set to a RISC-V core increases its size quite a bit.)

I did play with the ZPU quite a bit 8 or 9 years ago, and forked the ZPU Small variant to create ZPUFlex [0]. I borrowed a number of ideas from ZPU when I created my own CPU Project, EightThirtyTwo [1], some years later.

[0] https://github.com/robinsonb5/ZPUFlex
[1] https://github.com/robinsonb5/EightThirtyTwo
>Apple will not provide user replaceable batteries. It’s probably too expensive and complicated for them to do that and have waterproof devices.

I just want Apple to sell ME the battery. I dont want my battery to by crypto signed to my device.

>They instead offer replacements

Exactly, _replacement_. They wont just sell me a battery. You have to give them serial number, which in most cases means client PI. You also have to send old battery back for ~$40 credit to make the whole thing any financial sense.

>and third-party shops know how to replace batteries too

Apple store replaces battery in 2 hours, third party needs to explain to every single client why he needs to wait couple of days because you cant actually keep a stock of genuine batteries. Apple also wants to have access to third party service center books for 3 (or was that 5) years for "auditing :)))
and yet, the problem remains that the US has the worst income inequality of all G7 nations and has been on the rise since 1980, regardless of what happens elsewhere
The Incredible Machine is available on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_incredible_machine_mega_pack
It got at least NZ very wrong.
As a note, there are a few other languages that might get there eventually, including Zig and Circle.
You can’t find spheres from circles alone if you don’t know what a sphere is though. You can however ask it to analyze a novel object (sphere) for patterns or hypothesize in what kind of properties a sphere might have.
Sorry for spamming my blog but maybe you'll find it useful. https://pawelurbanek.com/anonymous-slack-bot-income this post describes my journey to total 50k profit from my bootstrapped side-project. TLDR it took 5 years. Current MRR is at ~3k USD.
Public key cryptography was invented in the 70s, commercialized in the 80s.

In machine learning we already had back-propagation in the 1970, but had to wait another 40 years for Intel and Nvidia to create ever more powerful processors to tackle useful problems.
Minecraft. My kids, a bit younger than 7, are ridiculously creative with it. They’re always making redstone music machines and piston machines.

The best thing about Minecraft is that it naturally scales to their skill. They began just learning the controls and exploring. Then made simple houses. Etc…

The older one is so hooked he builds his own mechanical pressure plates and pistons with Lego.
What we did was basically ignore GDPR and send a mail to our watchdog about the points we weren't sure would pass as legitimate use.

Basically: if you in good faith think it's legitimate, it's probably legitimate. The watchdog will propose you ways to remove PII from your data if he think you're misguided, and they drafted us an architecture that worked for data protection (like half a day of work for an architect, i think they already have these kind of drafts as our issue was quite common). We spent 20 minutes to write the email and basically earned 500$ (or whatever is the cost of half a day of an architect is). We also had prior contact with the watchdogs for unrelated reasons (trying to get certified to handle sensitive data).
I mean there are expressions that seem archaic and she remarked on it.
Some government-funded research is intended to spin off new businesses. I think it's good that they can choose between different models like proprietary and open information to best match the situation and their goals.

Why do you think that an open information model would have been better in this case?
You don't have to buy it, I'm gonna give it to you for free: I don't want Facebook tracking me, because I don't like them and don't trust them. OTOH I don't care if Google tracks me because I am an actively paying user of Google on a contract. I also don't care if Apple tracks me because they have a much cleaner track record.
Firebuild
See https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-o....
Someone from Sweden please help me, there I learned that you can say something like

“Ö in å” which means island on a river. (Im sure im butchering it, but I’m not to far away)

Maybe you can make this look insane :)
Agreed, anyway what is old-fashioned about it? And is that even a valid argument to not use it anymore?
They perished because of their cloning practices.

Clearly they should have asked humans for the sort of help they needed with the replicators. We could've provided plenty of our primitive DNA. Wait, were there any female Asgard?
There's a quote from Sarah Manguso's _300 Arguments_ that I love:

> With great and solemn portent, my teacher announced she would tell us something that her teacher had told her, and that her teacher’s teacher had told him, and so on, back to Yeats: The thing to remember is that no one ever finds out that you don’t know what you’re doing.
First of all a big thank you for checking it out.

- The onboarding experience was quite unintuitive for me. It involved swiping right to continue; swipe was only detected in a few areas of the screen (like the text inputs). It was extremely frustrating to figure out where to swipe on the "Choose My Look" screen. I suggest adding buttons so swipe isn't needed.

Thank you. I guess as a creature of habit I had not noticed this.

- There is a "ContentView" text overlapping my system title bar.

WOW, that looks a mess, and has never looked like that on my iPhone 14 pro, simulator or iPad pro. If you can I would really appreciate

- "Unlock" didn't seem to unlock anything (lifetime free premium membership).

If you got the "You're all set, John" message you will not hit the daily limit of 10 messages that non-members have.

- At first, the AI responded with JSON.

Thank, yes it responds in mysterious ways sometimes, I've added checks for three or four different ways that I've encountered, but they keep coming. Will add this specific type to the list. Thanks!

- Screen capture of issues: https://imgur.com/1Lt1yU9

Thank you so much for this, it was really helpful, even though I can't reproduce it.

- Overall, the app just looks/feels "unfinished."

I totally get that given your experience.
It's good for simple things, but nothing else. If you gave someone ChatGPT who never did programming before, that person would be stuck in a limbo for 10 hours trying to get a simple program to work because that's how the model is.

In many ways it is a glorified copy/paste machine that's faster (in some cases) than using traditional search. And for bigger projects you're going to get obliterated because at some point the model will either forget the conversation or it will start giving you some random suggestions, all of which lead to frustration and lost time.

But for small projects and snippets, I definitely use it a lot. JavaScript functions, CSS boilerplates and stuff like that - even if it's 50 lines long, I can just do some other stuff while it generates the basic outline and I am on my way.
I can't help but worry that this is the UK government making a poor decision in the desperation to look like they're doing something. This whole "You don't need your hands on the wheel BUT DONT LOSE FOCUS FOR A MINUTE!" is just dumb. This is from the same government that bought us "smart" motorways - motorways with no hard shoulders, so when you break down a lorry will smash into the back of you, turning you into an extremely safe bio-degradable paste.
Please know I'm not being partisan and would love to see equal treatment regardless of political party.

> unproven innuendo

Come on, wake up and smell the coffee. The business partner Bobulinski also considered it to be meaning Biden in an interview in mainstream media.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/27/hunter-bidens-biz-partner-call...

> where's your proof

”In 2013, Hunter flew aboard Air Force Two with his father, who was then vice-president, on an official visit to Beijing, where the younger Biden met investment banker Jonathan Li.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54553132

The google bubble strikes again? Maybe it's only showing you what you want to see. Try DuckDuckGo it seems less prone at ideologically memory holing news stories.
(1) Even the advocates say that ChatGPT needs a lot of reprompting and the code needs a lot of editing.

(2) Huge amounts of fraud and misconduct have been widespread in the text generation field, in the RNN era I'd be trying to train a model to write fake clinical reports and get results like

"A 57-year old male was admitted to the hospital for a heart attack attack attack attack attack attack.."

and found out that the people who were showing good results on their web pages were tweaking their models hard in irreproducible ways, not least generating 100's of examples and only showing the best.
The reason for this is the setback requirement. Once a setback is small enough, you can't see the full scale of the building, and you stop noticing.

Ironically, decreasing setbacks lets you build taller without making cities feel overwhelming.
Obsidian seems to have all the features of that note taking app + many more and even has plugin support.
Cool. I made one of these too. Open source though... github.com/dicroce/revere
It's not invented by zig: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/struct_initializati...

Although more widely used.
Canada is seeing violent crime like never before. What's behind the crime wave
Good question. Here we explain, with a few simplifications, how we source our IPs: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...
New Zealand is part of Zealandia continent (which nowadays is mostly submerged)
> From what I gathered I think it's missing the point, which is that pizza parties are for social bonding. You don't get that by handing out $20 to the employees.

If your company passes a major financial milestone, yes, it's time to celebrate - but it should also be a time to hand out a bonus to those who made it possible in the first place.
It is very strangely structured, but it isn't nonsense.

> said there is a golden rule for any benefit. If it doesn’t fall under the three categories listed below, always pay cash.

When looking to give something to employees that is not a raise of their salary, you should meet one of the following three criteria and if you can't then default to giving them a cash bonus.

> If the “perceived value of the benefit is greater” than what the company pays it should be a benefit. For instance, health insurance is usually expensive, so, if a company offers it, employees value it more. If a company wants to “give a message” using a benefit like a concierge service (travel bookings and tours) it sends out a message: Just focus on work. We’ll take care of the rest. Wellness-related benefits showcase a firm's desire to promote healthy habits.

Money can buy things but not all the things -- convenience, the ability to buy as a group, leveraging connections that an organization has are all things that are more valuable to an employee than cash, and they will realize this.

> “So, if a Pizza party is for engagement with no clear objectives, it is a waste of money. Just pay the cash. But if it serves a purpose then they should consider it,” Sharma said.

If you want the employees to hang out with each other and use pizza to pretend it is a benefit and not a forced engagement, then you are going to be disappointed because employees are not stupid (even though you were in charge of hiring them a bunch of smart ones slipped through), so just give them cash and they will appreciate that and not feel like you are treating them like suckers.
You’re right. But it may still have that flavor.
Not sure if 7 is old enough, I made this card "game" with my daughter when she was 10: https://punkx.org/4917/ which is not really a game but more like a puzzle, you have 54 small programs for a 4 bit made up computer (Richard Buckland's computer) and you have to interpret them in your head or with pen and paper. It's quite interesting to play with her when I change few instructions on a card. (you can also print it yourself on a4 paper)

Other interesting game are of course robot turtles (http://www.robotturtles.com/), but she might be too old for it.

And you might like Mark Rober's https://www.crunchlabs.com/

There is human resource machine that my daughter played when she was 8 or so (https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine) which is a brilliant game.

Also all kinds of "crypto" books, from caesar's cipher to morse code books were very interesting
I cannot imagine that the legal systems in question would consider setting a consent setting in your browser, once, to be explicit positive and informed opt-in.
I've occasionally heard of those kinds of problems from acquaintances, but I've heard and seen so many more newly introduced defect problems and individual car misassembled problems. On average, I think a used car is a car that has been debugged under warranty by someone else with its design critiqued collectively.

The discount for the possibility that the last owner was in the bottom 20% seems to not take into account the positive aspects of a car that is at least 2 years old, 80% of the time.
Which employees hate pizza parties? You get to knock off work for an hour and eat a bunch of pizza. I mean, good work should be incentivized and rewarded with money, and if it's not, that's a separate beef. Don't take that out on the pizza. The pizza did nothing wrong. Give me the pizza!
> You get away with this as long as there is no written record and just a discussion on the golf club.

That's not legal then. There's just a lack of evidence to bring a successful prosecution.
Nobody invited me to one of those pizza parties. The employees+bosses parties I attended were all at regular restaurants and we split the bill. Pizza/pastries is always on premises as an apology for unexpected overtime or a farewell to some employee leaving.

Edit: oh and I forgot those quarterly parties that I and three more buddies that were working in a customer's offices used as a way to launder the unused food tickets.
I love networking events on company time - feels like great two way value. But put it into the evening and all of a sudden you are bumping up against my time with my family (and my hobbies). If the value is there for me, and it isn't too regular, then I'll certainly go to something out of hours, but if it is purely a social then the pay off becomes harder for me.

When I was younger though (and child free), I'd jump at these sort of events, and loved them. A company I used to work for wrapped up about 6pm, except Friday when you were still expected to be around until 6, but there were beers and soft drinks plus snacks from 5pm. Most people would still end up talking work, and plenty of us would still be there talking work (in various guises) until 7pm or later, and would carry on to the pub to do the same if we fancied it. But I loved the fact it started in 'working hours' and that the snr staff would all get involved. Was a great icebreaker and helped move silos between teams and departments.

Now I'm older, if it is outside of working hours, I have to see the benefit in it for me.
Sure here's one https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/online-compiler... and I'm sure you could find hundreds of others :)
I don't often have to write the channel name out, I think you may be right. I enjoy his genuine and unstressed demeanor towards the camera. Just a guy wrenching on some hardware and talking about it.