skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> dad is a civil engineer and even though he’s almost a decade retired he still maintains insurance and stuff for past projects because of “statute of limitations” type liability stuff

Huh. I know a doctor and a civil engineer who both, on retirement, divorced their spouses and basically gifted them everything. Zero clue how this works, legally. For what it's worth, they're both in Florida.
The bad services sell use of their address space for next to nothing and turnover of their addresses is high. When they don't address abuse reports, or even if they do yet their addresses continue to act like whack-a-mole, there's good reason to tar them with the same brush.
Years ago I tried, but these places are not friendly to neurodivergent people. Usually bullies take all the space and if they see you do something interesting they hang around to steal whatever you are doing.
There is nothing you can do about it if you have no money.
Downloading videos for offline watching. For example during flights without a wifi.
I disagree, but upvoted as I do not think you should be downvoted for your opinion. My objections:

First, all employers are different; some provide a big portion of the funding.

Even if not, HSAs can bring huge benefits if executed right. They are a triple tax-free account: pre-tax deposits, tax-free growth, non-taxable distributions. So a healthy high earner who maxes his HSA contributions for several early-career years can come out far ahead. Or a well-off family that can treat it as yet-another tax-advantaged savings vehicle.

But to reap big benefits HSAs have to be planned and executed over many years and impose some limitations, such as on using FSAs. For someone who is not sure they can diligently follow the strategy over many years, HSAs can be a big headache with limited utility. My 2c.
Quite good and fair article about the changing scientific consensus and the various reasons that the ‘French paradox’ got so popularized ~30 years ago.

The Maintenance Phase podcast did a good episode on this updated thinking (September 27, 2022): https://podtext.ai/maintenance-phase/the-french-paradox
It's going off on a tangent, but Isaac Newton was quite intertwined with Christian religion:

> In 1667, Newton became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,[11] making necessary his commitment to taking Holy Orders within seven years of completing his MA, which he did the following year. He was also required to take a vow of celibacy and recognize the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newto...
A skeptical view of information fiduciaries (2019)
When I use "write a function..." it produces code.
Update: they've declined to do so in this case (email response).
"And as imprecise as that sounds, many of the formulas that take complex numbers as inputs multiply them with other complex numbers in such a way that the imaginary side cancels out. "

The only thing imprecise about this is "many". Really any formula for an observable of any kind (including probabilities) has to come out to a real number.
It's the 'standard term used' so makes sense that it is used. The discussion here is does it make sense? I know that until I studied Persian history it very much alienated my thinking from that part of the world, and made me think of them as other. I was also taught the ignorance of christian thought of that period (referring to mainly the actions of Germanic groups) versus the superior enlightened 'Islamic Golden Age' that happened to leave out that many of those enlightened scholars were Christian and that their thinking was perfectly compatible with Christianity. It seems artificially divide and NOT do a pretty poor job accurately reflecting the people/scholars/scientific movement it is used to describe.
> Show me a clever hack for using deque instead of vector in C++

Ans:

// This function will reverse the order of a vector.
void reverse(std::vector<int>& vec) {
std::deque<int> deq;
for (int i = 0; i < vec.size(); i++) {
deq.push_back(vec[i]);
}
for (int i = 0; i < vec.size(); i++) {
vec[i] = deq.front();
deq.pop_front();
}
}

This is a clever hack because it avoids the need to write a custom function for reversing the order of a vector.

But it did write a custom function?!
I did, and I am pretty sure that's what I typed in. However Auto correct succeeds just enough that I don't proofread what it's done to me often enough: (
The trouble there is that you're probably out of your prime dating years by the time you're your own boss and really making big money in the trades. It takes time to establish and build that business, the early years can be pretty lean as people get the business going.
Those numbers are surprising to me. I would expect a much bigger difference considering the difference in wealth.
Thank you for trying it and asking questions. Let me reply to them below.

> Could you give a brief overview of how the project is built, or what libraries are used? I found two in the source, React and Workbox. I've never heard of Workbox before, and I'm still figuring out how service workers are used. But it seems like a big part of the source.

For building, I used Next.js with static generation, not using Server-side rendering. But it's not an important part because it doesn't rely on Next.js features so much.

About Workbox, the app uses them with next-pwa (https://github.com/shadowwalker/next-pwa) for providing caching strategies and offline behavior as Progressive Web App. For example, the app registers several precached files via Workbox. Precached files are fetched and cached by the service worker and these caches can be used while offline. Also, Workbox can configure runtime caching strategies. You can see details in Workbox documentation (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/workbox/).

The app also uses the Service Worker to connect IndexedDB as a local database and send HTTP requests to synchronize data with Google Drive. By using the Service Worker, these methods don't block the user interaction from the main thread and Service Worker can run in the background to synchronize data even if the browser window is suddenly closed.
So the Service Worker is used for not waiting for HTTP requests/responses and improving performance.
There is something about the smell of two stroke engines… if you’ve ever ripped around on a dirt bike you know what I mean. If you haven’t, I guess you’ll never understand…
The battery powered blowers are pretty loud too, just FYI. I have to wear hearing protection with it every time.
Tangentially related, it appears the US weapons industry uses hobbyist parts to build drones. https://en.defence-ua.com/news/russian_soldiers_disassemble_...:

“A video appeared on the network shows russian soldiers disassembling the American-made Switchblade 600 suicide drone manufactured by AeroVironment. According to Bild, it is the first documented use of this drone by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Moreover, the drone is equipped with 3 “aero-naut CAM Carbon” folding propellers produced by German company Aero-naut Modellbau. It’s a German company that specializes in designing and manufacturing model airplane and boat kits, as well as model components such as electric motors, speed controllers, and propellers. But the company has stated that it never intended for its products to be used for military purposes, and has expressed concern over the use of its products in military applications without its knowledge or consent.”
You’re missing my point. That’s on me.

I think Transformer is a stupid name. I think the researchers who chose the name Transformer are big poopyheads for picking a bad name. I’d rather they have named it after themselves, an anagram of their names, or whatever. I wish everyone would stop using the name Transformer. I hope it does get trademarked for the sole purpose of reducing its usage. Ideally to zero.

I hate analogies. I think it would be similar stupid if Epic Games renamed “Unreal Engine” to “Game Engine” or if Toyota renamed the Camry to “Car”.

It’s extremely different from Apple.

It’s vaguely similar to Windows. Except when I write the words “window” in code no one will confuse it for the Operating System. Meanwhile I have written quite a lot of ML code and have regularly used the terms “transform” and “transformer”. None of which have had anything to do with the “Transformer” architecture.
Hitler started it by burning down their parliament building and then taking over to quell the lawlessness
(2021) 47 points, 33 comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28739584
How? Maybe this should be better documented & recommended. I suppose at some point you're just statically linking with more steps - though for a problem like this it might be worth it.
Facebook Censorship
If this is true, this is a really simple problem to solve. Organize cross-team show and tells. Past couple organisations I worked for did this successfully.
Sounds cool but I'm not seeing how this discovers IOC's or reverse engineers malware.
AutoGPT and other GPT and AI tools written in Golang
Downvoting is not “the community refuses to engage.” Downvoting means some people in the community specifically engaging to stop other people from engaging.

What non-engagement looks like is not voting.

The opposite is also a problem. Some of things that get upvoted are annoying to me.
> So in your example with tachyons, the negative number squared becomes positive?

No. The negative mass squared means the mass itself, the square root of the mass squared, is imaginary.
You can become better than
Jeff Dean or John Carmack without mentoring in fact mentoring is negatively associated with self learning which you will need to blaze a new trail.
> But these machines persist in American landscaping because they are cheap.

I rarely see pros use cheap stuff. They're paying for Stihl eq and mowers I can't even afford.

2-stroke gas eq is incredibly powerful for the weight. More power, more done, more money.

Battery is catching up quick, and honestly will soon deliver even more power, and that's when I think most will switch. I bet many will pay more for a (more-powerful) battery trimmer. But it's not about "cheap" (imo).
How is this not just IRC then? The thing that makes Twitter/Mastadon/etc not just IRC, is that in these, you can scroll back as far as you like—specifically, past where your client joined the network.
I actually used nix in place of dockerfiles to build docker images, as it helped produce a perfectly minimal image for N architectures without much effort.
SRI is where Doug Engelbart worked developed the mouse and windowing interface (among other things) and put together the "Mother of all Demos".

SRI where the original ARPANET NIC was, and had various important roles in the development of the net.

I really don't think they overestimated their brand, they just talk to their likely customers.

(I worked at PARC, never at SRI, but I had many friends from SRI, and there was a flow of personnel in both directions).
why not use youtube-dl?
Take a ride on the NYC Subway and tell me whether personal audio devices increase or reduce public singing.
Going by post-secondary education status tends to filter for a character trait I’ve yet to name. The closest I’ve come is something akin to long-term emotional regulation. Obviously, there’s many, many exceptions to this.

I’ve worked in an environment where there was a mix of grads from certificate, diploma and degree programs.

There were certain “profiles” of people that you would come to expect from each “bin” and 8/10 times your hunches were right.
oh man your comment just made me remember that i registered a domain by also FTPing a txt file to some NIC FTP site, i'm guessing it was 1991?.

IIRC that's when i registered rmt.org (my initials) using that method (for free!). used it for a couple of years but then moved to USA and at some point in the mid 90s i guess i had to start paying for it, i forgot -- and lost the domain to the UK union for Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers. a worthy successor!

well i guess they sold it because now the domain is owned by a trust that helps autistic children in the UK. another worthy successor!

anyway, thanks for the memory!!!
It's a fun puzzle trying to rent a movie from Amazon on an Android phone. In the Amazon app, the page for the movie will say "Available to rent or buy", but with no way to do either. Sometimes, it'll tell you that you have to rent or buy it in a browser. So then you get to try to figure out how to prevent Amazon links in the browser from opening the Amazon app. Before you figure it out, it's time to go to sleep.
Prior history from the Netherlands last year indicates that Apple offered to take 27%, rather than 30%, when payment is processed by a third party. The US judgment is compatible with that proposed practice.
On the contrary, I'm a user of social media for exactly that purpose. When I use Twitter or Instagram, I'm specifically using it for the natural discoverability it offers. Almost half of the people I follow on Twitter are people I never would have known existed if I didn't see them pop up in my feed one day.

It's why I can never get into stuff like Mastodon or Misskey with how they are today, it's extremely difficult to just naturally find people to follow.
Well, there's a bunch of startups with the name "GPT" in them now, and they're probably going to file their trademarks now too... so I can't see USPTO giving OpenAI (which didn't invent the term GPT) any kind of preference?
"But it's already illegal to steal data from someone else's computers!"
> With all due respect, you're just projecting your own experience and being dismissive in the process. A ton of foundational work in modern computing was done in a distributed fashion and continues to work that way

This has nothing to do with what I wrote. Whether or not people work "in a distributed fashion" is unrelated to whether or not those people have a team they see in person on a regular basis, contribute to public forums and chatrooms, or advance in their careers via collaboration with colleagues.

For what it's worth, most professional developers don't contribute to open-source on any regular basis. The ones that do often work in big companies, which then choose to open-source their work. Regardless, working in "a distributed fashion" is not the same thing is posting to forums that other people can see. And it's a rare company where everything you need to know is captured in public code. Usually that's just the table stakes -- the most valuable engineers are walking around with encyclopedic business knowledge in their heads.

The core fallacy I am rebutting here is that everything you need to know is just out there, freely available on the internet. Even in the open-source world, that isn't true.
A general defense of information fiduciaries (2020)
Friend of mine has 2 neighbors who have gone full don't mow back to nature and all that. No, it doesn't look 'natural' or anything else nice. It looks like what is: overgrown weeds, sprawling vines (kudzu, poison ivy), several years of desiccated branches and stems (glad we aren't in a fireprone area), and scraggly, non-native trees trying to take hold.

But the best thing for my friend is how much rats like it. Not mice, rats. Lots of rats.
Covid = Eternal September has arrived.

Ignore the initial downvotes. They are sometimes canceled out later, you just have to wait for it.
So all common stock gets canceled? Including finding team?
What prevents founders/board of doing this many times over to prevent dilution?
I used to live on Decatur street in SF, at near eye-level with the I80 overpass. I could not get out of there fast enough and don’t quite understand all the residential construction right next to highways. The tire dust is a serious problem too.
Some hobbies are much harder to do than others. For those, the doing will be a lot less than the discussing. Examples, scuba but don't live close to water, flying, but can't afford to do it frequently, etc.
I found making them and using them during the class to be invaluable.

It was also good for learning some of the conjugations later.

Of course, that is only part of a way to learn a language and can get to be a real grind.
I'm a little bit put off that this article is essentially suggesting that not only should young men, who are being failed by the educational system, go to trade-school instead (instead of say, fixing the educational system), but that trade-school is also somehow feminist/progressive as well because it challenges gender norms or something. The majority of engineers are still men, and just because an increasing number, soon to be majority, of corporate drones are women doesn't mean we're "progressing as a society" if a relatively small class of professional women manages the working class men and women, while a supreme tech aristocracy made up almost exclusively of men lords over all.
I especially don’t want to be led to believe in interacting with a human when I’m actually interacting with a computer.
You can use a Resmed AirSense with a nose pillow or a face mask. I only use the nose pillow. It covers the nostrils. You breathe through the nose. The mouth stays uncovered. If you manage to keep the mouth closed while sleeping, this is enough. Between the tube and the nose pillow there's a piece with two mesh vents. When the CPAP increases the pressure, some air is vented through the meshes. When you breathe out, most of the breathed air leaves by the vents. I feel the air: when breathing in only a little and when breathing out a lot. It is a fine mesh creating some resistance but it works because when you breathe out, you temporarily increase the pressure and the mesh lets your stale air out. However when the mesh gets wet by condensation, not enough stale air is vented and you get the feeling of not having enough air. It feels like the head being under the blanket. The first time this happened I was confused. Now I know to recognize and to avoid this situation. If the room air is very cold, this can happen because the air you breathe out can condensate. If you use an air moisturizer, you need to find a balance between temperature and too much moisture. You need to position the tube such that moisture can't flow downwards to the nose pillow.

This all sounds a bit complicated and dangerous, but in reality this works surprisingly well. It really works and it is helpful. I know CPAP devices are a nuisance and need a lot of time and dedication to get used to, but they are able to fix sleep apnea. They give me a good sleep. I needed about three months to find the sweet and deep sleep we humans all need thanks to this bloody contraption. It is a hate-love relationship.
Qaddafi's irrigation system in the Libyan desert was more impressive.
Notice that it's not the only C++ web framework (which means there are some use cases) : see for example https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
If LLMs start writing a majority of HN comments, we won’t know what is true or not. HN will be noise and worthless then.
If you want to shitpost, i guess no one can stop you. But this is the end, not the beginning. It's a little late to demand someone bottlefeed you the merits of the case.
wtf, this is just a lie. Have your looked at actual casualty numbers in 2016-2021?
i.e after the initial bloodbath that Russians started in 2014 and that finished in 2015.

it's been around 100 killed per year (both civilians and army) for 5 years before the current war - still 100 more than should be, of course, but it's less than the number of DAILY casualties since February 2022.
Also, what you call a "Ukrainian Donbass conflict" is called a Russian military aggression, if you're not a pro-putin shill
I usually work 50 hours and doesn't feel bad at all, wake up 5:30 by 6:00 I'm checking emails, at noon I go for a run, then do 1-6pm at that's already 10-11 hours. Fridays are shorter usually done by 4pm, I go golfing, join happy hour, whatever but work, I don't touch a computer until Monday. So in my experience 32 hours sounds like a part time job and would never like the idea as I get paid 1.5 times after 40 hours. One thing though is I have no commute as my office is literally next door so that helps a lot. Perhaps the key would be to encourage shorter or no commutes and fair compensation for overtime. I bet the majority of people would rather make the extra money than taking time off. Also it is kind of ironic that Bernie Sanders never held a job himself.
It's not as simple as "they do" or "they don't." They seem to suffer less, and there are interesting reasons for that. GP is being downvoted because "they do?" is not a particularly helpful response.
That says more about you and your circle and what you know about them. Many of those people could be contributing but not sharing at work.
Completely off base. If you want to distribute your application to users yourself (instead of letting the distro take care of that), then distribute all dependencies together with it.
>How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS?

Maybe they don't mean competition between app stores, but between apps within the store itself? Look at how many apps are clones of other apps. If they didn't promote competition, they would shut down all of the clones. /s
> Interviews aren't free, don't waste peoples time doing them if you aren't serious/need to practice. Pay for an interview coach.

1. While I understand this, its really hard for me to sympathize after seeing companies ghost me after multiple rounds of interviews, worst of which is when I spends hours working nights/weekends on their take home assignments (happens a lot more when you are less experienced). What I have learned as I grown older is, everyone (companies / people) always do what's best for them, you do what's best for you (this could be different for different people). I don't make any judgements.

2. Has anyone here actually used an interview coach? Is it really useful/effective?
zOS?
Why on earth is there no link to whatever this "bard" actually is on that page - I need an on-ramp/slip road?

There is a link to "Learn More" which is also ... eventually a link wonders off somewhere ... nope some wankery about Lamda thingie. [random futile clicking]

It's the basics kids. No matter how far up your arse you are about your funky technology, do enable people to find the bloody thing easily, from all related pages. If you are a little rusty on spelunking then have a look at WAIS and Gopher (int al) for how to do it properly.

Obviously I can find it because I'm a fucking IT consultant. Why not make it easy for everyone?
I wonder if ChatGPT will eventually have some additional checks for internal consistency. ChatGPT and I were talking about the moons of Jupiter recently and it claimed both Ganymede and Io were both the only moons with an internal magnetic field, just one reply apart. Some level of consistency between what it's saying now and just said a few moments ago would go a long ways.
did he also crush his testes in between the lobes of a nose-less kidney saddle?
No GP but yes, absolutely.
Well first of all I don't agree that death is a bad thing, personally.

Second of all morality is not the primary concern of most individuals' existence, despite all the talk that goes on.
Nope, you just generate a new keypair and link to it. It rotates, has done so for years.
Nah, thats just an attempt by a few years retired Apple engineer from a different division to help a person out on Hacker News, with an often pertinent idea.
> It fascinates me that we have settled on something that is so widely hated.

It's not obvious that it is widely hated. You can find people who hate it. But that's true of everything.
I’m a side sleeper and earmuffs press against the side of my head which might not work so well for me but thanks. And good point about the alarm clock — I wear an Apple Watch to bed for sleep monitoring so my alarm is haptic. It works great.
I don't know about you but I think my price is somewhere in the mid-high six figures TCO :-)