skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taleb makes the point that this is not as simple as it seems. It is not the same people staying rich.

https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...
I am sort of curious about their manufacturing. Say you wanted to create some really mundane object, like an anodized aluminum fidget spinner, with nice cut parts such as Apple's or teenage engineering's hardware?

I suppose you'd use an aluminum 6061 block cut with a CNC machine and anodize the finish. OK. Well, doing CNC parts at volume is quite expensive. I can see teenage engineer's expenses here from that alone.

But... is that all there is to it?
Correlation is the mother of conspiracy. Without correlation there's no blanks to fill in with baseless conjecture. With correlation you get to jump to all the conspiratorial conclusions without any further evidence.

That doesn't mean that all correlation results in conspiracy, but conspiracy loves correlation. Without the conspiracy part it's just a good starting point for scientific inquiry. The nuance is lost on the CO2 saturated tweeters.
FTX failure isnt a cryptocurrency problem, its a plain old boring case of financial mismanagement and fraud.

Good reminder to all here that if you don't hold they private keys to your crypto, all you have is an IOU from a risky new business.
I mean, look at the newest Sony phone:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sonys-1400-xperia-1-...
I don't live in Canada, but Toronto has an average housing cost of $1.1 million dollars (USD)[1], which is almost as much as San Francisco (at $1.3 million dollars)[2].

Meanwhile the average salary in Toronto is $52k USD per year[3], versus San Francisco's average salary of $109k[4].

So that might give you some idea.

[1]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-home-sales-1....

[2]: https://www.zillow.com/home-values/20330/san-francisco-ca/

[3]: https://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Location=Toronto-Ontari...

[4]: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Location=San-Francisco-...
I also have no use for it and completely want one.

If it was 1/3rd the price and it was a bit smaller I might even actually buy one.
Maybe somewhat, but mostly it means that the US is an economic powerhouse with a lot of companies that provide global value (see: basically every tech company).
Their stuff is design art first and foremost. Usually they are also high quality, functional products as well, but someone would buy this if they think it’s beautiful, not for practical purposes.
Quebec's new Airbnb legislation could be a model for Canada
If you're doing any sort of spatial logic (e.g. mapping), you'll want to use PostGIS.
How does the TP-7 compare to Zooms, the biggest competitor in this space?

https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/
It's fairly fundamental in languages, just hidden behind syntactic sugar like if/else and try/catch/finally. Outside of those it can be useful for de-duplicating cleanup and exit code from a function.
Check the comment history. He's a typical lolbertarian
How is the code generation of Claude?
I also just started going through the EE lab setup from scratch after 20 years of programming. What a great little guide, and matches my experience thus far (though the author is way more organized).

I'm pretty proud of the little parts system I've made, albeit much more primitive. I use pretty exclusively Mouser at this point so I invested in a cheap barcode scanner and just keep the bags in a box since I have limited space. I have a parts database that wraps SQLite and has operations such as "inventory" (taking inventory of my existing parts, updating counts), "shipment" which is a quick way to increase counts of a new shipment of parts (I just have to scan the mouser ID and then the part quantity), and "populate" which decrements each part by one per scan as I'm populating a board.

It's one of those quick-hack-and-slash setups that is really fun to build and is just another part of the yak shaving process. Overall getting into PCB design has been a very, very fun hobby, and since I have real projects I need custom PCBs for, it's been a great supplemental skill to have.

Cool article!
The "100 IU/100 grams" starting point is with fresh mushrooms, before they were dried. It's not clear to me from the article whether "46,000 IU/100 grams" is per 100g of the fresh mushroom input or per 100g of the dried mushroom output. Mushrooms are ~80-90% water so it makes a big difference.
For me:

JavaScript === C

TypeScrit === C++

You can shoot yourself in the foot writing vanilla JavaScript. There should be a book "TypeScript: The Good Parts" though: the language brings a lot of stuff that is better not to use.
Why do people use HN as technical support? it's infuriating, lol.

Google: "Google adding Google Meet to all meetings?"

First result: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/9896448?hl=en

On your computer, open Google Calendar.
In the top right, click Settings Settings and then Settings.
On the left, under "Event Settings."
Click on or off Automatically add Google Meet video conferences to events I create.

By the way this is not a slight against you in particular. I've noticed many people doing this.
For you, and even then for you directly.

Papermakers definitely benefit from this standard, which indirectly benefits you.

And from personal experience, being able to turn any stack of A4 papers into an A5 'zine is great.
Sign Language Recognition using scikit-learn
Many companies pay 100% of premium costs for you and your dependents
This is a non-issue if proper processes are in place. You mentioning issues with 'people are always out for various holidays' is a huge red flag. This is where strict processes and respect for other's time comes into place. It can be done. You just landed at a place that doesn't give a damn.
"The Truth about X"
Escaping nested loops, cleanup during error handling.
Supertokens also allows you to implement enterprise SSO through their integration to SAML Jackson (by BoxyHQ).

https://boxyhq.com/guides/jackson/integrations/supertokens
I have a hypothesis team building actually zaps productivity and moral.
Blackstone Can Be the Bank
Hasnt been the case for a few major versions, unless you want to anthropomorphise your db and and hold it accountable for past behaviour.
In my case, TDD was absolutely the problem with the dev team failing to be able to deliver in a timely way - it wouldn't have matter if the CTO mandated 100% test coverage or 75%. Anyone who thinks TDD doesn't slow a team down to a crawl is just fooling themselves, hence the Stockholm syndrome. In my view, TDD is bad for most projects, but tests are not. TDD is putting the cart before the horse. Tests should be written once the functionality is working well. Then write tests. There are very few kinds of development where TDD is the right way to go, and they involve launching space shuttles, designing medical equipment, and operating nuclear power plants. Launching a social media site? No, just no.
Much of the world seems to have a housing crisis right now. I recall a few weeks ago there was discussion here about the housing crisis in Ireland. I'd say we have something of a housing crisis in many parts of the US as well. Not enough housing was built during and in the aftermath of the great recession - that seems to be how we've arrived at this problem. Housing is hugely expensive both to buy and to rent. It's taking a large bite out of budgets - that's the crisis. Something's gotta give.
You still have to admit that one person in 30,000 people that would be the highest, even if the method isn't perfect.
The IRS is legally required to seek all income taxes owed under federal law. That is hardly thievery. If the tax laws are unfair then take that up with Congress.

As for what the NY Times printed, that has zero relevance to tax liabilities.
For those wondering, the CM-15 is their field mic at $1199 [1].

[1]: https://teenage.engineering/store/cm-15
I think it's often the same with "antipattern" or "code smell".

The best programmers I know rarely see things as 100% good or bad.
JR Firms Moving for Automated Shinkansen Operations
Ibramenu: Bash-based self-hosted app deployment
Lexikon 83DL typewriter, 1970

https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2004.187/

The audio recorder is cool, but that typewriter is *gorgeous*
What if my millionaire neighbor burns down the house instead?
At a certain scale, you'll want replication or replication, which SQLite doesn't really do AFAIK. At a scale below that, you'll probably want to be able to have multiple web servers talking to one database server, which SQLite doesn't really do either. I also think SQLite's performance during heavy write workloads is worse than PostgreSQL's?

Basically, AFAIK, SQLite becomes problematic once you need more than one computer to handle requests.
Yes, that's correct, and specializing your code to the actual cache line and page sizes will generally yield significant speedups compared to this approach.
I want this on my Facebook newsfeed.
They're bankrupting our healthcare system with their gluttony
I hope markets don't panic and I think the chances of an actual default are extremely low. However, I don't think the chances of a default are zero. Everyone I talk to seems to be saying "A devastating default [i.e. not like the brief blip in 1971] has never happened, therefore it cannot happen." Which doesn't seem like sound reasoning to me.

I imagine there's no escaping the fallout of such a default, but I'm thinking it may be time to take a break from treasury ETFs for while.
> And 4k for 20 inches display? What for? Do you plan to stick your face in the monitor?

It's still less than 300 dpi but getting close enough to be comparable to most printed materials.
I disagree, I find the TX-6 and OB-4 at least highly functional tools without peers. There are no mixers with the function of the TX-6 and the next closest comparables are still near the same price with several major gaps.

OB-4: The only other one I found which isn't just a bt hifi and tries to be an actual studio monitor is the iLoud, there is a new product from Fender as well. I also have the iLoud and stopped using it (worse sound, fewer useful tools). I don't think these 1-2 alternatives are clearly superior value.
For the price you can buy state of the art mic and field recorder. For audio-to-text, simply use Microsoft office.

But you can buy this if you’re rich and don’t know where to burn your cash.
There are plenty of difficult judgment calls in content moderating.

But the difference between "illegal content" and "content that promotes breaking the law" isn't really one of them to be made by the moderator. This is just bad instructions from the game maker.
OpenAI is the Microsoft Explorer of AI.
If you are a good, productive engineer, your boss will bend over backwards to not lose you. Or they should be. Your negotiation power is a lot stronger than you think. Plenty of jobs out there and it never hurts to remind them that they are replacable.

I've enjoyed the work conditions I mention throughout my career. I'm 48 now. But of course I work in a part of the world where this stuff was sorted out decades ago. 40 hour work weeks, 26 days of vacation per year, etc. Here in Germany, many companies even have policies that state people should not be sending emails or replying to those in their spare time. Such a simple thing. Easy to implement too. Just don't reply outside of work hours.

Of course, I'm a startup CTO so I have none of that because I work for myself. But I still take my weekends and evenings because I'm simply less productive and creative when I'm tired and stressed out which is a different way of saying I'm useless when I'm like that. I need my brain to work properly to be effective. So I use my time wisely. And working on weekends or evenings simply isn't a good use of my time. So, I rarely do that.

Being a wage slave is a choice. If you don't like your life, change it. Lots of people are not capable of reflecting on what they do or why they do it and afraid to change or challenge things. They just do the same thing day after day because that just is what they do; no matter how much it sucks. Change starts with you wanting things to change and then acting to make that happen.
So you can be rude, but I can't be a little cheeky, roger that. I have no problems with you and I hope you have a great day!
I don't think you really need specs to compare them. Zoom's are ugly and used by actual professionals, and teenage engineering's are a monument to the functionalist school of industrial design and purchased probably by mostly enthusiasts.
Most answers seem written by fanboys rather than legit answers.

I would say go with what you know and are most comfortable with. You are more likely to get the better outcome.
How would holding keys to a crypto wallet full of FTT prevent large-scale fraud via currency manipulation and subsequent devaluation of your holdings?

This is indeed a failure of crypto, because FTX was the one primarily in control of the coin supply.
It's any philosophy that describes emotion. Mine in particular describes emotions as arguments. If you're still curious, contact me through my profile here and I will send you a copy of my book.
Twitter shuts down autocomplete for search
embeddings, vector databases, cosign similarity, etc
I beg to disagree, you can praise the apple products all you want from a user point of view but the tech side..

Xcode is the worst ide I've ever used, laggier than an electron app, weight 12gb and the appstore doesn't understand how to resume downloads when it fails, it has a terrible config file which plays badly with git. The iOS app upload itself is so broken in it that apple themselves released a thirdparty tool to bypass it.

And don't get me started on appstoreconnect (the web portal) which looks like it hasn't been updated since 2012, the funniest bug might be the race conditions when you reorder images.
As someone who is used to the French pronunciation of “caret”, “carrot” is hilarious.

Also, in INTERCAL the character is called “shark” or “sharkfin”.
Interesting. Perhaps I should be a lawyer :)
> There should be no read-only snapshot: it's just a writable snapshot where you don't happen to perform a write

So when malware comes along and goes after the live copy, and happens to find the 'snapshot', but is able to hose that snapshot data as well, the solution is to go to tape?

As opposed to any other file system that implements read-only snapshots, if the live copy is hosed, one can simply clone/revert to the read-only copy. (This is not a hypothetical: I've done this personally.)

(Certainly one should have off-device/site backups, but being able to do a quick revert is great for MTTR.)
I flipped a coin, it landed on its side so I went with SQLite.
Everyone is hired in at a somewhat market rate, but it's the older employees who have become complacent and don't want to leave that are being underpaid. I know Blind is basically programmer 4chan, but if any TC postings on there are correct, I'm making more as a developer than some people who claimed to have worked their way up from junior dev and and are now manager :/
They were built decades ago, so not a big problem now. The west has lots of places to build these things, it doesn't work out east nor probably in the UK outside of maybe Scotland.
https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html

"In a CREATE TABLE statement, if the "STRICT" table-option keyword is added to the end, after the closing ")", then strict typing rules apply to that table. ... The STRICT keyword at the end of a CREATE TABLE statement is only recognized by SQLite version 3.37.0 (2021-11-27) and later.

sqlite> create table x (a int);
sqlite> insert into x values ('hello');
sqlite> select * from x;
hello
sqlite> drop table x;
sqlite> create table x (a int) strict;
sqlite> insert into x values ('hello');
Runtime error: cannot store TEXT value in INT column x.a (19)
I assumed at first reading the model number "TP" on this thread that this was a discussion about their $75 modular tape dispenser. [0]

[0] https://www.jam.se/en/products/synthanalogvintage/teenage-en...
meh, its a bad interface

if i wanted to moderate something more effectively i would make a better one

i'd rather blame the difficulty of moderation itself on people's inability to innovate
On the advice of a commenter in a different HN thread I recently read Cal Newport’s book, “So Good They Can’t Ignore You.” The main premise is that passion results from valuable skills built via hard work over years of deliberate practice. Only after you have those valuable skills, the book argues, do you have the leverage to dictate your life in a way many people find necessary for satisfaction. Passion follows from there.

The book is a fun read, but that’s basically the entire takeaway. And I find it to be a compelling argument.

Passion does need to be found, but it seems logical that your skills will lead you to the passion, rather than the other way around.
wait, who says these FRX contractors ever paid tax to begin with?
My thoughts exactly - rewrite the novel with Mr. Carraway as an ML engineer while maintaining themes/motifs (possible adding new ones too). I'm guessing what's impressive is that these are the first steps towards something like this? Or is it already possible? Someone please correct me here.
Show HN: Open-source code to chat with PDF
I have open-sourced my code to allow anyone to chat with PDF similar to apps like ChatPDF but for free
> as recently as 2005

That's 18 years ago. Not exactly recent.
Wrong professions.

Who wants the old man mechanic?
There is almost no good reason to choose MySQL over PostgreSQL for any operational reason, I did a deep dive many moons ago (before major improvements in performance to postgres) and people were saying that MySQL was faster. I found that not to be true and the differences have only gained even more favour towards postgres.

also, I assume you mean MariaDB as MySQL is owned by Oracle and I would greatly implore anyone and everyone to avoid Oracle as if it has herpes.

There are a lot of historic problems with MySQL accepting invalid data, committing data even when there are constraint issues, and having very poor transactional isolation, I am not sure if these have improved.

Truthfully, the only benefits you gain from using MariaDB or MySQL are:

* Memory tables

* Having inconsistent replicas (which can be useful when you want your downstream to have less data than your upstream and you know it won’t get updated.)
Hooke tooke cannabis?
He posted fake news about trace of life on Mars on twitter
> MySQL's handling of unicode has also been terrible historically, with way too many foot guns, but I don't know if that may be better with recent versions.

Unicode generally "just works" if the charset in use is utf8mb4. As of MySQL 8.0, this is the default.
I agree with you. A "everything is terrible" campaign. But who stands to gain?
The vaccine was never doing "next to nothing" it was always very effective at keeping you from dying a suffocating death. That's one of the three big things vaccines are supposed to do -- prevent infection, prevent transmission, and reduce pathology. The conspiracy propaganda tried to make it seem like a vaccine that allows a mild case is a failure, when that is, in fact, a success.
The way I read it, Python code as it is, won't see a huge bump it's like 10x or something.

You have to use special syntax and refactoring to get the 1000x speed ups. The secret sauce is essential a whole new language within the language which likely helps skip the GIL issues.
Or maybe the government should just pass a law requiring AI companies to create those jobs... That would be entertaining.
Part of it comes down to whether you truest Google. I personally would rather Apple have my personal information than Google, who is actively trying to monetize it through advertising sales. I don't even use them for search.

(I know Apple is inching down that path too, but so far they have simultaneously maintained their privacy focus.)
We sure could save a lot by cutting social security for old people, reduce medicare payments, cut down food stamps for people with kids that's a few trillion right there.

Or we could just cancel recent tax cuts that were focused on wealthy people and get trillions more in revenue. Remember the last pres has a record addition to the debt of $7 trillion with three debt increases without a threatened debt default, somehow.
Geoff Hinton Interview with Pieter Abbeel
I always dislike the "requests per month" metric because it seems like a transparent attempt to impress with a larger absolute number: 500k requests/month is 5sec per request, which feels pretty underwhelming
Probably an order of magnitude or two more. Still something that is feasable in a research context - early MRI and genome sequencing had similar "too much data" problems like this, but the researchers still built it out to learn stuff. Tech marched forward and these days no one really blinks about it. I presume that if such a "all the cells scanner" was invented today, it would only be used for research for a long time - and that by the time it became widespread data storage will have caught up.
Correct, the top 50% of tax payers pay 97% of income revenue
I think the issue here is that we've been fed a high-sensationalism diet, so our brains are acclimated to in-your-face headlines. Perhaps if we detoxed our brains a bit (by using this app exclusively for a week or two), we would be able to recalibrate our expectations for what seems "interesting".

This is sort of like how you recalibrate your tongue to a low-salt diet if you stop eating salty food for a few weeks.
2028: The world's first self-sustaining fusion reactor is completed.

Could not be hallucinating more...

Like somebody said, the secret to predict the future and be a respected spiritualist, and well known clairvoyant, is to make many predictions...like...lots of them...
Are the birth rates higher among rich people? My impression is that they have fewer children. Historically, More materials and wealth means less children.

Can govt really cause people to have more children? Or can they just remove roadblocks? I would go with the latter. The former is a social problem.
Long LOOOONG ago, I had a good relationship with Adobe. For instance, I was one of the beta-testers for Photoshop 3.0 (which was the first to do native CMYK). Would talk with them all the time over the phone.

But those guys have long since left the company and the "bean counters" took over the company and it has been downhill ever since. I too will never give them another dime. I don't mind their products, I just can't abide the management and company.

I've had the same experience as you did with BareBones though. They always came through for me with BBEdit. I told them one time they have a customer for life, and I've kept that promise.
You don't find the TX-6 too small? That's what's preventing me from even considering buying it. If it were a little bigger, I'd be dreaming about getting it, or perhaps even actually getting it.
100% agree, doing this wholesale would probably help my (and likely others) mental states as a whole! Imagine desensationalizing product sites and ads and the like, we might actually be able to bring down that threshold so it can stop ever increasing. The irony here is I feel like what I wrote here is sensationalized lol I do truly think it could be helpful I just think a lot of us are "broken" as far as that's concerned from the exhausting nature of everything these days always vying for our attention.
PaLM 2 on Vertex AI which Google just released yesterday has fine tuning the large models as a core part of their offering.
Someone can question the reality of something that isn't real. So they've not even managed that low bar you've set for them.

We have to assume their opinion on this. We know it outrages environmentalists and scientists, but apparently the economists opinion is not relevant or worth stating explicitly?
Still generated by humans afaik, but in the neighbourhood:

https://tosdr.org/
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