skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello @Champagn3Papi, my name is Erik and I work on the Billing team here at 1Password.

First thing - I'd like to reassure you that we will never locked you out of your account. You will always have access to your passwords, even if your account becomes frozen. You will still be able to view all of your items and copy your passwords. There are restrictions on frozen account which mean you won't be able to add new items to vaults, edit items, invite people to your family or team, or autofill items in your browser until the account becomes unfrozen.

As another commenter here mentioned, there are a number of potential points that can cause a payment failure like this. The absolute quickest approach to resolve this would be to try using a different payment method. I know that isn't ideal.

As for the current payment method problem, can you please respond back to our support team and mention that I reached out to you here? It will help me to connect some dots and look into your issue specifically, and we can communicate through more official channels.

Thanks,
Erik
> and those businesses are economically margin tight

Read: terrible, mostly just labor-intensive real estate plays.
I don't understand your language.

1986 Halley's comet was closer to Earth then Venus is close to Earth whenever Venus is on the other side of the Sun from Earth
Free 280GB Optane SSD with Purchase of Intel Core I9
Half of the ones I get use those apps that go straight to your voicemail to leave a message so you can’t even answer if you wanted to.
"job title engineering"
Which jobs are hiring day-long tourists?
“someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave - Tim Farris / Rolf Potts
The article argues that lasers are cheap because you can just run them off a diesel generator in a container. But then it switches to space... which obviously doesn't do well with diesel and refueling.

I assume we're talking about either battery+solar cell or nuclear power on those satellites?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052169
I know a lot of folks on here love coffee, so I think some might find my "thoughtfulcoffee" project interesting.

Thanks!
How to include a Git hash in a Go binary
Frisbee golf isn't all over your public parks?
Patch Posted for Formally Deprecating the Slab Allocator
Why is it justifiable to violate the property rights of the company owners to exert influence on jobs that the company also owns?

Again - to level the playing field.

Because there's also this thing known as "human rights", which are generally more important than property rights.
What is the current situation with sleep states? I've been seeing lots of conversations the last two years and I just don't have a big level picture of why it's such an issue now.

I only use S4 (hibernate) because I can ignore my laptop for weeks at a time, unplugged, and jump right back in to where I left off. Microsoft seems to have changed some things in Windows to hide the hibernate option for some reason I can't figure out.
> Read about Robert Moses and why he made bridges too low for buses.

On that suggestion, I just went and read the wikipedia article on Robert Moses. It mentions that buses and commercial vehicles do in fact go under those bridges today, and that the accusations of racism are disputed.
ISBN: 0394503686

Digital copy available for borrowing from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/miragesmit00smit

Physical copies available from the Chicago Public Library: https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C190419

And 325 other libraries, including about a dozen ebook options:
https://worldcat.org/title/1019886692
Minimize distractions, plan your tasks and take a look at the Pomodoro Technique.
Fair, but there’s no reason a URL can’t resolve to a landing page and already open modal state populated with the content the other person shared to you. Deeplinking / permalinking works just as well with modals as it does with anchor named content blocks below the fold.
Ask HN: What is your proudest little invention or discovery?
Have you invented or discovered something on your own without any prior knowledge about whether it has already been discovered or not?

It doesn't matter whether it has been already found or not. All that matters is the process through which you found so much joy that you still remember it.
Never had a robocall in Europe in like ever. Seems like this is a problem that's very possible to completly solve
^ This. I have a tendency to abrasively be emotionally insensitive to people's dreams and am trying to be supportively realistic.
I know exactly what you're talking about I think. My problems are solved by code such that code will have something to do with the approach. With that in mind I tend to write lots of little one off programs to test a particular idea or see if a particular phenomenon exists in a set for example. In building these I'll version them in the filename ( XXX_Test_V1.sh ) such that I can compare runs and later maybe chain some runs together.

The point here is just to get moving in some direction, get familiar with your data and start testing some assumptions. I learned a lot about my problem from doing this and eventually came up with some testable theory.

Forget architecture, "elegant code", time complexity, "does it scale" etc - just write things that give you answers or allow you to gain some insight and do so with the minimum of effort spent on design. If you ever find yourself onto something you can refactor then. For me the main thing is to get the learning process started.
Worth pointing out there are a lot of predatory practices around contract workers holding visas. I don't work at Meta so I have no idea if that's happening there but I have seen it at others places.
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How Doctors buy their way out of trouble
I've been thinking there must be a generic approach to waiting for events rather than sleeping and registering actions on events.

Like epoll for events
The bulk of your comment was just a strawman...

Yes, interviewing a faceless "cartel" member with zero verification would be poor journalism, which isn't the same as bringing a camera into XYZ location and recording/describing the conditions, which classifies as journalism in the same way that war journalists who go into warzones and describe situations are journalists.

I think ironically enough your personal feelings regarding the founders of Vice are coloring your perspective on their earlier work which meets the textbook definition of journalism.
Spider, spider, spider, I sprayed you with bug spray...
“The house can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”
Check the prices. At the current prices, they won't pay for themselves. I did the math on a 100kWH and a 10kWh battery assuming 60 days of negative energy prices (5 hours per each such day) and even assuming you can charge them fully within that window, you won't recover their cost in the 10 years they are guaranteed to work. Not even 1/3rd of their price. With abundant energy during sunny and windy days in Northern Europe, investing in panels or batteries is questionable at this point. Chances are, your neighbours are already subsidizing your energy consumption.
Isn’t it your responsibility to weigh the pros and cons and risk for uprooting your family for more compensation?

It’s business. It’s purely transactional. Why would you expect a company to “have a heart”?
That's my dream, to take a normal job. I hope to one day be able to afford working on construction sites, laying railroad or something meaningful. Or even going back to washing dishes in a crazy Tokyo restaurant.

Status wise, I'm not sure there's much difference, being a software engineer is not something I'm proud of. When you talk to people, they can immediately tell if you're intellectual anyway.

If a highly educated person works with something manual, I think most people will assume that they do that because they like it, and not look down on them. But then I do live in Scandinavia where people are far less obsessed with financial status. I think most people here are more impressed if someone is a struggling actor or professional juggler, than if they're a management consultant making 10 times more.
It doesn't take me a year to walk a lap around my home.

Maybe you could say that the orbit is territory that a planet roams, like a nomadic person or migratory bird.
Ask HN: Good universities for remote European students?
I am a Spanish developer with almost 4 years of experience and would like to get an actual university degree.

I want to study Software Engineering, but I am open to listen to any other recommendation of degrees in the Software Development world.

I would do this degree remotely from Europe, as I do not plan to move into the U.S. at any point but could attend once or twice a year to do finals at the school.

Any recommendations about official schools/curriculums/courses would be awesome, thank you!
Your argument only makes sense if you consider GPT3 equivalent to the human brain - yep the brain has more neurons - but it's also doing a heck of a lot more.

Also each neuron can hold much more state than a transistor.

For example they can respond to the timing of incoming events without having to build that capability with recurrent connections etc.

In addition the neural connections themselves have properties.

> because nature didn't invent software.

Eh? How do you explain the fact that brains can learn and aren't a fixed input, output engine?

Neural nets are software - just ones programmed by trial and error. Similarly for the brain.
Four years I would have taken it. Four months? Not so sure.

My understanding is that a lot of people who were fired were only hired in 2021 and 2022, just to be let go in the tail end of 2022.
Yes, this shows it *can* work --- but only given enough power to transmit data back to the satellite. Your pocket cellphone can't/won't be able to do it on it's own.

And as the article points out, there will be some unavoidable lag time --- even at the speed of light it will take data almost 1/4 of a second to reach geostationary orbit and back again. In computer/communication terms that we are all accustomed to, this is really kinda slow.
Show HN: YAML to Django Using ChatGPT
Like most of us, I've been obsessively playing with various LLMs. This lead me to an idea, can we take a YAML file with loosely defined models, and turn this into a full-fledged Django application using LLMs? As it turns out we can!
I worked on a search engine for patents about 10 years ago that used a vector embedding based on bag-of-words and an autoencoder that was strong for "more like this" queries like "write a paragraph describing your invention and find relevant patents, applications and other literature".

Today I use the embeddings from

https://sbert.net/

to do search, clustering, and classification. The big advantage of sbert.net is that it is super easy to use, when I was getting started it took me 20 minutes to build a classifier based on it and it performed better than the classifier I was already using that took me a weekend to code up.

I developed another classifier using "fine tuning" of BERT models and after about two weeks of futzing around with it, sometimes running experiments overnight, I developed a fairly reliable procedure for creating models that perform about as well as my embedding-based model but this takes about 30 minutes to run while the embedding-based model takes more like 30 seconds. (My problem is pretty noisy and probably doesn't benefit from fine tuning as much as some tasks would)

Many people think sbert.net is getting long in the tooth and would benefit from a better model. You could certainly do something similar with a state-of-the-art model such as GPT-4 or T5, but those might not be tuned up for similarity search and similar applications. People are reporting results that they like but I haven't seen a real evaluation run on them.

The main complaint people have is that these models have a limited attention window, thus document size over which the system can fully take context into account. This is not just an issue of a "better model" but it is a whole-system problem ranging from how you tokenize the text to what you do with the vectors after you embed them, this talk is the best explanation of the landscape I've seen yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BczDZ59seII
If you actually mean manual labor then make sure to think through how you'll save and plan for retirement. My cousin did construction most of his adult life and realized in his 40s that there was no way he could keep it up into his 60s and beyond--the toll on your body is high and everyone else in the field is younger and more able-bodied. He realized plumbing (at least for residential homes) was something that didn't require as much hard labor and he saw older guys doing it all the time. So he started apprenticing and made the switch to plumbing late in his career.

Not sure what coffee engineer is exactly but the same basic idea applies. If you're doing manual labor make sure it's something you can do into your sixties. If not, look for some specialization or related field you can move into--be sure you see older people actually working those jobs to know it's realistic or even apprentice with them.
The software part already got reimplemented and Models are used as training data for new Models by others. You could argue if using images and other copyrighted training data is allowed you also can use Model to train your own Model.
The wikipedia article on Moses claims buses (and commercial vehicles, which were another alleged target of his architectural decisions) do pass through those bridges to this day.
4th-Amendment-Violations-as-a-Service doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. I guess the money is probably good though.
Really? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you. In unrelated news, Al Gore becomes world's first "Carbon Billionaire".
He is my favorite author, he writes very well, has a sense of humor, hates the suburbs, and can think outside of the very tightly defined box we are constrained to today.
My voicemail message is silence. I only get audible responses from live person spam. They seem to just go ahead after a few seconds regardless, probably because of a mandatory script. Then they just say "hello" a few times.
Bribe-accepting officials don't tell you that you must pay them cash in an envelope. That's carelessly brazen. Or, if they do, it's only after extra weeks of nudging. They might take pity on someone completely naive... there's no need to be cruel to those who don't know the rules of the game. So after a month or two of being shut down, and the dumbass not taking hints, maybe they whisper something when there are no witnesses. Maybe after poking around and making sure that they're not some undercover cop or fed.

But after years of this, systems develop organically to minimize the need. Others who aren't inspectors (a savvy real estate agent) but do know the rules step in. They let the rubes know what's up. And if someone accuses them, they've committed no bribes, they're just pointing out the existence of the bribery and providing free advice on how to navigate it (it's fair to assume some get kickbacks, but good luck figuring out those details).

They ran into one of those guys early. They didn't set out to hire anyone to do it. He offered for free.
Too bad there's no infrastructure in place for producing synthetic fuel with the surplus electricity. It might not be efficient, but if we're producing surplus electricity anyway, then even inefficient storage/usage won't be a waste.
Boleyn a "killer" seems a bit of a stretch. I counter-propose "HenryVIII" to take her place.
The positive is that we get more done faster with better quality. Hard to compare with on-site comms volume because the on-site stuff goes into a mental black hole and nobody thinks of it as a measurable event.

A 10min chat with a colleague remotely feels like a thing. A 20min chat in the office feels like “yeah of course I was coding this whole time”.

I think this effect is also why people like async meetings via documents. They don’t realize it’s still a meeting and is taking waaaay more of their time than just sitting down synchronously for 10min to hash things out. They’d rather do it in 10x 2min bursts between other things.
Hibernate isn't great if you have lots of RAM. Windows won't allow you put the hiberfil.sys anywhere other than C:\. I was confused as to why my C: SSD appeared full until I figured it was because of hibernation (I have 128GB RAM).
That’s my point. I think the same.

Yet, the main argument is: in the West you can protest. Everything else can be debated endlessly. This one not.
Marpyter – Marp for JupyterLab
marpyter is a JupyterLab extension allowing you to create interactive slide decks using Marp directly within JupyterLab. This extension provides a convenient way for previewing Markdown-based slides in real time.
S3 was mature so it had to be innovated away.
I 100% agree w/ this and have been making that argument in the anti return to work subreddits. People on the board may also be heavily invested in the auto or gas industry who also strongly wish to see a return to the office.
Why is it illegal for a the police to use dragnet surveillance but it's ok for a private company to provide dragnet surveillance and then for the police to just buy it? Isn't the just obscuring the origin of the data for the same effect?

If you obscure your finances through the same kind of redirection we often consider that fraud. Why is this not fraud?
Windows and the AI Platform Shift
I'm not a Marine, but if their saying "Improvise, Adapt and Overcome" works in war, it can work anywhere.
Letting everything get so terrible that customers are basically forced to preserve their own sanity by selling their data to the data-vacuum of all data-vacuums is hardly a solution.

At that point it's basically a protection racket.
Divide and conquer.

Break the problem up into pieces and solve the pieces.
Ha, guilty (https://safari-sketch.com)! Was also annoyed by an iPad game my son played that tried to extract money out of him every play session. It served as a nice excuse to learn some technologies I wouldn't otherwise play with.
I spent a decade or so in geospatial, moved country and struggled to find work (moved just as covid hit).

I picked up a job doing construction, specifically windows and doors. I've always been pretty handy and know my way around the tools, but had never worked this kind of job.

Its satisfying work no doubt. I lost a ton of weight and was in the best shape i had been in years with no effort outside of work. I learned a bunch of new skills and my confidence to complete most home repairs has increased exponentially.

Downsides are the wear and tear it puts on your body. After 12 months i had more small scars than i could count, i broke my foot on my last day there. You come home filthy everyday.

For the first few weeks i was wrecked after everyday, got home and basically passed out on the lounge.

My biggest pet peeve was probably a factor of the specific company i worked at, but i found the lack of basic organization and communication infuriating. Suggestions to implement simple procedures that would reduce the number of misquotes, scheduling and general chaos are ignored because it would require change.

I'd do it again, but for a more organized and professional company.
It's hard to decouple this phenomenon from the aftereffects of COVID restrictions. We'll be able to figure the isolation from WFH in the next few years.
I am in the middle of reading William Gibson’s Virtual Light and seriously considering a career change to bike messenger. Unfortunately it doesn’t pay much more than minimum wage.

More seriously, though, I have had similar feelings many times. However, I spent a decade from high school through post-college working manual and food service jobs, so I have no illusions that they provide some kind of fulfillment not found in computer jobs.

My solution was to spend as much non-work time as possible doing outdoors/manual things. And if there’s something related to your job which can be done while riding a bike, or walking, or repairing a motorcycle, or whatever your preferred physical activity, rather than sitting at a desk, then do it that way. Listen to an audio version of a report instead of reading it, do meetings while walking, etc.

Finally I’d also recommend a book related to this topic: Shop Class as Soulcraft, which is about a philosopher that became a motorcycle mechanic, and I believe later became a philosopher again.
Pump water to a higher location.
Just be careful not to dump the waste chemicals…
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> That would not compile

It does compile.

> because `x` does not have the type `fn (i32, i32) -> i32` (that's reserved for "normal" functions).

Closures can cast to function pointers just fine as long as they don't capture anything.
I would be willing to bet that the statistic is actually: In 70% of communities with flock installed, there has, at some point, been a lower crime rate than at the time of installation.

Either way, it's either BS, or pure non-causitive correlation. Their technology is something that can only help solve crimes, not prevent it.
I’m pretty sure the tallest mountain in the solar system is Olympus Mons. Unless you measure it from the Earth’s center, in which case I guess it would be something, anything, on Pluto.
Patterns: Exhaustiveness, Unconditionality, and Remainder
But what id the stance of UN members on it?
The center of the sun has the same property, with simpler 0 size orbit.
I don't remember who said it. But some C++ Guru on some online talk (Herb Sutter, Pikus, etc etc.) was saying that 'consume' was pushed by ARM and PowerPC chipmakers as sufficient for C++11. And these chipmakers were somewhat biased by how POWER7 and ARMv7 worked.

Alas, it seems like consume was too complicated for compiler writers to take full advantage of. So in practice, acquire is used instead. And then in ARMv8 and POWER9, acquire was added to those instruction sets. Acquire isn't the default, but we do have accelerated assembly language support for the acquire model.

So moving forward, acquire seems to be the sweetspot model. I guess consume exists for a hypothetical future C++ compiler that tries to optimize multithreaded ARMv7 or something, a relatively small niche in practice as current C++ compilers don't support consume and future processors have moved on to the acquire model.
Since they mention being on the road, I'm guessing repair/maintenance of coffee machines?
I know what you mean though - I remember a time when the coffee machine was broken with a sign on it saying "an engineer is on the way to fix it", which some of the chartered civil engineers in the office found mildly offensive!
Ithkuil?
This is what can be accomplished by the is-click-modified code I listed. If the click is modified, let the event go through and the browser do whatever with it, but if it’s not modified, call event.preventDefault() to block navigation, then do what you want with it.
Compared to any (currently practical) storage, just laying more wires to places that don't currently have too much wind/sun is much more efficient.

Turns out, cables are relatively cheap, compared to batteries.
They have definitely contributed a lot to advancing machine learning. I believe the above comment means we don't know whether advancing AI will have sour consequences for society down the line
So who suffered from getting a job at Google for three or four years or any other large tech company?
Going to the gym is pretty different from doing manual labour, it's not really a solution.
Why is it so easy to spoof caller id phone numbers for these scammers?

I use Verizon’s call filter app and it seems to help. I haven’t gotten robocall spam in a while.
People are outraged when I tell them I have no phone in my house that rings.

I'm outraged by the idea of people responding to phone rings like Pavlov's dogs.
PHP is a nature stable language and running a PHP program is very simple and cheap