skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent about a decade running purchasing teams for food companies and startups before changing careers. People with tech or academic business operations backgrounds tend to approach food businesses like this, whether well capitalized startups or less ambitious pet projects to start, say, a pie company or a coffee shop, and consequently go to zero very quickly. The people I've seen have the most lasting success in this space are, perhaps unsurprisingly, non-tech people who have simply worked in the business from the ground up, often without much formal training.

The short of it is that food business is different and extremely difficult in that, aside from the razor-thin margins, culture and relationships are absolutely critical, moreso than in any other industry. In other words, you won't get far treating your employees and vendors (and by extension, your customers) like fungible APIs, because word that you're kind of a jerk will spread quickly, and they'll all end up killing you.

Anyway, all that said, the parent has the right intuition about this. Work on the ground floor, because doing that will give you much better intuitions and insights about the economics and cadence of the business and you'll probably end up interacting with employees, vendors, and customers. Then learn the economics more formally. Ideally find a mentor in the industry, and remember to humanize everyone at every step, no matter who they are.
> In another analysis, prominent climatologist Katharine Hayhoe monitored responses to a tweet on climate change that she published twice, as an experiment, on separate dates before and after Musk’s takeover.

> She counted the hostile comments and examined them for signs they came from bots – automated accounts that researchers say are pushing mass misinformation.

> Inauthentic accounts can be identified by analysis tools such as Bot Sentinel.

> Replies from apparent trolls or bots increased 15 to 30 times over a two-month period compared with the previous two years, Hayhoe tweeted in January 2023.

> in the past few months, since the takeover and changes at Twitter, the amount, vituperativeness, and intensity of abuse has skyrocketed
As a kid growing up in Florida, I remember a scary moment when an old man walking towards his car brushed up against the web of a very large Joro spider, which stuck to his back, right before he opened up his car and drove away. The spider must have been at least 6 inches in diameter if not more. I was worried the man could have gotten into a car accident after being surprised by the giant creature. I should have tried to stop him, but I was really young, had no time to react, and he was between one and two hundred feet away (I have good long distance eyesight). That was at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, which had so many of these spiders.
Probably more likely than a launch from the surface of Jupiter.
Senna
I've also done this kind of thing in my spare time. It's definitely rewarding in many ways: you get to enjoy the fruit of your labour in your lived environment, you know you did a more detailed job than someone you paid would have done, you make all the decisions about the work where a contractor may have done it differently, you save some money on the labour costs of the work.

One thing I've learned through doing this though is that I would have a very hard time doing this to make a living. Unless you are somehow in a position to do custom bespoke works for high payers, where you keep a lot of control over the process and don't have to operate on tight margins, I just don't see how it could be any more rewarding than office work. On top of this it will take a physical toll on your body and pay less.

Despite that, I do hope to make this transition myself but it will be a long time till I will be in a position to make it work. I think it can make sense for someone if they are able to make niche items, like by becoming a luthier say, and can afford to do it for poverty wages because they are basically semi-retired. I wish more people had the freedom to do this kind of work, and that society placed more value on well-crafted things over mass-produced rubbish.
After 16 years implementing business applications I switched to managing family business, including a wedding dress shop. That gave me a steady level of income that allowed me to bootstrap a handful of SaaS products since 2018 (and still have time for the kids while they are young and see me as relevant to them).
> Serious question, in an interconnected online marketplace how are you supposed to comply with these granular state and sometimes municipal laws.

Identifying standards/laws and then combing through them for applicable requirements is just part of early product design.

When there are an overwhelming number of jurisdictions, start with the local ones in depth. Do a survey on the rest to get a flavor for what other areas are doing. Shape the product so that compliance is most likely already done or easily actionable when you get around to deep diving the other jurisdiction's rules.

I get that software-only products often don't have to do this, but it's not like it's a dark art. And while having a lawyer in the loop is important, you're rarely asking them to read the standard/regulation to you. They help you understand and digest when needed, and make sure you're doing it right.

Now, the topic at hand here is privacy which is a bit different. Finding a design that respects privacy and is probably fine nationwide is much less complex than morphing the product by jurisdiction to match the local minimum viable compliance.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
It was considered good practise to write meaningful commit comments from the very first version control systems, long before git was invented.

Source: I have had commits rejected on code review for insufficiently descriptive commit messages in RCS, SCCS, Visual SourceSafe and CVS and probably others before git was first invented.
Never received a call for delivery, other than take out food which I'm expecting a call from. That would be an edge case.
Yeah it's not easy. I'm going to look into using OffscreenCanvas to see if I can wring a bit more performance out of this
10" screen: https://www.pine64.org/pinetab.
I'm sorry, but how does me pointing out that a CEO's statement is a hollow meaningless platitude imply that I believed any corporate bullshit? Doesn't that suggest the opposite, that I don't believe it and I am pointing out that it's a frustrating meaningless gesture?

And because I don't believe it, and because I think it's an outright lie, it's more frustrating.

Are you suggesting that just because a lie is common, it's no ok to point out that it's a lie? I guess I respectfully disagree.

Also, it's not like I asked you to cry over the people fired from Google, I was just explaining that it's an annoying pain in the ass to be fired from a job, even if they do find something relatively quickly. A negative pay delta, from experience, objectively sucks, even if the pay you ended up with is livable.

I find this mentality of "I used to have it worse so therefore I lack all empathy and that makes me a badass" to be an extremely frustrating perspective that people on HN and Reddit have. I don't really see why you felt the need to personalize this.
iPhone was released in 2007
> this 5 minute video

TLDR?

EDIT: I posted this as a joke, but the video is very interesting. Chomsky says that a need for concision favors conventional thoughts, because needing concision means you can only say things that don't need elaboration (ie only things everyone already agrees with).
> Is the Sun not our neighbor? And it's closer than Mercury, isn't it?

It's not half the time and it is half the time. If you include the Sun as well as one of the possible answers (which I'd argue you shouldn't because neighbour implies same significance, not higher), the answer would've been an even split between Mercury and the Sun (on a large enough time scale).

If Mercury's year somehow lasted longer than a year on another planet, only then would Sun be the clear winner.
Taking the Hoverspeed is the only time I remember being sea-sick, and it wasn't even a particularly rough day.
That's great! I was hoping that something similar would happen where I live. I think it has decreased, but still too much.
> he was not able to look at screens (or artificial light in general) for extended periods of time.

That sounds scary! What exactly was the issue?
Microsoft tried very hard to make desktop chips behave like mobile phones. I can see why, especially with SSDs, there's absolutely no reason why we should shut down a computer but keep our phones on 24/7 with instant wake.

The problem is that a lot of laptop manufacturers, driver authors, UEFI firmware vendors, and you name it, don't exactly have power savings as a first priority. On some select devices, s2idle works great and it's just like sleep but faster. On many other devices, there are bugs and issues that just break shit.

At this point, I have more faith in a brand new Linux install going to sleep successfully than a Windows install staying the fuck off. It's quite annoying, especially since I know every modern CPU has full support for this and the issues just lie in software elsewhere on the board.

If you've got an SSD, the easiest fix is to switch to S4/hibernation/suspend to disk. You can remap the power button/laptop close handler. You may need to enter your drive encryption key again when you resume (which is probably more secure anyway) but your sleep will work reliably and it'll consume no power at all, unlike S3 sleep.
Change the way you perceive the problem, see the solution as the opposite of the problem.
I knew a guy from rural Canada who’d stop software engineering work for the winter and would do snow plowing (contracts, for money). Then back to software when the winter was over.
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Hey HN,

I'm wondering what CS papers people in here read recently? What are your usual sources?
Should I abandon all my worldly possessions and go full dumbphone?
I'll switch when it runs on my Tamagochi.
Good to see a pilot here! I personally never see this aircraft ever getting certified. The SR22 was over $100 million total when getting their type certificate, and nothing was "ground breaking." It has a continental motor, Garmin avionics, NACA defined wing, etc. Sure, it's a composite and has a parachute, but I wouldn't call the design anything "revolutionary."

It's going to take hundreds of millions and an act of god to get this through the FAA. I don't see it taking the twin otter's place anytime soon.

edit: WIG out of FAA jurisdiction. Hope the Coast Guard is better to deal with!
Man the shillbots are out hard in this.

Let me offer a counterpoint: I got one as a gift, used it a few times, realized I like biking outside way more, and it was an easy way to get out of the house, and found that paying a subscription for something I can do, for free, is absolutely silly.

It only makes sense if you're a FinanceBro trapped in your mid-town NYC appt and can't get out, etc. There are bike clubs near me for big group rides -- that cost me $0 -- and my local gym offers spin classes when it rains.
> Once my kids are older, I hope to get them involved somewhat just to teach them some skills. I cherish the memory of my grandfather teaching me some of this stuff and hold on to some things he made for me.

They may or they may not. I do all the sorts of things you do and have tried to get any of my kids interested and none of them really are. So don't be too disappointed if that happens. Kids are not clones of yourself in every detail.
Referenced: cost of firing a laser is $1 of gasoline run through a generator. That's roughly a liter.

Let's say raw energy content is 32MJ/L, and we have gasoline=>electricity losses of 50% and laser efficiency of 30%, so we expect a little more than 5MJ per shot.

If you can hit a 2m target moving at 5Km/s through 1000Km of space and atmosphere with 5MJ, how much energy can you put on a 1m target moving at 7m/s at a range of 500Km?

The difficulty in killing people from space will be targeting, and the limited availability of fuel and oxidator in space.
The firm I work at developed an internal library (open source soon hopefully!) that does all our templating in Python, example:

import os

"""
Imports redacted, but this imports our library
"""

NAME = "my_app"
PORT = 5000
DEPLOY_ENV = os.environ["DEPLOY_ENV"]

deploy_all(
create_stateful_service(
NAME, http_port=PORT, cpu=2000, memory=500
),
create_ingress(
NAME,
service_name=NAME,
service_port=PORT,
hostnames=["myapp.internal.com"],
),
)

In the background, this converts a bunch of objects to YAML, leveraging the fact that objects in Python are just dictionaries. It then takes these objects and sends them to the K8S API. Really improved our DevEx since you can do complex tasks like "define a deployment, deploy it, and then check server status" because it is all just Python at the end of the day.

Edit: formatting
I wish you had a link to your blog or twitter in your bio, you have the kind of nuanced tone I’d like to hear more from
Reminder of a doctor who had a patient denied for recommended treatment at the insurance getting a second opinion from... a doctor who installed a hip fucking backwards, a fuckup so bad he was banned from performing surgery for the rest of his life. Yep, banned-from-surgery-forever doctor is still working and is working in denying recommended treatments from other doctors for insurance pockets!

Scum.

https://twitter.com/generalorthomd/status/163207481637850726...
A fun fact! Jorō (女郎) is Japanese and means a prostitute. Indeed, in Japanese folklore it is said that a Joro spider is a seductress that can change its appearance into a beautiful women to lure in men to devour.
The loss of Gaddafi basically put the slave markets into overdrive, destroyed the power grids and water infrastructure, and generally did far more harm than good. Compared to other dictators that the US put in place, Gaddafi was far from the worst.
Well, I'm not actually angry at all. Just mildly irritated. I wrote far more words here on this topic than it really deserved.
The Patriot had minor damage. Regardless, all SAM systems, regardless of how good they are, have vulnerabilities to massed attacks. My understanding in this case is that the Patriot performed very well.
It’s where most things of value are. Few current things survive long and of those that do, you’ll find them in the past.
The lack of efficiency in the brain is a trade off for adaptability. There's no doubt that we can transmit signals faster than neurons can fire but the cost is drastically reduced adaptation. There are micro, meso, and macroscopic networks in the brain that have different degrees of "adaptability". This isn't even considering the variety in neurons or the additional signalling cascades by non neuronal tissue. How does all of this contribute to intelligence? We don't know exactly but much of this has survived millions of years of evolution in many animals so it probably has some role.

That's not to say we can't do this with computers and less computational power. However, it's really improbable that a couple layers of adaptability on an artificial neuron network will be anywhere near sufficient to simulate intelligence in even a rodent.
The Ukrainian claim is in that engagement they downed 6 Kinzhals, 9 Kalibrs and 3 Iskanders.

We don’t need to take the Ukrainian claims as totally accurate, but it’s worth at least including that the battery of patriots were fired at more than just the 2-6 Kinzhal missiles that you tallied (at least when we want to look at annual production rates).

The Russian’s haven’t been able to sustain a launch rate of once a month with smaller attacks. This attack was an unusually high density. Expending three weeks production capacity to fend off an attack that can be launched at most every 2-3 months seems… manageable.

In terms of this conflict, also worth considering that Patriot isn’t the only system in Ukraine, so if production of Patriot missiles becomes a constraint, they can shift more AD burden to IRIS-T and other European systems.

When considering the broader implications to the US, I think it’s not exactly right to describe Patriot as our “existing missile defense”. We have a number of other missile defense systems such as NASAMs and THAAD that occupy complimentary roles to the Patriot systems. If anything based on the performance of Patriot in Ukraine I have more confidence than I previously did in our missile defense systems. Performance in real world conditions has seemed pretty good to me.
Should be "docker run -p 8080:80 kanboard/kanboard"
But then not sure what username / password to use. The docs definitely could be structured better.
Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)
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In your solo projects (which is the context for this discussion), who is doing these code reviews?

What is a sane practice varies immensely with the scale and scope of the project. Many things that are nearly mandatory for large scale development are pointless obstacles in small scale development.
Oops looking into it. Do you remember which bot you used and what question you asked?
The positive tradeoff to the system is that the employee who prefers to WFH is happier and less stressed, which leads to increased productivity and retention. Now whether this offsets the decreased productivity from not being there in person, that's what's being argued over.
Raises hand (...halfway...)

I'd been solidly in tech for the past ~9 years - DevOps software, eCommerce company, sales enablement software, etc.

I also re-picked up my hobby/passion of coin & currency collecting a few years ago and started buying and selling for fun.

The stars aligned in such a way that fairly recently I've been able to focus purely on the numismatic world, and I'm now doing that full time (and then some).

My life now consists of about 50% time on the road at physical, in-person coin & currency shows all over the country. I stand at my booth and buy & sell, run around the floor making deals, hunt other dealers cases for treasure in plain sight, and all that fun. So I wouldn't exactly call this "manual", but show days are very much in-person and 12+ hours of being on your feet brain fully-engaged.

(I spend the other 50% of my time at home working on the software that powers my operation, buying & selling on eBay, going to and from the post office, etc.)

But man, this is SO MUCH FUN. I describe my former life as "arguing with people on Zoom all day" and my current life as absolute heaven indulging in a super fun hobby that actually makes money. There's also an incredibly cool social aspect to it wherein you kind of see the same dealers at all the big shows, so it's a bit of a traveling circus ("see you next week in Phoenix?")
I'm dumb. I misread that as a 15 cent tax. Not sub cent.
I had to read their sentence like 5 times to get it as well.

.42AU is a larger distance than the closest that Earth and Venus ever get to each other (i.e. closest than as close as it is possible for Venus to be, with the word "can" being used in this meaning)
Chronic pain can be objectively measured using brain signals
Pretty sure you mean this one:
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
So I said it's like 50 percent of the way there implying that it gets things right at a rate of 50 percent. That's a fuzzy estimation as well, obviously so don't get pedantic on me with that number.

When you ask for large output or give it large input you are increasing the sample size. Which means more likely that part of the answer are wrong. That's it. Simple statistic that are inline with my initial point. With AI we are roughly half way there at producing answers.

If you keep the answers and questions short you will have a much higher probability of being correct.

So that 50k line program? My claim is roughly 25k of those lines are usable. But that's a fuzzy claim because I LLMs can do much better than 25k. Maybe 75% is more realistic but I'll leave it at 50% so there's a lower bar for the nay sayers to attack.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> part of the reason for no trash cans is that eating in public is sort of taboo

Not really. The main reason there are no trash cans in public is the 1995 sarin gas attack.

"A Terrorist Attack Led Japan to Remove All Its Trash Cans. Now They're Making a Comeback."

https://psmag.com/environment/trash-cans-are-coming-back-to-...
Not really an issue, just focusing on building out some features first before adding extra platforms.
As mentioned elsewhere, this was basically what I ran into. Total cost of ownership for the bike was on par with a nice gym, and the gym offers spin classes... on top of weights, rowing machines, steam rooms, etc.
Did Apple adopt an approach like this more successfully?
They've found gears in insects too

https://www.livescience.com/39577-insects-with-leg-gears-dis...
I would be curious how willing juries would be to second guess doctors when it comes to medical care. Would a jury really be willing to convict on one doctor's opinion vs another?

The largest letter writing campaign in history to the US federal government was to prevent the FDA from regulating supplements.
At the end he says directed energy lasers in space are the answer. But considering the ceramic thermal shielding these hypersonic maneuverable vehicles need and have, it would seem the reentry plasma is far hotter than anything a laser can add from thousands of km away. I also chuckled seeing his picture doing the interception over the water, because yes lasers keep going and you're going to be frying things on the ground too.

The author is with ULA, and is competing with Elon Musk's Starshield-- which if you read the various leaks (see Michael D. Griffin) it's pretty clear will be some sort of Brilliant Pebbles system. Biden has been snubbing Elon on this. I suspect it's one reason he has turned starkly political and we are now seeing Reagan Republicans announce there candidacy on Twitter.
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The Atlantic is trying too hard. Yes, the CEO is leaning hard right and has a bunch of weird opinions. But Twitter remains its users as of yet, and there aren't 450 million "hard right" users on Twitter for sure. If you compare it, say, with TruthSocial...

Twitter is however dying, and that's... another debate I guess.