skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would mention the I-87 etc. bridge over the Tappan Zee stretch of the Hudson, built 2013-2017 to replace an older bridge, also the Nice bridge on US-301 over the Potomac, rebuilt 2020-2022. No, these weren't local government jobs.
I'm struggling to land any software engineering job for the last 6 months, even though I'm a permanent U.S resident and have 10 YOF and actively applying for jobs every day. I can only imagine how hard it must be now for H1B holders...
I can recommend https://vangoghexpo.com/ for those who love van gogh.
The correct answer, indeed. Healthcare, education, trains, etc. don’t need to make a profit. Central planning can choose to produce for need, instead.
edit: You can sign up now. :-)
Yea, tbh i've not looked closely at fly before (but am now), but i have seen exactly what you've said from other companies.

The responses here do feel swarmed, but also informative, "honest"[1], and often interesting about tech/mindset/etc.

This post swayed my upcoming DO purchase, so.. it works a bit at least, hah.

[1]: As much as we can assume, of course.
When I see a desktop with the clunky UI idioms and design ideas of the 2000s that also transports me back to my stuffy student dorm room, "refreshing" isn't the word that comes to my mind.
> If you use both, now you have to deal with integrating them both into your code in some semi-consistent way

I have no idea what you mean by this. What does it matter to my business logic whether a repository function got data from an ORM or from Raw SQL? In either case, I would return the same kind of data.

The edge of your application, where side-effectful stuff like DB queries sits, is exactly where you don't need to do anything consistently. You're always fetching random stuff. At some point, you need to turn that into a format that your code understands. That doesn't change if you decide to only use raw SQL.
Many tools that predate Notion open pages in "edit" mode: Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Google Docs, Etherpad, Dropbox Paper, TextEdit, Nodepad.exe...

We want to serve people who've used apps like those with their preferred writing experience.
From the paper:

The premise of informed consent is that people
will grant permission to organizations to use their
data after information about data uses has been
provided to them.

No! The idea of informed consent is that real consent should not be optional, and you can't have real consent if the person being asked for consent is not aware of all of the relevant information.

The premise should not be "if we just tell people what we're doing, they'll let us do it". That's looking at it from a "how do we manipulate people into doing what we want" point of view, not a "we should do what's right" point of view.

The entire paper comes off to me as having this sort of stance to it, and so I think it's also one of the things that reduces trust.
>they made their own CVS.

It is a fork of Mercurial and there wasn't a community dedicated to making it scale to the scale Meta was reaching hence why they invented resources in making Mercurial scale.
> the entire carbon section of the hull could be considered a weak point

It is possible that the carbon fibre delaminated catastrophically, possibly as a result of stresses accumulated over multiple descents.
Nobody hates american democrats more than actual leftists.
Interesting, but I wonder if you’d get all the same benefits by just measuring angles in units of turns instead of radians. That seems cleaner than the weird dbar differential stuff.
Linux from Scratch is educational but fundamentally impractical to use.

I recommend using embedded Linux instead, e.g. with Buildroot. You get an understanding of the fundamentals of the hardware, kernel, and build toolchain. And you can create small hardware systems that do fun things.

I ran Gentoo for a few years, and enjoyed it. Doing the install from stage1 gives you a similar understanding of how the pieces fit together and enables you to fix low level system problems, e.g. with disk failures. The community is also smart, as it self-selects for people who have skills and good attitude. Unfortunately Gentoo is too slow to install and quirky to deploy on servers.
It's likely that numbeo gets their data from the official inflation basket sources, and those baskets sample transactions to get the prices that people actually pay, rather than sticker prices.
I don't disagree with that, I was disagreeing with OP whose claim implies that out of every 1000 bugs, 800 of them are due to memory issues.

OP was wildly off the mark.
I'd love to glimpse into the minds of the corporate exec class and understand why they are so uniformly aligned on RTO and against WFH. Is it really as simple and primal as wanting to watch the cattle or "behold my empire" or do they really believe it's better for business?

I guess I'll never know since, 1. corporate execs don't post to HN comments section and 2. even if they did they would probably not admit to a narcissistic need to bask in the buzz of an office full of their minions.
They aren't wrong that there are some companies that feel more comfortable if you have more money in the bank BUT most companies wildly overestimate how much prospects care. Case studies in their industry & Gartner quadrant > $100MM in the bank.

TL;DR: It's an appendix slide in your first meeting deck, don't put it up front :)
I have somewhere between 2200 - 2400 books.

A lot of my books do not have any ISBN.
At least half.
I think more.

I wanted to take my photos of my shelf and have GPT or something
accept my photos as input, and output a list of duplicate a
list of duplicates, guessed of editions and highlight in the photo
the location.

I agree that I can do it manually.
In the manual version I would have to pull out each book, note the
title, step on chair or step ladder etc.
It takes a long time.

I dont want to put in all the work if an AI can do it all fast.
I would love to see some analysis about this. Especially the easily part.
Dragon has been certified by NASA, which is exactly how new innovations should happen. Try a new technology and certify it with an independent authority that uses well established certification standards
I'm using and enjoying Logseq but I don't think I am getting as much out of backreferences as other people. I try to keep projects under a single page and make additions to that page. I'm curious how you are using it, if you have time to share? I am always hoping to steal some ideas that improve my usage for note tools.
Mini book: 60 terrible tips for a C++ developer
>Do you refer to the human using your software as a "user" or "player?"

But "multiuser" already has an existing connotation that is different that "multiplayer". Multiplayer indicates a stronger "real-time, everyone sees the exact same thing", while "multiuser" is a weaker term. "Multiplayer" is used specifically _because_ the experience is supposed to be a parallel to the place where the term originated: video games.

The idea of a "multiplayer" document editing experience is all users are _occupying_ the same space (and often can even see each other).

> I recommend using this as an opportunity to highlight the unprofessionalism of your competitors.

I'm not in the space. I'm just aware of the space. I don't find the behavior of people in the space to be unprofessional.

Thank you for attempting to "correct" my behavior.
I believe in UFOs, because a UFO is believing in me somewhere out there
How does one tell that "millions of users uninstall"? Also "turns gay"...?
MIDI is one of those things that work great in 80-90% of scenarios, and very poorly on the rest. It's actually a lot like other "good enough" technologies with enormous staying power. I don't love MIDI, but I understand it and it "just works" for me, so there is zero incentive to switch.
I'm sure there were anti-natalist groups in the thousands of years of human history but well they weren't so numerous a 100 years ago, and they probably won't be so numerous a couple of hundred years from now either.
I don't think it's about that. Technically, everything is finite. But placing limits on the loops and restricting memory allocation bounds the complexity. It probably limits everything to P-time.
I think you read my comment backwards. You are making my point. Industrialization should have made all those things both better and cheaper.
A Musk vibe on a personal level, but whereas OceanGate was a small business seemingly quite directly run by Rush, SpaceX is a large business with plenty of people who know better.

However SpaceX have had certification for human spaceflight from the necessary agencies, have a strong safety record – comparable to competitors – and seemingly have a development process that is producing better hardware than Boeing at this point (as seen in the Dragon vs Starliner debacle). That's all radically different in approach to OceanGate.

While Musk and SpaceX in general sound like they're pushing the "move fast and break things" mantra I think they're more nuanced than that. It's more: move fast while things don't matter, so we can gather data and experience for when things do matter. This isn't much of a defence of Musk mind you, more of the team at SpaceX and the wider aerospace community.
Seems to be on par with the other best background remover I've tried.[0] The first one I've come across that's open source and this good. And it works in the browser! This is great, thanks

[0] https://www.remove.bg/
We are actually considering to pay them but we still need to justify the expense and ask for approval to our finance team.
It might take a while (both our side and probably theirs too).

Setting up a mirror would be trivial instead.
I'm not asking by any means any support or time from him, even a ZIP file hosted on GitHub Releases (where bandwidth is "free") would've worked.
From what I've been able to find, there were never any actual pictures/sonar scans of the debris field released. Does anyone know any particular reason to not be releasing that to the public?
But of course an institute called the "American Institute for Economic Research" is going to say that; from the about page, they believe in "the value of personal freedom, free enterprise, property rights, limited government, and sound money."
Also https://www.lemsshoes.com/
It'd be a pretty big task, but it would be very cool to see a comparison of where the both computers are spending their time.

Clearly the modern machine is slower while still being significantly more powerful so it's doing a lot more stuff, but how valuable is that stuff?
FWIW - I use this:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Fastmail had great developer tooling. Give yourself about two minutes from a issued command via slack or CLI and you'd have a brand new tagged developer box the live system that was a self contained infrastructure in a box of everything from the imap server to the user interface. Another command you could get as many copies for whatever development branch, etc.

The entire system replicated the real system (not user data but the software) and you could spin up test addresses and accounts and all sorts trivially. Beautiful!
The short answer is that none of our regions are so big that we have to own our own top-of-rack switching yet (though some are getting close), so we can take a random spot in (say) an Equinix rack, rather than having to engineer a network (we run our own BGP for Anycast, but our uplinks are just DAC connections to our upstream providers switches.

For what it's worth: we've been on our own hardware ever since we launched, long before the 14MM Intel/Dell round. It's really the only way we can see to make the margins make sense. A big part of the premise of AWS and GCP is that they're allocating hyperscaler-grade resources to the task of making sure they claim most of the margins in hosting things on their own platform, not middlemen --- though that may be more true for some services (like EC2) than others (like S3).
At some point in the 2000s Pixar shifted from making movies for everyone to making movies for certain demographics, or people with certain issues in their life. Moving, strained relationship with parent, a purpose in life etc. Not every movie resonates with everyone, but almost every movie has its defenders. Maybe Brave doesn’t work for you if you and your mom don’t have trouble. Maybe Soul doesn’t work for you if aren’t a bit down.

They are also perfectly ok making simpler movies like Luca, that aren’t trying to be some sort of epic treaties.

What Freddie is getting wrong here is projecting his ranking onto everyone else, even when he is calling out the critics as being the wrong audience for the movies. A lot of the movies aren’t made for critics, but because the director or storyteller has something really personal to say to a subset of society.

Cars 2 and The Good Dinosaur (which I’m not sure I’ve even ever finished) are their only real true misfires. A lot of their whelming movies (Onward, Lightyear) feel that way because they feel like a waste of premise and opportunity more than actually bringing bad.
I hope they go all in on privacy as a brand "distinguisher". I know corporations only exist to make a profit but stuff like this can make your brand stand out.
They sound like a monstrous bunch of people. /s
For me as a customer/user, Facebook seems to be the same since 5 or more years. So that velocity doesn’t translate to user experience unfortunately.
I guess this is the main reason. I am not used to use a lot of fat while preparing food.

Again this might be a balancing act of the negative effects of teflon consumption and consuming too much fat via oil.
getting fresh perspective, or repeating the same mistake.

Many logic error were discovered in real life use cases over many years
> I don't know anything about Spotify or why they spend over a billion dollars in R&D each year

Standups, one-on-ones, team fika, NIH, retros, agile retros, incident post mortems, cross-team fika, town halls, pool/billiards, table-tennis, and testing-in-prod.
Dual PhDs from Tom7 and James Mickens.
And this is a mistake, IMHO. I mean, it sort of works with ChatGPT - now, and only somewhat reliably since past 3 months. It didn't work and doesn't work with voice assistants.

There is fun in exploration, in discovering new and useful or interesting functionality on your own. At least, when you're young and have ample free time for it. For adults... well, between blog posts and in-app examples, they gave us scattered map of the language anyway. Might have just compiled it into a reference guide from the start.

After all, those voice assistants still have a command grammar, similar to that of my system. Users end up having to learn that grammar anyway. Hiding the grammar, adding some fuzziness in command matching, and then putting an unconstrained voice-to-text engine in front... didn't really improve anything, and only made the problem much, much harder. A self-goal. And the only way it "feels like magic" is that it feels like your phone's being haunted by an angry poltergeist.
In our case those are indeed separate in the database, so that we can type the value as a numeric, which is very necessary for many operations. Those fields only get combined in the serialization.
I'll speculate that because they are pulling pieces of the Ti domes without signs of carbon attached to it that the joint there wasn't stiff enough, and that carbon separated during failure without plastically deforming the Ti at the joint.

But, that's speculation and I'd need to see more pics with more details.
Responding to this part in the article:

> I’m not entirely sure about the intuitive meaning of “taking the derivative and dividing by 2π”. Is there some sort of fundamental connection to periodic functions?

If you have a function f(x) where x is measured in radians, and there are 2pi radians per turn, then you can change variables.

Let t represent turns. One turn is 2*pi rad, and you want t = 1 when you've gone all the way around in x, so t = x/2pi.

By the chain rule,

df(x)/dx = df(t)/dt dt/dx = 1/2pi * df(t)/dt

So I think this might be the meaning you're looking for when you do the rescaling of the derivative.

You're using turns as units instead of radians. cos(x=2pi)=cos(t=1)=1, and so on.
I think it's a good question, but the linked article says unambiguously near the bottom that they run their own hardware:

> Why We Raised A Bunch Of Money

> Here's what we think it takes to build this kind of platform:

> A hardware fleet. Fly.io has always run on its own hardware. There are fun, technical, “control your own destiny” reasons to rack hardware instead of layering on top of commodity clouds. But it's really just economics. If you want to get people to build apps on your platform, you need a shot at being around 10 years from now. Hardware is what makes the margins work.
While unsophisticated users wont see a difference, and may benefit from having documents and photos in a well managed cloud, nothing lasts forever. I like my personal computer data staying at home. The companies do not respect privacy as a value.
Back to timeshared per-minute computing for beancouter reasons I guess.
Our small business clients are having to face buying a new server again on a 5 year cycle or moving their business to the cloud out of their direct control but opex is appealing over capex. Microsoft has been a stable cloud partner for office365, and the various software vendors are seeing dollar signs. Intuit has stopped selling a desktop quickbooks. The only disaster is if something happens to this cloud data. We can only hope they don't continue to cut costs on maintenance, but have no way to verify this.
I'll keep my PC running on linux I guess. Microsoft doesn't intend to sell a desktop operating system. Will it be the year of the linux desktop by default, in the end?
There is some overlap, since you can't do a CSAM scan on properly encrypted data. It is not completely separate in a modern context of what is going on with IT.
Sure. And in 15 years you'll have something that might have been relevant 15 years ago.
Gathering the Streams
Certainly true. So lets expand the hazard triangle to Fat VS Teflon VS Acrylamide.
other things being equal, organic growth via paying customers is the time-honored way of avoiding the pathologies you mention.

in this model speculative capital is only required in the very early stages. a company either reaches a symbiotic relation with its clients or not. the burden is primarily on intrinsic aspects of what the startup venture delivers and how much this resonates in its sector.

the VC model is basically turbo-charging this process. though it is risk capital and not lending, it creates an implicit, arbitrarily sized liability that need not have much to do with the underlying value proposition. it removes the organic cashlow constraint via a faustian bargain.

the "beauty" of it is that you can't have both models in the same economy. the set of ideas that are ripe for exploration at an given era are what they are. if some people pursue them while being on steroids this means there is no room for people to explore them in a less toxic way
Any charges for sexual assault against children?
Quirky $300k flying car receives approval to fly from U.S. government
> You’re missing the key point that there isn’t much surface for misuse under Apples scheme.

No, I didn't miss that point at all. It's just orthogonal to my objection to the scheme. I object to the idea of formally making highly personal devices like your phone into ones that are spying on you. We have more than enough of that sort of thing informally. To make it official could only make things worse for everybody, Apple users and otherwise.

Since the whole thing was about photos being stored in the cloud, it would have been much less objectionable to put the scanning on the cloud side of things. At least that's actually someone else's computer and not someone using your own hardware against you.
How the placebo effect went mainstream
You should be safe for now.

https://archive.ph/TmbOs

What exactly are Netflix’s password sharing rules?

While Netflix has been talking about its password plans since last year, the notifications rolling out this week in the United States were effective immediately and caught some people off guard. Many were confused about how the company was going to enforce the plan and surprised to find that it applied to them. Here is what we know so far:

* Netflix says an account can only be used by members of one physical household, sharing one internet connection. Additional members logging from elsewhere can be added for $7.99 a month.

* The restrictions appear to only apply to televisions and not mobile devices for now. Once you are successfully logged in on a smartphone or tablet, you should be able stream on it from anywhere.

* You can still travel without issues for up to a month. People will need connect at the primary location once every 31 days to avoid being logged out of the account.

* If you are moving or plan on being away for more than 31 days, you can change your household location.

* It doesn’t matter what tier you pay for or your reasons for being away from the primary address. The company does not have any exceptions for more unusual cases like deployed members of the military.

* Netflix is mostly using IP addresses to determine where people are logging in from, but it also uses device IDs and account activity.

* It infers which location is your home base, but you can manually set your household location from Netflix on a TV by going to Get Help → Manage Netflix Household.

* You can only add extra members to the more expensive standard and premium plans and the number of additional members is limited. (One extra on standard, two members on premium.)

There are no penalties for sharing, no Netflix police going door to door. People streaming from secondary locations will just be logged out.
Because it would be morbid and inappropriate for tourists to gawk at a shipwreck.
This is a growing sentiment in certain "left" spaces. While I think there is something to be said for silly woke stuff, I strongly dislike this crowd. They're the type throw out slurs for no other reason than to be provocative and subversive. Reminds me a lot of alt right people.
Am 38, feel up to date enough on tech /shrug
I think this speaks well of Tesla's plan to be more than a car company, but an energy company. Once you have the technology around batteries and the mass production to back it up, it flows easily into motor vehicles and general energy storage. At that point, getting into solar becomes the next logical move. The only piece that becomes difficult is the Tesla Supercharger network which seems to add more complexity and upfront cost then most companies are willing to pay for.
The Feynman Technique: Master the Art of Learning
Buck2 is IMO much better than even Bazel is from a design POV, because it actually cleanly separates all user rules from the build engine, and has a coherent modern design around a sound theoretical basis. Neil, one of the leads and author of this post, has written many build systems, so it's not like he's unaware of Bazel; his taxonomy of build systems and ones like Bazel in "Build Systems a la Carte" is worth reading even for Bazel users. It also has a snappy UX and is fast on the command line, which Bazel still lags at a bit. Bazel has all the mindshare, though, and a lot of good features and libraries. But Buck2 is in a different league from Buck1 completely, and in many ways even from Bazel, IMO.

Even then, it's not like rewriting a billion lines of BUCK files to use Bazel was even practical. Realistically any solution had to have a direct migration path from Buck1 without rewriting everything. I don't even work there, this is just pretty obvious from the design constraints and talking with the dev team, though. Frankly, I'm pretty impressed they were both able to meet the goals they had (migration from Buck1, better performance, more extensible), while still jam-packing the thing full of good design decisions and features like they have. It's good work.

(I am a pretty happy, non-Facebook user of Buck2 already, FWIW.)
Tried one and failed miserably.