skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yep - but even if they did have the intestinal fortitude, it still wouldn't be enough... so there's no need to get judgy when we can come together on this one, accept human nature and start looking for real solutions instead of "delay and pray" nonsense.
Trac’s wiki format has tables that work like that, and I don’t think it’s the first time I’ve seen colspan in wiki markup.
Location: Austin, TX
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: economist, predictive mathematics, Python, C/C++/Java, distributed systems
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-nahas-1012232/
Email: hackernews@mike.nahasmail.com

Designer of Par2 (and Par3) file format.

I got a Masters in CS.
I designed and coded low-latency distributed trading systems for hedge funds. Was employee #7 for a successful startup.
I predicted stocks for a hedge fund and made more money.
I retired for a few years.
I got a Masters in Economics.
I've been analyzing housing prices for a non-profit in Austin, TX, trying to lower rents.
Now looking for work again.

My "secret sauce" is being able to understand a problem, find the realm of mathematics that applies to it, and then use that math in code to solve it.

My ideal job would use my knowledge of econ and require me to deliver code.
Jack Mallers Started a Podcast: Money Matters. Episode 1: Jack Dorsey
I was one. I was curious, clicked 'sign up' which actually just linked my Insta account rather than making a new one, had a look for like 10 seconds, thought this is kinda rubbish and closed the app. It superficially looks much like Instagram - similar people making similar posts.
While I do agree it would be good for those who haven't experienced poverty to get a taste of it, it's not realistic to expect people to feel satisfied simply because they are more fortunate than some other group. Success is always perceived relative to your surroundings and the possibilities available.
The argument against is that we might fuck it up. It's a good argument.
You also don't need to worry about running it on Windows or Android!

But yes, if you are already locked in to the Apple ecosystem, free and pre-installed can be hard to compete with for a large set of users.
We're working on a modeling and simulation tool for engineers who design and test embedded systems and next-gen hardware. We help companies shorten their development cycle, reduce costs, and launch faster using model-based design.

It is kind of unfortunate but hardware design tools haven't seen the same level of cambrian explosion that cloud and AI tools have over the past several years. We hope to change that so engineers can design embedded software, simulate algorithms, simplify verification and validation, and use models as digital twins seamlessly.

If you would like to see what we do, check us out at: https://www.collimator.ai/
I call the parts of my documents that address limitations and unmet use cases the "Not Gonna Do It" sections. In my case, it's especially important to document functionality that was considered and rejected, and why.

Where performance, security, and similar qualities were recommended by programmers but rejected by management, I especially want to record those for later reference in case of problems. Maybe what I write doesn't make it into end-user facing product documentation, but it's on the record. To give an example, at one project I consulted on, all of the user interface text was written in english, with US measurements with no i18n or l10n system. The company I was working with has customers from, if not worldwide, at least all of the western hemisphere. About six months later project management finally came to the realization that they were going to need at the very least multiple languages, and a lot of work was ahead to retrofit.
I'm sure there was a brick scanning app that appeared a while ago, or try and find a number and enter it on Lego site [1], otherwise post a picture on BrickLink and I'm sure someone will know what it is! Then you can look on BrickLink or Rebrickable to find sets that it came from

[1] https://www.lego.com/en-gb/service/help/building_instruction...
Show HN: Semiform.ai – Replace your forms with AI agents
Hi HN, sharing a project I'm working on to replace forms with an 'AI agent' which can parse structured data from responses.

The advantage I see is making it easier to respond to forms - either by lowering the barrier to submitting a response, or by enabling new ways to 'fill out forms' (e.g. via email, text, Slack, etc).

You can try some examples here: https://www.semiform.ai/examples

I'm using OpenAI's new function calling API to get structured data and using htmx for the front-end. Happy to answer any questions!
When you put a lot of effort into your own creation and then it is rejected because it is flagged as AI, then yes it will matter significantly. 50% of my own art I created is flagged as AI.

There may be an appeal process, but the point is AI will make verification of authenticity painful.
As a developer who built my own note app (like an anemic Notion), using pell.js as a backbone, I tend to disagree that it does nothing to help. I'll grant you that it is so lightweight as to not provide much luxury, but I find that far more useful than the 'kitchen sink' approach most libraries take. I don't need anyone to coddle me, I need someone to expose functionality to me in a way that works best for my intentions and architecture. pell.js wraps up inputs and delivers me formatted content. That's all I need it to do in order to take input from multiple users and provide that formatted content to the data store and other users. I was able to customize all the layouts I needed with the actions extensions that the library provides for. The lightweight, event-based functionality made my render stack the only slowdown for nesting new pell.js instances inside layout blocks so that I could use the top level instance to insert an inline image and a new pell.js span, and then that span's instance to format whatever blocks of content I wanted beside the image. I was honestly pretty surprised by how easily the utility just worked.

Not sure what all you are trying to do that template literals and a simple input formatter can't do, but if you elaborate on an example or something maybe I can see where the library's failures are?
Laravel wasn't created until 2010/11~
>extreme readings have been widespread in remote Siberia, with hundreds of daily heat records, including readings higher than 95 degrees Celsius close to the Arctic Circle.

Siberia is boiling?
Yet they still had the outage. I take exception to being called an 'armchair QB' when most of my career has been spent being called in to repair failures like this, providing postmortem advice to weather future ones and fix technical and cultural issues that give rise to just this type of thinking: oh, it won't happen to us because it has never happened to us.
Pretty sure most of Utah feels slighted by your comment.

When people refer to the Abrahamic religions they are usually thinking of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

There are, in fact, more Abrahamic religions, such as the Baha’i Faith, Yezidi, Druze, Samaritan and Rastafari, ...

https://www.bl.uk/sacred-texts/articles/the-abrahamic-religi...

You're certainly entitled to your opinion just as the British Libray (above link) is entitled to theirs.

It's not like serious readers bother much with the British Library.

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

It is one of the two largest libraries in the world, along with the Library of Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library
Going back 40 years of records, el Nino ramping up. We'd expect to see this even without a warming trend.
While I think that was a cool factor, the Genesis became the sports console and really dominated with annual sports titles (especially from EA). That also targeted a demographic willing to spend money on games: 16-30yo guys. Those are the same people who would buy Mortal Kombat (especially since it was the edgier version).

Mortal Kombat made a lot of headlines and sold a lot of copies, but I’ve never seen stats that suggested it drove console sales one way or another.
Laravel is not a requirement to use PHP effectively.
Free building is great, but my experience is that my young son also wants to build his sense of competence - following the steps correctly, fixing mistakes, and making something exactly like the picture. Sure, he plays with it for a minute and then tears it apart to make something original - but, like you said, that’s the beauty of Lego.
> the democratic countries

Which are those, and how is France worse?
It would never fly politically, but we could effectively deal with nuclear waste in a future-proof way if we dissolved it into sea water. Uranium's natural concentration in sea water is 3 parts per billion and there are 1.3e21 kilograms of sea water. This comes out to 3.9e9 metric tons of uranium already in sea water; all these numbers utterly dwarf all the nuclear waste we could possibly ever create. Even when you consider that natural uranium is merely a toxic heavy metal and high grade radioactive waste is substantially more radioactive, that doesn't change much. The intensity of radioactive waste drops substantially if you store it even for just a few decades, which is probably unnecessary but certainly manageable.

I don't seriously propose this though, it would be pointless to propose because it would never be accepted. Even Japan dumping a tiny bit of tritium into the ocean has turned into a big controversy. Seriously suggest something like the above and most people will think you're an insane troll.
Aside: Do you really just use ChatGPT to comment, or is it just a username? Like, what's the deal here?
Why do you suppose so many people in power are agitating to give driver's licenses to undocumented people? They want them to take these trucking jobs.
I’ll have to check it out again. Last time it looked like it wanted a subscription.

I would just like to pay once for an app that 100% offline scans for blocks. Let me pick an instruction book and begin pointing out pieces to me that belong in the set.

Fingers crossed.
I disagree. A whole bunch about Lego is the search. I was recently reintroduced by my son (5) and the fun of searching for what we want to try to complete a build - and occasionally redesigning due to what we find - is amazing.

Also helps him learn to adjust on the fly, which is a great thing to learn at a young age.
We should build underground cities like the movie "city of ember" and adapt. We can become mole people. When you dig hard enough and become an subterranean billonaire, then you can afford a house above ground. Otherwise, your social karama score will determine your above ground privileges.

The robots will farm above ground and care for the planet as we use geothermal energy and nuclear power to burrow out new homes.

Don't worry, we can still have meaningless corporate meetings underground to remind ourselves of who we truly are.
We might. I’m one scientist working on making sure we don’t. There are many scientists trying to do that. Hopefully we can learn and act in time.
Is there a way to sign up on paperspace without a phone? I've used the same VOIP number for half a decade but unfortunately it's still automatically blocked from being used for many services, this prevents me from creating an account.
Not currently, but maybe in the future.:)
XOR/XAND life: perfectly balanced, with a harmonious parity.
I'm skeptical of the audience for such a podcast. Also, seems like it would require a lot of time that could be used to focus on the actual business. Sure, maybe you could assign someone in marketing to run it, but even then I would make sure it didn't take up too much of that person's time. And for startups with low headcounts, I'm not sure there is such a "marketing" person.
> have enough highly paid engineers

Throw enough highly paid engineers at it and it will take 10 months.
It should be rainy season in the Philippines now but it's hotter than it was on summer. I have to shower 3 times today cause it's too hot
Don't tables become ambiguous without closing?

>Tables become uncluttered:

If I add a tr, does it nest "than" in the first row or does it move to the second row? Surely it can't nest because each tr effectively has a /tr before it.

>Raw html tables
<table>
<tr>
<td> are
<td> easier <tr><td>but ambiguous?
<td> than
<tr>
<td> any
<td> markdown
<td> flavor
</table>

I notice you closed the title, presumably because otherwise it's ambiguous as to whether the paragraph is in the title. It's so easy to make well-formed documents by closing tags intentionally rather than pushing the closing to be inferred by context by different rendering engines I can't see why you would want sloppy mark-up.
It looks like their upstream provider fucked something up so until they release that info we can only speculate.
The Expo team has done fantastic work to make building react native apps easy and flexible. Nothing but good things to say about their current direction and approach.
Well that's ominous, particularly when living in one of the giant circles of toxicity. I imagine nothing will be done about it though, since the giant circle I live in even makes it the property owner's problem to replace the old, lead water pipes that many have, particularly in the poorer parts of the city, while the city and state themselves thought it good enough to only replace lead pipes on the main lines.
I looooove that sound. But with young kids there’s no point trying to sort. And without sorting, every piece takes a while to find.
> As the rubble crashed down, the energy released would have been equivalent to around six times that of the Tsar Bomba

Interesting, wonder if this Approx 1190 event had a global impact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period

Seems that ended in 1250, coincidence ??
> There is a fixation with growing and doing it rapidly that I believe is harmful. I don't know when this switch flipped.

Gradually? I happened around 1995 and it’s only ever slowed down for recessions.

It’s not a trend of companies it’s a trend of funding sources and strategies. If you take fifty million in funding, those guys want it back. And they want it back 10x. So when your favorite little company takes a funding round that is five times more money than they’ve ever seen total, let alone at once, your favorite little company is about to change into something ugly.
There's someone who's really into knolling (https://knolling.org/what-is-knolling) and hates this comment.
Small/medium sized businesses have always accounted for most jobs and job growth. This isn't new.
You should really not randomly speculate when doing adversarial comparisons. Note: I am not a author of FunctionTrace.

1. You claim ~5% overhead [1] and it is not useful for profiling tiny functions. They claim ~10% overhead when handling tiny functions and, who I believe to be the author of the package below, said it averages low single digit percents (i.e <5%) on normal non-worst cases. This is comparable or less overhead than you claim.

2. Sampling is so much worse than a full execution trace from a performance optimization and observability perspective it is ridiculous. Yes, a magnifying glass and a microscope are both okay for looking at ants, but only one is good for looking at cells. People prefer sampling because it was traditionally lower overhead, but for the same cost full tracing is so much better it is not even worth comparing, the result is patently obvious.

3. No “upload” is done. You are not sending data to them, everything is local. They are just opening the profiling data using Firefox to use it as a viewer like how you might open a PDF in Firefox.

[1] https://www.sciagraph.com/docs/understanding/fil/
I was that 14yo with StarEdit
Or are you living a FOMO life?
$111M exit on $35M. Seems meh for seven years effort. Were prospects cloudy? Better return over seven years for most employees (possibly even founders) working up through a FAANG. I’m sure YC did great, of course.
Yes, that's the point now for competing AI research-for-profit companies, whatever metric is technical and sounds important, is going to be used in marketing and valuation determinations. It will be explored for research I'm sure, and then determine its product viability. It's nice competition, but agree, that it can be deceptive.
When brickinstructions goes belly up, or just messes up its URLs for shits and giggles, you will need to go through archive.org to find out what used to be at that URL.
The workaround is to carry around a small insulated faraday cage for your phone which blocks cellular reception, transmits bogus GPS signals locating yourself as a random wanderer, and plays television series reruns 24/7 at low volume into the microphone.
Stop trying to figure it out and go buy some stocks.
I'm surprised that Pepsico/Frito-Lay don't go after these sellers for trademark and copyright infringement. It seems like a pretty clear-cut case.
While quits are still above pre-pandemic levels, to me they look below where'd they be if you charted out the pre-pandemic trend of increasing quits: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUL
Reducing profits reduces investment, which reduces wage growth. [1]

Unions destroy industry. They are simply a rent-seeking mechanism to extract more wealth from the shareholders by restricting their contract rights.

Detroit was the wealthiest city in the US in 1950, with the highest per capita GDP in the country. Over the course of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, the UAW union took over, with membership eventually peaking in 1978.

What followed was industrial collapse, and eventually, Detroit becoming a ghost town.

Unions are not good for labor at large, just the labor that is on the winning side of the zero sum rent extraction scheme.

Beyond repealing labor laws instituted in the 1930s and 50s that put private enterprise at the mercy of unions, the real solution is to cut government spending. Even when the government keeps taxes low, government spending crowds out private sector spending. The mechanism through which it does this is, primarily, by offering investors government bonds, which investors invest their surplus income into, instead of investing it in private enterprise, and secondarily, by reducing the future after-tax income of the private sector, through the future tax obligations it creates, and in doing, reducing the credit worthiness of private economic actors.

Now there are productivity-boosting forms of government spending, like building bike lanes, transit lines, ports, etc, but most government spending is in the form of social welfare programs [2] and a large proportion of that is just graft for public sector unions [3] which totally control the government (87% of cities with a population over 100,000 are run by Democrats).

Social welfare spending - which is directed mostly to public sector unions - needs to decline as a share of GDP.

The free market works. Wages for unskilled labor doubled, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms, between 1870 and 1900, when unions were historically at their weakest. And over the course of this period, industry expanded and saw its financial footing become healthier. This was very much unlike the post-war period, where US industry was running on borrowed time, making increasingly burdensome concessions to unions.

[1] https://fee.org/media/12421/20130708_whywagesrise.pdf

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

[3] https://www.hoover.org/research/california-state-government-...
That's really neat. I have always kept an eye out for SEMs since they sometimes get sold for scrap prices, but have always been weary of the software. This might actually make me pull the trigger.
It is HTML5. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#optional-..., if I'm not mistaken. Rules are of the form:

A td element's end tag may be omitted if the td element is immediately followed by a td or th element, or if there is no more content in the parent element.

Edit: I don't know the "div" rules. Don't see that here.

Edit2: I'm actually curious on if what I put here is wrong.
I didn't know about DMark. I actually designed a syntax that provides a way to implement custom tags, but this is not quite easy.

While my syntax is even lighter than this, it's reasonable and DMark seems to be very easy and enjoyable to extend. And I say this as someone who doesn't know Ruby and for whom Ruby hasn't clicked (yet?). I'll definitely have to check it out, either to adopt it or to improve my own thing, ten years later.

Thanks for mentioning it, there's taste in this design. Very nice.
Maybe not a full refutation, but naively it does seem incompatible with the “hottest day on record”. Of course, the interest part here is “naively”; in reality, both can be true, which is a bit subtle.
Doesn't matter.

Single or million boxes, if they apply wrong config, it doesn't work.

You dual home because you hedge your bets and hope no 2 ISPs gonna have fuckup at same time
You have to look beyond the interest rate. If you have a 2.5% rate, your mortgage will inflate away while you could be earning 8-12% returns.

If your mortgage rate is 6%, your marginal tax rate is 50% and you're earning 4-8% returns after tax, then a risk free, tax free return of 6% by paying off your mortgage is more attractive.
Native POSIX is incompatible with good APIs. Just look at the mess you need to go through to ensure data is actually written to disk.

More importantly, what is the point of a new OS if you support just POSIX? The architecture choices involved will push the OS to be a worse Linux/BSD/Mac, and whatever new thing you add will eventually be ported to Linux. Nowadays, a new OS can only be technically justified by trying to be better than POSIX.

It is true that POSIX emulation might be useful, Microsoft showed one way to do so. A new OS could use its equivalent of WSL2/Fuschia's starnix/wine. But I don't think there are any circumstance when it is a good idea for a new kernel to natively support POSIX.
I paid for a subscription because I really liked what it did and I used it a lot. The Android app became so unresponsive that it was basically unusable. I stopped paying when I found myself making notes in email again to avoid opening the treacly app.

It has since got better but I haven't gone back to paying for it, despite using it a lot, and now I'll probably slowly migrate away as they progressively break and disable the free version.
Free speech for citizens is important to me and I'm on no political side. This seems like a great thing to me. I don't want the government doing what they're been doing or doing it again in the future, regardless of who that government is. Ideally, these losers would have enough morals to police themselves or not do this in the first place, but here we are. Might not be a perfect ruling, but in spirit it's against gov. censorship, which I'm also against so I hope it or something like it sticks around.
Has anyone tried using TOR as a replacement for Cloudflare DDOS protection? There is a single hop mode on hidden services.
The island of Bermuda has a breathtakingly huge interest in Reinsurance (whatever this is)?
As someone who lives in Japan, yeah a company paid trip is cool, but it's really not that expensive to visit. If it's not actioned/planned how is that really a hook?
> There are many well-intentioned, conscientious individuals in the police force

That's the issue though, I don't think this is true. Everything I've experienced personally and heard from others has shown me that cops will either 1) treat people like human punching bags or 2) stand by and laugh (or politely look away). Every single account I've seen from cops who've tried to stand up against police brutality has ended with that cop being retaliated against by their peers and fired.

If your premise were correct, then I agree that the slogan would be inappropriate. But I think the reality is that the police, as an institution, are extremely good at either excluding or converting otherwise well-intentioned, conscientious individuals.