skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed reading this. The long form was engaging. I appreciate the author being up front about not trying to be prescriptive with his journey, more just descriptive.

Honestly, the sense of despair people have in getting jobs is so sad to me. I've interacted with other young adults who are in the same situation. This sense of "I played the game the way I thought I was supposed to and now this??". I do all I can to help them connect them with others, but it's still really disappointing.

I was glad he "made it" in the end, but I'm not convinced that "near mental breakdowns" are healthy and worth it. And then... survivorship bias. For every talented person like this that excels academically and has a flair for long for story telling, there's another 9 or 99, that don't, and are still stuck in the trenches, and they don't even have the time/resources to write their equally emotive but even more shitty story.
Page 56 is where it gets really steamy
Two Important Facts About Generative Prose
Since the explosion of ChatGPT onto the world stage, it has been impossible to escape the AI revolution that is seemingly taking over every part of the technology sector. Every app is working to integrate AI, people are using these new tools to generate text in new and creative ways every day, and the accessibility of AI text generation tools means anyone and everyone is playing with this new technology. There is constant discussion about how creative these new AI tools are and how it seems like ChatGPT and similar tools are truly thinking and creating new ideas. But, should we really be calling AI "creative" and "thinking"? Or are these terms masking the truth about how AI is really functioning, and does this prevent us from determining the best uses for these tools within our companies and our apps?
If I watch a pirated copy of Oppenheimer and then summarize the plot to you, the piracy would be a crime, but the summarization would not.
To save anyone else the clicks, the pricing is $4/month for unlimited links. Currently, no export functionality.
intel and AMD : wait maybe we can do that on our hardware too?
Google trains on TPUs.
Do you mean HDR? High definition video playback works fine on Linux. Very performant even with low end hardware.
Med-Flamingo: Multimodal Medical Few-Shot Learner
Congress can't extend the coverage of copyright without limit. The Copyright Clause in the Constitution limits Congress. This is why the US doesn't have database copyright or "sweat of the brow" copyright. EU law is different, though. The EU does recognize database copyright.

Machine learning tables of weights are probably not copyrightable, but we can't be sure until there is more litigation.
It always feels better to write spaghetti.
note that f_n = (a^n + b^n) / sqrt(5) ~ a^n / sqrt(5)

the denominator is important.

also another interesting relation is
a^n ~ f_(n+1) + f_(n-1) = f_(n+2) - f_(n-2)
Well, I'm not sure adding a webtorrent implementation counts as simpler for clients than just TXT record retrieval.
Understand, I was thinking it will only work in narrow applications like removing mountain of rocks. Plus saying infinity implies some sort of unity
Seattle lets bikes ride on the sidewalk.

After getting sort of 'stranded' out in the open going uphill in the travel lanes surrounded by rush hour traffic when a metro bus pulled out and blocked my access to get back over to the right, I started utilizing the sidewalk when the road was a bit too chaotic for my fitness levels.
The Swiss-Cheese Model of Aviation Safety is useful to know before reading NTSB reports. It's a good lens to help in understand the context around the reports.
> (e.g. 1998 internet bubble, 2007 housing bubble, 2020 crypto bubble, etc)

That's some extreme cherry picking.

During that time period, the internet and smartphones alone have completely changed society (for better and worse) in the span of only three decades, despite the former going causing a minor economic crash in its infancy.

Almost everything is different except human nature. The scammers are innovating just like everyone else.
People waste so. Much. Time. On shiny tech, often just because it ends up on HN (or Tiktok or Insta).

I remember evaluating the JAM stack years ago, and was underwhelmed. Like so many shiny new techs it didn’t really offer any big leaps forwards under the marketing and hype. People who lapped it up should think more critically about why they adopt tech.
Refusing to view economic systems scientifically and quantifying objectively is a seriously big problem. Gotta stop the fairy tales.
Ever since it became legal I have friends who spend majority of their day high. Of course, when confronted, they say it's not addictive and they dont have a problem. As we know this is the first sign of a very serious addiction.

It's a comparison problem. It won't kill you like alcohol withdrawals will or make you agitated like nicotine will. So then it must be okay right? These same potheads will quote studies and news articles talking about the benefits or just how risk free it is.

Its very similar to the way a functional alcoholic will justify their drinking. They even use avoidance language. 20 years ago we called it weed, now we call it "cannabis". Oh, you're not addicted to weed you're just using cannabis every hour of every day. I think legalization didn't help, nor hurt, but the re-branding of weed as "cannabis" while biologically correct gave these type of people a get out of jail free card. If you don't believe me, say to yourself "I smoke weed 8 times a day" versus "I use cannabis 8 times a day". One of them makes you sound like a degenerate, one of them makes you sound like you take a medication. That difference is very important in justifying addiction in the mind of an addict.
Kinda off topic, but what's so dumb about tailwind?
They made some updates and expect it to go through 2026

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=129
The whole idiotic war would have been over the moment the free trade system of the US would have surplanted the pre-existing empires and their embargoes. Harber+Bosch + liquid gas is what feeds the world and creates the pre-requisite to all peace.
22 hours is assuming you only wanted to reach that location (and not stop to visit the craft) and you had instant acceleration up to c for your velocity, which would be infinite G forces and turn your cells in to quantum foam.

More realistically, even if say we did have a light speed capable craft, we'd be limited by the forces for accel and decel to have a starting speed of 0 relative to Earth, and ending speed of 0 relative to Voyager. The limits would be determined by the withstanding capability of the bodies of the pilots, or the mechanical strength if it were another drone.

I don't feel like doing the math properly, so I asked GPT4 this question:

> let's say we wanted to move a human astronought in a spacecraft to the current position of Voyager 2 which is 22 light-hours away. We want to get there as fast as possible, and arrive at a co-moving frame with Voyager, which has a relative velocity of 32000 miles per hour moving away from the Earth. Assuming the astronaut can withstand a g-force maximum on their body of 6G, and using that to inform the maximum accelleration and deceleration for the voyage, how long does it take to reach the Voyager 2 co-moving frame?

Response:

Firstly, let's convert everything to consistent units. Here we'll use hours for time, miles for distance, and miles per hour^2 for
acceleration.

1 G is approximately equal to 22 miles/hour^2. Therefore, 6G is approximately 132 miles/hour^2.
The distance to Voyager 2 in miles is 22 light-hours * 670616629 miles/light-hour = approximately 14753561838 miles.

Assuming we accelerate at 6G until halfway, then decelerate at 6G for the second half, we can use the kinematic equation:

d = 0.5 * a * t^2

Solving for t when d equals half the total distance gives:

t = sqrt((2 * d) / a)

Substituting in the values:

t = sqrt((2 * (14753561838 miles / 2)) / 132 miles/hour^2) = 84331.5 hours

So, the total time to reach Voyager 2 while maintaining a maximum acceleration/deceleration of 6G is approximately 84331.5 hours * 2 = 168663
hours, or about 19.25 years.

This is a rough estimation and doesn't take into account the relative velocity of Voyager 2 or relativistic effects at high speeds.

It also assumes constant acceleration and deceleration, which wouldn't be feasible with today's technology due to fuel constraints.

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So our 22 hour lightspeed trip would still take 19 years if it had a human onboard.

The biggest limitation with sci-fi travel isn't breaking relativity, it's finding a way to accelerate squishy meat-bags. This person will be living at an effective weight of nearly 1000lbs for 20 years, which will really mess them up.

For the sake of the longevity of our pilot, I asked to re-run the calculation limiting the on-board gravity to 1G. It now takes 114 years to reach Voyager's current position, which by then will be much farther. It turns out we will never catch up, and reaching it is impossible if we limit our craft to earth like conditions necessary for human health.
My favorite Pee-wee trivia which may be apocryphal is that Pee-wee's Big Adventure was an adaptation of Ladri di Biciclette.
That is a parody of a real ad that appeared on American TV about 10 years before the IT Crowd. The original was almost as absurd.
It also can't change at this point. Their flavor is recognized all over the world and many customers wouldn't be happy if it changed. But it's nice to have the blonde roast option at least!
Except when they do matter, like the Therac-25 deaths or those 737 MAX crashes.
I don't follow the BBC's approaches to revenue generation that closely, but is part of this due to larger overseas audiences? I'm now living outside the UK, so I expect that I'm viewed differently as a user by the Beeb, as well as by TV licence payers. If access to content isn't controlled then it's harder to maximise the revenue.

BBC Sounds feels like it's part of that efforts, but I'd be interested to know more given how much family members complain about the costs of licencing and services relative to the quality.
> But you did spend time learning unix, nginx, bash, CGI, SQLite, etc.

True, and it's been a rewarding decision ever since. For a corporate or a community Netlify or similar JAMstack content management systems might make sense, but for a indie developer? I don't think so.
How Trauma Became America’s Favorite Diagnosis
Oh, interesting detail. I was looking towards the rumored Fujitsu Quaderno A4 Gen 3, which is supposed to have a Kaleido 3 color panel.
There is a design for an ice-melting-slurry-bot that could be made, where the outer diameter of the bore is melted by heat/lasers - where the lasers/heat is also projected into a cone at the point of the bore-ing machine, where the center pipe is a vacuum to slurp up the slurry as it melts the ice around the bore-head...
https://cronitor.io/ is another option here that works for me. You can set up rules like "It should run once a day and return after at least this amount of time and also return a number greater than 1" Then just use come curl calls to your scripts at start and end and you are good to go.
Yeah, Pidgin has fallen behind significantly with regards to modern XMPP compliance. The developers are still working on Pidgin actively, but the focus is on a big rewrite of the foundations right now (3.0) so they can more easily support modern IM features.
The oldest frozen mastodon found is only 30K years ago.

This isn't really "frozen animals" and everything was sort of mixed together so they had to compare remaining fragments to existing sequences:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/science/oldest-dna-greenl...
Only if the space has a canonical basis.
>extreme corruption driven by startling inequality and poverty.

you talking about bihar?
https://github.com/badaix/snapcast!

Works perfectly on pis scattered around the house.
And the politicians also buy votes from the people using redistribution policies. Seems we agree the government is the problem!
Even then, last time I checked HDR playback on linux was a very hit-or-miss thing.
Yo clearly missed all of the Next is now PHP/Rails and Next.js as PHP and Rails logo [1] memes :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/139j19t/shall_we_co...
Yeah but there is more to it. There are active crisis, like cancer & heart disease. Or upcoming ones like Alzeimer & Parkinson. That in the current day already affect more people per year, then the climate crisis will affect in the worst prognoses in a 100 years*.

But Climate change is different, it speaks to the psyche of humans, the modern story of the flood. And in the same way it gives people meaning & without religion in the West they form morality around it. Those for it, are good, those against it, are bad.

That doesn't mean its not something important or real, and we have to solve it. But it's one of the many things for us humans to solve.

*In worst prognoses, climate changes will affect 10 mil deaths per year, which is the same amount cancer is doing every year today.
Also work on ice, though not with cores. Just 2nd'ing this as being a great point. Arctic amplification is fascinating and IMO understudied relative to its importance.

The distinction I believe the article is trying to make around the "first-core-to-ground" sentiment, is that this is the first time a core has been drilled through the full thickness of an ice *stream*. These are regions of an ice sheet with very rapidly moving ice. Ice loss from ice streams may have a larger and more immediate impact on sea level than other regions in Greenland and Antarctica. However, I do not actually know whether this is the first core drill ed through an ice stream, but I'm assuming that was the article's intent.
Maybe a mutual aid and insurance organization for Etsy / other online marketplace? In which members pay in a little bit to a legal fund which is used to correct payment problems
“Netflix and chill” was coined for a reason.
Does Radio France generate revenues in other French-speaking countries with the same content? It feels like the BBC is trying to maximise revenue but expectations for consumers locally and overseas are going to be very different. Blocking loopholes hurts the local users more.
>I don't think you're wrong to say that it can happen to nominally democratic countries too, but India as a whole (and ESPECIALLY the smaller states) is probably not the best example to prove the point.

do you need to show proof from every state of india to "confirm" that india does this? as opposed to even 1 case of silencing dissent is good enough to prove a point?
> What is it with them which makes them feel entitled to have special "dist-packages" vs "site-packages" as is the default? This drives me nuts, when I have a bunch of native packages I want to bundle in our in-house python deployment. CentOS and Ubuntu are vanilla, and only Debian (mind-boggingly) deviates from the well-trodden path.

Hi, I'm one of the people that look after this bit of Debian (and it's exactly the same in Ubuntu, FWIW).

It's like that to solve a problem (of course, everything has a reason). The idea is that Debian provides a Python that's deeply integrated into Debian packages. But if you want to build your own Python from source, you can. What you build will use site-packages, so it won't have any overlap with Debian's Python.

Unfortunately, while this approach was designed to be something all package-managed distributions could do, nobody else has adopted it, and consequently the code to make it work has never been pushed upstream. So, it's left as a Debian/Ubuntu oddity that confuses people. Sorry about that.

My recommendations are:
1. If you want more control over your Python than you get from Debian's package-managed python, build your own from source (or use a docker image that does that).
2. Deploy your apps with virtualenvs or system-level containers per app.
If it does look at the box office results this year or lack of them compared to the last few years ... many not opening and or close to 100 million seen in many prior years.

Could be a mix things from attention spans changing in various demographics to economics to increased spending in travel to other things.
If you want to decode the downlink of a more recent probe, here's the details (apparently NASA don't have the source code for the decoder, but a binary was found):

https://skyriddles.wordpress.com/2023/07/03/stereo-a-comes-h...
My current position is like that. We have this app, "donut" which is sort of like blind dating for work, it will pair people up at random and look at their calendars and schedule them with 30 minutes for chitchat.

Sounds cheesy, and it kind of is, but you get to know your coworkers. Last week's donut was with someone from Kenya, currently in Malta for the month. She works during the week and travels during the weekends.

Myself, I haven't really taken advantage of the location flexibility. But I'm just saying the positions are out there. If you're competing on the global scale you probably want to specialize a bit more than you otherwise would. X years of experience might not be enough.

I worked for a startup whose product was a workflow orchestrator. They failed, so I emailed their biggest competitor (who clearly wasn't making the same mistakes), and said: "If you can't beat 'em, join em?" And now I'm working on a different workflow orchestrator. I picked workflow orchestrators because I like working with graph structures, and I think that familiarity with them might be relevant to future topics I want to work on.

I'm not trying to pitch workflow orchestrators to you, I'm just saying it's handy to have a thing that you're into which makes you stand out when applying for positions that are adjacent to that thing.

It's worth thinking about early on because you might be able to slant your work towards more exposure to that thing.
"severs" huh. A bit clickbaity maybe? I think I'd gone with

"OOPS, NASA gave V2 the wrong number to phone home. Engineers of old have last laugh and reassure 'it's OK, V2 will sort it out'"
I can understand using PayPal if it's an option because you can't be bothered getting your card and typing in.
How many people would not do a purchase just because of this? It's a non zero number but I'm not sure if it warrants their fees.

I hate PayPal with a passion (I get paid with PayPal and I know how shitty is the other side) so I try to make the effort and use my card to not give them money.

Good to know about chargebacks.
We are building a community of Founders, Investors and Enablers working on the D2C and eCommerce Markets in India. Would love to invite you all to be a part of our family.
I suspect 32-bit RISC-V cores will become the minimum unit of processor for new designs. Not a meaningful cost increase over say a 6502 (or ARM) to build, but the convenience of having mainstream compiler support and that kind of thing does make a difference in the cost of building a product.
A Voight-Kampff Test for Identifying Engineering Managers (2018)
If you have a WebDAV server, you can use that.

I use several browser profiles (stuff like social, entertainment, dev), and now I can put the usual sites I visit with each of those in the top level of the their bookmark bar directly, but also have a single folder for the ones I want to share between all of them, yay! I am very happy right now. Thanks GP.
Anti-cheats are already remote attestation in theory for online games and they are unable to protect the process perfectly. They are unable to detect alterations to the process memory and be correct in their attestation at all times.

And cheating isn't a significant problem in in-browser games, it's not like anyone modified the browser source to create cheats for in-browser games. And for competitive online games, we have a great imperfect attempt at showing what remote attestation would look like. Anti cheat in games.

We have AAA titles that work flawlessly under Proton but you can't play them on Linux because anti-cheat needs to do DKOM on your Windows kernel before it lets you play.

I agree with the rest of your post though.
> and after the (admittedly nearly vertical) learning curve, you can quite easily produce beautiful documents with it.

what helped you get over this curve?
Very good points. One thing that still makes us broad but narrows down is the fact that we are focusing on financial modelling and analysis.
But yeah, as Nuno pointed out, it's a new product category and super broad in application, which is part of what makes us excited about this!
I wish I could emphasize this comment more. Thank you for posting this. This reflects my thoughts exactly and the purpose of the post. There are so many more people whose stories you don't hear, who go through much harder times than I did, and who do not "make it" like I have.

If anything, I think that should be the story. You make choices to try to dig yourself out, and you end up digging yourself further down the hole.
That is impressive. But i wonder where the water was when this person build it.
There's a variant of arXiv.org called ar5iv.org which renders papers in HTML5 instead of PDF. It is very handy when reading papers in a browser and it is generated from the same LaTeX files. You just need to replace the "x" with "5" in the URL:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11408

https://ar5iv.org/abs/1807.11408
Time to pay the rent for the stuff you thought you owned.

Closed ecosystems and walled gardens have all the charm of dental surgery these days but there are all the users.

This is why we need more open standards. Open standards mean open competition and helps reduce monopolies.
Here it is https://discuss.python.org/t/argparser-subcommands-function-...

feature frozen doesn't sound so bad. It just risks sliding into "we don't want to maintain it because it has known problems". (My opinion: Everything well used has known problems, it's ok.)
fwiw there are very coherent economic arguments as to why insider trading should not be illegal and might be more “fair” with it permitted.
Not an animal, icecore, or that old, but ancient plants has been grown from seeds from permafrost.[0] So who knows what might be found and analyzed from all the icecores.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/21/russian-scient...
I recently tried to deploy GitLab from scratch on an IPv6-only network, and the initial experience was anything but smooth. I was met with an exception right in the console during the initial setup. GitLab attempted to obtain a Let's Encrypt certificate and immediately failed, as it doesn't listen to IPv6 addresses by default. A year ago, we (at work) faced similar issues when trying to deploy GlusterFS on an IPv6-only network, and it also failed. (I pushed for V6 only, my manager was not happy) It's evident that while IPv6 may be the future, the present ecosystem doesn't seem fully prepared to support it.
For years, I have wanted to use Docker with IPv6 only, and I am really thinking about learning Go so I can write my own IPv6-only driver.
That is not even close to the biggest advantage. The biggest advantage is the sensor instead of a timer for how long to toast. If I had to pick one advantage, it would be that one. The fact that it also means that the raising/lowering is automatic is gravy in my opinion.
The memo in question:

https://davidcoveney.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/16030128...

It helps a LOT if you also have an investing genius giving you tips on how to allocate the plan assets!
As did my company, Mojo/mojo.so

Had to wait a few days for recurring/subscription payments to be "approved", but going great since then

We noticed is that it doesn't expose any info about the region/country of the connected account, so we had to make a little adjustment to stop relying on that

Also I think the pricing is a little on the high side, but PayPal people do really seem to like PayPal so not really a concern

Very smooth on the whole