skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In one of our last discussions [1], I was asked to write up about our experiences manufacturing our plastic injection enclosure and here is the promised post. Feel free to ask anything if you have any questions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36922790
Won't someone think of the poor rich people?
The confounding factor is that in 2023 Hollywood studios assign stars nutritionists and personal trainers to get them where they need to be. Chris Pratt pictured here dropped 60 pounds in 6 months: https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/how-chris-pratt-d...

Men were not subjected to this during early Hollywood. (Women weren’t so lucky; studios encouraged drug abuse in women to keep them thin, and the most famous example is probably Judy Garland of The Wizard of Oz)
The Prompt Generator code for making space image prompts from GPT-4 to DALL-E
Oh man, this hurts my soul in such alien ways. Coach was 58, and he was portrayed as some old man that was close to dying (and did in the show). I'm 52. I see people in their 30s as "kids" now.
"Research led by two teams from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and a team from the University of Queensland, Australia, has identified a blood factor as the common denominator behind rejuvenation of the brain through young blood transfusion, a longevity hormone and exercise."

Musk, Thiel, and their ilk are going to put us in Bug Jack Barron territory before the end of the decade, aren't they?
Check out George Orwell.

He died at 46, so no picture of him is from an older age.

Must have been all the stressful war experience.
Not directly related but I recall watching a "documentary" on Discovery where this guy claimed that several monuments across the globe all matched up star patterns and similar astrological events from around 12k years ago IIRC.

What I recall best was some pyramids ligning up with how the stars would have been back around that time, but they've since drifted apart. He also talked about Angkor Wat and some in South Americas.

My memory is very fuzzy as this was a casual watch over a decade ago, so I don't recall the name of the guy or if the speculation had a name. I assumed it was pretty out there, though of course as presented it sounded compelling.
Just tested it with my Quickwit engine :)

Easy setup and fast deployment, pretty happy so far.

I have one question though: I did not see some object storage feature, is it possible to combine Koyeb with some kind of object storage service? Maybe an external one? What's you recommendation on this?
if your income 10x and you are on the wage - then that means you are either will have to work 10x more hours - or work 10x more intensively/efficiently, which leads to its own burnout and issues.

main point being is that if your income doubles, your savings rate will double, but your work related stress will double, and arguably your health (mental and physical) will deteriorate at 2x faster rate
I suspect that SpaceX is booking Starlink launches as revenue. My basis for this is that their launch revenue is growing much faster than their non-starlink launch schedule.

We can't prove or disprove this though, since their financials are secret.
It amazes me that there is no way to really get the word out about this recall.

I was lucky to see it on HN. I run a dehumidifier almost constantly during the months of May to October to maintain humidity for a piano.
If the Hubble tension is real, what’s the solution?
> you have a better chance of getting a seat you want, if you have any particular preferences.

also have a better chance of not having to risk getting separated from your carry-on baggage because the plane's already full
It may be temporary, but if bringing back X improves the quality of someone's life, more power to them. We're stuck with the downsides of continuous delivery; having a consistent UI for just a bit longer can be a cognitive relief.

When Pixel phones switched from navigation buttons to gestures I tried them and hated the experience and reverted. Eventually I got forced over to gestures and still hate them so delaying gave me a bit more bandwidth to allocate from stupid UI changes to things I actually care about.
Currently working on an (unofficial) VSCode extension for tldr.sh

Shouldn't take much longer but I haven't released it yet. I have been playing around with how I want the commands to be displayed. Simple but useful for me, and I plan to keep it open source.
Why do "normal" people care about tracking suddenly when it concerns children?
We're not allowed to find out, ethical issues.
Took me 6 years to implement my own in C. It ended up being python with braces. Recursive descent parser are incredibly brittle and take extreme concentration and patience
> Every launch of the space shuttle was a few billion used up.

Almost all of that money was dumped back into the same economy from which it was collected, albeit inefficiently, so it didn't really disappear. They "used up" a few million dollars worth of material each time.

The damage to the economy was not as bad as you suggest. However the opportunity cost was massive. Decades wasted on a dead-end program. A staggering number of engineer careers essentially wasted, and now they're doing it again with SLS.
I made a website where you can talk to my ML books about ML
Many could argue that Dell improved substantially after its 2013 transition to private ownership. At least, from the consumer perspective, things improved drastically. Linux support, a wider variety of competitive lines with much needed improvements to legacy lines, adoption of AMD for CPUs/GPUs, etc.

I can't speak of their server/enterprise business, however.
Once I pulled all my data off my stricken phone in my hotel room using nothing but the veggie sausages I'd stashed in the mini fridge as a cold sink. Failed at just the wrong moment the evening before an important event, of course. No time to find enough bandwidth to restore my backups...
The only good reason for a disposable battery is if the power draw is somehow that a rechargeable would have expired from calendar aging by the time the disposable is dead. Very high efficiency RTCs, emergency backups never expected to be used, highly specialized devices used for only a few minutes a year, etc.

I do really think that we need a better rechargeable battery standard though. If something is big enough for it, 18650s are close to perfect, but not much is.

There's enough devices like GoPros which have swappable batteries and third-party availability, and so are de facto standards, why don't people just design their stuff to use one of those?
I mean, have you seen the shape of the pawns? It appeals to the male fantasy.
I used to do this as well, maybe a bit _too_ much. After reading an article somewhere (I forget which) that had just an absolutely excessive amount of exclamations I've toned it back down a lot. But for the folks who don't ever use it -- try it out! It doesn't mean you're shouting, it maps to basically a slight increase in tone.
When Warren Buffet bought Berkshire Hathaway in 1962, he rapidly turned it from a failing textile company into a monster.

Not private equity exactly, but he personally bought up 51% of the shares.
You can download the investor report once a quarter from their website.

https://ir.tesla.com/#quarterly-disclosure

Deliveries are currently on track and each vehicle delivered is profitable, with a larger margin (18.2%) than any other major car manufacturer. This may not be true with the first Cybertruck deliveries later this year, but total number of delivered Cybertrucks will be tiny. Cybertruck deliveries should ramp up in 2024 and the margins should improve.
I’m pretty sure vsauce did a video about this. He concluded that it’s basically an illusion.
It's the same PE firm which owned SUSE before, orchestrated the IPO, and now, still a majority shareholder, buys the minority shares back.

If you bought in at any time between the IPO and May of this year, you'd be in for losses, so it's certainly not been an unprofitable move for them. But it's not the classical "foreign vulture PE comes in and destroys everything" situation here that people seem to be afraid of.
Guillermo Rauch is the ceo of vercel. In this tweet, he's effectively saying that the bulk of what his company was built upon (SPAs) is bullshit (zero interest rate phenomenon is a reference to when financial interest rates are very low/zero, as they've been for many years, all sorts of things will seem great and successful because you can borrow money for free. When rates go up, only actually viable projects will survive - as we're seeing in the startup world now).
Sorry, are you suggesting that the undersea landslide was intentional?
Most cars we've seen in Canada last decade did not have one. My 2004 wrx (yes 20yo) has one. Anything from Honda odyssey to Subaru cross trek to hyundai and Kias did not seem to have one.
I think a single take-away from this is to generally overcommunicate rather than under, especially around the social context stuff (e.g. expectations from either side).
At that age I have to assume you are also familiar with (and pained by) the "Wilford Brimley Line"
Great phenomenon/term to know. And yeah the disappeared cursor is absolutely maddening.
The whole article seems AI generated to me.

The AI did not know to include THAT picture.
Oh fuck, I have 4 FireCudas (2 530s and 2 520s). I'd probably try reflowing BGAs in my buddy's shop's BGA oven.
It's ironic that Musks two big successes were funded by the Obama administration against vehement Republican objections. Shelby repeatedly tried to kill Space-X and without the $400million DOE loan Tesla would never have been able to start production - and without the electric car tax credit - it never would have been able to sell.
I went to a university where 90% of eligible students choose to live on campus every year they're allowed (some juniors are not allowed because of space issues). The school also has no fraternities or sororities.

The vast, VAST majority of freshmen drink themselves stupid at least once per week, even in the dorms.

But if your kids convinced you otherwise, props to them. You have actors or lawyers to look forward to!
The crazy thing about Twitter is how ugly the rebrand is.

I have seen bad rebrands in my life: Far too fashionable. Totally unnecessary. Reactionary.

But I have never seen a company go from good branding like Twitter had (easy on the eyes) to something as ugly as X. I will never bad mouth the branding/advertising/PR guys again.

The logos and colours are hideous. The balance on the whole page is off.

Like there’s the verb he’s thrown away. There’s the awareness. The brand. The goodwill. The safety. But he’s traded it for the least aesthetic choice. It has recontextualised every other redesign I can remember disdaining in my life.
I call bs on this chart. What about all the Chinese streaming apps?
If the client/user doesn't ask to connect, there is no connection.
i said my "search" not "my research"
Do you envy him? Ahah
You seem surprised.
I took a compilers class in undergraduate. We read Appel's Modern Compiler Implementation in ML (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/ml/) and built a compiler for the Tiger language (basically https://github.com/FlexW/tiger-compiler but in SML).

We covered the main chapters but not the advanced topics. If you look at the TOC (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/toc.html) you can get an idea of the necessary steps:

- Lexing

- Parsing

- Symbol table generation

- Type checking

- IR

- Some static analyses (e.g. liveness)

- Some optimizations (e.g. constant folding)

- Assembly generation

- Register allocation

Me and my 1 group-mate had a working compiler at the end. It took a whole semester, sure I was taking other classes and doing other things, but it certainly took more than 2 weekends worth of work (maybe if you count raw hours, 96 in total...).
No, it's the other way around.

SpaceX's yearly spending would include the 61 flights, but also literally thousands of satellites, presumably a huge number of commercial dishes, their human flight overheads, their Starship development program including ground support and production and testing of about a hundred Raptor engines, their sales and outreach, their specific contract work like HLS, and their mug business by the side.

If you were to amortize SLS's total dev costs (incl. Orion and SLS-specific ground support but excluding Constellation) over its reasonably expected lifetime flights, you'll be lucky as heck to get <$10B/flight, though of course we don't know how that adds up and so report the much smaller marginal numbers instead.
> Lets hope their incentives more strongly align with their customers, now.

Private equity is incompatible with "optimism" and "hope".

Even worse when it is the same company that got them listed in the first place, implying that going public was a mistake.
Pretty sure it was sarcasm, given the dinosaur reference there, Mr. Pat
Rock-solid distros with packages that keep with the times and that are as user-friendly as it gets for Linux installs. Both Tumbleweed and Leap are great.

We have far fewer issues in my lab since we replace CentOS with Leap (our experiments with Ubuntu were dreadful and we cannot babysit the computers so anything with complex maintenance is right out).

Going all rolling release was a step too far, too much of a culture shock, but we might switch to Tumbleweed in a couple of years if the stability remains as it is now.
Very certain. The colloquial term is "maypop" and the scientific term is passiflora incarnata. There are numerous species, this is the most northern and its native to the southern US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_incarnata
Agreed that private entities not posting your tweets is not censorship.

But I will stick to my guns that there is much more at stake for people in China that don't behave in the way the government wants them to than just being censored. 'to stop doing something' is doing the heavy lifting in your comment and what the 'something' is can be limited to media expressions and then I would agree it is censorship. But this goes much further than that: it is not just what you write. It is also how you behave, and about what your ancestry is, which activities you are allowed to engage in (and which activities you have to engage in).

Censorship is just about expression. This is full-on coercion, anti-LGBT policy and racism. To make it explicit.
Show HN: Weaviate Streamlit Connector
This is a great project. I have a couple hundred bookmarks categorized and sorted for this very purpose, especially for css/html tooling.

Are you manually entering all this data? How are you preventing spam/duplicated content?

Also, some feedback:
https://www.inouts.com/explore?query=3d+model

I was hoping to see if there were any 3d model assisted ai tools in the db, but the results aren't highly relevant for this search
Pre–Younger Dryas megafaunal extirpation at Rancho La Brea linked to fire
Price is not a good metric here you can subsidize your pricing to hell if you have budget. Elon loves to do this btw.
Word's meanings exists in context. In the context of physics there are intro classes that teach Newton's laws of physics which apply widely to the field.

Running large scale infrastructure is not only a largely creative task, but it's also not settled "how" to do things. There is no infrastructure 101. There isn't really even a "managing complexity" 101. The closest introductory classes generally require reading through 15 different companies white papers and comparing and contrasting those strategies. Even how to organize your data is not formalized and rigorous. These higher level ideas in tech are generally PHD land and not undergrad land. My education didn't talk about monitoring once.

So in the context of tech, what does first principles reference? In physics it references a shared foundation that all physics folks have almost certainly been exposed to. In the context of tech it references an un-formalized idea in the speakers head.

If you took 100 software engineers and put them in groups of 10, and then asked them to codify what they think first principles of their field are, I think you would get 10 different answers. Maybe you would get things like two phase commit and CAP theorem, and likely big O. If you took 10 new grads fresh out of university and said "show me 5 examples of highly coupled code," I think half of them wouldn't be able to do it or explain the coupling or the explicit consequences of that coupling.

In that context is "first principles" informational or is it rhetorical? Is referencing first principles good communication, or does the presence of "first principles" represent unstated information.

The idea of first principles is a variable. It can be passed around to different functions and based on the variable name, you know what it should do, but when you de-reference it, in tech specifically, you get TODO: implement. So rather than talking about first principles explicitly and de-referencing what it means, it is left as an exercise to the listener to decode.

The idea of telling someone to practice first principles thinking, to me, is akin to saying "use common sense." Is common sense explicitly defined or is it a way to say that you did not use common sense, or you violated shared understanding of the right way to act?

It's no wonder OP asked how to practice first principles thinking because in the context of tech, the idea of first principles is opaque and poorly defined. Decomposing a system into core axiomatic truths that must not be contradicted in any kind of rigorous or formalized way is literally PHD level work that the average undergrad has little exposure to.

I suspect that any time first principles are mentioned it references the idea that the foundational level in Bloom's Taxonomy, knowledge, is not enough to support the layers above it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy

As an industry, we don't have a formalized way to measure code quality, to measure complexity, or to measure the relationship between complexity and necessary complexity.

So again I would assert that first principles thinking is a fancy way of saying: "understand the problem and the context it exists within."
Is there any reason for the buyer here who already owns almost 80% of the company to offer a 67% premium for the remaining 20% of the shares? What would have happened if they offered a 30% premium or a 15% one (from what I understand, they have both simple majority and qualified majority so that means they don't really need to ask anyone for anything). It's not like they want to get 100% ownership since this is a purely voluntary buy-out and existing investors can choose to stay.
I often hear lead levels being attributed to changing behaviors. Maybe it also accounts for some of the changing looks.
A Framework for Optimized, Integrated Lunar Infrastructure
AI will be defeated with sarcasm.
BLUF ("bottom line up-front") might make a lot of sense in in-person communications, especially regimented ones like the US military (the example from the article). And it's valuable advice for long-form or durable writing. But the constant casual writing ("chat") that characterizes tech work is a different environment with different pitfalls, which message board nerds have known about and discussed for-ev-er. I don't think BLUF squares well with chat environments; it seems like a recipe for being constantly misunderstood and mistrusted.
That isn’t true: Apple Mail is perfectly capable of showing plain-text-only messages.
Yes. Not quite the appearance one gets from aging, exactly, so much as a weathering. Sometimes literally. Sun exposure is pretty bad for the skin. The effects of certain kinds of heavy manual labour on the body are debilitating, too. You still see men and women who suffer the effects of that today in industrialized societies, but it's nothing like in the past.

I've noticed that men who work hard jobs often look older than they are. They're often taking physical injuries, and may be outdoors in the sun without UV protection. They end up stooped over, wrinkled, asymmetrical, much sooner than people who aren't exposed to those kinds of conditions.

And from what I can tell, the average person's working life before the mid-20th century, roughly, was comparable to today being a roofer, landscaper, warehouser, on-foot postal worker, something like that, in terms of physical wear on the body. But maybe worse.
> In my experience, men, engineers, and especially engineers who are men tend to think of this as unnecessary fluff. They often decline to add these little social niceties because to them, they sound inauthentic.

I really hate to make such a clichéd and usually flawed argument, but can you imagine the reverse going down well? And if the male cohort (to continue this stereotype/generalisation/simplification) don't like it, it's only a 'social nicety' for the rest right? It's not at all obvious to me that that should be a goal.

It's a lot easier to have your diverse group 'transmit' in the way they each prefer than it is to invert and have them use the others' preference - and it's not clear that that's better anyway? Especially if you're aiming for equity on the team, in which event it would be arbitrary, so why not go for easy.

But really I think people are so diverse in personality and communication style that, especially on a people-you-actually-work-with sized team, gender is irrelevant even if you're correct about its link to exclamation marks, not least because there'll be so much else besides them.

Something I have been doing semi-consciously is using question marks more, even though it was grammatically a statement. Sort of: I'm not ordering you to do this thing (I'm not in a position to anyway but maybe that's not clear) I'm just pretty confident in this, but you should feel able to correct or 'challenge' me.

E.g. (code review context)

I don't think we should wazzle the foobar here, because the splines aren't reticulated until L94.

Vs.

I don't think we should wazzle the foobar here, the splines aren't reticulated until L94?
I would say that we are stuck in a lie that other people don't matter. We are stuck in the lie that the wellbeing of other people does not affect us.
So much this. I've noticed it and talked about it for years. Glad someone wrote about it. I definitely think the "dress and act your age" thing was a big factor and I'm so glad that went out the window. Not so that people will get to be immature (that was already there, just buried), but so that people finally get to really define themselves and how they will age gracefully.
it's rather easy to have both randomness and reproducibility, though:

generate a random seed, log it, then create an RNG using that "random, but recorded" seed. make sure all randomness used in the test flows from that explicitly-seeded RNG.

then, have an escape hatch where if a seed is provided as an environment variable, it will use that instead of generating one.

if you have a failure occur, you can always re-run with the same seed as a way to reproduce the failure (assuming it was indeed caused by that random seed and not some other factor)

depending on how fast the tests are, it may also be possible to run them multiple times with different seeds. for example, your on-every-commit CI run might run once with a hardcoded seed of 42. or it might run once with a hardcoded seed and once with a random seed.

and meanwhile, you might have a nightly test run that runs that same test suite 100 or 1000 times, with a different random seed each time.
> nothing of the sorts has actually happened at all.

Twitter went from not-profitable to profitable-on-ads. The ad model was proven to work. That's what happened in the interim.
nyrb published a nice edition
Unions Say Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell Won’t Budge on Contracts
What specifically does Google measure? Entire load time, or just first contentful paint?
I think it's mostly the giant 90 year old Florida retiree glasses.