skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to write technical books. I wrote several books for O'Reilly. I don't write anymore. Piracy took such a huge chunk of my revenue that I could make more money in less time working at the carwash or delivering pizza. Literally.

My first O'Reilly book sold 1000s of copies per month. My last book sold 5-15 copies per month. It took me 7 months working half time to write it. So, I was making at most $150 per month for the 2-3 year life of the book. I never earned out my advance, which was only $5,000.

Have you noticed? O'Reilly publishes few books anymore. You wonder why current books are garbage? Piracy killed book publishing, except for detective novels and other entertainment-oriented books that, in some sense, were garbage all along. So, you want free books? You got 'em. Just don't whine about how badly they suck. You wouldn't work for free and you can't reasonably expect capable authors to do so. They'll find something better to do with their time. Do I have to explain what that should tell you about those who continue to write???
It's easy to say, Apple was entirely Woz and Steve Jobs was just a freeloader.

That's a nice story, but managing talent is difficult as being a good engineer does not mean you are a good entrepreneur, or are good at business. Case in point: Why doesn't literally any CPU engineer at Intel, or airline engineer at Boeing, or hardware engineer at Apple, start their own company? Sure, sometimes it happens, but it only happens once or twice a decade for tens, if not hundreds of thousands of really, really smart people. And none of those companies so far have become industry titans that challenged their original company.
Thanks! I believe there are some interesting startup opportunities in this space, but is muddy as hell and scary to get into due to built up complexity over the decades.
HashiCorp Vault - is big in Secrets management but its not the Terraform of Secrets management it's just too easy to make another product.

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

AWS KMS

Google Cloud KMS - Cloud Key Management System

Azure Key Vault

confidant - https://lyft.github.io/confidant

keywhiz - https://github.com/square/keywhiz

knox - https://github.com/pinterest/knox

strongboxsafe - https://strongboxsafe.com

conjur - https://www.conjur.org

+ many more

Ansible Vault - probably not competing directly

I am pretty sure companies like netflix, facebook, uber, tesla and others are probably using their own in house creations.
ill double that notion, id love to work on something as important as this :^)
Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc
"If the climate is warming then why is it snowing right now?"

You've got to come up with better material than that. That's a vintage 2000's denialist gotcha.
There aren't tho.

The only other thing that stays on is the NFC (for express transit cards) and Find My iPhone (for finding it). Which you can turn off if you want, I suppose, but I don't think even the EU would mandate you must lose your phone if it's turned off.
hm? "superconductors that levitate over magnets" == type-II, type-II can be spun and held upside-down.
Posts normally 44 days ago, then nothing until last night sometime, now this all over the place. I wonder what happened to this person.
Early Linux is before my time in computing. Had to look up SLS - Softlanding Linux System[0] - thought it might have been something to do with Slackware.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System
Is it something specific to SF and the policies made there? Clearly this doesn’t happen in all states, so what are they doing right that doesn’t lead to this type of degeneracy?
There Is a Digital Art History
> This could be a teachable moment that could inform people about climate change, coronavirus and other scientific claims...

I addressed why.
I know that several average (non-connected) people have received their CCW issued by San Francisco, which would be absolutely unheard of before Bruen.
Or simply build adequate infrastructure.

Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)

https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU
It does delimiter auto detection and for the Statistics feature, it automatically detects dot vs. comma decimals.
in your case there seem likely to be extenuating circumstances; just after posting the above you accused me of 'anti-semitic rhetoric' in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150457 for example

people who egregiously abuse the site like that may be less likely to get cooperation in concealing their abuses
At the same time, it does speak to an almost childish obsession with recognition and being seen by the outside as the "most genius". I think the extreme vanity demonstrated by Mr. Jobs was both a huge factor in his success but also the thing, in some ways, held him back. "Held him back" is of course relative. He had more success than almost anyone in the modern technological era, but could he have had even more? Who knows.

But I also don't understand why Reddit commenters, or anyone, would care so much as to be "up in arms" over this or any anecdote about corporate gamesmanship.
The classic case is if I write tests, then write code and the tests pass first time I better break the code and make sure the tests definitely fail for a good reason.
They’re actually complaining about the fact that it still keeps some wireless services turned on when the device is off, for example to find your phone or to use nfc for public transportation. I don’t think anyone complains that it keeps track of the time.
Kinda meta advice, but I'd be careful about converting your hobbies into paid gigs. It's a great way to make yourself hate your hobby, especially when it turns out it's not very lucrative and the customers are assholes. I learned this the hard way with photography.

People who advocate "hustle culture" tend to not have very lucrative main jobs, or no upward mobility in their current role. So they look for weird "hacks" to make a few bucks on the side, like drop-shipping garbage or starting some weird self-help YouTube channel. In the world of engineering, I think it's way more useful to focus on your core skillset and learn new things around that.

That said, boringcashcow.com has inspired me to try to come up with a simple programming project that could turn over 4 figures a month. It made me realize in software you can just go for base hits, not home runs, and still make plenty of money.
Was this something you had planned to announce prior to the whole Terraform kerfuffle and it is just unfortunate timing, or was this precipitated by that event in any way?
I recently powered up a 2012 Macbook Air with SSD after 7 years and had no data loss.
Checked freelancer websites, but competition is crazy there (developing a full-fledged ecommerce web application for $100, and such

Take hourly projects instead of fixed price.
That funnel visualization is one of the best I've ever seen for illustrating the numbers over time.
There are some programs that match founders, bring in VCs and overall facilitate "Networking" - those are tagged as such. Hope that helps!
It’s like a football (soccer) team. Yes the players are playing and scoring goals. But a great coach (SAF) is just as important as a great team. Without him, the same team doesn’t perform the same.
The description isn’t clear. Really the broken door is in a short tunnel which connects the two main tunnels. It’s for emergency use only. There’s no closed doors in the main tunnels
No need for "j/k" here. The original quote was something to the effect of "The customer is always right in matters of taste." It wasn't intended as a dictum to bend over backward to the breaking point and beyond in the name of "customer service."
Right. If I’m friends with a bunch of bigots and I delegate my moderation function to them, I would expect the system to work as you described. This is community moderation.

Or are you suggesting that an optimal social network should jam both gay marriage and beheading videos down my throat?

I’m honestly curious what you’re getting at here. Would you mind making a much more substantive post?
If the UI is a problem try twitching the userchrome.css.

I have done so in order to make it work with treestyletab as I like it and if you care about ht UI, the userchrome.css gives you a lot of freedom. In addition, I sync it via Nextcloud across my devices, so that I don't have to make changes per device.
Gorilla: Integrating LLMs with millions of external APIs
Gorilla from University of California, Berkeley's Sky Lab is an incredibly interesting open source project that integrates LLMs with external tools via millions of continually changing APIs. In this post, Shishir Patil and Tianjun Zhang on why they created Gorilla and the rapidly accelerating adoption they are seeing, processing 100k user requests now (up 2x in just the past 3 weeks)!
Others can comment with their experience but my guess was informed by recent job searches and forums, albeit not for this title. Doing a search right now for a Staff Engineer in Toronto seems to hint at 180 - 200K CAD being the upper limit.
Well, imagine if he didn't build this persona. Would he have succeeded in getting investments for NeXT? Would employees have worked for NeXT inspired by him? Would Apple have ever bought NeXT?

We don't know.
In my city there are multiple stores that just bulk buy returns, dump them into bins and sell at a fixed price per item that starts at $25 goes down every day until the end of the weekly cycle when everything is a dollar.
I think you're conflating PR with the science underneath.

PR is something we cannot control -- and avoiding releasing results in a (semi-vain?) attempt to control PR arguably does more harm than releasing them does.

The sea makes waves as it will. We can moderate as much as we are able. I think the rest is simply a matter of accepting that things happen as they do out of our control. We can only truly impact ---- and even then, not necessarily guaranteed! D: ---- -- in some potentially very small part -- whatever sphere is around us, and I feel that that's a collective individual responsibility.
There is no suggestion, that's the whole point.
The city has consistently shown they're unwilling to do this.

Getting a CCW is something you as a citizen can do now. Personally, I'm in favor of having an option other than being a victim.
if you sincerely wish to understand how htmx is different than the current SPA-talking-to-a-JSON-API approach I would start here:

https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-driven-applications/

and then work through the rest of the essays:

https://htmx.org/essays/
That just looks like another no-code platform that's trying to get people to use them by promising riches.

> Imagine being able to build an app like Airbnb in a weekend.

I really doubt that's possible.

> Future-proof your resume

By concentrating your skills in one platform that's probably not going to exist in 2 years?
completely agree, i dont have many apps on phone but the average size is over 200mb and they want to update constantly w hehe funny patch notes which is rude considering the bandwidth you expect users to burn updating. i find it completely amazing no one bats an eye on these ( not to mention the mobile data usage )
Charles Stross has written at least two full-length novels that are, at their core, about interstellar economics:

- Neptune's Brood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune%27s_Brood)

- Singularity Sky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky)
Debian changed my life. My first look at an OS produced by a collective of disparate developers was RedHat 5.0 in the late 90s. Linux HOWTOs were basically all the docs I had. I got a pppd to answer the phone and dialed home from my friends house. I was logged in as root all the time. fvwm was the pinnacle of cool.

Debian changed all that. Local, top quality documentation. A community. Packages that had been hand crafted to work like the rest of the system. The friction disappeared and let me move freely around the OS discovering things. Imagine walking around LA and then someone gives you a car and a map — that was the kind of difference in quality of experience it gave me.

potato worked. woody felt like the future. I ran it for years on my iBook G3 (which one of the DDs helped me set up.) To this day, “sarge” still feels like the ultimate next gen, so it’s funny to see it is actually pretty old. To me, sarge means “futuristic out of touch thing” because I waited for it for so long.

Thank you all so much.
For the record, smoke spewing industrial plants very frequently also have notably, unignorably higher cancer rates in the area as well.

So even ignoring the environment, these people are just trying to cancer themselves.
fyi, there's a recent rerelease/port of bugdom for modern OSes, ambrosia open sourced it: https://github.com/jorio/bugdom
The current generation of models (Llama/Llama2) seem to pass a threshold of "good enough" for the majority of use cases at 60b+ parameters. Quantized 30b models that can run in 24gb of GPU VRAM are good enough for many applications but definitely show their limitations frequently.

It is likely that we will eventually see good fine tunes for Llama 30b that produce usable output for code/other challenging domains, but until we get GPUs with 48g+ VRAM we're going to have to make do with general models that aren't great at anything, and fine tunes that only do one very narrow thing well.
> It amuses me that there is so much criticism of the modern web - but a modern app is massively larger.

Both of these problems are ridiculous. But the web one is arguably more severe, since you only download an app once.
I keep it simple: Directory on a Linux-based NAS for storage, NFS for sharing (SMB if your wife uses Windows). Free, easy to set up and use, comes with the distribution, will run forever with no maintenance once set up.
I think its a mixture of incompetence, micromanaging (you need to use very inappropriate radioactive or chemical warfare agents like Novitchok) and indifference (since terror is a major goal).

Here are elite GRU assassins giving an interview to support their cover story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZatub49aIA
YBCO isn't really used for anything. MRI machines use metallic NbTi even though it requires liquid helium because YBCO is too brittle and can't handle large currents.
Do you believe I should be able to stop someone from robbing my house when police don’t do their job?
That doesn't look like any definition of RLHF I'm familiar with, which amounts to first training a reward model on human feedback and then using that reward model to train the target model [1]. No reaching out to humans involved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning_from_hu...
Skid Row 2.0? Except a few years ago this had the potential to become the tech capital of the world. What a crazy downturn, and yet I don't see enough outrage from the people who are in the middle of it.
> Should we take them away from the cops as well,

No. We should eliminate the cops (who have actively contributed to the current problem as a political protest to lobby for more control) and rebuild SF law enforcement as a non-monolithic function distributed in domain-specific units throughout local government (that component of the solution is not specific to SF, but SF is more accutely problematic than most places.)

Probably less of the total manpower directed to enforcing the law should be armed with firearms, an armed paramilitary force is not a universal solution, but there still should be armed enforcement.
Wouldn't a 200% export tax on high water items incentivize the same foreign investors to purchase more cattle operations in the US, ship their alfalfa to those ranches, then ship the meat abroad?
I wonder whereabouts you are? I'm in South Texas which is currently going through a heat wave and drought the likes of which I've not seen (and it wasn't like it was cool and wet here before). Trees seem to be giving up, and I think I've noticed more animals dead on the road than ever before; I'd assume from heat exhaustion or thirst. Also a co-worker's well ran dry and apparently it's difficult to drill another because the local concrete supplier's well also ran dry. Meanwhile, my city (San Antonio) reports that they're dealing with a lot of water main breaks because of ground shifting. It all feels like the start of a dystopian near-future sci fi.

I suppose to balance it out somewhat and not catastrophize too much, it seems like we have good water management because we aren't in the deepest level of drought restrictions and it seems like the state has quietly added a fair amount of solar energy which has been keeping our power grid from seeing major issues.
We had a Costco couch that fell apart after a few months. I wanted to Craigslist it, but my wife wanted to return it. I carried it and the biggest load of shame I’ve ever felt in to the customer service counter and apologized profusely to the guy working there. He shrugged and said “man, it happens all the time, no problem. You wouldn’t believe the kind of stuff people return.”

Another Costco employee told me that they go by the 51% rule: if you have 51% of an item, they’ll take it back, even if it’s the bones and packaging from a two-month-old rotisserie chicken that you say you didn’t like.
Sometimes Amazon will issue a refund immediately when you drop off a package at DHL (i.e. right after they scan the QR code in the shop). I always wondered if that means they won't bother to look at what you actually return to them and it will simply go to a recycler or landfill.
I hope development of a treatment doesn't take 10 years.
that's not what i was saying. If temperature is going up then every day/week/month is warmer than the previous. It's a tongue-in-cheek way of saying I don't see how July being the hottest month on record would be surprising or newsworthy given the current climate trends.
Buy shares of stocks and use that as collateral to sell covered calls.
> All in all I find this game of "secretly being homophobic" pathetic, and that you would quote "That’s Not Happening and It’s Good That It Is" is extremely ironic. Just be straight with it and say that you hate gays, or that certain people are lesser people or whatever you think. You're gonna get in trouble anyway. Or is it worth the trouble to hate people? Good luck.

This last paragraph is just a boring personal attack/implicit threat, and obviously not OK. You are not going to have a lot of luck convincing people who disagree with you like that. And you may get yourself in trouble on HN. [1]

[1]: From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
The point I'm making and that you're missing, relates to one's hierarchy of knowledge.

If you have personal experience of something, and then someone comes along and says something that is the antithesis of your experience, which source should you accept? Your experience or the other person? What if the other person is not a person, but a famous science journal - which source should you accept then?

The answer, if you are authority of yourself - is your own experience, every time. This trumps all other sources. It is the only golden source you have. Of course it can be fallible, but you do not intend to deceive yourself.

Other external sources can claim whatever they like! There are lots of incentives and mistakes that can be made. But it should not count for you more highly than your personal experience. For your own sanity, you must be aligned with your own experience - the other is that you are susceptible to any provided story.
oh, the scaffold provides the triggers :O interesting! I thought it would be something based on the types of neighbouring cells.
Didn't they just add one to the right click menu? There was a story about it recently.

edit link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151607
Almost certainly not worth it on anything but an institutional scale, and even then most efforts fail or are huge wastes of time and money.

Stick to good data and simple techniques, and even then be aware you're extraordinarily unlikely to post higher gains than you'd get with DCA and index funds.
I mean, maybe you both high end and low end, so there's something to aspire to, but on a global market, the majority of phones sold aren't flagships. And a new entrant isn't going to be able to sell a flagship phone with no apps; and you're not going to get apps without at least expected sales. Addressing the bottom of the market allows you to get sales to justify app development, and that allows you to make sales for high end phones plausible.

I don't use iOS devices, but I understand the experience is generally considered to be pleasant. The Android is really not that great; there's definitely room for someone to build something with UI that's not made of molasses; but it's going to be a real uphill slog to get it into the marketplace, and it's going to have to be driven by market share on the low end that goes upmarket over time.
I couldn't agree more. Canada is a perfect place for near-shoring: high quality, cheap labour with none of the timezone or language issues. It's mystifying why we don't see more demand.
Shouldn't the police do that?
I guess no one else is allowed to have indirect lighting anymore (/s)

As someone not well versed in how startups work, why do they need to acquire the entire company to have the team work for them, as opposed to negotiating with the employees individually? Is it essentially a lump sum payment to stop what they were currently working on.
California launches mobile Digital License
The mDL offers a quick and secure identity-check at airports, without handing over your phone. Speed through TSA PreCheck® at SFO and LAX. Control the information you share when purchasing adult beverages. Be among the first to carry your driver’s license on your phone by joining this voluntary pilot.
I use Synology Photos to back up to my Synology NAS in the basement:

https://www.synology.com/en-global/DSM70/SynologyPhotos

It has mobile apps that back up photos automatically. My wife and I each have the iOS apps running and photos just upload magically to the NAS. Viewing photos is a good experience too. I also use another Synology app to back up my photos from my NAS to AWS Glacier.

Super happy I moved them from Shutterfly.
how much do you make from it?
I had a similar issue and wanted a "Google Photos" like product. So a web-interface with a time-based list and an phone-application that automatically back-ups.

I'm currently using Synology Moments/Photos which comes for free with a Synology NAS.

I've recently been on a trip with random strangers sailing on a boat and I could easily request the others' photos, import them in an album and share it with the rest of the group.

I'm struggling to find a better alternative that is workable and is almost set-and-forget.
This is the opposite of a weak counterargument! Referring to Montana's judicial decisions as if they are edicts that span beyond its borders is called stare decisis or legal precedent. Montana's supreme court decision can absolutely guide decisions beyond Montana's border.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent#Principle
> The most vague, the most serious the issue.

It depends. When I was working on security software, any problems that impacted security were explained to customers in great detail.

Problems that were merely embarrassing, though, were always described in the vaguest possible terms.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37139410