skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Novak Djokovic is a boraderline insane person

Not surprised at all to see qualified psychiatric professionals chiming in on HN! Have an upvote!
Finally addressing this other scammer portion of junk blockcoins et al. Long overdue.
>Says who? an IP is absolutely PII from its inception. It's an identifier. "IP X is requesting xxxsite.com? That's assigned to Larry in accounting. Better call HR."

No, it's locally identifiable information. IP X is assigned to Larry's computer. That might be Larry making that request, but it should be considered a leap in logic to reach that conclusion without more information.
It's not the more they know, it's the more credentials they have. Which is not the same, often wildly so.
How do you handle dependencies like libraries?
Foxconn founder Terry Gou announces run for Taiwan presidency
> How does a "monorepo" differ from, say, using a master project containing many git submodules[1], perhaps recursively

One fundamental way it differs is atomic commits. You can't change something in repo A and subsubrepo XYZ in a single pull.

A monorepo allows you to do things like atomic commits to arbitrary pairs of files in the repo, which among other things opens up the possibility of enforcing single-version of libraries, which in turn removes a whole class of diamond dependency issues.

There's other benefits, but imo it's probably not worth it for most companies because of the staggering number of things it breaks in the developer toolspace once it gets large enough. Eventually you need teams of people that do nothing but make tooling to support monorepo scaling, because everything off the shelf explodes (what do you do when even perforce can't handle your repo?)

For example, at Google we have a team of people who do nothing but, effectively, recreate the cross referencing and jump-to-def everyone else gets for "free" from IntelliJ / VS intellisence, etc. (We do other stuff too, but that's a fair paraphrase). And on top of that the team really only exists because Steve Yegge is a Force to be Reckoned With, otherwise we might still be flailing around without jump to def, idk.
Honeycomb's pricing is pretty reasonable - but looking at your volume, some sampling might help also
Preparing for Commercial Chiplets
> goal-setting, time management, and motivation.

Oh good.

More productivity hacking.

Maybe I should come up with some KPIs? Put together quarterly reports? Find more ways to quantify my self-worth so I can maximize it?
Show HN: I built a website that lets you read classic books as email newsletters
But it's still the same answer. The people on this website may discuss politics, may even do flamewars, but not here. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's no disgrace to western civilization in being a fully-involved citizen, but not taking all of your partisan politics into a mostly-technical forum.
10 micron tolerance on body panels sounds like a typo. Coefficient of thermal expansion of steel is 6.5 microns/in/F. So, a 2 degrees F change in temperature will put parts over an inch out of spec. Imagine a 3 foot (36in) body panel going from a 80 degree stamping area to 75 degree assembly area. It will be out of spec by over 1000 microns!
> Maybe it's because of the advent of self taught engineers?

All good engineers are self-taught whether they went to university for CS or not. Almost everything required to become skilled or knowledgeable happens outside the classroom. If you don't have an interest or passion to be deeply competent, it won't happen through osmosis because someone else is teaching you, you still have to do the hard work and experimentation on your own. Mediocrity in software engineering has been the norm as long as I've been in it.

Also, "self-taught" engineers aren't new, and some software domains like hardcore systems software seem to be mostly self-taught. In the past I think it was even more prevalent due to the dearth of easily accessible information and learning material. Blogs and tutorials weren't a thing, you had to learn a lot of things experimentally, which often had the side effect of much deeper understanding than if you'd just read about it. The massive increase in available software engineering knowledge is a huge improvement but it also reduces the need for understanding the material. If you can google a solution to a software problem you don't necessarily need to understand why or how it solves a problem.
Practice during school hours is more than enough. Primary education is not so demanding that you need more to succeed.
I used to not like them pre chat gpt. But nowadays when you can paste an arcane awk/sed illegible one liner into an AI and have it describe step by step what it’s doing in totally fine with it now. I still don’t like them as much as a few lines of python for unit test ability reasons but sometimes you just straight up don’t need unit tests for some quick data munging task
Skip 25.5 minutes if you want to see the opening... and after watching a minute or two, skip till 34:21
Actually, it was exactly the same in France where we operate. It is written that H2 is forbidden but we asked the civil aviation authority and they told us that we just need to ask for the autorization to use this gas when we organize our flight approval.
We asked the same question to the EU aviation authority and they told us that were not seeing any problem with using H2 as a lifting gas because of the great record of the Gordon Bennett Cup: https://balloonfiesta.com/Gordon-Bennett-2023. Which had no incident in many years.
Can you make great products and have success without focusing on marketing?
Can you make great products and have success without focusing on marketing?

Let's look at this with the example of recently released films: Barbie and Oppenheimer.

They came out on the same day, they have the same budget for production, gorgeous well-known actors, but there is one big difference. Directors spent $150 million on the marketing of Barbie, while $145 million was spent on the creation. Oppenheimer did not allocate such a budget for marketing.

The result? Oppenheimer's fees are $600 million, Barbie's fees are twice as much - $ 1.2 billion. So if you're making a great product, do yourself a favor and lay down a budget for promotion so as not to steal your profits. In addition to money, "Barbie" obviously received many other advantages, but that's not about it now.

Marketing is an amazing tool, especially when it is handled by a team of professionals, so if the product is great, then it is strange to neglect it. But is it possible to make a cool product without focusing on marketing? Of course, it is possible, even on the example of the "Oppenheimer" ;)
Sheesh, no wonder everyone is doing it wrong.
I came here to link to Pullum.

Most of the specific rules were nonsense: among vs. between, passive voice dogmatism, etc.

Unfortunately, these things have become shibboleths that indicate membership in a particular class of people. If you used among vs. between "wrong" in high school or college, there's a good chance that your teacher corrected you, so now most of the educated elite believes the rule to be "right".

Bizarrely, Strunk & White's prescriptive rules, which had very little to do with English grammar historically when they wrote their book, have now—via generations of dogmatic education—become generally accepted by the educated elite. Ironically, a descriptive grammar must therefore now acknowledge the among vs. between distinction, at least in formal English writing.

We must right this wrong! If we shout loudly enough, maybe we can create entirely new shibboleths, and a new generation of elites can look down on the uneducated masses that follow Strunk & White.
You might want to explore case studies or success stories of similar partnerships online to gather insights. Additionally, open communication and setting clear expectations from the beginning can contribute to a fruitful collaboration.

Best of luck with this exciting new venture!
If you're using Rust, Go, C, Java, or some other performant language then it shouldn't be much. If you're using a slower scripting language like Ruby or JavaScript then you might have issues.
A demo would be nice.
I don’t have OCD but I’ve found the same in many situations. I actually have spent a lot of my life on music, and enjoy a lot of it, but nowhere near to the degree of many others. Really, I could lose it as part of my life. I agree with the Buddhist take on it: it’s distracting and dangerous, and it’s a blameful kind of pleasure that leads to suffering
I'm also an engineer that had to study basic law and what you described matches what I learnt. A contract requires a statement of intent[1], where the bar for this is pretty low, e.g. a handshake. So, many things are considered a contract that a layman wouldn't
think of. Of course not literally everything is a contract and the question regarding the GPL here is if this minimum threshold can be considered crossed.

[1] I think this is pretty universal across legal systems, but I could be wrong.
We tracé everything and first collects all spans in their trace. Then we sample the successful traces and we retain all traces ending in a failed state. This greatly reduces the need for storage.
So should I use lang X for one feature, then shuttle that over to lang Y for another language feature, then marshall those results to a third language for its one original feature, then keep going?

Or would it be OK to recognize that most ecosystems adapt good ideas from each other?
Yes, we employ them regularly. And yes, I use both ChatGPT and copilot regularly.

In my experience, if you compare the unedited output of ChatGPT to the unedited output of someone with a couple years of experience in the given domain, ChatGPT will have more subtle bugs than the human provided output.

Hence my between junior & mid assessment. It doesn't mean that it's useless though. Having a tool at that level of experience for every domain in the world that can cook up code near instantaneously is damn useful. And I assume it'll only get better.
I think lang author is asking to not start flame wars, but there are bunch of people (you included) attacking him first in this topic, and he can't respond?
> whether or not LLMs will turn out to be useful depends on future developments

But LLMs are already useful. All kinds of people are using them to improve their writing, they now ship with grammar-check tools like Grammarly. All the big tech firms are working on integrating them into their virtual assistants. Every developer is using github copilot now. StackOverflow is in crisis because chatgpt is the perfect rubber duck. There are tons of applications in marketing, from drafting ad copy to keeping tabs on consumer buzz.

If the question you're trying to interrogate is "will LLMs become AGI", then yeah, that's a big open question, but also that's a bar that's much higher than "whether or not it'll be useful" or even "whether or not it'll be game-changing", and it already is undeniably both of those things.
Weird, you articulated the exact point of bias in AI but the tone you used is dismissing.
Yes obviously AI is not a moral agent and it isn't racist per se.
But if it's input is biased and the test is biased then the application will be biased. That's a problem, if you go and deploy these models where their training data is lacking.
Let's say, self driving car using the AI you described deployed in Uttar Pradesh is less safe because of bias.

What is wrong with this statement in your opinion?
I expect Texas to be the first state to experience a wet bulb event.
Its only a matter of time before we get a combination of extreme heat and a massive failure of their power grid.

Hundreds of deaths in a single day will lead to... nothing.
Same politicians will be voted in and the deaths will just be counted as the price of freedom
Think about everyday challenges you face – maybe a task that could be automated or an app that simplifies a process. Combining hobbies with coding can also be rewarding; for instance, if you're into fitness, create a workout tracker.

Remember, the journey is as important as the end result, so enjoy the learning process and don't hesitate to seek inspiration from coding communities and online project repositories!
A 60-second video changed one designer’s career
The concept of NFTs stored on a distributed ledger makes sense to me especially for the shitty games that sell skins.

The idea they have some sort of value and can be considered a security, doesn't really. It is no different than the current in-game marketplaces that sell/resell skins from whatever game has skins this week.

At what point does a thing you buy or sell become a security? Are baseball cards a security? Should my local baseball card shop be closed down as an unregistered securities broker?

I don't own crypto or NFTs, so maybe I'm just not informed enough?
Land of the Free*

But how is it possible to be sued if the participation to the league is on a voluntary basis and the injury comes from a tackle made by a member of the opposite team?

Like Homer didn't sue mr. Burns when he was hit in the head by Shelbyville pitcher during the Nuclear Power Plants softball tournament.
The FAA's 1995 Airship Design Criteria report says: "The lifting gas must be non-flammable."

Page 44: https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/aircraft/air_cert/de...
I was told a story about a time capsule in Covina, CA, USA same result nothing found, because hermetic sealing wasn't figured out until a year after that one was buried.
This clearly shows the capsule was breached and 200 years of water, air or moisture will ruin anything organic. Worst case it was human ashes, I doubt something like that, Kosciuszko died in Switzerland, but it would be interesting to do some mineral x-ray gun atomic analysis on the remainders to see paper? cloth? only silt?.
The Westinghouse one was done about as well as you can preserve organic things like paper and cloth.
Also reminds me of the TMBG song "By the time you get this" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsCOajqLycI
Man, I live in California where we barely have seasons
here is another source [0], found with a moment of googling (then again, I'm not trying to convince myself it isn't true, so I had no objections to looking)

so, we know that's true. And I get that elmu and tesla don't want to be accountable for their screwups, but as another poster pointed out, the Tesla policy in question is egregious, and imo loses them the benefit of the doubt here.

as for it contradicting the experience of every tesla owner, I'm not sure that's true. Given that we know the policy is true, and tesla owners aren't all hallucinating, that must mean there isn't actually a contradiction between the two. It seems like perhaps you misunderstood, tesla obviously wouldn't cover up stuff like normal maintenance, we're talking about manufacturing defects, something tesla is notorious for downplaying and covering up.

why won't tesla either release the records showing this issue is bunk, or categorically deny he came in at all? the most likely explanation is that they know the issue is real, and they were instructed by the known policy not to transmit retainable proof of such knowledge, and they don't want to be sued for libel for calling truth-tellers liars. After all, they've previously had no problem sharing information on customer usage when they believed it exonerated them [1].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737972/tesla-whistleblo...

[1] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-releases-data-logs-...
Once- in-a-century heatwave may soon happen every other year
We use LangChain to crawl documentation and code examples for relevant frameworks and libraries, to make sure that the AI generated PR is up-to-date. We also have a custom dependency resolver that detects which new dependencies need to be added, as well as updating the package.json files with the correct version numbers
> "are licenses contracts"

IANAL. But, obviously, a license is a license, and a contract is a contract.

If I produce a copyrighted work, you can't copy it without my permission, which is what a license is. If I grant you a license, I can require that you do something for me in return (e.g. pay me), and I can restrict what you can do with your copies. That's a contract, and if you violate it's terms, you might lose the license.

What did I miss?
> Kier Starmer

Keir
A "search" is looking at what is private, not normally visible. The inside of your house is a place where "search" is the correct term. But if you're outside, you're visible, both to the police and to regular people.

Your home may be your castle; the parking lot at the mall (for example) is not. You have no expectation of what you do there not being seen.
There’s a plateau (or a few plateaus) that are hard to break through without huge effort when learning an instrument
> How do you keep it secure with such ancient software? What happens when it goes down and you don’t have backups?

Only 3 ports are open: 80 443 <another for ssh that isn't 20>

The nginx is just a proxy to the frontend and a file cache, I'm confident I could rebuild it in under an hour even without access to what is there today. Also confident that if it's compromised it can't do much real harm, I will nuke it.

The django is just a thin front end that calls an API, I'm confident that when it gets compromised it can't do further damage as it has no direct access to the DB. And TBH, if/when it dies it will be a kick up the butt to reimplementing this in Go (I've about 60% of that already done but I only look at it once a year for a few evenings)

> I can’t imagine a service that’s both unimportant and has so many users. So many questions.

It's a platform with 300 forums on it.

And I guess if it goes down I discover either the users didn't care (no big loss) or the users really care (and perhaps now the donations would be sufficient to cover the eng time for me to get someone to complete the frontend rewrite in Go).

The whole thing is provided for free, and I figure people get what they pay for. I used to feel very emotionally attached, but now I'm quite YOLO about it. I believe these things should be ephemeral, if it turns out it has run it's time then so be it.
Use a decent IDE that allows you to review PRs from within the IDE.
Yeah. If you were decently high ranked in any popular video game at the time, you had to make sure you didn't share a username between Skype/the game, or you'd be DDOSed endlessly.
It’s remarkable how much sympathetic pain the phrase “stepping on a Lego at night” causes
What can I do as an amateur hacker to get the best programming job next year?
I spent about a decade on a different career path but have always done small python projects for fun (making games, writing bots for games, doing coding challenges). My current career is coming to an end and I have about a year to prepare for a programming job hunt. I was thinking of doing a portfolio piece since I don't have any real credentials, something like a full stack website that does some memey gpt stuff since that sounds fun but I'd like to hear any other ideas or advice
And yet it doesn't work well in practice.
Don't manage other people's time [video]
They were saying it wasn't meant to be personally identifable. Not that it wasn't. And they're right, a large part of the foundations of the internet were built and designed for the past and what was happening in the past with no real idea of how it would all grow and we would continue to use these building blocks.

Email is a great example. We've patched things on top of it to try and fix the fundamental flaws but they're still there. An easy one is that you don't have to prove you own an email address to send an email that looks like it's from that sender. We added DKIM, DMARC, etc. But the flaw still fundamentally exists.
It's wild that a device made for people with vision disabilities decided to have one of those scroll-through-animation websites.

That's probably the most obviously bad web design ideas I could imagine using.
> Covid made me realize how important being close to family was.

Ironically, being close to family is the primary reason why I haven't sold my house for seven figures more than I paid for it and nope-d out of CA (not the Bay Area though).

The schools are mediocre at best where I am and it just seems to me that it's not sustainable to have a functioning community with housing costs where they currently are, which implies that at some point I'll be living in either a non-functioning community or will have left a million dollars on the table by having not moved away sooner.
Hahahaha. Yup I was. My brain is broken from lack of sleep.
Grimoire:

(occult) A book of instructions in the use of alchemy or magic, especially one containing spells for summoning demons.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grimoire
Particle Physicists Dream of a Muon Collider
Concerning wind effects, we aim to operate with winds up to 10m/s (we did 8,5m/s last week so it's going well!). If the winds are higher we will wait it out (exactly like other aircrafts do ie drones and helicopter in certain cases).

There are actually some startups working on robots that would hang/crawl from the lines. But, I feel like our clients like the "remote sensing" capacities and are not very much interested with (or even are afraid of) things touching their assets.
The ways in which we fail to address societal issues are not in fact our responsibility, they're a systemic issue that is a function of human nature - or political nature/societal nature - that will not be solved by morose feelings of condemnation. "Why can't people not be the way they are" is just as useless a sentiment as "Why can't mathematics not be the way it is", and will be just as ineffective at causing 2 and 2 to add to 5.

I'm going to go back to my comparatively easy computer engineering tasks after writing this comment, and have the greatest respect for those willing to confront coordination problems in the political sphere. That's playing the game on hard mode.

The whole thing reminds me of this thread [1] from a few weeks ago referencing Orwell's critique of Dickens:

>> The truth is that Dickens's criticism of society is almost exclusively moral. Hence the utter lack of any constructive suggestion anywhere in his work. ... His whole ‘message’ is one that at first glance looks like an enormous platitude: If men would behave decently the world would be decent.

> I can't help but feel like TS Eliot's "public-spirited pigs" are the same thing as Dickens' "good rich men".

The good news is that we've developed systems of governance and economics that are not exclusively worse than uneducated tribalistic hunter-gatherer anarchy - a very large number of people live in significant comfort in relatively ordered, mostly polite societies, generally free to do what they want, and for the most part those societies build things like roads, landfills, electric grids, and fire departments together that make the community better. It's not perfect, for sure, and we're really missing the ball on this particular externality of global warming, but I have some hope that we'll figure out a way to address the problem that doesn't rely exclusively on weak moral appeals.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130896
Didn't read the article, but the more prevalent issue with obtaining your IP from Skype usually isn't that it's going to uncover your identity, but that someone will be able to DDoS you (for example while playing online games)