skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar experience with my kids: 10 and 14 years old. They are comfortable with their smart phones and laptops, they spend hours watching mindless youtube videos. They are good at shopping on Amazon or ordering food, for the whole family. But they are turning out fine. They have ample friends in real life, good at studies and sports. They understand the difference between need and want. They put things in the shopping cart and wait to have a dialog with us about buying them. Of course, all credit cards are protected by OTPs, so they can't even purchase anything by mistake. Most importantly, they are comfortable chatting with their friends on Whatsapp and find it easy to keep up with school life. They also play Minecraft online with their friends.

And yes, +1000 for a larger vocabulary!
Got it. You have to press and hold to get to the "non-Google" standard info. Thanks for the pointer!
Location: Munich, Germany / Buenos-Aires, Argentina
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Yes - US (EB-2/EB-3 preferred), Canada
Technologies: C/C++, Python, Hardware interaction, System engineering. Touched vast amount of technologies
Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyDTY55tk3sqk_eD2XhdVVGDCul_PjqS
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxim-anufriev
Email: Check CV or message via LinkedIn

System Software engineer with 12+ years of versatile experience including research:
- Hardware-related
- Industrial fiber-based sensing systems (Ф-OTDR, Fiber Bragg sensing)
- Quantum Cryptography (single photon based key distribution)
- Distributed systems
- Software engineer at Google Cloud
- Customer-facing products
- Software engineer at Google Chrome
- Founding software engineer (web backend) at event tickets agency

I've been mostly working in startup-like atmosphere as engineering lead and used to create things never existed before. I've handled integrations with custom hardware teams and loved it.
Most recently I've gained invaluable experience and engineering best practices in my current role at Google.

I'm currently looking for a next big thing. Would be excited to dive into robotics or aerospace project but open to any complex and unique challenge, especially with hardware product.
Additional tricks I didn't see in the thread:

I just disable autovacuum completely for test runs with autovacuum=off. Remember that it kicks in according to the percentage of data updated so with a table which starts empty you are guaranteed to see autovacuum run once you insert a few rows.

If you have a lot of updates you can also try change the table fillfactor. This makes HOT updates a bit more efficient.
It's today a popular and I think ubiquitous thing in Taiwan for scooters:

https://youtu.be/87T6okeKu3A

https://www.gogoro.com/
the 3 words aren’t for us they are exclusively for the search and rescue team who we talk to when buddy breaks his spine and needs an airlift

And you can avoid the ovens vs oven problem by just picking a coordinate with good simple words the helicopter is fine to find you within a few hundred meters of your camp

This system has been used extensively in remote resource extraction because humans in the pressure of an emergency can recall words and phrases better than numbers

It works pretty well for this use case
Awesome project! Would love to take some time to understand how this all works.

One tiny thing I noticed is that the build information tab seems to point to a commit that no longer exists.
We all feel like management contributes nothing, right? But they seem to always be around successful companies. I dunno, correlation isn’t causation, but I think there must be something there.
Yeah Figma is in WASM and it's great that it is. I don't see it coming for React apps, really. Or if it is, that the JS tooling itself will automatically convert it to WASM.

I personally use Flutter for a lot of my apps, as well as React/NextJS for SEO based apps, the combo works pretty well.
When I lived in the UK for a bit, iirc people would use the term "builder" where I would say "contractor".

At least in American English vernacular, saying "he's a contractor" either means he builds houses, or he's an independent contractor (doing some "consulting-ish" work). The lack of context for that phrase is indeed confusing!
Will there be a free, open source system for resolving a geohash phrase into a location? The #1 problem with What3Words is its proprietary rent-seeking business.

Your link has ambiguous answers to "open source" and "free".
You just gave me the idea for an HTML file format that writes changes to contenteditable back to the file.

Has anyone tried this before? I'm likely ignorant. But it would be a pretty exciting document publishing format.
That's one possible union architecture, sure, but you're missing the forest for the trees. A union offers job security to reduce the risk of "managing up."
I firmly disagree with your latter two statements, but yes it is non deterministic
What is the role of storytelling in economics?
Another way to do this is using the pgml extension. You can run huggingface embedding models, which have surpassed OpenAI's at this point. It's pretty fast if you run it on a machine with a gpu for acceleration. I've created embeddings on my local desktop with a 3090 for ~2,000,000 tokens in chunks of ~100 (450 characters). It took around 20 min using the gte-base model including insert into indexed table.

Still uses pg_vector.
It’s a noisy measurement of how right you were.
On the contrary, the difference is precisely that an abandoned FOSS program can be picked up by someone else; that this ability is not always used is beside the point.
Assign no loyalty to any company that forces you into a TOS.

Understand that nothing is more sacred than the Holy Dollar to an entity whose only purpose is to extract money from its customers.

Always assume you'll be betrayed by corporations and store your possessions (data in this case) accordingly.

Diversify your interests and hobbies such that a betrayal by a corporation doesn't significantly impact your life.

At this point, trusting corporations without putting any mitigations in place seems like begging desperately for trouble.
I was not referring to the article claims but to the argument that it was "peer reviewed"

As if that meant nature or the title couldn't be a clickbait, or the conclusion/claims dubious. They can be, that's all I called out.
Notepad++ is much much better for log and config parsing. Also has lots of plugins, like the diff plugin which I rely on a lot when comparing dev/prod config files and such.
We moved to the US and my wife is doing freelancing, and the market rates here are ridiculous considering the cost of living and FTE rates.

For example recently I got an offer for a 4 months contract role at Microsoft, hybrid (so partly on site), as a Machine Learning Engineer for $65 an hour. I would consider that rate insulting even for low CoL EU countries.
> I'd expect exceptional programmers to do unusually well on most metrics.

Not if they game the metrics, as a way to force change.

A classic example of an exceptional programmer doing worse on a (bad) metric is at https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li... , titled "-2000 Lines Of Code".

"Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the amount of code that they wrote from week to week. ... Bill Atkinson ... thought that lines of code was a silly measure of software productivity. ... [He] made region operations almost six times faster. As a by-product, the rewrite also saved around 2,000 lines of code. ... when it was time to fill out the management form ... he thought about it for a second, and then wrote in the number: -2000. ... after a couple more weeks, they stopped asking Bill to fill out the form, and he gladly complied."
To me it is fascinating how when people are not super good at something, they often invent some secondary “true”/“better” task that they were actually good at
While I prefer non-smoking sections indoors, generally, I've been in a few coffeeshops with such good ventilation that the air felt better inside than on the street. (though that might have been an illusion from it being cold)

IIRC, the country I'm in was the first to ban smoking indoors at venues. 2003 or so, I believe. I was a kid, so I didn't really notice it aside from the warning signs and the first time I went abroad.
The largest part of the defense budget is pay and benefits, and it turns out Americans are much more expensive to employ than Chinese. China has 2.1 million active duty service members while the US only has 1.3 million.[1] The US also requires all equipment to be manufactured in the US, which is much more expensive than manufacturing in China. You need to account for military purchasing power parity to have an honest discussion about defense spending.[2]

> And what is the associated opportunity cost?

The entire global economy relies on trade, which relies on ocean shipping, which relies on freedom of navigation, which is enforced primarily by the US Navy. American security guarantees have also allowed and protected the development of prosperous democracies like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. There’s also the time the US military led a coalition to stop Milosevic’s campaign of ethnic cleaning in the former Yugoslavia. The opportunity cost here is a poorer, less prosperous, less democratic world with even more genocide and war.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...

[2] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/debating-defence-budgets-why-...
I edited my answer to clarify it refers to policies not people, but as a single catch all word I think it fits pretty well. Although in the example you linked 'corrupt' would be much more apt.
Veilid is trying, at least

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37118124

https://veilid.com/defcon/talk/
It's a rather all or nothing approach. You either trust it to access everything, or you don't run it at all. There's no middle ground. This is something I rather appreciate about Deno versus Node. There was a demonstration where cowsay was asking a bunch of permissions to things you wouldn't expect cowsay to need. And apps could update to increase what it accesses, like telemetry, and you wouldn't know or have any means to stop it. And the all or nothing approach means you just have to stop using the app entirely.
I've had multiple interviews and a few offers with companies, both big and small, offering significantly more than 80K/yr - unless you're referring to net salary, after taxes.

My understanding was always that with freelancing you end up paying more taxes and insurance, especially if you want to cover your own pension (which has been included in all my employments except one).

Still, if you end up with comparable or higher earnings with less hours and more flexibility, still a win. I just don't think the difference is as big as you make it out to be.
ADL is a PR firm focused on helping Israel destroy what's left of the Palestinian people and culture and take over their remaining land.

They also chime in occasionally on anti Jewish and other racist matters.

So, Musk partially correct? Yuck.
There are already multiple WYSIWYG HTML editors such as BlueGriffon.
Really GPS on the device or just tower trangulation data? Is there information availae on how this works?
In Austria emergency services can not access GPS directly afaik.
Not parent, but I do data analysis where more memory is always appreciated. Essentially all tooling now works with bigger than memory datasets, but you eat a performance cost as data gets paged in/out to disk. When you can load a 50GB dataframe directly into pandas, it lets you do things the dumb way rather than having to spend extra brain cycles figuring out how to compartmentalize the problem to stay within your RAM budget.
If that worked, wouldn't Sweden be loved by their neighbors? Instead they're joining NATO for protection and the terrorist threat level is currently at 4 out of 5.

The people we often fight against don't share your values. There isn't a single enemy in the world that hates us for not reducing inequality. Russia didnt invade Ukraine to improve their living standards; and ISIS doesn't hate us for our lack of a social safety net. Our failings are just propaganda talking points for dictators and other terrible people to distract their people from their own failings. Even if we were perfect, they would find something to talk about. They do not want to be your friend.

I agree other investment can reduce the likelihood for war though.. domestic green energy production, electric cars, etc reduce the amount of money going to dictatorships and limit their influence, for example.
It would be interesting to know more about the sources for this article because while nothing seems outright wrong, some details seem a bit off. e.g. it was called "OS/2-NT", not "NT OS/2" (unless that was the internal name at some point); while some NT features are obviously copied from VMS (i/o completion ports from $QIO), the article's mention of IRQ level is off -- that comes from the CPU design and is present in most CPUs going back a couple decades prior.
Show HN: A .bit gateway for resolving ipfs:// to https://
bit.site dynamically captures all requests to *.bit.site, automatically resolving the IPFS/IPNS/Skynet content hashes for the corresponding .bit account records. It returns the relevant static content via HTTPS, enabling users to access decentralized networks with zero configuration on modern browsers.

At the same time, we provide global CDN acceleration, striving to enhance the availability of decentralized content.
AI is actually now shaping up to replace these jobs much more simply than blue collar work.

So, yes absolutely, administrative work now can finally be replaced, and we can free up all the tormented souls in these managerial positions to do something more meaningful with their lives.
Yeah, Figma's tech is incredible! Especially when I use side by side with Microsoft Teams, lol. One's a complex layered drawing app with plug-ins and imports and the other is a glorified chat app... guess which one is 10x slower and crashes every half an hour?

Whelps. Time to learn C++ again!
Not sure what "you" means in this case. I'm not American and I don't live in the US.

If it's about the US wanting to hurt me, I don't live in a country rich with oil, but I grew up in one that currently has a government less than aligned with American interests, part of the BRICS that's pushing for dedollarization of foreign commerce in the block.

As for a lot of people being really upset about the US, it's not that surprising after invading two countries (one on manufactured evidence about WMD and against the recommendation of the international community), bombing them back to stone age, destabilizing their governments (with the excuse of giving them a "democracy"), and then leaving them to their own luck. And that's all part of what happened this century. I'm not even considering the American involvement in coups, extraordinary renditions, and extra-judicial executions, which generate surprisingly little international outrage, or the much bloodier involvement in South American dictatorships in the 60's and 70's.

I really like the people, but I don't trust the American government to always do the moral thing.
AI Powered Form Generator
Aerodynamics are at least as bad as weight when it comes to trailers iirc. And there are at least leisure trailers that come with battery packs in them. The Lightship and Boulder come to mind for instance. I suspect it's a matter of time for more utility trailers, if it's not already a thing. Batteries are expensive though.
This is pretty simple to engineer.

With TLS it’s just authing the server, accept any income connections. Support basic authentication.

For home devices don’t require TLS. I don’t run TLS on my home network. I’m remote, I get devices, I accept that risk. TLS is not required for security.

For encryption just design so customers can swap out keys.

The biggest problem is designing cloud in the loop so they can mine data. This needs to stop.
You can always try this out first by searching for contract work as if you were in your home country. Just set up a website (perhaps not using your real name, in case your employer gets suspicious) and see if you can actually seek out the work. You can even try to purchase advertising on Google to see if you get any clicks / contacts. Overall it's a pretty cheap way to check.

I get that this may not be possible, but these sorts of trial balloons are much easier to float first to get an idea instead of taking a leap of faith.
Wait ten years to see if Lyft survives the competition and you’ll have the answer.
There's a reverse engineering of What3Words from a few years ago floating around out there called "What Free Words". It includes what claims to be their word list. I imagine the researcher is familiar with this but has chosen not to include it in their research.

(W3W is very aggressive about pursuing possibly spurious IP claims to remove any trace of What Free Words. In the past, even mentioning it in a comment like this is enough to attract a DMCA complaint.)
I like Win31 UI. Sure MDI was an error and hot corners would be very useful but I like how unclutered it looks and the absence of a taskbar and other always-there elements is positive. I dislike the idea of a taskbar. It takes screen real estate that would be better used by apps and when I do need the taskbar's features, those are all cramped at the bottom of the screen. Give me a hot-corner-activated win31-style program manager over a win95-style start button please.
No, you've been freely and happily giving your content to them for their own use for as long as you've been using the platform. Why would they start paying you for something you've provided for free since the beginning?
hapless Russians

Or, you know, hapless Ukrainians. Ukrainians may have been quicker to innovate in this area but that was a long time ago.
I am one of those people and work a fully remote job, but I had to earn that credibility with years of being a top contributor first. It would be difficult to just walk into the role.
What if you want to make a chatbot that just argues and disrupts topics ad nauseum?

I'd go right for /b/. Perfect.
We are really happy using jet. It lets you write type safe SQL and can read the results into structs- including joins into slice fields.

https://github.com/go-jet/jet
“Spliff,” by the way. “Split” would make heaps of sense, but sense isn’t this word’s milieu.
> thinly veiled attack

It's not veiled at all.

> massive personal choice, with tremendous cost and a huge emotional and mental ordeal to undertake

It is indeed a personal choice, and that's part of the argument against it being taxpayer-funded.

For example, do you think cosmetic surgeries should be taxpayer-funded? They are also often very important for the person who wants to go through them, are costly, and sometimes have long recovery periods.

> The oddest part is that one would expect the right should support the

You are, of course, making a grotesque caricature of your political opponents. Here, the issue is simply that they don't want to pay for a surgery they see as immoral, barbaric, and unnecessary.
DARPA wants a 'thriving commercial economy' on the moon in 10 years
Ukraine is still in the fight over eighteen months after an invasion that was planned to topple Kyiv in three days. I would say the Ukrainians probably deserve more credit than the United States for this outcome, but if you asked anyone in the winter of 2021/2022 to predict the outcome of a full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine is doing much better than one would have reasonably expected.
It's a disappointing experience, isn't it? You can only get a raw lat/long if Maps can't generate an address. If it does, you're out of luck for lat/long -- it's gone from the UI as far as I can see.
W3W's use case is to trick governments into adopting their service, then collect payments forever more on what should be free, non-proprietary addressing infrastructure.
Show HN: Mini VI mode update of Aih for talking to AI models in terminal
Hi! We have a milestone update that introduces a mini VI mode for editing the inspirational quests to AI models by just type .v, then you have hjkl, wbyd... and :ai to send question, :q cancel it.

As a thought2source tool, we believe that the next generation of user interface would be LUI which stands for Language User Interface. With this insight we think that VI mode is a wonderful tool for editing the representation of the profound thought--our languages's writing form besides the living voice.

Enjoy and welcome feedback:)
>Not sure what "you" means in this case. I'm not American and I don't live in the US.

by "you" I meant US.

so, this assumes that other do not want to hurt US.
From https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3358994_Parallelisi... it looks like it was the 805.
The thing is: Different levels of experience need different measures of success, up to the point of leeway from the normal measurements of success.

Like, for someone in tier 1 / tier 2 helpdesk, or the regular developer pushing relatively normal tickets through, simple ticket or story throughput is one indicator of productivity. As long as you pair it with some success measurement, like re-reports from people within a short time, or work caused by the implementation. Or just feedback from the rest. Someone has to put down code to make the feature work in the end.

But this changes when you get more specialized and overall more experienced. If we bring a new technology into the team, my productivity based on the first metric will drop to zero. I'll be busy supporting other people. Or, the incidents on my desk will be far more weird ones. Other people get clear click paths and an exception. I had to debug JVM crashes due to faulty hardware. That took a bit longer than an afternoon in a debugger and adding an if-statement, if I may embellish a bit.

But that's why soft skills become important. It's concerning how little that manager knows about his team. But it's also concerning how Tim didn't make sure his manager knows what's going on. For example if we're bringing in new tech, I'm informing superiors first that I'll prioritize support of team-members with the new tech just below business critical incidents and I most likely won't do any regular work for some time.
Think of it as like Android and unlocking the bootloader. There's a warning that it's running on modified system.
Thanks for context, even if that's not what Musk takes issue with
Science is one method for getting knowledge.

Other methods are "see for yourself" and "get it from an authority".

All have their pros and cons.

One downside of science is its reliance upon communication. It shares its faults.

This becomes especially glaring when addressing uncommon perspectives. I think it's the wrong tool for that job.

Like "spiritual" stuff. The perspective is often so uncommon that any discussion may as well be fiction.
As a tangential aside Textedit I believe used to be provided as sample source code with Xcode. So even if it was removed it may never die.
Might I suggest...Rust? It really is a great language and it has excellent WASM support due to not being GCed, just like C++.
Soft power doesn't work without hard power, or someone who wields hard power on your behalf. Countries that currently use soft power most prominently are doing so to attract attention from the citizenry of hard powers such as the US, so that if a conflict arises, said citizenry will be so offended at their friends being harmed that they'll feel an increased duty to join the fight. (this ignores non-military uses of soft power)
I wonder what satallite capacity is needed for voice/messages comms for 200 million users
These read like the weekly Apple watch ~~adverts~~ "technology news articles" on reddit, it keeps saving people's lives and receives thousands of upvotes.
Kinda tangential, but learning about Wiesn Koks[0] gave me similar culture shock.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/wiesn-koks-oktoberfest-drug-...