skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised people reduced this article as just another pet rock.

Dude's journey has some interesting nuggets. He knows how to time box himself and build the smallest MVP that will actually make money.

And his journey is not an overnight success either, it took him years to build everything including his social presence. Compare that to a W-2 job where you just have to show up 9am-5pm.

HN is showing its overly critical self again, just like when Dropbox first appeared on HN.
I have bookmarked/tried so many Python/Shell mashups over the years.

IMHO the following is about the only one that's tasteful in terms of project scope and not going off the deep end: https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp
I'm not sure if this example is meant to be a great one -- they introduce it to illustrate different ways of typesetting.

The Craft of Prolog by one of the authors gave similar general advice to yours, as I remember it. (Good book.)

I've only glanced over this paper.
> But there are clearly things that are just silly mistakes that provide no such value, and cleaning those up as a courtesy for the person who has to review your code, just makes sense.

Maybe nobody cares about your missteps, true. What about less senior developers? Is there a learning opportunity both ways? Yes. The history pepper doesn't matter either way. There's a little value to think about that in the workflow I described, so we don't toss it (not that anyone can make you expose it).
“The developing world will keep the crypto revolution going” means “we haven’t been driven out of the developing world for scamming too many people yet so we can keep recruiting fresh marks to make number go up.”

You know what will save the crypto revolution? Actual uses that are not gambling, speculation on crypto itself, or scams.
Did you contact a lawyer? You'll need to consult with a lawyer about the legality of it.
US lawmaker moves bill to double H-1B visas
From reading the article, you probably skimmed it too fast, 1st is actually a "growth tools for Twitter", the arrow was only pointing to the first feature, and it grew to be more than that.
I get the frustration of seeing someone else succeed through seemingly frivolous means. That said, you state that you're not willing to take the risk that he did, not to mention the hard work and stress that comes with it.

By the numbers, he's created $45k/mo of usefulness.
How many single entrepreneurs reach that income level?

10%, 1%, less than 1%?

There are very few with really great ideas and only some of them have success and there are some with success with average ideas but the large mass aren't that lucky. The lucky ones post their stories but they aren't reproducible.

They can't be. Otherwise the lucky ones wouldn't have succeeded in the first place.

If attention gets evenly split it approaches zero for the single individual.

BTW why mentioning Google and Apple?
Yes the make millions of indie developers, but the developers don't nake nearly as much.
They just hope to be the next lucky winner with app gone viral to generate enough revenue.

That's why the app stores are full of copycats.
Ask HN: Transition to Sales Engineer
I'm 41 and have been a successful software engineer, contracting in Europe till now (Banking/Fintech/startups). I've worked in Dublin, Belgium, a stint in Dubai, and currently Zurich.

Finanically I'm fine to take a step back, and would love to keep leveraging my tech skills, but grow in a new area. I've grown a lot in my social skills in the past 5 years, and a lot of our circle of friends are also in sales.

Is the sales engineer role what I should be aiming for? And if so would love to hear similar stories, anyone that has made this transition?

I know by the time I'm 50 I don't want to be whiteboarding anymore to get a job, but perhaps there are other paths to take - I just know growing into team lead/pm is not that enticing to me.
To give a more complete story, they did belatedly credit him and others, in a later edit. Still a very poor showing from the relevant people at Microsoft.
JPL and whoever's behind engineering for the ESA have decades of experience on the Indian space program.

I believe the approach is to shut down all nonessentials and run a heater to keep the battery above failure level during the night. This sounds simple but I'm pretty sure it's an absolute nightmare to design autonomous systems for, especially when you've only encountered those situations theoretically or in a controlled lab environment.

Space is hard. It hates us. It hates life. It hates any form of order and will actively attempt to destroy it. Trying to make things that survive in space is Difficult. It would have been easy to go "Lol india amirite", but the fact is, this is one of the hardest things humanity can do.
Yes, this has been a trend for a little while now. For example this gist[1] gives linux boot parameters to make linux significantly faster and all it does is basically turn off all default security mitigations. I would make the distinction between vulnerabilities and "exploitable" vulnerabilities though. Mitigations usually give a runtime performance hit but don't remove the underlying flaws, it can just make it harder, or sometimes impossible, to escalate a little flaw into full blown code execution. But also know that offensive techniques advance along side defensive ones. For example ASLR was once considered the death of vulnerability research, but new methods and ideas were found and bypassing ASLR is now just part of the job. Each mitigation must be regularly evaluated against the state of the art, and against the cost to performance (and complexity, etc.). You ideally don't want to be paying performance costs when they aren't helping security.

Rust, Zig, and others, are additionally paying compile time performance costs to remove some underlying vulnerabilities. Which is interesting and probably a good thing for software.

[1] https://gist.github.com/jfeilbach/f06bb8408626383a083f68276f...
Which includes learning Imba: https://scrimba.com/learn/imba
I read materials, and my opinion is that virtual threads is hyped mess which adds very little benefits (or maybe doesn't at all) in very few use cases, but will bring more complexity and fragmentation into platform:

- 95% java business spaghetti code doesn't require such scalability and fine with spawning of 10k threads on modern hardware

- in 5% left cases, 80% can be covered by executorservice and forkjoinpool

- in 1% cases which left, engineer made wrong decision in choosing JVM because of its other many performance issues

The fact that you can't bring simple code example and quality of your previous comments make me think that you not necessary understand what are you doing.
By having some source of heat, for example, while the Chinese rover from a few years ago was solar powered, it had a radioisotope heater which used the heat produced by some plutonium-238 to keep the electronics warm enough to survive the night.
So every physics researcher should never challenge established theories and if you do you’re a crackpot?

Can you make a cogent argument against one bit of her research instead of calling her a crackpot for challenging things?
No I’m just trying to add substance to the discussion.

I like Ruby but I wouldn’t use it for the things I use Python for.
.. wat?

Have you not heard of `re` and its functions, search, match, and sub?
but reading the comments, they mostly fall in to one of these two buckets...
But then I could

plan $CURLOC "alice's restaurant" \
| dress-with pit-stops -every $(( RANGE - 100 )) \
| drive

and then crank up the death polka.
> Unclear from your comment who the target was, but to me it was equally inflammatory, regardless

Eh, agreed. Kinda detracts from the point. I've gotten pretty vehement about the topic over the last few years I guess.
luckily there are a few projects, Ethereum being one of them.
PrimateJS now supports Bun natively
It’s a fuzzy statistic. It can happen once but be viral enough for 19% of students to have heard of it.
It's a webpage about a programming language that aids in creating interactive websites. Seems fair.
As a biased Prusa MK4 owner, I see them as Genesis. Way better than Ender, but at the end of the day, it’s still just a rebranded Hyundai with luxury finish.
I think this is a valid analogy. Albeit, one that makes me all the more excited to buy a Bamboo. I’ve been a software engineer for a while now and personally I adore Apple’s approach to products. It just works. I don’t have to spend time fucking around with things I don’t want to. And most importantly, IT JUST WORKS.

I hate what a pain it is to just get straight lines to print on my 3D printer! It shouldn’t be this hard.

Granted, hopefully a swing towards Bamboo will put pressure on the other players in the market and they’ll up their game so that all the non-enthusiasts who just want to print can select from a variety of products.
Computer not working when unplugged.
Special relativity is an article of faith now? So far it has survived all experimental tests, that doesn't mean it is guaranteed to do so in the future
I meant, you could download the cli using wget and run it inside the docker. There is no prebuilt docker image as of now. I will look into it later.
I loved the ramps and movement of this video as a kid... and the mysterious and abrupt holes that apparently send the ball to one of many levels of this strange contraption/world.

I got the same feelings with Commander Mark and The Secret City, the PBS drawing show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_City (also on YouTube, though the video quality is disappointing)
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fo...

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/e5873544...

https://salsa.debian.org/birger/foot/-/blob/13017bc992f66cc5...
Nothing original from MS.

All tech cloned (C#, Excel) or aquihire (Simonyi/Brodie for Word from XeroxParc) or corp acquisition (too many to mention), or some combination (Myrvold DSR, acquire a smart guy's company with a clone of IBM multitasking).
When you copy/paste an invisible space in your code
That is some eye searing blue. I appreciate the whimsical nature of it, but I wouldn’t want it on my own house.
Here's a list of usecases for you: https://gist.github.com/hanniabu/32b0f933618a3229efe3fbc01cb...
I think every major split would still be a topic broad enough for a curated body of knowledge.

Unfortunately, I think the author is spot on, with the answer to why we don't have such kinds of work available, as he writes: "the work is hard and unrewarding".
MREs are not meant to be eaten for more than 21 consecutive days; even eating them for a couple of days will make the diner uncomfortably aware of why they've been given the nickname "Meals Refusing to Exit"
He's not from the US.

Typical hackernews: "Something bad happened in the world and this is why the US is bad"
He's a good marketeer, I'll give you that. Just this week I've seen one of his tweets being promoted on X and now he's top of hacker news on my feed.
Not particularly interested in his tools but congratulations on his way to achieve engagement.
Hackernews seems overly critical and anti-“hacker” nowadays (new acc but been around for years). Anyone have a guess why that’s the case? Influx of new users?
Are we arguing ChatGPT is not AGI? I can agree with that.

As for encoding enough rules to handle things as well as a human, what things? Humans don't work with infinite knowledge so there must be a set of rules (however large) that would be "enough".
Why scalpers can get tickets
Hey, we at Electric Clojure believe our model is secure, can you say more about the problems you encountered?
Just stop using Reddit instead of fighting it
Which uses of Ethereum are positive?

And I don't mean abstract ideas like "smart contracts", but specific things being done that aren't scams, illegal activity, gambling, or speculation.
I am really fed up with this kind of indie hacker story.

MMR updates are superficial. Weak signal. I'm confident most are absent of critical info and some are entirely made up. I don't disbelieve anyone in particular, but when a mechanism of virality proliferates, it often gets deployed without the backing substance.

"How I XYZ" around money is similarly misleading. Most entrepreneurs I know cannot recreate their own success – when they set out on a new venture, they need to look with fresh eyes, invent some new techniques, and discard a lot of methods that previously worked. If entrepreneurs aren't even able to reuse their own "how I xyz," then how will a stranger with even less nuance be able to learn or apply much from the blog post? Again, some of these stories have great lessons, but as a category I believe they are more noise than signal.

Finally, the sheer obsession with money saddens me. The great entrepreneurs of our world are hardly motivated by money – to them, money is a tool that they factor in as they work to realize a vision, not an end goal. How ethically/morally impoverished is this technical class to be so obsessed with money? There's a term for this – greed. I know that a lot of jobs suck, a lot of stuff in life is expensive, we need money to do a lot of basic things, etcetera. But money is not the only solution, and more money is not an even better solution. I don't think this incessant messaging around money is virtuous – I think it is both a product of greed and a means of harnessing the greed in others. (And where are the entrepreneurs bragging about impact?)

(For the record, I am not jealous – I make my money doing literally whatever I want, on projects that I find much more exciting, with ample time left over for nature walks, rock climbing, reading, and more. Unlike these authors, the money I make is not the most interesting part of my story.)
I've never actually watched or listened to anything by Sabine Hossenfelder, so I don't have a particular opinion on her work. But...

>If you're promoting research into quantum gravity that doesn't respect special relativity, you're a crackpot.

I think this statement is off the mark. Theoretical physics is often about simplifying a problem to a form that you know how to solve, even if it's not physically realistic. Once you have a solution in your toy domain, you might have a chance of modifying it to find a physically viable theory. A solution can also be useful in restricted domains, even if it's not true in the general case.

If we look at the historical development of quantum theory, it wasn't modified to take relativity into account until 1928. Even then, the non-relativistic theory has independent value and makes many valid predictions.

Another example is the AdS/CFT correspondence. We know we don't live in anti-de Sitter space, but study of it has led to a better understanding of black holes.

I don't think we should rule out any line of research a priori. We should throw a bunch of different approaches at the problem and see which ones help us to make progress.

Of course, crackpots are a real thing. In my mind, the definition of a crackpot is someone who claims to have a revolutionary theory without any track record of engaging with research-level ideas. Perusing Sabine's Google Scholar page shows that she has a respectable number of papers and citations, so it is worth taking her ideas seriously, even if you disagree with them.
Maybe if we tolerate the scams and fraud for 10 more years, it will be useful?

Or maybe that's fundamentally an unrealistic viewpoint [0]

[0] https://blog.dshr.org/2022/03/vitalik-buterin-vs-reality.htm...
> I can almost "feel" ... the moment I look at it

That should not happen. It is as if you could feel what is happening inside "Tom and Jerry" and "Road Runner". Certainly Hanna, Barbera, Jones and Maltese did not even remotely mean to induce sensational sympathy. Similarly, Carrilho is expressing concepts through visual art, with the usual mechanism of "subject and object" - detached, it is implied.

Allow me to suggest: you may have acquired that "open channel allowing influence" as a habit, like a posture. It should slowly recede through the constant conscience that the spectator is detached and the sensational influence is an improper disposition that must be (naturally, automatically - it will gradually come with the conscience) corrected.
The NYPD is piloting a 420-pound robocop to roam Times Square's subway station
I like the invalid. TLD. Naming things is hard and that's a good one to use when you need to provide a FQDN that serves no actual purpose. Case in point: Amazon CloudFront always requires you to provide an origin, even if you're not sending any traffic to it. So using something like "origin.invalid" makes it just a tad more self-explanatory.
The Live Sparrow: Poetry and Translation (2014)
minimum specs: working load 300lbs, size about 4ftx4ftx4ft. that would carry 1 large adult person, and is the minimum weight for a wheelbarrow full of soil. (a load of soil can be up to 500lbs; for contractors, a wheelbarrow can carry up to 660lbs or 60 cubic feet of concrete. aware of powered wheelbarrows, want this to be remote controlled)
> I'd really like to see an "HTML: The Definitive Guide" that treats HTML as the nexus of web technologies that it is.

But the thing is just that: HTML sits at the nexus of a bunch of web technologies, but it itself is the simplest of them, especially when you consider that the DOM, which is part of the HTML standard, makes little sense for learning outside of the context of JavaScript, as it is a programming API and JS is the only language woth first-class support that has access to it. There is a reason that books intended as definitive rather than brief tend to include CSS and at least enough JS to contextualize the DOM APIs as well as HTML since about HTML5.
This is very often the case in large accidents, which tend to be associated with large organisations (private corporations, governments, occasionally NGOs, or a often a combination of two or more of same). The late Charles Perrow's work is highly illuminating in this regard: Normal Accidents (1984), Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay (1972), The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (2011), The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation (1990), Organizing America: Wealth, Power and the Origins of American Capitalism (2002), among others.

I've drawn similar associations with dam failures, notably at Banqio (China, 1975: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9927596> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24327114> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20020553> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562100>. More recently at Derna: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523055>. That last also mentions failures or near-failures in the US, virtually all of which have an organisational dysfunction element.
> Actual uses that are not gambling, speculation on crypto itself, or scams.

You forgot buying drugs and money laundering
it provides blockchain and smart contract infrastructure for other projects.
So honestly I didn't realise that it's POM extended to ecosystem libraries beyond Spring's own. However, it still doesn't solve the problem that e.g. the hibernate version compatible with Spring Framework n+1 is not compatible with the hibernate version compatible with Spring Framework n and now you're doing an "all or nothing" upgrade, which for a large app can be time consuming.
Using gravity to "re-wind" the direction of time on a spaceship sounds considerably more speculative than she tries to pass it off.
> If I were to start a new version of Opa, I would probably force developers to split their code manually between client, server, database and location-independent (presumably by putting stuff in distinct directories)

Exactly how GWT worked (and still does!). there's a server/, client/ and shared/ directories... but all code is written in Java.
The first problem with your argument is here: "The logical problem with this is, are there people, who, no matter how easy it is to steal a car, just would never steal one?" My post is not predicated on the assumption that there are no such people.

The second problem is here: "If those people exist, then you're misattributing the source of this crime to the vehicle, when all along, it was with the individual." This is an example of the "single cause" fallacy. From there on, all your claims fall like a line of dominoes.
When the human tendency to detect patterns goes too far
Here's a passive list: https://gist.github.com/hanniabu/32b0f933618a3229efe3fbc01cb...
Things are often messy IRL - especially when they happen organically such as the meaning of words (try defining what is a sea and a lake with no exceptions).

I remember ‘tag’ was used colloquially in the ‘90s - this was before Javascript was popular. When DOM became a thing in 1998, the definition was more formalized to be consistent across JS and HTML. As things stand, tags usually come in pairs, except for a few (such as <br/>?). An element is now defined as both tags + the content.

I believe this evolution happened organically, and many people still prefer the use of ‘tag’ to mean an ‘element’ for conciseness.

Update: edited for clarity
> internal network is now accessible from anywhere !

If you exposed it willingly.
Smart people on both sides seem to be making wildly different predictions.

People like Bradley Schurman and Peter Zeihan lay it out in pretty simple terms to show China is essentially doomed (demographic collapse, etc).

Ray Dalio lays it out pretty clearly that we are due for an empire shift, and looking at his ~18 graphs, China is pretty clearly the successor.

I get the feeling that one of the sides is a metaphorical Peter Schiff. Convincing in small doses, but it’s all the same gold perma-bull schtick.
There's that vaunted, cerebral HN discourse I've come to know and love.
> Teachers, students, administrators, and often parents already know who the bullies are. The question is what to do about it.

The school authority figures (teachers and administrators) both know who the bullies are, and enable/cover for them. My theory is these figures often were once the bullies themselves back when they went to school, and they identify with today's bullies. They'll watch and wait until the victim fights back, and then punish the victim using the "Zero Tolerance for fighting" excuse.
Bureaucratic failure though
Just by reading the title alone I figured this was the case
I work with 500 idiots. Willingly and cluelessly are interchangeable.
> Where is capital involved? Capitalism is not the only form of open market economy

Right. Like you don't own anything but still somehow sell it on the open market.

Apparently, "you can't have your cake and eat it, too" is a capitalist prejudice as comrades in the USSR would have ensured us.
> Actual uses that are not gambling, speculation on crypto itself, or scams.

Flatcoins seem interesting to me. A stablecoin that moves in line with inflation. https://decrypt.co/155775/flatcoins-new-thing-on-the-horizon...

IMO we need financial alternatives. If you see what happened in Argentina, Turkey, Lebanon...people's life savings being stolen overnight.

There is a problem that needs solving. Whether thats a problem that can be solved with technology or not, IDK. I doubt it.
Stacks dynamically grow, but there is usually a default upper bound (typically 8MB) to catch runaway recursion and other bugs before it start trashing memory. If you really need 64GB stacks you can set that bound. But do you really need huge stacks?
Seriously? Most of them barely make sense and are just "oh let's try this with crypto", what's your favorite one (besides the apparent one)?