skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related:

Ian's Shoelace Site - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35377589 - March 2023 (4 comments)

Ian Knot (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728002 - July 2021 (66 comments)

The “Granny Knot” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867300 - April 2021 (255 comments)

C.I.A. Lacing (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091391 - Aug 2020 (89 comments)

Ian Knot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16454796 - Feb 2018 (47 comments)

Ian's Shoelace Site - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13399095 - Jan 2017 (116 comments)

Shoelace knots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10200917 - Sept 2015 (43 comments)

Shoe Lacing Methods - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966073 - July 2015 (5 comments)

Shoelace Knots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1914731 - Nov 2010 (1 comment)

Fast. Easy. Clean. Shoelace Knot. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1063086 - Jan 2010 (41 comments)

How to tie world's fastest shoelace knot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111756 - Feb 2008 (11 comments)
Ask HN: What are some hobby tech projects for a tech-savvy teenager?
I would like recommendations for a hardware/software project that involves coding, building hardware components for an interested 14 year old who knows python.
Then why does KSP2 spamming the registry with orphaned entries eventually cause KSP2 to hang on launch?
The problem is mostly with unlicensed contractors, usually undocumented immigrants. It's very easy to start countertop installation business. Buy some tools, list yourself at thumbtack and you are ready to go. You can always find work by underbidding guys with license. These guys often don't even have bank accounts and work for cash.
An effective nuclear deterrent is very low cost compared to an effective conventional military force. With nuclear weapons you can credibly threaten to kill 20 million people in $enemy_country [1] at a cost smaller than that needed to maintain a crewed air force of moderate capability. In theory, global military spending could drop by 90% with equal-or-better prevention of state-on-state warfare if more nations replaced conventional military spending with spending on nuclear weapons.

Unfortunately, nuclear deterrence only works against rational actors, by rational actors. It doesn't prevent irrational human behavior or accidents. So a heavily nuclear armed world would probably see a downturn in violence between states until one fateful year when an accident or miscalculation escalates to kill more people than every war of the past 200 years combined.

[1] Terms and conditions apply: only valid for countries with population greater than 20 million.
It’s better to have a pattern than having no pattern with ChatGPT to tell when it’s hallucinating or not.

I wish MLs were more useful than search engines, but they have still a long way to go to replace them (if they ever do).
In your imaginary world. In the real world telling the difference between a non-specific and credible threat commonly takes investigation, especially when one of the parties is brought up to law enforcement multiple times.

In addition law enforcement agencies, especially the local ones, are based on the whims of elected officials. If the local populace thinks they they aren't being tough enough on crime, then especially in smaller cities, they will be replaced.
Reddit is really in trouble if they "miss" their IPO. They have a mountain of debt from all these short term decisions that will catch up with them.

Of course, the new owners of Reddit will be in trouble after their IPO. Which seems insane to me...
People that has enough money & wealth to employ others, control corporations who employ thousands and influence the government meaningfully (lobbying). Today, they basically control who is employed and who isn't by deciding how much to invest and in what. No, you cannot just choose to employ yourself in all circumstances. I'm all for being self-sufficient but not everyone can start a company (time and capital intensive, and very risky without a safety net).
Does the SEC have a history of data breaches? I'd be more worried about the IRS which already has much of this information since their computing infrastructure is already known to be archaic and in need of updating.
Generally speaking, my communication skills seem to be stronger than my peers. I’ll have to look into this further. Thank you for your insight!
California governor vetoes bill to require human operators in autonomous trucks
I was thinking more of a CI pipeline build, which would probably do `go mod download`. You're right of course that `go build` itself doesn't download code itself.

What is it about Maven that you think makes it not a good build system? To me, I moved from Java to Go and I still miss Maven to this day.
Car crashes haven't stopped happening, but it's undeniable that cars have progressed since the Model-T first came out over a hundred years ago.
And yet, I've been to plenty of venues that were uncomfortably loud in back while not going to any (indoors, professionally set-up) venues that were uncomfortably quiet in back.

I think it's more than what you've described. I think it's that a lot of folks actually prefer dangerously loud volumes, and this contributes to a positive feedback loop of expectations for loud concerts. I wish most concerts were quieter, but I may be in a minority.
Perhaps experiences like yours is why I was downvoted for my London comment. But we are talking relative to the US here, and I do believe there is no comparison. I also found the bus network rather extensive and frequent in the suburban areas, and not unpleasant compared to other countries.

Senior citizens are also more flexible with their travel times and often have the luxury of avoiding rush hour

Many western economic powerhouses of old seem to be facing the same infrastructure problems, whereas autocratic countries that are building everything from scratch appear to have their shit together by comparison. It's not good PR unfortunately.
An LLM trained on public-domain or liberal-license material would be a great counterexample ... if anyone built it. The popular models in wide use do disclose what they train on (sometimes under NDA) and they all contained copyrighted work.
Indeed it works darn well, my company uses a complex programming assignment during application. Only about 5% of computer science students applying manages to create a decent solution within a few hours. I was curious if GPT could solve it. I provided the assignment text without any extra information, and it came up with a very elegant solution.

You might not want to call this 'consciousness', but I was stunned by the deep understanding of the problem and the way it was able to come up with a truly good solution, this is way beyond 'statistically guessing'.
I don’t know where to begin… There is a lot of material on the internet that is relevant to answering that.

What do you mean “how they let Apple do it”. Do you think Intel & AMD could stop them?
> 1. Domain-specific AI - Training an AI model on highly technical and specific topics that general-purpose AI models don't excel at.

You will be eaten if you do this imo.
I won't comment much on automobiles - I don't buy new, and don't know anyone who buys new. It's all used market, and we're dreading the day the newest, touchscreen-controlled cars will be all that's available. But it appears to me that this market is highly regulated - safety, fuel efficiency and longevity still hit the bare minimum, just the legal minima have been tightened over the years.

Laser eye surgery - I wasn't even aware this is a category and there is much to differentiate between service providers on the surgery specifically. Plus, it's another tightly-regulated space, countering natural market tendencies.

Passenger air travel - you must be traveling first-class only to not notice that everything below is bottom-tier and getting noticeably worse every year. Sure, it's more affordable - I don't dispute that - but it's a question of how bad can quality go before it trumps price.

Smartphones, televisions - all examples of what I'm talking about. A huge amount of bottom-tier products, a few high-end flagship products. There's a degree of market segmentation so there's still some middle-tier options, but my impression is, they're rapidly dragged to the bottom.

As specific examples of what I have in mind, most of which I observed personally: everything not regulated about private healthcare; bikes and bike parts; food across the board; manual tools and power tools; clothes; toys; just about every commodity electronics. It's all low-quality noname brands, low-quality fake pseudo-brands, brands tricking people with old reputation, then nothing at mid-tier, then pricey brands that didn't start "capitalizing on their reputation" just yet.

Overall, what I'm saying is that the natural tendency of the market is to optimize offerings to be the cheapest and shittiest the market can bear - and I think this is a problem; there's a mid-point we can't seem to be able to keep in established markets. And in arguments for deregulating housing, I don't see anything addressing this tendency.
You can already do quite accurate transcription with domain-specific technical language by feeding "raw" transcriptions from Whisper to GPT and asking it to correct the transcript given the context, so that'll most likely work out for you.
Kodak could have dominated digital photography
It’s a great language but it hasn’t really found a killer app yet outside of Android development and Java has improved a lot recently so the incentive to switch to Kotlin is reduced.

I’d like to see it thrive but I’m not optimistic.
Ideally, the Pelosi family trading history would already be public information as with all congressional trades.
Depends on the fines. Where I am, simply doing 11+ gets an automatic suspension of your license. When I was in the US, it was a joke in that you had to "get pulled over" to get a fine. Here it is automated all over the place.
This was not explicitly addressed in the post, but the big "Kafka antipattern" out there is building "microservice infrastructure" and using a stateful message broker between services where you should be using RPC/look-aside load balancing with deadlines and retries.

Some morons even write books and blog posts about this. The funny thing is this sort of shit is done in the name of scale, but the big folks never operate this way. Large scale infrastructures actively disdain keeping buffers and state in the middle of the request flow. They cannot afford the cost and latency of such systems. They do it the sane way[1].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi23/presentation/saokar
I would not pay for any of what you mention. I would simply like the information be reported and publicly available with enough latency to ensure theta decay kills any value from the trade information being made public. A delayed immutable public ledger of public securities transactions if you will.

If you want to see my baskets of index funds, have at it.
Tangental thought: But what is Intuit obligated to do with the information and how are they required to protect it, once you give them your 1099s?
Lawyers are just figuring this out now?

From the point of view of this logician, the quality of legal reasoning has always been appalling. That applies regardless of whether I agree with it. Even the ones I approve of strike me as full of holes.

That may be necessary to the practicalities of law. Their job is to make rulings, in a timely manner. Unlike logicians, or scientists, they can't wait around for certainty. They throw out the arguments they can get their hands on and hope it approximates truth as well as it can under the circumstances.

Of course they aren't incentivized to make good arguments. Their job is to defend their client or otherwise make their case. They would be failing to provide a "zealous defense" -- an ethical requirement for lawyers -- if they didn't consider even the most unlikely avenues that might not piss off a judge too much.

I don't believe that this is the best possible system, though I do find that practically every lawyer disagrees with me on that. And they are more familiar with the theory and practice of law than I am.

But I can say that I hope I never have to depend on a lawyer for anything other than the most cut and dried cases. If I do, then I will depend 100% on them for navigating whatever mysteries of persuasion they have to engage in, and recognize that it has absolutely nothing to do with the precision that I rely on in my specialty.
There’s room in the world for a tool that has an error rate but also an astonishing ability to accelerate the work of a person.
Curious what language the OP and their team was using to integrate with Avro. Binary serialization can be a bit awkward, but Avro is a very stable API and it isn't difficult to find/ and or build abstractions to work with it. Perhaps I am spoiled coming from a Clojure perspective?
Natural stone contains silica too, so it's not clear that these workers would be silicosis-free if they'd been cutting e.g. granite instead.

Average granite is 72% quartz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite#Chemical_composition
I had my app built for $0 and 0 equity
Hey everyone!

My name is AJ and I'm the founder of an app called ZoZo, which upgrades your Devices Keyboard through Keyboard Shortcuts. ZoZo Keyboard Shortcuts allow you to attach any Photo, Text Phrase, Link or File to it. These Keyboard Shortcuts will be available to share right from your Keyboard so that you don't have to go searching for specific pieces of content anymore. We even have an AI Keyboard Shortcut which allows you to use ChatGPT from your keyboard as well.

I had this idea early last year and wanted to get it built as soon as I could, the issue was I had no coding knowledge.

I'm here to share with you how I was able to get ZoZo built for $0 & 0 Equity.

In the past I paid for developers to build my apps but that ended up costing me a ton of money. So I started digging around and found a really unique program being offered by the University of Albany.

The program was simple, you pitch your idea and if selected a group of Computer Science students will build it in a semester.

I submitted ZoZo's concept idea in late December and it ended up being picked for the spring semester cohort.

This meant that these students would build ZoZo from January - May. We jumped on weekly calls to get updates on their development progress until it was time for demo day in May.

The student group was able to complete an MVP version of ZoZo which allowed me to start getting feedback from actual users in the market.

I started promoting ZoZo on Twitter and was able to get over 400 Beta testers to test ZoZo. This led to a really strong Producthunt launch which landed ZoZo #3 Product of the day.

Fast forward a whole year and we've been able to do the following:
- 3000+ Users
- Featured on Mashable, Mac Rumors, Apple Insider
- 12,000+ Keyboard Shortcuts Used
- ZoZo AI Keyboard Shortcut used 1,000+ time
- $1,000+ Revenue generated
- $79 / MRR

This is a lesson as a startup founder that there's always a work around for the issues you're facing it's up to you find those solutions.

Feel free to check out ZoZo for yourself here: www.ZoZoApp.co

Thank you for checking out this post!
Whoever owns and control the bear, are you actually confused about that or is this just baiting?
Indeed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.,_Special_Fl...
There’s a difference between obsession over clearly defined levels and someone making 3x what everyone else at their level is making.

When you’ve got a team of midlevel engineers making $150k and one guy making $450k maybe it’s time to bump that person up.
The individual developers do seem to care a lot about KSP2, fwiw. It seems like the problems with the game are more caused by incompetence, bad project management and probably unrealistic deadlines from the publisher.
It seems like embeddings could help with this. Generate an image. Embed it. Find the top-N closest training images. Pay those creators.
He also has an iOS app which is pretty helpful. My kid needed to tie her shoes a specific way for marching band and Ian's site + app were really valuable in getting her set up. I got in touch with him afterwards and he was really nice to chat with. Definitely reminds me of the early days of helpful stuff you might find on the web.
BS jobs will fill the void. They have to, unless we move away from capitalism to a star trek style world.
Reason 10001 to abolish taxes.
agreed on that antipattern although fwiw chatgpt is unlikely to know the answer for questions like these either.
"Everything" should be a standard on every Windows computer. I've found files that I thought completely lost to the ether, including actual Ethereum after I had lost my key deep in my file directories after an accidental drag and drop.
> How can tech employment grow if tech company employment is shrinking?

He's saying that tech will be more accessible to small businesses and you'll have more internal tech teams working in non-tech companies. Similar to accounting, HR, etc.
> Seems like a function the SEC should perform. What's the issue here?

It is none of their business, that's why. [0]

Standard link: 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

[0] https://linguaholic.com/linguablog/thats-vs-that-s/
This actually makes perfect sense, so I'm hoping some rocket scientist will come and explain what are the "devils in the details" that prevent rockets from being built like this.
Just a comment, but pulmonary fibrosis is terrible. People don't know that often damage to your lungs cannot be reversed. I survived two major lung infections and over a year later still have issues climbing lots of stairs or steep hills that were easy before. I mean I dont have fibrosis (that would be an immediate death sentence) but it's crazy how scaring and damage in the lungs just happens and that part of your lung is just useless now. It's just with fibrosis, the scarring never ends and subsumes both your lungs and thus you die.

People have an attitude (somewhat helpful) that you can always get will yourself to recovery or "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" and all that, but severe damage to your lungs really has no treatment. Essentially your body just adapts to the reduced function by being more efficient or by changes in behavior (like walking slower). That lung capacity is lost for good.
Exactly. Football today is the safest its ever been, especially at the high school level.

There is no sport on earth that brings in more diverse people in terms of body types, sizes, races and forces them to work together to achieve their goals. You can't be selfish in football or the team suffers.

Whether you're a huge offensive lineman protecting the skinnier and more studious quarterback, a tall and fast wide receiver, a short / quick running back, any type of defender or one of the multiple kicking positions...there is a place for you on the team. The team that in college can be up to 120 players who train together, study together and support each other to succeed.

There's no sport that brings people and communities together better than football, because it's the most inclusive sport out there.
> Why do you proxy eveything through your api backend
Because it makes development and maintenance soo much easier, faster and reliable. I don't have to debug stuff that breaks on somebody's embedded esp32. If something breaks, it's in the backend and I see it in Sentry.

> Can the device not check the url directly

Yes, it could (with some modifications). But then you need to transmit and store the URL on the device, which requires establishing a bluetooth connection to change it. I am considering to offer this as an option to give myself and other peace of mind.

> Do you respect etags and other caching headers like if-modified-since

Not yet, but I could implement this very quickly if you send me an email and tell me you need this. :)
(This is a great example how proxying things though the backend makes development easier: If I wasn't proxying, this change would require a firmware update.)
Depending on the meaning of "small-scale kafka", both RabbitMQ and redis do support streams.
i love gpt-4 and i find chatgpt useless. so there is a big difference
Sure. But the point is that as far as casual factors go, the research questions for T1 vs T2 diabetes are going to be fairly different. I personally think it is important to be clear what we are talking about, and that the article itself is written poorly in this regard.
Agreed -- have used it in a bank. It was very suited for that.
> I do think we'll hit a soft ceiling in the not too distant future ... it's going to plateau and progress will become substantially more gradual.

I don't think this will age well.

It's a matter of simple compute power to advance from realistic text/token prediction, to realistic synthesis of stuff like human (or animal) body movement, for all kinds of situations, including realistic facial/body language, moods, and so on. Of course perfect voice synthesis. Coupled with good enough robotics, you can see where I'm going with this, and that's only because my imagination is limited to sci-fi movie tropes. I think this is going to be wilder than we can imagine, while still just copying training sets.
Is there an extension that automatically loads up archive versions of articles which are paywalled, to skip the copy & paste step?
They can use the free webmail: https://mail2web.com/webmail/
Kick Revisits Moderation Policy After CEO Laughs at Sex Worker ‘Prank’ Stream
No, I don't think they invented multitouch, I was referring to the name of the gesture. "Pinch to zoom" is afaik their invention, as opposed to "two or more input points applied to the touch-sensitive display that are interpreted as the gesture operation", as the article mentions.

The issue is about naming and communicating UI in an intuitive manner. Which should be solved by acceptance testing.
How is that different from accessing $HOME/.config? It does exist on Windows too, but I don't want to Google it.

I believe in Windows there's even $SHARED/.config
This just changed my life forever...
I've always been flabbergasted that other people's shoelaces stay tied.
Bless your soul for posting this.
I purchased a 2004 corolla off the lot and that bad boy is running smooth at 165k miles.

It's ugly as all get-out, for some reason people love hitting me, including a freaking semi truck on a double left turn that turned too tightly. I literally have a line going down the side of my car marking where the trailer rotated into me.

But you know what I like more than a pretty vehicle? Reliable, no car payments, cheap insurance.

Just maintain it well and those vehicles will last you a lifetime.
It's funny. This discussion keeps getting pulled in different directions. Are you advocating that we automate PPE use in the workforce? Otherwise, what's the point of this comment?
No. But you're sabotaging yourself if you're thinking you're too old.

FWIW, I am much older than you and retiring soon and am contemplating a career change. My grandfather went from sales to programming in his early 70s and made a literal fortune[1] contracting.

1. Many millions USD, doing programming on IBM platforms around Y2K. Coincidentally, 2036 [2] and 2038 [3] are coming up.

2. http://www.lieberbiber.de/2017/03/14/a-look-at-the-year-2036...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem