skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are now! It's the act of solving the problem not the code itself that entirely matters. Code is simply an unfortunate vehicle to do so. I've been programming for almost 20 years now, 10 professionally and I love it. I also maintain that for a lot of the programming that makes the world go round, it's not that hard. People just convince themselves they won't be able to.

LLMs have supercharged me as an experienced dev, not writing code[0], but rubber ducking[1] with something that talks back and I can ask my question in an infinite amount of stupid ways and it won't balk.

If it can do that for me, designing a database, it's about to introduce a whole new wider range of "I'm not a programmer"s into being programmers. Good timing too, the world needs it.

I know particularly prickly devs will be annoyed by people they see as not true developers, but, and sorry to be so blunt, fuck em. It's short sighted because if you're as deep and skilled as you think you are, you won't intersect with this new wave of programmers anyway.

[0] I stopped using copilot, it got in my way too frequently even after initially liking it.
[1] I use GPT4 and I intend to publish my entire history of my back and forths I've had with it for designing a database after I release my project, but it basically just let's me bounce ideas off it. The caveat is this area is not unfamiliar to me, and the techniques I'm discussing I know enough about to call bullshit on when I see it.
https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
Pretty happy with it so far. Mainly using it to recall things i read. Especially nice for looking up things you can’t recall where to search. I remember someone linked about a golang library for ipfs last week, but have no idea who or where (slack, discord, hn, etc). Rewind makes that really easy. Similar to wanting to find an open dropbox ticket i wanted to bump. Instead of searching gmail etc, it was easy to find the page i was looking for.

The less successful part of rewind is the transcripts of meetings. Kind of works for english but does horrible with accents, and omfg other languages are just random words. I’m really looking forward to them improving this.

Overall it’s a solid product that has room to improve. Pricetag is a bit steep but one I’m happy to pay for a local first solution if only it dealt better with voice transcripts and ideally have a better mobile version. (Don’t plan on using safari any time soon)
I feel like these tests are really testing the ability of the language to give hints to the compiler in its attempt to generate efficient machine code.
The presenter and the video are super-high-quality! This is the kind of content I expect to see from PBS or some 90s era Discovery channel show. The creator must be professionally trained, or just have a natural talent for education.

Bravo!
Show HN: Smartphone haptics for inducing calm, an alternative to meditation
Hey HN,

We've been working in neurotech over the past few years, primarily focusing on improving sleep. A friend asked if I would build her a vagal nerve stimulation device. These are devices used to improve relaxation, and “vagal tone”. She didn't want to shell out hundreds for the existing solutions.

I originally said no, but then I thought, what if we leveraged smartphone haptics to achieve the same effect as these expensive devices?

After some tinkering, Harbor: Immersive Calm was published to the app store last week.

https://getharbor.app

It’s pretty basic and very MVP, no logins, just:

1)open the app

2) select an immersion (mix of sound and haptics)

3) select how long you want to be immersed (?)

4) lay back, put your phone on your chest, and feel the sensations.

In comparison to meditation, with Harbor, there is no “doing it right”, : Lay back, Tune In & Chill Out.

I initially built for Android, but the fine-grained control and consistency of haptic motors in iOS device is a better experience. Though, I’m not ruling out a future dive into Android.

Here’s a video demo(https://youtu.be/gr70kY9_Abk) for a sneak peek. Though, without the haptic feedback, you can’t really get a feeling for the experience.

Compared to devices the cost hundreds of dollars plus subscriptions, we’re thinking of a subscription model of $5/month.

A friend who is a trauma therapist said she’d recommend it to some of her clients, and of course, there is the market of people who are looking to buy vagal nerve devices, and we can offer a lower cost alternative - and you don’t have to wait for shipping :)
Pseudoarchaeology
germany records every single bullet its police officers fire.

do you want to know the number of bullets fired?

According to a research brief by the Center for Homicide Research1, there were 11 cases of accidental discharges by police officers in Germany from 2000 to 2012, resulting in one death and six injuries. This means that on average, there were less than one accidental discharge per year in Germany during this period.
gpt
civil cases is preponderance of evidence.

criminal is beyond a reasonable doubt.

in any light, yes civil cases are about whether you’re more likely than not to be liable
Is there any evidence that spending more on education results in better outcomes?
https://www.cato.org/blog/public-school-spending-theres-char...
The Schools in Camden are the highest funded and lowest performing schools in New Jersey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0JorXgqxiU&
https://ublockorigin.com/
https://sponsor.ajay.app/
I'm not commenting on the morality, only the legality.
I don't see how I am "pearl-clutching".

> Pearl-clutching is a deliberate bad-faith reaction to a comment and a form of civil POV-pushing. It is done in order to exaggerate the effects and impacts said comment had.

I merely spoke about the atrocities I read about, and expressed my disbelief in how a person could even commit something like that.
While. Not For.
Yet another way to atrophy the mind's ability to recollect
People keep saying Merkle DAGs when someone calls a linear chain of recursively hashed data blocks a blockchain.

I don’t understand.

My understanding of the Merkle Tree is that it’s a recursive hash, but the leaf nodes are the data, each layer up the tree is the hash of the child nodes.

In a merkle tree, only the leaf nodes store (or reference) data, everything else is just a hash.

Is there another merkle structure I don’t know about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

If the nodes with hashes contain data, it’s not a merkle tree.
As someone mid-sabbatical with a plan to transition to something entirely self-run, it’s really good to read this comment.

I’ve done the busting my balls in big tech thing and burned out hard, which made me realize I needed to make a serious change. But it’s pretty common to find content focused on exactly what you describe instead of the “I’m just doing what I need to do so I can pay bills and lead a happy life”.

I want to build something successful, but not so successful that I’m back to burnout mode. Some people seem happier to burn themselves out for their own endeavor, but I just want to find a good balance between paying bills and enjoying life.

I’ve been building out a series of blog posts talking about the sabbatical itself, and how I’ve spent my time, and just wanted to mention that I’d be one of the first readers if you or someone like you decided to write about their “middle way” experiences.

I hope I can write about that eventually, but it’s all aspirational at this point.
Let us not forget the hospital drone strikes during his presidency.
I don't do philosophical arguments. But it's obvious this conversation not productive so there's no reason for me to insist.
Use of that phrase tends to either signal that the author thinks that their little bubble is larger than it really is or that they have some sort of paternalistic need to inform this not-me-but-most-everyone-else group of people (or be concerned on their behalf). Or both.
> The temptation to use these technologies all the time is too strong for even self preservation of your own (writers) voice.

I don't know about that. I have played with ChatGPT/Copilot/etc enough to know what they're capable of doing. But the thing is, I enjoy programming. I enjoy breaking down a problem and solving it with code. I enjoy crafting elegant code. So I don't use AI even though I'm fully aware it could save me hours on projects. Why? Because I enjoy those hours very much.

Why am I telling you all this? Because I suspect many writers are the same and personal blogs are their canvas. They enjoy communicating. They enjoy crafting articles. They might have AI proof-read them, but they won't let them write everything. So, to me, there is hope that personal blogs will maintain their human element, as opposed to news websites or tabloids or learning platforms.
The "Denied" are probably only "Denied" because you didn't want to push back hard.

You could always take them to court (even small claims court) or just outright get debt collectors involved.

Probably better once you've quit though. ;)
If they can’t find it they’ll build it in Kentucky!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_Encounter
Union Pacific tried using turbines in the 50s[0] but fuel consumption was an issue (I think they had to keep the turbine idling and maybe throttling wasn't as easy?). Also mentioned in the wiki article was the low-grade fuel they were used was able to be used for plastic manufacturing instead of just burning it.

The bigger difference between locomotive applications and GPs question is around charging batteries as opposed to running motors or directly turning the wheels. Efficiency of the smaller turbine is mentioned in another comment - but I have to imagine you'd also see some loses going from turbine to generator to battery and then to electric motor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_GTELs
Yes, 100%. That's how we advance science as fast as possible. Focus on fixes, not suing.
I've never had this happen because I always call the hotel directly and ask them.

Trusting a 3rd party booking system to have accurate up-to-date information is a fool's errand.
> You cannot have both a gigantic user base and a paid product

The obvious counter example to this is Windows itself. Or... iOS?
Geometric learning is more about group- and invariant theory. This paper only goes as far as linear algebra, as far as I see.
This affects the Twitter social media card of type summary_large_image - a short-term fix if this affects your site is to switch that for the summary card, which still shows a visible link title with a smaller, square cropped image. https://twitter.com/matteason/status/1709986442124951931

I have a pattern for producing screenshots of my pages for use in social media cards which is suddenly a lot more relevant: https://til.simonwillison.net/shot-scraper/social-media-card...
> Perhaps perspectives are based on whether you're booking domestically or not.

I've had the best success when traveling abroad booking directly. Anyone in the hospitality industry is going to have someone on staff with enough English to assist you, and most of the nicest places are smaller hotels that often don't work well with big booking companies.

> If I buy from Booking UK I get UK consumer protections

I worked in a travel startup (not Booking), there's a lot of fine print to all those "protections" that will leave you high and dry in most cases.

Only use 3rd party apps for search, never book directly through them especially, in my experience, for International travel.
Al Gore on What’s Standing in the Way of Climate Progress [video]
>The world has known about the threat posed by climate change for decades now. Why has it taken so long to act, and what are the major obstacles today? Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore sits down at The New York Times Climate Forward event to discuss what’s standing in the way of progress. This interview was with David Gelles of The New York Times.
Thank you for posting. It's great to see the flashes of sarcastic humor from El Reg of old. (Did they hire back somebody?)
Love Brady’s work. I bought his book too. While I was hoping for a more coffee table type book, it is more dense than that but still a delightful read.

Book Title: Engineering in Plain Sight.
Nice catch, thanks. I suppose they're flaunting their flouting of the law ;)
I listen almost exclusively to non-commercial radio, but every so often I'd scan the dial and sample the commercial stations. Most of the commercial stations in my market have evolved to only interrupt the programming once per hour with ads.

I think the scale is tipping. The only way to listen to music now without a subscription and without ads every few songs is actually old-school FM radio.

There are still some radio stations with heavy advertisement loads. But most of the dial is not as hard to listen to as it was 10-years ago.
It is actually right off interstate 75 in rural Kentucky. Next to to the zip lines and cemetery.
I had pickled lemon soda at a pho place once and while I can’t say I liked it I do have very compelling flashbacks and cravings for it… unfortunately that place closed.
You're a cynical boomer :-P

But really, I think you'll change your mind at some point. There's some pretty cool stuff coming.
There will be a web of trust, with a valuation of nodes by trustworthyness. And people will get only one id for this. Ones name is ones value and a reputation will be a hard earned thing again.
> high-margin software businesses.

I've heard similar stories to this from people working at high-margin software businesses before too.

It could be something along the lines of "depends which team you're in", as to who's being screwed over or not.
I can't quite remember and my Google Fu is failing me at the moment.

I think it was something about how L1 wouldn't flush down to the inclusive L2 until commanded to, so external reads hit the stale L2.

Alpha being a pain here would be on brand, but I think this was a different arch.
Ask HN: Required voice notes for job applications
Does anyone else find these extremely uncomfortable? The thoughts of what I should say are not hard, but talking to no one is very unpleasant. Is anyone else running into this with their applications?
Mont-Saint-Michel
>The American people were misled by government claims about WMDs and handwavy connections between Iraq and 9/11. But that doesn't permit us to retroactively declare that "well, if only the people knew in 2002 what we know now then they would have been against it."

Can you explain more? If the American people knew they were being lied to in order to create support for a war, why would they support the war? The argument at the time, repeated all over the media, was that the war was necessary because of WMDs.
53% is a narrow majority supporting invasion, you don't think knowing they were being tricked would have caused at least a 5% swing?
Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
> It's not my duty to click an unsubscribe button if I didn't subscribe in the first place.

Then it's also not your duty to click the spam button??

Joking aside, that's not the kind of email I am talking about. Spam is spam and should be flagged as spam. If you get benign email that complies with all the anti-spam legislation but you just don't want it, then use unsubscribe.

Using the spam button for things that are not spam muddles the data labeling and increases spam rates because the email service operators can't use it to tell what is actually spam and what is a frustrated (or perhaps simply ignorant) user.
What is holding you? And if you mean the rest of us - live and let live.
Love how the most empowered users on Retool are engineers.

Question about Workflows -- how does it compare to a tool like Apache Airflow?
This sounds like a trigger for hotels to treat booking.com customers poorly. I imagine people would be better off booking somewhere else. I would suggest directly with hotels but that pretty much always costs more money than booking through a third party so maybe Expedia/Hotels.com or something.
I am a fan of subways. Course they only make sense in the largest cities because of the huge cost of constructing them. However if the cost were to drop dramatically they would make sense in smaller cities as well. The only one working on dramatically lowering that cost is the Boring company.

Where I disagree with them is the use of Tesla's in the tunnels. It would be far cheaper to have rail cars powered by electricity. A lot of the old systems have live power in a center rail. This causes problems if someone is pushed or falls onto the track.

I haven't seen it done anywhere but think it makes sense to have an overhead wire the car attaches to similar to how street cars operate.
Check out RonDB (https://www.rondb.com/blog) which is a fork of MySQL Cluster but has support for elasticity with no downtime, backups, etc.
Disclaimer: i am involved with RonDB.
Robert K. Merton
Funny, I always look for hotels that do not allow dogs, as most of the time the rooms tend to smell like a wet dog, or sometimes feces.

I appreciate people who want to travel with their animals, but saying "we allow dogs" then not having rooms designed to ameliorate the issues with such a policy - hard surface floors everywhere and thorough cleanings - is unfortunately very common.
"Follow your passion" can be a valuable outlook on life. The overly broad interpretation of that is what many people find confusing.

I think it's fair to say that most engineers have a passion for coding/engineering. Without it spending most of one's waking hours coding would be absolutely unsustainable. Finding passion in this context is about finding the right niche for your work, not switching your career to something else you would (potentially) enjoy, like playing video games. We need to acknowledge that not every hobby or interest is that mythical passion we should view as a career opportunity.

Being an engineer doesn't define one's work: spending 2 years of your life on building a new ads format at Meta is technically the same profession as e.g. developing better models for predicting climate change, but the passion factor will be different for different people.
it is IMHO the best distro for the USB drive use case, because the USB drive is still DOS formatted and you can use it as any USB drive. It's also super fast, because it runs on ramdisk, and forgets everything you did not explicitly save once you restart. It also has d-core which gives you access to all Debian packages https://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=dcore:welcome
Who defines "wrong," and why can't whoever that is simply publish their own content explaining why the other content was "wrong?"
As a comparison, an estimate for the cost of World War II is $5T, for US spending at least [0].

Obviously there's differences in methodology etc. but seems to be the same ballpark. Not sure I'd call WWII cheap.

[0]: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2020/february/war-...
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I'm not seeing a confirmation page, it redirects transparently. So it seems that YMMV.
I have the history and suggested content features off, I used to only rely on searching for what I wanted to watch, now it stopped working, both google search and youtube search now are trash, and search is their original product.
I appreciate the more nuanced reply, and I think those are pretty reasonable positions. Your original reply, again, seemed like you were angry that a manager might care about how you're doing as a person and that they had ulterior motives for wanting to talk to you. My personal position isn't that you need to love or even like your coworkers/managers/employees as friends, or spend time with them without compensation, but caring about others as people and not as cogs in a machine is important in building a professional career.

I've seen too many people in the workplace wall themselves off, actively resist building any connections, never see advancement or try to grasp any opportunities, and then they leave for whatever reason and not a single person in their orbit gave a fuck that that they ever existed.
In most houses the HVAC and water heater are the only devices that the user can accept not being in full control. Everything else is like the kettle: when you turn it on you want it on now.
Found this:

https://download.qt.io/online/qtsdkrepository/

It has binaries from different compilers, for example:

https://download.qt.io/online/qtsdkrepository/windows_x86/de...

The online installer is the official way. Don't know if it can download binaries for other platforms.

https://www.qt.io/download-open-source

> Looking for Qt binaries?

> Find them in the Qt Online Installer. It will steer you to the right download version and help you install tools and add-on components that are available for your open source license.
That’s not how the calculus works actually. Today a corporate bully can safely count on you being a rational actor (and not spend $1mm to win $400k) and push the envelop of competition and appropriation of data and trade secrets with limited recourse. Under a prevailing party construct, the risk of doing so is enormous.

Thus, in instances where they are objectively wrong, they lose big. In instances you are objectively wrong, you lose big. In instances where it is not black and white, where there is merit to both sides of the argument, you settle. All this is achieved with little intervention by the courts.
This is what Mr Chargeback is for. Had a similar experience with them and my CC refunded it. I had flights booked with them as well so they refunded those too! Basically got 3 nights in Reykjavik for £290
The term of art you want for searchengineering is “time transfer”.

There are a variety of mechanisms:

* fibre links when the labs are close enough

* two-way satellite time transfer, when they are further apart

* in the past, literally carrying an atomic clock from A to B (they had to ask the pilot for precise details of the flight so that they could integrate relativistic effects of the speed and height)

* there’s an example in the talk, of how Essen and Markowitz compared their measurements by using a shared reference, the WWV time signal.
See also: the Metrology forum at eevblog.com. Lots of time-nuts (and volt-nuts, etc) hang out there.
I am a full time digital nomad and stay in a ton of hotels. I have once gotten the same rate directly, usually it is 20-30% higher. Hotels basically force you to third parties.
This will be interesting. AI's excellent grammar disarms people into believing the AI has common sense in novel situations when, in fact, it doesn't. Think of it like this: a photo of a scene can fool people into thinking it's an actual scene up until the actual scene rotates a bit but the picture doesn't follow. Interesting times for the Turing Test.
Sad to see the top comments in the thread not even bothering to discuss the technical reasons and legal implications behind this .. and instead everyone wants to just discuss unrelated anecdotes about their personal travels.

The story here is about how booking.com is screwing over hotels and hostels, not guests. Someone should create a different thread for that, because apparently people have a very strong need to tell their tangentially related stories.