skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consultancy is something you usually think of when you hear big rich firms like BCG, McKinsey and the like. I have grown up in a family that runs a small business, and we've always craved for information that could give us a competitive edge. As I've experimented more with data science, I want to see if it is possible for small businesses to be able to get personalized advice based on the data sources they already have (think social media, PoS, quickbooks, ads, etc.) Now a days, we use data in many different forms to run our businesses, and so much of the business' essence in captured in this data. As a data scientists I think this data has a story to tell -- a story that has a lot of practical and useful insights into how to increase revenue and cut down costs. It's new, but can be so useful.

If this is something that interests you, I am working with small businesses (for free!) right now to see if there's value to be gained. There's nothing to lose really, but you could gain a lot of useful stuff. You can learn more about it here and sign up if you want us to reach out https://www.levytation.com/
That was for the first, which needed to run on a PS4.

Spiderman 2 uses a very different system.
"don't generally make it into big retail bookstores"

...which of course use the same algorithmic approach as Amazon to maximizing popularity and volume over quality or creativity. The book marketplace is now the equivalent of H&M or McDonalds.
Qantas used to fly from Santiago to Sydney. An airline pilot (74-Gear on youtube) has been trying to organize a flight from Buenos Aires to Perth for the benefit of flat earthers. https://youtu.be/xaRxOesKIyg
$5 / 1k requests... wow. That's like, entirely unworkable for almost all use-cases surely?

Even coming from a backend-heavy world where one request does a lot of work, that's got to be an order of magnitude off the mark at least. If you go for a frontend-heavy setup where there are more smaller requests (in my experience, common, when using things like Lambda), this could be another order of magnitude off again!
Hebrew characters are a lot harder to learn that Hangul.
Kinda weird to use IA for this instead of just looking it up on Wikipedia

Initial release: May 16, 2000; 23 years ago (32-bit)
Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth
Because I'm not "taking" anything. They're the ones who send people stuff for free. They're more than capable of returning HTTP 402 Payment Required instead of a video stream. If they send me ads instead I'll delete them.

Don't turn this around on us. They're the ones poisoning the well by offering free stuff with implicit strings attached and thereby normalizing "free" services. We're under exactly zero moral obligation to "pay" them by looking at ads. They have absolutely no one else but themselves to blame for their business model and the assumptions they made.
Vercel is hosted on AWS, and they're definitely not in the business of subsidizing AWS per-GB costs. Although the >2x markup is egregious ($40/100gb aka $0.40/gb over 1tb, versus AWS' $0.15/gb in its most expensive region, Sao Paulo, Brazil).
depends on the goal:

if the passion is to learn some new tech then well, there are lots of options, i'd pick something that i haven't worked with yet.

if it is something where the passion is in the content, i would use the same old stack that i used for my last few projects. in my case that is aurelia+custom backend which is a reusable object storage and user management platform, where i didn't need to add any project specific features for some time now.

if i could not use that backend, i would pick something that makes it easy to manage objects through a REST API.

if i had to evaluate a new framework then the main thing that i would look for is the ability to minimize or avoid any dependency on build tools.

unfortunately, with the rapid evolution in frontend frameworks there is also a rapid evolution in build tools. that just adds extra effort to maintain a site for more than a few years.

without buildtools getting in the way i can maintain a site with minimal effort, and i know it will still be running in a decade from now.
That's a good one :D we need a dedicated thread for Dad jokes.
Workers are also free for the first 100k every month I believe.
Come on. Given the context, “certain sports cars” obviously wasn’t what GP was talking about.
I think management was seeing such collateral damage as just rounding errors. But it did not work out this way.

Engineers above the senior level were far more likely to leave than juniors. This was because finding remote, well-paying work even today is still a lot easier for a senior, principal, fellow engineers, than it is for those less experienced. I would say principals and seniors were most likely to leave. They left the company I was talking about 2:1 compared to others.

Fellows/distinguished level engineers didn’t leave much either. But probably because the RTO mandate was negotiable for them, as many other things. Moreover, it might be difficult to move laterally to a different company and remain at that level, with that pay.

It was mostly that the middle fell out.

I guess companies always think they’ll get the undesirables and replaceables out with layoffs, but through a lot of secondary effects (morale, distrust, lack of stability, leaving friends, and so on) they often get rid of the people that are most in demand and hardest to replace.

It might not be 2:1 in every case, but I do believe that the ones in demand are most likely to leave in “soft” layoffs like forced RTO or whatever Musk was doing at X, where the employees themselves choose whether to to or stay and submit. If you just decimate the company evenly, the outcome could be less destructive.
This article is from 2018 and talking about the original Spider-Man PS4 game. And I think it's still wrong - as far as I know they used cubemaps for the interiors in that game.

So I think this article is mostly just an ad for a Unity addon.
Does anyone know of applications like this for other languages, particularly Russian and Greek?
There are a couple of examples of drivers starting in sims (though not in F1). Verstappen plans to make a GT3 team and promote good sim drivers to actual racing, so he is a good example in that his team may prove or disprove the theory.

I really like Hamilton and somewhat dislike Verstappen but I think Hamilton is wrong here. Of course physical practice is better, but surely there are some worthy drivers with access to sims but not karting at a competitive level that may be found by sim racing. Plus one can do both, and plenty of F1 drivers claim sims make them better.
It's open core, not fully open source: https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/blob/develop/LICENSE
Oral traditions can certainly have stories that line up with ancient events. But if you've got 100 stories and 3 line up with ancient events, could that just be coincidence?

In any case, how much information can be stored in a person's head? It can't be that much.
> companies attract a critical number who don't really care

I think most people have the capacity in them to care. Working at a place you don't care about is utterly miserable and draining in the long run, its not something someone does by choice. People usually end up doing it when they are isolated from the effect of their work. Either not hearing at all whether anyone used or cared about your work, or worse hearing that work was arbritrary/pointless.

For example manager stressing about deadlines, you all work hard to meet them, then all of a sudden it turns out your work isnt being used and is just sitting around. What was the deadline for? why did this happen? does anyone apologise, or even feel the need to explain?

In general being isolated from the effect of your work also had a strong negative correlation with happiness in my experience. Hard to be happy when you feel like a cog in a machine that wouldn't care if you dissapeared.

I guess this sort of situation is inherently more likely as team sizes grow and the number of steps in communication channels rises.

Many times i've observed a team full of people who give a shit breed people that don't, as the company grew and many of them ended up as managers who failed to delegate effectively, and by overworking themselves on the important and meaningful tasks (because they gave a shit) they neglected their reports with menial and meaningless/arbritrary tasks and no feedback (who became morose and could not give a shit if they tried)
what's PE?
These aren't remotely comparable. How about just justify your rationale behind wanting to impose limits on space exploration on all of humanity?
When I taught linear algebra I used Strang and a book from the UK by Morris that seems to be out of print these days.
Oh jesus, the movie is a borefest and has this uncanny feeling that emotions are totally missing, like you are telling a story about humans, but with robots that lack any emotions. Not even Joaquin Phoenix can save it and no matter how hard RK tries to elevate it to the level of Matrix, it's nowhere near groundbreaking, at best it is a bag of clichés. It's someone's corny fantasy about a fully retarded future, or rather someone with serious control issues, tries to portray how humans will be enslaved to such misaligned, horrible and borderline crazy inventions like an os that give you virtual fellatio and emotional support.

Plus they masqueraded JP to this repulsive figure, instead of letting his god given looks work its way on the screen, which would've helped the whole setup, since it's a good looking guy who needs the OS' support, not an average joe.
Your entire comment can be summarized as “I’m right, you’re wrong, sticks tounge out”. I don’t know what I could possibly say when everything I’ve seen and read (including books about the subject) says you’re wrong but I’m sure none of that will convince you.

I guess I’ll just say that I only found an happy relationship after leaving dating apps and I would recommend anyone reading to do the same.

> Women actually have a worse time on these apps then men

This is completely irrelevant when discussing whether or not men have valid complaints or not. In reality dating apps are shitty for both men and women.
This! Can't agree more, I think we share the same idea, that's what the tool we're making is about: https://github.com/mify-io/mify/. It generates backend service code in a scalable way from the beginning, so that you wouldn't have to rewrite and move services to some other platform.

It's better to have good architecture from the beginning, but I understand why people choose these platforms - they are saving a lot of time in the initial development, that helps them iterate quickly. What will happen next is that people spending time and resources to perform costly migrations, and some do this more that once.
Google Tasks – Add the ability to get/set task due time via API
Google tasks (now officially replace reminders) has been missing the ability to get and set task due times for over 4 years.
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Please go easy on me, as this is my first semi decent sized Rust project and there's definitely quite a bit of work left to to. It's nothing special, really just made it for myself as a more convenient way to test api endpoints for work.
Definitely didn't want to post about it at first, but after struggling with it a bit, if I can bring some awareness to criminal justice reform by showcasing that someone can go from years of solitary confinement, to remote employment as an engineer while working on a college degree all while still incarcerated. This highlights the importance of availability and access to education in the prison system. Please check out the bottom of the README. I prob should write a blog post or something, if I can get it approved.
Constructive feedback is appreciated.
> No

Gilbert Strang (already mentioned by fellow commenters).

> The subject is too young

"The first modern and more precise definition of a vector space was introduced by Peano in 1888; by 1900, a theory of linear transformations of finite-dimensional vector spaces had emerged." (from Wikipedia)
I worked at ZEIT (before it became Vercel) and if they've retained even a 10th of their engineering culture then they're solid, if not a bit "niche" in what and who they target.

Anecdotal, sure, but it'd be hard to quantify it.
Well, look -- I think there is a lot to say there; but I wonder how to put it on an empirical footing.

Hangul is definitely one of the most logically organized, consistent and systematic systems of writing in the world -- and it may actually be number one in all those categories.
Look for laptop replacement parts.
> I gave you an example of OpenZFS where this is not the case.

But that's not a hardware driver.

> It is not true in practice meaning there is utility in having a stable ABI.

That would benefit the people who are doing the wrong thing, at the expense of people who are doing the right thing.
maybe it's because the industry isn't really interested in having more MDs?
> Sometimes, even if someone is sentenced to life in prison they are let out and kill again.

Life without parole exists

> Also, putting remorseless killers in prison also represents a threat to other prisoners. We haven't figured out how to prevent that yet.

Solitary confinement exists

> Should capital punishment be more strictly controlled with a massively high barrier to use, yes, but there are solid reasons to use it.

What are the solid reasons to kill somebody in prison ?
"Expecting to use their signatures for anything meaningful strikes me as a bit like expecting product support from a delivery driver."

And yet most of the packages from most major linux distributions are signed. If you are going to spend hours maintaining a package, it takes only an extra half a second to tap a yubikey to prevent someone from impersonating you.

Package maintainers from say Arch and Debian go through a vetting process, multiple people sign their keys, and it is a responsibility. Yes, it is volunteer, but there are also volunteer firefighers. Some volunteer jobs are important to keep others safe, and they should be done with care.

If Arch, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu can all sign packages, then this excuse does not really hold for Nix.

"You don't need to trust it wasn't packaged maliciously, nix does reproducible builds so you can just look at the derivation and build it yourself if you don't feel like relying on the binary cache."

Reproducible builds and package definition signing solve totally different problems. Assume you trust a given developer has been maintaining a package non-maliciously, then you see they made a new update, and so you and other people trust it and build it. You get the same result, so you trust the binaries too. However, you still end up with malware. How? Simple. The developers github account was compromised due to a sim swap on their email account while they were on vacation, and someone pushed a fake commit as that person.

Or maybe a malicious Github employee is bribed to serve manipulated git history only to the reproducible build servers but to no one else, so it goes undetected for years.

Supply chain attacks like this are becoming very common, and there is a lot of motivation to do it to Linux distributions which power systems worth billions of dollars regularly.

It is also so easy to close these risks. Just tap the damn yubikey or nitrokey when it blinks. It is wildly irresponsible not to mandate this, and we should question the motivations of anyone not willing to do something so basic to protect users.
Looks interesting. But there's no case to augment it? If you screw on a SSD and connect via sata, the cable loop sits on the end, ready to get snagged and pulled out?

Seems like a missed opportunity to not have power over Ethernet support?
Are you open to pushing one of your Work in Progress(WIP) models to https://ollama.ai/library to show off and let others try it out and provide feedback?
4th sequence
Just because it's not for you does not mean it's not good.

Some people have the intuition grasp mathematical concepts more easily than others. Some people don't see it and need to be motivated.
What? Linear Algebra is easily one of the best understood fields of mathematics. Maybe elementary number theory has it beat, but the concepts that drive useful higher level number theory aren't nearly so clear or direct as those driving linear algebra. It's used as a lingua franca between all sorts of different subjects because mathematicians of all stripes share an understanding of what it's about.

From what you said there, it seems like you tried to approach linear algebra from nearly random directions- and often from the end rather than the beginning. If you're in it for the computation, Axler definitely isn't for you. There are texts specifically on numeric programming- they'll jump straight to the real world use. If you want to understand it from a pure math perspective, I'd recommend taking a step back and tackle a textbook of your choosing in order. The definition of a dual space makes a lot more sense once you have a vector space down.
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Pumpkin Eye App
Just a little hack project for fun, the kids loved it.

Video of it in action - https://imgur.com/a/g0Jik5b
Curious why you chose only conservative politicians. Do progressive politicians refrain from the practice?
IME they are roughly as useful as Google, but with much greater latency. They are also wrong not-infrequently, either because they misunderstood the question, or because they gave an incorrect response.
> I've never played on an actual pinball machine

Do yourself a favor and change that ;)

Check out PinballMap.com and find a machine near you. It’s a surprisingly fun and zen hobby.
Thanks for you suggestion and it is good to know this, but in my case I can rule out the cause.
There is a spike in downdetector for YouTube at the time of my comment, so it must have been a larger glitch somewhere...
Or, you know, mathematics can be viewed as a powerful set of tools…

Somehow I seem to remember getting through an engineering degree, taking all the optional extra math courses (including linear algebra), without there ever being a big emphasis on proofs. I’m sure it’s important if you want to be a mathematician, but if you just want to understand enough to be able to use it?
Sorry, I wasn't talking about Velleman's book on whatever, I was just challenging the sentiment that you should learn the "basics of proof based math" before linear algebra. Linear algebra is the basics of proof based math.

Edit: I should clarify that I believe that there are many approaches to learning mathematics, I'm sure that Velleman's book is fine, just that it isn't true that you should not try to learn from Axler, although perhaps someone who has a bit less of an axe to grind.
LOL, the whole of most of the pre-Facebook social networks has already been lost. And that was where most people were keeping their digital photos from 2000-2008.
This may be true, but there tends to be more complaining about Amazon in the FAANGs than the others.
I've learned to take anecdotes as data points but also recognize that in a large enough company, there is a huge variance.

A large company is like a country. Different people will have different experiences. Take America for instance. Some people say America sucks, the healthcare is broken, there's too many guns, Europe is better. Others say there's more jobs that pay better in America, America gives people a chance to be on the leading edge (through various tech/cultural hubs) and to do something that would never be possible in their own country.

A company -- like America -- is a bunch of people united by a set of constraints. If you don't like those constraints, then it's worst place in the world. But if you like those constraints, it's not bad.

The former group though tends to be more vocal about it. This is why I discount HN opinions that are super emotional and embellished and one-sided. Chances are OP had a really bad experience and the sample is really biased.
I've recently seen this project in Wolfgang's Channel [0]. The team behind it seem to be pretty nice about the open source nature of it and the DIY ways of getting a similar hardware doing the same thing as their own product. Kudos to them!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpKcqLcApTQ
Also, if you implement it as lambdas, your solution is now less portable. Your EC2 instance can probably be ported to something else easier than some lambda solution.
Map of the Best
We have a couple of these. They're actually quite nice.

I wish the Asrock Rack boards would have a similar letsencrypt integration.
Zima was also a fruity malt liquor beverage that was sort of popular in the 1990s.

https://vinepair.com/articles/ntk-zima/
The hopes are high that Alan Wake 2's optimization and performance will only continue to improve with the release of post-launch updates, including multiple expansions.

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The idiocy of people. A game must be in a shipping ready state when it launches. End of story. If you wait for a game and buy it on T=0 day you do that because you want to experience the whole thing at that very moment, and don't want to wait for possible updates that would elevate it to a level where it would run much better on your hardware.
For me the main issue with the first Alan Wake was the awful controls. I stopped playing when it became clear I was spending more time wrestling with the game than actually playing.
I like this design better when browsing the "Top" section
YouTube advertisers aren't affected by this - it's the content producers who aren't getting paid, and potentially even YouTube no longer making enough to pay for the resources you use. YouTube has an enormous library now but if people who make content start thinking of it as smaller and smaller payments they're going to making new content.
Absolutely true. It would be nice to be able to separate this value from the value of being a central hub/platform.
Yes. It's this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37985176
Because we know that there were much older civilizations during the bronze age which relied on long distance international trade and at least their ruling classes were dependent on it for their survival.
This article seemed... weak. Of the five people profiled, two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now, one went into real estate, and one went to work for a startup. I get it, it's hard to get off the treadmill, especially when you have the opportunity to make money in a not miserable way.

But these changes don't seem all that radical. Those four are all playing different games now, but they're still grinding.
Ok but I’m willing to bet it was given to a small and specific set of boomers who own a lot of capital, rather than to boomers in general. Seems like we’re trying to distract people from class issues by fomenting discord between generations.
Have not heard the name xfire in a long long time. It was the initial (IIRC) defacto gaming messaging service back in the early 2000s. You could download skins (like Winamp) and it would track game time hours and show running game status.

Looks like they pivoted into a obscure news site. Will always have fond memories.
The article doesn’t mention that nuclei, mitochondria, and chloroplasts all have double membranes. If I had to guess, I would bet that those are the organelles that were formed by endosymbiosis.
That's fine, but then maybe this book shouldn't then be the top comment for being recommended as a "good first course" then?
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I wouldn't trust any MD that couldn't manage a C- in all of those subjects.