skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire gimmick of the product is that the bolt is on an angle. This means that the nut and plates are not symmetrical and both the designer and assembler must pay attention to the direction the bolt points so that the wrench is not blocked by another component. It also makes it impossible to have a mounting point in any sort of "deep well" since all angles except perfectly perpendicular will be obstructed.

The 20 degree angle should be accommodated by a ball-end hex wrench, but it still must be taken into consideration in more situations than a perpendicular bolt.

I'm also not a fan of the fact that the angled bolt will apply unequal loading to the flanges of the nut.
This is sensationalist and ridicules.

When something on the fringe gets a bit more popular it will easily
have a phenomenal growth rate.

Let's say I started making computers (somehow).
I sell 10 the first year, 10 the next year,
but I make to the front page of HN one day
and I sell 1000 computers that year.

My growth rate, would outpace every large
computer maker in the US (probably) with
a good margin (probably).

Yet, nearly everyone in the world would still
be using and buying computers from the big vendors (probably).
and few people will never know my computer exists.

Since nearly everyone attends public school growth can only
come from an increased population, or a return from private school.
(or a return from homeschooling)

It would be nice if they included the absolute numbers of people
in each category.

Plus their own data seem to indicate that the trend may already
have peaked since 2023 numbers are down.

I think a lot of parents will soon find out how much work it takes
to properly homeschool their children (child).
If you're interested in this, you may want to look at Daniel Pink's book The Power of Regret. Interview (audio and video options):

> Human beings are undeniably complex, and what motivates us can often be a mystery, even to ourselves. So, how do we go about gathering and analyzing the data that will help us answer the most fundamental questions about our lives and our purpose? The answers may lie in an unexpectedly rich source of knowledge, our regrets. While regret is likely to have a decidedly negative connotation for most of us, it is also extremely powerful and can teach us a great deal about ourselves and what we value. It is an emotion that is present in all of us, and social scientists (like anthropologists and sociologists) have been fascinated by the subject for decades. Today on the show, we are joined by one such expert, Daniel Pink, author of the book The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward. In our conversation, Daniel shares details about the research he conducted for his book, how he determined the four main categories of regret, and what we can learn from our regrets by confronting them head-on. We also discuss Daniel’s 2011 New York Times Bestselling title, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, and what he thinks about working from home in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Daniel is an exceptional storyteller and is highly knowledgeable on the subjects of regret, motivation, and the important role they play in our lives. To learn more about the many facets of regret and how it can help you thrive, be sure to tune in today!

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/246

Harvard has also been running a multi-decade (since 1938), and now multi-generational, studies on happiness and the current directors (there have been a few over the years) recently published a book with their current understanding of the data, The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/harvard-ha...

* https://archive.ph/aCkTj

From a 2012 book from another director:

> According to The Atlantic, George Vaillant's main conclusion is that the warmth of relationships throughout life has the greatest positive impact on life satisfaction. Put differently, Vaillant says the study shows: "Happiness is love. Full stop."[8]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Study
Yup. Just read somewhere to the effect- "if you can stop complaining for just 1 week, you will be filled with positivity forever"
Not at the expense of my own dignity, no. Or at least, not knowing it would be at my expense ahead of time.
Thank you so much for sharing this.

What would you call this paradigm?

Ian Piumarta (this researcher) calls it "self implementing". https://www.piumarta.com/cv/bio.html

My best effort so far is "example driven programming", which is turrible.

I did something similar for HL7 specifications, at about the same time. Our consultants (what the kids today would probably call business analysts) would hammer out an "HL7 interface" document. (Think human readable OpenAPI for the time.) It'd serve as an actual contract, between us and the hospital, of sorts.

Being lazy, I wrote a parser (not BNF based, like Piumarta's work) which scrapped the "interface" and generated code. Implemented in minutes, instead of days or weeks.

I've since applied that strategy to other domains, with similar results.

But I have the hardest time describing this paradigm. Even when people see demos, they don't quite get it. This stuff is supposed to be hard, right? Surely I'm cheating somehow.

Naively, I've been thinking that if I coined an insipid new phrase, maybe it could become an inscrutable meme. Like "Agile Methodology" and "Extreme Programming" did. Catnip for PHBs.
Living without YouTube can be hard though. Almost every online tutorial, product demo, music video, or other medium and long video material gets uploaded there.
Dress as Native Americans and dump bags full of 2p pieces into Boston harbour!
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Significantly faster absolute single core CPU performance than a 12900K is pretty good and not disappointing at all. I find the improvements in A17 Pro substantial.
That was more tenable when rates were lower. 2x original interest rate now is going to make that more painful.
I have a book about the management consulting industry that suggest there is at least one large successful firm of management consultants where the answer is always "fire 23% - 33% of your staff" regardless of what the question was.

Apparently this is the level that most organisations can stagger on long enough for senior management to bank the bonuses and move on and upwards and before long term effects kick in.
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German Light Products, they make stuff like stage lights and controllers for those.

We had an old DMX controller lying around at my school, and one of the faders was broken. I kind of liked the device, it had some charm, so I decided to repair it. I searched for compatible faders and found one with a similar enough footprint on Mouser, but it was out of stock or something. After days of searching online, I decided to call them, maybe they used similar faders in newer products or something. They were really nice and actually had a replacement in stock for this more than 20 year old thing! I did have to fill out some customer registration form that was clearly aimed at repair shops and the like, but they were super friendly and told me to just leave out all the stuff that didn't apply to me.

Also, half-relatedly, the repair was wonderful. It was clear that the controller was made with durability and repairability in mind. The metal case could be opened with just a few screws, the one cable I had to get out of the way was on a JST connector, and they even had the uC on a header so you could replace it if it failed.
I hope they still make their stuff like that, and I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
Three words: zero interest rates.

Since around 2008-2009, our customers have not been customers. Our customers have been investors. Money has been so cheap that the primary goal of most organizations has been to court investment, not to actually create value. It was easier to raise money than to build product or sell anything.

To do this the goal is to make the company look like a potential "unicorn." That means burying whatever is wrong, over-hiring and over-engineering to make the company look serious and big, complexifying everything to give all those over-hired engineers something to do, and trying to gain as many users as possible as fast as possible even if it's completely unsustainable.

In that world efficiency literally does not matter. In fact, it can be a liability since it means you're not spending investor cash fast enough and you don't have enough complexity to make your over-hired engineering teams feel like they are being productive. If you're not spending that cash you don't need to raise more. It's the startup fund raising version of the well known "you have to spend your entire budget by the end of the fiscal year or you will get less next year."
Yeah. It has been very helpful to me once or twice in my adult life to get uncomfortably close to having no savings and negative cash flow, because it has taught me that I hate that. And that there are things I truly value - like living near amenities, traveling to see family, having a coffee and pastry in a coffee shop, going to a sandwich shop for lunch, buying books, going to the movie theater - that are costly, such that I am not nearly as happy living an ascetic as I am when I can afford those things. It has helped me feel a lot less guilty, a lot less like all the compensation I receive and ask for is just greed.

What I have landed on is that achieving "financial independence" is important to me because it buys time, but beyond that point I don't care. Or maybe a better, though jargon-y, way to put it is that it buys optionality, and that I value that very highly (and I think most people do).

I really like working. And I really like spending time with my family. What I really dislike is when I have to spend more time working, rather than being with my family, than I want to, in order to avoid that asceticism that I hate. And, having not yet achieved financial independence, that's pretty much always the case, because I need to work full time, and that's more than I want to work.

Financial independence also buys optionality in what kind of work I can do. Right now there is some stuff I'm really interested in that I would love to be working on in an academic setting, rather than a commercial setting. But I can't afford to do that, because the pay would not be good enough. And at other times, I've really wished I could afford to do work I would find valuable but which is just not well compensated; teaching, tutoring, community / public sector work, etc. But I haven't been able to afford to, thus far.

But of course the problem with all this is that "financial independence" is a very fuzzy line, and is a function of spending, and spending is often itself a function of income. So avoiding that trap is also important to me, and I'm not as good at that as I'd like to be.
I'm a website 'publisher' for a non-profit that has zero advertising on our site. Our entire purpose for collecting analytics is to make the site work better for our users. Really. Folks like us may not be in the majority but it's worth keeping in mind that "analytics = ad revenue optimization" is over-generalizing.
The callous regard for human life jumped at me. My uncle worked for a big Wall St firm in the 80s and 90s. A CE from a big company was doing some early morning maintenance and long story short, had a heart attack and died in the data center.

The ops people called 911, fire/ambulance came — and were turned away at the door by security because they took too long and they needed to avoid impact to trading.

Basically they put some sort of tarp on the guy and wheeled him in and out of the way throughout the day. My uncle was some sort of big shot, heard about it, came in and reamed out the security director guy. Pretty sure the family never knew.
I am a bit skeptical to no-code tools but if I can be more efficient and charge more, I am in.
Silicosis report calls for world-first ban on engineered stone
I guess each individual filter list; you can check your uBO settings to see which ones you use.
and without burning ones self out? or crossing ethical/personal boundaries?

I love side projects so much and hate the grind of day-in-day-out repetition, I just became a contractor.

One thing you can do is try and find AOR clients. For example, I have a very strong relationship with several other agencies and one even keeps a desk for me. Which at times feels like Im just working for them.

Then I can bail or chose to work on whatever. 2 years ago I joined a start up for some time. etc.
Awesommmeeeeee
Youtube is an ad showing platform. All the other features are just there to get people to view ads. If you stop viewing ads you are of no value to Youtube.
It's not just intelligence and ethics but a strong-enough personality and verbal skills--yes, I'm projecting here.

I can't overstate how difficult it is to say "no" in the moment, and do so in a way that doesn't make you a problem and target in senior management's eyes.
> Let's say I started making computers (somehow). I sell 10 the first year, 10 the next year, but I make to the front page of HN one day and I sell 1000 computers that year.

Homeschooling has been around a long time. A sudden and radical departure from that growth rate is notable. However, it does appear to have been more of a covid spike that has only partially subsided.
Traditionally Taoism was a path for the old, for those who had completed their duty. Confucianism is the path for the young, for those who must fulfill their duty. One might say that fulfilling your duty without resistance is in fact following the Tao.
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> There is no reason to perceive a dying person as having special insight

Have you ever had a near-death experience? Those often seem to be followed by a sense of clarity that inspires some people to live better. They seem to cut through the crud and reveal the unimportance of certain things, and highlight the value of other things
Poor boy gonna be the scapegoat for the entire "crypto-con" herd, int he?

What kind of heinous stuff is going on in that market now, with this kind of press cover for distraction?
Vimari
Could we make the title more click bait and less substantive?
> I have some strong theories, but I must admit I don't have the work experience to be that confident in them.

This has not stopped you from posting the dozen or so blog posts you have already written so far. Go ahead and post what you are thinking. Do not let lack of experience stop you :)
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That's probably because OpenAi can train on the (succesfull) conversations we have with ChatGPT!
great insights - no reason to see no code as a threat and dismiss it, rather take it as an opportunity to make you work quicker. the result will be as sophisticated as you make it. if you have skill, it will show. but overall great that it democratizes development for all.
I actually use one of those setups semi-regularly made from Xilica hardware. It does what it needs to reasonably well but that's only enableing/disabling some microphones in a converence hall basically.

The interface is horrible, the feedback on the control surfaces is extremely slow, I don't want to see my meters and faders update at an ~1Hz rate...

Added to that is the licensing costs to actually be allowed to change the DSP routing in the thing which makes me want to replace it with opensource software :)
Hashes should be salted. If you salt, you are fine, if you don't you aren't.

Whether the salt can be kept indefinitely, or is rotated regularly etc is just an implementation detail, but the key with salting hashes for analytics is that the salt never leaves the client.

As explained in the article there seems to be no salt (or rather, the current date seems to be used as a salt, but that's not a random salt and can easily be guessed for anyone who wants to say "did IP x.y.z.w visit on date yy-mm-dd?".

It's pretty easy to reason about these things if you look from the perspective of an attacker. How would you do to figure out anything about a specific person given the data? If you can't, then the data is probably OK to store.
There is YT Premium
I was using their black 2.0 and while it's exceptional and has a certain unnatural feel to it under the right lighting, it doesn't achieve the same effect as Vanta black. This sounds like a good improvement.
You're right, it's a holistic rather than analytical argument. I would at least say that part of the "proof" is in the fact that it's trying to explain what's in the article it's responding to, which we've taken to be true on its face. That's the mechanical action, but I agree that it's difficult to show the intent I accuse tech boards ad C-suites of. All a bit circumstantial, innit?

>Cheap money is good for startups.

We're talking about MEGAMAN (E stands for "Everyone else that fits the definition in my head"). Big, relatively established corporations. I would also counter that real income didn't budge after the GFC, so saying that "the economy was doing well" is stretching things.
Oh absolutely. I personally had legitimately 0 fear of death until 30. Then it began to creep up.
Low resolution, but works great. Thanks.
How do you use the Block element feature? I looked in the uBO menu but cannot find how to do it. Can you give an overview, please?
If you can find the oversized print copy of this Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English translation, originally published by Random House, it is one of the most visually inspiring books to read:

https://eheart.com/TAO/TTC/TTCchapters-small.pdf

Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English were married (by Alan Watts!), and each chapter of the book includes inspiring black-and-white photography by English, with artful Chinese calligraphy from Gia-Fu.

They also published a translation of Chuang Tzu in the same beautiful format.
Lazy question, but if I'm a B Corp and decide I don't want to be anymore, is it only PR standing in my way?
My primary experience with this has been with Kindles, and they are a delight to unbox due to FFP.
He has translated many works from other ancient languages and is a trained Zen monk. In the spirit of Taoism he is likely a better translator than an intellectual.

The work is brief. There is room for multiple translations and interpretations.
I know the answer.... Free Money[1], when the Fed lowered the prime interest rate to zero, the free money distorted the market and allowed all this insanity to happen.

Now that the free money is drying up, all this shit has to evaporate. Just like the great simplification[2] that has to take place on the downside of the great carbon pulse that's feeding civilization right now.

What a depressing thought in the short/medium term, in the long run, it'll be good for Humanity, my grandkids, should they every be born

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy

[2] https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/about
Here is a story not about wasting cloud resources, but about wasting careers:

A decade-long project at the ThreeLetterYouknowwho was turning into a separate business, so people were being convinced to abandon their dozen-years old employments at the mentioned ThreeLetterGiant (evil or not, but at least with perspectives and an established routine how to live in this corp), so they did the move, only to be fired 5 months later, as the newly born company was reduced to a half, to fit into parameters required by some stock market related operation.

The crux is that the management knew about all the planned moves when negotiating people's leave from HAL (oops, I mean, ThreeLetterGiant). Yet they needed the massive flux of initial employees to fullfill some other business parameters. Everything was done with a cold blood.

I wasn't reduced this way (I wasn't even at HAL originally, was part of the completely fresh hires) but I left these assholes a month after the layoffs. Even the mob is treating their own people better.
Interesting. I have always been a religious person but wandered from my own traditions for a while. Those days, my main attraction was taoism. But, like I mentioned, i dropped it.
Calories absorbed vs calories expended is physics, but it doesn't explain why people are storing more calories over time.

The idea that all calories are the same is not even held by people who say "everything is just about calories". Ask them what you need to build muscle and they will say protein. Suddenly not all calories are the same.

Fructose is does not stop hunger as much and is more easily stored as fat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8G8tLsl_A4
You did provide some “data” and it doesn’t mention your specific claim.
The difference is that in the 70s, it was "civilization as we know it survives if only a few people at key points of power manage to keep themselves together" (i.e. not pull the trigger to MAD), while today "civilization as we know it survives if the society at large manages to refactor its consumption habits."

The latter seems harder to get buy-in for.
> To nornal people 'Anonymous' is a lie.

Normal people don't even give a second of thought to this. My partner knows the difference between windows and Mac, and is perfectly content to browse the internet without an ad blocker and to read in between all the cookie dialogs. The only time she clicks on one is when it's required to proceed, and she'll click whichever one is the most obvious button.
> Description: {more details, based on what is known} {When the next update can be expected}

I like the "When the next update can be expected" part. This feels like good crisis communication.
We've got 13 years worth of data stored in mysql (5 million visitor/year). It's a pain to query there so we keep a copy in clickhouse as well (which is a joy to query).
> woe to the ones who live their life in fear

Per Aristotle, there is a difference between having fear and being a coward, and also between being brave and being a fool.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics
I'll bite again. My inner moral voice objects to putting male rapists in a female prison because they claim they are trans.

No, that is not a strawman https://nypost.com/2022/04/25/transgender-rikers-inmate-gets...
Implement what? Anti-ad-blocking?
> How can you even manage that which you dont understand?

Unless you’re an expert at literally everything, there is something in your life that you have to manage that you have no expertise in.

The typical way these things are managed is through measuring outcomes rather than focusing on how the work is performed. Tools include setting goals and milestones, auditing, cost bidding, reputation, etc.
Color me surprised. What would be the incentive of developing plugins for that matter?
Chrome desktop since v110 has started killing background tabs and reloading them upon use. [1]

Lately, I've noticed Chrome being really aggressive about this.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chrome-110-will-auto...
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4
Not really interest more so than opportunity or need. i’m willing to bet more so people know calculus because they had to (for a degree) then they wanted to
I have family still using the 2017 Macbook Airs, happily. A year ago I replaced the battery on two of them (from OWC which still offers high quality ones). Every year I ask them if they want to upgrade to a new model Macbook and they refuse. Meanwhile I have other family on Chromebooks that they've had to replace twice already because they are too slow, or the hinges on the screen have worn out, or the charging port got too annoyingly loose.
What does Grayjay do? Is it some kind of aggregator?
Yeah, this link is helpful, but IMHO doesn’t actually call out the specific problem I was referring to, which is that only laptops that used LPDDR3 had the 16GB limitation. If the laptop used regular DDR3, or DDR4, it could handle 32/64GB. The table lumps everything together per processor model/generation.
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