skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a pretty big division of labor fan.

If the tool works, and I don't have any better ideas myself, and it's not going to lock us into piles of hacky scripts forever, I'm all for it.

They solved the problem, they're a professional with the same rank as me, they can do whatever they want. I'm interested in products and features, not endless code polishing.

But I would still be far more excited to hear "Hey check out this declarative framework I found" than "I wrote a bash script that does stuff".

A lot of the time the in house solution doesn't have many advantages besides hackers love of elegance and minimalism.

Some of these internal tools.get pretty extreme, like full DSLs that could have been python libraries.

It's like when people use dd over Etcher. The load time and disk space of Etcher has no real practical significance, and people do in fact make mistakes with dd all the time. I don't care if it's 80MB, it's a solved problem, and a repeatable process that you can teach in seconds(By saying "just use Etcher to flash it").

I could build something better than Etcher in a week, I'm sure. But that would be another thing to maintain, another internal repo to tell people about, documentation to write, cross platform issues that could pop up, etc. Maybe they even integrate workarounds for OS or hardware bugs that I have no clue about.

I have been that coworker wanting to try something new. I've built systems at home for personal use.

And nearly every. single. time. I wind up ripping them out and replacing them with something off the shelf.

Still, I am not the police.

If you're making custom tools, you're probably one of those hacker types with a really active mind who has a need to do things they can deeply understand, and I sure don't want to be the reason the smart people all get bored and quit!

Unless it's really extreme you're making the whole codebase into an unprofessional tinkering project. Then you're probably not helping the product...
A lot of improvements to gaming are constantly coming out. Arch is both relatively stable and getting those new improvements.

For new hardware, not being closer to bleeding edge sometimes means your WiFi, Ethernet, etc don’t work.
A suite of AI language translation models that improve streaming
One thing I've noticed is that the majority of the spam calls I have received historically have had the same originating area code as my phone number. Perhaps this was number spoofing, or perhaps it was using local VoIP numbers to make spam calls. In either case, it was a great flag for "this call goes to voicemail" because I hadn't lived there in over ten years, I didn't grow up there, and anybody who needs to contact me without a "Hey this is _____" text/voicemail is already in my address book.

It also means that if I pick up calls from numbers originating in <current locale area codes>, it usually IS somebody I need to speak with. No hassle filter to help answer the right calls and ignore the spam.
Can't use my real name on Facebook; thinks I'm trying to make a page about the
It's not just that it's more restrictive, it's that it forces the producer to do work for the verifier. Structured control flow follows a stack discipline and also pre-declares all labels, so the consumer (verifier) can use the minimum data structures necessary, immediately reusing metadata for each control structure when it is exited.
>it’s if-else statements all the way down

My experience with cobol at a few companies is that you’ve forgotten the mighty GOTO.
Sorry but this sounds like LARP, who the hell wouldnt jump on a job offer from apple? Even if it doesnt work out, having Apple on your resume wouldve been an insane career booster, telling people you got an offer from them but didnt take it sounds very unbelievable, atleast personally, I wouldnt have believed you
Almost as if it were coordinated
That's a very simplistic view of apnea. You don't have to be fat to experience it, and this misconception is a bit part of why it's underdiagnosed.
YouTube ads have no ability to interrupt my day-to-day life out of the blue, and also don't poison a legitimately useful communication medium for personal relationships.

Phone spam is much more harmful than ads you kinda-sorta opt into, IMO.
Toolchain security features status update [pdf]
This may not have much of an impact on u/JaiFanClub but I can understand what the commenter was saying and I'm not sure she/he deserves the downvote.

For AoC, I understand giving Jai a whirl. For just about anything else, I can understand being reticent to build too much on the shifting sands of an unreleased, beta language.

See the blog post:

> Q: Would I use Jai in production?
> A: No, of course not! It's an unfinished language. The compiler is not for distribution. It's not ready for production.

I've even seen a few articles, on this site, asking Qs like "Which C++ successor are we going to pick?" and including unreleased languages like Circle and Jai. It's more than a little ridiculous.
California's WIC program gives a pretty specific cheese allowance for example https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/WAFL/Home/Cheese#Cheese
I don’t know about melatonin specifically, but some people react differently to chemicals than others. I’ve got a friend who could drink half a can of caffeinated soda and literally be wired as if he’d taken a recreational upper. I found I slept easier when I took adderall which would have the opposite effect on most folks.
>If the web didn't have HTTPS, it would be illegal to conduct sensitive business over it.

Source? According to this timeline[1], e-commerence with credit cards predate SSL. Therefore I'm not really convinced that there's some law against it, except for laws that were introduced after SSL was a thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-commerce#Timeline
I read the first paragraph, then skipped to the comments and realized it's fiction but I'm not sure I would have known otherwise.

What gives it away to you that it's a work of fiction?
I built https://foragoodstrftime.com ~10 years ago as I was sick of reading the docs for date formatting.

It generally gets around 1000 users a day.

Over the years, it's gotten me consulting gigs and the occasional job offer (amidst other projects).

Today, it sends a decent chunk of the traffic and sign-ups to my startup, Wafris -> https://wafris.org

OP's asking for a strategy with these, and the advice I'd offer is to treat them like assets. You make these various side projects to learn something, take the extra 20% of time to package it up buy a domain, and spend $10 on a logo or something to make it a little more like a project and not just a repo.

If it's not something directly usable like this, take some screenshots and collect them into a gallery on a personal site.

You stack these assets over time (and like my example above), they pay off over years in all sorts of ways.
Free software became successful because it rendered things mostly obsolete ie commercial Unix and proprietary compilers.

Fediverse doesn’t really have anything on FAANG. It needs people to run it, who’s gonna pay them?
It's kind of a "known unknown"; I don't know what problems this would cause but I'm sure there would be something that no one anticipated. I realize this is a vague criticism.

My comment was inspired by recent discussion of OpenAI's custom structure (a capped-profit subsidiary owned by a non-profit) where the board seemingly had no incentive to generate profit but investors didn't realize this. I've also heard bad stories from a startup that stayed under 50 employees forever to avoid the owner having to learn about various labor regulations; it sounds like it hurt everyone involved long-term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m40cF91F8_A
Because all the data and processing being on the mainframe poses loads of problems which are causing competitive disadvantages today.

As a shining example of the grief: 8 letter passwords.
I am in my 30s and still hear frequency's over 16.5 kHz. I cant stand the high frequencies they are like auditory needles in my ears still. I know they say adults dont hears them but is that actually the case for most adults? I mean I have done enough it seems like I should have the hearing damage needed loud music on headphones, been in rock concert mosh pits, fired guns without hearing protection, fireworks, fired homemade cannons without hearing protection. But still hear everything fine
In 1999 my friend's band wanted to sell their music online and so I looked at the new Microsoft DRM that had just been released (don't kill me!) and set up a test web page. I ended up getting an interview (and a job) with a company that Peter Gabriel had just started as I was practically the only person in the country that had even looked at the SDK.

PG gave us an opening to every record label ("Hi, Peter Gabriel would like to come visit and show you something...") where we'd show them we could sell their music legally online. Five minutes after PG leaves each building a team from Apple would show up and show off what they were building too. Their meetings were much shorter as we always did all the heavy lifting first. (Note, we always had to use our own equipment because the MS stuff worked way better on Windows, but all the record labels were like 99% Mac).

On another one.. it wasn't a side project, but I "hacked" a competition on a popular TV show's web site and they ended up hiring me as the co-presenter o_O
There is no KISS thing yet. The whole story is that KISS has proactively given their label permission to do a hologram of them when they’re done touring.

No other artist has done that while still alive (according to the article).
There is no proof that Iran ever coordinated anything with the Houthis. Most scholars in this area say that the "Iran-backed" label is completely misleading. Iran sees that the actions of the Houthis are aligned with their own and so they may send them low-tech weapons as well as design blueprints, but the Iranians don't tell the Houthis what to do.
You'd undoubtedly have to design, at least at some point, for such a system to be explicitly attacked. I'm not assuming you haven't considered that, just pointing out that this might factor into how one might approach building something from the start.

I'd suggest it will depend on goals / scale - if not many are using, probably would be ignored even if bad actors were aware of it. If it started to have real effects, there'd undoubtedly be very intentional efforts to attack it. Beyond just the sporadic script kiddiez / for the lulz set ...

Edit: sorry, "app" - to potentially use the app in some malicious way ... Not sure my comment is so useful, but, I'll leave it since it's unfortunately all too easy to end up with unintended consequences. Though, I favor fighting this garbage wholesale and support any efforts to interfere with the deluge of BS / noise with modern communications tech.
TBH I’m less concerned about dangerousness… but the costs listed are so much, whereas commercial EVSEs are so cheap. You can buy a 40A 240V capable EVSE for like $200-300. The OP says they bought the cable for $120… why not just have the rest of it for a small additional cost?
> who the hell wouldnt jump on a job offer from apple?

Lots of people, including me.
Not everyone on this site is a student with nothing on their resume.
GDP trends over the past couple decades (2008 being the common comparison Point for US:Europe) and just general observations of business trends mostly. A lot of Europeans speak proudly of their economic laws as “dignified” versus what you get in America. And perhaps that is true. But if this leads to lower and lower economic opportunity for Europeans, what will future generations say? Will they be glad their grandparents had such dignified rights? Or will they call them entitled pricks who squandered it?

Europe is in a tough place. The US is going to eat its economic opportunities up due to the war in Ukraine AND make a killing selling them natural gas. This is probably the bigger driver of things right now than the business environment and that sucks. But it all plays a part.

I don’t care about this particular incident. European unions are better than our unions because you get to choose which you want to be a part of. Sweden appears to do even better than average per the article on lost days to strikes.
Honestly pre-COVID I got spam calls maybe once a quarter. After giving out my number every second time I left the house, that number is more like a few times a week.

I would say I am pretty privacy conscious (when possible), so this may not be the average person's experience.
Feels like a storyline in the Silicon Valley series.
Coincidence or not but since the tech winter started there are fewer js modules and frameworks released. As it should be. Hope react manages to somehow die in the process.
It's kind of fascinating just to see how much metal gets bent in the train wreck. Do the lbo lenders step in and force bankruptcy? Does one of elon's co-investors step In and give him a few months more breathing room? If so how does the cap table change? If cyber truck flops and people realize that Tesla isn't worth 10x BMW, does Elon get a margin call?

Strictly speaking none of this matters. But it's entertaining.
I've owned 5 cars. My electric is way more reliable in practically ever way.
Another post was merged with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38507672
While this is likely true, there are differences in the amount of time folks need to sleep in order to recover. There is a gene that is found to be associated with these short sleepers as well. Activating the gene in mice demonstrates a similar reduction in natural sleep cycles with no apparent impact on health.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-id...
It's this year for sure. Let's go, guys.
I was working in HFT in New York and messing around with HoloLens in my spare time. I went to GDC and gave a talk (https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024862/HoloLens-and-Beyond-AR...) and Apple hired me to work on AR prototyping and ideation because the creator of the HoloLens, then working at Apple, attended the talk :)
Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp Deal Was Too Popular, Company Says
No advice, but bought for my brother who is an aspiring chef. Best wishes.
That's surprising to me, almost everyone I know will leave voicemail. Recruiters especially, which tends to be myst of my legitimate phone calls TBH!

Though with people of my age "cold calling" isn't all that common, typically you text the person first to make sure they are available and keen on a call. Unless it's an emergency of some sort, of course.
That stuff has become much more expensive. $43/can on Digi-Key.
> it feels like as I've never seen code once in my lifetime.

I think you must be fixating on syntax, or have been seeing some code that is advanced or (it exists) a very confusing example by some academic to demonstrate some curiosity.

Except for idiomatic recursion (which you don't have to use), Scheme semantics should initially look familiar to a Python or JavaScript programmer, like a subset of that, just with a different syntax. (Scheme nuances are much better designed, but to a new programmer semantics will look like a subset.)

And the Scheme syntax is one of the simplest ever, once you understand it.

What should instead be confusing is a language with very different semantics, like lazy evaluation, or an OOPL with complicating dispatch rules to reason about.
Not everyone is willing to uproot their life on a whim, even for a theoretically great job and a theoretically great company.
My pure-AWK variant: https://github.com/xonixx/gron.awk (features complete JSON parser in AWK).
I really love Svelte. The compiler is great and very extensible. For example, you can easily add functions to the processing pipeline to process Svelte templates (or the script elements or style sections) in your own special way. It's a fantastic way to build JavaScript frameworks. Svelte people always note Svelte isn't a framework, so this isn't a framework on top of another framework!

I used this to build Svekyll, a Jekyll clone (the original static blog tool).

https://extrastatic.dev/svekyll/svekyll-cli

Not to toot my own horn, but I'm really proud of it. Svekyll scores all 100s with lighthouse but still has all the cool things you get from a Svelte app. It's a true single page app, all JS is inlined and can be put on any web server for hosting. Plus, a bunch of other cool things that only are possible with a native JS blog.
>I'm disappointed at the anti-DIY sentiment

How would you feel about a "DIY House Circuit Breakers" project?

This is essentially the equivalent. Total insanity.
Some of us here are actually Engineers (Electrical).

I’ve installed 3x 240V 60A EV chargers, was a cakewalk. I didn’t build my own in this case since I was going for an aesthetic match.

Meanwhile you can enjoy paying some alcoholic $1000 for 30 minutes of work to:

* pop out a hole on the back

* Tap and install 2x screws into studs

* pull 3 wires 6” through, wrap around the strain relief, strip/insert/torque

* flip a breaker

It’s not rocket science, as long as you’re not a complete idiot and turn the breaker off before hand it’s completely safe. 240V isn’t even “high” voltage.
Become an expert in a thing, companies that need expertise in that thing will come knocking.
Thanks for the often thankless work you do!

I just want to be clear, this wasn’t something that I thought was wrong with homebrew, it was more about the ecosystem embracing reproducibility so it’s easier for you all and similar projects, overall!

I personally think that approaches like nix/guix ask for the forest when they only need the tree — I often only care if the software I built is reproducible, and I don’t think that always requires the entire package store/OS to be.
NASA doesn't have sufficient funding to develop both the Artemis spacecraft and the infrastructure needed on Earth to allow another manned Moon landing.

The project will be delayed and delayed (two years this time, 2025 to 2027) and eventually will be shelved, ostensibly by going into the 'too hard' basket. Though in reality, it will be placed into the 'too expensive' basket.
That's a fantastic story. I hope fortune has followed you. I would be thrilled to find even one user of software I've wrote. To be interviewed by one for a job? That's amazing.

Good stuff!
Are you referring specifically to line 141, which sets the number of embedding elements for gpt-nano to 48? That also seems to correspond to the Channel size C referenced in the explanation text?

https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT/blob/master/mingpt/model....
I gotchu, https://paste.sh/5XE7NvGM#Zb9Wx4P9Pi5XbIO01igypbk2

You'll need a userscript extension installed on your browser such as tampermonkey or greasemonkey.

This script is quite flexible, filter based on URL or on keyword in title. Add/remove filters as you please.
Page is hugged to death right now but I strongly disagree with parent. I'm an EE and I'm quite familiar with the National Electric Code. I build high current/voltage devices and I've wired two houses (both of which passed inspection).

If you're trained, experienced, and generally know what you're doing there's nothing wrong with working on high power electronics.
I’m curious what job you are doing that you don’t feel chatGPT can help with?
I like to think of it as language is intelligence as a lifeform, and humans as a hostform.

Language has operations and rules that construct the space of all possible thought, and not all languages are in the set of all possible thoughts. The host form navigates a coordinate space of a constrainted possible thoughts. Whenever a language is used to communicate across interface boundaries (bodies) then some level of mapping takes place to exchanging mutual possible thoughts.
>I'm disappointed at the anti-DIY sentiments here, it's this safety obsessed mentality that got us to where kids can't walk outside by themselves any longer.

Just no? That analogy is EXTREMELY strained. From his own link: A word about safety. I’m not an electrician. I’m not allowed to make alterations to my consumer unit.

I let my kids play outside all the time solo and with friends without supervision. On the flip side, I don't do things like design my own L2 charger because it violates several codes, would nullify my homeowners insurance, and could quite literally land me in prison should I mess it up and cause a licensed electrician to die because I did something dumb or cause my car to start on fire killing my family.

Do I do my own wiring? Absolutely.

Would I mess around with attaching something at 240v that I made from scratch that could burn my house down and kill my family if I do it wrong? Nope, I'm good.
The biggest problem with federation is easily visible in e-mail: the server “owns” your address and therefore moving in very hard. It’s not much better than any other silo in that way. Mastodon is a bunch of small social sites in a trenchcoat.

There are ways to make identity floating and separate from the server, at least in theory, but ActivityPub (the protocol under Mastodon and many other things) does not implement anything like this.
So the post is "I don't like hton because printf doesn't print hex the way I want"? Got it.
This thread gives me a lot of hope and motivation thanks everyone for sharing there experiences.
Yeah YAML isn’t ideal, but I personally found jenkins to be terrible to configure, not super well documented, missing features compared to an installation of gitlab (ex built in registry).

Also the ability to rerun, target, and influence builds themselves is better on GitLab as well I think.
Great advice thanks for sharing
All stories have a moral. That is why humans love them so much.
That kingdom is shrinking already as people retire. Converting COBOL into Java means your kingdom can expand.
It’s make all the way down
People building their own systems are definitely going to be installing from GeForce Experience, but there’s quite a number of prebuilt users who probably aren’t.

Mint’s approach is definitely better than Ubuntu’s, but pop’s has the advantage of making it clear from the point of download that Nvidia users are covered.
I remember first seeing that quote on a Kotaku article, where they had unfortunately misinterpreted "the crap sound of 8-bit" as referring to retro videogame music made on 8-bit CPUs, rather than (what he was actually referring to) 8-bit audio[0].

[0] i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_bit_depth
That’s bad. I do know T-Mobile blocks calls to their phones spoofing the 1-800-TMOBILE number as of a few years ago.
I have a similar one that filters on keywords as well as URLs, https://paste.sh/5XE7NvGM#Zb9Wx4P9Pi5XbIO01igypbk2
There's an amusing perspective I imagine from the intelligence of a AGI/ASI that has to consider the arrogance of being told that one must complete a human-level intelligence test.
> never ever let others learn of your coping mechanisms - they won't understand

My honed-over-16-years org-mode config ensures that this would be unlikely, and someone who does figure out how to navigate my notes and journal entries probably wouldn’t judge too hard :)

Less glib, that is a really difficult topic to navigate. Post-diagnosis (at age 36) I tried to be pretty open with the people I love and care about and discovered that many of them were carrying around their own diagnoses in secret. Others didn’t know how to react. No one reacted particularly poorly.

I am blessed with a partner who is almost certainly somewhere on the neurodiverse spectrum in some way (never officially diagnosed) and both her and my families are chock full of various ADHD and Autism diagnoses. In a lot of ways I’m almost certain that that’s why our relationship worked out when past relationships hadn’t; things that I thought were perfectly normal behaviour were often deal-breakers to past partners.
A Slack clone sounds weird given that there are multiple open source versions already. Paying never is even better than paying once!
On the Dual Nature of Necessity in Use of Rust Unsafe Code