skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I did a startup at night in the early days of React (2014), using React and golang for the backend. Building the whole stack from scratch gave me the confidence to form a web team within a larger company later some 7-8 years later, even though i had focused on iOS / mobile development only up until that point for my day job. So the project didn't get me a job. But it helped me expand my role. I went from iOS engineer to now engineering manager of a full-stack web team. And I probably would not have been able to do so without the confidence from that startup (whichever never reached PMF).

These days I should probably do something similar with LLMs if there's time.
When I was in high school, I was kind of into competitive programming. We wanted to conduct contests, but the labs didn't have internet access, so we couldn't use stuff like SPOJ/Codeforces.

To make it easier for our computer club to conduct small contests, I made a small application in Python that could display problems, accept submissions, and automatically grade them.

It had a horrible "single page" UI that used jquery to hide and show divs to switch pages, and obviously had 0 sandboxing, but it got the job done for our purposes.

A couple of years later, a CEO of a local startup was visiting my high school, and he happened to catch the program in action. His business had been struggling with a hairy Google Drive integration and he asked me if I had any ideas. That eventually led to a part-time offer, which became full time after I graduated.

So yeah, it was quite serendipitous. While the project wasn't directly related to my job, it did give me an in, even though the code quality was so shoddy it makes me shudder to even think about it now.
Nothing I'd love to work on that sort of thing. The point wasn't that the kind of job is bad, but that even if you're working on stuff that shouldn't be secret, you still have to jump through all those hoops.

And imagine how many middle-managers they have who think a) they're the next Steve Jobs, and b) that what drove his success was being a dick to his workmates.
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I would think more of in terms that there is a single mystical entity that can change the behavior. And that entity is the Federal Reserve.
>With caller id and modern cell phones, I imagine there are pretty big demographic bias in who will willingly participate in a survey, and I suspect their outlook will dominate and may not be representative of the populace? Do they have a realistic way to collect reliable data in modern era?

All well-run surveys will apply weights to responses when calculating rates so the results reflect what would be if the participants were a "perfectly distributed" sampling across groups.

The article links to another article[0] for the consumer sentiment survey. The linked article says this:

>Methodology

>Bankrate commissioned YouGov Plc to conduct the survey. All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2,000 U.S. adults. The margin of error for total respondents is +/-2.43 percentage points. Fieldwork was undertaken between September 28 – October 6, 2023. The survey was carried out online and meets rigorous quality standards. It employed a non-probability-based sample using both quotas upfront during collection and then a weighting scheme on the back end designed and proven to provide nationally representative results.

2000 isn't a bad sample size for the basic analysis done. But I wish they'd include errors when comparing subgroups. Some of these differences are probably not statistically significant.

YouGov draws participants from a pool of people who've already been recruited and tracked[1]. I haven't found a good explanation of how they recruit or retain them, and don't feel like spending much more time on it.

There's one last red flag with the survey quoted in the Bank Rate, and it qualifies for my rule of thumb to ignore the article: the survey is not linked. I'd be happy with just the methodology, executive summary, and technical notes. Otherwise, I assume anyone quoting a survey they could but won't share isn't being totally honest.

[0]https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/biden-economy-and-...

[1]https://yougov.co.uk/about/panel
https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/us-flag-2023...

Check the Shipping Info on any of the Stamp Description page in store. It says extra dollars for shipping & handling.
Just noting: a similar pigment with high value was Tekhelet, which was also extracted from a similar sea snails species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekhelet
> For fruit flies.

In the article it reads:

> Question. During your Nobel Prize acceptance speech, you mentioned that 50% of our genes were regulated by circadian rhythms, but in your talk you said that it is at least 70%?

> Answer. I have updated the figure due to new research done over the past six years. The 50% figure came from research in rodents, but in 2019 there was a large study done on baboons, the first in primates, and [the figure] went to 70%.

I took these figures to also apply to the relevance of the title, which is a quote from the article?
Yes yes it was the 48 elements thing that got me stuck. Definitely not everything from the second the page loaded.
Author here! I struggled with the word "modern" – I could have said "current gen" or "post-React" or even "Solid-inspired" frankly, but I thought "modern" was succinct with the right amount of punchiness.

Obviously a lot of these techniques are pretty novel, and maybe they won't stand the test of time. Or maybe a new browser standard will make them obsolete eventually. But for now these seem to be the current wave anyway.
>What is up with this common refrain?

It's reality? Installing an L2 charger requires a permit. You don't technically have to get one, there's no county police that goes door to door checking for improper/horrible EV charging installations. However, if your house burns down, and they see you decided to jury rig your own charger from piece parts, I can guarantee you with 100% confidence they're going to tell you to pound sand when you make an insurance claim.

On the off chance your home-made charger didn't start the fire, you can spend a decade fighting them in court. But you'll probably lose.
"... would nullify my homeowners insurance ..."

It almost certainly wouldn't.

Generally speaking, in the United States, homeowners insurance "covers stupid".

DIY electrical wiring, and the like, would be covered unless something was intentionally or maliciously negligent.

If you miswire a three-way lightswitch (in good faith) and (somehow) burn your house down, that is generally covered.
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After graduating in the summer of 2017, I was freshly equipped with coding skills from Harvard’s CS50 course. It was around this time that Meta’s Messenger unveiled their locations API, sparking an idea in me: What if you could book a driver directly from a Facebook page? To explore this concept, I developed a prototype using Flask and MongoDB. Although it was a basic model, it functioned and received positive feedback from everyone who saw it.

Recognizing potential in this idea, I approached a burgeoning startup in my country that was launching a ride-hailing service. To my astonishment, they expressed interest and invited me to join as one of their first engineers. This role turned out to be one of my most enriching startup experiences. I dedicated over a year there before transitioning to another company.

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TL;DR ~20 years best case scenario. Best case scenario unlikely due to political stagnation. No solution offered.
Do falling birth rates make it even less sustainable? Seems like it would. Especially when combined with recent xenophobia influencing immigration policy.
Of course, that would require the politicians to first opt their own political calls in to the existing (if largely useless) measures such as the Do Not Call registry.
It's not about the time period mentioned in the article, but I highly recommend the similarly-named "The Men Who Built America" documentary series. Really interesting (and inspiring) if you're interested in the industrial development of the US circa 1860-1930.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3DmWNCEaI&list=PL-_k1uJcDM...
Not so wild if you consider the fact that we don't live in the sea/ocean. There is a reason why we know more about land animals.
I've written web servers in Groovy for at least 5 years.. Groovy is great, once you get to know it, but some aspects of its design certainly don't "click" for a while. I'd be using a syntax for years when I'd read in some blog post "Oh that's just xyz with a shorter syntax" and I'd go Ooooh!

Great little language though, IMHO one of the best for quick prototyping.
You kinda answered your own question: "another 30 minutes of scrolling". Sorry to be so cliche, but we all gotta stop staring at our phones. Side story: I have been taking the subway to work for the past 7 months and Every.Single.Person is staring at their phone the whole time. It's like dystopic sci-fi stuff. So, back to the cliche's, treat the disease (phone addiction) not the symptoms (distraction).
Nice quick and dirty hack, but the latency isn't great and it will hammer the file system in large projects calculating time stamps. It's especially bad on windows although polling on mac has also historically been rather expensive (linux is better in this regard though polling still isn't free).

I'd much rather install entr if it's available and do something like

`ls ** | entr -c make`
My open data side project (which incidentally had interest from Apple and Google at the time) had a need for a couple of web server certificates for the API and website, so as yet another side project I built a little certificate management tool and forgot about it for a year.

After a year I then went back and realized it was getting 1,000 downloads a week, I did it a bit more work on it and stuck a price tag on it, it's since been my full time job for several years.
I had the Archos Jukebox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos_Jukebox_series) - so great - I remember the corner bumpers actually working pretty well. Thanks for the memories!
I would agree with you had I (the author) intentionally wanted to install Rust, but I didn’t. This was a Python dependency randomly bringing all of Rust along with it and that is insane no matter how you slice it.
Nobody outside of the uk knows what a "consumer unit" is. that sounds to me like you can't touch the breaker panel which is what you have to touch to wire in a new circuit.
Cool story, but of course the SFO ATIS specifically mentions visual approaches when they’re in use. In fact it’s night VMC right now and the current ATIS says:

> SIMULTANEOUS CHARTED VISUAL FLIGHT PROCEDURES IN USE. LNDG RWYS 28L, 28R

https://datis.clowd.io/KSFO
I built a spatial platform similar to gather.town called relm.us in 2021 (now MIT-licensed open source [1]) and was hired by an edtech company in 2023 because of the expertise I'd gained in overlaying audio/video for participants in the game world.

[1] https://github.com/relm-us/relm
This should not have been posted at all. First, it's from 2001, so over two decades old, and it's not about Soy Sauce the food ingredient, it's about some specific brands of Soy Sauce you could see on some supermarket shelves in one particular country twenty years ago. It is also a short article, more of a reminder or a notice to readers. It just contributes to the general background noise of "Scientists have found ..." that have zero impact on real life and consist of nothing but engagement hooks. It is also questionable how dangerous the ingredients in the problematic soy sauces are to the average consumer, given how little of the stuff is usually used per serving.
You'd best be editing wikipedia (and its sources) real quick:

Following the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15, European powers agreed upon the need to suppress the Barbary corsairs entirely. The threat was finally subdued by the French conquest of Algeria in 1830 and subsequent pacification by the French during the mid-to-late 19th century.

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

You have a blinkered view of the Barbary global threat - the British colonies were protected by Britain until the war of independance at which point the newly formed USofA had to fend for themselves and force their own treaty via the second Barbary War in 1815, but that didn't end or suppress the pirates .. that took the French hammer of 1830.

Not to mention what soperj already pointed out ... your take must be news to Anglo-Canadians.
Who's actually benefitting from these spam/scam/advertising phone calls? Whenever I get one I pick up, realize I'm listening to a recording, and hang up immideately, I don't know what it was trying to shove in my face. Who's listening to these calls and doing something that benefits the spammers?
I haven't checked, but I would not be surprised if the engineers I'm talking about have left too at this point. I worked on a homomorphic encryption system for some insurance companies to be able to query each others claim data with them, fun project!
Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon
You like mentioning vim and emacs for some reason. I wonder why that's important to you? Many macOS users nowadays use VSCode or a JetBrains IDE, which are also available on Linux. And, others use editors like vim and emacs.

If you work with remote development environments at some point you'll have to use a terminal-based editor, and even if your primary editor choice is not vim or emacs you might yourself using them, because they come either preinstalled or packaged on many systems.

Well, what can be said about the rest? The most skilled, knowledgeable developers who have done "greater" things than most, and make more money than most, rarely fall into the description of "web developers". And if what you seek is money, there are more efficient ways to become wealthy than web development.
This pedantic ship has long sailed
I do love that there's still so much more to learn, especially when it's large animals that have avoided us successfully thus far.
Toot your horn because your project is really great. I blog with SvelteKit, and your way has many improvements galore. Thank you for sharing this!
Study of ancient British oral microbiomes reveals shift following Black Death
History's most famous pot: the Meidias hydria
There is a podcast too which I listen to on the go.

I’m also American and living in Europe for the past decade, and having dived into history such as Roman, Carthage, the Celts, … has really made me appreciate the vast history of our species. I can drive down the ride and see a huge castle the was attacked by Hannibal on his quest for Rome.

And my native friends where I live couldn’t care less :(

I hope America can preserve its history for a while so others can enjoy it in 1000 years like we do with Rome.
What this article fails to justify is there isn't a simple solution for users to have a "Local Cloud". A NAS or Hard Drive on a computer will be beat by the ability to have all of your photos/software on you wherever you go.

There needs to be a better way for Personal devices to access personal or home networks for personal cloud solutions to become more accessible to the average person.
OT but does anyone have a good recommendation for a lumen lamp to simulate sunlight?
I hear these things about smashing hardware from other places too. Absolutely crazy… An ex colleague was smashing prototypes of wireless chargers for cars for weeks.
Don't let the humans know or they'll start reducing their efforts in afforestation.
That's a portable sh solution, isn't it? Like, yes, it does work on FreeBSD, but it isn't exclusive
Bitcoin now in the top 10 of most valuable assets, replaces Berkshire Hathaway
https://pypi.org/project/dirtyjson/

Using this one a lot nowadays. It's great for getting embedded JSON out of things which are not very consistent.

Extremely useful for extracting JSON from LLM responses, also great for general purpose data munging.

https://dataset.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Used to love this one when I didn't know SQL: It's kind of like RedbeanPHP, but in Python, and lets you do stuff like this (from link) :

import dataset

db = dataset.connect('sqlite:///:memory:')

table = db['my_table']

table.insert(dict(name='John Doe', age=37))

table.insert(dict(name='Jane Doe', age=34, gender='female'))

john = table.find_one(name='John Doe')
Very nice, looking forward to trying it later.

This seems to be something that's been getting more popular/desirable, I noticed that there was even a physical pedal released by Chase Bliss recently that reproduces mp3 compression: https://www.chasebliss.com/lossy
Lack discipline in what way? You mean stuff comes up that’s important but you’re not doing it?

What does it feel like? Procrastination or wanting to avoid things? Lack of interest, lack of energy, fear of failure, apathy, other?

There can be more than one thing involved, Check each box that applies and we’ll start to get a picture.
This is my favourite quote:

The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works. It can meet your needs. With a liiittle more effort, or by adopting sliiiightly lower standards, or with a liiiiitle more tolerance for pain, you can always get Jenkins to do aaaaalmost what you want it to.

This is great, opinionated writing!
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Pilots just cruising along in the passing lane. Speed up and merge over already. shakes fist
If God has said that you are to die, then who is a doctor to challenge that? I will gladly pay $100k to support God's will but I won't pay $100,001.
POSIX has no realpath(1), so no.
I don't disagree with the premise, but the author's case is deeply flawed.

> Instead of paying a monthly subscription to store and access your files, a one-time payment for an external hard drive may be a more economical alternative over time.

Cloud storage has much, much more redundancy than a single external hard drive, and the author discounts the value of that redundancy.

> Reliable access

Have fun getting grandma to cycle her drives when the drives inevitably fail! Also, have fun setting up networked access over the Internet, without resorting to a drive provider's portal (misses the point of getting off the cloud), dealing with the sorry state of static IP addresses for residential connections, helping grandma set up a domain and DNS, hoping nobody attacks your exposed network, etc.

Non-starter.
Adding this to my collection of reasons why remote work is better. My home office has direct sunlight from 10:00-16:00 every day of the year. I've never been to a commercial office that comes close.
I just feel like it and I have the money. What cause will have you pay $28 to stop but not $29? Lunch for two at The Bird?
re: presentation remote controls:

Look into remote controls for, say, Kodi. You're sure to find the wiki listing a bunch of ways to control Kodi from your couch, which includes bluetooth remotes of various flavors that should meet your needs.

re: zigbee being underused:

...they're expensive. I don't know if it's licensing or what, but zigbee SoCs are 5-10x the cost of, say, an ESP32 wifi SoC. $10ish each vs $1.25 ea at a quick glance.
He is still missing the double quotes, paths may contain spaces
Does D have real adoption? Their success stories page lists a few bigger companies that use it for some smaller projects, but nothing about use in big production systems. Is anyone on HN primarily a DLang coder?
Getting gestures: from Linux’ evdev to the browser
Back to the Future: The Return of the Ultraliberal Right in Argentina
Show HN: AI powered readable videos launched on web and iOS app
Ctrl+F "HDR" in the article produces:

> That said, who knows what the future holds. Maybe Wayland will manage to get a decent HDR solution that outstrips what's currently available on Xorg (i.e. nothing). There's a protocol in the works for this which has been in development hell at least.
Haha good pickup. I meant "non-human intelligence", but cats still tick that box too.
Reminds me of how people hate Elon Musk.
I think those companies would kiss you on the mouth and do any unspeakable acts you requested were you able to promise a 100% equivalent system in Java. There is a ton of industry experience in turning working-but-trash Java into something more maintainable.
Social media has been around for 15+ years. That's 3-4 election cycles in most countries. And the way I see it, the same kind of people are getting voted in that have been for decades. Yes, that includes Trump, who is just Reagan with a fouler mouth.
I’m really confused here. Are you saying black people live in a bubble for not wanting slurs thrown at them? It’s not like black people are unfamiliar with that word or the word is particularly enlightening? Who are we making uncomfortable by barring calling black people racial slurs, here? This is absolutely baffling logic when applied to racial slurs and black people.
> there is no centralized network and no central authority that can refuse my connection

Your ISP/host can refuse service (assuming somebody convinces them to take that step). That doesn't mean you can't find another, but they are your connection to the Internet.
Waveform Lighting makes awesome full spectrum bulbs. You are welcome. ;)
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