skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK | Remote

Technical and Business Writer.

I'm open to writing gigs, either technical writing or business/finance-related stuff.

I have 5+ years of experience in professional writing. I run a fairly popular tech/finance blog -- https://thetechee.com/ -- and enjoy writing for others too.

I also have an extensive freelance writing portfolio, here are some samples; https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SwJL-SFttJmLEc1n7quc...

Rate is $0.10 per word. If interested, reach me at chisom4best@gmail.com.
The eyrie beauty of Britain's Area 51
There are a lot of companies producing generic drugs. Teva alone sold $9B worth in 2021.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/top-10-generic-drugmaker...
>We literally have "made in China" on almost everything we own...

Designed by American companies though. Also, "made in China" has been turned into a negative image for China due to the perception of low quality. It isn't a logo.
Then talk about electron and don't use thought-terminating cliches.
A web app could provide an RSS feed of updates for scraping by app aggregators. This sounds like a great candidate for addition to the web app manifest format.
Really hard to find projects related Go and HTMX but I found pocketbase it is based on Go. Interesting and seems promising - https://pocketbase.io/ based on sqllite but great for simple SaaS products
I'll try to come back later and respond more, but one quick point: lengthy discussions aren't necessarily flamewars! I'm talking about posts that break the site guidelines with things like aggressive indignation or provocation or denunciatory rhetoric, especially on divisive topics. You can certainly have a long discussion without doing any of that.

Re "long comments with a bunch of quotes and links", there's nothing wrong with that in principle but sometimes people arrive with pre-existing talking points and whatnot and that's not curious conversation—it feels like being recited to tediously. I'd try to avoid that. But if you're relating to what the other person is saying, remaining respectful, and not just copy-pasting, there's no reason that can't be curious conversation, and it certainly doesn't need to be flamewar.

Ok I think I made my main points after all so I might not need to come back later :)

Edit: But you can't post stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38849625 - that's just too aggressive, and "what part of X don't you understand" is both a swipe and a flamewar trope!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38849701 is also borderline by HN standards, I'm afraid - but would probably be ok without the last sentence. Your comments will be better (for HN) and also more persuasive if you don't use overwrought rhetoric like that.
It's hard to see how this is anything other than arbitrarily silencing a popular opinion. I can understand things getting out of hand and becoming the proverbial "two minutes of hate" may be worth quashing but it is frankly offensive to have my honest account of leaving Mozilla represented as contributing to "mob dynamics."

This genuinely makes me think less of HN.
Threats or merely a deal. Remember, Big Pharma is to Democrats what Big Oil is to Republicans.
An App Can Be a Home-Cooked Meal
The French invented their own DSL for their taxes: https://github.com/MLanguage/mlang
The best way I've found for extracting tables from PDFs in a well formatted way is Adobe's free online service:

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-to-excel.html
> widespread cooling

You might want to look into just how much heat is contained within the Earth, how much escapes naturally every year, and how much is replaced by radioactive decay. Suffice it to say ..... no. There is no way that mankind can extract enough energy to make any real impact on the Earth's interior. The only potential issue here is closer to the surface, i.e. that injecting water into rock strata can trigger small quakes where there were none before (as we've found out via hydrofracking elsewhere).

Suffice it to say there are no easy solutions to the problem of baseload power. Expecting everyone to live in the dark is unrealistic. Expecting solar power to magically stop being inefficient and unworkable in most locations is unrealistic. Expecting the same of wind power likewise. So we're left with not a lot of good options, only less bad ones. That's life... and that's engineering. There are no perfect solutions... just ones you can live with.
So we don’t need chatgpt anymore? 30 daily limit is pretty enough for my needs.
I don't understand what that second sentence means. What do they mean by "capacity" if it's not electricity generation capability?
When people hand out overall scores, it's done from a more universal metric. And if not, atleast within your circle.

Being too far out of your circle is only going to lower the perceived score. So yes, if Pro Baseball player might sleep with a girl that is an 8 in the Punk Rock club world, but to him she's a 6-7 because he doesn't value that stuff.

For a guy, ease raises a girls score temporarily. For a woman, perceived value raises a score temporarily.
You can try Message Central's SMS APIs. They can also give you customized rates. The team is super helpful.
Nothing in the quote proves your actual argument.

What you said is:

> A core classic liberal belief, arguably the core belief, is that nothing should stand in the way of individuals being able to secure their own economic self-interest.

You literally said 'nothing'.

It is of course true that they believed that self-interested individuals seeking voluntary trade to improve their self interest within a legal framework would be beneficial for society.

Note how Adam Smith never says 'its amazing to steal as much money as possible because following your self interest is good for society'.

I suggest you read Adam Smiths actual work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
Kai Zhuang: Cyber kidnapping in US illustrates growing crime trend
> It’s nearly impossible to discover a causal relationship between two lifestyle variables unless the effect is very pronounced.

Also, for many things (like smoking), we have established causal relationships by explaining the mechanism of action. E.g. cigarette smoke damages DNA, lead poisons the brain leading to neuron death, etc.
Yes. One person said "feature X always existed" and the reply was "not until iOS 6", which is corroborated by their link.

Based on what people are saying in that link, iOS existed for something like 6 years before it got working web page picture uploads. Meaning the person saying the feature has always existed was incorrect.
it's comparable to human energy consumption
Java, Silverlight and Flash disagree that JS was the only language available in browsers.
"Zima Blue," from Netflix's Love, Death & Robots (s1e14), is worth a watch for those interested in the intersection of art and swimming pools. Haunting episode, and one of my favorite from that season.
Basic syntax coloring is easy: just reuse your tokenizer. You already need a tokenizer for your compiler or interpreter. Assign colors to keywords, strings, numbers, and comments. For this simple syntax coloring you don't need to parse, only tokenize, and for pretty much all languages you can do it on a per-line basis.

Auto-formatting is also easy: just don't do it. Does a toy language really need it? I have two languages with syntax coloring and zero languages with auto-formatting. I think syntax coloring is table stakes but auto-formatting is not. You can have an interesting toy language without auto-formatting.
I used to run a small payroll company in Canada, everything was done in Rails.

Call it brute force but every time the rules updated I'd run scraper against the CRA calculator that would calculate payroll across a variety of provinces and pay ranges and output it as rspec. Then i could test that i was compliant and hadn't missed a rule or typoed a value.
Everyone should take a lesson from this language about how not to design a DSL. It probably started out as a humble declarative language, but it got extremely complex after decades, with impurity (`%x` etc.) and functions (`%:foo()`) and a sort of metaprogramming. At some point the whole language should have been scrapped (with a minimal support for backward compatibility) and replaced with a small scripting language, preferably shared with other places that need scripting. Don't grow your language past its limit.
Sorry, the thread itself is about a particular topic and it is reasonable to assume that we are talking about that topic when making broader statements. Writing a drive-by comment about how it's a "thought-terminating cliché," which might be true when talking about a universal phrase but not for a particular case, is not very useful.
like writing sendmail.cf

claus assman anyone? i submitted a patch/ contribution to him once. he accepted it.

i also did have to write my own specs file, for what reason i forget
As mentioned in the 37c3 security nightmare talk, for the love of god go arrange a safe word with your family and loved ones offline. This is the new "installing adblocker on your old relatives machines during Christmas visits". If you wont do it, its going to be costly.

>Victims have reported hearing screaming on the phone while the perpetrator claimed their loved one was in danger to secure a ransom.
“I like the things he does so clearly any critiques of him are wrong or in bad faith” is not the most credible take.

This is just an attempt to retell someone’s self mythicization as accepted reality…e.g.:

“It’s not the only time Tesla has been accused of selling vaporware after the fact. For example, Tesla has for years sold “full self driving” to Tesla customers at a steep discount, with the understanding that it its delivery is subject to regulatory approval. Many of the early cars, we now understand, lack the hardware needed to perform FSD with current technology. That’s why it was sold at a discount, to cover time, regulatory, and tech risk.“
It is important to put 3rd world systems into this sort of sympathetic context.

Sheikh Hasina had every living member of her family slaughtered by the erstwhile miltary. This part of the world necessitates constant paranoia.

In many ways, Bangladesh's quasi democracy state is a major achievement when compared to Bangladesh and the Neighborhood's past.

Biden's activist-interventionist tendencies have led to pressure on 3rd world democracies to emulate western democracies. This has been especially evident with Bangladesh.

I hope (naively) that the west will one day look at its track record on disrupting stable govts, and stop adding friction where it serves no geopolitical benefits. It's about 50 years too late for such kissinger-esque adventurism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
Location: newfoundland, CA
Remote: yes
Relocate?: No
Tech: ts/js,node,react,python, flask,django, php,laravel,mysql,postgres,AWS, linux
CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-ryan-8809221b?utm_source=s...

Email: c.ryan@mun.ca

Director of Software Services. I take things from 0 to 1.
I Think the problem is more that there is no c++ compiler for plan 9 than browsers being to complex.
The Shingle Spit in Whitstable
Capacity is the most they can produce at any given time. Solar only produces power during the day. Geothermal produces power 24 hours a day, without any regard for day or night. Therefore for the same “capacity” geothermal will produce more power per day because it produces for more hours a day at the same rate.

(This does not account for any complications such as the cost of that capacity or whether geothermal has other downtime to consider.)
Bit of a blast from the past for me, as we used Perfect Table Plan when we got married. I heard about that from its creator Andy Brice who frequented the Joel on Software forums, a spiritual precursor to HN.

https://www.perfecttableplan.com/

Anyway, we used it to get _most_ of the way there, but ultimately reverted to hand crafting stuff at the end. For us there were many constraints that were vague feelings, only coming to light when we had a plan in front of us, and if you end up doing many rounds of tweaks you lose any real efficiency gain from using software.
I certainly respect your take. I just don't think that XUL is a killer feature that vast numbers of people are clamoring for.
Turn Your Code into Pixel Art
Are you saying you have to fight gimbal lock just to find which way to rotate the screen on iPhone? That was a problem on the 1960s lunar missions, no idea it'd happen in such a mundane application
According to a quick web search, the internal energy potential of the Earth is 10^31 joules. Humans use about 5.8 × 10^14 annually.

That's around 170 trillion years if I did the math right.
I love the sound in that short video of the game. I want to buy it, but I can't find it. I tried doing a Google search for "Sphere Spectacle video game 2019", but nothing. Is the game released? Is Google just completely failing here (quite remarkable if so)?
From @dang's other reply[0], you have nothing to apologize for. Your insult might've been a bit childish, but it's only being used as a flimsy excuse to silence "mob dynamics" (popular opinion going in a way that isn't approved).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850779
Spawning a new Microsoft Edge ® process, powered by Microsoft Bing ™.

So remember, next time you Google something, Google it with Bing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVCk10AzS0
Location: Delhi, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes but prefer remote

Technologies: Java, J2EE, Python, C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, React.js, Next.js, Node.js

Résumé/CV: [Link to Résumé/CV](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gi4ve8rPmS_IWAQwU07bCmvvt1C...)

Email: ojuschugh@gmail.com

GitHub: [GitHub Profile](https://github.com/ojuschugh1/)

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all are doing well.I am Ojus, a recent IT graduate and I'm looking for a job. I can join immediately. I'm interested in Software Development, C++,Python, Java EE, Jenkins, Debugging, AWS, Open Source, Web Development, and I'm open to trying out something new.

I have worked as a software engineering intern at Eclipse Foundation (Founded by IBM) as part of Google Summer of Code 2023, working on Eclipse Cargo Tracker with Reza Rahman (principal program manager at Microsoft).

Most of my programming experience during college has been with C++, Javascript and Python, and for the past four months, I’ve been writing code in Java by working on Eclipse Cargo Tracker, upgrading the codebase from Jakarta EE 8 to Jakarta EE 10 (Formerly Java EE) as part of Google Summer of Code. Read more about my GSoC contributions: [Link to Medium Article](https://medium.com/@ojuschugh1/gsoc23-work-product-submissio......)

Apart from that, I'm also interested in DevOps and Gen AI (still in the early stages of learning it).

I am committed to proving my capabilities and dedication if given the chance. Thank you for considering my request.

Thanks, Ojus.
I haven't been in touch with him in over 20 years, so have no idea where even to start. Best of luck with that!
> No zoning is great until your neighbor decides to convert his lot into a trailer park.

I’m completely fine with this. Let people do what they want with their property. As long as it’s within the law, e.g. noise, crime, not opening a factory in the neighborhood.

A couple of RVs or double wides, why do you care?

I own rental property and personal property, actually I care a lot more about the neighborhood and property values than the average homeowner. But I’ll tell you what, the so called pro-housing, progressive folks are some of the most racist, condescending people in the world when you want to build low income housing or a trailer park in their backyard.
Thanks for sharing this. On a related theme I highly recommend "the making of the atomic bomb" (this is a narrative history, not an Ikiru-like summoning of a life by different narrators).
Wedding Planners seems like the ideal target market for this. It's a task that must be a opinion for wedding planners, since the couple have to do it, and they put it off (cause its hard).

Making it friction free for the couple (the planner pays, the couple use a planner assigned login), plus making it easy, allows the planner to gather the information from the couple, and then keep pushing plans at them.

A simple guest-list integration (suggested, invited, rsvpd) seems like the next step, and I expect diet requirements etc.

Then again I expect this software already exists and existing planners already use it, so this route may be full. Do some research first.

I agree that "plan your own wedding" .com would be hard to sell because it's one-time customers so acquisition cost us high, and lifetime value per customer is low. So best done as a side-project.
> They're a historical check on the State.

This one is intertwined with it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_attended...

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/24598/first-degree-colleg...
1. Find an open source project, contribute to it. You’ll make connections, sharpen your tools and collaborate with a team.

2. Do a ux case study of emerging technology. It’s much easier to get a job in a sector where no one has ‘years’ experience.

3.Build something. Take your skills further and build something, and try and sell it. Most ux’er have little knowledge of end to end product, I.e what decisions are trade-offs are needed to build, sell and market a product. Build something and lean into the full product cycle.
This works great for local files. I can't seem to modify the shortcut correctly for an image hosted at a public URL.
There is no complete spec, especially for interactions which only exist in software terminals. I've been through this myself (https://github.com/duskwuff/fvterm).

That being said:

> for example: CSI n S (Scroll Up), should that insert empty lines at the bottom (ie scrolling the content up) or scroll back through the buffer?

As a general rule, nothing interacts with scrollback. CSI S inserts empty lines at the bottom of the screen and deletes lines from the top; conversely, CSI T inserts empty lines at the top and deletes from the bottom.

Which operations should touch the scrollback is debatable. My inclination is to only append to scrollback when scrolling occurs "naturally" as the result of a newline or wrap, and neither DECSTBM nor the alternate screen are active at the time. (DECSTBM and alt-screen tend to indicate that a full-screen application is running, so saving rows to scrollback is unlikely to be meaningful.)
I never understood what motivated Nobel Committee to give him a Nobel for Peace. If it was economics I would understand. Grameen Bank and its insane interest rates are well known for making poor debtors commit suicide. Since there is no credit system in Bangladesh, they relied on social pressure to make debtors pay off the loan, by making the debtors family/ neighbors not credit worthy if debtor fails to pay off the loan. It works great until it doesn't. And this whole thing of high interest rate loan is not new in the region.

I never heard good things about Yunus outside the "intellectual" circles in Bangladesh. And outside Bangladesh he seems to be the savior of the country, with a big presence in the elite circles of the west. I do not know if he actually committed the crimes he is convicted for, but I would not be surprised if he did do that. Every businesses do that back there.
People often build SaaS because of the business model.

If they're not interested in generating income, Open Source is typically the next stop.
Consider Security First
Youtube comments refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Madness , but whatever is used in the demo is clearly a much newer version of the game.
I would really love an `ocrmypdf` like tool which uses Apple Vision to create searchable PDFs from scanned images. I've been searching every week or so for some kind of project but so far haven't found anything. Perhaps it's time to make it myself...
This will end up benefiting Google the most. Developers will target Chrome, especially if the government forces Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS. In addition, since the only real way to monetize web apps is via advertising, they will use Google ads.
https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/111689353496969498

tldr: They're trying to pressure SubStack into changing their tune on content moderation, and are meeting them today. Suspect this is just a play to push leadership via PR.
SEEKING WORK | Brisbane, Australia | Remote or Local

Data & AI Consulting: https://yanirseroussi.com/consult/

10+ years data science / machine learning / recommender systems / experimentation (A/B testing), 15+ software engineering

Some technologies for keyword matching: Python, AWS, GCP, pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Django, Flask, FastAPI, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java, C++, Docker

There are other technologies I touched, but my key principles are:
- Getting to the root of business problems.
- Iteratively implementing pragmatic solutions.
- Saying what I'll do, doing what I said, and communicating if anything changes.

Preference for climate tech and nature-positive applications, but open to other areas that have a positive impact.
Do we need dei in tech?
Looking for civil discourse only. Paul Graham tweeted the other day about Brian Armstrong being "ahead of his time" in response to Google and Meta slashing DEI-related jobs, and today said "Prediction: Wokeness will recede significantly in 2024.. I think wokeness actually peaked in 2020 or 2021 and has been slowly contracting since then..."

As a Black American, and a founder, I find it concerning that people are still thinking DEI, affirmative action, and "wokeness" are politically correct agendas (especially since we are now in a U.S. Election year). I believe that DEI is necessary to facilitate diversity in perspective in helping build great technology. "Wokeness" is becoming a derogatory term to promote willful ignorance (the opposite of "woke" is "sleep.") What do y'all think?
Funny title. I have vivid memories of one of my buddies complaining endlessly about Steam as it replaced WON for CS 1.6 server listings around two decades ago. I loved it and thought that the online game store model was the future. I don't really game anymore but it seems I was wrong only insofar as I had no idea how huge it would end up being.
Location: California, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Backend(Go, JavaScript/Node.js, Java/Spring, Python/FastAPI), Frontend(React, React Native, Next.js), Database(PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch), DevOps(Docker, k8s, AWS), LLMs, ML Infrastructure

Résumé/CV: https://ethand605.github.io/Yuyang(Ethan)_Deng_Resume.pdf - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-yuyang-deng/

Email: ethand.2091 <at> gmail.com

Hello, I am a software engineer specialized in backend and machine learning, with accomplishments in high-growth, fast-paced startup environments. I excel at driving product innovation and user engagement through scalable, data-driven solutions and am equipped with a strong full-stack development foundation, complemented by additional expertise in DevOps and data engineering.

With two years of professional experience in software engineering, I am passionate about learning, embracing new challenges, and solving complex problems at scale.

I am actively seeking a full-time role and am available to start immediately!
Training or not, the system was not obvious and the override was even further from obvious.
There's also the fact that keyboard input sucks:

* if you have multiple users on the same physical keyboard, you're very likely to run into the problem where the hardware won't actually register the keypresses simultaneously (some hardware even generates keypress events for keys you didn't actually press!).

* if you plug in multiple keyboards, most input event APIs drop the source index, and hotplug is even less supported. Also this is likely to break single-user-like use cases and sometimes hardware macros.
Feed the Void
Witness the void consume zeroes for all eternity.
Given there are 8 million people that take it regularly, I'm not sure I agree.