skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is correct, which is why the hiring atmosphere reeks of ageism. There's a lot of people in this industry that are over 40, healthy, of sound mind, and have a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience that are being overlooked because they're supposedly "not agile enough" or whatever.
Some might take offense at this but blue collar work is for the most part mindless work. If you have grit, it’s relatively easy to get through. Sure your body will give out but it’s easy on the mind.
Any chance you’re a Doomberg reader? I’ve followed his recent writing and interviews on peak oil and I also enjoyed this Peak Prosperity video [1] arguing in opposition, looking at the short lifetime of fracked oil fields and lack of big post-Permian deposit finds. Also, oil is necessary as feedstock and in manufacturing infrastructure for oil alternatives.

Still, it’s frustrating that there’s such a disagreement on basic facts between two quantitative and careful thinkers.

[1] https://youtu.be/__DEDPhs5O4
Burnout is more of a mental phenomenon than a physical one, perhaps it stands to reason that with thought work you burn out mentally much quicker.

I think in general humans have a much lower capacity for thought output than they do physical output. With exceptions of course.

Another issue I believe is that there is no shameless lulls in thought work, at least for me personally it is 100% all day. Whereas in all the physical jobs I've done you have to wait for things to happen, people to do things, stuff to get unloaded etc. Not true of all physical jobs of course. But there can be a lot of idle time that you don't feel guilty for.
Or an FPGA (which I'm raising money to create, click on my profile for more) reconfigures itself in a parallel way regardless of whether its running and / or can be externally reconfigured.
I always Ctrl+F 'just' on projects like these for a laugh ("just set up x with widget y and z skill / you only need to do a b c d or e then f if g or h else i and j but only if k and also we haven't documented what happens if l and also haha you'll find bug m in the console that isn't mentioned anywhere here").

This one wasn't really an offender in that vein I suppose.
But it is so convoluted as to alienate 99% of people and even >50% hackers I would guess.
I’m convinced that “density” is not a helpful metric here. There’s plenty of diffuse energy, and it’s advantageous to collect it near where it’s used, rather than make big pipes and ship it around
I don’t know if revealing one’s inner experience is part of their culture.

In the 1800s as many as 90% of the people were farmers. And they only could feed 3-5 people on a single farmers output. Horribly inefficient. No wonder large families were so common. They were needed.

The stakes were much higher. You don’t have the luxury of finding yourself or becoming the towns artist or studying Shakespeare.

You could be the smartest person in the community but doesn’t matter. You’re on a farm. Prepare or perish.
> and through the use of 4-5 digit piles of cash.

5 figures doesn't sound like much for an organized crime network
Not much discussion but still here from a couple days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847086 Tom Scott, and the formidable power of escalating streaks
Just want to share my love of history. The majority of books that I buy are historical, whether near or distant. Those that aren’t still have a historical component.
it didn't used to be, but now it is. the magic of growth and interconnection
Found this after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423 and then walking around the rest of Robin Sloan's site.

It captures a bit of the nostalgia I feel about the SF bay area, and some of the false nostalgia / regret that I feel about what it could have become.

(posted 3 and 4 years ago but with 0 comments each time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491703 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24487645 )
what an enjoyable read

i felt as if i was teleported to the OPs job
So, what you are trying to say there is no button but a "don't switch this off or everyone suffocates" switch.
Unfortunately, you spoke too soon, exactly what you said has happened lol.
I don’t see a viable plan to transition for plastics, so I suspect that oil consumption will remain substantial until plastics get enough expensive that we find viable alternatives. Conversely I don’t think we’re actually in danger of transitioning off of oil consumption in any real way in the next 20 years.
An FPGA is for loading and unloading logic that accelerates parts of programs. With extremely large FPGAs such as up to the size of a dinner plate (click on my profile where I'm raising money for such a FPGA chip), whole programs run on the FPGA as opposed to only parts of it being accelerated.
Excellent title, better article. This described worlds I didn’t know existed.
You seem knowledgeable, so a casual question. I installed bazzite :testing fork on the steamdeck oled and wifi speeds were absolutely terrible. Like 100mbit max where as I see 500-600 on stock.

Do you have a perspective on the driver layer here? I’m assuming bazzite is using something out dated or maybe didn’t have hardware acceleration on wifi packets etc
https://archive.vn/10hEs
Ha, maybe I know you irl. Although it's a pretty common emergency landing and refueling spot for cross Atlantic flights. I think a lot of the 9-11 planes got grounded there, there's a nice book about how the local population of Canadians in Gander supported the giant sudden influx of population from the grounded flights.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/148775
I joined a company in 2021 as a tech lead after working as a IC for almost a decade. I thought it was going to be a technical role but it slowly turned into a more engineering management one. The were aspects about it that I liked and actually good at. But I really missed programming and building things on my own. Plus the stress was bad. Few months ago, I went back to an engineering job.
Yup! And if it is beefy enough, the fans will kick in from time to time. (Strangely, it gives me great joy to see 30 cores under 100% load and hear the fans hum in accord.)
That sounds right to me, a lack of competition and low supply of skills and infrastructure brings costs up.

Bit of a chicken and egg problem though, if you don't manufacture locally because of cost you'll never build up a competitive industry that brings the cost down.
Right, which is why I said it wouldn’t make a difference as the drones GPS modules would just switch to one of the ones you listed.
The new Ford carrier is undermanned by hundreds of sailors, and the Navy missed every single one of its recruitment goals in FY2023, by thousands.

It's a chronic issue at this point for practically every branch. Only way to actually fix this would be a draft but it goes without saying that this has it's own issues.
From Wikipedia:

Comac C919 - First flight: 2017, introduced 2023, number built: 10 (3 in service?)

Sukhoi Superjet 100 - First flight: 2008, introduced 2011, number built: 229

Boeing 737 MAX - First flight: 2016, introduced 2017, number built: 1,376

Airbus A320 NEO - First flight: 2014, introduced 2016, number built: 3,092

They're not even in the same ballpark. It'll take Comac decades to make those inroads and Sukhoi is done for.
I'd say Moreton Bay was a region of Brisbane where Bluey is set, I don't think OP meant 'its from my suburb or street'.
Yes, the connecting thread is the USD hegemony. Hyperinflation and eventual collapse is not only possible but has been inevitable ever since QE started.

The stock market is now a farce and price is dictated by market makers, not "discovered". The housing market is nonsensical and has priced a generation out of home ownership. The US military is evil incarnate and our civil court system is based on whoever has the most money and is willing to lie wins. I'm doing everything I can to speed the collapse of a broken system and I'm sure there are many more like me.

The USD and therefore the world is on a count down timer to total collapse, problem is no one knows how long we have left.
> Of course, this won’t be anywhere near as efficient as just implementing the decoder in C

> It is quite easy to add new built-in modules to Python, if you know how to program in C. Such extension modules can do two things that can’t be done directly in Python: they can implement new built-in object types, and they can call C library functions and system calls.

Then why are you talking about this instead of extension modules?
I've tried out this game, and so far, I'd say that it's pretty well made. I would definitely try contributing to this in my spare time.
Synopsys is in advanced talks to acquire Ansys
Decades Ago a Noise Roared in the Ocean. For Years It Was a Mystery.
Populations never "stabilize" for any meaningful amount of time.
This seems like 15 minutes of work to me, but I get it.

My hope is that, long run, we all collectively get better at building systems that help us with this stuff. There should be off-the-shelf recipes that combine all these ingredients for us.

There's already a very very strong self hosted community, mostly built around Kubernetes. They have a huge archive of Helm charts and other assemblages of easy to use off the shelf pre-assembled setups for stuff like this! There's also works like Yunohost, which offers a more bespoke set of automations and abstractions to make installing and running stuff easy.

Sure, as a consumer, I get it: everyone just wants a dumb embedded sqlite and something easy to run. But it feels reductionist to demand that every author conform to the lowest common denominator.

Tyranny of the lowliest user can not go in forever. And I for one am delighted to see how much better we have gotten at being able to helm-ify or whatever other packaging you please these concerns so someone can deliver an easy to use experience, composing the many parts. I think, I hope, I pray that is how we escape the lowest user trap.
> If you buy the output of some factory which is the input to your own product, is that in restraint of trade?

No. Why would you think it is? It's a restraint of trade if there's an illegal agreement between the two companies that unfairly disadvantages other purchasers. Or it's a restraint of trade if you've bought up all the other suppliers so there is only one. These concepts are enshrined in laws that are pretty simple to read, you're inventing conflict where there hasn't been any.

> This appears to be a case about a merger between healthcare companies.

That's not what it is. It's a digital healthcare advertising company. Software is at the heart of the case.

> They're presumably going to argue that you can create an account with AWS and install whatever applications you want on your cloud server and access them from your iPhone, or something like that.

Does that have platform parity with apps from the app store? If not, it's a flawed argument.

> If the courts want to find Apple in violation

The court doesn't _want_ anything. Other than for the parties to settle their disputes outside of court. When they can't, they rule, and often pretty carefully because they don't want to get overturned on appeal.

This isn't something that's happening to Apple, it's a strategy they've employed, in defiance of the law, in the hopes that they were going to be able to get away with it. That was a good short term gamble, because they almost got two decades out of it, but the courts have caught up to the market, and they're about to get the law applied to them.

If this bothers anyone that much, familiarize yourself with the laws, and then advocate against them. I think if you actually prepare to do this, you'll immediately understand that almost every consumer in America will be against you.
Yea there was a lot of that going around
Founder of Appsmith (https://appsmith.com) here.

This is very unfortunate news. I have a lot of respect for the founders & the product. In fact I even used Airplane for a few side projects in the past. It's sad to see the product die.

IMO, most folks alluding to them running out money is incorrect. I think they simply ran out of energy or the will to go on. This is very common among early stage companies. But, as consumers, it also highlights the dangers of betting a large part of your workflows on any closed source SaaS. It can disappear with the drop of a hat.

This is why adopting OSS alternatives is essential. OSS solutions like Appsmith, puts you, the user, in control and allows you to determine how you'd like to control your stack. Your migration plans and functioning of tools isn't determined by events halfway across the world & outside your control.

If you are looking to move your workflows from Airplane, we have an early version that resembles Airplane. Do reach out to me at arpit [at] appsmith.com and let us help you.
What is right about it? He explained the faulty algorithm.
"Every" -- Why no Alaska or Hawaii?
Heh. Although was it was a very NON-ROMANTIC situation!! We all were in the same clothes for four days and people were getting majorly drunk and throwing up because the flight crew gave away all the alcohol from the plane to apologize for the delay.

I've never felt more gross in my life or had a nicer shower in my life than that first one after we finally landed, got to the location and finally relaxed. Mainly it was not having a toothbrush that was the worst!
Anyone interested in this subject may be interested in a recently published book:

"Notes on Complexity" by Neil Theise

A good chunk of the book goes into details on Gödel's interests in metaphysics (including this topic).

The book is generally a rational exploration of ideas that cross-cut metaphysics, spirituality, and science, and it goes into dialog and correspondence among some deep thinkers in science and philosophy in the past century or so.
They’re building like one of these a day, mistakes get made. There’s nothing comparable to this assembly complexity in the computer world.
Reframing GoPro Videos with OpenCV, YOLO and DeepSORT
> The Boeing 737-9 MAX rolled off the assembly line just two months ago, receiving its certification in November 2023, according to FAA record posted online.

It’s 2 months old, so poor maintenance, wear and tear, etc are not even minor factors.

This is just a poorly made plane with awful quality control.

And that’s even before we get into some of the design issues, both the shortcuts they’ve taken and ones that are more fundamental.
Where could someone surreptitiously place a wildly expensive pane of glass they couldn’t already put an $20 hidden camera?
Like a leap year?
Repealing the Jones Act would be good, but would not result in more US shipbuilding. It would just mean that ships meant for routes between US ports would be built in more competitive Japanese, Korean, and Chinese shipyards.

There is nothing within the Jones Act itself that currently prevents an innovative and enterprising American entrepreneur from building ships at a lower cost.
While I see what you’re trying to say here, the App Store is not extortion. You don’t have to build an app for their platform. If you do, you do so knowing beforehand that the app requires approval to be listed on their App Store, and that such approval is not guaranteed or owed just because you think it is. You’re also free to distribute the app privately the way many enterprises do, and how services like TestFlight work. You can use web technologies and bypass any App Store, revenue cut, or approval process. Every step of the way no matter which way you go, you’re making an informed choice, willingly. Choosing to go down the App Store path, regardless of if side loading is available or not, is not extortion. Nobody forced you to build an app for a platform that requires approval and has a long history of denying apps. I don’t understand the attitude everyone has where they feel entitled to shit just because it’s something they want. Private company. Closed platform. Walled garden. Approval process. This isn’t a democracy and never was. Why do you think you can will something you don’t own or have any decision making powers at into something it never claimed to be and never was? Fix capitalism, or change our culture not to revolve around greed and maximizing profits, and the shit Apple does won’t happen. If there is a way to make more money, walled gardens to extract more money will always exist.
Ryan Seacrest's keyboard case turns your iPhone into a BlackBerry (2013)
they should fix windows systems door to door, they would make a lot more money.
I've seen fiduciary duty to shareholders in publicly traded companies and how it force managers to chase unsustainable immediate gains repeated as cliche, template, criticisms in this types of topics. Privately owned companies of course aren't much different OTOH, so personally it feels to me that incentive design that rewards ethical corporate behaviors is an open question passed from the modern era to the post-modern world(or is that one label behind this one? I'm totally out of my depth).
This one of main points too.

We also do or plan to do these all 3 items.

We haven’t done a coordinated secondary (tender offer) yet since our team is relatively small and people haven’t been with the company that long that there would be that many shares to offer. Usually most people don’t want to sell or sell that much.
Bacteriophage Containing Eukaryotic Sequences
Yes and I disagree with you.

I don’t think italicizing makes the argument more ironclad.

$3 or $4 doesn’t sound about right to me.

To me, the age of something doesn’t necessarily influence its cost. Saying “this book is old so it should be cheap” is something I disagree with.
That's 1.5 hours going the long way around. It'd be under 30 going west rather than east.
Hmmm, it looks like the post is flagged. I had to look up what that meant. I'm guessing I may be breaking the rule of including the website name in the title of the post. :(
Bipartisan Congressional Report on the Jan 6th Attack on the United States
> This report will provide greater detail about the multistep effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and block the transfer of power. Building on the information presented in our hearings earlier this year, we will present new findings about Trump’s pressure campaign on officials from the local level all the way up to his Vice President, orchestrated and designed solely to throw out the will of the voters and keep him in office past the end of his elected term.

> As we’ve shown previously, this plan faltered at several points because of the courage of officials (nearly all of them Republicans) who refused to go along with it. Donald Trump appeared to believe that anyone who shared his partisan affiliation would also share the same callous disregard for his or her oath to uphold the rule of law. Fortunately, he was wrong.

> The failure of Trump’s plan was not assured. To the contrary, Trump’s plan was successful at several turns. When his scheme to stay in power through political pressure hit roadblocks, he relentlessly pushed ahead with a parallel plan: summoning a mob to gather in Washington, DC on January 6th, promising things “will be wild!”

> That mob showed up. They were armed. They were angry. They believed the “Big Lie” that the election had been stolen. And when Donald Trump pointed them toward the Capitol and told them to “fight like hell,” that’s exactly what they did.

Personally, I would like to point out that the report correctly credits the bravery of many Republicans, including Vice President Pence, in upholding the Constitution of the United States.
For grid power, nuclear and hydro beat oil by significant margins. For shipping we’d need to deploy nuclear reactors that could be safe to operate on the seas. For cars and trains, electrified tied to a fossil free grid is enough and is happening however slowly. For planes and land shipping trucks that’s trickier and not sure what the answer there would be. But if we cut shipping, grid and automotive fossil fuels we’d be reducing global emissions to almost 0. It’s not enough at this point due to unlocked runaway effects meaning the 1.5C warming is long in our rearview in terms of being an unavoidable result and it’ll take us a long time to transition based on the current political approaches which means I suspect 3C or even worse is highly likely within the next 50 years.

Beyond arresting the worsening conditions (which we’re failing at spectacularly) I’m not sure how to unwind the damage. Technology is unlikely to save us unless we get insanely lucky somehow (like fusion reactors that are trivial to scale and trivial to make cheaply and then shoving all that energy into carbon recapture at a scale we don’t know how to do because even at current levels it’s diffuse enough that it takes a long time to capture a small amount of carbon).
Is that really all? Those numbers are pretty low even for a small business.
Second the link sharing idea!
What? This is a bizarre apples to oranges comparison. That 5k of compute can do things that aren’t possible on a Mac, like training a model.
((x**b) * a) + c

Is equivalent and is the clearer way to express it.
Google shares update on next step toward phasing out third-party cookies
So we let the planes fly between Southern California, Las Vegas and Phoenix and never above 15,000 feet.

Or Boeing can keep the planes grounded, fix the problems, and recertify later.
Open it up and put a small bit of kapton tape on the circuit board beneath that button to prevent it from making contact. Then it will do nothing, forever.
Because teaching students a fictional version of C does not prepare them well for dealing with actual C.
I interpreted it as applying to 50 different roles, which I think is normal if you really like the company.
That destroyer collision in the SW Pacific, rescuers had to go into the flooding deck to wake seaman up.

They had to be drugged out of their minds.
Love it!

Would be great if I could adjust height of the boxes to fit more on a page on iPhone.
> I have worked on software in the grain industry

If willing and able, I'd be quite interested to know more about what you were working on.

> I'd say you could probabaly sell what you built

I think so too, and have considered it, but I foresee reliable access to data becoming an issue when others see money being made. That's a problem I am not sure I want to try to solve.

> but then you run the risk of accidentally having a software career again.

Oh, I still have a software career. That's in large part why I was struggling to keep up with the markets and work on my own projects!
FPGAs are closer to CPUs than ASICs because ASICs don't have to be turing complete while CPUs can perform turing complete behavior. I'm raising money to make a extremely large FPGA where it behaves like a CPU but also behaves like an ASIC by loading and unloading many accelerator logic circuits and entire programs in parallel. This is regardless of whether its running and it includes external reconfiguration. It can also be up to the size of a dinner plate.
Great story! This had me confused though:

> Often I'd show up only to tell them their hard drive was dead and everything was gone. This was just how things worked before iCloud Photos, nobody kept backups and everything was constantly lost forever.

Why not suggest sending the drive off to a recovery service? They certainly existed back then, wealthy clients could afford it, and you could add a nice markup.
Disagree. Solar doesn’t work at night and it’s horribly inefficient to have a bunch of local batteries everywhere compared with centralized power generation with relatively cheap wiring distributing the centrally generated energy. Local generation is a greedy solution (I got mine) that has a shared cost (centrally generated power for those who can’t generate their own spikes massively in price). It’s basically a greedy “rich get richer” solution that also doesn’t actually solve the carbon problem because other people need electricity too.