skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do people who want use their macs out in the field do?

"Out in the field" jobs? That's typically stuff for heavily rugged Windows laptops (e.g. Panasonic Toughbook). I wonder what you could use a Mac device for in that area, the software used for such jobs (e.g. industrial control, car programming or mapping stuff) is almost exclusively Windows-only.
The weekend was due to organized religions. The Atlantic has a great article on the history of it. Henry Ford pioneered the 40 day workweek without union prodding, only through his own experimentation.

Besides, let's say youre right and unions have given us all those things. Those standards are over 100 years old. If it were true, it would mean nationwide unions did some things 5 generations ago and have collected literal trillions in inflation adjusted dues* since and have provided nothing in return.

*
11% of the US is unionized, representing about 1.1 trillion in annual payroll. Average union due is 1.5%, that's $16.5B per year in union dues collected, over 100 years = $1.6 trillion. But union membership used to be much much higher than 11% so its actually a much bigger number than $1.6T. But you get the math.
Polars is a lot better than pandas at maintaining valid state.

Because you ideally describe everything in terms of lazy operations, it actually internally keeps track of all your data types at every step until materialization and execution of the query plan. Because of that, you're not going to have the same kind of data type issues you might have in pandas. There are also libraries based off pydantic built for polars dataframes validation (see patito, though it's not mature yet).
Which is what i said in second part of my comment. For most software businesses the cost of shipping a bug is trivial and/or poorly measured so due to McNamara fallacy it is readily exchanged for well measured cost of having a functioning qa team
Carta > Pulley >>> AngelList.

This is largely a result of how long each product has been available, i.e. the older products are more mature. Hopefully Pulley and AngelList continue to catch up so there is a diversity of good options available.
Looks similar to the Jelly2, which is what I have (https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-2).

My biggest lament is that many websites (esp. things like TV show wikis) are unusable on the small screen because of how many banners and ads pop up to obscure content. Other than that, it's a pretty great phone. I like that it has an IR transmitter so I can control my TV volume and such without the remote.
How does that make sense? Canadians are cheaper to hire than Americans but not by that much, right?
Be careful with the firewood, there may be a link between lung cancer and fireplaces https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37542784/
> I agree with you the CA math reform is insane, as is cancelling things like AP and Gifted classes. However, I again maintain that I think the intention is that those that benefit from those classes will be able to thrive with or without them, while the funding for them can help lift the FLOOR for those disadvantaged - those without parents with high income who can afford tutors, or spend extra time with their kids.

I think exactly the opposite will happen. The disadvantaged kids will now have a low ceiling, not a high floor!

Doesn't matter if you manage to break through despite your socioeconomic conditions, we cannot help you advance further in any way now because we've cancelled those classes. Before, they had the opportunity to thrive. Now, unless their parents have money, they don't.

> I again acknowledge that the full picture of this change will not be visible for some time. But I think it's an interesting premise.

I think it doesn't hold up at all.

> I was in many gifted classes growing up. I skipped several grades. I started university as a teenager. This was all a mixed bag. I was intellectually over-stimulated and stunted socially. I had to recover through my late teen years and early 20's. Most of the gifted kids I know from my era have mixed feelings about our experiences. We appreciated the support at the time but look back and wish the schools tried harder to protect us from bullying "normies" rather than just isolating us to separate classes. It was a cop-out marketed as for our own best interests. Some of us have thrived. Others crumbled.

I did the same. And for what it's worth, I loved every minute of it. By going to schools where being smart was valued, we had no "bullying normies". They got kicked out of school.

> When I think of my own son (currently a toddler), and whether he would have those opportunities if he happens to be advanced for his age, I believe that the responsibility for ensuring he gets the support he needs is mine and mine alone. What i will do with the funds I have to give him extra attention is find clubs, find tutors, and not expect that the school should be the one providing him those opportunities. In school, I hope he gets to learn how to be a member of society better and sooner than I did.

Oh sure, I'm not saying I won't spend the money for my own kids. And I would be doing all of those things even if the school provided more advanced classes. But as a matter of policy, all this is doing is driving anyone who can afford it out of the public system.

We're going to end up with a public schooling system that's for poor people and provides a base education that for most people puts a cap on what they can achieve in life. And a private system for everyone else.
There is a lot of patting themselves on the back and no acknowledgement of wrongdoing. They got caught violating trust for an inconsequential revenue stream, at the expense of their biggest revenue stream's customer - so, we'll shut down the conflict.

Also, 409a is a conflict of interest, but since it doesn't negatively impact our biggest revenue streams, we'll keep doing it (at the expense of tax revenue).
I do not understand why these have to be done through Medium posts.
Oh wow. I made another comment about how important tension in fasteners is, to provide a clamping load and therefore friction between two faces. I was thinking that there must have been a process failure. Fasteners often shear off if there is not enough tension and therefore friction. But in this case it looks like there is not any clamping load between parts for at least some of the fasteners, so those fasteners basically act only as pins. There are other "stop pad" parts that constrain movement of the plug but as far as I can tell they must be compliant/flexible parts. The video mentions "roller pins" which for a door would be used with a cam mechanism. I think that stop pads plus roller pins/door/cam mechanism holds the door securely, but stop pads plus plug/pins does not.

On paper all 6 degrees of freedom may be constrained with the plug but in principle compliant pads may allow shear forces and/or rattling on the fasteners and they eventually fail.

I will eat my hat if the eventual required solution doesn't involve some kind of mating cup/cone or wedge shaped parts to more positively constrain the plug.
Must have been the log lady's secret all along.
you cannot currently run mixtral with a 32k context on a 3090. Unless am I wrong? I think the largest context I was able to reproduce was around 1500 with 2 or 3 bit, I would have to look at my notes.
Unfortunately I don’t believe there will be much initial traction until some “killer apps” come about. Not to downplay this person too much, but I saw tweets from a Mac calendar app developer about their excitement seeing their calendar rendered on a 2D plane while trying out the Vision Pro demo. Like… why would someone don the headset to check their calendar?

I expect to see a few games, and a few random spammy 3D object viewers, and iOS apps “Made for Vision Pro” when in reality they are SwiftUI 2D apps ported to render on the flat plane on the headset. Perhaps Apple has an opportunity to segregate really breakthrough apps from the simply ported ones.

Last but not least, the adult entertainment angle/question will be arising soon. Even though it has of course existed for years on other headsets, when Apple does it it just seems to get more press (see Airtag tracking concerns vs Tile Trackers).
Ask HN: How do you do IRL community?
Atheism is gaining ground. Religions are out of fashion. Western nuclear families and the way our cities are constructed discourage deep rooted community connections. There’s a loneliness epidemic.

I feel the need for it stronger than ever. I grew up in a cult and the one thing that could be said for it, was it had a great community in many ways.

Well now I’m no longer in the cult, with two small kids and wondering how to fill in that hole —- just one that isn’t a cult. But maybe you have kinda be culty to be part of something in the first place?

I’m reminded of the excellent essay from dynomight, 3rd section: https://dynomight.net/plans/

So, how do you do IRL community? I mean deep, meaningful connection: the pickleball league isn’t gonna cut it against the tide of modern individualism.
Studio Troyca's 10th Anniversary Work That Embodies Their Evolution: Overtake
You might want to consider seeing how far vertical scaling can bring you.

https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/

Is a good read
As an early employee at a startup from seed through a healthy Series B last year, I would have serious concerns about the company’s bookkeeping and how-up-to-date the shareholder information is if it were kept in an excel spread sheet on Google drive.

Carta and Pulley, etc. do a solve a valuable concern here for non-executives who are compensated with stock options and want to keep track of stock vesting, exercises, and shares in a transparent way, I’d say.
I think there would be too many programmers who would be proud to take the jobs of other programmers trying to unionize.

There are a lot of anti-unionists and Libertarian minded programmers in the US.
Another thing about Europe v. USA conditions: it is considerably harder to fire a bad hire or team member in Europe.
Oh great use case! I'm happy it's useful for you, please don't hesitate to share this tool with other people with laser engravers too, so we will be more sure that the presale will be sold out and I can take time to build the tool for real!
Fibonacci Can Help Us Convert Between Miles and Kilometers
Ah yes, predictive text based panics is what we need in our compilers...

The LLM hype has really jumped the shark.
I dunno, I get the criticism, but also, every field assumes a large amount of "lingua franca" in order to avoid documenting foundational things over and over again.

Programming language documentation doesn't all start with "programming languages are used to direct computers to do things"; it is assumed the target audience knows that. Database documentation similarly doesn't start out with discussing what it means to store and access data and why you'd want to do that.

It's always hard to know where to draw this line, and the early iterations of a new idea really do need to put more time into describing what they are from first principles.

I remember this from the early days of "NoSQL" databases. They spilled lots of ink on what they even were trying to do and why.

But in my view this isn't one of those times. I think "DataFrames" are well within a "lingua franca" that is reasonable to expect the audience of this kind of tool to understand. This is not an early iteration of a concept that is not widely familiar, it is an iteration of an old, mature, and foundational concept with essentially universal penetration in the field where it is relevant.

Having said all that, I came across this "what is mysql" documentation[0] which does explain what a relational database is for. It's not the main entry point to the docs, but yeah, sure, it's useful to put that somewhere!

0: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/what-is-mysql.html
This is a really nice insight that I wasn't aware of. Many thanks.
My grandfather used to say that he was "35 and a few months."
Seems like these are web "tools" people use to monetize links, e.g. the link might be "download the new Marvel movie", you click on it and the URL is one of these sites with a parameter/ID that resolve to the URL to the "goods", but first you'd have to watch an ad. Or maybe even do complex tasks like register on some site (where someone will earn the referral bonus).

I guess a crowd-sourced database of the actual target links is a solution...
1. This is factually false. They're not being displayed amongst tweets containing hate speech. (The reporting group basically reverse engineered Twitter's protocol to force an ad to appear next to a hate speech comment.)
>I don’t think anyone has ever bothered to make FS code async, it’s already quite horrible as it is. Not in a mainstream kernel anyway. [...] Same for Windows disk IO with IOCPs.

IOCP merely allows IO completion to happen on worker threads in a threadpool rather than the particular thread that initiated the IO request. Many concepts in the NT kernel come from a long line of production kernels in mainstream DEC operating systems going back to RSX-11M and VMS. That entire lineage of operating systems (culminating in NT) all have true asynchronous IO using IO Request Packets (IRPs) within the kernel to initiate/queue IO requests and immediately return. There are individual cases within NTFS where blocking will occur but those are special cases rather than the rule as the kernel IO system in general is entirely async.
I would say the article is about Pax Americana. Anywhere else — like Russia, Asia, Africa — IT is booming with stronger demand than ever.

Probably, one of the main reasons for layoffs in “US and what have you” is new wave of deglobalization and having your own google, visa, etc. “just in case”. This way possible markets shrink and big “IT troops” become less economically feasible.

We may even see in the not so distant future some IT migration from US to the countries outside of Pax Americana.
Why would the amount or the way it gets into your body matter if water is harmless?
If you use inferior screwdrivers and do find one with a handle which works, you notice it.

The cost of tools is a lot less than it used to be. I think mentally I'm stuck in "but that screwdriver cost $5" thinking, when $5 fed you and watered you all day.
Do you have a source for your extraordinary claim that such insurance cannot be bought? Surely such a divergence from the status quo would be written somewhere more official than a social media comment.
The short answer: it depends.

The long answer: not unless transfer of copyright was explicitly part of the agreement.

Slightly longer answer:

In most cases nowadays when you hire a photographer, the photographer retains the copyright and will ask a considerable amount to transfer those rights to you. What you’re essentially are paying for is for them to take the photos (cheapest option), for them to print the photos after taking them (slightly more expensive), or for them to hand you the digital photo files (expensive).

Neither of those options transfer copyright, as copyright is in principle granted to the person who takes the photos. Wedding photographers are notorious for monetizing every aspect of the job (I say this without value judgement) for example, where you pay a fee to cover the event, a fee for printing photos and a fee for receiving digital copies (because you don’t have to pay them for printing).
In the old days bit.ly didn't protect the stats page, adding a "+" at the end of a bit.ly link would show them to anyone. (Hits over time, referer pages). It was interesting to see how disinterested people were about some promotions.
The next level of this is waiting a couple hours and reacting to their message with a waving emoji- not replying! only putting the reaction in there.

If they don't want to talk business then a friendly greeting is appropriate.
Good news for you then, far fewer than 50% of employees at Unity work on the game engine. The game engine is a small part of what Unity does, especially since IPO.
The Palm Phone has a higher resolution and an extra ⅓" diagonal, so it's a bit easier to browse the web size-wise (although it has only half the memory). Of course, things Youtube or Instagram are hopeless, but I consider that a feature, I just tell people they won't load on my phone lol

>TV show wikis

TV wikis are a challenge to use even on a PC if they are hosted on fandom.com :P
Unknown persons getting onto the company wifi is not a security concern?
The Rust team did a deep dive on the bug in 2020, which has some more details that might be helpful to understanding what's going on: https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/blob/master/design-me....
Different scenario, but similar concept.

I’m a League of Legends player and the makers of that game, Riot, are adding a very controversial kernel-level anti-cheat system. Even though it is being portrayed as a victory over cheaters, the system is very aggressive and greedily collects information compared to other anti-cheat systems. Owed by a Chinese company to boot.

The experience has me going through and re-thinking whether the privacy risk is worth the convenience, for not just games but all kinds of applications and services. The result has been deleting a lot of stuff.

I feel increasingly like just refusing to buy or use certain software is the only way to protect yourself
Somewhat, mainly out of frugality, but I also feel in some ways that we (my family and I) are still being pretty extravagant. I have a desktop (that's probably 9 years old for the MB/processor and a GPU that's about the same vintage--though I upgraded to 16 GB RAM last year, and the case is going on 20 or so by now ("is this not my family's axe?"))

Spouse has a Surface tablet that's only a couple years newer

Dedicated "desktop" computers for the kids (~$300 NUC-like) and another one for a media center/central home server

Spouse and I each have our own decent but not top of the line phones, and there's a phone for each kid as well (which, even more than the computers, we try to emphasize are for their use but not under their ownership, to minimize fights over what they can have on them)

So far I feel like it's been a good compromise between lavish spending on unnecessary things, investing in growth and development, and a few indulgences here and there or what's the point of working so hard?

I love the retro aesthetic. I use i3 for my window manager. I'm encouraging (and helping) my kids to learn Vim and Emacs, and hope to switch them over to Linux at some point because I feel at this point that it offers a genuinely better UX for most of the things we want to do, and the only reason to use Windows at all is for things that Just Don't Work on Linux (looking at you, Minecraft Bedrock!)
That makes sense. I could be wrong but I just have this sneaking suspicion that some systems literally have no inputs, though. Nothing received from the outside world... no HCI or sensors of any kind. But maybe such a simple system isn't likely to need much randomness? In your CAN bus example, pretty much anything transmitting onto the bus is doing so because it knows something interesting, as opposed to expressing something deterministic from its own little stored routine?
A friend worked on GPS positioning for oil rig industry ships. The laptops they used were ruggedized and it was normal to assess replacements by knocking them off the table deliberately to see how they coped.
Nice idea. BUT don't use this in prod, kids (or any webhook that returns secrets).
It's a faulty premise. Very few people actual want to discover startups, for the sake of discovering startups. The reason no one has heard of your startup is because the people who have heard about it don't care. Startups grow when customers / users care about the startup.

Every startup "just needs more eyeballs." So startups will sign up for the promise of free / low cost users. But, they won't get them. And even if you get the exposure, the users won't stick.

I understand why you want to build this product, but you can't scale getting startups large numbers of sticky users like this.
A lot of people in creative industries e.g. musicians, editors, designers etc often have to work outdoors sometimes in dusty, rugged areas.
To ensure no one will ever touch it, you can pull the hardware equivalent of adding a comment to a piece of code:

// AUTOGENERATED DO NOT DELETE
When a company says something like:

“Fast forward to today, our business is broken down as follows: the captable business is about $250M/year, fund administration is about $100M, private equity is about $20M, and the secondary trading business is about $3M.”

Is that assumed to be yearly revenue? Earnings? Something else?
Airlines should stop buying Boeing airplanes. At this point they are catastrophes waiting to happen.

Fortunately, most airlines in my country use Airbus planes.
Also a full 3d library (likely will result in a lower fps): https://github.com/nstbayless/mini3d-plus
I upgrade when I need to. Im still running a 2015 macbook pro (I have two that I rotate if I have an issue with one). I have this version because of all the ports, then the M chips didnt have the virtualbox support I needed. I regularly use the SD card port (gopro) and hdmi ports.

Now that the M chips have virtualization and the laptops actually have ports Ill probably upgrade at some point, but I actually dont need to. One of my laptops could break completely and I would just migrate to the working one.

I keep my phones until I drop them or until they get too slow. I use samsung phones as I dont like the usability of apple phones (no T9 dialing) or the way icloud, photo storage, etc work. How do you get pictures off your phone into folders? It is annoying that the iphone cant mount as a drive.

I have a dell t3500 desktop (2012?). I have maxed out the ram, upgraded the cpu, and have large SSD drives. It is fast enough for what I do on windows which is just running blue iris these days.

I have plastic casio gshock watch with atomic time updates and solar. I think it is 10-12 years old.

I drive a 13 year old truck and my wife an 8 year old minivan. I do want an electric car but hate all the computerization of the dash. A friend imported an electric car from china and the controls are basically like a golf cart.

another friend converts classic cars into electric cars and I might be willing to convert an old truck to electric.

I definitely dont downsize, but I only upgrade when a usability issue makes me upgrade.
Although in my testing the 4bit reasoning was not nearly as good.
Yes. It is this spirit that got me excited about computers. It's impressive that OpenBSD has remained consistent all these years. One of my all time favorite projects.
Of course they can…? It’s just a term of the warranty policy.

Very bizarre regarding your iPod! What is your working theory for that?
What I mean by that is do people make quality waterproof cases for macs?

I wonder why Apple has never considered making a toughbook type machine for real field work.
I know wannabe-execs who unironically think the "tres commas" guy is cool
Separate of what did or didn’t happen here, I hope more companies crack the secondary market puzzle. The current environment really sucks for startup employee liquidity and might be going on for a lot longer.
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA)