skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
currently applying for jobs and just getting automated, boilerplate rejection letters.

there are companies that don't respond to your application at all, and i have started to feel that it is ironically a better approach.

funnily enough, one time i applied for a role in a company, which i never heard back from. however, someone else in there looked at my CV and sent me another job offer, which I ended up getting in the end.
> I've never seen a chat app taking gigabytes of RAM before Electron, for example.

Is that a general software problem or a problem specific to Electron? Is that a permanent problem or a problem right now because of the technology and your attitude towards it?

I say this because I do recall seeing complaints about Java being bloated in the 2000s. I briefly used Swing in my university days and it was pretty awful compared to HTML at the time. In 2044, maybe I'm going to be shaking my fist at the new-fangled tech and telling everyone how nice Electron apps were in comparison.
If you think the public sector could improve its operational efficiency by building, operating and using their own cloud, I've go a bridge to sell you.
Show HN: I created an AI commercial about GitHub (just for fun)
In childhood I dreamt about becoming a film director. But then I became a developer :)

In the last months I've seen a lot of AI films on Twitter. So I decided that given my knowledge about AI tools I should try to shoot a film.

The only question was, that this film should be about?

I am working at an open-source startup (crowd.dev) and recently I also made a side-project that generates AI pictures in a GitHub logo style (octoart.vercel.app).

GitHub even wrote about me in the blog (https://github.blog/2023-12-19-release-radar-dec-2023/).

So I thought, why not to shoot a commercial about GitHub? It is a relatively short format and there is a chance GitHub will write about me (again).

So yes, I went ahead and created this AI commercial using MidJourney, Runwayml, Pika and ElevenLabs.

Maybe it's stupid and silly, but to be honest I don't care - I just wanted to experiment.

Would love to hear your thoughts about the film!

Thanks :)
Not "across the street loud". I've got a Stihl electric one and I can barely hear one working in my own yard. It's just slightly louder than a hairdryer.
Twinery looks neat. Thanks for the tip.
Looking good, I've been using these recently - https://github.com/n3r4zzurr0/svg-spinners

Will give these a try for my next project
Is that terminology coming from the CPU manufacturer or rather from the DOS makers?
It’s not, though.

It might be uneven in different markets, but they’ve been working very hard at improving the content and UX and in a number of markets it’s a viable and very strong competitor to Google Maps.

It will sometimes feel the lack of Google Business Listings, but the driving/walking/biking/transport/streetview experience is uniformly great where they’re released optimised versions of their maps — in my case Australia.
No, that's not similar at all, and it says that right in the 1st paragraph "Spanish rapper sentenced to jail time on charges including insulting the monarchy and praising terrorist groups".

You are comparing a case where someone was sentenced to 50 years for speaking against monarchy, with a case where someone was condemned to 9 months for insulting monarchy AND praising terrorist groups.
Not worth the trouble of 2% userbase, they can use the Web version, it is like the Electron apps most people swear by on GNU/Linux, with advantage there is nothing to instal besides their favourite browser.

Most them seem quite happy to use Google Docs, so Microsoft Office 365 should also be alright.
Interesting, might have to give it another shot!
I use Android (work) and iPhone (personal) phones.

My experience with Apps on iPhone is much better. The Apps are better, there is less trash, the Apps get less of my personal data.

This is valuable to me.

Maybe App developers for iPhone are just better human beings than Android developers. I think that’s not the case, and it’s due to the walled garden.

We can argue about why this is the case. But at my company many have both ecosystems in their pockets all day, and no one has a private Android phone for these reason. Sample size 100+ people, with better things to do in life than recompiling code for their phones.

I get that if you want to hack on your phone, iPhone is not the right phone for you. The user experience for hacking on your phone vs using your phone as a non SW developer are allowed to be completely different. One market is significantly larger than the other.
I mean Mastodon exists, each instance requiring just a small amount of funding to keep the lights on. There is also Tildes, which I think is a nonprofit registered in Canada.

It depends on what your aim is. Had Ello followed a proper nonprofit structure from the start, they could have continued indefinitely with a small staff and volunteers maintaining an open source code base and handling moderation. It would not necessarily be easy, but it would be doable.

They didn't though, and the fact that the original CEO later got into into NFTs and now something-AI maybe shows he was something of a bandwagon-jumper. Back then everyone wanted to be the next Facebook, so that was what he jumped into.
You are supposed to blown them into a stack and then pick them up.

But ye, never understood the need for one. I am using a rake for 2000m2 of garden with 5 leaf trees. None of my 6 neigbours got a leaf blower.
We use maximo to track changes, its terrible.
Don't go to Google unless it's for the pay/benefits (benefits are basically pay in a costume) or for a very particular role which is unmistakably aligned with your professional priorities. You won't find any of the mythological coolness there, literally all of my buddies say. Additionally, when recruiters sell you the position, they try to make it look like you are working at the core of their most important products, when it's generally about some minute pedestrian detail of their internal ecosystem.
If someone is interested, here is the Reference and Implementation Guide of the latest NTP version (2006, was revised in 2010), written by Dave Mills: https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/reports/ntp4/ntp4...

Quite well written, in my opinion.
I don't know about the UK, but AWS has has GovCloud in the US for a long time, and to be honest compared to a lot of infrastructure I have seen there it's a blessing. On the flipside, I've met some really amazing infrastructure and ops people in a German gov healthcare institution running the in-house DC, where the problem was neither the tech, nor the people, but 100% the management and their processes, and their desire to be the bottleneck for every single interaction between infrastructure and engineering teams.
Indeed, if the home-made RSA algorithm is the outer layer, and someone manages to break it, then we're back to the status quo. And the status quo is unbreakable encryption, right?

On the other hand, if the home-made RSA algorithm is part of the inner layer, how is it different than any of the other poorly designed code that we use in the user facing side of encryption? If an API call goes through 100,000 lines of business logic, and the result gets encrypted and sent as an API response, that's okay, it happens billions of times per day. In terms of security, what does it matter if a few of those 100,000 lines are a home-made RSA implementation?
The primary goal of most large organisations' dev blog is to attract potential candidates to the top of the recruitment funnel.

This picture appears to be (presumably) the actual team doing a team building activity.

This is both a reasonable choice given the inferred instrumental goals of the blog, and a honest reflection of (one part of) the team life, assuming it's a photo of the real team.
Nah, this is the thing that leads to open offices etc. I want people to understand what programming actually looks like and these silly pictures need to go.
It’s the UK, they have the medical history. They also ask the patient about their situation.

And I made it sound mechanical, but AI has not taken over all decisions like this yet. I believe it’s a discussion between a team of doctors where they are considering the humanity and ethics of the situation as well as the cost. Like, what would be the impact on the child/dependent if the parent was to die, do they have another parent or family members they can live with, can they fend for themselves, etc.
Its awesome, makes you wanna write actual webapps instead of using the backend just for db queries
IMHO when people say 'math is hard' they mean 'it takes more work than other subjects to be good at' - you're either a prodigy or you grind problems until you get the intuition. The easier subjects you can usually talk everyone and yourself into thinking you know them, or perhaps the ratio of memoization to practice is skewed more towards memoization. Maths is practice, practice, practice and then some more practice - blood, sweat and tears.
I think the word autism has become such a loaded term that it has become undesirable. The removal of the distinction between 'autistic person with significant access needs' and 'autistic person with low access needs' (formerly aspies) has been problematic, in that it took a term historically (and incorrectly) associated with Rain Man and conflated with someone who's socially awkward, might struggle with emotional regulation, be hypersensitive, may have difficulty with motor skills, have nervous ticks and habits, shutdown in overwhelming situations, burnout from normal tasks, etc. but otherwise can function in a day job, pay the bills, do the laundry, cook, eat, and bathe themselves, if only with more struggle.

I've heard this plaint a lot lately, that there needs to be different language to talk about this common neurological phenomenon. I heard that there was a push to write the DSM VI in terms of its biological mechanisms. It sounds like an almost insuperable challenge, and might explain why an updated revision of DSM V was released after a decade, instead of a new manual.
Flames Seen Shooting Out from Boeing 747 Flight over Miami
Why don't you just leave the leaves where they are??
I wonder why they've not instead pushed people towards a 'real' cold storage service like AWS Glacier. IIRC that uses a mixture of DVD/Bluray automation and for deep storage uses LTO tape drives. Solves most of the energy usage issues.
As Lisp fan I get the point, still didn't saved them, and same will happen with Vision Pro.

30 years from now there will be generation Z folks talking about how great Vision Pro was going to be, how they had fun restoring some devices.
> That's like going into a building and they HAND YOU a keycard, and say don't go anywhere you aren't supposed to. And then it's actually a master key. How do you even know that it's going to let you into places you aren't supposed to go.

And if you went somewhere you're not supposed to and found out it's a master key by trying it in those places you're not supposed to access, you'd be accused of trespass.

It's okay to argue that the punishment is excessive or that the law should factor in malicious intent more but the law is pretty clear and his behavior wasn't innocent white hat hacking even if he meant no harm.

> MAYBE I could see this as a violation of the ToS but It's a far cry from "hacking".

Maybe? How about definitely. He didn't use the app for its stated purpose, he extracted the credentials and then used them manually. That's a clear ToS violation at least. That this isn't a sophisticated hacking attack doesn't mean it is legal. You can argue it should be but it's easy to see why it isn't even if you just consider property law.

Actually the only problem with the law in my eyes is that it doesn't distinguish very well between malicious abuse (i.e. abuse with the intent to cause damage or impact security) and non-malicious abuse (e.g. building an unauthorized third-party client) and that it doesn't have special provisions to protect security research akin to whistleblower laws.
> My very first boss that I believe is an undiagnosed psychopath is now director level over there. That told me everything I needed to know about any possible direction of the company. I no longer use anything made by them and actively steer everyone I know away to alternatives.

I had a boss who was a manager at one of Google's flagship products, and he made it his point to not let anyone forget it. He pushed people to work nights and weekends, he berated team members and threatened firing them during daily meetings, he overrode engineer's calls to not release a product to claim he released it before schedule, he threatened the same engineers if anything went wrong during the illadvisable release, etc.

He was since hired as a VP of engineering of another global company.
It's the very same with trusting Google, and my trust in Google is much, much lower than my trust in the developers of the applications I use. Google is a fairly untrustworthy company, which is why I don't use Gmail personally. Unfortunately, I'm forced to use it at my university.
Ad in disguise.
>I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets.

Many companies used to do that both in the US and other countries. Some probably still do.

SAS Institute (well-known maker of statistical and other software) did, for many years, last I checked. Don't know if they still are that way.

Update: Looks like they are:

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

[ In July 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that the semiconductor giant Broadcom was in talks to acquire SAS.[37] In a July 13, 2021 email, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight stated that the company was not for sale.[38] ]
> Part of the problem is that it's just so opaque. You send the token and the server replies "nope", with no further explanation.

Catch-all HTTP 401s and 403s are there to thwart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_attack - unfortunately, servers cannot afford to be "helpful" when it comes to unauthenticated clients.
This is the argument for biasing the economy against large companies
imo its more of a question of time than quality. Rarely, but not never (e.g. Unity), does the frog jump out of the pot. Popular ways of doing things[0] always come in phases as people with fonder opinions of 'the other way of doing things' come into relative power. Couple that with dogmatism-driven 'leadership'[1] and change only really occurs with the changing of the guard.[2]

So to answer your question, I would guess about 4-6 more years.

[0]Cloud vs on prem, monolith vs micro service, functional vs OOP, to name a few.

[1]I've priced some cloud that cost more in six months than on prem hardware and still gotten push back.

[2]Somewhat morosely, "[Things] advance one funeral at a time"
Some of them (e.g. Netflix and Youtube) have official apps for Meta Quest devices, so there might be other reasons.

For Youtube it kind of makes more sense, as they have 360 and 180 content on there and VR headsets are probably best devices to consume it on.

But even with Netflix, having watched some TV show for about hour or so was surprisingly not so bad experience at all on Meta Quest 3.
If that house (the app) was built inside my living room (my phone),

then how does the analogy play out?
They are loud, but not nearly as loud. Few things in common days are as loud as an unmuffled 2 stroke at WOT.

Numbers provided elsewhere in the comments put the gas version at more than 10x as loud as electric.
Telegram's apps, at least on Apple platforms, are not what one typically would call "native" since they roll their own widgets for basically everything.
> Statistics is on the side of inherited wealth.

Until you look at them. The vast majority of small businesses aren’t created by wealth and the majority of millionaires are self made.
Valve also has much better hackers than Facebook.
There are plenty of reasons:

- costs 1): You would need a very different kite to have a turbine hanging in the air. Possibly rigid. They work with a flexible kite, that is possibly much closer to already existing high-performance kites/paragliding wings

- costs 2): You will need a much more expensive tether, as you now need to bring down the electricity that you've produced up in the air, while still being able to reliably and safely reel in your kite

- costs 3): Something happens in flight during testing, or maybe in production, and the kite comes crashing down. There goes your expensive turbine.

- power efficiency: Why would a turbine be necessarily be more power efficient? Action is reaction, so if you are going to remove a certain amount of energy from the air and your kite is stationary, you're going to have to produce a counter-force to stay in place. So how much of the potential energy are you actually using for power generation? Less than half, perhaps? So maybe the pump cycles of a dynamic kite are not that bad after all.

Just some thoughts.
_Purported_. By, this source[0]. Which doesn't cite the source and seems to impute "blockchain" into this total somehow, and was focused on 2020, a year in which corona virus changed a lot of digital trends temporarily.

To the extent that the changes become permanent, they probably lead, working from home, to a far greater reduction in useless greenhouse emissions than the data ever could.

It's not only misleading it's just detached from reality.

[0] https://www.ey.com/en_ch/decarbonization/how-digitization-ac...
Have there been any considerations for self-hosting? I understand that is your “secret sauce”, in a way, but I thoroughly believe there’s a compromise here. Perhaps offering source code via GitHub (with no binaries) and then offer the full source code + binaries via purchasable licenses? Similar to TagSpaces business model of selling binaries to their app, while maintaining it openly on GitHub: https://www.tagspaces.org/products/
https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces

Either way, will definitely be keeping an eye on your app, it seems ducking cool ;)
When I was 18, I attended an elective subject at college about "Professional communication". It was the first time I learnt that body language is even a thing. There's definitely courses to help with communication skills, particularly in a professional context, though I imagine the quality of said courses would vary dramatically. Not to mention there's a whole cottage industry of unqualified 'life coaches', 'style coaches', and so on, though their value is probably even more variable. I'm not sure if they could help employability, but such services are available to everyone.
I live in Germany. After dual-using Google Maps and Apple Maps for a year, I've finally uninstalled Google Maps and now use only Apple Maps.
Any more information on how did you manage to do that? Where was the bloat coming from?
> This is the argument for biasing the economy against large companies.

It's also an argument to break large companies into smaller ones. This has to cut both ways, not just to fire people by cutting off whole org branches.
I'm sure a lot of countries in EU did this. First hand I know, they did this in Croatia as I was one of the developer who had to use it to deploy on it.
The worst thing I have ever seen in my life. And I worked on a lot legacy apps written in VB.NET, Web forms, old Sharepoint, Basic and even when the whole app was one big mess of store procedures.

AWS, Azure, GC are at least written with thought about end users (us, developers) while government cloud was architectured, designed and built by the lowest bidder whose first goal was to cut and cut and cut his costs whenever possible.
> The only thing that was correct in your link is "varies".

Because I didn't bother to link all guidelines I've found. ;-) Other sources, for example, say that Japanese has a relative contraction of 10% to 55% [1], which is really variable but still supports my claim. There is also an inforgraphic about specific scenarios [2] with a similar conclusion for all CJK languages. It might be possible that some guidelines only show the character count and thus adjusted for the visual space, but I see no reason that most guidelines, primarily from professional translation companies, would get that same point wrong.

[1] https://gtelocalize.com/text-expansion-and-contraction-in-tr...

[2] https://d1sjtleuqoc1be.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/202...

> So the space needed really depends on the content. As I said before, if it's full of English loanwords (or worse, English technical terminology that's been adopted into Japanese), it'll likely be larger, since all that is expressed in katakana (phonetic characters). If it's something that can be written in mostly kanji, then it'll be quite compact.

You are correct (I do speak Japanese), but again, the general concensus seems that average Japanese texts do have enough kanjis that make up for some loanwords. I'm well aware that the balance has been greatly changed in recent decades though, so I'd like to be corrected if there is a well-known analysis.

> Korean does not use Han characters at all. It uses Hangul, an artificial phonetic writing system invented about 100 years ago.

Hangul was invented in the 15th century. Only the specific orthographic rules and the current name "hangul" were established ~100 years ago. It took more decades (i.e. circa 1990) for Han characters to be mostly gone from the written Korean, and I observed the final transition as a native Korean speaker.
I have been doing the Math for ML course and would recommend.

I have UK A level math but not Further Math, so up to basic calculus. But I forgot most of it and so Math Academy has me going through a lot of the Math Foundation units along the way.

I was initially put off by the monthly price, as it is quite steep. The clincher is that about a year before starting Math Academy I had gone through the Open University’s MST124/125 textbooks (covering the same stuff as Foundations). Except even after a year I’d already forgotten most of it.

Math Academy learning feels much more robust, since it includes spaced reviews and regular tests. I record things in Anki but it’s useful to have regular practice questions too. I also use ChatGPT to spell out things and find it works well at this level.

Some things I’d like Math Academy to have:

- ability to skip lessons (I don’t want to spend ages going over symbolic integration again)

- a reference page to track unlocked material, maybe with Anki integration

- fewer multiple choice questions and more in depth problems

- proof-based math. I’m told this is coming but the degree-level courses have missed their estimated due dates.

I will definitely finish Math for ML and then do linear algebra and multivariate calculus. You’d still need a good textbook to do them rigorously, but I think Math Academy sets you up well.
Hah, good point. If anything, software handling that kind of data might be better is smaller countries that need at international audience from the get-go!
I was avoiding EMM386 as much as I could on my slow 386SX25: there was a huge performance hit.

There was the Unreal Mode aka Flat mode. With few lines of assembly code, an memory allocation using HIMEM.SYS, it was possible to access all the memory: the segment limit is 4GB instead of 64KB in this "mode". Of course it was not compatible with Windows, so the unreal mode was more for fun than anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode
I'm a non-violent person who loves animals (well, to a degree... not a vegan), but every time I see horse shit like "environmental reasons" within a context that is completely nonsensical (like here), or when unhinged (but given platform to) people call farming "ecocide", I makes me want to burn a forest with all the creatures in it. Actually no, it doesn't, because all of these actors have ulterior motives and they actually don't give a rat's ass.
Looks great. Who’s behind this tho? Could not find anything on the authors.