skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had to deal with the exact same situation, in the end I managed to sell the company, but boy were those 2 years down the drain.

From now on, never again, I am now working towards becoming a realtor. The huge difference is that people will accept to work on commission if the goal is clear and self-evident such as selling houses but won't do the equivalent (equity based compensation) if the road is paved with unknown unknowns such as building a company from scratch (or just like mine and your case they'd do it for a while before having a change of heart)

With real estate at least you get to put together a team and be the leader and everybody works on commission so there is no tension and not even the chance of tensions developing.

Teams seem to be longlasting as well, at least from what I could see.

Seems also the most straightforward path to become a millionaire, whereas the startup thing is for people aiming for becoming a multi-millionaire or a deca-millionaire, with some low odds of becoming a centi-millionaire
The numbers were still very skewed
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Paradigms don’t solve each other’s problems. They’re just another approach that may be better in specific contexts and you can even mix them. Although today, some languages is veering towards using structs and the like for data models and classes as logic containers (swift, kotlin).

As for huge codebases, everyone knows that line of codes does not equal quality.
Boy, how I wish my breakers were that nicely organized. They’re, at best, regions of my house. Every time I need to do some electrical work it’s a complete guessing game.
Well no kidding. Much easier to layoff people you never see - plus with the push to get folks to RTO, a few well placed layoffs of remote folks puts the fear into the rest, so they will fall in line.

At my last job, which I left just a few months ago when I saw the writing on the wall, your career is now considered DOA if you are a FT remote employee - they may let you stay in your position, but good luck getting promoted and the message pretty much is 'if you are not in office 2-3 days a week, your days are numbered'

I saw the writing on the wall and left - most of the folks I left behind have been scared back into the office as they still have mortgages, car payments and kids they want to put thru college someday.
For certain meanings of “matters“, it does.
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Economic freedom has always been a key Liberal value.

Protecting jobs has always been a key left value.
Right, so wasm - personally haven't used it, so was curious about the alternatives :)
I think I can make myself look at least a decade younger, especially over Zoom.
> We owe nothing to anyone except our children and our pets.

While I agree with the general sentiment of your post, this seems like a pretty sad world view. We as humans do form connections and I'm happy I owe people and they owe me, even if at the end of the day, family will always come first.
I would already declare any OSS contributions as a business cost and deduct them from my taxes? What above that is the suggestion?
Reading the comments, and I find it amazing that people really do pay $5000-15,000 USD for a heat pump. They are super expensive in the USA at $2000-4000, but you can DIY in 1 hour. Really. The labor is truly fabricated.

In Asia, I've bought more then I could count, and they typically go for $500-700 for 2hp units, inverter, etc. I've debated bringing somme from Thailand or HK to USA because ven the cost in cargo on a plane makes it cheaper. Daikin for example are manufactured in Thailand, and also JP.
Ninja Tune record label used to have pretty good stuff
"Commissioners are nominated by member states in consultation with the commission president, who then selects a team of commissioners. This team of nominees are then subject to hearings at the European Parliament, which questions them and then votes on their suitability as a whole. If members of the team are found to be inappropriate, the president must then reshuffle the team or request a new candidate from the member state or risk the whole commission being voted down." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commissioner

This is effectively the same procedure that ministers/secretaries are appointed by on the national level. The only difference is that it is not the national legislature, but the EU parliament approving the appointment. And again: the EU parliamentarians are directly (!) elected by EU citizens, according to their national election laws.

So please, please shut up about stuff you obviously don't know anything about.
Looks like pre-newton type of system!
My wife's a pretty good family photographer (i.e. doesn't do it professionally) and she used to get the same.

I bet nobody goes up to authors and says "Great book - what pen did you use?"
A GPT creates the UI, and you edit it live
I bought a Samsung 6.3 cubic foot - NE63B8411SS. It was $1600 Canadian (on sale - looks to be $1900 now / regular) at Home Depot. The reviews I read were good, and it’s been fantastic. The only thing I wish is that the app would allow me to set the temperature to preheat without physically being at the stove - sometimes I’d love to get it started in advance. Give me a safety warning or something to remind me that I should have ensured nothing was inside the oven in advance…
> Remove stimuli. If it's noise, use headphones and earplugs. If it's people, face your computer away from them

Excellent advice for many, but those don't work for everybody. Doing those things increases my anxiety quite a lot and reduces my ability to work even more.
Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
I have an Outbound too! IIRC there's a weird little 7.5v battery that I had to replace to get it to boot up (roughly the diameter of a AA battery, but 1/3 the length) -- maybe check that out?
> Everybody had a different understanding, sometimes were young, and there was no internet to check if it was correct, as long as it was fun to play.

I've been realizing more and more how true this was.

I haven't played either D&D or AD&D since the early 90s. At the time the people I played with would laugh at how encyclopedic I was about the rules, source material, etc. But these days I'll go to r/adnd or something like that and see someone talking about a thing from 1ed AD&D and my reaction is "WTF? I had no idea that existed!".

Or people talking about how of course every group played a certain way, and I never played that way in any group.

Which now leaves me always astounded at how much stuff I had no idea existed. To your age point, that was definitely a part of it. I played from about age 8 to late teens. In retrospect, a lot of this stuff was over my head
They pretty much are plug and play, you just need a 220V recpricial. They even come loaded w/ refigriant, so it is just cut copper, connect, done.
Surely this is mathematically true though. More distribution channels and laxer average review processes will mean more malware distributed to users.
so many spaces are not friendly for play because there's dog shit around.

I don't know which country you're in, but certainly where I live people have gotten a lot better at picking up after their dogs since I was a kid. Growing up people let their dogs shit wherever and basically never picked it up. Today virtually everybody picks up after dogs.
> The text needs to be fully analyzed with LLMs before embedding.

If you happen to know what kinds of questions you will be asking about your RAG index, you should pre-process the texts to add QA pairs. Otherwise you can prompt the LLM to do chain-of-thought inferences based on the source text and add them to the material.
Yes, hot hellscape, dull expensive malls, soulless, but ...

T a x F r e e

and also has (expensive) alcohol, unlike Saudi (hotter, duller, more backward, no music, and no beer).
I'm at the early stages of learning photography. I've always taken lots of photos, but without much skill or care. I have an entry level DSLR and understand that the quality of my photos is almost entirely determined by my skill as a photographer. However, I don't really enjoy using the DSLR due to the size and weight. Any recommendations on what might be a better setup for me? I like travel and nature photography, but would sacrifice zoom for a more enjoyable experience.

EDIT: I should add that the answer isn't a smartphone. I understand that phone cameras are now great, but I don't enjoy using them either. There's something aesthetically and ergonomically pleasing about a traditional camera.
Getting started as an alternative app marketplace in the European Union
And you wind up overloading a small number of syntax constructions for an endlessly expanding number of uses and soon you're in a twisty maze of parenthesis that all look alike. Look at how HP calculators got trashed by TI.

I'd grant that parser generators still suck, people still act like you're crazy when you say you want to be able to write one grammar and automatically generate not just a parser but an unparser. (I could do amazing stuff with Sphinx if only it supported RST output as well as schemaless RST.)

CASE tools in the 1990 could parse code, let you edit it in a GUI, and make a clean edit to the code (not mess up comments, whitespace, and the ordering of things which is only significant to your version control tools) like a professional programmer would. That's still like something that fell off a UFO.

You should totally be able to compose two grammars. I ought to be able to stick a SQL query right into the middle of program in Java or any other language and have it parsed to an AST. If parser generators were sane I could add

unless(X) { Y }

to a language like Java and add a method that rewrites it to

if(!X) { Y }

and it shouldn't be more than 50 lines of code including imports and ceremony, just a patch to the grammar (AST objects ought to be code generated from the grammar) a simple rewriting function and telling the system where to find the grammar patch and the new function.

Parsing Expression Grammars are a step in the right direction but for a PEG parser to be really revolutionary it needs a few features I've yet to see in one, in particular there has to be some easy way to specify operator precedence either numerically or with a set of statements like

Closer(*,+)

I am mostly disappointed w/ the PEG parser in Python because it falls short of revolutionary promises but you always get "fooled again" with parsing because people care about how fast their compilers are to the exclusion of almost everything else.
Who should pay for SoC and camera development? The case design?

The API and OS are part of the product just like the hardware. If you could buy a no OS iPhone with actual options and documentation for other alternative OSs to operate correctly and take advantage of the hardware maybe it would be worth having a discussion on the value of API development and maintenance. But with the way Apple sells the iPhone the OS is as much of the product as the rest of it.
What I Learned earning $40k/month from Indie Consulting
IMHO, this seems very reasonable.
> I've lost relationships with my mother, my uncles, my cousins, numerous former coworkers and two of my neighbors as a direct result of those individuals being exposed to Fox News.

Why do you blame Fox News when the bigger common denominator is you? How do you react to people who believe different things than you do?
Oh stop it, Apple isn’t responsible for people’s choice of friends, they do need to provide a UI affordance that someone may not be getting messages displayed corrected
I mean, if you ran every single executable on your desktop in a separate container I think you'd see problems. There are a pretty large number of programs running on most desktops, plus all the programs that get called by shell scripts, etc.

Running a handful of containers representing major applications is more reasonable and the memory wastage may be worth it to avoid dependency conflicts.
Oh the embedding LLMs are usually lightweight BERT models with few layers and <<1B weights, while LLMs are easily 10-100x larger. The idea is to ingest the text in a LLM to extract the facets you are going to search and add those extra tokens to the original text. Then you do regular RAG.
That has to depend on the outside temperature.
I think you have an off by one year error in these.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Hardware and Software Overview (2019)
There was definitely fault on both parties here. Instead of being honest. Doing what was best for the company. However, right out of college? Chalk it up to a learning experience and hit the bricks again after looking long and hard in the mirror. The guy's definitely got the mindset to build a company if that's what he wanted to do.
Yeah but there I can still update vulnerable libraries independently, to be a statically linked system just means that if there is a bug in libpng then I have to recompile everything?
I would love for this to take off, solar panel installation alongside GHCP. Since this is probably for a single family residence, toss in a battery and an electric vehicle charging interface - bob's your uncle.
Interesting, Like how its focused on making it lean by having less bloated versions of the tools
SpaceX Appears to Be Flying This Slick Looking 737
This article doesn't mention one of the main points heat pump gurus have been banging on about for ages - temperature compensation. Essentially, the colder it is outside the hotter you run the flow temperatures. You ideally want this setup so that there is very little intervention from an external thermostat, the balance of flow temperature and heat loss can be set such that one perfectly offsets the other.

It's the secret sauce which can take the heat pump from expensive toy to practical replacement for gas. The payoff time is still too long but at least it exists!
LINQ is arguably stolen from Haskell, not F#. It is closer to ‘do’ notation than Computation Expressions (which has more features).

The fact that Eric Meijer was very active in the Haskell community, I think, pretty much confirms that.
literally the same "scam ad - scam app" pipeline exists on ios. ads exist, bad scammy ads exist, garbage apps exist, stuff slips through app moderation filters, or just stays around and gets by because it's juuust enough for it to not be outright malware. bad ads and apps are unfortunately not a platform specific problem, nor are they really "solved" by either of platforms.

funnily enough, some bits of it might be worse because ios and app store are promoted as 'being secure' period, almost unequivocally - so it ends up being a thing like 'well, ios is secure and this app is on the store, so it's all good, right?", which doesn't always happen to be the case.
Yep, climate change is coming very fast across the North. It's already very noticeably different up there since I lived there from 2011-2015. Way, way warmer temperatures in the winter, the glaciers have retreated and shrunk drastically to the point I don't recognize photos of places I've spent a lot of time.

Heck, I live 2000 miles south now, and we can see our local glacier retreating yearly with our own eyes. Also it's raining today. In the middle of winter. Not good.
Given that people recommend pages like this to try fixing stuck bad pixels, makes sense that it could also break them.
I use a reflowing PDF reader app for iOS, which works surprisingly well for many PDFs, given that it internally effectively has to OCR them as if they were scanned paper documents.
yeah, I can't deal with the emacs startup.

I mean, it's not slow per se, but compared to vim it's noticeably slower so I can't deal with it.
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? [pdf]
I enjoyed the article, I wish the author put up an RSS feed so it’s possible to follow and read new articles as they are published
> Firefox, Thunderbird and other applications use completely different file dialogs with different conventions that I haven't found how to configure.

That would be GTK.
It would be bloated, but how big of a problem is that these days? A TB of storage is pretty cheap.
One realistic use case I’m currently exploring is game scripting with Wasm. I don’t want to write Lua. And I don’t want modders to be compelled to use some specific scripting language.

If I use Wasm in my native game then it’s easy for modders and others to create their own scripts and mods that can then be compiled to machine code by the game and safely executed on others’ computers. They don’t have to trust the modder because Wasm’s sandboxed design protects against a lot of bad behaviors.

It’s not so much that Wasm is totally unique here. Rather, to me it has many of the features and attributes I’m looking for in one single package/technology.
I'm not even sure all the points are common sense.

Is he saying that English is better than Chinese? Or that using a different kind of keyboard for Chinese would be better? Or that the author believes that only English uses the Latin alphabet?

What point is he trying to make about golden crowns and Caesar having nothing to conquer? That using Lisp would be pointless if everyone used Lisp because it's only useful for gloating about using the best language?
exactly. VBS was quite popular on Amiga.
I don't think that's right, I've seen a lot of people do that
> Turn all notification sound off

This is key for me. Not just the sound (since I keep the audio muted across the board anyway), but turning all notifications off entirely and keeping them that way. I mean all notifications, not just comms-related ones. Then you can use little dots to see if someone needs you in a comms and periodically check things manually when you're in a spot where that's not disruptive.

Notifications are one of the worst things ever.
Google Chrome for Windows is finally getting native Arm support
You used to be able to passively cool a high end card though. I remember having the Accelero S1 cooler, which supported the top of the line GeForce 9800 GTX. Though I think mine was on an overclocked 8600.

https://www.quietpc.com/ac-acc-s1rev2

Back when a high end gaming GPU was $300
Indeed, I think that you can definitely see the difference between 25 and 50 fps... even 24/25 fps and 30 fps don't exactly look the same.

The 60/72/75/... Hz (some screens could display 85 or even 90 Hz) of the Windows 95 epoch was the refresh rate of the CRT tube: the higher, the less flicker. Once you tried 75 Hz, you clearly didn't want to go back to 60 Hz (or at least, that was my experience).
GnuTLS also has support for it since five years ago.
That’s not to mention completely tearing down homes and rebuilding them after a couple of decades.
To justify human sacrifice as “contextual” is absolutely wild. Should the holocaust be seen “in context”? Or are you one of those who think only European colonizers / white people are capable of evil?

War, murder, slaughter - all of these things existed everywhere. But gleeful and ritualistic mass-murder is different beast altogether. Some people are just evil.
F Prime – Flight software framework by NASA
What this article doesn't mention is that over time, cameras have made _huge_ leaps and bounds, while the author was transitioning through the phases he describes. It's likely that had he been already at the final stage of competence at the beginning, gear would have mattered a lot more. Cameras back then were just not able to provide good pictures in settings with non-ideal light conditions, for example.

Sometime in the early 10s I took a half-decent hobbyist DSLR camera on vacation, and my wife and I took photos of the same motive - me with the DSLR, my wife with her then-current iPhone. You could barely use half of the photos my wife made. I guess if we repeated that experiment nowadays it would be the other way round.
Yep, as much as everyone wants to assume that everyone in the C-Suite is an idiot - I am quite certain they also know that a lot of the work that is being done in big companies, doesn't actually need to be done - but when times are good, those projects get funded anyway.

Advice to younger folks, try to get on a project in your company that is critical to its success if you are worried about job stability - still not a guarantee, but better than being on some VP's vanity project that doesn't move the needle for the company at all and is likely to get shutdown on a whim.
> Oh, I guess I thought you meant it would be like uninitialized memory

Uninitialized memory/data isn't "random", it's specifically null. Random could be something uninitialized, or it could be the kernel entrypoint or it could be a pixel data byte from some BMP.
It’s too much. I want my stuff to always work, without weird “Fix me” buttons.
Setting aside whether it is justified or not, Apple is involved. Your app is heavily dependent on Apple built APIs (and hardware). Up till now, developers paid $100/year plus a value based per user royalty that was(is) part of Apple's cut of App Store purchases. Now developers will pay $100/year plus a per user royalty when the user count exceeds 1 million. If the developer stays on the App Store with a free app, there will still not be a per user charge.

Edit: I should have been specific that I was referring to the Core Tech Fee that will apply even to free apps with more than a million users. Developers will still pay a value based royalty of 10% (small devs) or 17% (large devs) for paid apps.
If you look at the examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigms_of_AI_Programming I'd say that these would be a struggle to implement in FORTRAN or BASIC, possible in C or C++, easy in Python, and (for me) joyful in Java. One of the most important features is having hashtables in the standard library which the last two languages have but the first four don't.
In the early days of digital photography, the type of equipment you had mattered a great deal. Most phone cameras are now so incredibly advanced that the hardware is rarely the limiting factor in creating incredible pictures
ninja tune, warp records and somafm struggling on dialup, take me back
Not for equivalent heating with a heat pump it isn't, that's ridiculous. What are you citing?

FWIW: in Oregon, buying the "renewable" power from the utility: the heat pumps we installed 19 months ago for house and water heating are almost exactly even with the gas appliances they replaced. If we ignore the $8/mo fee we pay to keep the gas line attached (for a grill and two fireplaces), they win by a tiny bit.

California might well be more expensive. But a factor of six is silly, that's just not right.
Israel's tactic has always been deterrence: I will inflict you so much pain that you will think twice before doing this again. Despite being proven wrong, a "realist politician' will automatically think of adding more (and then some) deterrence as the only solution.

I remember 20 years ago, during the first bombing of Gaza, they hit just ONE building and felt pressured enough to apologize for the handful of civilian deaths. Unfortunately, faced with larger threats (real or imaginary) and weak international pressure, Israel has been able to escalate the level of deterrence through the years to what we are witnessing now.

That is why any ruling to curb that "automatic" escalation (like today) is wholeheartedly welcomed.

IMO there are also subtler layers of racism coloring these policies. It's not as blatant as the far-right rhetoric, but a persistent undertone within elements of Israeli society justifies severe deterrence tactics and totally overide any empathy learnt from historical lessons.