skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could always go to the office by yourself (or a coworking spot, or really anywhere) if the point is just changing your environment and you don’t need to bug others. Everyone gets to be happy and productive, no mandatory RTO needed.
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There is also a carbon offset company called wren, they're even Y Combinator alumni: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wren
I still remember discovering & using numba for the first time in university. At the time I didn't know any programming languages except for Python, and wasn't super great at Python either. We had to write and run molecular simulations for our numerical methods and simulations class, and people were writing their code in C/C++ and were blazing through it.
I remember finding out about Numba through the High Performance Python O'Reilly book, and by just adding a single @jit decorator, my simulations were dramatically faster.

Amazing stuff, honestly felt like black magic at the time.
I was kinda with you up until you started talking out of your ass about parenting, it is probably the hardest job I've ever done in my life, and I have had various physically and/or mentally challenging jobs.

The key to why parenting is such a hard job: it literally doesn't end for about two or more decades and you absolutely cannot quit or slack off on this gig, no matter what!

Just because something "always has been" doesn't mean it's easy.
> I doubt Doom on an ASR-33 would be much fun

But on those two round CRT's that show up in CDC 6600 pictures it might look pretty cool, even if they're vector drawing
Easier to just install the interpreter using any package manager, open up the docs, and start writing useful scripts. All of the batteries included in the standard library go a long way towards helping with that as well.

I remember fighting with Guile a bit to achieve the same goal, although I don't remember the details at this point, and my experience might be outdated now. I do remember that some things which are included in Gauche (e.g. JSON) are 3rd-party libraries in Guile. Also I don't understand why some of their libraries are called "ice9". What's with the Cat's Cradle reference? Is it a pun? It it someone's username? Is it a "contrib" library of some kind that was absorbed into the standard library? Why didn't the name get changed?
Hmm, I always thought of RTK as including carrier-phase tracking, which would make it overkill for farming if the base-station is fixed (on the order of 2mm relative-position accuracy; absolute positional accuracy is not much better than DGPS without carrier phase-tracking). Wikipedia is ambiguous as to whether or not RTK necessarily includes carrier-phase tracking.
SICP is a great, wonderful book. But it's even better when balanced with Seibel's Practical Common Lisp. It's like the Dean Martin to SICP's Jerry Lewis.
My neighborhood had a similar issue a while ago (suspected fireworks). I imagined a mobile phone app solution based with high precision timing from GPS signal. Maybe there is a market for it...
I feel in particular your second point is similar to a security officer. Their job is to identify risk and propose the safest approach. But in extreme, the safest approach is to shutdown and do nothing - the only truly unbreakable system.

For any functioning system, ultimately a business owner will need to decide (formally and explicitly, or informally and implicitly) what risk they're willing to accept to proceed.

What you're saying I think is that you should be informed enough to have an intelligent conversation with your attorney, and be able to make decisions on what risk they point out you're willing to take, and/or how you can mitigate it without just avoiding/shutting down?
The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel.
$2500 is the low end that does not require surgery [1]. Which I presume is the ER visit itself. With surgery we're back to my original estimate of $15-20k. My claim is not that kids shouldn't play (or that your daughter shouldn't drive a car, thats a bizarre non-sequitur). It's that people are more litigious, and the medical costs are why.

> Breaking a bone won't destroy you physically or financially,

You knew one kid who got hurt and recovered, ergo medical bills from injured children aren't ruinous to the families (or single parents) that raise them? Thanks, I can sleep easy tonight.

1. https://www.talktomira.com/post/how-much-does-a-broken-bone-...
I would think that the mostly likely reason is a self-monitoring mechanism. While it might not be taste we typically associate with a number of illnesses do cause bad tastes too happen.
You don’t seem to think of children as people in your life, but as objects or objectives. That’s IMO not a healthy way of approaching this topic.
The True Story of How GPT-2 Became Maximally Lewd [video]
Your concern is completely reasonable -- a thing I'd add though is that both Windows and macOS have DTrace support.
I had a "son" WhatsApp scammer I took for a chat gpt ride. The "father" wouldn't send money cause the son was an addict. Sleezy scumbag happily pressed along promising rehab, sun and moon.
> They made this decision from the gut, despite claiming to be a data driven company

I also work in a big "data driven company" and the same thing happened. Pretty sad that they bother engineers to justify everything they do with metrics (even when it's obviously wrong), but admitted in a Q&A that they didn't have productivity data to back up their RTO choice.
Yea, they're a useful bunch, especially if you know one. Back when I worked for an e-commerce site, we were deciding if we're gonna implement package splitting CoD (cash on delivery) for multi-package orders, or if we're gonna just slap the entire sum on the first package (this seems like an easy enough job, but when you have many shipping service APIs you have to work with and you have automated CoD back-reporting that goes into your invoicing, it becomes annoying). We did the easier thing and just sent a pre-drafted dunning letter to people who took the CoD-less packages for free and did not pay for the first one with CoD. Worked like a charm.
1. Where did VCs get the capital to fund those small to medium companies?

2. What does ZIRP do to stock appreciation? Does it tend to suppress it or enhance it?

3. What massive profits?
Maybe because they click a link in the confirmation email?
This one is also questionable in a country that allows you to buy a Porsche with cash, and which in general has its capital full cash only casinos and bars.

But yes, if you play by the book, you definitely don't want to mess with the Finanzamt.
To my understanding it’s mostly a twitter meme pretending to be a philosophy. Basically, the EA people started worrying more about AI risk than about malaria, so some people who think that AI is cool and that there should be more of it took the “Effective” from EA but replaced the “Altruism” by “Accellerationism”. The latter is actually a weird alt right fringe idea by a guy called Nick Land that doesn’t really overlap that much with “Yay tech! Yay AI!”, but the twitter people didn't read it so no matter. And, well, the word sure sounds like “wanting the tech to go faster” so it felt like a nice way to oppose the luddites from EA while hijacking their acronym.

Ofc the “same acronym means 2 opposing standpoints” thing got confusing within hours, so they renamed it to e/acc and there ya go.

There’s nothing particularly effective about e/acc, they only needed the E to annoy the AI doomers.
> Duolingo is good at going from nothing to something

Seconding this. I got noticeably better at Chinese after using duolingo every day. I feel like I hit a ceiling now and it's not helping too much, but it definitely worked.
Yes and no. The radar isn’t only looking down into the ground. The antenna pattern has side lobes which can potentially generate large echos in the radargram, e.g. from rocks on the surface etc. you only know that there is something in some distance (or rather time delay).

The useful signal is extremely weak anyway and the clutter from the surface hides the useful signal in many cases unless you habe really strong scatterers (large and highly reflective) buried in the ground.
ZK circuts have gotten really fancy lately, to the point where full blown ZK virtual machines are a thing, which means you can write a program in rust or whatever, compile it to riscv, and then run it on the risc zero zkVM. (https://github.com/risc0)

This means you can literally just write a rust program that reads in the private data, verifies the signature, reads the first byte in the name string and confirms that it matches what you expect, and then after everything looks good, it returns "true", otherwise it returns "false". This all would happen on your phone when you scan a QR code or something that makes the request, then you send the validity proof you generated to the verifier, they can see that the output was true, and nothing else.

In theory, the private data would be stored on a trusted device you own, like your phone or something, so someone who steals your phone would have a hard time using your identity. Using fancy blockchain stuff you could even to a one time registration of your passport such that even if someone steals your passport, they wouldn't be able to import as a usable ZK credential. Presumably there would be some logic around it so you can re-register after a delay period or something, giving the current credential holder a chance to revoke new enrollment requests or whatever. So, yes, proving your exact identity to a website isn't perfect, but it's easy enough to make it really noisy if someone is trying to tamper with your identity, and maybe that's good enough.

If you want to go the trusted hardware route, you could make someone take a picture of their face with some sort of trusted hardware camera on their phone or laptop, and then use some zkml magic to make sure it kinda looks like the face on the passport data. Given the right resources, trusted hardware is never that hard to tamper with, so I don't like that solution very much.

What's often more important in an online context is that your credential is unique. It doesn't matter who you are, it matters that you've never used this credential to sign up for a twitter account, or get past a cloudflare captcha, or any other captcha use case. If you steal 10 passports, maybe you can set up a bot that will automatically vote for something 10 times, but at least you can't vote millions of times. This is sybil resistance, and it's massively important for a ton of things.
Aurora Solar lays off 20% of employees
Cue the obligatory book recommendation, which I myself got from HN:

“Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater” by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, published in the 1970s. Explores the concept of a plastic-eating bacteria accidentally released in London, leading to a crisis as the bacteria starts consuming all plastic materials in the city.
The book mentioned in this article (Paved Paradise) is eye-opening. I'm nearly done reading it and have a whole new perspective on the matter.
How are you running them? Running KVM/Qemu with appropriate settings gives near metal performance.
Then I guess that is fine, since airlines are typically providing 75 watts per seat.
https://archive.ph/OiKhr
I read somewhere that the FOV is only 100-110, as opposed to full immersion as seen on their marketing material.
One problem that I looked briefly into, but have not found a solution is that often I'm browsing the file system (in a terminal) on the remote box and want to open up a file in a certain location (often just for a quick edit). The process of typing pwd, and copying the location into emacs (similar applies to Neovim) already is too much friction, that it's easier to just open the barebones Vim on the remote.

Anyone aware of a solution of how to start the local editor from the remote to open the remote file?
Ask HN: Getting into Energy Industry with Math Background
Hi!
I have academic background in math - optimization, stats, machine learning & have programming skills. I am considering to specialize in optimization for energy industry. What resources could you recommend to get started? Are there any solid textbooks on physics / engineering that you would recommend?

Thanks!
I believe the idea is not that companies were being funded by loans. It's that investors couldn't get a return on savings, so all the money they would normally have in saving like deposits was invested elsewhere, into the VCs for example.
Operation Choke Point 2.0 (2023)
Thanks. Pretty interesting, but are the users they source mass market folks or bespoke? Can't seem to figure it out on their website. curious because if my startup solution is highly specialized, getting feedback from Joe won't provide insights.
Yep. Consulting is where you want to be rn.
The website is giving me an aneurysm to look at, but I did have a laugh sitting through 10 minutes of the Barbie Movie in my terminal.

The direct command from the website is:
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no watch.ascii.theater
> That's like 0.1% of the price of a new car

These were very low end cars, much closer to $10k (1%) than $100k (0.1%).
Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead)
The ridiculous policy that forced engineers to come to the office at 2 AM
Agreed - COLORTERM has its own problem. I prefer your approach, it looks very sound!

A fork of terminfo may be needed if the description of modern terminal capabilities can't be added -- or if old and deprecated attributes repurposed for that job (like in your padding example): if you're automating the correction/creation of terminfos in ~/, IMHO, it may be better to piggyback on tic as much as possible.

Anyway, to backport modern terminal descriptions to legacy programs, creating correct binary terminfos in ~/.terminfo seems the best practice. You can also invent new TERM. When I wanted to have italics etc about everywhere, personally that's just what I did for sixel-tmux: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/?tab=readme-ov-file#ste... : just declare a new $TERM you know to be right, and use that in the apps that let you use a little logic in their configuration file

I do that in my .vimrc:

" If Vim doesn't know the escape codes to switch to italic
let &t_ZH="\e[3m"
let &t_ZR="\e[23m"
" Italics pseudo-auto toggle: force italics if we recognize it's supported from TERM
if match($TERM, "xterm-256color-italic")==0
highlight Comment cterm=italic
endif

BTW you should package your emacs config file with the emacs APE from https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/emacs to do a cuteemacs, to carry your config files and everything in a portable binary: https://github.com/csdvrx/CuteVim

Another idea: have you considered that the "program that would be run by .bashrc" to generate the "unambiguous 24-bit color capabilities" could set environment variables to communicate them? Like, if you can't stuff them in terminfo, stuff them in environment variables! Env var work well on Windows, and the configuration files of terminal programs could just use these when available to override.

It's be like adding friends to your proposed TERMVERSION: TERMSETF24 etc where you've have a finer control than COLORTERM
I'm sure you thought of it, so this is a question - to learn the reality of it - and not a suggestion: What are your thoughts on appealling to a higher court? Or a habeus appeal?
Between RTO and long commute, you may have a third option which is moving near the office.
Multiple C&D recipient here as well which upon receiving the first, as some commenters have shared, I too may have needed an underwear change while reading the legal verbiage. However as with many things in life though once you get through the initial experience the latter experiences only get easier. My personal take is I must be doing something of value if other’s lawyers are writing me threatening letters. IANAL so YMMV
Well, some folks do a lateral shift and simply stop having the meetings and solving the issues through other channels. Slack, google doc comments, 1-1s in a network of gossip protocol...
e: should have said "large" not "larger". Ideally as much epoxy as possible is squeezed out.
Military contracts.
Friends of mine who watch movie streams on similar sites tell me they always get their links from Google. Apparently all you have to do is input the movie name, together with relevant keywords.

Since authorities started cracking down on these streaming link sites, they now have to frequently change their URLs, so ironically general search engines like Google are the fastest way of finding the latest working links. Google has the exact same business model of making money with ads on their site, which people visit to get those links.

It's easy to look up rulings and see that European courts interpret the law the way you say - 100% correct. It's rule of corporations, not rule of law. Google will never be touched, even though they have served a larger number of supposedly illegal links to users. Of course Hollywood doesn't go after them because it's a fight they could not win.
I honestly don't know why anyone sees watercooler time or coffee kitchen time as wasted time. At least not from the first minute.

This is where basically the micromeetings happen, where social rituals and where team culture is made and lived.

There is a point of diminishing returns, but watercooler time is valuable time and what I miss most about the office.
Similarly, 16% of pedestrian fatalities were on freeways. 59% were on non-freeway arterials, while 22% were on local streets.

It seems like individual pedestrian can do quite a bit of risk mitigation by staying sober and out of traffic.

These stats match my anecdotal experience where I have had numerous close calls as a driver due to pedestrians where they shouldn't be (eg people on the freeway), but no close calls while walking sober on Surface streets.
Sounds great if there’s some way to raise compensation for tradespeople to the level it should be at, considering how critical they are to modern society.
That... doesn't sound all that bad, to be honest. But will it run Pycharm?
One of the aspects of the device that has been under-realized is that when mirroring your desktop/laptop display to the AVP, you can't break out its applications into different areas. You can't pull them away from the desktop window.

This is one of those things that Apple never claimed was supported, and yet there's something about that behavior that feels like such a natural intuitive implication to the technology that a lot of people feel alarmed or even cheated when they realize it's not possible (yet). It's been funny to watch the various discussion threads as people pop up talking about their shocked realization and disappointed feelings.

Update: I did realize when watching the WSJ video that the "mirrored" display actually appeared to have greater "resolution" (more pixels in height and width) than what she had on her laptop. So that's something.
No video input, no dice.

This thing could have been useful on day one for lots of people, from drone operators to cinematographers to programmers. But Apple's sad fear of I/O has crippled yet another product.

People should expect that a $3500 video-display device has a way to get video into it.
Same way as always, image loading. If image URLs are unique and external then you can track their opening. Not all users will allow it so you also track clicking on in email links.
I fully understand the financial incentive but I feel it's going to be the bean counters who make calls from now.

Or is it already?
My original Amiga (1000), Amiga 500, and Amiga 2000 all still work like I just took them out the box.
Everyone laid off will be hanging their consulting nail. Whether there are enough gigs for them is another matter.
Notice that's just fabrication, and for the same reasons people have always fabricated things - their preconceived notions, their prejudices, etc.

There's a reason that rationality depends on evidence, and that is applied so strictly in science, law, and reporting. What would you say about a reporter who made claims like yours?
Standing up to bullies is the kind of thing that gets young people expelled from school. Something about those zero tolerance policies. We're teaching our kids to be helpless. The only option we give them is to appeal to authority and it absolutely fucks them over when they're involved in a situation because of their own choices.
https://archive.ph/rGdYL
Ok, so they're at the same sports games, vacation (really?), conferences. So what, do they hang out and brag how many of their employees work from the office? Is it embarrassing for one exec of their company allows WFH? How does this "power" show?
I thought this article is a great example of how services don't need to overcomplicate their tech stack. Using simple tools and focusing on GTM is so much better than adding complexity. I'm a big fan of Levels and what they have cooking over there.
AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250k downloads in the first 5 days
"Astronomers are making the first exact maps of the Milky Way: locations of stars in three dimensions..."

I thought that "standard candles" were required to estimate the distance to any region of space?

How can the distance to arbitrary stars be determined without these markers?
This is just anecdata, but I spend my 20s/30s doing all sorts of hobbies that I don't even like anymore. I'm working much more in my 40s and have a high income, and I'm at least as happy as I was back then. Also I don't know what age I'll retire, but I'm sure that the money I'm saving now will buy me some comfort in the future.
You can put VisionOS apps next to the Mac desktop, so it isn't as much of a problem as it seems.
Actually doing it is of course only for other people.
> Situations are situational

Indeed. I suspect a lot of people here work in situations where there's slack in the system and nothing particularly bad happens if the work doesn't get done.
> but instead it's just become a media consumption device for most people.

I don't think that is true. I think 'most people' don't need a computer for more than what an iPad can do, and that your use case is more exceptional than common.

Computers as we think of them, with a somewhat permissive operating system that let's you execute whatever you want are probably going to decrease in relevance to somewhere akin to how they were in the 90s -- incredibly powerful devices useful to some people who need them for particular reasons or just like using them. Everyone else will be fine with whatever the equivalent of the smartphone/tablet OS is.
It's weird to me that big tech hasn't thought about offering a financial reward with C&D's.

"We will pay you $10000 if you C&D" seems like pennies to them, much less than the cost of legal fees, a nice amount of cash for a personal project that hasn't monetized yet.

Or a job

"We will give you a job offer to work on X if you C&D your own work on X"

also seems like a great strategy. If someone has already demonstrated enough talent to be a threat to your company, it seems like it would make full sense to try to hire them.
Are they doing a lot of military contracts now?

This seems like a product that people already selling the military would have sourced their parts for ... before this company is even in the running.
What's the killer app? Quest headsets have been out for years and haven't seemed to find one. Well.. besides 3d porn
Well, you can use your mac's screen inside the vision pro, but I've read the resolution for that is weirdly low, QHD.

Meta isn't really opening up their headset, since the whole point of that adventure for them was to have their 'iphone' type kingdom.

Our best bet might just be Microsoft but they gave up on mixed reality windows, and Idk if they're really gearing up to jump into this product space.

I'm fascinated in the idea of Vision pro, not sure I'm ready to shell out for what is basically just a really great movie watching experience. I can see the movie pretty well on my 4k tv, and I'm not sure the improvement is worth the cash.