skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpacesStation Labs | REMOTE Contract | US/Canada | Go, React/NextJS/TS/JS
https://spacestation.github.io/

Who we typically work with:

- Early stage (Seed, Series-A) startups in the US with a big idea and need some extra firepower to get it done.

- US companies who needs a specialized dev to bring your product to life.

Why us:

- We're entrepreneur and founders first. We understand that crossing the finish line is #1 priority.

- We're based in Toronto

- We're fast and flexible, darn good at delivering.

- We got focused experience, built multiple web startups from the ground up.

- We're more than SWEs, we've built an audience and community on X (twitter) and discord.

Let us know what you need help with:

paul at spacestationlabs dot ltd
It's the principle and this isn't the first thing that pissed me off. Microsoft will break your PC with a software update and they do not give a single damn - "just buy a new PC". How about f*ck you?! Why should I give my business to a company that so clearly has disdain for their customers.
IT WAS A NICE PLAY
I haven't digested the paper, but one thing I wonder - does it matter which party goes first?
Deal on strengthening consumers' right to repair
"Seems like" is a strange thing to say considering it's referenced quite blatantly in the article. Which you read before writing this, I imagine.
right, I gathered from the first inane response that you believe anything that pulls data is an ORM.

That's never been how the acronym was defined. The reason you're now trying to define it that way is because the only other alternative is to admit you're wrong.

"what if that subsystem is pulling data from AS400?" -- still an ORM!

"what if that subsystem is pulling data from an INI file?" -- still an ORM!

"what if that subsystem is pulling data from an IOT device? via the MQTT protocol" -- still an ORM!

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The difference between an ORM and what I'm describing is that the subsystem I'm describing actually abstracts the where and the how, an ORM _is_ an implementation detail. This is why sprinkling ORM code throughout your codebase presents a problem, it's akin to re-implementing the code to pull out of an INI repeatedly instead of putting it behind a function with a single implementation.

Now go away.
No, but it helps.
I use this one: https://color.adobe.com/fr/create/color-wheel/
Employment has not (edit: recently) been the problem.

The problem is that food prices are insanely high, home prices are insanely high, rent is insanely high, etc. Incomes haven't kept up with inflation, especially asset price inflation, and economic inequality is as bad as it has ever been.

And this situation developed while unemployment rates were generally low (except during the pandemic). I think we're focusing on the wrong measures.
EDIT: Citations revamped to point directly to sources instead of my previous comments containing them.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-remote-work-eric-a...

> Gov. Kathy Hochul said it has been a longer transition back to office work than anyone expected, as she too had predicted (if not demanded) a more robust return to work schedule. But now it sounds like she is opening up to the idea, whether she likes it or not.

> "I think the mayor is simply acknowledging the reality. We have a shortage of workers especially in government," Hochul said, adding that a more robust office pattern could still arrive down the line. "I believe all this is transitional, it does not have to be the death sentence in five days a week ever again, but we are not quite there yet."
Yeah, we also only have structural disruptions in the first place because of the global pandemic.

All of the factors you've mention are in play in peer economies are managing things less well.
There is a good chance that it will remain niche due to the paid and forced-login model. This is a good thing. I hope they will manage to position themselves well as an alternative search engine with clean, unmanipulated results; and be careful about unhealthy (greedy) growth.
Crafting games in general are just tedious. I loved the concept of Subnautica or the raw brutalism of The Long Dark, but both of those games were just variations of punching tree games. It's a genre I never enjoyed, and which I too have started to avoid completely.
you might google “computational social justice” or “computational social choice” for some political science grounded in math and computer science
Ask HN: "Time travel" into a SQLite database using the WAL files?
I've been messing around with litestream. It is so cool. And, I either found a bug in the -timestamp switch or don't understand it correctly.

What I want to do is time travel into my sqlite database. I'm trying to do some forensics on why my web service returned the wrong data during a production event. Unfortunately, after the event, someone deleted records from the database and I'm unsure what the data looked like and am having trouble recreating the production issue.

Litestream has this great switch: -timestamp. If you use it (AFAICT) you can time travel into your database and go back to the database state at that moment. However, it does not seem to work as I expect it to:

https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/issues/564

I have the entirety of the sqlite database from the production event as well. Is there a way I could cycle through the WAL files and restore the database to the point in time before the records I need were deleted? If litestream does not do what I want, I can just use the sqlite files instead.

Will someone take sqlite and compile it into the browser using WASM so I can drag a sqlite database and WAL files into it and then using a timeline slider see all the states of the database over time? Just stop working on your task management tool and spend a couple hours on my great idea. :)
You Shouldn't Start with an SPA
From what I can tell, Quarto is essentially an installer for Knitr/R, that also comes with a bunch of goodies, like when working in VSC (or Rstudio) it auto-suggests cross-references to content in the document, like figures/chapters/equations/etc. It also has a github action that builds and deploys the site in like 1 one line. Just removing the friction and lowering the bar is very helpful sometimes.
It's 100% out of their control.
Leave off or reduce the housing, the metal clips, the plastics around the wires within die VP and use a rubber belt for the head strip fastening.

anyway, the plastics around the wires that are within is not needed. It should be possible to leave it off, because opening of the devices is not a feature and shorts are then not the thing to be afraid off..

Other things like design of the interior, like fastening the lenses or distance holders, nose bump.. here an extreme reduction is may not be possible, but utilizing grids joins and locks and using porous plastics may also have a reduction.

The other thing is,why reduce at all? The problem is, it's to heavy in the front. so pull it back to achieve equilibrium xD
This example is about an intern, I think it's especially important to be polite in this context.

Personally, I believe it a sign of immaturity to purposefully be rude in the workplace. Or that you don't have a life.

Simply explain that the information they need should be in their onboarding email, and maybe mention to make sure to read it carefully. You can also offer any other advice that might help them be more effective. Then move on. Being rude as a tactic for behavior modification can have some unintended consequences - like resentment, or a toxic culture.
As the author mentions Fractional CTOs, I'll chip in with my experience in that. I'm currently a Fractional CTO, which is a great way to say that you are specializing in being a generalist ;)

You need to know enough about all aspects of running a software team that builds products. Not many people are such generalists and when companies need that skillset, they pay a premium for it.

It's a way to do really interesting work and if that's not available, it's easy to pick up some senior engineering stints in between.
Really glad to read this, while it's not strictly 'revolutionary' thought, having it formulated and expressed on paper does boost my own confidence in the way I aproach self-growth, as someone who aspires to be this type of 'generalist' as well.

Thank You for the article!
Landowners (and developers) bribing authorities/politicians to not investigate illegal clearing.
A good video from an actual lawyer on where the legal lines are when it comes to incitement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqAInN9HWI
Why do these figures always come as non-farm?
When you consider the politics of the doomers, its far worse than that. The economic-doomers want the Fed to lower rates to "save jobs". Because lower-rates tends to lower unemployment.

The Fed is ignoring them and keeping rates high, because the economic-doomers are wrong.

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So economic doomers complain about inflation (which the Fed is trying to fix with high rates), but also want to pretend that unemployment is secretly 10x worse than it really is for some reason.
My kingdom for proper markdown support in google docs. Just let me toggle between wysiwyg vs markdown. Collaboration at a tech company using google docs is comically painful at times.
Completely unrelated to this, the one HN rule I disagree with is that you're not allowed to call out commenters for not having read the article.
That's a blast from the past. OS/2 and Hobbes were essential back in the 90s when you wanted to avoid Microsoft OSes, as Linux was still pretty raw until the late 90s. I guess some never really felt like it was worth migrating, and fair enough!
> 6. 50g egg + 100g processed flour (i.e. '00' in Italy, not sure other countries)

I would not recommend using 00 flour to make pasta, it's better to use re-milled semolina.
Did they offer finger scrolling? PalmOS basically didn't, just because the scroll bars were too thin.
The current policy management has conclusively disproved that you must sacrifice employment to reduce inflation.
The tree is the quintessential UGC (user generated content) concept, there will never be a better way to communicate harvesting/building mechanic.

But the real end goal is to make the world persistent across thousands and hopefully 10s of thousands of real-time action players.

The problem is that we now have billions of humans building non-persistent and pervasive worlds that disappear!
Comparing TCP and QUIC (2022)
Yes, looks like there's an advantage (they argue only a small advantage) to the first mover:

The defined subdistrict plan selected by the Democrats results in three seats for Democrats and two seats for Republicans. [...] Similarly, if the Republicans move first, then in equilibrium the Republicans win three seats and the Democrats win two seats. Thus [...] under DCP there is only a one-seat difference depending on who draws the define-stage map.
Thank you for this info and including links. Looking through the full 10Q[1] I don't see the summary[2] or link to it. How do you go about finding summaries for other 10Qs from other companies? I was trying to work backwards to find the summary from the full 10Q so I could do the same for other companies.
It depends a lot on how you make it. First thing, as others have already mentioned, it is fresh pasta, not dry pasta, these two are different things. Different ingredients, different preparation and of course, different taste.

You effectively can't make dry pasta at home, it requires specialized and rather expensive equipment. Stay with a good store-bought brand, DeSecco is fine and Barilla has a huge lineup of varying levels of quality. I like the "trafilata al bronzo" kind, they have a rougher texture which is better for making sauces. Artisan pasta may not be worth the price.

For fresh pasta, you can also buy in stores, but these are worth making yourself. When making them yourself, you can select your flour, your recipe, you can also put other ingredients than the basics if you want, say, green pasta. Depending on your machine, you can make the shape or thickness you want. You can even also make ramen-style (alkaline) pasta, with kansui. It may not taste objectively better, if there is such a thing, but it may very much taste better to you.

Also, I like to cook my homemade pasta immediately after making them. The dough can sit for a while, but after that, it goes straight from the machine to the pot, one portion at a time. I use a strainer like they have in ramen shops, so I can reuse the water between portions. Usually, when one portion have finished cooking (it only takes about 3 minutes), the other is ready. This way, they are less likely to stick, even without flour or corn starch. Obviously, it doesn't scale, and you can't do that with store bought pasta.

BTW, I use rollers, not an extruder. The rollers are a bit more labor intensive, but I prefer it over an extruder, it also tends to be cheaper. But this is a personal preference, the end product is simply different.
It’s a deal breaker for me. They just increased the annual fee for Prime and now this. Infuriating. I will seek out alternative video sources. Why stream if you are going to get ads anyway. Pathetic. Bad move. Boycott Amazon video and their limited ad feed.
> only useful program I ever used that was written in Haskell

Never used Shellcheck?
Does this system provide the same level of content recommendations as the Youtube homepage? If so then I'll set it up tonight!
>I think we're focusing on the wrong measures.

I know we are and obviously it's intentional.
Show HN: Reusable components with Django and HTMX
Something's wrong with this article:

"showcasing early plant life coexisting with dinosaurs."

This early plant life is from the middle Devonian, well before dinosaurs evolved. In fact, vertebrates were only just moving on to land during the Devonian.
What I see is a chart labeled "Number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Europe as of January 18, 2023, by country". What is it you are correlating it to? Or did you mean to link to some other page?

That chart doesn't even show a vaccination rate. Are you just eyeballing it and picking one country and saying something like, Portugal has the highest number of shots but they still have people dying of covid?
Inflation has been falling for a while. It's down to 3.4% -- higher than the 2% target, but well below the peak. The Fed is even considering cutting interest rates, which says that they think that inflation is under control.

The recent bout of inflation is less about monetary policy than about the supply side, especially things like COVID and Ukraine causing supply disruptions. Those things have levelled out and begun to decrease.
Because farm payrolls are seasonal. This number is easier to compare month over month.
A shrinking workforce and demographic pyramid collapse will fuel inflation well enough.
Or search every draw, tool chest and rubbish bin in the world in one of the thousand extraction shooters about to launch.
Tons of agent frameworks around.
It’s pretty easy to put one together once you have a grasp on LLMs.

I still haven’t seen anything compelling from the autonomous agent crowd :(

Still in the tech demo phase. Plenty of problems they can solve, but it’s hard to get them to solve novel problems consistently
Maybe it's because I'm older and see the arc of time especially in video games, and even though this is a transitional generation in gaming it's really a great time to be a gamer. Find a streamer that has similar taste to you and see what the are playing. I would recommend variety gamers rather than pop streamers. I'd also avoid garbage tier corpo-blogs for gaming news and reviews.
> Sure, effective communication could also come across rude in certain situations, but for most people being rude is not an active choice they make but something they feel entitled to.

On top of that, the critique that I have with the article is that we should combine both, but I can relate that most of the rude people are classified as Mechanistic, using the parameters of the article.

That's why I disagree with the premise that you should combine, in my experience the amount of Humanistic people should be at least 8:1 for each Mechanistic, with strict and top-down principles and policies that dictate what is acceptable or not.

What I see in most of the working places is that, when you have a single default-rude person (mislabed as Mechanistic) the blast radius of people being shut down is way greater, and on the long run tanks everyone productivity.
far out dude
Is there any sort of metric that describes how many people are making ends meet by some definition?
We had DofE too! Did my Gold in the Black Mountains. Didn't bother to meet Prince Philip as I was/am staunchly antimonarchist, much to the dismay of my mother.
The far-right Bundestag aide and his rapping FSB case officer
Point.

I'm ... strongly antagonistic to voicemail myself. But even if you don't check/listen to messages, simply noting who's left a message is a pretty good screening method. For most medical comms, you're unlikely to have a meaningful message left other than "call back" in any regard, so enabling but not listening too hard is viable.

Many medical systems now have some sort of electronic patient record which includes medical staff (MD, RN, PA, etc.) messages, though that's no silver bulet either.
It describes Lego Fortnite more than Palworld I think.
Does the deficit increase[1] play a role in the very good economic numbers seen lately?

[1]https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-did-the-budget-defici...
Unemployment was the problem in 2008.
> All of that is possible, of course, with large tables of special cases.

Yes, that's how ligatures work. Pairing across characters is the one I'm not sure I've heard of before in fonts.

Edit: Besides, how do you think these are typed on keyboards without separate keys? The software already detects and replaces them based on context.
Always makes me chuckle, hearing 'boomer'.

The article itself or the study it was based on are not that interesting

Main points that stood out to me:

— Millennials, despite being the largest generation, own far fewer large homes than empty nesters.(Large homes are defined as having 3+ bedrooms).

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— Empty nesters are financially incentivised to stay in their large homes due to paid-off mortgages and high current housing costs.

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— A mismatch in supply & demand, hindering millennial homeownership.
Were you displaced from getting a job in fruit picking or roofing by the immigration?
> but it seems for whatever reason there's no hope of that approach working in the US

It's a technical solution to social problems: polarization and intolerance. Those never work.

It would be very hard, but the only thing I see actually fixing the fundamental problem is limiting the degree of policy change per time period to something below what would trigger a backlash. That would lower the stakes, lower the perceived threat level, and maybe allow people to recover their sanity again. I think eventually the country would mellow out.
There is zero chance he could be indicted for a threat based on that tweet. No responsible prosecutor would try.

Even if you take "die slow motherfucker" literally, it's not a threat. A wish that someone dies is not a threat. "I will kill you" is a threat.
Recent post from a weblog I follow, "This is the Best U.S. Economy Since the 1990s":

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/01/this-is-the-best-u-...

The main pain point would probably be housing prices/costs/price-to-income rations:

* https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-price-income-ratio-re...

Edit: also, the run-up in food prices over the last little while is not great either (this is global phenomena AFAICT, and not US-specific). Hopefully inflation stabilizing will help, and wage gains will catch up over time.
I read the book for a book club, and decided to listen to the album as well, even though Eno said he took the title of the album from the book without ever having read the book.

The album was a lot more accessible than the book.
Between MineCraft, Ark, Satisfactory, DSP and now Palworld I bet I have 1,000 hours into tree punching games which is kind of nuts to think about. Really scratches the itch for me.
True, it's just that the Russians have so embraced it as a standard procedure that it's a way of life that they've refined to an art form. And in this case, the release was actually coordinated with the Russians (ref activities of Roger Stone & Paul Manafort, incl public comments).

And yes, their apprentices on both sides of the oceans are learning well.
I'll throw my application out there: I'm a Product Designer with a lot of experience in both UX and UI (8 years and counting). I have also been developing (FE web) for the past years and I'm looking to switch over.

Currently, I'm looking for a job where I can do both Design + Development (sometimes referred to as Product- or Design Engineer). I love making software and design interfaces e2e, and I believe that's how the best software is made.

Feel free to contact me if you have a position that might fit my description!

Location: Berlin / Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: I don't think so unless there's a very tempting job/offer - I'm available to travel to the office location from time to time if required.

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, React, Svelte, Redux, Nextjs, Node, Firebase, ...

Résumé/CV: https://francesco-bianchi.com/resume

Portfolio & work: https://francesco-bianchi.com (my portfolio is mostly design stuff, for development work please reach out)

Email: contact form on my website or Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frabia/
No. The revisions average out quite well, as you can see from BLS's report on this exact topic: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/pdf/revisions-to-jobs-...
Thanks, just adding a link here - http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/pataphysics_02.html

Also, I think that after reading this, I might now want to move backwards with my life.
I've seen chin straps (wrap something around your head), probably similar effect. I couldn't do tape, I have a beard xD
More Quantum Computing with Fewer Qubits? Meet Our New Error-Correction Code
"What's a radio?" the kids ask.
I have develop a commercial data wrangling tool (Easy Data Transform) that outputs data tables to CSV, Excel, markdown, XML, JSON etc. It would be neat to support output to some of the other formats supported by Pandoc, such as DOCX, PPTX, PDF, Latex etc.

Has anyone tried integrating the Pandoc command line tool into a desktop product on Windows or Mac?

How big is it?

What are the licensing implications of shipping it with my (closed source) software?
I assume because farm work is quite seasonal. There are other seasonal jobs (like summer holiday resorts or pre-christmas shop work) but I don't think they are as significant.
Crunchbang++ vs. BunsenLabs: Lightweight rivals, based on OpenBox and Debian 12
The Fed is talking about lowering rates, because everybody is thirsty for the punch bowl. They want to be responsible, but it's sooo tempting.

Personally I believe they kept rates far too low for far too long last time, deceived by the way the free money inflated assets rather than consumer prices, and that's a big part of what caused the recent inflation spike.
Bunch of my friends have gotten seconds jobs doing wfh govt jobs. Problem isn't labor shortages, problem is bullshit jobs. Some even have three jobs.

We would have enough bus drivers and train operators if we eliminated all bullshit white collar jobs.
For the "brand" example demo'd, is that what people tend to do for configs?

I thought people would simply just modify the default colors or create new variables like primary, secondary, etc..
That article ends with a segment titled "bottom line" that states:

> The recent increase in the deficit doesn’t fundamentally change the fiscal outlook for the U.S.
Such a beautifully effective tool.

The static site generator for my personal site is just it with a thin bash script wrapper: https://git.sr.ht/~kb/open-notes/tree/main/item/.build.sh.

So much simpler than pulling a universe of node modules.