skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> smaller consultancies that have awesome developers that build customer tooling on the side

I've worked at a couple consultancies and they were always chasing after that recurring product revenue. I grew to believe that it isn't possible under that business model.

When you are running a consultancy you are in the business of marking up developer hours: find a client to sign a contract for $150 / hour and hire a consultant who will do the job for $100k/year salary. Then convince them to work as many hours as possible for their fixed salary, plus the carrot of a bonus payout every once in a while if everyone bills lots of hours.

Having that developer spend any time working on the company's product causes all sort of problems. The most immediate is the loss of revenue. But also now this employee might see working on the product as cutting into their bonus since they are billing less hours. Everyone wants some of the upside if the side product generates revenue but how do you split it between people who worked directly on the product and people who worked on paying client jobs to generate the revenue so the others could work on the product? It ends up causing a rift.

The other thing I've seen while working at small and even medium sized consultancies is that they end up dependent on one large customer who calls all the shots and takes up all the available time, or all "extra" time not being billed is used working on sales for the next contract. Either way there doesn't end up being much capacity to work on cool tooling.
Self employed here. Mostly React / React Native specialist. I've been working in React since it was relatively new but try to stay up on latest updates in the ecosystem.

Backstory: Not entirely planned, but I was talking with a company about potentially being a frontend architect or something along that line. As the conversations progressed, they said they couldn't hire me fulltime since I wasn't able to come in to the office daily but they could give me a long-term contract. I've been consulting ever since.
Cilium wasn't sold to Cisco, Isovalent was. Cilium is F/OSS and a graduated CNCF project: https://landscape.cncf.io/?item=runtime--cloud-native-networ... Cheers.
Also the user manual at https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-08...
I think you might have confused me with someone else! I've never really had drugs at parties to offer people.
Audience building: how long can you keep up the charade?
Related:

Earl Grey tea intoxication [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8155176 - Aug 2014 (39 comments)
WeWork Landlords, Creditors Fret over Restructuring Efforts
Former make-up artist says she lost her job after being marked down by AI tool
I think taking VC money is great if you are in a capture the flag type market. Social networks, taxi market places etc.

If it's something which has value with a modest number of customers, not a significant fraction of the addressable market, then maybe less so.
As someone who just taught themself Kicad to make a simple MIDI controller PCB usi an STM32F4, I was totally blown away, coming from software, how "manual" everything was, how abstruse and arcane.

It's quite difficult as a beginner to know that a design is "correct", or perhaps "correct enough", with respect to component placement and EMI.

It seems like even top EE who specialize in board design utilize rules of thumb rather than rely on simulation.

I was also blown away that the state of the art autorouter for traces seems to be from the early 2000's -- no recent AI magic going on here.

Where is my "autoplacer"? It seems like an AI trained on millions of schematic/pcb combos, even just gerber files via image ingestion, ought to be able to generate a pretty decent layout + routing given constraints.

Or perhaps I'm spoiled coming from software and web because it's so much further removed from physics. But it's still the case that there are a ton of modular components with "API's" that should have a templating language, so very much bravo to this project.
About to launch my MVP could use some advice
I am about to launch my MVP for my business Local
Viewers tomorrow! It's an app where someone will visit and apartment or car that you're interested in buying but are unable to visit yourself. Im hoping to get at least 10 beta users during this launch. Im most testing out customers in the los Angeles area. I hope to get lots of feedback so we can iterate and grow this company. Any advice for a first time founder/launch?
Middle school, but we didn't date until after we became close friends and that didn't happen until the last year of high school.
LATERAL first available in PostgreSQL 9.3 (2013), but still not available in SQLite.
Google to face US antitrust trial over digital ads in September
A few things to note: this isn't the budget that Disney ended up having. This doesn't include Prints & Advertising. I'm assuming the picture also had a state tax credit for filming in NY and Penn. So the overall budget would probably be 10-15 million dollars less than itemized. It also looks like N.Night had a 3 picture deal at Disney.
This has sooo much promise, I can't describe how excited I am and will definitely be contributing if I can.

This would make it easy to implement a fancy optimizer. Each component tends to have certain acceptable thresholds for their dependencies like input voltages, current limits, external resistor/capacitor/inductor values/ratings, etc.

Then, each component could have different implementations. You can have different manufacturers produce the exact same inductor/capacitor/resistor in different packages. You can link it up to your existing BOM or hook into vendor APIs to get pricing.

Imagine optimizing for cost, removing redundancy, simplifying footprints, and prioritizing in-stock inventory over new order components.

This could be a huge deal, looking forward to its progress
Progressive academics, all the way up to the president of the United States (Woodrow Wilson). It should be embarrassing to call oneself a “Progressive” these days, yet here we are. A small but meaningful indicator of the extreme bias in our education system…
This isn't especially relevant or important, but fun trivia: in France the National Identity Card was put in place by the Vichy regime.

(Along with a surprising amount of stuff we still have like National Police, Mother's day, being on the UTC+1 timezone, the alarm siren we get every first wednesday of the month, Licence IV for opening bars, etc)
Do you really clean your fridge weekly according to official recommendations? Would you recommend to stop using fridges since listeria can proliferate in fridges that aren't regularly cleaned and people don't wash their fridge often enough to be safe?

Then why do you bring this kind of recommendation as an argument against reusable bags?
You could say that it serves the industry better in the long run, however, for each specific company arguably it's not a benefit - there's no competitive advantage if the same new builders are available to their competitors, and they already have some builders and capacity for making more, so if it's more difficult for new ones, well, that's just a higher barrier for entry that allows them to extract higher margins; having higher costs doesn't necessarily mean lower profits if you can just raise prices as no potential competitors have lower costs.
But how do they keep track of all that even so? e.g. school district lines get redrawn all the time. And each school of sufficient size has AP or IB tracks anyway, which basically kills any comparison. And within those, there may even be a further tiering between magnets that select on aptitude etc etc... and what reporting requirements do schools even have? is this mandated by law? the more data you introduce the more it needs to be corrected for; you know like those "10 best cities to ..." listicles.

I don't know. Look at parent's address, correlate with census and income, look at SAT, and be done with it. Solved lol.
I think the MD merge gets the blame by many, however, it seems as though the shift in the market that started around the same time to optimize shareholder value at all costs is really to blame.
Obviously there is not an unique answer. My experience is the reverse of you, a bootstrapped startup was more stressful than one with investors because there is no magic money created but the one you receive from reality.
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!

I'm doing a lot of home automation work, and I absolutely hate that I need to use breadboards, hunt for pre-assembled components, or to spend days designing a PCB for simple things like relay modules with customized IO.

E.g. I have ratgdo for my garage door opener, but its power supply is an ugly buck convertor taped to the box. I'd love to just re-make the ratgdo board, but with a built-in 12V-to-3V buck convertor.

I tried that, but PCB manufacturing with custom component placing requires just too much work.

Is there a way to donate to the project? I'd love to support it.
It can't lead to an out of bounds write, but it could violate higher-level invariants in the Java program, and those could be exploitable.

For instance, the bad comparator could be used in nested authentication checks:

if check_A { drop privilege to FOO } else if check_B { drop privilege to BAR } else { /* leave root bit set, because "not (A or B)" means root */ }

and it could lead to a privilege escalation in the face of malformed inputs.

I've seen this sort of thing happen in the wild with Java.
Thanks, this is an important point. I missed the fact that Starlink's orbital planes actually cover the full 360° of RAAN[0], not just 180° like Iridium did (presumably to minimize the number of satellites).

So actually this Iridium-type "seam" disappears, meaning that every satellite should always have co-orbiting "neighbors" on both sides. Cool!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_ascension_of_the_ascendi...
Instead of guessing and posting as if this was _very weird_ you could just have done a quick google search and found that yes, most likely they could? It's not needed but spread over a day, sure they could.

Sweet tea is very different from an average tea drinker who might (as is common) use no sweetener at all.
Self-inflicted wounds. They did it to themselves.

Companies made their beds, now they can lie on them.
That’s not really that extreme if you’re a habitual tea drinker in a cold climate (that amount of sugar is insane though, if we’re talking about Arizona sweet tea).

I think it’s just a rare sensitivity and it sounds like it was the majority of his fluid intake.
Of course you can argue that. There is nothing that is perfectly fair. More fair would be to individually interview every college candidate with questions custom tailored their life experience via video chat where their face and voice is obscured as well as any accent and speech affectation they might have.

But that certainly isn't scalable. I'd argue the SAT is one of the most fair things we have at scale.

It's true that the SAT used to be biased (for example the word problems would use the word regatta which a wealthy east coast teen would know but a poor west coast teen would not) but from what I've seen they've done a good job removing that bias (as shown by this paper).
Are you able to find or guess the screen on time per charge? 3 days is wildly different for someone who uses their phone an hour per day, vs someone who scrolls social media for 12 hours a day.
I'm saying they defended Russian people that would rather be living in Russian territory. Warmongers be damned!
Google's CEO responded to intense criticism at the company's all-hands meeting
For this example, nothing. It would be useful where neither of the two SELECT queries is a subset/superset of the other. (Not saying you didn't know that.)
Coming back from a 4 month expedition - hitched a ride from Vancouver to Whitehorse, paddled a canoe from Whitehorse to Emmonak and Alakanuk at the Bering Strait, then to Anchorage from where we hitched a ride to the start of the Alaska Marine Highway at Haines, took that to Prince Rupert, then The Queen of the North [1] to Vancouver Island, hiked through the Carmanah wilderness, back to Vancouver from where we planned to fly back on the 11th of September 2001 - which of course did not happen - we went to a new years' eve party in the UK. I had set my mind on moving to Canada but met a Swedish woman at that party. Sweden is just like Canada, right? Now that Canada is turning into the Peoples Republic of Trudeaunia I'd say I made the better choice in more than one way...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Queen_of_the_North
Fireside chat with Laszlo Bock (2023) [video]
Hey,

We did use skidl for a little while as we were figuring things out (see a project here: https://gitlab.atopile.io/pew-pew-and-friends/sizzle-sack). But we later ended up moving away from it towards ato for mainly two reasons:

- Baking a description of a circuit into python describes how to obtain the circuit, but doesn't really describe what the circuit is. Skidl projects quickly become hard to read. The user is also not guided towards writing code that compiles since you need to deal with all the complexity of Python as well as the circuit itself.
- Contributing to the project and adding features was non trivial
Nice cherrypicking and building strawmen. How about the Russia's obvious failures? Was Kyiv offensive a "feint" according to you?

Avdiivka is a village of 1000 inhabitants, and it's the biggest Russian assault since Russia took the town of Bakhmut about a year ago. With this pace, Russia is going to take Kyiv in the year 3000.
Apple? The same company that forked the JVM and then was taking months to fix vulnerabilities for which exploits were readily available on the internet, and that had been fixed immediately on linux and windows?

The same company that has had a stream of no click 0days in imessage, because they parse the messages outside of a sandbox, and patch the issue but not the larger issue of the no-sandbox?

Yeah they don't care about security at all. It's mostly just a thing their marketing department talks about. I'm sure their R&D budget for it is quite limited given their size.
I'm assuming it's done with video tricks, like compositing etc. I'd certainly hope no one was actually endangering anything!
Considering Asians were discriminated enough against to have a law just against them + internment camps and still excel in the USA should tell you something. It's that we get very high "quality" Asian immigrants to the USA who are better than average citizens of their home country.
Then you man up and do the whistleblower thing. And you do it having established a written record with HR. The choice between keeping my job vs maiming / killing strangers due to my own negligence is a no-brainer for me.
Well, it does use numbers and they are permanent once issued. The difference is what you call those numbers, how you issue them and what is the UX around them.

Don't want to have a federal id? Sure, here is your federated id prefixed with TX-, with all the PII stored in a datacenter in your state. Don't want to have another id issued? Sure, type in the number of your driver license issued when you were 16 years old. Don't like numbers at all? Okey, type in your baptism name, dob and the name of the church or apply through a snail mail.

It's not like Europe has a pan-european id issuing authority or a single unique number to identify a person through all of the databases on a continent. Even if did, some people would still have another identity number in US to open an account there.
Not that surprising. If most people are heterosexual and HN is heavily male.
Will there be a Go SDK?
We have some basic component parameters that we can define, like value, dielectric and voltage rating for capacitors. I think these become much more powerful once we add in equations to help relate these values and link them together. For example if I configure my powersupply for a 12V input, the tool should know that the capacitors need 12V * some safety factor of rating.

I think I see the entry point for auto routing to be taking advantage of the fact that layers have become pretty cheap (atleast for prototyping) and engineering time is the expensive bit. If the tool can help me layout a board in half the time, particularly for test hardware or the likes, that would be huge. Eventually I think we will get to a place where computers will do a better job of layout than most people, but thats a ways off.
It's relatively common for similar behavior on the margin; people avoid sending their kids to the super competitive high schools for a combination of competitiveness/mental health/standing-out-to-colleges reasons
It's been a while since I did anything relating to construction so forgive me if I'm getting something wrong.

Bitumen is the byproduct, and it's cheap because of that. But IIRC it wasn't just the cost that made it attractive. It's easier to work with then concrete, and maintenance via resurfacing is easier as well. It's a fair bit more flexible as vs concrete which can be desirable as the soil under the road settles and shifts over time; a concrete road will crack under those circumstances.
Can't you enable ADB and install something in apk?
Kobo is notorious for having atrocious response time. I'm on my third generation of Kobo reader and it's still dogshit slow.

The periodic crashes are also really tiresome - I regularly have to hard-power-cycle the thing and often lose my reading progress. Why this has been a problem for 6+ years is beyond me but my guess is that they're spending very little on R&D/QA, running on an ancient SoC.
At a techno club! I went by myself and was just dancing a little in the back. She approached me and said hello. We danced for a little bit but I was tired and was about to go home so I asked if I could take her on a date. The power of "putting yourself out there" I suppose. I was also peacocking pretty strongly in those days. Signaling that you care about your personal presentation is definitely a "can't hurt, might help" tactic!

I think those are all the relevant facts about how we met but I'll also mention that "meeting your SO" is very much like "getting your foot in the door" for a job interview. "Keeping your SO" is a whole different game akin to "getting the job offer" or "performing well at that job long-term" or better yet, "embarking on a deep spiritual journey". I recommend reading The Soul Of Sex by Thomas Moore for getting in the right headspace of "keeping an SO". I recall The Art Of Loving by Erich Fromm also being helpful. Like any other major endeavor in life, my bet is that I have to commit to a lifelong learning process; in my case I'm always trying to improve my communication, keep the relationship fun, fiercely protect the trust we've built up, keep the passion going, etc. Good luck! We've only been married for two years (together 4 total) so definitely don't put too much weight on my perspective - just a fellow traveler like yourself sharing what's worked for me so far
SAT score statistics also make for some of the most offensive graphs possible. E.g.

https://s20.directupload.net/images/240205/xfm7k5l8.png
IQ is one of the most reliable and proven metrics in social science.
Data Science and AI in Pharma: Bayer and TetraScience Team Up
Mh, my main concern is: Both the weirdest absurd and non-exploitable things as well as the most trivially exploitable thing are just being run through all kinds of news channels as security vulnerabilities and out-of-bound writes and such. Like, "complete bypass of redirect URI validation in keycloak OIDC" vs "memory corruption for qsort in glibc (if the application passes a bad comparision function (and you can trigger it))".

I'm finding myself very fatigued by this about vulnerabilities and find myself just giving up about trying to keep track. Also because there is no good curated source it feels. I can run after 3 nonsense ones a week and the one that can rip my systems apart drops on Christmas eve anyway.
Definitely not true. I used to regularly drink 1.5 gallons a day.

A gallon is a recommended daily intake for men:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/how-much-wate....
Earl gray with real bergamot oil is really expensive and hard to find nowadays. Most brands use “natural flavors”
Program has always been about 20% of the labor of a program. Testing was 50%, maintenance, documentation, and other things are the other 30%. The above numbers are all estimates and you can adjust them to some extent - trading quality for test time for example: I know some industries that when to 60% test, and some do less than 50% in test.

The numbers have not really changed in modern software. We do more automated testing now, so programmers might spend a little more time on software, but the additional time is just in test.
For a few minutes, and then users will probably flag it off. This is the cycle of life on HN.
In the humanities at least, tenure-track hiring numbers are down about 50% from pre-2008 era, while the supply of humanity PhDs is broadly stable.

The problem is that the university departments are less willing to hire the faculty that they once did, and that largely comes down to university administrations having decided that paying for anything non-STEM (and non-sports, I guess) isn't worth it anymore.
I think you're on to something. Most DEFCON attendees can do rough calculations in their head that their chances of coming out on top in Las Vegas is extremely unlikely, and choose just look around and buy some drinks and cheap food.
I've even no idea what you're talking about?
As it happens, Washington put some reasonable-sounding rules in place after the 2020 protests (https://crosscut.com/politics/2021/07/what-new-wa-police-acc...), and our police reacted in the same way yours did: they do nothing. Or as little as possible. So since they already do nothing, we might as well get the laws tightened up.
Japan government stops requiring floppy disks
> I respect antinatalists, but I chose differently. I chose to bring laughter and joy to this absurd, meaningless Universe we habit, even if for a brief lapse.

That's a false dichotomy, people without kids can bring joy and laughter to "this absurd, meaningless Universe we habit". You don't have to justify yourself for what you have chosen.
Show HN: I made an Apple Vision Pro review roundup with AI using Jumprun
We recently launched Jumprun as a private beta, and made this public canvas showing a roundup of Apple Vision Pro reviews. Let me know if you're interested in trying out Jumprun to build your own canvas and I'll get an invite to you. We're keeping it as a closed beta for the moment to control costs.
On the one hand, you're right, the price seems absurd. On the other hand, I've only ever heard this argument from people who don't really want such a device anyway.

I don't own this phone, but I paid $500 for a Boox Note Air 2, which is an eink tablet that I use for notetaking and reading and replaced my ipad with it.
The limited usability of these devices is a selling point, not a downside. But just because I want a device that does less doesn't mean that I want a device that feels cheap. I still want something sleek, well built and snappy. And eink screens aren't particularly cheap either. So $500 it is.
That is a threat if the West confiscates Russian assets that have been frozen, Russia will retaliate in kind. https://www.rt.com/russia/591905-russia-asset-seizure-warnin...
This might stem from noncount noun rules rather than any particular trend for the word "pants".

Typical example is the word _water_. It is noncount except when talking about types of water. E.g., this year we introduced a vitamin water and an energy water to our line of beverages. By extension, you can pluralize it: we introduced two new waters this year.

I don't disagree that pants might be slowly becoming countable, just noting that the particular verbiage of "a capri pant" or whatever can be produced using the usual rules.