skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a possible source is in the replies to that tweet: https://twitter.com/RobbieBC/status/419324772754132992
Good practice, just need to make it known.

Keep up the good work, I've used Niagara when I was at Android (on iOS now by my firm Rules) and I found it a very good value prop with an polished execution.
Give LLMs another year or two and they'll go full circular.
MLMs have been targeting young people long before Instagram, I remember somebody handing out flyers for Amway at a high school graduation. And the peddlers of these scams always sell it as "Start your own business", "Be your own boss" and so on. And when it's not a MLM it's some kind of dropshipping scheme. I agree social media has given those schemes a much wider audience to capture.
That's a pretty creative translation of what I actually said.
X11 is also just a protocol. (Though I agree that Wayland is a smaller protocol)
They certainly link to it, but the TOS says:

These Terms of Service ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you ("you", "your", "licensee"), and On-Line Taxes, Inc. ("OnLine Taxes", "we", "our" or "us").

That doesn't sounds like the IRS to me. Maybe they do work for the IRS, but it's not them.
Undeclared Wars Between Israel and East Germany
Soon after Remarkable 2 was released, a hacked version of Remarkable 1 was released that added pretty much all the feature upgrades. You needed to buy a new stylus (to use the new eraser end), but you could choose from dozens of brands since it's a widely used standard. The hardware looks slightly different and might have clock speed differences, but is essentially identical. And you don't have to deal with the silly subscription model of the 2. I use it to jot my thoughts down on PDFs in direct sunlight at the park. My macbook/ipad is pretty unusable in sunlight, unless you like squinting and straining. I also bought a smaller Mobiscribe (same thing but small), but I prefer the Remarkable still.
> the regular Joe gets left behind because they're just in it for one ticket

I'm surprised neither Spotify nor Apple has attempted to launch a TicketMaster competitor (or alliance). We have the technology to distribute tickets to listeners first.
I think quick rejections are a good indication to work on your materials and/or position selection, possibly delaying your send rate. Ghosting leaves all the variables hidden on quality vs volume and even leaves it unclear on whether your volume of sends is sufficient (maybe the industry is just slow at coming back and will answer all your past applications.)
[UPDATE] I've now fixed "permissions" issue -- app doesnt require systems control anymore -- it was a bug in entitlements file.

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The house always wins!
You’re giving humanity one last chance to talk you out of your plan for global domination, aren’t you?

C’mon, dude. Let us keep our books.
Preemptively saving your Cmd+plus fingers from unneeded exercise.
> I really wish Julia had easy AOT compilation and no GC, that would be perfect

I pretty strongly disagree with the no gc part of this. A well written GC has the same throughout (or higher) than reference counting for most applications, and the Rust approach is very cool, but a significant usability cliff for users that are domain first, CS second. A GC is a pretty good compromise for 99% of users since it is a minor performance cost for a fairly large usability gain.
I'm the opposite. I live on a crest of a bowl, and it's if I can hear everything, people talking in their yards many houses away.
For extra fun, remove the "uncompressed" onkeydown added at the end, then you can hold down the spacebar to do big jumps.
"around the world".

> USA and half Europe only.
I have a further, simpler argument. Movies. Ever notice that movie adaptations of books often suck? Well, there are some that don't. When shortstories are made into movies, it often works better. This is because the amount of content that fits in a shortstory, matches with what you can cover in a 90minute movie.
If you try to communicate the contents of a book that takes 8 hours to read,to video, that video will be much longer than 8 hours.
So, yes, possibly, you could turn your 8 hour reading assignment into a 40 hour video watching assignment. However, I don't know how you will manage your note-taking, now that you have given up on reading? Abandoning reading is abandoning our ability to organise and maintain knowledge, which we do with words and letters assembled and grasped with ability.
doesn't make it any less gross.
The Myth of Mental Illness: 50 Years Later (2011)
What is "remotely average" to you may be completely exceptional to someone else.

I just finished a book about Andrée de Jongh, a 23 year old Belgium woman who lead the Comet Line, one of the largest escape networks in Europe during WW2 helping return some of the men left behind at Dunkirk and other downed pilots and aircrew.

She personally took ~24 round trips from Brussles, Belgium to Gibralter, Spain thorugh Nazi occupied France. A one-way distance of over 1300 miles, crossing the Pyrenees.

I found the actual book not the best, but the story was amazing. I've since done a deep dive on the Comet Line and more about de Jongh.

Would you have read something like this? What % best would this be to you? I don't think I would be able to find anything similar in a research paper or anything in academia. Its the most interesting thing I've consumed in the last few months.

To answer your main question though:

> How do you find the absolute gems?

I consume a lot, and of those, some are excellent. Some are bad. I wouldn't know though unless I checked myself.
We would joke in physics class that you either need to memorize the right-hand rule; or if you were right handed while doing the test, the negative left-hand rule.

(because students would often make the mistake while holding their pencil during the exam of how to calculate the curl)
That would be cool. I thought about balancing one cube on top of another balancing cube, but sadly I’ve only got one.
I'm just getting into robotics with a background in software and I ended up choosing the Isaac Sim platform/ecosystem (https://docs.omniverse.nvidia.com/isaacsim/latest/index.html) and Jetbot (https://jetbot.org/master/) since they seem suited for neural networks and reinforcement learning. So far getting up and running with the simulation side hasn't been too bad and there is a model for the Jetbot in Isaac Sim since it's also by Nvidia. I haven't started on the hardware side so can't speak on that. The downside for some might be it's proprietary and Jetbot itself is a bit out of date and nearing end of life support.
It is a common thing here in Europe to think that the Germans are overly apologetic towards Israel. It's surprising to find out that East Germany was actually the primary supporter of Arab countries and Palestinian groups in their wars against Israel.
Scientific? It's just career manure until it's been replicated
And using a company computer somehow prevents me from doing that? Most spyware that they force upon you doesn't seem to, in any way, prevent me from just uploading a zip file to wherever I want.
In middle school I imagined a toy that would be a top with a similar mechanism as this cube. It could spin it's outer shell and then tilt and engage a "wheel" hoop, just a bit above the the tops tip, exchange some of of it's angular momentum for linear, right itself and build up angular momentum again. This would enable a fully enclosed, no external moving parts RC vehicle.

It seems such a thing is possible now.
This is the correct answer and would get the agreement of probably better than 95% of the profession.

The suggestion above that JEL is a top five is bizarre. The CS equivalent is saying that the book “learn python in 21 days” is a top outlet for CS research.

The authors of this paper should be deeply embarrassed about the way they handled that data, but I’m slightly relieved to see that this garbage was published in a tenth-rate journal no one has ever heard of. (Though to be clear there are definitely problems with what gets through in top journals too!)
Unfortunately data post launch of ChatGPT is now worthless as it's contaminated by the very same bots
What in your opinion are the pain points in the current sign up process?
Planet scale cooperation utilizing planet scale resources is possible in a planet scale military dictatorship as well. Actually it sounds easier and more plausible than in a free society.

> A more compelling answer to me

Agreed, but that's just the usual great filter idea.
It's a long day for sure, but honestly I don't really mind it as a candidate, and that boils down to a few reasons

(1) The time cost isn't as high as it seems. If I get as far as a phone screen I'm getting an offer, nearly guaranteed. The flow chart then looks like (a) if I don't get a phone screen, that awful process is no worse than the status quo, (b) if I do, I just find out in the phone screen if the battery of interviews has high latency (an 8hr day is fine, 8hrs over 2 months greatly complicates a job search) and drop out early the 20% of the time that happens, and (c) from there I have an 8hr day to a guaranteed job. Each offer then costs roughly 0.95/0.8~1.2 full interview processes, or 1.2x 4-8 hours.

(2) That time cost is a bit annoying when it comes to competing offers (a single solid day isn't crazily expensive when you're about to get a 40% pay boost, but 5 solid days for a job search is ... 5x as expensive ... fine, but not ideal, and hard when you have finite vacation days). Somewhere around 1/2 of employers don't actually seem to care about producing proof of competing offers though. If they make an offer, you counter that you're worth some fixed XYZ instead (ideally doing enough research to choose the levers they're most likely to accommodate) and will sign immediately if they can make that happen, they'll go above and beyond to agree to your counter-offer. It's a waste of time for the whole industry to require counter-offers in the cases where everyone knows what you're worth (admittedly, when that's not the case, counter-offers are an unfortunate necessity to prove your worth).

(3) The average tech interview is 10-20min solving the techno-babble and 30-50 probing what they know about the company and the team. New companies are very risky, and they work fairly hard to keep damning evidence out of the face of the public. You can mitigate a lot of risk by background-checking the executive team, but a present-day boots-on-the-ground view of things, ideally with the several overlapping/competing views you get from multiple team members, allows you to bounce out of problem situations early.
The cube? Not severe but enough to definitely wear safety glasses when things are activated in development. The couch? That's a fair amount of mass at a good height above floor level; definitely don't want to drop it on your body parts. Tje reaction wheels failing, Calc the max velocity & mass of the ring, and that'll give you an idea of the energy levels you're dealing with. I see nothing that would prevent me from doing either project, just enough to take good ordinary safety measures.
Start on much smaller projects, enjoy the builds, and by the time you get to the cube & couch, you'll be able to estimate all that you need.

Also, when you have a question in development, remember: One test is worth a thousand opinions (especially re. your own opinions).
Really resonates with me, but it’s also not the whole story. The first company Steph cofounded was kickstarted. You have to have a vc/crowd/self funded runway just to be able to attempt to get the critical mass for 100% user supported software. It can take years to build the product and customer base. Everyone has to eat. Not everyone can do it nights and weekends while they have other income, or hit the career jackpot and save it all up front. Congrats to them though for living the dream!
Or maybe the people with dementia died off early in the cycle before it became pronounced enough for other people to truly notice and remark on it. Life is much safer nowadays and we tend to forget all the guardrails we have up for everyone
I often wonder what the effects of reduced infant mortality will be on the population. For all of human history before about 100 years ago, we were aggressively selected for survival at birth or shortly after. Now, we're not. All those people who would have died might not only suffer other health problems in their life but propagate the "die as a baby" genes to their offspring. Optimistically, it might mean that humans both become dependent on those medical technologies that save babies and mothers, and maintain the capability to provide them so we're fine. It could be a positive direction for evolution, like how we're already adapted to depend on ancient technologies like housing, clothing, and cooking. But maybe it's just bad and future generations will be generally get less and less healthy.
Georgia was smarter in my opinion.

The situations are not really comparable, given that Russia's designs on Ukraine are very different. Categorically different in fact.

Perhaps in the years 2014-2022 they were somewhat comparable (when Russia was more or less trying to keep Ukraine in an extended "punishment box"). But definitely not since.
My envisioned solution to this - very real! - danger is to attach some very thin round sheets of steel to the wheels such that you can’t stick your fingers in them.
Why would you get married if it ended in divorce?
How long should a conversation last? The people involved haven't a clue
From an employers perspective, maybe. From an employee perspective? Yeah I'd much rather use my (much more powerful) machine where I have everything set-up exactly how I like instead. Tons more convenient.
Perhaps a better framing is "What is the relative importance of being able to read and write for transmitting/receiving factual information vs emotional persuasion, these days?" and "What is the relative importance of being able to use those methods to transmit a message, vs media literacy on the receiving side, in understanding how and when something is trying to persuade us, and what tactics are being used?" (and ultimately if you keep digging into that, you ask "What is the ultimate purpose of an education, what specific skills will be needed in the daily life of the recipient?" which is a better to way to ask about how people survive. I don't see that the assumptions or reality are necessarily shared or basic.)

One example is consumption of US Presidential debates of the radio era (1948-1960) vs TV vs social-media (2000s-) (when most people don't watch the full thing, they consume it via clips or soundbites, often distilled or reduxed by third-parties like media outlets, bloggers, highlights reels etc., which is handing over the power of framing and narrative to outlets who mightn't be either neutral or trustworthy). Like how the 2004 Democratic campaign of Howard Dean [0] was reduced (by many media outlets) to a soundbite which had zero to do with healthcare or fiscal policy. (Ok separately, shelve the a wider George-Carlin-type debate about whether political discourse is being dumbed down, by whom and to what ends).

Or a non-political example: if you want to figure out what's a good new-release movie/show to watch, do you read(/watch) individual critic reviews? professional vs amateur critics? or in the old days, just rely on Ebert/Roeper/Siskel? imdb? RottenTomatoes (pre-2016 Comcast-Fandango takeover? or post-2016?) Twitter? or poll five of your friends?

Or: what proportion of people can figure out north/south/east/west or navigate without a smartphone, only a map, signs and recognition points? It could plausibly be argued that navigating in general isn't as important as it used to be (unless you're in remote, unknown or hostile territory or don't have reliable phone charge or radio/satellite reception). Which depends largely on where you live and your occupation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean_2004_presidential_...
>Taking off my devil's advocate hat for a moment - I disagree here. Many places in the world already redefine "factual information" with their own definitions that are based on e.g. their political or cultural views. Pretending it doesn't happen is not a satisfactory choice for me.

Which is neither here, nor there.

First, they don't redefine all or even most factual information, just politics/monetary/national/etc-interest charged facts. They still agree that a table is a table and that the Earth is flat, and billions of other things.

Second, even when they refefine some fact, they still present the new information as fact. Because they still understand that facts are important.

Third, whatever this or that party, or ideology, or politician, or corporation, or media outlet, does to distort facts, it is still accepted that facts are good, and facts corresponding to reality is what we should be aiming for.

Fourth, no working scientist, engineer, and so on, can function well without facts or when provided with false facts pertaining to their field. They will still work with imperfect facts or with some wrong facts, but their output is improved the closest to accurate (and real) facts they get.

In any case, usually it's not the bare facts that re contested, but their interpretation/evaluation (ethical, as regards to motive, or as regards to utility, etc). It's expected (and OK) to have different evaluations of a fact, based on your political or cultural views (that's the very definition of a different political and cultural views in the first place), as long as you agree with the objective parts of the fact (the underlying hard reality).

You can say X war was good or bad, but not that it didn't happen when it did, for example.

>My play on being a devil's advocate is exactly going along this line - if we lose a part of the ability to convey facts because we lose an ability to read, then where exactly does this lead us to?

Who is "we"? Is the question is some person who doesn't care about facts, or is fed with bullshit facts they believe, can still be consumer, vote, make a living, be entertained, marry, and generally live their life?

Is the question whether a country and a citizenry can live that way, and maintain their agency, dignity, effectiveness, and so on, the answer is no.
Not necessarily. The housing market is very complex, and there is such a thing as induced demand - for example building lots more apartments in SF would make it even more attractive for e.g. tech companies to locate, and so they would quickly be filled, without moving the price.
The Mochary Method I found is much better for folks managing other managers. If you manage individual contributors with a lot of these ideas (e.g. meetings start on time), you'll definitely have a hard time.

His writing vs talking stuff though is truly great, and I changed how I run many meetings through it.
Fun fact: part of the licensing agreement to use USB, is to have the usb symbol on top of the connector. So unless you're using a cheap unlicensed cable, look for the symbol facing up and you'll always be correct
For roof top solar? Can you give an example of some numbers? Around here in NorCal, would cost ~20k for a system, and would save maybe $2400 a year, so would be more like 8.3 years.
It would lose its form factor of a pencil.
for a script like this that doesn't have any dependencies, Julia 1.10 doesn't make a significant difference. that said, for real world usability, Julia 1.10 is dramatically better than previous versions.
It’s wonderful to see that we’re making progress, but honestly this sort of thing reminds me how crude our understanding really is. It’s a bit scary this wasn’t already known, ie that the blood brain barrier wasn’t understood well enough for someone to come up with the study’s hypothesis. The fact that we’re still finding low hanging fruit like this makes me worry that we don’t really have the technology to be dealing with brain issues on a fine grained level, and that it’ll be many decades before we do.
Amen. Keep spreading the gospel. This is what we all imagined the world of online streaming would actually be like.
Thanks for sharing that. It's disappointing to hear, but that makes sense. (Edit: your analysis makes sense, not remarkable's response to it...) I'm hopeful it can be repaired. (But not by me!)
autocorrect or dyslexia. whoever wins, i lose
Related. Others?

Vladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computer (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782007 - July 2021 (9 comments)

Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669913 - March 2020 (1 comment)

Vladimir Lukyanov's hydraulic computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525534 - Nov 2018 (72 comments)

Computing Partial Differential Equations with Water - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17140039 - May 2018 (8 comments)

Gardens as crypto-water-computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4437130 - Aug 2012 (6 comments)
> Key Elements for Job Search Microsite

> * Have a professional profile picture

I don't do this, for two reasons:

1. Being a photographer taught me that I'm much better on the buttons side of the camera, not the lens side.

2. Photos really don't belong in hiring in the US. Due to the long history of unfair prejudices, which are still ongoing in some ways. Even better would be if we could remove names, for being cues as to gender, racial/ethnic background, caste, and other socioeconomic status. But photos are easy to eliminate from hiring processes, and in fact we were rid of them in the US, until "social media"-like sites like LinkedIn reintroduced photos to resumes.
AGPL is the only free software license
Yeah, I generally do _not_ like programming-oriented ligatures, but the one for todo is sort of interesting.

However, many editors can accomplish the same goal by highlighting or changing the text colour of todos.
> I think this professor has lot the plot by pinning this most recent decline on COVID and whatnot.

> death of individual passion in the teaching professions at the lower grade levels that is the direct result of common core

I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion.

The professor agrees with you, talking about Common Core in their first point, and only touching on the transient COVID decline in their second point, before circling back to phonics, Common Core, again.

Trying to categorize this article as "blaming COVID for falling reading standards" is railing against something that isn't happening: literally only one of the ten paragraphs of the article references the pandemic.
Stubhub is a small family business bootstrapped by hard working folks just like you or I. My bad for saying they are value negative.
This is super important. It reminds me of the line from "Succession," when Brian Cox says, "The Ford Motor company is barely real. It's a shorthand for a set of financial interests."

We use the word "Boeing" as if it is a real thing. In fact it is a set (as well as many subsets) of individuals pursuing a variety of goals.

When we say "Boeing" quote "lost its way," maybe that is reasonable language for the entirety of the Boeing corporation. But you can just as easily say, "How Boeing willfully endangered the lives of its passengers by cutting corners" if you're referring to the subset of individuals who command Boeing and created this set of incentives.