skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clients often just ask if you can do X in Y time and Y is often more than large enough to learn X because often the estimates are set by full timers who really want to make sure they are not burdened by it.

I have said yes to being able to deliver projects in languages I'd never even seen before, because the timeline was long enough that I was (rightfully) confident I could figure it out within the estimated time.

Often they just want to outsource uncertainty. Of course you then do need to take on the risk and make sure you deliver, or you won't get hired back and if it's a referral it can get ugly, but in the years I did contracting that was never an issue.

Knowing your limits is important, of course.
The construct of time feels so real. And the fact that we surround ourselves with clocks, learn how to tell time from an early age, and live our lives aligned to precise schedules just reinforces this feeling of realness, and reifies the illusion. Seems like we are in a very literal sense time keeping (or “creating” might be a better word) machines.

At some point I got fascinated by flow experiences and the loss of all sense of time. While I’ve experienced this while coding, improvising music has always been the gateway that fascinated me most. No time to keep; no measures to count; nothing but the next note. There’s something about staying continuously in contact with the present moment that makes the time construct just dissolve.

And all that’s left is this continuously unfolding moment. No time. Just now.

I remember hearing things when I was younger like “time is a construct” and not knowing wtf people meant. Flow states helped the conceptual vs. experiential versions of time make more sense, and it’s pretty fascinating to see more about the neurological basis for the experience of time. It seems to just underscore the fact that time (as we think we know it) is an experience our brain creates for us. Clearly there’s some underlying phenomena that these neurons are representing, but it blows my mind a little to ponder how much we orient our understanding of life and experience around the constructs we’ve created vs. exploring other ways to conceptualize and experience it.
Wouldn’t it help if the noise added were deterministic based on origin? That way it can’t be averaged out by oversampling. So something like RNG_SEED = HMAC_SHA256(PERSISTENT_SECRET,Location.origin)
Why haven't you tried a temperature over 1? Try 10 and see what happens.

Look at the reference page I supplied for a better idea of what this parameter does on any LLM.
This is my biggest complaint with the Phyrexian plane.
This is like trying to access information buried inside a data structure. You need the right incantations to get the right information content and not just the headers.
That's a good reply, although I can't conceive of "negative frequencies".
As a career programmer, I'm not in the least concerned that LLMs will replace me. At least not in the near to mid term future. The key is to have skills that LLMs aren't good at replicating. Writing secure code, numerically stable code, performance optimised code, resource tight code....
Congratulations on completely missing the point and misspelling a two letter word at the same time. That's quite an accomplishment.
99% of the BQ use cases I’ve seen is reporting on a dataset < 100GiB. 99% of all big data is really just enterprise reporting and having 1 tool that can work for nearly all reporting needs. Querying a petabyte just isn’t needed these days for nearly all sql needs. And for the 1% of the time it is, often teams prefer spark.
I don’t think that’s true either.

Take the research into Loras for example.
Surely the basic scientific method was followed when developing it. You can see that from the paper.

Obviously the results can be reproduced.
Unlike in many other fields, reproducibility can be pretty trivial in CS.

Training a model isn’t really a science, but the work gone into creating the models surely is.
"…2 million bytes of core available for programmer use."
`mailto` link is free. You could probably get away with zapier or something as well by being clever with your form target.

There's a lot of value in having one computing device on the internet that you control. You have a monthly cost, but every time something like this comes up you can juist "do the thing" on that machine and have zero extra costs.
Have you tried embedding a Google form into your website? It looks best if you're already using material design.
Getty expands access to collection images under CC0
It's easy.... imagine a motor spinning at 10 turns / second... then reversing... it's now turning -10 turns/second.

When you have I and Q (Information and Quadrature of it), you can tell which way a signal is "spinning"... and there are many things you can't do if you don't have both parts of the signal.

If you have two antenna near each other, you can look at the phase and tell where the signal is coming from, in terms of which is closer to the source, by that rotation direction.
how does 8gb cut it?
Namecheap has it built in to their cheapest shared hosting plan that costs $24 yearly (for the entire hosting plan). You could exclusively use their contact form if you wanted and it would handily beat your quoted price point.

Is there a major hosting offerer that doesn’t have it included with their basic plan? Here’s squarespace’ very clear directions for their plans: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543887-...

If you are looking for a free option that can be embedded on any page check out https://web3forms.com

Contact forms are nobodies favorite thing. Marketing departments know that they are pretty low conversion with lots of spam, and customers see them as a way for companies to ignore them. Put this way: do you ever want to be shunted off to a contact form?

This is a solved problem more or less.

If you think that you can do better than google forms, and Microsoft whatever and the other 1,000 competitors in a space that is decades old, give it a shot.
The bigger issue is that they have disabled TVs manufactured by other companies until customers agree to these new TOS.

I filed a complaint with my state’s Attorney General, because this change effectively seems to require “additional consideration”. From what I understand of US contract law, that means they can’t do it unilaterally.
Radical idea to protect 'doomsday' Thwaites Glacier with 62-mile long curtain
The Zayed Sustainability Prize has launched a US$600K award for Climate Action
To be fair, plants had ample sunlight to use for energy to break apart carbon dioxide. Undersea European life would need some other source of input energy.
There's probably a very easy way to do it with cloudflare functions and github pages, but the problem is that everybody's stack is different.
I know a number of people who find ChatGpt convenient and even fun. But I don't know of "life changing" instances. What are these instances?

I mean, the phrase sounds like "I started my business with ChatGpt", which is true of all the recent trendy things and so would be less unique than people imagine or "ChatGpt cured my depression", where someone really shouldn't do that.
I found numerous articles about him. I think this was on HN before: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-man-two-deadly...
Most folks discount potential negative future outcomes - especially those which can't be controlled. It's called optimism bias. But something tells me that space rocks don't care and behave much more in line with natural distributions. Climactic history of Earth is nuts. WAY more extreme than our little 12,000 year slice of history would suggest. Which means we're in for surprises if we can avoid killing ourselves for long enough.
Ok, so how do you practice in practice? What specific actions do you do to make yourself more attractive to prop shops?
That speaks more negatively to that tired SV motto than it speaks positively to the leaded gasoline guy.
On an iPad most of text is obscured and I can’t read some of the bars in landscape or portrait mode. The sideways text is also hard to read.
If you can write code, you can spin up a VPS or a lamba function (or whatever) for pennies per month, to be a HTTP POST target, and forward messages to whomever you hard-code into it.

Version 0: make sure you limit it to a specific set of recipients, because if you leave it open ended, you will get reported and shut down for abuse.

Version 1: Spot a pattern of fields that are clearly from a bot, and drop the message silently if you can, so as not to reveal your filters.

Version 2..14: Repeat step 1 a few dozen times, till a new wave comes a few years later

Version 15: realize messages wern't being sent for a few weeks, because something went wrong/out of disk space/some random glitch, and add monitoring

Version 16: Consider a database with an interface if you can't reliably email the target because the messages are marked as spam by the target's spam filter, and figure out how to white list your form

Version 17: Consider if the value brought by the form makes it worth it to consider a third party .....

FWIW, I've done this for a client. I'm somewhere around version 15 .... :-/
I read that page and it does not provide any contractual durability guarantees as far as I can see. It provides "designed for availability" and then contractual availability SLA guarantees. It provides "designed for durability", but presents no contractual durability guarantee as far as I can see.

Given that their lawyers clearly indicate that "designed for availability" is not what they are contractually obligated to provide, only the letter of the SLA does that; "designed for durability" is similarly a marketing statement that does not incur any contractual obligations. Is there some specific statement in that document that I am missing which indicates that data durability is not fully at their convenience?
I never saw this essay before. Thank you to share. A choice quote:

> I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlock writing onto the Internet. Raymond is the original perpetrator of the "what is a hacker?" essay, in which you quickly begin to understand that a hacker is someone who resembles Eric Raymond.

> The whole genre reminds me of the the wooly business books one comes across at airports ("Management secrets of Gengis Khan", the "Lexus and the Olive Tree") that milk a bad analogy for two hundred pages to arrive at the conclusion that people just like the author are pretty great.
Odd phrasing here, given the allusion to Jim Jones, the avowed Socialist.
I'm a layman surrounded by laypeople and we regularly make fun of peer review. It's far from insider baseball, and verging on reality tv for a small but growing segment of the shitposting nihilistic demo.
Why not just use Google Forms? Our website uses it.

1) You can customize it and add your company logo/image. Can also limitedly change colors to match your branding.

2) It can be set to notify you of new submissions (ie each time someone fills it and submits it, you get an email)

3) It’s free and easy to set up.

4) You get a link which you place behind a ‘Contact Us’ text on your website. When users click it, it opens up the form.
Hi lottle,

My humble opinion is no. It is not either late or wrong to enter software engineering. Only the requirements have changed. When I have started my career in software engineering, the requirements was completely different, you should be knowing mostly used programming languages and popular operating system. 10 to 15 years later object oriented programming and functional programming approaches became base requirement but software engineering stayed as is. Another 10 to 15 years later, all the applications became web based with new methodologies but job has stayed. Now I am witnessing and adjusting myself to 3rd revolution but I am sure that I will be relevant if I develop my required skills.
Do not lose your motivation and aim for being the part of the today and future. Get your foundation from the school and in the meantime develop your skills. Do not let current hypes to overwhelm you. Best of luck.
Thanks for the pointer to Fourier optics! I mentioned Fourier because it is something I still don't "get" even after studying and using these methods.

I am still learning, but I have so far only applied inverse methods to systems where the physics is well-defined and the model already accepted as "real". For example, CT scanner algorithms which model the photon counters and attenuation through matter (although this can get complicated...), with the output being data in well-defined format (like the distribution of matter). I do see people using inverse solvers or AI to derive something which isn't an "image" but a model of the physics (does that make sense?). The extreme version of this which I have seen once before, is a paper using AI to extract algebraic forms of PDEs from videos of fluids. To what extent does the AI user have to understand/"pre-model" the physics, and to what extent does the AI generate understanding in some way? Apologies if this is misinformed as I am still outside the research community, and don't very actively read papers.

Currently I am trying to learn background to understand electromagnetic properties of materials with an interest to apply this to computer graphics. I eventually want to learn what processes are currently done for extracting material properties from scans, etc., along the lines of the classic gonioreflectometers. In this space, from the papers I look at, it looks like AI is unavoidable and I am sure an extremely useful tool but I definitely want to be careful not to get lost in misunderstanding.
Unfortunately does not work with Chromebooks:

https://github.com/localsend/localsend/issues/29
This is relatively easy to setup with Cloudflare Pages [1]. It was even easier with PHP 20 years ago, but spammers ruined it.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/plugins/ma...
Chemosynthesis is something that's been observed where deep sea worms use hydrogen sulfide to convert co2 and o2 into sugars. It's possible that there are other chemical pathways that can be used where the o2 isn't used at all.
> societies progress up the hierarchy of needs from physical survival to emotional self-actualization, and as they do so, rearing children gets short shrift because people pursue other, more individualist aims. … People find other ways to find meaning in life

That's a nice standout for me. Taking into account the humans only aspect, it's good to see that those people are happier and finding more self fulfillment than in the alternative scenario.

Of course that is just in a vacuum, though it does show that a huge part of the perception of this "problem" is a system that unnaturally requires more of us.
You shouldn't be yelling at your boss's boss's boss in a large company forum. That's rank insubordination, and easily punishable with firing. Hell it could be punished with much worse than insubordination in other kinds of organizations; imagine a private yelling at a general when the entire corps is being reviewed.

Companies are indeed hierarchical, and sometimes it feels like people forget that. You can indeed be fired at any time, and this is exactly the kind of situation you can put yourself in to have it happen to you.
Note I did a scrape four years ago which I saved on archive.org [0] and provided some pedestrian analysis on it [1], along with source code [2].

It looks like a sqlite3 database of all items, including comments and stories, was about 5Gb, so I would expect it to be within the range of 10Gb or so now.

I think h-index is an interesting idea but the post only really goes into it for story submission. The author scoffs at doing h-index for everyone but I don't think it would really be that bad.

What does an h-index for comments look like? A commentor with h comments that have at least h karma each? Or h replies? Or should it be h comments with `alpha *` h karma, for some value of alpha?

It's amazing to me how much progress has happened in 4 years. We now have LLMs. It'd be interesting to try and use the HN data for that type of purpose. Even using it to pick out links for people with high karma (or high h-index comment) could help with blog discovery.

[0] https://archive.org/details/HackerNews-Data-2020-06-28

[1] https://abetusk.github.io/yahnda/

[2] https://github.com/abetusk/yahnda
Take this how you will but in my mind most of them are intellectual yet idiots. Little empathy and no social awareness. They may be technically smarter than their peers but so what?

These are the kind of people that would probably create weapons of mass destruction and if you might discuss with them with the scale of destruction of their products they have nothing to offer yet they will giddily discuss the technical achievements of their projects.
You can get all kinds of bad solutions, and some great ones too. But usually the main issue with contact forms is not the tech. Companies just don't have good workflows, or the people, or resources, or the will, to properly deal with inbound contact requests

Sometimes, the people running the business don't even know they have a website, or that the leads are going somewhere, or how to get access to them

When you decide to take inbound contacts seriously, it's usually worth it to have some good tools to get in touch quickly and keep track of the interactions (like having the form be integrated with your CRM, and automatic callbacks - or click to call, triggered by inbound leads)
Your Art or Your Life
As opposed to today, when fashion is always solely an end in itself?

It’s still a distinction without a difference.
Be able to read code, and tell whether the code is something subtly insane hallucinated by an LLM, and then fix the insanity. :p

There is some overlap there with code made by humans, when it involves terrible outsourcing and/or language-barriers, but otherwise you can usually ask the human author questions when reviewing it.
Who says it's not a problem in other companies? I think it just doesn't make the news as much.

At my previous company, at an offsite retreat, one of the guys got drunk and started chewing out the company's founders and the main office manager. Sure enough, he was fired by the time the retreat was over, and was never seen in the office again. A similar thing happened to someone who had a huge blowout argument and emailed the entire company his manifesto (of sorts).
I had to move to another city to find a place to rent that would accept me with a cat. And if I had children, it would be impossible. The landlords have destroyed the human habitat.
Don't people want profits of mega corps to fall? Don't dividends come out of profits?

It seems like these are just exclamatory comments, disconnected from any reference philosophy or context
Yes! But clever engineering doesn't only mean, engineered by humans from Earth, haha! :)

Definitely there are secret programs that have cool tech built with clever engineering from humans from Earth. Some of this engineering may be even beyond conventionally accepted propulsion, as discussed in this American Alchemy video by Jesse Michels where he talks about the B-2 potentially using the Biefield-Brown effect, or ionic lift to reduce drag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTEWLSTyUic

JM wants to suggest that most UFOs could be 'prosaic' secret program technology. Certainly some are, and USAF CI has used fake UFO stories to protect those secrets in the past. But I think the idea that all or even most are human tech, or that humans have tech that can replicate the 'anomalous observables' (5000G maneuvers, no flight control surface, no propulsion, no exhaust, super speed, transmedium), is very unlikely.

Some reasons:

- the UFO disinfo narratives heavily bias towards this suggestion, and extend to various colors of what is most likely fantasy: a secret space program that's gone interstellar, a breakaway civilization that lives on Mars, Space Nazis, etc...The point is, if you're trying to control perception so much, you're unlikely to have any results in reality (as much as you may want them!)

- if we had this tech why wouldn't we have deployed to dominate economically or geopolitically?

- historical UFO sightings (1800s) predate our technological civilization.

- reliable reports of UFOs in the 30s - 50s that have the same anomalous flight, but predate modern aerospace, materials and electrical sciences.

- if any of what is identified as supposed human-made human-operated anomalous craft are actually genuine ET/NHI spaceships, these could be from civilizations 1000s to millions of years advanced of us. It's unreasonable to think we could catch up with such lofty achievements in just 100 years, clever as we may be! Haha :)

- the argument the government doesn't tell us because it's our own secret program is weaker than the government doesn't tell us because we have no secret programs that can compare to this. Ass covering and relative incompetence are more likely than anomalous uber tech that we sly-brag about but haven't really used.
> every "simple" form API service ends up being an oil tanker's worth of extras for having to justify being a paper-thin middleware that charges $10-$100 per month.

There is IMHO no viable market for a simple and cheap endpoint to save arbitrary data somewhere.

If you're competing for people with little technical skills and need a simple and "dumb" service, they are captive to you and you can charge more, albeit in exchange for a more polished experience. You also need extra for the support costs and marketing etc.

Targeting savy technical users is a losing proposition as they can build it for cheap enough (or reuse part of some other service provider's infra for that purpose), so you need to either be dirt cheap and that's no sustainable business, or be enterprise grade.
Employment contracts don't really matter in the US. They can fire you for just about any reason they want at any time, regardless of whether or not it's mentioned in your so-called employment contract.
Usually the website already exists. I fought with the same problem and even the cheapest service was charging a really high 5$/month,which immediately loses me as a customer, because that's the price of a vps and at that point I can do it.
my solution was a gcloud function that disables functionality if billing reaches a certain threshold (the free tier limit), but if I had to pay 20 bucks per year, I would have, but nope, everybody charging more than a vps.
Programmable Artificial Life: Particle Lenia [video]
Some think AI will save us from the negative effects of climate change.
Well, you’d need to express the types of the arguments your template expects, and then your template type system and your host language type system need to agree on those types, and now you need to code-gen the host language struct type from the template args type - but what’s the point? It’s still needless toil in my view.

Just write a function in the host language, it already has a great way of expressing the types of arguments passed to a function (hopefully)
This is just for my personal website. It is mostly the SPAM. I started with the usual simple `contact.php` that emails me when someone fills the form. Then for the longest time, Wufoo[1] (a hosted service) took care of my contact form but I could no longer deal with the spam. I tried Formspree[2] as the free tier API works good enough for my personal use. Then stop dealing with it due to spam, again. I remember using Tally[3] but gave up and ended up with a `mailto:` and asking Cloudflare to obfuscate[4] the email for robots. I just no longer deal with forms, or comments on my website -- just that -- a personal choice.

Forms are the de-facto use cases for any web property. It looks and functions simple but someone has to maintain it and keep up-keeping it. It is no longer simple.

1. https://www.wufoo.com

2. https://formspree.io

3. https://tally.so

4. https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/em...