skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t get it. Doesn’t this “dangerous” tap water get in our eyes, mouths, nostrils (at least as steam or spray) every single day when we shower? I’m having a hard time getting too worried about this.
The Work Number Database
Why by state? I prefer by city, because when you move, you are personally impacted the most by the city. Average for a state seems too great a range.
Right, but FAANG stock is very liquid. I’d you squint, it’s cash.
Yes, we are working on that! We are preparing to release a feature for people to enable telemetry to contribute to a decentralized and open dataset to train and evaluate models for Selenium code
I spent 3 hours last night digging into a Linux workstation issue along these lines. the solution was in a comment on a heavily downvoted SO answer.

the commenter was (unfortunately, inevitably) shat on by a large number of people but it saved me from giving up on tech to live in a cave the rest of my days.

all I could really do was comment with my thanks but that still felt wholly inadequate.
We are talking about a car manufacturer. It's a hard lift to start a car maker. Tesla is kind of a miracle.
So many insightful comments, I don't know this adds much but "basic cost of living" or "living reasonably" has gone up fairly exponentially in the last 10-15 years. Most people in academia, if they were on the fence at all about going to industry, are probably jumping.

In some not so distant past a family could live on a single-income, one person is an associate professor at a university type arrangement. These days without dual-incomes it's anomalous if you can even afford to buy a home.

It's a circular problem too because the recent waves of "tech boom" + after-shocks from CV19 and associated economic "policy" the slope has become even steeper.

It doesn't help that modern academia, if it was really ever different, at the graduate, post-graduate and doctoral level is basically indentured servitude. There's a reason why most graduate programs are filled with "foreigners", it's no different than H1B abuse in the tech industry -- unversities know they can abuse this work force for peanuts.

So if you just finished your PhD after doing 70-80 hr weeks for the past 4-6 years and you have choice A) Continue the same and hope you can get a crack at your own research team B) Get a job, work ~10hrs/day and afford to buy new clothes, a decent car, eat well and not live in a shack, you'd likely pick choice 'B'.
Those job posts are from companies that YC has invested in. Most of those companies are yet another way of trying to get rich without any real product of worth. If people were allowed to comment on them, the reality of those companies will get exposed. So such posts are exempt from the glorified rule that let the HN community decide what's interesting and what's not and comment and vote accordingly.
This is basically how houses in central Europe work. The walls and floors are built with masonry (bricks or concrete) and wrapped in a thick layer of insulation. This results in a building with a very high thermal mass.

The result is that it takes a long time for the inside of the building to change temperature.

The other day we had a warm sunny spring day (5C / 40F), so I opened all the windows and did some spring cleaning. I set the thermostat to 16C as I didn't want the heating coming on while I was doing this.

I forgot about this, and the next day when I woke up wondered why the temperature in the house was only 20.5C (68F) as usually we have it set to 22C (72F) - then I remembered I effectively turned off the heating 18 hours ago, and forgot to turn it back on.
Concrete is bad for the environment and strongly arguably worse than mass timber, which is a reason why folks are pushing mass timber.

Concrete development for buildings produces a lot of CO2 and from that POV mass timber is better. Logging harms animal habitat, but so does gravel mining.
Everything feels unidiomatic. The API design is bad, the frontends they build are horrific, reliability and availability are shocking.

And yet the AI is so good I put up with them everyday

If they ever grow into a proper product org they'll be unstoppable.
Energy is (sometimes) free, or even negative priced (!!!!).

As it turns out: it's economically infeasible to turn off solar panels, wind, nuclear and sometimes Hydro (depending on water rights, it may be illegal to store water/energy at a water dam).

In all of these cases, the energy is 0 cost or even negative cost.
I sure could use some platform based (i.e. Not Google) image categorization. FOSS, preferably. I have so many images that desperately need to be identified simply as “tree”, “sunset” or whatever. I use the ios search for entertainment; it’s so scary awful. No OCR needed yet, though I recall some software that I can’t find that does a very simple renaming of PDF’s. Useful for those numeric arxiv articles, and the infinitely-obfuscated sheet music downloads from imslp.org.

Real magic for me would be a simple breaking up of musical scores into sections 1,2,3,4 and so on. I am currently scrolling through the entire work to bookmark the sections, and print them out separately as pdf’s.

Just throwing that out. I haven’t looked yet at your github. Been terribly busy today. Will give it a look-see. Thanks for posting it here.
Despite how verbose it is, I honestly like working with VHDL more than Verilog.
Gerald M. Levin, Time Warner Chief in a Merger Debacle, Dies at 84
Considering how much people steal in walmart, i dont see this going well unless this is mainly added in secured places
I disable autocomplete, brace matching, suggestions, hints, and every other feature which pops something up or moves the highlights or causes a flash in the editing pane, because I can't stand the distraction. Opening up a factory-configured installation of VSCode, with all of its automatic helpers turned on, feels about as disorienting and off-putting as browsing the web without an adblocker.
From a business perspective, the more painful and difficult some good or service is to offer, the better. Upon finding something very painful that is easy for you/your team to offer, it could be a viable, defensible business model by automating and schleping for customers efficiently when offering value for money.

(Just don't be a risky, low margin, labor intensive, short lifecycle, unscalable business like a restaurant unless you're really, really, ..., really good in some niche like a place that has people line up around the block at 8:30 am for BBQ several days a week.)
> Very little land...in all... of North America. That's a big place for such a tight summary lol.

The problem is it's de facto illegal to actually build anything in city centres in North America, because of postwar zoning laws (it only takes 1 NIMBY to block any development, so it's not literally illegal but it might as well be). So even if you start your own new city in the middle of the empty desert, as soon as a hundred people move there you can't build anything anymore. That's why the only cities in NA are the ones that were built pre-1940, and as demand grows while supply stays fixed, they just get more and more expensive.
Your repo is very helpful. Really great comments. It's too bad that I'm so busy. The Nix sirens are certainly calling, but I'll have to plug my ears for now.
The mobile app is pretty good

Horrendous in non english languages though, the accents are extremely American
Show HN: Generate Mermaid Diagrams from Text
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* Multi-threading, high performence
* ECMAScript programming, native JS engine
* Multiple protocol support
* Multiple CPU arch support
* Faster
>that made it past clinical trials

What do you mean by this? Perhaps, that some of them are bad and thus shouldn't be used by the general population?
Why did you think that was the first usage? The conversation linked even implies they’re referring to a previously known concept - no one said “I call this the “YX problem”. Merely reiterated a common cultural touchstone.
How much do you want to gamble?

Retainers start at around $10k.
A criticism I have with not just Technology Connections but plenty of similar channels is that each video seems to just be whatever they thought of doing next.

I would love something of the same caliber of quality but with a blueprint for an entire series that would cover the compete gamut of a subject.

A popular YouTuber mentioned on HN, and deservedly so, is Ben Eater. His series on building a 6502 computer on a breadboard is exactly the kind of blueprint-driven content I would like to see more of. He had a goal of beginning from a clock circuit and ending up with an 8-bit breadboard computer displaying ASCII to an LCD display and he delivered it in a series of chapters.
> This idea that the problem with western society is that we allow people to live in detached houses with yards instead of inner-city apartment buildings is bollocks.

The problem isn't that people are allowed to live in detached houses with yards, it's that they're not allowed to live anywhere else. Plenty of people evidently want to live in apartment buildings - it wouldn't be necessary to make them illegal otherwise.
China isn't even remotely comparable to the USA.

The urban mega cities are a prop that the CCP puts on display for the world. There's a reason that China's GDP-per-capita lands somewhere between Kazakhstan and Cuba.I would know because I've been there. If you go to a random exurban part of China you're going to find people living in makeshift tin structures, a lack of running water, oxcarts used as serious transportation, and a society that is functionally in the 1930s.

The CCP are masters of propaganda though, and flood Youtube and social media with influencers riding around on maglev trains and showing off new airports and architecture. Even on American Social Media, if you look for videos of "The Real China", or "Chinese Poverty" you'll get carefully curated propaganda that does not line up with what I saw first hand.
Also, scrappy teams with marginal investment tend to produce better results than elitist, over-funded teams that go on hiring and travel binges like they won the (VC) lottery.
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SpaceX has a license to launch Starship–this time it might fly at dawn
When machines were cash only you could theoretically avoid taxes on some of the income, something that might have offset some of the hassles. With credit cards and electronic payment that’s not really possible.
MGA Thermal uses tiny aluminium droplets in carbon matrix material to do heat storage with 1: constant temperature storage and 2: at much higher temperatures and energy density that allows for steam generation etc.
What happened is that the average attention span fell bellow 2 seconds. There is a book. “Amusing ourselves to death”. YOU can watch those videos. The average person today will be bored and tune out.
I have never really seen it for any developer still in the game, regardless of age. Many developers kind of check out at some point, but that isn’t ageism. Some people never lose the fire and skill is cumulative.
You don't even need to share it at all, though having external feedback is nice. Writing is a gift to your future self. My only regret with my Zettelkasten is that I didn't start earlier. Being able to find what I thought related to some subject at any point in time is incredible. I refer to my notes daily.
Fully remote. Salary range is 100 - 170k.
Accoding to the CEO (Michael Saylor) most of the price premium comes from institutions like pension funds not being allowed to directly hold BTC, but they are allowed to a ratio of the money in stocks. At the same time they need exposure to BTC as an independent asset that performs well (funds have performance mandates).

Of course now that spot ETF is approved it changes the picture somewhat, but it looks like MSTR is still needed as an institutional vehicle for wrapping BTC.
Life is short. Most fads are fads for reasons and I think you can learn to recognize and avoid them. I think the bigger problem is people thinking the fad tech is much harder than it is, or more essential than it is, and assuming bad things about people who don't know it just because they're old.
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Buy my course on vending machines
Not my call. I just interview people.
Reading this on WSJ is interesting. Having been raised in a very working-class family, but now being fortunate enough to have a stock portfolio, I'm struck by how romantic a business like this (or the other small business entrepreneurs I see on YouTube, such as a guy who runs laundromats and car washes) is to me -- I guess just by how straightforward the business model is and how it appears (at first glance) to be something one man can just do all by himself.

It's inexplicably intriguing to me to consider doing a side hustle like this -- even though in terms of both risk and reward I have to acknowledge it is probably no better than what my savings is doing right now in various stocks and funds.
You can DIY this on the cheap by connecting solar panels directly a $10 hot water heating element and burying it in sand. You will need to pair the right spec element with your panels

No charge controller, inverter or battery needed.
This isn’t Japan half the cost will be in securing the machine from vandals and thieves
Operation Mockingbird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Yeah pretty "wild" I know, but true.
> Shooting a virus at a masked mannequin in a lab

Your point is even stronger than you make it sound.

Nobody shot a virus at anything. They shot beads of polystyrene latex.

If you woke up from a dream where such a study occurred, you'd laugh/sigh at your own outlandish imagination.

I admit - I actually took this seriously for a brief while and believed that masks were a plausible intervention. But how people can still hold that assessment years on is baffling. I have to believe it's mostly just bots at this point; no humans in my actual life have had their mind unchanged by the intervening data.
I agree with the author, but they don't seem to get into what we can do to get it back to a more delightful experience.

I don't think the solution is to have more passionate builders in existing organizations that have overly short-term priorities (increase revenue this week vs. re-imagine a market).

I only see things changing through better competing products. Similar to how LLMs have enabled products that completely circumvent crap in search results (e.g. low quality listicles), we will see the same happen for most products and services.

Some products are going to be tough to displace, and it might take a new airplane startup that owns the entire ticket purchasing to inflight entertainment and last mile transportation (airport to destination) to show the world what an incredible flying experience could look like, that will force other airlines to at least try and catch up.

I hope more people with these sort of frustrations (which I share!) try to re-imagine experiences from the ground up and not shy away from tackling problems in big ways. We need more of it.
No worries! It's not always super obvious where the lines are.
It’s funny how Apple fans here, and on other forums, dislike the seemingly arbitrary heavy handed gate keeping on Apple by the EU when in fact Apple engages in far extreme level of arbitrary gate keeping and this is somehow loved by the same people.
Hi everyone,

Created this because I think creating diagrams using LLMs is lot easier and mermaid supports lot of advanced usecases that are hard to do by hand. For example colorizing a diagram to make it look good is easy to do with LLMs but hard by hand coding.
Here is a quick demo also if you like to watch the youtube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m73pnDT_9Y

Example: https://huehive.co/tools/diagrams/741

Please note that this is just the initial version. Please try it out and provide your feedback.

Edit: Added example.
Also - warranties their work, it’s expensive to build/replace, has high damages if it fails, and is exposed to the elements and unpredictable animals/weather.

Frankly it’s shocking they try anything new at all.
Oh that's not a problem - the only thing we care about is that you'll follow the rules in the future. I appreciate the good intention.
Perhaps software engineers looking for accountability would like the same level of liability that is enjoyed by their peers in civil, mechanical, mining, and electrical engineering?
devs: there's too much complexity! security is impossible!

also devs: let's add just one more layer on top of linux -> docker -> k8s

godspeed to the nanos team for trying to simplify the stack
I wonder if he makes more money from his YouTube channel where he talks about vending machines.
Brb going to radiology school, given how finished tech is
The elephant in the room is that the majority of the standards we end up with are the same thing done three or more different ways in a great rush by a bunch of industry players, with the most popular one being sufficient for a demo app, and the rest being unknown and NIH'd out of parlance.

What we've managed to seriously agree on:

* 8-bit bytes

* IEEE 754

* Unicode

Still up for grabs to a motivated dissenter:

* Endianness

* Line endings

* 3D coordinate systems

* Structured data encoding

* Networking protocols

* Calendars

* Everything else

The browser does work and do some useful things. At the same time, it is mostly a defacto-standard in the post-Chromium era. Specifications like Web Audio did not appear through a lengthy process like, e.g., what created MIDI 2.0. A team at Google appointed themselves a rubber stamp for the thing they wanted to do. But if you actually want to implement it, you look at what Chromium did.

These days I go with the assumption that most of our interfaces are not seriously standardized, and starting over is correct once you have an application that really needs control.
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Was a joke based on how people are manipulating LLMs to get around filters. People call it prompt injection kind of like SQL injection

https://learnprompting.org/docs/prompt_hacking/injection
In some states, severance pay can delay or reduce eligibility for unemployment benefits. The generous multi-month severance packages that many tech workers receive could have an effect on the unemployment numbers as a consequence—but I’m speculating.
Have you considered that a lack of junior roles is a sign of saturation?
Probably written by GPT4
Are you including the maintenance costs of the water panel in your estimate?

I used to buy this argument, but then:

A) PV panels got ridiculously cheap

B) everyone I know with solar hot water has emptied their systems because the maintenance hassles were not worth dealing with

Using high grade intermittent current to produce resistive heat isn’t high on my list of efficient things to do, but unfortunately neither is maintaining hot water panels.
Brilliant idea/URL.

It’s often true though. So many things I think “I could make an app for that” I wind up just using a spreadsheet for. At least it helps me explore the use cases more deeply for when I’d want to actually take it to the next level.

I hung out with a friend while they solved Advent of Code challenges in Excel, that was a trip to watch.
Yup. Too much context to give on a HN thread, don't really care to defend it. I'm sure the process isn't perfect and I'm looking for ways to improve it, but it's certainly not an easy problem to solve.
>refuse to change a single thing they do and learned 50 years ago

they weren't using nail guns 50 years ago, and they surely are now.
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this is actually explained briefly in the first movie

NEO: Do you always look at it encoded?

CYPHER: Have to. The image translators sort of work for the construct programs but there's way too much information to decode the Matrix.

Everyone learns to read the raw code because humans don't have access to enough compute to decode the live matrix data stream
Insurance companies don’t have to, people are voluntarily installing dash cams to show who was at fault (or at least show they were not). Chances are, someone is recording your collision, and you might as well have your evidence to fight against someone else’s.
This is such a great post. Thank you to share this personal story.

> My best friend as a kid was blind

How did you meet him? Were you in the same class at school? Or a neighborhood friend?
I have that and do that, but it still dissuaded me from using this service. I may have a large tinfoil bat but I still have some standards.
Yep, there's a good chance that the people selling the proverbial shovels and pick-axes are getting richer than those mining the gold.
The only kind of vending machine low maintenance enough that I think it can count as passive is digital vending machines that only take electronic payment, e.g. a Bitcoin ATM. There's no physical goods to restock so once it's in place, you're hopefully good for a long time. But as you point out, even getting the location, the machine, and then installing it, is enough work to potentially not fully count as passive.
Their free tier is extremely reasonable. Storing TOTPs in your password manager is a niche use case that I think should be entirely avoided unless you're working with a team.
I'm no expert, but it seems quite concerning that something as simple as a seat movement might not be sufficiently isolated from flight systems to prevent an electrical short.
It's much harder to steal out of a vending machine than it is to grab something off a shelf in a store and walk out.
> Therefore, it's likely, that sometimes when you do this, you're actually not helping; the answer is X, and your comments about Y are both wrong and unhelpful.

> Come on, are you never wrong? We're all wrong sometimes.

Whatever you do you'll always be wrong sometimes. Answering Y is usually helpful, that's why people do it.

> I suggest that the 'race to be the first answer and get karma for it' is the motivator that drives people to do this on some platforms, rather than any actual desire to help / any actual competence in the question domain / actually knowing what they're talking about in many cases;

This is, if anything, even more true of people who answer the literal question asked while giving no thought as to what the questioner actually wants.

> a partial answer to X is never that time consuming.

Disagree. Often X really is something possible-but-difficult; you can give a "partial answer" in the sense of "I'll need a research team and five years", but that doesn't really help anyone.
I so very much want this idea but coded in Rust. Alas, I'll have to try this out.
Intergenerational trauma echoes, and the kids spend their lives putting themselves back together and finding their blind spots.

I was gobsmacked today by Rod Nordland's revelations on Amanpour that were a degree more intense but strikingly similar to my own childhood, and how I somehow
also share gravitation to extreme sports and dangerous situations.
Awesome :-) Hope I get that far :-D

Congrats!
We've had a lot of fun watching people make "I'm being gangstalked" videos over the last couple years. YT, not TikTok.
Hi team, Hope you're doing well :) I wanted to reach out to express my keen interest to join Ohalo as a Frontend engineer with 4+yrs of experience and I'd be happy to have a conversation at your convenience to explore how I can make a valuable contribution. Feel free to reach me at khyati.bardolia@gmail.com or on linkedin(https://www.linkedin.com/in/khyati-bardolia/)

I'm eagerly anticipating your response. Thank you!