skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely autistic to name drop the title to an audience of adults who likely don't remember anything about Sesame Street and being too literal. It shows the difference in cognitive ability between the brothers pretty well. The brother who seems to be doing better in daily life has a pretty good idea of what kind of answer a random person would expect.
> I imagine that we will see this tech rolled into all the various photo apps shortly.

Yeah, Google's and Apple's Photos both can search for pictures given a description of what you're looking for. In my experience both work very well (e.g. search for "cars" in your pics, and it'll find all your cars over the years if you, like me, take pictures with your cars a lot :) ).
Every company I know that balked at using the "enterprise" version of either an OpenAI product or the equivalent Azure Open AI service already uses Microsoft 365, Teams, Azure DevOps, and Azure itself.

"We can't just give some unknown company our data!" screeched management.

"You already have."
E.g. Atlassian
Simple, not easy
Flutter is a nice alternative I found in that a lot of thought really went into how to design a UI framework from the ground up using everything we now have learned over the years about what works, what is important and without having to worry about backwards compatibility but could take a greenfield approach.

With that one exception I otherwise agree, CSS especially in 2024 is actually very nice to use for the most part.
Yes I have been on the senior management team of several companies and have worked with sales. Your lazy stereotype is as bad a suggesting programmers all sit in dark rooms with starwars T shirts and Body Odour issues.

I have seen sales people create very complex excel models, and use low code tools to build their own pipelines because corporate IT were too pig ignorant to help them. I have seen them use screen recorders to beat the lack of API access. Ihave seen finance people use WSL, Cygwin, Python, Anaconda and more.
They can fly if they flap their wings in appropriate directions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9LTZCmb8Q
I was told I was the first to try webassembly in Houdini resulting in the browser to crash. Filed a bug and it was closed for inactivity.

It seems like nobody is working on this now.
The convenient thing about this is that it's written in vanilla Pl/PgSQL. It can be tempting to copy the `index_advisor(text)`function in a session and start hard-coding stuff and heuristics :D .

Most meaningful extensions need to be compiled, installed, created dropped.
The article is about the cultural reasons for "Arab" armies being relatively ineffective in conventional stand-up battles against A List western armed forces. Both the author's PoV and his target audience seem to be American military officers assigned to train Arab armies in how to fight such battles.

Within that limited PoV, you could say that the author is right - but the bigger picture is that winning stand-up battles is very different from achieving the objectives for which a nation went to war. And that difference is nothing resembling news. Carl von Clausewitz (perhaps the most famous western military theorist of all time) was writing extensively about that difference two centuries ago.
This is very helpful, thank you. I am in my 50s, so heading your direction. I observe in my friend's parents the importance of keeping the mind active. I am fortunate to have such a fun way of solving puzzles.
I'm pretty gruntled myself.
Off the top of my head: Make the plexiglass removable (lift to remove/drop to fix in place) OR in a groove at the bottom, fasteners at the top. This would remove any issues with insertion drops and allow swaps.

People can go rogue with any vending device - they all have flaws!
The activists are in her neighborhood handing out needles already, why are there still syringes for her to clean? How come the Savage Sisters have time to hand out needles and lecture but not enough time to grab a broom and clean up after their 'friends'?
Something something about everything looking like a nail when you’re holding a hammer
I am a little lost here. So correct me.

The Founder of the company decided to pour in his own money worth of millions ( assuming that is true ) into the company. He bootstrapped it.

They were on track to becoming profitable. And now, as the replies shows they are now profitable.

He decided to spend some money to buy everyone a t-shirt as a gift.

And all I see is not thank you but anger and frustrations. Pointing to waste of time as if the product is going downhill or not iterating fast enough. But in fact according to changelog they are doing pretty well.

Spending my own money to say thank you in my own way and all I got was, all these negativity.

I just don't get it.
Is it some kind of way to keep track of flex time or similar?
Yep, that’s right. Its a great rule though, and as explained in the article it works at any speed, highway or not. Personally I keep 4 seconds.
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CABForum seeks to require CAs to implement MPIC
I was looking for something like this since I found the awesome Firefox plugin, thank you!
> this volunteer-driven model often means there are limited resources available for conducting comprehensive security audits...

A good example of the misuse of the word limited. It needs insufficient.
Enabling IoT with DECT NR+ Non-Cellular 5G Standard [video]
I don’t know about other countries but that’s absolutely the case for the US.

The culprit is the AMA.

> In the 20th century, the AMA has frequently lobbied to restrict the supply of physicians, contributing to a doctor shortage in the United States.[10][11][12] The organization has also lobbied against allowing physician assistants and other health care providers to perform basic forms of health care. The organization has historically lobbied against various of government-run health insurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association
I would choose to play it by the book.
50€ can be literally less than 30 minutes of discussion over the item being bought.
This makes sense in the IS, and the AMA does indeed try to limit the number of graduating medical students. But in the UK most doctors will work for the state where they are all on the same pay scale (I think) so a lack of supply shouldn’t be expected to push up the price of labour much.

One reason you could imagine is that the health trusts determine roughly how many student doctors they are able to train and then the government limits graduation rates based on this. But I don’t know if that’s the actual reason, and it could be a half-reason, eg the number was set a long time ago and not updated.
> a huge job to get anything self hosted last IT with their policy of 'we are in charge of the computers and we will decide how you run your business'

... because we are also in charge of:

- the bills for the servers/networks/storage to "self host" your new shiny application

- the installation/upgrade/administration/support of the servers/networks... and of your application (because the finance department doesn't know how to do it)

- the integration of your "self hosted" application into the AD (for the SSO), mail system, slack, backup/restore system (in case of crash or hack)... and the maintenance of all of it

- eventually ensure that the application datas can be exported to other apps or migrated (when the new shiny self hosted app will be less new... and a new new new shiny self hosted app will be bought)

- the cybersecurity of your "self hosted" application... and of the whole corporate IT !!!!! Remember: a single application is enough to compromise the whole corp IT (OK... it can be segmented, 0-trusted, and so... be it increase attack surface and cybersecurity cost anyway)

In fact: BUYING a "self hosted" application is the EASY part, the HARD part is to make it RUN, DAY-TO-DAY, for AS LONG AS REQUIRED for the business (including legal requirements sometimes to keep datas for long time)

OK, when "local IT" ask for application, they usually can manage part of it technically but... either they wont (because they just dont have time! Remember: they want the tools to do their job, but the tool is NOT their job) or they cant (because they're devs and not admin sys/net sys and they dont know)

At most: they can use some "sandbox" unconnected to "corp IT", but then they either need to forget all nice things (like backup systems or AD) or to implement it and maintain it (shadow IT)...

IMHO, that's part of the explanation for the "SaaS" and "Cloud" development: externalizing all of these costs
The forward wings produce forward-high to rear-low airflow, while the rear wing produces a rear-high to forward-low flow. Those join in the middle to a top-down flow.
I resinate with the joy of making things and building castles in the air, thank you. I very occasionally write poems, so I get the thought-srtuff.
Controlling the HS100 WiFi plug from the command line (2016)
Neither can bumblebees, and yet...
It’s happened in more places than just large cities with historically bad neighborhoods. In my city it transformed a small working class neighborhood into ground zero for drug addicts and crime after they opened one. The people using the site are not getting better in any way and now that they all congregate in one area and get high they are causing a lot more damage to the community.
Consider dropping "AI" from the name.
Thanks, I will fix this part. As far as I can tell, it is only the example of what can cause the table rewrite that's wrong, so it would be correct if the example was to make a varchar shorter? Although I guess that's not a table rewrite, only a long validation...
I would disagree. If you think only about yourself - yes, it's not about the money. But if you want make life of your children, grandchildren, etc better, the only answer is money, building generational wealth.
Assuming that they're capable of changing the wing angle of attack, they seem to be doing the same motions that dragonfly wings make during flight, including take-off. Here is a slow motion video of one taking off (note the vertical motion of the wings): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOc8WTzMljw
That's certainly one definition of Ethics, as a field of study.

However, it's not the exclusive definition of the word.

Let us refer to Oxford:

ethic noun

/ˈeθɪk/

/ˈeθɪk/

ethics

[plural]
Moral principles that control or influence a person’s behaviour

Professional/business/medical ethics

To draw up a code of ethics.

He began to question the ethics of his position.

[singular]
System of moral principles or rules of behaviour

The ethic of personal achievement is very strong in western societies.

ethics

[uncountable]
The branch of philosophy that deals with moral principles
I got curious when I read this comment https://twitter.com/BrunoPresents/status/1779373530951360622 and did some research.

I found a Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/521S64a

Their flight mechanism is amazingly sophisticated (and efficient, cf the experiment showing that bees can fly at height above Mount Everest and below sea level, which is nuts) but it seems it has nothing to do with some "vibrational field".

If someone here knows more about this, definitely share!
BTW, the actual lowest rates for SF are closer to ~$0.26/kWh, and may be lower during the winter months at the lowest usage tier ("below baseline.")

https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/alternate-energy...

I can't work it out exactly without doing more research than is worth. As I said, the schedules are complex, maybe someone more versed in this can chime in.

Hopefully SF will finally manage to force PG&E to sell it the city's grid. I doubt it will lead to rates as low as Santa Clara's, though.

https://sfpuc.org/about-us/news/its-high-time-san-francisco-...
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (14/2024): Phosh 0.38.0 and other news
The ones we purchased were made in two different ways. Production ones were made by using a diffraction pattern of UV light to modify the refractive index of the core slightly, the other was using femptosecond lasers to alter it more dramatically.

The UV light method worked fine, came out to about $600US per fibre with 32 gratings each, not exactly cheap. The measurement unit was on the order of $20k US though.
I purchase my own software licences and claim it on tax.

Because it's a false economy.

I've won awards at work, became indispensable on certain projects, and have been given pay rises, choose the work I want to do, through finding the affordable right tools for the job and purchasing them.

My Jetbrains licenses are a
classic example of this. I couldn't imagine refractoring code without it.

If the cost cutting stopped, I'd have more competition in the workplace.
This is super cool, I love how it suggests safer ways to achieve the same goal for many common risky migrations. Definitely going to sit down and study these.
Arguing with the physics of Dune is like taking issue with the way time travel works in Back to the Future.

Still suits honestly have the more glaring issue, and that's one that's apparent not just on film, but in the original text as well.

Anyway, it's not science fiction; it's space fantasy. Let it be.
Typically there is a price limit.

Below the limit, there is an assigned budget for the dev team. You can buy online and the price is visible. Above that sum you must do sales negotiation and the price is not public in the sellers site.

If buying the tools for the whole team costs a few grand, you can buy it online. If the sum is higher the price is negotiated and costs the company at least five figures.
> While the Wasm binary is faster than a JavaScript implementation would be

Is this still true? JS JIT compile and all...
Usually the situation is that we ask for an address, and get told directions instead.
Nice, there's even a new/surplus Humanscale wall-mount monitor arm for 15% of retail.
During my late 20s I realised I was very good at my programming job but not much use at anything else. It was quite a disappointing realisation.

I started to do less and eventually no programming outside of office hours and instead invest my spare time in different hobbies and experiences.

I found gaining these new skills really helped build my confidence. 15 years later I'm not just a programmer, I'm a also a motorcyclist, experienced carpenter, been a member of certain meet up groups for over a decade, travelled to a few exotic locations, flown upside down in a plane, the list goes on.

None of these things are exceptional but doing this extra stuff has given me enough dimensions that I kind of feel comfortable with the way I've done the last 15 years. This along with starting a relationship and building a family is enough for me now.

Sure, I could have done more but compared to the corporate quagmire of my 20s things are very different.
I feel like this is the truth for the vast majority of people?

Nobody I know is out to do more than live their lives as best they can, and then pass away quietly and contendedly. In between there’s a ton of challenges. Many more than I’d ever have expected growing up or only looking at Facebook, but everyone makes it work.
Indeed. I asked a dev to set up an ftp server. He was a decent Linux admin and had done this plenty of times on a £10 vps. This time he chose an AWS service that cost over a grand a month. It caused me lots of trouble when I got my credit card bill, and we were already well into the next month of charges. After that I had to take tighter control.
Excel is so ubiquitous because it is the only IDE/Programming Language/Database Environment business users can run in a restricted corporate IT environment.
Ubuntu's Unity on 14.04 was top GUI for me. It worked well at least through 18.04 even after it was no longer the default. I was using a Mac at the time as well, and I have since moved to Mac (still on Catalina ...).

There were no things from the Mac I was missing with Unity. There are still things on the Mac that I miss from Unity (most notably, the multiple dots indicating the number of open windows, and the setting where the screen that does NOT have the default window can be subtly dimmed)
This is a classic I don't have a catchy term for it problem, where someone focusses on the details of a given contrived example and thinks the problem and the solution are all solved by addressing the details of that specific contrived example.

The 2am story above is not the problem. Thinking up something that would have avoided that specific story like "have 3 people in shift rotation instead of just yourself, and then you never have a 2am problem", or "don't push code at 2am" is not a solution to the problem.

The value of simple data formats that can be directly read by a human without any special tools, is that it makes the data accessible to reading, analyzing, even processing or modifying, in all of the unknown unknowable infinite possible situations.

You don't know ahead of time that you will one day solve a problem deep in the trenches by being able to read or maybe even modify a file or the stdin in a cgi before some crazy untouchable special app picks it up. You don't know ahead of time that the platform will not have a db client you can use to access the data, but you do know that everything can process text, even an obscure cpu with no gcc or git or any of your usual nice toys, has some sort of shell and some sort of text editor.

You can't touch the main app which is some legacy mainframe banking thing or something, you don't have and can't install or compile anything, but you can still read the data and see that there is some unicode character scattered all through it, and you can set up a dirty hack stream edit to convert it to a single byte ascii replacement, using nothing but plain posix sh or some equivalent no matter what the platform.

And that ugly hack is nine thousand times more useful to the bosses and to yourself than not being able to see what was wrong with the data, and then only being able to say "the other side is sending us bad data, it will be broken until they fix their end, or until we can modify the crazy untouchable thing on our end, because I'm a helpless useless twat"

You can't predict ahead of time exactly when or why or how you will end up wanting to be able to access the data without the normal proper tools or apps from the happy path. But it's a fact that it happens, and having the option is more useful than not having the option. And being the person who can solve a problem is more useful than being the person who can't do anything any other way except the normal expected way.

No one said this trumps all other considerations for all jobs for all data, just that it's very valuable, a consideration among other considerations, and you can't predict all the specific ways in which it is valuable, and so giving it up has to be necessary not thoughtless.
"Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authority"

Wow, I said almost this exact sentence to my co-founder just a few days ago to explain to him why my no-code serverless platform which allowed me to build our entire startup, bug-free, in record time cannot be anything more than a side project or tool for my own usage and cannot be monetized.

It doesn't matter than I can build something 10x as fast and avoid 99% of bugs. Those with decision ability are brainwashed to think that the way to reduce bugs is TypeScript and the way to build software fast is React.
In this case it also has decorative purposes: horizontal shelving in this space would be boring. So it sacrifices utility for the sake of decor.
Most of these products seem targeted at professional offices, and the buyers there usually get a pretty big discount compared to retail (or list) prices.

But yes, buying used stuff is generally cheaper than buying new.
>If all kinds of straws would disappear overnight, people's quality of life would not be affected the slightest.

straws help offset a variety of dental issues when consuming things like soda or tea, and they provide a means for lesser-able people to drink independently.

a straw was one of my first pieces of 'accessibility equipment' after a spinal cord injury, and it helped my psyche tremendously during recovery to be able to drink the stuff provided by my hospital without having to be fed it by a nurse or loved one.

there are worlds of depth in every day objects that are taken for granted.
That's how you make parents feel good about themselves, that they did something useful, while their kids are unhappy with shit pseudo-toys they got. That's how amateurs and people who mistake priorities in edutainment do things.

Pros know that you always target the kids - not just for toys, but for many other categories of wares too. Kids may have no spending authority, but they're much better at marketing to their parents than you can possibly hope for.

Like, there's a reason you see Paw Patrol merch on every other kid everywhere - they release a highly addictive animated show for kids, and kids do the rest.

The reason this doesn't work with devs is because unlike parents of kids, people with spending authority usually don't care, as devs are a cost centre and a number on a chart, not people generating value.
Actually, it's just considering books, licences and hardware as disposables like pen and papers... and it can usually be true for some "small" local software (like an IDE, provided that either you trust the devs with admin rights or that corp IT can allow software installation). You can give either a "small" bugdet for everybody (and you wont be a software the same year that you buy a new laptop) or managed by the team/department

But it doesn't work when you need corp IT for corp IT integration
> If we were to just call the compute function inside of our Svelte front-end, we would run it in the main thread and lock up the UI, causing a bad user experience as the webpage would appear frozen. To fix this, we run that code inside of a Web Worker. Doing this will allow us to run the search algorithm in a separate thread so the main thread is available to respond to the user.

I can't see what useful response to the user is possible, given the search results are as yet unavailable.
My local supermarket (in Japan) sells canned soup in a rack like this. It's a bit looser and the cans come out horizontally at the bottom and hit a stopper, so you grab one from the top rather than the sides. The one in the article is more compact.
A business model based on engineers as the decision makers is perfectly possible. But it is confined to tools where an engineer can make a local optimisation without direct impact beyond that scope. IDEs are the best example. Engs in a company can be allowed to make whatever personal IDE decision that makes each one of them more productive, and the global impact of aggregating those individual decisions will be ok. Jetbrains is a testament to this.

But this is not the same for every tool. The thread author focuses on examples that fall in this second category like Redis, Terraform, AWS, etc. Unlike with IDEs, sprawl resulting from individual decisions in databases, infra management or cloud infra becomes a problem. For both! The company has to maintain a heterogeneous stack. The seller can’t make a meaningful enterprise deal just because some team chose Redis. This means that you will want to do some standardisation. At that point the impact of the choice and the size of the license become big enough that, in the same way as eng leads will want a say, finance will too, for good reason.

And needless to say, the moment finance is in the picture you will have to justify the choice in a language that is challenging for most engineers.
Can it be made to output SARIF (Static Analysis Results Interchange Format)?

This would increase the value as the results would be easier to integrate with other tools (for example, you can post SARIF to GitHub).