skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The direction is always the same "spend max a couple hours!" but the understanding is clearly you must spend significantly more.

I am in Product now, but when I was in SRE, I got one like this. "We don't want you to spend more than 3-4 hours on this", where "this" was:

Build a log parser for streaming Apache CLF. The parser should:

Keep a rolling monitor of the top 10 requests, displaying their velocity in req/sec as a rolling average.

Display aggregates of visitor counts over the last hour and day.

Have high watermark alerts when ingress traffic as a whole, or to hotspot URLs hit thresholds, and then be able to de-alert when traffic dropped.

Scaffolding to deploy same.

Unit tests and documentation for same.

Ability to ensure URLs were safe, stripped of any GET parameters.

Not overly complicated, but you're not busting that out in 3 hours in any polished manner, if at all.

Allo
There is the Rule against Perpetuities, that may apply. But it sounds the rule and its application is very complex in New York, so you'd likely need a lawyer very familiar with the specifics in New York to tell you if it applies to restrictive covenants in real estate deeds. My lay person understanding is the covenants in the 1905 deed were void for my house near San Jose, CA; but those were temperance covenants and didn't affect my daily use anyway.
At 80 mph there should be about 100 m distance between vehicles to maintain the recommended 3 seconds separation. 80 mph is 36 m/s.

I drive with traffic aware cruise control always on maximum separation (Tesla S), but hardly anyone else abides by the recommendation. Even 1 second separation is 7 car lengths at that speed.
It's not the university but the students. When you have a lot of young ambitious people with weird ideas in one place, you get trouble. Not always, but once in a while.
To be fair, this is not at all Poettering’s idea. There is, for example, precedent in the form of s6-sudo[1], a utility from the s6 service supervisor, itself very much an anti-systemd project (except I believe it predates systemd?..).

And honestly I’d be okay with a suidless Unix. For example, as best as I can tell, the only reason the kernel needs to know what executable formats even are—beyond the bare minimum needed to load PID 1—is s[ug]id binaries.

[1] https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-sudo.html
Does everyone get vacations between April and October or is that just the hockey division?
Ugh!

I still have nightmares about having to write the Validation procedure documents for a medical device production Quality system written in VBA/Excel. The program had started out as some scientist's desktop tool and somehow over the years, morphed into an actual production tool that now needed to be formally validated since we needed to make a change to it. Worst combination of spaghetti code and Big Ball of Mud that I've ever seen. I had the misfortune of being the only SW dev who was senior enough to do the task and who wasn't busy at the time, so I drew short straw!

I shudder to think of the millions of dollars of product that have been shipped as a result of that code!
History repeats like the old seo directories such as dmoz, mods just on these power trips where common sense doesn't apply.
> You put a coke bottle next to some athlete, someone makes a reference to some car in some tv show, or to some product in a movie.

Would be illegal where I live, but seems to be common on IG (I don't personally use it, so idk)
Jeep Wranglers & Gladiators are very similar.

This thread has links from how to opt out, where Stellantis is selling data, to potential module pulls, and possibly faraday cloth attempts, attaching resistive dummy loads for antennas, pulling 4g modem. [it's a smorgasboard... you're going to have to parse it to find what may interest you]

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/how-to-opt-...
I continue to be baffled at this widespread belief that Poettering somehow hoodwinked every single major Linux distro into accepting a shit product with, idk, hypnosis or something.

Is it not possible that systemd is simply better than the alternatives, and the distro owners are smart enough to notice that, instead of just wrapping themselves cultish mantras about The Unix Way and how anything which resembles a design used in Windows is bad by definition? Or could that not possibly be it and he must've used mind control magic.
Is it really "just a free product" when that stuff starts around a few hundred bucks and can easily run into the thousands?
SEEKING WORK - remote (updated!)

Location: West coast Canada.

Remote: Yes.

Technologies: Machine learning, Python, Tensorflow/Keras/pytorch, A whole host of technologies over 25 year career.

email in profile.

I'm an experienced Data scientist, who's worked on a bunch of interesting projects. With Covid I've come to realize I need to work in public more often.

So an ideal fit would be a small/medium company with hair on fire problems that need solving that I can talk about publicly.
What sort of problems do I like?

I worked with a Stuttgart based auto manufacturer to identify and predict when a part they had would fail. It turns out the answer will be familiar to west coast Canadians - The leaky condo crisis.

I worked with a well known cloud vendor to predict server failiures. Built a simple and efficient detection system that worked well. They got several minutes warning to load shift before a server failed.

A Taxi company in latam hired me to built a fleet maintenance system. It predicted and scheduled preventative maintenance to reduce wear and tear and avoid breakdowns. We also identified the leading cause of wear - leadfoot drivers. So we built a system that would identify aggressive driving.

Another example was a speculative sports highlights annotation system I built with a consultancy. It ingested sports video and identified predetermined highlights in baseball - diving catches in our case. The ML pipeline was a CNN model which fed into an RNN.
Given a bunch of video clips of diving catches as training data, it could later identify those diving catches and automatically annotate the video feeds.

Who shouldn't contact me.

If your market is Ads or gambling I'm not interested. Sure there's lot of money, but I'd rather sleep at night. Thanks.

What I'm working on right now:

Low compute AI and connecting them to interpretable and defensible knowledge bases. I think these huge models that cost millions to train are the wrong path. I'll show things in public in time.
Mostly that some of the words it uses like "delve" are common in Nigerian English, according to them anyway, and they consider themselves especially big fans of writing purple prose the same way it does.

https://www.nairaland.com/3716282/nigerians-use-english-lang...
This is a dual post from another comment in the same thread:

Jeep Wranglers & Gladiators are very similar.

This thread has links from how to opt out, where Stellantis is selling data, to potential module pulls, and possibly faraday cloth attempts, attaching resistive dummy loads for antennas, pulling 4g modem. [it's a smorgasboard... you're going to have to parse it to find what may interest you]

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/how-to-opt-...
Pretty much what I have been saying.

Windows 7 was in many aspects Vista SE, they just had to give it a new name because Vista was so „tainted“.

I mean it even reported as Windows NT 6.1 (Vista was 6.0)
Actually man would have been 2004 - it was this site that I lost days to - https://www.cedmagic.com/selectavision.html
It is likely given these numbers at least some tons of Martian rock land here annually, which makes the seeding of life concept feasible. I'm on board with "not hundreds of tons", but it's a lot closer estimate than 277 ever.

(48.5 * 365) * (277 / 72,000) = 68 tons per year as an extremely speculative estimate here, ignoring entirely probable variances in what hits us (much of which is sand-grain sized) versus what we identify... and again, any estimate here we have to multiply by a few billion years.
Reddit moderation is an experiment in autocratic dictatorship, and this is yet another shining example.

While not all moderators behave selfishly or egotistically, a large enough number of them do such that the experience at scale sucks.

You don't know what the rules of each individual subreddit are, and you can easily find yourself banned for completely harmless behavior. This is at odds with Reddit's recent growth strategy of funneling people into new subreddits from the main feed. Often times you may not even know what subreddit you're in, yet the mods still expect you to read their rules before commenting.

I was shadow banned from my home city for commenting on crime once. I never got a reason or justification. Now I can't exchange concert tickets or participate in local discussion. It feels like a crime against my person.

I've had moderators ban me for winning a friendly argument they weren't even involved in.

I've even been banned for posting in an unrelated subreddit: there's a moderation bot that will check your post history and automatically ban you. It's funny because I don't share the ideology of the subreddit they flagged me for posting in.

All of this is a shining example of why freedom of speech is so important, and why moderation should be an individual choice where users can apply their own filters and blocking.

Reddit mods get in early and by that merit alone are entitled to power. It doesn't make sense anymore.
This is really cool. I wonder how they pipe the data to stripe?

As an aside kind of funny to see this pop up. I was just talking about if anyone was doing ordering through a cli a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39817617
Chocolate’s been around a while too, but it can still be the flavor of the month.
Good podcasts and videos can't be replicated by AI. I watch two channels on YT; Eric Rosen playing chess, and a guy nicknamed Hoover who runs Pilot Debrief. Both bring subject matter expertise that can't really be fooled.

I also listen to the ATP podcast, and do so because of the personalities and experience the three members have.
Unless you are consulting local IP and corporate lawyers, than you are almost certainly making mistakes.

There are a few areas one really needs to watch:

1. Dependent contractor status: Unless contracts state otherwise, a business could be hit with a massive tax bill at year end for things like pension contributions for a disgruntled contractor.

2. Comprehensive copyright transfer agreements that prevent edge-cases like disgruntled family suing your firm for ownership after someone passes.

3. Implicit/Explicit ownership of IP generated at/outside a firm depends on contract signing location, and on the nature of external projects. In some places a company can sue workers for ownership of whatever they build outside company hours unless explicitly given an exemption in the contract.

4. You don't necessarily own something just because you paid somebody outside your jurisdictional context. This is a deep copyright/trademark/patent rabbit-hole, and the answer is always "it depends"...

I am not saying you are necessarily exposing people to potential liabilities, but one should at least have legal folks take a cursory glance at your business plan for the service locations.

Best of luck =)
I'd think average people are seeing more and more ads, not fewer. ie. low-tier subscriptions with ads, google getting really aggressive about ad-blocking, etc.
Large Language Models and the Paradox of the Unsayable
this is currently downvoted and I don't get why-

there are ways to make productive change that aren't harassment. if your take to "don't harass the mods" is "nah, punish them" I don't see how you can be advocating for anything else
> # use the command below to order your delicious 12oz bag of Nil Blend coffee

> ssh terminal.shop

Oops, I thought I was supposed to enter it directly into the prompt on the webpage. The styling makes it look like an interactive console, I figured they included an embedded javascript SSH client for users who might not have one.
Also your responses here show you in a good light. It's easy to lose your cool when facing even sensible criticism online. Great work and you have an exciting career ahead of you.
The Revenge of the Home Page
That's kinda what I thought about emails too but ... somehow that has changed.
They aren’t buying content. They are buying relative trust and authenticity.

So Sora doesn’t replace the influencer.
Show HN: I built a SvelteKit -fe and -be scraper to collect Amzn warehouse deals
Hello everyone,

As many of you here I'm a fruit of the tech world and have been deep in the solopreneur journey for almost 2 years now. To break from the long development cycles of my other projects I wanted to try putting this one here very early on and also provide visibility on tech stack, roadmap and strategy for folks to pick on.

WHAT: A website to see, filter and sort through Amazon Warehouse deals easily. Limited to US market for now but will add coverage as I go.

WHY: Convenience and Affordability.
This came from a personal frustration of not being able to browse efficiently across deals while on Amazon's website. They have a bazillion refurbished or like new items available but no good way to search and sort them out without clicking through individual pages. After building a prototype for my friends and family I realized most seemed to be able to find items of interest for much cheaper than they were expecting. That's when I got the idea to open up this project externally to get ideas/feedback to iterate on and hopefully help folks find cheaper alternatives before buying anything.

HOW: The design revolves around 3 key pieces:
- A set of headed workers running 24/7 to identify and collect Amazon Warehouse deals
- A backend to store and serve the deals
- A responsive frontend for users to interact with

Tech stack:
Backend:
- Core: Nodejs via PM2 + Bash
- Workers: Proxmox VMs behind rotating VPNs
- Database: PostgreSQL (via Supabase)

Frontend:
- Core: Sveltekit
- CSS: Tailwind CSS
- UI Framework: Shadcn-svelte
- Testing: Playwright
- CDN, DNS & Hosting: Cloudflare
- Analytics: Plausible

WHERE: https://amznbargains.com

BUT WHAT'S MY GOAL HERE? Obviously not trying to become a multi-millionaire with this: I'd simply like to get this solution to a point where it is self-sustained and provides service to many users for free while making no compromise on privacy or UX.
Building foundations:
- The only source of revenue will be through the Associate Program as it comes at no cost to users and requires no data to be collected/exchanged.
- No registration required to get service.
- No personal data ever stored or even less exchanged/resold.
- No ads, commercial collaboration or algo biased by monetary incentives.
- Plausible could be seen as going against some of the above but has been selected because it allows me to track the few metrics required to run the app (i.e. referer, country of origin) while respecting stringent privacy guidelines.

WANT MORE? On top of this thread, I've opened access to the project's roadmap/backlog and created a discord server to discuss there if simpler. Not sure if against any rules if I share the links here but you can find them easily on the website. If allowed I'll add them here in another comment.

Thank you for reading through this wall, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
> which earned us a lot of attention and criticism

Because it's dumb.
Those are only examples of things that I think would be necessary; I didn't intend for them to be treated as comprehensive. There are a decent number of things in Go that make me feel like my day-to-day experience of working in it is not a priority compared to a design goal of simplicity for its own sake. For example, when debugging code I often will comment and uncomment portions of it as I run it repeatedly to try to narrow down exactly where something unexpected is happening, and having unused variables be a hard error makes this tedious. Is it possible to work around this by manually "using" the variables I comment out in a way that does nothing? Of course. Would it be more "proper" to use a debugger rather than doing something hackish on my own? Possibly! But is this an actual thing that I expect a large number of other developers also do in pretty much every other language without issue? I strongly suspect the answer is yes.

Things like this might be small, but they add up, and at the end of the day, the frustrations that I encounter when writing Rust are smaller and less frequent than the ones I've had writing Go. Obviously stuff like this is subjective, and there's no way to make a language that satisfies everyone. I think there's empirical evidence that there's an audience for a language that fits the niche I describe that Go doesn't fill though.
We are 6 weeks away from WWDC where Apple will be launching their new Siri.

And we already know they are building a LAM for it.

It’s likely one of the reasons Rabbit was rushed out the door.
There was drama at my college one year, maybe my junior year? Because a higher ratio of people than expected confirmed their acceptance and they had too many freshman.

I wonder what the over-acceptance ratio is for ivy leagues. Just because you got in doesn’t mean you can afford to go.
I read a book called A People's History of Computing in the United States, which wildly oversells itself, it's just a history of Dartmouth Basic and the culture surrounding it.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674970977

But even then it was very interesting! The philosophy was that anyone could program, and they really did build a culture of amateurs writing programs that answered their own needs. The author has access to a lot of ephemera from that time which gives some flavor of what it was like in the lab.

And then, BASIC culture spread by unlikely methods, like the Pillsbury Dough company. No, really. For whatever reason they got involved allowing local schools in the midwest to time-share with their big mainframes.
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Location: San Francisco / Houston
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Swift, JS, HTML, Rust, PHP
Résumé/CV: https://www.chrisjeane.com/resume
Email: sysop@chrisjeane.com

For my latest client I built a Vision Pro application for Orthopedic surgeries. Working from mockups and vision boards, I was able to create a trade show demo in 14 days and ready for surgery in less than a month.

I am interested in creating products on emerging technologies, especially AR and Spatial computing.
this was downvoted because it's dishonest. I said "punish", not harass. Which obviously doesn't mean physically or legally or whatever
SEEKING WORK - remote (updated!)

Location: West coast Canada.

Remote: Yes.

Technologies: Machine learning, Python, Tensorflow/Keras/pytorch, A whole host of technologies over 25 year career.

email in profile.

I'm an experienced Data scientist, who's worked on a bunch of interesting projects. With Covid I've come to realize I need to work in public more often.

So an ideal fit would be a small/medium company with hair on fire problems that need solving that I can talk about publicly.
What sort of problems do I like?

I worked with a Stuttgart based auto manufacturer to identify and predict when a part they had would fail. It turns out the answer will be familiar to west coast Canadians - The leaky condo crisis.

I worked with a well known cloud vendor to predict server failures. Built a simple and efficient detection system that worked well. They got several minutes warning to load shift before a server failed.

A Taxi company in latam hired me to built a fleet maintenance system. It predicted and scheduled preventative maintenance to reduce wear and tear and avoid breakdowns. We also identified the leading cause of wear - leadfoot drivers. So we built a system that would identify aggressive driving.

Another example was a speculative sports highlights annotation system I built with a consultancy. It ingested sports video and identified predetermined highlights in baseball - diving catches in our case. The ML pipeline was a CNN model which fed into an RNN.
Given a bunch of video clips of diving catches as training data, it could later identify those diving catches and automatically annotate the video feeds.

Who shouldn't contact me.

If your market is Ads or gambling I'm not interested. Sure there's lot of money, but I'd rather sleep at night. Thanks.

What I'm working on right now:

Low compute AI and connecting them to interpretable and defensible knowledge bases. I think these huge models that cost millions to train are the wrong path. I'll show things in public in time.
Lol, this is probably because FAFSA was complicated this year. You'll find that applications to good schools are more affected by "can we afford this" than any perceived estimate of value (which is always high enough).
Biases are just weights on an always on input.

There isn't much difference between weights of a linear sum and coefficients of a spline.
If they are perfect at hiding their hand, we wouldn't be able to tell.

But that kind of thinking is akin to solipsism, a mental dead end. What if you're the only real person and the rest is simulated or a dream? Would you be able to tell?

What if god left all those dinosaur fossils as a joke, and big dinos never really existed? Well, it's possible, but it's a thought-terminating idea, so best not considered.
Digg is 19 years old as well, and was significantly more popular than Reddit at its peak. Where is it now? Or Myspace? Or Tumblr? Or Google+? Or Twitter?

Any open forum that is private and profit-focused is eventually going to destroy itself. Reddit is not an exception, especially after its recent IPO. How long do you think it will be before investors are no longer content with losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year and want more monetization and more user-hostile features built in?
All of my ssh keys are chuck@hostname, which is the default output of ssh-keygen. I’ve never had a valid email in any of my ssh keys.
Nearly! Typo in the fix: How "doest" this work?
If it doesn't affect stock price, though, then the CEO, board, and shareholders are all incentivized to keep IS costs low, and ignore any costly security recommendations.
I could not possibly disagree. But in a world with fewer lenders who have more rigorous qualification practices, are we paying lower rates? Kinda seems like no but we are now in the land of fourth order effects so who is to say.
They can't and it makes playing D&D with them really frustrating.
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Remote: Yes Onsite/Hybrid: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Languages/Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, React (classes and hooks), Node, Angular.js 1.x, Swift, SwiftUI, Python Tooling: Vite, Webpack, Github Actions, Docker, Jira

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZvQaOaU5jujGb0mkQqgQZ6dhkig...

Email: luke (at) luketully (dot) ca

Previously: Worked on the frontend team at JLL Technologies inc, formerly Envio Systems, on feature improvement and on a big refactoring push from Angular 1.x to React/Typescript/Redux/Jest. We were responsible for a commercial building management product, and the team was distributed across the EU, NA, and Asia, while I worked remotely from Vancouver

Currently: Have learned Swift, SwiftUI while building out a native macOS app, and currently working on Nand2Tetris and learning Nuxt 3

Goal: I'm based out of Vancouver, but happy to discuss different remote arrangements globally or hybrid in Canada. I enjoy working on sticky legacy problems, improving UX and DX, and making useful products by integrating customer feedback throughout an iterative development process.
Agreed, any reason will just be speculation here. That said, the article could’ve given more information.
Isn't it just a euphemism for eating shit?
doesn't KA representation require continuous univariate functions? do B-splines actually cover the space of all continuous functions? wouldn't... MLPs be better for the learnable activation functions?