skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but this is a very competitive market

It is extremely competitive. Brutal I might say.

> and 95% are terrible at it.

They are usually terrible at the software part. Because Software developers are expensive. And even with this downturn they are still too expensive to hire in an agency.

> especially those insufferable sigma males selling their courses

Well this made me laugh.

> and I might become a sheep in a big herd that will fall into an ocean of traps

That's actually the best case scenario in the short-medium term. You worst (and also highly likely) scenario is no clients.

> But I am a big Peter Thiel fan, and he and everyone says, "Do things that don't scale."

I don't think he is talking about design agencies...

> This means I will make the Rolex of websites.

Then the product is not the website/design/whatever you are building. Similarly to how Rolex is not selling watches.

Did you work for LVMH? Because that's a very specific market to target. And unless you have the clients already, then I don't see how you can break into it. (I also assume if you had such clients, you'd be already providing them a service instead of asking here).

tl;dr: If you know how to land super rich clients where a $80-100K basic WordPress website is marginal to their wallets, sure go for it man.
> A Tibetan teacher liked to say that westerners think that Buddhism is all calm and peaceful, and that compassion is soft and gentle

The excellent Youtube Channel "Religion for Breakfast" touched on this subject toward the end of his "Buddhism Has a Lot of Hells" video[1], where he explained that it's a case of orientalism (in the 'Edward Saïd' sense). In this case, since Buddhism was mostly imported in the west by hippy-style counter-culture movements, and since it was presented as an alternative to judeo-christian values, there was a tendency to omit things (like the concept of hell and damnation) that wasn't deemed foreign (to western culture) enough.

If one is interested in the history of religion, then I heartily recommend both "Religion for Breakfast" and "Let's talk Religion" Youtube Channels, they are truly amazing both in breadth and in quality.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKWmMLlSPsM
Years ago, I recorded a series of videos to teach the fundamentals of math rigorously to beginners who may not know anything about it.

One of the episodes is called “Sets and Infinity”. Lots of my friends watched it and I got a lot of positive feedback, they subscribed to the channel! It takes one hour, not three months. Check it out.

https://youtu.be/xzaqERDWt9Q?si=cy1x9iVdem9KjdMM

If you watch it — please tell me what you thought! Anything good/bad etc.
Almost a decade ago I worked for a bank and in our little corner of the organization I was rapidly becoming the "Excel Guy". While I was happy to help people, the prospect of being pigeonholed into such a role terrified me and I switched jobs. That wasn't the only reason, but it was a major factor.
There's a good reason they don't support high amp/watt charging.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/motlhn/magnet...
What do you mean? With dotnet fsi? I just tried it and it reads UTF8 just fine, at least in windows terminal.
Yep!

But overtime is often the norm (and sometimes an unofficial requirement) [0] because a base salary of $500/mo isn't viable in most of urban China anymore with T2-3 cities having monthly living costs around $200-300/mo assuming corporate dorm housing (which these workers most likely have)

This isn't a uniquely Chinese problem though - the same market dynamic happens in Vietnam and India as well.

[0] - https://electronicswatch.org/en/regional-risk-assessment-ele...
C# is an absolutely excellent language, and continues to gradually improve.

Because I had to check this myself: Monogame is not tied to mono! It claims to support dotnet 8, so it looks suitably current and maintained.

It is annoying that Microsoft had their own perfectly adequate game framework which they binned at one of the transitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA
Agree. Until you’ve done it yourself, you probably won’t realize all the reasons why it appears 95% are bad and what actually matters to customers.
Would love one - but I was recently burned by an expensive Android e-ink tablet with janky software and meh hardware. I need to be able to touch and play with one before I'd even consider buying it. I hope you make it into retail stores.
Indeed, if you preface the curl | bash with sudo apt install, there's no difference!
Long before Key Bridge collapse, Baltimore mariners warned of 'ship strikes'
I thought that MOND-like stuff was dead in the water?
The trick is to break through the self-imposed constraints and go audit/listen to whatever class/course you like, even if outside your program (in less modern/flexible universities, make sure to ask for permission, especially if the number of students is low.)

If the time doesn't allow that, make friends with people in those courses/classes and ask them to forward to you the slides/presentations of their classes (or trade yours for their if they want to).

Contact professors working on projects you are interested in, regardless of whether they are your professors and/or if it is your major. Since you'd be generally unpaid, you might have lots of freedom to modify the project as you need/please, or join what they are already doing.

Check out facilities/available materials and other tools that the university provides.

If you do that, you'll learn several orders of magnitude more than most students there.

I did that pretty much at every uni I went to, and still managed to do some good amount of partying and part-time job.
If you want it RIIR there dua: https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli
"Modern sleep" is such a scam. The only way to safely suspend a Windows machine now is to go into the registry and re-enable hibernation.
To be fair, the Samsung that makes appliances has very little connection to the Samsung that makes phones or TVs, aside from the name.

But I otherwise agree. My Samsung washer & dryer will be the last Samsung appliances I ever own.

My last Samsung phone had an annoying habit of hanging up as soon as the proximity sensor decided the phone wasn't up against your face. Turns out that was somewhat common. They did replace the phone, but shortly thereafter I abandoned my Android allegiance and went with iPhone so I wouldn't have to tinker with a device I use as an appliance.
I wonder how much alcoholism contributed to it here though.
First, this looks amazing, congrats! The primary reason I've held off on buying an eink tablet (remarkable/kindle scribe) is because much of the non-leisure reading I do for work requires enterprise-friendly features like MDM and encryption, and even with that plugging into a laptop to sync every document is a major UX hurdle.

Are you thinking about this primarily as a consumer device with, or do you want to go after those business applications sooner than later?

Disclosure: I work at AWS, own a Kindle Oasis, but have nothing to do with Kindle or devices.
I struggled with this too. The best understanding I've been able to come to is this:

1. Every month's item number can be calculated from the preceding month's item number by the method given. I.e. add the number of days in the preceding month to the preceding month's item number then take mod 7.

2. For January we take it that there is no preceding month. Therefore the numbers in such a calculation are all zero, so we end up with zero.

3. For later months you don't need to start at January and go month by month to the month you want; you can start at a month with a start- or end-vowel and use the shortcut that such a month's item number is ten minus the month number.

4. For the purposes of 3, 'y' does not count as a vowel.

Or maybe it's easier just to learn them!
Sounds like I'm just behind the times and Microsoft has some sort of solution using Sharepoint.
That it lead to the pickling of his liver?
I expect that humans would accept that glue is acceptable to add to pizza if we were not taught otherwise. Look at smoking, arguably worse then eating some types of glue, yet for a large part of human history this was normal and not even seen as unhealthy.

And yet, of course, now people think it's obvious that inhaling the burnt remains of some plant might not be so healthy.
They're just saying it's strange he was being widely talked about for the first time in 20 years and then he suddenly dies
This is legitimately hilarious that they made the model absolutely enamored with the GGB. I understand it’s a very real exercise in research into these models but it certainly tickles a particular fancy.

I do worry it will not be long before we see this abused though. Models with undue bias towards particular nations, causes, etc. that are more subtly implemented than this, especially if this exercise is undertaken for more than just one concept (e.g. pro-Russia, anti-EU, anti-democracy, etc). Similarly, complete aversion to address the topics. Deploy as a bot swarm on x and let the chaos sow itself.
Right now is a very hard time to start an agency. I agree about AI not replacing design yet. However, the demand is at a very low point relative to the high supply of agencies. The main thing that matters is how you are going to find clients. If you already have potential clients lining up to pay you, maybe it makes sense. Agency clients generally choose who to work with based on trust and word of mouth referrals. This is especially true for design which does not have any licensing as a quality gate keeping device. Instead, there are just many more agencies than there are demand for because of the ease of starting them, so clients generally go with who they know.

Another thing is that there are marketplaces like Clutch, Behance, Dribbble, Upwork, etc, but they are a race to the bottom with price. If you live in a very low cost of living country, that might be ok. For anyone in the US, it's not ok.

Feel free to reach out if you want more thoughts on this as I am actively researching this topic for a book and ran an agency for awhile. forchrisroth@gmail.com
which one is better
I did not log on to HN today expecting to see an AO3 mention. I'm not sure I understand what you mean, though. Can you elaborate?
what do you mean exactly by the general public not being able to tell the difference?
Question: what sets this apart from say, boox? And in comparison, it seems a battery life of days feels a bit low - is that just a conservative estimate? Is that days with all-day use?

Note: I have literally nothing to do with boox other than being a relatively happy customer, even if I do wonder about how much spyware is in their firmware. On that note - is there any guarantees around software updates? The good and the bad of android is the constant updates. Looks like this is on 13 which is soon to be two releases back - are there plans to support future major revisions or is 13 all this is getting?
I'm interested in others' experiences with "shifting left": if you are in the process of, are currently doing, are thinking about whether you should, or have and decided to "shift right" again, do you mind sharing here?
When you buy a domain, they ask you which nameservers the domain should point to, right? They won't be able to do this shenanigan if you point it to nameservers outside of their control.
Pretty impressed by the performance of Playwright. Think it's time for me to switch from Selenium.

Rabbit though, not surprised it's ChatGPT.
> Also, what next? Farming - but with AI

Not sure if you're joking, but this is a big area of research/innovation even prior to the latest LLM-fueled hype-cycle

From 2016: How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/h...
It's the passing-off that hasn't worked. The copiers/forgers decided to "improve" on the originals and in the process made their copies evidently fake.

No doubt others will learn from this mistake and produce original-looking fakes; on the other hand some customers might actually prefer the "improved" fakes.
That’s expected.

Russian has been in a war for the past 2-years.

The US & EU have not.
No the farmer doesn't. The key paragraph is at the end:

> He’s currently leading development of a new type of drone—a scout—designed to quickly inspect fields for pest infestations or poor growth or to assess crop yields. But these days his job is more about managing his team of engineers than about doing hands-on engineering himself. “I’m more of a translator between the engineers and the market needs,” he says.

The spray drone idea is IMO ridiculous because a proper crop duster plane carries 100x the volume at only 10x the cost (or lower) of this drone. The scout drone on the other hand could give farmers new abilities that they could only replicate by physically walking the fields, but I'm pretty sure drone companies like DJI have been in this market for nearly a decade.

I'd like to call complete bullshit on this line:

> These tractors can cost up to half a million dollars to purchase and about US $7 a hectare to operate.

The vast majority of farmers don't use half million dollar tractors for spraying. The half million dollar beasts are for tilling megafarms that'd require a multi-million dollar army of drones to replicate just one function of the tractor (spraying - which isn't the main function anyway).

Best case scenario they face the same issue crop duster planes do: Farmers usually can't afford their own plane on top of all the other things they need, which means they won't be able to afford their own drones. Most also can't really afford to hire them out on a regular basis because all the farmers want to rent them all at the same time, leading to competition over a limited resource.
First, regardless of language, try to write as much code and run as many experiments as possible. Reading theory is cool but there’s nothing quite like seeing it work. Then:

ChatGPT for clarification, especially intricate APIs e.g. how auto differentiation works.

I found the follow YouTube channels very useful, in order:

FastAI
Serrano Academy
Karpathy
>there's essentially been no burden on the citizens.

Unless you watch Fox News, in which case we are "wasting" hundreds of billions on Ukraine while Americans starve!!!! What's that? A bill to feed starving Americans? Why that's socialism, which is communism!

70 million Americans voted for Trump in 2020. It doesn't matter that some of them don't live in the same reality as the rest of us, because they have isolated themselves so aggressively that they will never be snapped out of it, and millions of other people are enabling their insanity for political gain.

Check out Ryan McBeth on youtube for someone with experience refuting and examining Russian disinfo campaigns, and weep in fear as statements that could be trivially debunked with a look at a single wikipedia page, or like, a book of what different weapons systems look like, and realize in horror that the millions of people falling for this shit aren't just "media illiterate", but rather are so deep in the kool-aid that they explicitly trust information MORE if it has been labeled as "fake news".

It's insane. We aren't handling it. The truth is literally a less effective propaganda weapon than people silo'ing themselves so thoroughly that they have CHOSEN to watch Russian propaganda outlets like RT as "news"
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As the other commenter pointed out, this competes with crop dusting, not tractors, although maybe it's possible that it could work for more targeted sprays? Some weeds for example are pretty resistant to standard herbicides, so if you could, for relatively low labor costs, target just those weeds, that could potentially be worth it.

But really, I'm just looking forwards to when the current level of driving automation in tractors incorporates a little more machine vision and intelligence. I believe it is all GPS based right now and works in corn and other crops where there aren't any obstacles and there isn't really much that can go wrong.

But if there was a way to have our tractor mow our orchard for us without hitting any trees or irrigation lines, that would be fantastic
SDN for Big-Data Science: Architectural Models from Campus to the WAN (2012)
Isn't Android an example of disentangling those concepts? Apps have their own folders, isolated from each other, to store data in, but then they present a completely different view of that data to the user. The user is discouraged and often prevented from working with files and the filesytem, instead, they're made to work with opaque apps.

I really, really hate this design.
This is part 2 of this article: https://thenewstack.io/why-shift-testing-left-part-2-qa-does...
Have you listened to both voices in the comparisons floating around? There is no way any of SJ's closest friends or family would be fooled if that voice called them up pretending to be SJ.
The software you create will typically run on systems that are very different from your workstation.

The systems your software actually runs on will typically either be much more or less powerful. Compare a large data center or embedded audino to system on which you type code.

Therefore my answer is use the Software and OS that you are most productive as a Programmer for your development system, and consider the deployment environment separately.

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Now my personal answer...

I have used computers since the early 80s, and a professional programmer since the mid-90s. I have used many operation systems over the years: TRS-DOS, MS-DOS, CP/M, OS/2, Solaris, etc. Today, I spend time daily using: Linux, Windows and Mac.

* My primary workstation is KDE Neon on Ubuntu

* macOS for mobile work and my personal life

* Windows mostly for SQL Server and Active Directory

* Multiple Linux Distributions and Windows for Servers

While I like KDE very much and it is what I use for current my job, I am personally MOST productive doing Development work when using macOS as my Desktop Environment and Linux as my servers.

I highly customize my Desktop Environment to fit my way of working. I find that macOS is the most customizable for me, followed by KDE. Windows unfortunately is a distant third. (For some added context, my basic AutoHotKey file for Windows is over 1000 lines long, so I am very familiar with how to customize Windows.)

I like macOS because nearly everything I could want runs on it, my Unix-style tools, highly polished GUI apps, MS Office, Adobe, (or the many better alternatives from small developers).

I also really like Apple hardware, especially MacBooks for notebooks. My high-end Dell Workstations are great, but I vastly prefer MacBooks for on-the-go.

Some people find benefit from running their Workstation on the same OS as their Servers. This can be a big factor for you. For me, I am deploying to Windows, Redhat-style or Debian-style Linux. I find the difference between Redhat and Debian to be about as significant as macOS's BSD. So I don't get an advantage of running one system.

I write a lot of code that never runs on my Developer system, but only on the various deployment environments.

For servers, I highly recommend using the stack recommended by your selected technologies. This tends to mean you will be running multiple server environments.

If you are asking this question, with some thought to limited funds, I would consider what are the advantages to you personally for a Linux Desktop Workstation vs a MacBook.

Hopefully I have given you some useful food for thought. And much success you your endeavors.
The Beauty of Code (2014)
The tech is only being developed and standardized now. Some of the post-quantum algorithms (like SIKE) have fallen. NIST standardization is ongoing. "nobody has bothered" ignores the fact that this is probably the biggest thing going on in cryptography right now. We're in the comments on a post about how Google is working towards adding support!

And it's not really ready yet, unfortunately: The current post-quantum signature algorithms are too big for our current TLS/TCP/MTU packet sizes, and are going to be a big performance hit.

One of the above post's authors has previously written about the size problem on his own blog: https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/pqc-signatures-2024/ - with comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796349
AI tutors can work around student engagement, mostly by making tedious theoretical memorization into small practical problems, trivias, "hand in hand" learning and active recall keeping the average student focused for more time
> These tractors can cost up to half a million dollars to purchase and about US $7 a hectare to operate.

I was about to say... I use my $95k tractor to spray my 100 acres no problem
I gave up a while ago and started on the path to becoming a doctor. I'm pretty happy about it except for the 10 years until I make what I used to part.
Aren't NDAs, by definition, supposed to be restrictive and punitive.

It shouldn't be surprising that these are extra restrictive either.. their core mission is to beat others to market because they think they will be morally superior. Of course that means highly restrictive and punitive NDAs.

The people that work at OpenAI are smart. They knew what they were getting themselves into.

The media is trying so hard to make a brouhaha out of this.
Whenever I have a brain fart, my 12 year old daughter loudly and sarcastically thanks Thomas. Words can't express how much I appreciate her sense of humor.
You are contradicting yourself. If the world power participation in UN is vital to its role but at the same time nothing outside the conflicted power between them then why do you think UN is more than a club of world power extended to include some people from thr outside?

And what actually prevented a global conflict after the world war II is not the UN succeeding into what League of nations, it is nuclear war and MAD doctrine. UN is currently a place so inneffective outside the general stuff that the veto countries can agree.

Again you are describing the current status que not how a real equal international community should work. Because currently when you hear that international community is behind <foo> it is usually US and some of their allies who are actual minority of humans [1]
because the reality is, some nations have nuclear weapons and colossal economic power, and some don't.
Past HN discussion

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438824 (2015 - 17 comments)
Aren't drones already in common use in farming? DJI has an entire agricultural series: https://ag.dji.com/

I occasionally see videos of people taking short rides hanging from them.
It depends how often it’s getting called. If you save significant memory in its current state leave it like that.

If you want to build it out with more features and give the codebase over to the next person an oop approach wouldn’t be bad.

In general I would prefer clean code.
Thank you - we do have a dog, a 5 year old bundle of pure happiness from Newfoundland. As I type, she's snoring away on my bed to the left of me. I find the time I take to walk her every day precious, because I don't have to wear any mask, it's just me. It's hard to describe the freedom that brings, even if temporary.
> There’s a cynical read of “shift left” that is “make people do more work but pay them the same.”

I haven't heard of this. I thought shifting left was the new hotness.
I was under the impression that finding and fix mistakes as soon as possible is considered best practice.

> Shifting Testing Left Is a Return of an Older, Better System

I don't really understand. I thought the "old way" was to wait until everything was done to check if it works, and the "new way" was to add tests for individual components as you go, making sure nothing breaks as new features are added.
Depends on the context. In this context, it's likely wrong

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plenty