skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The content is utter trash. It's the "synthetic" look-how-happy-i-am Facebook equivalent but for work life.

But, I use it pretty heavily to hire people. I basically paste an image of the JD of what I'm looking for, and ask my network to refer anyone they know who might be interested.

I found two AMAZING devs who were outnof my network that way.
As my sibling comment points out, society is already pretty effective at advertising to children. I have strong doubts that Google (or others) would derive much useful-for-advertising data about “habits” of children from a smart watch. Especially not data that cannot be acquired elsewhere, easier. That’s to say nothing of the slowly growing body of laws that would prevent this.

I think it’s very plausible that Google thinks $230+$10/mo is already a great business opportunity. I’m guessing the better “prize” is keeping kids from getting their first iPhone in school - most teenagers greatly prefer iPhones.
A couple thoughts:

* You can mitigate the popularity thing by using webseeds; if it's popular then it's p2p, and if not then it just falls back to HTTP

* Alternatively, you can 80/20 it; only torrent the 10 biggest and 10 most popular packages (changing 10 to taste), which is a relatively small number of torrents to run while minimizing load on mirrors
If you look closely in markets and bazaars you can often come across little niche boutique shops like this: Repair shops for instance that specialize in repairing old school video game consoles. They toil all day replacing aging capacitors, upgrading boards to work with modern TVs and put out clean crisp pixel output, rebuilding broken consoles using harvested parts, replacing batteries of old cartridges, replacing worn cases, and even selling karts with libraries of multiple (pirated) ROMs installed. They don’t make much money, but it sustains their work.
Delhi breaks all time heat record as authorities impose water rationing
I'm aware of those--I have one, except mine is 5x brighter. It's just not the same.

It doesn't cast the gorgeous shadows sunlight does. It creates glare that makes having the panel surface directly visible, no matter how obtuse the angle, unacceptable.

Sunlight's parallel rays make it so that it's not your window that's bright, it's the things that your window shines light on that are lit up. You can look at your window or the sky all day without any discomfort. And that's just not the case for traditional light panels.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514491
All those recommendations about whatever crazy-high amount of water you’re supposed to have in a day. If you want to even get close, it’s either a few chug-sessions per day, or else carrying water to sip constantly.

… also, it probably helps replace cigarettes as an oral fixation, which is what everyone used to use.
Same. 15/10/8 kids here. These are bad.

A sibling comment said “everyone is free to do what they want”. I agree with that, but that doesn’t make everything good.

In general I’m struck at how many people’s sense or “right” leans so hard on what’s available for sale.
Watch that Heritage Foundation video above (^youtube), it's only a couple minutes. The full report is at https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/time-new-missile-def...

Terrence J O'Shaughnessy also runs Starshield at SpaceX. He was in charge of U.S. homeland missile defense.

Kuiper (the Amazon competitor) has another four-star general who focused on missile defense: John Hyten.
I'll probably regret asking, but how is it dehumanizing? I said that as humans they would be able to find shelter, but an animal would not. Isn't that almost exactly the opposite of dehumanizing?
At some point in the past, I'm sure the same question was asked of IBM, Boeing, or several other large companies. At some point, the big company gets complacent or it gets so large it is bogged down in bureaucratic red tape or any other negative thing attributed to bigCorp loss of leadership in markets from the past. Then, as this sector likes to say "it's ripe for disruption." Sometimes, it takes decades though, and many competitors fall by the way side. At some point, Bezos might bore of his glorified Estes rocket hobby and decide to do something else with his money.
I've avoided social media for ten years.

I created a LinkedIn for my most recent job to repost ads for the company.

Now that I am no longer employed by them, I have deleted the account again.

Reason: I just don't care about social networks. I don't like their business model, or their addictiveness.

LinkedIn was funny in a way, because toxic and sarcastic positivity are indistinguishable from a distance.
Inside Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Growing Alliance
The content is crap. I loved the linkedin from the time where you could as some of your contacts to introduce you to a connection. At that time, the network was valuable.
99% of consumers aren't designing a power supply, at least.
More likely this is a change in a popular AMI or container image that is being used by a lot of different users, eg. a startup script that unnecessarily pulls or syncs from EPEL.

I suspect there are only a handful of vendors with popular enough AMIs or container images that could account for this, though.
I think it matters less for senior people/people in high demand. I think it is a pretty valuable tool for juniors and people with less experience

When I first switched careers to tech, I got some great LinkedIn advice: You don't have to like it, but you should know how to use it.
What are you smoking?
No choice is removed from anyone.
Survival is the primary objective, what do you think it is? Limiting electronic device usage?
Thanks for the recommendation! This is a fascinating channel indeed.
I also have an 11 year old with an Apple Watch and it has been such a good introduction to connectivity as well as social media (iMessage/texting...)

She has gained a lot of independance because we are able to track her with the watch, and she is now proactively communicating with it to let us know where she will be etc.

I'm not enthusiastic about the teen years with TikTok/Instagram,etc but at least she will have been onramped gradually and hopefully it's a natural progression.
> Terrence J O'Shaughnessy also runs Starshield at SpaceX. He was in charge of U.S. homeland missile defense

Starshield is Starlink for the military. It came after Starlink. It is neither a root of Starlink nor a missile-defence project at this time. (Maybe it eventually gains that capability. But that’s not currently in play.)

Starlink came about because SpaceX built cheap, high launch frequency rockets for, at first, NASA. It doesn’t shoehorn into an SDI origin by any stretch. At the point we’re contorting to make that connection, it might as well be part of our ballistic missile programme.

> The full report

Yes, people want missile defense. That doesn’t make everything in space is missile defense.
These were some quirks / questions I was left with after playing around with it a few months ago, copied from a comment I made at the time:

- (Auto) Updating.

- Embedding other files (and actually distribute them).

- Plugins (I guess plugins can be made for the various language bindings and implemented via event handlers).

- Disabling Edge's annoyances (IE it looks like Edge's menu that shows up when selecting text is happening, I guess its image hover thing is there, and maybe more annoyances).

- The menu on macOS is the menu of the launched browser.

FWIW I maintain an app built with Tauri and generally really like it.
You’re an extreme outlier. Congratulations (no sarcasm intended), but your experience is nowhere even close to the normal person.
Many proprietary ones are missing including OpenAI. I'd guess that they don't have budget to pay for the API usage. I think the leaderboard is more focused on open source options.
I don’t know anyone in the U.S. who still has a landline.
Which is a dupe of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40496967
Chinese national charged for operating world's largest botnet, which stole $5.9B
Cool. I didn't know Scotland had a federal police force though.
I technically have a profile. My profile picture is 10 years old, and significant chunks of my resume are missing. Though since I updated it to say I'm my own boss I got less recruiter spam though, so that's neat. Don't really actively use it, though some people have used it to reach out to me (like in a non-spam way).

Whole platform seems like a bit of a parody of itself to be honest.
Discord's Next Chapter
> there's no CodeGPT, its just GPT4

Codex[1] is OpenAI's CodeGPT. It's what powers GitHub Copilot and it is very good but not publicly accessible. Maybe they don't want something else to outcompete Copilot.

[1] https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/
The deal happening ASAP was aligned with my interests in this case. I would have taken a lower sale price for a faster close.

But even aside from that, they make more money the larger the deal, so they work to get a good price. They also feel the pain if the deal falls through, so they have incentive to keep the deal alive and both sides happy.

The broker isn't perfectly aligned with me, but of everyone else involved like lawyers, accountants, and the buyer, the broker is by far the most aligned with my interests.
You’re also the dude just claiming your income went up $400k in 4 years.

Of course layoffs weren’t traumatic for you.
What stops you from giving him freedom even without a smartphone?
If you're running your own Mastodon instance you can set it to delete content after a certain amount of time. It's all but mandatory on small accounts, especially if you use relays.
One of learners' biggest fears is failure, such as making a mistake on a major test or in an important subject. But we know from life after school that we often learn much more from our failures than our successes.

A growth mindset, as defined by Positive Psychology, is “believing that your brain can grow and you can learn many new things. You are not born smart; you become smart.”

Adopting a growth mindset early is crucial for learners of all ages, and education must shift from focusing on grades to emphasizing skills and growth to address future challenges, particularly in the K-12 environment. Fortunately, recent advancements in EdTech can help cultivate this mindset.
Man I've been saying this for years that it felt like SpaceX was just a way for the government to side-step the rot of entrenched companies like Boeing and Lockmart.

It's pretty cool to be vindicated by this.
Yeah, that’s a huge benefit for sure
this is exactly the case. Kids gain more freedom not less
Ask our Oceanography GPT anything about that, or query ocean data APIs
I believe it would though? Isn't that the whole point?

If you need PoW for every connection, it's going to end up being very expensive for an attacker to saturate the connection. And the captcha is probably a different server to the main site.
This is happening with a lot of companies that don't really have to care about "startup value"; they're tiny (sometimes even one-person) shops that aren't likely to ever go public, be bought for millions, or so on. I think you've got the cause and effect reversed for a lot of these -- the App Store pricing model has driven the price people expect to pay for apps down substantially, which made the "buy outright and then buy a new version in a couple years, at a discount, if it appeals to you" model much harder to sustain. I don't love subscriptions for apps that don't have a server-side component, but I get it.

(The example of the Pomodoro app with the subscription is pretty dubious, though.)
You then also have to mail them every update to the SQL and hope they're handling versioning well

With this approach, next time they attach the DB, they automatically see the latest version
Five Years Running a News Site on Jamstack
Forget distribution channel, many retailers avoid AWS so they don't funnel money into a competitor.
Or if all your data is in a place like snowflake, you just create a view and send them the name..
> SpaceX was just a way for the government to side-step the rot of entrenched companies

COTS was designed to complement the majors. Few pre-2010 thought of replacement.
I'm sure Philadelphians were glad that JAWNS from the SouthEast US got renamed!
If you don't mind using a preview feature you should be able to use the foreign function API to call mlockall without any unsafe code.

Otherwise, JNA is probably the easiest way, and how Cassandra does it.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/core/calling-c-lib...

https://github.com/java-native-access/jna
My net income from TinyPilot was $10,447 in 2022, but I had other income from investments (mainly just boring index funds). But I live in Western Massachusetts and own my home (no mortgage), so my cost of living is fairly low.
I think you mean to say the market is "supposed to" self-regulate this.

People don't notice early enough that it will cause problems, and they don't have equivalent options available that are more repairable but only marginally different in price and capability.

Brand reputation reigns in "the worst", but pretty bad things still happen, and being unrepairable and non-upgradable isn't "the worst" so it keeps happening.
Each with a unique public IPv4 address too!
....Just one more shot of the Nokia phone from a slightly different angle... then the battery would only last one day :-)
1. TikTok is actually not Bytedance's most profitable product.

2. If you sell, you lose. If you let it get banned, you might just need to wait out the current political climate (i.e. end of the Israel/Palestine war; no one really cares about teens' health or some vague Chinese risk - the US can ban it overnight in case war ever erupts with China).

3. Even if they were open to a sale, it's beneficial to publicly maintain that they aren't.
Maybe there's already sufficient laws in place (due to the car culture) to not need an overlap?
s/earned/obtained/
Open-source engine for dynamic video game music
We just open-sourced the codebase for XJ music, a system to enable composers to realize new possibilities in dynamic music for video games.

XJ includes a DAW dedicated to preparing dynamic video game music and an engine to integrate the product within your game audio system.
Your responses here are going to be biased towards a subset of hackernews that vocally hates this type of thing many of whom aren’t interested in the signaling. I’ll try to balance it.

Every technical person I know building a company is active on LinkedIn and most technical people I know employed at FAANGs are active on LinkedIn.

Every event I go to in SF has people trading LinkedIn or Twitter.

I myself have had multiple previous job opportunities through LinkedIn and still get high quality job opportunities through it regularly.
I grew up in europe, and I had two instances where I came close to being abducted as a kid.
You are naive if you think parents are overreacting. once you become the statistic the statistic is meaningless to you
> Not dissimilar from retailers deciding whether to embrace Amazon as a distribution channel or not.

Honestly, I wonder if Tesla will be similar. They just won the charging standard war. Watching the battery presentation a while back, they're chipping away at battery technology, and every % adds up.

The ICE car companies have "embraced" EVs, but are losing money on every car right now. Will tesla start making their cars cheaper and cheaper while the other companies eventually try to buy their way out via tesla batteries?
I'm not a mechanic, either. Googling is easy, and also is often imprecise.

That's why I was wondering how to contact GM about the 4L30E that they built and sold to BMW, as was suggested.
> It's weird to think as a society that we can build a walled garden around human nature.

We literally can. We built lane assistance and airbags and cars that sometimes self drive because humans naturally are bad drivers.

We created fire alarms and automatic sprinklers because sometimes people forget about the thing in the oven.

We invented medication for mental illness and obesity. We invented padded rooms and rehab and all sorts of stuff.

Hell, we invented locks on our front doors.

Guns are one of the most dangerous things a person can own. You can kill someone by pointing a metal tube and pressing a button. It’s very hard to stop once that button is pressed. Almost any other weapon is a lot easier to stop and a lot harder to kill with. That’s why other places don’t have the same death rates as America.
To heck with that. My right to reverse engineer and fabricate parts for an airplane that I own is ALREADY enshrined in federal law, and our aviation user groups are funded and motivated to protect this privilege. It is as applicable to American Airlines (they have used it, for example, to produce replacement MD-80 tailcones) as it is to a dude with a Cessna.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2024/january/09...

Edit - Source on AA fabricating their own tailcones: https://www.flightglobal.com/american-airlines-drives-effici...
> But if you draw your boundaries to include that additional supply that's hoarded and not for sale, the theory no longer holds. Do you see what I mean now

In the same vein, if we consider the earth to be flat then the law of universal gravitation no longer works. I see what you mean, but I have no idea why anyone would ever want to convey such meaning. Of course you can "invalidate" every law in existence if you completely redefine the conditions under which the law is made, but that's rather nonsensical.

> So when it comes to building more housing supply, it will never help housing prices no matter how much we build, if that supply which gets built is never for sale.

While I am unsure of how this relates to our discussion, I expect you will find that virtually every house is for sale. Sure, there is always a "stubborn old mule", but I'm certain the vast majority of homeowners would not say no to you dropping a billion dollars in front of them.

The biggest trouble is that new construction costs even more than used houses. Nobody is going to purposefully go out of their way to build a home in order to lose money on it. So while building endless new homes would theoretically reduce prices, it would never happen in the real world because who is going to do it? Houses most certainly don't just magically spring out of the ground.
OFficial backrooms image location found [video]
After years of searching, it has finally been found!
Some seal in my pen broke and ink leaks out around where I hold it. It's disappointing, but I'm unlikely to travel around the world to fix it! I'd happily ship it to them and take my chances on getting it back, because it's not like I can use it right now anyway.

Unfortunately, though, I also developed a fondness for stone paper, and apparently that doesn't pair well with fountain pens.
Gamifying fitness and activity I really like. The rest is something I don't think we need.
It's not clear to me that trying to assign semver semantics to a command line interface is going to work well; trying to define the "interface" for command line tools seems too challenging. Perhaps one might suggest that caddy should have used a different versioning pattern, but I have to admit that the x.y.z pattern is so prevalent these days, I have a hard time faulting someone for using it.
Love caddy. Only minor downside is having to build your own container to get route53 DNS support.

Would be awesome if they provided a pre-built container for each module, but understand it'd create a very large number of builds for them, and then people would want module+module which would create an exponentional number of possibilities.

Maybe an all modules build and the ability to toggle them via ENV?
> first contracts by SpaceX were part of Prompt Global Strike (DARPA Falcon Project)

You’re skipping the $400mm NASA COTS contract that came a year earlier.

DARPA bought the first two launches for hypersonic delivery system research, but it was primarily aimed at prompt global strike. As in what it says on the tin. Interception was tertiary at best, to the point that it’s mostly unmentioned [1][2].

Starlink is not rooted in SDI.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_Prompt_Strike
Why is that surprising? If something isn't possible, then it's not possible and we adapt. If something is possible, then then it's possible and we should consider it.

"Can I somehow put a tracking device on my young child?" is a question I've thought about for decades since before I had a young child, and now that I do I've been looking for something that will work for him when he's still little.

Obviously as he grows up the plan is to ramp off the updates - i.e. I don't need to know where he is at all times if he's old enough to know to text me if he'll be out late.
> fluidly produce all of the words as I say them

It's been a few days but I was thinking about this, and really - are we sure?

Deja vu exists, and as I understand is a bit of a processing issue where something we only just did seems to have happened a little while ago. As I understand it, our brain is in the habit of rewriting timelines a bit to have things make sense, and this could be another case of that.
> You're spot on about the division. Like I said, I took a lot of guff early on for wearing a mask here. Honestly, I think no small reason that stopped happening here is because so many got infected here and after dealing with it themselves they settled down on shitting on those wearing masks or getting vaxxed.

> I see a few people wearing a mask when I go to the big box stores in town now and no one pays any attention to it.

I think something to this effect happens quite frequently in a bunch of different domains. Some level of emotional intensity, hype, or posturing one way or the other, until we settle on something more reasonable, with only a few still holding onto a pitchfork or whatever, it's an optimization problem.

I do have a suspicion though that these extremes will re-surface if it happens again soon, rather than be more moderate, and I hope I'm wrong because it's exhausting. At the very least I hope people and local governments remember which part of their conduct wasn't evidently helpful to the people they ostensibly serve or want to be around, but some portion of the population will be encountering that for the first time.

Based on various interactions I had during and after, I'm cautious about the people I spend time with now, because sometimes I'll get the subtle feeling that even though there haven't *yet* been extremely polarizing opinions about some inane issue, I feel like I can sense when a person is susceptible to being extremely sensitive toward something I'm not.

I think people need a break from their phones and Internet tbh.
The animals on the farm I work at sometimes know a storm is coming and will find cover. My dogs know a storm is coming and want to play in it.
Interesting timing for me since I was just reading the semver.org site just last week. I know that their proposal is to only include breaking changes in the major version, but in my experience lots of products use major versions for marketing purposes, and minor versions for functional changes including both breaking and non-breaking changes.

The important thing is to be clear in your docs about your versioning strategy. And from a quick search of the Caddy website, I couldn't find anything that explains this. Their install guide doesn't really mention versions at all, giving people no clues that a minor version change could break their sites.
What do you mean by Concur Travel cancer? What are the downsides of Concur?
It's shaming constant tracking, not anyone that might buy this. And that probably should be shamed.
I know right? What else are they going to say? "Our next chip will be slightly slower and less energy efficient. On the plus side we've raised the price 7%."
The best tasting ingredient in a dish is “someone else made it”