skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We’re building “Plaid for insurance”—a single-click solution for insurance data sharing.

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My favorite is FastStone MaxView - https://www.faststone.org/FSMaxViewDetail.htm
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The Heat Wave Scenario That Keeps Climate Scientists Up at Night
He's using the words "negative" and "positive" in a different sense than a value judgment "good/bad" -- negative meaning "no", "negaton", "nothing", and positive meaning "something". In philosophy this is the standard usage of the word "negative/positive", in contrast to common language.
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Hashboard is a business intelligence and analytics platform that bridges self-service data exploration with modern development workflows.

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"...there have been advances..." Despite the group's supposed severe deficiencies, they have still made advances. This implies some level of effectiveness or success, which contradicts the earlier claim of their complete inadequacy. Attrition usually leads to depletion and loss, not advances. Claiming that advances have been due to attrition is contradictory because attrition implies weakening rather than successful forward movement. Recruiting individuals who are described as having even less experience and preparation than an already inferior force would logically not lead to any improvement in capability or effectiveness. The claim that they have contributed to advances contradicts the assessment of their capabilities. It is not clear how an inferior and ill-prepared force would cause significant attrition to a presumably stronger adversary.
> I'm sure we could quickly dispense with this 1 million figure which you are pointing to.

Can we?

> There were quite a lot of damages from pushing experimental vaccines with little efficacy. I think we will find the fallout of that soon enough.

Is the implication that 1 million people died (or will die) from the vaccines? Seems like I've been hearing that conspiracy theory from day one.
Gravitoelectromagnetism doesn't actually have anything to do with electromagnetism except that certain formal features of the theory of general relativity correspond roughly to the mathematical structures we talk about in electromagnetism, albeit with the proviso that the symmetries underlying the two theories are different.
Ahh, I hadn't considered operating across languages. That does make it awkward if you can't inject some Go (or other) controls in the middle by having Go manage the loop and only calling incremental processing in the other library.

That is awkward. My first thought is "just don't use the library" but that's obviously a non-starter for a lot of things, and my second thought was "transpile it" which sounds worse.

I suppose the signals do allow the binary/library to do its own cleanup if it's well-behaved, so it's really a binary/library quality issue at the end of the day as is something Go/Python/whatever native. There isn't a massive semantic difference between ctx.Done() and a SIGHUP handler; a SIGHUP handler can also defer killing the process until a sane point after cleanup.
Review and Evaluation of Automated Charging Technologies for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
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I have 9 years of diverse experience in backend development. Happy to collaborate
All transmitted bits are also received, at least when everything works as intended.
Interesting about the JPL program and I’m amazed this prototype was only launched last year! Apparently the answer to comms laser use is “not yet but soon”.
I don't really think it's about catching outliers.

With doctors it's about catching anything that isn't obvious.

If you've broken a bone or have a tumor or one of the standard tests comes back out of range, their job is easy. If you haven't they're completely useless and will prescribe either an SSRI or a stimulant.

Very many people have very many conditions that aren't trivial to diagnose and just get ignored.

It's not because they can't, it's because they're not interested and resources aren't organized enough to be able to give the appropriate amount of attention to a person.
> for what? Merely to save labor. Our empire has plenty of labor; I personally own many slaves. Why waste precious iron and fuel in order to lighten the load of a slave?

This here is called central planning, yeah of course industrial revolution doesn't happen under central planning made by people who have no clue. Capitalism solves this by distributing these decisions out to all the laborers, they decide what to make by deciding what to spend their money on and investors try to give them that.
Your crystal ball is intriguing, do you have a whitepaper I can check out to understand the underlying mechanics?
I would also recommend Jen Simmons Layout Land series of videos: https://www.youtube.com/layoutland
Maybe the extinction is the population of users that's entirely unused to graphical user interfaces. You don't need to take that group into consideration anymore, so, goodbye to usability experts.

I think that's selling usability experts short. Good UI design isn't just for computer novices. It's also for power users. An extremely well-designed user interface can dramatically enhance productivity and allow a power user to get into highly efficient and satisfying workflows. Conversely, a poor user interface (such as all the modern ones we have today) can be extremely frustrating and unproductive to use, to the point where power users give up on trying to complete their tasks efficiently.

You are definitely correct about computer illiterate people. I have several older relatives who are in the same boat as your father was. My father is 73 and he's a capable user of his phone, though he still needs a fair amount of tech support from me.
Thank you man. The content is interesting.
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Good luck to you man!
> Maybe the extinction is the population of users that's entirely unused to graphical user interfaces. You don't need to take that group into consideration anymore, so, goodbye to usability experts.

> But the obvious result is that now, computer illiterate people are completely fucked

IMHO, the things that "fuck" computer illiterate people also annoy and decrease usability for computer literate people, it's just that the latter group can adapt to the damage.

Take those fucking horizontal slider switches, for instance. They're fucking everywhere now. It's fucking medium gray, does that mean on or off? Guess I have to toggle it and see what happens. Oh, the gray got lighter, so it must've been on?

Or, the app/website/whatever looked "dated" so they "refresh" it by changing some colors and moving all the the buttons and menus around. Thanks for invalidating my muscle memory, for no good reason.

IMHO, usability experts need to design all the UIs (keeping both novices and power users in mind), and give the graphic designers who are concerned about looks very little freedom (i.e. they can make suggestions, but need approval). If they want more freedom, they can design UIs for movie computers (if you want to see a good one, watch Until the End of the World).
Ok what about using a maser instead of a laser?
tbf; with `aws_lambda_python_alpha.PythonFunction` in a Poetry based project, we do get a lot for free. I like small layer based deployments (so we can use things like `aws_lambda.ParamsAndSecretsLayerVersion` etc).
Gets a bit more hacky when you try and enable IPv6, but that is just AWS.
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This leads to a terrible future outcome. Person A and B both graduated with high marks. Person A is truly brilliant and will be a real asset to your company. Person B figured out how to use AI to get the answers the school wanted but doesn’t understand anything and will be a hindrance to the company. Unfortunately, you don’t get to know which one is which, just that they came out of school with similar marks. Best of luck.

Also supposing in this situation that AI can’t really perform the job duties. If it can, don’t bother hiring either person.
A Career Spent Struggling with Web Design and Why the Future Looks Bright
Just to play devil's advocate to my own point, there's really no reason you couldn't do source control for regular CAD programs is there? I know Git doesn't play super well with binaries from a space efficiency perspective, but it does work, and you could use something like Mercurial which does play ok with binaries I believe.
By the time Windows 95 shipped, Mac OS had a system wide user friendly scripting language that integrated functionality exposed by third party applications alongside the functionality of the OS.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript

To give users an easy onramp, AppleScript would allow you to hit a record button in the script editor and watch you carry out a series of actions in the OS as well as third party applications and convert those actions into editable AppleScript code on the fly.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

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Email: charles[dot]pletcher at gmail

I'm a full-stack developer with over 10 years of experience across early- and late-stage startups, a Fortune 500 company, and academia.

Most recently, I've been working on a reading environment for networked commentaries on ancient texts. I built the first iteration with Elixir and Phoenix, and I'm currently working on a minimal computing setup that others can use for their own commentaries/collections of texts.

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i mean..don't act like it's impossible for someone to have a well-informed opinion that Rust is bad. It is an opinion and for some people, Rust is bad! I've given it multiple shakes and can't see myself using it. Don't like the values, the syntax, or the design.

it's just a fact that i can't imagine a situation where i'd use rust over haskell. I'd sooner generate a C program via Haskell eDSL than use Rust if I were to do embedded work, for instance.

And aside from embedded, Haskell clears Rust kind of comically if I lay out a matrix of what I care about in a PL.
Spin something up in an hour; spend a week fixing it when the magic inevitably breaks.

Maybe I am just incredibly jaded but I can't stand all these shortcut frameworks. It just ends up locking you into an ecosystem, especially AWS, and decouples you from building technical understanding of the system where if you go down the path long enough, you have no abort button besides an entire re-build because your code is enmeshed with the framework.

Do it right the first time: build it simple & iterate as you go. You don't need to be thinking about scaling to 1M concurrent users when you have 0 users.
I thought the trash talk came from how often they were overplayed on the radio.
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> OpenSCAD isn't perfect, but it's so plainly obvious that code-based CAD is a better idea to me that it sort of bothers me that it's not the default.

OpenSCAD was invaluable to me for getting started with CAD. I always considered myself somewhat "3D-impaired" when it came to software applications, but I wanted to make stuff, and OpenSCAD helped me get started and to explore some very basic concepts that gave me confidence (revolves, cuts etc.)

It gave me confidence I would be able to make my own things, however basic. But it is very simplistic and fundamentally limited.

For example, since it is not bRep, it cannot work with STEP, which limits its utility with existing components or exporting to manufacturing in other than 3D printing. And as it is declarative and lacks constraints or reflection capabilities you cannot measure models, loft generated faces, etc., and you end up doing endless, endless expression calculations to make parts that fit together, where parametrics and reflection would allow you to make one part based only on the final form measurements of another.

(If code-CAD appeals and Python is OK, look at Build123D as others have recommended. It is everything OpenSCAD should be, still lets you work with CSG operations, and can import your STLs. But it also gets you into a bRep world and that is, pun not intended, a step-change, as you can start to reason about and build on points and faces.)

So my next step was to look at CadQuery (which I don't recommend), and about three hours of that convinced me that I shouldn't get stuck in the mesh-modelling world. CadQuery led me to FreeCAD, and Mango Jelly Solutions videos and a free book got me started.

FreeCAD can work with OpenSCAD files (and it has a deprecated CadQuery 1.x workbench). It's also fundamentally parametric. You can write code to generate objects, or you can use expressions and spreadsheets with GUI tools; it's still wholly possible to make designs that are based on reasoning about measurements.

From there, I decided, if I hate FreeCAD at least I have liberated myself from the limitations and frustrations of OpenSCAD, and I can use other CAD packages as soon as I decide I have to. But I've never needed to.

I've been able to quickly make complex items, but also refine my designs to the point that they are more professional.

I would also caution you not to assume that it's "plainly obvious" code-CAD is better at all. It is great for simple objects and some programmatic generation, but relies on external files and tools for complex vector shapes, which is a usability/project management issue right from the start for a whole bunch of users. And then there's the frustrating handling of co-planar surfaces in the preview (though that may be mitigated? I gather there are speedups on the way too)

For the vast majority of users I would have thought it equally likely a constraints-and-sketches workflow is better, not least where implementing existing engineering sketches is concerned.
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I'm not sure it's raising prices anymore... it's more like inflation alignment. I was at a company that didn't realize inflation was really like 100% at this point, and everyone just left. All the developers just... left. No pay raises.
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Hi there! I'm Vincent, a Service Development Consultant with over ten years of experience in service innovation and improving customer experiences.

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The C/C++ extension is open source with MIT license but the shipped extension binary contains MS proprietary binaries that is not as open [1]. I am not sure what will be the difference between using MS official build and compiling the source (there will be some for sure).

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/blob/main/LICEN...
Human history is literally a record of this working.
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> Spotify Premium will now cost $11.99 a month

So this is about one album per month. The accumulation of music might be slow at the beginning, but I could imagine that 3-4 years in you have quite some collection.
If you're young, I really suggest you look at the price of CDs in the 90s, calculate for inflation, and _get off my lawn_!

Serious question - Do the DRM free albums represent a broad swath of music? Or is it just a niche "a few artists do this" kind of thing? I suspect you're not comparing apples to apples, but I haven't looked into album prices since I started using streaming services.
Yeah, the cost of labour amongst city dwellers seems very far from relevant when you’re stuck down a pit in Wales.

I think it’s interesting to note that the original steam engines were specifically for coal mines. A lot of the cost of coal was transportation; at the source it was actually pretty cheap.
Yeah, you could hire a person to just prompt the AI and then take the blame when the AI makes something stupid. Nobody even needs to know.
I did, the interviewer who told me what Windows was, Dave, told me years later I was hired because, in no particular order: my age (they wanted someone who could give them their monies worth after training (I gave them thirty years.), a former co-worker recommended me based on my experience, After they asked, I told them about my family (they knew I would show up everyday.), I didn't freak out or become agitated when I realized I accidentally embarrassed myself on the Windows question and I promised them I could work well with others. (A kind of weird question at the time that I fully understood after a few months on the job).
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We are an early-stage, well-funded, stealth startup making humans and computers work together more efficiently. Experienced team from Apple AIML, Bose, Amazon, and other great companies.

We're hiring for:

- Senior Applied AI/ML engineer (including LLM fine-tuning, search/retrieval systems, and various vision and NLP tasks)

- Generalist AI/ML engineer (writing agent code, RAG, prompt engineering, etc)

- Integrations and server engineer (TypeScript/Go/C++ connections to data sources, and data syncing)

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TIL there's a product called Spotify Duo that I could downgrade to from my family plan. Unfortunately I won't save money, but at least I'll avoid a price hike.
OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group