skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding clients is the single hardest thing you will do as a contractor. I've been contracting for 10 years and even now, I deal with clients ghosting me, projects falling through at the last minute, etc.

I just had a client that wanted to talk about a new project today. They never sent me a meeting link and ghosted me.

Applying to 1099 jobs is a good idea. it's a numbers game.
retrospective? It was one of the first silly gotchas I hit picking up the language. And the stdlib authors chose those package names!

It's funny how when I was using Go, I couldn't wait until it got generics (which was only a matter of time despite the party line). When it finally got them, I was versed enough in the edges and nature of the language/ecosystem that I didn't really care anymore and moved on. I am glad that Go rose to popularity because it brought to light opinions that weren't all that popular: memory layouts matter and error values (rather than exceptions). I still prefer a sound type system over nil/zero values though.
Some Corporations Seek to Silence 'Trojan Horse' Activists
We know for a fact that there are genetic markers for autism.

Analogies aside, they were arguing it is a mix of genetic and epigenetic factors and that, generally, we only pay attention to the genetics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics_of_autism

I think the real problem here is this can potentially be a politically heated take. I don't believe it is in this case, or they were making an effort to not make it so. Of course, that is just my reading of it.
I hope the readers here are aware that this is just the political smear machine being turned on by WaPo employees and their political friends that don't like this guy because he told them that 'woke' doesn't sell and that WaPo is dying because of them.

The timing of this NPR story is not a coincidence and is politically driven. That doesn't mean that it has no merit, but read it with a skeptical eye.

The more you know....
I've been using an LLM as the initial "search" starting point for queries that I used to go to Google for. Many times I can shorten my time to finding the answer because I don't have to check multiple sites in the search results. Other times, the LLM can help me refine my understanding of the problem or the question I ask.

Both of these save me time, but the LLM is still just a tool I add to my belt, not something I'm worried about as a "looming threat". They definitely don't scale to the "build this app for me..." or "add this feature to my program..."

I still haven't integrated an LLM into my IDE in a meaningful way, the UX is still an open question for me.
Wow, if that works that's wild (and also has that "damn, now you say it it's obvious" flavour that so many really cool discoveries share...)
Exactly. Either you opt for a timely, balanced, thought-out solution, or you have the traumatic over-correction forced upon you.

I wish we could have real conversations about how to solve this issue, and not bury our heads in the sand. I'm not proposing any particular solution, just for our collective attention to the problem and liberty to discuss solutions.
Oh, I forgot that Hulu has an infuriating thing where, if you turn on English-language subtitles for a show that's mostly in English (as those of us with poor hearing often do), and the show has burnt-in subtitles for portions of speech in some other language, then the burnt-in subtitles will be overwritten by a subtitle reading, say, "[Speaking in French]."
ASRock next-gen Z890 Taichi Aqua motherboard doesn't have any USB Type-A ports
That's very surprising that the image from the firmware update alone is sufficient to boot the machine. On the overwhelming majority of laptops, the update capsules don't contain the NVRAM sections (so no set or default values for any settings) and typically this is enough to prevent the firmware from booting the machine.

It's also interesting/impressive how much work the author went through to reinvent the wheel with his own custom microcontroller setup for reading and flashing the EEPROM when there are so many cheap off the shelf solutions available (that can read and program hundreds of times faster than it sounds like his did).
> Your options are either more monitoring to stop/slow down theft, or having the stores close entirely in what I would imagine are lower income areas that don't have a lot of options in the first place.

I gotta say, I'm getting pretty annoyed how there are people that shoplift and encourage others to shoplift, and then get a Surprised Pikachu face when the stores either close or put in more draconian measures to prevent shoplifting. People brag about using self-checkout to steal or get something at a significantly reduced price (like ringing up your steak as bananas), and then get pissed when stores demand to check receipts or shut down their self-checkouts entirely.

It's not corporate simping to point out that businesses exist to make money, and if theft is so rampant that they're not making money, they're going to close those locations.
I would have to find it, but somewhere I have an entire list of links like this and m.facebook.com that I made sure to disseminate onboard ship while I was in the Navy. Internet is slow and limited so having these types of sites is a great help.

HN was always easy to load!
I think this falls under the category of "Don't be cute if you expect what you write to be used by many".
Evil by Design by Chris Nodder (iirc) is an interesting book about this subject-using the seven cardinal sins as a dark UX pattern framework.
When you decide to just write your own database to store stuff in,
because whatever is out there just doesn't fit your use case.
you have most likely failed.

You can then either write a new database that fits the use case,
or take a hard look at the use case and change it to fit
existing database systems.

Now as a programmer I LOVE the idea of writing a database
or an operating system, it would be super leet.

When writing a new database system, you will make a lot of
mistakes and a lot of bugs that you will no doubt encounter
at inconvenient times after a lot of debugging and profiling.

This is built on top of MySQL which has been battle tested
(still not where I would put any critical data)
Technically that you're not writing the engine but with so much
functionality in two layers above MySQL
you are in essence building an engine for the engine.
IBD Stock of the Day Meta Rolls Out New AI Tools for Businesses
Are you referring to this staged skit? http://youtube.com/shorts/fkrtbDJTGGs
Addiction is a bitch.
It doesn't have to be their source code. They mught just have local fork of every single public repo they have used at least once in a project. I don't know a single company that does cleanup of repos that are unused so it can grow quickly.
I like mine: willmeye.rs because it’s my name
This sort of stuff to me reads as a side effect of some of the de-policing movement. Vigilantism and privatized enforcement creeps in around the edges. Not great.

Of course if shoplifting isn't being prosecuted either, then what purpose is the video? Probably next step at some of these places is AI facial recognition and bouncers at the door to block entry to "undesirables"..
At least near term it stays the same - https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/affinity-and...
But most people I would say dont even take any interest in any tasks.
For GPUs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.07260
Why can't you ditch IG? How does it differ in its power to addict users compared to the other garbage Meta peddles?
I’m looking forward to that tram ride!
Is this “taking care of members?”

https://customerservice.costco.com/app/answers/answer_view/a...
Agreed. I think it is somewhat uncommon to have the fingers touching, but the pinky and pointer are both much more separable from the rest.
Human error:

> Despite an SOP requirement to check the thrust setting on takeoff, the crew did not realise that the thrust was not set correctly until after the takeoff although they had noted how close to the end of the runway they were.

And equipment failure:

> The A/T had disconnected when the TOGA switch was pressed due to a fault with the ASM associated with the thrust lever for engine 1. This disconnect was a known issue with the older type ASMs fitted to the aircraft type. The manufacturer has issued a Fleet Team Digest for operators detailing the issue and the SB for replacing the ASMs with a newer model.
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This is a great idea. In the US, it pretty much stopped the idea overnight that cops were beating people for no reason. Many activist groups now want to get rid of body cameras.
You think the people trashing the switch know any difference? That's my point.
There is no physical evidence for the disgnosis of adhd, so if you want to talk science lets start there
potato.horse

of course!
Creat awareness across all your social media the same way you did here.
IIRC Wordle was mostly JavaScript and available on the site. At least before NYT bought it. For example you could just look at the word list if you wanted to know the answer every day (it’s just, like, cheating at Wordle would be so incredibly lame and pointless).
Handheld gaming PC is made to be modde
I went here first too, I thought I need to start putting my laptop on the right side of my main screen to make me lean the other way to increase my mood.
It needs work.

The dedication to homely, friendly, inoffensive, kind, folksy words needs to stop.
Will LLMs stay the same capability as now?
> economies of scale, including buying materials at trade and/or bulk prices vs retail prices, ability to employ workers more efficiently across multiple properties at once, etc.

You're arguing for having professional home renovators, that works the same if the house is flipped or not. So let's choose not.

> squatters

You're protected from squatters when it's your primary residency. You make it sound like you'd go buy some groceries and when you're back at home your house is occupied with no recourse. No.

It only becomes a legal quagmire when you're flipping properties, it was your winter vacation house, or you're actually spending your life in the Bahamas. Nobody's having issues while their house is actively renovated and they move in as soon as it's finished.
it's there. Aelia Capitolina.
Original text with links: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-248/
> Microsoft developed the Recall feature under its new Secure Future Initiative (SFI) that the company has put in place to overhaul its software security after major Azure cloud attacks.

The irony here is thick enough to cut with a knife.

But good on Microsoft for changing their minds and deciding to make this opt-in. That's progress for sure.
My manager's company-issued HP EliteBook is actually the third device he's had during the last three years, as the previous units failed without warning. Nowadays if I don't see him on the standup I assume it's this problem again.

Kind of reminds me of the darkest days of MBPs and their failing keyboards.

My work laptop is doing ok so far with only minor annoyances like needing to reconnect peripherals after waking up the device, but that's it.

Meanwhile I cooked the screen in my Asus personal machine because it assumed that sleep = 100% CPU. Thermal paste was of course cooked as well, so I had to replace it.

All in all I'm glad that Framework expanded into my country recently. It's expensive for what it offers, but half the reason I'll be ordering one is spite.
Have you ever actually bothered testing your assumption that chatgpt can't reason. And I don't mean that it fails to reason properly about certain questions, that's trivially easy to show, but is less interesting than many people think it is, because humans can't reason properly about many questions (see, for example, the Monty Hall problem). Test your assumption that it can never reason properly about any question not in its data set. It's way easier, IME, to find examples where it does give the correct answer to novel problems than it is to trip it up with a difficult problem.
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Intermittent fasting+protein pacing can lead to weight loss, gut health
Nature study pdf link also from the article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48355-5.epdf
Awesome story! Made me miss my DBA days long ago.
full list of repos in the leak:
https://files.catbox.moe/jx7ksm.txt
> Academia advertises mostly 1. you research stuff you find interesting and 2. you will get job security some point after a couple of postdocs.

Also pensions. Often, if you start early, you can retire with a full pension at 55 or so.
Every desktop Linux DE/distro comes with a calculator, a simple text editor, a file manager etc. Perhaps it's time to ship a sensibly-preconfigured AI tool alongside these to win more non-techie desktop/laptop users. I personally don't need anything pre-installed, I can pick Arch or even LFS, install and configure everything I need, also write my own AI tool for my needs. But non-techies (whom we need if we are sad about how little desktop Linux market share is) often can't even apt install anything. Everyone is using AI, Windows PCs are coming with AI, Macs are coming with AI and Linux is not. Many consumers are probably going to view this like an OS without built-in network support soon. At the same time shipping better AI tools with transparent, sensible and privacy-friendly defaults OoTB can attract those who are not happy with Microsft/Apple approach.

This is a conceptual idea however - no, I can't name any specific free software. Perhaps it is yet to be written.
Contrary to popular belief, a tax write-off doesn't make it free for the business.

Since the steak was already purchased as a business expense, it was probably written off already anyways.
Yep, the view in the post is narrow and singular. It just happens to be the type of apps that show up on HN. I would call them lifestyle apps where "craft and taste" is what differentiates them.
You don't need an A100, you don't even need a GPU.

Trace.moe compares colors and patterns.
If you know how it works, you can make it better,faster,cheaper.

Without the 300k starting salaries. I imagine that is a stronger incentive.

It's the users of the LLMs that want to launder repsonsibility behind "computer said no".
Can’t wait until my friends start asking me “Beretguy, i don’t want to use windows or chrome os anymore, are there any alternatives?”.
i have thumbnail.ai , willing to sell at right price.
I was surprised that Bezos would pick the executive for something as important as the Washington Post... from a Rupert Murdoch property, of all places.

Bezos is smart, and, whether from a belief in American principles, or just optics... I don't understand taking on the risk and appearance of tainting the WaPo with key people from one of the most corrupt and toxic franchises.

Is it a signaling of power and intent, in how the WaPo will now be used, with known henchperson installed?

Or maybe Bezos knows some redeeming info on this talent, and it's not what it looks like?

I'd love to see the Amazon-style 6-page proposal brief on this.
Woah is the male, never in the news or remarked on for their accomplishment. What is with this self victimization? Aren't you supposed to be tough?
https://archive.ph/xK7tV
This article teased causation twice but did not deliver.

It seems far more likely that unhappiness and left-leaning have a common driver.
Ocaml is developing quite well.
I wish we could simplify the readability of the language. Reason comes pretty close to this.
And a nice django clone in ocaml/reason would lead to a lot of traction
I built an app that scrapes websites to find out which products are in stock
https://archive.ph/qLSrs
Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
"akin to the small set of concepts a person might have in mind when reasoning about a situation"

That does not necessarily mean only a small set of neurons in our brains are engaged.

It could be that we use the whole set or a large portion, albeit in a more efficient way!
I see. I did my bachelors in Psychology ~15 years ago (admittedly did not focus on psychiatry nor pathological psychology). At that point the diagnostic still existed in the DSM-IV, but the term was very much falling out of fashion. I think the (other) APA was drafting DSM-V as I was studying and people knew that Asperger‘s disorder would probably not exist much longer. In my class on pathological psychology I thing Asperger’s wasn’t even mentioned.

I was reading about HFA, and I don’t think that exists in the diagnostic tools either. I think the focus instead is to just diagnose people with autism spectrum disorder and then enlist the disabilities which needs accommodating. The more sever cases has a larger set of disabilities. I’m guessing you would have had a pretty limited set.

I think this is the right choice as there is a little bit risk of ableism in separating a disability as high functioning. The reason we give diagnostic is that some people need accommodation for their disabilities, being accurate about which sets of disabilities need accommodation is better in every way, as opposed to a blanket term like high functioning. The term also risks people perceiving some superiority (intended or not) when it is referred to as such.
Forget 10k steps – researchers say this is way more important
And what will they think if they can't find it?
That's how the labor class does it. My point is that investment purchasers are steadily pushing residential purchasers out of the market.

What happens when its simply impossible to accrue via labor, in a single lifetime, enough wealth to buy that first home?
Your title is misleading. You haven't leaked Tate's actual phone number, so don't market it as such.

Misleading marketing is (unfortunately) a common practice when targeting the general consumer market, but HN doesn't appreciate being lied to.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It has to be entries. Also confused.
I've never been a contractor per se but I've been working in tech for decades, so this is just a bunch of random thoughts.

You say you don't interview well and this could very well be a deal-breaker as a contractor. As a contractor, you are part salescritter as well. You are selling yourself. As in all things, these are skills that come more naturally to some than others, but can still be learned by anyone given the motivation.

How is your resume? If you don't have a strong resume, website proving your experience, or portfolio, most companies are going to shy away from you as an unknown quantity. It's REALLY hard (maybe impossible) to spin up a contracting business without some documented or word-of-mouth history of being a sharp cookie.

Are you utilizing your network? Maintaining connections with co-workers and friends is extremely important when W-2 job hopping, and I suspect it's even more important in contracting. If you are targeting small to mid size businesses, most decent-sized cities have regular meetups for local business professionals that are literally just for networking. They don't even have to be tech focused events. Just go and meet people. Ask them what they do and pretend to be interested in their work. Tell them what you do and notice that they are pretending to be interested in what you do. It sounds stupid, but one day someone will call you out of the blue and say, "So-and-so said you know X, and can I throw money at you to solve my problem?" Print business cards. Attend conferences that are tied to your field.

IME, successful contractors specialize in a fairly specific niche, like embedded design, or Postgres performance tuning, or storage buildouts. Generalist contractors can do well too, but there are a lot of them, so you have to stand out above them somehow, whether that's better marketing, networking, and/or experience.

Your last three paragraphs speak to job dissatisfaction. I have to take a page from Mike Rowe here and suggest not looking for the perfect job that sparks your passion. Instead, bring your passion to the job. It's always hard to tell from the outside whether a job will be fun and uplifting or a soul-crushing experience. It's not the work that matters, it's the mindset you carry with you throughout the day. Optimism is also a learned skill, and one that definitely did not come naturally to me. But one embraced, it opens up So. Many. Doors.
It is more complex than that. In some fields there was a culture of labs and special projects. IBM, Bell Labs, Xerox, and many other companies followed that route and there were corporations with a lot of bureaucracy.

Good thread in /r/AskHistorians: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1kxnd1/what_...
a) Please don't post clickbait titles
b) Most of the use cases I can see for this are crimes
It depends on your scale.

As a solo dev just being able to point my apps to firebase and not worry about it saves a ridiculous amount of time.

At Uber's scale they probably have to tweak Dynamo and other services so much they might as well bring em in house.

I'm a bit surprised we haven't seen a new AWS, something like Walmart Web Services.
The Last Days of Zork
Browserbase – Headless Browsers Built for AI Agents
This is just grift?
Found the Facebook employee or stock holder.

Literally the first paragraph says they claim Facebook withheld the information which was requested.
Ambient temps aren't always a constant? Nor is the end-to-end performance of the cooling solution?
American urban environments really need more cameras to reduce crime. If we want to have walkable cities we need to solve urban crime issue. Many here on hacker news are against pervasive video recording due to privacy concerns but I think with right data access and data retention policies privacy issue can be mitigated. It's a balancing act. Video recording along with stronger enforcement would go a long way making American urban environments more desirable places to live and hang out vs suburbs.
As a wearer of glasses, I'm ok with this additional level of evolution. :)
SpaceX and the categorical imperative to achieve low launch cost
I see that I can change the implementation of those functions in a particular model you have. Is it possible to change the defined functions(APIs) to fit my use cases?