skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, that's odd. I'm betting article author misunderstanding or marketing team eager to add AI wherever there's a slight chance.
Excel's cramped formula bar that defaults to one line is, to borrow a turn of phrase from Raskin, not at all something that is necessary—it is merely customary.

There's no (good) reason that when you start to type a formula or you click on a cell that has a formula already in it that Excel doesn't make an ephemeral sidebar overlay appear with an 80-column text editor in it. There's no good reason that it doesn't run a gofmt-style code prettifier on long, sprawling formulae. There's no good reason that clones like Google Docs don't do this, either. The best time would have been when we transitioned to widescreens.

Spreadsheet programming is bad because neither Microsoft nor its competitors actually care about making it good.
Ironically, the answer is buried 2/3 down.

And here’s the trick to using it without having to click the ‘Web’ option buried in a menu every single time. Google does not make it easy, but by adding a URL parameter to your search—in this case, “udm=14”—you can get directly to the Web results in a search.

At the end the author shows how to configure Vivaldi to do this automatically.
It was pretty neat how you could take the PCMCIA card out of an AirPort or WaveLAN/Orinoco and stick it in a laptop and it would just work.
In my experience, very few people are able to articulate their lack of understanding with straight forward questions like "What's memory?", and that's before we get into cognitive blind spots. For example, you've completely skipped over what it means to aquire and free memory, so I'm not sure your explanation is as clear as you think.
You mean non-root local user? We don't have non-trusted users on the system.

Well, unless the http server or our dns resolver has a remote code execution vulnerability.

So directly I don't see the risk you describe. Of course considering maximum defense in depth you might have point.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...

Also

HacKit

HN Dark Mode

Comments Owl for Hacker News

HNews Reader

YCReader

Octal

Probably a dozen more.
Not directly addressing your point but asking an LLM to not include something in its output often doesn't work well. Its a bit like saying to someone "whatever you do, don't think about elephants."
It can be a straight up ruthless experience if you play it by the rules as written rather than adding shitty house rules. I love playing with other adults that know how to play.
Is there a study or anything that that is guaranteed adding an incomplete assistant: response as the input and the API taking off exactly the same way on the same position?
How small can transistors get?
I learned how to program in Logo at the age of 8, using the turtle.
> Implication is more efficient (and richer) than simulation.

I guess that why lacking a water supply in SimCity 2000 didn't inhibit the city's growth at all, and the negative effect on your mayoral approval rating could be removed by building a single pump anywhere, with no pipes.
Go to the app store of your choice and search for 'hacker news'.
It's just an ad?

Anyway, doesn't work on me, I'm not afraid of not being able to tell bullshitters from people with experience, and I'm also not afraid of listening to bullshitters.

As the Principia Discordia reminds us, "bullshit makes the flowers grow, and that is beautiful".
Python can waste 90% or 99% of your ops budget. But auto-scaling starts from 99%, and can go all the way to 4 or 5 9s of wastage. Of course, if you combine them, you add up the 9s.

Anyway, it's patently obvious that increasing your unit costs by 7 orders of magnitude will constrain the kinds of business you can run. A few people will deny that, but the cloud is so impactful that those are very few nowadays.

What a lot of people will deny is the relative importance of those two. If you take your C code from an auto-scaling environment and replace it with bare metal Python, you often get a few orders of magnitude gain.
Many https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news
Spotify Box (2021)
Dyson spheres are a nice way to look at what humans are capable of in the future. That is why they probably capture the imagination.

I actually do not see them as much more than beefed up solar panels. 50 Years ago a solar panel was something that most people saw on a novelty pocket calculator. 30 years ago people started thinking about solar panels to actually power a house off-grid. 20 years ago people started things about solar farms that could give useful power to the grid. And now solar panels are ubiquitous and just about anyone can put them on a roof of a house and the world makes them in such large numbers that it is hard to imagine the number of panels made per second.

Maybe in 20 years time we will find out that a solar panel in space is much better because the sunlight does not have to travel through the atmosphere. So why not put large panels in space. Then in 40 years time we understand that we need to position them closely around the sun to get the maximum power output. Of-course the power cord is a bit long to earth so you then also put your factories on those panels. Which is no problem because launching large reusable rockets in space is a problem that is being solved right now. And breaking factories down in container sized chunks to transport them was already invented 60 years ago with containers and container ships.
Ask HN: How can I effectively restart my dev career?
Hi, HN. I wanted to share my unique experience with you all and hopefully get some good advice on what I should do next in my career.

I was laid off from my most recent position in 2022. I had originally been hired in 2018 as a software dev but quickly transitioned into more of a leadership role, and then finally into digital transformation. I knew the transition was a risk and I was counting on being in that role for several years, or even the rest of my career. Sadly, things didn't work out that way. I haven't written code for a business in several years now, although I do have more recent contributions to open-source, especially my hobby game engine, and I have many years of experience in programming, architecture, DevSecOps, and leadership. After being laid off, I went through some personal life issues that prevented me from working, including taking care of a parent with dementia.

Through this unique set of circumstances I am finding it difficult to find work. Even though I have 20+ years of software development experience and am completely self-taught, employers only seem to take a "what have you done lately?" approach during hiring. I've found it difficult to communicate my unique experiences to them in interviews, which I've found to be heavily scripted and impersonal to a fault. Essentially, there doesn't seem to be much empathy in hiring. I feel like I'm being "Pareto principled," so-to-speak.

Does someone with my experience really have to grind leetcode and memorize algorithms to prove his capability? Is it realistic for me to expect to be able to work on a software team again after having transitioned away from software development? I'd be interested in management, but in my experience managers and directors either already have experience or transition into those roles from within a company rather than between jobs. Basically, I know I'm fully capable but I've found it difficult to prove that to ornery employers employing what I see as broken hiring practices. I've been involved myself in hiring for several years and I always made an effort to take an empathetic approach with people I interviewed. Sadly, I seem to be one of few who take that approach. I've considered interviewing for more junior positions but I'm concerned that I'll be seen as overqualified.

I'm frustrated and, to be quite honest, worried that I've lost my career after this confluence of unfortunate events. What does HN think I should do in my position? There is a lot more to the story than I feel comfortable posting here, so anyone who wants to reach out to me directly can find my contact information in my HN profile. My LinkedIn profile URL is also available in my HN profile.
Imagine giving somebody their agreed to earnings, because you took a gamble that he would achieve massive success for you and him.

That hard decision, associated with long term strategies that few could achieve (let alone understand), is an example of why Elon deserved what he was promised.
In SF Bay Area, the cost of electricity is $0.42/kWh, so around $20/year for just extra idle usage. Still not a lot, but it adds up.
Google and friends (literally, your friends will tell you).
UR_:

I: Identifier, is an identifier. "Oh, that's a [a thing, or a location]."

N: Name, tells what the thing is. "Oh, that's the Sears Tower."

L: Locator, tells how to get to something. "Oh, that's at 233 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60606"

That was the second example to come into my head (the first was the Bank of America building in San Francisco), and I think it speaks to things that both* examples have changed their names! The Sears Tower is now the "Willia Tower", and the "Bank of America Center" is now "555 California Street".

And even place names don't stay the same! In 2019, Stanford University renamed "Serra Mall" to "Jane Stanford Way": addresses changed; building names did not.

Just goes to show why it's so important to implement redirects, and (in HTTP at least) why the "301 Moved Permanently" response code exists.
Plato was walking by Diogenes the Cynic and saw him with GDB up on his screen, figuring out a memory error.

"If you would only learn to code in Rust, you wouldn't have to fix those bugs." To which Diogenes replied: "If you would only fix those bugs, you wouldn't need to learn to code in Rust."
Ultraprocessed is a poorly defined term. Health recommendations historically have poor scientific basis and are largely a product of ignorance from convolution of things like obesity, poverty, hygiene, socioeconomic status and cultural taboos.

This type of article just *feels* right and is a meme.
anybody remember this being pushed, K-TEL record style?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisenbop [circa.US 1977]
The latest I think is https://app.hn-reader.com/ (25 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40443995)
Parts. Like auto or industrial parts and being able to assign them to specific lots and customer specific groupings etc.
Prototype of Microsoft MultiMedia Encyclopedia (Windows 1.x)
Amusing as long as you don't agree to something stupid I guess ..

Are they pronounced very similar?
k8s is easy once you know it imo. My recent project I made a Digital ocean cluster and some Github actions to deploy to it in like half an hour, and it would be easy to port to another cloud, or self hosted k8s cluster. It can auto scale nodes, do 0 downtime deployments, bg deployments, has automated certificate provisioning, it does everything I need.
I honestly don’t get it at all considering the sheer volume of these on the market right now. Is there any chance intel would run off an old low cost design that doesn’t compete with the high end just to keep the 14nm fabs busy? It seems like there’s too many on the market for salvage alone to explain it.
I interpret your total avoidance of my point as tacit acceptance.
Well... Yeah... I have a bunch of raspberry pis from back when they were cheap + a raspberry pi 400 I won at a hackathon a few years ago. There are things about them that I love(the older ones to be more specific): low power and great thermals. But ever since their prices skyrocketed, I have completely abandoned the newer ones and opted out for what me and my friends refer to as "cubes". Optiplex micros and similar ones. They are a tiny bit more expensive but you have expandable storage and memory and in lots of cases upgradable cpu if it comes down to it. And most importantly x86, which I take over ARM any day of the week, especially when I have to dive a layer or two deeper - it's just more convenient having all the additional tools.

However I have one or two projects that I keep kicking down the road due to time constraints which involves a rasprerry pi zero w2. The reason being is that it's compact, packs a decent punch and is extremely easy to power it from an 18650 battery and keep a low profile.

I'm fine with the current prices of the raspberry pis but it's hard to justify using one of them if you don't need GPIO pins or something that uses little power. My advice to the raspberry pi foundation is to stop trying to push performance and focus on features. I'd be the first in line to get a new raspberry if it comes with a battery hat and LoRa built in(the project I was referring to really). Here's another one(which ironically already sort of exists): the milkv duo. There are lots of cases when you don't need a full operating system 24/7, which would waste a lot of resources to do one-off tasks every now and then. Ideally you should be able to boot the OS from a sensor or some sort of signal, which is hooked to a very under-powered micro-controller only when you really need it, let it do it's job and then power it off. As we stand, the raspberry pi foundation largely offers the same product in different form factors with some arguably marginal upgrades, which most people don't really need.
“We are super proud to have made this open source piece of technology” - of course it’s open source - you live in the state of “Live free or die!” My favourite state motto. Thanks!
I just bought a 2024 Toyota Sequoia. It’s a “real SUV” and uses the same engine as the Toyota Tundra.

For us, we wanted a vehicle that could tow a Camper Trailer, and one that could hold my daughter’s wheelchair easily, as well as her friends. A minivan would have fulfilled the wheelchair requirement, but it’s my wife’s dream vehicle, and I really want my youngest daughter to get the same camping trip experiences despite having special needs (like water and a sterile environment to wash up and catheter her, so a camper is a necessity if we want to “camp”).

Something like the Cybertruck wasn’t even a consideration, because it can haul maybe 90 miles for a camper trailer, based on what I’ve seen in testing.
This is an effect you see on Reddit a lot. The fitness sub used to have some pretty knowledgeable people in it, but over time it got clogged up with imitators who would just parrot answers from more credible accounts. It's one of the worst side effects of the dopamine rush from fake internet points. I haven't read it in probably a decade for that reason, but that's how it was at the time.
Pretty cool site reminiscent of the 538 analysis of elections past. I wonder how the model will react if Biden drops out before the election, though, since the blue polls would suddenly be "obsoleted" (wrong word, I know) with a new incumbent.
BTFO?
The average integrator doesn't want to mess around with things like DDR5 routing or designing power supplies for the SoC. There are lots of other companies such as AMD and Nvidia selling SOMs so the fact that they are selling SOMs can hardly be something to complain about.
Prioritizing kindness and empathy over showcasing intelligence. Sometimes it is smarter to be kind
@dang this user is posting AI generated spam that is stolen from YouTube.

This video is the source of this post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD6ODeER8qM
Not so sure. It implies that a bad communicator can't be an expert at anything.
And Jonathan Blow thinks software development hasn't improved in 30 years. We tend to fix bugs these days instead of locking up the impacted users.
LOL. Thanks!

I think a lot of videogaming ideas took off after Spore that were very likely influenced by it. Shades of Jodorowsky's Dune? (But I think Spore was actually more successful than many give it credit for, which has been pointed out to me many times. 191m+ creations and counting on Sporepedia.)

Generative AI certainly opens up new possibilities! It's analogous to GPUs (enabled real-time 3D) which opened new possibilities and audiences for videogames. I also think that the fundamental magic of creative tools doesn't actually need fancy tech at all.
I've worked as a data scientist for political campaigns (but no longer). The elephant in the room is that there are so many forces that make this election different from historical ones, from polls moving online away from phones (making them much much less reliable) to Trump's conviction to a completely unprecedented/fractured media landscape. Even if these forecasts were accurate, their usefulness for anyone other than people spending ad money is absolutely zero. Now that these forecast have so so much bigger error bars, I think public forecasts are actually harmful and just a scummy money grab from the media that posts them.

EDIT:

Why are they harmful? At best they make lots of people angry about something that hasn't happened. At worst they skew the election by making people not vote, or afterward serve to justify election fraud complaints ("my candidate wasn't supposed to lose based on forecasts, so fraud occured").

I think we all need to take a deep breath, accept we have little understanding what will happen, _vote_, and hope for a sane outcome.
Classroom is a distraction from internet use.
Any tips for building up an Upwork profile? I've bid on some jobs for what feel like crazy low rates and still not getting any interest.
It is too late for Biden to bow out. Although the chance of either Biden or Trump dying before the election is uncomfortably high.
And smart
> I was told that, with some exceptions, in the US every job is permanently "on probation" ("at will employment").

This is sort-of true. Employment law in the U.S. is by state, and there are only a handful of states that are truly at-will with no exceptions at all (and even in those there are federal exceptions for thew 'protected categories' - race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability that can be reasonably accommodated, etc.). Montana is not employment-at-will at all - you have a probationary period and can only be fired for cause there after that.

America has a thing called the 'Uniform Commercial Code' which is basically templates for business and employment law that states can voluntarily pick and choose from (Louisiana, where the law is based on French legal tradition, uses it the least). But even with the UCC there is actually a lot of variation in state laws on stuff like this.

In my experience outside of Montana having an explicit probationary period is rare in the U.S. You are seeing why in this thread. Your employer may be able to legally fire you at any time, but the social expectation is that they will get the hire right and not fire you for being a mismatch unless they absolutely have to.
I shifted it to C because I am intimately familiar with C's drawbacks. I don't have the same understanding of Python's drawbacks.

And it's always about explaining to the target person's level of understanding. A layman isn't going to know the difference between languages and why pick one vs. another. That's a long digression. Explaining why to use Rust to a Python expert is a very different discussion.

An expert can switch between explanations as required for the audience. Non-experts, in my experience, cannot tailor the explanation for the audience. They typically bottom out at a level that leaves them unable to meet the questioner in the middle.

Hell, I've been the non-expert, especially when it comes to something like why a particular material was acting like a diode instead of not passing the signal or passing the signal intact. I can regurgitate that the half-rectified signal from the aggressor is bleeding into the signal of interest, but I can't tell you why. That's when I'll tell you to talk to the EE team for specifics on why, as well as what they plan to do to fix it.
Nit: pokatokaino is unlikely to be Japanese, since word-initial p has morphed into h during the centuries. But it works if you turn it into, say, t.

Anyway, I think there's another factor: the common alphabet we transliterate these languages to is quite limited. I suspect the similarities become less obvious if you use something like the IPA, which has better universal correspondence between sounds and letters (i.e. doesn't reduce every sound to the same ~26 symbols).
I haven't played a lot of Sim City, but in my mind, factorio is more a simulator than sim city.

Simulating means there is granularity about how each element can be seen and touched by the player.

In sim city there are a lot of shortcuts and simplifications. It looks like you have a city, but the more you play, the more it's just a decor, because the game shows a representation, but doesn't let you see the details.

So you see a car, a house, money, a school, but there is no day planning for citizens, they don't have a lifespan, citizen A or B doesn't have a commute with job C or D, they don't have children that you see grow up, you don't see those citizen bring back groceries or corn going out of the farm.

The problem is simulating granular elements of a city or even a village would require a lot of memory and computing power, even today, so back in 1990 or 2000 it was just not possible to have a granular village or city.

I want to see a mixture of The Sims and Sim City, but you can imagine how difficult it is to design such a game.
As someone with a crate that's in the 50MM plus range, this happens all the time. I really should automate this via a GH action.
An internal hub and a gates belt really reduces the amount of maintenance needed to keep your bike running well. The belt avoids most of the chain issues and doesn't need a properly lubed chain to function and moving the gears inside reduces the contamination that cogs get exposed to.
Fractional work is my goal. I've been able to get some 10/15/20 hour week fractional gigs at higher than my hourly rate as a corporate employee. Finding that work is difficult though.
"If you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it." - Richard Feynman

Experts deeply understand their subject, and tailor answers to meet the audience where they're at. If you express genuine interest in someone's passion, they'll be ecstatic. That's what the OP is talking about. It's not about how experts (or anyone) interacts with belligerent and dismissive interlocutors. And observing teaching moments is just one aspect of a larger smell test for detecting imposters. I think it's a good heuristic within that scope!
Bmax B1 Pro costs less than $130 for 8GB RAM and it comes with 128GB storage and a case out of the box.
Not fair at all, insinuating something then doing no work to verify is lazy. You’re smarter than that! Put in the effort necessary to research your positions.
bazel has modules now: https://bazel.build/external/module

Not tried them but they look like a reasonable dep handling solution on paper - each module can declare it's own dependencies and bazel will figure it out for you like a package manager. Their old workspaces way of doing it was a nightmare, as while patterns emerged where repos would export a function to register their dependencies, the first declaration of any name would win and thus you weren't guaranteed to have a compatible set of workspaces at the end.
That isn't true at all. Many commercial products are source code available including this one https://github.com/vvvv/VL.StandardLibs