skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring managers want reliable results. If a candidate does not have the look for months and months and months of consistent output (that's soft slang for years), it really doesn't matter how good they are.

Real programmers hiring more team members see side developments as a strength, they only want their work to get done.
You're right, my first post should say exclaves and the three examples I gave are all exclaves.
I agree with this.

The role of junior engineers doesn't make sense in today's world, I think that now ChatGPT has fully replaced this role.

I barely see any roles for junior engineers these days, the last one I saw was around 7 years ago?

Either way it doesn't look like there is any future for junior engineers anymore.
Wise perspective from an intern. The type of pragmatism we love.
Unfortunately, apart from crypto, there's no other true 1-way payment.
And if your web server is on v4 only, more and more phones will access it through NAT64/DNS64 from a shared pool of addresses
Not if Alan Kay has anything to say about it.
Now imagine doing this with an EV battery beneath you as it wirelessly charges from the ground.

Lots of interest groups would benefit from keeping any dangers of wireless frequencies under wraps.

Now if we start to ramp up to the sizes large enough to charge an EV battery, 1/r^2 isn’t going to be enough when you’re in the drivers seat

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4437988-why-did-nih-a...
You might be willing to sacrifice efficiency for the common interface and component degradation over time from repeated physical connection mechanics.

For phones, and other small devices, it's a reasonable solution due to the current and energy transferred involved. For vehicles though, it does not make sense (imho) considering the currents involved, especially as we're approaching 4C-6C with new battery chemistries and management systems.
There is a Chinese saying you can conquer a kingdom on horseback but you cannot rule it on horseback. What that means is, yes, entrepreneurial velocity and time to market predominate in startups. But if they don’t implement governance and due process, they will eventually lose what market share they gained. Left uncontrolled, internal factions and self serving behavior destroys all organisations from within.
No, you can do OOP without having to use Java, but you cannot really do Java without at least some OOP concepts.

I'm guessing only Smalltalk rivals Java in OOP-ness, as in Smalltalk literally everything is an object, while in Java only most things are objects.
A lot of great suggestions in the thread, but I am surprised no one had mentioned Syntorial[0] yet. Especially given how widely recommended it is (seen it both on HN and elsewhere many times over the years). For context: it is over a decade old (if not more), but is constantly updated and improved, and none of it is outdated (not that fundamental sound synthesis can get outdated, but i digress).

It is basically a sound synthesis learning tool (and is also a synth in itself). The final goal of the whole thing is to essentially learn to be able to go from “sound in my head” to “sound in my synth” on your own. You start with a base sin wave (or a square pulse, i forgot), and you go from there. It goes quite a bit into the fundamental physics of it, like harmonics/frequency interaction, oscilattors of different types and how could they be used, different wave interactions, etc.

The tool is also good at giving practical intuition tips and not handholding you the entire time, so you get a good amount of room to experiment and try things to get it right. Which is imo the most invaluable part of the whole tool, as it doesn’t just tell you exactly what to do every time, but gives the exact amount info you would need to get there yourself.

It is very “from the first principles,” in a sense that you start with a basic oscillating wave, and everything just naturally builds up on top of it. I really liked how it basically simulated the process of discovering all that on your own (but in a much more efficient and educative way). It blew my mind at the time, not in the last part because it straight up opened my eyes to the fact that all a sound ultimately is is a collection of very basic oscillators and waves that get DSPd and “basic physics’d” into a sound with a unique harmonic profile. It is difficult to unsee that revelation and not think of sounds that way afterworks, which affirms to me that it was indeed fundamentally shifting in my understanding of the topic.

Disclaimer: I am yet to finish the full thing (planning to do so, eventually), but the “from the first principles” approach they use is great and sounds very much up your alley.

0. https://www.syntorial.com/
This is a wonderful summary, very informative. Thank you. Is there a book or other source you’d recommend on the subject of organizational roles and/or dysfunction?…ideally one written with similar clarity.

One thing stood out to me:

You note that executives are the least reality-informed and are insulated from having their decisions affect personal pain. While somewhat obvious, it also seems counterintuitive in light of the usual pay structure of these hierarchies and the usual rationale for that structure. That is, they are nearly always the highest paid actors and usually have the most to gain from company success; the reasoning often being that the pay compensates for the stress of, criticality of, or experience required for their roles. Judgments aside and ignoring the role of power (which is not at all insignificant, as already mentioned by a sibling commenter), how would you account for this?
4 MB was considered a large amount of memory until the release of Windows 95. There were people who had that much, but it tended to be the domain of the workplace or people who ran higher end applications.

If I recall correctly, home computers tended to ship with between 4 MB and 8 MB of RAM just before the release of Windows 95. There were also plenty of people scrambling to upgrade their old PCs to meet the requirements of the new operating system, which was a minimum of 4 MB RAM.
I wonder what happens in that 5 inch gap between the car and the charger. Will any bugs that happen to fly by get zapped?
Show HN: Roundtable (YC S23) – Survey Quality Control API
when the ratio between education and society sophistication flips you get problems. It's a strange group dynamics still.
Crawlers? I'm behind a fixed IP, along with thousands of other people who happen to be customers of the same ISP.
> I think most people don't realize the value of privacy

That is so true.

There is one point I like to use whenever I get into a privacy debate. If they'll say "But I have nothing to hide", then I'll ask "well then give me your email password".

Originally from a TED talk, possibly from Chris Anderson.
This is a big issue with podcast analytics since most downloads come via podcast apps that don't allow any client code at all. We only have server logs to go off of and hence problems like NAT are essentially unsolvable.
AFAIK, it's from different items coming from different Amazon warehouses, and nothing to do with "overstuffing".

In your case, one ring pack came from the same warehouse as the wolves, and was the last one. So the other one had to come from a different warehouse and so was packaged on its own.

Amazon tries to distribute its stock across all its warehouses so there's hopefully an item nearby for when you want one-day delivery. But with products that aren't super popular, there's often just one.

Note that if you delay shipping with Amazon Day or no-rush when available, your items are more likely to come in a single package, because that gives Amazon the time to send items from different warehouses to a single one and then package all in one place. This seems to be based on a complicated calculation of whether that will save Amazon money, so it doesn't always happen.
Django 5 by Example Preface
"network address translation"[1]

Basically, multiple devices access the Internet through a gateway that uses a single ip address, using different ports to map back to the local ip address.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
Just make sure to be a cop and then you'll be fine.
Think of it as a "you could have invented binpacking algorithm X too" post.
Spotify launches a new Basic streaming plan in the US
Pointed a friend toward this. He thought it was cool, but said he’d never wear a Cray wristwatch because he heard they run fast.
Brain health is rooted in state of mind, finds study
Like others have said, that would only be available on what would be a very costly machine for '87.

I distinctly remember the 386sx-16 I got late 1989 came with 1 megabyte and a 40mb hard drive for just under $4k from Price Club (now Costco), which was an unusually good price for something like that at the time.
Wow; this is really nice work, I wish you deep success.
I dove deep into this topic after reading your post and discovered something fascinating: electricity doesn't actually flow through wires in the conventional way I was taught. It's more about the electromagnetic field around the wire. This video explains it really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY
These are detached gyms that are functionally a Planet Fitness with Hospital_Name branding. There is no medical staff or patients, they have a network of rehab facilities for that.
Stumbled upon this a while ago while looking for "a systems Scheme", but abandonware in my book given the most recent commit date (and GH Issue).

Settled on Gerbil Scheme instead, lively community & been actively developed to this day for over 15 years now. Although fair warning, still GC'd and (for now) only type-annotated, not (100%) statically typed. But stdlib-wise and compilation-wise still way more "systems-bent" than most Schemes out there.
Make Impossible States Unrepresentable: Network Edition (Scala)
Related, but I'm currently reading "Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain", it's fascinating!
Communication and marketing. Nobody really knows what will be important on the technical side, especially as 10 years is a good timeframe for disruptive changes from AI. But being able to communicate well, with other humans, with yourself, and maybe even AIs, and marketing yourself on at least the basic level, are skills, which are very important in any business.
TLS fingerprinting can spot things like requests made with python requests easily.
Because, at least when there are magnets involved for alignment, it's easier. I've never ripped a charger out of the wall by picking up my phone in the middle of the night and forgetting I had a short cable attached to my phone.

Kind of like saying you don't understand why we ever had early keyfobs when you still had to carry a key to start the car. It's not about it being superior in every aspect, it's about ease of use.
Consider patients that present with general malaise, fatigue, lack of motivation, grumpiness, etc.

Without therapy to teach them to interrogate their thoughts to determine if they have negative feedback cycles, how nice would it be to just say "Oh we detect that you are a ruminator, you should do CBT and we'll prop you up with some SSRI in the meantime." The same way we'd just do a Vitamin D or Iron deficiency check.
How Does Ouroboros Relate to RINA, the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture? (2021)
Consider for a moment that maybe your experience isn't universal. I took both of mine to baby sign classes and both were able to communicate things such as hungry, tired, milk, nappy etc long before they were able to talk. Along with other parents at the same classes it was absolutely not a waste of time in terms of being able to communicate better with the children before they could talk.
> I am so excited for a Lispy systems language.

Can recommend Gerbil Scheme. Although fair warning, still GC'd and (for now) only type-annotated, not (100%) statically typed. But stdlib-wise and compilation-wise still way more "systems-bent" than most Schemes out there.
Thankfully I never had any managers who were habitual interrupters. Oh, I've been interrupted before, but only when I start going down an irrelevant train of thought. Which I completely understand and appreciate.
Robert Roberson's Going to Die Because Courts Aren't Built for Science Questions
Same thing applies to large businesses where a large number of employees share a single (or maybe a handful of) ip address for a corporate network.
Negligence means everything would have been fine if everyone involved did their duty. So I gave cases where people did their duty, got it wrong, and weren't negligent. You can imagine scenarios where they were negligent because they didn't do their duties, but I can assure you they were not since these were my imagined scenarios. In the case of these scientists who did their duty to the best of their abilities, this wasn't negligence, full stop.
you are heading the right direction. It's amazing to see seasoned engineers go through the mental gymnastic of justifying installing all those dependencies and arguing about vector db choices when the data fit in ram and the swiss knife is right there: np.array
Cudimm Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More Robust
I will never forget the grumpy look on the face of a imperial tobacco representative on a job fair in my university years ago. No one was visiting their booth for anything except for silly questions about benefit package including cigarettes.
Beyond convenience, potential advantages include:

- Reduce maintenance cost and increasing uptime of car charging parks by removing cabling and plugs operated by the user.

- Simplify integration of autonomous vehicles of different sizes - normal cars, smaller delivery vehicles etc, that could integrate with the same charging areas.
I think you just exposed someone's alt account.
Thanks for filling me in a out that.
> Trace the control flow and regenerate the flow on target programming language.

that's not a model of the code that's just a trace...
No, it's just magnetism.
Commercial rinse aid
Listen Trump was running a whole lot of policies entirely off the books that wasn’t publicly declared and was entirely inconsistent with the goals of both the US and all of their allies but was entirely consistent with personal enrichment.

He had multiple people go down around him that were actively working as Russian agents and then he had Kushner working to set up a secret communications channel out of the Russian embassy that was actively designed so that it couldn’t be intercepted by US intelligence.

When you do that kind of thing, no matter if you’re a politician or not, in fact ESPECIALLY if you’re a politician you should absolutely expect people to start asking questions and opening investigations.

We don’t need to pretend he was some normal candidate who had a couple of whacky ideas.
The US has a second form - the "benefit corporation" - that is based on what the organization does. It is possible to be a for-profit or not-for-profit benefit corporation, though sort of by definition almost all US not-for-profit organizations are inherently "benefit corporation" since otherwise they would likely lose their not-for-profit status.

But this reminds me ... I think that this conversation has not paid enough attention to the difference between the legal sense of a non-profit (in the USA, a 501c3 is the main classification, though there are others) and the colloquial sense (such as a credit union).

In the USA, you cannot be a 501c3 and also a credit union, for example. or a consumer owned cooperative. Nevertheless, people will sometimes refer to such organizations as "not for profit".

I think there's less difference between the USA and Finland than we've been suggesting.
How will we create any mid or senior engineers if we no longer have juniors?
Yes, if like it to be as simple and hands-off as possible - but absolutely not at the expense of energy efficiency.
MH-Z19 module and a WiFi Arduino (esp32) which dumps co2 and temperature into Prometheus.

It's like 20 lines of code and very rewarding to write.
I like to program with -wall.

Doesn't win me fans, but I sleep well.
Can not recommend charging your phone all night wirelessly next to your head while you are sleeping.
ugh we could do without the critical theory; the evil technoarchy oppressing users, etc.

The divide here is really between graphical and text interfaces. I think vastly more people would be 'disenfranchised' if everyone was 'empowered' by having to use a CLI, so the inherent non-programmability of GUIs (whatever the author claims, making a new folder is not 'programming') seems like a worthwhile trade-off.

An ideal might be if, as the author falsely claims, apps actually were structured as CLI or APIs overlaid with a GUI. You could then program the CLI/API layer, or re-configure or even re-write the GUI layer to taste.
The health risks of wireless phone charging are massively more psychological than physical. As they will very quickly abut claims of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, most of the legitimate research in this area focuses on the mental health of those who hold such beliefs against the overwhelming lack of any measurable physical phenomenon.
If the goal is to have a decentralized web without the Cloudflare protection racket, would proof of work be feasible and/or desirable to deter mass crawling? At the heart of the issue is that sending a http get / is cheaper than generating the response, tilting the economics in favor of the content hoarders.

Or is mass crawling of static content completely fine and we should just be better at caching?
Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge
Cat microchipping now mandatory in the UK
Hey HN, Mayank Agrawal from Roundtable here. Happy to answer any questions. Survey fraud a big problem in the market research industry right now, and we're trying to ensure quality and automate manual processes (i.e. data cleaning). Any feedback/comments appreciated
I think it's more nuanced than that, while there are bound to be people who are only pushing for it for profit, regular people who talk about getting rid of it are doing it because they're sick of the "moderation" excuse being used to take down stuff unreasonably with no recourse, where even if somehow they manage to get the problem fixed, they just get an apology with no actual change from the company. This is more of a problem with big platforms with millions of users, as so much discourse happens on these.

Plus, there's the worker protections angle, many people depend on these platforms for their livelihood, and the platforms get the benefit of their content in exchange, yet the platform can massively harm their livelihood and the victim typically can't do much in return. In contrast, even gig workers with Uber etc get some basic legal protections.

To pick a benign, non-polarizing example, YouTube is constantly banning or demonetizing people who have not broken their stated policies, be it a history channel or a completely sfw drawing tip channel.

Another example of the power imbalance would be how Reddit can delete anything they want in the name of moderation, but when the users revolt and start to take away their content, Reddit can just undelete it.

By talking of repealing 230, they're in-effect throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but it was supposed to be our representatives' job to understand the people's underlying concerns and draft appropriate legislation.
Buffet operates in an entirely different space than these people.

VCs brand themselves as finding the next growth monsters. It's fine if they want to "find companies that you can reliably value and are undervalued by the market" (which is what Buffet does), but then don't market yourself as a VC.
> You can't make a sink out of it in any way.

Sure you can, just drive 'em at a higher reverse voltage and they'll emit IR light instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WGKz2sUa0w
Step 1: get summer to zero as cheaply as possible.

Step 2: evaluate the combo of sources to get winter to zero.

Step 2 will likely involve insulation, potential energy storage (pumping water uphill to turn a turbine later), high thermal mass "heat batteries", solar that got us to 0 during the summer, wind, and water and maybe even nuclear.
There are absolutely automated systems out there to handle recognition and application of whatever fertiliser/fungicide is needed. Not cheap of course, but prices will come down.
Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites
As evidence, despite theoretically being over 99% effective most birth control pills are around 91% effective in ordinary use.

https://www.nhs.uk/contraception/choosing-contraception/how-...
I also couldn't access the content, but it sounded interesting!
Or perhaps maybe a future for occupational health. My wife is a nurse. Needle sticks happen. When it does, she has to get tested, full works. The hospital pays for that and the treatment. Maybe with a shot that lasts a year rather than the current 2-3 months(?), hospital staff can just opt that route then the test and treatment. Apparently the treatment is rather gnarly.
If you want something that looks attractive in your room and has an app to view history (so the opposite of "hacker"), I highly recommend Awair, been using it for years:

https://www.getawair.com/products/element

You can configure the device display to just show numerical CO2 (that's what I do).

Seeing the CO2 history graphed on your phone might not seem like it's all that necessary, but I find it really is -- you can see how it falls when you're out, you can see how quickly it skyrockets when you turn on the oven, you can see how long it takes to settle into a steady state overnight. Seeing CO2 over time gives me a conceptual understanding of what's actually happening, which I didn't have with my previous CO2 monitor that just showed the current value.
The solution in TFA already requires the test to detect the poinson in a mix of up to 64 bottles as for 7 test each batch will contain half of the (maximum possible 128) bottles.
we were all in a pit full of plastic balls, she was not visible
> As long as you are resigned to do that, why not just use normal mechanical contacts instead?

Maybe a bit far out there, but wouldn't you be able to make both parts (charger and chargee) water-proof easier if power can be transmitted wirelessly?
My understanding is that it takes orders of magnitude longer to develop native Windows applications than it does to develop webapps.

If you know what you are doing, not at all. That being said the technologies are quite different and not all skills are transferrable. If you're an experienced web developer, then transferring to writing Windows apps takes a bit of getting used to. Once you've wrapped your head around C#, Visual Studio and WPF or WinUI3, and embraced the Window Way, it's actually a quite productive environment.

What I suspect we might be seeing is that Windows has so thoroughly lost the developer mindshare battle, that not even Microsoft can find experienced Windows devs to hire, and most of their new developers have a web first programming background and have never used any of the Windows GUI frameworks.
>with 230, any crime in user content, they can just tell the govt that they will take content down and gov can go and hunt the criminals.

This is completely untrue. Section 230 does not protect from criminal liability. It protects from civil liability.

This why hosting criminal material, such as CSAM, is not protected.
While true, don't get hung up on it, it's kinda like "I was always taught that computers run python, or javascript, or rust, but today I learned that it's actually all just 1's and 0's"