skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The British V/STOL Airliner That Never Was
Can you give examples of practical applications that have been significantly improved?
Does someone have LOC as a performance indicator?
I'm all about scrolls and slates. As shocking as it may seem, you won't learn philosophy from a printing press.
Yep we just work online from home and will have to hustle to make rent each day
That has nothing to do with it. Society in general is just uncomfortable with the idea of euthanasia and politicians don’t want to be labeled as promoting “suicide”

It’s just not a great hill to die on since most people that actually care strongly about the issue are the ones bed ridden in the hospital.
My bad, it's Yuill.
Fair. Please read as a cf. not a see.
The author is a HN favourite. Literally any dogshit by them will get to the top of front page.
Dementia is particularly evil.

As far as I'm concerned I am my mind. If my mind is gone my body doesn't matter, please don't waste effort in caring for it.
USB HID deevice class definition [pdf]
Unironically probably. The only place I've ever worked that used LoC as a performance indicator was a hedge fund.
The Google interview process is overly focused on algorithm skills and absolutely does not select for character and trustworthiness. In fact the leaks from Google to the news started circa 2017 and in response the leadership basically neutered internal forums like TGIF and memegen. Remember the Damore incident? While Damore was wrong, it wouldn't be as big of a deal if the incident wasn't leaked to the press. It's clear that Google would be a much better company if its interview process actually accounted for character and trustworthiness.

The old article, Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech is still the best description of what went wrong inside Google: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...
How do estimates of genetic origin relate to ethnic affiliation? Ethnicity is about culture, customs, and language, not genetics.

As far as genetics go, it's worth pointing out that there's a bit of question begging involved in identifying specific genetics with regional cultural groups in the first place.
Agreed - an excellent book for those with some experience. I wish we could get a new edition.
Correction: only AnySoftKeyboard is open source according to the 0SI definition – an organization that famously did not invent the term open source but co-opted it from Christine Peterson, and which is primarily funded by closed source tech giants, such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft who are wildly conflicted in their interest as they profit heavily from open source software, according to the current definition while contributing virtually nothing back.

Coincidence? I think not.
Unreal Engine has something that can be called embedded web browser since the day one. The original Unreal Engine is this thing that has its own implementation of “something not entirely unlike JVM” and refers to various things by means of URLs.
> I imagine they do some sort of cluster analysis to find correlation along with self-identification.

I don't think it's "some" -- I think that's 100% of it.
The origin of cockroaches: From the fields of India to your kitchen
Real estate is owned by large firms that use the real estate as loan collateral. If you rent out space for less than you state it’s worth you have to restate the asset value and possibly put up more collateral which you don’t have or is better allocated elsewhere. There are a lot of shell games being played and eventually the music stop, assets get liquidated, loses get realized but until then property stays empty.
There is no natural clearing mechanism that forces firms to take market value losses when they happen so the incentive is to pretend there are no losses until they are so spectacular that the entire firm goes bankrupt
Ilya's little $5Bn stash is also going to cause issues now his case is over and I assume it is all forfeited by the US govt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Bitfinex_hack
Not necessarily. You can escalate things to your boss. Or then their boss. They talk to the coworker about it. It doesn't have to (and shouldn't be) a public inquisition. Maybe you do some one-on-one sessions / mentoring to try to help them. Maybe you're not patient enough to try this. It's certainly easier to leave most of the time.

The code aspect is all shades of gray. I've seen code that "functions" but has such unacceptable levels of performance, quality, duplication, security problems, etc. that it would barely qualify as "working" and certainly not maintainable. You can't polish a turd.
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Goodness, people really do see LLMs as the solution to everything, huh?
That’s true too. The developer api is no longer a major growth generator as it once was. What remains is the bare minimum to keep partners happy, typically ads vendors
It really depends on the context.

The important thing to realize is that bad developers who are kept around tend to survive because they're well liked by people who make the decisions. If you raise concerns about their performance then you're picking a fight that you can very quickly lose. I've seen people get hung out to dry when they escalate concerns about people like that, and even if they were right it still leaves them in a much worse position for their next job hunt.

In most cases I'd tend to agree with OP that the right move for an employee in that situation is to lay low and start looking. If the situation isn't yet completely unbearable there's no need to just hand in your two weeks' notice, but it's worth looking for the exits.
Presumably @plot_function does something. Also there are lots of other functions in the same API that are more than one line.

I suspect he wouldn't have thought it was over engineering if it didn't have such a long comment for one line of code... Which is silly.
Not only is space time probably curved back on its self but the arrow of time as well. Time is a flat circle!
Beginners' Guide: Strategies for Digital Nomads
I have a strong suspicion the parent comment I was replying to was written by someone that thinks America has an infinite moral bank account can draw from to escape culpability for its actions. Maybe I misinterpreted that and if so you’re correct. But the way it was worded seemed pretty clear to me that the author sees the world like a Star Wars movie of good and evil. It’s not. In the real world the Jedi kill kids too.
In 2030, this algorithm will be expected to optimally solve some leetcode interview question.
My $0.02: I cut my teeth on Liang's Introduction to Java Programming (9th edition). I think it's a fantastic book. The course I was taking only covered the first few chapters, but I ended up working my way through the whole book. I recall all the exercises nailing that sweet spot of being within reach with what I knew, but still challenging and rewarding.

There's some stuff that felt dated even for its time. For instance, GUI programming with AWT / Swing. It's super disappointing to spin up a GUI and have it look... well, like Java GUIs do. As a student, it can be a bit demoralizing to spend a bunch of time and effort only to end up with something that looks so stupid and unfinished.

On the whole, though. Great book.
Why are you asking for advice then?

Another way to think of this would be — what is covered in the Horstmann book better than the Liang book. What are topics that are missing from your already chosen book that your students would benefit from?
How long has AI been used to develop drugs? Have any made it to market yet?
Residential and commercial real estate will price what the market can bear. Raise the min wage... Housing will follow suit.

Commercial, as I understand it, can't lower prices because that devalues the unit / building. To them, empty is better than offering a lower lease price
it doesn't say he was an electrical engineer when the incident occurred. he might have still been in school, taking a summer job as an electrician.
You claim, as a "fact", that someone who wrote this [0], identifies as Jewish?

[0]: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/jesus/
The ENG button on the bottom left only seems to translate basic boilerplate, not any description or other content. Browsers do a decent job of translation.

But the only thing you can do is search for stuff, there is no way to browse at all that is obvious to me. I prefer looking at Google Arts & Culture which is often well designed and photographed.

I am sure some poorly paid contractor built this site.
My advice. Attend tech meetups and networking events that quants frequent. Socialize with them, and try to get them to refer your resume for open positions. Side projects and contributions to open source projects will help get their attention too.
Yeah a fake livestream of Elon Musk or Mike Saylor still makes hundreds of thousands of dollars/day undetected and untraced, no FBI involvement or arrests at all, still going strong to this day. Why waste time with this crap.
I'll be honest with you - it feels like the only reason why you brought up US here is to say those last two sentences.
So it's a "market" where prices can only increase. Seems like something will have to give eventually.
Yes, but only because you might lose your job from playing too much factorio. :) the exploit was not a risk for vanilla unmodded single players, and has been patched in any event.
> that's not good enough.

Then make a law saying that yes this is ok and good enough.

Problem solved.
This idea of accepting some kind of subset is exactly what JVM does. There is a set of rules (IIRC 29 of them) that the JVM bytecode have to follow to be accepted, the one important rule is “stack entries should always be used as a same type”, the rest of the rules are there so that this can be statically checked.
>>was written by someone that thinks America

Dude, you're the only person here who mentioned America. Feels like you're projecting what you think other people think and reply to that, not to what they actually wrote.
> your opinion will be eliminated from the gene pool

The impulse to die being eliminated from the gene pool is a good thing ? Or rather the characteristics to fight for life at all costs is what one would want in the gene pool ?

If what you assume is true, at some point people will want to die less and the problem will self correct .

Death is important tool in evolution delaying it is not argument for it .
For Golang they used some exotic aggregator site, and it seems it went defunct years ago. I've tried clicking a few packages and was served casino ads.
Two types of people: those who have money and those who have yet to be separated from it.
Earth is about 8000mi across. The moon is about 239000mi away. Looking at it from opposite sides would be about 0.016 degrees of angular displacement. And that's a couple days from impact.

>> So simulating +20 million asteroids and what will be visible during the mission.

How many impacts do you simulate? These are the ones we care most about, and I still think they will be the hardest to detect.
So what you're trying to say is - "In the past prices fell extremely fast, now they're falling just regular fast".
Yep, it can potentially download pretty big datasets and then you can explore them entirely client side using Wasm SQLite.
I'm a Java programmer who's been at it for 20 years. Its really difficult to find a definitive modern Java guide right now because there are multiple paradigms that are popular.

There is the old school - everything has an interface, with a concrete implementation and test implementation. OOM ORMs probably Hibernate. Lots of long winded naming.

Add some functional features in Java 8, streams, lambdas but still kind of a hybrid. Scala & Kotlin distracted much of the purely functional people but has influenced Java a lot to complicate what normal Java looks like.

Spring has a huge influence and probably is still the defacto framework to build in.

Sprinkle in some Clean code culture - (4 line functions) which got really popular but has died off.

Add reactive programming. You need async in single threaded languages like JS and Python, and you need async in high performance applications. Its toxic for most projects but has nonetheless been enthusiastically adopted and corrupted many a code base.

I like Vertx because its a complete break from Spring and much simpler with less magic, but it hasn't really gained enough popularity.

Java 17/21 added a bunch of new concepts like Records which some people have adopted Java into DDD style that is completely new.

So "Java" can mean so many different styles now its impossible to have one recommended textbook. Bloch you can't go wrong but is kinda basic construction rather than higher level guidance. I like "Vert.x in Action" but in general its not a good standard Java text. I'm kinda curious what others will suggest.
It is very unrealistic to land a gig at places like Goldman Sach if you don't have the socio-culturally compliant identification card that is bullshit education. There is really no point in trying.
Casdoor is one such Docker image, or Authelia, FusionAuth, Authentik or the Ory stack
Generating plate numbers is concerning.
Wait until you learn that they believe they need Kafka. Their engineers are probably bitter they work at a media company and not a FAANG.

https://www.confluent.io/en-gb/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-...

> The Monolog is our new source of truth for published content. Every system that creates content, when it’s ready to be published, will write it to the Monolog, where it is appended to the end.

> The Monolog contains every asset published since 1851. They are totally ordered according to publication time. This means that a consumer can pick the point in time when it wants to start consuming. Consumers that need all of the content can start at the beginning of time (i.e., in 1851), other consumers may want only future updates, or at some time in-between.

> As an example, we have a service that provides lists of content — all assets published by specific authors, everything that should go on the science section, etc. This service starts consuming the Monolog at the beginning of time, and builds up its internal representation of these lists, ready to serve on request. We have another service that just provides a list of the latest published assets. This service does not need its own permanent store: instead it just goes a few hours back in time on the log when it starts up, and begins consuming there, while maintaining a list in memory.

Absolutely insane. The only reason this works is that the NYT publishes less than 300 articles per day so you can get away with doing un-indexed full table scans of your entire database. But the engineers can put "I created a log based time-series architecture on their resumes".
So this package is not the actual react-dom package I get when I npm install react-dom? Thanks for the correction!
Despite JWZ's animosity towards HN, his contributions towards open source and his influence on modern web browsers can't be overstated. In a thread about the history of Mozilla, it's worth reviewing his documentary on the open sourcing of Netscape, Code Rush:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Rush
It is. They are one of the main developers for Cardano (I linked some of their stuff in another comment talking about examples of commercial open source haskell because I keep up with the project).

I'm actually interested in what other projects in the cryptocurrency space use haskell? I thought Cardano was the only project that did. Most everyone else seems to use Rust or some mishmash of web oriented languages.
Really great advice! Few that I would add based on my experience:

- Engineers spend way more time reading code than writing it. So writing easy to read code is more important than writing fancy/complicated code just because it saves few lines of code.

- Extension to above point. Having coding standards in the company is important so that it's for anyone to make changes to different parts of the code. If one engineer ends up writing code using their own standards, it makes life harder for everyone else on the team every time anyone else has to debug that code.
Out of curiosity, what exactly does OctoEverywhere do? It seems to advertise itself as a remote access solution for OctoPrint, but I assume there must be more to it than that -- I can't quite wrap my head around having a proprietary remote access tool that's exclusive to a single application, rather than using something standard and general-purpose like a VPN.
I find your snippet surprisingly readable. Thanks for the suggestion!
There are a few books by Marcus Chown that you would enjoy.

The latest I read, "Breakthrough" includes some chapters on cosmology.

I wrote a critic in my personal blog (domain is like my nickname).
Note that this is a „small o“, so o(1) captures terms that „divided by 1“ go to zero as m to infinity.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau-Symbole
Bolivia's president accused of plotting coup against himself to boost popularity
The algorithm is near linear asymptotically at the limit when n -> inf.

In the end of video they tell there is no way that any implementation of their algorithm gets close to beating existing algorithms in the real world.

https://cacm.acm.org/research/almost-linear-time-algorithms-...
It would seem like the real $ in in Substack. Lots of writers making >$50k year of passive, recurring income to write maybe one or two articles a month. Good work if you can get it, compared to writing a full-blown technical book and earning less.
At a certain point it falls to personal accountability. A would be lottery ticket buyer can get all that info in 30 seconds by googling "How likely am I win to win the lottery?" If they don't do that, that's on them.

Advance fee scams are different because 1) they are telling outright falsehoods and 2) they come cloaked in a broad variety of disguises, which means that a naive web search is not guaranteed to unveil the deception
Latest version of every browser, not every browser version I was forced to support because it was still used by a big chunk of users...
Surely you've worked with other traders who get confused by import statements. Whole point of this file is to provide a common interface for common math operations that might be exposed by either plain python or pandas/numpy functions.

You're obviously not the target market if you're able to review good and bad code.
This was back in the days when folks in Europe were still capable of doing really ambitious technical things.

That particular project may have turned not to be economically viable, but it was at the very least thought of and studied seriously.

That kind of burning flame has now died miserably, and all Europe is now capable of doing is keeping the lights on.
Relevant bits:

>> A majority of 54 percent of small business owners surveyed by Alignable said that their landlords were charging them more now than six months ago, with 11 percent saying their rent has increased by over 20 percent.

>> According to Alignable, only 32 percent of small businesses founded before March 2020 are now earning as much every month as they were before the pandemic.

So landlords are probably rotating financing onto higher rates and trying to pass their interest charges to tenants, who haven't sufficiently increased prices to compensate.
Illiquid markets have poor price discovery. If the price drops below stated value typically transactions stop but prices take a long time to drop
I'm assuming this is academia and teaching to undergraduates the foundations of programming / comp sci using Java (which I'm not sure should be many peoples first choice these days!).

This situation is pretty common and has existed for time immemorial - undergraduate tutor's are not likely to be seasoned developers with significant real world experience - at least outside the top tier of institutes.

Many new hires / junior devs seem to have had this experience, and often come in lacking any knowledge of pretty important concepts like version control, testing, http, etc. It's ok, they have the basics and can learn on the job but I do often wonder what it would be like if the curriculums mirrored the real world better.

OP, hopefully no offence taken, the fact your coming here asking makes me think you'll do a fantastic job of this course!

I don't have a java book recommendation, but if you could try and squeeze in aspects like testing, http frameworks, git and the basics of a Linux terminal you'd really be helping the students with prospective job interviews :)

Edit: Wow just read course curriculum, Swing, CORBA, Servlets - throw in some XSLT and I am reliving the late 90s. OP - any chance you could swap some of these out for more modern solutions? Web interfaces / Rest / Dropwizard, spring, etc
Write a book to build credibility and opportunities, not the money.
Several comments... Disclaimer, I work in this space.

a) Surprised that on HN no one has commented on the similarities with Heliogen: https://www.heliogen.com/ This US-based company backed by Bill Gates and Bill Gross similarly focuses on high-temperature heliostat applications, e.g. green hydrogen and concrete etc. They even have similar hexagonal-mirror heliostats.
b) Why these CSP startups so often focus on moon-shot 'super hard' applications like the above baffles me. There are LOTS of great applications for lower temperature solar thermal systems - which are much easier to build and operate.
Our plastic-molding systems are just one example: http://lm.solar
c) It's a little odd to be doing CSP in Germany - Heliostats need collimated light (non-diffuse light, e.g. light that casts a shadow) and Germany has pretty low DNI compared to, say, Morocco. I know the article says they plan to deploy commercially to Spain, but even a test system would be super hard to operate with frequent haze, high cloud layers, etc. To be clear, not saying PV-solar is impractical in Germany - PV can harvest diffuse light just fine.

Funny that the photo of the solar tower / target in the article shows an overcast sky! Global Solar Atlas gives annual average DNI of @ 1000 kWh/M2/year at Jülich, which is way low.
https://globalsolaratlas.info/detail?c=50.922093,6.361102,11...

I wish them luck, but there are likely more practical, impactful uses for CSP.

PS Re the 'sunlight is free' comments... yes but if your process is very inefficient and/or requires a huge heliostat array then CapEx goes way up (which has to be financed = cost) and then you get into needing automated cleaning robots to keep your array working well (see Ivanpah - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility ), etc.

The cascading effects of moon-shot application => huge CSP system => problems (high CapEx, huge physical sites, permitting problems, need for automated cleaning etc) are exactly why we're working on industrial uses for SMALL heliostat arrays. And why grid-scale CSP (electric generation) systems generally get trounced by PV+battery systems.
I mean, looking at it that way, "how long has AI?" (as in, the entire thing) been anything (significant) at all.-

The field's been "at it" since at least the 50s, though ...
Pretty good article.

Publishing anything these days is a long tail game. Outliers make $.

If you want to make money from a book, you need to promote it, self published or not.
Exactly, came here to say this. For many that do operate the real estate there are loans to leverage the property and those loans come due if rental rates (or sale prices) fall below a limit stated in the loan. That's part of why you'll get free months rather than a reduced rate, but also why so much is empty.

Often the commercial part of 5/1 and 5/2 designs is a loss where all the profit is in the residential above it (and for code acceptance).
Interesting this post appears in the same week as Paramount pulling the content of much of their archived cable TV content. The internet giveth and the internet taketh away.