skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m still thinking about what Helen Keller discussed in her paper on consciousness and language.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466814
The paper is linked and disused in this thread. Her description of the void before having language is eye opening.
Well I don’t use vim, but I wouldn’t call it “unnecessary complexity”. Modal editing has actual benefits that some people like enough to make the tradeoff.

Assuming it exists for no reason just because you don’t know what those benefits are, and that everyone else must just be stupid, is arrogance on your part.
I was at one for a handful of months. It was way grosser than I imagined it would be.

This one also happened to be a subsidiary of a major far-right media organization, which didn’t help, but the gambling arm per se was totally disgusting.

I now know I couldn’t work on ads at any major company, too. Same kind of harmful optimization dynamic.

(Incidentally, as I was able to gather, a great deal of money in sports generally but almost all of it in esports is connected to gambling. So, there’s that)
Thank you so much for your insightful feedback! I really appreciate your detailed comments. Here are my thoughts on the points you raised:

Terminology: Interesting suggestion to use "(payables) bills" instead of "(receivables) invoices". We recognize that "invoices" might be more understandable for people in Europe, but we’ll aim to balance clarity for both regions.

Scope: I know what you mean. This is our beachhead. Our vision is to build a tool for freelancers, contractors, consultants, and SMBs to monitor their financial health. We want to enable people to run their businesses smarter.

Integrations: That's correct. We are going to start by fetching and analyzing data from invoices, but we will expand the system to include contract, license, and usage data. And yes, we will introduce data destinations in the future. QuickBooks and Xero are already on our list.

Pricing: Valid point. With our 'Essential' plan, companies can connect multiple inboxes and have some simple notifications and reports. Our data shows this is sufficient for freelancers and early-stage startups.

Messaging: We will go harder. For now, we are going to keep it simple :)

Transparency: We'll work on providing more details on our website, especially to meet EU standards. By the way, did you check the FAQ section on our website?

Thank you again for your encouragement and valuable suggestions!
I hate flashcards so I made my own app for studying Chinese after finishing HelloChinese. Very similar interface, but allows me to bring my own content.
Debian GNU/Hurd now can compile 71% of the packages from the Debian archive
Then you are talking about something else. If the return temperature is below 40 degrees then the condensing mode kicks in. This can typically be achieved if the system is set to 60 degrees. Most radiators for this type of system work well with a temperature drop of 20 degrees. Obviously the flow should be adjusted accordingly.

If you go lower, efficiency may increase by tiny amounts, but in most practical setups the system is likely to become unstable and you will lose more than you gain. This is especially true if the system is also used to provide hot tap water. For hot tap water, in particular for a shower, the system needs to be able to heat a lot of water quickly.
"Reuters was unable to immediately verify the assertion..."
> Taken to the extreme, you can then also not trust the free world. Reuters also cites the Russian sources:

Of course, not all free media is competent and Reuters is making the exact same mistake of blindly citing Russian sources without doing due diligence.
I made an app for my brother's wedding so all invitees could easily upload and view photos in a shared slideshow (displayed in real-time on a big TV at the event). Dismantled as soon as the event was over. It took less than a day to create with SvelteKit, Dropbox, and https://slidesome.com

Some more:

- https://weather-sense.leftium.com: weather app with the trendcast just the way I like it. WIP, but already using it on daily basis.

- https://multi-launch.leftium.com: quick link launcher; can launch multiple links at the same time. I use this multiple times a day.

- https://tt.leftium.com: tool to streamline conversions I frequently need. When the input type is detected on paste the converted value is automatically put into the clipboard. Also paste works from anywhere on the page. A super-niche hidden feature is if I paste the outerHTML of my SoFi relay accounts list, it will transform it into a TSV format for pasting into a Google sheets balance sheet. I use it a few times a month.

- https://ff.leftium.com: tool to calculate the time I needed to do something in a game I used to play. Automatically updated a calendar event with notifications.

- https://orbs.leftium.com: another tool to help with planning in the game I used to play.
I wrote a static site generator. It was the first "real" Python app I wrote (many files, classes, etc and actively using Python features.) The code is _terrible_ in the way that code can be when you're learning a language. You can definitely see the progress of understanding Python as you see the project develop. However, it's robust and is used to generate my site right now.

It supports Markdown plus a custom template language to convert Markdown-plus-more documents into a website, which allows me to add footnotes, sidenotes, images with specific formatting, custom markers, etc. It has specific support for parsing English and splitting sentences, so each one is in their own span in the resulting HTML. This is used for specific typographic layout.
Do you by chance have an example repo with mcu management working? I always struggled with that in Zephyr :)
I hire crypto bros all the time. One of my partners advises porn companies.

Who you are and whether you can do the job, matters more. If you’re sleazy, I probably wouldn’t hire you, but that is a personality trait rather than your employment history.

I have a unique unpronounceable first name. I got passed over for interviews all the time. I took it as “if they’re that type of person, I wouldn’t want to work for them anyway.”

I think similar applies here.
As a freelancer I invoice in multiple currencies, and I couldn't find a program to generate them that wasn't an overly complex $100/mo SaaS.

So I build a little cli to generate my invoices. 100 loc and super simple.

I miss the 70s when programming was the default way to solve problems. Excessive abstractions and proprietary software often slow us down.
Europol’s complaint reveals so much about what they already do, which should be the controversy on its own

Seems like everyone should get a cell provider in a different country than where they live
Name the specific one you're talking about. Either there is a manufacturer we should all avoid, or atleast a model, or you made it up.
Most of what I write is for an audience of one - even if it gets merged to the company tree, I'm usually writing for my own immediate needs. But to what you explicitly ask, I contact and I hate invoice management, so I have my own time tracker cli that integrates with stripe invoicing.

My hours get billed, I've got my notes for the cycle, and payments to my LLC get automatically routed to the right financial targets based on stuff I integrated with mercury.com.

Doesn't do the taxes, but cuts a lot of the low value/high cut vendors out of my revenue cycle and that makes me happy.
Companies are in competition for workers.

They didn't pay $415M in compensation for funsies. https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...
It's not hard to argue against at all. Centralized control knobs should be avoided being handed to bureaucratic entiries at all costs.

Life has extrema. The bureaucrat is not in a position to fluidly react thereto. The end user is. Stop the nanny state.
Doesn't SYCL also allow for a single-source-file model these days?
I don’t think I’ve ever gotten paid for a line of c++ but Google has a “style guide” for internal c++ code that omits something like 3/4 of the language, and people seemed pretty happy with it overall. Maybe not “happy” but “grudgingly accepting because it beats the Wild West alternative”.
I pretty much rebuilt my bioinformatics stack from scratch in Go, and I’m pretty proud of it! It does things that no other library, even python libraries, do for synthetic biology applications.

I’m pretty sure nobody else uses it, but I use it a lot for DNA design work for my company https://github.com/koeng101/dnadesign
It is not a good look that the website does not address the obvious question of "Why should this be trusted to exist in x years".
Web service that turns a YouTube channel to a Podcast-compatible RSS feed, just by changing the URL from https://youtube.com/XYZ to https://$SERVICE_URL/XYZ.

Use it almost every day. It’s nice to keep up with channels I care about while escaping the algorithm.

Something I work on-and-off on. Could be interested in open-sourcing it fully if folks are interested in helping out. Im a pretty junior engineer, so work is slow and I’ve never been satisfied enough with the code to publish yet.
I think you’re exaggerating the complexity here. There are corner cases yes, but the compiler will warn you about them.
I know a linker developer, I'm going to send this to him :)

Not sure about heresy according to computer science. Sure, it's not intended, but it's a very clever thing to be able to do.
> I am concerned about the ethics of the industry itself

You have a moral problem working with gambling.

Decide for yourself if that's what you want to do.

And don't care what other people say.

> and worry that having something like this in my CV could hurt me

It arguably makes your CV less neutral.

It might hurt some opportunities, it might improve some, and for a lot it won't make a difference.

Just don't do something you will personally regret or feel the need to hide.

> Would you hire somebody who worked on gambling/betting systems?

Yes.

Many years ago I asked a new colleague what he used to do before joining, and he said "Oh, I used to work for a gay porn site."

I bet that made him a better programmer, considering the high traffic.

I liked him better for his approach to honesty.

Some might have liked him less because of the porn.

Standing by your choices filters away the people who won't like you anyways.
> Is this tool not an additional dependency?

"Dependency" generally means "external dependency".

It's only a dependency if your solution's build process fetches it from its upstream repo. (Or worse: it's just mentioned in some manual build instructions as one of the things your solution needs.)

This is small enough to copy into the source tree of your solution, in which case it's no longer a dependency.
Humming?? No mention of bone density in this article, but there may be some benefits: https://theconversation.com/is-humming-healthy-mmm-heres-wha...
Bookee: https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/ Chrome Extension to navigate my bookmarks a bit easier (I use the keyboard shortcut 50+ times a day)
I’m burnt out by questions like this every other day. People are complaining about trends, like AGI, “I use arch/nix btw”, “written in rust”.

Get on with it. There’s always trends you don’t like. If I felt burnt out when I see a trend I don’t like, I’ll be so burnt that I’m in an urn right now.
I would say no, but I wouldn't want to work there for ethical reasons either way.
These "sergeant greenleaf" locksets are old but common in military/national security use around the world, although military models have a couple extra security features not sold to the public. They are amazing devices. They are 99.9999999% reliable for decades without any maintenance but nevertheless can take a beating. The combination can be changed in seconds. Recovering a forgotten combo is possible with only a screwdriver, so long as the safe is still open. Most are or have been replaced by digital locks, but I've always liked Sergeant Greenleaf.
Almost all of the software I make in my free time is for my own use.

My most used tool I have is a note taking web app that automatically saves markdown files to S3. The most important feature I added was a little button that would automatically make a note for the current day, and put it in the daily notes folder, all sorted and organized. I also have full text search which is very helpful for finding old notes.

I also use an RSS reader I made. Instead of just showing you the text of the page like a standard RSS reader, it proxies the web page so you can read the article directly from the website, but with the added benefit that since it's a proxy, I can control all the HTML, CSS, and Javascript on that page.

Another daily one I use is a random background music playlist for Spotify that is auto generated daily. Using the Spotify API you can find random music, then find random instrumental music from that random music. I use this to discover new songs to listen to while working.

Basically, making your own software is fun. Making production software is much less fun. I don't need to worry about a million things when I make my own software. Sure, I make $0, but if I spent months making, for example, my notes app production ready, and tried marketing it, I'm guessing I'd still be sitting at $0.
My guess is they are looking for inspiration for personal projects to work on.

I think it can be easy to get caught up in the software is for business mindset and forget that there is an infinite number of use cases for things you could build that can just be for fun or personal/small community benefit.
ARINC 429 definitely one way to do it. It has a fixed baud rate - there is no feedback to the transmitter. Typically, each "bus" contains a single or small subset of messages (called labels) over it.
I think we can say Rust is beyond the “nobody uses” stage by now, and it’s much simpler and easier than C++. (And people who use it tend to like it, proving Bjarne wrong).
That is jaw dropping.
And I really like that. Instead of having to use some social network product just to receive my lab results.

Or we may end up in a world when doctors send us important Tiktoks.
We are at hn not on some regional newspaper site

Those type of 'secret' prompts are quite known.
I was referring to how Gatorade is a popular beverage for people not doing any kind of intense exercise, not realizing it's just as bad or worse than soda for weight gain in that case.
it's kind of interesting how i have started to look differently at ex-FAANG employees compared to how I used to view them only like 3 years ago. For me, it's less about someone's morals because look, if you're going to get paid 500k--there are very few people in the world that wouldn't take that. It's more about the fact that after reading Blind, the culture behind FAANG just turns me off so much. The optimizing your entire existence around TC, the musical chair company jumping just to increase said TC, working just barely enough to avoid PIP while delivering near zero. It's become so soulless and cringe that I can't view FAANG as the upper echelon of engineering anymore. I understand you killed it at leetcode and system design and you're probably very smart, truly I do. But I really just don't want to work with those types of folks. I'd rather work with slightly "worse" engineers that maybe couldn't hack the leetcode grind or chose not to and instead shipped a bajillion features at startups/mid tier companies that are actually normal, fun humans.
Cynicism Is Easy, Optimism takes work
Reminds me of something I read in one of the Kurzweil books years ago: having nano-blood delivering enough oxygen to stay underwater for 8 hours. Things like that.

The (funny to me) idea that also came from that was that we can remove our digestive systems, because "eating mainly for nutrients" turns into "eating just for enjoyment", and we have a tray in our stomachs that we tap out to empty the chewed food.
I control the RGB Leds of my gaming PC from the command line. And the overclock on my GPU based on the daily temp (this is just a few lines in a shell though).
Sure, as soon as you say "everyone" then the assertion because immediately false. But this is very much a consistent set of viewpoints for the MAGA movement, and they are currently dominating right wing politics. There are plenty of conservatives who do not believe in these things, but they are currently staying very quiet.
I’m not so concerned about the Rivian batteries as I am the HEREBUYEVERGOOD schlock brand lithium batteries that Amazon sells. I see a scenario where a bunch of them spontaneously combusted and “melted down” into the drive batteries.
I've got a...very large...Bash script I wrote in 2009 for interacting with my MP3 collection via email and icecast (there were more reliable email clients than Web browsers embedded in devices back in the day.) It's basically a queue manager for ices(1), with playlists, "programs", special handling for audio books, and regular radio DJ-like chatter delivered via Swift (weather updates, track info, inside jokes among my friends, that sort of thing.) A cron job keeps it going with random tracks. I've even added some old 50s and 40s radio commercials because hilarious.

It is madness in script form which will never see the light of day, but I've never succeeded in rewriting it or making a nice Web interface for it 'cause what I've got Just Works for me. I interact with this script almost every day, making it the single most-used software I've ever written, either professionally or personally. It's great having a self-hosted streaming service. Run via Bash.

Mwuahahahaha.
Similar story with others in this thread. Used to work in UK for a white label sportsbook company like 10-15 years ago, who operate legally in the UK. No one question when they see my CV. As a hiring manager now, what I care is your work ethics when I meet you in the interview and thereafter, not your past.
Not directly related to the theme of this comment but I need to point out that the speaker of a statement has no bearing on its correctness.
Large for the old days, but a billion names is no longer a big file compared to a AAA game.
Well I was trying to tell you nicely, but you’ll figure it out before long.

Banning someone because they commit a file you don’t like is definitely a sign of a controlling person.
I think quality is fine, the issue is the strings, having "Legendary Wire" in a serious factory game.
So, probably - after the Starship will start robustly flying - in a couple of years? - the competition will look like a number of government-directed programs. In such programs the government pays for a national launcher - it's a case for pretty much everybody, like USA (alternative launchers), Europe, China, Russia, India, Israel (and of course countries like Iran and North Korea)... Alternatively there could be a similarly effective technological solution, a Starship alternative - which might come from China or USA. To get to similar economical numbers per launch it will take some billions of USD and a high single digit number of years in development.

For now it seems the SpaceX is in the game of their own, and going to stay there probably this decade - and maybe even longer. They are going to dominate the world launch industry, and the world payload industry are going to adjust to the capabilities and availability of the Starship.

With Falcon-9, when the first stage reusability became the norm, and payload was welcome, and the external - outside the SpaceX demand was slow, SpaceX answered with their own Starlink program. Starlink demand allowed Falcons to fly frequently, maintaining low costs of launches, while offering cheap delivery of hundreds of satellites to the biggest LEO orbital system. Starlink benefited greatly from this launch capability, and now is turning a profit. Similarly, when Starships will routinely fly, the question will be, what they are going to carry? And, unless enough interest is demonstrated outside of SpaceX - manned space flights, for various reasons? scientific missions? space manufacture (proteins, chips?) or industry (orbital solar energy?) flights? - SpaceX could invent it's own customer, which is capable of consuming a lot of potential the Starship offers. Like, for example, lunar base construction, which Elon Musk mentions sometimes - that one can both use a lot of Starships and offer some interesting commercial opportunities...
256 Colours are all you need
True-colour images use 24bit per pixel, which means that each pixel has three channels of 8bit, one for red, one for green and one for blue. The possible colours that can be displayed are 256³ = 16.777.216, wow… do we need all these colours in each image? The short answer is no.
Isn't that the majority of software one makes?
Having worked 10 years in betting companies, I sure hope not. There is vast protection and regulation for customers. Especially in the UK.
Some companies where I worked earlier in my career were a lot more predatory to customers. That included a company that did those 4 euros a week scams for wallpapers and ringtone that were legal in Europe back in 2009, and a company that had previously been an iteration of Lehman Brothers. Either of those were way worse than a betting company. I was 20yo and had no idea what they were before joining. Left both in less than a year.
A Louisiana gas plant sea wall shows challenges of flooding, energy demand
I built a hydroponic garden as a covid hobby. I wrote software to maintain the garden, water it on schedule, apply ph changes to the water, turn lights on / off, humidify, as well as monitor statistics (temperature, humidity, water temperature, water ph, water conductivity).

Rough guess would be that I spent 50 hours actually working on the software.

There's a handful of raspberry pis involved. I wrote everything in elixir and used https://nerves-project.org. The dashboard is written with phoenix live view. One of the raspberry pis is the "brain" and basically runs the dashboard and controls devices. The devices are all in an elixir cluster. I also run timescale db for some basic history of metrics.

Once I start a grow I don't use it that much actively, but it passively runs all the time. I check in every few days or week to make sure nutrients are looking good.

I've grown strawberries, lettuce, jalapenos, and cayenne peppers.
Don't miss the forest for the tree. There are plenty of sentences said by politicians that are easily ground for attacking them for libel. So, if you find excuses to reject some of my example, you can just do a little bit of effort and you will find yourself other examples where politicians had opportunities to attack their opponent based on a superficial accusation.

And also, this is not how it works: you cannot start a trial just by labeling an opinion to be an assertion of truth, the same way you cannot start a trial by just saying "I consider that grass blades are human, so my political opponent who has mown their lawn are murderers". You can bring the case to the authorities, but they will be the one deciding if it's an offense or not, and your political opponent will not be tied up in court until then.