skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a strategic option because should SpaceX suddenly say no to launches, you have a backup. An expensive backup, but it's there.

If ESA has 100 payloads, it can just book 90 of them on SpaceX and the mandated 10 of ArianeSpace (to keep the political pork happy), and lose only 10% efficiency (considering Ariane flight is twice as expensive as SpaceX).

The problem is that ESA has no scalable payload economy, nobody has a good reason yet to launch that much mass. SpaceX is its own customer with Starlink for scalable launches, but ESA or NASA will not deliver 100 sattelites per year.
Ask HN: Advice on coding bootcamps – still the best way to get a job?
Dear HN

There's a fair amount of negative reporting about bootcamps for overstating results and providing poor learning experiences, but there are a lot of success stories too.

I'm looking for opinions and advice.

AI Large Language Models provide effective learning resources for coding - you can ask questions, get answers, dig deeper, get code snippet examples. Does this mean we no longer need the formal tuition style that bootcamps provide?

Are bootcamps worth the money?

With so many good free and inexpensive online learning options available are there still any valid reasons for investing in a bootcamp course?

What other advice can you give to someone who wants to transition to a developer role?

Many thanks!
Well, they seem to offer a "premium membership" for $9.99/month [1] and presumably that hasn't raised enough. If the aim of the charity is to get career resources in front of as many women as possible, they probably don't want to put their most impactful resources behind a paywall - that would be contrary to their goal.

I suppose they could try an appeal to generosity instead? Depends if they've got a network of grateful people they helped 17 years ago who are now making six-figure salaries.

[1] https://girlsintech.org/membership/premium/
I also accidentally brought my Adderall, having packed in a hurry. It’s just an illegal drug there. I didn’t realize until I was going through my bags in a hotel. I’ve never claimed I’m particularly smart.

In all liklihood if I had been caught they’d have just destroyed them or worse case sent me back to the US rather than doing the jail or international incident thing, I believe.

My ex’s dad had an important enough job as director of water resources for much of a province and was a party member and likely could have gotten me out of trouble besides him suffering some major embarrassment.
This isn't the first time someone has spoken like this. It won't be the last. It's 100% marketing.
They do seem comparatively honest otherwise, but, I agree. More honesty only helps (the users).
Donations, Open Core, dual-license, paid binaries, to name a few. Important to note that models aren't a 'one size fits all', what works here may be a disaster there.
Microsoft gives up OpenAI board observer seat
Hamming: You and Your Research Talk at Bellcore, 7 March 1986
You say it's zero-sum then in the next sentence say "whether the money paid into Europeans now is used to prop up new generation of startups - in any meaningful way - will remain to be seen", which surely implies that it's not necessarily zero-sum.
While a lot of security people misuse "enumeration" in this way, it's not accurate. They should use the term "oracle", eapecially since it's from the same field.
Our company actively partners with girls who code for that exact reason. Our rather empty post covid office space gets transformed into summer boot camps for middle and high schoolers every year. It is a very productive way to improve the K-12 pipeline.
Remember, we are discussing art here, not white collar tech jobs. AI coming for my job would be unpleasant and devastating, but that, like you said, is an economic problem. That I agree on.

I don't think there is a way to continue this particular branch of this argument without devolving into a debate on the value of human life like a couple of Macedonian philosophers - suffice to say, my point of view is that the work of others has intrinsic value tied to intent, and machines do not have intent.

If no output of humans has intrinsic value, then once machines can approximate humans sufficiently there is no reason for humans to exist - and that is an outcome that I, as a human, reject with all of my being.
That sounds really frustrating. They did things like that a few other times too, as I recall.

Companies burning their goodwill is such a painfully negative thing about the modern world. Like just.. don't do it, even for the money. It's shameful.
The Atomman G7 Pt 16 Core Mini PC Review [video]
Using a segmented solid was dumb from the start. Not to mention using a solid at all on a supposedly-reusable and/or human-carrying vehicle.
My old house had a meter that could be read by rtlamr but the new one has a newer meter that sends encrypted data back over some proprietary mesh network, and no longer provides that data in cleartext.

I wish there was an open standard and one I could easily plug in to. Even just a flashing LED on the side of the meter would work for me.
I pick all papers from arxiv's cs.CL (Computation and Language) category.
The current day digital sensors are a lot more reliable. I have multiple cheap digital thermometer etc gadgets and they read the same temperature to within 0.1 C, humidity to ~0.5%, and so on.

The source is analog only in the sense that physics is "analog" until you get to Planck scale or to quantum phenomena.
People we like can influence the connections our memory makes
My utility also installed smart meters a few years ago - the Focus AXRe with Gridstream RF. It theoretically has Zigbee in it. It even has the Zigbee logo on it. It also uses some frequency hopping radio thing for reporting that I was never able to quite figure out.

But I DID discover that my utility, buried down in like 5 menus on some random screen of the account portal, offers a usage graph at 15 minute intervals. It's not real time - it seems to be delayed by 1-3 hours - but it is far better than getting a surprise bill. And while it used some weird SAP JSON interface, I could deduce what was what and could get the data out of it.

So I whipped up a script to basically scrape this "API" and shove the data into InfluxDB. I also added daily scrapes for the billing page and the rate page so I know when I was billed and how much the current rate is. This is because my utility bills at a lower rate for the first 1,400 kwh, and a higher rate for everything over that. I was not able to discern any pattern to when the bills were issued and the utility company was very unhelpful in this regard, just "sometime ever 27 to 35 days depending on holidays and weekends."

While I would really like realtime data directly off the meter, even being delayed a few hours is better than a random surprise $370 bill. I've written enough scrapers in my life to know it will probably break at some point, but it's been humming along nicely for the last few years.
That's their math, the 23.8t/s is already the 64x but they didn't 64x the other stats.
The problem is that people are turning up to a chess tournament and are being forced to play poker to get in the door.

That clearly says to potential players that the organization doesn't care about chess, and won't have the best chess players in the tournament. Instead, the only people playing are those willing to jump through hoops on command.
The overhead of the virtual dom is less than modifying the actual dom unless you’re using little to no javascript.

If your company’s front end that happens to have react is slow, I’m willing to bet removing react will make it even slower.
When the question is "should we trust this guy?", judging the character of the guy based on past behavior and statements is not a fallacy.
Below is what you're missing. The author is aware of being able to specify the seed. But they want to be able to also affect library code without having to change it.

> At this point, I should have pulled the code I was using out of that library, and refactored my game so that all sources of randomness came from some kind of pseudorandom generator function (e.g., random.Random). This way, I could provide fixed seeds for deterministic debugging. Or, a quicker method would be to use unittest.mock.patch to alter the library's random import.

Instead, I thought about the different ways to alter the functionality here without making any code changes, and took a detour to catch and modify syscalls to getrandom.

THAT SAID, I agree that in practice, this is an unnecessarily heavy approach. So does the author, who inexplicably ruled out run time monkey patching as "changing code" (even though it actually does not change code on the disk at all, just runtime memory data structures, and I really don't see any downside)

> Or, a quicker method would be to use unittest.mock.patch to alter the library's random import.

Of course the real rreason for using ptrace instead is obvious: it's more fun, it's interesting, it's a blog post topic. Nothing wrong with that! And it would work across programming languages, so is a little more general. If you had a system built up of pieces built in several languages in the same process space, this would make more sense. In practice though, the mocking or some similar runtime monkeypatching change would be simplest.
I would also say the propaganda environment the founding fathers found themselves in was very nascent. It certainly wasn’t so married with findings from neuroscience or psychology supported by data like it is today. The media market was also generally more competitive. When you are down to one regional paper and thats that, there is little incentive for quality journalism and informing people factually.
Why would you assume that? If you are company over a certain size (even a non-profit) you are obligated by federal law to offer health insurance.
Thanks for explaining all this and saving an article click!
Building a service on top of the OSS, where some people prefer to self-host, but many don't want to self host.

Ex. Bitwarden, Infisical, Docker, etc.
Muscle/fat distribution and how this influences ability to float is a big factor in drowning rates among populations without access to swim lessons. Statistically there are significant differences in that distribution based on race, age, and gender.

You ever swim with clothes on? Like a pair of jeans? It's way harder, way more energy gets expended to stay above water. Even with knowing how to swim, having a reduced ability to float can be incredibly dangerous.
No releases or screenshots is the fastest way for people to not be interested in checking our your project further esp since it's not a novel app/idea.
It’s a hurricane. Hurricanes always knock down power lines and you need a bunch of crews to fix the wires. I don’t know if the power companies are doing this faster or slower than normal, but multi-day power outages after hurricanes has been a thing since the invention of electricity.
> Used by whom?

That's where the concern is. If the government is mandating it, it seems reasonable to think that more likely than not, they will want access to it. Even if for no other reason than to hand out tickets. The potential for that data to leak out is there.

> so don't do that

It's nice that you have a solution that would respect privacy concerns, but where should we be getting confidence from that a government will protect/enforce a system that is privacy-first? Look at how the EU has been handling encryption in messaging apps, they don't really seem to be in favor of protecting privacy as a "right".

> cars broadcasting location to a central server is already a problem

Correct, it's a problem that exists, and it's a problem that is made worse by this legislation. There are currently options that exist that don't use OnStar, or that don't phone home to their manufacturer. This legislation opens the door for further reduction in privacy, and that's the concern. Just because something is already going down a concerning path, it doesn't mean people shouldn't be concerned when things seem to be getting worse.

FWIW I don't use google maps, primarily because I don't want them tracking where I am
Too expensive. We don’t even have enough money to fix potholes…
250,000 feet of wires isn't very much (480 miles). Are you sure that isn't a quarter million miles?
> > as this implies that men need to behave in a certain way, present in a certain way, think in a certain way to be considered men.

> This gets brought up sometimes in terf talking points, but as a practical reality, it's nonsense.

Okay so if not that, why are these women calling themselves men?
I saw ~500 pitch decks over 3 years
CRuby writes files with 40% fewer syscalls than CPython
> the early 2000s the only thing governor good hair did was build the hell out of wind farms

It really was not long ago that “free non-polluting energy” was a thing that Republicans could get behind. Even Bush got very into biofuels, albeit going about it in the worst way possible. That party’s taken a strange turn in the last decade.
Question about the 2022 990 schedule b part 1. The contributors No./amount is restricted. What does this mean? Is it common?
Yes, they can't, because there is no legally reliable way to do it (briefly, because the law really doesn't like the idea of property that doesn't have an owner, so if you try to place a work of yours in the public domain, what you're actually doing is making it abandoned property so anyone who wants to can claim they own it and restrict everyone else, including you, from using it). The best an author can do is to give a license that basically lets anyone do what they want with the work. Creative Commons has licenses that do that.
AMD has been working on GPGPU at least as long as nVidia.

AMDs "CTM" SDK was released in 2006, same year as CUDA. In 2007 they released Stream SDK. Then they had "APP SDK" for a while, which iirc coincided with their opencl phase. And now they landed on rocm.

Meanwhile nvidia has kept trucking with just CUDA.
This is a very interesting IDE to support data science.

Has anyone tried using the Eclipse Theia IDE for data science?

One of these IDEs may finally entice me away from ESS, magit and Org Mode.
Agreed.

On the one hand, I would love this kind of tech to be available for entertainment purposes. An RPG with convincing NPCs that are able to provide a novel experience for every player? Sounds great.

On the other: this is fraught with ethical problems, not to mention an ideal tool for fraud. At worst, it could be used as a weapon for total asymmetrical warfare on concepts like media integrity and an ideal tool for character assassination; disinformation, propaganda, etc.

I would happy welcome a world where this stuff is nerfed across the board, where videogames and porn are just chock full of AI voice-acting artifacts. We'll adjust and accept that as just a part of the experience, as we have with low fidelity media of the past. But my more cynical side tells me that's not what people in power are concerned about.
If they were actually stranded, the Crew Dragon being prepared for a private flight in August would probably be in the process of being prepared for heading to the ISS instead.

They are not stranded. They are staying because this Starliner is rated for 45 days at the station and since the service module (the location of the helium leak) is disposed of before reentry. Better to delay and attempt to gather as much information about the leak as possible while they can still run tests than have to try to figure out what might've been wrong after the fact.
I only sort of agree. Yes you can setup autopay but it's still there, and you still see charges on your account. Perhaps this is minor, but I still prefer to have no additional things out there floating around that require any thought.
I agree. Right around the time I figured out the format of the data from my Elster electric meter, they enabled encryption across the mesh network. Luckily the water meters remained in the clear, and our natural gas utility uses Itron, which are easily read with rtlamr (like OP describes)

I actually have an appointment this week to have our electric and water meters replaced, as our utilities are managed by the city and they’ve switched to a new provider. I think they’re putting in Itron, and I’m hopeful readings can be picked up by rtlamr.
ActiveRecordTracer: A tracer for Active Record queries
Clearly Copilot had permission to make (unmodified) copies, the same way Github's webserver had permission to make (unmodified) copies. The lawsuit is about making partial copies without attribution.
> the current system has allowed for a incredible flourishing of creation

No, the current system has allowed for an incredible flourishing of middlemen who don't create anything themselves but coerce creative people into agreements that give the middlemen virtually all the profits.
What is an hybrid index?
Are they large? I've not heard of them. It has 130 thousand members, but that doesn't mean they're all employees?
> The development comes as regulators in the EU and US increase their scrutiny of Big Tech's investments in AI startups

Done for anti trust reasons, or because they want a bit more deniability when something goes wrong (data leak, copyright issues, NSA connections)?

Hasn't the FTC been fine with the existing structure as long as MSFT/AAPL/GOOGL/NVDA doesn't take ownership? Thats the reason why MSFT made the weird investment+chain to azure compute agreement.
I seem to recall Phoenix closing Sky Harbor when the temperature went above (IIRC) 117 F. Fixed-wing planes generate less lift, too. (Or was that because the asphalt runways were softening? I think it was lift, but I'm not 100% sure.)
In the First Amendment of United States Constitution.
Founder of interviewing.io here.

A few differences. We do mock interviews. Other Branch doesn't (at least not yet). Otherbranch has one very good standardized assessment that they use (like the early Triplebyte one). Our way of assessing candidates is by aggregating mock interview performance (and doing some stuff to correct for interviewer strictness etc). Basically people come to us for mocks and stay for the jobs (if they do well enough in mocks).

We both do hiring, but OtherBranch focuses on a different type of employer: earlier stage startups, and we tend to focus more on hiring for later stage ones/FAANGs/FAANG adjacents.
i think the issue is less "sustain a company" and more the unspoken qualifier "extremely valuable".

sustaining a small company offering commercial licenses or hosting or support or consulting or whatever for an open source product is not going to be that much more difficult than sustaining any other kind of small company.

the issue that I see most often are OSS devs not approaching the problem like a company would and startup founders looking to build a unicorn while also keeping some kind of purity wrt open source.

not everything needs VC investment with valuations measured in the tens of millions but everything does need some level of formal business development (even if that business is of the non-profit variety).
This is boring news. I was really looking forward to another episode of Boardroom Shakeup.

It's interesting that Microsoft and Apple have made such deep integrations and are forgoing any direct control or influence. I am sure there are plenty of nonofficial channels, but it still is surprising.
What's the benefit of SSPL over AGPL? (You can probably tell I'm not an expert in this!)
The underinvestment in, and abandonment of, a project for a CUDA compatibility layer https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq by AMD a few months ago hints that they no longer see CUDA compatibility as a goal. Perhaps they see Silo as a way to jumpstart bringing ROCm to parity with CUDA's toolkit. It's hard to understand if there's an underlying strategy to how they'll stay relevant from a software perspective when they're abandoning projects like this.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344815
> The copilot team rushed to slap a copyright filter on top to keep these verbatim examples from showing up, and now claims they never happen.

More than that: the fact that they claimed it wasn't possible before adding the filter, to filter out the thing that said wasn't possible. This doesn't help me trust anything else they might say or have already said.

My take on that was always: if it isn't possible, then why are MS not training the AIs on their internal code (like that for Office, in the case of MS with their copilot product) as well as public code? There must be good examples for it to learn from in there, unless of course they thing public code is massively better than their internal works.
YouTube addon on KODI works without ads but one cannot sign in anymore so need to add and bookmark the channels one watches regularly manually. Learning to use KODI is a worthwhile pursuit these days for many IMO. Another possibility is to use the official YouTube app via a VPN with a country setting like Russia and one should see no pushed ads anymore for obvious reasons.
Here's the post: https://interviewing.io/blog/why-you-shouldnt-list-certifica...
> in the west they already have more freedom, and so the downside of having to endure sexism does not make it worth the effort.

This is a great point. I think a lot of HN simply takes as given that tech is a great, pleasant industry to work in, for everyone. Let's say that it isn't. If it isn't, then that might explain why people who have a good degree of financial/employment freedom would not choose to work in tech, leaving people with not a lot of financial/employment freedom (but good tech skills) as the ones who grin and bear a tech job.
My thoughts exactly. It's one thing to close your doors feeling like you made a difference. It's another thing to close your doors feeling like you have just as much you need to do as you did when you started.
How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges into the Public Record
This is neat but I can't seem to get the desktop version to sync - I even upgraded iCloud.
No, just that invading our private backyard is an invasion of privacy.
> There's actually a huge and thriving community of people publishing derivative works, in a not-for-profit basis, on Archive of Our Own. (Among other places.)

Yes, and none of those people are making a living at creating things. That's why they are allowed by the copyright owners to do what they're doing--because it's not commercial. Try to actually sell a derivative work of something you don't own the copyright for and see how fast the big media companies come after you. You acknowledge that when you say there are "restrictions" (an understatement if I ever saw one) on profiting from other people's work (where "other people" here means the media companies, not the people who actually created the work).

It is true that without our current copyright regime, the "industries" that produce Star Wars, Disney, etc. products would not exist in their current form. But does that mean works like those would not have been created? Does it mean we would have less of them? I strongly doubt it. What it would mean is that more of the profits from those works would go to the actual creative people instead of middlemen.
In most of the world no, they can't.
I find it's best to just understand the landscape at a big picture level first. Then you only need to follow details when a need arises. It helps relieve the angst.

For example, I understand the landscape of machine learning and the landscape of generative models inside it. I can't rattle of each model or it's nuances, but I can research that when it's really needed.

Or on the UI side I roughly know about react frameworks and such. But not more. I don't do much UI work so it's fine to just mentally slot all the posts about react, next.js, typescript, etc in that vague box and move on.

Be T shaped. Know the landscape and only worry about depth in your current area of practice.