skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So if your in a household with two high income parents, someone needs to quit to get under the cap.

This is already a thing that happens. You also see plenty of highly-educated parents working fairly menial jobs at highly-ranked universities - so their kids get free/half-price tuition.
A new way to develop on Linux (sysext-utils)
It uses the same Monaco editor as VS Code but is not based on the VS Code platform. That being said I have to question how serious they are when they can't be bothered to make a macOS arm native build available.
I wouldn’t call it a minor nitpick. From the Internet Archive’s Wikipedia page:

> The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive

In other words, it’s a legal entity and we know who’s behind it.

In contrast, we don’t even know who runs archive.today.

https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-...
macOS Sucks [video]
Debco is a declarative, BuildKit powered, Debian base system builder.

Basically mint your own customized Debian distroless images (directly from upstream), with as few or as many packages as you need.

Currently it just builds base images, but I'm hoping to expand it over time to include the ability to perform other common provisioning tasks, such as adding users/groups etc (kind of a mini cloud-init). Also in the future, potentially SBOM generation.
I rsync my entire firefox profile from workstation to workstation, sync sucks.
I like to draw the comparison that in an alternate universe where the ASCII .txt file format had simply included a color byte with every letter byte, we'd now be having coding format guidelines that also go into great detail prescribing manual syntax highlighting. The fact we don't and avoided endless bike shedding over syntax highlighting, instead leaving it to automatic tools and the presentation layer not the code itself, is purely an historical accident. Well, what does that say about other code formatting details which programmers currently do waste time manually doing and worrying about?
A Look at Research from 1924
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I've been working on my agency for the past few months, and what's really eye-opening is that most founders don't prioritise their startup brand.

Because they don't understand what a brand is.

All you need to know about brand is that it's a result–it's a person's gut feeling about a product, service or company.

As much as we help our startups with their brandk, we go beyond that.

We help our startups with their design and storytelling–to sell the category they're in.

For example, if you're in the category of GenAI for productivity, the customer has to buy into the category, not your brand.

That's what we do at Designalabb.
iwctl would be the built-in way (built-in in the sense that this already needs iwd, iwctl is the frontend that comes with).

This is an alternative that gives it TUI vs just the interactive console. Not something I use enough to care what it looks, personally.
I will have a look at it
I always assumed docs were either written by the devs writing the software, or technical writers. My mental model of good documentation has two types: old-school, heavily technical (e.g. Postgres [0]), and friendlier-but-still-detailed (e.g. Django [1]).

The former definitely does not attempt to hold your hand in the slightest, whereas the latter has a Quick Start, Tutorials, and detailed information about specific components.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html

[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/
It’s a well known exercise in prob textbooks (edit: it’s the algo referenced in the other reply) to convert one distribution to another. If you can generate gaussians (or any other distribution) you can generate uniform variates. It’s a very simple application of rejection sampling that involves some efficiency loss, but that’s irrelevant at the time you’re getting your OTPs.
Ammonites' fate sealed by meteor strike that wiped out dinosaurs
In general, it depends on the type and power class level of your project.

For semiconductor lasers under 5W, the control systems are fairly trivial given the fiber-optic network card industry makes fully integrated current controlled high-speed drivers.

Every student should read this at least once:

"Sam's Laser FAQ" ( http://www.lasersam.org/sam/lasersam.htm )

As there is a lot of hard to find information regarding how these devices are made, and safe handling to prevent cooking your eyes/internal-flesh.

Note when handling IR, be aware many of these optics are poisonous to handle with your bare hands given they have slight solubility in moisture.

There are also pre-made true RGB/White laser modules with PWM control (under $150), but are limited to under 5mW due to US import rules. i.e. unless you are a legitimate company/lab/university importing parts, than you have customs issues building your project.

Have fun, and take the lab safety advice seriously... A pirate eye-patch only looks cool to other people, but makes the world two dimensional. =3
A Captcha on a paying service would make me cancel that service.
This is great. I've wanted to build something similar many times, but like you've mentioned, it's tricky to monetize.

Feature request: If I drag a tabular file (e.g. CSV, parquet, etc.) into the UI, do something like:

temp1 = pd.read_csv('path_to_file')
temp1.head()

Good luck with it!
NoMachine absolutely does do remote applications. I use it for that every day. Instead of "Create a new virtual desktop", choose "Create a new custom session" and under Application "Run the following command" (the program you want to run) and under Options "Run the command in a floating window".
> Once you have everything in your airspace set up…

The great filter of self-maintaining ski equipment.

I don’t have the space for a permanent setup and it’s just more convenient to drag the skis to the store once a year than buy the equipment, learn to use it, store it somewhere, remember where, etc.

I imagine many others (most?) feel the same.
Personality is the factory of identity.

My personality enjoys the meditative aspect of long distance sports. People who observe these behaviors call me a runner (identity). I don’t consider myself a runner but cant argue that when you see me running for 2 hours, saying “hey look a runner” is a reasonable thing to say.
NASA picks SpaceX to carry ISS to its watery graveyard after 2030
What's the market for that? The vast majority of users of methane don't care much if it has some higher hydrocarbons. The methane ends up burned or reformed anyway.

Ethylene, on the other hand, is a chemical feedstock used for many products. There's been a longstanding effort to upgrade methane to ethylene because the latter is so much more valuable.
If you picked that, you did not pick uniformly from the unit interval. You picked from something else, which was much smaller.
The military isn't the problem, it's that the military has no other options.

Who else are they going to buy planes to bomb different-colored countries with? SpaceX? Airbus? It is to laugh.

When you get a company that is too big to fail, it rests directly on the government for not identifying and solving the issue earlier.
This is an issue regardless of your type of Document storage. There are different options for verifying document details and versioning when approaching Document oriented databases. A typical usage is to have a per-record version number and pass documents through a verifier either as part of insert, update or query to ensure all migrations to the current version have occurred.
In your view, how do you think I compete with these "free" services? And how can they stay free, if they have to pay 1) their time 2) their compute infrastructure and 3) LLMS and 4) email receiving (that's pretty cost intense btw). And if they don't monetize, how long do you think they'll stick around and get new features all the time?

I really don't get the sentiment on HN that everything should be free, sorry.
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> rather generate a number

How?
A bit off topic, sorry, but: Jupyter is bad for research. The ability to run code out of order, but then save the output, is confusing for the one doing the research and everybody who wants to reproduce it. I don't understand why the decision was made for Jupyter to combine the source code of a notebook and the output. Things like Quarto keep both separate, as essentially all programming languages inteded, while providing an easy-to-use implementation of literate programming.
> A wired intercom can be easily bugged with a physical implant.

I think the big impact here is that mundane systems which are now connected to the internet have become targets for remote vandalism or espionage.
Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open-source maintenance firm
That is a very poor faith reading of the OP’s comment. They didn’t argue for ‘equality of outcome’, just for a fairer distribution of reward.

To use your formulation, let’s say as true meritocrats, we want to reward ‘competency’. Well then surely we would like equal competency to receive equal reward (but assuming competency is not evenly distributed, this will necessarily lead to unequal outcomes - but justly so, for us meritocrats)

But OP is decrying a world where we reward ‘success’, and sadly ‘competence’ doesn’t guarantee success (nor vice versa). Success is a function of circumstance and competence (and indeed in some circumstances success can manifest even for the utterly incompetent) so our current ‘success’ system rewards some people ‘too much’.
I believe we in the US picked up the term "cilantro" for the leaves and "coriander" for the seeds from Mexico, not the other way around.

But I couldn't quickly find an online reference clarifying this either way. So I don't know.
Limited liability only protects the shareholders. It exists because shareholders have no control over the corporation. It does not protect agents of the corporation, such as management, because they do have control of the corporation.
Oh yeah. I should have noticed that because on the Debian machine I set up for my daughter, audio suddenly broke, and it started working again when I removed pipewire.

No joke, if you remove the new thing stuff magically starts working again.
Code is as much Text as Vector graphics is Text.

Sure it's an intuitive way of representing your data. Is it the most appropriate though?
See an example [0] about using Projectional Editing in order to use mathematical notations for formulas.

[0]: http://voelter.de/data/pub/gemoc2014-voelterLisson-MPSNotati...
Tell me about it. I'm in the healthcare industry and hospital systems are way too complex and/or they don't have the proper people to manage them. Getting them to understand SFTP is hard enough, let alone public key encryption. Additionally, their systems are often so old and out of date that they don't support anything newer than SFTP. On top of that the regulations they have to follow are just overwhelming and completely out of date.

Honestly, I kinda feel sorry for the poor DevOps people in hospitals. It's got to be torture.
Now it's mostly natural gas, instead! With a good chunk of wind, but the current government seems to dislike "renewables"
Based on the words actually written, you could as well argue the opposite.

The original comment might as well be about successful people being over rewarded by a non-meritocratic system, because their actual merit is lower.

They might also mean something completely differently.
I think there is a pretty big difference between canceling a weird niche product that probably wouldn’t exist anywhere else vs. canceling your fourth basic messaging service to replace it with a nearly identical clone. I am happy Amazon shoots for the moon on devices and hope they continue to do so.
For true reasoning you really need to introduce the ability for the circuit to intentionally decide to do something different that is not just a random selection or hallucination - otherwise we are just saying that state machines "reason" for the sake of using an anthropomorphic word.
I think that it is probably worth addressing what sort of textual visualization you have in mind. That way, you could disabuse people with naive notions like myself.

I've not used a visual programming language and unit is (currently) hugged to death. But, my experience with graphviz's dot syntax would suggest putting a comment on the (textual) line that represents the edge itself:

digraph whatever {
running [ shape = "triangle" label = "program running" ]; # comment on the node itself
stopped;
running -> stopped; # comment about the edge
stopped -> running;
}

I acknowledge, though, that I'm thinking of this as a dsp-style situation, where a node only connects at its boundaries, rather than in the center (say if a node contains code that would link to another as part of an if expression's body).

(Also, I'm disappointed that I need to resist the urge to talk about Bob Nystom's visual pdf diff, because it seems really cool but is not as credible as the edge directive above. https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-1... , scroll to 3/4 where it says "Here is what all of the proofreading changes look like:")
> A 2014 article in Psychology Today titled ‘Why We Don’t Give Each Other a Break’ used the example of someone who cuts into a line in front of you. You might think, “What a jerk,” when in reality this person has never skipped ahead in a line before and is doing so now only because he would otherwise miss a flight to see a dying relative.

Perhaps I am falling victim to “attribution error”, but I would bet considerable money that most cases I have witnessed of someone skipping a queue have nothing remotely like a dying relative behind it. This seems like a nice kumbaya sort of explanation that misdiagnoses reality.
Papers We Love SF has been reconstituting lately; unfortunately I don't know if July has an event yet, but try https://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/ .

We've been meeting online, and I'm interested in setting up physical venues if anyone has one.

The PWL Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1025104619975737446/10251046205...
Cudatext text editor https://cudatext.github.io/

Double Commander https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/
we're solving the same problem then ;)

for me it definitely is the UI! you could think about adding a UI kit on top of it for a more polished look? and the biggest downturn for me personally is the google login. I wish you good luck with the project mate!
It's closer to what we would call 200 blog posts, really, and a blog post every 3 days isn't going to raise anyones eyebrows.
Thanks for this, I had never heard of qanats or wind towers.

I'm imagining a giant modern qanat running underneath a city or a large dense neighborhood and each structure reaching down into it to feed a ground-source heatpump in the cooler water like roots. Everything fed by solar panels on the roofs.
A fellow hardbooter? I feel like the base size on snowboards benefits even more from good tuning than a lot of narrow race skis. And, obviously, you only have 1 edge instead of two, so the load on the edge is bigger.

apropos of this discussion, my main board probably never gets a serious tune now that I live in the rockies. back in VT, it was critical daily maintenance due to the amount of ice you actually encountered.
I'm not advocating for no database level validations. One can and should have both in my opinion.

Postgres supports constraints on jsonb as well.

I would generally advocate for no write access outside of the app as well. Certainly for new developers. Get some tests on that batch job.
You get buttf*cked by the FAA and the feds. You don't own the airspace above your home and it's heavily regulated.
> For spilling a hot coffee cup you get $ 2.7 million worth of punitive damages

Dude it literally melted her labia together. She deserved that 2.7 million and only got a small portion of it.
An introduction to Jorvik, Ada's new tasking profile
This person has some extreme transphobic and hateful views. FYI to anyone giving them impressions.
Yes but not in the last two months. In the last 6 months, yes.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying here, but I will note that even if you think you’re the world’s greatest Spock-like rationalist, you still have beliefs.
This is going to be very unhelpful for most but I use nixpkgs and end up applying some build tweaks to make sure all GPU capabilities are properly supported.

That said I know there is newest version 6 which Ubuntu/debian users should be able to add the xpra apt sources to get and it might all just work out of the box. I should check.
> I suppose DIN is similar: to most people it's just the rail.

Or the paper sizes, if you're not American.
> Most tools end up trying to find a sweet spot between targeting a developer and targeting a designer, and as a result end up doing neither well.

Emphasizing this because this happened to us.
The initial version was trying to cater to designers and it was very hard for them to get value out of the to-code part because they need to convince the engineer to set up the codebase. Then when we add more support for engineers, it alienates the designer.

> generate good/maintainable code that doesn't tie you to the WYSIWYG tool for the rest of its life

Personally, this keeps me off most WYSIWYG. We don't have a great answer to this yet besides having a very narrow scope that works for our internal setup without polluting the code.
The browser .gif reminds me of browsing WAP pages on a Nokia back around 2004-6
Yes, I only tune my U12 kids skis religiously. My own skis, wife's and my other retired ski racer kid get far less tuning attention. I'm at a resort that is mostly soft snow too.
> Not having a way of doing this and just saying 'our tendency in most situations to downplay the role of circumstance' seems oddly shallow and irresponsible

Epistemic soundness tends to be rather boring and unattractive. Maybe that's why people are so susceptible to facts that lack proof, or are unknowable (as is the case here).
Around 10 years ago there were some Russian "illegals" captured in Germany. It was really a lot like in the TV show "The Americans".

They seemed to have communicated a lot with radio and coded messages. They also used some Windows software to decode some of those messages. And exactly there they made a mistake and some messages could be restored.

It seems like they only got very limited recurring training after their initial training in the 90s. So they might have had very limited IT opsec knowledge.

The analog radio technology is also far from perfect. In their case the neighbours became suspicious, because they never opened the door at specific times, probably when their transmissions were scheduled. They also sent some radio transmissions from a nearby hill, that might have played a part in their capture.

I'm convinced that some encrypted messages over a commonly used messenger or email provider would be way more secure. They would just disappear within billions of other encrypted messages.
Adjacent data that is very alike for most usage but different in subtle ways.

Classified ads, the additional details for a Car are different than a Shirt, but both would be ads. And adding a nearly infinite number of fields or a flexible system in a set of schema or detail tables is significantly worse than unstructured JSON.

Another would be records from different, but related systems. Such as the transaction details for an order payment. Paypal data will be different from your CC processor, or debit transaction, but you can just store it as additional details for a given "payment" record.

Another still would be in healthcare, or any number of other systems where the structures will be different from one system to another depending on data interchange, where in the storage you don't care too much, only in the application layer will it make any necessary difference.
The market is not oversaturated today; there were a number of conditions in place during the pandemic that resulted in many companies hiring a large number of people who were, in reality, neither needed nor qualified.

The hiring bar during that period was artificially lowered, quite steeply, and many people who could not pass a technical screening in the years before COVID were hired anyway, giving them a false sense of competency.

The hiring bar during COVID is not reflective of the hiring bar that existed before COVID and that exists now. Hundreds of thousands have been laid off in the last couple years, many incompetent, some lazy, and a few competent and motivated ones who got unlucky.

Market conditions today are reflective of the norm. I applaud your efforts to continue upskilling! Many people new to the field do not realize that continuous upskilling is a requirement in the technology industry, not a "bonus".

As for skills in high demand - go read a bunch of open job listings! Inside of your skull is a sophisticated neural network that will start to notice commonalities between many of these positions, it will start to pick up on trends of which positions are becoming more or less common over time, etc.

Sure you can look up a conclusion someone else came to, but if you don't enjoy rolling up your sleeves and doing the work yourself to collect and analyze data for a problem you're trying to solve, are you really in the right mindset for an SWE job to begin with?

One last note - newcomers to the technology industry are often surprised how much we have "boom" and "bust" cycles every few years, but it's as impactful of an effect on job availability as it is in say, the oil industry. Early COVID was a big boom, late COVID/2023 was the big bust. We are on the upswing again, but slowly.

Keep in mind that who you vote for this fall has massive ramifications on the federal reserve, and thus interest rates and liquidity, and thus the job market.
> Technical reading is a skill. There's a large contingent who might not be conditioned to read more than a StackOverflow answer enough to copy&paste it. I'm not saying this to yell at the clouds...

Oh, I definitely yell at the clouds about this. IMO, if you can't be bothered to read docs, don't take up other people's time with questions that could have been answered by yourself.

> ...but because it seems to be true, and we'll have to confront it (but hopefully not via videos with 1% nutritional content).

If by confront you mean "explain to people that they will have to put in the work," then yes, I agree. I'm very tired of people coming up with abstractions to paper over a lack of fundamental knowledge. Abstractions by themselves aren't a a bad thing, but they often leak, and you need to know what you're actually doing.
Decentralized Training Looms
Honestly I would change that wording immediately. Even being pretty savvy with this stuff, I thought this was an open-sourced webflow when I skimmed it and I assure you, if they even vaguely consider this a future threat to any of their business at all, their counsel will use it as a legal cudgel to bludgeon you.
The two sides (A grad student, Intel) are not operating on an equal field. As such the "free decisions" aren't really a valid dimension for "free dimensions", as we have to include how unfair the field is in this case (...in all cases).

Intel did 152 BILLION DOLLARS in stock buybacks over 35 years and ruined their own lead. They screwed/squeezed a lot of people so they could juice the stock price - to the point where they lost the semiconductor lead (as that wasn't what they were most worried about - they were mostly concerned with stock price). We need to consider all of these things when we determine if the field is fair for an employee.
I do not see a privacy policy nor anything about telemetry, analytics or other data collection by the app. It would be good to clearly state what you’re collecting or not collecting. Without this, running such an app on a desktop OS seems a bit scary.

I also hope you’re able to add something about the business model soon.