skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A moat was a defensive ditch (often filled with water) built around medieval castles to make them harder to attack[1].

In the context of a company, when people talk about a moat they usually mean some unique feature or structural advantage that allows a company to maintain a competitive edge over time, makes it harder for a competitor to usurp the company's market position or steal their customers etc.[2]

So here a moat means "what does gitlab have that makes it harder for someone else to launch a git hosting thing and devs/companies/whoever just ship over to it?" To which the answer is clearly "not very much" given that github exists and does a very similar thing.

[1] https://medievalbritain.com/type/medieval-life/architecture/...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/economicmoat.asp
What is "data discovery, governance, and data observability"?
To me less boring. I used to struggle to understand new concepts as they were presented. That year though, I was able to follow what the teacher was saying "live", ask interesting questions to deepen my knowledge.
I did, but seems I missed the actual subfolder where the databases are saved. But this makes it even worse. They all have sqlite installed, but offer not API for making use of it. Really missed chance.
L5 is correct, but you should be looking at total comp (not just base).

L5 at Google is $372k which is enough to get to CoastFIRE after a decade.
Seeing things like that excite me a lot, I can't wait for a future where all the code is written in whatever language you like and runs through WASM in the browser. The HTML and JS can go back doing that thing they are built for: Displaying the UI and handling the interactions.
*Andrej

Darn autocorrect
I am using an Amcrest camera to watch my feral cat Bob B when I am not there. (I am working on him getting enough trust to walk around in the floor when I am there but it is still something he does every other day)

I was amazed at how easy it is, especially the software experience. The mobile app is easy, the web app is easy, RTSP is easy. If I want to add more camers and set up a server to record (like ZoneMinder) that looks easy too.
Show HN: VisCircuit – A Note-Taking Website for Electronics and Circuits
Hi, everyone. I created a note-taking website for electronics and circuits where you can draw circuit diagrams and write text notes at the same time.

I am a Digital IC designer, and I self-study different types of analog and digital circuits a lot. However, I found a problem. Circuits have many different architectures and are hard to memorize due to numerous experiential tips. I want to document what I learn in my note app, but I found there is no method for me to easily draw circuit and block diagrams alongside text notes.

This issue has bothered me for a long time, from my master's school to my current working life. I decided to solve it, so I created a note-taking website specifically for electronics and circuits, called VisCircuit.

With VisCircuit, you can easily draw circuit diagrams, block diagrams, and write text notes simultaneously. I have already used it for two weeks and have noted down things I find hard to remember, such as SRAM, amplifier circuits, and PCB components of Arduino and Raspberry Pi. I found this tool really useful for memorizing knowledge about electronics and circuits.

Currently, I have opened VisCircuit for alpha testing, and I want to let some people use it and give me feedback. Feel free to try it, and I will really appreciate what you think about this project. Leave any suggestions for improvement. Thank you very much.
> Most tech interviews are as relevant to job performance as if hiring a baker required interviewing them about how electron orbitals bind worked gluten together then rejecting bakers who don’t immediately draw a valid orbital configuration.

That's the thing now. That's how they interview for bakers
The DOJ's Assault on Apple Will Harm Consumers
Indeed.-

PS. But, then, they are the ones holding the "razor" (in a sense) ...
Perhaps on basic math with younger kids but I expect this will hit a wall at a certain level. Or, the audience of kids doing this is already a skewed/biased sample of kids that just love math (or it's parent driven)
This is the natural result of workers that refuse to form cooperative organizations that compete in the market. Tech workers are neutering their own leverage because they want to gamble for that chance to make the top 1% of earners. We need to force tech back into the fold of rule of law, big fines, removing their hold on China, India, etc. You have to force the market to be free by cutting down the giant trees removing the sun.
Curated List of Emscripten Ports
It really just depends on the recruiting culture of the company in question, in my experience. I've interviewed at top companies and been given coding problems I could have solved in high school. And I've interviewed at 10-person startups and been given ridiculous leetcode brainteasers. And vice versa.
It’s not clear that people in developed nations currently live in the “real world”, or that evolutionary adaptations that optimize for getting the maximum number of people in “under-developed” societies to successfully reproduce and grow the next generation to reproduction age are also optimal for our current goals of staying active and comfortable later in life.

Like I’m definitely not saying you’re wrong - there’s a good chance you’ve hit the nail on the head even. But just noting that it’s not axiomatic in today’s environment.

One note is that today humans would be better off without an appendix because we live densely enough that we no longer need a super-secure vault to store gut biome for solo gut repopulation. That was useful when we lived in small tribes where every single person might get dysentery at the same time and no one would be left with a healthy gut biome to share with others. But New Yorkers certainly share all their gut biome with eachother on a daily basis, so the appendix now only contributes appendicitis to our population.
Emotional reactions are subjective.

You seem to be the only one really hung up on the made up quote I used to illustrate my point.

Maybe it undermines my point to you, but that’s okay.
This approach would be interesting to use in league football (La Liga, Premier League, etc) as there is a lot more data available across different seasons.
All of his analysis about financial markets, can apply to all jobs, all hiring. Don't think he explicitly states that, but all hiring is down. Or at least all entry positions it seems like.

From a SWE perspective. Doesn't it seem like systems are falling apart? You can only cut back programmer/tech jobs for so long, someone has to know how it all works.

This is what I don't get, all around me, people don't know how things work, are literally walking a knifes edge toward collapse, systems are failing all over, and yet companies wont staff up on tech people. The enshitification.
I noticed the same pattern. The rude humans afterwards answered with expressions sounding like translated Chinese (like, I wouldn't think mentioning the ancestors' graves)
and yet the US has been operating this way for 100 years
L5 is correct but total comp is a lot higher than $210k.
I've never understood why people hate them so much. From the employer side of things it only makes sense to get a feeling for someone's abilities other than an impression based on words alone.

You can't believe the amount of shit solutions we've gotten from candidates. We just let you make a very simple kata. A tiny program that generates some console output, you have to refactor it to make it prettier and you need to add one feature. Literally half of the people fail to make it work. Many others just show zero effort for code cleanliness. That's all we ask, make it work and make it look pretty.
Ha! Here I am complaining about Chat-GPT's obviously wrong answer and I get something so obviously wrong. Yes, thank you for pointing that out.
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SCOTUS routinely holds that the US First Amendment also protects against government-compelled speech. The main case law in this regard deals with a Florida statute that required newspapers to publish a politician's reply to critical articles.

It's not clear to me if this would also extend to a court order requiring someone to publish something, but I think there's going to be some squeamishness as to whether that's a remedy a court can provide. (Obviously, an out-of-court settlement could provide for that).
RDS with 256,000 IOPS (the max) on a single primary instance of MariaDB.

Of course its not realistic to run a primary DB on a laptop, but the IOPS are extremely expensive in AWS was the point.

Offloading expensive queries to a browser is a viable solution. If I had decided to make this some sort of SaaS offering I am certain running full text search at scale would cost thousands of dollars per month long term, with the data becoming increasingly irrelevant over time, and I would still be forced to host it.
Show HN: I built a news app with topic grouping model
Im not sure which ones are Otel compliant. Im only aware of 3 that are Otel compliant:

1. Traceloop Otel
2. Langtrace.ai Otel
3. OpenLIT Otel
4. Portkey
5. Langfuse
6. Arize LLM
7. Phoniex SDK
8. Truera LLM
9. Truelens
10. Context
11. Braintrust
12. Parea
13. Context AI
14. openlayer.com
15. Deepchecks
16. langsmith
17. Confident AI
18. Helicone
19. Langwatch.ai
20. Arthur
21. Aporia
22. scale.com
23. Whylabs
24. gentrace.ai
25. humanloop.com
26. fixpoint.co
27. W n B Traces
28. Langtail
29. Fiddler
30. Evidently Ai
31. Superwise
32. Exxa
33. Honeyhive
34. Flowstack
35. Log10
36. Giskard
37. Raga AI
38. AgentOps
39. Patronus AI
40. Mona
41. Bricks Ai
42. Sentify
43. LogSpend
44. Nebuly
45. Autoblocks
46. Radar / Langcheck
47. Dokulabs
48. Missing studio
49. Lunary.ai
50. Censius.ai
51. ML flow
52. Galileo
53. trubrics
54. Prompt Layer
55. Athina
56. getnomos.com
57. c3.ai
58. baselime.io
59. Honeycomb llm
> [0] Our preferred interpretation of the empirical patterns we observe is that the null em-
ployment effect could be explained a by positive general equilibrium response offsetting a
negative income effect. The unconditional cash transfer results in consumption increases
that stimulate labor demand and could mitigate potential reductions in employment. While
we do not directly test this channel, we do show indirect evidence for this general equilibium effect in two ways: first, we compare our empirical employment effect to the expected
micro and macro effects of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend based on estimates from
prior literature, and second we compare the impact of the cash transfer on the tradable and
non-tradable sectors.

> Second, the impact on labor demand should be especially pronounced in the non-
tradable sector. We show suggestive evidence consistent with this hypothesis — the esti-
mated effects of the dividend on both employment and part-time work are sizeable in the
tradable sector and suggest a reduction in labor, but are close to zero in the non-tradable
sector. These estimates are only suggestive, but are consistent with a macro feedback effect
on employment.

I enjoy data, so thank you for the studies. That said, I do not think these are adequate to generalize the impacts of UBI. Mostly this is because the Alaska-based UBI only contributes a mean of ~$4k/household. That seems wholly too small to make national conclusions; such a UBI amount is insufficient for life.

I do appreciate that the general equilibrium held. That is, the negative offsets of the opportunity cost of employment were offset by the new employment demand that the UBI stimulus had on the economy. But I think it's important to distinguish the tradeable vs nontradeable conclusion:

> Second, the impact on labor demand should be especially pronounced in the non-
tradable sector. We show suggestive evidence consistent with this hypothesis — the esti-
mated effects of the dividend on both employment and part-time work are sizeable in the
tradable sector and suggest a reduction in labor, but are close to zero in the non-tradable
sector. These estimates are only suggestive, but are consistent with a macro feedback effect
on employment.

To me, it seems that the impact of PFD is akin to a stimulus check. The fungible money is utilized to buy luxuries[+]. I can think of no other reason that demand for nontradeable goods would spike. Thus, although people are lifted out of poverty, unless their nontradeble consumption is housing[+], then their consumption seems to be misaligned with general wealth building principles, such as saving and investing the difference.

More broadly, if the nation adopted UBI, tradeable offsets may be harder to come by, as they would be required to be imports, since the other states would face the same labor impact as AK.

Thank you for the data. I'll read more when I have some time, but my opinion seems to be generally unchanged, though I recognize the impacts may be lesser than my prior suggested.
Sentiment analysis is AI now?
More chance to build better habits with next generation than trying to convience gran’pa doing differently…

In France we (edu and ecology ministers iirc) tried to have only vegetarian meal one day per week in public schools. Agriculture ministers got very angry as well as a bunch of noisy parents. Legislator choose to abandon the project.
Ok, yes, and? English is the dominant language now and for the foreseeable future. Some day that may change but it won't be overnight.
The most beautiful (as in "beautifully evil") aspect of it is that you don't need to do anything to make this "planned obsolescence" happen. You just develop stuff under time pressure (of course) while pretending those slightly older machines don't exist. So if an old driver gives you grief because it needs some find/replace work, you just don't care, you yank it wholesale.

Note that open source projects employ the same tactics. Act I: "oh, we made our thing compile in Wayland-only mode, but don't worry, you can still configure --with-x11". Act II: "Now that most distributions we think matter are shipping Wayland-only builds, we deprecate the X code". Act III: "Oh the --with-x11 started causing compilation errors or bugs, we decided to yank it off and also close all 22 MRs that were fixing these exact errors".

So, don't ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to CADT and budget cuts.
How does this compare to DataHub? I have been comparing the two and I don't have any pros/cons that really help me pick. What I've noticed:

* It seems like DataHub has an async Kafka ingestion approach while OpenMetadata is API

* It seems that the data model of OpenMetadata can be extended/modified by API calls while DataHub only allows for changes to be made in code (in a forked version, no less) and deployed.

* It seems that DataHub comes with more data types out-of-the-box such as JSON Schema
All this wonderful optimization, and yet there's still no UI to warn that (perhaps due to a websocket connection being lost?) a comment won't be saved. I lost two Notion comments this way yesterday!
Nitpick: lots of text descriptions of visual patterns - this article could use at least 5 visual aid images.
There's coding interviews and coding interviews.

Asking basic questions that will be directly applicable to the job? Sure

Filtering for basic knowledge to make sure the candidate isn't lying about their experience? Sure.

Examining my thought process and producing working code is a nice-to-have? Sure.

Asking me to solve an extremely esoteric problem that has zero relevance to my day-to-day and if the solution I come up with on the spot under time pressure is incorrect or even just not the most efficient I'm rejected? At that point you're just filtering for starry-eyed recent grads you can underpay.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL is a good picture of that.
> People often cite death and taxes as the only certainties in life-- we could easily include human fallibility.

What was it ... 80% of aviation accidents due human error?
Re-Thinking Inverse Graphics with Large Language Models
Superbabies: Putting the Pieces Together
Seizure warning.

Edit for clarification:

The scrolling implementation here flashes rapidly on Firefox for Mac OS.
They’re a very un-user focused company. They used the | cursor for any horizontally scrolling content for years, making a kanban board with non default states is nightmarishly complex, and there’s a billion odd UI slownesses and niggles.

But they’re recently added AI.
ReversingHero – Reverse Engineering Challenge
Yeah I feel like this is sour grapes from midwits that aren't as good at programming as they think they are. Sometimes you get a dick interviewer that asks you a trick question, but most interviewers don't care if you get a problem exactly right, they just want to hear you discuss a problem intelligently and show expertise while coding.
> stable stable, which is consistently growing, consistently profitable, and paying employees $5k to $10k per day at current full comp market rates.

The employees at these companies are consistently making 1-2 million dollars a year? That does not seem accurate.
Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dried 'jerky'
What is your workflow to consume this via llm?
good point, but that was left out of the earlier statement about inference. I suppose I should have inferred it however.
He claims further down that some make 50k per day. I've met a lot of cashed out founders. I've even met someone who could be called a billionaire. None of them were pure software engineers that made "50k per day" at any point in their career. If you amortize what becomes a 50m grant over 4 years it's about 35k per day, but how many software engineers have done that?
Which has nothing to do with BNSF :-D
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07492/?sp=7
Then you get the BTC folks arguing that all this regulation and safeguarding is a plot to prevent you from using your money. And once BTC takes over your mom can finally be her own bank.
Does IOS count? In that case people have been compromised without clicking anything and just getting an invisible text message is enough. Browsers have exploits with sandbox escapes. Any link to a file that is automatically downloaded and opened in an application (office doc or PDF for example) can exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying application and allow for anything including remote code execution.
It was like that with physics for me in high school. At ages 11-13 we learnt a bunch of stuff, which nobody except I paid any attention to, and then we had to do it all again, exactly the same stuff, for ages 14-15 to prepare for GCSEs. I was horribly bored, but at one point I was lucky enough that the teacher just gave me A-level and then early uni stuff to figure out, so that kept me busy. then first year of uni was horribly boring again, which led me to be over-confident, and didn't do much work in second year, but thankfully I managed to pick up the slack in 3rd and 4th year of uni.
They really don't. Each individual project is sourcing their parts on their own, and even when there's a subcontractor involved we're often talking to the manufacturer as well. So Infineon almost certainly has some record that these parts were specifically for Europa Clipper.
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Yes, because there are large sectors of the economy that are not just government spending and the government taxes those to support the sectors it does spend on.

Every time you take a sector that is private and replace it with one provided by the government, you reduce government revenue and increase government expenses. How many times do you think you can do that?

The government is not a magic fairy godmother that produces things you want out of thin air.
Its a shared atmosphere, so they will suffer the effects of it equally. This isn't a "just the US" type of thing. if you suffer from hurricanes or monsoons, earthquakes, and so on, it is in your best interest to reduce the effects of pollution. China was the biggest polluter, they still are, but they are taking measures.

We also haven't agreed to punitive actions, tax credits incentivize cleaning, but there is barely any punishment or accounting of it. Else coal which is probably the worst form of energy production would not exist.
The Pitfalls of In-App Browsers
My son did "Business Calculus" at a large state university. I have a masters in science and had taken many quite difficult math courses in my day. I looked at what he was asked to do and saw his exam papers. Needless to say "Business Calculus" had little to do with business and a lot to do with making math as difficult as possible. The class average was a C and I believe many of the students had taken AP calculus in high school. It was one of the courses whose purpose was not to teach but to prop up the university-industrial complex.

EDIT. Below is an example (not from his instructor but the same material). Remember this is for "business calculus". It just seems like silly math tricks to me. https://people.tamu.edu/~jdkim/math142fall2019/math142week11...
Llama-Factory: A WebUI for Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100 LLMs
I think their real innovation was the community and getting "cosy productivity" during Covid going. They are more of a social phenomenon than a technical one.
Lattice "will not further pursue digital workers in the product"
> Update, July 12: This innovation sparked a lot of conversation and questions that have no answers yet. We look forward to continuing to work with our customers on the responsible use of AI, but will not further pursue digital workers in the product.
I see what you see. I'm not sure what the motive is here. So many business processes designed to minimize risk, but core technical and design knowledge that is required to keep systems operational is left to rot away.
Show HN: Snippp.io – a code organizer for creative coders
Hey all! I'd love some feedback on this. The idea is to reduce friction between needing a tool and having it. There are plenty of code snippet apps out there, but this one is focused on efficiency and creative coding. ie:graphics and front end dev.

Hit me with whatever you think, I really do want this project to push me :)
after conquering all smartphones, browser, edge db and what not now every web page will have own instance of SQLite running in wasm, lol
I don't know if that's actually true, but in this case the article specifically calls out classified satellites, so in this case the original problem was also with space-based radiation.
If she's bored there are other ways to have fun with scammers. Perhaps this YouTube playlist can inspire her: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk5KvJPikK02cQeWELmS-zh...
Yeah i absolutely agree. The saddest cases for me are languages like Java, which comes with working arbitrary-precision integers on its standard library, but using them feels so second-class compared to the "primitive" types like `int`. You need to import the class; initializing a value looks like `var a = new BigInteger("39")`; they don't support normal math operators, so you need to do `a.add(new BigInteger("3"))` just for a simple addition; and so on.

It's difficult to argue that arbitrary-precision integers are "simpler" (because they don't have an overflow edge-case on almost every operation) when they are so much more inconvenient to use.