skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started out as a business analyst and technical product manager at a startup before transitioning to software engineer job family there and in my 2 subsequent roles over the past 6 years. It sounds like your management is especially supportive of you making this transition internally, which is going to be very helpful.

I want to add a caveat that your manager and colleagues should be a resource for you when tackling projects at work, and not to hesitate to ask pragmatic questions about the project(s) you might pitch in on there. It's ok to not have all the fundamentals down, as long as you're working to be a net positive on the project(s).

I went through some of the books listed in the teach yourself CS resource.
https://teachyourselfcs.com/

A subset of the resources listed there are probably the most pragmatic for the topics you asked, but you might discover that you're interested in other areas of CS as you slowly work through them. I think it's ok to nibble away at exercises while juggling your family and work obligations.

* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - SICP. If the book doesn't necessarily click right away, doing a subset of the Scheme exercises are still worthwhile.

* Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective - CS:APP. Incredibly helpful knowledge about low-level programming.

* Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach - You mentioned having a home lab, and more networking understanding will help contextualize some of your work.
Was just arguing with a friend the other day about distinction between a "chili" and what New Mexican's have in "green chile stew." I have had what by at least strong family-resemblance is a chili but had essentially an adovada meat base, but would never call something chili that had potatoes or any visible vegetables. But in NM, even frito pies get the (superior) "green chile stew" topping.
Sorry, but your statements still don't describe an actual physical model.

> the 3d projection of a `light cone`

Is not well-defined.

> all possible spacetime causality/light/info could observe...your own observable universe

This is a past light cone. The light cone whose outgoing side is the event horizon of a black hole is a future light cone.

> inside of an event horizon, that cone is actually an ever-narrowing beam in an ever-increasing gravitational field, slowing on the 4-d axis too. all ending in one 'point'.

Nope, wrong.

> hawking radiation evaporates larger black holes more than smaller black holes

Wrong. The intensity of Hawking radiation goes like the inverse cube of the mass. Smaller holes radiate more than larger holes.

> these aren't exactly intuitive geometries

Yes, indeed. Which means you shouldn't be trying to understand them intuitively the way you are doing. You should be looking at the actual math.
Along a similar vein (though not diatoms), I must recommend Art Forms in Nature by Ernst Haeckel.
Yes: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#sponsorb...
Machine Learning for Game Developers [video]
Super interesting and thanks for sharing. If I understood the license page on the repository correctly, the DSL is MIT-licensed since it's not within the enterprise directory, right?
https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/news/big-breakthrough-for...
The best advice I've read about avoiding regrets was in “A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy” by William B. Irvine. William B. Irvine has an entire chapter dedicated to it titled; Fatalism. The basic approach of the Stoics was that the past (and present) should be viewed fatalistically; fate would have it so, and therefore there is no rational (again a key word for the Stoics) reason to regret this or that. Have you spent years coming to one realization or another? Lived too long in one place? Worked too long in the same workplace? It was fated to take so long. The same goes for the present; enjoy it because you can't change it. The future, on the other hand, you must influence to the extent you can.

William B. Irvine starts chapter six with:

> “ONE WAY TO PRESERVE our tranquility, the Stoics thought, is to take a fatalistic attitude toward the things that happen to us. According to Seneca, we should offer ourselves to fate, inasmuch as “it is a great consolation that it is together with the universe we are swept along.”
Can you cite your stats? This study[1] by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia says there was a 16% reduction in peanut allergies in 2018–2019 after the guideline changes compared to a decade earlier.

This 2024 Australian program[2] for introducing babies to peanuts early is inspired by this 2022 US report[3] about a 22% remission rate in babies who were introduced to peanut powder compared to 2% who received the placebo.

1. https://www.mcri.edu.au/news-stories/decrease-peanut-allergy...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/...

3. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/oral-im...
When you communicate, you're sending energy - whether it's sound waves or radio waves or whatever. Energy can't travel faster than c through spacetime. Now if you manipulate spacetime, such as a wormhole or whatever, then the end result can effectively appear as if it's FTL but its still going at c, its just traveling through less/compressed space.
I was thinking more along the lines of the API auth//access control getting messed up. But a third party service linked to the accounts is more likely.

Unfortunately Twitter doesn't do post mortems of events/outages, so we probably won't know the real story.
> sampling granola bars that contained peanuts.

This is going to sound accusatory but it's quite obvious a granola bar can contain nuts. I can understand the Mexican restaurant scenario but one trip to the ER should have you questioning EVERY food source that is not within your control. You cant expect food safety if you don't verify yourself.
> I’m more than capable of negotiating my own pay

You're not, you've merely deluded yourself into believing it. What I'm telling you about leverage isn't an opinion, it's objective. You, objectively, factually, have significantly less leverage by yourself.

> I think there’s enough like-minded people like me

Unfortunately, you are correct. There exist swaths of people at the intersection of selfish and delusional. The unfortunate thing is, you're not even particularly good at being selfish. If you were, you'd recognize often the best way to propel yourself forward is to help others too.

You believe that, by depriving other's of money, there will be more for someone as special as you. Even a few years in corporate America will prove, without a doubt, this isn't the case.
Oh thanks -- I only caught that there were injuries, not deaths. Thanks for catching that.
Early 20s is when people peak at risk taking behavior. Add a large amount of money into the mix and the types of risks can go way up. Think go from sitting around playing beer pong, to doing coke and speeding around in a Ferrari.

Even later in life, large amounts of money can cause people to do stupid things (see many famous people), but maturity has a chance then.
So, Google can kill their whole business if they simply stop giving Forbes unfair prioritisation in the search results.
QueryBuilder: Human-in-the-Loop Query Development for Information Retrieval
From the article: "In the first weekend since its debut, Apple sold about 37 million iPhone 16 smartphones".

Crazy that this is a "so weak demand"... and they are not yet available, just for pre-order.
HuggingFace Unveils 1.58-Bit Fine-Tuning Recipe for Llama 3
HuggingFace's new 1.58-bit quantization recipe for Llama 3 significantly cuts memory & energy costs while keeping performance strong.
Hm... maybe there is a case for Lazarus bindings to other languages like Rust. (Or, dare I say it, C++)
I realized in my late 30s that I have almost no sense of dread when I think back on all of the cringey or embarrassing things I've done.

I think this was a huge super power for me early in my career. I embarrassed myself over and over again and didn't care or even think about it. Right back at it the next day.
> My best years were invested in techs like C++ that nobody even uses anymore

Strange -- I'm actively considering learning C++ to help with CUDA programming for ML.
I suppose it depends on what your interests are, that's true.
What infrastructure is this using? Bandwidth seems pretty pricy
Excel-as-a-benchmark is a powerful thought argument.

If something can't be significantly better than Excel, then product specs probably need refining.

It's not that Excel is amazing or perfect in any one thing, but it is a pretty amazing blend of simplicity, flexibility, out of the box features, programmability, and presentation.
The media has a probability problem (2017)
> "This is onerous because Data Subjects can make requests in writing or verbally, and you need to be able to comply with the requests “without undue delay"

I'm sure each case might be different, but I can't but help to think this is just a cheap excuse to inflate the work that is required ro comply with data Protection Regulation.

I've worked already on a few projects involving data protection, and they all boil down to two steps:

- only store anonymous data. No personal data? No problem.

- if you need to store personally identifiable information, support deleting it on request.

It might be easier to incorporate these requirements at the design stage, but by now this is a very basic set if requirements.
Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of Covid-19 outbreak
My friend Oz has a few resources here that many have found helpful (me included!)

* https://teachyourselfcs.com - book list and open course suggestions

* https://csprimer.com - Oz's own curriculum for CS fundamentals
Would this be something like OpenPassport?

https://www.openpassport.app/

Or perhaps this decentralized identity verification demo:

https://risczero.com/blog/decentralized-identity-verificatio...
This will be a great conversation started with all my calls. Would be great to see the full roadmap before investing in life time
Backup to Backblaze B2, or, depending on architecture, rely on their object storage for hot data (depending on data cache and tier requirements). They partner with Cloudflare for free egress (on the Backblaze side) of public content as well.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-part...
> the vast majority of Americans have only ever been exposed to one solution

I disagree. It may be that the vast majority of Americans have never been exposed to your particular preferred solution, but that's also true of the vast majority of people who live anywhere except a few East Asian cities, according to you. So I don't see why you are singling out Americans. You should be chastising basically everyone outside of East Asia for being backward. (And then, of course, you would just have even more people ignoring you.)
This is the first I've heard about this. Perhaps you should support your premise with more than the assumption that 'everybody knows.' It's not that I don't agree, I just don't have knowledge about this.
Achieving integration & inclusion by putting severely disabled kids in normal schools is a fairy tale. Integrating into the world at large is a separate issue - you're not stuck with the same class throughout, you're not dependent on the same teachers. Arguably, you face some of those issues when you get a job but there's a much larger choice and the people around you are at least adults, in a hopefully professional environment. I just don't see the case for having to go through school as a definitive outsider and endure guaranteed bullying to somehow prepare you for the world better. Trauma doesn't prepare, it disables further. No idea where OP lives, alternatives will obviously depend on that and/or OP's ability move accordingly.
Seems like there's a huge possibility here for Indian reservations to lease land on generous terms, like allowing manufactured housing.

Whenever I pass reservations near major cities they are chalk full of stuff the city would never approve, that is actually affordable to build.
Windows App now available on all major platforms
200GB for $500? What cloud is this?
I can speak about Christianity, because I'm a Christian.

> they’re offloaded onto some entity who is supposed to carry the load for you

This isn't supposed to happen, and in fact can be considered sinful. Christians are supposed to pick up their cross and carry it.
Europe needs regulatory certainty on AI
That's kind of the point - increase corporate taxation so that companies are incentivized to spend, and spend on actual investments instead of share buybacks. I guess I didn't put it out clearly, but the current definitions of corporate taxation are highly flawed.

I once read in a book about corporate management by a Japanese CEO (I think it was Matsushita). His philosophy was that paying taxes should be an inescapable duty of a corporation, since their very existence is facilitated by the government providing them a business environment and their unimpaired customers paying them revenues. Interestingly, I also had a related conversation with someone from the Singapore Ministry of Economy who echoed the same principle, but from the government's perspective - it's the duty of the government to provide a facilitatory and unhindered business environment with reasonable taxation so that companies are incentivized to pay taxes. As of now, the US has a similar corporate tax rate to Singapore yet doing business is worlds different between the two (especially if you don't count Delaware).
I would have liked to see a bit more of 5 Whys here. It seems like a consistent lesson that startups have to learn over and over is how to manage external dependencies, and particularly the dangers of having Google as a dependency. This is new Chrom(e|ium) behavior, and it has a real cost, both for this company and for users, which may or may not be worth the ROI, but this is what happens when you have a large scale external dependency: stuff moves without your knowledge, consent, or control.

Instead of Always. Be. Closing. it should be Always. Be. Mitigating. Dependencies. for startups.
It would be "terminated" at all the points that can't keep up, way ahead of the hidden service (or even rendez-vous node).
But if I'm an unreasonable man, why do I want to be unreasonable in the service of someone else's idea? Why not be unreasonable in the service of my own?
can you explain the part about your success?
Magnetically driven soft robot achieves high-speed jumping
"People have even been talking about the Rust integration being a failure … We've been doing this for a couple of years now so it's way too early to even say that, but I also think that even if it were to become a failure – and I don't think it will – that's how you learn," he said.

"So I see the whole Rust thing as positive, even if the arguments are not necessarily always [so]."

IDK, that seems pretty clear to me. He thinks that it's a good thing to try regardless of the outcome because it's generating good technical discussion and unsettling overly-settled assumptions. He does also seem to think that it hasn't failed and won't fail. Mostly he seems surprised by the sheer religiosity of the arguments that crop up.

So, he's not taking sides, but he doesn't regret the decision to attempt to integrate Rust into the kernel.
Again, these guys don't go to distributors saying "Hello, we're evil Inc, we want your devices for our nefarious plans!" - they were coming from a batch imported trough local resellers like...basically every other consumer retail channel.

Without taking in consideration that "Hezbollah" as a loosely defined group ranges from conservative politicians and institutions to bona fine terrorists.

These devices were being shipped in equal measure from the guys sending rockets to Israel to the local equivalent of those preppers who like to spend their weekend eavesdropping the police radio waiting for WWIII.

Unfortunately real life is a bit messier than a Tony Scott movie, and we didn't harm 5000 evil terrorists ready to destroy America and Israel from their Cobra underground lair, just a bunch of random people - a few of them genuinely bad guys (how many? thousands? hundreds? less than ten?), and everyone else who may or may have not sympathized with a group that may or may be not considered a terrorist organization, depending on who you ask.
> My whole point was that you should try to live in a country with excellent public transport.

And my whole point is that you have no idea what my preferences are and you should not be presuming to dictate to me what I should do. If you like where you live, great, enjoy it. And let me choose where I like to live and enjoy that.

> Would you describe Bostons public transport (decades ago) as “excellent”, or are you just being obtuse?

Get off your high horse. I have already described my experience. I'm not going to describe it again just because you feel like being insulting.
A very common use case we see is SMBs having outgrown their spreadsheet but not wanting to move to a full-blown BI tool. They want the power, but not the change in interface/medium.

I didn't go into details above but a nice thing is that we leverage cloud compute and storage, so you can query billion-row data in sub-second time. (Courtesy of Duck!)
I was yesterday years old when I learned that dynamite is nitroglycerin stabilized by diatoms. The little pockets keep the nitro from getting surly.
If it takes the pressure off, then go ahead and add those features.

But carve it in immutable, legal stone that there will always be a classic (reddit style: old) version of the product that's feature-complete but maintained.

... my suspicion is there's actually legalese somewhere that mandates the continuity of old.reddit.com. Otherwise, I'm at a loss to explain its continued existence in light of aggressive app pushing.
Let's talk about how the lack of universal healthcare in US makes founding a company a risky endeavour, even with Obamacare. Can't give labour a break, employees need to be shackled to their job through employer-provided healthcare.
Agreed, also the article becomes orders of magnitude less interesting once you get past the click bait title.
Treating it like an R&D investment isn't a problem - you only spend what you can afford to lose on R&D. In our case, we have no R&D budget and any money/time spent playing around with llm's leads directly to degradation of the core product and risks losing customers.
You learn that on basically anything that you can fall or get knocked off of. For me it was an electric scooter!
And then market forces will decide to reward companies that do not follow that policy (assuming it's not a monopolistic market). The company which does not pass its costs will be able to capture the market easily.

Seeing this in action right now, between the supermarket chains in my European town's central square.
I witnessed this quite a bit in software development. People use the frameworks they are comfortable with, even when they know they can't meet requirements. I've at least had some who were upfront about why by stating "because I don't want to learn something new." (She didn't last much longer)
For CS fundamentals, I would say "Computer Science: A Programmes Perspective" covers a good portion.

https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
Calculators and exams are still used after K-12, ~1/20 K-12 students are still taught remotely online in the US in 2023 (it'd be curious to see if that grows or shrinks with time), not all K-12 have instituted bag and equipment checks, the ones that have haven't all done it to the same level, and it may or may not be enough to cover enough of the cases to mitigate impact enough.
Henry Kissinger instigated many war crimes because he felt he was keeping the world from failing in the same way that had led up to World War I.
Yep that's fair. I was thinking you had to have root to install any modified apks but I could very well be wrong there, its been a while since I got that deep into modifying Android.
This portion is particularly problematic:

> many companies engaged in broad data sharing that raises serious concerns regarding the adequacy of the companies’ data handling controls and oversight.
How the Silicon Valley elite manipulate the public
No kidding. AWS's notoriously expensive data transfer is only $0.09/GB. Who's charging $2.50/GB? Are they running on a cellular SIM with no data plan?
What you're missing is that people that complain about a lack of "free speech" on the internet largely aren't upset about moderation run amok, as much as they might want to suggest as much, they're upset about moderation at all.

They want 0 limits on their own speech. None. And that includes people blocking them. They want to have their say, no matter how noxious or unpleasant anyone else finds it. They want to "just ask questions" and "just have an open conversation."

But they absolutely want other people to be moderated. There's no amount of moderation of their that's small enough.

Basically, they're (internet speech) libertarians; they want to reap the benefits of a structured, cultivated society and community without be subject to any of the constraints that make it actually work.
It seems to me as too black-and-white view: either you understand the science, or you don't understand it, with no ground in between.

I want to understand nature, but I have limited amount of time to spend on this goal. So what? Wouldn't be my chosen strategy appropriate? Yeah, I know, my understanding will be limited and sometimes wrong, but it is understanding, isn't it? Isn't it better than total ignorance?

It works not only with nature, there are legal laws for example. Knowledge of laws have a much bigger potential to have an impact on my life, than a nuanced understanding nature. Still I'm not trying to become a lawyer using the same excuse: I have not enough time for that. Instead I maintain some vague understanding of laws and rely on it.

It works for health related issues. I can treat some minor illnesses on my own, because I have some understanding how my body works. I benefit from my limited knowledge of medicine and if my knowledge was better, I would benefit more, but still I have a limited time to study biology and medicine, so while I'm always ready to absorb some more facts, I'm not ready to get a formal education in medicine. Moreover I'm not sure it is possible, to know all the medicine, because qualified doctors are specializing, and I have no chance to be on par with all these specialists.

To my mind it is ok, but with one condition: if you know the limits of your understanding. You need to know when the time has come to seek help of a qualified specialist.
I wish the people back in the 90s understood this when trying to set up encrypted email.
I don't know if the American Alpine Journal still reads like this, but I once went through a pile of 1960s or 70s back issues, and at the time it seemed a fairly regular article genre was:

"First we were at an altitude where we probably weren't thinking all that sharply to begin with, and then we got tired, cold, and hungry, and that's when we made the stupid mistake that killed ${COLLEAGUE}."
Family income: 60
Individual: 75

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/
This is incredibly well-documented. Thanks for sharing.
Isn’t Unreal Engine open source? It’s obviously not FOSS but its source is on GitHub I believe.
MelAI Version 0.3.0 Compose using AI and your own midis files [video]
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>But lament not. These rationalists can be exploited for fun, profit, and votes.

Wow, very pleasant and inspiring. What a wonderful thing to encourage (and, dare I say, on brand).