skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working on a puzzle book series (for lovers, maybe)
https://www.kakurokokoro.com

It’s a pretty bad hack of HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, saved by Laravel, trying to print slightly larger than A5 paper for a major on demand publisher standard paperback, with browser Print to PDF settings, and is unwieldy but to the point, has an ISBN as well as being NP-complete. Discovered for myself that the number of permutations and derangements of the same length are related by the ratio of Euler’s Number e.
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I'm working on a foresight and emergency response team to see large calamities coming before they happen, and hopefully be able to do something about it. We put out weekly minutes at https://blog.sentinel-team.org
Thanks for the questions! I hear you it does sound like a generic book name. Well, we have the domain and we couldn't really name it to something else as we think software engineering has many elements and we wanted to cover them.

Our book isn't just a technical book on software development. Instead, it goes into the life aspects of being a software engineer such as migration and parenting.

Many of us have wished for mentors who could guide us beyond the technicalities, offering insights into personal growth and career navigation. Recognizing this gap, we've created a resource that provides practical wisdom.

By taking a holistic approach to software engineering, we address both personal and professional development in a way that few other books do. This unique blend sets our book apart, offering a clear differentiator that defines our brand.
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I love this new right-wing "intellectualism". They just declare "actually, racism is good" and then derive everything else from there
I really hate to defend state surveillance here, but at least that provides me with some (arguably false) sense of security and uninterested crimefighting. The private sector private eyes provide me only with never-ending ad slurry that's been wearing me down by the day.
People fill old newspaper boxes with movies, call it 'Free Blockbuster'
I've been experimenting with customizing Postgres to run on top of FoundationDB, which to me would be the dream combination of Postgres' top-notch feature set and ecosystem with FoundationDB's unique resilience, scalability and transactional guarantees.

Haven't written up anything about it or published any code yet, but it's working pretty well and I haven't even had to fork Postgres with all the extensibility it offers!

My email is in my profile if anybody would like to chat about it
People who feel comfortable and safe exploring topics govern their own learning, especially when there's a small but healthy amount of peer and supervisory pressure. So, don't pay a small army of adjuncts. Pay students to show up to a classroom and to complete standardized measures of progression.
I see you are taking the conversation in two different directions, so I will respond to both.

People used to pay more for music due to scarcity. Piracy makes music more easily available — you are right, so it does decrease scarcity by competition. But so do many other things like the streaming platforms you mention.

The same can be said for average quality published works — very many are available, much too many to charge scarcity pricing. With AI texts flooding the market, the value is further lowered.

I am merely bringing attention to the reality that the works we author compete with market forces, and that through this competition, piracy can and has demonstrably been out-competed in some cases. If the author can’t compete but they want the sales, then it’s a good idea to rethink putting the work out there.

The second point about effort and risk, I don’t think can be dismissed so easily. Checksuming is all well and good, and other protections. But go out into the real world and ask people in the street how many checksum their downloads. :)
> except for the "open submission of transactions, with spam control using eStamps that necessitate the introduction of a whole economy into the system that it doesn't otherwise require" part, ...

Would you know of any projects around this idea? As far as I'm aware, "making spam costly" has always been the big kicker that has made every decentralized-permissionless-ledger project invariably include its own coin (and associated economy) to enforce that costliness. The only idea off the top of my head would be something like "PoW, but anyone adding data just pays the miners directly via some secondary market", which would still have pathologies of its own.
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Thanks! Related:

Nano Emacs – a set of config files to improve the look and feel of Emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403169 - Oct 2022 (4 comments)

Emacs Notebook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29932274 - Jan 2022 (1 comment)

GNU Emacs / N Λ N O – Emacs made simple - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373104 - Nov 2021 (1 comment)
They do contract for capacity in advance, which enables suppliers to plan for demand.
There are probably more companies not using React than are. Words like "industry standard" don't really mean much. Languages like Ruby or Go are widely used and here to stay, yet there are also many people who don't like it – and that's okay.

There's a lot of self-sorting going on here; I stopped doing the frontend thing because I didn't like the way things were going and even tepid critique of this was (and still is) often met with completely out of proportion aggression, vitriol, and insults. I got more hate and vitriol over my "Why I'm using jQuery in 2018" post than the rest of my website combined. It feels like engaging on the Israel/Palestine debate or something.

Of course every community self-sorts to a degree. That's okay. I would never presume to critique React on a React thread. But "frontend" is very broad and also includes non-React.

Your comments here are fine, but at the same time it also strongly suggests that SPAs are the only way to build good frontends and that everyone who disagrees is just some old coot stuck in their ways. Both of which are rather tiring tropes, and especially that second one is pretty dismissive, if not downright insulting.

So I kind of gave up on this years ago. It's easy to reach consensus if you chase away everyone who disagrees.
Tiberium is C&C 1. Red Alert does not have Tiberium, but ores and gems. And ores can be found on the superficial layer of the earth, so it is not that much of a stretch. Although from a game design perspective, it is greatly simplified.
Setting the serialization format issue aside, why is the D-Bus broker an issue?

Why was it designed that way in the first place if all we need (supposedly) is a socket and a simple request/response protocol? If it wasn't needed, why does D-Bus have it? And if it is needed, what will replace it when systemd switches to Varlink?
As an Ent user, I’m surprised to see that as the default ORM. It is graph oriented for better and for worse. No composite primary keys for ‘nodes’ and minimal use of joins (no use?) in the underlying generated SQL. The DX is great, but GORM is a better default IMO.

Nonetheless, great to see a new serious Go meta framework.
Any resources you'd recommend to learn marketing (esp. comming from a software background)? Asking for software friend who's having trouble marketing his software business.

(Also good luck with your book!)
Currently shipping some updates to https://storywatch.org, think of us as Goodreads or IMDB for web fiction and fanfiction, rather than traditional dead tree books. If you are fans of books like Worm or HPMOR, give us a try.
If you were to chart the pain and suffering of the human race over the last 10,000 years, or even over the last 100 years, it is steeply down and to the right.

I'm not hand waving anything away. It's unfortunately ruthlessly statistical.
sounds like the title of a thought provoking indie game
https://wapo.st/47MVpc2
Helping React devs move their state to the URL, in a type-safe way.

nuqs [1] started as a Next.js-only library, but recently I've been working on supporting all major React frameworks & routers (Remix, React Router, plain React with Vite etc).

[1] https://nuqs.47ng.com
Org-mode grammar (PEG parsing) for GNU Guile. Still at the very beginning, but hoping, that over time I can add more and more things, to make it a useful library for things like a minimal static blog based on org mode files or if any git hoster wants to have a good parser for org mode files to render readmes ...

That, and my personal website, using only HTML and CSS, and trying to keep it minimalistic, yet nice looking.
It only feels weird if you consider paying customers getting what they want has to be of the highest priority.

Others who are regular readers of IPCC publications might value the survival of big parts of earths habitable zones and the most densly populated costal areas higher. But priorities differ.
A custom lightweight insulated hard-sided truck camper for mid-size and half-tons. Decided against fiberglass since it can be a pain in the butt, especially with no garage and in the cold. Ideal would be no wood and minimal framing, but i'm not a mechanical engineer, so it's hard to calculate the forces involved, so over-building feels necessary. If anyone is a mechnical engineer, and bored, and would like to contribute their skills, I really want to open source the result so anyone can build it, using basic parts you can find at the big box store. So far I have a crappy model in FreeCAD and a lot of research material.
I'm working on https://nuenki.app/, a language learning tool. It teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as you browse HN etc.

Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for text that is far from the user. Also experimenting with Gemma 2 9B via Groq to go in between them, but it's bad at following instructions and I don't quite trust the quality numbers I'm seeing for it (they're benchmarked with gpt-4o as a judge).

I'm also trying to work out marketing. I'm not good at it, and I dislike it, but I need to get good at it. Currently considering Reddit ads for awareness, some content marketing going over the technical details (there's some fun language processing and performance optimisations), and... I feel that's not enough, but I'm not sure what to add to that.

I'm running on very little budget (I just left school and I'd rather not go into my limited savings over this), so I can't afford to just throw money at ads.
> philosophy of harmony

Very interesting!

Alignment of interest and principles of conflict resolution and
diplomacy are where I got to with "dynamic trust systems" at the
moment. The whole project is to kinda push "beyond authentication".
Yes I'd love to share some as I've been seeking proof-readers in some
security communities. If you DM me via cybershow,uk (email in footer)
we can chat.
If a meatbag comes upon a downed power pole, broken fire hydrant, fender bender, or sunken stretch of pavement they're usually pretty good about turning around or avoiding the obstacle. I haven't seen the same from these taxis yet.
I think we are simply seeing mean reversion from the previous far from equilibrium state.

I am a terrible programmer but probably could have BSed my way into a jr front end role with enough effort circa 2019.

The reason I didn't is exactly because of right now. I would be unemployed and chasing dev jobs with zero chance of landing.

Instead I was learning Julia today with the help of language models because I can stretch out and explore with not needing a job.

Right now is just the shake out of the pretender software engineers like I would have been.

People like you will be fine. People like me should be doing something else anyway.
The US will do anything and everything to solve homelessness as long as it doesn't actually involve building more homes or giving homes to people.

I mean that in a fully genuine way. Just look at how much money gets set on fire cycling the same homeless people in and out of jails and emergency rooms and you can see that nobody actually cares about the amount of money being spent, but only that homes themselves aren't easier to get.
1. SPC kit [0]. Once made it to the front page! [1]

It's an SQL library for doing statistical process control (SPC) calculations.

This has been a labour of love for about 2 years now. I work on it sporadically. Recently I got more disciplined about what I am working on and I am slowly closing the gap on a first 0.1 release.

2. Finding work. As much fun as it is to tinker, I am nursing the standard crippling addiction to food and shelter. I am also nursing an increasing loathing for LinkedIn and wish to be free of having to check it.

[0] https://github.com/jchester/spc-kit

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612775
If you find you're spending too much time on hacker news, you can actually set anti-procrastination settings in your profile. I use them and it's definitely helped a lot!
Also on The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/29/24232172/california-ai-sa...
I've been messing around with a graph-based interface for task management over in https://github.com/crockeo/ekad. The interesting branches are:

- `main`, which currently houses a custom interactive graph visualizer built on top of the great `vello` from linebender (https://github.com/linebender/vello).

- `ch/typescript`, which has my attempts at joining a more traditional task manager with a graph visualization.
I think you make a really good point at the end, that those with antisocial and pathological passions shouldn't be encouraged for the sake of societal health.
They can really make a huge profit if done in a certain way, right? Exploiting others like using dark patterns or scams definitely can reap huge rewards.

As a layman, I'm curious to know what you and others think about what standards should be held to meet the floor, what standards should be held to reach the ceiling.
I would add that Zeiss (ZX1) and Leica (T typ 701, TL2) tried this modern touch-first approach at a premium and both products weren't exactly hits. The Zeiss was even running Android with Lightroom preinstalled.
> CEO is the riskiest, high profile hire.

How risky can it possibly be if three years of failure gets you $60M severance? What's the risk?

Adam Neumann is a billionaire!
This is a massive win for tech, startups, and America.
Earth's quasi-moons, minimoons, and ghost moons
What do you mean permissive of nonsense? You mean permissive of views you disagree with? Yeah, I absolutely don't agree with that, and a cursory glance at history will show you that stifling dissent is the quickest path to ruin.

And for the record, I largely disagree with the nonsense I suspect you are referring to. I also respect that there a bunch of people who don't, and in a democracy, that matters.
I've been working on https://wut.dev in my spare time.

It's essentially a simpler, read-only, AWS dashboard where everything is a filterable, searchable, exportable-to-CSV table, with some extra features like multi-region mode, saved notes, and a debugger for access denied errors.

It uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript, so everything is run client-side from your browser. I'm not 100% sure what direction I'm taking it yet, but it's been fun to hack on!

There's a live demo here: https://wut.dev/?service=ec2&type=instances&demo=true if you want to try it out.
Good point. I also made friends on an RPG, Phantasy Star Online, and was active on a fan board. The message boards I posted on were in the thousands of users, so everyone knew everyone and I didn't want a poor reputation.
Thanks, TIL! Also - agree.
I learned how to weld (MIG) and built a giant mushroom to house a mannequin I dubbed "the mushroom man" over about 100 hours in the last 4 weeks. I covered the outside with thick foam panels cut to size, cementing them in place with copious amounts of spray foam. I shaved the outside to a nice shape with a sawzall and the inside I covered in chicken-fenced, then attached a painters tarp to that (so it could be painted on).

To fit on a trailer (the mushroom's cap is 11.5ft wide) the cap comes off the stem and the edges of the cap are two half-moons which have fixed mounting points where threaded rod sticks through some welded washers, and a nut is put on in place. I was too last minute to install the 200 WS2811 pixels and have them run some cool patterns, before the music festival I brought it to came time, but even just a lantern on top (another painters tarp covered the cap's metal-frame, and everything was spray painted) looked great.

Super fun project. Expensive, but I learned a lot, got to be creative, and I'm happy to try out new things and make the best of my before-children time. Also, it was such a joy seeing people croud around the mushroom (and site beside the mushroom man inside) at night during the festival.
My guess is anything involving direct human safety - medicine, defense, police... but who knows.
But I don't optimise my track to have an ideal volume. I do optimise my AI like that.
Related. Others?

Alan Kay on Messaging (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481074 - May 2015 (61 comments)
I think the correct quantum name would be: woop
A new way to measure developer productivity –from the creators of DORA and SPACE
Says the guy who gets into culture war arguments online all the time
Since I started using Syncthing, I have found many cases of "just make a new folder and share it with selection of other devices" and now, that I am running it on a server, it is also always online, ready to share with any device that comes online. It is just so neat and handy!
This is so misguided that it's hard to even know where to begin. People who develop high blood pressure without a known underlying cause take a pill for it every day for the rest of their life. You could say the same thing, they're not cured, but what actually matters is that they get to live a full life, unconstrained by the disease even if we don't know the underlying cause. Of course it would be better if we were more advanced of a civilization and figured it out, but the important thing is that these people get their lives back.
What is this "driving" and "parking"? I walk around the corner from my home.
Yes but the aggregate of every individual's personal priorities are by definition society's priorities...
How does this compare to https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep
Working on validating a startup idea I had 12 years ago. It's like Pingdom for ads, periodically checking if your ads are being blocked by AdBlockers.

I always thought the idea was somewhat weak, but not enough to discard entirely. So, along with a friend, I built a prototype over the last two weeks, and now we're trying to validate it: https://scanningfox.com/

I'm enjoying using Elixir for this project. As a long-time Erlang dev, I was initially skeptical about Elixir, but Phoenix.LiveView has changed my opinion.
There's also basically nothing they can do again foreign websites.
"Facebook didn't MAKE you use its services, it just employed an army of psychologists and coders to make the app as addictive as possible, so get fucked for being weak-willed."
I'm working on an open-source event tracking infrastructure based on AWS (think Heap or Mixpanel but all infrastructure is in your AWS account and you own the data). It's incredible how much can be done just by combining AWS services.

https://github.com/manymetrics/manymetrics
SyncThing has been the only piece of open-source software which I've fire-and-forget installed and it's working indefinitely.
That's incredible - do you have any photos of this anywhere?

I learned to weld awhile back, but haven't pulled the trigger on purchasing all the stuff I need.
Finishing a web map widget suitable for geo-data visualization.
Their comment said to own other people's profit. And that is true: the only way to get really rich is to own results of work of millions other people. Like Musk, Zuckerberg or Mohammed bin Salman.
Well-Known Users of SQLite
Working on an alternative to character.ai, they recently updated their UI and a lot of the fan favorite features are gone.

https://makebelieve.lol
David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The list of musicians who were “on the dole” to support their music careers before they made it big is huge. It’s almost a cliche at this point. And when they do make it big, their biggest concerts are usually held in stadiums that were heavily subsidized by tax payers.

Besides, Bristol Meyers Squibb acquired this drug for $14 billion which is bigger than the annual budget of the entire NSF. For a single drug. Tax payers weren’t the ones on the hook for that.
A bill laying the groundwork to ensure the future survival of humanity by making companies on the frontier of AGI research responsible for damages or deaths caused by their models, was vetoed because it doesn't stifle competition with the big players enough and because we don't want companies to be scared of letting future models capable of massive hacks or creating mass casualty events handle their customer support.

Today humanity scored a self-goal.

edit:

I'm guessing I'm getting downvoted because people don't think this is relevant to our reality. Well, it isn't. This bill shouldn't scare anyone releasing a GPT-4 level model:

> The bill he vetoed, SB 1047, would have required developers of large AI models to take “reasonable care” to ensure that their technology didn’t pose an “unreasonable risk of causing or materially enabling a critical harm.” It defined that harm as cyberattacks that cause at least $500 million in damages or mass casualties. Developers also would have needed to ensure their AI could be shut down by a human if it started behaving dangerously.

What's the risk? How could it possibly hack something causing $500m of damages or mass casualties?

If we somehow manage to build a future technology that _can_ do that, do you think it should be released?
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That’s wrong. A single load of pepper was enough to pay for the successful voyage and multiple lost ships.
I had to stop using it after loads of conflict files piled up over the years in my notes folder.

I'm trying to switch to WebDAV for notes. Considering Caddy+WebDAV[0] or Peergos[1] or SeaweedFS[2], but not Next/OwnCloud.

Is still consider using Syncthing for other files types.

[0] https://whhone.com/posts/webdav-syncthing/

[1] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3APeergos%2FPeergos%20webda...

[2] https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/blob/master/weed/comm...
From which there's one significant prior discussion, 3 years ago, 72 comments:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27378624>
> think the cost function is really about how much volume you're buying excess of the minimum

You’ll not be able to define minimum very well. It’s also not sensible to assume any volume flies free, since it costs to fly any volume.

The cost to fly the plane is paid for by passengers, and the cabin has a certain volume. The cost function is exactly based on the volume and weight used per passenger. There is no ill-defined minimum volume that costs zero.