skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Man with the Moustache
OF course they did. NASA is so paralyzed by safety they can no longer get anything done.

Space exploration is like the early days of automobile or flight. There is no lack of willing daredevils to pilot these early vehicles. Nobody goes into it thinking it's already as safe as passenger service. They do it to advance humanity into space. At considerable risk to themselves, sure, that's part of being a pioneer.
Tbf, streamers, kids etc constantly call people in their thirties boomer.

I feel like it's becoming a word describing people that have passed their prime (~35+ yo).

Yes, I'm fully aware that the word initially described people that were born during the baby boomer years (~1950) and that the people that are currently 35yo are millennials.
It's a syntax error!

Unterminated raw string literal.

https://replit.com/@Wei-YenYen/DistantAdmirableCareware#main...
Actually, I love the smell of my rosin-based flux.

(But I know it is not healthy to inhale it)
>If LLMs can truly think and reason and understand

But they can't, which was kind of my point. They are clever token predictors, they know language, which makes them really good text generators ("stochastic parrots"), but even trivial tasks like counting the letters in a word is hit-or-miss, especially if the solution is not found in their training data.

I don't understand why people find this surprising. It's remarkable that LLMs can solve some problems at all, not the other way around.
I think one of the problems with kubernetes is you have to make a lot of decisions about it. Everything has an alternative. The advantage to this is replatforming is not as risky because you can replatform individual pieces. The downside is that you have to keep making decisions while you are just trying to ship something.
Because bosses exist on a scale. For the sake of the argument, let’s use American letter grades.

The boss mentioned above would be a “B” boss - good intentions, but a forced execution that shifts more of the burden to employees. I don’t necessarily mind these types, but it can be incredibly off-putting for those of us who work to live, rather than live to work.

Above that you have the “A” bosses, who invite that level of vulnerability by repeatedly displaying their trustworthiness to you and the team. I’ve had a few of these bosses before, and they’re amazing; sadly, they rarely last long in the face of “maximum profit” corporate cultures that demand everyone be a replaceable cog in a machine.

Okay, so at what point does that become “forced group therapy?” The C-D-F bosses.

C-rank bosses will demand vulnerability because they mistake it for honesty or loyalty. Good employees pick up on this and will placate them with some useless trivia nugget but otherwise have mediocre to bad rapport with said boss.

D-grade bosses are even worse. They’ll push and pull and drag and yank something suitably vulnerable from everyone, and even try to solutionize whatever was shared with the team. This is (in my subjective experience) the most common form of boss, born of MBA coursework and saddled with buzzword-laden articles of “how to be a better leader” from magazines no C-Suite would be caught dead reading.

Finally is the F-grade boss, who literally just wants to know who is going to need replacing imminently. Don’t get me wrong, this is something every other grade is silently doing as well (hence the “forced group therapy” metaphor), but F-grade bosses are bad enough to be overt about it. Got a coworker who mentions they’re trying to have a baby? They’ll make sure said coworker never has a positive review again, so it’s easier to replace them once they’re pregnant.

All of this is to say that if YOU are a boss, and an employee is being vulnerable with you in an unprompted or non-coerced manner, you have won their trust and you better respect that. But if you’re forcing them to be vulnerable somehow, you’re actually harming the trust relationship in the long run and will make your staff wary of your motives.

Prove they can trust you, and they’ll open up on their own.
Thanks! Any tips for optimising the operational process? Most impactful thing that you did to reduce friction?
See "commit cleanup".

There’s surprising layers to this. That the reporter in that thread says that git-commit will “happily” accept `#` in commit messages is half-true: it will accept it if you don’t edit the message since the `default` cleanup (that you linked to) will not remove comments if the message is given through things like `-m` and not an editing session. So `git commit -m'#something' is fine. But then try to do rebase and cherry-pick and whatever else later, maybe get a merge commit message with a commented "conflicted" files. Well it can get confusing.
Say that again louder for people in the back.

Message queues aren't a networking protocol. Anyone can subscribe to consume the events.
That's a great idea! I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it because I did the opposite for my toddler to let him know when it was okay to get up in the morning (otherwise he'd be up before 5am). I had a dim red as a whole room nightlight that transitioned to dim yellow-green to signal that is was now okay to get up.
The only problem I have with it is that the author is terribly fond of weird self-referential puns and wordplay, and I find the docs (and posts and comments) he writes to be basically unreadable.

Even the project names: osh, and ysh, and oils, where osh is short for Oil Shell, but so is OilS I think...

It makes it really annoying and difficult to read, IMHO. Maybe it's just me.
Oh. I guess I accidentally reinforced my own point didn’t I.

Thanks.
This is spot on.

Thank you for pointing it out.
>> making lots of improvements to K-9

Such as...?
There's a power differential when management suggests you do something. Even if they genuinely, 100% for real would not care if you didn't share, the power balance is still at play there, which makes it dicey regardless of anything else. I actually like my manager, he's a chill guy and I've had some deep talks with him a few times (after work hours!), but if he pulled a stunt like this during work hours I'd 100% tell him that it's a completely inappropriate thing to do.

I know that he doesn't mean ill or harm by it, but how is the new hire who's anxious to be starting the job supposed to react to it? How can you expect them to say no without feeling like "not being a team player" or whatever other stupid cliche HR types like to use?

> But if on most days we're spending most of our time with these people, what do we gain from automatically disqualifying them from human connection just because they work at the same place as us?

Some people just don't care to make people from work anything more than an acquaintance. They have their own social lives which they invest infinitely more energy into than their work lives, and that's completely fine. I personally can't remember the last time I've spoken to any of my ex-colleagues after they or I left the job, I definitely wouldn't call any of them friends. I still hung out with them at the bar on Friday evenings after a tough sprint, we had a good working relationship, we just weren't friends. I have actual friends who I'd rather spend the time with for that.
I mean, I am a manager and if I saw another manager doing this type of exercise I would probably report it because it seems extremely inappropriate and they would probably want a heads up that we have a manager trying to be a wannabe therapist rather than trying to foster a safe and productive team environment.
Unfortunately, the relative isn't receptive to requests nor negotiation. Oh well. :(
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Mercedes-Benz opens its own recycling facility for EV batteries
I quit Stripe after only six months because the pace, stress, and anxiety were not worth the paycheck.
Interestingly, python f-strings changed their syntax at version 3.12, so highlighting should depend on the version.
Man, there was a lot of obtuse argument to wade through to get to this post. This is an interesting fact. Apparently this is the source?

https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0111050
Yeah it makes a lot of sense for servers. For normal desktop/laptop users who don’t need much parallelism it would just be wasted silicon.
There are a few open projects to support a lot of these thermal cams like the more popular Topdon or InfiRay models. PyThermalCamera [0] or Thermal-Camera-Redux [1] are good ones, I got my thermal cam working on my Linux laptop just fine.

[0] https://github.com/leswright1977/PyThermalCamera

[1] https://github.com/92es/Thermal-Camera-Redux
> Almost like adult people can understand environment and make conscious decisions what is acceptable [...]

Apparently not because in TFA, the author shared personal facts about their divorce and other people shared even "deeper" things they'd "never heard in a work setting". Quote: "it was awkward".

These aren't things that belong in a workplace context (sure, if you're going out for drinks after work maybe you can volunteer such things - but not during a workplace meeting!).
Read-Later App, Omnivore is shutting down on Nov 30th
They work great for me, good sleep quality and no grogginess.

I’d tried prescription sleep aids in the past and did have issues with grogginess. Between that, needing timing to be pretty precise for the grogginess not to be even worse, and having to choose between “glass of wine” and “be able to sleep”, those had enough down-sides that it didn’t really work out (the “still feel shitty in the morning” bit was definitely the worst part)
High Anxiety
Just a gripe: so many jobs, so few pay ranges. I thought it was almost 2025?? I’m not looking but seeing my wife waste so much time (and the companies time) with jobs that don’t explain what they’re offering, it’s just disappointing.
Hey thanks a lot for the feedback! These are all great points to include in the tutorial. The goal is to definitely minimize confusion XD

Glad you enjoyed the gameplay
Alan Bennett at 90: 'What will people think? I don't care any more'
Requiring a browser extension rather proves my point though.
Which part of "is not a w3c standard and not any standards track" do you not understand?

Do you understand that for something to become a standard, it needs two independent implementations? And a consensus on API?

Do you understand that "not on any standards track" means it's Chrome and only Chrome pushing this? That Firefox isn't interested in this either?

Do you understand that blaming Apple for everything is borderline psychotic? And that Chrome implementing something at neck-breaking pace doesn't make it a standard?

Here's Mozilla's extensive analysis and conclusion "harmful" that Google sycophants and Apple haters couldn't care less about: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431#is...
It sounded like an optional request not a command. I’ve managed and I’ve been managed and the relationship ships I’ve built along the way are deep enough to have conversations like these. We’re doing life with this people it’s not a dystopian novel about capitalism. If you have a genuine person as your boss moments like these help form friendships, and don’t feel like a dark Dilbert comic.

Friendships increase team communicability which bolster project success.
I don't think "early" really matters, but consistency has been the key for me.

I used to set an alarm every night in bed for 7-8 hours later, relative to whatever random time I was getting in bed. For years the only advice I ever heard in terms of sleep quality was "getting a good 7-8 hours", so this led to years of awful sleep.

Now, I set an alarm once and don't ever touch it again. It goes off every day of the week, weekends and all, everyday at the same time. And it's been one of the biggest and most directly noticeable changes I've ever done for my routine and wellbeing. Sure, sometimes I go to bed late and I don't get my 7-8 hours, but for the first time since I was a kid I feel sleepy at night and it doesn't take 1+ hours in bed to fall asleep.

If anyone reading is in the same situation I was, please try it. Even of you usually wake up late, even at noon or later, just wake up at the same "late" hour everyday. "Early" doesn't matter. But after a while you can make small 15-30 minute changes in the wake-up time every month to two months or so, if you wanna start waking up earlier. If you still have trouble falling asleep, even some light exercise like a light walk around the block, helps a lot, particularly if you spent the day sitting.

Maybe this is super obvious for most people, but it wasn't for me, so it might be helpful for someone else.
Is it something bad happening to your kids? That seems perfectly appropriate to share
Of course is absolutely evil! Look any 3rd world country. The whole idea of inflation via emission is to dissolve people money: at the time of emission local money is say X for a dollar, the gov. uses the money at that value, pays salaries, etc, but at the time the people actually uses the money, it is X*2 for a dollar. That is the whole game. Horrible, yes, but the daily reality for most people in 3rd World countries.
The ratio of hype to substance is ridiculously out of this world. But like GP said (about AI), there's something there underneath all the hype
Google’s current ceo is probably on a short leash from the founders. So his failing is probably more their failing…
Ask HN: John Wick's Gold Coins on Blockchain
Is it Possible to Build a "John Wick"-Style Gold Coin Economy on Blockchain?

I’m not sure if it’s even possible, but I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a "gold coin" economy like the one in John Wick using blockchain tech.

In the movie, one coin pays for any service, from cleaning up a mess to getting specialized equipment. So, how could this work in the crypto world?

Some thoughts:

Universal Value: Each gold coin has the same value regardless of the service provided, whether it's hiring an assassin, getting medical help, or using specialized facilities.

Exclusivity & Trust: The coins are only used by members of the secret society, representing trust and membership within this underworld. Possession of a coin implies you're part of the network.

No Direct Monetary Equivalent: The coins don’t have a direct correlation to any real-world currency.

If anyone has ideas on how to make this a reality or any related projects you've seen, feel free to share! And if you'd rather not discuss it publicly, shoot me an email at coin@shivamshinde.com

Curious to hear what people think!
I learned there's a mineral named huntite.
Same. Easily the best computer I’ve owned in the last 25 years in terms of satisfaction/niceness.
Location: Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Remote: Willing to work in any US timezone

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript, React, Next.js, Web3, Wagmi, GraphQL, TailwindCSS

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rhptUgJ0tpLL3AqvOG4TArmBnT9...

Email: amuntingh@gmail.com

I have 4 years of frontend experience building web3 projects of which many are in production. I have created dapps that include staking, bridging, and token and NFT purchases. I have created and worked with subgraphs. I work well solo but I thrive in a team with like minded professionals.
I've done this with friends/family a couple times and wrote up a tutorial that I use as reference every couple months.

Has an optional step to password-protect the contents if you have any qualms with security-by-obscurity of using an unlisted torrent on a public tracker.

https://loganhood.com/2023/12/14/everyday-7zip-bittorrent
Yea, this was really disturbing. Your work and manager already have a lot of power over you. It seems really nefarious to ask employees to bring in vulnerabilities about themselves from outside of work. I don’t buy the team building nonsense, which will probably used as the “explanation” here.
> the party you get the software from has to be trusted anyways.

Which is a big problem in itself, that's rarely talked about in such terms.

Me getting some software only means I trust the party I got it from at that moment of time, for that particular version of the software. It doesn't imply I trust that party indefinitely. This is the reason why so many people hate automatic updates (and often disable them when possible): they don't trust the vendor beyond the point of initial installation. They don't trust the vendor won't screw them up with UX "improvements" or license changes or countless other things that actively make users' life miserable.

Think about Windows and Microsoft. You can't at the same time say you don't trust them because of their track record of screwing with their users and enshittifying their products, and at the same time, say they're a trusted first party in your Windows installation. They aren't - they can and will screw you over with some update.

In this sense, it's not a stretch to compare unattended updates with RCE vulnerabiltiy. Just because the attacker is the product vendor, doesn't mean they're not going to pwn your machine and make you miserable. And just because their actions are legal, doesn't make them less painful.
It mentions requiring 2 1-gallon “paint cans” of rosin to start cooking 3 potatoes. While possible, that sounds like a LOT of cannabis rosin to attempt to make or collect, but I’d be happy to help.
Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Within Switzerland

Technologies: Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD certs), Docker, Linux, AWS (Practitioner cert), Azure, Terraform (Associate cert), Helm (SC104 cert), Jenkins, Python, C/C++, C#, .NET, Qt, Git, SVN, Computer Vision, Machine learning, Deep learning, TensorFlow, SQL, React.js, Next.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, Tailwind, CSS, WordPress, Full Stack, Frontend, Backend, Embedded development

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qEACgPkJOKiXyzb77v746sihP_f...

Email: On my portfolio and CV

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardtiron/

Software Engineer (7+ yoe). Most of my career I've led projects in a research center for clients wanting to modernize their processes in whichever technology I felt was adequate. Some examples are: firmware for EV conversion of a 1M€ industrial vehicle, a plugin for Cura 3D printing software, knitting machine defect detection with computer vision, Ultrasion's website, telemetry of a global fleet of threading machines, telemetry of underground vehicles without internet connection, a cloud connected tractor using satellite data for fertilization, firmware of a machine that manufactures medical plastic parts with ultrasounds... I've also recently won the Swisshacks hackathon with a RAG tool for financial analysts.

Portfolio with 60+ professional and personal projects: https://etiron.netlify.app
> no matter how trendy the culture is about being “open”

I've noticed this trend in recent years to be "open about mental health", etc. And I think by itself this is great, mental health is important. But invariably, especially in management/HR settings (or in the entertainment industry), it is done in an incredibly shallow way.

Mental health is hard. Just talking openly isn't magically going to fix things and may even initially make things worse. It may release feelings that need to be carefully managed e.g. by a therapist. Obviously, no company would ever be able to provide that. Instead, they're just looking for "I started running every morning and was able to fix my depression" kind of stories.
Interesting. Thanks for following up.

Very weird to think it was a decision by a legislature that set that path going forward.

I guess I had just assumed it was some kind of professional medical association that decided it.
It’s just that nesting them arbitrarily is now allowed, right? That shouldn’t matter much for a mere syntax highlighter then. And one could even argue that code that relies on this too much is not really for human consumption.
Does it matter? Do you consider them a trusted party indefinitely?

Think at scale of years, and think of e.g. Microsoft of Adobe when pondering this question.
> Unfortunately Unicode retconned the ASCII apostrophe character ' to be a vertical line

Unicode does not precribe the appearance of characters. Although in the code chart¹ it says »neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage« (next to »apostrophe-quote« and »single quote«), font vendors have to deal with this mixed usage. And with Unicode the correct quotation marks have their own code points, making it unnecessary to design fonts where the ASCII apostrophe takes their form, but rendering all other uses pretty ugly.

I would regard using ` and ' as paired quotation marks as a hack from times when typographic expression was simply not possible with the character sets of the day.

_________

¹

0027 ' APOSTROPHE
= apostrophe-quote (1.0)
= single quote
= APL quote
• neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage
• 2019 ’ is preferred for apostrophe
• preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are 2018 ‘ & 2019 ’
• 05F3 ׳ is preferred for geresh when writing Hebrew
→ 02B9 ʹ modifier letter prime
→ 02BC ʼ modifier letter apostrophe
→ 02C8 ˈ modifier letter vertical line
→ 0301 $́ combining acute accent
→ 030D $̍ combining vertical line above
→ 05F3 ׳ hebrew punctuation geresh
→ 2018 ‘ left single quotation mark
→ 2019 ’ right single quotation mark
→ 2032 ′ prime
→ A78C ꞌ latin small letter saltillo«
Buridan's Ass (2015)
I’m in early 40s and going thru a minor midlife crisis around this. Feeling that I’d wasted time in my 20s building technical prowess only to see myself still be viewed as mostly fungible.

I think my future is moving towards consulting and building my own products. If people want to fight each other to get a seat at the table, be my guest. I see it as a waste of life. I can already build significant projects on my own, and it’s long overdue for me to reap all of the profit that those efforts generate.
If anything can cross such large barriers of time and culture, it's artists' drive to create.
Problem is the rest of my life is incompatible with waking up at 11. My job wants to me available from 9am and even if that wasn’t the case my wife—perfectly understandably—would not be too happy with me working until 19:30 or 20:00 as that would massively cut into our time in the evenings. Hence why I wish I’d grown out of it.

+1 for Mentour Pilot, love his videos
Read his description a couple more times, while pretending that you're a therapist. The "wait, what the ?" stuff can give you a better sense of his emotions and mental state, if you don't balk at the objective counterfactuals.
Not happening for 55%.

Try to connect to github.com over IPv6.
the funny thing is that because of such sleep times i never had a problem with jetlag. if i am forced to get up early and work all day then i can also get to sleep earlier. the issue though is that since i have kids, i only get time for myself, eg to watch tv or a movie after the rest of the family is asleep, thus pushing my bedtime again back late into the night. i haven't found a way to solve that without completely giving up watching tv. (and i don't watch much to begin with. 1-2 hours per day)
Thousands go to fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween parade
Ah, so there is no backtracking in lexer for this case. Makes sense.
My buddy refers to it as “the strike” heh. First coffee (or cigarette for him) of the day, you better be near a bathroom.
Absolutely. If it's so bad let the shareholders pay the price. Market dynamics should take care of this mindset eventually (if it indeed needs fixing).
If you don't like being paged at night, then Rust for CRUD apps is fantastic -- having worked with Python, c#, and nodejs backends, I'll take Rust backends every day of the week.
they pushed amazon affiliate link, but it is not formed well.
IRC transfer? I hope you are not referring to DCC. :P
It seems really problematic to me to run away vs. stay and work against this ideology.

The quickest way for these ideas to become a majority is for the people who don’t hold them to leave.
I was recently looking at Intel’s performance during the dotcom bubble and then burst

If Google is the new Microsoft, is AMD the new Intel?