skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea and we use it at work often. One pitfall one has to be aware is that it is easy for the people who are asked to provide feedback on the prototype to get bogged down in the details.

What you want is people to squint and tell you if they like the general approach, but what often happens is they tell you that you need more unit tests and you could use a ternary operator here and here. (The particular details will of course differ in each case.) The reason for that, in my opinion, is that your thing looks like a PR and therefore people default to the kind of review they do for PRs. But since this is a different beast it needs a different mindset during review.

And of course the only possible solution for that is proactice and active communication to get everyone on the same page.
From what I understood the article refers to the point that DuckDB doesn't provide its own dataframe API, meaning a way to express SQL queries in Python classes/functions.

The link you shared shows how DuckDB can run SQL queries on a pandas dataframe (e.g. `duckdb.query("<SQL query>")`. The SQL query in this case is a string. A dataframe API would allow you to write it completely in Python. An example for this would be polars dataframes (`df.select(pl.col("...").alias("...")).filter(pl.col("...") > x)`).

Dataframe APIs benefit from autocompletion, error handling, syntax highlighting, etc. that the SQL strings wouldn't. Please let me know if I missed something from the blog post you linked!
Agree.

It’s very hard for anyone who isn’t the author, or otherwise intimately familiar with the code, to understand changes at a glance. The reader needs high level explanations and documentation to quickly build the correct mental model to understand the change in context.

If you can look at 1000 lines of diff and accurately tell what it’s doing, and much more importantly, the upstream and downstream implications… you’re either lying, or somehow work in a perfect hermetic vacuum of verifiability that I am very jealous of.
maybe replace typing with, 'has editor in focus', /maybe/ 'editor | docs' because of course I may be idling while in the flow, but as soon as I've tabbed over to stack overflow its because something isn't working and it might actually be a good time to walk off for 5 minutes and come back to it.
It's been 25 years.
I appreciate your comment and video bonus. The article was free ranging and entertaining and not particularly focused and so when someone asks how your comment and video could relate to the article... Well did they read the whole article?
Your website has been live less than a year (by archive.org glance) and you ramped up 1.1m users in 10 months?
elon built xAi's infrastructure for less than $6b. So obviously Elon thinks so too.
This performs very poorly on whatever machine I use! https://raytracer.webfx.dev
And did nothing about it. They’re the worst in the industry in terms of claim denials.
The First 50M Prime Numbers (1975) [pdf]
What's the difference between engineering and product?
Yes I do
I've never seen one marketing themselves as that or a part-time position advertised as fractional. In my 2 year experience as a fractional CTO it's only "Head of" and C-level. Happy to stand corrected.
The picture in the "article" is a wrap. The actual damage is tiny by comparison, still annoying I'm sure.
> High paid professionals with multiple clients per week (like most fractionals are) are not the target.

Yes, that's also what used to be the common knowledge in Germany. However (according to my tax advisor), the tax office here has gotten increasingly agressive and are now also targeting high paying jobs like physicians and software engineers more and more.

> We're still paying taxes, the only difference is that the client isn't paying for it

Yes, that's also how you in Germany would optimally protect yourself against fallout from false self-employment (= backpay of evaded social security payment), but even in that case your customers can be fined for engaging in false self-employment, which will likely kill that customer relationship. One practice against that I've seen is to have a clause in the contract where you as the freelancer guarantee that you also spend X time with other clients, which should give the customer a shield of plausible deniability, but I haven't heard any experience reports whether that holds up in an audit. The most bullet-proof method seems to be to have at least one employee that you pay minimum social security for (e.g. working student or family member), but that's not trivially cheap.
Depends what you mean by cheat? Break a law? And putting ethics aside - risk and consequences of getting caught.

Based on DOJ fines cheating is required!

BUT!!

Cheating is only strictly required in the trio when everyone is doing the same thing (olympic 100m) vs. different things (trading).

(In the olympics the prize is honour, achievement, etc. so most people wont cheat for that reason.)
This isn't because of magnetism: it's water in contact with straight iron and stainless steel. (Saved you a click - the owners identify this).

A classic stainless steel failure mode is if it gets contaminated by iron particles (i.e. regular steel) during processing (you have to use not Fe grinding discs, keep posts separate etc).

The magnet trapped water, and the particularly low grade stainless used in the truck did the rest.

Yet another entry in this is literally the stupidest vehicle on the road though.
I have a smart TV but drive it externally, if you even visit the wifi menu, it will nag you about not being connected until it is rebooted. It has never touched the network.
Everyone wins when they have the benefit of hindsight.
too bad it doesn't vote
> The wrong-handed glucose would be a great sugar replacement, but it's too expensive to synthesize.

That's not the problem. There's a recent patent on synthesizing L-glucose cheaply.[1] The problem is that L-glucose turns out to be a strong laxative.[2]

Levoglucose (L-glucose) is the stereoisomer of D-glucose. L-Glucose does not occur naturally in higher living organisms, but can be synthesized in the laboratory. L-Glucose is indistinguishable in taste from D-glucose, but cannot be used by living organisms as source of energy because it cannot be phosphorylated by hexokinase, the first enzyme in the glycolysis pathway. Levoglucose may be used as diagnostic aid. It has been investigated as a non-nutritive food sweetener. However, L-glucose produced significant laxation, with an average of 4 to 5 loose watery stools in a 24-hour period. This laxative property clearly reduced the use of L-glucose as a food additive. The mechanism of laxation after L-glucose ingestion is unknown, but malabsorption of the compound with secondary osmotic diarrhea is likely. L-glucose is a well-tolerated, safe, and efficacious means of cleansing the colon for colonoscopy.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2015068724A1/en

[2] https://drugs.ncats.io/drug/02833ISA66
PSA, HDMI carries ethernet, so you depending on the device you connect your TV to, it might get internet access without your knowledge.
Link to actual images:

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/don%E2%80...
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Ask HN: Teach Programming to Kids?
With claims that AI might take over programming jobs in the near future, is it still a good idea to teach kids coding? How many parents here would want their children to learn programming? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!
It will predict how other certain experiments with the combined gas will behave. That's what people mean when they say that the entropy is not an "objective" property of a physical system: that it depends on how we choose to describe that physical system - and what experiments we can perform acting on that description.
I never fully realized you could mix two digital PCM by simply alternating their samples in the output to the DAC. That's fascinating. I realize now that some music output on the single bit Apple II computer may have been approaching mixing in the same way...
Guessing from your response, you might not know of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band, which is fine. But now you do :)
Relatively defined events yes, i.e probably wouldn't try to click through FOMC (is number better/worse than FedWatch) but take something like BTC ETF getting approval:

- you aren't sure where the announcement will come from first, i.e will it leak via journalist

- there will be plenty of false announcements

- the official SEC twitter account got hacked and posted it was approved (Phone number taken over, no 2FA enabled lolol)

- there will be volatility around fake announcements as others are running bots

- LLMs interpretation of "BTC ETF approved" vs "With BTC ETF approval" can cause you to start eating lot of transaction costs

You can still (presently...) come out on top as a bag of meat. Is it worth the hours and cortisol vs half decent tech job? going to say entirely dependent on the scorecard afterwards and if you value doing something with actual purpose.
Thank you!

At least with Arch, it's an optional package: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xfce4-whiskermen...

I don't know how to tell if this is the case for Ubuntu/Debian just from browsing the package pages in launchpad.
Xiaomi announces Open Source Vela system
What Is Project Blue Beam? Conspiracy Theory Erupts over Drones
I read a lot of this, had to stop. In a way, it's like the film itself. It has a lot of words, a lot of details, and it seems to mean something. But at the end, it really doesn't amount to much.
"Mulholland Drive" was a much more effective comment on wealth, power, and misogyny.
"Driving" is not a neutral thing that falls from the sky. I know it seems like it, so much our society is structured around transportation by personal automobile.

But you need roads. It's a choice whether to make it e.g. 1 part car lane, 1 part bike lane, 1 part bus/tram lane, 1 part pedestrians, or flatten the whole thing to make space for cars.

Not to mention parking, pollution, the deaths and maimings, and the million other externalities.
Two men arrested after drone flies 'dangerously close' to Boston's Logan Airport
I was living in Athens, and visiting the museums, and I had no idea - I walked around a corner in the National and pow - the Mechanism, THE Mechanism, was there, right in front of me.

WOW.

Also, Elgin marbles need to be returned. Parthenon is defaced by their absence.
I don't know if I'm more annoyed at the physics baloney, or the obvious fact it was at least partly written (not merely edited!) by AI. The paragraph starting "The second possibility..." is a naked LLM hallucination that confuses cause and effect. The LLM seems to have been tasked with answering that question in several parts, and catastrophically lost its attention halfway through.

("The second possibility is that while magnets do not directly affect stainless steel corrosion, the type of stainless steel, whether magnetic or non-magnetic, correlates with its corrosion resistance. Austenitic stainless steel (non-magnetic) resists corrosion better than ferritic or martensitic stainless steel (magnetic), which Tesla uses with the Cybertruck.")
And don't forget to put 25% progressive tip to everything!

I've recently heard some people are paying tips to the collectors company who while paying minimum monthly payment to the debt. How progressive!
Thanks for pointing this out, I was really confused seeing the photos in the article since they didn't make any sense. I feel like this article's dishonesty is so egregious that it should be flagged.
I just want a somewhat trustworthy group to develop a DUMB certification. I would absolutely pay more for a certified DUMB TV.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-adver...
Why are the walls of a spacecraft usually so thin?
Get a better broker :-) my SP50 (yes 50, dont ask!) index is doing alwite.
"Palm now owns the former Siemens mobile patent portfolio"

Man, I miss Siemens phones, they were great at the time. I wonder what they would be like today if Siemens didn't quit the market.
We imagine software efforts that go through a clean, neat flow:

We write a design doc. Then make small incremental changes in a PR to rollout the functionality. Our git histories look clean and orderly. Like a steady march of progress.

Who imagines this? Professors who teach software engineering classes?

This reminds me of people who think that you write prose (essays, stories, novels, etc) by writing an outline and then "filling it out" with prose, as if in the process you will never discover anything that requires you to rewrite or restructure the document. Nobody writes that way. First drafts are always terrible and basically all good writing has been heavily revised.

Writing code is much more like writing than it is like building a house or a bridge.
Bundling things together still means they are paying for it with one degree of separation…?
I feel like I keep seeing gotchas with the cyber truck. It’s sad as I like the concept of a cyber truck.
“Smart TVs are, unfortunately, more like smartphones: designed for frequent replacement.”

Except unlike smartphones, these TVs are not built with high-end components due to the razor-thin margins that have to be optimized for. So you end up with underpowered hardware and janky software that benefits only these companies through ad revenue.
As another aside to this story, when I was at Intuit Bill Campbell who was on the Apple Board and CEO/Board Member of Intuit in 1999 or 2000 arranged for my project (An entirely internet version of Quickbooks as a subscription service) to support the then crappy Macintosh Microsoft IE browser that was the main Mac browser.

You have to remember that Microsoft IE on the Mac was a completely different code base than on windows, did not have any debugging, and not feature compatible especially as far as CSS and DOM functionality is concerned. So we did meet with Apple but told them that we could not support what they wanted unless we could get a debugger for that Mac IE at a minimum. The response from them was just to debug on IE in windows. We laughed and left the meeting.

I think Apple got that response from a lot of early web app developers and was a factor into them taken control of their browser destiny and eventually releasing Safari.

By the way, although I left Intuit in 2007, our product is the version of Quickbooks that they mainly sell, and is supported by all the modern browsers but in 1999 when the project was started developing a complex easy to use web app was a challenge.
They’re not putting them outside again; they’d be inside in the Acropolis museum. The Parthenon (blown up as it is) would still be missing them.
Please feel free to point out which parts of the comment are incorrect.
it's almost as if cars are painted for a reason
Google's Lost Moonshots
That is just cost of business. I like the EU approach but the US will never adopt it. Scale the fines up to percentages of global revenue. That would definitely stifle some of these abuses.
It could have been electrolytic too - there is no mention of what was pressed up against the body - it could have been something with zinc or other active metal.
I thought that the Cybertruck alloy was an austenitic (non-magnetic) stainless steel. A 301 derivative. Did they change the composition of the alloy? If magnets are sticking to it so well, maybe they've switched to a ferritic steel? Or are they rolling it so severely that the austenite is mostly transformed into martensite?
Palm didn't have anything to do with Palm OS 6, they spun off Palm OS development to a company called PalmSource (later ACCESS). Palm OS 6 was finished around 2004, but never shipped on a device because the performance was horrible compared to Palm OS 5. This was due to poor software architecture. PalmSource threw out the kernel used by previous versions of Palm OS and replaced it with a microkernel that focused on message-passing between processes. Most of the Palm OS API got re-implemented using IPC. This meant that each API call would require at least two context switches, more if the API implementation needed to make another API call that was implemented with IPC. The ARM chips that were available at that point flushed their caches on each context switch. The result was that doing something like opening an address book with around a thousand entries went from taking a few hundred ms to taking seconds, as displaying each entry required an IPC call to the service responsible for handling contacts data.

It's definitely a shame, as Palm OS 5 is a stopgap OS that got shipped on devices way after the point it became obsolete. Third-party developers couldn't even write native ARM software, they had to compile for 68k and add small chunks of ARM code for performance intensive areas where the 68k->ARM emulation became a bottleneck.
"Sussex" as the name of the Among Us section had me laughing
>Sure, everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth; however, that saying applies to war, politics, negotiations, but not coding.

hey, the EU just introduced this new regulation is the software version of getting punched in the mouth.
Not really, no.

People have been talking about the "death of the third place" for a while, now.
Galvanic corrosion?
First you have to have smart people who will be able to foresee design issues.

That’s a bit uncharitable but following this line of thought - you also need those smart people to be confident and communicative.
AFAIK only certain dimensions are quantized in quantum physics, e.g., energy states. Position is none of them.
The way stainless steel resists corrosion is the reaction of chromium and oxygen in the air to produce a protective chromium oxide layer. If you mess up the surface with a magnet you're trapping water in the interface, pushing that chromium oxide layer aside, and probably causing micro scratches.
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In NL, UK and probably Germany there is a plague of "freelance" developers and indeed also physicians that work full-time for the same companies for multiple years. In my opinion, it's fine to raise taxes on those kinds of freelancer/employer relations to the same level as salaried employees.

I see my own services as very different. You call me when you need short-term & part-time help to solve a problem or bootstrap something within your own company. Doing that in a long-term salaried position would not make sense.

Curious to see what will happen over the next years!
Through some work I've done the last couple years, I've been exposed to a couple consultants who specialize in using fractional work within organizations. Between them, their clients, and others I've known who have gone that direction, I think I see a flaw here -- such jobs exist, but are rarely posted on the web.

"Fractional" is a term that is often focused on leadership roles more than part time IC gigs. You will find such roles when talking to C-level leaders at organizations who are having growing pains - maybe their IC hiring is outpacing the director-level hiring, maybe they grew too fast to fully develop all the skills needed. Either way, the exec team is overwhelmed. They know they need more leadership, but don't want to build out a large middle management layer. So they are looking for solutions to a problem.

Because of that, if you are trying to accelerate, stop scouring the web. Scouring the web just puts you in a reactive position, acting as a recruiter and hoping the people you find happen to match the posting. Instead, get talking directly to C-level execs and board members at small/medium-sized growing companies, and be the consultant guiding them to decide whether they need to hire, or if contracting a fractional leader into their org is a better solution. Let your postings be the results of those conversations, and keep getting to know people who are looking for fractional work. Tie those two together, and you'll see acceleration.
> You left out vaccinations (obviously effective) and mask mandates (somewhat effective but certainly falls under minor inconvenience)

The authoritarian tactics used to impose both of those were ineffective, or at least can't be justified on the evidence. Otherwise all the people trying to justify their brush with their inner Nazi would be able to put up a good argument for what they advocated for.

Both measures failed to stop the spread of COVID, the evidence they had any effect on the number of people who eventually caught it is hard to some up with even as a thought experiment (elsewhere in the thread Retric theorised that the change in viral load would be significant, which is a weak attempt but the best I've seen so far, and also sounds hard to test for). In many cases the vaccines explicit weren't checked for effects on transmission.
The issue with displaying statistics to potential employers is that they can easily be gamed or even falsified. If your site really takes off, you'll have to be careful that it is not inundated with 'developers' whose contributions include renaming str_name to name_str in a thousand repositories.

Cf. https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894
> Why dumb TV's won't make a comeback --- price.

I'm cool with it provided I can use it as a very high quality HDMI display. Then I just got a nicely discounted product.

My worry is if they demand connectivity in order to work as a display. Or worse come with some kind of LTE transceiver to phone home then we're in trouble.
Give them opportunity to explore with an environment, but don’t push it on them.
Yes they are, but I think the blog post is meant to educate the companies that they don't have to mentally multiply the price again. What you see is what you pay.
"Every problem is created by a solution" goes the old saying. What was the raw stainless steel body a solution for? Oh ... right.
But...literally part of the explanation is this email and what it represents?

Apple participated in an illegal anti-competitive anti-worker chilling of the market.

If they hadn't, perhaps some of the people that worked on iPhone over the next decade might have joined Palm, and improved it.

Instead, Apple retained them and artificially deflated their wages at the same time.

Don't get me wrong, Palm is still more to blame. But...there's a reason Jobs perpetuated this policy. He knew the value one or two key people can make in changing the entire history of product and technology.
It was an industrywide collusion to suppress wages.
It's the ideological rag for the left wing of Wall Street which is very different than the left wing in general. Both papers are "establishment."
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
subleq can be done in few lines of AWK, you could just use busybox instead of a huge Rust toolchain.
Oh well. Try playing with the sound disabled in Settings
Cross-entropy is not the KL divergence. There is an additional term in cross-entropy which is the entropy of the data distribution (i.e., independent of the model). So, you're right in that minimizing one is equivalent to minimizing the other.

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/357963/what-is-the...
Civil war buffs drill for the 'hardest test in history'
Sorry I meant medicaid
https://archive.ph/iFLol
Kids are getting scheduling via apps now? The best thing my school ever did for me was give me a paper planner and teach me how to use it. I've finally reached that "back in my day" age.

It's a neat project though. I wasn't aware Soldered existed so this is a nice find.
Is something supposed to happen when I call a number on the phone? If the number picks up I just have silence until I hang up.

Also I made the mistake of resetting the phone in an attempt to get into the admin account!
Never thought I'd see the day where HN needed a community note.
Except that I do digest.

Just not necessarily while my eyes are occupied with the book.
Where'd you get ten years from?