skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are some of the richest people debating whether to stop people from seeking to work elsewhere. Absolutely despicable. Hat's off to Palm for seeking the reasonably route.
The abduction of cruise and Kidmans daughter at the end is one interesting reference to some sordid things. But I did not see the article reference the op-art painting above the daughters (helena) bed providing another secret reference to something sinister. I recall Kubrick being bothered by the heavy censorship and editing by the UK film board, I wonder if we will ever get to see those removed scenes, what, and why they were removed etc. Kubrick died within a week of the film release, perhaps he knew too much, perhaps not. Maybe prince Andrew did go to Pizza Express.
https://docs.urbit.org/language/nock/reference/specification
I Tried Creating a Native App in TypeScript
If you're going to post like this, you should supply links so readers can make up their own minds.

We don't moderate when HN commenters "go against hivemind consensus". We moderate when they break the site guidelines. If you didn't do that, it should be straightforward to link to where the mods got it so wrong.
To get all the bells and whistles done oneself, yes, it is time and learning.

Using Emacs with no bells and whistles just for writing is very enjoyable too, though! That's how I started. Within an hour or two I'd removed any visual clutter from the screen, and put on some dark theme (just clicking around the menu bar).

M-x help-with-tutorial (which came up when I first ran it, and I said oh, what's that), and that was me gone!

For weeks and weeks all I did was pump out text files with no formatting, being amazed that I could jump forward and backwards over words, sentences, and lines. It was an absolute joy, with a warm feeling of clarity and clean-ness to it.
Radxa X4 board specifically has x86 N100, an M.2 slot (a short one) and GPIO (though you need to flash the on-board RP2040 to access them? haven't tried yet).
I'm quite happy with it as a cheap desktop.
Documentation is pretty OK? Nowhere like the tutorials ecosystem around RPi but Radxa are certainly trying to provide detailed info.

One sweet quality of RPi this lacks was being unbrickable — the entire state was on SD card; screw up and you can just write a new card. (Recent RPis complicate that with an a boot flash). But by now I've bricked enough RPis by electrical damage — including an 400 — to not be as excited about that :-]

I do agree with your analysis. All I'm saying is if one is considering a competitor, the X4 with x86 running mainline linux might be a safer bet than most less-documented ARM boards...
Most or all mentions of Native Americans were introduced by Kubrick and absent in King's original
> It's such a bizarre wonderful dreamworld of the human psyche that Kubrick created. Like if Kubrick made a Fellini film.

Of course The Shining shows that what Kubrick makes of a novel is not necessarily what the author made, but it's probably worth giving some credit for the dreamworld to Schnitzler—the novel is literally called, or so Wikipedia tells me it translates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Story), Dream Story.
Silk worm industry is the definition of long-term sustainable exploitation of biosphere. It was done for thousand years, with minimal resources, no polution, it captures CO2... It only takes a few worms and some leafs! Chemical alternatives are poluting and poising, land air and waters!
This sounds like an ideal niche for using F#.
I the book How Big Things Get Done they analyze big and small project failures and success and end up with something along the lines:

1. Spend as much time in planning as necessary, in the context of mega projects planning is essentially free, maximize the time and value gained in planning.

2. Once you start execution of the plan, move as fast as possible to reduce likelihood of unforeseen events and also reduce costs increases due to inflation, interest paid on capital etc.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61327449-how-big-things-...
It's linked in another comment, but repeating anyway: a high-resolution PDF (i.e. using vector fonts and not a scan) of the error log itself is available here: https://mirrors.ctan.org/info/knuth-pdf/errata/errorlog.pdf (typeset from source: https://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/knuth/dist/errata/errorlog....)

The 37-page paper that precedes the error log, The Errors of TeX, has been reprinted (as always, with minor corrections) as Chapter 10 of the book of collected papers titled Literate Programming https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html — Knuth has not published its .tex source, though it's not impossible to find…
Me too. I'd like to explore the tree and see what can happen but have zero interest creating an account, tracking progress or whatever. I got the gist of what the game was about in the first few minutes.
> falls foul of the European regulations requiring a rounding of 3.2 millimeters on protruding parts.

That's a curious number... 3.2mm is 0.12598 inches, or 1/8" is 3.175mm.

Did the EU pass a regulation based on Imperial units and just convert (with rounding) to metric for publication?
I saw it in the theaters in 1999, I was a huge Kubrick fan, 15 years old and I hated the movie.

After two divorces, I watched it again and totally understood the whole thing. It is a great movie.

Still, my favorite is Barry Lyndon...
This setup 'just' works for me. I have mapped certain functionality, for e.g. toggling the file explorer to a nvim keymap (the extension also enables h, j, k, l, y, p, etc. commands in the explorer) but I use the cmd/ctrl + P keymap for searching files in the current project, so it feels incomplete sometimes. When I am editing a set of files it works great, but as soon as I use a VS code feature, for e.g. project search, the experience is okay and may require a mouse, which is not surprising but I hope the integration gets even better.

I am sure that with more configuration, the experience could be made more NeoVim like but I don't know whether I should spend time doing this or invest my time learning/adapting to a terminal based flow for the few tasks for which I am used to the VS Code GUI (browsing Git history, diffs for pull requests, git stash operations, debugging).

I started with a base config (kickstart.nvim) after trying out LazyVim sometime back, but kept going back to VS Code for some of the tasks. So what I have now is not significantly better but I like it.
> I can say that kosher salt does help as well.

You many be interested in the video "When Should I Salt my Eggs? | Ask Kenji":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ6L1PVRjIk

Timing makes a difference.
The kaypro '84 variants can do 160x100 graphics (each character is a 2x4 block of pixels, and the screen is 80x25 characters).
A Field Guide to Team Dynamics and Conflict
2.5 year follow-up on buying the dip on pandemic stocks
Foreign hackers need to face real consequences
I have the Norwegian Warp 4.0 CD in a box in my parents' attic; I'll try to dig it out when I go to see them for Christmas.

IBM were so eager (understandably so) to gain market share that I simply called their Norwegian office and asked if I could have a few copies for installing in my high school's computer lab.
'Sure thing!' - days later I received a box full of retail copies along with a friendly letter suggesting I get in touch if I needed more!
I agree, but as someone with kids, the problem is that it has to compete with the entire environment. It's not just screens, although that's the biggest distraction factor.

There's a million more toys of every variety that are dirt cheap and that they will be given as gifts, or their friends will be given as gifts. And there's just such a huge amount of _actually great_ media to consume that's much more available, ie graphic novels and age appropriate books, way more higher quality kids show, etc etc. I'm not complaining, but a terminal environment is going to take a lot of careful planning in order to compete with an embarrassment of riches.

I still think PICO-8 did a pretty good job of capturing this; given their licensing, though, I wish they had released an actual console in addition to the fantasy console. It runs fine on a Pi Zero.
How about we leave the silk worms alone.
I loved my Palm Pixi.
I only ever use mine as monitor ("PC mode") and have a different device drive it. It would take some major market dysfunction to lose large monitors with this feature.
react uses those same web standards. It will not stop working either. You may not be able to upgrade to the latest React version assuming there are breaking changes, but the same can be said for the various frameworks people use to create web components.
Why is Apache DataFusion not there as an alternative?
For me, at least, flow is about the ability to focus on a problem and really see (almost touch) all of the pieces that are or should be. Flow is not just using an editor. If it were, it would be easy to force people into flow.
This will do nothing to prevent captcha solving sweatshops.

You will be dependent on AI to assess whether the human on camera is a real human, correct? Why won’t this become an arms race?

And yes, this would be enshittification.
lemons and le mans are very different things
Fast food causing people to eat badly reflects poorly on US society as a whole, but not sure if it reflects badly on the US healthcare system. Especially if the stats show that the US is good at keeping these people alive.
Note that the quotes in the article are abridged, the full emails are in the embedded PDF
I think it depends a lot on supply and demand dynamics for the specific role. If the company is having a hard time finding someone qualified and they see you as a good fit, they definitely might prefer to get someone working part time immediately compared to waiting who knows how long for another good candidate. This especially applies to startups under time pressure.

And then once you get in the door and show you’re a net positive, why not keep you? 15 hours per week of net positive is better than 0, even if they’d really prefer 40+.
The universe does not have a finite symbolic description. Whatever meaning you attribute to the symbols has no objective reality beyond how people interpret those symbols. Same is true for the arithmetic performed by neural networks to flash lights on the screen which people interpret as meaningful messages.
The ice cube would melt, it would just take longer, heat does transfer through vacuum via radiation. And no, you can't control the positions of the electrons to stop that radiation from happening, it is a quantum effect not something you can control.
Oh god this is vile. Phenomenal job.

If I can add a recommendation: the app search is far too fast. Add a random delay to the results after each letter is entered, and let them arrive out of order.
I mean, snake still has a lot of appeal.
Apple, like many companies, almost died multiple times. I think their success is deserved.
> The pro-web-component folks argue that WCs are standardised and will continue to work basically indefinitely regardless of the ebbs and flows of popular libraries, and because it's easier to progressively enhance and therefore more accessible. This is correct, and those points are valuable if what you seek is a way to add resilient islands of interactivity to your document.

I'm not sure that's even that correct. If you write code using browser APIs that are currently standardised, your code will work indefinitely, whether or not you use Web Components, React, or jQuery. Hell, we used to have jQuery-based components with the whole $(...).datepicker() system. Yes, it has its flaws, but it'll still work today if that's what your want from it.

Secondly, I don't think Web Components do work well from a progressive enhancement perspective. Progressive enhancement is starting from the bare minimum (i.e. just HTML and some styles, if that), and progressively adding features to that initial state that don't prevent any of the previously-added features from working. So you start with an HTML form skeleton, and you add some validation attributes, you add an event handler that calls fetch instead of reloading the page, you extend the address input so that it suggests real addresses - but the whole time, the HTML form is still there and it still works.

But without Javascript, Web Components are essentially empty holes that can't do anything. They don't progressively enhance anything. You can to a certain extent wrap existing elements, you can take the isomorphic approach described in this post, etc. But even when you do that, the browser will replace the contents of the element with the component's rendered output when the Javascript comes online, potentially deleting any user inputs if they'd interacted with the previous context. If your aim is true progressive enhancement, you should probably look in a different direction.

In fairness, I don't disagree that these claims are often made by Web Component proponents. But I think they're the wrong claims to be making. Web Components seem to be most useful if you're trying to isolate a complex stateful component written by one person or team and ended it into a complex stressful application written by a different person or team. They're essentially like lightweight iframes. This is really useful, and should be promoted more - but it's also quite a specific use.
All that matters is that it works and is easier or cheaper than existing cell based techniques. If it does, whats the harm then? This is why people are figuring this out on grant funded work after all, to see if it is in fact cheaper than existing techniques. This is how we have found many optimizations to lab work and other processes through basic research in the past.
I have a Samsung smart TV.

I removed all of the broadcast channels and it's now an excellent TV. The apps just work, it doesn't show me ads for anything, and I'm perfectly happy with it.

Am I just lucky to have found a good manufacturer?
Peoples sleep duration on average gradually and steadily declines from as much as 11-19 hours as an infant, down to 5-8 on average for 65+. There is no rapid sudden drop, and possibly no age where it stops going down either.

However, peoples individual need for sleep varies substantially on top of that, and can go up or down based on a lot of other factors. Medications, mental health, sleep apnea, diet, exercise, etc. can influence your need for sleep and how restful the sleep you get is.

If you're sleeping 12 hours and still feeling awful, there is likely something very wrong you need to look into. I'd go to a doctor and get a sleep study, but if nothing else you can get a logging pulse oximeter, and/or sleep tracker like an Oura ring. It is possible you are not really sleeping but having short waking events, and/or apnea events from sleep apnea that is keeping your sleep from being restful.
Well, one’s customers were his employees and the other was the world.
I close the door to keep the noise out, so simply closing the door is not enough.
I heard rumours of such content on the Internet as a teenager in the 1990's. I was never curious enough to seek it out, but there are plenty who were and plenty of those didn't understand how it would affect them. The latter group are the ones that we have to be concerned about. After all there is a world of difference between knowing of or seeing acts of violence and normalizing violence. Depending how far normalizing goes, it may end up being a net-negative for society as a whole.
Small discussion (2 points, 3 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424728
Thanks for sharing, very intersting!

I'm thinking the same wrt dropping Parquet.

I don't need concurrent writes, which seems to me about the only true caveat DuckDB would have.

Two other questions I am asking myself:

1) Is there a an upper file size limit in duckdb's native format where performance might degrade?

2) Are there significant performance degradations/ hard limits if I want to consolidate from X DuckDB's into a single one by programmatically attaching them all and pulling data in via a large `UNION ALL` query?

Or would you use something like Polars to query over N DuckDB's?
Superflares Erupt from Stars Like Our Sun Once Every 100 Years
Yes and goldfish doesn't pollute their environment nearly as much as we do!
> How do you sell yourself if you're more of a generalist like me?

I focus on small firms. They don't have the resources or amount of work to hire a full-time (or multiple full-time) person for each role. If you can do many roles well, they don't have to source/vet a super-part-time person for each role.

> leaving me time and flexibility to work on my own project.

I think there's a bit of give-and-take there. Early on I try to look extra hard for any opportunity to show I can be flexible if they need something, and give them no reason to doubt my ability to deliver. Pretty soon trust is established, and I have all the time and flexibility I need to work on other projects alongside.

> The key is that I can keep getting the work with consistency.

My experience is my clients often don't know beforehand how long-term/consistent the work will be. But if I'm reliable and helpful, it usually turns into a long-term relationship.

> How are you finding part-time work?

HN seeking freelancer thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring) got me a particularly nice gig, also meetups, and most of all staying in touch with people I've worked with before. For the latter two, I try to focus on quality over quantity. The handful of people who know me well, tend put me in touch with better matching gigs than the large group of superficial contacts.

Cold-emailing/cold-calling companies that look like they may be a good fit, also worked. Personally I find it a bit draining so I avoid cold-anything if I can.
I do wonder if some new tech adoption will actually be slowed due to the prevalence of LLM assisted coding?

That is - all these code assistants are going to be 10x as useful on spark/pandas as they would be on duckdb/polars, due to the age of the former and the continued rate of change in the latter.
Right, but it's the big semi-custom stuff that's hard to get. Distribution transformers (the things on poles) are a commodity.

Part of the problem with generator step-up transformers is that the input side generator specs are determined by the generator, and the output side transmission grid specs are determined by the grid operator. The transformer is the component stuck with the job of making those compatible. That's the kind of problem which leads to N x M variants being needed.
This is great. I've never seen anyone frame it before as a function of attainment rather than age, but it seems obvious now. I've long been part of the online FIRE community, and I think it shows up there as so many people reach their goals relatively early (by definition) and then endlessly discuss what they really want for a lifestyle or legacy, whether they should move the goal posts or work "one more year" or not, what really counts as "working" vs. "retirement," etc.
I wasn't trying to mock them - just a light-hearted joke.
I submitted this because I thought it was a good, high effort post, but I must admit I was surprised by the conclusion. In my experience, admittedly on different workloads, duckdb is both faster and easier to use than spark, and requires significantly less tuning and less complex infrastructure. I've been trying to transition as much as possible over to duckdb.

There are also some interesting points in the following podcast about ease of use and transactional capabilities of duckdb which are easy to overlook (you can skip the first 10 mins): https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zBdJurLfWBilCi6DQ2eYb

Of course, if you have truly massive data, you probably still need spark
It is interesting the world seems to think any company can simply break the contract and agreement others signed, while pretending they are still righteous.

I love this comment because it could apply to both sides of the case. However the dispute is a little more complex than most commentary implies.
If you are asking this question, probably the best answer for you is old fashioned sales/marketing.

Relatively high paying jobs usually fulfilled via network, which happens the way you described ("land in my lap").

You need to do marketing activities to extend your network, so more work lands in your lap.

In person works best if where you live has opportunities for this. Try chamber of commerce if there is one. They usually have lots of events for local business owners where you can meet with many potential customers.

Try cold emailing otherwise, it has the best ROI when done right.

Bonus points: This skills will be needed to get the project you are working on off the ground too.
Effects of step rate manipulation on joint mechanics during running (2011)
A generator trailer can be a swappable battery too.

I think this strategy works super well for electric semis.

I think it is being proposed for electric container shops as well.

Finally, I had hopes those ultra compact rotaries would get commercialized as rechargers for phevs and EV range extenders (I think there was a darpa project mentioned two years ago for a novel inside out rotary).

Honestly the emissions for a recharger that gets used maybe 5-15% of the miles driven by a phev aren't that big of a deal.

If it speeds hybrid and full electrification, and the engine runs in a pretty ideal rpm that is lower emission anyway, then civilization is coming out ahead.
It's probably easier for a machinist to measure a tenth of a millimeter than a thousandth of one, i.e a micrometer.
I had a similar thought. Better name is SVC16: Simple Virtual Computer
One could argue that the MMU is a prior art of sorts. We haven't really been dealing with direct physical memory addresses on most platforms for a very long time.
It’s intuitive, just in more dimensions. People have different ideas and abilities to imagine/think dimensions, but on top of that we rarely train them to do that.

I think that build up to tensor fields should be in every school program. If you can’t think of a field, you’re mathematically disabled and too many basic ideas about real world are inaccessible to you. This limits the ability to vote on a set of topics and participate in non-local decisions that involve systemic understanding. Same for formal logic and statistics.

Once familiarized with that, you can easily start thinking of nonlinearly signed areas, complex areas and areas simultaneously positive and negative by an attribute.
I managed to pay my internet bill and then quit, 5/5
Yes, Groq requires hundreds or thousands of chips to load an LLM because they didn't predict that LLMs would get as big as they are. The second generation chip can't come soon enough for them.