skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m local to Boston and I’ve had great experience with all of the co-ops I’ve worked with from Northeastern. I’ve worked with them across many fields (ME, EE, and CS) and they have been almost uniformly great to work with.

They have all had some exposure to real world engineering practices in their respective disciplines’ teaching tracks.

They have to do coops to graduate, so you have them to work with for six months instead of ten weeks.

They are all eager to do real work and ship real stuff, and they understand quickly how to integrate into a team to do that. I don’t know if this is a selective property of Northeastern’s culture or something they instill in their students, but I really like it.

Worked with university interns before who are clearly on an industry pit stop en route to a postgraduate program and subsequent career as a corduroy elbowed academic. Thanks for playing, you’re a wonderful little creature, but we aren’t motivated to do the same things with our time. They may play the same game I do, but they’ve chosen a different character arc. They’re journeyman wizards building an arcana and looking for a tower. I’m a dwarf foreman looking to dig out the next Moria.

Love the Northeastern crowd. I’d put them as equivalent to or better than their rodent ringed counterparts from the other side of the Charles river.
Ask HN: How Do You Manage and Retrieve Knowledge from What You Read?
Hi,

I'm curious about how you all manage the knowledge you acquire from reading various sources, such as online articles, books, and other materials. Often, I find myself recalling something insightful I read months ago but struggle to locate the exact source or details.

What strategies or tools do you use to organize and retrieve information efficiently? Do you rely on note-taking apps, bookmarking systems, or something else entirely? How do you ensure that valuable insights are easily accessible when you need them?

Looking forward to hearing your approaches and any recommendations you might have!
SAF production is in direct competition against food production for water and space. They also generate a lot of CO2e because moving stuff long distance and/or via air require a lot of energy. SAF didn’t change anything here. I’m sure the claimed 85% CO2 reduction can be "proved" by analyzing choosen aspect while ignoring others. I really trust the willingness of the executives at work but understand they’re biased to continue A.business B.lifestyle. Most executives are over optimistic of what they’re doing because that’s a good think for their business. I don’t blame.
I don't know the current state of affairs. Last time I worked on ISO20022 (almost 10 years ago), our system were doing a 1-to-1 mapping from ISO8583, keeping every bit of unmaintable shit one could imagine
Currently, it generates ideas based on recipient age, interests and occasion then search these ideas on amazon and suggest some products based on these ideas.
I’m fully invested in Nix/Home Manager, and I use YADM to manage the nix files and other random stuff that isn’t in Home Manager yet or doesn’t fit.

IMO it’s a good fit to use them together. YADM lets me do things like easily setting per-host configurations, encrypting secret files, etc.

My new host setup is to use YADM to pull my dot files, then install nix and run home-manager to install everything else. YADM even supports bootstrapping to automate that for me
Random audits, like the IRS does.
Harbor freight also has much more consistent quality and no fake name brand items. It’s funny because they used to be synonymous with low quality- but now they seem to have the highest quality tools you can easily buy as a consumer.
Thank you so much. I will do it.
Thank you for your insightful comment. You’ve clearly thought about this more than the business who decided to make the camera, and your logic is impeccable.
In this context

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/gbs-longest-linear-wal...

it means "ruler straight line on standard UK ordance survey map projection" ie. a straight line on a specifically parameterised Modified Transverse Mercator projection.

I'll leave the fun of working backwards from that to the reader, fun adventures include "Do they use WGS84 or do they still use whatever reference ellipsoid was current in the UK just after the end of WWII?"
> They are surely in direct control of weapons somewhere.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreak-llm

Here's some guy getting toasted by a flame-throwing robot dog by saying "bark" at it: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxmKAEK_BnLIMjyRL7l6j_ECwNEms...

(The Thermonator: https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/ they also sell flame-throwing drones because who wouldn't want that in the wrong hands)
> The thing I say about all of them is...what's the value in you having better tracking?

Same reason I weigh myself almost every day. If there are changes or I have some other issue I can go back over the data with my doctor.
It has been surprising to me for years that people put up with this, I find it really terrible as a shopping experience. Like shopping in the worst dollar store you’ve ever been in that’s also the size of a city and loaded with ads, except you can’t actually touch the products or smell the pervasive scent of cheap plastic while you browse. And they want you to pay a subscription!

Shopping from retailers that employ actual buyers feels like a real upgrade.
> I thought 'they' is always plural?

You see someone two blocks away doing something unusual and say, "what are they doing?"
I am adding a blog post, shared on HN a couple months ago, that show an architectural cross section of the city.

https://cohost.org/belarius/post/6677850-architectural-cross

(I am not the author of the blog, nor the original poster, but I just want to share the link because I found this incredibly cool)
You seem to not have read/understood OP's problems. He stated mechanical switches are not what he wants. Now if you can suggest switches with a membrane feel that would be helpful - I'm not aware of any but I don't know everything.
It can't be used as a literal build dependency [0], no. However, the fact that your crates uses SNAFU should [1] be completely hidden from your users. From the outside, you just return a regular enum or struct as your error type. If you were to look at the symbols in the resulting binary, I would expect that you could see references to the trait method `snafu::ResultExt::context` (and similar functions across similar types) depending on how well the code was inlined. If you use other features like `snafu::Location` or `snafu::Report`, those would definitely show up.

You don't have to use the macros, no. When you define your error type, you can mark a field as `#[snafu(implicit)]` [2]. When the error is generated, that field will be implicitly generated via a trait method. The two types this is available for are backtraces and locations, but you could create your own implementations such as grabbing the current timestamp or a HTTP request ID.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-depende...

[1]: There's one tiny leak I'm aware of, which is that your error type will implement the `snafu::ErrorCompat` trait, which is just a light polyfill for some features not present on the standard library's `Error` trait. It's a slow-burn goal to remove this at some point, likely when the error "provider API" stabilizes.

[2]: https://docs.rs/snafu/latest/snafu/derive.Snafu.html#control...
It was a response to the approach of carefully planning and specifying every aspect of the software up-front.

The problem with that "waterfall" approach is that, in the real world, we often work in fast moving/evolving problem domains, or domains where we discover more as we build. Changing requirements are disastrous to the waterfall approach and can kill projects easily.

If we're to be pragmatic at all, we need some flexibility/adaptability in the process.
It funny, because one of the main tenets of Agile was that developers should talk to the customer all the time, differently from Waterfall.

Are modern "Agile" shops not allowing developers to talk to the customers? That's the only Agile principle that Scrum didn't dare destroy.
It'd be interesting to learn more about how this line was identified - was it by eye, or is there some neat analysis that was (or could be) performed to find it?
Fartcoin hits $1B market cap
Looks like they no longer get the tip. This is what I see:

As of December 10, 2024, we have received more than 2 million "thank yous,” concluding the promotion offering $5 per "thank you" to eligible drivers. You can continue to thank your drivers and we will share your appreciation with them.
I have plan to add an input field so you can input your preferences.
Can you please elaborate more about how you would like to instruct it?
Your feedback is an appreciation for me to keep working on this project.
> "4D dynamical worlds"

Its a feature of that field of science. I'm currently working in a lab that is doing bunch of things that in papers are described $adjective-AI. In practice its just a slightly hyped, but vaguely agreed upon by consensus in weird science paper english term, or set of terms. (in the same way that guassian splats and totally just point clouds with efficient alpha blending[only slightly more complex, please don't just take my word for it])

You probably understand what this term is meant to describe, but to spell it out gives a bit of insight into _why_ its got such a shite name.

o "4d": because its doing things over time. Normally thats a static scene with a camera flying through it (3D). when you have stuff other than the camera moving, you get an extra dimension, hence 4D.

o "dynamical" (god I hate this) dynamic means that objects in the video are moving around. So you can just used the multiple camera locations to build up a single view of an object or room, you need to account for movement of things in the scene.

o "worlds" to highlight that its not just one room being re-used over and over, its a generator (well its not, but thats for another post) of diverse scenes that can represent many locations around the world.
Your ideas of how the world work are just patently false. A lot of local farms use large amounts of plastic everyday, its quite common to use plastic sheets to cover the ground when planting. You think you would know they are just dumping it into the pit on their land?

Global trade is one of the best things to happen to the world, it has improved the lives of many. All your advocating for is going back to a time which you did not live it but you romanticize. I suspect it was not as romantic as you make it out to be.
It's obviously going to get cheaper, but rumor is the second generation will only get the price down to about $2000 which is still well above the "lol nope" threshold for most people. Third times the charm?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/13/apple-might-release-a-2000...
The only place I see people saying y'all can be singular is nonsoutherners on the internet erroneously trying to explain why people say all y'all. I've never seen that in Hollywood even you got any examples?
For the most part these days, Amazon seems like a fast way to ship goods from Alibaba in the one to two day time frame.

For a lot of other stuff, it feels like they've lost their edge on price and shipping.

Often my main reason for using Amazon is that it reduces the friction associated with buying for more retailers. For example worrying about data breaches, being put on spam email lists, etc.
And rock music aesthetics.

https://theperpetualmotionmachine.bandcamp.com/album/gamblin...
Show HN: Fix YouTube's annoying auto-dubbed videos with one click
Hey HN!

I got frustrated with YouTube constantly forcing dubbed audio tracks on me. Since there's no built-in option to default to original audio, I built a Chrome extension to solve this. It automatically switches any video to its original audio track, no matter where you are. No setup needed - just install and forget it.

This is perfect if you're tired of YouTube pushing dubbed content on you.

Try it out: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-original-au...

I would love to hear your feedback!
There are plenty of software engineers but many of them may not be qualified for the currently open jobs. So, yes, there are open jobs and there are unhired americans but programs like H1-b make even more highly talented pool of people available which in turn increases innovation and productivity in economy.

So, it's not just a plain numbers game, it's more about innovation, productivity, talent pools and of course, capitalism.
> What filmmaker is going to put in all this effort and spend $30K to shoot videos

Pornographers
Sir, your comment is poetry. I commend you.
Very much incomprehensible, not only for outer celestial objects since we most probably will never fully discover our own physical earth planet or human body, let alone our thinking brain and our elusive consciousness.

Andromedia the closest galaxy to Milky Way (MW) is estimated to have one trillion stars while MW itself is estimated to have 250 billions. God really knows how many of them really exist and who's counting anyway? It's a blind faith at its worst to pretend we know the numbers since it's most likely that the earth and its sun bound astronomers (including the farthest distance ever Voyager spacecraft) are several orders of magnitudes off the marks.

It's also estimated that's more than a trillion number of stars inside the two galaxies (Andromeda and MW), not number of planets, not even the number of moons (the very title of this HN post).

Overall it's also estimated that there's more than a trillion number of galaxies (not stars) inside our universe.

To make matter even more complicated, all of these celestial objects are moving in very high speed relative to each others and none is static. These galaxy are millions or billions light years away from earth and by the time their EM signals has reached earth, they probably have already dissappeared or morphed into something else.

How about non observable part of the universe?

How about other parallel universes that physicists claim to exist?

My personal conclusion to this mind boggling facts is that to assume and conclude there is only earth that has living creatures is very much premature and naive.
takes time -- how long are we talking about here?

Vision Pro has been released for near a year now. I don't think it got the traction that's anywhere close to the hype when it was first announced. Not even among VR enthusiasts, let alone the mass consumer market.

There is an Apple Store near where I live. When I walk by it, 9 out of 10 times there is nobody around the Vision Pro booth, when many people are playing with iPhones and iPads.
My mortgage is meaningful too
> The cleanliness and hygiene controls along the way are going to be lesser. It's not like it's being made in a food factory.

Sincere question: isn't "hygiene" usually referring only to bacteria, viruses and other organic contamination? Don't get me wrong, I'm with you that I'd worry about contamination with all kinds of other toxic stuff.
New calculation confirms Standard Model of particle physics
FAM was a (not so successful) attempt to standardise some existing usage
Time probably
It is coming from database, where I have added many lists based on some common interests and recipients so if someone doesn't sure about his/her recipient, they may find a helpful list in explore ideas section.
The Boomer Index Gets Interesting
Funnily enough I wanted to order three books for Christmas yesterday and for the first time ever got a server error with broken HTML that wiped out my shopping cart. Umm... wasn't that exactly what Amazon was famous for as it supposedly would never happen?

Crazy how fast the enshittification seems to go nowadays. Ordered on a different site without problems.
I don't like the simulation idea --- that's a very different story, see Vernor Vinge's novella "The Cookie Monster" or the short story "Lena":

https://qntm.org/lena

There was so much effort to do things biologically, that that needs to be an aspect of the story. Another author, more grounded who also wrote about such ideas was Hal Clement, see his short stories, "The Mechanic" and "Raindrop" (which are still relevant today).
My then-girlfriend and I, kicking it O'Reilly style, 1996: https://i.imgur.com/PPmZs9P.jpeg
> It's national or international products, just like on Amazon.

Yup. If you go to a souvenir store in a remote town (say Kiruna, Sweden), you will typically find local themed products manufactured in China.
You must have moved before you started speaking. But nice to see people in the thread recognizing it's not just Texas

Y'all is plural. All y'all is short for all of y'all.
Hooray for Texas!

"Y'all" didn't originate in Texas. Or, rather, nobody's really sure where it started, but it definitely isn't unique to Texas and more likely came from the Deep South.
It's either STRANGE DAYS or EXISTENZ - maybe BRAINSTORM but that was early 80s
If you want to chain 3 calls and short circuit on the first error, don't use Go. I like explicit code without magic that I can't see.

for a <- a()
b <- b() {
...
}

I don't know what is happening there. Is it summing up errors? Is if short circuiting? Does it have error handling? Is it async? Is it a monad stack with transformers? That code could mean anything. Good luck coming back to that code after six months. I think the Sum type solution focuses on the happy path, the Go solution assumes you need to focus on the things that go wrong.

Additionally you have that nasty dependency of the Result type of a() to b() to make it work. And I've spent hours creating the right Transformer stack to compose more than two monad types like Result, Future and IO.
> The great pseudoscience of this 'computer science' thinking

You spelled Nobel-level science wrong.

Most of Levin work is not easy to understand or appreciate. Our university lab has been doing cooperative intelligence for decades. The insight in some of his work is revolutionary. He shows why randomness is much more intelligent then most scientist think.
No, you are all wrong. I had this idea first!! When I was 8.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-servi...
> until you get into the millions of records per second level, you're almost never benefited

Yeah, but the software landscape is very diverse.

On my job (CAM/CAE) I often handle data structures with gigabytes of data. Worse, unlike e.g. multimedia frameworks many algorithms operating on these numbers are global i.e. can’t be represented as a pipeline which splits data into independent chunks and processes them sequentially.

Making performance critical functions twice as fast might saves hours of time for a single end user in a single day.
It couldn't possibly be that the H1-B's that his company is hiring are bad, because his company is trying to save a buck by abusing the system, because that never happens.
Many big companies are using GitHub Enterprise Server or some other self-hosted version control.

GitHub Copilot works fine with these; just authenticate against github.com first
I meant deeper than crust.
> pushing humans a little more to care about errors

This is 100% a reason that I like using SNAFU. The term I use for this is a "semantic stack trace" — a lot of the time, the person experiencing the error doesn't care that it occurred in "foo.rs" or "fn bar()" or "line 123". Instead, they care what the program is trying to do ("open the configuration file", "download the update file").

When I'm putting effort into my errors, I basically never use `snafu::Location` or `snafu::Backtrace`. My error stacks should always be unique — any stack can exactly point to a trace through my program.
I've stayed there about half a year ago. [0] Pretty interesting place, although not nearly as dystopian as you describe it! No cockroaches or anything, but ground level is very noisy, and elevator queues are pretty bad.

[0]: If you want to give it a try, open up any hotel booking website and sort by price – pretty much anything under $25 is in the Mansions.
It has everything to do with CU. They haven't fixed the loopholes because of CU.

The association thing is a red herring. Pretty much every other country in the world has a reasonable solution to the problem. If the limit is $2000 you can spend $2000 on your own or an organization can spend $2000 on behalf of you, or some mix.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/comments/1hhips1/amazon_te...

Interesting to see discussion on Reddit from r/AmazonFC are pretty negative , wonder if these are genuine employees comment for PR team hired by Amazon
This is just brain-draining the rest of the world for the short-term boosting of some myopic statistics. This isn't going to improve the employability of median-intelligence people, and in the long run, it's going to exacerbate the same problem, but now globally.
They want top tier talent to work on crappy quality products/code

Meaning people who can unravel all the crap they have to maintain but with no agency to enact any sort of long term fix.

Plenty of this kind of work going around, the older the codebase is the less willing people are to work on it. Soon good engineers don't want to anymore and mid engineers are not good enough to even tweak it. Leaving the only lever these companies can pull being salary and they can't compete with FAANG on that.

Reminds me of those anecdotes you hear from Oracle and ASML engineers. The difference there is that they can still use the salary lever.
Only if you can't determine gender. Otherwise, you'd be "what is she/he doing?"

It's usually clear from context. How often do you look two blocks away and see a group of unrelated individuals doing different things to the point "what are they doing" is unclear? Can't say I've ever run into that in my 48 years.
Thanks for the feedback! You're absolutely right, hobby related gifts can be tricky, especially for enthusiasts who have specific preferences. I'll work on refining the algorithm to focus on more universally appreciated gifts. Open to more ideas on improving the approach!
Kowloon Walled City was very neat. If you want to get a feel for what it was like, there's a German language documentary from 1988 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9PZ05NLDww) that was filmed inside of it. This essay, however is pompous word salad of the worst type.
It's one thing if you know the optimal (or at least approaching it) solution, and deliberately use something else for other reasons. At least thought went into it.

I'm not upset at this simply for purity's sake; it directly impacts me in my day-to-day job. A hundred devs individually decide that good enough is good enough (deliberately or otherwise), and suddenly my infrastructure is dealing with traffic and query patterns it shouldn't have to, and then I have to explain what network bandwidth limits are, and why it's absurd that we hit them in the first place.

In general, what I'm railing against is the continued push towards simplification and abstraction, while not requiring the understanding of what lies beneath. The hyperscalers certainly aren't trying to foster that attitude in-house – someone has to build the abstractions in the first place, after all, and keep datacenters humming. Yet they're happily shoveling it out, because it's a win-win for them: fewer people have the skills necessary to compete (or even to simply not use their services), and more people are able to use their services.
American cops pass out when they see a salt crystal thinking it’s fentanyl. Even the ones who didn’t touch it. Pouring a bunch of it in liquid form onto unprotected skin in a lab does nothing. Draw conclusions accordingly.