skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know Chris well enough from his writing and some conversations that I can vouch that "resume-driven development" is absolutely _not_ his motivation here.

Chris is one of the most thoughtful and insightful engineers I can think of. He has a love of actual programming, but also deeply cares about how programming and technology have an influence on us as programmers and the rest of the world.

Given that, this post is him expressing his interest in learning technologies because they look interesting and potentially useful, but also giving reasons to _keep_ learning over the course of your career rather than getting stuck in a rut.
Axios's whole thing is succinct articles.
2 is the factor, not the initial delay.
Every year, several people die from falling out of bed.
Stories like this make me a bit suspicious. It reads like some publicist - for the building owners maybe? or for elevator repair companies lobbying for something? - contacted the author or the website and said "I've got a great story for you, America is in an ELEVATOR CRISIS!" At first the writer yawned, but worked on this piece sporadically when there was nothing else to do, and several months later there was a slow news day, so might as well put this up.

I can understand saying there are some issues here, but "elevator crisis"? Yeah OK.
Joseph Dituri recently finished a 100 day stint underwater[1]. It's described as "It's basically like a really small RV" and "One of the things that has surprised me the most is how much I miss the sun"

Honestly, I think it's like most things, some people would love it, some will hate it, and a bunch will be able to tolerate it well enough.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/meet-...
Theoretically 10$ a day per person would get you some extravagant foods if you do it right and got the right tools(cap ex). UBI better take this blog into account when it happens
In the US, it's hard to be on such a budget that the energy cost of refrigeration is a major factor in food costs unless you have a really old fridge. A modern fridge probably costs less than $5 a month to operate. There are places with cheaper food and more expensive electricity though.
Would an EMAS even work for a gear-up aircraft? EMAS is designed to crush under the pressure of the gear. With all of that load distributed the the engines and along the centerline of the fuselage, would the pressure breach the material?
Every time the US Federal Reserve prints money, it's devaluing anyone that has cash or equivalents. Edit: that was not worded strong enough. It hurts everyone, but is unbelievably regressive against new savers and the impoverished.

An average person is unlikely to win this game. Our real returns are not 10% per year, they're closer to 4%. The 1%ers that hold top tier offices in this country voted themselves out of this game.
Inflation is a tricky measure to understand intuitively because, as a rate of change it can compound faster than you think, and, as measured it is basically always a lagging number. 9-10% inflation compounding over 3-4 years is going to be nearly 50% increases in prices, and 100% in something like 7 I think.

Official food inflation numbers put out by the US gov after Covid rocketed up to (a very unflattering) over 11% by mid 2022, and have only very recently gone back down to reasonable numbers, meaning you saw large increases in food prices that have only recently stopped increasing. (I don’t think the current administration would want to put out those numbers before the midterms if they were cooking the books).
This wouldn't be the first time a pilot killed the wrong engine:

"TransAsia Pilot Shut Off Wrong Engine Moments Before Crash" (2015)

Taiwan aviation officials on Tuesday released a detailed report of how the pilot mistakenly shut off the plane's only working engine after the other lost power. "Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle," the captain said shortly before crashing.

<https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonwells/transasia-pi...>

I seem to recall a Mentour Pilot episode (YouTube channel) describing either that or a similar incident.

Point being that when things start going very wrong you've got to actively think to prevent making them worse.
You can configure it by installing an iOS app and making an account. We're not talking about running your own.
personally I was looking at replacing laptop wifi cards with BE200s and a new wifi 7 router to get at least 2Gbps for local network file shares sans cables. People also seem to get 4Gbps with MLO enabled. but the 6GHz routers are very expensive right now
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture
if we just build one more frequency band lane...
The legal compliance issues are probably just as hard as establishing trust.
You’d rather ride a train for 20 hours instead of a 2 hour flight?
Covered starting at 8 minutes 30 seconds in the YouTube link I provided above. ~200 meters of anchor chain.
I recall one from long ago where there was a fuel storage tank off the end of the runway. I don't think there were any survivors.
Small discussion (26 points, 1 day ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42598948
dustin hoffman's best horror movie took place in this habitat
Weed eaters hack grass; next question.
The attempts to erase the colloquial meaning of "fish" are most likely motivated by the goal of protecting whales and dolphins from people, by trying to create a linguistic divide between cetaceans and the sort of fish that most of the world casually eats. That's why, more than any other colloquial use of the word fish, calling a whale a fish seems to get people riled up the most.

While the cause is noble, the means by which they're going about it is wrong. It's cultural and linguistic vandalism. Quintessential wokism.
It’s just Axios’ (annoying) house style. All their articles are like this.
The DCO does let someone who doesn't own a piece of code to contribute it to a project, they just have to be certain that it is licensed under the license it says it is licensed under.
That’s not the target audience.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/link

> Windows 365 Link is for organizations that have desk-based workers and are using, or are considering using, Windows 365. Windows 365 Link is well suited for enabling secure productivity in shared workspaces such as hot desks, call centers, reception desks, labs, and more.

And on top of that it’s a desktop computer. There are plenty of mini PC’s for about the same price that are more powerful and not locked down.
The way your comment just assumes your way is the right way does very accurately capture the problem though perhaps not in the way you intended.

Edit: and before I get strawmanned I feel I should mention that I say this as someone who has "fire up the guillotines" level hate for zoning.
My state doesn't have inspections - and according to this article only 15 do. So is this really a big deal?
Apple squandered the Holy Grail
ccc camp et al always have a 3G tower built on the older version of this. I'm no radio person but it's awesome to get a conf sim card and hack away
I was thinking of Peter Watts' Starfish series, myself - equally horrifying, if not more so.
are they exporting fentanyl to the us? do you have a source?
Ask HN: What data model are you using for RAG prototyping?
How are you organizing your data for your RAG applications? I've searched all over and have found tons of tutorials about how the tech stack works, but very little about how the data is actually stored. I don't want to just create an application that can give an answer, I want something I can use to evaluate my progress as I improve my prompts and retrievals.

This is the kind of stuff that I think needs to be stored:
- Prompt templates (i.e., versioning my prompts)
- Final inputs to and outputs from the LLM provider (and associated metadata)
- Chunks of all my documents to be used in RAG
- The chunks that were retrieved for a given prompt, so that I can evaluate the performance of the retrieval step
- Conversations (or chains?) for when there might be multiple requests sent to an LLM for a given "question"
- Experiments. This is for the purposes of evaluation. It would associate an experiment ID with a series of inputs/outputs for an evaluation set of questions.

I can't be the first person to hit this issue. I started off with a simple SQLite database with a handful of tables, and now that I'm going to be incorporating RAG into the application (and probably agentic stuff soon), I really want to leverage someone else's learning so I don't rediscover all the same mistakes.
Save more of those big SWE paychecks knowing that doomsday is coming.

It’s not, obviously, but I wouldn’t want to be in the bottom 50% … you can end up being the person who fixes the LLM-generated code but that’s awful.

Just like there are lots of layoffs now, but also many areas of new growth, it’s hard to imagine how the opportunities will evaporate.

Stay flexible and don’t drink the “end of the dev” kool-aid. Don’t paint yourself into a corner - especially not a corner that is ripe for LLM-efficiency takeover.
When I hear comments like this, I'm always curious what kind of work the commenter does. None of what I do is predictable enough that a project manager could even come up with a good enough prompt. I'm frequently evaluating open-source code to see if it meets our needs, patching it and submitting fixes upstream if it's close, or writing something custom if it's not (and then potentially open-sourcing that, if it's useful). AI can't do any of that.
We did a fintech startup and used the ever-so-hip-at-the-time .co TLD and several of our client banks would drop inbound emails from us by default, even as a reply-to email. It created some havoc with our sales process until we figured it out and did a quick name pivot.

"never again" -- are .com TLD registrations "enormous" amounts? I think mine are all in the 15 dollar/yr range. You make me think I should go look :)
I went down the music track around that age, and it was the gateway into daily routine, meditation, delayed gratification and a community similar to software (at least back in the day) that understands and embraces neurodivergence. It's now this life-long cornerstone that brings me deep joy and stability when things are too hard. It was probably one of the first places where I really felt seen by adults and found peers that got me.
> "Everyone is born needing an elevator, and if they're lucky they die needing one too," says Stephen Smith

I cannot understand what this could mean.

> the U.S. would benefit from federal elevator standards

What would the constitutional basis for those be?
Curious, why the non-async requirement?
The one use case I’ve found LLMs excel at is using a new library. Even if it gets a lot of the API wrong, figuring out most of the setup / boilerplate is useful.
>I'm often unconvinced with arguments like "marketing is about fulfilling a customer's needs" or "adding efficiency to the market".

This product is actually an ideal case for marketing, because most people weren't aware that a product like this existed. The best ads notify you about something you genuinely want to buy.

What you're really complaining about is astroturfing, not marketing.

The more dubious sort of marketing is Coca-Cola style marketing, where people already know that the product exists, and the ad just makes them feel vaguely good about it. But I suspect even this sort of marketing is surprisingly beneficial, because it incentivizes companies to make quality products: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578277

My argument for Coca-Cola style brand marketing would go something like:

It's very silly to invest $billions in brand awareness and building market share, if your product is junk and customers will eventually find out. Marketing spend could be seen as the "peacock's tail" of the business world -- a credible signal that the company stands by their product.

If I see an ad for Acme Corp, it's statistical evidence that Acme won an auction for that slot against other players in its industry. Acme won the auction because it was able to bid more. It was able to bid more because it has better lifetime value per customer, i.e. it does a better job of satisfying customer needs.

There are a lot of old consumer brands, and there are a lot of brands known for junk, but there aren't a lot of old consumer brands that are known for junk.
Alright, so we have motive, means, and opportunity. Seems fairly likely it was deliberate.
The GPLv2 requires allowing installation of modified code too:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
If nothing else, the fact that many people write anything with ink and brush helps to sustain the calligraphy culture. Nowadays, to many (if not most) of them the new year kakizome ritual is the only occasion they practice brush calligraphy in an entire year.
related in past two days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584088

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587259
I was surprised at $0.99/lb for asparagus. My local Walmart has it for around $6/lb.
I'd never call myself a chef but I'm something of a gourmand and do love cooking. Even if it's mediocre food seems to taste better when you make it yourself :D. I also read someplace that people with desk jobs and busy minds should have a hobby that produces tangible results and involves working with your hands and cooking fits the bill perfectly. As a matter of fact I just finished meal prepping for this coming week and made:

- Natto on rice with scallions, egg, and kimchi

- Chicken curry with daal and spicy raita

- Chicken fajitas with refried beans

- Hummus and carrots

I spent ~$50 for everything delivered via Instacart not counting spices and staples like rice and lentils and I live in southern California... not as cheap as this gentleman but not too shabby all things considered. I need to start cataloguing my recipes so that I can make them more repeatable and share them easily with friends when they ask.
Not much point in living if you’re that incapacitated.
Lying Virtual Eyes
I love it! I will take a closer look at some stage.

I have a full set of the Burger King promo figures still in the plastic which I just recently pulled out of storage box to show my young son.
How does archive.is bypass the paywall?
This is why it's so important for elderly people to prevent sarcopenia by eating a high protein diet and engaging in frequent, hard resistance training. Many of them just let themselves waste away but in most cases this can be prevented.
I liked the Leptos JSX syntax and I feel like Dioxus is addressing a different problem. Dioxus specifically markets itself as a tool for universal app development. I looked at it, Perseus, Askama + JS, etc, but ultimately thought Leptos seemed like the best to dive in with.

For charts and plots -- I was thinking about the same thing today, actually! I've usually done those manually with SVG and JS. I was wanting a framework, and spent 30 minutes or so today looking at tools to use R diagrams on the web [0]. Also thought a little bit about making my own library. There are existing libraries like Plotters that should plug and play with Leptos just fine [1], but I haven't tried any yet.

[0]: https://m-clark.github.io/webR/visualization.html

[1]: https://docs.rs/plotters/latest/plotters/
Rice and beans - been my staple for most of my life - isn't too much more than this. Two cup dried rice + two can beans is around $4 and that is generally enough for me. Although it is much better with a few eggs and some hot sauce or salsa as well.
The police murdered a man, and if we were to pretend we didn't have a multi-tiered justice system, every officer could get charged with murder too, as they were accomplices during the act.

But of course nothing will change because they only killed a normal person.
I certainly did consider it, and even told them as much. Ultimately though, I tried to imagine what it would feel like if I asked a friend to do something to my car, he agreed, then did something completely different because "it's better"; it might be, but I'd kind of resent it on principle. :/

I did make sure to mention that the chromebook they had at home, as well as the smartphone they were using, were both technically (kind of) Linux, which threw them for a loop! Haha. :) I try to "plant seeds" and watch if any trust/interest grows naturally with time.
Bubbles are defined by delusional speculation. The beliefs are the motivation; there's no reason.
The best, any maybe only, way is to build things you think are interesting in the technology you want to learn.

Interested in learning the cloud and immutable operating-systems? Write the infrastructure-as-code to deploy a Minecraft server on Fedora CoreOS to Azure.

Interested in learning C#? Build Flappy Bird using Monogame.

Interested in learning how the networking stack works? Write your own TCP client.

Interested in data analysis? Create dashboards to track your budget using Streamlit, Python, and Pandas.

etc

As Bob Ross said, "Talent is pursued interest".
Would suggest to multiply the spend by 20 to account for the recent inflation and to maintain good health … having to see a doctor instantly skyrockets the spend.
I agree with you.

I’ve been using Cursor for a month or two, as it’s a great speedup and a big step forward in DX. I’ve also been periodically browsing r/cursor, to see if I can pick up any workflow tips. I can see a clear distinction between fellow devs using it as a powerful coding tool (as intended), and the no-code folks trying to use it as an application generator.

A few of the latter have some success and showcase the things they’ve built, but the majority who post on the subreddit vent similar frustrations :

- Trying to build an app one tab press at a time without understanding the code, so unable to fix inevitable problems when chat is unable to.

- Relying heavily on the Composer or Agent features, which sometimes merrily erases chunks of code or entire files. Unable to recover work because unaware of Local History or VCS.

- Running out of fast response credits because 500 are bundled per month. The ideal workflow is to give harder things to Claude or O1, and delegate easier things to gpt4o-mini (which is unmetered). But that only helps if you know which tasks are harder or easier.
Wait, we need to know the statistics of people who died by reading alarming statistics.
Any precedent for language agnostic behavior (I genuinely don’t know)? Would be keen to have a common interface that languages implement into their standard libraries or keywords
The most popular rust web frameworks are Async, and I don't enjoy Async code. (Nothing original here; standard coloring/ergonomics concerns)
That is possible, SFC member projects get that service, as well as Linux, Debian and probably other projects too. Copyright transfer isn't needed for that, there is the option of signing enforcement agreements instead.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/
Raising diet is very important. Eating fast foods and drinking sodas daily will make a teeanger exhibit ADHD type symptoms. Many people do not think that caffiene is in colas, or energy drinks and etc. Poor diet has become so normalized that a doctor might not even ask about it.
The reason he touched down halfway down the runway could have been because the gear was up. If the gear was down, he would have touched down much earlier. He may not have known the gear was up, or did not account for the gear being up in his approach.
These were my thoughts exactly. Even if they lost all engines/power/hydraulics they would have had 8 mins to start up the APU so gear and flaps wouldn't have been an issue and clearly they still had some control. Did they try to go around and lose all power on the go? Gear up landings do happen in GA but I can't think of the last commercial aviation gear up landing. There will probably be a lot of useful things coming out of this. Changing design and placement of structures at the end of runways probably isn't a big one though.
Agreed. If the state can get away with your murder because you defended yourself during a home invasion, what is the purpose of the 2nd?
Er, yeah, about that.

Prior to Facebook and pals getting really big and the money rolling in, pretty much every software developer I knew was someone who got into computing as an early teen.

My parents got an old hand me down computer and I was writing C before we even got dial-up internet.
> Replicating research is already difficult. Finding quality research under the publish first approach will be like trying to find a needle in a haystack and I fear considerable research will be wasted on dead ends.

I don't think I ever heard anyone complain that eg Arxiv makes replicating research harder?
That means you have to keep them in the queue until the next time the client connects, which could be a very long time
I think we are far, far, far away from LLMs taking away engineering jobs.
Hmm. Doubt.

Software is above all, formally defining a problem.

The indie game scene is already huge, and while AI will increase developer productivity, and to a lesser extent, lower the bar to entry to “professional” software development, lowering that bar is not going to magically make people good at defining problems.
OTEL perhaps
Some time ago I saw a list of all (i'm not in construcion so I only assume it was all) the different options. many people have innovated many different ways to dig while minizing surface impact. For my purposes if you eventually dig down I consider them all cut and cover - but of course if you are in construction the differences matter. For that matter even to me chose matter - but only as details that we need to argee on before starting work.
It doesn't seam open source?

> The LTE/NR eNodeB/gNodeB software is commercialized by Amarisoft.

> A UE simulator is now available. It simulates hundreds of terminals sharing the same antenna. It uses the same hardware configuration as the LTE eNodeB.

> An embebbed NB-IoT modem based on Amarisoft UE software.
Or a simpler explanation, China owns most / lots of Aus companies, from raw material to farm lands.
Sealab 2025?
I hope you appreciate the irony of your white-hot rage against framing, and the contrast of you saying:

> this is the new normal even if it’s only “because we say so”, that when an other option is presented, and one isn’t ordered to “accept this because…” it resonates.

> Surely you realize this.

Why aren't you just stating the facts and letting parent decide? I don't think you are against providing relevant context (i.e. "framing"), you just have a bee in a bonnet about ... something - journalism as practiced today perhaps, but that has very little to to with the topic at thr root if the thread - until you reframed the discussion to be about journalism.
Sounds like the author got stuck in an elevator and decided to kill time by writing about elevators on their phone.
Just got back from the grocery store and still finding it incredible the prices people are apparently willing to pay for stuff. Especially all the incredibly overpriced single use disposably packaged food. Is everyone rich or just no one plans to have any money in the future?
does anyone really believe they are going to just promote people who don’t work from home instead of by merit?
As a related anecdote.
On the phone with amazon refund department I was told to wait for a callback. Got a callback from a number that i obviously didn't get to vet. Then on that call they asked for my email address to email me an Amazon sign in page.

I almost just hung-up because you have the rep urging you to do it and I'm trying to vet that every link is what it says it is before I enter any Amazon info. The cookies from my already signed in session did not apply to thia SSO either. Ended up working out in the end.

I could not believe they have the same flow as the scammers do. This is the same company that regularily sends out warning emails about phishing to me. Go figure.