skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda. So first i went for a standalone application back than to use it as storage/database. This part is archived now. it was released under:
https://github.com/voodooEntity/slingshotdb

At this point i think its important to mention that its nativly an in-memory graph database/storage.

At some point (4-5 years ago) i decided to change the way i handle it. Since im using the storage in many private projects, and there was no real traction (while also maintaining a database is quite some work) i decided i gonne change the way i handle it away from a standalone database to a library that works as an in-memory graph storage.

Also i added a custom query language including builder (the queries are 100% json compatible so you can in theory build queries from whatever language and transmit it via json.

The library is released under : https://github.com/voodooEntity/gits

Currently im completly reworking the query parser but since this is a privat project and im the only maintainer it may take some to to finish it. The update will takle some smaller bugs in the query parser that can occur on very complex nested queries and also will optimize query speeds. I cant provide a date when the update will occure i only can say it will (because i need it myself).

Finally said: The strength of gits is to be very fast (hence in memory handling) and easy to use from golang. Its threadsafe by default.
That you'd use a tool or a language to help you?
This is a very silly take on the article which is an informative history of KPI and OKRs and the back story to why G.M's model of looser structure, outcomes driven work was adopted at scale. I am fascinated by this history, and I would love this kind of topic to be discussed, and the work of Robert McNamara to be discussed.

It makes substantive points. You're using ad hominem to try and push back on a legitemate debate. Musk tried to change the agenda of federal government structural reporting and used key terms from the OKR model. Thats huge. Normally it would be done by a directive after consideration. it was simply dropped into the stream via X, not even via a formal communications structure, and without notice.

It is also remarkable that the bureaux and departments have included ones which pushed back at the top, and that Musk himself had to re-state his abundendly clear (not) statement, to clarify what he expected. This does not speak of a well understood communications team behind the message. Have you known a statement of this importance to have to be clarified at least TWICE, in the delivery because of the mis-understanding?

Seriously. You are just wrong to state this is a machine response, or as valueless as a machine response. It's not.

X is not, should not be a US government public policy communications channel to staff. Thats insane.
I have 15 years of freelancing following 25 years working for big companies, including tech companies.

> I’ve asked both Claude and ChatGPT, and they agree that finding contracts in the range of $150–$200 per hour should be realistic.

Not reliable sources. I would call those rates realistic for established freelancers with in-demand skills, extensive business domain expertise, and a network of professional contacts. Rates vary a lot by city/region, the business sector, and supply and demand. Rates have little to do with what you describe as a “skill set.”

> What are the best ways to find $200/hour contracts? Do companies typically post these, or is it more about networking?

Mostly word of mouth and referrals. Freelancers in that price range get work by reputation. The gigs you find online — Upwork and Fiverr — I call piecework. Race to the bottom on price, too many people chasing the gigs, too much non-billable time, difficult to build long-term relationships.

> how did you find your first clients, and what advice do you have for making the switch?

Companies I used to work for, former colleagues and their professional contacts. I signed on with an agency ten years ago, they take care of the marketing and admin now. Maybe start with that kind of arrangement.
Science is the product of philosophical inquiry if you ask philosophers.

Just like the Internet is the work of Al Gore, if you ask Al Gore.
Gen-X was the first generation to grow up with home computers not Millennials.

Everybody I knew growing up had an 8 bit computer of some sort.

Spectrums, ZX-81s, Beebs, C64s, VIC-20s and Amstrads were everywhere.

They were followed in the mid to late 80s by PCs, Archimedes, Amigas and STs.

Gen-X typed in BASIC and assembly language programs from magazines in the local newsagent. We peeked and poked to hack our games.

We argued at school about which computer platform was best and it meant more than just PC vs Mac.

That experience was mostly gone by the time the oldest millennials were teenagers.
You're relying on a typical misunderstanding of the past. The increases in life expectancy in modern times are owed almost exclusively to reductions in childhood mortality, not actual extensions of life. In the past it's not like people just hit 40 years old and keeled over.

So for instance the Founding Fathers died at an average age of 72 including things like Hamilton being killed in a duel at 47 years old. Only 2 of them died before 60 - Hamilton and Hancock (who had health problems throughout most of his life). John Adams lived to 90, and Sam Adams/John Jay/Ben Franklin/Jefferson/Madison died in their 80s. In fact this mortality age of ~70 expands all the way back to at least the Ancient Greeks. [1] The Bible also references this in Psalm 90:10: "As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away."

All the advances in medicine over the past millennia have dramatically reduced childhood mortality, but its impact on people who would have already made it into adulthood has been relatively small - perhaps 5-10 more years of very limited quality.

[1] - https://aeon.co/ideas/think-everyone-died-young-in-ancient-s...
He is still here. Far from a scapegoat. Wait and see. He will be back in no time.
I hope all the open sources Deepseek is doing encourages American labs to do more of the same. Surely they'll realize their momentum is more of a moat than their tech at any one point in time.
In UK it is a crime to silently pray at your own home. It is a different culture, court decides who is a criminal. There are no civil liberties or constitution like in US!
That's possible but unlikely. I would be OK with requiring software bugs like that to be fixed, unless it can be explained away as impossible for some reason. We could almost certainly move toward requiring this kind of stuff to be fixed much more easily than we could do the commonly proposed "rewrite it in another language bro" path.
This. There is seemingly no incentive for manufacturers to make it harder to steal their cars - every stolen car is likely a new sale.
It would be wonderful if it could be used as a ticketing solution where the ticket could have severity. So customers could login to create a ticket as part of their org.

Also data sources from either third party in-house database or something HubSpot would be great!
> This is a philosophical argument, therefore dismissible by science.

The claim I just made - that dismissing philosophy on empirical grounds is self-refuting because it relies on the philosophical position of empiricism - is not “dismissible by science” - there is no experiment or observation capable of proving or disproving that claim.

Also, the assumption you seem to be making - that all genuine knowledge comes from empirical science - can be countered with the argument that mathematical theorems (e.g. those of Gödel) are true and can he known to be true, but they are not known or knowable by means of empirical science

> Unless you can rephrase your argument as something testable, it's philosophy and thereby not relevant.

What you just said is not testable, hence by its own terms is philosophy and thereby not relevant - it condemns itself as irrelevant
I agree with you about the term's original usage, but I don't think that is the modern meaning.

Usage varies, but most commonly "free market" refers to an economy that is not centrally planned. All economies have at least some level of central planning, as well as at least some degree of economic freedom for participants, so the term is somewhat like the usage of "right" and "left" in politics, where it just indicates which side of a center line someone or something falls. Any market on the free-er side of the "center" can be described as a "free market."

So it has basically just become an antonym of socialism. I don't think it necessarily implies anything about a tacit approval of rent seeking in the economy.
Your 1 isn't equivalent to my example, line 11 is not constraining the type.
You're describing the scientific method. Philosophy is not for "understanding the universe". Surely it cannot be blamed for not fulfilling a goal you only imagine it to have.
Sounds similar to Plato's Theory of Forms.
The needle has moved.

https://www.thestreet.com/video/tesla-loses-1-trillion-statu...

Stock is dropping, sales are falling, Elon is losing money with his antics.

[Edit] I'm showing a 25% drop in Tesla stock vales over this month. If Tesla is a significant part of the USA economy, then that has to be pretty painful. [/Edit]

It may not be obvious to you, but the protests are emboldening people.

https://electrek.co/2025/02/24/tesla-protests-gain-momentu-w...

Not sure where you are, but here in the UK sales might not have dropped as much as other European countries but there are definitely less Tesla's around, and the conversation is towards other EV makers because people don't want to fund him.
Bad Apple would probably be trivial considering the work he did.
Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall
Thanks for the heads up, this is a great update, I haven't seen Bret Victor's content in a while.
Only if you’re describing orientation as two orthogonal rotations. I’m saying think of it like a ‘pointing’ vector that defines the axis of rotation. And such a vector does require 3 components in 3d space
'irregardless' of correctness, LOL. Best thing I read all day.
> I don't care what your ideas are. If they aren't testable, they're your opinion.

Most of the life and the world involves beliefs that aren't testable. The lack of testability doesn't mean it's arbitrary; testing is just one tool (the most effective one, I believe). But if you restricted yourself to that, if we had no other qualification or judgment, we couldn't achieve anything.
Scribe – the most accurate Speech to Text model
You're missing the point - your claim of "hypothesis has to be testable otherwise can be dismissed" is itself philosophical (philosophy of science). You're claiming that your claim can be dismissed.
Yes, but think of how much joy it brings to so many people.
the threshold to beat i think would be simple robots-3d-printers which could potentially 3d print any material using say laser or electron beam into pretty much anything of any size in space.
He wants the media to reveal sources so he can persecute them immediately.
There may be some cases where code would need to be adjusted or annotated to use CHERI well, but that has to be easier than translating to or interfacing with another language.
Find My network exploit lets hackers silently track any Bluetooth device
The sentiment is very much strongly warranted. It derives from 1) an inversion of the legal onus, and 2) a dangerous slippery slope in civil liberty.

Car manufacturers have been repeatedly caught with their pants down on the multiple security flaws in keyless ignition systems. These are multi-million dollar businesses choosing not do spend money on recalls or R&D to mitigate this. These corporations are effectively externalizing private costs with public over-reaching legislation and public law enforcement.

Secondly, and much more gravely, the criminalizing with 'unlimited fine', as most laws, will rely on non-technical people's interpretation. In practice this means (as prior history shows with regards to legislation and tech), that the step between banning Bulgarian RF repeater/jammers for key fobs, and charging a 16 year old with a several thousands Pounds fine just for using an SDR dongle becomes something very real.

For anyone with experience past or present in autocratic states it is also an obvious reduction of civil liberties in (what should be) a democratic society.
I learned it in the mandatory part of school (I'm French) so while I'm sure lots of people have forgotten it, most did learn it at school..
It's so they can arrest people they catch with just the jammer, but not a stolen vehicle.
I just added an embedding option. It's not documented yet, but you can view the source of my own site to see how it works. In terms of styling, it currently only supports specifying the background color (color or hex code) via url param.

https://www.coryzue.com/life/

This is the relevant source code. The only somewhat complicated bit is dynamically setting the height via messages:

<section class="section">
<div class="container">
<iframe
id="life-timeline"
src="https://lifeweeks.app/embed/life/czue/?bg=white"
frameborder="0"
width="100%"
scrolling="no"
></iframe>
</div>
</section>
<script>
window.addEventListener('message', function(e) {
if (e.data.type === 'resize') {
document.getElementById('life-timeline').style.height = e.data.height + 'px';
}
});
</script>
That threat already exists without the new law, since car theft, like all theft, is illegal. Car thieves already don't believe they'll get caught. Make a specific kind of car theft extra special illegal and they still won't believe they'll get caught.

Will the new law lead to more car thieves getting caught? If not, it's just a symbolic gesture to the electorate: "We know you want us to do something about car theft; this is something."
I've mostly worked in startups and on side-projects since I met my partner, so I'm fine there, but I think in many situaitons it's perfectly reasonable for a partner to push back on it. If your family relies on your income (and you don't have a decade of FAANG earnings saved) then it needs to be a family decision. Likewise if you have kids then anything that involves extremely long hours that prevents you from doing your share of childcare is also something that isn't an automatic yes.
That’s how you know wasn’t an LLM.
Absolutely fascinating. The cultural shift of male clothing from peacock to demure penguin is just astonishing when you think for how long military uniform was designed to denote, and identify and not hide. right up into the modern era.

Nowadays, almost universally we decry male dress as "flashy" or "bogan" or "new money" because of the ostentation. Such a reversal. The signal now is much more subtle. Clearly hand cut seams. Fit. Denial of modern trend. Royalty has shifted the burden to the female line, and can swing industry behind their choices. High street fashion on a royal! she wore the same dress twice! Such signals.

I would love to be wearing cloth of gold. Brocade. Well, maybe not in Queensland.

I recommend "It's a Small, Medium and Outsize World" by John Taylor from 1966. It's a little hard to find, but well worth reading. Highly sarcastic/ironic images throughout. The one for "chain store fashion" is a fakir wrapped in .. chains.
unknown is not equivalent to any as a type constraint: doesn't work.

https://www.totaltypescript.com/any-considered-harmful#type-...
I don't know how that is still a problem. I drive a 2019 Renault, and it has both rolling codes and it locks automatically if it doesn't detect the key anymore.
im hooked!

did die a few times due to dragging the mouse out of the client area... is there a pause button if someone is trying to talk to me and i cant look away?
Right, but sometimes you actually do have to reverse the array.
> I don't see issues, I see "issues".

That's convenient, but there's not much support for it. For example, abuse, exclusion, widespread discrimination against minorities and women is well-established. It's just a lazy argument - called reactionaryism - to deny it all without offering a better solution.

I think most reactionaries know they are wrong, and know that analysis and solutions on the left are probably accurate and optimal, and then choose to let people die or suffer rather than do any hard work or stand for anything. Look at Kennedy denying measles as significant.
I never felt more like a grandpa developer since having to google every word in the description of what this game is :)
When I last looked, I couldn't find any truely open source solutions that could practically replace even a shared inbox. This looks like it could. Well done to the developer.

And the paid options had high costs even on the most basic plans.
Notion had the potential to be like this, but instead it's garbage. You can put markdown in, but you can't get it out.
It’s possible to point in 3D space with two rotation components. For example, the first two components of a UV texture.

But I agree it is helpful to think of quaternions as direction and spin.
Great work!
My game has some features inspired by Ballionaire. I also used Godot, i need to dissect your pck file to see how you organized things.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3499470/Rogue_Bricks_Demo...

Although i should caution poeple, most indie games fail. They fail hard.
#1 tip: your game must be good looking to sell copies.
Where will the priming energy to sustain the plasma come from, if an emergency restart at sea is needed?
With due respect, the blog you have linked looks like the average Rust marketing material. It does absolutely nothing to address my concerns. I did a `Ctrl-F` and found zero hits of any of the following terms:

* CFI

* isoheaps or type-stable allocators

* Shadow stacks

(There is just a single hit of "C++"...)

Ignoring the appeal to authority, I have a hard time believing that incrementally rewriting my C++ code in Rust or just writing new code in Rust ("vulnerabilities exponentially decay" and all that) is going to give me more actual security than the mitigations stated above. Most, if not all, high-profile exploits stem from out-of-bounds accesses and type confusions, which these mitigations prevent at very low cost.

Thanks for replying, though.
Wait, it's the same Cook who proved that SAT is NP-complete somewhere during the cold war? I had no idea this guy was still around doing research.
In that case, switching employers may be what's needed, rather than switching careers (I know, easier said than done but easier if you already have a job). But if you do switch careers or have a career break, you can still code! If you're not maintaining a big project, working on your own side-projects is more like a hobby than work for most coders I know, so it wouldn't necessarily be incompatible with a break from the industry.
The correct term isn't "hallucinate", it's "bullshit". I mean that in the casual sense of "a bullshitter" - every LLM is a moderately knowleable bullshitter that never stops talking (In a literal sense - even the end of responses is just a magic string from the LLM that cues the containing system to stop the LLM, and if not stopped like that it would just keep going after the "end".) The remarkable thing is that we ever get correct responses out of them.
Btw, plenty of countries have banned certain knifes. And also zones where all kinds of knifes are forbidden.
It’s still impressive if your manager does it. Or your date. Or your mom.
From another viewpoint, all human language is only at the finite-state level - a finite state automaton can recognise a language from any level in the Chomsky hierarchy provided you constrain all sentences to a finite maximum length, which of course you can - no human utterance will ever be longer than a googolplex symbols, since there aren’t enough atoms in the observable universe to encode such an utterance

Really the way people use the Chomsky hierarchy in practice (both in linguistics and computer science) is “let’s agree to ignore the finitude of language” - a move borrowed from classical mathematics
Mathias Döpfner, head of Axel Springer, and at least some of its publications, such as Politico, now push the right wing propaganda.

Here's a column by John Harris, "founding editor and global editor-in-chief": "Time to Admit It: Trump Is a Great President. He's Still Trying To Be a Good One.": "The most consequential presidents divided the nation - before “reuniting it on a new level of understanding."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/21/harris-col...
> infinitely long HLW with fission fuel

You don't have to process high level wastes on your ship, but you do with tritium. Even if you don't plant to extract the tritium from the blanket modules, you do need to recycle the unburnt fuel (the burn-up fraction is at best a few percent).

Tritium is radioactive hydrogen: it's a gas that explodes in air at low concetrations, it reacts with organic compunds, it has high mobility in pretty much any material, by decaying it produces Helium bubbles that can embrittle metals, its β radiation crack glasses etc.
With such low pay to compete with, it's ideal for startups.
It's not the same Cook, but rather his son.
> There are going to be false positives

Of course, but compare it with rewriting it to a completely different language.
here i have updated it to latest.
https://arcadenest-games.itch.io/rogue-bricks
I don’t think it was edgy at the end. It left it extremely morally ambiguous on behalf of the protagonist rather than making him too saintly. It was left unclear how he felt about the ending
The point of Conclave isn't to demonstrate how the cardinals vote and the pope picking process. It's to analyze and dwell on how people are treated and viewed. What makes you trust and distrust someone who hasn't been entirely honest with you? The ending twist isn't to be edgy it's to bring up a topic that many Catholics need to deal with relative to the trust thesis of the movie.
> NY Times the main newspaper and it mostly aligns with the left. Not sure what’s confusing about that. The others aren’t the main newspaper of that city.

The NY Post and Wall Street Journal are among the main newspapers in NYC.

> I don’t read the LA Times, was it bought out by a known right-wing wealthy person or something?

The owner has openly killed left-wing editorial and supported the right (including Trump).

> It’s not a rule or law but an observation and it does seem pretty accurate.

If you can find evidence for it. It doesn't seem true in NY or LA.
hm. nothing that happens in the fourier domain can touch the phases, which seems like a constraint that would change the behavior of other layers.

the default bias of -0.1 with relus and what i would expect to be a flattish spectrum also seems like it would make for a sparse representation in the fourier domain.

i assume this is learning the text embeddings at training time, if so, i'd be curious how the constraints of going through the fft and filtering magnitudes would/could change how the embeddings look.