skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A. Within your circles. Make sure everyone knows you are available.

B. Think of best creative solutions you came up with throughout your career.

Use LLM to write a post every other day (!). Within a month, you have 15 posts, which people will find useful as they search.

At the bottom f each put your contact details and a closing paragraph that you are available for consultancy.
It doesn't use propellers or rotors like a typical flying machine. It uses a blower to blow air over the entire leading edge of the wing (hence the name "blown wing") instead.
LOL, that struck home. While I'm living in Germany now, I lived in Napoli from 2004 to 2009 and I have to agree with our Italian friends: Italy south of Rome is a markedly different country and experience.
...except it depends on knowledge of the t distribution but has no information on how to approximate it.

It is a good frequentist's toolbox, but it is not immediately translatable to code, no.
To be transparent - I do work at CrewAI. This is a side project I built using the open-source framework solve a real problem I was having with email management. Happy to answer any questions about how it works or the thought process behind it.
It is when you could leave someone else to clean it up, which is what happened here.
Historically, at least wedding and portrait photographers--perhaps in particular--made a lot of their money from selling print packages while retaining the rights to the original photographs.
> ballet dancers

So true. I know dancers who have been at it for decades. They "make it look easy", and it is easy for them. But try to do it yourself, and you look like a moose.

A friend of mine trains dancers for a living. He says the most effective teaching tool is the video camera. But he doesn't bring it out until his student is "hooked" on dancing, because prematurely showing them the video of them dancing just crushes them.

P.S. You can tell a ballet dancer just by the way they walk down the street. I once was at the airport and saw a lady unloading her bags. I just said Hi, you must be a ballet dancer! She replied nope, I'm an ice dancer, off to a competition. LOL.
I predict, in a few weeks, we'll hear more about Citigroup's amazing AI that will replace said slashed IT contractors :)
:-) <3
Related (adjacent content from the same report):

OpenAI urges Trump administration to remove guardrails for the industry (cnbc.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354324
Google is bringing every Android game to Windows in big gaming update
Heap was invented for a reason, and some tasks are naturally easier to model with it.

The problem is that once it's there, people start using it as the proverbial hammer, and everything looks like a nail even if it isn't.

Note though that ""allocate all of memory into a buffer at startup" is a lot more viable if you scope it not to the start of the app, but to the entrypoint of some code that needs to make a complicated calculation. It's actually not all that uncommon to need something heap-like to store temporary data as you compute - e.g. a list or map to cache intermediary results - but which shouldn't outlive the computation. Ada access types give you exactly that - declare them inside the top-level function that's your entrypoint, allocate as needed in nested functions as they get called, and know that it'll all be cleaned up once the top-level function returns.
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Don't give us this "perfectly legal" crap. To remind you: the NSA killed off ThinThread (that explicitly took care to avoid wiretapping US citizens' data) in favour of Trailblazer, which grabs ALL data, ALL the time, including ALL US citizens' data.

Their explicit intent was to break the law. They broke the law. Then Congress retroactively let them get away with it. They're still breaking the law today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread

> The "change in priority" consisted of the decision made by the director of NSA General Michael V. Hayden to go with a concept called Trailblazer, despite the fact that ThinThread was a working prototype that claimed to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens. ThinThread was dismissed and replaced by the Trailblazer Project, which lacked the privacy protections
I have found that keeping up with the modem capabilities of the average person's phone has been historically important for getting good signal strength and service in general.

I don't know if this is a resolved problem with 5G LTE and/or how backwards compatible 5G is with 4G (can they share spectrum? I honestly don't know, and perhaps it all depends on the particular carrier and how they allocate their deployments), but in the past you could notice that your 3G service would be a lot worse in its latter years of deployment than the 4G service simply because most customers had 4G and the carrier was allocating way more spectrum and bandwidth to 4G LTE service.

So you think about the median person replacing their phone every 3 years and you can figure that basically everyone in the US now has a phone with 5G capability, that's the service that cellular carriers are going to prioritize. That's also the level of service I am paying the carrier every month for.

And yes, 5G does get me a lot of great stuff like that. I actually tether my phone to my laptop or gaming handheld and play streamed games on it. I also work with large files so I can upload/download those large files to a server while I'm on a commuter train or in the passenger seat of a car. I can join video conference calls and things like that without issue.

I also personally switched from Android to iPhone specifically because so many carriers test iPhones so extensively (and there aren't an overwhelming amount of SKUs to test). The iPhone seems to have fewer carrier-related glitches in my experience. For example, I have a family member who switched from iPhone to Android and subsequently experienced call drops to their international calls consistently on their Android device (even after replacing the SIM card and other troubleshooting), but they resolved it entirely by switching back to an iPhone. Their carrier just didn't test out that particular Android phone that well, I guess. But the underlying reasons were irrelevant, they just need a phone that works for the purpose it's supposed to perform.

Considering that cellular service is the most expensive part of phone ownership, it seems to me that having a shitty device that can barely utilize the network's functionality is a way bigger problem than the device not being open source or not being Linux based or whatever line in the sane that Librem markets their very expensive phone under.

And of course I haven't even gotten into convenience features that depend on the proprietary app stores or carrier-integrated features like banking, transit cards/boarding passes/wallet functionality, CarPlay/Android Auto, visual voicemail, having a camera on hand that competes well with standalone point and shoot cameras, but I guess a Linux/Open Source die hard doesn't mind going back to the previous decade for those things. Still, those features are pretty damn enticing.

I can understand if you don't want those things but we have to remember that Librem is charging iPhone money for a device that does less things and has worse specs than a basic $100-300 Android phone.
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I often wonder about nostalgia related to computers/computing. It's strange because, even though I spent countless hours on my Commodore 64 as a teenager, and it had a major influence on my life (it basically introduced me to programming and set the course for my professional life), I just don't feel the nostalgia vibes.

I got my hands on an old C64 a few years ago and fired it up. I tinkered with it for about 10 minutes and lost interest. It just felt lame, a complete waste of time. It was surprising to me, considering how important the C64 has been in my life. Also, I feel that way about pretty much all old computer/computing devices. I've got an old laptops, iPods, iPhones, and even the original Rio PMP300 mp3 player, but I don't really feel any real nostalgia or love for them. It's like they were just tools I used, like a hammer or screwdriver, and that's it.

Contrast that with my love of older cars. I love finding old cars on Craigslist, taking them home and tinkering with them, restoring them. It makes me feel like I'm cool, driving a mid-80s Honda CRX or something similar. I have no idea why that is; I was never a "car guy" until I got older. But, like I said, I often wonder why I have nostalgia vibes for one old thing (cars), but not another (computers), especially when one has had a much greater impact on my life.

I wonder if it's society - that is, American culture has always had a major boner for cars and I'm being influenced by that. Or, maybe it's because "computers" have been my profession for the last 30 years, and that has killed my love for them. Not sure.

BTW, no disrespect to those who do get nostalgia vibes for the C64 an other older devices. Just the opposite - much respect.
> Tracking satellites is computationally intensive

Is it? I've seen a guy doing it by hand with a YAGI antenna and a little handled radio. But I could see it for many and the phased part. Also people have web models like this one showing the orbits.

https://satellitemap.space/

Anyway yeah just mental exercise not really arguing for it
They are very much focusing efforts on eliminating GIL.
This youngster hasn't yet learned an important lesson - what they're experiencing is not an anomaly and there's no magical place where everybody was doing everything absolutely "right" - or if they were, they're now out of business.

Methodologies change. Technology stacks change. Thoughts about what is "right" change. Codebases are in a constant state of flux and usually are a mishmash of all these changes. But it works. Even when you decide to rationalize your applications, you can't do everything at once, and in the process of rationalizing your application portfolio the methodologies and technology stacks continue to change. Your application portfolio therefore is never thoroughly "modern."

Looking to the future, maybe these are the tasks we could assign to an AI programming agent?
> I dunno why anybody thinks a computer with a 10 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 16GB of RAM and a TB or two of storage is "an e-bike".

Because it's marketed as an e-bike, shaped like an e-bike, and sold in the e-bike section of the store. If Apple put that e-bike engine into a land cruiser, then you could drive it like a land cruiser, but that seems like a weird expectation to have after you bought it.
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i thought about doing that but for this email account specifically, i hadn't used it in years and the storage is full and haven't been able top receive any emails isnce last Aug. so thought to delete since they're old and probably not important anymore.

i can definitely add an archive tool and pass that to the agent and remove the delete tool.
> deeply shameful

Your feelings are what they are, but this is the least shameful post I would ever see on LinkedIn. It's someone actually looking for work! and not just posting some super cringe low-IQ engagement-farm copypasta.

Finding work is exactly what LinkedIn ought to be for
Yeah that bond/recognition could be something (hard to do with a robot)
The form factor is irrelevant: an iPad, a macbook, a tivo, a smart fridge, a raspberry Pi - they're all Turing-complete systems that can (in principle) execute any arbitrary code that can be compiled for that architecture.

It has nothing to do with ripping out engines or tearing anything apart. If Apple didn't deliberately prevent you from installing unsigned software or operating systems, you'd be able to do that.

A much better analogy would be the engine governor installed by manufacturers to prevent a car from going as fast as the hardware otherwise could.
Yeah the Centralia story is wild. Who knows when the fire might ever go out? It's caught the imagination of many writers over the years, who have either been inspired by it or used it directly as a setting. Mostly in horror/paranormal content. As the Wikipedia entry notes

"Centralia has been used as a model for many different fictional ghost towns and manifestations of Hell. Prominent examples include Dean Koontz's Strange Highways and David Wellington's Vampire Zero."
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When I first heard about micro-frontends, this is where my mind went to
There are ways. But there’s also countless ways you can mess with the contents. Plus the problem that spreadsheet “administrators” need to unlock to make their changes and remember to re-enable those locks when they’re done.

At some point, something invariably gets missed and someone else finds a way to tamper with it.

Bear in mind that the “tamperers” are never doing so maliciously. They’re just trying to do their job too. But when you have a UI that allows for unlimited abstractions, those “tamperers” will dream up a new way to represent their needs without realising that they’re breaking someone else’s workflow.
Laws in these cases are never self proclaimed; they are simply made from observations. This is not a law in a legal term; it's a law because through observation, there is a universal truth to it.
I'd add z-score (standard score) to your tool belt. The ability to identify or reject outliers is invaluable when trying to stabilize real-world business processes.

For example, if you are building heuristics that determine if a customer's bank account is "reasonably active", you may not want to consider very small transactions unless that is typical activity for a given customer.
Yeah this is a good reminder that technology rewrites do NOT need to rethink the UI. I've always favored updating the technology first to enable faster incremental UI changes afterwards.

I love my UX friends but they almost universally hop on tech updates to rethink everything, and then it muddies up the customer feedback on the rewrite. Was this a tech bug introduced? Or an annoying UX change? etc.
Think like callgrind, but without the overhead.

The true x86 equivalent is probably `vtune`

For open source there's `perf` + `flamegraph` but that's not interactive, or `KDAB/hotspot` which is probably the closest open-source thing to Apple Instruments.
People call Gruber an Apple apologist, but he's really not. He's just a person whose taste aligns very well with Apple's. If your taste runs a different way then he can look like an Apple cheerleader, but he criticizes them regularly.

This is a particularly sharp example though.
Yes their end game appears different. Meta has created a new archetype.
> plus/minus operators do not catch overflow

They do (in Debug and ReleaseSafe modes)
Well, her first last name was Last, but her last last name was Belville.

And her last first name was Elizabeth, and her first first name was Maria.
especially in the time of 0-day warez. Interestingly, many thrived on the ShareWare business models (including John Carmack IIRC)
I witnessed the same bitter lesson on Kaggle, too. Late stage competitions were almost always won by a mixture of experts using the most recently successful models on that problem. Or a random forest of the same. It was a little frustrating/disappointing to the part of me that wanted to see insights, not just high scores.
I haven’t read this book, but this quote highlighted by the reviewer is very concerning,

> “feminism means freedom, it means the right to be […] incoherent “, p. 71

My sincere wish is that fifth wave feminism can unshackle itself from bad arguments. Good arguments win you allies, and bad ones make you look unserious to people who could be allies.

While I agree that feminism means freedom (across many dimensions), the justifications for such freedoms are never incoherent because that’s how we’ve developed ways to deal with each other—by making sense.

If anything, incoherency is a tool which may be used to buy time, or confuse a political opponent. But these kinds of games are not fit for truth seeking. I am not putting the burden of truth seeking on just feminists, though—I don’t blame them for coming up with such tactics because their detractors are often nonsensical and illogical.

There are no easy answers because of the sociopolitical baggage such issues carry. Personally, I’d like fifth wave feminism to be defined by Stoicism and Materialism—to me, this is like being like the Sun: your truth is undeniable and fundamental.

Regarding the review of the book: I think I would react similarly to many of the highlighted blurbs from the book.
Yes, of course. I try to avoid buying nerfed toys. I'm mildly concerned that general-purpose computers able to run unsigned code will disappear from the marketplace in the next 15-20 years.
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Only in terms of syntax. Feature-wise it's more like C++ but everything is explicit.
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I found my current gig using moonlightwork.com but that was over 5 years ago now.
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I think you’re right. NSCA Telnet was by far my most used floppy disk until I got a network connection in my dorm room.

My roommate sweet talked the housing people into letting us have a second land line (ethernet was still being piloted in a different dorm) so we could log in from our room. It’s a wonder that I was surprised when he ended up in management.
I'm delighted to have been of some service.
I was hoping this article would be about some crazy new networking inovation from Valve!
Can someone help me - what is that point of spreading heath misinformation?
> and it will be billed at $80M a year.

Why stop there? Musk can just have congress give SpaceX a monopoly on providing hurricane forecasting and he can charge a billion for it!
Having the right technical skills is only 50% of the requirement (and realistically even less than that). The harder battle is being a good salesman. Push yourself and your services at every opportunity. Send mass emails to friends and old collegues. Write daily puke-inducing posts on LinkedIn. Write blog posts and make toy Github projects with "looking for work" blurbs at the top of each one. Set a goal to post N times a day on X/Threads/LinkedIn/Reddit/wherever else you can think of, and hit those targets. Keep doing all of this for an extended period of time and the leads will start flowing in. Then you need to start putting even more effort into closing those leads and signing contracts.
That was a phenomenal read!
The point is: Have some perspective. Advertising is not destroying the world and we're not "running out of time".
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Using traditional ML and LLMs to analyze Executive Orders (1789 – 2025)
The resulting dashboard can be found here for quick access: https://app.hyperarc.com/?isEmbed=true&embedId=68a7fcc6-9fcc...

Worth reading the blog because the nuance is in how you extract/interpret the EOs.
You don't even need to grind your own mirror to get in on the action.

Younger I made a 6" scope from a bought mirror set, and the first time I used it I caught one of Jupiters moons occulting in realtime.
Python's complexity has been increasing since Guido stepped away and it is off-putting. The language is still nowhere near as complex as Ruby or others, but I am keeping my eyes open for alternatives.
The ruling class in this country considers the FAA and other regulatory agencies to be an impediment to them, so they have started to destroy it. In their minds, they don't really care because they have their own planes, and think that they can use their wealth and prestige to make sure their planes get preferential treatment all the way from taxi, takeoff, to landing. They don't care what happens to the rest of us.
yep. personally, prefer native apps for this use case, I wrapped duckdb into a nice native mac app: https://macdatapro.com
And they go offline after a few weeks.
Only the parts that need to heap-allocate. Which includes most containers, but not e.g. algorithms.
Why, did Wes Anderson make a movie about his father?

If not, somebody definitely should.
yeah longevity is a problem, ornithopters are pretty impressive but the flapping mechanism is brutal (high rpm motor with high gearing) and the noise

not sure if the wings were covered in panels and it landed/spread its wings on the ground how long to charge

but yeah there was a hopping bird recently too so being able to take off again would be good
No, it's wild that any private entity has the legal censorship authority. My own country is catapulting into authoritarianism, but as far as I'm aware, we haven't gotten to the point yet where private entities are unilaterally disconnecting users from broad swaths of the Internet.
My understanding is that it varies by temperature difference, but there's specialized series of heat pumps which work "okay" with very cold outside temperatures, even down to -25C, which are becoming popular to replace oil tank heating systems in Atlantic Canada. Apparently even when operating at -20C outside air they're still more efficient than electric baseboard heating.

I don't know of any of the customers of the steam system in downtown Vancouver that use it for sterilization purposes, it connects almost exclusively large office towers. There's no hospital or medical facilities connected to it.
What kind of "harmless political satire"? Where can I find more about this?
You're supposed to only grind wet, since the glass dust is a hazard. Grinding wet keeps it from being airborne.

Everywhere that I've read about grinding mirrors (and I've done a lot of reading) always says to grind wet. Any YouTube video you watch on the subject will also show them grinding wet.

When grinding a mirror you put water and grit on, grind until the grit is used up, wipe it off, and repeat. This is called a "wet".
Look at the wonders the free market has done for our healthcare. Oh, wait...
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English is not my first language. Sometimes, especially when I try to write a complex and long idea, I use LLMs to correct my errors, syntax, etc. In those cases, even if the idea remains the same, the text ends up looking LLM generated, since the correction applies its own "robotic style." This is even more noticeable if you ask chatgpt to translate it from another language.

(I'm not the author of the post, just mentioning it since it will probably become harder to detect such cases.)
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Michael Swaine dreams of being able to do what Oscar Toledo G. can.
The statisticians have a bunch of tricks to transform the formulas into more-easily computable forms, e.g. calculate both the average and the standard deviation in a single pass through the data instead of one pass to calculate the average and a second to calculate the standard deviation. Converting the math in here to efficient code isn't very easy.
Yeah, every time I see articles about importance of linear color space for gradients, and see images there, I observe the opposite of what’s written in the text of these articles. Gradients in sRGB color space look better.

I have a suspicion that might be because I usually buy designer-targeted wide gamut IPS displays. I also set up low brightness on them, e.g. right now I’m looking at BenQ PD2700U display with brightness 10/100 and contrast 50/100. However, sRGB color space was developed decades ago for CRT displays.