skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walmart and Zipline Team Up for Drone Delivery Service
I don't know much about video editors. Film sound editors in movie post-production do not work the way you describe.
I'm no defender of mailing lists as a substitute for real bugtrackers (I'm fairly strongly against it, actually), but GitHub is also apt to drive people away more than its fans admit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378401

There's also the matter of its privacy controls being extremely lacking. It's another site that takes the position that you don't get a choice on everything being "social" now, so they'll index your activity on a central timeline whether you ask for it or not and broadcast it to anyone else who does ask for it, leaving you with no recourse except to opt-out entirely.
Looks really cool. I think a workspace in vr would be great and the new oculus quest probably has the right resolution
You're saying an investor (GM) can be held liable for what the limited liability corporation (Nikolai) did?
I'm sure it's not helping, let's put it that way. If they have, as some suggest, any ambitions toward nation-state-hood, they are proving daily that they're not cut out for it.
Fresh Prince of Bel-Airbnb
Brought?
That strategy would not have worked well if you were long Tesla during the past several years, and Elon was pretty vocal about the shorts.
Verizon to buy wireless services provider Tracfone in $6.25B Deal
the GPU is not involved in computing the audio stream. the audio side of the HDMI appears to the OS as an audio device, and the CPU generates and delivers the audio data to it. It's essentially a passthrough to the HDMI endpoint.
> The numbers Joe suggested in this conversation are either entirely fabricated, or belong to the cost of replacing the entire machine if its experienced catastrophic damage. But, after clarifying numerous times about what the numbers actually represent and comparing to previous repair bills for the same issue, my belief is that the rep used a false and obscured repair order to persuade me to replace my girlfriend's minimally damaged screen with a new computer.
Fuck Cancer
That is all.
This is an excellent point.

A lot of lessons learned, hard lessons learned (like fire, expensive equipment damage, injuries and blindness, and big sparks) have happened to get electrical code to where it is.
They sunk it half a mile offshore and 117 feet deep. Hardly the abyssal zone. Other than hydrothermal vents, what natural heat sources are you thinking of?

(and yes, it's a damn shame the oceans are so noisy due to ships and sonar...and you're prob right about heat not being harmful, I'm just curious what you're referring to)
Has this kind of extended free trial for a new instance happened before? 3.5 months is pretty long. A micro instance for a whole month only costs AWS ~$6 in revenue, but still, it's a nice, long period for testing.
Nasa organized an 'exploring the hell' challenge for the surface and winners already announced, maybe in future they might have a successful mission

https://www.herox.com/VenusRover
That was extremely loud from feedback amplifying. Are you doing this with headphones on?
It's a pretty big difference. The issue is that you're basically going to need on-board computing in order to compensate for the lower bitrate of wirelessness, a problem that gets worse as the resolution increase. You need to do warping on the headset itself (as well as sophisticated compression) or you'll have motion sickness. So while it's possible to hack wirelessness on some of the other headsets currently, that becomes less and less feasible as resolution improves. Also, not requiring a computer is a bigger advantage than you might think. I also use my Quest only at home, but I'm able to use it anywhere in my house (wireless video direct to a headset without on-board computing uses 60GHz WiGig, and therefore is basically line-of-sight and very short distance only) and regardless of what the main computer is being used for. (Also, requiring a gaming PC for operations easily doubles the cost of the solution.) A separate wireless adapter (WiGig) on the PC also adds cost and is bulkier than the lower bandwidth Wifi connection you can use if you have on-board computing.

An example of how it's qualitatively different is I use it outside (at dusk). That's not really practical with other devices, and it's a completely different experience.
Army Covid-19 vaccine may produce a side benefit: Cure for the common cold
Fished cables do not have that requirement
To the author of this library:

Yeah either you tell clearly if you want to sell your software or if you want to give it away for free then opensource it . There is no point in hosting some obfuscated code in github pretending it to be open source and then using that to push your little startup venture. Being upfront will win you trust.
Google aims to run on carbon-free energy by 2030
So how do you imagine hiring people with similar experience/skill level SF if they base salary offers are $200k and Europe people are happy with $100k since their rent/mortgage/livingcost is about 5-10x less?

Pay everyone $200k or $100k (essentially stop hiring in high cost location)?

Until the markets/remote salaries align, you kind of have to pay based salaries the people are able/need to receive in their respected market.
Who else is in my house?
Good idea. However, I browse on iOS. Is there some extensions on there to accomplish this?
It isn't nut job fringe elements that commit genocide - in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Cambodia it was thousands and thousands of people - ordinary people - who either cooperated and enabled or sometimes even picked up machetes and guns to participate in the genocide.

I don't feel like this is a facebook problem (although I wouldn't object to shutting them down - as long as we kill that other cancer, Twitter, too). I think this is a people-with-poor-education problem.
Rather than surgical regulation, which as you rightly point out is often prone to capture, I would instead propose a cruder but effective governing instrument: the Pigovian tax

Trace the chain of incentivizes further upstream, and what do we find? What animates the system? It’s advertising revenue, of course. So let’s tax the living hell out of advertising revenue.

Fundamentally decreasing the profitability of a market is a sure way to disincentivize profiteering interests in it.
They are almost all proxy metrics of course. For engineering you can look at commits, PRs, incidents, deployments, etc and most of those metrics actually improved quite dramatically the first few months after everyone worked from home. Many of the offices are hot-desked high capacity environments and I cannot get anything done in them, so the initial reports were completely unsurprising.

I can't speak to what is being said now as I'm not really tracking any of it. I don't believe it's pure bullshit.
It could be that people are just picking up bad habits. It could be stress and distractions from all the stuff that's swirling around now. It could be an exaggerated stance to signal to real estate in the affected markets that JPMC isn't packing up and getting out of town. Who knows. I will say that the technical infrastructure has been very good, due in part to long term investments in remote infrastructure for years now and it's pretty seamless switching from the office to remote.

I personally will quit before I go back full time to the chaos of high capacity office environments. I'm not built for it.
I am trying to understand Verizon's motivation here. Are they just buying the subscriber base? Does that mean they are killing Visible?
What the World Can Learn from Life Under Tokyo’s Rail Tracks
I don't see it as a relic, or a bad one. Some people can't just up and move to a cheaper location for a job they don't know they'll have in a year's time. How do you decide what to pay? Paying based on "experience and merit" needs to be anchored on something, so you just end up either massively over-paying someone in a location that's cheap, or massively under-paying someone in an expensive area. If you want to pay everyone like they live in Zurich, then more power to you but doesn't seem sensible from a business management standpoint and the person in North Carolina would probably be over the moon at half that. Any company with shareholders is accountable first to them (for good or bad) and I'm not sure your board or CFO would agree that paying peak makes sense
The biggest issue, in my opinion, is described by the author as "third rails". I have stopped asking questions online because of it, and tend to avoid forums while searching for answers because of it.

The problem is that the people answering to the effect of, "you should do this instead," seem to believe that the person asking the question is completely ignorant of the issues involved. This is not necessarily the case. Expecting the asker to justify why they want to use a particular approach not only discourages the asking, but it distracts from the question. Making matters worse, the people offering these opinions rarely answer the question anyhow.
I've been using MacBooks for 10 years, and while they've recently been less reliable, I have had good experiences for at least 60% of the time. So if you can get them repaired for a reasonable price, and they don't break that often, I still don't see many good alternatives. Especially if you still like the OS
Spanish flu pandemic lasted a little over 2 years, we are just now coming up on 8 months.
> only for your next door neighbour to undo all of your work.

It's not like they're flying and consuming more because of you. They're consuming as they would regardless of you. It's still a net reduction overall, and your contribution is still there.
The cooling nature of water comes from the high specific heat _and_ the fluid mixing (convection currents, pumped flow, etc).

Barnacles and other accretive life forms means that the thermal gradient drops sharply, and hence the heat flow rate drops significantly.

Take a comparison is between (say) 25C heatsink in contact with 10C water across a boundary layer that likely on the order of 10mm thick, versus what is effectively a static fluid ~50mm thick followed by the same boundary layer.

So the unmixed fluid is going to be ~6x [1] thicker, for a heat flow rate 1/6th the original. And that's assuming that barnacles do in fact conduct as well as water, something that's unlikely (water is ~0.6, human flesh ranges from ~0.2 to ~0.5)

[1] Insert a bunch of unstated assumption about the fluid flow rate, salinity, etc etc.
Of the 3 you mention "filtering logging outputs, checking HTTP response codes, throwing errors" only the last one seems universal to me.

Take logging. Super important - I spend a lot of time evangelizing logging to younger devs and how to do it well. But filtering? How? In what way? For what values? I don't have context but the expectation I should be able to filter for specific things you have secret preferences for strikes me as a signal that's not clear or universal.

Checking HTTP codes. In what context? There are plenty of times when it's not helpful -- for example there are many page not founds that DON'T return as 404 (even tho they should). So this a priori belief that all devs should automatically have this built-in preference for checking HTTP codes as some universal signal of quality in programming is, I think, a larger assumption than you might realize.

I don't think there is a perfect way to interview, but I do think if you're going to quiz developers it helps to give them some advance warning of what areas you prefer to focus on so it's not such a random, out-of-left field line of questioning.

You may not consider your questions abnormal -- but that's the problem, neither do the people who ask obscure algorithm questions! It's very hard to validate your assumptions.
Exactly. There is literally no downside for GM.

We're going to find out over the next few weeks that isn't the case. There is tremendous reputational risk here. This episode could throw into question EV capabilities for GM for years to come.

Don't be surprised to see heads roll all the way up in the C-suite at GM over this.
Sorry, I just get frustrated being told every 25 year old is a no experience green hack. I've worked with plenty of older devs who are absolutely a treasure to this industry.
Samsung and TSMC are both worth more. America's largest chipmaker.
The Schubfach way to render doubles
Yeah not only that but the documentation appears to be almost non-existent, especially for obfuscated source code.
Sounds like a great way to guarantee losing most of the people relocating when 2024 hits.
Thanks teej for the answer.

>How much of these things happen is extremely DB dependent. How does the DB's underlying storage mechanism work? How is the data partitioned and distributed? How sophisticated and storage-aware is the query planner? How large is your data? How fast is your data growing? How fast do you need a new data point to be reflected in your dashboard?

I think most of my frustration comes from not knowing these stuffs. I work as a BA-BI hybrid as I found my data analysis skills are good complements to data modelling/airflow type of work, so I persuaded my manager to give me some BI work. But that also means I don't have the technical knowledge such as DB internals (and TBH I can't even find a book for Vertica on that matter).

Our DB and DBAs and all ETL processes are located in HQ and we actually don't own our databases. This, I guess, adds an extra layer of discomfirt as we are effectively cut off from database-level optimization. Our data engineer is about to leave because he has no DE work to do (every ETL has to go through HQ's process and we only need to submit some configuration files).

We don't have access to the databases you recommended (again HQ controls that), but I do believe I could try DBT, may I ask how do you use it? From my understanding it is mostly a transformation tool, but what makes it stand out?
I think one of the reasons why folks are mad at Facebook is it uncovered the uncomfortable truth that freedom of speech is not a first-order good. I used to be a free speech maximalist, but it is clear that lack of education and aggressive state-actor PsyOps is simply too high a hurdle to overcome.

I wouldn't be surprised if when historians look back in 50 years, that they determine that the Pandora's box of free information interchange from the Internet hastened the end of free society.
Embedded Spy Software in Millions of Homes
The real lesson is to install ublock origin and be done with deceptive advertising.

Last time I tried to find nvidia drivers for windows 1st result was an obvious scam/crapware. This is not acceptable that big tech companies are making money while not taking responsibility for advertisements.
> Apple has done quite well with their ARM license, outperforming the rest of the mobile form factor CPU market by a considerable margin.

But that has really nothing to do with the architecture. They just spent more money on CPU R&D than their ARM competitors. They could have done the same thing with RISC-V, and if that's where the rest of the industry is going, they could be better off going there too. Especially for Mac, since they're about to do a transition anyway. They could benefit from putting it off for another year while they change the target architecture to something the rest of the market might not be expected to avoid in the future.

There is also no guarantee that their success is permanent. They might have done a better job than Qualcomm this year, but what happens tomorrow, if Google throws their hat into the ring, or AMD makes a strong play for the mobile market, or Intel gets their heads out of their butts, or China decides they want the crown and gives a design team an unlimited budget? There is value in the ability to switch easily in the event that someone else is the king of the mountain for a while.

> I don't doubt that they could transition - they've done it successfully 3 times already, even before the current ARM transition.

Just because they can do it doesn't mean it's free.

Really if Intel was shrewd, they'd recognize that they've lost Apple's business already and just sell them an x86 license, under some terms that Intel would care about and Apple wouldn't, like they can only put the chips in their own devices. Then Apple could save themselves the transition entirely and do another refresh with processors from Intel while they put their CPU team to task redesigning their own chips to be x86_64. It would give both Apple and Intel a chance to throw a punch at Nvidia (which neither of them like) while helping both of them. Apple by avoiding the Mac transition cost and Intel by maintaining the market share of their processor architecture and earning them whatever money they get from Apple for the license.

And it gives Intel a chance to win Apple's business back. All they have to do is design a better CPU than Apple does in-house, and Apple could start shipping them again without having to switch architectures. Which is also of value to Apple because it allows them to do just that if Intel does produce a better CPU than they do at any point in the future.
Unfortunately, there are no oceanographic environmentalists with sufficient clout to have any say, whatsoever, in this unaccountable private endeavor. I doubt the Scottish Environment Protection Agency or UK's Environment Agency were invited to be veto-empowered stakeholders.
We are living in a post truth world.

GM can just say fake news, hire propoganda and move on
Sweeping internal Facebook memo: “I have blood on my hands”
Earth Shoe founder Eleanor Jacobs ran her business by instinct
i use the rasp pi 3+B 1 GB model to sense oil level in my oil tank. i now know oil tank level anywhere any time. Take a look at http://myoilguage.com/
It would make sense that it wouldn't exist?
https://archive.vn/epqUF
If an employee is worth $200k to your company in SF, why are they not worth $200k to your company in Europe?
Looking further in the thread they say it was probably a big more than anything and that it's not supposed to work like this. Of it was a policy I'd be more worried.

Not that I use it anyway, I host my own.
>What pain points would it have saved to write the scientific paper in org-mode?

For me, latex is the pain point. I don't want to have to read through pages of inscrutable error messages about overfull mboxes and then read dozens of contradictory stack overflow answers for outdated versions that only half-address the problem I'm having.
One way to get a static IP is to rent a cheap VPS, put wireguard on it and use DNAT to forward IP to the client PI as wg client. Works well with an NGINX reverse proxy on the PI redirecting traffic to anything on your LAN.
And eliminates TikTok from Google cloud.
It's pretty easy to build a tool or game that a few hundred people can get value out of though right?
You could do that in theory but it would be wasteful to render frames that are never displayed. If you can modify the software, better to modify it as the article advocates for, to strip latency without the waste.
> Apple have recently ramped up their hostility towards the developers that make iOS the desirable platform it is.

Consumers and developers have very different interests. Article is written by a consumer, but the reasons above apply to developers. This aside, its a very good post.
Will do now! Sounds interesting
The chief of the hydrogen division at Nikola is Trevor's brother. His industry previous experience consists of pouring concrete driveways. Phoenix should be fine.
#include <cstdio>
int main() {
auto square = [](double x) -> double { return x*x; };
printf("%f\n", square(10));
return 0;
}

since 2011
Freedom of speech vs. freedom of reach.
You're discussing "markets" across countries, which had much more reason for adjustments to be made. Social services, taxes, and healthcare are all different. There is not necessarily free movement between countries, and large goods that most people purchase in their lives (cars, education, healthcare) have very different costs.

In my opinion that is different that companies doing large-scale adjustments within a country, where social services, taxes (for the most part) and general cost of goods is the same.

I'm not sure we will ever be able to treat different countries as a single market, but I do think that a single country (or hell, even state) should be able to be treated as a market.
postal address is one of those cases where you probably do just want to shove it all in a string as most structural constraints eventually backfire - especially if you support international: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/

the most common schema I've seen is usually something like line1, line2, line3, city, state, country, zip, etc. if it's a reporting database then city/state/country/zip is often mashed into some sort of location id.
Is that actually true? I thought it was the other way around, and they only "lend" money to companies that have millions od dollars in VC investment already in the bank.
I considered putting up an "unlocked" and deobfuscated version to help people out, but the thing that keeps me from doing so is that the author may not fully understand what the GPL means and I don't want them to think I'm pulling the rug out from under the consultant gig they seem to be starting.

If you're reading this: GPL2 means anyone is free to copy, modify, and redistribute your software. That means that they can unminify it, give functions meaningful names, and yes even remove the localhost restriction you've put in place seemingly in an attempt to monetize.

If your goal is to make money off of this, I suggest you take down the repo and put up a new one under a closed source license. You can still distribute the minified file for people to test with, but people would no longer have both legal and ethical justification to release a more "friendly" version.

If your goal is not to monetize or maintain control for some other reason, then I would suggest uploading the unminified version as it will make it much easier for people to contribute back.

(And to be clear, anyone who has already downloaded the repository has GPL rights to that code forever, you cannot (to the best of my knowledge) revoke that license. So if you do see an easier to use and less restrictive fork, well, you live and learn I guess, nothing else can be done there.)
Sure, that's the premise. The reality is somewhat different. Contracting positions are more flexible (you decide your own benefits) and can be more lucrative if you manage them correctly. They're not for everyone, of course. It's similar to deciding between DIY vs. COTS—the former requires more skill and personal investment but may give better results than the generic store-bought product under the right circumstances.

If you don't want to work a job, contract or otherwise, paying less than some arbitrary "living wage", then don't. No one is forcing you to take the job. You are free to set your own personal minimum wage. But if you think the solution to your woes is to make it so that no one else can take the job either, at least be honest and admit that what you are really trying to do is to improve your own bargaining position by hobbling the competition.
That matches my intuition. The more surprising thing is that this doesn't seem to be talked about very much. I've literally never heard anyone else advocate for a relational database with support for sum types (I'm sure they exist) which has caused a lot of introspection about whether or not there's something about RDBMSs that I just don't understand.
There's a lot of negativity on HN for tools like AirTable, but as someone that uses Coda regularly, I find it invaluable as a prototyping tool, if not a "production" internal app. There's nothing quite like having modeled and populated tables in such a flexible tool while everyone is trying to reach consensus.