skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use siri/google assistant for two things:

* My lights; convenient to turn all or specific lights/sockets on/off, dim, change scene etc.

* Setting timers; for cooking, covid self tests, etc
In the Bay Area, there are many Chevy Bolts, VW ID.4, and Ford Mach-E. They are more competitive economically than their ICE counterparts when you include minimal operating expenses for energy and maintenance, and their possible 7.5k tax credit.

Bolts were going for ~$25k at ~250 miles range.

2023 ID.4 is an SUV/Crossover with probably ~240 mile range rumored for ~35k (and $7.5k off tax credit)

Mach-E is an SUV/Crossover with ~250 mile range for ~$44k (and $7.5k off tax credit)
Nice work!

A mirror-mode for the flipside would be very useful. I often mirror one side of a board when I'm trying to understand exactly what's going. It makes it much easier to understand where traces go if you don't have to perform the flip step in your mind, especially when reverse engineering a board.

I also agree with the other posters about the usefulness of an exploded see-all-the-pins-at-once view.
> Consumer spending has gone down.

It did go down. Now its back to normal.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=KOBi
Regarding PostHog: If am a Startup & still running my beta product, $1500 per month is very expensive for managed service. They should charge it by number of API requests. Then I can start using this and naturally grow into the product. I really do not have bandwidth to self host when I am busy solving core customer problem.
Base inflation is never zero. In the article he mentions the 1.8% average inflation rate, plus 2% attributed to gov't stimulus, and 3% towards corporate profits. That adds up to a 6.8% inflation rate.

It's hard to blame this purely on ZIRP or QE because we've had both for the last ten years, all without any meaningful spike in inflation.
For anyone curious, this is the blog post: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

It’s a fun read.
Its grandfather in the boardgames family is Diplomacy, that can be played by 2+ people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)

Be warned, you can ruin friendships with this game
something that didn't exist in 2016 and does now, are AA batteries that are composed of an internal lithium ion cell, a DC-DC converter for 1.5VDC output to the end terminals, and internal 5V-USB to li-ion charge controller circuitry.

With a USB port literally built into the body of the battery. They're more expensive, but can pay for themselves...

https://www.amazon.com/AA-Batteries-ANVOW-Rechargeable-Capac...

there are lots of other models if you search for "AA battery lithium ion USB"

I would recommend these over anything that is NiMH based (memory effect) or needs a proprietary charger.
Tom lane actually works at Crunchy Data. Paul Jungwirth is at illuminated computing if I recall correctly.

Edit: And if looking for 2020, I believe Zenith labs was only founded a few months ago. At the time Heikki was at was vmware, Peter G. was Crunchy Data. And probably half of the EDB ones were 2nd Quadrant including Peter E., Alvarro H. and Vik F. (I think).
Then you go “Can you multiply a duration with a number? No, that wôuld be stupid. Can you multiply a duration with a duration? Heck yeah!” Such an intelligent type system.
wonder how much of this stack has remained since they were bought by facebook.

I don't see a company like facebook having two or three ( if you count instagram) completely different stacks for doing messenging.

And i don't think they'll move to an erlang stack...
> but for almost the entire decade prior Firefox was unstable trash.

People say this all the time.

Personally I didn't like Chrome for UX and technical reasons even back when Google were nice so I have used Firefox from 2005 until now, across mostly Windows and Linux but also Mac from 2009 to 2012, often having a few hundred tabs open.

I cannot say that your statement is false for everyone but I can say that it is definitely not true for everyone.
> where you can make up rules for the government to follow

Exactly. It always reminds me of that scene in the Simpsons where Burns goes through tons of security in the nuclear plant, then a dog walks in through a screen door.
I totally agree! I'm genuinely just curious, as I can't even conceptualize it.
"It's pretty disheartening to hear you essentially say that the professionals get to redefine words to benefit themselves to the detriment of the public..."

Never said any such thing, so feel free to be reheartened.
> And yes of course this sorting is subjective, some people may find pigs and cows "just as" "human like" as dogs - but most people won't.

I honestly find it a very strange idea to say dogs are more human like than pigs.

Have you ever socialized with a pig? It is immediately clear to me that they display intelligence and emotional awareness of a far higher level than dogs. With pigs, it almost feels as though they are mute humans, trying to communicate in some way but being unable to do so due to an inability to speak, similar to dolphins and nonhuman apes. — They are also inquisitive creatures that inspect their environment and seem to apply some level of cognition to it that I never saw in dogs.
Unfortunately both my phone and laptop originated in China.

Can they be trusted?
I thought it was a volume thing? So overnight there are less shares to buy so they fetch higher prices. That then normalizes over the course of the day as more shares become available?
Paper Walkthrough: Is Automated Topic Model Evaluation Broken
* Create reminders with Google Assistant probably half a dozen times a day for the last 2-3 years. This is, by far, the most meaningful feature for me. My productivity has most certainly seen a positive impact from the use of Reminders

* Use the "Goodnight" feature to play crickets at bedtime which is a lifesaver because of my tinnitus

* Ask it for the weather quite frequently

* Timers / Alarm clocks (ripped from other comment)

Aside from those specific features, I find anything else to be more burdensome than the traditional routes
I suspect that is more a feature than a bug, from the regulator POV: instead of chasing and potentially failing to quickly remove some economic actor from the market, it takes at most two phone calls.

Pretending that the public interest if behind any of these actions an important part of the system, but certainly not the initiator.
I do not understand the concept of self-accountability. If I say I'm going to do something for myself and not do it then what? If it is the self "shame" (for lack of a better word) for not performing/completing the goal/task I set for myself it will have to go to the end of the line of "self shame"; a very long line with many far more shameful things I've done/haven't done/started-and-not-completed through out my 51+ years.

I do envy those who can hold themselves accountable and get things done.
Ah! We're putting all our business logic in it, I guess I misunderstood what OP was asking and assumed they meant something else, that's why I mentioned we built our own version of it internally.
They invest a bit in the initial development then call it a day. Another example is the chatbots fad: after the technology implementation there's almost no energy for actually training those bots, so you as user are served with a fancy and overpriced menu system.
This already exists. It's called Usenet.
I found that confusing too, like I walked into the middle of an existing conversation.
Reminds me of

[Cores that don't count]https://research.google/pubs/pub50337/

>We are accustomed to thinking of computers as fail-stop, especially the cores that execute instructions, and most system software implicitly relies on that assumption. During most of the VLSI era, processors that passed manufacturing tests and were operated within specifications have insulated us from this fiction. As fabrication pushes towards smaller feature sizes and more elaborate computational structures, and as increasingly specialized instruction-silicon pairings are introduced to improve performance, we have observed ephemeral computational errors that were not detected during manufacturing tests. These defects cannot always be mitigated by techniques such as microcode updates, and may be correlated to specific components within the processor, allowing small code changes to effect large shifts in reliability. Worse, these failures are often "silent'': the only symptom is an erroneous computation.

>We refer to a core that develops such behavior as "mercurial.'' Mercurial cores are extremely rare, but in a large fleet of servers we can observe the correlated disruption they cause, often enough to see them as a distinct problem -- one that will require collaboration between hardware designers, processor vendors, and systems software architects.

>We have observed various kinds of symptoms caused by mercurial cores.

> Violations of lock semantics leading to application data corruption and crashes.

> Data corruptions exhibited by various load, store, vector,
> and coherence operations.

> A deterministic AES mis-computation, which was “self inverting”: encrypting and decrypting on the same core yielded the identity function, but decryption elsewhere yielded gibberish.

> Corruption affecting garbage collection, in a storage system, causing live data to be lost.

> Database index corruption leading to some queries, depending on which replica (core) serves them, being non deterministically corrupted.

> Repeated bit-flips in strings, at a particular bit position (which stuck out as unlikely to be coding bugs).

> Corruption of kernel state resulting in process and kernel crashes and application malfunctions

___________

>Not all mercurial-core screening can be done before CPUs
are put into service – first, because some cores only become
defective after considerable time has passed,
And these people would defend murder suspects?

How very strange. — In many jurisdictions defence attorneys do not have a right to refuse any case they are competent in and timewise available for, something I approve of.
What civil war? Taiwan isn't China.

There could be a civil war in China once the CCP falls.
Leadville is just 45 minutes up the road for me, so I'm kind of cheating!
I had no idea `git` supported a template for commit messages. Very cool!

It doesn't enforce Conventional Commits, but I use this[1] to lint my commits in conjunction with a Sublime Linter plugin[2].

[1]: https://yossarian.net/snippets#git-lint-commit

[2]: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-contrib-git...
Even doubly so, since at least for some of us they were bricked somehow recently. I had two. One is flashing the volume buttons and is unresponsive otherwise. I can't even replace it without going to ebay and paying double. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomePod/comments/g3lm0e/flashing_vo...
Want Radical Innovation? Throw a High Stakes Hackathon
But...MySQL? Sigh...

I migrated to PostgreSQL later than most, and I've still be using Postgres for six years...
I’d check out some UK/US based remote first companies as they would be less of a culture shock. A lot of companies have a dev presence in SEA and India and would love to have more on call coverage for those regions
Also 'Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged' from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy":

"After a period of total boredom, especially on Sunday afternoons, he decided to insult everyone in the entire universe in alphabetical order." (A quote from the fandom wiki)
M.2 actually reserved a key for the "Future Memory Interface". That of course must be serdes based due to the pin-count and general physics.
And the older me is more appreciative of people who share their way of not wanting more, but appreciating the less. But I have to concede, painkillers and the internet is nice too.
Hitman 3 - many many many of ways to complete missions and engages creativity in really cool ways while being immersive and still fun / free form.
A friend of mine's company does the favela tour with cooperation from the community and has been doing it safely for almost twenty years now:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g303506-d24775...

https://www.instagram.com/bealocaltours/
Any Zachtronics game.

"Human Resource Machine" and "7 Billion Humans"
This is the 'Jamie Taco' approach to reading. You may have done it faster than anyone else, but...
PostHog is the gold standard here. The feature-set goes far beyond GA and essentially replaces a lot of the other tools you may end up needing (FullStory, Amplitude, etc.)
If we want to take the unethical route, I’d argue not providing an API (paid or free) is unethical and a nasty business practice.

I work for an ecommerce company and we scrape competitors for price information. Should this automated process using API’s not be okay, we’ll have humans do it. Less efficient for us, more traffic for a competitor. Should they provide a paid API with price information available, I’m sure we’d pay.
Agree to a large degree, but this:

> Bloat and feature creep are real (and I'd accuse Firefox of both) but in general yes[...]

Except Pocket, what particular new bloat has Firefox added over the last decade?

I am not too fond of Mozilla myself, but if anything I feel like Firefox has been stripped down way to far.
Depends what you mean. US law takes into account the existence of foreign nations already; some explicitly end at the borders, others not so.

It also depends on which country, and to what extent agreements exist between those countries wrt policing their own territories. Those that don't have such agreements, are often also limited in what extent they can do business in the US.
I get Duracell Industrials through my works office supplier, they also leak frequently.
That’s why I put it in terms of how much they care. I’d be surprised if there is something on the Ethereum chain itself because it’d cost a small fortune but if there was, the authorities could easily require all companies to block access to those records, filter network traffic for all but the most determined users, etc. because it’s a complex always-on network system with a fair amount of volume.

The underlying problem here is discoverability. If I can find your content, so can the police. If sharing it is personally risky, most people won’t and they feel who do won’t for long. Censorship has never relied on absolutely preventing anyone from saying something prohibited — it’s always the potential for retroactive consequences. This is why successful movements have generally needed outside support, anonymous communications (e.g. printed samizdat which is most risky if they catch you when you’re actually in possession of it), or some kind of social network which is hard to infiltrate (family, religion, etc.).
https://www.tesladeaths.com/miles.html
https://www.tesladeaths.com/vehicleyears.html

Tesla doesn't release total yearly mileage data anymore so there isn't much to work with. There is some IIHS data and from that Tesla models do worse than comparable vehicles without a doubt (https://www.tesladeaths.com/index.html#FAQ).
It's really variable across industries.

In competitive industries like software engineering, you quit and get a new job and then they pay you 10-20% more. In monopsony industries like government, you suck it up and get a 3% cost-of-living increase while gradually falling behind on inflation. In unionized businesses (there aren't many left), your union fights for a 7% pay increase and you basically stay awash with inflation. In competitive small businesses, you try to quit to get that big raise but then find that no other small business has the money to pay you, so you spend your nights, weekends, and downtime on the job doing a data science bootcamp and then quit for a 10x salary boost.

It was the same in the 1970s. My mom (teacher) said that when she entered the workforce in the late 60s, teachers were paid about 20-30% less than professional occupations like doctors, lawyers, and engineers. By the early 1980s, the latter were making 2-3x more but teacher salaries had barely budged. By the time I entered the workforce in the mid-00s, software engineer starting salaries were about the same as teacher pre-retirement salaries, mid-career was 2-3x more, and the top end was 10x+ more.
The whole point of blogging was to push ideas out, and have a conversation with your fellow bloggers. In conversations, statements are reinterpreted and error corrected in the course of time.

Twitter is the High Frequency Trading version of Blogging.
There are an absolute higher number of slaves today than in the past, is that what you are referencing?
In practice I think it's likely that most law firms and jurisdictions who configure and accept business ownership structures enforce their terms in a nearly-as-restrictive manner. No doubt there are exceptions; a file format can be adjusted over time to handle those equally.

The file format should -- and to some extent, is already -- separated from the mechanism(s) of payment.

Version-controlled software development is social and provides history, evidence, and allows code to evolve over time; I like that this approach leverages those properties.
yeah I've noticed that the antinatalists never seem to be saying, "man, I really really want to have kids, it's one of if not the most important driving forces in my life... but the threat of climate change looms ever-present, so it would be irresponsible to bring my heirs into this fallen Earth!"—it usually if not always seems to be a post-hoc excuse for a decision they've already made, or at the very least, a justification to move off the middle of the fence toward "no" instead of "yes." if anyone knows of anyone who's written something that contradicts this I would love to read it.
there are even USB-C ones now for people who have less microUSB 5VDC charge cables hanging around their home...
I don't think so, when we split hp the Memristor side went to HPE (hp Enterprise) and I think they canned the whole thing. Maybe some IP is retained, not sure, but any real work would have to be done outside of hpe.
Portal

The Turing Test
Prismata is a little known online card game with very simple rules but it's incredibly hard to master.

The community is pretty small, but active enough that you can usually find an opponent if you wait a few minutes. (But try to beat the computer first, it's hard enough!)
I was fine until it got to the Barrington Declaration.
I wish I was this lucky.

And who the hell gets annual 5% raises?!
Project Euler is fun for anyone who likes logic puzzles. I enjoyed working on those problems as I was just learning to code, and some (maybe many?) can be solved without writing code.

A few friends of mine who don't have any formal math or comp sci experience have had fun on the site as well.
I think I found the article you are referring to. [1] I don't think that's a good example of misinformation. Here's a recent report by Reuters on the same topic. [2]

I agree that The Telegraph is not the most reliable source of the news [3], but that doesn't make anything they report on automatically false.

[1]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

[3]: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-telegraph/
Planned obsolescence.

This may well end up with CPU vendors adopting food storage cant.

"Ignel i11-23017K, MFD: 2025.05.01, EXP: 2026.09.03, consume within 3 months of first power-on".
I wonder if this contributes to why Docker's file operations are terribly slow on macOS.
> Why would a user want to maintain a local archive of this content?

When I think of all the things that once existed and have now vanished forever for all sorts of reasons it is very appealing to imagine having a local archive.
Well sha1 and md5 are used all over the place so supporting them makes a lot of sense.

Most of your points are related to documentation, and a bit patronizing.

For all I care most of the functionality is there, fast and reasonably well designed.
I have done manual configs from scratch in Rollup, even wrote bunch of plugins for stuff like custom css class minifying and web worker support, so no I don't need handholding :) Setting it all up was even fun, everything was well documented and clear, with Webpack on the other hand, you only have fun if you like pain.
> Coming from Ruby, there are lessons to be learned. Ruby has a large stdlib

And is very aggressively moving stuff out of stdlib to three concentric circles of gems; “default gems” which are almost like stdlibs (and still tied somewhat to Ruby versions) but are separately maintained and can be updated between Ruby versions, “bundled” gems that are usually distributed with Ruby, and just plain regular gems.
This is very true and it paints a dim view on the XXI century- we are going to be ruled by thugs and gangsters because we “vote” them in, until it’s too late.
let's be clear, the problems are mostly limited to public health and human health medical biology. There are entire swaths of biology, chemistry and physics which are not nearly as bad when it comes to turning data into actionable knowledge.
Amazing! That's the life.

It's insane to me how things like this can happen in companies, and especially for it to go on for so long. You would expect someone to notice something at some point.

But good for them, they are doing everything right, doing as told "not stir the pot", I hope they can enjoy this situation for a long time!
There's a distinction to be made between "capable but not overwhelming", "capable and overwhelming", "incapable but not overwhelming", and "incapable but still overwhelming". The first two can both describe advanced systems without dumbification, but the user experience is qualitatively different and can lead to wildly different outcomes when put into use.

You can have an "advanced" (whatever it may mean in context) system which fits into the first two categories, which is very useful to remember. Something I like is command prompts in the style of emacs accessed via M-x and similar shortcuts (or in VS Code, which many more people are familiar with). These permit discovery of new commands and activation of commands without overwhelming the UI. They can also "teach" the user, by providing information like what the keyboard shortcut actually is for activating it. Contrast this with something I've seen in many desktop projects (especially ones targeting a smaller number of power users, versus a more public system distributed to a broader user base): menu hell. All those same commands are still there (maybe), but buried in menus with submenus with submenus. Even though a command may logically appear in multiple places, it probably only appears in one. They may not even appear in a logical place, but just a conventional one, like search commands showing up under "Edit".
Click the "Cloud" option. Free to 1M events.
I had the exact same experience. A barely smart phone being used to verify ID and we had to do the facial recognition more than 10 ten times, each time having to go through a whole step by step process to get there. And it still didn't work. I think he had to go an entirely different route in order to even do it. If he didn't have someone like me who could think systematically, there's no way he by himself or any non-technically minded person would be able to do it.
It wasn't the 1st game called Wordle.
To be fair, public libraries generally have computers suitable for this purpose.
In solidarity with sibling comments, I also want to say that IPython has been pretty much my default shell for about a decade now. Auto completion, magic functions (paste, edit, pylab come to mind), auto reload, nice colors out of the box... it’s become a beloved piece of software to me over the years. Back in college, being introduced to IPython almost made it seem like Matlab wasn’t doing enough! I’m gushing a bit, but honestly IPython has solved many a problem for me, and I want to say thanks.