skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you're thinking of a different chip for digital FM? The TDA7000 chip is completely analog, with R-C filters, oscillators, mixers, a variable capacitor and varactor diodes for tuning, and so forth.
> Defragging your disk prepares you to understand the concept of heap fragmentation later on in life

uhhh no. Absolutely did NOT help me, or any of the people I know (many of which never got into tech, so don't even understand what a programming language is, let alone "heaps") :-)
Amazon's Project Kuiper

Behind, but it's there
As far as I understood from my experience, there’s no way to upgrade your Luminus after you had started your project, you only upgrade individual libraries — so any further changes in the Luminus framework itself don’t affect your old projects.
You can download leaked phone numbers of millions of ppl and add them to your phone's address book (iOS limits contacts to 50k). I don't think this is very secure.
We're talking about over-the-air radio and tv. There are no wires. Or internet.
OP (and the article) is talking about the encoding of UTF-8, not Unicode in general.

ASCII is itself valid utf-8, because ASCII is a subset of utf-8. But a multi byte encoded codepoint in UTF-8 cannot be confused with ASCII, because the highest bit is set in all the octets.
The counter point (whether you believe it or not) is that the existing financial system also has benefits over any other political/economic system of resource distribution.

Crypto doesn't have that upside at this time I don't think.
Unfortunately, nowhere.

I would love IoT to go away and come back in a few decades, more mature with better privacy.
You have not read many "hit pieces" then.

My favourite one from Wired is when they critically examined Project Xanadu leader and its history.

It's from 1995 but people still keep linking to it whenever Xanadu is mentioned.

https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
I’m sure someone said the same thing about paper money when it first came out. You still remember older generations crying that would should go back in the gold standard for US currency/
What is a good way to sort and deduplicate about 700 GB of photos stored in Google Drive (not in Google Photos but as image files in Drive)? Can it be done incrementally instead of downloading the entire thing?

What are the best options for deduplication and organization if I have to do it at once?
> "your code compiles" is much closer to "your code is correct".

That is so far from the truth.
I think I get your point, but for clarity, I wouldn't have wanted my parents investing in startups I've worked at, or in my current startup, even though those are not scams - they are just high risk and suited only to a certain profile. "Crypto" is different because it's a scam - the potential return is undefined in a sense, because it's based on the greater fool theory and how long the scam can keep up rather than any connection to fundamentals (even the dodgy fundamentals that drive the current startup market). A risky investment is one thing, a exploitive scam is a very different proposition
I reported a similar issue to Zoom on April 9, 2020 and did not receive a reply. I did not test to see if it has been fixed since.

The issue: While watching Zoom webinars on Mac, clicking on Audio Settings auto-activated the mic for testing audio levels. However, Zoom forgot to deactivate it upon leaving the settings. For the rest of the webinar, the input device stayed activated in the background (as evidenced by OverSight and Micro Snitch). I could not find a way to deactivate it.

This issue is similar to one that affected Shazam: "Shazam Keeps Your Mac’s Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8ee3/shazam-keeps-your-....
I think you’re unduly discounting the influence of emotions on leaders. IMO there are many executives who are for more driven by their personal feelings than we would like to believe.
Reference design offers wireless docking over Wi-Fi 6E for PCs
I think the spelling was on purpose
It was a fine comment and I don't think there was any intention to hijack the thread - but I've detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30241128 now.
Can you use browser? I’ve used zoom once, I just launched it in browser and that’s about it. Browser is a godsend when it comes to sketchy apps that I’m forced to use.
Tech Giants ‘Failing’ to Block Global LGBTQ Conversion Therapy Network
At least drug dealing provides a product: drugs/inebriation/escapism - it's something. After all these years of crypto, I still haven't figured out what the product is. The crypto zealots talk about government-free financial transactions, but none of the crypto commercials/marketing ever mentions that.
Using GPT-3 for that sounds dangerous.
I've traveled a little bit, but as I've gotten older, travel has become something I'm not interested in at all. A lot of expense for very little reward in my experience. I know that a lot of people have "travel" on the list of things they plan to do when they retire, but I just don't see the allure.
I don't think this is unique to cloud providers, can you name any utility provider that doesn't do this?
There have been more expensive scams.
"So…we have the Space Weather Prediction Center [0] and raw data from NOAA for this exact purpose. Does SpaceX not review the data / warnings before launch?" is not just asking questions; it's full-on passive-aggressive.

Being pseudo-anonymous and safely behind a screen depersonalizes the experience enough that we get tempted to take swipes for some reason (I do too), and it diminishes the experience on places like HN especially where we aspire to do better than reddit or /.

The best test for this kind of thing is "If I were speaking to the responsible person face-to-face, would I say it this way?" Because then the question becomes "Do I want to hurt this person?"
I've worked with a number of crypto startups over the last few years and have friends involved in many more. So far at least 99% of what's I've seen in the space is a scam, not even well disguised. People are just desperate for any kind of return right now and will throw money at the dumbest things.
Maybe it's because HN is actually a technically savvy demographic that sees through the bullshit?
Does shipping a rocket to Mars with enough propellant to make the trip and land when it gets there affect the balance?

Every rocket to Mars carries hydrocarbon that will never come back.
Presumably you haven’t seen any of the “exited” emails. Or seen some of the petty reasons people get fired for at that company.
Same. Every person I know that either started a crypto company or invested heavily in crypto has always been shady and that does it for me.
I don't know. If you live your self repeating life and weeks become months and months become years and then you go to say Korea for half a year and make new friends and pick up new routines and eat new foods and then you go back to your routine, isn't your life just better than if you hadn't gone? The new stuff might still become a routine, but it is still extra.
My wife and I file pretty standard forms every year--no complicated deductions, only 2-3 W2s, maybe a couple 1099s and a 1098-E. For the first few years of our marriage, I did taxes by hand as a point of pride and enjoyed it (yeah, I know--most say yuck). Around 2006ish, I got a copy of TurboTax in a bundle with my first MacBook Pro and I've never looked back. It's absolutely worth it to me for $40 to me for the ease of e-filing, standardized output with all worksheets and forms, and speed of return via direct deposit. I get $40 is a lot to some people and tbh, I fully support a sliding percentage tax system with NO returns, but the vast majority of people get a return anyway, why not count the $40 out of it to be sure your returns were done right?

Oh, and yea, I still quite enjoy tax-night when I get to sit down with my reciepts and 109x's and file, though I will say I always mail my state returns in to avoid the additional $20 fee for e-file.
I've always said that you can never really know a place until you've been there long enough to get bored.
If businesses see their employees making more, you can guarantee that they will reduce wages. Because total compensation is the bargaining chip in this contract between employer and employee, and what determines demand for that job. When this happens, it hurts the people who are less advantaged in making tips. You can find plenty informartion on how gender, race, age and appearance play a huge factor in making tips.
Some Unicode encodings require a char datatype that is 2+ bytes wide, hence a wide char.
living abroad is the best thing happened to me, i'm grateful for every minute of it. it's just cool.

so, seneca might be right, changing the sky doesn't change our soul. but changing the sky helps our soul to change if you are in the right disposition. because sometimes being stuck in a place physically, also get us stuck mentally.

traveling instead, meh: to me traveling it's just consumption, and consumption is tiresome and boring.
Well, I do get you in the sense that most bitcoiners (assuming btc is the main crypto used in ur company) religiously believe that this is the actual new way of storing monetary value. It may be the case,without the problems of money printing/inflation and so on, but yeah it's still yet to be proved by the entire world as an effective means of doing so.
My company is also really into btc, and I've felt like I'm in a cult lol, but at least in the short term it feels like it's gonna go well - expect at least 30% profit if u buy low sell high within a year (that happened to me).
Is the bubble gonna burst? Maybe yeah, because of governments against a new form of money that can't be printed, maybe because its structure is destined to fail when in world scale, or maybe there will be an actually better protocol which is greener and allows instant transactions with the decentralized safety btc provides (there probably already is something like that out there and just need s more marketing/visibility).
I guess the feeling comes from the uncertainty of crypto: everybody following something nobody knows it's the actual future or not. I think the people that make me feel most like I'm in a scam are those fundamentalists of bitcoin because they all run into darkness with an unexplainable confidence haha.
My take is: short term is actually safe, buy stocks for long term.
Oh dear. 13 years in and you compare it to FDs? Hmmmmmm…
Almost every competent and experienced developer I know thinks most crypto stuff (such as NFTs for example) is bogus. Out of the people that I know that ARE into crypto, most of them are recent bootcamp grads or not very experienced (but somewhat techie).

Anecdotal, I know. But, I think if you look around at the respectable people in the tech field, you will see that most of them are staying away from crypto for a variety of reasons.

Crypto is the worst kind of pop-culture fad tech.
> or likely would have died or been seriously injured if the driver hadn't intervened

I can see this being a reason to ban a system from operating at SAE level 3 or above, but isn't the entire difference between level 2 and level 3 that things like that are expected to happen at level 2 and below, hence the reason for drivers having to always be ready to immediately intervene at those levels?
Iirc, lots of paper money was only as good as the company that printed it
CDO at least had an underlying asset. They went wrong because they became a tool to game the rating agencies. Crypto is something else, it's like a way to circumvent any common sense and past learning about securities, and let the common person buy in to a mlm and / or ponzi scheme with some confusing words to make it sound legit.
Except you're paying $40 to a company that prevents you from having what every other modern western country has: $0, and the government did it for you.

They stole your $40 every year and used it to lobby Congress.
>Their ads all sounded exactly the same

They aren't the same. Also some of the ads included his daughter too. He seems like a nice guy.
Back-end languages are coming to the front-end
It's unlikely we'll open source the Elixir app, most of it isn't that interesting. But extracting the machine code into an example app is a good idea! Until then, here's a prototype go proxy that launches suspended machines when requests come in: https://github.com/superfly/machine-proxy

We'll be baking that into our proxy soon so we can handle lambda-type workloads.

Image size impacts the cold startup time since it gets fetched and converted into a rootfs before launching. Caching speeds up subsequent launches. Once a machines is created, it can be stopped and resumed, which is _much_ faster. I don't remember the numbers, but it's in the several hundred ms range.

We'll have more to share soon.
In the town where I grew up the police HQ had a Safety Village for teaching rules of road and such to kids. It had a little McDonald’s and a little post office and even a little Tim Horton’s. I loved going there as a field trip. We would get to drive Power Wheels jeeps.

How large is the biggest fake city used for soak in testing by one of these autonomous car companies?

How much did it cost?
All investing is gambling. Investing in startups, with a 70%+ failure rate, is only for gamblers with a big bankroll, lots of nerve, and probably inside information.

Investing in crypto is like gambling at a game where you don’t know the rules, the house is cheating, the game can shut down (rug pull) at any time, and you can’t go to the police.

I wouldn’t advise my family to invest in startups, or to take their life savings to Vegas and blow it on roulette. I think most people know those are not safe investments. Crypto has a huge amount of hype and nonsense swirling around and since it depends on finding more greater fools the crypto scammers can take advantage of FOMO, ignorance, and what looks like the future of money.
One YC place I worked actually had a CEO who freestyle rapped as a hobby.
Some shops don't design like that :) some folks build giant monoliths and then have to scale/deploy that app with it's database connections broadly.
Yeahbut, they both need access to the same screen. And yes, it's all made by suppliers, and therein lies most of the trouble with cars today.
Does HN hate crypto? Does HN love rust and pg essays?
> As long as Tesla can demonstrate a similar or better rate of serious harm than human drivers, why should we stop them?

Because it can't, or won't. Instead they release statistics that _imply_ that it is better, that they have to know are absolutely misleading, because anyone who did high school statistics would be aware thereof.

Everything else, they refuse to release.
Game against Covid-19 misinformation
There's the difference between investing in the startup (taking shares in a specific company) and investing in crypto though, right? I'd happily encourage my parents or grandparents to invest in an 'index fund' of startups in a bunch of different fields. I can't say the same about an index of crypto companies, and especially not in an index of crypto assets.
It’s pretty easy to exhaust a DB if you have many replicas of a service connecting, each at high concurrency. 20 replicas at 20 connections each is enough to hit limits (like on Cloud SQL for GCP)

As you say, you can write a service to stand in front of the DB and mediate access, but PgBouncer is already written AND production ready
Is your contention that criticism of the capitalist system is best explained by sour grapes?

I think someone strongly anti-capitalist would not be incredibly interested in the best strategies to accumulate wealth. And that is not a point against their critique.

Now if they didn't understand the system they were criticizing that is another thing. But in your comment it seems to imply only the rich would have a valid opinion - though I think that class has obvious biases in this discussion.
For the TLDR; crowd, note at the end reads:
“ (For the lawyers: This was a bit. Ethan Coen had nothing to do with it.)”
I don't think a problem with generalizing should get in the way of recognizing what is clearly the case: as described, what happened to that girl and her family was clearly wrong. It was not a free speech issue and no-one claimed it was. The photo was shared simply for ghoulish sensationalism. Under these conditions, this sharing should be harshly penalized. I agree there are problems generalizing, and I'm not trying to write a law. I'm just saying that in this particular case the sharers of that picture are clearly in the wrong, and they should stop or face consequences.
Yeah, drives me nuts. Some cars have really great rear visibility and should be exempt from the requirement. I understand it on SUVs and stuff though.
Tech savvy does not equate to financial savvy. There is way too much cynicism here on HN related to investing, crypto, capital preservation (taxes) and expansion (investing).
3) The warning was missed due to <fill in the blank process failure>

4) The severity of the situation was misjudged

5) They decided to try a real-world experiment to determine whether their expectations were correct
From your linked article:

> The fallacious sense of "slippery slope" is often used synonymously with continuum fallacy, in that it ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B. In this sense, it constitutes an informal fallacy.

"If you take N steps, you will take N+1 steps" is a fallacy whenever it's possible that you won't take N+1 steps.
spacex isn't a person.
Zero deaths is a completely unreasonable standard. I literally can't think of a single thing at all that's never contributed to anyone's death.
I think pretty damning are accounts tied to their personal identities and emails to exchanges where they lied about the source of funds. How can they explain that away? Their email addresses were hacked? Funds moved to their personal bank accounts and used for expenses was unintentional? It seems like a big stretch.
To indemnify manufacturers and drivers from the harm, it is going to require extraordinary proof and regulation. Similar to medicine, medical equipment, aircraft. Until that point, it is individual choice to turn it on, and their responsibility for any harm. Same situation as a driver choosing between wearing their eyeglasses or not. What is unclear is which individuals are taking responsibility with driverless trials, or if any indemnification by the state for driverless trials was done ethically.
The key issue is “if you do it right”. That’s easy to type, but hard to execute.

You’re essentially creating a private framework without public scrutiny which catches a lot of mistakes. That’s one of the main values of using an open source framework.

Are there times when a new framework is better than a preexisting one? Sure, when there are no frameworks that can meet your specialized project, but if it’s a typically CRUD application? Imo you’re better off with an open source framework.
Thunderf00t is such a strange fellow. He's clearly quite bright and has some fantastic takedowns of pseudoscience and scammy things, and even disproves a claim about dipoles from a Veritasium video.

But then he goes off with these screeds like the Starlink one as if like they are going to scale up v0.5 without any revision or cost improvement. In the name of "skepticism" or "rationality". But a real rational look at the situation would maybe give the ops and biz folks at SpaceX a bit more benefit of the doubt that they can project out profit/loss over multiyear timeframes.
The assumption is that it's desirable to have a descending climbing frequency instead of uniform.

This makes a lot of sense, as when you're younger frequent climbing would help you to develop proficiency quickly and your body allows you to joy it fully. Plus the social benefits are probably higher when younger.

Once you're older, it's potentially less enjoyable (as your body ages) and you don't need to worry as much about rapidly gaining proficiency.
Disagree. I grew up in Scandinavia but have since lived many different places all over the world and for me it remains enjoyable to move someplace new, get to know it and the culture over a few years, and if I stagnate or get bored, switch it up again. It has also paradoxically been good both for my career and personal life. (exposed to more potential jobs, friends, partners etc I otherwise wouldn't have)

YMMV and it's certainly not for everyone. But I'm skeptical that staying in your comfort zone your whole life will do anyone much favors. (and the odd few week trip here or there doesn't really count, by all means all travel is great but vacation and just passing places through is fundamentally different from spending at least a few months or even years somewhere)
You don't list any so I'll bite, I guess. What "cryptocurrency" company isn't a "scam" as basically defined in the post?
I remember those analog tuners and I hated them, you could never get the frequency exactly right and over time it would "wander" so you had to retune. I will take digital FM tuners over analog ones any day, perfect tuning, no wandering, easy channel changing and much better quality.

Also I own a 2012 BMW and its infotainment system works just fine. If the car is coming from deep sleep it takes like 5 seconds to start but it shows the BMW logo and it's a nice touch. With a warm start it's on immediately. Channel changing is also fast, not instant but with the benefit of not hearing any static in between.

Not to say all cars are perfect, I have seen cars with terrible infotainment systems which are slow and buggy, that's just a thing to keep on your list to inspect before buying a new car.
My Toyota does the worst of both worlds -- the audio portion comes up immediately, with whatever volume setting it had when it was shut off.

The volume knob doesn't respond until about 8 seconds later.

I'm sure you can imagine situations (like in a driveway such as mine, where the neighbor's bedroom window directly overlooks it) where what was appropriate at 3pm when I got home, is not appropriate at 3am next time I start the car...
It helps if your life problems are true first world problems (viz. tech guy with million or more in savings but thinks the cushy job isn’t rewarding enough and wants more purpose or something). It doesn’t matter you’re sitting in Kyoto eating sushi if you’re depressed to begin with. Only therapy and treatment could help. Maybe.
Well, you could also say the same about seat belts and ABS. I very much prefer cars with cameras at this point.
I believe that Rust users are past caring about that.

If you feel that C is a good language for your needs, then by all means, use it.

I know that Rust brings me a very efficient safety net that lets me concentrate on the algorithm [1] without having to also spend quite as much time auditing, fuzzing, valgrinding and {thread, memory, ...} sanitizing my code. In addition to the safety added by the type-system, I also enjoy the convenience of tools such as `Drop`, or the ability to derive (de)serializers for most formats, etc.

This is not about criticizing C. This is about picking the best tool for the job. Sometimes, it is Rust. Sometimes, it is TypeScript. I haven't encountered a job for which C was the best tool for me in a while. I'm sure that there are cases, mind you, but I don't encounter them anymore.

[1] With caveats, of course. As all Rust users, I need to please the borrow-checker gods.
This is why line dominates in Japan. The range of stickers is incomparable.
I think many classes of people are incapable of being anything other than broke.

Why shouldn't I profit from human nature?