skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You plug it in, it gives you a diag plan, and you follow it. To venture away from this you need to ask permission.

That was my German car stealership experience. Car suddenly sounds rough and reports cylinder 1 misfire. I swap around sparkies and coil packs, but still cyl 1 misfire.

I write that up, go to dealership because this is beyond me and I figure they have fancier tools than my $20 reader. But for $250 they obviously didn’t read my note and advised replacing sparkies and coil packs even though I’ve 100% excluded those as the cause. And obviously if they had the tools to test a spark plug or coil back, they didn’t use them either.

Their flowcharts not only lobotomize their techs, but have taken the place of basic troubleshooting techniques.

Next indy read my notes and immediately does a compression test showing cyl 1 holds no pressure. Even sent pictures.

Correct diagnosis was failed exhaust valve spring. $2k later and I’m back in order. I shudder to think the stealership could even tear down and rebuild their engine that way.
Ask HN: Please donate to the CMU SCS Videotape preservation project
https://library.cmu.edu/university-archives/initiatives/scs-videotapes

We should be able to raise the $87,500 to preserve this valuable knowledge.
Now I'm confused because the root comment I was replying to asserted that type hints are for documenting, not for checking.

If they are for checking, then my other opinion stands: that they are not very good at it (compared to my experience with statically typed languages, even with Typescript!).
the first one i can confirm, but the second one i actually do not remember

the scenario is the following: somebody invites me to their org to do some work on their private repo, then after the work is done they remove me from the org

what i expect in this case is that my contributions are still counted as long as the repository is on GitHub, even when i'm no longer a member of the org

it's a very minor feature but a very nice one for contractors like me who want to show some progress!
I'd second Mosyle Business. We pay for about 40 licences. It costs us very little and they provide quick support.
FWIW we have a quite a bit of history of allowing people to protect their privacy.

https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...

In this instance we don't think it will hurt the social coding experience of open source and in fact might encourage folks who would otherwise be put off. But we are testing this particular feature and will keep iterating on it depending how things go and what the feedback is.
Rick Beat is trying to deceive you. If you really believe that this Sergio Mendes song is complicated, you need to listen to some older pop songs. For example, Stevie Wonder is a good composer to start.
There is no optimizer that is capable of getting the correct result 100% of the time. Even Oracle with decades of costly engineering behind it requires query tuning (either via explicit hints on the client side sql or via server side plan tuning) at any reasonably large scale.

I like Postgresql and use it when I can and I respect the Postgreql core dev team's adherence to principles but in this particular case I believe they are just inventing arguments to justify their unreasonable stance against allowing query hinting.
Lottery elections: put people in office like jury duty. You don't want to be President? Too bad! You're qualified, have a good background (whatever that is), people have vouched for your character, so ... you're it for 4 years!

I'd trust my next door neighbor to be President more than someone who actually wants to be President.
I mean, clearly this is a Mac enthusiast website enthusiastically defending apple. The point stands, imo.
4G definitely enabled video. We’ve yet to have the app that 5G enables, not to say that something won’t show up eventually.

What killed 3G for me is that they artificially slowed it down to give 4G priority or something.
> Do you have access to their internal modelling? I don't. I have no idea what they were expecting.

This info is already out there [0] and they were laughably off the mark. They were expecting 2M subs this year and up to 18M in four years, according to McKinsey.

It's funny watching people defending a dying brand. The broader context is that CNN and the rest of cable news has been self-immolating for awhile now and are circling the drain, desperate to remain relevant.

[0] https://www.axios.com/cnn-plus-cuts-warner-brothers-discover...
What Can Be Done About the Global Housing Crisis? Plenty
The only way someone could defend a corporation is if they were attempting to manipulate others for financial gain?
Hey. I've been using k9 for quite some time now so I have a question here, how feature complete it is now against other email clients? I hear oath but other than that, is is 50% of the competition? More? Less?
What I like about bios is how simple stupid it is. It reads a bunch of bytes in and boom and starts running them. Partition tables and multiple stages, yes that is the convention but you dont have to adhere to that if you dont want to. Having to change into long mode, yes that is an important wrinkle I give you that. But either way, the design is so simple that you could write a little hello world mbr-program with a hex editor. It's a handful of bytes.

Ok contrast that with UEFI. There are FAT boot partitions and PE executables and what not. That's a lot more complexity.
I know nothing of why postgres don't want to implement them, but coming from the MS SQL Server side of things I can tell you they are quite an effective foot-gun in a number of circumstances. More often, in fact, than they are a benefit.

Often people reach for index hints when they should be fixing issues in the query or the available indexes, swapping a scan for many seeks which on small data does give a benefit but once code goes into production and the data grows performance falls through the floor. Also if they are named in the hint then you open up a new family of errors if the index gets altered later (though you could perhaps implement the hint as “use an index on columns x & y” rather than “use this specific named index” to get around this).

There are circumstances where they are a genuinely useful tool, of course, but not nearly as many as people seem to think.

Beyond that I assume implementation will have difficult points. If the hints are taken as instructions it may require significant changes to the rest of the generated query plan, if they are sometimes ignored then people will complain bitterly…
It exists to some extent around Linux, because "Linux user" is an identity that some people care about, but I dispute that there are "Windows fans" and "Windows anti-fans" the way that there are Apple fans and anti-fans. Using Windows just isn't core to anyone's identity.

The interesting difference between the identities of "Linux user" and "Apple customer" is that one came from grassroots hacker subculture and the other is the product of corporate marketing.
Sounds good - LMK if you find it's not working that way for you.
It's Macworld. What do you expect?

It's like going to Fox and being surprised they like Trump over there.
this has not been my experience with several TE products.

My experience suggests that TE charges a lot because they 1) they're a status symbol so they can and 2) they replace a lot of devices.

TE to me does not at all signify high quality or 'good build quality'. Just 'ok' and 'it will likely fail long before its purchase price justifies itself'.

They're the pre-intel apple of the synth world - overpriced and not worth the cost, but status symbols for those who want them.
Well, someone should tell TE then, because they obviously don't know they're making a huge mistake and this will fail miserably.
Which waves are safe then?
Currently the only project i donate to. They are great.
OpenBSD 7.1 that released today also had a lot to say about M1 support. Does anyone have experience running it? How does it compare to Asahi Linux?
"The second option conforms with the Research Methods 101 rule-of-thumb “always assume independence.” Until proven otherwise, we should assume people have no ability to self-assess their performance"

It's not that at all. The assumption should be that everyone is equally good (or bad) at assessing their performance. Not that they have no ability but that the means between groups is the same vs. not the same. That the ability to assess themselves is independent of performance.
If I remember right this website's reporters are banned from Apple promotional events because of their earnest (and colorful) reviews of Apple products. Humor reminds me of The Register.
Don't worry, they'll find one. Just haven't flashed the right amount of money in front of one yet.
Centrist or centre-right if judged by non-US standards.
My takeaway is that with so many different alternatives, its becoming decreasingly economically rational to produce series/film. The budget of the series I was watching was almost certainly 100x+ the budget of the random people on tiktok I was scrolling past, collectively.
They didn't make it up; it was coined earlier, but they certainly ran with it
Relevant: https://www.are.na/blog/the-global-village-coffeehouse-aesth...
That's about what I said when the idea was first proposed. Actual type declarations, both enforced and used to guide code generation and optimization, would be fine.

Part of the problem is that, in the minds of many, Python == CPython. PyPy, which is a real compiler, is viewed as "nonstandard". For PyPy, type information, although not in type hint form, would be useful. But type hints, as currently defined, are not. See the commentary on type hints at [1].

[1] https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html
I find this level of nitpicking puzzling.

You know what I meant and what error I was clarifying for the comment I was replying to. Yet you went out of your way to point all sorts of irrelevant mistakes in my post, when the gist of it was right.

Do you feel it was more important to correct me on these trivial things, or was my reply more or less correct when fixing the conceptual error in this sentence?:

> "In what reasonable sense can Python be said to "enforce types at runtime" here?"

Here's a nitpick of my own to your post:

> "Some of those things are unsafe unless you are quite sure what you're doing."

Wrong. Type (un)safety does not depend on you "being quite sure of what you're doing".

PS: assume I know C and that I've programmed complex things using it. No need to catch yourself with statements like "not that C has any idea of what a dict is". Assume we are both C programmers. It will make you sound more polite.
I collected many of the T-shirts and other items. I published a list w/ photos, including a few photos others sent me. All done in glorious bare-bones 1990's HTML, photos taken on 35mm and scanned with a cheap scanner.

https://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl-wear/
5G near me is something like 15x faster than wired broadband. I don't care about it for mobile, but I'm excited to finally ditch my landline and crappy 20mbit line.
What point though? Regardless of where an article is coming, it should be judged on merit, not on prejudice.

The point of "it's defending a corporation" is the part I am literally (as in, with my eyes) not seeing.
One of the debian maintainers told me the Apple store infra runs debian
Interesting that they have different T&Cs (e.g. warranty length) for the US vs rest of the world.
I'm almost certain I was taught Palmer in Christian school when I was a kid. I still hate how certain letters look but it's hard to change how I write now. 34 I've been at odds with the letter "r".
Could you please elaborate? I would be especially glad if you linked a scientific research article about this. I'm also worried (but don't reject it outright) and I'd like to make my own opinion.
Blockchain Biotech makes me imagine a CryptoShkreli, a bleak future indeed
Ransomware Is on the Way and Backups Are Your Best Defense
Plus that you need to architect this yourself, with all the black magic involved to not mess something up.
ican confirm it can be more like pulling teeth than freely receiving candy. I’ve pulled a few teeth and by the time I got it, I wasn’t sure it was worth it.

The uspto seems to me like the fda in that they typically have a fraction of the resources and a sub-fraction of the compensation of those on the other side of the table, yet seem to get blamed for the downfall of society based on their decisions.
Without a doubt.

I recall in 2011 using a 3G tethered connection to play low latency games with people across the world. It worked incredibly well, and never failed.

Nowadays, that’s not possible. I am not even sure how well it would work on 4G in some areas, given how congested a lot of networks are.
Friend, it's bad form to impute negative motives where (over)exuberance is a sufficient explanation. This guy cares a lot about the product he or she works on, simply move on if their comment is not for you.
While I love to be a gloomy asshole as much as anyone else, it doesn't take a long look at history to realise that it was even darker in the past.

Even ignoring millions of lives and years of total war in the 40s, the world went completely batshit during the Cold War and was right on the edge of killing virtually everyone in Earth, more than once, amid political madness everywhere.

And before that, politics and geopolitics was completely unhinged. While weapons maybe have been limited to ships and flintlocks, what countries got up to was not really less fucked up than Ukraine is today.

In the context of that, a douchebag loudmouth president and a turf war in Eastern Europe aren't particularly cataclysmic. I'm pretty sure a lot of the gloom is just "fast media" amplifying things and cycling news into a vortex within a few hours and hammering it relentlessly. For most of history, you heard about the state of things once a day at most, in a medium quite detached from your usual life (newspaper, radio or TV, and before that days or weeks could pass). Now, it's mainlined into your brain 24/7 though communication devices that are all but as pervasive as implants, combined with literally decades of research into how to make it as addictive as possible, as well as being able to also sneak it through what used to be personal communications (i.e. social media).

Though, that said, I'm not at all sure climate change isn't a new level of "uh oh", but unpicking it from the background static of breathlessness is pretty hard.
As with all things, YMMV. I've had my OP-1 for nearly 10 years and I've gotten a hell of a lot of use out of it. As a super portable, battery powered instrument with lots of different synth engines and diverse FX it's been great for travel, noodling on the couch, and jamming with friends.

I also have to give TE props for their long term support and updates on the OP-1. I mean, just last fall they added USB audio in/out on a 10+ year old synth! Few other major synth manufacturer I know of hav as good a track record (Novation is actually pretty good in this respect as is Elektron, but for the most part they're fixing bugs not adding new features).

Compare this to another boutique synth outfit like DSI/Sequential -- my DSI Pro2 purchased in 2014 only got about 4 years of support before they dropped it like a hot potato. Tempest suffered a similar fate. Never buying another DSI/Sequential instrument again...
Probably. There are old legends about why they're not in, when it's really more a laundry list as to how they are perhaps somewhat less useful than people think. My personal opinion is that missing from the equation is that it's an invasive feature with a wide interface, and nobody in a position to do the work and credibly maintain it for a long period (this is a tiny number of people) has found it the optimal use of their time. You can contrast this with, say, the JIT feature, where it's a ton of technical work, but the interface is relatively thin.

I feel like the evolution in regarding hot standby was somewhat similar: people had objections, people pointed out weaknesses in this family of systems, people pointed at Slony or Skytools, but when someone cleared their schedule and looked like they'd account for bugs for a good while, it wasn't such a big fight in the end.
Is the slow rollout in part caused by apple's slow adoption of the technology?
5G enables more capacity. A carrier can service more clients in the same area without degrading performance than they can with LTE.

This is not something that is obvious to the end user. There is nothing exceptional about your phone working as expected, and the explosive growth in bandwidth usage and the number of active cellular clients over the last decade is not on most people's minds.
How does this work with data caps? I had to use a 4G hotspot for work for about a week and had already reached the point where I was getting throttled. Won't applications of 5G just hit this point more quickly?
If your 7y/o is into the switch, you might give Nintendo's Game Builder Garage[0] a shot; it's a pretty fun engaging node-based visual programming environment for building games on the switch.

My 7y/o has really enjoyed it, and she talks to me a lot about the stuff she's building.

[0]: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/game-builder-garage-...
This goes back to the original sin of using RGB/sRGB to express natural colors.

Nature doesn't work in terms of how much red, green and blue it needs to mix on the canvas. Sure, it's great and intuitive to represent colors on digital systems, but that's it. Light in nature works in terms of hue/tint along a continuous spectrum, brightness and saturation.

Color spaces such as HSV/HSL model these concepts much better than any RGB algorithm, and doing math with them produces results that actually make mathematical sense. YUV also takes human color perception into account. It's not a coincidence that most of the smart lights usually use HSV/HSL color spaces, and most of the cameras opt for YUV* based color spaces.
That seems sad. Suppose some group, intentionally or accidentally, decides to agitate against something that's obviously for the good of us all. Say, traffic laws. Do we, like for masking, teaching history, or the theory of evolution, just decide to give up on traffic laws?

Also, rubbish. There have been many, many successful public health campaigns in the USA that have succeeded: hardly anybody chews tobacco (anti-tuberculosis), lots fewer people smoke (anti-pulmonary and cardiac diseases), virtually 100% of the population defecates in toilets (anti-hookworm). This is just The Atlantic coddling their conservative writers.
For real

I figured mmWave would be blanketing most major cities by now

Here in SF it’s really only noticeable on a few blocks downtown

If 5G is going to be a game changer, we need the actual infrastructure to power it in major population centers
Oh the memories. Love earthworm jim
Ah, that must be why the site looks like a Stripe spin-off.
>but I feel like if I want 25 files in a directory, I expect to see 25 there.

What about linux that would have 27 in this case?
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
Yeah, these knobs look very small to be adjusting in a hurry in the dark backstage but I’m not the target market.
None of what you describe is wearing masks constantly. This would be mask-wearing in all social situations, for years, for every one, including children.

And none of these tell us the population-wide effects of switching to mask-wearing, even for the limited scope that the people in occupations you mention wear masks, would be benign. For example, there is indication that emotional connections between doctors and patients are disrupted by masks:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24364989/
Ask HN: Do you know of a community platform similar to Airbnb's community center
Reminds me of what Reagan did with the air traffic controllers. A real display of power.
> If you buy an option right now in uber, you will not be taxed until you exercise that option

This is true (or sell the option). This is just like stock, in that it only gets taxed when it pays off, either by a dividend, buyback or sale. Only in this case, it's when it gets executed or sold. (Although I think if you execute and hold the stock, it just somehow adds to the basis.)

> People don't pay taxes when the options vest, because that's just a part of a contract

I agree that ATM options have this. My contention is that ITM options (ones with a strike price less than FMV) would require taxes. I could easily be wrong, but my assumption would be since options have a FMV themselves (just like shares of stock), they would be income in and of themselves.

Maybe I'm incorrect in that reasoning, but I don't understand why. An option to buy a share of Uber is currently ~31.68. An option to buy a share of Uber for $20 is ~11.90. Therefore, if you buy that option and sell it later for 12.00, you'd have a short term capital gain of 0.10. If I give you an option, I'm giving you a gift of $11.90.

My confusion is how can a company give you, say 100,000 options, which could have a market value in the millions and you don't pay tax on them.
Is it the party that has 11 out of 16 seats on the Houston city council?

(The Houston city council is, in theory, nonpartisan but one party has a de facto ~2/3 majority)
that was a typo - no "either" was intended. I've amended the original. not sure if that will help clarify?
OP-Z - bends straight out of the box and causes double trigs, keyboard is plastic welded so can't be repaired outside of depot. custom battery only so once TE stops supporting it this thing is dead.

OP-1 - commonly has power switch issues, as well as other quirks that are harder to nail down, as well as keyboard issues.

Teenage engineering support is extremely slow sometimes taking a week+ to reply to support issues. I've heard of people not getting responses at all.

Their high end stuff is just expensive - the high price tag doesn't mean high quality.

I say all this as an op-z owner and former owner of multiple pocket operators who wishes it was a better device than it is. It isn't. I wouldn't pay them $1200 for anything.
It's a series of small trucks.
>So, buried in all this, the VAT tax is doing it's thing.

as a reseller you do not pay VAT, you merely pass the VAT that was paid by the consumers.
In all fairness, it's not like the handheld gadgetry from non-Nintendo in the 2000's/90's were some hidden gems. Sony had some quality systems (the Xperia Play not withstanding), but then there was "okay" stuff like the Neo Geo or the Sega Nomad that were neat but not very competitive. And then you get to the depressing tech like the Atari Lynx or the N-gage and understand exactly why a decent Smartphone can pretty much eclipse the market.

The Steam Deck does give me hope of the next form of this market, however. The portable "gaming" PC. I've been invested in this market since the GPD Win and I hope Valve's iteration ushers a new age of handheld competition. Still won't compete with the Switch, but I'm fine being in a "niche" and catered to
I use K9 because Fastmail's client is closed source and not on f-droid (I don't have a google play account). It works ok for me as a secondary/occasional email client (main one is on laptop). It does miss notifications. I have heard somewhere that the only way to get reliable notifications involved using a google play service, which I didn't want to allow. I usually have mobile data on my phone disabled anyway, unless I am actually about to use it. But, I think other people use their phones a lot more than I do. I'm in front of a real computer almost all the time, so the phone is just in case I have to check something while away.
Is starlinks protocol stack documented publicly? Now I'm curious.