skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in Oklahoma and have seen my fair share of tornados and thunderstorms. But there was one in particular that I remember from 20+ years ago, and haven't experienced the like since.

We had a tornado warning at work and we went outside to check the danger (if we should head to shelter). It was night, and it was calm outside, but the sky started to light up with lightning nonstop for what seemed like minutes. All around us, in every direction. Most of us just froze and stared up at the sky in silence. To shock a dozen Oklahomans into silence is quite something. I don't know if it was a megaflash, I've never heard that term before, but it was something.
I understand the importance of diversity, inclusivity and equal-opportunities etc.. But this looks quite bad on her part. Some of her comments are in fact racist. BTW, I'm a brown guy!
Honestly speaking, if you're the type of developer who would do such a thing, there's a high chance that you are the unbearable one.
How did they get to the IMO?
I'm not sure of the method you're using to obtain this data, but the listing for the company I work for has a wildly inaccurate tech stack. It's also pretty out of date on the open careers, you show one opening (which we're not even hiring for) - we have 12 open positions at the moment.
Damn, ain't that a shame. I had suspected the dongle would be susceptible to that, which is why I was curious initially. What bluetooth headphones are you on?

I am currently looking around for a standalone digital player, no market, no apps, no fancy anything, with a wired headphone (currently looking at KZ EDX Pros, despite the crinacle drama). Might end up getting another sandisk and doing a mod on it to hold 1TB. Those things are damn near bullet proof but their secret weakness is my washing machine
Intuitively, it almost kinda seems like putting the management on the expensive device with lots of power rather than the cheap tiny card would be a good idea.

But I think SD made the right choice. It's a wonderful format, and having multiple competing cards really sucked. Packaging the firmware and controller on the card makes it trivially easy to make SD based applications.
Ranking based on what though? Number of comments? Number of references made to each video in other video descriptions?
>The Registry cannot be documented.
>Configuration files can be individually versioned and managed.

So can registry files - just write them as .reg files (which can be automatically exported or trivially handwritten in standard ASCII syntax). Anything that starts with a semicolon is a comment.

If you want in-place documentation just go create a string value wherever you want with whatever content you want.

>Configuration files can exist in multiple instances, be swapped out or referenced for a specific invocation.

Again, use .reg files and the tooling for this is trivial.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-add-modify-...

This works well and is deployed at scale in all sorts of organizations for all sorts of projects.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9131254?hl=en#zip...
Per GiveWell's website, around 3.7 million has gone to LTFF since 2020, 6.5 to the animal welfare fund, and 14ish to GH&D. So it's more like 15%, and the majority of the LTFF funding is what I'd describe as "self-dealing", in that it's almost all money to fund members of the EA/longtermist community for thinking about things.

(I should note, I donate a decent sum to GiveWell each year, though only to the Global Development fund, and it deeply irks me that they don't put some of their effort into innovative ideas to combat climate change)
> I believe people have agency and they should be held accountable for their decisions.

Sure, are you in favor of prosecuting the innumerable influencers who convinced them in the first place? Surely they had agency in deciding whether to illegally shill scams or not.
Windows has had 'restore points' for the registry since forever which are auto-created every time an application is installed. Prior to that the system came with backup/restore tools. They're even mentioned on the Wikipedia page.
That doesn’t hold at all unless there is significant lock-in that raises switching cost. If there is a company sitting there with no overhead collecting $10m/year for software all of its customers hate, it’s ripe for competition to take it overnight.
Ask HN: What do you think are the top books to learn your field of study/work?
Not necessarily classics. Include books that are beginner friendly in a pedagogic sense. Classics need a little bit of expertise or know how of the subject to appreciate. A lot of the time beginners get intimidated by classics and are turned away from what could have been a beautiful endeavour.

But you can mention classics. Just don't mention only classics. Mention books that can attract people to your subject.
Yeah, I just want the classic dumb USB Squid, but for USB-C. No power delivery, just a port multiplier. I did find one that was way too expensive that gives me 3 ports instead of 1.
centralisation dialed to 11 by JS / AJAX mostly.
Can you share some criticisms? Because I found IonQ report pretty convincing too.
> It’s all good to write down approximate solutions to some hard n body problem or non linear pde, just don’t look too far ahead in time, or update your model with fresh data if you need to.

It sounds like this symbolic regression approach can potentially find correct PDE solutions directly from data:

"In February, they fed their system 30 years’ worth of real positions of the solar system’s planets and moons in the sky. The algorithm skipped Kepler’s laws altogether, directly inferring Newton’s law of gravitation and the masses of the planets and moons to boot."

Note that Newton’s law of gravitation can also be derived from a differential equation. Also note that simply knowing the exact solution to the PDE does not mean that the PDE model itself is an exact representation of reality. For example, we know from Einstein's laws that Newton's laws are not correct at astronomical scales. In the symbolic regression approach, the solution would be limited by the number of different observable variables available to train the model on.

Many PDEs in real world problems also do not have any known exact symbolic solution, so approximate symbolic formulas are used routinely anyway but are just painstakingly discovered and derived by humans with "deeper understanding" (actually, just hoards of PhD students and their advisors throwing everything they can think of at the problem until one of them lands on a unusable formula).
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Aren't most physics equations approximate?
Would be better to look at the rate of 100LL fuel now compared to 100 octane at the time instead of general inflation.
It must be nice to be so sure about how others should live their lives.
So why don't these people quit their jobs and open up those positions for minorities?
I mean nothing beats the feeling of delivering real value by building or fixing things. Its a great feeling! Often after having fixed something after working on it for hours, I will want to do even more for a while because of that “high”.
They could just let the developers develop for whatever on top of it (Qt, Gtk, whatever) or they could implement some Android compatibility layer (but why bother, it's a moving target that will just be very obsolete within a couple years).

No, doubt on the obsolete part, but that is already the problem they have with their existing proprietary solutions as well (see also TV, and game machine companies). Spotify isn't jumping up and down and making app updates for 10 year old Toyota's and I don't imagine the next media darling will be interested in porting their app to a 2025 era car in 2030 either.

Hence android, where in theory the car manufacturer could at least provide an app compatibility shim to run the latest entertainment apps. Its a moving target, but its a target. The other choice is just to standardize an android auto/carplay, and start treating the cars like dumb handset/display devices. Which I predict is what will happen since the car companies are even less capable than the LG/Samsungs of the world of creating and maintaining a media platform. And everyone is already in the google/apple ecosystem which doesn't show any signs of being replaced, at least not over the next 5-10 years. Basically they have already lost the war, and don't even know it. Sure they can reskin a navsystem, but no one actually uses the ones the have now they just aren't as good as asking siri to direct you to the local restaurant. Worse the car manufactures are deluded if they think they can sell map upgrades and a bunch of other connected services. I would be curious to see actual dealer surveys about why people are purchasing upgrades, because I'm betting its a case of, someone wants the leather, and they end up buying the fancy infotainment system to get it. As I mentioned elsewhere, no one uses those systems except as bluetooth handsets these days, and just about everyone I know thinks they are garbage. They are the modern equivalent of a CD player in a car and the automobile manufactures just haven't noticed. Same with remote starters and the other long list of "services" the car companies think they can charge extra for which are just fee harvesting until the next whatsapp or whatever shows up with a better freemium model.
They don't tell anything how fast were those 800 charges. No info on the weight (energy density) or the discharge rate, or if it has exotic materials used. No info on the capacity degradation (it won't be linear), either.

One fishy quote: They also increase unwanted reactions between the ==electrolyte== and the lithium, speeding up battery failure. How is that solid state, or it's just general info
The first project I worked on at Google was a system for consumers to send money to each other. My team made a mobile app before I joined, but it "wasn't part of the product vision" for that to be in the Google Wallet app. (So I guess we'll flush hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of code down the toilet!) Our PM looked around for teams willing to use our service, and found the Gmail team very receptive. A few engineers integrated it in about a week and we launched that "send money" button on Gmail at Google I/O. Could never get over how Gmail had "send money" but Google Wallet didn't. (They eventually changed their mind, of course.)

I'll never forget the launch. I was sick, and sitting on the floor of a war room live-coding a script to give every attendee $1. Python, had tests, and it persisted its state to SQLite so that we could Control-C it if our service got too slow. It didn't get too slow; we did a lot of load testing and capacity problems and the launch was very smooth. Most fun I've ever had while sick. (10-year-older jrockway wouldn't go to work while sick, though.)
The ThinkPad T430 is quite repairable in that regard. I've replaced the screen in 20 minutes, replaced the CPU, all the SSD-s are easily accessible, and there's plenty of spare parts out there due to the fact that it's a model that was once popular and bought in bulk by many businesses.

But yes, some models probably don't have the same level of second-hand parts market, making repair difficult.
We'll just need a lot more grid capacity and power generation. We probably won't be seeing those superchargers installed very often in regular houses, so it's not like the last mile has to support ridiculously high peak loads, but we will need a lot of infrastructure upgrades generally as average electricity consumption goes up.

The transition to EVs won't be instantaneous (cars last a long time), so utilities will have a good long while to adapt to changes in power demand.

I like the idea of electrifying our major highways so that cars can recharge without stopping. One of the benefits of that is that it shifts power usage from overnight charging to daytime charging (when people do most of their driving), which means that electrified roads are more compatible with being able to take advantage of solar power.
What will the author blog in 5 years?

I am noticing a (darkish?) pattern in these recurring “I transitioned jobs” reports. Worryingly, they represent many of the words I imagine myself writing if I were again a blogger.

It’s basically the honeymoon/wanderlust cycle. Person gets job. It is a dream job. It is described as a dream job because of reasons a1, b1, and c1. Delta t passes. Things have changed. Because of reasons x1, y1, and z1, job is no longer a good dream job. It’s now a bad dream/nightmare job. Person has awakened now, and for reasons, a2, b2, and c2 is living a new dream. Blink, flinch, repeat.

The nagging suspicion is that while things change, they don’t so much actually. They shift around. What does change is how we come to see things. At one point, we convince ourselves things are awesome. Later we believe it’s not. Which is the real truth we ought to accept? It’s like trying to measure the one way speed of light. You can’t, just the sum of the round trip.

So do we make the assumption that somewhere in the middle of this good-to-bad cycle is the reality? Or suspect it was always that bad, we were just able to initially gaslight ourselves? Or perhaps that it was and still is good, we’ve just let the negatives creep in and take over?

Some would philosophize that all happiness is an illusion. Or a choice. Or whatever.

But what frustrates me about this (having been through this cycle 3-4 times now), is that it is not a universal life experience. I have relationships with family, friends, and various institutions that grow stronger and stronger over time. They do NOT loop like work relationships do. Is there something inherit in work relationships that makes this loop inevitable? Do all experience it, or only a certain mindset of persons? Are there cases where this loop is broken, but they just rare enough, you don’t hear about them? Should I despair or hope?
i bookmark a lot of channels as well. for my most watched channels i also add them to newsblur since it makes it easier to see when new videos are available without having to go to each individual channel. there are a few other rss readers around that support adding youtube videos as well i think

ublock origin is another tool that comes in handy for blocking things like the sidebar suggestions. just add this to the 'my filters' page:

www.youtube.com##ytd-item-section-renderer.ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer.style-scope
Getting managers excited is one of the unwritten skills required at L5+ lol.
ASK HN: Is anybody building their own portable dumb audio players?
With the iPod going away, I am curious if anybody is doing anything besides repurposing old smartphones for pocket digital audio.
Autonomy in this context means range.
For me personally;

1x 13" M1 MBP with 16GB/1TB best device I've ever owned. I do everything on this from dev work, to browsing, photo editing, fiddling around in Logic Pro, and even some light gaming. And I can do all of that (probably at the same time) while running on battery, for hours on end.

1x Windows "gaming" desktop I built a few months ago. i5/16GB/6700XT/2TB NVMe/8TB rust. It's ok, I thought I'd use it a lot more than I do and I'm DEFINITELY not getting my money's worth out of the 6700XT playing HOI and Factorio.

1x Ex-business Optiplex micro, i5/16gb/512SSD + 2x 4TB USB disks running Ubuntu. This is my main linux machine that doubles as a light home server running Plex and a few other little things.

1x iPad mini from last year, mostly just for reading and media. I do use my knockoff Apple Pencil to jot down some notes as well. Also makes a neat little secondary display for the MBP if I'm away from my desk and want some more screen.

1x Heavily refurbished Thinkpad T470 running Arch (btw) i7/16GB/256GB. Barely gets used despite the amount of work I put into refurbishing it. The poor old i7 (dual core version) really struggles with some stuff, even basic things like Youtube over 1080p nearly kills it.

I feel like I've hit a good equilibrium of devices, I can fit it all onto one desk with a USB-C monitor and a keyboard/mouse that I can switch between devices (including my work laptop). Nothing other than ye olde Thinkpad ever goes unused for more than a day or two at most, and everything except the gaming PC was all purchased refurbished or secondhand.

Media stuff;

1x Apple TV 4K which is currently in direct competition with a Fire TV 4k that I got for free. I'm trying to work out which I should keep, the Fire TV does almost everything the ATV does but the remote is just... awful - so cheap and nasty feeling.

1x Lobotomised Sony "Smart" TV. After the first year of owning it, it started lagging when switching inputs, navigating menus etc. I popped the back off and yanked the wire antennas for its wifi radio and now it performs twice as fast.
MacOS is built for people that use pointing devices, is not optimized for keyboard usage, it makes no sense for example to show Finder when you alt+tab even if is closed. If you use 2 active apps only and a bunch of background apps (a developer setup) it makes zero sense to show you these in alt+tab. This app is also configurable to decide which apps you show, not to add that will show a screenshot which is way better than an icon. This app, advertised here is godsend for Linux and Windows users that are forced to use macs at work.
People respond to feedback mechanisms. If you hid comments on videos, do you think people would be as inclined to add their own comments as much when it is literally going into the void?

Previously, disliking would increment the global "dislike" counter and users got immediate visual feedback that their dislike was counted, even if that state may take minutes for Google to reconcile and store.

Now, clicking the dislike doesn't do much and users have no indication whether others disliked the content too.
Interesting! I’m using Firefox too, so it’s not a browser issue.

What device are you on? Unfortunately your device seem to not support “platform”-authentication (built in, TPM based)

I test for platform support but mistakenly only hide the test button, not the text queue. Thanks for telling me.
I like the concept.

I almost built a slightly similar website as a side project, but never found the time to actually do it. The idea was similar (to include the tech stack and benefits), but I was going to focus entirely on work culture and communication as the differentiator to other job boards.

I never could figure out how I'd get companies to be up front and honest about that information. The reason I wanted to build this was because I really wanted to find jobs that didn't have any scheduled internal meetings, no expectations of a set work schedule, no expectations of participating in work "social" events, and no expectations of commuting into an office. Basically an entirely (or 80% at least) async job.

In the end, I never built that job board, and I never found that job. So I ended up founding a company that works like that instead.
I believe game engines usually draw to a texture then display the texture, reusing it on subsequent frames, but if they don't, that wouldn't surprise me. UIs don't take long to draw, so drawing at 60fps is often quite cheap.
Hey! That sucks! We're pulling information from job listings/publicly available information at the moment, so not every tech stack is as accurate as we would like it to be :) - Happy to update if you can point out the company and provide information or you can sign up (https://himalayas.app/signup) and change it yourself. You can also send us an email via hi@himalayas.app if it's easier!

As for the open jobs, we do our best to remove any openings that are no longer active but the way we do it isn't perfect + we don't automatically list every open position so that's why we haven't listened all 12 open positions.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Assume you have two tables A and B on the same DB. They are sort of seen as unrelated. Suddenly a feature request requires that A and B are mutated together consistently.

If it is in one service you just use a common DB transaction and get it done.

If it is in one microservice for A and one microservice for B then you have to somehow implement this transaction yourself. This is possible but more work.
Thanks for this report, probably me who was lazy when setting css breakpoints.
We are not yet in a society where such people are denied legal representation, so I'm not sure what bearing that such people still existing has on such a hypothetical world?

If you are saying that there still exists a number of actual racists acting racistly on social media, I would agree, but a not-insignificant number of them have been banned!
First point - even if, so what? The value of the article is in the thoughts, regardless of motivation.

Second point - maybe 5 years and hundreds of "leaving Google" posts ago. And the author doesn't seem to try to make it bigger than it is. TFA is exactly that - an explanation of a career decisions which HN found good/resonating.
If it keeps getting mentioned in places like TechCrunch or even more mass media, it could be/likely will be ruined. :-/
It's possible that the founders of businesses that expect to advertise on Google/socials could put this to work, but it's not a general case best practice since most businesses are not launched through targeted keyword auctions.

The problem I have with this essay, after sitting with it for a few minutes, is that it's predicated on the notion that every failed startup is a great idea that deserves to exist, but just hasn't found its paying customers, yet.

Sadly, this is simply not true. Lots of founders drink their own Kool-aid and build significant amounts of IP and software and merchandise before actually verifying that real people want to give them real money for it. Telling them that they just haven't found the right Instagram demographic is actively harming them now and in the future.

Look, I often tell founders that they need to identify what success looks like, and what failure looks like, and then stick to those definitions to the maximum degree possible. This gives us the opportunity to celebrate our wins (which can otherwise be fuzzy until you ring that IPO bell) but just as importantly, it gives founders the ability to differentiate between "don't listen to the haters" and "it's time to be honest with ourselves about the fact that this isn't going to work".

There's an art to knowing when to stop. You really don't want to allow the sunk cost fallacy to damage your ability to move on to the next idea. After all, our time is finite, and the optimal time in your life to start a company is even more so.
For comparison, a Hyundai Ioniq 5 (or Kia EV6) charges from 10% to 80% in eighteen minutes on an 800v capable charger.

Other 800v cars are similarly fast: Audi e-Tron, Porsche Taycan, Lucid. Polestar has announced they're going 800v in 2024. GM's Ultium platform already uses 800v (currently just the Hummer, but expect them to rapidly release more truck and SUV models based on Ultium.)

Tesla has been snoozing for 3+ years on charging tech, and now their 400v architecture is inferior to what Hyundai, Kia, and GM offer. General Motors offers better charging tech than Tesla.

The world's largest automakers are (successfully) gunning for Tesla. Not a good time for Musk to be distracted, fucking around with a social media company...
We have 3 iPhones, 3 different chargers and cables and none of them are charging
Did the latest update change anything to do with the charging mechanism of the iPhone …?
A "tech downturn" isn't the same thing as a lack of work for programmers. The volume of work to be done across all industries is immense, and it's profitable for everyone.
They do say 800 cycles were each 1 hour, not 15 minutes.
The headline got the relationship wrong: the evangelical church ruined politics.
You could be allergic to casein instead of lactose.