skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things change when you have significant other people in your life: partner, kids etc.

It's pretty boring for other people if I were always at work (which is almost mandatory to succeed as an entrepreneur I guess).

I'm quite happy with my not super exciting but exciting enough work-from-home job: I can put my stuff down and go play with my kiddo once it's been enough for the day.
Always around the same time, so people can depend on that and I can plan other cool stuff in my evenings and weekends pretty reliably.

No, I'm not traveling the world anymore, true...
Shame. This is the only decent android email app. Another one killed by Google.
Profitable yes, but I think it's also part of our obsession with new, shiny hardware.
Google and the U.S. monopoly on e-mail and communication must burn.
French Gruyère now has AOC status as well, but it must have holes to distinguish it from the Swiss one: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruy%C3%A8re_fran%C3%A7ais
One hackish idea that I had for quick deployment of my mirrorless as webcam, but that I never implemented was to use a dummy battery ⃰ and have a micro controller act as the dummy battery switch. The switch is then controlled by a process that monitors whether the UVC device that's associated with the mirrorless camera is currently being used.

[*] A power adapter that feeds into a battery shaped terminals, thus allowing an "infinite" battery which.
It could be better than USB charging while using the battery because USB charging might not keep up with the battery drain. The downside of course might be malfunctioning dummy battery causing your camera to fry.
You must live in an all-white people world. ESL creates a lot of quiet people. Not everyone that is quiet is an egotistical toxic maniac.
Insurace is another site who offered insurance for the UST depeg. They had a very poor estimation for the risk and had the price at only 2% annually for the amount insured. They were covering 22.2 million worth of UST and as of a few days ago they had claims submitted totalling 7.3 million worth.
It’s kind of missing the point of having a company shutting down your business without much recourse for objection. I currently have to deal with Google on a matter, and the lengths I have to go through to even get a response is ridiculous. And this is on their ads platform, so technically I am their best kind of client who brings in money.

And there is no alternative, that is the monopoly.
> So how is your intuition for other spontaneous events? If your child is spontaneously struck down by Influenza, too bad - they live or die

yes

> and you're not bothered either way?

of course I'd be bothered. elsewhere in this thread I mentioned grieving the loss of the two miscarriages that my wife and I knew about.

> If a work colleague falls down the stairs, and others present just leave them there, a motionless heap, stepping over the body - does that seem right to you?

Either you or I or both of us have really lost the thread here... I guess the falling down the stairs might be considered spontaneous but the others stepping over him instead of helping him is deliberate and probably reprehensible.
Yes! Freshly gathered before breakfast, they're one of the joys of Swedish summer. OK, they're not as convenient to cultivate at scale as the American blueberry, but they easily win on taste!
TIPS and I Bonds
Ok. we will be sure to consult with you before actualizing any nostalgia or imagined nostalgia to make sure we are getting it just right. Lol.
True, but if the lawmakers writing the tax code bear more of the pain of the complexity of the tax-code (i.e. get complaints and warnings of their own devs that have to implement that API) then they might write better tax codes.
I toyed with Maude many years ago (e.g. to play with the BitBitJump language https://github.com/Warbo/bitbitjump-maude/blob/master/bbj.ma... ).

The Igor system for inductive functional programming (generating pure-functional programs which satisfy examples) was written in Maude, although version 2 was ported to Haskell https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221247917_Porting_I...
If this can produce static executables on Linux we may have a winner. We are in the process of selecting a language for $product and we need to pick one everyone is happy with, that boils down to static ELFs. My pick would have been Nim or perhaps ChowJS if it works like they say it does, but it would be even nicer if C# was a possibility.

Basically "ldd $file" needs to say "not a dynamic executable". Also, no dlopen().
Arguably the second one is not an idiot. Or at least not as much.
Thanks. JLG attributed it to politicians, I think, but I was (a) too lazy to find the source, but also (b) don’t speak French. I just didn’t want to appear to be taking credit for such a sharp observation.
This wasn’t a Ponzi scheme.

A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors.

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
Trustless computing might have a future, trustless money no.
Hence why Safari is the only one holding Chrome back, thanks to iDevices.
this is a myth, AOT is generally slower than JIT for high level languages.
Yes though prewarming is underused and important see e.g. https://github.com/facebook/nailgun
What is happening with Google? Seems there have been quite a number of
"Google broke it" stories flying around - or am I just seeing
confirmation bias as my negative experiences of Google increase
daily. Search is awful. It can't deliver mail reliably. Is Google
broken inside and turning into a hostile entity?
I’ve got a deploy running on Fly.io, but I didn’t go with the buildpack option; instead I’m pushing a locally built docker image (buildpacks don’t support pnpm).

One big miss, though, is you’ll still need a database and s3, so I’m not sure if I totally understand the value.
Ha! I'm old enough that 2017, when the "trading allowance" was introduced, feels like a year or two ago.. :-|

(Entrepreneurs' Relief was a thing that let you get reduced capital gains of 10% on up to £10m of proceeds from selling certain types of shareholdings or assets of a personal business. It's now called Business Asset Disposal Relief and has been decimated to just £1m.)
What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
I don't see this working out. Double check your priors, I bet you are missing something.
Fraud is very obvious. Which part of it is simply “gross negligence”?
Flagged, OP's story does not make sense or even match up with their Bio
I never committed anything to defi due to the smart contract risk. The thought of having 100s of thousands locked on a Defi app with risk of hack is too much. You can see how much hacks there have been on rekt.news
"What Google seems to do really well is building robust systems at a scale that pushes the limits of what humanity is capable of"

Can you give some examples of things Google did which pushed the limits of what humanity was capable of?
I remember back the 80s when my regular savings account paid 6%.
I have heard some horror stories about the dutch smart meters.

Apparently the billing system provided for 7 'counters' and hence the smart-meter had to have exactly 7 counters.
> But I wonder if I'll do these things or if I will just work and be happy.

Then just work and be happy. Why chase other's ideas of interesting? You know what's boring? Hollow shells living lives they don't want.
The galaxy as a 'cosmic telescope' to study heart of the young universe
I get what you mean. In principle things like policy iteration, value iteration and Q learning are not ML specific.

However, I didn't think of reinforcement learning when compiling that list, because in my experience non-ML RL solutions are rarely better than ML solutions. Happy to be corrected on that front.
Right, those are examples, but what’s the proportion of hardware and software companies in US (big companies or startups)?

How much of VC funding goes to companies focused on services or software vs hardware or infrastructure?They actually write down their areas of focus on their websites. I don’t see many of them stating they fund companies developing better chips, optical amplifiers, fibers or other pieces of infrastructure. It’s mostly services, software, apps, consumer applications, and similar.

And to my point, how much do you make if you are a hardware engineer at Intel (a large hardware company), vs a software engineer at say Google (a large software company) with similar years of experience?
Animating Regular Expressions with Python and Graphviz
Not to diss the developer, but am I really the only one who can't stand the arcane UI?

Props for keeping up the apk though. For everyone using the app I hope it'll live on as fork.
Tesla Autopilot’s Role in Deadly Vehicle Crash Is Probed by Safety Regulators
I've participated in a previous version and really enjoyed it. Would recommend. I have a couple of questions if anyone is in a position to answer?

Roughly what time do the live talks happen? Is there a published list of the cities for the live meetups (founder talks and self organised)?

Thanks
> Over here in northern Europe (Sweden), what we would call a blueberry is what you would call a bilberry

Thanks for pointing out the distinction. In my home country of Romania we also tend to think of bilberries when we're talking about this kind of berry. Traditionally they grow wild, mostly in mountainous areas - they are very flavorful and not so sweet.

Until just now I actually assumed "supermarket" blueberries were just a crappier version of the real thing :)) Good to know they're two distinct plants altogether.
The device is only really meant for low voltage measurements to begin with, as you can see in the specifications below it's only rated for +-40V inputs. They get away with it because by using a x10 probe (which attenuates the signal 10:1) which means while you can now measure +-400V, the device itself will still only see +-40V and the software will correct the readings.
When should you change your job?
Web3 2x2 Gen 2.1.
I ignore lots of messages from recruiters that I ignore but if a peer on here knew of a open role and wanted to tell me about it I'd at least listen.

It may be that the people they'd like to hire won't take the recruiters calls.
I think they give too much credence to the "once you see it, you can't unsee it" arrow in the FedEx logo. I only became aware of the arrow after it was pointed out to me sometime in the last 10 years and reading this article reminded me of the existence of the arrow, meaning I had kind of forgotten about it. I even quickly did an image search for the logo to look at it again and had the same feeling of "Oh, now that I am reminded to look for it, there it is, I suppose.".

I don't see my general impression of the React logo changing either even after this article. I expect that I'll soon forget the nut is there until it is pointed out to me again, at which point I'll say "Oh, now that you mention it, I remember reading some article a while back saying they did that on purpose.".

Perhaps this "clever" graphic design excites graphic designers, but the effect on the general public might not be as much as they think.
> What is happening with Google?

They lived long enough to see themselves become a villain.
Reclaim the Records: Public Data for Public Use
What do you do for the rest of the time? I had a job like this where it was 80% bullshit so I’d either only need a couple hours a day to get actual stuff done, or I’d work a full day and then spread out my commits and PRs throughout the day.

While in office, it was pure agony. I was bored out of my mind.

While pandemic remote, it was slightly better (never played as much PS4), but it was not freeing either because I had to answer random voice calls or attend hours long BS meetings and keep paying attention in case I was asked something. So it was like working but worse.
This checklist suggests listwashing, filtering out spam traps, and other practices, generally frowned upon. Do not purchase lists. Period.

If you haven't ensured people have signed up themselves and using dual opt-in then the list is pretty much useless and should not be used. Any serious ESP will suspend accounts of customers sending mails to purchased lists.
Looking at the funnel holistically, I doubt anyone who didn't write the essay would make it through the "standardized aptitude and personality tests". And even so - if the filter is submitted vs. didn't submit - there's no need to actually waste time reading them...

(If that sounds absurd, it is and this funnel is broken as hell.)
Umm, can this intermediate certificate caching be used for fingerprinting? Looks like a privacy concern.
Anchor protocol is/was paying around 20%. That was my benchmark. When I saw these guys were paying 15% and looked like a bank on the surface, was initially more interested because they looked established. Then I read up on it and changed my mind. Essentially it’s just anchor protocol with a fancy abstraction layer.
Why yes, just commit demographic suicide à la Japan.
The checklist seems to be for businesses sending newsletters and so on. Ramping up slowly is still a thing, though.
>Google's own Chrome also allows APK installations

For the time being.
If you are a developer, why not create your own blog?

- github, or even better sourcehut as a repo + hosting
- buy a domain for $10/y
- hugo, jekyll (org-mode for pro)

it will take you 15 minutes
> iff you follow the same method

Good luck competing in any economical sense if you're importing cows from Parma to give them uncontaminated feed from Parma then aging the cheese in an artificial climate like Parma's.

Corners are invariably cut. Do they matter? Maybe, maybe not. But why do you need to name your cheese after a region it's not from? Grana padano's done fine for itself, for example.
In my anecdotal experience, there have been a few outrages a month over something Google has f-ed up on HN for years now. I'm not too happy with them, either, but you also have to factor in Google's size - at a billion users, they're bound to have a lot of unhappy ones, even if they would be perfect.

Lastly, HN has been successfully used for contacting Google support in the past, so this also increases the number of posts.
They are the other big player. So of course things happen there as lot of entities or nearly all of them actually deal with them. Doesn't mean their decisions or products aren't getting worse for users.
Microsoft tests Windows 11 desktop widgets with web search bar
Usually it's not the average latency but the random spikes that kill your responsiveness. My wifi ping is usually within a couple ms of wired ping, but packet loss / latency spikes are a daily occurence
I was careful to use the term "lifespan" rather than "life expectancy" to avoid this error. Historically people died mainly of infections or sepsis. Modern medicine has developed treatments for those, so now cancer, heart disease, and dementia -- formerly fairly rare because people would die of something else first -- are the leading causes of death among the elderly. These conditions, which can take years to cause death, require long-term expensive treatment, with very little difference in average lifespan of people who reach adulthood.
Survivorship bias is less of a factor than commonly assumed. If you check, for example, this map showing the age of buildings in Berlin (https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/so-alt-wohnt-berlin/), you will note that it is neighborhoods rather than individual buildings that survived (or didn't). Large parts of Berlin were built in the early 1900s, and the differences between individual buildings is rather small. Survival depended on the war and, to a lesser degree, the east/west split, with policy in the east being more inclined to tear down intact city blocks and replace them with architecture better representing the ideology of the times.
The problem with web3 and crypto in general is that most people and energy get attracted by the potential to get rich, and being useful is an afterthought. I would be more attracted if I saw more products that tried to be useful first, and then try to make money for it afterwards. But it's harder to direct so much energy into projects like that.
> If the elected representative cannot get enough votes to pass a law, it most likely means that the law is not that important, or that there is no agreement on what it should be.

I'm not even in the US and i know that's quite simply untrue. Almost every single issue gets split among party lines, regardless of its merits. Abortions, vaccinations, climate change combatting are supported by the majority of the population, yet no law on either can really be passed due to arcane rules and the refusal of one party to do anything that might benefit the other ( which is more interested in appearing right and not rocking the boat than actually doing anything).

You people need a revolution ( of the head chopping kind, or at least prison/exile) and a complete overhaul of your broken political system. There's no excuse to stick with the first past the post system, gerrymandered districts, voter disenfranchisement, electoral college and the pure temerity around it ( a candidate gets 5k votes more than the other in a state? All electoral votes from that state go to them! ?????) besides the "sanctity" of the current status quo your current political establishment espouses.
It's not a bad thing to let a dog chew on.... until now
As the co-owner of Hypnocube, copyright law was the only legal protection I had from wholesale cloning of a product I created from Chinese clones - they copied the product wholesale, circuit, packaging, and code. Without copyright I could not have stopped it.

This case is not unique

Is that enough for protecting small individuals?
Is it helpful to anthropomorphise like this:

> An AI can see and understand what it sees. It can identify and detect an object or a feature in an image or video. It can even identify faces.

Why do we switch to this kind of language when we wouldn't for a standard algorithm.

You might say casually "the algorithm has a bug so it doesn't recognize barcodes with a 0 in them" or this door opens when it recognizes a human but it's still very clear that it's not thinking whereas AI people seem to intentionally blur this line to get headlines and attention.

Another example:

> It’s taken decades but as of today, on its simplest implementations, machine learning applications can do some tasks better and/or faster than humans

You wouldn't say this about a pocket calculator, even though it's true. Why say it here?
It's a convention to use roman numerals for centuries in some european countries. Parent poster probably just done it out of habit.
> no use cases besides making money

And by "making money", we really mean transferring money from gullible and/or desperate fools to unscrupulous insiders.
Jacques Chirac famously used a variant of it.
If anything it was closer to a pump and dump with Luna.

I don't get why calling it a Ponzi is so popular when there wasn't something paying returns using other people's money.
Consul, Nomad, and Vault all use RAFT to function /at all/ so it’s really easy to break.

Kubernetes will continue to run in a degraded state if etcd loses quorum. Your services will still be reachable.
Python: "Nonetype object is not subscritable"
i created an account just to upvote
Sometimes, what you're doing is unsound and so it must be forbidden even if you can't intuitively see why yet. Rust's diagnostics often show you why.

However, sometimes (and for an experienced Rust developer this might start to happen more often than "Oh, actually that was dumb" type situations) the problem is that the Borrow Checker doesn't understand why it's fine. The diagnostic points you at something, and you say "Er, yeah, what's the problem?" and, sometimes, there wasn't really a problem.

Non-lexical lifetimes were a big improvement in Rust, improving the borrow checking analysis so that more cases which are correct were allowed by the checker.

Polonius is one thing intended to further improve upon this: https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius
Currently, dotnet is able to build binaries for Linux that only depend on the following libraries (hello world app, according to readelf -d):

- libcstdc++.so.6

- libm.so.6

- libgcc_s.so.1

- libc.so.6

You can also exchange some dependencies by compiling with profile linux-musl-x64 instead of linuxe-x64 (no libc, no libm, but with libc.musl-x86_64.so.1) to shrink everything down to the bare minimum.

While this isn't a completely statically linked executable, I think it's all you need for most distributions. The important part is that you don't need to install any runtimes on the remote machine to run the executable.

I'd love for dotnet to also get static compilation options to get rid of the last few dependencies but when your goal is to just distribute the binary so others can run it, I think dotnet is already there.
On further reading, that new API seems to only allow updating apps which also support that new API. There might be a good technical reason for that, but it's a barrier to entry that Google doesn't have as a first party.
I love that app, I'm so disappointed
> Not everyone that is quiet is an egotistical toxic maniac.

No but being quiet unless prompted to speak, will make a team work environment dysfunctional.
If you want a programmer's eye view of the Apollo hardware / software, I recommend Sunburst and Luminary: an Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles. He wrote some of the programmes that landed the Lunar Module and gives a great perspective on how they worked and integrated with the other programmes (like the radar manager) also running on the LM computer and competing for the tiny computational resources available.

[Edit] Including how on one mission he developed a software hack that an astronaut had to type in, correctly, or else, in the few minutes between the LM emerging from the lunar far side and reaching the point where a landing burn was initiated.
It was popular between Russian patriots to believe in a cunning plan of Putin. The phrase "хитрый план" (cunning plan) is a separate meme. But lately I believe they have no plans. They just do what they can, without thinking too much about consequences. And our Zombie-patriots never mention any cunning plans anymore, so it seems their beliefs in this regard are consistent with mine.

It is probably a propagandist action, like "see, we are fighting with evil Google and winning". There is no point to seek any deeper plans.

YouTube is a particular nail in the ass for Putin, because there are no reliable alternative in Russia. Rutube doesn't seem to be an alternative. They cannot just block YouTube. But they are talking about it a lot. So... "Lets do something, lets fine it at least, it would seem like we are fighting". It is like Cornelius Fudge imprisoning Hagrid not because Hagrid was guilty, but because Fudge needs to be seen actively doing something.
Talking only about elderly people, not children or young adults, I would say it's better to die quickly rather than withering away from cancer or dementia over many years. That would be my preference, and the few people in my family who have slowly wasted away from incurable chronic conditions expressed a desire to just end it. That doesn't mean dying from an infection or sepsis is somehow better than dying from cancer or dementia, but acute conditions get closer to the sudden and unexpected death I would prefer. Other people have different opinions on this, of course.