skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video-related: seek bar too thin or close to buttons. I constantly press prev/next/mute when rewinding an intro. Also, seek preview only appears when the cursor is in the bar. Move a little off it vertically, and seek preview disappears.

Youtube: missing on right arrow key and pressing numpad zero instead rewinds you to the start of a video. That’s truly idiotic, because no idea where I was watching.

Focus can be on a video, or on “controls”. You press up arrow to volume up, but it jumps +5s because focus was left on a seek bar last time.

iPhone: inputs zoom on focus-in but do not unzoom after you’re “Done”. Pinch the site back to 100% yourself, that’s so much fun isn’t it.

MS Windows scrollbars and their small reset distance.

General: Buttons that look like labels. Frames that look like air.

Vertical centering of bullet points next to multiline text.
I suspect it's to do with copyright law. Copyright is extremely strong in Japan and there is a cultural pressure not to do the "wrong thing". Preserving old games etc is legally ambitious and this is often ignored in the west. EDIT: person below me posted the same opinion!
It’s very annoying when I pick the left-most column because I assume it’s Monday only to realize that it’s in fact Sunday. I’ve never even heard Americans use the concept, like saying “see you at the start of the week (implied Sunday)”. They do talk about the work week and weekend, though. But maybe the should talk about the week start (Sunday), work week and weekend (only Saturday, maybe Friday evening).

It’s partly my own fault for using the English version of software since I don’t want to use localized GUI navigation guides (they might not exist).
> Get incandescents

In the UK, and in the EU, standard bulb incandescents are no longer being imported and the current stock is all there is, and as you say CFLs are horrible.

So the options left are halogen (just as bad as CFL imho) or LED. I've resisted LED for ages, but now it seems they are finally good enough to replace incandescents.
I was expecting interactive simulation. For just a rotatable pausable animation I'd prefer it to be a website.
"On a beautiful day in May 2015, I drove the 13 hours from my home in Portland, Oregon, to Harris Ranch, California, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. At the time, Tesla was touting a battery swap station that could send Tesla drivers on their way in a fully powered vehicle in less than the time it takes to fill up a car with gas. Overtaken by curiosity, I had decided to spend a long Memorial Day weekend in California’s Central Valley to see if Elon Musk’s latest bit of dream weaving could stand up to reality.

There, amid the pervasive stench of cow droppings from a nearby feedlot, I discovered that Tesla’s battery swap station was not in fact being made available to owners who regularly drove between California’s two largest cities. Instead, the company was running diesel generators to power additional Superchargers (the kind that take 30 to 60 minutes to recharge a battery) to handle the holiday rush, their exhaust mingling with the unmistakable smell of bullshit.

That one decision to go and find the truth underlying Elon Musk’s promises, rather than just take his word for it, changed my life in ways I never could have anticipated. Now, seven long and often lonely years later, the world seems to be understanding what I learned from the experience: Once you stop taking Musk at his word, his heroic popular image evaporates and a far darker reality begins to reveal itself"

I made the same discovery when I read the Tesla powerwall patents. A bunch of 18650 batteries and nothing more.
Now he's up to "You think that is bad, wait until you see what [Bill Gates] has put in the vaccines."
and I wonder what the advantage is vs. MDP. It was a pretty ok "product" when I ran it 10years ago on an old Pentium III notebook with 256MB of memory. I think it still would work if I booted it now.
Alright, this seems great. Going to test it in daily use.

I am ready to start paying money for search engine. So fed up with google SEO spam.
How would that work? They can just hold the instruments to maturity and it’s all either highly liquid treasuries which would be practically immune to shorting or illiquid commercial
paper with no borrow.
First I thought it's tesla.com, but it's a freaking anagram!
A batteries includes, newbie friendly OS. Mint in 2013 was a distro that included non-free codecs which allowed it to do things that Ubuntu couldn't out of the box. Pop!_OS now includes Nvidea drivers and other tweaks that make it a more friendly experience for users generally and people new to Linux specifically.
What were your barriers while living in Japan? Have been here for five years now, don't mind it at all...
Yeah, it created massive dominance for the acquirer, regardless of how little money it made.
Thanks, after Django comes Spring. I found java cumbersome but apparently there's much more java work in spain.

I'll see how it goes.
Wouldn't this be a good match for BitTorrent distribution? The data will be updated regularly and then, all participants will be online and able to share their bandwidth while they download the new frequencies.
Thank you!

Snowflake is a better cloud data warehouse than Postgres, but of course Postgres is so versatile. Neon will give you some of the Snowflake features: time machine, cloning - we call this branching, data sharing.
I’ve a couple of LIFX bulbs in my home. I paired them directly to the Apple HomeKit Home app and never bothered with LIFX‘a app. They’ve been 99% reliable for me for about three years now. I don’t know if I’m lucky or that avoiding their app was worth it.
Nothing in that article suggests hosting ROMS for download is legal. Said article states the original media is required for the exemption. Hosting ROMS does not require the Downloader have the original media.

Nor does archive.org have any special "exemption".
When a patent can take up to four years to be granted, and two years in most cases, then the current model is not sufficient.

Instead it ought to be a number of years from the day the patent is granted.

For software that should be around 5 years, if we really need software patents.
I'm sure everyone has their own place, but for me it was in general tiwtter, and the final straw was this:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144

Given the presidency of Trump, I don't see how anyone in good faith can say the right hasn't moved -- unless of course you believe the right was always as racist as Trump, the only difference is he said it out loud.

He claims to be "balanced", but I haven't heard him say anything negative about the right, or far-right, except generic statements.
We use a single a single tf state per Google project. Instead of slicing up the state into multiple substates, we use modules as much as possible, and use "-target=module.module_name" to test our branches.
You the real MVP
Crypto Giant FTX Ready with Billions of Dollars for Acquisitions
Ask HN: What were your teachers like?
I went to primary school in 80s,and I finished high school in 90s. I still remember some of my teachers. Few of them were so good that I ended up as teacher in one part of my life. They really have influenced me a lot.

Some of them were almost like this guy [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/2eg6ax/my_dad_teaching_math_in_southern_california_late/
Because the increase in power consumption is lower than the increase in performance. A given workload takes less energy to complete.
People have been talking and writing for years about all the awful shit Musk's done. If this is new information to you then you haven't been keeping up at all.
Blocklist of all Facebook domains (2016)
This is such a typical greeny thing. They’d rather tear down anyone who is trying to help because they don’t do it in a perfectly green all the time way regardless of the economic realities. They are simply not driven by goals and outcomes, instead just riding a moral high horse while not actually caring if the world burns down around them. They are actually worse for the environment in every way.

Tesla has struggled to survive as a company economically and the author would prefer the company fail than have to use a little diesel power along the way.
Correct, but the mechanism of safe liquidation could look kind of like minting in the right context. Suppose RAI became dominant. Then the old safes of ETH locked away could become really large. In theory, they could even be larger than the ETH float. Increasing ETH prices would fuel lots of RAI withdrawals. But then if the price of the limited amount of floating ETH dropped, suddenly these safes would be forced to liquidate. This liquidation would release a lot more ETH, further depressing the price and driving increasingly larger liquidations.

Of course this is pretty unlikely, because RAI is peanuts compared to ETH.
Do note that many installations of PostgreSQL already have some form of "separation of storage and compute" through a networked storage solution like NFS, EBS, or other SAN-like systems.

The major part of what Neon does is remove the file system abstraction that is between that Storage and Compute, so that we can better utilize the available resources because we can better select what information is or isn't being lost.

A good example of what removing the file system abstraction enables for us is effectively free PITR, (lagging) replicas, and data branching. This is because PostgreSQL's file-system-based storage engine expects to be the only one working on the data directory, which means that any FS attached to a replica cannot be shared. If you remove that file-system based storage engine and plug in a different storage engine, those expectations are removed too, and after some effort integrating into the smgr-APIs, we're now able to provide a storage layer that only needs to contain one copy of the data for N physical replicas, instead of N copies.
I find it interesting that just the flu was the one that opened your eyes. To me that's not the most black and white instance, because after all it could be that he actually believed it.

The one that first gave me pause to think was calling that diving guy a pedo. That's because, even if you believe it, you don't say it if you have millions of rabid followers, as that amounts to destroying someone's life without evidence. The fact he did that shows his questionable character, his beliefs aside.

After this instance I started paying attention and noticed something also mentioned in the article - he never bothers addressing negative claims, he just attacks the person making the claims. That's when my opinion of him went from bad character to bullshiter and bad character.
> But this is far fetched because people doing manual memory management don't usually rely on exceptions,

I think you really, really underestimate the amount of codebases where a large part of the code is "normal" C++ with exceptions and someone does one specific module with manual malloc / free out of cargo-culting some RAII fears.

Hell, even OP above talks about using vector along with their custom memory management scheme (which throws no matter if you use -fno-exceptions or not, as the actual "throw" call is in the precompiled libc++.so ; the code in <vector> just calls std::__throw_bad_array_new_length() indiscriminately : https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/fno8fYP7E )
what else could it be, 18650s are the best of battery tech we have ...
I honestly fail to see the issue. Running diesel generators to handle peak demand may not be the greenest move but it was likely the best move before they could come up with a better solution. Should they have left users stranded because they couldn't charge ?

What did you expect from Tesla powerwall ? It's another use of the same battery tech they had in their cars allowing them to use the same supply to build two products. Most of the added value of the powerwall is in the software and the battery management, not in the form-factor of the batteries. I suppose most home batteries are just repackaging batteries used in other industries.
does the airplane still have the avionics?

how you can just leave millions of dollars worth of tech behind
I have seen such a thing once, I think even last year. Someone had sent a cv for a high paying specialist role.
Among the things that he listed as what he did on the previous job was a description, that did not seem to make any sense concept or jargon wise.
So I googled. And I found that exact 7 or 8 word phrase on one job description, and word by word in an example on a page offering ai cv’s.
That were the only two hits. Turns out he copied or was proposed a lot more phrases in his cv from there.
That was when his application came to a screeching halt.
This is just my opinion, but lack of details of how something was done and is being validated with ai usually indicates that someone tries to fish for customers that think everything is better with ai
The links in the article point to various things the author uncovered over time.

You could habe taken one example and shown that the author is overstating or misrepresenting the facts.

Instead you choose to call them a "smear merchant".

Aren't we on HN to discuss based on presented (and maybe omitted) facts? Or is it to hand out unsubstantiated ad hominems?
Why are certificates limited in time?
Cockroach is eventually open source which I rather appreciate. Any code that is 3 years old goes Apache if I recall it correctly.
Android apps with millions of downloads exposed to high-severity vulnerabilities
Google won't release photorealistic DALL-E 2 rival because it's too prejudiced
In practise shared_ptr should only be used when you need to actually share ownership of some dynamically allocated object. You get around it by using it in the right place. You’re correct on the refcounting being a performance issue.

Codebases that use shared_ptr for everything because they think it ‘solves’ having to manage memory are smelly, it shows that no one has thought about the ownership model. Not to say there isn’t a solid use case for it, but some developers use it by default because they don’t fully understand the trade offs/why it’s important to think about ownership of managed memory.

As an example in our medium to large code base we have two places we use a shared_ptr, completely off the hot path and for long lived objects that aren’t copied more than a few times, but need to share ownership of the pointee - in a similar use case of your use of Arc.

Almost all of the time unique_ptr, with a single owner, is exactly what you want to replace the memory management side of a dynamically allocated object. From there you will pass around raw pointers or references to the object managed by the unique_ptr (for functions that need to ‘borrow’ the object).

Something interesting about shared_ptr is how it relates to weak_ptr, although I’ve never seen weak_ptr in anything out side documentation!
I'm a retail investor that currently holds all my money in a stablecoin with 1400% yearly return. AMA
I couldn't find that tweet. Can you?

The only reference to this that I could find was a few Indian news sites talking about it, like: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/bill-gates-poured-mi...

A statement like that is like catnip to most US media, so it would have blown up, and it hasn't, so...
DoH and DoT are slowly changing that, it's getting troublesome to redirect.
It certainly helps, but it's not perfect, no.
I love cinnamon, but lately it has fallen behind, sadly. I kept using it for a long time, but KDE was just so much better in a few important ways (fractional scaling, multi monitor performance, battery life for some reason) that I had to switch. I still much prefer the general feeling of cinnamon and miss it.
Berkeley has no legacy admission...
An emergency vehicle coming up behind you is not a "one in a million scenario".

If an autonomous vehicle can't cope with a "one in a million scenario", it cannot be autonomous.
You may like to take a look at the NimConf presentations - https://conf.nim-lang.org/2020/ and https://conf.nim-lang.org/2021/ - for some nice inspiration as well as discussions of pros and cons done by actual practitioners.

As for me, in short words, what I found especially amazing in Nim was its resemblance to pseudocode (I literally found that it's a great notation to use when thinking in a notebook), fast compile times while at the same time low-bloat, macros, and the crazy impressive cross-platform story - including a JS target (I used it to write a functioning WebExt plugin for a browser; though I quickly got tired of the HTML+CSS part that remained necessary). At the other end of the x-platform spectrum, if you take a look at the videos, people are also successfully playing with Nim on microcontrollers (and I mean the real, small ones, not the Linux-hosting kinds). As for a few less amazing aspects, I struggled with the parallelism story; it is there, which makes it a complete modern runtime - but I found it nonstandard enough (and possibly somewhat unpolished?) that I failed to complete a hobby project where it was required. Thus (and also for a number of completely of unrelated reasons) I personally switched to learning Rust after Nim. Nim's package management is also missing lockfiles for reproducibility; I believe this might have recently gotten back into spotlight and hopefully is being worked on, but I don't know for sure, I'm not tracking the community now.

PS. Ah, and Araq (the BDFL) is constantly experimenting with some really cool stuff (e.g. the Orc garbage collector). Which gives the language and ecosystem some of its most interesting, exciting, and exceptional traits; OTOH then I'd say the financial support story of the language is regrettably not enough for some of the class-leading prototypes to make it past teaser stage (see e.g. DrNim: https://nim-lang.org/docs/drnim.html).
On that $5/month VPS there's management overhead - you need to have at least basic Linux knowledge, and ideally more than that to know not to do stupid things like chmod 777 and database exposed on the public internet. You also need to do your updates, etc.

I'm an (former) SRE and run my own Kubernetes cluster for fun, but still use serverless (containers as a service, static website hosting) depending on the project.
Quantum teleportation – how much time is needed to make it a reality?
750K-1M of investable assets + a paid off house to comfortably retire early and fully choose how I spend my time.

For a break, just enough to cover expenses during the break and find a new job after really, it doesn't matter too much as long as you can hold up your pants.
Attempting to buy Twitter in order to (let's face it, there is no other reason) un-muzzle Trump. That alone would be enough to get 10,000 oppo researchers on his case.

And let me be clear. I do think Musk has a few screws loose and that was obvious back when he was trying to buy ICBMs from Russia. He is also absolutely responsible for the creation of the new space race and for every major car company having a great EV. In our current political climate it's become impossible to take the good with the bad. There is only space in public discourse for him to be a hero or a villain. We demand absolute ideological purity from our public figures these days and many folks on the left feel betrayed that he could be anything other a progressive champion.

Money, more than anything is an amplifier, and it has amplified a neuro-atypical man with an unbalanced ego and actual political opinions you might not agree with. He is a real person with massive accomplishments who has enough money to firmly grab the wheel on the ship of our country, not some cardboard cutout of good or evil.
I must be having a brain fart moment. Make that Telegram.

My bad.
You can short several coins using USDC and Solana's Mango Markets platform. Also supports the other way, i. e. buying on margin.

Great way to lose a lot of money fast if you don't know what you're doing.
Any chance you could name a few of those sites. LinkedIn is the only example I know of.
The maintenance cost associated with end-of-life commercial flight equipment quickly outpaces the cost of buying a new platform. Without maintenance, the avionics (and everything else on the plane) is barely worth its weight in scrap metal (because even scrapping is expensive).
1. Yes. Our first attempt at storage implementation had a problem with many small file. Then the team rearchitected it around LSM trees and it got a LOT better. Our benchmarks show that we are very close in performance with vanilla Postgres and Aurora. There are some "worst case" scenarios where Neon is worse than vanilla Postgres. Aurora has similar problems too.

2. It's best to custom build a storage system here. External distributed filesystems introduce complexity, cost, and bottlenecks that you don't control.

3. Purpose built. LSM trees also have a temporal dimension - LSN. You can fetch a page by pageId and LSN. This is what allows time machine and branching.

4. I call it convergence when OLTP and OLAP is one system - ultimate dream for a database systems engineer. Since I spent 10 years building it I have both scars and aspirations. I think it will come, but this will take a long time. HTAP is in a way a subset of convergence - most systems will have some HTAP. Neon will have some too, but for now it squarely focused on OLTP and helping developers build apps.
I remember discovering this as a boy scout of around 14 and when I presented it to our scout leader, the look he gave me suggested that he was trying to decide whether to call the police or the psychiatric services. I've kept these things to myself ever since.
interesting https://terranix.org/

https://terranix.org/documentation/terranix-vs-hcl/
Ask HN: Are there general-purpose tactile computers?
I was considering that a lot of modern computers have favoured slim keyboards, touchpads, and touch screens over more tactile experiences.

What factors caused this shift? Are there general-purpose computers that come with more tactile controls (think OP-1 synth level controls)?
A cartoon about the political center moving to the left? That’s destroying his personal brand?

(The far right has always been bad. They just used to be better at packaging it. Remember Nixon and Kissinger?)
Many resources don't support abitrary metadata.
And hey, at least Einstein's equation is something Einstein was both responsible for and proud of - Schrödinger is famous for his thought experiment that's just supposed to show how ridiculous the Copenhagen interpretation is. In popular culture Schrödinger ends up standing for specifically the thing he disagreed with.
Weather proof, better crash protection, ...
Free tier instances on various providers provides an option. And if you can't afford $5 a month you really shouldn't be playing with services where there's a risk of huge overages if you face a sudden spike in users.
Thank you! We are super hard at work. You can see our velocity here: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon
Isn’t Zig’s debug mode something similar?
It is incredible how even something basic like new, which most C predecessors already had, isn't never going to be part of it, manually calculating heap allocations for 50 years.
But is it really?
This is very counter intuitive as I hear stories about people with a lot of followers on insta that tried to sell smh and it did not translate to anything.
People who make posts like yours should be required to disclose how much Tesla stock they own.

> Hopefully the upcoming recession with a collapse in ad revenue will flush out media.

This especially speaks volumes about your motives.
These looks like how we made startup XYZ attractive to the job market.
Still cannot make systemd and FreeDesktop DBUS work together.

Notably, Avahi and disabling thereof.
Somerville Bowline¹, one 'm'.

Named after the place Topologist was at when he discovered that very useful knot.

1: https://crash-restraint.com/ties/66