skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's cool technology. A death or two is worth it /s
https://archive.ph/jELUf
Don't give Musk any ideas!
That may be true for stoves where heat goes into the air but it’s not true for other appliances. Most modern gas furnaces have an efficiency of about 80%, meaning 20% of energy is lost as exhaust. Some newer systems have efficiencies as high as 98.5%, and older systems might go as low as 56% [1] Natural gas combined cycle plants (they have have multiple turbines for increased efficiency) around 50% efficiency (efficiency is limited by the thermodynamics of converting heat to electricity) [2]

So even with the worst furnace and the best power plant, the furnace still has similar efficiency. In the average case, furnaces are more efficient.

[1]: https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/furnaces-and-boilers
[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/natural-gas...
Yep. I've encountered the exact same issues on multiple Linode servers in multiple data centers. I've also experienced it with an AWS server. It's often almost impossible to get it unblocked because the support teams at the email providers (if you can even contact them) don't realize that's what's happening. I didn't understand it myself until I got a call with an engineer at Microsoft who realized it in the middle of our call. He unlisted us on the call and we were fine for a while, but were eventually blocked again and haven't been able to get unblocked. It's really frustrating and I'm slowly ending all of my email services (both professional and hobby) as a result.
> there is a drive to use more trains instead of planes, but should we give that up?

If you have good trains it's not giving things up. Apart from long distance travel HS trains are just better is almost every way.
Do these scandals never end?
I think it would be a reasonable argument that users aren't going to pay any meaningful level of attention to such a warning, but assuming said warning existed in the version they were testing the article would've been better for making that argument explicitly.
I learned Rust by writing a (fuse-based) filesystem [0]...about 30k lines iirc. Rust was challenging, but not crazy difficult (it helps that I have a C++ background). I loved it. Development was slower than a dynamic language, but faster than C++, and most importantly, I felt safe. It's a really solid language.

However, when I took a look at async Rust, it really did appear to be a mess. I have substantial experience with Python async/await (which is also a mess), so I'm not unfamiliar with the async concepts. Honestly, I think it's the idea of an event loop in a compiled + non-memory-managed language. You really have to think hard about where objects are living and for how long, and combine that with the illusory world of how async/await appears to work (versus how it actually works), it gets hard to conceptualize. Maybe I just didn't spend enough time with it to feel comfortable with it, but that's my hot take.

Imo, Go does performant concurrency right. Rust would be smart to adopt what Go offers.

0. https://github.com/amoffat/supertag
And it's a unhelpful suggestion to butcher names that aren't correctly formatted that way.
allyourcreditarebelongtous.com?

i assume at this point in life that any site doing something as silly as this has ulterior motives for the site's existence.
Howard Johnson's had fried clams, did not know that.

While I find fried clams repulsive, my secretary loves them, especially in her home state of New Hampshire.

I found them at Red Lobster a few years ago, and insisted that she try them because she complained so much. She admitted they were quite good, but there were no "bellies" (a particularly repellent portion of the dish).

I hope she liked HoJo's while it lasted.
It would have to be codified into law. It's funny that on the one hand they're vilified for taking advantage of drivers, yet are to be entrusted with offering a flexible work schedule for employees.
Palm Pre was the best phone I ever owned

edit: like, by a lot.
> People can enter their names into this unique link to generate the hash of their name. If the generated hash matches, they'll be notified *you* are *their* crush

Don't mean to be pedantic, but shouldn't it be "they'll be notified *they* are *your* crush"?
I just read this and also really enjoyed it.

Pépin heaps praise on Howard Johnson (the person), and has no kind words for his son, whom he blames for the restaurant’s decline. Mainly lack of adaptability as fast food hit the country, but then also drastically cutting quality in ingredients.

Pépin claims that he would take home frozen restaurant food (as it was shipped to the restaurants), reheat it, and serve it to his NYC “foodie” friends, including renowned French chefs, without them being able to tell. I actually believe this since most of the pre-prepared food were stocks and sauce bases which freeze just fine, and also take the most time to prepare.
I mean it impacts the climate whether it’s burned in a burner or in a power plant. We shouldn’t do either, but if you stop just the appliances you’ll just end up burning more in a power plant.
So it’s not conincidence that 70% of the US music market is old music. People might be not so stupid as thought.
How is it stumbling? Do you mean "slow going"? Because according to Wikipedia, the MEGA65 project was started in 2015, so Mega itself was slow.

These are essentially hobbyist projects, I don't think there's any nails to be placed on any coffins. They get done when they get done, and are not expected to become huge commercial successes.
Chainguard raises $50M to guard supply chains
I noticed the same thing. It seems pretty reasonable that the kind of person who drives a 350hp Volvo hybrid wagon is most often not the same kind of person who drives a 350hp Mustang.
This looks good. I will check it out this afternoon. I can see several use cases for it.

The best ever mapping software for personal use was Microsoft's Streets and Trips. buy a license and use it forever. Too bad they killed it off so you no longer can get updated roads and maps.

It had every feature that one could need to facilitate navigation. I keep an old laptop with WinXP around so I can do trip planning even today. It made the whole method of defining individual legs of a trip simple so that one could adjust things on the fly if you made it to one destination and discovered a lot of other interesting things to do or see. You could brainstorm different side trips in a few minutes. You could even print point to point maps.

I love that software. I really love any software that I can buy for one price and use forever. I am not a SaaS fan though that is where everyone is going. Sad.
First note that CXL 1.1 is still in the future and CXL pooling is pretty speculative. It may never happen like PCIe switching and pooling never happened.

Putting that aside, pooled resources are easier to schedule than local resources, so it should be straightforward for any cluster scheduler to allocate and assign those resources. The resulting utilization can be higher because resources won't be "stranded" on one server.
If you visit this ossuary, you will have a rough estimate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary
Cool. Adding "are they trying to reproduce an Autopilot bug they read about online?" to the list of thoughts I have when encountering a Tesla on the road.
I've read many and not to throw sand but I'd venture to say the ones I read are hazardously incorrect.

It's a thematically coherent list though so if some of these are up your alley, others likely will be.
You can't use copper or aluminum pans on induction stoves, so you're not going to be able to have a pan that has both high thermal conductivity and low thermal heat capacity. This is important for cooking things that need to go quickly from high temperature to off, for example hollandaise/bearnaise, caramel, roux. Even deglazing a pan to make a sauce benefits from being able to quickly stop heat transfer before whisking in the finishing butter for an emulsion. You can take your steel-clad pan off the induction coil, but there's still a lot of heat capacity in the pan that will continue transferring to the food.

I mean, I think you're mostly right, in that I wouldn't have to make that many sacrifices in switching from a gas stove to an induction stove, other than having to replace the majority of my pots and pans and learning some new techniques. But there's certainly a non-trivial amount of recipes and techniques that rely on the characteristics of a high-conductivity low-capacity pan over a gas stove.
I don’t think Elon did public insult his workers, he said he doesn’t appreciate workers that don’t work, are they even workers at that point? It’s like if I said I hate when someone steals from me, does that mean I hate you? If so they you are probably a thief. I get you have an opinion of him and that’s fine but how nice and humble a leader is is only a minor factor. What you get when hyper focused on tiny, in my opinion insignificant details and not the big picture is a poor judgement. Forget all the improvements and leaps forward his companies have made because a few times he said good things about himself? Your going to tell me in an interview you have never boasted and pretend none of those leaders you mentioned have ever talked about hard much work it took to get where they are? In actuality those leaders have written entire books on how good of a leader they are and what it takes to be one. I’m still trying to figure out what has irked so many people that Elon did?
Filmot is a public search engine which indexes YouTube metadata
Would a true rng (electron noise or whatever) be an acceptable substitute for physical coinflipping?

Has anybody tried this while under the influence of "psychic power enhancers" (psychedelics, meditation, sex, etc)?
$74,750. ~0.5%

https://namebio.com/felt.com
I wonder if him coming out as a Republic was a similar tactic as the "return to office" memo?

He came as Republican not as a Republic. Give it a few more years.
> The idea of Mittelstand business is to be conservative, low in debt, turn a profit, keep a company private, usually under multi-generational family control and from the very beginning make decisions for the long term, and keep employees around for life.

Aren't there a fair number of startups that could achieve that, but get blown up because the VC model only allows for abject failures or unicorns.
Its mainly related to MSSQL and Horracle. Horracle will just use their legal team (which is bigger than their engineers and developers) to bludgeon you over benchmarks.
The employer holds the leverage in the relationship. This negotiation is a fairy tale. At least being a contractor you are guaranteed this right.
This even spreads to technical architecture, many tech teams stopped exercising fiscal discipline in how they design services. This emerges in tiny low traffic micro-services, 4 teams building the same service, un-neccessary data allowed to accumulate in expensive data0stores for a rainy day and more.

When some of these startups need to layoff, I'm curious if they'll actually be able to maintain KTLO operations on their reduced staffs without making large product cuts.
Clear every app from your homescreen (2020)
>> Notably, the bill doesn't pertain to medical devices, home appliances, agricultural and off-road equipment, or public safety communications equipment. However, right-to-repair advocates have their eye on those areas as well. The bill also doesn't cover motor vehicles.
Nice to see this project on HN, and nice so many familiar webOS names on this board. I worked on Word Ace and the Card Ace games back in the day, and got back into playing around with my Pre and TouchPad a few years ago, thanks in part to codepoet80's work.
Not according to their own ethics board: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/taser-firm-axo...
>> I'm not a go expert

Yeah me neither, i’ve just been dabbling for fun recently. I’ve been dabbling with rust for longer

>> the Go way seems to have more boilerplate

…
switch t := s.(type) {
case Circle:
if t.radius < 10 {
fmt.Println("the rust syntax for this is sweeter")
}
…

https://go.dev/play/p/s4TTZeo7Gse

Definitely less boilerplate in the rust version, but i don’t think i go along with it being incomplete or less clear.
Central banks have fueled malinvestment for centuries. That's a disaster. I wrote another article about the manipulation of money and credit: https://www.nicolasbustamante.com/p/money-and-credit-manipul...
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Tegus is growing quickly: we've gone from just 15 people in 2018 to more than 400 today. Despite growing so quickly, we've always run our business in a sustainable way. We've generated significant free cash flow every year we've been in business and do not need outside investment to continue operating.

We're based in Chicago but our team is distributed and all of our tech team roles are fully remote friendly.
Can someone please explain telemetry data? Does this include location?
That quiz was for age verification though, not copy protection.
Western allies meeting regularly to game out frameworks for Ukraine ceasefire
Not sure what point is being made here.

Countries (and cities) have initiated all kinds of formal name changes over the years -- some of them have managed stick (Beijing, Kyiv, Burkina Fasso, Myanmar, Timor-Leste, North Macedonia, Eswatini, the Democratic Republic of Congo; and Ukraine dropping the definite article), others not so well (Czechia).

But there's nothing intrinsically weird about the concept as such.
I believe NFL coin tosses let the coin hit the ground. All methods I know of biasing a coin toss involve catching the coin. As long as the coin hits the ground and bounces at least once, a lot of randomness is re-introduced.
It doesn't make sense to argue that the responsibility for a violent or aggressive interaction stops with the Tesla/etc driver rather than the maniac who responded aggressively. The Tesla/etc driver is responsible for his own driving, as is the person reacting to that driving. Further still, since we're being pedantic about litigating responsibility, the person trailing the Tesla/etc should be leaving plenty of room such that he can comfortably react to abrupt braking (the leading driver might have a good reason for braking quickly!).
>Plus it takes for ever to boil anything

Tell me you've never cooked on induction without telling me.

If there's ONE thing an induction range does quantitatively better than a gas range, it's boil water...
Congratulations on creating a scenario in your mind that will never happen. If you are all less than an hour away from leaving for an event, why are you washing clothes that won't be ready in time? Did you really have to run the dishwasher right before Kim's wedding or could you have set it to run while you are gone or after you get back if you somehow have a dishwasher without a timer setting? If you know you need four people to shower, maybe don't all wait until the last minute.
Four tires lasting 30k-50k miles weigh a total of about 100 pounds and those four tires will only loose a total of about 30 pounds of that in their lifetimes. On the other hand, 30k to 50k miles of typical fossil fuel driving produces 18 metric tons of carbon dioxide on average.

So something other than carbon dioxide is being measured. That being the case, why not go full red herring and say that old tires produce infinitely more waste steel than car exhaust?

The way this is framed, I feel the typical person will take away that tires produce more of the expected pollution we think of when we think of cars making this super deceptive in my opinion.
Thunderbird's privacy statement literally talks about collecting data on its users through telemetry. If this application doesn't collect any such data for its author, then this point goes away. If you are using the software, then you're processing your own data. I'm not sure that provenance of your tools has any bearing on it. Even just 2(c) in [1] would disqualify it.
No, I mean by having this feature of lane keeping and cruise control saved lived overall.
Now I actually wonder if there would be room for some type of consulting in cost optimization field. Someone coming in and making inventory of data and services run and then recommending how to save on running costs and so on...
Is it a law of nature that whenever workers do well, the Fed has to curb it? That seems like a deliberate policy choice made not with the average person's interests at heart.
That's too bad. I have fond memories of my 5th grade math teacher taking me there many times for ice cream because she used that as a reward for whoever had the best grades that week, or something like that. Oh well.
> This basically creates a closed network between two phones. You can configure it so that if you pick up one phone, the other phone rings, and when that phone picks up, you can talk, and vice-versa. So I bought one, drilled a hole to my daughter’s room, and ran another RJ-11 cable to her phone.

Okay, well, now I have something to do with the rotary phone I inherited from a previous job. Time to set up a phone line to my kid's room!

I wonder if something exists to connect any arbitrary number of phones together. Maybe even with distinct phone numbers?

edit: duh, of course it does, PBX. maybe that'll be my summer project.
I don't understand the obsession with slighlty mispronounced german words in tech. Can anyone fill me in?
In the past 15 years I happened to rent in many cities and use all three technologies to heat my food (that is, gas, resistive and induction) and indeed, induction heats in shortest amount of time.
Great, now I've got Judas Priest playing in my head.
> What does scale have to do with it, am I missing something?

The person I replied to said they can identify spam with 90% accuracy with a glance, my point was that it's abysmal as accuracy. Even orders of magnitude better it'd still be bad.

> Wouldn’t a spam detection rate of 99.999% mean that only every 100000th spam mail would get through on an account basis, how’s that terrible?

I didn't specify if it's per-account or a false positive rate, it's also actually not relevant to the point I'm trying to make.

When you receive billions of letters a month small errors start to matter and they're doing a better job than the person I replied to thinks they do.
Yea, I should have probably indicated that you have to do a bit more of open source intelligence to get people's locations.
A Programming Language For Extraterrestrial Applications (2019)
All the BSL/SSPL ones shouldn't be in an "open source" section. Just change the heading to "source available" or put them with the "vendors".
If the author is fool enough to not use the language features that exist since C++17 to validate template code, surely.

I also don't find debugging Rust macros that fun, yet most likely the answer will be that the macro author didn't took enough care, and Rust is great to write gigantic DSL macros.
Careful, FruitNinjaDating could get interesting if not messy
It's truly difficult to sell a company that makes 10M USD revenue for 50M USD, I think the author is really too optimistic.

If we take [Valuation = Next 12 Month Revenue * EV/Revenue * Marketability Discount], we arrive barely at 15M/20M USD (if you are even profitable!), and still, the majority of these companies will not reach this state and just disappear :/
For Uber, it's the drivers who provide the capital!
Interesting! When I was running a VC-backed unprofitable startup, we chose speed over financial discipline. We built an infra that wasn't optimized to reduce costs. When we switched to profitability, we had to dramatically change our development practices to maintain the same app with fewer people and less code.
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Why most design systems implode
Yes for example Android setting Location to "on" and then hiding the setting at the end of half a dozen drill downs. And then, every now and then on a new update, suddenly and without notification, Location has been reset to "on".
Depends on employment contract, but I would estimate in case of relationship like Uber the leverage on driver side is zero. So really not much to lose.
>debate the minutia of a blog post he wrong last year on a topic that has long since been settled.

Part of the point of the article you're commenting on is that the topic is not, in fact, settled.
I've been having a blast using Roda, a Ruby web toolkit. It's an established project, certainly not new, yet somehow it feels really fresh and more in line with minimalist JS frameworks that have become in vogue. The plugin architecture is pretty sweet.

http://roda.jeremyevans.net
Autopilot should be fixed, but the problem in your scenario is people trailing others too closely. If you fail phantom braking, you're going to fail real braking whether it's activated by a computer or not.
> I really don't understand the love people have for the commodore 64. It wasn't especially advanced for it's time nor was it especially good. Finally it basically required the use of a horrible language like Basic to use. There's like zero reason to re-create it as a retro computer.

Happy to help you understand:

Like a lot of people, I owned a C64 and not an Amiga, which was very expensive and uncommon in my country.

Agreed the included Basic was horrible, but I also started my programming journey with it. One upside, unlike with current computers, is that the C64 had an "instant on" appliance feel to it -- you plugged it in, and it booted up almost instantly, greeting you with the READY prompt, ready to go at your command. Turning it off was likewise instant.

You could also write assembly with it.

The C64 had a vast library of games, many very good, and the SID music from those games was simply amazing. It still is. I still listen to C64 music from time to time, and I love it.

The demoscene around the C64 was amazing and -- get this -- it still exists!

Finally, though less importantly, the C64 was a massive success and sold lots of units, and helped kickstart an era in computing, so it has great historical importance.

Hopefully this helped you understand the widespread love for the C64.
I emailed Steve Jobs (sjobs@apple.com) in 2009 after a frustrating exchange at the Soho apple store in NY. He or someone using his account replied in less than 5 minutes with a follow up question, and the problem got fixed the next day.
Interesting. As a SaaS vendor, we do not allow performance testing of the production system. Because, you know, just casually saturating production resources can become very iffy for strange and unexpected reasons. And you will always be able to saturate a system, or a subsystem of the subsystem of the system.

However, we have provided bigger customers, or customer willing to pay for it, with performance testing environments. We have, however, usually survived into the curiosity phase - "just how much to I have to throw at this thing to break it?".
That's more likely to be a timing problem with the electric motor, you should have that checked out.
Thanks for this. I tried the demo and bought it after enjoying it! Cross-platform on Mac, Linux, and PC, too!