skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I'm super happy that you found one voice arguable better than AWS.

I might argue, though, you might get used to our voices quickly once you start using it frequently. I've had this feedback before from someone who was very used to AWS's monotonous voice, and he actually changed his opinion after listening to a couple of articles. Previously, I built https://audioread.com which got me to talk to a bunch of users.
The OSM stuff piques my interest. Sorry to ask a deep / dumb / lmgtfy question but did you uncover a way to extract vector data from that dataset?

I have a hobby of doing pen plotter maps, my data source is USGS and the process to prepare it is manual and awful. I've often considered switching to OSM but afraid of the learning curve. Please send a PM/DM about this if you'd like to chat more on maps.

Your on-topic comment is interesting because I can resonate with the whole "have to do something you want till your un-burned". My problem is that I can't do what I want and I feel blocked from getting that. I try to re-calibrate my desires (lower expectations) and then I get blocked from THAT. I have lowered my expectations so much that I have a negatively reflexive response to things being diminished in general for me.

I call it the "starving crackhead" mentality but I think the medical term is scarcity mindset. Pain causes unhealthy obsessions and maladaptive loops... like fishing lines getting infinitely knotted.
can they redirect the light beams using solar mirrors that orbit the moon somehow? kinda like a light redirection satellite? technically speaking if there is enough panels and enough wiring to build a grid it could work. the energy would just have to travel via cables once harvested
Yes it does, because 2FA means you need BOTH the master password and the second factor device to log in. Stealing the password is not enough. That is the point of 2FA.
Replace "house hit by lightning" with "house hit by missile strike and now occupied by the Russian Army", a very real scenario nowadays, and you have the same problem again.
Even without deepfakes any kind of system relying on a person (or computer) not being tricked by webcam video seems quite questionable. People could still be tricked with a spliced video fragments of the real person or makeup especially if the set of face expressions used during "liveness check" is known ahead of time.
CCS spec limits are actually 1000V and 500A. Electrify America uses 350A units, hence the 350 kW chargers (1000V x 350A). Lucid battery packs are 924V to maximize CCS capability.

DC Fast charging has to match pack voltage, so with 400ish volt pack voltage Tesla gets big charging speed by providing extreme amperage. CCS is limited to 500A, so the best way to provide really fast charging is higher pack voltages.

Higher voltage does have some benefits around heat and losses, but also has downsides like cost of electronics and installations over 600V generally require special electrical licensing.

It's hard to deny the tesla connector is a lot nicer to work with (especially V3 with thin, liquid cooled cables), but I still wish my model 3 sr+ had CCS like euro cars. I'd love to be able to have more charging options.
Doesn't seem that cryptic or far fetched.

Crypto has given vast amounts of unearned money to a large number of people with... lets just say issues. Nothing on this list is surprising.

Money does weird things to people, but especially unearned windfall money. When people get tons of money they didn't earn in any meaningful way, they know in their heart they don't deserve it. Some people can roll with that and adopt an abundance mentality, but many will instead adopt a narcissistic posture to defend their ego. They have a need to feel special, to believe all that money makes them special and that they weren't just lucky.

I think the last part explains why there's so much racism and misogyny in these communities. People will seize on things like being male, white, or having a high IQ score to explain why they must be special and deserve all that windfall money. It's not just luck, see, because they have a super high IQ and that's why they were smart enough to get in on the ground floor of this new thing. They didn't just buy a lotto ticket and win.
MongoDB Debuts 'Queryable Encryption' to Fight Hack and Leaks
Apple hasn't made an Apple Silicon Mac that really pushes the boundaries in terms of memory. The most kitted-out machine you can get caps out at 128GB, which is kinda chump-change once you get into the research/professional industry Apple is targeting. Judging by the language at WWDC, this is definitely a memory controller issue.
Value Chains: Designing Video Game Economies
I sense there are doubts about hiring you. What is the tell? Another live coding challenge is not the kind of deal-breaking round a company should opt for, if you passed the other 4 rounds. Also not a deal-making round if you failed the other rounds. (It's just a smoke-test.)

Assuming there are indeed internal doubts, then chances are there's a person in power who is casting those doubts. Could be for example there's a preferred candidate who that person in power already set their eyes on. And the inexperienced hiring manager is not seeing that.

Good luck either way.

Edit: I would probably ask which topics the earlier test missed, and whether it's possible to hop on a call with <insert developer name here> to share your thoughts about those topics instead.
Google might owe you a couple hundred bucks after settling Photos biometric suit
Your post is so perfectly in line with the blanket dismissal and absolutist attitude of the letter that you could pass as one of the authors.

Crypto has its uses. Crypto also has lots of scams. Crypto bubble popping will not destroy the scams; these are endemic to any semi decentralized system, see email spam and robocalls. We can do much more to regulate, moderate, and improve the tech for better consumer protection and usability, which is one thing the letter calls for.
It would be nice if we could limit new standards to once every 5-10 years. At which time people can submit new ideas for standardization approval and then the best one gets picked and everyone is required to switch. Backwards compatibility would probably score a lot of points.
Are you telling me there has been other "USB" cables before? No, USB-C came down from the heavens in the dawn of time and evil Apple has been using their evil proprietary lighting all this time, just out of spite to anger Android fanboys.
Granted this isn't the fault of the connector, but USB-C is certainly a mess. My Nintendo Switch uses USB-C charging, but I can't use my MacBook charger for it. There are different cables, ratings, etc. "make everything USB-C" is asking for confusion. As much as I hate having a different cable for every device, at least when I pick up a (Apple-branded) lightning cable, I know it will work correctly for my iPhone.
Tc = total compensation (salary, bonus, stock, benefits)

Ibd = investment banking division

Ict4 = more commonly IC, individual contributor level 4. Not a manager.

Ldn = London I think

Gp = grandparent poster (comment 2 levels above the referenced comment)
Because what's their incentive to do better? Most people only use the port for charging, which has no data speed, and the number of people who sync via wire is lower than ever and declining. USB2 was good enough for a long time, and it's not like it changed.
It's really sad how even after she mentioned explicitly that:

""“I got to the point where I’d start a lecture by saying no one was allowed to ask any questions about him,” Dr. Freud told the London Guardian in 1993. “I do feel that I have achieved enough in my own right to be seen as a separate individual.”""

More than half of this article ends up being about her grandfather, including mentioning him in the title.
Light bulb sockets are actually a great example for the downsides of standardization, because they’re super suboptimal for LED bulbs, and are a large part of the reason for the transformers on many of the new bulbs burning out way before their rated lifetime. A better LED socket would provide better heatsinking/dissipation opportunities.

But it was pretty good for many decades.
Ask HN: Firefox Updates – Too Aggressive?
I'm all about evergreen updates to keep security issues at bay, particularly in browsers.

However, Firefox's update behavior seems too aggressive to me. I'm regularly browsing with a private session, only to have Firefox score an own goal by surprise updating and then cutting off the network connection to force an immediate restart, a dance that loses every private tab.

It seems very user-hostile to have zero control over the application simply ceasing to perform its sole function.
Probably several things. They're working on the battery-issue: https://repair.eu/news/the-european-parliament-calls-for-rem...
Personally I dislike this (Result has it too), because it gives bizarre errors if you forget to unwrap a result:

let collection = get_stuff();
for item in collection {
}

This can unexpectedly give you one item of iterable `Result` instead of items of the collection if `get_stuff()` returns a `Result<Vec>` or `Option<Vec>`.

Such mistake won't make it to production thanks to strict type checking, but it manifests in surprising and misleading error messages that the `item` doesn't have methods you expect it to have, rather than pointing to the true cause of `get_stuff()` not having error handled.
Financial inclusion tech letter: https://www.financialinclusion.tech/

Support from activists and people in corrupt, poor, and developing countries.
Isn't this worse for people who rely on government services? (Without knowing the details)?
> It seems more like "free sub-domains" not domains.

Is a free subdomain free?

You make it orders of magnitude easier to do weird tracking if you use an overly specific subdomain rather than placing things "after the slash".

To give a case study:

I had an old housemate freak out when I questioned their integrity and they said "that was after the slash" -- I used to pay for the internet and collect $ for it, I didn't log anything and asked folks to not share the WPA(2?) password.

He also told me he took a special route to campus because some of the undergrads didn't close their blinds, then took umbragen I decribed him to others with the wrong adjective.

(At least when I look out my window with a pair of binoculars, it's to look for tacticool weirdos, not titties worse than what you can find for free with a simple Bing search[1])

//[1] and please forgive the wall of text, bootstrapping new social networks post COVID has been harder than expected, since the folks who were very predatory about gatekeeping the definition of espionage freak out if you point out GDPR is a European law, and I've been a permanent resident of Pennsylvania all my life.
Talk about not thinking through my comment before posting it. ~ 106 C during the day oof thats hot. Line losses would be great at night however during peak solar production you probably need some kind of protection for the cabling (good thing its a short distance).

Having to plan the componentry for sure wild temperature swings - yikes.
I worked in a Wall St. firm in the 90's and wore suit and tie every day, even though my job was neither customer facing nor even in New York.

I quickly realized I didn't mind it at all once I found correctly fitting shirts. If you consider a tie to be too constricting, you have the wrong shirt.

Even as borderline OCD (self diagnosed, so likely wrong), I never found particular clothes to be a hinderance to me typing (I'm a software dev), and I'm one of those guys that can't stand tags in t-shirts and rip them out. I think 90% of the angst over "comfortable" clothes is a learned cultural thing, and overblown. IMO.
The Race to Zero Defects in Auto ICs
The article author includes “Excel” in their “basic” math definition. That covers a whole lot of stuff past eighth grade.

For example, I use multivariate regressions in Excel quite frequently to help us understand some data I’ve gathered. Yes, it’s just a few keystrokes, but if I didn’t have a basic understanding of what it were doing, it would just be magic, and I’d never be able to tell if the output was bogus or not.

Knowing the basic ideas behind complex numbers helped when I was doing some computer graphics work on a game a few years ago.

Having a basic intuition about what a derivative is comes up all the damn time when doing just about anything involving stuff that changes over time. I don’t use a lot of calculus, and I especially don’t calculate things by hand much, but knowing the general concepts helps a lot.

Statistics I use massively and I think is super important. Every single day, I need to at least understand what a standard deviation is, how basic probability works (I like poker), bayes theorem, etc.

Boolean logic and discrete math comes up quite a bit when I write code.

Non-Euclidian geometry came up a lot when I was writing code related to mapping and calculating distances on a curved Earth.

All that being said, I still can’t remember how to do long division :)
Not entirely surprising - the biggest change in car technology over the past few years has been the inclusion of driver assistance features and liability is the most expensive component of auto insurance.
My friends and I have been noticing this for the past couple decades.

Used to be, every creekbed was a river of moving lights.

Now we're like, "ooh! I saw a firefly!"
>Ownership is a nebulous concept with many interpretations.

Impersonation is a simple concept.
> As for the goal to maintain 100% productivity whilst cutting back on hours, I'm confident that they will succeed. In fact, they'll succeed in this without requiring some kind of brilliant plan, as this recalibration happens automatically.

I worked as a contractor for a while with a 32 hour/week schedule. I was essentially just as productive as I was full time.

Reality is for most creative jobs, there's a fraction of your work week where you're extremely productive. Everything else is just rounding out the admin work while your brain is mush.
If by “strict reading” you mean “any reading at all”, I would agree.

I’m not sure how the legal power to say “the unit of mass called the ‘gram’ shall be defined as the mass of a cube of pure water, one centimeter on each side” allows you to say “anybody that manufactures a phone must include the following physical and logical features.” If you go off that definition, you’re basically ceding pretty much unlimited power to the government.
> The notable difference being this is not ancient Greece and the two commenters above are not Socrates and a Sophist opponet, say.

Who cares if they aren't people from ancient Greece? I said it was a tradition rooted in logic, not that they were from Greece. As educated people in the modern world, we are taught about logic. You should know this better than most; a lot better, actually. Which goes to show how reasonable it is that people on this forum would be expected to understand points rooted in logic.

That said, it is Aristotle you ought to have referenced, "Aristotle sets the stage for all later theories of analogical reasoning. In his theoretical reflections on analogy and in his most judicious examples, we find a sober account that lays the foundation both for the commonsense guidelines noted above and for more sophisticated analyses." [1] "Aristotle proves invalidity by constructing counterexamples. This is very much in the spirit of modern logical theory: all that it takes to show that a certain form is invalid is a single instance of that form with true premises and a false conclusion. However, Aristotle states his results not by saying that certain premise-conclusion combinations are invalid but by saying that certain premise pairs do not “syllogize”: that is, that, given the pair in question, examples can be constructed in which premises of that form are true and a conclusion of any of the four possible forms is false." [2]

> Also, you're jumping to conclusions.

The alternative conclusion is that the person is too stupid to realize that obviously false claims are false, but simultaneously believes that making false claims with bad logic will mean that when they say "you get my point" they will be found to be convincing. That is an extremely implausible conclusion. It seems to me that the way to get to that conclusion is to dismiss people with prejudice on the basis of "I logic, they rhetoric" and to me at least that seems against the spirit of the Hacker News guidelines. So I don't think I made a big leap. I think I chose to assume good faith.

[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasoning-analogy/

[2]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/#DisCouTe...
Google Meet now lets you pin multiple video feeds
Thanks for listing this overview and worst case scenario. I can say, for myself, that my current setup covers this situation. Everything is immediatly synced to my server located offsite, through IPSEC, meaning I have at every time at least two copies of data that are physically separate. My password manager needs a password file and key. the key I remember, the password file is in my encrypted ZFS volume on my server. If my phone (dies), I can still get the password file from my laptop or from the server; if the server dies, I still have it on my laptop or phone. It is extremely unlikely that all three die at the same time. Yet, even for this scenario, I have a printed out list of password of my password manager, hidden at a location that is usually inaccessible. Of course, I follow the 3-2-1(-0) rule, providing additional piece-of-mind beyond that "worst case".

So yes, I agree fully: Prepare for worst (and hope for best).

For anyone thinking about self-hosting, I suggest to place your server not at your main place - host it offsite (e.g. at your parents house). Makes you also better in remote work and produces overall more stable systems (because driving 100km is a painful motivator).
Generate documents for test applications (Brazil)
I can't attest to their results but the producers of the super-aerodynamic aptera claim that almost no bugs wind up on the aptera as compared to their chase car, because the bugs wind up unharmed through the slipstream.

Though I believe that there is likely an broad insect decline, for the bug splat anecdotes (remembering that the plural of anecdote is data) we also can't rule out that bugs are evolving based on selective pressure to avoid thoroughfares.
I sometimes think of the flood of notes in a bebop solo as being akin to the dots of color in a pointillist painting. As in, you can take them in as a continuous whole as well as discrete points.

There's no end.
> When you are not happy with decisions the governments make, it usually means that you should be involved in the process of making the decisions.

Most of us are not billionaires.
Because most of the startups are not profitable and have no chance to make a lot of money.

But people working there are often great.

You can't just hire most of them. So first you pet their ego with some cash & startup success narrative and only then hire.
What’s also interesting is that at the end they mention this was only a 2 week study. I don’t know how microdosing is supposed to be done but Ive always imagined it less frequently, like once a week, and over a longer period of time.
There is an app for Garmin watches called "Minutecast" which has been pretty accurate at predicting rain periods when it can get my location correct (does not work as well in remote areas that may have few weather stations, based on my personal experience).
He Helped Cure the ‘London Patient’ of HIV Then He Turned to Covid
yes you can. it costs 10$ a year to squat a 10 million dollar .com, and I bet there's a bunch of them that had been parked since the 90s

the registration fee does prevent someone from squatting the entire Library of Babel though
I'm neither an SWE parent, nor American or German so I can't advice on anything related to those. Instead I think you should also consider this (ultimately more important I think FWIW): What nationality do you want your children to be? If the thought of your children growing up to be Germans is unbearable to you but if the thought of your children being Americans is acceptable to your wife then you should chose CA, and vice versa. A lot of tension tend to occur in families where one or both parents come from a different culture than the one their children grow up in.

If you plan to be in one country when they are young and then make a move to the other country when they are older then that is also something I would advice against, better chose one country and stick with it. At least in my experience, people that moved to a new country in (especially late) childhood will face many challenges, some of which may prove too hard.

In general I think people should consider the effects for the children when making these kinds of choices. It has lifelong implications for them.
I live in a fire prone area. I have a safe deposit box 30 mins away in a place that won't burn. I keep a HD there with all my photos on it. I refresh the drive monthly. The chance that this small credit union with maybe 100 boxes will lose, toss or sell my box on fire day is pretty minimal.

Yes, safe deposit boxes are not always as safe as spy movies would have you think (or even that we should assume them to reasonably be), but they can still be used as part of a disaster recovery strategy.
> How do you find work that you can be emotionally de-vested in?

You know the "alienation" Marx and Engels write about in the Communist Manifesto and Capital? I lean into that shit like a motocross racer doing a tight turn. I'll take just about any kind of paying work as long as it's not for the military or law enforcement, but otherwise I simply don't give a shit. I don't get emotionally involved with my code any more than I did with the toilets I used to clean when I worked as a supermarket janitor to help pay for college. Either way I'm mainly just dealing with other people's shit.
And that's why the EU in 2009 got all the companies to agree to make a common charger [1]. However, then the companies didn't so that left the Gov 2 choices: Ignore the idea of a common charger or force a common charger.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/eu-charging-standard-proposa...
Might be taking a page out of the WikiLeaks playbook. They liked to mete out their leaks in stages to keep the attention on them.
I was a little skeptical of the fire when all of his ID documents were only half-burned. :)
Well they all also mention wind turbines..
Many thanks!

So glad you asked. Once the incident is in a resolved, we'll prompt you to edit your postmortem. This can be done inside of Rootly but most commonly we'll auto-generate a Confluence or Google Doc. Here you'll have all your incident metadata, template to fill out, but most importantly your incident timeline (no copy-paste required).

From there we can help you do things like automatically scheduling your postmortem meeting with everyone that was involved.

We also want to help you improve your process and response. We'll prompt anyone involved in the incident for feedback (they can submit anonymously too) and collect important metrics.

There are top line metrics like incident count, MTTX, outstanding action items but also finer grained ones which is what I think you might be hinting at. For example you can visualize automatically what services are being impacted the most. That might be an indicator as an area to focus on more.

We try to keep the garden walls on the product quite low, allowing you to export any of the data out of Rootly and into your own analytics engines.
Cool story, but with so many things to eavesdrop on a so-called end-to-end secure platform, wasn't anything more interesting? Like state secrets or child trafficking?
As of 2010 most UK passports have biometrics in them. Not strictly routine but many are likely to have them.