skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the TV has no Internet connection, the mic is useless. I use an Amazon Firestick in developer mode connected to a network that uses a P-hole and other mitigation efforts to keep all the nasty tracking, beacons, etc. minimized. Nothing is 100%, but we can come close. What I'd like to see is a browser that doesn't allow scanning of fonts, etc. There has to be a way to perhaps fake what they can see and poison their data collection.
In a similar vein, I enjoy looking through ULine's website:

https://www.uline.com/

Everything looks satisfyingly clean and useful. I almost never buy anything from them, but sometimes I end up the site and go down a rabbit hole.
SF spends literally hundreds of millions on the 7,000-8,000 homeless. If they need to cut programs, that should be the first. It's not only excessive spending, but it's totally unaccountable. They could just buy the homeless RVs in Bakersfield for less than they spend to leave a bunch of junkies on the street and still have overdoses that exceed COVID deaths.
Is there not a fundamental difference between Tesla and MAGMA-type companies?

MAGMA, and the industry in general, produces software. Software doesn’t care about its location, and you can “touch” the product you’re working on from home.

Tesla produces cars. I can see a strong argument for Tesla workers getting benefit from being near the (physical) product. This may not be true of, say, the finance people, but I think it’s safe to say Elon is not very interested in the non-technical sides of his businesses.
FSD was $7k in spring 2020, but your point remains.
Yeah my Dell(s) have done that.

I reach inside and it is like a toaster “oh yeah this guy is dead…”
I didn't find veritasium's video convincing.
They still have paper catalogs, I think; you should get that.
Privacy? Uh- they just had a tracker in their email from AWS.

And my blocker already had awstrack in its blacklist so I had to temporarily disable that just so I could register.
This is typical bullshit marketing propped up by telco equipment manufacturers if not the telcos themselves.

The link between Korea & Finland is the good old Internet - a mesh of Ethernet and fibre cables. No 5G there.

5G could be used as the last mile but so can 4G and Wi-Fi, and in this case the latter technologies are just as good considering you don't actually need high bandwidth, merely low and stable-enough latency (a well-tuned and uncongested 4G network is good enough).

5G is absolutely not the enabler in controlling a factory across the world - this has been possible since the beginning of the Internet.
I haven’t read the fine print but you can have ten seconds of warning without predicting complications ten seconds in advance.

That 10 seconds simply means that the car must handle any situation safely for at least that amount of time. In practice, this means decisions such as emergency braking and steering must be autonomous but possible more complex scenarios (e.g. moving for emergency vehicle on a tight street) can be delegated to a human (or the system can simply pull over and stop).

They disable the system in cases of rain but at least from the marketing and videos demonstrating it, there’s no prediction of complex scenarios like you described.
Funny thing about that. If you want to do it you are allowed.
You only get in trouble if you lie about it.

Quit your W2, form LLC, go back to employer. “Hey boss, I started a new company, me and my team will do just what I did before but now we can scale up and down as needed.”

My business does this. We’ve got ten people and a fantastic amount of work. I was worried that the downturn would hurt us but we have more inbound work now than we did a month ago and we’re adding two new people next week.
https://smarthomestarter.com/can-you-block-youtube-ads-on-a-...
I agree that the list has a tone and probably originated in a desire of letting people who are making six figures for the first time know what they can do, but more than a few items are potentially relevant to someone making half of a bay area salary.
In-office work can make a comeback. All big tech has to do is tell new college grads "you have to work in our office." They will agree. After a few years and all the remote workers are sidelined and not important.
And the relative effect on your disposable income is wildly higher.
It would be super funny if at 101T digits we find an infinite series of 000000000

And figure: oh shit? Did we solve pi?
Nah, I think it is the opposite. All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We’ve had lying leaders in direct proportion to their powers. What we might be seeing instead are journalists actually reporting on these lies and the public having less tolerance for them. I consider that good news for the future of society.
Wow. This guy makes amazing stuff. That's what I call beautifully harnessing the power of web technologies to explain things.
How do you find the relevant window? Alt-tabbing or searching by name sounds like more work than “I know which workspace it’s in, so I just go to it (1 keystroke for me) and then find the window” (much less alt-tabbing when there are only a couple of windows in a workspace vs. dozens in a no-workspace arrangement)
Thanks so much, it's nice to get suggestions from someone in the same area!

These are the most helpful and practical suggestions I have encountered. You've hit the nail on the head with the exact problem I have been having working through books like Spivak and Axler. It always felt like I wasn't learning anything practical towards my work and that anything useful was a long ways away. I do enjoy the books and the material and the suggestion to pursue them in parallel is something I wish I thought about.

I will definitely check out all of those links.
I prefer to keep it simple. 1 csv file and 2 php files seems simple enough for most people to understand pretty quickly.

Jumping from stack to stack, so every project is different, and increasing complexity and abstraction is a sure fire way to end up with a lot of technical debt and a project no one else can maintain.

I think there is a progression a lot of people end up making. They start simple, because it's all they can understand. Then they ramp up the complexity it use the new fancy stuff all the cool kids are talking about, then they decide chasing the latest tech is a never-ending game and ultimately just a distraction from producing something of value.

I'm not saying people should never upgrade their skills or learn new things, but some of this stuff needs to bake a while longer before I can be bothered to invest time into it.
I'd bet good money the 5G is only used as the last mile from the operator's phone/tablet, assuming he even is using 5G and didn't accidentally leave it connected to Wi-Fi (not that they'd notice any difference, because again 5G is not adding anything new here - the heavy lifting is done by the good old Internet).
With Medicaid and the child tax credit being clawed back because of the pandemic, I don’t see how that’s true.
If the poll routinely says 40% will leave and only 6.7% do when a pandemic makes the benefits of being here moot for 2 years, you should throw the poll out the window. What's more, labor force data shows most of those have returned. What is your agenda? Why do you people care so much? I'm well aware of the city's problems but there's no nuance in these discussions and it's tiring.

I'm happy we'll have a new DA and hopefully the city will also make folks get mental health help when needed and get serious about building housing (i.e. get out of the way).
Not to mention that the Embarcadero freeway was a horrific blight on the walkability of the city and our use of the waterfront. Now that it's gone, absolutely nobody misses it. The same might be said in the future about revitalizing downtown around residential life, but that's not enough to get a city to take major action. I don't know what my point is here, except that positive change can be slow.
Not really. There is no shortage of YouTube videos of it doing stupid and dangerous things, mixed with boring regular driving. If you watch the popular YouTube channels it will give you a very accurate picture of how it works and fails. Based on that I had a very good idea of what to expect when I tried it out for the first time and my expectations turned out to be entirely accurate.

It's really quite surprising how open Tesla is about it. They could have added all sorts of rules to the beta legal terms about publicity and posting videos. But they did nothing and have not tried to take down any of the many unflattering videos, or kick people out of the beta for posting them, AFAIK.
> your life is more in danger from…

I don’t agree. People keep SAYING it. Tesla CLAIMS it. The only real evidence I’ve ever heard came from some insurance company that said that Teslas have less accidents. But I don’t know if that was controlled for the demographics of the drivers.

I also don’t know if that was compared to other cars with active safety systems.

What if Teslas have 15% fewer accidents than the average car but Hondas have 16% fewer. I don’t know.

Basically I’m highly skeptical of the claim. I don’t think it’s truly been rigorously studied. Without that I’m not willing to go along with the “you shouldn’t mind that someone is beta testing software on a 4000 pound car that may be driving next to you“ line of thinking.
Paywalled. Is there a link without the paywall? I used to have 12ft.io but that stopped working too.
It really should be clear to anyone that any of this political attention on Tesla is just theater to win elections/reelections.

Its pretty much not worth even paying attention to.
How Far Can ‘Shrinkflation’ Go?
Not my experience at all. JIRA is a tool. How you use the tool matters greatly.
Or maybe they’ve looked and decided the whole thing looks like a wildly speculative ponzi scheme. I’m not saying they HAVE, just that it’s a valid alternate explanation.

Like seriously nfts? Are we still not talking about the fact that they’re worse than beanie babies?
I'm hoping for something closer to the ending of Carl Sagan's novel, "Contact". It only mentioned pi on half a page, but it sticks with you.

I won't spoil it, but that book beautifully walked a skeptical / existential / transcendental line and makes you feel a special warmth despite being so immeasurably small.

The book was much better than the (quite adequate) film.

Sagan was an extraordinary communicator.
belfalas you probably feel you don't need another one but this is a great book that is friendly for visual learners (even though apparently they don't exist!)

Practical Linear Algebra - Gerald Farin & Dianne Hansford.

IIRC, the first edition was based on a work designed to educate design workers at a car firm who either didn't have the background or needed shoring up. So from the beginning it was aimed at the common person. It has since been developed over the years to it's current form.

All I know is this book has great illustrations / great analogies and was written in a way that worked _for me_ where other books did not and was a springboard to more advanced texts which as you can tell by the comments there are many. I highly reccomend.

http://www.farinhansford.com/books/pla/
This strikes me as a very strange take. Isn't it like saying "The 6 day workweek can make a comeback. All employers have to do is..."

The issue is that once a particular practice in relations between capital and labor becomes ingrained, conditions of competition make it very difficult to shift the balance. You would effectively have to have a non-competition agreement between big tech companies over this clause, because highly paid workers can and will leave for perks like remote work.
commercial display? I'd imagine they being expansive and maybe the DPI isn't fit for home usage
These are private and personal discussions, ranging over many areas of politics where we disagree and agree. I have no reason to doubt them. Even with a massive tax eliminating inheritance, their children will lead charmed lives. They are more afraid of a dysfunctional family than their children suffering from material wants.
There is a dead post in this thread talking about what if "at 101T digits we find an infinite series of 000000000".

I just wanted to point out that this is impossible, because in that case pi would be a rational number. However, it's been proven to be a transcendental number, which is a stronger condition than just being irrational. So, it's not possible that pi ends with any infinitely repeating sequence.
So because I don’t believe numbers published by the company trying to protect its own image I’m fear mongering?

No, I genuinely don’t like this situation. I’m not trying to troll. I’m just saying my opinion.
https://archive.ph/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/202...
More impressive is that they have the results online for you to download - in 39GB chunks!

https://storage.googleapis.com/pi100t/index.html
Well said!

This is the crux to doing and learning anything. Just a little bit of practice everyday, don't get competitive, don't pressure yourself and adjust to your lifestyle. Be fully engaged in the doing and don't allow the mind to wander. You will automatically develop a beneficial routine.
That model has a logo on the stand. It's pretty small, but logos are generally fairly small on almost any current TV (since thin bezels are in style, which doesn't leave much room for a logo).
SSD drive
> SF isn’t worth what it thinks it is, and that’s the trouble.

Isn't that by definition false? If living here was worth less, rents and home prices would drop. Sure, rents dipped quite a bit during the pandemic, but they've recovered somewhat, possibly completely. Home prices didn't change much. And yes, I know that these costs are propped up by things like zoning, the city planning process, NIMBYism, etc., but that doesn't really matter: there's still -- somehow -- enough demand to keep prices as high as they are.

(Bias: I bought a condo in the Dogpatch in 2020, right before the pandemic hit. I've been really happy with our QOL since moving, even during the pandemic. The neighborhood has mostly recovered, with only a few businesses closing permanently.)
As a demo of how long before it was standardized it was already popular, YAML was modified to be a superset of JSON in 2009.
Did you take any college course on this? In class, I've found Linear Algebra to be confusing as there are many ways to say the same things and ideas are connected to each other like a giant web. I would not be able to follow along if I did not have my instructor who is willing to pause and explain it to me.

I recommend enrolling in a class, explain the instructor about your goal and s/he can find topics and walk you through them.
> This newspaper has long argued that Mr Johnson ought to have resigned for lying repeatedly to Parliament about whether he broke his own laws.

By “laws” do they mean covid regulations?
I'm really sad our culture is encouraging this. I know this is an unpopular opinion and may be seen as gatekeeping by some, but I believe that these "learn X in Y weeks" for deeply technical topics (it's totally fine for X framework) do more harm than good. People who rely on these usually have no real understanding, and just slap something on their resume. As someone involved in hiring, I actively treat anything like this on a resume as a big red flag. If you say you know ML but list some short-term course, I know that you're exaggerating and likely don't have a real understanding. This also tells me that you are likely exaggerating in other parts of your resume and profile too [0]. The same goes for projects. If your "projects" consist of simply calling X library with new data and doing nothing novel, that's a red flag more than anything else. I see this a ton: Just fork some Github project and make a few tiny changes and put it on your resume.

On the other hand, I respect people who are willing to spend the time and effort to truly learn something from scratch. Start with a basic math and ML course, then go on more difficult ones, read papers, implement papers and projects, and so on. The same goes for other topics such as distributed systems, compilers and programming languages, etc. There are no "learn X in Y weeks" shortcuts. I understand that not everyone may be able to do this and many will give up along the way, and I don't think that's a bad thing. It's a great filter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsus_in_uno,_falsus_in_omnib...
Read “Rich Dad Poor Dad”. It is really all you have to do to get the financial education needed to manage money well. It changed my life.
I first found y’all via Reddit I believe. So much respect for this project. Love the aesthetic. Love the dynamic scenes. Great job.
Good for them. I don't use any of their products, but I'm rooting for them
You can get pretty far using LMDB, specifically, its compound-key feature is quite good, and gets you a decent chunk of the relational model. Combined with Message Pack encoding, you can get an extremely concise data layer.

https://github.com/kriszyp/lmdb-js/discussions/170

I think there's a reason Tail Scale used a literal JSON file for up till 150 MB. of data: https://tailscale.com/blog/an-unlikely-database-migration/

So, I think the unconventional wisdom is correct.
Why do you think that being physically fit/active and being a techie is mutually exclusive? Wouldn't the high incomes from being in tech mean more money and time to spend on health and wellness? I have always found the stereotype of un-athletic nerd to be silly and not remotely true in real life.
http://realultimatepower.net/
True, but that's the easy part, there are plenty of distros one download click away. Dumb TVs or large monitors, on the other hand, are not easy to come by and/or very expensive.
> Total storage size: 663 TB available, 515 TB used

I was interested to see how they're storing the result (100T digits), it's not clear if this if memory for the result or for the algorithm. I'd be interested to hear what the encoding is; a byte/char per digit, or a nibble?
Because your house is now more valuable and as a general rule progressive taxes are best where those with more money pay more tax.
I'd say it was almost equally dangerous for person with that high level of visual impairment to use any stairs where each stair is a single uniform color.

In your example it might be difficult for such a person to identify the location of the stairs, but still very dangerous once they found them and began climbing. In my example-- say the stairs were a uniform red-- once the stairs were found it would still be equally dangerous to climb them, little better than going up blindfolded as you couldn't distinguish one stair from another.

A person with that impairment should probably want some sort of occupational therapy to use a guide cane or other method to safely perform tasks like that without relying clear contrasting colors.
The west is in the midst of a spiritual crisis. No economic policy will fix the prevailing nihilism.
Oh shocking. The administration which has been openly hostile towards tesla is now going to start actively kneecapping their vehicles.

What the hell is wrong with us? Why do we do this to ourselves? Tesla is an insanely innovative company, and we have a government who now wants to fight them? WHY?

If you turn on FSD, and then just turn your brain off: YOU are the problem. Inattentive drivers are not a new problem created by tesla.
gg=G in vim?
"Allowing people to get on BART without paying" is probably San Francisco's least important problem, as compliance with BART fares is > 99% among BART riders, which puts it above the federal income tax (~85%) and far ahead of parking meters (< 50%). If you want to use armed police to end some policy of perceived subsidization then the people you want to taser are parking scofflaws.

Also FYI BART is not a city agency and it has its own police force.
Eh, fair enough. Frankly it would probably be better to do new operators anyways.

The “=“ operator meant copy for a long time, and everything from Java to Python technically kept those semantics by calling pointers “handles” or whatever.

I write a lot of C++ and type “std::move” too much, for some kinds of code it is in fact the default you want.

But there are plenty of punctuation characters in ASCII alone. Hell Pascal has been dead long enough we could bring “:=“ back.

“=“ meaning move is the worst kind of pun: it violates 30+ years of intuition, masks that there is still often some code-gen involved, and generally flexes the “Rust vibe” that whatever you knew before is irrelevant because we fixed computing.

Rust is a cool language in some ways. Rust attitude is: “we brigade HN. And you will do nothing, because you can do nothing.” I got into Rust despite the community.
>>Personally, I think if we had better laws Musk would be looking at charges of criminal negligence for encouraging people to think they have things like actual "autopilot" and "full self driving". But as it is, he lied his way to the top of the world's richest list. So Tesla's problems here are just the consequences of his actions.

Your idea of better laws would mean no Tesla and no SpaceX.

Tesla has replaced two million gasoline cars with electric cars, and given its current growth rate, and Musk's long standing plan to release progressively more affordable cars, this number will likely be massively larger in a few years.

Beyond Tesla's own sales, its success has sparked massive investment by other carmakers to push their electric vehicle manufacturing timetables forward. All told, Tesla has had a massive impact in pushing the world to replace gasoline vehicles with electric ones.

SpaceX, for its part, is responsible for reducing the cost of launching material to orbit ten fold, with another 100 fold reduction possible with StarShip. The spike at the end of this graph is almost solely due to SpaceX:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-...

I see laws that prevent the emergence and flourishing of Tesla and SpaceX as far worse than current laws.
www.readsomethinginteresting.com, place to find new things to read
People I've known who do sewing and needlework and stuff seem to have perennial stories about clueless people asking if they can buy or commission a piece without the vaguest concept of how much time and effort went into the one on display.

There is so much marketing around "hand crafted" products that people forget it's all either fake/weasel words or done in very low wage places.
With most tiling WMs, multiple workspaces are necessary since there's often no way to minimize windows. So without virtual desktops you'd quickly run out of space.

If you're using a standard overlapping window system, virtual desktops are more of an optional workflow preference than an absolute necessity.
Forthing the use of Anki. I actually do most of my studying on mobile, using Ankidroid. And though it works great on a regular LCD phone, I absolutely love it on an E-Ink ebook reader. I personally use the Barnes and Noble Nook, because you can install Ankidroid and a launcher in ten minutes without root on that device.
Using Rust's standard library on ESP32 microncontrollers
Marines killed in crash in Imperial County this week remembered
Don't worry, this person is extremely ignorant and/or intentionally spreading nonsense.
One disconnect for me is the divergence of worker productivity metrics and very low GDP. How is it that workers can be twice as productive as say 2 decades ago but last decade's GDP growth is only +1.7%? People are doing more, but getting less. It doesn't really matter which government presides over the phenomena. Of course government can influence the outcome, but it's like holding the president accountable for gas prices: effective as screaming at clouds. The low growth is a problem, but the public figurehead doesn't control each economic agent's decisions; they can only maybe steer the trajectory. Growth wasn't >7% YoY 8 decades ago because we had more tenacious leaders. The secret sauce for high growth is likely more complicated than that.