skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. It is not like car makers retrofitted old cars with physical ignition locks on the 80s, either.

I wonder, would this also be a physical retrofit? There could be hardware limitations to change here.
Hey, that's not a bad idea...
I don't know. Learning a new language isn't to be taken lightly and while I sort-of like C# I'm constantly aware that it's MS's property and shit is going to change and break. Also it seems Blazor is by MS, so ditto twice. I do not trust MS not to screw anyone over. Caveat emptor.

If you want to learn a new lang and still have java access, maybe look into scala. I really did like that but I don't know what state it's in now.
Having autofocus focus in the same plane as the photosites is a big win too.

EVF is much more convenient for near vision glasses wearers too.

That said, I think you need an R5/R6 generation body to not be annoyed by mirrorless readout slowness and VF lag.
Transputer lives! Would be a lot of fun to tinker with one of these.
Mentoring the next generation of women techmakers
In JavaScript, you can use `String.prototype.toLocaleUpperCase()`

> 'Türkiye'.toLocaleUpperCase('TR')
'TÜRKİYE'

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
you can genuinely find out what message makes more sense.

explaining what your product does is hard when you’re the product expert. A/b testing ad copy helps folks parse what your product does.

If your product is actually good then having more people understand what it is, is also good.
I was referring to the battery life. If you want to use an optical viewfinder, that is a different argument. The question just is: how often is it really making a significant difference in battery life? One which you cannot reasonably compensate for with more batteries or external power supply.
That makes no sense.
Before you payed for a version of the IDE and a year of updates.
Now you pay for a year of use and you get the most updated version of your last subscription day for ever.

Basically the difference to buying every year is that you don’t keep old versions. You still get to keep/own the version of your last paying day. And you get discounts…

Unless there are really bad feature changes, there is really no reason to prefer the old model
The only thing you get for logging in is that you can listen to the whole song, rather than the first 30s, once the game ends.
Birth rates of Europeans are low and declining. Birth rates of immigrants in Europe is very high, and keeps the population from declining.
> I'm supposed to believe that it's impossible to avoid... When I avoided it?

Being possible isn't the same as being scalable, for the vast majority of people debt is extremely difficult to get out of, and it's in the interest of the creditors (quite literally) to encourage lending to people who are likely to find it difficult to break free of the compounding interest, because it maximises their return.

Even assuming everyone was individually instantly capable of recognise and managing the risks of their debt, there would be massive reduced opportunity for ways to escape it, and the interest might be higher in order to satisfy the creditors who would otherwise not get as much return... it would be much harder to escape in that situation - From that perspective you should count yourself lucky, had everyone been as "smart" you might still be in debt.
The game is differentiating the drum tracks to find the song. It's kind of the point. I have a lot of fun with it and do solidly well from time to time.
Since we're looking at objects billions of light years away, we're looking billions of years into the past. In the context of extragalactic life, it's a bit sad to me that even if we somehow spotted it at those insane distances, in the early versions of those galaxies we see, odds are that it'll be gone by now, and we'll likely be gone by the time any lucky photons born in our solar system can reach those places, too. Even so, it's cool to think that the odds of life being out there somewhere in a universe so vast are really quite good, inaccessible as it may be.
Sociopath? CEO material? Politician?
ActivityPub is "sufficiently decentralized" in my book. I don't consider decentralizing name registry a requirement — DNS is a sufficiently decentralized name registry we already have and know how to manage. I don't consider cryptographic keys a viable form of identity because they absolutely inevitably leak into the UX and hopelessly ruin all of it. To add to that, as someone who has worked in a real-world popular social media company, I can assure you that account recovery is not something "nice to have", but rather a hard requirement — and it's impossible, by design, in a public-key-crypto-based system.
NeXT with Apple is a pretty solid canonical case. In that situation, it really became a reverse acquisition with Steve Jobs regaining control of Apple.

We've done a number of acquisitions - and most seem to have done well. A big portion of that is recognizing that you are not only acquiring the company - it's IP and people - but also it's culture. If you don't want that culture - if it's not better then yours, you don't want it.
Yep- it does this in betas, but not in production apps.
Sure, this is a niche with some very nice properties for this type of thing.
Yeah, it's pretty rewarding when your brain knows a 1 second drum sound. haha
Not really, because they would have spent the ad budget anyway, just without calling attention to the donation.
You still get a perpetual license for the version that was out when you purchased the subscription.
>When's the last time you heard the right use "communist" as an insult?

I dunno, they've been relegated to AM radio & FOX News so I never hear them anymore. The mainstream news sources continue to be cleansed of wrongthink.

There is no fleshing out of contrasting ideas in the news, only competing echo chambers for people to mainline their confirmation biases directly in toe their veins with no challenge to their preexisting thoughts and ideas. Carefully crafted into 7 second soundbites of course.

> it's ANOTHER example of the Immoral Journalist trope to add to my list

Then you don't know what a trope is. These are actual clips of real "journalists" dutifully reading their party-line scripts. This isn't a portrayal.
This is sort of the opposite, maybe... of better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Better to donate money silently, than to open one's mouth and show how poorly you spend your money.

Or something like that. I vowed, long ago, that if I ever ran a company successful enough to be able to donate large sums of money, that it would simply be done quietly, and only ever mentioned in ways that it made sense. I.e. if it were a board meeting, cool, mention it. The entrance to the building in the lobby? Cool, mention it. But in my mind, donations are not meant to be bragged about, it's a civil service, not marketing.
What's more lethal; dying in a week because you didn't organize with the people who are left, or dying in a decade because of radiation poisoning?
Was one of the learnings "Everyone hated the product manager"?
only listen to customers problems and never their solutions
Ask HN: What new back end tool/framework/language should I learn next?
And why?
If it works for BMW, why wouldn't it work for Ford, Toyota and GM? The financial incentive will cause these user-hostile subscriptions to spread, and probably to more than just heated seats, if/when the model is proven.

The analogy to feudalism might be stretched in the literal sense, but most people use the term as a substitute for "you own nothing and are subject to the whims of the owner".

And there's a lot of truth to that for the average person, compared to conditions even 20 years ago. With regard to heated seats, my 22 year old car has heated seats. They have never required a subscription, and they are mine for as long as they function/are repairable. Now you can argue that, theoretically, car companies could charge less for the car up front and make it up on the subscriptions, so the consumer will see increased customization and savings, and the car company will make the same amount of money instead of more money! If you believe that I have a subscription to a bridge to sell you for $19.99 a month.
> If you need place name translations, geonames is a decent data set: https://www.geonames.org/export/

That’s a great resource to keep around, thanks!
A convenient source for the unfortunately common “but you must not translate place names” argument.
What Is Portfolio Diversification?
Neat! This proposal caused me a lot of headaches, mechanizing its specification was the primary contribution of my Master's thesis a couple years ago[1]. I forgot until rereading it just now, but doing so caught a typo in the proposal specification[2], my extremely minor contribution to advancing WebAssembly.

Glad to see it finally moving forward after stalling for so long! Excellent work!

[1]: https://github.com/jacobmischka/uwm-masters-thesis/releases/...
[2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/issues/10
I can assure you, as someone who has both visited multiple fulfillment centers as well has worked on the inventory systems that manage them, that this literally happens thousands of times per day.
Instagram ($1 billion), WhatsApp ($19 billion)
Well, yes. Basically all mirrorless cameras have removable batteries. And changing them is obviously the direct way of keeping your camera operating continuously. But the one situation in which I can assume you would notice the difference in battery consumption is, if you are waiting for hours in a single spot to shoot rare wild life. This is where you might be watching for hours without taking any shots. But in these situation, you could add external power supply to not even have to exchange batteries.
Funny, I picked up a 5D4 for a song a few months ago, while everyone sells their stuff off to buy mirrorless. The 5D4 has more features! The only real advantage of mirrorless viewfinders for me is the ability in low light. I have a Q2 and its size/quality/workflow wins most everytime though.

I stocked up on all the film cameras I couldn’t afford as a kid when the sell off happened about ten years ago. I imagine DSLRs will have a burst of retro popularity at some point once people get bored of whatever it is they’re using.
I don't use your tool and I'm unrelated to CSMastermind, but I can tell you that you absolutely hit the "spam cannon" too hard. 5 messages in 48 hours? That's absolutely ridiculous. They could all have been 1 message if it was important that they get that info, and it could have been 0 messages if it wasn't.
For the same price point, mirrorless cameras are of inferior quality when it comes to noise. This is why many still choose DSLRs.

Edit: OK, I should say inferior quality w.r.t noise when all other features are similar.

Certainly, it's not anything specific about mirrorless that makes it noisy. It's just that if I have a DSLR with certain features, and another mirrorless with similar features (and noise profile), the latter tends to cost more.

And my information may be a bit dated - the last time I checked was in 2018. And I only buy APS-C, which usually was quite a bit more expensive for mirrorless, with not better quality.
(Very late, sorry.)

I hadn't. That does look very interesting. Thanks!
It's some weird mindset of can't-do speaking there. Maybe a sliver of truth but just failure dialling in to HN. They never offer anything useful, just want to feel important in their nihilism. They are a disease.
Good. Fuck the taxi monopolies.
I'm sure you can guess - basically boils down to the usual combination of "buy the dip" and "line goes up" that you often hear repeated on various YouTube channels and sub-Reddit's. In his defence, he did not use the phase "to the moon" even once. We did probe a bit, out of morbid curiosity, he was down something like 50%. There wasn't much deeper knowledge of the technical aspects of crypto or the various implementation differences, key management, etc. Not to mention traditional investing ideas like volatility and risk. For all appearances, just looks like a victim of the hype. He does do good reno work though and we pay him well for it. If he wants to buy magic beans with it, that's up to him.
I'm pretty perturbed at this too, but I find it funny that Spotify wouldn't be available in Germany. I remember years ago being jealous of Europeans that they had Spotify and we (the US) didn't.
For static databases (especially where the content is not deleted, or rarely updated) consider using contentless tables or external content tables. The database size remains virtually the same, but you'll have immediate access to almost all FTS features.
Wow that's an incredibly strong worker protection. How is the tech scene in the Netherlands these days? Good startup culture?
Better is subjective but in Mandarin, verb tenses are different than in most European languages. There are no conjugations, simply words you add before or after a verb to add your desired tense.
I'm trying to communicate that mental/personality disorders don't work like that.

It's a very costly and stubborn mistake either way and he has (or hasn't) bipolar either way.

Even in the most severe substance dependence cases some people can override their short term wants (eg. they don't go and mug people to get money for their next fix), while there's a clear pattern of this behavior in others. (But it's what we expect, since we define one by the other.) So in both of those instances, it was their mental state, but was it the altered part or the underlying base state that let the dependence to form in the first part? It's really not separable.

One explains the other, but there's no direction, no proximate causal relationship. At best there is some predictive power, ie. if someone goes off their meds, or stressors increase they will show behavior consistent with this or that. (But in general everyone will make more mistakes when they have more stress in their life. Who would have guessed, I know.)

Yet these categories (diagnoses) are not useless. They communicate behavior patterns, things to look for, things to be mindful of and try to manage.
Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream
Perhaps my comment does exemplify Poe's Law. But I can't see that it's more likely to exemplify Poe's Law than your own comment. You've offered as much evidence for your interpretation as I have for mine: none.
Ask HN: Back end engineers, what new “thing” should I learn?
In a relatively slow moving company tech wise. What new tech have you learned recently and would advise checking out?
> that one part of the transaction does not like the deal that they entered voluntarily

The choice between homelessness, starvation, and working an underpaid job is not a choice made voluntarily.

And equating the “exploitation” of slightly higher taxi rates compared with a coercive job… that’s way off the mark. An extra $20 to get from the airport or home from the bar once and a while (talk about transactions entered voluntarily), vs a grueling work environment that pays terrible that you have to do EVERY day to not starve.
> Just buy bare metal bmw and turn all luxury options on

Bring My (own) Warmers.
> Next would be what? 10 bucks for my washing machine that I own, $10 for my fridge, $10 for my air conditioning, stove, vacuum cleaner...

This was already happening with planned obsolescence.
The EU fought that by implementing a new law that requires big home electronics to have a 10year warrant. I guess the next step for vendors is bundling “service” features for subs
that kind of describes a lot of startup ethos as well though. buying "users" to pad the numbers before fund raising, click farms, etc. crypto just seems to be the darling of "okay to shit all over" because, well, it's crypto.
Barycentric Coordinate Time
Both are significant. But the bit twiddling definitely shows up. There's some caching to avoid it in some situations, and breaking that causes measurable slowdowns.

In the end it's not too surprising - a good number of columns fit in a cache line, and adjacent lines can easily be prefetched.

The cache miss matters a lot for the first column / row header, but not that much after.
Yes, I hate Apple, but I'm starting to hate Google even more. One of these days, I might switch too.

Why can't we have nice things?
I have 4 batteries at all times. two are official nikon ones. I've never gone past two. maybe if you're spending several days out in the middle of nowhere it makes a difference but a single battery is sufficient for most people that aren't shooting video.
Why can't we? The American Founders literally wanted us to take up arms and kill people who violated our essential liberties. You can read this in their own books and papers. They were extremely clear about this... it isn't even up for debate, unless of course you're talking to a moron that's never actually read Jefferson, Washington, Madison, etc.

If we reach a point where we can't even restate what our Founders said, we're already in our twilight as any kind of civilized liberal society.

Now we can argue about what constitutes an "essential liberty". I'm not sure I'd put, "Heated seats in my BMW" in that category.
Not an expert, but I'm curious if one difference between the buyer and buyee (in the author's situations) is SOCS2 compliance.
Publishing your work increases your luck
> I've always been a firm believer that micro-optimization is a critical task for developers to undertake. In the worst case, it tends to be a great teacher. It's also only through such efforts that informed decisions, based on previously gained knowledge and facts, can be made about what truly is and isn't worth pursuing with respect to performance.

This why I like hobby projects. In my day-to-day work, my job is to deliver value and "get stuff done". However, in hobby projects, I can feel free to dive into an optimization rabbit hole and learn a whole bunch of stuff. Even if I don't ship my hobby projects, I still gain a lot from the background knowledge.
I've since last year migrated virtually all serious content to SQLite, which handless most of my FTS needs flawlessly, or can be programmed to do it with little trouble. The only thing lacking is the lack of a default 'websearch' feature like in PostgreSQL, but you can always write functions to add search syntax and faceted searches.
I can't tell if this comment is real or parody. If it's real, and you really don't understand the point, ask yourself why a $100k donation would be useful addition to a TV commercial.
I wonder if I could build and app / service for them -- TSOAS (aka Turn Shit Off As a Service) and charge them a small monthly fee to do it.
BMW should be in the business of building cars, not pissing off people. They could outsource that to me as a service!
What do you like about Dart over TypeScript? The type system in TypeScript is far superior to Dart's. Other than that, the languages are more-or-less the same.
But that's almost the only thing they are superior in. Mirrorless cameras have ways to mitigate the problem somewhat, for example by having sensors to detect if your eye is actually looking through the viewfinder, and if not they will turn it off, saving battery.

Mirrorless has several advantages: no more mismatch between the focus sensor and the CMOS sensor, no more mirror lag, viewable area matches CMOS sensor area perfectly, electronic viewfinder can show the image as it would be after exposure (making over/underexposed areas easy to spot while composing the shot), and most importantly it allows for much more compact lens designs because the last optical element can be much closer to the sensor since there is no mirror in the way.

Viewfinder lag has not been an issue anymore since 10 years ago. And with recent CMOS sensors having phase-diversity elements, autofocus can be as fast as with DLSRs.
As far as I am aware, every food delivery services charges a delivery fee, which is some % of total cost of the order.

As restaurants operate on thin margins, food revenue cannot provide enough money to invest in technology (you may be surprised at the number of fast food companies that have invested in CX through mobile ordering). Rather fees, like delivery fees, are used to invest in R&D.
Wasn't this the original proposal for what TPMs were supposed to do? I remember that and secure attestation were considered radioactive to basically the whole free software community.

The scheme you are mentioning sounds like a hardened/serious version of those old "boot sector virus protection" things that 90s-era motherboards had. They'd checksum the boot sector and scream at you if it changed. Regardless, this scheme won't really fix the problem we're talking about - installing Linux on top of machines with Windows preinstalled.

Preinstalled systems will already have a Windows bootloader hash measured and locked before you even get at it. If it doesn't, that means you're building your own machine from an off-the-shelf motherboard, so none of this matters[0]. If you want to seamlessly[1] install Linux on a machine that's already running Windows, you need PKI that trusts both - either with Microsoft cross-signing Linux distros' bootloaders, or OEMs including both Microsoft and common Linux distro certs.

There's also a related problem here: if you are first-booting a machine without an OS, you have no chain of trust at all. This is a trust-on-first-use scheme, the problem being that it has nothing to protect against, say, NSA/TAP implants[2]. You're trusting that the machine that downloaded your Ubuntu ISO and flashed it to a USB stick hasn't already been compromised and isn't slipstreaming in more malware onto your stick. Or that your machine with Linux preinstalled wasn't opened up and stealthily modified before you got to boot it. PKI has an advantage here in that it doesn't just validate that the bootloader hasn't changed - it also carries the reputation of the signer, which can be damaged if they sign malware.

[0] Most motherboards for DIY builds don't even bother configuring Secure Boot - and the people buying them will know how to jump through whatever hoops are necessary to get Linux to run if they want it.

[1] though tbf the Asahi Linux people really did a good job of getting the installer to be seamless and easy on M1 Macs.

[2] While a government could compel Microsoft to sign malware, that would also create irrefutable evidence that Microsoft's keys had been compromised. The spooks really don't want to do this because such things could easily be traced back to them.
The battery in my AE-1 lasted about 25 years. Battery life has been totally downhill from there.
Tesla had issues with this too:

"Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers"

https://revealnews.org/article/inside-teslas-factory-a-medic...
>I find that everything we enjoyed is gone. Perks slowly disappear; meetings, trainings, and general wastes of time increase; productivity slows; engineers become demoralized; processes grind through bureaucracy. As I understand it, this is typical.

The first time I was in a company that got acquired, this happened. Then it got acquired again by an even bigger fish and it didn't really happen because it already sucked after the first time.

The second company that got acquired it also happened. Usually the suck starts after a year when managers try to increase their bonuses by finding "synergies," which really means cutting employees through consolidation and adding a bunch of unnecessary friction to the development process.

The lesson I've learned is if you get acquired, you've got about a year to get out or you will be miserable if you aren't the big-co type. I made the mistake of staying too long both times it's happened to me.

To answer your question, I've never been at a company that got acquired and it was better for me.