skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I for one, love the fact that I can find some old or niche game or hobbyist program, get it directly from their website, install it, and use it that simply.

Sure I use the package manager in linux, and the google play store on android, and brew on mac, but they're all very limited and clunky by comparison. There is (relatively) little software for them. And if you want something older, or that isn't in the mainstream package manager, then you have to do unpleasant workarounds to trick or coerce the system into installing it. Then once you install something you have to hunt to find it, and there are bits scattered all over the system.

That's one thing I don't like about Windows, is that while it got much better at everything else, it also inherited the 'scatter stuff everywhere when installing' mentality from linux (or somewhere), and even went a step beyond that with the registry.

But at least we're beyond the days of 'DLL hell' and programs are usually pretty good about uninstalling themselves now. And there is some benefit to having user data under the user directory (especially for backups), although that could be an easy checkbox option during install or configuration.

Still would be better if 'portable program' style installation, where you just unzip it in a directory and there it is, the whole thing, right where you put it, was the default.
What happens to safe deposit boxes of those who are deceased? What if heirs aren’t aware, who gets to claim the contents of these boxes?
Nothing stops microservices from having the same problems. Plus all the extra problems you get with distributed systems (timing issues, logical dependencies etc.)
If it's accurate. Went searching for something the other day, Google listed is as being written the middle of May. I figured that would contain pretty recent and relevant info. Nope. The actual article was written in 2012, when the tech in question barely existed.
Oh, I was wondering if people would ask for that exact scenario! I'll see if I can make that happen, check again in a few days :)
Haven’t seen much advice like this on HN but there are financial sub reddits related to this, which I would recommend looking into if you haven’t before.
Typically the order of operations, from a high level, for a windfall or large cash flow increase is:
Pay off all debt < 6 month + emergency fund < invest < …?
Best of luck to you

Edit: the above didn’t really answer your specific question about “how much” to allocate to saving vs spending. Kind of a tough thing to put a number on but save more than spend
I indeed agree that Go can be used for many systems and adjacent purposes, and is used for many DB engines and network stack stuff pretty well.

But it's relatively more abstract and gives less control than C++/zig/rust. I was just comparing and contrasting the marketing.

Go was once marketed as systems language even if the authors intended it more for systems adjacent stuff. Now everyone advertises their language can write web services it seems. I mean why is it out of fashion to just admit a language is mainly intended for low level stuff?
Their profit depends on pleasing the police departments that make these requests. They probably thought nobody would ever find out or care, which is why they sued to keep journalists quiet.
Softspace is inventing a new kind of tool for thought for thinkers and makers
I got dibs
Big difference between infinitely copyable digital goods and sharing physical objects like living space.
Hi, thanks to both for your answers. I could see that it was a round trip problem, and it’s good to know you’re aware of it. Despite trying really hard, the latency made it unusable.

Also IIRC, there was way more than 2 round trips .. I think my UI made a few (GraphQL) API calls and they appeared to be serialised, so it really was in the order of 1-2 seconds for a page to load. This was 18 months ago so both my memory and your implementation might have changed since then.

In terms of using retool, unfortunately that particular ship has sailed for me, but I’ll be quite happy to reconsider it in any of my new projects once you have a solution that is a couple of hundred light-milliseconds closer :)
I'll give you the "no matter how frivolous", which crucially pulls in the idea that the legal system is making a respectable judgement. Like if you were sued and lost due to some ridiculous theory of liability, the general complaint about fraudulent conveyance would be true, but it wouldn't be correct to call that a "frivolous" suit.

And sure, "all assets are subject to seizure", except that assets legible to the system are much more at risk, whereas assets that are private will remain yours. If you see the legal system as an attacker rather than defining it to be always just, then this distinction matters.

Relatedly, I'd trust the technical operation of bearer tokens more than the legal operation of an offshore trust, especially with the small amounts of wealth us plebs tend to have.
Fully agree with you. I need the practicality of a smartphone but want to reduce screen time. The 13 mini forces me to use my laptop if I want to read or perform a task.
Yes, lots of people took advantage and are we all going to have to pay for it some way. What these reports rarely answer is how do we prevent it from happening again?

The money was vital to keeping the economy going under a very stressful situation. So not implementing a rescue package is not an option. What's the best way of doing it so that criminals don't take advantage again?
I'm not such a narcissist to think that complete strangers would be wooed and amazed at what my desk looks like.

It's a table. With stuff on it. And a monitor or three. When resting I use a device called a chair on which I place my bottom. Amazing I know.

This was a curiosity when COVID hit and many people shifted to WFH en masse, some for the first time, but the novelty has worn off I'm afraid.
Sure, if by "Now" you mean since at least 250 years ago.

> 1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague IV. ccxvii. 83 He is a fortunate man to be introduced to such a party of fine women at his arrival; it is literally to feed among the lilies.

A better phrasing that correctly uses "now" would be: The OED now recognizes that "literally" can be used to mean "figuratively".
Oops my bad, thought this was a comment under another thread discussing terrestrial lensing which uses Earth's atmosphere, not gravitational lensing. Disregard!
If you have a new-ish mortgage, then overpaying it is OP. If you're only overpaying the principal, it reduces not only the repayment period, but also interest the bank would accrue.
> So, this is not just dropping some rando off the street into a classroom.

Yes they are -- because the spouse of a veteran also qualifies. This is what I have a problem with.
Wouldn’t do anything in the short term. Sure have a bit of fun here and there, but focus should be on early retirement, maybe Uni for the kids. Don’t take on a lot of bills or you’ll end up like MC Hammer. :-D
A from-scratch rewrite of nbdev was released today -- details on what's new are in the launch post:

https://www.fast.ai/2022/07/28/nbdev-v2/

Let me know if you have any questions or comments -- I'm the lead dev on the project. (If you're in the "I don't like notebooks" camp, please watch this first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q6sLbz37gk )
still rocking my iPhone se 1st gen (though I painstakingly had to change the battery on my own at the beginning of the pandemic...)

it's even smaller than the newer ones!
One cubic yard is equal to 0.76 cubic metres, if anyone else prefers to use more appropriate units of measurement
Not a surprising outcome given Europe's underspending on defense. The US has long been subsidizing EU defense via security guarantees and foreign bases and this is the natural outcome of falling behind in domestic R&D spending and relying on US defense.

The F35 might have been a colossal money blackhole but given two equally inefficient defense contractors the one with more money wins.
When I went looking for a phone for my wife, the only requirement was that it was ‘not too big’.

In a whole store full of smartphones, this left literally two options. The iPhone SE, and some weird Chinese tiny model.

I’m just sad that everything needs to be so huge…
And what does any of that have to do with venture capital math (other than that both tend to be condescending)?

Venture capital math says that if your parents pay you $1 in anticipation of getting to claim 5% of the contents of your piggy bank when you open it, that there are now $20 in the piggy bank.
100% agree. You can write bad code using both Monoliths and Microservices. However Microservices are inherently more complex and slower than Monoliths (because of the added encoding/decoding and network overhead).
Interesting. A couple ideas:

1. Let users “unselect” a fragment by clicking it again after it was already selected. It was annoying to have to clear the whole word just because one fragment was wrong.

2. Figure out a way to show all of the puzzles on the same screen(on mobile) as the fragments/word. I shouldn’t have to scroll down and back up to see the puzzles at the bottom. It takes away from the gameplay. Possible solution would be to move the solved words down to the bottom so that only the words that you’re working on are shown closer to the fragment/word “area”.
Nice! I've been in similar shoes before, for a different reason. But I remember it feeling like a really weird and dicey situation. I wasn't sure how to trust myself.

Here's what I learned to do, that worked for me:

- Make a cool spreadsheet for yourself and run little experiments to see what works. Never trust a single, fixed number for savings, spending, anything. Life and emotions are way more nuanced than that, and part of you (especially the I'm My Own Person Now part) will practically yearn to disobey those unreasonably-fixed orders.

- The spreadsheet should include projections, so you can adjust some numbers and see the results as they would turn out in a year or so.

- When you notice lifestyle-overage issues, or shortfalls, accept it, make adjustments to the spreadsheet logic that may help, and don't scold yourself too much.

- Splurge, always splurge to some degree. Splurge early and often.

- When your splurging is over and you're going "why did I do that, man what a stupid day/week/month" that's the perfect time to head to the spreadsheet and set some very simple guardrails that may be helpful next time.

- Some guardrails that can help a lot are things like automatic reinvestments and automatic withdrawals to places like brokerages.

Just some ideas from my own experience, in case they help. Good luck...and congrats!
I feel like I've been hearing this since the Nintendo VirtualBoy, and then again with the failed VRML craze, and then again with Oculus, and then again with that leaping whale thing, and then again with the Microsoft and Google versions... yet fundamentally nothing has changed. It's glasses that project 3D images. So what? Who actually wants this stuff? The novelty wears off after a game or two, and aside from super niche industries (remote surgeries?) there's never been a convincing use case...
I also miss the fingerprint sensor. It’s fast and effective. I wish they would add it to the power button or if they can improve the tech, under the screen.
The eeePC 901 was what got me into Linux, and by extension basically my whole career in IT. Fabulous little device which changed my perception of computers from "gaming plus garbage MS Office software" to a truly general purpose, infinitely customizable tool.
When visiting Taiwan several years back I can reliably get 300Mbps connection in a moving train. To put it into perspective, the speed is equivalents to my home fiber connection. A few years after that in a conference, one Taiwanese researcher doing IoT project was making a remark that their 4G connection is more reliable than their home WiFi.

On the other hand,my 4G connection in my house is so lousy that in a good day I can only get a few Mbps. Perhaps I should try some of the tips in the article to improve 4G connection to my house.
Wearing motorcycle gloves would make it impossible to touch anything on your screen anyway?
Possibly referencing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gw4eTr-hM (discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArkInvestorsClub/comments/uv278a/wh...)
I wish the "buy it for life" movement had real momentum in phones. No I don't want some super modular phone that could be upgraded as parts wear out. I don't have anything against those, but I'd like my phone to actually be waterproof...

What I want is something with the build quality of an iPhone. Something so well made that they get the same battery life as other smartphones despite having half the battery size. But something that I can trust will last a really long time. But everything about the phone industry seems specifically structured against that possibility
I would like to read the book and I’m sure it’s good. But whenever a character says “does it not?” I want to soak the book in gasoline and light it on fire.
Companies don’t want to pay for in house architecture/etc and developers are generally ultra hostile towards ops people.
Only thing I like about my 2nd iphone SE bought this year (had the 2020 version) is that it has Touch ID.

Other then it's trash with low battery life and at times becomes non-responsive like the SE 2020 did.

What is wrong with Apple .. every other smartphone has touch id system. Its been five years and Touch ID for me is the best UX. It is grab my phone without even looking at it and it's open. Compared to grab it & swipe up while looking at it which is two steps vs. one. Those two steps while driving is dangerous (chide me all you want cause you use your phone when you drive too .. either sometimes, to a little or a lot)!
Right, because magically serverless is the right answer for every application.
That's probably not a great threshold, but for now I'm more worried about where it has been used than where it could theoretically be used.
> Walter M Miller Jr was a Catholic

On that note, I couldn’t help but read the book as a critique of the Protestant reformation.
I'm glad my asuss eee is gone now, but in 2011 it was a fabulous travel aid for exploring italy - keeping us out of icky internet cafes and keeping us entertained on the long slow (railpass compliant) rail journeys.

Netbooks became of course the small and underpowered laptop that many rely upon today.
They also perhaps provided some of the foundation for iPad's success - giving Apple a clear starting point from which to market a much nicer portable internet device.
It's also true for hardware. I think this is primary reason rather than software because bleeding edge SoC R&D fixed cost should be higher.
Try Zachtronics games (Shenzhen I/O, Exapunks, TIS-100) and https://www.nandgame.com/ too!
budget the same, 3 months isn't enough to say its going to stay there for a year.

Good dinners are more affordable than fancy ones (even if you eat out for both, you get more for your money at an "average" restaurant than a top class one that exists only to show other people how much money one has).

I'd mainly focus on the things that take up at minimum 1/5th of your lives: Bed quality is nice to improve, keyboard/mouse/screen/computer, shoes, etc.

whatever amount spent, just make sure your savings are always increasing, the faster the better, but don't feel the need to over-do it.

but past that, invest a portion of your savings, since banks rarely meet inflation rates.

Index funds, housing, crypto if you feel daring, etc, don't invest too much (especially if monkeypox becomes a full-blown thing), but also don't invest too little, (or you are basically losing money over time)

and then through that, your retirement will arrive earlier
So?

Vendor lock-in is just the price of using a vendor, and one which is often overwhelmingly worth paying. What you are saying is true, but it's not really enough of a detraction to justify building everything in-house.
… dentists?
That sounds like a "True Scotsman" argument. The fact is that microservices are inherently and objectively more complex than Monoliths. So if you can't build a well engineered Monolith then you are pretty much guaranteed to build an even worse Microservices system (because you now have the added encoding/decoding, network hops, latency and timing issues, no guaranteed data consistency, no global commit guarantees etc. etc. etc.)
The best I can say is try not to keep coming into the same point in the lifecycle of each new company, and try to pay attention to things you didn't last time instead of just jumping into your comfort zone.

It can help seeing people struggle with tech debt or bad decisions you had nothing to do with, if you can put yourself into the shoes of the person who did it. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. But it does mean you have to do a little more sleuthing than the typical postmortem that just blames everything on an engineer who quit six months ago. That's facile, and neglects the contributions of people who still work here and/or think the same way.
Wikipedia is currently in an edit war over the definition of recession
Frozen veg usually come pre-chopped.
You don't need MBA to run business.

The best you could do to avoid failure, to find nearest business club and make agreement with somebody, who will mentor-ship you. - This is best way for novice to learn running business, because good mentor himself experienced businessman.

After that, you could attend some academy level courses, if you will see very exact question for them. - In real life, academy knowledge mostly slows down business, not help it.
(I do not have a PhD in control systems or specialize in it so take my input with a grain of salt) I think it's because Kalman filters and low pass filter are trying to achieve similar but different end goals. Kalman filter is trying to get a measurement and lower it's uncertainty. A low pass filter is trying to remove high fluctuations assuming those fluctuations is noise. As mentioned before, a low pass filter cannot achieve what a Kalman filter can. The example you show works because the noise is set to the high fluctuations. I think explaining a multiple input system is extremely critical to Kalman filters. Without it, it makes it a bit deceiving. For instance, if you do the same exercise in the article but measuring angle, you quickly see how a gyroscope + lowpass filter never reaches the level of measurement compared to gyroscope + accelerometer. Even funner, you can increase the noise in the gyroscope + accelerometer while keeping the gyroscope + lowpass filter noise the same, the gyroscope + accelerometer with a Kalman filter would always perform better.
Why?

That is such an arbitrary phrase to have such a visceral reaction to.
Great post. The part I would like to know more about is the modem. Ideally, you would buy the modem as a mini pcie/m.2 card separately and hook it up to your linux/openwrt setup rather than using the oem firmware.
Heavily weighted towards #1. I’ve been watching and waiting to order when delays shrink because the only rush I’m in is wanting in on the new shiny… and delays have shrunk to weeks instead of multiple months, but that’s still pretty astonishing for machines which (some anyway) were announced nearly a year ago.
Get into modular synths and you won't have to worry about the extra money.
Companies like Jane Street use Monoliths to handle millions of transactions per second. How many transactions per second do you have?
> the SE really is a step too far down for me

Down? What does the mini have that the SE doesn’t?
FWIW, in the context of robotics, where there are real inputs you set, the motion model ends up being extremely useful and behaves much differently than just a frequency-domain filter.

But the overall subject of comparison to just a low pass filter is very interesting
Let's see today appeared Zenfone 9, it loosks good. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271660
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This is such an HN comment: pedantic, emotional, arrogant, completely out of touch with reality.

> I got a snotty response that I wouldn't be able to smell things that are in a sealed package, and I should always go by the manufacturing date printed on the package. No. You're wrong. And you're wrong about food safety, which is really not good. You go by smell, sliminess, color. The printed date is a nice guide but NOT what anyone should be using for food safety.

Did you consider that meats are sealed in store and you cannot smell it before purchasing? Going by date is fine for most areas. I also don't understand how you can be upset over "overly-patronizing" instructions but also want the level of detail for inspecting meat to include texture/smell/appearance.

> Now I've completed the food safety and "do you know what lean meat is" quiz, and I immediately go into another quiz about buying cheese. It wants me to say which cheese is hard and how to store cheese. What does this have to do with cooking a cheeseburger? I gave up.

Ingredient preparation is a basic component of any recipe. Knowing how to store cheese has a pretty obvious relationship to cooking a cheeseburger.

> It seems like a knowledge graph the way you've done it is an anti-pattern of actual cooking. You're decomposing every recipe into its ingredients and then asking arbitrary questions about each one.

It seems like if you think cheese storage is arbitrary, you do not cook for yourself on a regular basis enough to think about ingredient storage/preparation.

> I don't think a framework of focusing on ingredients in a vacuum, having people get quizzes wrong, and calling them "Junior Chef" is the way to do it.

Knowing the ingredients you're working with is the basic foundation to cooking. I don't see how someone can try to make a "Duolingo for Cooking" without including foundations... it'd be like trying to teach Spanish without defining pronouns.
It seems like pricing is the only real factor there based on what I am seeing in the article. If the Mini design was the same price then all of a sudden it seems like that would be the "great design".

Its not even really an amazing deal. In exchange for the latest CPU you get essentially 8 year old LCD (with slightly newer contrast ratio from ~7 years ago), the same old case design with same old grade of aluminum and they exclude U1 co-processor. Also, camera seems like its from iPhone 7/8 as well(5-6 yrs old but could be wrong about this)? Its only a good deal because iOS is such a valuable ecosystem and the fact that it grants you entry into that ecosystem at such a low price makes the phone so much more alluring than it really is.
I am positive it isn’t permanent - but damn if it isn’t awful, ugly; and the complete antithesis to Apple’s usually extraordinary design decisions.
The Fallout from Apple’s Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign
In those scenarios, might as well go with https://www.catphones.com/en-us/cat-s22-flip/