skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument keeps being “if you have an incredibly complex mechanism working at best marginally worse than an extremely simple mechanism, then something’s not right with your design”. Regarding Google employees, what I wrote is close to the exact opposite of what you claim above, so…

>tech debt is everywhere

The point isn’t that there’s a lot of debt there - it’s about the speed of adding new debt vs actual functionality, which in turn comes from mistaking adding complexity for improvement.

>unreliable for more than hour

You’re talking about availability, aka “appearing to work”. What I’m talking about is reliability, aka “does it actually work”. Not does it fail for more than hour at a time, but how often does it fail at all. You need to count the forced reloads we’ve all learned to do automatically at this point. And I’d definitely remember last time mutt(1) failed on me, and I honestly don’t; I’m guessing sometime last decade. Except intermittent IMAP connection problems… to GMail. (For which mutt already got workarounds; it’s not like anyone expects Google to fix their servers.)

(And sure, my mutt was configured some eight laptops ago, but it just so happens it’s the same for my Gmail account.)
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How is this different from commission at any normal sales job?
It's been changed to Iceland. Icelanders travel a lot and most of us know how annoying mosquitos are. We also have midges so it's not hard to imagine how annoying this can be.
That's not how it actually works in Japan. Single family houses aren't really built to last, and may depreciate to nothing over 30 years. But the land still has value, and may well be a good investment. People looking at the real estate market sometimes get confused and lump the land together with the improvements, but those are really two totally separate asset classes.
No we rewrote all golang and erlang code in javascript. The erlang and golang runtime and concurrency primitives do not really matter for most use cases when you have unlimited edge functions running wherever users are. On top of that hiring is just so much simpler when you have a single language everywhere.
> it might sound OK for Windows people

Windows users might be accustomed to having infrequent OS version releases, but they're used to their _apps_ being current.
The game will be designed to make people spend the maximum amount either way, so your question is if it is worse to make a few people loose a lot or some people loose less.

The lessons from gambling say that the maximum profit is gained from a few addicted high rollers, so I guess that's the route blizzard went.
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Mostly on MongoDB to PostgreSQL translation server: http://oxidedb.com or https://demo.oxidedb.com.

I have been wanting to dive deep into a Rust project and the challenge of implementing the MongoDB protocol and then translating it into some sort of SQL counterpart was the first thing that really clicked and got me excited enough to get me working on it nonstop for 3 weeks now.

Some backstory:

Quick intro video:

https://youtu.be/nAlWieBS9VA

I have created a product that relies on MongoDB for a document store but doesn’t really need any of the distributed features to really justify having a hosted MongoDB or DocumentDB instance. Now that we’re trying to turn this into a product, we’re seeing that some companies have a little bit of resistance around managing yet another database. Most of our clients already have and manage PostgreSQL in one form or another. I knew that PostgreSQL already offered first class JSON support, but I didn’t want to rewrite the application data layer from scratch if I could avoid it. That’s when I started researching if there was a “proxy” that would translate the MongoDB protocol - that I was completely ignorant about - into PostgreSQL. To my surprise there was nothing ready for production use but I found MangoDB that later on became FerretDB. I delved into the code and was in love with the idea. The team around is really nice, but I found that they had greater ambitions - they basically wanted to offer multiple backends, namely Tigris, on top of PostgreSQL.

On the other hand, I have been waiting to find an excuse to delve deeply into the rust ecosystem but never really found something I was passionate about until I had the idea of challenging myself to see if I could learn about the protocol that MongoDB uses by relying on their public documentation and the hints I found on FerretDB.

Another thing I added to my toolbelt while developing this was about creating parsers. In order to transform MongoDB JSON to SQL queries, I ported an existing library from the MongoDB team from PEG.js to pest.rs!

It’s in very early stages, and it’s work from someone that is not yet super comfortable with the stack so keep in mind this is the beginning of a journey for me that I embarked out of pure joy on getting a tiny bit better on rust and making things click internally.
If Apple was open about it and willing to license stuff as necessary, it would be fine.

But they’re not. We know that because they aren’t doing it.

So if an Apple employee were to contribute anything it would be some sort of license violation and taint the kernel’s licensing and the (legal) safety of the project.

To the degree Apple is involved in this, it can’t be more than “benevolent neglect” of allowing this to happen and setting things up in such a way that it’s possible in the first place. They are never going to answer questions or give any source code.
the theory is that Iceland has so many fluctuations in temperature that the mosquitos are not able to complete a whole breeding cycle
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Sure, I can take a lower paying job. We would likely have to sell our house and move to an apartment and give up hope of retirement. The thing is, many of these people in lower paying job still make decent money, but those are skilled jobs. I would have to go to a trade school or apprentice for many of those, but likely couldn't due to needing an income. Because I would be unskilled labor, I would probably be looking at jobs around $20/hr with benefits (if I'm lucky). Without benefits, we'll be bankrupt quickly.

Most of my frustration is because my bosses are assholes. I now expect bosses to be assholes, but it's still frustrating.
> How did we get from enforcement powers (GP) to legislative powers (you)? They're not the same thing.

Right here:

GP: Exactly what the FTC is allowed to ask for is a bit convoluted because the law isn't very clearly written.

It would be nice if enforcement and legislative powers were clearly distinct, but particularly in ambiguous cases, they overlap. The scope of that ambiguity is large enough to make a large difference in the scope of the federal government, for good or not.
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Putting in all the effort to design a system that allows you to install an unsigned OS without it effecting the boot security of the MacOS partition is definitely helping Ashai, NetBSD and any other OS that would like to add support for the hardware going forward.

Also, designing the boot menu so that unsigned OSes can show up as valid choices or be set as the default OS.

As well as the EULA allowing the use of unsigned OSes.
You responded to my point about about capped compensation or removing autonomy, so I think you understand what my point is: the anger people are expressing, including so-called "righteous anger," is totally hypocritical unless you are advocating for measures that would also apply to you. If you're not willing to commit to those measures, then you're just expressing jealousy that it's not you in that situation.
Quasiparticles, as usually defined, are embedded in some bulk substrate. So electron holes exist as part of a chunk of metal, for example. Phonons are mechanical vibrations of some bulk matter. They're not made of any particular piece of the bulk matter, like a molecule is made of atoms or a proton is made of quarks; they're emergent phenomena (an electron hole is "made of" not an electron- it's only a hole because of the matter surrounding it).,

Protons and neutrons, on the other hand, exist in free space. You can accelerate protons and fire them at the moon (or whatever). You can't do that with phonons or electron holes. They are composite particles (not fundamental) but they aren't quasiparticles.

(quarks, weirdly, can't exist in free space. If you try to pull a proton apart you will have to put so much energy into it that you generate more quarks which then immediately couple up with the proton's quarks, possibly in a novel combination producing new composite particles. So you have to study composite particles to study quarks)
I only have experience working in the robotics field as it exists today, so you're right that I am probably unaware of how things are done in the software world. (I mean I read HN so I'm at least somewhat aware, but I don't have first hand experience of it in my work, so maybe I just don't know what I'm missing). So in that sense, I'm rooting for your success in launching this company -- it would help accelerate and expand the robotics field!

I think the way you're bounding your addressable problem space -- industrial vehicles operating in a closed environment -- makes a lot of sense. I also agree that certain classes of problems (like wheel slippage) would be better solved "once" by an expert team rather than repeatedly by people who are actually trying to solve a different problem of higher level autonomy as you put it.

Some random other thoughts:

- your business model and offering sound kinda similar to [Tangram Vision](https://www.tangramvision.com/about-tangram-vision), though not close enough to where you would be competitors. I'm not affiliated with Tangram at all, I've never even interacted with them, just sharing what I've come across in my research.

- How do you think about how your customers join and potentially leave your platform? In your reply you mention a certain scale and amount of success where companies may decide to start doing this themselves, or even going to other companies that specialize more than you do (e.g. Applied Intuition for sensor simulation). It might feel a bit early to think about on launch day, I'm just curious about how you think about your company's value prop for customers at different stages of growth. Are you potentially limiting your market to only niche segments and smaller players? Who is your key customer you're targetting?

I appreciate your response and candor, I'm very interested in seeing your company take off!
Since HN is an entrepreneurial group, this feels like a business opportunity. Probably not a Y-combinator unicorn darling, mind you. Figure out how to help libraries help their patrons get secure reliable access to email and other internet services.
> This legal doctrine forces private parties to presume others guilty until proven innocen

No, it doesn't. There is no novel doctrine here, and the allegation being allowed to proceed to trial is that Visa has actual knowledge of MindGeek’s child porn, actual power to constrain it, and actively chose to facilitate and profit.

This is not a ruling that any of that is true, just that that set of claims properly alleges a wrong which is within the coverage of the justice system. The plaintiff still has to prove all that to win.
The Studio actually has removable NAND cards though, like the Mac Pro.
Remember the Christmas wreaths made of carefully twisted and stapled together punched cards painted green or gold?

Seriously, I wish I'd kept one deck of a program I wrote in Algol W and my program drum card (A and B).
> and focus instead on the 5-10% of the application that’s hyper specific to your industry / vehicle / customer. Just like our friends in SaaS.

Ah so the thing that actually takes 90-95% of the time? "Twillo" is no good to me if I dont integrate it properly.

I struggle to see what you've built here other than gym[0] with a largely useless API (Come on, ML training doesn't suck because of lack of HTTP API's), sure its hyper focused on automating vehicle but thats something that's existed for a while - atleast for drones [1].

Shoving sensors on random devices doesn't work that easy, you know that - I dont need a PHD to tell you that. Farmers likely aren't building prod grade ML data sets (except those SWE who gave up FAANG after making $BANK)

What's the real value prop? Why shouldn't I remake the environment in Gym and just cut you out? Gym doesn't require reams of code for environments, same as you.

[0] https://www.gymlibrary.ml
[1] https://microsoft.github.io/AirSim/ (2017)
Do you see the platform then providing for now "reptile" autonomy (mobility, navigation, localisation) to get started fast, so customers can focus on their "neo-cortex" applicative needs?

(please let me emphasize this "reptile" autonomy is today perhaps the hardest/time-consuming part killing many startups, as you nicely explain in the OP---Moravec's paradox)
Electron or any other web tech makes it a no go for me. For me at least it’s not possible to get a desktop app right if it’s not native.
>Since about 2020... There were no external causes, even the pandemic didn’t affect me, thanks to a nice home office and online work options — so no excuses

It seems strange to disregard the pandemic merely because it didn't impact your work environment. It very likely impacted the ability to do any of their usual activities that took place outside of their home. And even if it didn't, having the entire world go through such a disaster is a reasonable possibility for a subtle or subconscious reactions.

This may not at all have been the cause, but neither is it inconsistent with their eventual solution of drastically reducing news/media consumption. If the awful things going on in the world were in some way impacting motivation & productivity then it certainly makes sense that turning them off might help.

Chalking up the mere possibility of that as "bogus excuses" is extremely dismissive for a global crisis as well, and a bit insulting to people who probably had identical issues that were very much linked to society shutting down combined w/ awful news creeping into any glance towards the outside world. The author's next statement of "“You’ve got to do something about that,” is the right attitude to take when faced with a problem of this sort, but a reason for a problem only becomes a "bogus excuse" if it's used to avoid trying to find a solution, not for its own sake.
100% agree, if you are familiar with Python, just try MkDocs first and see if it works for you.
Ask HN: Do you co-work while also zooming a lot?
I like relative quiet and privacy when I'm on zooms, but it seems most coworking spaces, like WeWork, don't offer what I want -- a good old fashioned cubicle -- high (6') walls, enclosing me and my voice, etc.

There are offerings 'above' what i want -- private offices -- which are too expensive and may not even be available on a drop-in basis, and 'below' what I want -- hot desks -- which don't keep my voice from projecting (not enough privacy), and are too noisy (from others talking around me).

Do I just need to keep looking?
Micro-mobility companies like Lime? Self-driving cars?
Are these other countries producing their own insulin? Or importing it from the US?

I can imagine pharma companies retaliating against, say, Canada, by refusing to sell Canada insulin (or only at US-equivalent prices), unless Canada bars export of insulin to the US. Maybe the pharma companies would blink and not murder a bunch of diabetics? I'm not so sure about that; I have a hard time believing that the execs have souls.

Still, I agree we should allow drug import. The FDA is totally captured, though, so they'd try to block it. And there's no will in Congress to do anything - see the EpiPen pricing scandal.
For me, reddit was a big hurdle. It was such a time hole I didn't realise but I finally got sick of my reply when my partner asked about what I was reading, it was always: "Nothing"

I deleted facebook years ago for the same reason, but I convinced myself that reddit was different in some capacity, and it is in ways, but after one too many evenings of looking at "Nothing", I'm happy I've kicked it to the curb. Even at work now, I have a ublock rule to block reddit. Occasionally, I find the need to temporarily allow it due to searches on a particular topic, but it's gone as a pastime.
EUV LLC, which eventually became ASML's tech, was created through government research labs partnered with the major semiconductor companies in the US:

https://www.photonicsonline.com/doc/asml-joins-euv-llc-team-...

It's history as a government/corporate collaboration is the reason ASML can't export EUV machines to China without US permission.
Awesome!

Hopefully this will encourage SQLite to support compression natively in some fashion.
Oh shit this looks wonderful, I’ll have to give it a shot
I'd be asking why was someone using gmail for anything related to nuclear weapons.
Is this the first time you've heard of it? Because it was initially released in 2009 and is basically standard across the pro peloton.

The brakes aren't electronic, only the gears.
From the Wikipedia article:

> In addition to the flash suppression, the end can quickly cut barbed wire by pushing the muzzle onto a strand of wire and firing a round.

What an interesting feature!
How does make sense in theory? They’ve just reinvented partnerships or cooperatives, which have not exactly outcompeted corporations despite long having had enough time to do so.
The only analogy that comes to mind is eskimos that have to traverse a desert but only want other eskimos in their team.

Another analogy is Eskimos crossing the tundra and the flashy new external-hire exec insisting on camels because that's missing off his resume...
> When you do, the gas fees is automatically sniped by the bot and stolen.

Wouldn't stealing the gas fee cost more gas to initiate a theft transaction? So they'd be net-zero?

Or do they use a SUICIDE op, etc. to get a partial gas refund?
Don’t you lose saved passwords / bookmarks in new profiles?
That is not the end game because small companies, startups, etc. are more efficient than big ones and have no ingrained culture that prevents innovation.

Eventually some of those small companies become inefficient big companies. We see this struggle recently in the news, with the CEOs of Facebook and Google talking about how they need to become more efficient, maybe certain people shouldn't be there, etc. -- they got big when times were good and now they struggle with the inevitable consequences of bigness.

This has happened many times. Nobody saw Microsoft coming in the 1970s to dethrone IBM. Microsoft didn't see Google coming and still can't beat them on search, they didn't see AWS coming and is catching up on cloud years later, etc. Most of the automotive industry thought Tesla could not scale and would go out of business years ago.
> So far this has led to $8.9m in service costs saved by the South Australian Government.

> The Aspire SIB is a $9 million bond which has a life of 7 years.

Extraordinary that in addition to the social impact, this program appears to be heading towards profitability.
Private industry seems best for things with no natural monopolies and high demand elasticity.
Natural monopolies: you get Comcast, low demand elasticity: you get US healthcare prices.
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I was going to guess that they used something like industrial-scale mosquito dunks.

You put them in water and they release a live bacteria (bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israeliensis) that specifically attacks mosquito larvae and is harmless to everything else as far as we know.

https://summitchemical.com/products/mosquito-dunks/

Mosquito fish are also effective, and the article says they use those.

Dragonflies are another very efficient predator of mosquitoes. I could imagine Disney World maintaining dragonfly ponds around their properties. Though I guess if you're good enough at controlling mosquito larvae then the dragonflies might migrate elsewhere where they have more to eat. (It'd be an interesting strategy for Disney to grow species of mosquitoes that don't attack humans and releasing them around their park, just to attract more mosquito-eating predators.)
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