skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic:

I met Vint Cerf at a Keck Institute for Space Studies [1] workshop on computing infrastructure in deep space. He was knowledgeable, energetic, funny, and volunteered to take notes for an all-day working session. The goal was to lay out requirements and benefits of flying servers to orbit around distant bodies for on-site analysis. You can get a lot of data from cameras, but you can't send nearly any of it back, so do interactive data reduction on site, right?

He was at Google Loon at the time, working on their delay-tolerant networking & dynamic routing for their baloon-internet architecture. He's been super active in the NASA community working on their delay-tolerant networking architecture. The whole stack is really beautiful. In space, you know when nodes are coming over the horizon because they are in regular orbit, so you can plan routes for the future using "contact-graph routing", and use store-and-forward to massively increase throughput. (e.g., orbiters hold data automatically until they are in sight of the next hop). Nothing you can do about latency, with speed of light and all that though :) JPL has an open-source implementation maintained by Scott Burleigh, another really neat person, and I think JHU/APL does too. [2]

Anyway. The guy is smart, sure, but he's also immediately influential: You can't help but agree with him when he pushes these simple, effective ideas naturally.

1. https://kiss.caltech.edu/

2. https://sourceforge.net/projects/ion-dtn/
Didn't realize that'd come already =[

Thanks.
> Like many of the other Freakonomics conclusions

Yes! Thank you!

They are about as bad as Malcolm Gladwell. And yet I know plenty of finance guys who take it as gospel.
Despite the progress here, for me it raises a question: Most of the old games she mentions are x86 32bit games. What's the story for how these programs are actually going to run in Asahi? Box86 [1] doesn't sound like it's projected to run on M1. Rosetta 2 on macOS allows 32-bit code to be run by a 64-bit process, which is the workaround CrossOver et. al. use (from what I understand), but that obviously won't be available?

[1] https://box86.org
Most crypto including Bitcoin is governed off-chain. People come to consensus on a set of rules that allows them to create a public and permissionless BFT ledger. Attacking the ledger then costs millions or billions of dollars. If one dishonest node or a group of colluding actors decide to spend this much to amass majority control of the network, the rest of the network can decide to fork the protocol to burn their staked capital.

The main goal of crypto - the base token and protocol rewards from PoW or PoS - is to secure this network and keep it permissionless and decentralized.
> what is your motivation for doing it?

For many of them, they identify with Apple. That is, part of their self identity is tied to Apple. To them Apple isn't just a for-profit company that makes good products, it's a philosophy, a way of life, a team, an identity.

If someone challenges or says something negative about Apple, it's a negative about their identity and they take it very personally.

To be clear, this tendency is not limited to Apple. Humans do it regarding all manner of companies/things. But Apple does have a particularly large and passionate following.
> So last week I was quoted, by Apple, 680 EUR to fix the cracked screen of my 1000 EUR MacBook Air M1.

Have you ever had a refrigerator break? A stove? Have you seen the repair costs for those? Not much difference than the above.

From 2010, "That [Home Appliance] Repair Bill Is Huge, but There Are Reasons":

* https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/your-money/household-budg...

It's cheaper to initially make something because economies of scale in low(er)-wage countries where most of our stuff is built. Repairs are 'artisans' working at high(er) wages (and sometimes parts that need to be ordered and shipped over long distances).

Someone at Foxconn can make "x" devices in an hour in their sleep because that's all they do. A repair technician has to spend an hour tearing something apart and poking around just to figure out what's wrong and only then start fixing it.
As a graphics engineer, good riddens to the old clip space, 0...1 really is the correct option. We also don't know what else "OpenGL mode" enables, and the details of what it does probably changes between GPU revisions -- the emulation stack probably has the details, and changes its own behavior of what's in hardware and what's emulated in the OpenGL stack depending on the GPU revision.

Also, to Alyssa, if she's reading this: you're just going to have to implement support shader variants. Build your infrastructure for supporting them now. It's going to be far more helpful than just for clip control.

But yes, the Vulkan extension was just poorly specified, allowing you to change clip spaces between draws in the same render pass is, again, ludicrous, and the extension should just be renamed VK_EXT_i_hate_tilers (like so many others of their kind). Every app is going to set it at app init and forget it; the implementation using the render pass bit and flushing on change will cover the 100% case, and won't be slow at all.
they should switch to flat rate billing capped at slots they are willing to pay for.
And non-urban schools are somehow different?
It's clear because of the details. You need a serial number to get a part (so therefore cannot purchase in bulk or generically) and the prices are not any better, and in many cases worse, than apple's own in-house price.
Speaking to some other kid-having cargo bike owners, one reason they like the cargo bike with the children is that it's significantly easier to get the kids in and out of it.

Not sure why the "don't drive" sibling comment got flagged out of existence, but bikes, transit, and walking don't have the same hassle as driving with children. They entail different hassles, to be sure, but the "get everyone to sit down and buckle them in" tedium isn't one of them.
Is the problem here with Apple or the 'Apple Authorized Service Center'?
> gets REALLY slow after a few updates

The curse of smart TVs, I swear.

My TV pops an error and says it's still powering on if I try to change inputs right after turning it on.

Yet, if it is turned on by a device, like I begin casting to my chromecast, or turn on my xbox, it'll go to that input immediately no problem.
I am a programmer and an active DJ myself and as such a type of person I do a lot of music organizations into different playlists. For example, each month on Soundcloud I keep one playlist of "Mixes to listen" (usually private) and one playlist of "Favorite mixes for month X". I've been doing this for a few years already. You can find these at https://soundcloud.com/ulterior

I can see how this kind of a service can be useful, especially in recommendations, if you are able to answer what music did the digger like from his diggs. Because, as we musicheads well know, not everything we dug out is gold.
>I make around $120ish working for a non-profit. I mean it's not SV money but no matter how much money I make I am eventually be lying on my death bed and the only thing I will have to comfort me will be the memories of good I left in this world, so I do it and am grateful I make a very comfortable living doing something positive.

Not saying this is your job of course, but there are PLENTY of non-profits in this world that are actively making the world worse off. Non-profit == good is just as bad as Profit == bad.

For an example, just look at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in LA. Some of the worst people in the country.
You would still pay taxes when selling the stock for profit.
That one is for a MacBook Pro. GP probably wants one for an Air[0] instead.

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Air-13-Inch-A2337-L...
Well, there are many many many problems in this world. Nothing is simple in this world. Including forgiving student loans. Forgiving student loans will create another sets of problems, like Pandora's Box that we can't ever put back.
The electronic ID is a great idea for everything except for voting.

I can easily go to someone's place, make sure he votes for my candidate and give him 10$. A lot of people with low interest in politics would sell their vote, I suppose.

Polling booths are still safer than all other options (mail voting, electronic voting, etc...)
The universe X example has some merit too. The developer got a raise, the business was excited enough to get this feature done ahead of schedule that someone actually put in the effort to push through a raise, and the total cost for this was one man-week of extra work a year later - basically a drop in the bucket, budget-wise.
The Plan for Satoshi Kon's Final Film: Dreaming Machine
the time required is an exponential function with multiple kids
Why would they block you when they are the ones that contacted you?
Yes I suspect you are right, but it saddens me to see such an illogical approach.
Everyone seems expensive (Looker seems to be the most expensive), and vendors are hard to compare. When evaluting some of them for a migration project, they would not let us run performance tests with our data to compare them and make a decision (paid).
Modern C++ Use in Chromium
Depends on how you define "resources". The planet's natural resources do not intrinsically increase with every child born, however, the planet's intellectual and problem-solving resources do increase with each child born (*depending on the quality of parents the child was born to).
Of course I am connected to Ethernet, what kind of question is that?

Having headphones that turn out to be uncharged, or undercharged, when I try to use them even once is completely unacceptable. For what benefit, saving myself the 2 seconds of plugging a cable in?

Fuck everything about Bluetooth headphones.
Capitalism is what it is in reality, not just in our fondest hopes.

The problem with the phrase is the assumption that any day now, something else will inevitably come along to replace it and make everything better. That "replacement" has unfortunately proved at least as problematic as the history of capitalism.
Also, I've never tried it, but can't one just tether the Apple TV to the phone?
Hi lovasoa thanks for your comment! We did try to stay as open as possible, but unfortunately the license (as you noted) is not an actual OSI approved license. We've got a whole page about why we chose this license, what the limitations are, and how we are contributing to open source (https://surrealdb.com/license).

Effectively though we didn't want to limit the database usage in anyway except for preventing people from offering a paid-for hosted SurrealDB-as-a-Service. Some database companies offer a 'core' open source database, and then put their enterprise features behind an enterprise license (or close source them completely). We wanted to build in the open, but at the same time it is our intention to offer a cloud database version so that developers can get going really easily in due course. This doesn't mean that developers have to use it though :) !

Let me know if you have any other questions or points!
Funnily enough that's actually featured in the images/video carousel in GGP's NEC link. Was surprised to see his 'YouTube thumbnail face' there!
I don't know if this is the case at Snowflake, but there are similar seemingly misaligned incentives with CircleCI's build-seconds-based pricing model.

However, the generally accepted wisdom there was that improving performance had always led to more builds being run - and so still come out as a net-positive. This had happened a bunch of times as we upgraded CPUs or storage drivers or the version - there'd be a short term drop in direct revenue, but then it would bounce back quickly as people took advantage of being able to do more stuff in the same amount of time.

I'm told the revenue and finance people were pretty concerned the first time it happened though!
He’s 81, what’s his next chapter? The great beyond?
I also prefer cold. But the flows of remote workers are usually towards mediterranean countries
The “news” about Apple was Bloomberg guessing about Apple’s plans with zero evidence. Pretty sad example of the success of clickbait.
This article argues that the birthrate is too low, and that car seats discourage couples from having more than two children. It doesn't seem to offer any justification for the idea that this is the right way to adjust the birthrate (versus, for example, addressing some of the challenges that stop couples from having children in the first place).
the last paragraph is a quote without a response. hit the reply button to early?
Oh wow, it’s actually meant to be a meme joke? I thought it was just an editing error.
> you should stop! Those emails are not meant for marketing.

The vast majority of email addresses are not meant for marketing. Marketing people could not give a toss about this fact, and most of them are impervious to calls for empathy so pleading them to stop them going whatever they want is a waste of breath/typing.
The last time I tried to make a new Google account it required a valid phone number, so this might require getting a second phone line these days. I wouldn't trust Google to only disable one account if there is a related one using the same number.
Nearly every analytics database uses some dialect of ANSI SQL. ClickHouse now uses the PostgreSQL dialect, as does Amazon Redshift (based on a Postgres fork). Microsoft Synapse, of course, uses the MS SQL Server dialect.

A third standard, more common than either MySQL or PostgreSQL, is Apache Calcite, which is the SQL dialect used by a wide range of Apache projects (Apex, Beam, Drill, Druid, Flink, Hive, Kylin, Phoenix, Pinot, Samza, Storm), Alibaba MaxCompute, Dremio, OmniSci, Qubole, SQLl-Gremlin, Tencent Big Data Suite, and others.

Teradata and Google BigQuery use their own SQL dialects.
Everybody are creating their own bubbles. People (rightfully) complain that social media reinforces peoples existing beliefs, yet, most people prefer to chat with colleagues they agree with and seldom cold calls the colleagues they disagree with the most.

When working in the office you may overhear some discussion. You may not agree with some decision, but you might have heard the talk leading up to it. You may even meet somebody you disagree with at the coffee machine and have an informal chat that changes the direction somewhat.

When everybody is working from home, a team of twelve might form 2-3 cliques and some lone riders. Finding common ground is harder, when it must happen in a formal online-meeting on Thursday at 2pm. and not while chatting over lunch or whatever. The boss loves it, because he can divide and conquer the previous "team mates".
The Road to 6G
You should be able to add it at https://openstreetmap.org :-)
Peer comment explained why this is almost certainly a bad choice - not to mention you'd need some pretty specialized optocouplers to even operate at that high a frequency - so I suggest getting a receptacle with integrated magnetics. Ideally on a nice little breakout board like this SparkFun MagJack breakout board. [1]

Plus this way you can hook up a couple extra GPIOs and make the lights blink when the magic is happening.

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13021
My 2017 had a clicking/buzzing fan when it was about 2 years old. I bought a used fan from a seller on eBay (I think it was a $12 part), took the laptop apart (involved some very tiny screws) and replaced it and it's been fine ever since. There's even videos on YouTube you can follow along with.

Nowhere near as simple as repairs on the old non-Retina, unibody machines but easier than an iPad.
Somewhat related, Singapore also has a national digital ID system called Singpass[0] which is part of their Smart Nation[1] initiative. Once registered, you can use it from your PC/Phone for digital access to most government services.

[0]: https://www.singpass.gov.sg/main

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Nation
> Does Europe have looser standards for child car seats? Do US standards preclude doing something like this in the US?

I’d guess they either don’t want to go through the US regulatory approval process or simply aren’t ready to do so yet. It’s massively painful.
Booster seats exist to solve exactly that problem, and are much more reasonable on their width.

The problem comes when you have multiple small children that need an actual fixed car seat.
That NEC isn't a TV though, i.e. it has no tuner.
people over leveraged in their personally lives don't seem to be able to take risks at work for the greater good. all it takes is 6 months of runway cash and i think more people would say "eat shit" instead of blindly following orders to help protect themselves
The US has a similar system. It is not officially written into law, but any halfway decent tax accountant knows the loopholes.
John Carmack on Multiplayer VR Workouts
Plenty of publicly shamed and dishonored CEOs have come back from the brink, from Travis Kalanick to most spectacularly, recently, Adam Neumann. If Price is able to be found innocent by the courts, he would likely do so as well. He doesn’t need you weeping and clutching pearls on his behalf.
Chrun for these services take a long time. They are "sticky" and have the baggage of enterprise agreements. With the switching costs never being zero, if SLAs are being met, it's exceedingly difficult to switch vendors.

Alternatively there is a faster impact on new sign-ups when falling behind competitors on costs and benchmarks.
Obligatory t-shirt pairing: https://www.rightontheline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Sc...
History of the Swedish A-Traktor (2011)
"Half the job is having fun"

You know, having known and being related to multiple teachers, I've not heard any of them express it as -fun-. Meaningful, important, challenging, yes, but not 'fun'. The two college professors I know have expressed it a such, but that's it. Of the teachers I had, I could see some of the advanced placement ('gifted') teachers viewing it as fun, because we were generally well behaved and smaller class sizes, but even there a common through line was taking advantage of the class' temperament and offloading the curriculum back onto us (i.e., "pick a topic in (X) to teach to everyone").

There is a tradeoff in lesson planning; there are resources around the proscribed curriculum (i.e., teach to the book), but that is decidedly not fun or interesting and the kids -will- misbehave more; the alternative for most classes (the advanced placement as mentioned above notwithstanding) is to prep something more interesting, but that requires using more time outside the classroom for 'work'.

Outside of the workday, which runs from 7-3:30 or so (and sometimes both before and after, if there are faculty meetings and things, or if they recruit from the teaching pool to help with kid drop off/pick up), there is grading, so it is not uncommon for a teacher's workday to run close to 12 hours.

You do, as you say, get summers off, but again, nearly all the teachers I know use that time to look for summer jobs, because the pay is so poor. Sometimes it's summer school or just independent tutoring, sometimes it's service industry work; nothing quite like running into your students from the prior year while handing their mom their McDonald's from the drive through. The only teacher I know who didn't (recently retired) do that had inherited their house, so had no rent/house payment to make, and -could- live, frugally, on a teachers' salary.
I guess it may be failing due to the request spike. Even otherwise, searching for common places like "San Francisco" or "New York" shows a dozen results all over Europe and South America, not the one place most people would be looking for. Street address search doesn't seem to work either.
Seemingly far more insidious to me is surveillance justified by business to monitor remote work.
> cost analysis and found databricks and BQ to be cheaper than a similar snowflake build out.

Wouldn't this mean snowflake has priced their product not competitively. Why would they do that if its so obvious that everyone would just save money from switching to DB.

> I think people are falling into a trap

This is their product strategy? to take advantage of gullible businesses falling into their trap.

Surely building a whole business around customers falling into trap has to backfire at some point.
There are services hosting OSM data, often times requiring paid API access for anything other than personal use.

OSM is amazing, for sure, but standing up even a small OSM service that only services a map in your local town/city/community is too daunting for most people (myself included).

Considering there are many other comments in this thread that mirror my main question, I would try and figure out messaging. Is it a particular tile rendering on top of OSM data? Is it trip heading information? Is it helping people stand up self hosted OSM servers? Is it helping with just a few components of that process? If so, which components? etc.

It's hard to know what the "value add" is here and a lot of this is my own ignorance on how the OSM ecosystem works but that's kind of what I would recommend trying to convey to people.

I wouldn't assume deep familiarity with OSM. I would like to hear more, especially concerning tools to help stand up a self hosted OSM server more easily, as I would suspect many other people would, but it would be nice to have some basics spelled out instead of assuming I have deep familiarity with the sprawling and intricate OSM ecosystem.
> It adds an extra 5-10 minutes on each end of every trip

Still better than a dead or handicapped for life kid, that would take much more than a few minutes per day

Having kids always has been a logistical nightmare, and increasingly so thanks to modern lifestyles, the real nightmare is having to depend on cars for everything, that's the root of all evil, the rest is just a natural consequence.
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I don't think Estonia (or the other Baltic States) are in concrete danger - I think Putin specifically attacked Ukraine because he felt he could get away with it (actually he did mostly get away with the annexation of Crimea etc. in 2014), but that the window of opportunity might be closing because Ukraine had a very clear target of joining NATO. The Baltic States are already NATO members, so their situation is completely different.
Link to the previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31536217

Congrats on all the progress in 3 months!
You don't write unit tests for heap sort, you write them for sort. Then you get them to pass using heap sort. Later, you replace heap sort with tim sort, and you can write it quickly and with confidence, because the test suite shows you when you've succeeded.
How about a free zone in the UAE?
I'm trying to login with Spotify but kept redirected to the home page.