skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the argument self driving car companies are currently trying to make. My contention is this reason doesn't seem compelling to the general public. For whatever reason the public seems more tolerant of human error than machine error. At this point anyway. I foresee a long period of trust-building before widespread adoption.

An interesting experiment would be for Uber to send two cars for pickup, one human and one self driving. And let people choose.
Or ASCII arts:

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The problem is that if you put such a box on top of other content you blank out part of the content.
But you’re also using a Google product that markets itself as allowing you to browse “incognito” and its own engineers admit it’s a terrible name because it’s super misleading. Basically, Google is trying to have its cake and eat it too.
30 year old male. Everyone I know does hard drugs. I don't have friends.
‘The hell with it’: Musk says SpaceX will fund Starlink in Ukraine
The idea being to create a social network to attract those who have been avoiding FB, so that their personal data can be datamined too? Folks, please don't forget that when a product that requires an infrastructure that costs money is offered free, your personal data is what's monetising it - whether it be Signal or Proton (though in Proton's case, they do have a business model with non-free services that may be commercially viable).
Both are correct. If you indeed know your views are correct, dangerous ones _need_ to be challenged, onlookers need to see that bad ideas have opposition and there are other ways of approaching an issue.

At the same time, you also need to acknowledge if someone has a point and have honest discussion. If you always debate and never ever think... "Huh, this guy has a point" then you most likely are not intellectually honest.
Why do people care about github stars?
Haha, thanks I tried it again and it works! Weird yet fun.
Reaper has it's own specific plugin format and language, JSFX (no relation to javascript), so that's probably why they specify it uses the VST format. But also relies on Reaper specific APIs making it only work in Reaper.
It surprised me to read that reporters for the Wall Street Journal communicate with their sources via email. That’s careless.
Being an adult and in charge are two different things. Further, it only takes 1 person to steer a ship, plenty of people don't need to be in charge for society to function well.
I am getting poolsuite.net vibes
Funny that, Linux internal oom killer has a setting for that (oom.kill_allocating_task or something in sysctl), silly that earlyoom doesn't have that.

I have switched to systemd-oomd, but haven't yet gotten in any notable scrapes, so can't comment yet on how it fares.
Most people don't know what those words mean, and they shouldn't have to as a prerequisite for using a browser.
How is it possible for a TCP bug that leads to stuck connections to go unnoticed for 24 years?

It's because the fools responsible never rewrite their code, use a broken language, and don't even try to prove half of the broken garbage they write. Then, when it turns out to have been broken for decades, they chuckle and shove another finger into another crack, never understanding how they misuse computers.
The granularity of the map seems to be at the county level, so I will guess that the EPA did not gather this data by itself, but rather, rely on self-reported data from each county from each state. A county is a political boundary, so the state of Missouri probably had different testing regulations and methodologies than its neighbors like Iowa and Illinois.
Layoffs at Gimlet and Parcast expose cracks in Spotify’s exclusivity model
TL;DR: Russia has 40% of the world's uranium -> UF6 conversion capacity, and 46% of the world's enrichment capacity. It's the major producer of high-assay low enriched U needed for advanced reactors.
I think you're giving them a bit too much credit on the international dimension there. For 'obscure' destinations, it can be hard to even get useable government bond yield statistics.
From a philosophical point of view, what difference does it make if life on earth ends?

I am all for colonizing the galaxy, but just because I think it would be cool. It doesn't really matter whether or not it actually happens, does it? Why I personally think it is not widely a high priority is because establishing off-world colonies is just one of a really long list of things we could spend our time and money on, and most people themselves would not directly benefit.

I would prioritize it to some extent (maybe not highest priority) but I certainly understand why it is not a general priority.
No, article mentions _her_ statement about the name. If you have a more reputable source for that, I will retract
Only tried Spain and a little bit of France so far. These parts of Europe seemed more urbanized than the US where some areas are still really wild and desolated.
The oldest millennials are about 40 years today.

To the extent they’re running anything its in a handful of cases over the past couple of years.

So the fact that you think it’s going off the rails it’s almost entirely because of Boomers, which basically disproves your thesis.
my gut reaction is "because Mormons"
Restating the point without additional explanation an argument does not make.

In what world is it reasonable to implement unrequired, unnecessary, and costly, features and call that a net positive in all cases under all circumstances.
QuickTitles, ancient DOS program I created long ago. Did a lot more than boxes.
Rather than "realized the problem", it would be more accurate to say that they understood the ramifications of extensions from the very beginning, took adequate steps, and never allowed it to become a problem.
You definitely can! I’ve driven from Ukraine to the Netherlands, going through Poland and Germany. The eastern parts of France were also quite nice.

I really like how when you are road tripping through Europe that there’s such different cultures and languages along the way, and old historical villages if you’re into that sort of thing. Mountains, forests, farms.. deserts in Spain, too, which I really want to see one day. That will probably be my next road trip.
I wasn’t clear in my description, unfortunately.

This was a multi-tenant centrally hosted application. There were 2000 sites served, each with kiosk PCs and some associated special-purpose hardware.

The actual application code ran in just four virtual machines in two data centres.

No templates, no Terraform, no microservices, etc…

Just vanilla ASP.NET on IIS with SQL Server as the back end.

The efficiency stemmed from having a single consolidated schema for all tenants with a tenant ID as a prefix to every primary key.

Shared tables (reference data) simply didn’t have a prefix.

The vendor product that replaced this was not multi-tenant in this sense. They deployed a database-per-tenant, and lots of application servers. Not one per tenant, but something like one per ten, so two hundred large virtual machines running twenty instances of their app.

Multiply the above for HA and non-production. The end result was something like a thousand virtual machines that took several racks of tin to host.

Management of the new system took serious automation, template disk image builds, etc…

The repetition of the reference data bloated the database from 50GB to terabytes.

It “worked” but it was very expensive, slow, and difficult to maintain. It took them several years to upgrade the database engine, for example.

That task for my version was a single after-hours change. Backup or rollback was about an hour, simply because the data volume was so much lower.

The simplicity in my solution stemmed from a type of mechanical sympathy. I tailored the app to the customer’s specific style of multi-tenant central hosting, which made it very efficient.
I think "software engineer" should be reserved for those doing traditional engineering work in regulated fields such as aviation, medical devices, and mission critical systems; and require an engineering degree and licensing. Software developer can be for other types of software development.
That still doesn’t seem like the main issue to me.

Stagnant growth in wages?
Huge increases in costs of housing, education, medicine?
Globalization?
Change in social customs regarding relationships, marriage, etc?
Political shifts?
That's one of the claims he made. Another one is

> This is something we can do _now_

(Referring to his self-driving truck convoy)
MS had a great solution back in the day with their Dynamic HTML. The anti-MS community opted for what we have been left with instead of adopting what MS came up with. DHTML was pretty awesome.

https://archive.org/details/dynamichtmlrefer00redm
Never heard of netrabio before and I'm generally knowledgable about such sites

Also Are you currently on any discord servers ?
In a similar vein, the developer of the Anduril open source flashlight firmware[0][1] once investigated loading settings via light flashed from the phone using the flashlight's LEDs as photodiodes

[0] https://code.launchpad.net/~toykeeper/flashlight-firmware/an...
[1] UI diagram: https://budgetlightforum.com/node/76941
What absolutely uninformed BS.Germanys public transit is organized in many small organizations making it basically impossible to understand what ticket you need to get from point A to point B in many cases. Due to this, a single ticket for Germany simply did not exist.For 50 Euros, this ticket only allows usage of slow public transport like buses and local trains. This is hardly cheap, yet due to it simplicity it makes it viable for a lot of people when the current tickets weren't before.
I'm not really sure I get the point. Simply opening a browser means you're allowing the browser developer to run code on your computer, and you're giving them permission to do so by downloading, installing and using their software.
are you saying appalachia is high elevation? The highest "mountain" is a hill compared to the west coast.
I always cringe when people use the words 'engineer' in the realm of software development. They are accredited, licensed, and bound to some professional creed. We're none of those things.
A cheer for the cheery!
Do you feel the same abuse when you download a desktop application, and it runs code?

You are free to revoke your permission for any site to run javascript, but website owners are not obligated to go out of their way to provide their services to you if you choose to do so.
My coworker at Meta and kernel memory management expert Chris Down already wrote about why you need swap:

https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html
Also, with boomers living and working longer than ever, there’s a huge issue where millennials are getting screwed since they’re unable to enter positions of power since the boomers will just not leave.

This is a massive problem in companies whose middle management has simply not changed and has fossilized for example.
I think teenagers have a lot to learn that we can only teach in theory or with fundamentals. Once they figure it out, we can learn from them.

I never grew up in a world where:

- we had ‘hide from an armed attacker’ drills in school.

- what I said as a 16 year old could jeopardize my career a dozen plus years later (thank god Usenet is dead.)

- marijuana was considered genuinely harmless and pseudo-legal.

- getting a ~5.0 weighted GPA and perfect SAT scores wasn’t enough to get you into any state school.

- even the most chaste kids are desensitized to porn as teenagers
I agree. I use the word “retard” (as in ‘Tony Abbott was the retard we had to have’) from time to time for similar reasons.
I read the article, and only saw her account of the name. If you have more reputable source for that I will retract
There's also Socrates on writing:

> If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.
I don't understand why Computer Programmer (or just Programmer) went out of fashion.
Having lived in both Utah and Colorado, and spent time in other high elevation states, I'd say that it is not about the elevation directly, but that elevation tends to exist because of mountains. Mountains draw active, younger people who enjoy outdoor activity. And that demographic does not tend to smoke.
in 2018 the 2080 launched at $800 and was seen as extremely overpriced, such that the entire generation of cards sold poorly. There's no reason to cherry pick data points unrelated to current date because you can remember chiselling out your circuits out of stone tablets in 1997. it just isn't relevant.
[Firebase founder]

I no longer work at Firebase / Google, but two points:

1. There may be issues with the GCP integrations & UX/DX, but GCP integration is good for many customers and necessary for the future of the business.

One of the common failure modes for the 2011-2014 crop of Backend-as-a-Service offerings was their inability to technically support large customers. The economics of developer tooling are a super-power-law. So, if you hope to pay your employees you'll need to grow with your biggest customers.

Eventually, as they become TheNextBigThing, your biggest customers end up wanting the bells and whistles that only a Big Cloud Platform provide.

This was a part of the reason we chose to join Google, and why the Firebase team really really really pushed hard to integrate with GCP at a project, billing, and product level (philosophy: Firebase exposed the product from the client, GCP from the server) despite all the organizational/political overhead.

2. I'm excited to see the current crop of app platforms emerge. It has been 10 years since we launched (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832877) and there are now some great innovations in the space. I like the way Supabase (https://supabase.com/) has exposed Postgres and InstantDB (https://www.instantdb.com) graphdb+realtime is really promising.
When you have 100k+ employees, there's obviously going to be somebody complaining about every decision.
Make Atomic Git Commits
I made a responsive progress bar this way a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/hzts6D2Dc2s
That's not how it works in countries with stronger protections. Unions don't have the power to fire anyone, nor do they have veto power. There are rules (e.g. no firing without a cause from a whitelist of acceptable causes that typically come with additional requirements), and courts to decide cases where there are disagreements over the rules.
No worries. I regularly drop old accounts because I don't like the fact that in HN you can't delete comments. That's really bad for privacy. So, I regularly changing accounts to prevent anyone from building a long profile from public history.

So yeah, the fact that I made a negative comment about Elon Musk and the fact that my account is new are totally unrelated.
There's tons of polyomino games that have come out in the past 8 or so years. I wouldn't necessarily say they do a better job than Blokus did (imo, I really like Blokus), but it's interesting to see what game designers have been doing with the concept lately.

Uwe Rosenberg in particular has designed a bunch of games playing around with the polyomino concept, starting with Patchwork, then a trilogy of games Indian Summer, Cottage Garden, and Spring Meadow, and then culminating in a rules-heavy game A Feast for Odin.

Phil Walker-Harding designed a very popular one called Barenpark, where you cover spots on a board which unlock different types of tiles and new boards.

A recently released game that's been well received that utilizes a lazy susan for tile selection is called Planet Unknown.

There's also a tile drafting game called Isle of Cats that's quite popular as well.

A game that combines polyominoes with roll and write games that's quite popular is Cartographers.

Patchwork kicked off this new trend in board games, and was released in 2014.
Debates are about saying ridiculous things to make people on the internet really mad /s
I probably said this before, but I don't get Datasette. I know I'm not the target audience (as I don't have large datasets), but whenever I used it it just gave me a table. Is it meant to be Looker for SQLite? I'm not quite sure what the killer app is.
Moving from React to htmx
Uh-huh. Looking at a sibling comment where Salt Lake City was claimed to have "pretty bad air" I got interested in how bad it actually was.

https://aqicn.org/city/utah/salt-lake-city/

So… something like 5-10 µg/m³ PM 2.5 for most of the year, with rare spikes up to 30 µg/m³ for short periods of time.

If that's your definition of air pollution, then sure. One cigarette a year will probably do more damage to you than that.

I live in a really polluted place, with yearly PM 2.5 average of ~100 µg/m³ (daily mean of hundreds of micrograms per m³ in winter, and short spikes up to 1500 µg/m³ for hours at a time), and high levels of toxic gases (SO₂, NO₂, H₂S, HCl, HF, and a few others).

Literally everyone here suffers from chronic bronchitis, including myself. (Never smoked.) Deaths from lung cancer and COPD among non-smokers are commonplace. I don't have the exact statistics (the government doesn't publish absolute numbers), but incidence of lung cancer is claimed to be around 3× the national average (which is already bad compared to developed countries).

I believe it's also pretty bad in industrial Chinese cities, although they have so much smoking population it's difficult to differentiate.
This seems like it's becoming the norm as we move to SSDs
Lots of coal in the high rate states.
Off track a little, but 30s and 40s isn't old IMO. 60 and over IMO is what is classed as old or mature or whatever people want to call it.. I would say 30 to 59 is middle aged or what ever modern term is used these days. Under 30 is young.

Might be simple, but I definitely don't consider 30s old
I'm perfectly okay with removal of whatever from the app stores. The issue is locking a device to one particular app store in the first place. For some reason people keep giving these lunatics money -- but perhaps if they overplay their hand and get more restrictive of what content they allow, a sane market response can provide the more sensible solution.

Google has the Play Store, and it doesn't allow content it doesn't agree with, but at the end of the day, I can go grab it from F-droid or wherever else it may be hosted. The idea that you have to force your users into your walled garden, rather than offering it and treating them like the adults that, you know, OWN the device, is despicable. There are plenty of things about iPhones that at times appear superior (such as not relying as heavily on the advertising model), but at the end of the day, this persistent hostility towards customers is why I will not buy a single thing from this company.
While an M/M/n is a good starting point, there are several extra important features to capture.

First, many of these applications have a load-balancing step, where arriving jobs are dispatched to queues at each of the machines. The performance will depend on how this load-balancing is done.

Second, some applications will parallelize across many cores or machine, while others will run each job on a single core or machine. This obviously has major implications for performance.

Third, your application may have variance in interarrival times or in job completion lengths. This is also important to measure and incorporate into a model. Something like Kingman's formula can be useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingman%27s_formula
It’s more dangerous because it takes more time, nurses have to manually hold back hunks of flesh, visceral fat blocks the view of key veins/nerves/arteries, more anesthesia is required, and really everything else. Moreover recovery from surgery is worse and more complicated.
This is so cool! I'm in a motorcycle somewhere in Oklahoma. I tried the Talkie but it didn't work, all the sound got very low pitched. Will try in something besides firefox later when I reach my first landmark.

Has anybody figured out how to take pictures yet?

I'm traveling at about 1 mile per minute in the motorcycle, so 60MPH. Is there a speedometer or fuel readout?
People seek to change the minds of others because their opinions (and subsequent actions) often affect the people themselves.

A simple example of this would be abortion.
How TJ Maxx and Ross offer such deep discounts
A few months ago, you would have been on Kicad 6 (assuming you didn't pull some ancient 5.0 release from your distro), which I've found to have a great UI.

Like all EDA software, the UI is optimized for power users, and therefore has some quirks and a learning curve for the hotkeys, but I would not say that Kicad is phenomenally bad. Work your way through one tutorial (eg. this recent one: https://youtu.be/aVUqaB0IMh4) and make a quick-reference note for shortcuts, and you can probably be off to the races.
Must be thrilling. Easy to sell too.
Is Horizon competitive with KiCAD for hobbyist stuff yet? It has some killer features, but KiCAD is just too good.
> trashing

Freudian slip?
> As far as I can tell it’s all going off the rails.

What exactly is "going off the rails" and how has that been millennials' fault? Be more specific, please.
Really this is more interesting as a great tutorial on the way Linux container tools work (and especially their fundamental simplicity -- the docs make them seem scary when they really aren't) more than it is as a docker replacement (docker is obviously much larger than this one script, but not really "large" as a software stack).

But reading this makes clear that, yes, containers are just filesystem trees, network namespaces are just like internal networks maintained by straightforward commands underneath an "ip netns" command, etc...

Great stuff.
I am sure you can make your point without insulting.

I agree that simplicity helps. I am simply pointing out that providing an in-demand service for essentially free will always be "successful". Politicians are trying to spin the obvious as a breakthrough that fits their agenda, that's all.

Don't shoot the messenger.
> Same stuff, but you can only take public transport or a bicycle.

hahahah this got a laugh out of me. Really fun app you have here. What inspired you?
Thoma Bravo buys third identity company with $2.3B ForgeRock acquisition
There's a ton of middle ground. I'm just suggesting this substack does not appear to occupy any of it.
I don't know about recent drama but just want to add I won't ever buy Bitwig because if their servers have an error, it can lock you out of the app or crash running sessions. These have happened multiple times. Even if you activated Bitwig offline, it will still try to reach the licensing server every few minutes. If the licensing server throws a 500 error, it refuses to open and closes any running sessions without saving.

Most recent incident

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/nvikhf/psa_dont_ope...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/nvhy81/bitwig_rever...

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=566368
Never feel bad for blocking ads; YouTube's system sucks
With overlays, you'd need some kind of registry of all the images in the underlying filesystem. Btrfs subvolumes give that to you for free, essentially. No need for deciding where to put them, just give them a name.
Agreed. I don't think the primary reason is the safety and security of the customer.
75 cubic metres? Seriously? That's like a 200-person hamlet (taking into account agricultural use).

Conclusion: we need ten million billionaires.
I'm admittedly ignorant of the operations of satellite-based internet... but are the costs not somewhat fixed no matter what country the satellites happen to be flying over? Is there really that much operational cost driven by what happens on the ground?
This is amazing! Does GitHub allow emoji names? I’d love it to be called 🅱ocker