skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same with Germany. It's slow and analog, but it produces the desired outcome fairly reliably.

If you follow the law to the letter, and you don't get what you want, the mere threat of hiring a lawyer will get it sorted.

The only issue is the speed. I see people lose their job offer before they even start, because the immigration office is too slow.
I don't think we disagree. You don't like the company you work for? You Quit. You think it's not the company you joined some time ago? You Quit. I can go on and on like this. You didn't promise to increase shareholder value, but you did promise you would try in good faith.

None of this justifies willfully harming your employer.

Edit: One of the things that is an exception I believe is whistle blowing. You may expose stuff you deem unacceptable or harmful to the general public. But I guess that's about it. Of course this all depends on your jurisdiction.
It’s a software update to support different chemistries. This is how Tesla supports various pack types (Li, LFP, etc) across vehicles and stationary storage products.
inevitable? there are some pretty simple things they could do to double revenue:

1. allow people to pay for a blue check to be verified

2. make "twitter blue" actually valuable (e.g. detailed analytics on your followers, tools for composing threads, actually monetizing revue)

3. payments

and clearly by this article, they are looking to reduce costs. Double revenue and halve costs and you have something pretty valuable.
Devs are salaried. If they're doing nothing else than the effective cost of contracting them out to Twitter is zero
No, but you can buy groceries with your no-limit American Express Black card and pay it off with stocks you sell.
I doubt it will be possible, as the concept of SV-type startups is to be as Crichtony as possible. In fact, when they start to become boring you can often see VCs pressure the management to take more risk as a mere 2-5x return on investment is not enough to make the VC model work.

I expect that being a Grisham in deep tech either involves finding work in the research department of a more stable big tech company, or else in a research institute/university. If that is not possible and you can find/want only startup work, you can always try to uncouple your financials from work via FIRE methods and try to find autonomy that way. Be aware that you will find a growing friction with management and even your coworkers if you try that though.
I'd argue that our swiss plug (N in the list) is really good, it is compact so you can have plugs with every wall switches but it is polarized. Also we had ground with differential protection (30mA) built in our homes for as long as I can remember.
No scatter plot?
I agree this happens quite often. Since Highflux automatically commits changes to the current branch it is extremely easy to switch to a different branch with just one click (or CLI command). (so no stashing / dealing with untracked files is needed)
Then you can implement the side change separately and then switch back again to your first feature branch.

Those two feature branches are then unrelated, we are planning to add stacked changes in a future version.
Thanks for onlineornot.com - great simple service, doing one thing well. I use it, plus Sentry for frontend and backend errors and performance monitoring.
We can imagine anything, but there is no alternative in sight to fossil fuels when weight (aviation) or total energy capacity (freight naval fleet) are decisive factors.

We are yet to see EV trucks adoption, it is too early to talk about other more demanding uses.
To follow up on this, we did update the pricing now https://ffmpeg.guide/pricing which should be effective from Nov 1st. Gonna try to move some more lifetime deals at a slightly higher price before then
> All these tasks can be done by developers.

Yes DevOps and shift-left and whatnot. All those things do make sense (to some extent) but:

1. When developers own these aspects of the software operation lifecycle they do not produce the same amount of "code" and "features" that an old-school developer would be expected to have.

2. Even in the most utopic DevOps heaven scenario, there are still some people who will be drawn to do more "systemy" things and some developers who will actively resist at investing time at getting good and doing operations stuff. Getting rid of these people is an option of course; good luck.
>Today you get roughly 200 miles from a 20 min charge with tesla supercharger, seems like a non-issue if stations are ubiquitous.

I'm very interested in what this will actually look like. 20 minutes may not seem long every 200 miles for an individual person. But it's far larger than the equivalent gasoline fueling, which might take, what? 10 minutes per 400 miles?

There were National Parks that had to close this year due to too much traffic. Will 20 minutes per person provide the throughput? Will we have massive parking lots filled with chargers? Can the localized infrastructure handle that? What does this look like in practice?
Of course they differ. If they didn't, the best athletes and musicians would also be the best physicists, writers, and politicians. Planning skills may overlap, and possibly transfer, though.
Now that high end cpus are pulling as much power as gpus, are they going to cause this issue as well?
And we would have lngctl to control the flow rate. Occasionally crashing and leading to fires.
Crichton was not a great author but his books are perfectly crafted, entertaining all the way through, and low-key super creative. He loved the research and it shows. The result was potboilers that never condescended and read smooth as butter. Like Lee Child or Robert B. Parker he made it look easy.
Ain't got 2 Gb RAM to spare for Grafana so I use cron jobs and gnuplot to build the shittiest looking replacement.

https://www.marginalia.nu/stats/

https://www.marginalia.nu/status/

(I also run the sites on the motto "89.9999% also has five nines"; so there's that)
That sucks, but the situation is improving. RDNA2 support was added early this year.

Now that AMD isn't constrained by financial dire straits anymore, they seem to be pushing the HiP ecosystem very hard, adding HiP support into relevant software and frameworks.

They were focused on CDNA cards first (aimed at datacenter/computer), but expanding it to cover RDNA2 (the gaming cards) is a key step forward; that's what potential developers already have for gaming, and thus important for HiP adoption.

Otherwise, the widely deployed Vega have worked with HiP for a long time. I agree the RDNA1 hiccup was ugly and hurt adoption.
> Lithium ion battery packs are essentially incendiary bombs under the right circumstances

So is petrol for that matter - a Tesla Model 3 extended range battery pack stores 82kWh of energy, whereas a 60L tank full of unleaded is holding 570kWh of energy
America is weird because you can actually make a lot of money waiting tables.

But in the Netherlands nobody tips so it is not exactly a very desirable job. Restaurants have to literally close because they can't find staff.
Automation is the only possible future for the industry whether people want it or not.
somewhat related: https://ffmpeg.guide
For the same reason you "cannot" drill for gas in Germany: it's very hard to do something that someone else can do cheaper. It requires constant work against the market, either by tarifs or subventions. And desalination will always be cheaper if you have to do it anyway, because the (local) value of water is so high
I think this is just a simple ad-/clickfarming page without any actually useful content.

The content that is there is also wrong and misleading.
> While Africa does straddle the equator, many are surprised to learn how far north it extends.

> This northiness is apparent when seen in the context of the Equator.

I like the presentation, but this bit feels somewhat misleading. The northernmost tip of Africa is almost the same distance from the equator as the southernmost tip.

(assuming 1 deg of lat ~= 111km, then the difference is just 297km: 3868km to the south and 4160km to the north, based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Africa)
Good video but I take issue with one item raised on there:

> having a switch on the outlet makes it harder to debug if the bulb has blown…

No it doesn’t. It really doesn’t.

The other drawbacks have merit (though in 40 years of using electrical appliances I’ve never once had to worry about load balancing, but I’m willing to entertain that might be an issue for some people under niche circumstances). But the whole “a switch makes it harder to debug” argument is a really weak point.
Current regulations weren't written when this was feasible. Regulators are always playing catch-up game.
Cloud providers worldwide market share from 2017 to 2022
That's exactly what makes distributed version control systems so powerful. Your local WIP commits, even when pushed out to a remote backup branch, have generally nothing to do with what you push out for others to review and integrate into working branch. Working this way with systems like Subversion would be much harder, if not impossible.
That's happened a few times. I thank them for the offer and likewise repeat my request for a paper menu, which usually appears, reluctantly.
I guess the most wealthy man is the one who can get the biggest loan?
The stock market however is an inflated balloon, if you just look at revenue the stock is mostly air/speculation.
Fair payouts empower independent labels, obviously biggest players in the music market are opposing it
> We know that the right hemisphere has entirely non-verbal modes of thought and generally sees the whole without breaking things into pieces--we don't have to put together some mystical oneness, but just tune into those aspects of our own being.

Agreed and not agreed.

I don't see any mysticism in practice of Zen for instance in particular, but there's something mystical about just being a self-aware being I guess. It's just so normalized, we take it for granted, and the practice can uncover that. If you take it purely as psychology (which it is to great extent), you still somewhat have this rooted in the "world of ideas" and not the "absolute reality" that you perceive in the moment (at least as how it's taught in Zen for instance). I.e. like scientist could try to find what the consciousness is, but even if we do get a scientific definition for that, I would argue it's more important to find out what consciousness is at individual observer level - something that could only be perceived/experienced and not described.

Also with the practice itself, any idea can become a baggage - whether it is neuroscience or some Buddhist teachings. Like understanding how the right brain hemisphere works is of no importance to the practice, if for instance Zen practice is a lot about full body awareness, external awareness and being rooted in hara. I know that it changes neurons in my brain but I can't perceive that in my brain, I perceive that in the spatial awareness (which is generated by the brain - but that's just an information, just an idea that I comes to me, that I perceive), but it's important understand that those practices were developed by people who probably didn't even know the role of the thing inside the skull.

I do use some of psychology / neuroscience to aid my practice though. At the basic level I understand that everything is a habit and gets automated away, including any advances in the practice. I take quite an athletic approach to it. I also discovered that understanding of Pavlov triggers can be of aid when trying to integrate the practice into the daily life. I think that new methods and technology could be developed that would make Zen practice easier for instance.

So I agree that we have tremendous advantage now and this can improve further as technology develops. The knowledge can be as much of use, as it can be an obstacle - it just depends on how it's used.
Touchscreens are the best option for nav - both for manual address entry and the map navigation, zooming, etc.

This is a really good UX match, but they should've stopped there for sure.
I think we ought to think about these things maybe in a bit of a different perspective.

Why do you think someone would want to be lazy and unmotivated? Wouldn't people prefer to simply be able to accomplish things, being lazy and being unmotivated is very detrimental to one's well-being in today's society.

And from this perspective then maybe you would think: okay, why are these people making everything harder for themselves? Could it be that, maybe, there's something else behind that behavior? Maybe being lazy is a natural trait on some people, in which case, should they be blamed for it?

These are not simple questions. I think dismissing people's struggles is very problematic. I mean, any struggle is worth taking a look at. I think a lot of people don't really understand what it means for someone to be mentally ill because it's not something that is so evident. But I don't think you would ever tell someone that was born without their legs to "stand up and walk like everyone else does, sometimes my legs hurt too, and look at me running a marathon". So why would you do the same for people with mental illness? Why would you assume that laziness and lack of motivation is simply a momentarily ailment?

ADHD and depression are very much real, and we need to take mental illness seriously and a big part of this means not just going "get up and walk like i do" but actually trying to understand another person's struggle.
Ffs don't give them ideas.
Getting rid of these incompetent executives who couldn't grow one of the most valuable corporate properties in history will be worth billions to the company. These people literally decreased value, their parachutes being the last money they will extract from shareholders.
TIL Skoda was manufacturing cars at least until 2016. I’m now that much more nervous about driving.
No, he was a full blown denier, fond of making outlandish claims like the Antarctic ice area actually increasing, misrepresenting what the scientists had actually predicted in order to claim their predictions had failed, as well as writing an entertaining-but-silly novel about eco-terrorists faking natural disasters full of nonsense gotchas like "look, the temperature record in this place is lower than it was x years ago"

He just was smart enough to caveat it with "maybe the world is getting a little bit warmer but we can't be sure why" and to focus on attacking the notion of scientific consensus and modelling rather than defending alternative hypotheses in any detail.
D-Wave Launches in AWS Marketplace
This is plain wrong. In the US it was assumed that Oxygen-rich preburners would erode any manufacturable material - metal, ceramic, or exotic. When the RD-170 (If I remember correctly) was found to have an oxygen-rich preburner, very knowledgeable people called it a lie, misrepresentation, or proclaimed that is was severely wearing (possibly ablating) and thus had to be very heavy.

The Raptors are reusable (even air-ignitable, with centisecond timing precision to achieve a specific thrust) engines with an oxygen-rich preburner, and to boot they have the highest chamber pressure of any rocket engine ever. Thus, they also have a very high (possibly highest, we don't know) pump pressure (the preburner _is_ the pump), and they're doing that with oxygen-rich combustion.

There is some crazy material making up that preburner chamber, and the pipes down to the pintles. Materials that until recently were though to be beyond manufacturing capability. And this is in a reusable engine that costs less than an RD-68. Frankly, it looks like magic.
I once reviewed code written by an outsourcing place in India. That is when I realized the difference in quality between the hemispheres. It was riddled with hard coded unescaped SQL strings. Old habits die hard for many of us. Especially if we are here on H1B's.

The client then hired an American .NET shop to recode their flailing PHP code to feel trust and safety with respect to their products offering.

Let's just say I am not surprised at this code check. It is the right thing to do, especially with Twitters performance. They all just got complacent. Happens to all the big and stuffy companies.

Meta also needs a shake up. Bezos should come out of retirement and take the helm from that child who is running it now. Before he sinks the total ship.
does it not work?
Oh, Gods, I hate those things.

The biggest gripe I have, is that I follow the code, and:

1) It asks me to register an account; and

2) Upon finally getting to the menu, my phone is immediately taken over by a full-screen ad, forcing me to scroll down, to see an almost incomprehensible ToC, that is based on whatever they are pushing, as opposed to what I want.

When I sit down, if there's no menus, and one of those gegaws is in the middle of the table, I ask "May I have a menu, please?"

If they point at the gegaw, I repeat: "May I have a menu, please?"

The point generally sinks in.
On my iPhone 13 Mini, I can scroll up and down but the text is wider than the width of the screen and I can't zoom out or even scroll horizontally.
>"phew we can stop paying Saudi and just drive EVs from our solar cells"

Umm, there are many other components to solar, wind and EVs that don't magically start getting produced in your backyard. Not having to buy crude from Saudi Arabia is something the US could do tomorrow, if they wanted to. There are tons of reserves in the US and Canada.
Wipers on touchscreen are as dumb, but also dangerous.
No, even worse. You can take phone to the front of your face. So you may still be able to peek the road depends on situation. But a damn touch screen fixed to the car itself? Enjoy your car accident.

The last thing I want to do when driving a car is turn my head away from the road.
Doesn't Warren Buffett have like $60 billions in cash?
To clarify: did you mean HW update? For instance, I can't imagine a software update changing my battery chemistry from Lithium Ion to Nickel Cadmium.
There are lots of cases where projects are so successful and get so complex that the best step for the maintainer who created it is to step down from making the final technical decisions. I can imagine that it’s super hard to build a super fast web server that is also memory safe.

It seems like the good thing was to focus on speed first, but at some point the server became somewhat of a standard, and at that point memory unsafety can create huge damage and has to become the priority.

In this specific case I would have added a benchmark to the CI and not accept pull requests with regressions of speed.

That would have put the pressure on the contributors to find solutions that improve safety without compromising for speed.
> Squashing PRs truly is absolutely useless

That is quite an absolute statement. Some people just have a personal preference for having git trees arranged in a certain way. If squashing can help with that, then it serves a purpose.
wow. and here i am thinking i was alone in all this mess
> You could use Ansible, or Puppet, or Terraform. But then you need to have the tool installed on the host

Ansible only needs Python to be installed on the host (and SSH access), I don’t think it’s an unreasonable requirement.
Yes, it is likely. As long as the form factor is well defined or standardized, new battery chemistries are self-contained. Think of, say, how rechargeable AA batteries can fit into standard alkaline AA slots.

The reason it's not true for laptops is that batteries aren't standard form factor sizes in laptops.
It's still more complicated than this though, isn't it. Our inflation numbers are essentially polled perceptions of how much average prices rise. Depending on your lifestyle and what you spend on, you may not necessarily spend as much more per month as inflation percentages suggest.

A family living cheque to cheque will feel the burn a lot more since the majority of their purchases go to groceries and things that do go up with inflation. But a billionaire whose cash expense is marginal compared to their worth probably wouldn't notice - or have cause to care.

For example, if your liquid cash is going to pay things that are not rising in price, but your other cash is in a savings account earning interest, wouldn't you be relatively less affected by inflation?
At a height that is reachable by anyone with the myriad of disabilities that would prevent you from being able to lean down and search the floor near your seat in the middle of the night on an unlit road. Not even bringing in damage to the car.
The shares get dispersed to the broader family, children, grandchildren etc.

Typically at those levels of wealth there is a “family office” which is just a word for “hedge fund” that’s only clients are the family. Like any hedge fund they can use those shares as parts of lots deals to diversify, manage risk and pull out cash.

Sometimes it’s even simpler, dividends can provide a significant cash flow for large shareholders.

In any case, it would be extremely strange for someone to get very wealthy and then hold most of their portfolio in cash.
Awesome video - well researched and produced. First thing I’ve seen on YouTube for ages that’s compelling like this!
I think they meant that _supporting_ this type of battery is a software update. Software can't do matter-energy conversion yet.
I'm CTO of a startup in this space so I thought I'd chime in.

Yea completely annoying when you run into a qr code and it opens a menu. we try to encourage our restaurants to offer physical menus as a choice. We want people to use our app based ordering system because we put a lot of effort to make it convenient.

1. its not jsut a menu, you can browse and add food to your bill in real time and the waiter gets a push notification about it. its integrated with teh ticketing system so it really cuts down on wrong orders. what you see in the app is what the chef sees in the kitchen.

2 ordering between friends. we make it so you can invite and see a giant list with who ordered what in realtime.

3 hail the waiter from the app. with our system, the waiter gets a push notification if you hail them from a button in the app or add an item. no more awkwardly trying to get the waiter's by looking in their direction and locking eyes awkwardly like two grindr matches in a small midwestern city.

4. pay through the app. so far customers love it. they can simply pay and go instead of waiting for the waiter to bring the machine.

5 registering nor required, we saw that a lot of users were avoiding using the app simply because they didn't wan to register so we made special "lite versions" of our apps that load via instant app (android) or app clips (ios). Thls it sucks that it means we don't get to have a history of what the orders over time, we decided it was better that the system be as convenient as possible. hopefully other nice features like having your payment method stored so you can pay at table without pulling out your card gives people a reason to try the full fat experience

we're in 163 restaurants and growing in London so hopefully you be using us soon!
Of course the /r/fuckcars denizens have to get their licks in on every single online conversation about personal vehicles.

Cars aren’t going away.