skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was living in Hollywood at the time, hacking on SGI gear for clients. I attended a BeBox/BeOS demo at a girls school in Los Feliz, and was instantly hooked .. I dropped some hard-earned SGI cash on a BeBox right then and there. I still have it, as well as my other SGI machines.

Its easily one of the sexiest machines in my retro-computing collection. Sure, the SGI boxes actually have some useful software - but the BeBox has sexier blinkenlights by far. ;)
It looks slightly higher now, but within a margin of error. Also Covid still exists and is still killing people and didn't exist 5 years ago.
> You don't know if the car in front of you making that turn is going to brake suddenly

More drivers need to be aware of this one. There's an intersection near me where drivers always tailgate and rush others through the (slightly greater than 90-degree) turn onto a side street, no matter how well the turn has been signaled already. There have been multiple minor accidents, but fortunately no pedestrians have been hit that I know of. When someone's turning, drivers behind need to give them more space not less.
Use NVIDIA CUDA in Docker for Data Science Projects
The reason for that is one of my favorite words: Inertia.
A couple of questions:

1) Does the CRDT require synchronized clocks? I always felt that was the weakness of stuff like Google's Spanner (and its main competitor, can't remember the name). There just has to be some other way to derive ordering, maybe using pseudorandom sequences generated from the same seed or using time deltas from the last update or something? Although those might be spoofable/cheatable.

2) Is there any workaround for the lack of foreign key constraints? Those are critical to what makes query builders like Laravel's Eloquent relations easy to reason about (especially for deletions and other cascade operations). For example, maybe a dirty flag on the row could get cleared once eventual consistency was reached and all FK constraints were met? I think the other limitation with uniqueness on only 1 primary key could be addressed through composite keys or a hash of other keys somehow, so is not a dealbreaker.
I'm an Adriatic sailor.
Nevera -> fridge??? Stupid google translation, hilarious.
Don't rely on this.
English word in meteo world is "sudden storm", Italians say "Burrasca".
It's not cyclone. Speciality of Adriatic sea, if you will sail there.
It happens when we have lifting of warm and humid air, for example on a cold fronts. Cold air is denser and it goes under warm and humid air. Warm air lifts up. Every 100m you can count on -0.5 °C (Buys Baillot). And on some level under special condition (look for CAPE and LI), you will get monster cloud looking like anvil from distance, travels 20nm to the east, sucks the air up, and down on it's front. Italia, Croatia, oh we know.
Investing in MotherDuck (Cloud service on top of DuckDB)
That's a solution that works on HN. Browser tabs in the background work on the whole web.
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And which biases, specifically, are asked to be accounted for? My count on that page is zero.
I think the "gambling" you referred to was their point, not the accounting games they subsequently played to try and get back into the black.
I read through Don Eyles apollo memoir Sunburst and Luminary- great book. In the book he describes their simulator for the lunar landing (essentially a test harness for the landing code) which consisted of inputs of coordinates and speeds, and gave printed output of thrust changes and expected position over time. Mind blowing for someone so used to visual representations.
OT: is 'not wrong' different than 'correct'?

I've been curious, is there a non-boolean case, e.g. 'irrelevant', etc? Why do some say 'not wrong' instead of "He's got a valid point." or the like?

I suppose in general saying "not X" is weaker than saying "Y" where Y is known to be a subset of not X.
Super cool project! How do you carry the microphones on your person? The big one looks like it wouldn’t clip to a shirt very easily. Does it pick up your voice from your pocket?
This is fair. I do (and have) adjusted my behavior to avoid setting off the auto-brake. Mainly I did this because disabling it entirely seemed like a bad idea, despite my misgivings.

Sometimes I still trigger it when reversing towards obstacles though. It still prompts an eyeroll and a muttered curse. Not sure if that will ever go away, somebody else mentioned that it tends to treat bushes as solid objects. Not that I'm reversing over top of the bushes, but reversing _towards_ them should not be as big of a problem as the auto-brake would have the driver believe.
What Is ‘Silkpunk’?
> In this case, CFTC came at us with claims that we were breaking rules and then required us to prove that we were not. Just looking at our website it was very clear what we were doing and what we were selling (education content), and there was not a hint of anything to suggest that we were selling investments or commodities. Even still, we had to give our corp attorney annotated screenshots of our website, illustrating exactly what our business was, and have that sent back to CFTC.

Obviously I don't know the full story, but there really should be more diligence than just reading your website and taking your word for it, so I can't fault them just for requesting more information.
> Who needs an email client when the file system can literally index it all and your inbox and email messages are literally files in a folder in a Tracker window that's just displaying email specific metadata for its columns.

Everyone who uses more than one device to access his/her e-mail? Sure BeOS had nice features, but it seems to me that it solved the wrong problems.
I'd just get really annoyed at that AI

...being annoyed increases stress, which increases appetite
Every time someone from China does something bad or just without thinking it through, it's painted as communist party espionage.

Our western media and governments really want us to see yellow spies everywhere.
If Elon didn't want to be criticized, why would he buy Twitter? It seems to me the consequence of buying Twitter would be to make him the most criticized person on the planet! To me it would be like me drilling a hold into my boat so it would float better.

> How can I make this more clear?

Let me see if I hear you correctly, and then you can try to clarify. You're saying that Elon paid billions of dollars to buy Twitter so he wouldn't be criticized. Do I have that right? I think it might clarify things if you told me how you see that as an effective strategy. He may be able to prevent people from criticizing him on Twitter, but I think off of Twitter, people are going to continue to criticize him, so it seems pretty ineffective.

Also, can you tell me where you are getting the impression this was his goal?
More expensive than the avalanche probe, shovel, and beacon. I was responding to the following:

"You'd be shocked at the number of people who carry their beacon, probe, shovel, etc but not an InReach or Spot device."
Sure, would be happy to consider.
It doesn’t require “activation, ” you try to call 911 and when you don’t have signal, the phone sends an emergency text message to the satellite network.

Just read up on the feature, if you’re curious.
And an easy solution will be to prohibit exchange of proof-of-work coins, first in Europe and then, maybe ecologically-minded California would join.
Lindsay is an academic and his arguments are out there for you to rebut if you wish. Attacking his character doesn't dismiss his ideas even though the left wishes as much.
Anybody made some progress with using google assistant with arbitrary commands? I know there are a few integrators online that could, in theory, get commands and send them to a spreadsheet, but I couldn't get them to work.
This has appeared on HN a few times over the years. In order of votes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270001

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850155

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18318547
Do you mind sharing your experience, why you started, what you want to get out of this etc? I'm interested to read your experience.
Pro Audio applications simply don't ignore it wholesale - Linux has plenty of pro audio software. Get an audio-focused distribution such as Ubuntu Studio, and you'll change your mind fast about how disastrous audio is on Linux - it just isn't. In fact, you can build the slickest, lowest-latency DAW on Linux, with stats that beat MacOS, even ...
Buffett missed out on massive tech company returns because he was opposed to investing in businesses he did not understand, and he did not understand tech companies.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/16/warren-bu...

>Asked why he had bought IBM shares rather than Apple or Google at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2012 shareholder meeting, Buffett said: “The chances of being way wrong in IBM are probably less, at least for us, than the chances of being way wrong in Google or Apple ... I just don’t know how to value them.

>“I would not be at all surprised to see them be worth a lot more money 10 years from now but I would not buy either one of them. I sure as hell wouldn’t short them either.”

And then Buffett made some bad bets on Kraft Heinz (3G was a poor partner to invest with, actually was a surprising move since 3G already had a poor reputation) and IBM, but I think it was mostly missing out on Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/Netflix/etc growth.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-berkshire-buffett-kraft-h...
Settling deep into the Pacific required pretty advanced sailing technology. Hawaii was only settled in ~1100 CE. I don't think anyone else managed to build a ship that could sail within 50 degrees of the wind direction untill the 1600's.
I have both an inReach and an iPhone 14. Haven't made a decision yet myself if I will keep it. Some pros for the inReach:

1. It's nice to have a backup.
2. The battery life on the inReach is upwards of a month and it's more rugged.
3. You can throw it in your pack, forget about it, and somehow it stills gets a signal.
3. Garmin has a dedicated communications center (IERCC) that has tons of experience coordinating with first responders. They will keep your emergency contacts updated about your rescue. Apple's system is less proven.
Totally fair. If (when!) the day comes, hopefully it will have been for some other reason instead of a maneuver I incorrectly thought was safe. I trust myself enough to think this will be the case.
> i think this is 100% the reason why iOS and macOS will never converge.

They will never converge because keeping 100% control over their walled garden is too profitable. Apple makes too much money off tablets and phones through app sales, subscription, control over advertising, etc.
Does anyone else find it bewildering that a conservative investor like Warren Buffet makes a bet like this? I mean, if China invades, it's gone. This kind of uncertainty is the type of thing he always warns against.
Seems reasonable for wikipedia to want more money year on year every one wants to see the platform grow. Obviously they need to cover more than just hosting costs trying to do anything for the public good results in you getting sued by every company thats trying to commercialise that good.

That being said the lack of transparency is alarming why not be public about it all? Sure some will use it against you but the people that actually care and fund them won't really care what its being spent on as long as the quality of service remains good.
I'd like to also see what percentage of TV shows, films, commercials, etc. will be made in Unreal as well. At the rate the tech is expanding, pretty soon any media could be created in it.
I thought that allegation was shown to be made up?
Dollars aren't a stable store of value either. It's baked in that the fed aims for low but positive inflation.

Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is up nearly 500% since 2009.
Anyone discussing braking margin/safety at speed in car-lengths ... is measuring the wrong thing.

Your reactions don't correlate in distance (car-lengths), they're measured in time response (seconds).

Always measure your safety buffer in the appropriate metric: time.
Fellow BeBox owner, in the house! Perhaps we should meet somewhere ..
This is a good point.

Though I can't help but wondering if this is a take by an older person or least an older way of thinking about things. Stuff like snapchat, or the stories feature is closer to what a lot of people want. Most people I'm connected with on Instagram (friends and family only) don't post anything besides stories. There are very few who want to leave a trace on the web anymore. Especially now that digging up old tweets has become a sport.
Just tried the live demo, Awesome product and definitely a time saver
While this is great to know, the SOS button is still fundamentally potentially a completely open-ended liability if you haven't taken Garmin's 30 buck annual insurance option for it. Even with that, you are only capped at $50k to best of my knowledge. Your Utah example illustrates this.

In a real SOS situation the cost is likely immaterial, but I can absolutely understand why people would wait a bit longer than they should before pressing.
My original inspiration is to better understand how I talk to others and study my own behavior
"The king eats, and the hand takes the shit."
I like to say a currency: should be a store of value, could be a unit of account, and must be a medium of exchange.
Salt, first Crypto lending platform goes bust
Um, what CISC ISAs do you think are more complicated than x86?
Toyota MR2 in french is pronounced Em Air Deux, very close to "merde" which means "shit".
I was digging up and replacing a piece of my well-line, in the dark because that's always when my well line breaks, and my phone accidentally called the police through what must have been some serious jostling. The dispatch seemed understanding, and used the opportunity to verify that my phone connectivity was coming from where it said I was. Later that night, two sheriffs show up around midnight to make sure that everything was OK. It was the first time that I felt like my personal technology was really doing its own thing without me.
You can use you smartphone for the recording and transcribe it here:
https://replicate.com/openai/whisper

regex to extract commands from the transcripted text
Because of the sweet, sweet advertising dollars.
Ok.

Here's the original tweet: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1591853644944932865

The reply: https://nitter.net/EricFrohnhoefer/status/159190228540341862...

And a screenshot of another exchange: https://nitter.net/cabel/status/1592228117409845249#m

Elon thinks he's an engineer, but he is just rich brat trying to look like an engineer, and throwing the real engineers under the bus in the process.
Cannon Lake: Intel’s Forgotten Generation
Subaru is wrong for thinking you closing on a barely-moving car at speed is dangerous, and the entire internet is wrong for thinking "car length" refers to the length of a car. Two doesn't quite make a pattern, but it suggests one. You being obviously-wrong on the second point doesn't mean you're definitely wrong on the first, but I'd be more inclined to trust the automotive company with access to crash statistics than your "never wrecked a car yet" instincts, personally.

Then again, I've known two people who both proudly proclaimed that they'd never even gotten a ticket before whose driving was so terrifyingly unsafe I wouldn't get into a car with them a second time, so maybe that's my bias.
https://twitter.com/coffeebreak_yt/status/159256720572796108...
In my experience they will aggressively cut you off anyway, so you might as well give yourself some breathing room.
To clarify a bit here, "unintended" meaning the amount of people, not that people left at all. They had to start incentivizing people to stay, they talked about attrition frequently, etc.
Elon Musk did just that.

On the other hand, if the shareholders are mostly institutional funds, then fund managers generally aren't in the business of doing activist stuff for their many dozens of investments...
I've been thinking about doing this for a while now, cameras all over the house hooked up to ML algorithms that help you audit and tweak your behavior towards some specified goal.

When I used to play video games ultra competitively, I would analyze recordings of my gameplay to try and get better, and it worked wonders.
Not super familiar with BeFS, but this sounds kind of like Plan9? 9front may be up your alley: https://9front.org/
Great idea, but are courts tech savvy enough to accept this already?

Even with a tech expert to explain it, I worry the opposition would just get their own expert and make a whole mess of it, confusing both the judge and jury enough to cast doubt.

Perhaps I have a very wrong view on how both such evidence is presented and accepted though.
> It's definitely not as ridiculous as what lots of experienced engineers are oddly saying

It's scary how many engineers are burning their credibility in exchange for some temporary internet points.
Tabs are my "this is interesting I might read it later" function.

For work, tabs are my way of not losing information someone sent during a meeting or something. I click the link in the meeting chat and then go back later. I use a tab manager to sort them by domain, so all the wiki pages end up together, all the quip docs, etc.

Then every few months I go through all the tabs and either read them, bookmark them, or discard them.
Hard to imagine a bigger "moat" than SOTA chip fabs. Surprised it took Buffett this long to move into the space.
but sadly they are probably 2 of the most common interview questions asked (across all industries) so knowing how to answer them is a good thing.
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> about how "woke" they are in order to research fluid dynamics

If someone asked VanguardStem to fund a fluid dynamics project, what are you imagining they would have to say in order to pass the ISM criteria? This concern comes across like hyperbolic fearmongering.
In California that just means that in the span of 15 seconds 3 other cars are going to move in front of you and the car that was ahead of you.
World’s Population Projected to Reach 8B Today
That's such an unreasonable and hostile take.

As a sibling comment pointed out, most people impacted by this will be amateur astronomers, and, you know, casual star gazers.

Secondly, this isn't "souring the space industry". LEO satellites mostly serve terrestrial companies and governments, where they're used for military, communication, and, increasingly, other commercial purposes. The complaints aren't about space tourism projects or launching a few space telescopes; they're about launching thousands of satellites, and fueling the commercialization of LEO, where the sky will eventually be littered by these things. We're at the very early stages of this, and individuals are already voicing concerns about it. I hope this "whining" continues, as I sure as hell don't want to also see ads when I look up into the sky.
Will these ads be shown in their paid product?
Protocol, a tech-news focused website, will shutter and lay off its entire staff
Maybe it's better now I have haven't travelled much this year and after downloading the OSM data I haven't bothered with offline google maps because I have all the roads and more already.
That seems largely irrelevant to the topic at hand (whether or not a majority of those who purchase Bitcoin are in the red).
patio11 recommends charging by the week [1]:

"""

Charging Weekly: It Makes Everything Automatically Better

What's the difference between $100 an hour and $4,000 a week? Aren't they mathematically equivalent? No. Weekly billing strictly dominates hourly billing.

- Weekly billing means you never waste time itemizing minute by minute invoices ("37 minutes: call with Bob about the new login page").

- Weekly billing means you have uninterrupted schedulable consulting availability in weekly blocks, and non-billable overhead like prospecting or contract negotiations happens between the blocks (when you weren't billable anyhow) rather than during the workday (when, as an hourly freelancer, you are in principle supposed to be billing).

- Weekly billing makes it easy to align units of work to quantifiable business goals, where those goals dwarf the rate charged.

Weekly billing also does wonderful things for pricing negotiations... because you'll stop having them. When I write a proposal for an engagement, I typically write a list of things we can do and my estimate for how many will fit into 1, 2, or 3 weeks. If clients don't have 3 weeks in the budget, we can compromise on scope rather than compromising on my rate.

If you quote hourly rates rather than weekly rates, that encourages clients to see you as expensive and encourages them to take a whack at your hourly just to see if it sticks. Think of anything priced per hour. $100 an hour is more than that costs, right? So $100 per hour, even though it is not a market rate for e.g. intermediate Ruby on Rails programmers, suddenly sounds expensive. Your decision-maker at the client probably does not make $100 an hour, and they know that. So they might say "Well, the economy is not great right now, we really can't do more than $90." That isn't objectively true, the negotiator just wants to get a $10 win... and yet it costs you 10% of your income.

When you're charging weekly rates, the conversation goes something more like this: "So you don't have $12,000 in the budget for 3 weeks? OK. What is the budget? $10,000? Alright, what do you want us to cut?" You can then give the negotiator something to hang his cost-cutting hat on while still preserving your ability to charge your full rate in this engagement and all future engagements. (Word to the wise: no client, anywhere, likes giving up discounts after they've been given them. I have ridiculously successful client relationships where I, stupidly, cut them a discount years ago and I'm still paying for that decision.)

"""

1. https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
For database caching outside of PlanetScale, PolyScale.ai [1] provides a serverless database edge cache that is compatible with Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB and MS SQL Server. Requires zero configuration or sizing etc.

1.https://www.polyscale.ai/
Offtopic but since people were interested:

1. This is dated 2009 so I may have used my NeXT more like through 2010. Honestly a bit fuzzy on the time frame

2. Here’s a screenshot of when I got Omniweb to load gmail after a lot of fiddling: https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/3947037084/in/photolist...
Yes.

Badly designed is an opinion. It works for them and matches their thought process, ergo it's perfectly designed for their workflow.