skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, we disagree! I miss Pipelines (the internal version of CodePipeline). Having worked at startups and now at Google, that tool is honestly best in class.

FWIW, I don't miss Quilt, or VersionSets, or Apollo, or Hydra, or TOD, or NAWS Pipelines bridge. But Pipelines itself, brining all of those tools together is amazing!
High milk.
Elon Musk defends himself in Tesla pay package trial
Let's be honest here, nobody is using this warp terminal as long as it's closed-source and especially not when it has built-in tracking.

To the warp terminal developers:

I'm sure your terminal program is great, but stop posting this content-marketing stuff here. It's not your audience.
San Francisco launches transgender guaranteed income program
"Day 1" is just motivational poster nonsense, anyway. No company can reinvent itself every day.
The things you learn from reading the BBC news. Read the book as a teen a few years after it came out. Remembered at the time that it was banned in Britain.

Now I learn my American copy was missing the final chapter. I'm going to have to get to a bookstore this weekend and see if their copy now contains the missing 21st chapter.
> I think the underlying message here is regulation failed. You can dance around and shout "crypto" and people will apparently just stop doing due diligence

Regulation failed? The media were complicit into this. Presenting SBF as the second coming of the Christ because he'd give it all to charities / non-profits / help advance science / etc. Regulator people fell for this.

I'm not so sure it's "accredited investors" we need as much as "accredited journalists".
In other words, the nosey neighbor will likely not be involved in the solution.
Gotcha, I see. My perspective may not have been sensitive to the geographical constraints. Wishing you the best of luck
- "you could instantly tell from their first fall"

Mind elaborating what it is you see?
It's just a slap in the face to all that were fired, and the few that were rehired, that he chose actors for a photo-op. Ugly sarcasm as performance art.

Well, you're either all in with him, or dead wood to be cleared. Everyone understands, and all in must have its rewards.
IMO, since they're not suggesting anything better they are not helping. It's like telling people "just don't do that if it's causing problems". Well, what's the alternative? We still have this concept we need to communicate effectively, of something that's hard but possible to learn if you spend a lot of energy on it, analogous to how you spend a lot of energy climbing a steep hill.

Also, have you ever met anyone who thought "steep learning curve" was ambiguous? This seems like a controversy invented by some really literal-minded people who are not representative of the general population.
Admittedly a marketing video but still a pretty cool deep-dive by the company - great watch!
How colours affect the way you think
One downside is that you now have a much higher bar for hiring talent to do trivial things. If you don't understand FP at a fundemental level, you will have a hard time finding people to work on your systems. Junior/Senior engineers are meant to be fungible to an extent. This ups the bar to a new language: this ain't JavaScript, it's an entire conceptual framework on top of JavaScript.

EDIT: That being said, I really want to read this book!
It's actually what they mention in the article.

> The fact is, ‘Big Data’ is dead; the simplicity and the ease of making sense of your data is a lot more important than size.

... after which they go saying

> Cloud data vendors are focused on performance of 100TB queries, which is not only irrelevant for the vast majority of users, but also distracts from the ability to deliver a great user experience.

... and then

> Distributed architectures were once necessary to process many analytics workloads. That’s why several of us built Google BigQuery - distributing queries to hundreds or thousands of machines was the only way to achieve adequate performance. This is no longer true.

Given that they lay their foundations around DuckDB, essentially a SQLite pandan but for analytical workloads, it remains to be seen what type of service and workloads MotherDuck aim to target with the platform (DuckDB) which I think is deliberately purposed for non-cloud computing type of things.
That they aren't actually using montessori.
The idea that pinning versions and using environments will make your code run stable forever is very wrong (in python).
You can't even get things to run for a few years this way. Many of the packages are simply not available anymore. Ever tried to get an environment running that uses qt4 on py2.7? It really wasn't that long ago that py2.7 was standard (in the stable code realm that we're talking about).
The broader history of almost any profession/industry is similarly checkered. Engineering, farming, medicine, charity/aid… humans will do bad things whatever field they’re in.
Not on the list: "Oh, it's just my OCD" -- Either you have been diagnosed (and consequently suffer from OCD) or you have an obsessive personality (sometimes a quality).

But OCD is a diagnosis, abusing it do describe a personality trait doesn't serve the many many people impacted by the disorder.

-- From someone with an affected loved one.
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of a 56B dollar salary
Max house price being 3x salary is what I've heard, 2.5 is probably by a more conservative advice giver.

But at any rate both are imprecise rules of thumb because they don't account for interest rates. A mortgage at 2.5x salary costs a lot more this year than it did last year.
The editorial seemingly misses some other issues with hydrogen production. Other issues I've seen are:

- Water availability for hydrogen production: a recent article I saw was "Green hydrogen revolution risks dying of thirst" https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/green-hydrogen-revolut... - touches on water availability in South Australia, and areas depending on desalination

- Energy availability for hydrogen production: Recently heard Europe would still have to import hydrogen ( e.g. Germany would have to import 70% of hydrogen ) : https://youtu.be/9Y6BvCVKC_E?t=2063 - The Great Simplification interview between Nate Hagens & Sebastian Heitmann
Eh, I went to an elite private university after attending a not-so-good urban public school.

Lack of exposure is a massive factor and even with good intentions it does not really make up for it.

Most of the kids I went to school with were oblivious about poverty or even just being mindful of different socieconomic circumstances. stuff like

"yeah, let's just have all of our friends go out to a fancy restaurant and split the bill for every single one of our birthdays"
> Well there's a sense of contrition there, so that's good.

Sigh. So this is how confidence men and politicians and scammers can make good livings.

He just said that all the good-sounding things he said in the past about ethics and doing the right thing was "this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us".
Israel deploys remote-controlled robotic guns in West Bank
These practices exist outside the IT world for sure. One of my points is: software engineers don’t have to accept such poor conditions. We certainly can do better (even in times of layoffs and recession)… so I wonder what kind of software engineers decide to accept such terrible conditions coming from a Twitter that allowed 100% remote work and normal working hours. It’s like goin from heaven to hell and not complain about it.
I don't really understand the comparison of LTCM to FTX. Long Term Capital Management was a hedge fund. Hedge funds entire model are based on leverage and making big bets. Its customers were wealthy accredited investors and institutional investors who well understood this and understood the risks associated with hedge funds. FTX's customers had no such understanding that their deposits were being loaned out and used for making big bets.
Why wait for warmer weather when you could simply move closer to the equator where you have more warm weather to begin with?
I can't tell you how many times I'd gzip a project before trying something in git just in case lol. Then I finally took the time and learned how to actually use it correctly
Columnstores can do row level access by trading off a bit in terms of compression. If you organize the columnstore files as an LSM tree and use incremental compression schemes (so you don't have to compress too many more rows then the one your after) it can get close to the performance of a B-Tree for point reads - it depends on the specific table schema.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3514221.3526055
Pay-by-the-drink US business identity verification providers
I run a fintech that facilitates cross-border payments for US based businesses.

Previously we were using a 'banking as a service' provider that had business ID verification as part of the bundle.

Now we have a bank that allows us to process payments, but we're not provided with services for ID verifying businesses and beneficial owners. Having been through an audit, I know that's something we absolutely need to have in place before we consider onboarding new businesses.

Some vendors I'm investigating:

withpersona.com - seems focused on KYC (retail customers) not businesses - seems like a weak fit

LexisNexus "instantID-Business" https://risk.lexisnexis.com/products/instantid-business - seems appropriate, wondering if they have an ancient tech stack

id.trulioo.com - seems appropriate, wondering if they have massive fixed fees every month vs. pay-by-the-drink (we might onboard a dozen businesses a month, we don't need a plan with four or five figure monthly charges)

alloy.com - every bank uses these guys, which I like. Again, concerned about pricing.

socure.com - I think Alloy resells them anyway.

If anyone can share recommendations, experiences, it would be greatly appreciated!
> How does that prove any kind of reliability at all? There's no FDIC insurance on any of the deposits. There's no actual regulation or transparency. Its not like VMFXX or SWVXX where there are requirements to publish their assets on a regular basis, or describe asset flows / liquidity requirements.

The point is that these companies with way more financial experience, size, and more reasons to investigate failed to find any warning signs, so these non-profits had very little chance, even if they didn't go with the "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" approach. FTX might have let some auditor from an investor putting in $100M take a look at their books but they'd almost surely tell a non-profit with no leverage that's receiving the money to get lost if they asked.
The ferry in the video uses cable based propulsion.
This is absolutely the case. When Onewheels were new they were mostly ridden by people who came from other boardsports. They knew the danger and treated them with the due respect, including taking the time to learn how to properly operate them.

In the last couple of years they've been wholesale adopted by techies who treat them like toys. The consequences are inevitable.
I've tried Pomodoro in the past but always felt like I was watching the clock too much. By the time I got into the zone on a task I would have anywhere between 15-17 minutes left and would prefer to keep going. Has anyone else encountered similar and found ways to adapt it?
Seems to me it has the same issues IoT does: too many walled gardens, not enough open interop and standards.

At some point we'll just start recording our entire lives. Security, storage, indexing, access-from-anywhere, and autotagging will be the keys. Anyone working on that?
How you like to buy my apples?
Is it discouraged here to title the submission based on a statement within the linked article rather than its actual title?

I ask in all seriousness-- I'm still kind of new to this site.

The point that I think is worth emphasizing is not their funding but rather their assertion / premise that "The fact is, ‘Big Data’ is dead". Obviously an overstatement but the general point is: companies are being supported by reputable backers on the premise that Big Data is overhyped and other parts of the data eco-system are underdeveloped.

I considered giving it the same title as the article, and then just mentioning the "Big Data is dead" point in the first comment, but that seemed kind of roundabout and distracting to the point that I think is worth paying more attention to.

Happy to hear further suggestions given that background
And this app is more discoverable? Those shortcuts also work in any text field in MacOS, they aren't proprietary to just a terminal.
I hate autoformatters with a passion. They love to generate 3000 lines diff for a 3 lines change, and then I have to review that.

Also git blame becomes kinda pointless.
I'm not sure this logic applies to the OneWheel. They aren't self balancing like a SegWay where the average person can get on and be fine zooming around within a couple minutes. The OneWheel only does about half the balancing work, you have to do the rest, and learning to ride one can take days or longer. During that time you'll fall many, many times. It also doesn't take much to eat shit on it even as a skilled rider (1). You'd have to be a complete moron not to anticipate it throwing you at any moment.

Also the OneWheel, at least the Pint, can only go up to 15mph, and only on perfect conditions on the most aggressive settings.

(1) I had several weeks under my belt before my last incident and still ate asphalt because the cutout in the sidewalk I was going down as a little steeper than I had thought. The board was angled down just a smidge too far because of this, caught a lip where the asphalt met the sidewalk, and "physics took control".

EDIT: Addendum: That isn't to say parent comment is wrong about other boards/etc, or that the CPSC is wrong.
then FutureMotion must equip all onewheels with safety wheels on both sides. Also called as Fangs bumper wheels.

physics is no excuse for lousy engineering from FutureMotion and complete disregard of life threatening diving condition!
I was referring to Apollo specifically, since we're naming things.
I guess I could have been a lot more clear myself. I have a lot of compassion for employees that have obligations and choose to stick around, even if they might not like the working conditions. People have financial obligations, and it is far from Clear that people can smoothly transition to an equivalently paying job given the unprecedented Tech layoffs going on right now.

If people have f you money, then they already are going to do whatever they want. Either way, these employees are adults and presumably capable of making their own decision. I don't think either of our pleas or caution are particularly relevant or new information to them
Really well written article. Personally, I will still use these expressions:

Antidepressant medication
Chemical imbalance
Genetically determined
The amount of people I see on e-scooters with absolutely horrid body positioning, unaware they can use their body weight to stop much quicker scares me.

That and the lack of helmets.

I ride mine as safely as I can, and have 5000 kilometres done so far. I’ve had to drop the scooter and bail a couple of times, but mine maxes at out at 25km/h for good reason. Faster than that on tiny wheels is a horrible idea.
Yes, you clearly don't understand it. That's ok, but you probably shouldn't confuse the issue.

Basically the attack shows that Gimli's speed and simplicity introduces exploitable flaws and reduces its security:

Bernstein et al. have proposed a new permutation, Gimli, which aims to provide simple and performant implementations on a wide variety of platforms. One of the tricks used to make Gimli performant is that it processes data mostly in 96-bit columns, only occasionally swapping 32-bit words between them. Here we show that this trick is dangerous by presenting a distinguisher for reduced-round Gimli.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/743
Because they don't pay for pollution.
Honestly if the CPSC existed when motorcycles were invented, they might not exist. I gotta go with the Onewheel people on this one.
yup, and that snow is still on the tarp and the tarp needs to be clean of snow on the underside or the snow might melt and the whole tarp might get frozen to the ground it protects.
> what did you actually do

Enable vi mode (usually in .zshrc but you can test from the command line):

set -o vi

Invoke $EDITOR on the current command line:

ls -la /tmp<Esc><v>

That's Escape, then the lowercase v key (sequentially, not together)

You can use up-arrow to go through command history, reach the one you want to rerun with modifications, then press Esc, v.
People will just collude by diff-ing the delivered material going forward
The guy is likely a psychopath. I mean just compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorde... and see how many boxes he checks. When a high-skilled evil psychopath gets going, he (or she) usually leaves a trail of people asking themselves "how could we not see it for so long?!".
Carvana was created to enrich its management at shareholder expense. Think a less over the top WeWork.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/used-car-billionaire-ernest-ga...
This is why hn needs a downvote button LOL
pushback is not adequate safeguard. Evidence is people's deaths and trauma.

FutureMotion must equip all onewheels with safety wheels on both sides. Also known as Fangs bumper wheels.

physics is no excuse for lousy engineering from FutureMotion and complete disregard of life threatening diving condition!
Performance wise floor heating has no problem with keeping a well insulated house warm; it doesn't have to be a passive house for that.

Comfort wise I think floor heating is the best. It's radiated heat instead of heat from hot air circulating around, and since it's coming from below it tends to give you a more evenly feeling of warmth across the whole room/house.

Comparing cost is difficult... you have to look at the complete picture of all equipment you need in the house: how do you produce the heat? Is the same appliance also used for heating your tap water? How do you ventilate your house? Do you want/need some way to cool the house during summer?

We've chosen a geothermal heatpump that handles both heating the house and the tap water. Since we don't need much heating capacity the additional cost compared to the commonly used (at that time) gas heater was manageable. Additional benefits:

- Gas/oil heaters require a mandatory (bi-)yearly maintenance/checkup while a heatpump doesn't.
- Using only electricity as energy source means I only have to pay one set of installation cost + yearly fixed subscription cost.
- Electricity I can generate locally on my roof.
- The heatpump can also be used for cooling via the floor heating system. It's not the same as real A/C but on the other hand it costs way less energy (basically just running the circulation pumps).
Find out what they drink for "Team alcohol evenings."

Whiskey team? Ok, probably somewhat stressful but doable. Wine team? Plush and cushy, with a line of people who want to be on that team out the door. Vodka team? Oh hell no. Etc.

... I'm kidding. Sort of. But not entirely.
To clarify, I've been using the damn thing 10+ years (always in parallel with other OSs) and I still find it unintuitive.

> Not unintuitive different to what you are used to.

At the semantic level it's fundamentally mixing two separate concerns. Further, resolving this quandry requires opening a next-level menu and further analysis, it cannot be done immediately/visually. IMHO, this sort of thing is the objective definition of "unintuitive" in an interface.

> use Preview.app [to scan]

Never heard of using this to scan, and you even said it's an "image viewer". So that's unintuitive also. I now see it has an 'Import image from scanner...' function. Wow, that's ... not what I was looking for. I will always scan many pages at once.

> No different to any other OS.

Incorrect. I've never seen Linux drop support for hardware except ultra-ancient hardware (>40 years). What you describe with wifi is likely a closed source driver with special binary blob firmware requirements. These are the fault of the device manufacturer, often because they've bought closed IP for their chip. Dropping open source drivers or published third party drivers is the fault of the OS/distro. Linux doesn't claim to be easy to use, but it can be configured to be very stable. This is much preferable to OSX which IMHO every 6 months likes to "upgrade" you to a non-working system without recourse.

> [Somewhere on the internet has information...]

Yeah, great. If you're such an Apple documentation fan, try finding out how to fix my keyboard on the Apple site then. I'll send you a hardware gift if you can solve that one. Tried everything hinted at on the internet, no help.

> Time Machine is very effective

I don't trust closed source single vendor systems with my data, sorry.
They have the tools to do that.

You might be horrified by how many shitty developers want all the good guardrails GHE provides switched off, and how many managers will support them because they're a "superstar who gets things done".
"are small enough" => "would be small enough"
This is old news, right? They kicked me off back in 2020 with all the other synology users:

https://borncity.com/win/2020/08/28/amazon-kappt-synology-na...

From the migration guide they sent to synology users via email back then:

For other files:

1. If you haven't already, download the Amazon Cloud Drive app. Or, you can use the web version by visiting: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive.

Check to see if your content includes encrypted files or special file formats. If your files are encrypted, you'll need to save the content in a different format. ...

2. Upload your unencrypted content to Amazon Drive, using the app or website.

(Again, this was back in 2020...)
> Scala which allows you to declare a read only val, you still see vars used.

You see them very rarely, and usually with a narrow scope.

I agree that you probably can't enforce an absolute rule of no mutable variables. But making it the exception rather than the rule (e.g. require it to be justified in code review) makes a huge difference.
Completely agree. My favorite example of this is Douglas Adams' description of flight (or orbital mechanics): "Throw yourself at the ground and miss."
> What are some projects that would make someone stand out for AgTech Robotics stuff?

I guess, in addition to the typical engineering stuff (AI, robotics, etc.) to work with these companies on startup-level, a passion for agriculture, especially historical agriculture, might be what could set you apart from competition.
We crack heavy fractions of oil apart to make more useful ones for plastics and other chemical feedstocks and that leaves us so much ethane, propane, and butane that we flare it off as waste gas.

You can run vehicles on that, and extract useful work from that heat.

We're not going to slow down the amount of plastic we make any time soon.
central time market open?
In a world where all the problems are wrapped in containers and ever increasing bloat, it takes a lot of discipline to understand the stack, if that’s even the proper term anymore.
Smaller tires and rotating assemblies with less mass are more susceptible to uneven pavement. For example, a vehicle like a motorcycle or even a motor scooter will be able to handle imperfections on city streets more easily.

If you got a bigger gyroscope under your butt, you're harder to knock over.

Bicycles tend to go with smaller and less massive wheels, because it decreases rider effort required to spin them up, and it's generally a reasonable compromise for vehicles that operate at slower speeds and on smoother surfaces. Of course, if we start adding more power beyond human effort, more speed, and put those vehicles on surfaces designed for larger vehicles, it may make sense to reevaluate that compromise.
So it doesnt have a cable spanning the river all the time.