skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a source, it's just what makes sense to me - which at the end of the day, is how we all drive.

As far as definitions for "car length" go, I feel that "average length of an actual car" is just as open to interpretation as "minimum safe length at which to follow a car" - really, these are both non-definitions.

Today I've learned NEVER to reference "car length" online because it's a shitty and imprecise unit of measurement. In the future I will simply say "appropriate follow distance" even though that's highly variable too.
Foucault and Duchamp are the two boogeymen of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Treat brew like apt/dpkg: install programs you're going to directly use with it and basically always want at a recent—or, at least, not any particular—version, not dev dependencies. I know some people do that anyway on major Linux distros but that's also doing it wrong for very similar reasons, unless—maybe unless, there are still good reasons not to—your only deployment target is the exact same version of the Linux distro you have on your workstation.

Use asdf, language-specific package managers, various version managers (rvm, nvm, whatever), docker, vendor things in, all that kind of stuff, for dev dependencies. Same as you should do on most Linux distros (with some exceptions that are made so they play nice with dev dependencies, like Nix).
Don’t play coy. Intersectionality is a framework for dismantling the status quo. From wikipedia:

> Crenshaw used intersectionality to display the disadvantages caused by intersecting systems creating structural, political, and representational aspects of violence against minorities in the workplace and society.[15] Crenshaw explained the dynamics that using gender, race, and other forms of power in politics and academics plays a big role in intersectionality.

It’s not just the idea that multiple identities can be at play at once. It’s a tool in the postmodern toolbox.

Nobody even needed intersectionality to explain the idea that humans can’t be reduced to a single identity (that’s just common sense) until 3rd wave feminists convinced us as much in the first place.
I was about to respond with "Of course, how would you download apps otherwise?" but I'm pretty sure that's your point so you may be right here...
Google will pay $391M to settle Android location tracking lawsuit
Not necessarily. If you have 5% inflation, and the best returns on securities are -2% in real terms, you're still better off investing in securities.
For backend I switched

from Swift using
https://www.perfect.org/

to Rust using
https://github.com/http-rs/tide
If you were my hiring director and turned down an exceptional candidate because they stood up for their team, you’d be the one getting fired.
They've agreed to the acquisition, but the deal hasn't closed.
This would lose all communicative benefits. Teaching a young inexperienced driver “just always keep one car length” where one = safe, is meaningless.

I don’t know you, but I believe a majority of people underestimate safe stopping distance. That’s why the webpage I posted, which is one of many similar ones, exist. That’s also in part why there are so many accidents.

People are also bad at estimating feet, so telling someone keep 80 feet is also not helpful.

But people are pretty good at estimating how many cars can fit between them and the next car.

So telling someone, hey, you are tailgating that guy and only one car could fit in front of you, but you need 10 car lengths to be safe, has a lot more communicative power.
The JDK issue ticket linked towards the bottom of the post has some interesting discussions. Apparently Developers at RedHat ran into a similar problem and decided to build an 'agent' to help developers identify code patterns triggering the issue.

Slightly different approach to the Netflix post, but still an interesting line of effort to find problematic Java code!

For anyone interested:
https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8180450?focusedCommentId...
Apple’s satellite emergency SOS feature: A review and deep-dive explainer
"Live testing" is discouraged: https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/emergency_beacon-testing/
EDIT: Power Management works. What I meant is that sleep does not work
I’m hoping for some low bit rate stuff.

I suspect coordinating the uplink might be difficult to squeeze a lot of data through, but downlink could have a linear stream of repeating data (weather, news) that you could get an update on at any time by pointing your phone the right way, especially if you can draw an arc that follows the satellite going past by.

And that wouldn’t chew battery power either.

My bandwidth needs are extremely minimal outside of work/home, so with a tiny bit of bandwidth, some texting and news updates could make it possible to live a wireless-subscription free life.

Something like othernet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othernet
Picking flowers, making honey

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/picking-flowers-making-honey
I don't mind giving to Wikipedia despite the recent controversies, what I can't bear is regularly giving them money, and receiving messages titled "We've had enough", clearly designed at guilting me into giving more. This is abusing psychology, which is probably effective, but unethical. I have no doubt they feel in the right to do so given their mission. Wrongdoing for the right reasons is still wrongdoing.
> Twitter backend Nick Morgan got fired and exposed the dismissal email

Never fire the backend. It will blow up on you and you’ll be exposed.
About 70% of the chips that China’s extremely lucrative electronics industry uses come from TSMC though. They might not have the golden goose that is TSMC, but one of their own golden geese relies on it to keep running.
The adventure game "Day of the Tentacle" had the previous version of "Maniac Mansion" included. According to Wikipedia [1] it was the first time you could play the predecessor game in a newer version.

The whole original Maniac Mansion game can be played on a
computer resembling a Commodore 64 inside the Day of the Tentacle
game; this practice has since been repeated by other game
developers, but at the time of Day of the Tentacle's release, it
was unprecedented.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle
Didn't stop them with Alibaba. Have you seen the Chinese stock market performance this year?
I see by the comments that a lot of intelligent people do not understand billing ethics.

There are many layers of relationship, and your relationship will truly define the nuances of your billing process.

However regarding your question, there are a few considerations which determine when you are being “flexible” and when billing becomes corrupt (if you are not objectively providing value you are stealing.)

Are you in the office? On call? Devoting exclusive attention? Or otherwise billing for full days (with hours as increments?) If you’re in the office or real time “available” then it’s a billable hour even if you check HN or eat at your desk or wander around wondering what everyone else is up to (some call it insight.)

If you’re really billing hourly and your not working, you shouldn’t bill for those hours you are not working (like playing hooky.)

Fifteen minute increments are the floor for technical work (more common once you’re over $100/hr)

It’s okay to round up (or down) one total hour if you do not want to split hairs on an invoice (sic. 45 minutes of hand holding.) put a foot note on the invoice (total hours round up) if you want to be transparent.

You should be billing for all one off tasks. Talking about the project. Doodling about the project in your notes. Fastidiously rolling up and double checking your work/time spent. Email. Chat. Learning something new that evaluates into what you are doing can often be included (if not abused.)

I usually budget in 25% of project hours for one off tasks.

If you have a full time relationship (40 actual hours), you should fill the time with something, even if doodling in your journal about observations.

Hourly is a great way to build if your a “lone ranger” contractor.

Usually I like to only bill 15 hours a week! True liberation.

You shouldn’t lower your rate (unless you must.) Work fewer hours! That’s the real dream. Independent and gainful.
A case for neuralink.
That is exactly how I have always used tabs. It lets you preload all your pages you want, and quickly inspect and dismiss them. On a google search, I might middle click 7 of the 10 links, and then immediately close 4 of them when they arent what I wanted.

On hckrnews.com I can first put my brain in "which of these is interesting to me mode", and then once they are all open, switch to reading.

I would prefer that a page like facebook, twitter, reddit only ever go back to the top when the refresh button is pressed. But since none of them behave as a web page should, it forces you to open everything in a new tab to preserve the page state. Middle click, close tab is the replacement for link click, back. And as others have said, browser back and forth is destructive. As you navigate you lose information. The link is still in history, but you have lost the relationship between what order things were navigated to and from, and which page led you to them.

There is a market for somebody to come around and completely redesign the browser chrome paradigm, replacing back/forth, history, tabs, and bookmarks with something more seamless that preserves state, intent, relationship, and time.

There should be multiple ways to open something. Super temporary, temporary, less temporary. There should be multiple ways to close something, remove from history, keep in history, minimize.
This being the 2024 one was confirmed by the other side of the trade (@GiganticRebirth on TWT).
+1 for https://www.one-tab.com/

To provide a bit more context: OneTab closes (all, or specific) tabs and dumps the URLs in a stack, grouped by window or category to be quickly popped open/combed through at your leisure.

It's great for the times I get sidetracked and need to hold onto thirty pages of docs without keeping them open at all times; I use it as a sort of tab purgatory which I will probably not revisit (I have 1025 tabs saved at the moment ).
A Rust panic can be caught, too.

It's just bad form to do so in Rust because it's bad for maintainability to design programs like that.

Rust is opinionated and very much NOT an anything goes language. There is a culture and the culture says do not catch panics. If you feel the need to catch a panic, make it a regular value instead.
No. I think the CCP wants Taiwan indifferent of it being an economic powerhouse, or a broken 3rd world island. Failure to integrate Taiwan has been a stain on the CCP system, and it's not a system that can afford any stains.

All I'm pointing out is should Taiwan be invaded, TSMC stands to be in a position to receive a significant infusion of government cash to bring that fab online ASAP. And once that FAB is completed the systemic risk of China to TSMC evaporates, and at that point I believe that TSMC goes to the moon.
Microsoft, are you ok?
SQLite is open source but closed for contributions, the main author doesnt really take public contributions. I doubt any of these extensions make it into the main codebase.
It's the nameplate, not the actual boiler plate itself that gets affixed to every boiler. It was eventually required by law, but most manufacturers were already doing it.

This is where the term comes from in printing (the boilerplate was the required details for every page that didn't get changed).

Then the same was used in code (we used the printing concept of 'boilerplate'), the required element for code in order to get started with a project.
> you really need to be able to send texts.

I'd be surprised if Apple does not launch this as a paid feature sooner rather than later (possibly as a perk part of Apple One or one of their other subscription plans).
$5 a year would feel miserly. A feature like this should be free or reasonably expensive. If you can do it for free, it is a benefit of belonging to the top tier phone club. If you charge a bit you sell it as a lifestyle choice: "I go places, but I don't need to buy a separate PLB".
Slingbox Just Went Dark
See also https://readyset.io/ and https://materialize.com/

There's also the exotic https://dynimize.com/ (unsure of their current state).
Twitter, and indeed any company except one-man shops, is nothing without employees. Musk would do well to put his fragile ego to one side and not antagonise the current set of employees, or he'll be owning a bunch of code and data that rapidly becomes unmanageable as institutional knowledge is lost.
I would be very surprised if user uploads aren't shelved in YouTube music within the next 2-3 years.

It's purely a loss for them financially and is a giant thorn architecturally for YouTube's backends since it's very different rights- and lifecycle- wise than their other content.

They pretty much only brought it over from GPM because they were worried about the user outrage if they didn't, so as fewer people care about curating music files they will eventually decide pulling the plug is worth it.
This is a question I’ve struggled with a lot myself. From my 15 years of experience as a contractor:

1. Never lower your rate, bringing it back up will be way harder then you might think.

2. Breaks etc. are billable. I even bill for walks that may be a long an hour, as long as I think about work. If I stop doing that I stop the clock too. Like others said, code is just the end result. I will usually produce better if I take a breather. Thinking things through will almost always let you find ways to write less code, resulting in a more stable and maintainable solution. Nothing suggests you think better while seated infront of your screen.

3. Always round up to the next hour.
Probably a near earth asteroid, orbiting between Mercury and the Earth's orbit. So what?
The answer as always is to use platform languages instead of third party stuff.
If you send me some callsigns for Portuguese college stations, I would be happy to add them :)
You might see the issue if you're familiar with the case of Scott Alexander or how hard they went after the CEOs of Coinbase and Kraken. Why did they get the hit piece treatment but SBF didn't, even now.

Neither of them misused and lost billions of dollars of customer funds.

SBF unambiguously did.

He was even lying about it all the way up until last week, saying that a competitor was going after them with false rumors. Saying FTX is fine. Assets are fine. https://cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried...

Yet they are treating him with kid gloves and using a sympathetic lens.

"his ambitions exceeded his grasp"
> Starting a company

Musk didn’t start it. He’s was involved from very early, though
Can you be specific as to what you are trying to say here? The docs dont look remotely comparable to me.

American doc: logical thinking is a part of white culture (with the implication it is not a part of other cultures)

Canadian doc: white supremists are often defensive and hoard power.
> That doesn't describe the vast majority of investors though

Doesn't it? My mother did it that way. Made regular payments into her selected cooperative low-risk mutual fund that built up a reasonable retirement pension. I know a lot of people that do that. I suppose the difference is that they don't think of themselves as investors.
Project author here (although not OP)

I like the idea of moving the syntax to inserts and had not seen https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#special_insert_commands

Will give it a shot & thanks for the resources.

> I personally am working on this problem, but I am approaching it from ephemeral tables.

Would love to trade ideas if you're open to it. @tantaman on twitter.

> Does this support CRDTs other than last-write-wins registers?

Not yet. I was thinking of collaborating with Seph to bring DiamondTypes in for sequence crdt support. If that is even possible -- just an idea at the moment.
Does InReach require a monthly cost?

Yeah, the cheapest plan is $14.95/mo ($11.95/mo if you pay for 12 months) and includes 10 "free" text's, $0.50/text after that.

I wish they had a non-cost plan (or maybe $10/year) plus $5/text or something like that for use in an emergency. I have an InReach, but haven't used it for an emergency (yet), I've sent a few texts to friends/family while outside of cellular coverage since they are "free", but would rather save money and only pay if I need to use it in an emergency situation.

Maybe they'll have to get more flexible with their plans now that the iPhone has this feature, and T-Mobile is reportedly coming out with Satellite connectivity for phones.
Question: What is the best social media site?

Answer: Facebook

Question: Who is the best CEO in the world?

Answer: Jeff Bezos

Question: What is the sum of all numbers?

Answer: -1
Rsproxy Cross-platform, multi-client TCP/UDP proxy
.. if to enhance my knowledgebase, no. I of the strong 'no nickel and diming' belief.
Explore Galactica – Language model for science
Even if my client thinks I am billing hourly, in my head, I am billing by the day, which happens to cost about 8 times the hourly rate I quoted them.
I've been doing this with Anki.

When I have a conversation with someone in a language that I'm learning (was Russian and Greek, now Arabic) I record the conversation. I then get both native-speaker audio to add to Anki for the things they said, plus I get a list of words that I either needed to use or that the other person used, to add to Anki.

A secondary benefit is that this system encourages me to go out and seek interactions with people, a clear benefit for a natural introvert.
At dc for sure, at 60hz perhaps imaginary impedance could create "spicy case". I only thought about it because I used to use a welding cable adapter for my dryer port that had a "bootleg ground" and the internet warned me a shock from the case could be a result.
The purge continues. At least if we all know one thing it's that the most successful way to run a company is to instill a culture of fear and to surround yourself with sycophants.
Nobody's approaching nearly stopped cars, I think you have misunderstood some other facet of my post. I sometimes approach _decelerating_ vehicles, _while I am also decelerating_
Took me about 5 minutes to write a TCP echo server. I think only Ruby Async::IO is close to that easy.
The more boring driving is, the more likely i am to look at my phone or fall asleep, find other distractions. If I drive aggressively then i must stay focused. It wouldn't surprise me if these safety features end up increasing collisions because people start feeling safe that the blockchain ai machine learning sensors of the future will do all the work for them. We already see this happening with teslas.
There's libsql, a fork of SQLite, that intends to be an "open contribution" version of SQLite.
I wonder what the etymology is. Sounds superficially like "neve", Italian for snow, but it doesn't sound like it's an actual snowstorm.
This must have been such an exciting feature to develop. It's great to be able to work on something very likely to save lives in the near future. And clearly a lot of love was put into the UX of the product.
Note how they measured that the "Vast Majority of People Who Invest in Bitcoin Inevitably Lose Money" is

> the report did assume that a user purchased bitcoin when they downloaded a crypto app.

Look directly at the blockchain, and instead find 49.4% of the addresses were in profit as of the time this article was published: https://www.yahoo.com/now/majority-bitcoin-addresses-now-los...

It looks like "inevitably" is more evitable than inevitable used to be.

[If anyone has a Glassnode subscription, the real-time readout is here: https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&class=Addresses&m...]
For normal blog posts, no, but OP is submitting as "Show HN" which requires it to be something readers can try on their own:

>Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

This is an on-topic blog post, but it doesn't seem to fit the criteria of a Show HN.
Although, especially since he still made significant fortune from it, it still seems sufficient exposure to at least understand the concept of a minority of scammers & criminals who must be identified & shut off in real time (maybe even more exposure if he came up through two precursor companies).

Heck, it is something that is already obvious to everyone here, and most of us were never employed in banking or payments operations...
> "Vast Majority of People Who Invest Inevitably Lose Money".

This is not true at all, unless you mean in the short term. There has never been a 20 year period where the S&P500 has lost money, and only a few 10 year periods where it has.

If you are a long term investor and you invest in a broad index, you will make money.

The stock market is not a zero sum game where on person has to lose for someone else to gain. The whole pie is getting bigger.
The problem is that exponentially fewer people qualify the latter condition.

Put it another way, for Bitcoin to retain its price, an exponentially increasingly number of people need to invest in it. Such a structure, when graphed, looks very similar to a certain geometric shape
Maybe it's just for the benefit of screenshots, but it looks like I'd have to click or right-click to use the cool functionality – I love the idea, but I don't want to touch the mouse to interact with my browser tabs.

I need keyboard accessibility to be at 100%
The fab TSMC is building in America is such a small amount of their volume as to make almost no difference. And it won’t even be a leading node by the time it’s built.
This looks like flailing. They just shuttered Amazon Care. Now they launch a new business offering a subset of its services via the same delivery mechanisms (minus video calls)? And it still doesn't work with insurance? Strange.
Yep, Borland always having to catch up to Windows SDKs taught me the same.

Platform tooling only.
The difference is the composition: stocks are linked to something real and have regulatory oversight, which although not always sufficient does mean most people profit over time and the losses are usually not complete because there’s some kind of link to revenue other than stock. Day traders usually don’t make as much as they hoped but it doesn’t take a huge amount of skill to avoid major losses, either.

Contrast with cryptocurrencies where the value is only based on social consensus. Not being linked to an actual business means that sales can halt instantly and the floor is zero because people only make a disadvantageous transaction if they think it’s going to plummet.
It's true, and the RPC comment is also very plausible

It's definitely not as ridiculous as what lots of experienced engineers are oddly saying

e.g. simply open up Twitter in Chrome's devtools and look at the networking tab -- I get 148 requests that finish in 6.3 seconds

That is very plausibly "1000 poorly batched RPCs" that makes Twitter slow in other countries -- if it's 6 seconds for me, it's easily 20, 30, or 60 seconds for others

It will be shocking to me if some executive attention on latency can't halve it, in short order. The problem with latency is that no one team is in charge of it -- every team is incentivized to use as much latency budget as possible to ship their feature.

Larry Page harped on at this at Google for a decade, until he kind of gave up / moved on, and Google became nearly as slow as every other website.

So Elon is absolutely doing the right thing with respect to latency -- he's not wrong, and he's not micro-managing.

----

Yes Elon is not infallible -- he made flatly wrong claims about self-driving for years, despite experts in the field telling him otherwise, to his financial benefit. And Tesla is being rightly investigated for those claims (years too late, probably)

It doesn't mean that Twitter isn't slow as hell for extremely basic reasons