skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Water resistant (e.g. 30 min / 1 m) mobile phones with exchangeable batteries were quite common. They had easy to procure LiIon batteries which could replaced even by a clumsy person in minutes.

Would prefer that to a watertight phone with non replaceable batteries as aging or dying batteries are more common in my experience than my desire to go on a dive with my phone.
Dawn of the Space Economy: New Frontier in Geospatial Data and Climate Control
In which country ? Last i looked they all do that. It increases revenue.
i forget the details but it also use to be like that in the US though some kind of membership org and in europe by gov committee. Doctors could opt out but got no patients from the system.
Isn't compiler optimization np complete? I don't think I'd put anything there in "should". Yeah any single optimization (or permutation thereof) can be applied, but they're order-dependent and the combinatorial explosion means you can't try to apply all of them.
Do satellites show up on infrared cameras? Or are you talking about some sort of aircraft?
US lending banks have had a reserve requirement of 0% since 2020. We are already in the days of cashless credit creation. No drop in savings will effect lending so long as this policy is in place.
This isn't what you asked for, but one of the systems that Google uses internally has system to report the hash of every executable launched and block executables it isn't aware of.

A binary authorization system for macOS https://github.com/google/santa
It is also crazy to me that so many image formats have such small size caps. I understand not wanting to use extra space for small images, but I can't think of any reason to have a maximum image size smaller than your maximum hard drive size. You probably don't want to unconditionally store 8 bytes for width and height, but you could pretty easily make it only use 1 byte for small images and for anything big, you won't miss the extra 6 bytes.
That's not an essential component of Karaoke though. I live in Japan where Karaoke is extremely popular, and in the more higher-end karaoke systems, you can pick the original music for popular songs (or sometimes you can even pick live performances with the video of the artist on stage and everything)
Excepting COVID, where the line went flat, it seems to be consistently improving. Compared to the other countries in Africa, I'd say they are on par or much better off.

Not a great situation, but seemingly improving at a steady clip, so maybe it isn't as bad as the bare number would imply. To steel-man the government's motives, I might hazard a guess they are hoping that a digital currency will attract more investment in technology. It's very much a "rising tide lifts all boats" plan that historically ends up with a lot of inequalities, but given their economic reliance on oil production, diversifying makes sense.

Or, it's just another corrupt scheme that is lining a few pockets.
Elon is currently attacking Wikipedia trying to rewrite history. In the end he will have never said that Teslas don't need radar for FSD.
Was skeptical when I read the title but that's actually not too bad. Makes a lot of sense to educate people with information relevant to them.
The question never says the survey is or claims to be. completely anonymous.
How 'bout somebody make a database of hospital bill charges... so we can all see what's actually being charged.
Yeah it's way beyond that
Ask HN: ChatGPT can solve my interview questions, now what?
As an interviewer conducting remote interviews, I fear ChatGPT is going to enable cheating to a degree I won't be able to detect. Right now it can solve many of the questions I usually ask, including combined system design / coding questions, getting it right mostly on the first go.

Are software interviews going to disappear? Do we adapt somehow, find the holes that ChatGPT can't fill, yet, and play a cat-and-mouse game with OpenAI? Will complex, multi-hour homework interviews be the only solution (where you could use ChatGPT and we'll take that into account, giving more complex and hard to solve questions)?

Is this even a legitimate fear? Maybe ChatGPT is just another tool in the toolbox now, just like Google and docs?
you mean 2020, right?

> Announced 2020, June 28

> Status Available. Released 2020, August 17
he doesn't support any of those things and never did. but even if he did, it is still worth supporting him because of the actual positive change in the world he has manifested by having the balls to try. results are what matter, not his political beliefs or personal associations.
I can answer that because I just drove home in the rain at night in my Tesla Model 3.

It was a light rain that has been falling for hours. The roads are sleek but very few deep puddles. No problem with traction, but the sheen of the water combined with poor lane markings means it’s often hard to see the lanes.

My experience has always been the vision AI can discern lines and road markings significantly better than I can. So I often choose to drive with autopilot on and keep close attention at night in the rain.

The car will be almost always perfectly in lane while I am freed up to pay more attention to the greater surroundings, traffic signs and lights, route planning, and watching for hazards and other traffic.

I find at night in the dark driving without autopilot, lane keeping requires significant focus, which can mean other driving tasks like route planning and identifying hazards can suffer.

As of right now, exceedingly few cars are being driven entirely automated. Humans using autopilot will have more time and focus to identify and avoid cyclists/pedestrians that are on or entering the road. Autopilot is a massively useful safety tool.

Unfortunately some humans abuse their driving privilege. Drunk driving and distracted driving are huge and growing killers. Human drivers that are supposed to be paying attention that instead hit a cyclist / pedestrian are at fault. If it’s done while driving distracted on autopilot that’s even more so the human’s fault.
Do you think, for remote companies the geographical location of the employees/contractors should play a key factor in the compensation?
I'm going on record to suggest that people who have used computers from the 80's and 90's have rose tinted glasses on when remembering their experiences. Nostalgia is a bitch and lies to us all the time. Just loading a fucking program from a spinning disk hard drive adds a significant amount of startup time to programs that we've completely imagined away from the "golden age" of our computer usage. At this point I'm convinced it's just a natural extension of "they don't make it like they used to" which has plagued mankind for basically every generation ever which completely ignores survivor bias. I distinctly remember experiencing *major* performance gains when moving to more memory than my system and apps needed to use and the move to solid state drives. None of the "programmer's don't know how to code today" nonsense even comes close to eclipsing the performance gains from those two changes.
80% of Nigerians have access to a cellphone.

https://www.geopoll.com/blog/mobile-penetration-nigeria/
Littman's study hasn't been discredited though. It's been robustly critiqued, as one would expect for any research that advances a novel hypothesis.

The main issue that people have with her study is that it challenges the often deeply held belief that a person's gender identity is innate; it hypothesises that there is a population of trans-identifying people who have adopted this identity via sociogenic means. By doing so, it calls into question the affirmation-only clinical approach that has been so ascendant in recent years.

Challenging people's fundamental beliefs and practices on a topic is never going to be popular amongst those who hold such beliefs. This is why her research received such an intense backlash, and why activists are so keen to claim that it's been debunked and discredited, even when it hasn't.
I stopped buying books on my mother languages (russian and ukrainian) because our culture goes south and certainly no great works is coming on these languages. Even youtube on this languages completely turned into shitshow. But there in so bookshop in Ukraine which sells english books. So my only source of books is torrents. And I will never buy ebook again because the one I bought per $20 losted with my HDD and the e-mail it was sent is abandoned now - so I can't prove I deserve to be sent another copy.
> raise money by issuing more stocks

How often does this happen?
That place is cool! Such a weird spot to put such famous flying craft but damned if it isn’t worth the drive.
TIFF will support that size and larger. It can use JPEG or ZLIB compression as standard, or even WEBP or JPEG-XL which are unofficially supported by a small number of TIFF libraries.
Programmable money is like programmable computation, there are infinite applications on the spectrum of good and evil. If we are going to allow programmable money, we must allow competitors (e.g. citystate crypto, nationstate crypto, non-CB crypto) and incumbent payments like cash.

https://cashessentials.org/us-considers-legislation-on-manda...

> The Payment Choice Act is a bill that would require applicable retail businesses to accept cash for transactions of less than $2,000 and prohibit them from charging cash-paying customers a higher price relative to customers not paying with cash. Retail businesses would retain the flexibility to accept payments through any other means. The House Financial Services Committee passed the bill 32-17 on 18 May 2022.

Previous CBDC threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30634245 (2022) & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27805709 (2021)

A 15m video titled "Johnny's Cash and The Smart Money Nightmare" simulates future TV news on CBDCs. It's regularly deleted, and mirrored.
I know it's against the guidelines but:

bruh
I use mine in the rain, is there a reason not to?
Most people don't even know that reverse image search exists.
You're mixing up construction start dates and end dates. It's the color that distinguishes which plants were completed before and after Three Mile Island. The red is before. The brown is after.

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03014215163001...

Cost exploded after three mile island, your idea that cost increases slowed after is the complete opposite. Can you really not see how the brown data points shoot up?

> for capacity factors that didn't exceed 58% until many more upgrades and repairs had been made over the course of years or decades.

Are you going to keep cherry picking one plan? Nuclear's average capacity factor is over 90% https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity

I looked into your claim that earlier plants had lower capacity factors. This is true for demonstration plants in the 50s and early 60s, but not the 800+ MW production facilities that were built during the nuclear boom.
It is true, not savage but fearful and irrational. The systems should change but stay in place.

You hire someone to do a job and you want to micromanage them basically. Whose declassified work upset you? Did you elect the oversight committee in congress that allowed it to happen or the president that ordered it?

Mk-ultra? Contra? What's the problem? That's exactly the kind of stuff those people would do and they were elected with knowledge of their personality. You, the voter are responsible for voting for experienced people with good character that will govern well instead of the popular TV friendly face random corporates can buy for cheap. It is the voters fault.
Wierd response considering all the European colonialism and evangelism pushing their views violent down other peoples throats but go off
Thank you, this is great news! I am definitely try and package all the interesting features into a paid plan and see how it performs. It doesn't cost a lot per request, but now that I've had 160,000 requests in 12 hours, it's not trivial. I'll update the comments and/or post again once new features are up!
Every US citizen already has a social security number which is similar to the Medicare number that all Australians have. When I go to a doctor or a hospital, I just give them my Medicare number.
I found a linked list bug in FreeBSD because I am less smart than my buddy who was like it's trivial bla bla bla. I am like wait, lets back up, I don't understand this...

I think one sniff out shifty code, as soon as you open the file you can tell there are going to be bugs in there. I am not saying, well groomed high level code is high quality or bug free. A couple trivial deficiencies and there a probably a whole lot more you don't see.

Like if the code has a low to zero number of tests. Or the build system includes top level shell commands.
Try Authelia (https://www.authelia.com)
Why would it need to? It knows that it already exists!

Seriously, though, sort of. I asked for advice how to implement it and it just gave me more non-existent options.
This is what ChatGPT has to say about that:

>> While large language models may be able to answer some of the questions in an interview, they do not have the ability to demonstrate problem-solving skills or adaptability to new technologies and frameworks. These skills are essential in a software development role and cannot be measured through a simple recall of answers or code snippets.

>> Therefore, it is important for the interviewer to design an assessment that focuses on evaluating these skills and abilities, rather than relying solely on the ability of the interviewee to recall specific answers. This can be done through a combination of open-ended questions, coding challenges, and group discussions that require the interviewee to demonstrate their understanding of fundamental concepts and apply them to solve real-world problems.
Does each employer have a single union?
Proton VPN Fights Censorship in Iran and Russia
This is from October, but it's not paywalled like the Dec. 6 NYT article. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890085) There, Proton AG representatives describe 2022 as a running battle against government blocks in Russia. PCMag doesn't have much information on how it's all working at this time, and I'm wondering if anyone cares to share their experiences.
On the other hand, 4.3 Petabytes of VISA/MasterCard traffic is a bill you'd probably be happy to pay. (It's Shopify after all, not Flickr)
I want to warn people that Cat phones are not “good phones”

They are cheapo Chinese Android phones, with a gimmick. The gimmick can work for some people, sure. Didn’t work for me.
The load characteristics also matter. Under certain load profiles those AAAs won't come even close to their rated capacity (no matter what misleading unit used). I also find the 1.9wh very optimistic, I guess you took the average AA capacity, in which case the battery would almost become bigger than the phone.
> “b) we don't need JS to invade your privacy on the web... Does he browse without images turned on too?”

He doesn’t really browse the web at all:

“””How I use the Internet

I am careful in how I connect to the internet.

Specifically, I refuse to connect through portals that would require me to identify myself, or to run any nontrivial nonfree Javascript code. I use LibreJS to prevent nonfree Javascript code from running.

I am careful in how I use the Internet.

I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.

I occasionally also browse unrelated sites using IceCat via Tor. Except for rare cases, I do not identify myself to them. I think that plus Tor plus LibreJS is enough to prevent my browsing from being associated with me.
“””

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
This is a great thing you have made. I have one criti-suggestion: I am somewhat colorblind and have a very hard time discerning the difference between the domain availability (available/not available/don't know). Perhaps make the color areas more distinct?
I think I’ve flown on a 747 maybe once in my life in a cross-US flight from LA to Florida. I remember being completely dazzled by the sheer number of people on the plane.

Recently I flew back from Europe on a 787 and that too was a wonderful experience. The plane feels like the future and was so comfortable and nice to be on.
Fun fact: in most of Germany this would have been a crime with a penalty of up to tens of thousands in EUR depending on the exact species.
learn a trade
How to get ripped and alienate people
Ignoring the gaslighting, how much do we know about the Chatham Islanders' pre-contact culture? And, how many of those descendants have non-Maori Y chromosomes? Any?
have you considered deploying a static site? your wordpress doesn't seem to be handling load very well.
This blows my mind, I never thought about that. I imagine automatic currency conversion would make it especially hard for any company outside US/EU. They'd stick out like a sore thumb with their weird prices.
I remember filtering programmer resumes about 20 years ago and one listed modelling as a prior job and her packet included a headshot. We flew her out and interviewed her and she aced the written test and interviews; we made her an offer but she had multiple to choose from and our starting salary was not competitive.
Australia fines Uber $14M for misleading on fares and cancellation fees
Preach brother.

I guess it kinda worked when everything was 1.5V but even then it was pretty stupid, and it’s been a while.

And I feel like we’ve regressed somehow? Didn’t every smartphone use to advertise battery capacity in (m)Wh, like laptops? I feel like just a few years ago that was the prominent measure, and you’d get voltage and Ah as side-notes, e.g. the iPhone 12 wiki page states

> 3.83 V 10.78 Wh (2,815 mAh)
I’m fascinated by AirBnB. So much modern tech business orthodoxy is around leveraging your core value proposition and outsourcing everything else. Yet here is AirBnB with their own iOS rendering framework.

Is it part of their core value prop? Or do they ignore the advice? Or is their success causing them to waste cash on boondoggles like this? Or do these boondoggles help them attract engineering talent for less than they’d otherwise need to pay?
Do you mean 5% isn't much more than typical in Nigeria? or somewhere else? It's certainly much more than where I live where it's 0%...
It's also obvious that you don't want the price to fluctuate between 99 copper-pieces and 89 copper-pieces every day just because the USD/copper-piece rate is somewhere around where 95 copper-pieces is the converted price - you would want periodic manual adjustments to the prices for each price point, taking into account all kinds of marketing aspects, not some automatic immediate response to any change.
You realize 20% of Nigeria is 40 million people?
> Both were dictatorships and terrorist nations. Not even close to equivalent.

The invasion of Iraq was launched through Saudi Arabia. Another great democracy!
How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide [pdf]
Option A is absolutely the worst choice.
The non-responders have already selected themselves into a non-random set, and making a request to them alters the entire experiment.
I would not trust any advice from Stackoverflow. It'd be like listening to advice from LinkedIn.
idolize may be too strong. in my case i just see a dude who started a big project long ago with lots of good bits in it, which is worth a bit of respect
India asks Google to stop displaying online betting ads
Having lived in Melbourne, those are both pretty bizarre assertions, although it's a running gag for Melbourne that you can easily experience all four seasons in a day. In Australia, only coastal NT/FNQ qualify as tropical, with a subtropical slice from Brisbane down to Sydney:

https://plantmaps.com/koppen-climate-classification-map-aust...
Programmers shouldn't be allowed to name things. I know it predated the GNU Project, but it just normalized bad naming as a goal. Maybe kids can stop learning cursive and switch to the how-to name things class!
Sounds like there's some overlap with the well-established term 'vaporware'.
Option A is absolutely the worst choice. The non-responders have already selected themselves into a non-random set, and making a request to them alters the entire experiment.
I don't know any local-ATM that charges % fees for local transactions.

I'm in SEA, Cambodia to be specific, and the ATM % fee is around 1%. This is quite an improvement from a few years ago (where 5% was expected).
It may have to do with limitations of allocating memory chunks on 32-bit machines when these formats were originally designed. The decoder allocates a contiguous buffer that can hold the whole image.
IMHO the 747 is the tech that changed australia more than any other post the shock of european colonisation, conquest, settlement, whatever you want to call that.

The world suddenly got a lot smaller and closer. Visiting foreign lands became a thing accessible to a vastly larger proportion of the population and that was all most needed to get out there and see some of it.

Closely followed by satellite comms, then fibre, then the web & consumer internet. (Skype and its ilk).

The A380 is great and drew a crowd for its first landing in aus. Somehow its still not a Jumbo Jet for all that it is even bigger.

Which areoplane is winning the kilogram kilometers per Litre of jet fuel for long haul nowadays?
1.9 seems like a typo as 12/1.9 is 6.3, nowhere near 10. 800mAh seems to be a pretty available capacity and yields 1200mWh which tracks with the factor.

Though I think I’ve seen up to 1200.
this is a little surreal. one of the first aircraft i ever flew on was a 747. in the 80s and 90s if you were on a long haul 6+ hour flight, it was likely a 747 (if not an L1011 or 767). it was notable for me personally as it was one of the most advanced feats of human ingenuity and engineering that i was able to get close to.

notably in the early 90s virgin atlantic was one of the first airlines to offer personal seatback video screens in economy on their 747s. the screens were backlit color lcd (similar to atari lynx), about 3.5" in diameter and had 6 or so channels that were on a four hour loop.

edit: here's a link to an image of one for the curious. wild how far we've come. https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1d5qij/virgin_atl...

it's a bit sad to see the program end, as it sort of marks the end of an era where the engineering feat of putting something that large in the sky was prized. i suppose that focusing on operating efficiency and environmental sustainability are far more important, but it's hard to not be nostalgic for the long running engineering triumphs of the jet age.
Both can be true at the same time. You can have a very slow program startup time but once it is up, it's very responsive to inputs.
I'm with you. I'll use the self service in shop but I never use the app.
The global energy crisis ‘turbocharged’ renewable energy growth
I want to know if ferrari will win the next F1 championship
Given that JavaScript has roots in Lisp/Scheme , a lot of people report that learning Lisp helped them to better understand JavaScript.
sounds more like a repugnant fact to me
The whole point is that it is not a multiplication with a conversion rate, it's a mapping that is not purely multiplicative, which has coefficients that in some regions may be significantly different than the exchange rate, that provides round numbers and stickiness to them, and avoids temporal fluctuations - prices in regional markets get adjusted when the ratio gets too far off, not with every change in excahnge rate, in order to reduce the frequency of price change.