skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm with you and hope all the idiot touch screen crap is ditched.

I agree many manufacturers have gone a bit overboard in making even things like vent positions and glove boxes behind touchscreens. But at the same time, I don't want touch screen to completely disappear. Punching in a destination and controlling the navigation interface is way better with a touchscreen than using a dial. As a passenger or while stopped, changing the media with a touchscreen interface is better than a dial. Changing a lot of the finer settings in the car (ones you wouldn't be doing while driving) with a touchscreen is better than scrolling through menus with a dial. For the most part, a lot of things you'd do with the system while not moving or while being the passenger can be better on the screen than with a bunch of physical controls, controls which would necessitate making the screen a lot smaller.

Also, then when wanting to quickly reference the navigation system, having a larger screen with larger items on it means it is easier to understand what it is telling the driver in a glance. Having a ton of physical controls means it is a much smaller map, meaning smaller items on the map, meaning harder to understand at a quick glance. It's nice having the next turn up in the driver's information cluster or on a heads-up display as well to reduce the needs for the driver to reference the larger navigation system.

There definitely needs to be a balance of physical controls versus software buttons, but I wouldn't buy a new car without a screen these days.
Have never regretted a buy. Sometimes you need to pivot if price gets too high, but there's always been mitigations and alternatives.

Anything I've seen built that was not contributing business value ended up being a distraction.
How big is your company? I would try to stick with Datadog until 1000+ engineers at least
Apple is such an annoying company. The M1 performance to price ratio definitely made it worth it to buy an MacBook Air but the constant crippling of their product line for product segmentation makes them impossible to like.

They are so consumer hostile, I think it’s going to hurt them in the long run. I’m really thankful that the EU is going to be shaking them a bit on their business policies in Europe.
wow, extremely cool, ty! i'm excited to play with kbs2 when i find a little free time.
Agreed. I just purchased a Maingear Vector Pro 2 with a mobile 3080 Ti (16 GB, ~165W power) for $1700. It's the biggest purchase I've made but I can quickly prototype ML models and it make research projects so much snappier.
Thanks. I’m sold on trying then.

Based on your comment about season 2, is it safe to infer that I can skip it entirely and still enjoy 3?
As someone who's been in that position at least twice (been fired or laid off and haven't been able to find _anything_ for over a year), I wouldn't go so far as to say it's wholly terrible or toxic, but at least partially so, or a little naive in some way. I'd say you should take at least a few months of personal time if you can afford it, and it's worth having something to chip away on eventually, but not necessarily to have something on your resume. Doing this full-time is borderline stupid advice, it will very likely not be worth trading your otherwise personal time for, unless you're literally charging for consulting services or something. Even still, if you're aiming for employment, just take your time.

Looking back on the times I've had to deal with this, and looking forward to the times I almost certainly will again, I'd do nothing different than what you've recommended or that I've done, with the exception of haplessly paying rent hoping for that next absurdly long and thoughtlessly designed interview process to work out.
My take is there are always positions open but only if you aren't paying market rates. The MASSIVE spike in whats considered a normal salary after inflation and COL has made it so a bunch of employers are perpetually looking.

If they raise their salaries to become competitive again they will fill their positions. If they keep going with normal compensation from 3+ years ago they will keep looking to hire and losing their best employees.
> A year of unemployment? Lonely, depressing, and not good on a resume.

I'm 4 months into a break from work and the only thing that is depressing is the idea of going back to work.

I think if this quote resonates with you, you probably need a break from work and analyze your life.
Thinking about why the PRQL syntax is as it is, does it have something to do with chaining CTEs together? I roughly see how given a pipeline with discrete components you could translate it into a collection of CTEs which lead into each other.
aka "the online marketing bots are only picked up by the algorithm so often"
Natural gas (not sure about wood; in most areas it’s abundant) is about 1/3 of the cost of electricity in America, so it’s economically less efficient.
Virtually everything in my self-hosted tech stack: Web, mail, specialty apps for CRM and project management... all of it.

I like the control and I like tinkering. But as I've become busier, I realize how much revenue-producing/move-the-ball-forward time I've lost and am still losing by doing all of this myself.
Is the browser extension more effective than https://archive.today?
Digital Reincarnation: LuYang NetiNeti – A New Digital Art Exhbition in London
I thought this was going to be about Ed25519. And I was about to pull out my pitchforks if it ended up talking negative about my boy.
In my experience interviewing, nothing on github or your resume will be read. The only thing that will be read is what you type into coderpad during your interview.
If all else fails apply to immigrate to Canada. Canada has a point system and anyone raised in the US would be right at the top of the list. Currently Canada is hoping for 400k immigrants per year so the chances are very good.
Briefly looked at something like a Intel NUC 11 Extreme Kit for htpc, until I realized that the Deck will be useful for the 2-3 flights I take every year as well, so for now it still has higher priority on my wish list.
In larger companies, hiring decisions is made by managers with a career agenda and projects in mind.

People who will bring new ideas, rock the boat, offer to do the same task but in an easier way... Don't make good peons for these managers.

That's why Microsoft loves contractors. Contractors will do what they're told and have very little leverage. Empire-building managers there can easily control their contractor work force even if speed and sometimes quality is sacrificed.
Strange you mention Toyota as manufacturer, as they are the one who fucked up with the unintended acceleration issue mentioned earlier. The thing is that they "forgot" to implement the mechanism which ignore gas pedal when both brake and gas pedal are pressed. This was a recommended safety feature for accelerator by wire implementation (egas norm).

Then a few years later they got hit again with one of their suppliers: Takata's killing airbags
> What situation are people in that they have to result to this? Is this an issue with getting laid off and trying to find a FAANG job?

It's reflective of the type of company you're interviewing for.

I lived in Seattle for a while, and almost every startup in the area did some form of algorithm lottery interviewing, because the startups were created by ex AMZN/MS/etc employees and they just took the process they were comfortable with to the next company.

I lived in Atlanta and a few other smaller cities for a while before and after that, and no company did anything like this, because the successful tech companies were all born of people with no FAANG experience, with different backgrounds and with different experiences.
I'm failing to see how that's the case
Sorry. I missed that. The ultimate security of the saved passwords here depends on the security of the operating system and file system.

So I really should of complained that this fact was not made very clear to the user... :)
Your point should stand, but it did make me discover that people make new 30pin 4MB simms, which were very difficult to get for years because they were commonly used in ATMs and only available used.
> Heat pumps might make sense when you have a well-insulated house, like the kinds in Northern Europe, to trap heat and reduce the power required to heat the room. American houses in most places are far too drafty.

If you need significant heating or cooling in a home, the first thing you need is to deal with is insulation, otherwise nothing you do is going to work well.
Thanks for the info about the springy parts and where they are!
I found /r/abrathatfits through a acquaintance's blog about a decade ago and this calculator made a huge difference in my life. I did not know that bras could actually be comfortable and supportive.
Not being a bra-wearer I'm not really qualified to comment, but watching my wife struggle with this over the years it seems like there's really nothing to substitute for trying on bras yourself.

My wife has tried on all sorts of bras, and these calculators, and went to a local upscale store that specializes in bra fitting, and none of them really substituted for just trying them on and finding a brand that she feels comfortable in. Even the professional fitting resulted in a bra she didn't really like after wearing it for a couple of weeks. When she finds a bra she likes, she buys more of them while she can, and tries to repair them if something breaks.

As an outsider these kinds of calculators and fitters seem well-intended but off, like they can give you a good starting point but in the end it's your comfort. It seems like there's too many factors involved, and too many sizing systems, interpretations of those systems, fabric factors, underwire support issues, etc. to really know.
I think imprisonment needs to be rethought if it's not used for rehabilitation purposes.

I believe that if you CAN be rehabilitated into society, you SHOULD be, and any imprisonment should be used for that purpose and that purpose alone.

If you CANNOT be rehabilitated into society, you shouldn't be imprisoned with the other people who can be, but should be put off in a group of your other "irredeemable" peers or something.

I think anyone CAN be rehabilitated, by the way, but not everyone will want to.
That's brutal, trash touches fish, they die
More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey
> the data needs enough "massaging" by human analysts to get what are still fundamentally low-quality tips it's somewhere between redundant and a waste of resources.

And those analysts are part of a law enforcement community that is rife with biases about crime and guns, which means most of the places where the system finds gunshots are where the biased people (who by default placed the detectors according to a bias) expect to hear gunshots.
This looks like a good alternative to Foreman (https://ddollar.github.io/foreman/). Do you know about it? What advantages do you think Porter has over it?

Congratulations on the cool project.
if we tied the creation of a national database to the abolishment of the private ones congress would abandon the national one immediately
You don't really need to focus on Twin Peaks at all to get enjoyment out of it, but if you describe yourself as "fine" with weirdness, I'm not sure you'll get much out of it. The weirdness is the point, and comes at the expense of pretty much all other concerns. The character development, style, and dialogue pretty much all serve the explicit purpose of creating a dreamlike atmosphere that makes just enough sense to be memorable and invoke feeling, but not enough sense to understand them or why they have an effect on you.
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Nim has the same result variable[1] and I absolutely love it.

It helps avoid the classic "oh, I forgot to return it" bug. Also makes the code more succinct and saves you from having to type an extra line for explicit return.

I kind of get why you would be wary of it, as it is a special variable but compared to other messed up stuff like for example Rust treating a line without semicolon as implicit return, it is a relatively tame solution for this problem and can be easily figured out.

Did you ever had any actual bugs caused by the use of result?

[1] https://nim-by-example.github.io/variables/result/
Cooling credits will sell well, and a ban will not happen after NSF poured trillions in similar research, that is the reality.
> I have met soo many sysadmins and devs that absolutely hate computers, hate programming, hate everything about IT

> Me, I have always loved programming and computers. They are both my work and my hobby

I think you're being too harsh, and clearly, you've never experienced burnout, which will make you loathe programming as work and as a hobby. Unless you are self employed, it is possible to hate your programming job while enjoying coding at home, without being in it for the money.

"If you enjoy what you do you will never work" is such bs, and leads to exploitation (see AAA games' low pay and crunching, or underpaid airline pilots)
I didn't get it wrong, but the company I worked for did. I spent 2.5 years creating a sales tool that they dropped the same day I released it. The company went with Salesforce instead.

It was really disheartening to have 2.5 years of hard work dropped like that, but it was absolutely the right choice. They had designed it themselves and it was barely functional. They had a lot of upgrades planned to make it do what they really wanted.
Would jailing them fix the mess they made? Would making them work to fix the mess they made be more effective?

Locking people up only prevents them committing crime while they're locked up. It doesn't do anything to solve the actual problem.
Nice!! I needed to understand some go scripts with work so I used Advent of Code as an opportunity to learn it as a new language and solve the next problem using it. Unfortunately that day's problem was more difficult than the rest so it took me more than a day to solve it, but it was a pretty nice way to ramp up on a new language!
Many of the electronic systems in traditional automaker's vehicles are made by a variety of other OEMs anyway. So judging by automaker brand may not really be a good judge of the engineering development of those subsystems. The infotainment might be made by Panasonic and the driver assistance might be made by Bosch.
Workflow engines. Every company develops one base off of queues or some form of async messaging. Works great when prototyping and your initial customer base. Works less great as you grow, add more complicated features, and realize you didn't have the distributed systems expertise to write this thing to begin with. It doesn't handle any of the common edge cases, and is increasingly painful to operate, needing constant babysitting.

Use Temporal, StepFunctions, something and try to avoid this urge.
I smell Petrichor when my whole-house humidifier starts running after having been off for a long time.
This password manager seems to use private keys, so there is no passphrase used for encryption here.

However, generally speaking, age uses scrypt for password key derivation, with a default work factor of 2^18 (1 second on modern machines). Unlike GnuPG's S2K, scrypt is both CPU and memory hard.
I'm not so sure how inefficient this is. Compare this to how humans have to eat and learn one by one. We don't have a way to take a trained model and run it on other instances. Instead the person who knows has to teach it to other individuals. Writing or media can help but is very slow and compared to loading a model.
A dog's normal body temperature is not 37°C. Its 38-39°C
What happens if/when the EU fails to update their laws on, say, USB-C mandates?

I agree the short term legal framework seems to have benefits, but I fear for the long term impact.

Laws are RARELY every taken off the books. Government doesn’t shrink
Found this surprising having used arch for years. Turns out ed is not in GNU coreutils, which is part of the base package. But there's a posix package which includes ed and other posix stuff.
> Isn't that already the case?

In theory yes, according to the US Supreme court in Gideon vs Wainwright. [0] In practice no. Public defender programs are chronically underfunded in the United States. The problem seems to affect states regardless of the party in control. [1]

[0] https://www.oyez.org/cases/1962/155

[1] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
Always cool to see DOpus mentioned. I've never tried it and don't plan to(Windows only and expensive) but it's rare to see a GUI app with quite that level of devoted following.
It took me many years to figure out how to write. Finally, I figured out how to apply that math side of my brain to writing: I treat sentences like math exercises; that is to say I learned how to show my work.

Ironically, I feel that this also helps me identify AI writing since it never shows its work; it has a tendency to mix together multiple "answers" in a swirling morass of leadership-speak (a mixture of management-adjective-soup and the avoidance of direct points). That kind of speech pattern coming from anybody that's not a C level executive stands out. Even executives tend to drop the leadership style speech patterns on forums.
If the problem is super interesting and involves a bunch of learning and novel problem solving, it would be a pretty fun time for me. Perhaps just for two weeks though, a month might be too long.
I had one of these made about 2 years ago.

It is video. The handheld portion is shaped roughly like a pen, with a cable attached to a computer & monitor. The lens end is rubbed across your teeth and a 3D image is made.

It had to be rubbed rather firmly against my teeth & gums. Doing so against breasts would be painful. I've had rather severe gynecomastia since I was 11. In my 30s, I'd sometimes wear a bra when doing sports. I wore a 38B/36C (depending on the brand of bra).
Not OP, but I'd be fine with copyright being limited to exactly "must credit any works used that were created by other people".

But yes, abolishing copyright other than ensuring credit is given is the right move. The scenario you bring up wouldn't happen like you're thinking though. Disney or Sony would be free to make a movie using other people's art, but they'd have no legal means to enforce that people give them money to watch it, so behaving unethically would be a great way to not get any money from making it.
Exactly: the lack of faith in good governance part was especially rich given Snowden’s revelations.
> Have you bought something that you had to scrap and build yourself anyways?

Yes, but that hasn't meant it was a mistake -- 'buy-then-build' can be a great strategy. Often the 'then-build' never happens, but going into a decision with the mindset readiness for 'then-build', you can learn from existing products, hit their limits and understand what is the custom version of it you'll need in your context. Recent examples are on smaller scale, though - using a library that speeds work up early, hitting its limits, and replacing or extending with DIY that does less things but goes deeper for my use case.

> What are services/products that you built and wished you had bought?

The most annoying recurring version of this has been being just a little too early - building something, then discovering a few months or years later a public product that does the same, but better. At that stage, rebuilding to use has low ROI, and one ends up maintaining a legacy monster. There was a period when public offering of supporting backend infra was maturing, ie things like secrets/configuration management, logging, observability, monitoring, a/b tests, a bit earlier even basic web frameworks (ie building anything on PHP before Laravel came out meant you built your framework first; iirc worse than the frontend framework landscape in 2022).
Before that happens, the whole world would need to be under continual observation. Then we would have to realize that it always takes more people to observe the people than there are people to observe, and turn the eternal watch over to AI.

Then the AI wouldn't be saying, "I think it's likely you did this", it would be saying, "Here's the video of you doing this".
There's NO regulation about it.
I'm a huge fan of DOpus on Windows. Double Commander is the closest I've found for Linux (it has gtk and qt5 versions for Gnome and KDE).
PouchDB 8.0.0 – Modernizing PouchDB
Well I’m non-binary and gender-fluid, so I don’t identify as a woman. But what I meant was “it’s amazing we can take cross sex hormones and safely change our bodies.” So I wasn’t talking about sex or gender, just HRT specifically. My suggestion that “more people do this” was referring to the concept of HRT, whether that’s taking masculinizing or feminizing hormones. I just find the process fascinating and beautiful. And when I say I hope more people do it, I mean people who want to do it.

So I apologize but your questions don’t really fit with what I meant. I don’t personally like the idea of rigid gender roles.
So per the spec sheet -- the "Full Load Amps" for that model could actually be up to 5.2A per the bottom portion of the 90-14 column second from the right on page 5:

https://d1049ui2fjityy.cloudfront.net/userfiles/inriver/docu...

That motor has a switch so it could be in 3 different settings -- As shipped, the blower motor speed is set to be faster for AC (more draw in the summer) to prevent the coils from icing over, and then it's shipped to be the slowest fan speed while in heating mode, but it is possible that your installer changed that. If indeed it is in the "slow" speed for heat, then 2.5A would be about right.
I am one of these. I think the idea is to have them go back and succeed in their home country so they won't immigrate to the US.
> Honestly, if someone showed up with a gap in their resume and claimed that they were doing start-up, open source, etc. for an interview, I'd dig deep into that hard.

As a counterpoint, I probably wouldn't dig into this too much. But even if I did, would I find it strange that someone got laid off and then used their time to build up a company that didn't work out? Probably not. And if I realized that it was a half-assed effort... so what? Why is that worse than time spent playing video games? Sure, if you told me you were working on building a company and you didn't have any progress, I might feel that you were dishonest. But if you've got at least something to show for it (a basic product, even with zero sales), I think it's fair game.
What would it take for the general public to accept the urgency of climate catastrophe?
Same here, past 50 and while my job doesn’t fulfill me, I can do it with little effort and it pays the bills. I’m too tired and lazy to try something new, rather look for fulfillment in my spare time. Actually, all my previous experiences say that every job sucks, no matter how promising it looked like at the start.
And the author is.. also good at math?
Wilfred Industries was the first thing that came to mind for me. Seems unduly irresponsible to quench the heat entirely without first starting in the train, jeesh.
Valve lost a patent case against SCUF and Ironburg over the back paddles. Which sucks, because the main value proposition of the SC wasn't the back paddles but the haptic touchpads combined with the customisation. It would be nice if Valve would make another SC and pay the licensing fees.
Soulver's WolframAlpha support is great, too. No need to switch to a browser to bring in some real world data.
I recall reading similarly-alarming articles about other police junk science in the US. For example, Shot Spotter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27959755

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32258854

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31958201

I believe I have read similar about drug sniffing dogs and certain forms of field drug testing.

There appears to be no sufficient mechanism for preventing junk science from tainting the process of justice.