skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They help in the same way that a speed limit helps drivers. Sure, it actually makes the roads safer to some extent. Is there some amount of abuse you have to expect in enforcement? Yes. Is there some amount of unjust rule breaking that will happen? Also yes. Does it massively reduce the fun of driving? Also yes. If everyone just knew what they were doing on the road would it really be necessary? Not really. And do you need them for small, high-trust areas? Not really.
IMO some ~objective feedback of reality is good though. Probably not easy to set up without having it quickly turn into a negative reinforcement loop indeed.
But let's not forget that, with the right supporting culture, it can be helpful (pleasant?) to the dev to have some metrics. I admit "how to do that?" remains unclear.
Earlier Google devices had magnets for Qi charging alignment. I think in the Nexus 4/Nexus 7 era. I had a Google Qi charger with strong enough magnets to hang the device on the wall.

And then in typical Google fashion, the concept was dropped in a year or two. Happy that Apple (and now the Qi consortium) picked it up.
POGO pins wouldn’t really impact waterproofing unless I’m missing something (similar to how you can have a USBC / lightning port on a waterproof phone).

Is super the real reason is this would have limited value because:

A) you have this already through cable charging

B) it’s not clear it would meaningfully change the charging speed since you’d also need a communication standard (eg USB-PD) to negotiate the charge rate

C) all of this is made moot by the fact that most people have a case on and don’t take their phone out of their case to put it on a Qi charger which negates the benefit.

So basically cost and complexity for limited to no value. Of course maybe C is solvable by extending the pin through the case but I would think it would add cost to the case + maybe create some structural challenges negating the shock absorption.
Chapter 2 of that excellent book by Cover and Thomas is the roundup of all the definitions of entropy, relative entropy, mutual information, etc.

I think it's the first place I ever saw the "Information Diagram" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_diagram) which is a Venn-like diagram that really helps to remember all these relationships.
They’re both approximations. In this case and most cases, the digital approximation is much closer to the original than the analog approximation.
Yup. I also don't understand what language is either, I'm just following the patterns I've discovered via... learning.
I normally wouldn't put much stock (lol) in the notion that "wealth is a curse" but considering our guy was busted smuggling Iraqi antiquities during the war...
I do not understand hiw this is supposed to work. Is Louisiana blocking access somehow? To what?

Or requiring sites to do the verification though a legak request? What about foreign sites then?
Very interestin. I wonder if you can already have a startup based on this - providing some sort of auth. Not even sure how this kind of tech could be implemented
> I joked with my neighbour that we should wire up our homes and sell my excess to him at mid point and we would both be better off.

I've been looking at this but not as a joke and you run into some fairly interesting problems when you start paralleling after the meter. Long story short: don't do this unless you have a lot of electrical engineering chops or you might end up create a liability in case of a leak to ground or an overcurrent situation. This needs some special handling. The best way would be to just create an extra circuit and use a waterproof extension cord to power it, that way all GFPs see their real current and not a fraction of it and you can't accidentally feed into a distribution panel at more current than the breakers see, which is an excellent way to start a fire.
funny seeing the URL to this article change over the year; sad the "old urls" do not redirect to the new one..

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
(November 2022)
I wonder how much timing matters. I tend to drink plenty water at home after work, but less so in the mornings
This dude calls Vitalik a scammer. While he might make some good points about A16Z, that viewpoint alone ruins his credibility for me.
This should not be here.

This is an individual criminal defendant complaining about an alleged forgery of documents in their own case, and also arguing that the U.S. Attorney's Office was in a "corrupt alliance with OfficeMax," followed by a rant against the U.S. judicial system, prosecutors, and judges, and then a request for money and self-promotion of his merchandise and his book about another subject.
There has always been a plan on a sort of escalation ladder.

But it was always planned on the stupidity of another country to escalate. And that's exactly what's happening.
So how do you deal with bad developers? How do you even measure if they exist in your organization.

And as much as many of us on HN are developers and like to toot our own horn, some of us suck and don't get better with time. I mean in small organizations this is typically easy to figure out, but in larger organizations it's a problem that can persist for long periods of time.
The idea of sequestering people in government housing projects far away from jobs and food has not turned out such a good idea.

Housing the homeless is a much tougher problem than putting some people on the moon for a few days
I had a similar first reaction. My main monitor is 28" 4k 16:9 and more vertical sounds nice.

This monitor is 6144×3456, which is 1.6x more pixels in each direction (2.56x total pixels), and physically a bit bigger. So I feel like I'd get the extra real estate I want. Heck, I might be comfortable even adding some more inches to the side, making it more widescreen!

However I really don't want a 60Hz monitor. Everything is much smoother at even 90Hz. That's my dealbreaker.
Ads normally do not contain these type of nuggets:

>However, the company hasn't provided any color accuracy claims for the monitor yet, and that will be critical for many creatives.

>But while IPS Black contrast is impressive for IPS, there are prosumer monitors delivering even greater contrast levels.

>One potential disadvantage: HDR
>When in HDR mode, the U3224KB's max brightness increases a tick to 600 nits, as per VESA DisplayHDR certification. That’s a bit dim for creative professionals like video editors, who will likely need DisplayHDR 1000 and beyond for effective performance.

>both monitors are still expected to be subject to the flaws of LCD panels that OLED monitors avoid, such as the potential for blooming around light areas on dark content.
Not to support A16 - but this reads as classic PR/SEO for the extensively quoted “CEO”. Below the quality of what I expect on HN
You are certainly making progress on the argument you believe you are having.

My point has always been simple: Python causes more pain than other languages when you're not directly using it. I can get node 0.10 on alpine 3.17 just fine. This demonstrates that your comparisons to server JS are completely wrong. But I know, you're going to tell me this is my problem and I expect the world to do work for me or something. Nope. As I've repeatedly stated, I've taken the time to get it to work already. I know you want to believe I'm here waiting for you to fix it, but I'm not. All I've said is: "Huh, I don't have this problem with anything else. I'll keep that in mind before I decide to use stuff from this ecosystem in the future".
I sometimes review code on my phone, because a) I could never think of a use case for an iPad in my daily life and b) a tablet is kinda unwieldy to grab every time you go to the loo.

Granted, it's usually just web stuff, nothing too complicated.

Ok, I lied. Sometimes it's cafeteria and not the bathroom.
The best ones seemed to use direct drive motors.

In my opinion, the "god-tier" would be Revox B215 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revox_B215) and the Nakamichi Dragon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakamichi_Dragon).

I've personally used the Revox in the late 80's and early 90's as a DJ in a college radio station. It was super durable (it had to be, in a punk environment). I don't have any experience with the Dragon but it looks cool and I see it has good performance.

I think anyone who adopts a tape deck these days had better be ready for getting it serviced. Aside from the mechanical stuff that just wears out, the electronics are likely to need work after 30+ years. Capacitors, mainly.
This is exactly what I do. When it comes to your regular backend business server I write stateful multithreaded monolith in C++ sitting on the same computer as the database hosted on some multicore server with gobbles of RAM (those are cheap now). Performance is insane and is enough to serve any normal business for years or decades to come.

So it does not work for FAANG companies but what do I care. I have the rest of the world to play with ;)
It's been hard to find a timeline or more general history of TDD and I should have probably used the word "had" above. But my understanding is RSpec[0] was a huge driver of the test driven development hype cycle. While DHH[1] has, as of 2014, come out against TDD and was probably never 100% on-board he is not the whole community and that's still a gap of 9 years where, in my understanding, it was broadly popularised as both "the way you should be doing things in Rails" and, as with most things in Rails "the way everyone should be doing things".

[0]: https://www.stevenrbaker.com/tech/history-of-rspec.html

[1]: https://dhh.dk/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing
I was researching a thing called Polymer Flexible Circuits at this same time - those I spoke to talked of a future with all this sort of stuff and more. One guy said he was working on 'circuit' that would be small enough to carry in a pocket, then fold out to have a larger presentation surface for words and images.

It's worth noting that AT&T was the exclusive carrier for the first iPhone.
What's the current recommendation for a minimum viable HTPC? RPI?
The difference is Shor is attempting to prove something. This article is by a security researcher who cares about staying ahead of threats. That is, a 10% chance that RSA-2048 was broken means he's screaming about changing to -4096 or another standard. Because he is trying to make security systems reliable.

Or, to put it a different way, most papers focus on being right. To many publishers, "being right" means being true in what the paper is saying. In some other cases, "being right" means that the action you take is correct. Trying reading it as not a paper on "is RSA-2048 cracked" but "is RSA-2048 still safe".
Yeah, I've been eyeing Astro, and wondering whether I like it or Eleventy more. What worries me about Astro is that its internals must be very complex, since it's trying to support all the component frameworks and libraries out there. As a result, I heard some complaints about unaccountable problems with my favorite component library, Lit. I am also very surprised that the choice between SSG and SSR mode in Astro seems to be all-or-nothing, rather than a configuration that would allow SSG-ing some pages and SSR-ing others.

But yeah, its syntax, with an out-of-the-box support of typescript, looks more enticing than Eleventy's nunjucks or webc, or its serverless plugin. Good to know that Astro doesn't prerender all pages in dev mode either.
In that case would it be better as a 9:16 screen?
It might even be a greater option to have a community battery booth(a bank of LFP or the upcoming Sodium ion batteries). Everyone throws their excess energy into it, and it can be a charging station for e-bikes, EVs etc.

Absolutely no clue about legal issues though.
+1

Basically due to the Fad Cycle, microservices have turned from "useful for niche special cases" to "MUST DO AT ALL TIMES" and become a massive net-negative, similar to OOP. Thus the public sentiment is now that they are bad, although the original niche special cases still warrant their use.
This got me curious, so I gave it a try. It opens instantly (as always) and parsing the complete codebase in the background took about two minutes. After that everything is practically instant and there is no problem searching through the code, finding references, code completion, etc. Reopening the project is also instant and it takes less than ten seconds to fully load the cache in the background. Since I don't know the code I can't really comment on whether everything got parsed correctly, but the random bits I tried seemed to be right.

This doesn't seem to be worse than the Unreal codebase, which 10x also handles with ease. I highly doubt that there is a codebase in existence which could bring 10x to its knees. It does use quite a bit of memory, but nothing a modern setup shouldn't be able to handle. Currently it seems to be about 4GB for both Unreal and LO each, with LO being just slightly larger.

This of course are extreme cases, so you can imagine what performance for "normal" projects is like.
Looks like it has 10Gbps USB so worst case I think you can get a 2.5Gbps adapter
That's great. Cars have been including integrated magnetic chargers for a few years now, and they're almost universally useless because it's impossible to get your phone properly aligned with them, and after a few bumps in the road they slide out of position anyway.
I feel what you're saying is true, but not really something that should matter in a criticism of BTC when BTC is actually easier to secure than other dilution proof assets like gold.

3/5 multisig with collaborative custody would likely already be at least as safe as dollar checking accounts.
if you don't have net metering you should consume as much as you can yourself, cook when the sun is out, run your washer / dryer / vacuum / dishwasher and whatever else you have when you have excess power and minimize during the times the sun is below the horizon. 60% self consumption is doable without too much effort, 70 is work and if you get to 80%+ please let me know how you are doing that.

Also: the big trick to running of renewables is conservation comes first, solar second and finally the grid as a fallback for the remainder.
The conversation here seems a bit binary. Maybe I missed a few posts. The whole solar thing is not realized until cooperatives de-grid in favor of their own local grids, along with an arbitrage sharing model. That has the potential to to manage all power needs (including electrical cars). It's a scaling issue sort of in between entirely centralized and rugged individualism.

Of course the tech for this is a real threat for utilities, so it wouldn't surprise me if they would go to any length to stop such and effort. Same could be said for any deflationary tech like micro reactors.
Heh, I like how you were downvoted. I think a number of people here are a little bitter about their own negative experiences in companies and don't have enough self reflection to admit it's possible they could be part of the problem.
This title sounds like advertising.

Anyway, personal story: For years I worked on a 24" monitor at home. Then, at some point, I decided I too want to be a "pro" or whatever, and bought me a Dell UltraSharp 27" monitor. It looked very impressive when I turned it on... but within a couple of weeks, I noticed I was getting this sensation of wanting to turn away from the screen, of not wanting to be at my computer. I gradually realized that, well, it was the monitor; or rather the monitor + the distance: I could just not tolerate my eyes having to focus on high-intensity lit items at the angles the monitor was showing me. I went back to a 24-incher, and am happy as a clam. No multiple monitors for me, either: Dizziness and headaches.

I know this might not be everyone's experience, and many people have no trouble with large/multiple monitors, but - be warned, you might be one of those we do; or, you might develop this sensitivity over the years.
Microsoft recognises first labour union in US
I wish there were good squarish displays. The best/closest one is the Huawei Mateview at 3:2 (3k*2k resolution IIRC), or the Microsoft studio computer (4.5k*3k, also 3:2). But the mateview is 500EUR+, while decent 4K monitors are available for significantly less. I wish 3:2 and 16:10 took off properly - MacBooks have been doing the latter for forever, yet no one copies that good part :(

(PS I had a comment earlier here on HN on diying a monitor, let me know if anyone wants more info.)
Thanks for the writeup.

Do you think getting out of this mess could be as simple as government regulationL: banking (and government and other necessary websites) are not allowed to require installation of plugins or other software to log in.
My major gripe is that my smart tv updates its software all the time. When it does, it always seems to break some functionality. I often consider going back to my smaller "dumb" TV just to get away from the constant headache of wondering how to fix an streaming service that was previously working just fine. I am probably an outlier in the HN community in that I don't generally spend a lot of time customizing my electronics. For the general user like me, default settings in a smart tv can be a bad time.
I'd be wary about spending any proceeds from any A16Z crypto funds if I were an LP.. Given all the renewed focus and enforcement, I suspect there will be clawbacks from the obviously fraudulent pump-and-dump schemes they supported. I'm pretty amazed at the gall of Dixon as well, he is/was just aggressively rude to anyone who questioned the utility of any of those companies or coins.
To me that’s a turnoff, you might get an IDE where the speed is faster, but updates and fixes will be slow to come because the team could not get over NIH.
Text Style Transfer: A Review and Experimental Evaluation
Because sometimes the cost of complexity doesn't pencil out with the benefits it offers.

As always, it's a tool to be used for the right job, or skipped on the wrong job. Discernment is more valuable than microservices (shocking, I know).
This doesn't mean it is a good thing. There are literally 0 benefits of it and many negatives.
If you give the TV internet access it will still identify the content and share it with advertisers, even if you are using an external box. If you don’t give it access, some have been observed connecting to open networks nearby.
Microservices just add a lot of overhead to development and infrastructure that is likely completely unnecessary.

Even in well run projects, over time stuff evolves and the new services have a new build pipeline and the old ones still use the old pipeline and now you have to maintain both and understand how to use both every day.

Monoliths sidestep a lot of problems like that imo. They have their own issues so it's definitely a tradeoff, but still. Overall I find microservice architectures much, much harder to work with.
I feel like the US would just switch to more durable polymer bills than try the dollar coin thing again. I only ever get them in vending machines. They are much heavier than a bill so transport costs are higher and many people don't like carrying coins around anyway. Plus, at the point where a dollar bill costs too much to produce, we'd be in a near cashless society so small denominations wouldn't make much sense.
You mean like in Japan?

> hasn’t been implemented

I’m not going to evangelize what a correct stance on this is, but IMHO tipping is a big, not a feature.
Ask HN: Google not providing US work visa?
I was just dropped from Google recruitment process because "Google would be unable to secure a work visa for US-based roles".

Is this a general rule? Or was the role I applied for just not worth the hassle for them?
It took me a surprisingly long time to realize that I was reading fiction. The example SHA sums even do work, it's just that they only start with 40 bits set to 0 (expect to require 10^12 operations to generate each randomly - about a second on an ANTMiner) instead of 88 0 bits (multiple weeks of the full Bitcoin network to generate each randomly)
Calling the Files app a "file manager" is being extremely generous
I don’t think that’s another way to state that… The original statement is a bidirectional statement. Meaning you should also be able to decline calls and the other party will have to respect your preferences some of the time. It’s just basic balance and social graces, really.
Listing and implementing/asserting invariants of data structures feels underrated.
To me, it makes so much more sense than trying to sell writing tests to my stakeholders.
> Nim is case-agnostic. Tokens ignore cases and underscore so foo_bar == foobar == fooBar.

I have yet to be conviced it is a negative - or that the potential cons outway the potential pros, and I'm steadfastly stuck on this hill for now. Thanks for the comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34224702

Feel free to point out where he didn't make two distinct statements.

> If the descendants of colonizers and the colonized peoples have been living in the same country for centuries...

Good to see we're on the same page.

> ...what does this have to do with foreign investment in local assets?

Perhaps you missed the rest of my comment.
Go into your Roku privacy settings and you can disable some of their tracking.

For example, Roku sends back two screenshots per second of what you are watching.

https://advertising.roku.com/resources/blog/insights-analysi...
Who cares? No company I've ever heard of has been killed by bad developers. The same can't be said for managers, Vice Presidents or the C-Suite.
How is it odd and entitled for an end user to not like it when things suddenly break?

That is, I believe, the entire point of the parent, is it not? That this whole migration was not quarantined to the Python developer community. That it spilled over to users in totally unrelated spaces.
Not if your TV is hardcoded to use 8.8.8.8

Looking at you TCL.