skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't people wary about using their very expensive car batteries for the grid? E.g. imagine you plug in your phone for the night, but instead of a single top up change it is now constantly discharging and charging again. Lifetime of pocket sized batteries is not too great even now, and in such scenario they will go bust 2-3 times faster, in year instead of 3 or so. Also discharge swings would be probably much bigger. Instead of using say 30% of the battery per day in normal use cycle, maybe not even every day, you will now see multiple 0%-100% charge cycles daily.

New battery for small car costs 13-20k$, so if its lifetime will be shortened from I don't know, say 10 years, to 3 years, then electric company need to compensate owners accordingly and I highly doubt they will pay even 10% of that sum over 3 years.
Do we need to diversify our 'information technology supply chain'?

Dependency on 1 or 2 providers - in any field - has been shown to be a non-zero rated risk, with potentially catastrophic outcomes. What would a decentralised info-tech eco-system look like?
However, there is a free reimplementation of GApps, namely microG. Not what OP linked to, but it does exist.
With zone 2 training, if you're not that fit you might be able to hit the right intensity just walking fast up a slight incline.
Thanks! Yeah, I probably should have made the title "...in Excel" instead of "...inside Excel". I wonder if more or fewer people would have clicked on it that way.
Are you enjoying using Writely and Cupcake, which haven't changed in 15 years?
45 min is a streaming series episode. I've found that the only way to get my ass on a stationary bike is to stick it where I can see the TV and watch something brainless. Ideally fast paced and violent so I can pick up the rythm :)

And admit it, no matter how busy you are you do watch some entertainment once in a while.
Do password managers have FDIC coverage? banks do. Big difference.
What government part ? Aren't these mostly (?) privately/publicly owned banks ?
Why do you want to code and what do you want to code. Want to do front end web development? Choose JavaScript. Want to write Windows desktop applications? Choose C#. Want to do data analysis? Choose Python. Want to develop a novel way of solving PDEs? Choose Julia, and so on

Learning to program in a vacuum can be a real chore. Much better to pick and problem you want to solve or a concrete thing you want to develop and then pick the language that makes doing that thing the easiest.
So far, people will share if it's funny.

It still needs to go into the direction of utility
The weirdest thing is that Metro is literally 100% owned by T-Mobile. And Cricket by AT&T. Just different business models.
Lockheed Martin achieves first flight of its 50kW laser-powered weapon
For me desktop software feels extremely difficult to change and rearchitect to change swiftly.

In some ways Mozilla achieved the impossible: a truly cross platform, compatible desktop application infrastructure that is powerful and rich. It can play video, show images and play sound and do 3D graphics. Unfortunately the market doesn't value those things, it thinks of them as dated. Firefox market share where it is.

A request/response server side application can be changed by adding endpoints, or redesigning or adding layers or database schemas but GUIs are hard to update easily by comparison because everything is so brittle and linked together so thoroughly.

I wrote toy proof of idea that GUIs could be additively defined declaratively. You define the layout by describing things in relationship to eachother rather than collection classes arranged in a tree. Behind the scenes, it IS a React tree underneath but in additive-guis in attempt to create GUIs that were responsive *to change of descriptions rather than declared positions*. you should be capable of describing the GUI with declarative description of how it should look *and* its behaviour. Think of it as CSS for observed behaviour.

https://github.com/samsquire/additive-guis

Writing code to manually maintain widgets in a hierarchy is error prone and slow to develop and adapt and change.

I worked on an Android mobile banking application and I wouldn't want to rearchitect the application.

I would love to understand Qt better but I find it very hard to understand to architect good software as a GUI.

I have looked into immediate mode GUIs.

I started writing a layout engine based on ORC Solver paper but it's very early days

https://github.com/samsquire/browser for a simple screenshot. It can arrange things without overlapping them, similar to a flow layout. But I need to handle text properly.

Everyone said they wanted independent implementations of standards but when Google Chrome came out, everyone including web developers and engineers were happy to move to it.

There's just too much technical complexity and knowledge required to know how to do things on each platform. Writing a cross platform desktop application is LOTS of fiddly effort.

I've wanted to create a GUI similar to IntelliJ Community Edition but I worry that the code shall be outside my reach in understandability.
not even remotely close. okta for an enterprise is big dollars. most shops already have o365, so the AAD premium tier licensing is already paid for. aad and okta workforce are almost feature parity.
Sweden deployed 1 GW of PV in 2022
'On your kitchen' is not something most English speakers would say; they would say 'in your kitchen'. Otherwise it seems like the butter is 'on top of' the kitchen, like on the roof. And instead of 'your kitchen' it would be 'the kitchen', since the story takes place at the house of the characters in the story and not the reader's house. Also usually children's books are much more descriptive: "Butter went everywhere! On the ceiling, on the floor, on the refrigerator, on the toaster..."

And to the point of not being kids friendly, imagine your child has this book read to them, and you find the next day that they've illustratively covered your own kitchen in butter... Most children's stories are written in a way that spells out danger or bad behavior meaningfully.
_Silicon Valley_ is well-known to an extrmely accurate portrayal of SV culture. It is a hit parody because it's accruate.
I suspect it must have been part of "let's try to secure / lockdown office", "users writing codes is bad, they should only push buttons", and at the same time they tried to make it as hard as possible to use VBA (all sorts of warnings and things disabled by default, etc)

I am also aware of a commercial product that offers a .net IDE to be embeded into your software, though I never tried it: https://www.alternetsoft.com/products/scripter
IBM seems to be mainly doing consultancy stuff now. From what I can see they don't really know what they want to be, they seem to be scavenging for scraps in the market, lacking a clear strategy. They dabble a bit in everything from processors, servers, services to software but don't really shine anywhere.

We used them as a data center provider for a while but they were really bad, doing stuff like scheduling backups during peak times. We have some consultancy suits on the floor like the ones from Deloitte too, mainly for "old boys network" reasons I think because they're not particularly knowledgeable.

I think they'll be around mainly to support all their legacy but I don't really see them driving any technology anymore.
With FaceID you can set a complex iPhone password with little loss of convenience. I have a complex iPhone password, use iCloud Keychain, and have few issues.
Calories are a unit of energy. You are arguing against chemistry and physics. Im sure you could find inaccuracies in calorie counts for various foods. Additionally Im sure some foods are more filling and/or healthy at different calorie counts.

Arguing that calories in doesn't matter is nearly on the level of Holocaust denialism, as the main picture evidence there is of the effects of calorie deficits.
One long circular argument (2017)
Amazon warehouse workers stage first-ever strike in the UK
There is this very faint (presumed modem) signal I started hearing in cars back in the early 90's. I'd heard it before in earlier contexts but don't remember any details.

Anyone know what that is?
They were a red headed stepchild within the Citrix portfolio before they were carved up like a turkey. I wouldn’t expect anything positive from them going forward.
But the b2b sourdough app is a potential driver of future growth. Yes it may help the bottom line today, but getting rid of employees today lowers future growth potential.

Investors know this. Investors would also question why there are layoffs in an apparently healthy company. All this means that CEOs don't want to do mass layoffs which even more strongly raises the question of why they did it to start with.
> were the layoffs illegal, and if they weren't, then why is it any of your business?

If the layoffs were uneccesary you know to treat the company and its executives as worse to work for than they would be if they did necessary layoffs only.

I.e. increase the cost of hiring you.

The "none of your business" trope is silly. Why not warm each other of shitty things, be it a bad restaurant or MS as an employer.
In the case of all of the companies in question here, yes you are wrong. They have significant amounts of free cash flow and cash on hand.
Given how lonely much of the population seems to be, maybe there is actually a goldmine to be made here. I am quite surprised that 15% of Tinder's paying users are paying $30 a month for it.
Slightly related: a family friend who was a pilot once told us that the security at an UK airport once very thoroughly inspected him before his flight. Puzzled, he asked: what are you looking for? Because I have a literal axe in the cockpit - and I can also crash the plane. How could I possibly be carrying more dangerous stuff? The security people didn't like it.
I think there’s a lot of promise in FLF’s designs (especially for in-space fusion propulsion), but they’re moving too slowly.
MailBuddy – a FREE GPT-3.5-based AI email assistant
This is a FREE Google extension you can install & start using just in 10 seconds!

I think in business world we can dedicate a lot of time to email communication, specifically:

On average, 28% of work time is spent on email.
We check email on average 11 times per hour.
84% keep email open in the background while working.

How does it work?

At your command, MailBuddy reads the mail for you and writes the replies the way you want. It drafts the text – you hit “send” after a review right from the inbox.

MailBuddy can write self-paced or follow your commands on:

specific details (add more info, examples, questions, etc.)
sentiments (write politely, positively, etc.)
form of the reply (add bullet points, 3 tips, write briefly, etc.)

With MailBuddy, hours of your email time will be replaced with a few clicks.
From tfa

> In the interest of knowing where every plane is at all times, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) began requiring that all airliners manufactured after the 1st of January 2021 include autonomous tracking devices that broadcast their location once per minute.
You're right. I get asked regularly about exercise plans from people who don't exercise at all. My response is always, 'don't over think it'. Just start doing something. All this focus on elite athletes lets people procrastinate by looking for their perfect plan.
My trick was searching +"index of" on Google or something like that, I could find all sorts of books that way. What were your tricks?
The result sounds similar to what happens in some places in the U.S., where you'll find a reseller or two that offer the same service as a major ISP with a better rate plan. Such is the case here in Louisville, Kentucky. IgLou resells AT&T. They don't play the promotion game, and their plans are better. While AT&T's fiber plans feature asymmetric speeds, IgLou offers the same up and down on every plan. They've changed their published prices recently, but I'm still paying the same price I did when I signed up. They don't offer the plan I have anymore, and I didn't even know it until I went looking for prices considering an upgrade, because they also don't call and bother you every year or 6 months trying to get you to buy more schlock you don't know. It's great to get AT&T's network without having to deal with AT&T. More places should be like that.
Control would be doing 10 minutes of low intensity.
For someone wanting to get into "making",is there a good set of starter resources like this?

Software I'm comfortable with, but I'm not really familiar with all of the physical components or how to put them together, when you might use each, etc...
Startup studios that created billions in value
Bending Spoons -> Spooners
That's interesting. I recently moved to Norway, and first had BankID on mobile, which used GSM level encryption to verify. They're deprecating that now for a regular BankID app. But even though it's supported, I don't think you can get the hardware fobs any more
Exactly that. Tesla did about $53B in revenue in 2021, but they gained about $300B in market cap (going by guesstimates based on https://companiesmarketcap.com/tesla/marketcap/).

A company and its owners doesn't get wealthy from revenue or sales, but from pumping up their stock. For some reason, investors love both layoffs AND headcount increases.
> LastPass is one of only a handful of products that truly works

“Truly works” except for the one critical feature that is the sole reason people use it. It does not keep your passwords safe.

Doesn’t matter how nice their Windows app is, or how smooth the animations on iOS are, or how well it’s browser plugins work.

It fails at its only real task, safely storing your credentials.
At this point, I wouldn't trust anyone who claims they haven't been breached.
I don't know, I'm imagining reading this to my two year old and using the words like "layer" seems pointlessly complicated. The story seems too silly for a child with better vocabulary. I could be off.
Raising the Next Generation of AI Leaders: Tips for Parents
C++ was never a role model, neither for Oberon nor for Oberon-2. Wirth was always opposed to C++ and Mössenböck worked in his group. The official goal for Oberon-2 was "to make object-oriented proramming easier without sacrifiicing the conceptual simplicity of Oberon" (from ETH INF Report 160, 1991). Wirth himself was involved when Apple designed Clascal and Object Pascal, and even though you see a different solution to OO in both Oberon and Oberon-2; the latter introduced the receiver syntax for its type-bound procedures, which you can also find in Go (not surprisingly since Mössenböck was the PhD supervisor of Griesemer).
Eww :) Pun intended!

By the way, has anyone used the eaf-browser? I use the other eaf applications like PDF viewer, but for some reason, the eaf-browser seems to eat up a lot of resources.
I personally hate it and want the CSS back.
Thank you very much for your quick answer! Will study this!
The problem is basically that it wasn’t a priority for application developers but you need to upgrade things everywhere before you can switch to a new protocol. Those clunky MFA options give CIOs the appealing promise that a bit of duct tape means they get some protection without needing to e.g. replace that old RADIUS server most people depend on to do their jobs.

It might be interesting to look at WebAuthn passkeys, as they do most of what you want. That took several important developments: the web ate desktop apps, Microsoft lost control of the web, and Google has some strong security people in their management. That does the public key exchange, has robust cross-device support which doesn’t require an internet connection, etc. and it has some features to improve the identity situation (e.g. it includes a device key & authentication info so my bank can say it only accepts transfer requests which came from a known device doing a biometric check, which is a nice edge over x509/SSH-style trust based solely on access to the private key).

This unfortunately does not work using other protocols but a not-uncommon flow would be using a browser session to issue your IMAP client a token. That’s not great (a compromise gives the attacker your email) but it can be less disastrous if the most important actions can’t be initiated purely from email.
What? Amazon has more than 1.5M employees... its like the first thing you can see by googling amazon number of employees.

We can disagree on the interpretations but let's at least agree on the numbers. I will not accuse you of being neither misinformed nor in bad faith if you rectify your comment as to not spread misinformation :)

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/number...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)
Hear hear! But be sure to avoid overly mossy handles as the oils built up over the years lower the heat dissipation capable via the handle and is a better electric conductor -- not a good thing if you are wanting to channel lightning at places other than yourself.
I hope it will stay this way for you. Still, the project has a ton of open issues and bugs, which haven't been addressed in months or years. You will encounter them sooner or later, if you use it for longer periods of time.
They only went up due to covid and online working.

Point is, the time to replace computers every two years has gone by, and even smartphones are on that point (most countries aren't that much into 2 year replacement phone contracts).

I doubt very much that most consumers will bother to buy new computers to replace their Windows 8.x and 10 installations.

They will keep using what they have, even without updates, until they eventually break down beyond having the local PC store repair them, and then they will buy a new computer.

Same applies to everyone using smartphones on pre-paid cards.
> Everyone is one health crisis away from death, no matter how much wealth they have.

Weirdly though, the number of health crisis that will lead to death are fewer the more wealth you have.
So if there were a genius painter that learned various artistic styles on sight you would say that their work had no value?

I think you might be in trouble there, a number of savants have been known throughout history who have been able to learn various things with no instruction and simply by hearing or seeing a work done by someone else have been able to recreate it or produce something in their style.
That's the thing - the company's not even doing layoffs
I actually think there's a bit of a split at the elite level.

Eliud Kipchoge, WR in marathon, seems to only be doing one hard faster than race pace workout each week. Call that the HIT. The others are slow or race pace. What actually stands out most to me is the specificity of running close to a race pace marathon every week.
https://www.sweatelite.co/eliud-kipchoge-a-typical-week-of-t...

Then on the other end of the spectrum, the Ingebrigsten family of runners seems to put an emphasis on quality. But even though they do more faster running they keep a lid on the intensity to avoid training to exhaustion. It actually reminds me more of the "Grease the Groove" concept where the faster running may be more for neurological reasons.
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/culture-running...

Anyway, neither of these two training models seem to have much in common with HIT. The bulk of the workouts are easy intensity and they are both seemingly ware of the dangers of high intensity. That's where injuries come from and so there can't be too much of it.
> All that to play a 20 year old game. Maybe I'm being thick and that's the joke?

It's the remaster, not the original.
"Leaders" are good at one thing: communicating in a palatable way to other leaders. It's a skill, and it is useful to an extent, but it isn't worth the "2x-10x pay because boss has to be paid more than reports"
> Let's say I'm a bank, how do I know that my APIs don't allow the unintentional creation of money?

How do you know now?

> Presumably because the engineers designed the system to prevent that.

How do you know the engineers understood the invariants? How do you know they didn't make a mistake in coding these invariants? Banks still don't use formal methods to prove these invariants last I checked, so no matter what, you need to write tests to check any invariants, and tests still can't achieve 100% certainty.

> I'm talking about designing for simplicity so that the behavior of the system can be reliably predicted.

From the page, it sounds like the system is fairly predictable, generating a program based on a schema and a descriptive method name. If it's not predictable then the model needs to be tuned to make it more predictable, just like how any other software development advances.

If you can design your schema to ensure any invariants are preserved, even better.

Finally, don't confuse the first preview version of the product with where this is going. The project as it is is fairly simple and predictable, but a bit limited. It does point the direction towards what is possible though.

You could also have separate AI trained to do fuzz testing of an API description and automatically and instantly generate thousands of tests checking all possible corner cases, and in principle, such systems could be even more robust than human written ones simply because of the breadth of testing and the number of iterations you can rapidly go through to converge on a final product.
One thing I've found is "forgot password" is typically far, far faster/easier than hunting around trying to figure out how to change a password.
> Why cut 16% of a thing?

16% is approximately equal to one-sixth, expressed as a fraction.
This is the one ..

Saberhagen knew of Donald Michie's [1] MENACE [2] .. and this linked article tells of matchbox driven noughts and crosses engines and other variations for similarly simple games.

This was recently broadcast with discussion on the UK panel show QI (Quite Interesting) which may point to why this has hit the HN zeitgeist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Michie

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...
https://archive.is/0JbTu
They never attach it to the monitoring because monitoring systems usually generate a lot of correct positives which affect their published SLA.

Works equally well. See the point?
Thuis reminders me of the opposite approach Mark Forster takes boy prioritising in the resistance a task creates
http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2022/6/14/resistance...
It only does a fraction of what Nextcloud does: Files and (optionally) Cloud Office (via Collabora). These two functions work very well. Reliable, fast and at a fraction of the ressource usage compared to Nextcloud. I hope OCIS will open up to Plugins/Apps like Nextcloud, so we can get Groupware and other Apps on it as well.
> This is also why I can’t imagine ever using Plaid/Mint/etc that require my bank credentials just to do minor stuff like make payments or read transactions.

That's the fault of banks. We need open banking, with APIs using OAuth or similar with scopes or some way for per-action/item access.
Jaguar is unrelated to Bulldozer.
For photos, you can check out the r/sffpc. In general, the SFF cabling depends on the amount of effort the builder's willing to take. In a similarly sized and laid out Geeek A50+, my cabling is a total mess.
> they did sprint intervals here

Cycling sprints, on exercise bike.
"If you have to eat crow, best to do so while it is warm."
In general they seem to match (I just checked a random product from amazon.com, B08VD5JZJD), and get the same product when opening /dp/B08VD5JZJD on german amazon, france, japan, spain and UK.

Has this perhaps changed over time, are there older ASINs which are different between regions, but new ones refer to the same product everywhere?
> statistically reasonable

It's so great that "reasonable" is the word used to emphasize it's not actually reasoning.