skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking about base salary. Zipline has been very proactive about making adjustments to stay fair and competitive, and I have only positive things to say. Regarding total compensation, yes Zipline equity is riskier than Google stock grants. I'm not going to share details, but so far it's trending favorably.

I've never worried about compensation details so much, and instead tried to find projects with interesting technical problems that bring intrinsic value to humanity, and a company of people worth spending my life with. My first job out of school, my salary was 40k below other offers I had. It just seemed like the best use of my time and energy. In time it brought me what I can only describe as an embarrassment of riches. My coworkers on the self driving car project at Google were perhaps the most brilliant people I've ever met. To paraphrase Zipline's CEO, they want employees doing the best work of their lives, and it's a marathon rather than a sprint. I have countless examples of the company, its employees, and its management going above and beyond. We're literally saving lives, too.
The combination of a YouTuber and a legendary CPU architect is surprising.
> I use Firefox. Windows 7 was out 2 years before the iPad 2 and the latest Firefox supports it.

Microsoft doesn't even support Windows 7 anymore. I wouldn't recommend anyone use an OS that isn't getting security updates.

> But my counter question would rather be: why don't Apple let people write alternative OSes for its hardware then? You can install an up-to-date Linux distribution on computers from the 90s. The iPad is a popular product, I'm sure there would be enough people interested in building a Linux-based OS for it.

I'm not sure if Apple is lifting a finger to help, but https://asahilinux.org is a thing.

I'm less than convinced Linux people want to bother, in large numbers, to install Linux on devices that were insanely RAM-constrained until only very recently, when Apple started putting M1 and M2 chips in its iPads. For all I know, there are additional patent minefields around implementing Linux drivers for iPads' hardware.

The only other thing that I can think of that would incentivize them to actively block alternate-OS development is security. If someone else can install a backdoor host OS and then stick iOS on top of it before selling the phone to you, that's a way to compromise a Real Computer that usually isn't possible with an iOS device.

> The problem is that perfectly good hardware is just getting disposed of instead. An heresy, from an environmental standpoint.

Apple will _happily_ buy old iPads for a pittance (or $0.00) and reuse the gold and aluminum and whatnot in it. Because of that, I'm not quite as moved by the anti-e-waste arguments that pop up in discussions of rapidly-advancing hardware. That said, an iPad 2, which pre-dates Retina support on iPads, is going to be slow and RAM-constrained, and anyone who decides to support hardware that old ten years later is going to be in for a world of hurt.

As an aside, one of the ways in which Apple actually helps its developers is by dropping iOS/iPadOS/watchOS support for old, slower hardware, basically giving developers license to require newer versions of the operating system and/or newer hardware models for newer versions of their apps. I listen to <https://www.relay.fm/radar>, and the sighs of relief that David Smith, the watch-app guy, breathes when the old slow watch model gets phased out are palpable even at 1.3x speed.
Not even previous gen any more. They just get interiors that aren’t quite as nice (more plastic).
Other random facts...

Even without the Norman invasion, the British Royal family would be descendent from Norsemen through Godwinson's mother, daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard, grandchild of Harold Bluetooth (King of Denmark/Norway and inventor of frustrating wireless protocols).

After 1066, England was pretty awful for the Anglo-Saxon warriors/noblemen, a good number of them also fecked off to Byzantium and joined the Varangian guard like Vikings before them. They also created settlements in what is now Ukraine.
If you drive around in a city. You have no need for a big battery. It's dead weight and you pay for it in the form of more electricity cost. If you don't own but lease the battery and can swap it at will at one of NIO's swapping stations, you just do that before a long journey. Battery longevity is a concern for NIO, not for you.

BTW. EVs are not like phones and laptops. Modern ones have batteries that likely outlive the vehicle. A full charging cycle is good for 200-300 miles. 3000 cycles times 300 is 900000 miles. Mostly other things in the car will break before you reach that point. Depending on the battery type, you get at least 1000-1500 cycles and more in some cases. Even a modest 450000 miles is pretty decent for cars. Most ICE vehicles go to scrap yard long before that.
There is an demo example that someone released recently of machine learning used to mimic ray tracing.
https://immortal-ray.itch.io/ai-path-tracing-tech-demo
1x brighter is an oxymoron, it cannot be 1x as bright and also be described as brighter. 1x as bright means same brightness.

#x implies multiplication (from the mathematical notation of multiplication, ×, which looks like the letter X). 1×a = a.
Labor Board Curbs Gag Rules in Severance Agreements
Please don't spam crypto shitcoins here.
> Not sure if these kids used a markdown file for a page

This would be an exponentially more difficult task than a simple HTML page to design. If that was the case, I would award them myself!
Some diagrams use the same or very similar syntax, but I think most vary at least a little. PlantUML also supports a number of more esoteric diagrams than Mermaid, though Mermaid supports enough for most people (flow, class, state, sequence, entity, etc).

All said, I saw a recent comparison between the two where they do overlap, and they have very very similar expressive capabilities. One rendered a little better than the other in some diagrams, then vice versa for others.

But I'd say Mermaid being built directly into so many markdown apps now--and not requiring a client/server architecture (or a .jar file)--probably nudges me in its direction.
Companies can no longer silence laid-off employees in exchange for severance
I can't speak for all participants of these meetings and I haven't kept an exact count of the problems I solved but I believe I must have solved somewhere between 160 to 200 problems from the exercises in the book. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34908191 for more details on this topic.
Maybe visually. Not practical
That's just for hardware. Chemicals, electricity, factory space, and employees to run then probably multiplies that a few times over at least.
Despite what you think, a happy worker is a productive worker. Also people tend to look for meaning and purpose in their day to day job.
Naturally they're going to be upset, when they're asked to do something that does not help them do the job, inconveniences their lives outside work and contradictorily goes against a fundamental principle of working, being productive.
It's always an emigrant giving their warped perspective on how things are when they lived here years ago as a teen. The stats don't lie, but to state "Paramilitary groups, "Massive organized criminal organisations" is beyond exaggeration. South Africa (as the 31st biggest economy) has a lot of problems, but things are slowly getting better despite the wealth inequality and corruption.
I wouldn’t dare make such a claim. I certainly have my doubts about whether to rank those higher than PCR and RNA vaccines, for example. I would guess those having higher “R”, but wouldn’t know how to quantify their “I”.
CodeJam is practically just an extended version of algorithm/data struct class.
It's not cool living under an apartheid regime. Even if you are the beneficiary of it.

Source: white South African born in the 70s (with strong Jewish lineage).
>The Debug Probe adds on SWD and has a separate port for that, so it competes also with SWD devices like this knock-off of the SEGGER J-Link BASE Debugger, which costs $500!

I think a better comparison would be something like CMSIS-DAP (which also gives you JTAG)

https://www.l-tek.com/web-shop/cmsis-dap-debug-probe/
The actual construction of the fab will be far more important than all of this.
Hopefully it's better than the VO2 max sensor, which seems to be really inaccurate.
It's also supported in GitLab [0] Azure DevOps [1] and lots of other places [2]

[0] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html#mermaid

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/project/wiki/...

[2] https://mermaid.js.org/ecosystem/integrations.html
That Twitter thread is absolutely bonkers. Someone doesn't know what they're talking about.
>couldn't always be solved by power cycling the vehicle.

From experience, I've found that turning a car off is akin to putting a computer to sleep. If the state is fubar, no amount of turning the car on and off will fix it.

The only proper way to "power cycle" a car is to momentarily disconnect the car battery (remember to turn the car off first) so all power to the computers are physically cut off and they /have/ to start from a cold boot next time you turn the car on.
Some earlier possibly-informed speculation from SJvN at The Register a month back:

<https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/27/google_open_source/>

Steven's been around the community a long time and is pretty well connected, so may know more than he'd stated explicitly in that piece.
If blue spheres and red spheres both explode, but blue spheres explode 25% more often. Would you hypothesise, discuss and test whether or not it might be it's essential blueness or would you prefer to avoid the most obvious difference and shy away from discussing it? Does that sound reasonable to you? If it is blueness, you will arrive at an answer much faster if you're allowed to investigate and talk about that. Perhaps then they can explode with the same frequency.
You return a different result (i.e. the Promise resolves to a different result). The calling code can then decide what to do with it.
Just assign passwords.
I'm fine with the police personally not being liable as long as they believe they are acting according to the law.

But where they make a mistake, the police department should be paying any compensation for places their behaviour falls short of the actual law.
‘I feel like I won the lottery: I have been cured of two incurable diseases’
At least a thousan here.

Palo Alto Park Mutual Water Company, deserving about 600 houses, in the middle of the Silicon Valley. Water is not potable.

I have an extensive filtration system for making it potable. It is expensive, but the convenience is worth it as I can afford it. My neighbor has to go out refill 18L jugs for his drinking supply.
This is quite interesting. I suppose this is what scale.ai or any of the other "data labeling" startups (even Snorket.ai), etc do.

Anyone know if OpenAI, etc do anything here ?
You can compare at https://text-to-diagram.com (disclaimer: i made it, but it's all open-source, the maintainers of mermaid have contributed to it).
This and small time fraud does not even make it to a police report..
HD-DVD supported H.264 and VC-1 (and MPEG2). Initially there were plenty of VC-1 and MPEG2 releases on Blu-ray as well. HD-DVD simply died before the universal shift to H.264. There was however a difference in max. bitrate (~40 Mbit/s for Blu-ray, ~30 Mbit/s for HD-DVD)

The differences between the two standard were more interesting when it came to sound formats. HD-DVD had mandatory support for Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD (allowing the audio on a disc to use these without a fallback). Blu-ray on the other hand supported a higher max. bitrate for DTS-HD Master Audio.
Millions of novels you won't like already exists. And most of them already don't earn any money. The biggest job for anyone who needs to earn money from their writing is publicising it, not writing it, unless you get accepted by a traditional publisher and they think they have a bestseller on their hands.
It’s mind blowing you can buy this on Alibaba. I love it.
This is where ACAB rhetoric comes into play. This is why cops aren't welcome at LGBT parades. People will debate, "oh, but what if a cop happens to live in a state that made gay marriage illegal again? And then they're told to arrest people that got publicly married at an LGBT rally? Shouldn't they 'just follow orders' rather than be held responsible for determining the constitutionality of a state re-banning gay marriage?"

Isn't that such an interestingly insane question? Qualified immunity lets people walk around unironically debating whether "just following orders" should be a valid thing that cops get away with doing.

As for the cop that "just follows orders" and arrests a newlywed gay couple in 2023 (an entirely feasible thing considering what's happening with women seeking healthcare in Texas), is that a Good Cop, or a Bad Cop?
Try driving on non major roads (and some major) roads in the UK. They often have no markings because they've worn away!
The comparison with the Segger J-Link is not entirely fair if you use a fake J-Link instead of the real one. It is an expensive product but the value also sits in the included software and excellent support. In a professional setting it is definitely worth the money.
Wow I finally find what migadu is using for its webmail, thanks !
there's also D2 https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/ which is worth exploring.

if anyone wants to try out mermaid in their own .md knowledge base we've built a smooth editor experience in https://acreom.com (no account required).
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/11/21288572/volkswagen-id3-e... + general search for "software id3" shows that issues plague this car to this day.

Diess lost his job because of that: https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/26/from_beetles_to_bugs_....
I think there are multiple practical ways to mitigate this issue. Blue light filtering adhesive tape could be a viable solution in some cases. You can buy those UV filtering adhesive sheets for your window for protecting your precious light sensitive knick-knacks, but I don't know if they filter the spectrum between 450 and 480 nm though.

In other cases another helpful tool would be a portable light sprectrum analyser, with which you can simply weed out the bad lights before you buy them, or return them immediately after buying in case you can't test them before hand.

Then the blue light filtering function in devices is probably the most accessible self-defense mechanism for the average consumer in most cases.

Or just go to bed when the sun goes down or change your job/shift. Behavioral adjustments, they cost nothing except some brain energy.

As a last resort melatonin supplements come to mind. In combination with Vitamin D supplements for the winter time, they don't seem that bad. Even though I've heard that you will have trouble falling asleep if you stop taking melatonin.

Or perhaps... use incandescent lights! They still produce less CO2 than lanterns and they don't stink. Also they are almost as convenient as LEDs. And you can still get them from some sources.

The solution I would prefer is for manufacturers to just build safer products and speaking from experience government regulation is the only sure way to get the manufacturers to actually commit to it. Marketing wank doesn't work because people can't test it and there's too many factors that play into sleep quality and (decades later) cancer, so the manufacturers cannot be held responsible for the effect. They can only be held responsible if their products fail measurable tests, like how much blue light they actually emit.
"Even Sumerians complained about the young" sounds like an urban legend but it is not, there's a historical record of a scribe from Ur complaining about his ungrateful son, loitering about public squares rather than dutifully training to become a scribe:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001112875700300...
This comment reveals another problem - if a person is not interested in networking for the sake of it, they're slapped with the "anti-social" or "personality disorder" labels.

Anecdotally, some of the best engineers I've worked with despise the networking culture and prefer to keep to themselves, while some of the most "social" and "networking" people were grifters who didn't have much skill, but knew how to appear like they do.
I wonder how much patent licensing from ASML, Applied Materials, and Lam Research contribute to the cost even if you want to have a go at it alone.
previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34866808
Sure. They, like almost every other company like that, has my fake email. Usually I use temp@yahoo.com.

Oh...wait...do some people actually use their real email addresses???
> With shared memory in particular, the issue gets tricky around signalling and locking aka indicating to other processes when new info is available, and when another process is accessing the data.

POSIX has mutex and condition variable, is this not enough to do those things?
Nope, they learned that stupid rules are there to be broken, just you have to be aware of the consequences and be prepared to fight and sometimes lose.
>If Kurt is willing to (gracefully, as you said) crush someone's side project over a rude tweet, why should Fly be trusted with a potential business?

To clarify, when I said "gracefully," I meant "exit within a grace period," as opposed to "delete an account with zero notice."

And I don't read the exchange as Kurt crushing anyone's project as much as telling them to go elsewhere on their own if they won't meet Fly's expectations for professional conduct.

But I do think the fact that it's a side project makes it a more minor issue. It would be higher-stakes if someone had built their business' entire infrastructure on Fly and then Kurt asked them to leave. I'm assuming a principal engineer at Microsoft isn't putting anything serious on Fly, so it seems like the stakes were just a couple hours of Alex's time to migrate.

>Would you trust running any servers required for TinyPilot on Fly.io after that exchange, running the risk that if Kurt doesn't like one of your tweets, he (gracefully) will ask you to move to a new platform?

TinyPilot's critical servers actually do run on Fly.

The exchange doesn't make me nervous because I don't harass my critical vendors, especially not in public. I have vendors that I critique, but I try to do it professionally and respectfully. I think if I behave unprofessionally toward my vendors, then they're within their rights to drop me as a client.

Again, I'm assuming that what Alex deleted was something inappropriate. It sounds like your memory was that Alex said something benign. If Alex truly was critiquing Fly respectfully and Kurt responded by asking him to leave the platform, that would give me pause, but I'm not seeing evidence that was the case.
Have you lived in Germany? I would only consider going to the US for substantially higher pay. Also there are 80 million Germans, many of whom are fairly well educated and would like to work for Mercedes in Stuttgart.
Yeah it's "beta", but I've been using it for years at this point.

That warning has been there for a while -- I don't think it's accurate at this point -- You can use SQLite or other DBs to hold your IMAP data:

https://maddy.email/reference/storage/imapsql/

https://maddy.email/reference/blob/fs/

https://maddy.email/reference/blob/s3/

I've used all three of these actually (over the years -- more recently I've moved a bunch of my imapsql workload to S3-compatible storage on Backblaze) and they work great.

If you're sending and receiving gobs and gobs of email maybe think twice, but for someone who is dipping their toes into self-hosting email maddy is one of the best choices out there.

As usual YMMV, and back things up, if they are important to you.
It's good that students learn this lesson now than later.

Right now they get to learn these lessons with no skin off their backs. They're kids, most of the stuff they do is of no consequence one way or another.

Once they enter the real world and the workforce, they get to learn these lessons with prices ranging from reprimands to terminations. Hardly a fun thing to go through.
Actually it's french. Therefore "Kaschee". Nix mit Käsch inne Täsch :-)

Similar thing with Budget. Up to this day my toenails roll up when I hear it pronounced like "Badd(dj/g)ätt" instead of "Bü(dj/g)ee".
EVE online also has mad scaling through time dilation
> OVERVIEW Applying leadership and 21st century skills, participants are required to design, build, and launch a website and present a given topic pertaining to technology.

I think if the purpose of the competition is to apply 21st century skills then they shouldn't ban 21st century tools.
I don't think you can learn your way to the cutting edge of science in a lifetime with project-based learning. In my experience it just takes too much time.
In New Zealand, the government subsidises up to 20 hours of Early Childhood Education (basically preschool/daycare). However, daycare providers usually only allow you to take 6 hours of subsidized daycare a day, and charge an excessive sum for the 7th-8th hours, essentially double dipping. Most people will pay the extra hours because they work ~8 hours a day and need daycare for all or most of it.

Basically the subsidy doesn't really help parents, it just goes to the daycare's pockets (and subsequently, their landlord if they don't own their property).
Probably used scaleform. It was used by many games. It was a massive headache for engine programmers. The thing really had very very poor performance... I think it was always heavily hacked so that it could run decently, both the actionscript side and the scaleform side. At least that's what a programmer did for a year to get something decent. I can't believe it could have ended up anywhere else with that tech. Still, it was amazing for artists.
Well thought and I can imagine this can be further differentiated. E.g. what is considered boundaries or limits in a declarative way also work as guardrails. So while it could be possible to hit actual limits on day one, there is often more than only two options to go on. Declarative for me often appears easier to find the correct one or to correctly know that that system is not designed to do that.

The other differentiation I think is worth on the following part, also which I'd liked a lot btw:

> move [the complexity] to other systems

which stemmed from:

> If you remove the ability to solve it in your build system the complexity will move to other systems.

I think it is even _more_ beneficial to consider that this does not start at the build system:

If you don't have and don't add the ability at development (make it a property of the project), the complexity will continue to _increase_ each time you move it into other systems after it (build, version control, CI, ... etc.).
Ontario has 10m people and most of us won't see the lane markings for the next few days in the middle of a 4 million metro area. Roads will be eminently driveable and some people will safely use a traditional cruise control.
Those are definitely included
May I ask, why are you still using Gmail then?

This is an honest question, in my opinion the only way to make Google more friendly with self-hosted mail servers is their users complaining about or leaving Gmail.
This is actually something that’s nice about Japan. The geography somewhat forces this sort of land use with urban areas and agriculture limited to the flat regions between the mountains. It’s clearly not an intentional choice since Japanese development policies will trample over anything feasible, but the mountains effectively protect themselves for the most part.
Just rent or sublease an old one. Clean room + water supply + waste processing facilities are not that uncommon. They have the most famous chip designer in living memory as their founder, finding a fab should be the least of their concerns.
Sci-fi magazine halts new submissions after a surge in AI-written stories