skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose there's always the approach of running the thing like a DB, as in you don't care about the representation of data being the same and liberally mark parts as "unused", compacting once in a while. But then the integrity check & delta update code of your distribution platform needs to understand that too.

You wouldn't even need Linux extensions for that. You just do it like ZIP (or multisession CD-R, whatever) and put a new directory at the end. Just don't ask about streaming.
Do you have a favorite dictionary for Fremdwörter?
The problem is gravity also affects particles with no mass
I would like to extract text from approximately 2000 PDF files (machine generated, not scanned) in which the layout can be different on a file basis. Some have normal paragraphs, others two columns and even three columns. All contain tables, but I am not interested in them. Do you know a good (semi-)automatic solution for this?
I'm for it if it puts a stop to punditry and cookie-cutter articles.
>> To call PT a communist organization is just another laughably stupid conspiracy theory.

> There are videos of Lula saying his plan is to literally implement socialism in Brazil

You know those are not the same thing right?
What I would like to highlight is that it's still quite an achievement to be able at all to authenticate users with dozens of different APIs. Could it be better? Sure. Could it be worse? So much. Just imagine everyone would be cooking completely there own thing, or there being fractions or competing "standards".
Domain fronting used to be quite effective at getting past SNI blocking. Extracting github.com out of a TLS packet is trivial but actually verifying the certificate requires compute power.

Major cloud providers have stopped making domain fronting an option (mostly because it was never supposed to happen anyway) but ISPs are never going to try to validate every single TLS certificate to see what traffic to block and what traffic to let through. The overhead would be enormous and people using custom certificate authorities (businesses and private persons) would get their communication blocked for no good reason.

It's also possible to get around SNI by using session resumption instead of doing a full handshake. 0-RTT TLS needs special attention because of replay attack risks, but it can speed up the network while at the same time avoiding SNI blocking once a session has been set up. QUIC offers a similar solution.

As far as I can tell, the tools normally used for traffic interception don't grow as fast as the tools for new communication. Support for certain protocols can take days to implement on the client side but weeks on the middlebox side, and that assumes your middleboxes get regular updates.

Worst case scenario, people just turn on a VPN to a place that doesn't block their apps and you lose all visibility of their network traffic. Implementing this stuff at scale isn't easy.
Belgian beer and frietjes are available in the Netherlands.
Why cant it turn off, mine blinds me during nighttime drive, its so bad i took out a jumper so it doesnt work anymore..
> Because that is how automotive industry works. This time BMW wants infotainment and a third party wins the contract (because it's the cheapest usually). For the next BMW car another company wins the contract. Everything is rebuilt from scratch.

Yeah, that's how the automotive industry works. For each car BMW will change the third parties manufacturing each piece and every model is completely rebuilt from scratch. They literally reinvent the wheels all the time.

You shoudn't read too much into the fact that you have a dozen or two of models listed under each version in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_iDrive because it's just a concidence that starting each time from scratch they arrived at the same thing.
Sometimes you have to ask yourself if that's a world you really want to live in.
How big is the backend bundle?
Controversially, I think we wait too much opportunity for charity on avoiding free riders.

Not everyone is equally intelligent. Not everyone is equally athletic. Not everyone is equally financially apt. Not everyone is equally generous. Not everyone is equally capable. Not everyone has enough resources for themselves, never-mind enough to share.

Free riders should be considered part of charitable activities. We should give freely to all, not just those humble enough to reject it.
That's different than vanderZwan's quoted description of what spontan means in the GP comment.
Tobacco companies have no problem killing their customers.

People dying is just the cost of doing business.
How it does not?

A few years ago Ive been purchasing 256GB for 40? or so USD
In the UK we have the term "free at the point of service."
This sound too much of a conspiracy.
As as South East Asia I think I can relate why Hollywood movies are less popular now.
Instead of feel entertained we feel tired bombarded by political messages that we can not connect to.
The Hollywood plot : a chosen one that always right is not appealing. There is no hard work to be better. Majority the viewer are hard working middle class that try to have a better life.
K-drama and Chinese Drama are hugely popular. Watch for fun crappy budget Chinese web movie are popular too.
As the last paragraph says: I would definitely try wood milk.
Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
Do you have any evidence of widespread U.S. threat actors?
Indeed.

I've yet to read "In Praise Of The Long New Yorker Article".
I could have written this myself. I'm currently going the scary "bootstrapped founder" route because at least the tool I'm paid to work on is something I care about and I can put a lot of my craftsmanship on.

But in general my long term goal is to go write mini Lisp interpreters in a cabin in the woods, and move away from the direction Big Tech is going.

I love computers, software, but I would not say I love technology anymore, nor I think that the Internet is a net benefit for humanity anymore. It's been quite hard to accept that my view of the tech world has turned upside down in no more than a couple years.
It's not just your stovetop, it's every non-high-end stove top with touch buttons. I move around a lot and stay in short term rentals. They all have stovetops that stop working if you spill a single drop of water on the controls. It's crazy.

I don't think it's anything to do with touch buttons being easier to clean. I think it's just that they are cheap.
Yep, my current favorites are Axum and Dioxus for web things (and some desktop apps too).
A person seemingly working for Twitter commented that the person making this claim deleted the tweet himself together with a bunch of other tweets. If he didn't, he should check authorized devices because that's what their data shows.

Considering the statement from Twitter and the fact that the user offers nothing other than a screenshot of the tweet before deletion, I would be hesitant on taking his word for it.
It's about mentality. Americans strive to attain the ideal of a "self-made man"; prizing work ethic and self-sufficiency. Germans (Europeans is too broad of a label) are okay with learning a trade and then doing their job consistently for the rest of their lives - that's why the employment conditions in Germany are tuned towards long-term, stable employment.
> If you travel to NRW

North Rhine-Westphalia? (Don't live in Germany, took me a while.)
Nutrition tip of the day: if someone is spending serious ad money to try to get you to eat or drink something, don’t. What ever it is. Don’t. It’s not going to be good for you

Once upon a time consumers were being encouraged to “drink radium water” https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec...

… as a species we have not become significantly smarter since then
You're really more upset at him for quoting a doctor who accidentally killed his own kid then fought to make backup cameras mandatory, than at the auto industry and regulators who fought against backup cameras for 15 years?

Just whose sensitive feelings are you trying to protect with such censorship, and why?

Did reading that upsetting quote ruin your day as much as backing over and killing your own kid would?

Some times you just have to upset people to affect change.

Do you also oppose quoting grieving parents to pass gun control laws too?

If you feel so strongly about it, then instead of just telling people to shut up, why not spend 15 years of your own life trying to pass a bill and enforce government regulations to prohibit quoting grieving parents -- maybe they'll name it after you.

>But while King and then-Senator Hillary Clinton got on board early, automobile maker resistance made sure that results came slow. King and Clinton introduced backover safety legislation in Congress and the Senate in 2005 and Congress enacted the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act in 2008 requiring federal transportation officials to write a regulation to correct vehicle rear visibility problems. President George Bush signed the bill into law. But the the bill languished, thanks to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

https://associationsnow.com/2018/05/advocacy-battle-behind-r...

>The Advocacy Battle Behind Rearview Cameras in Cars
Tragic "backover" accidents involving young children gave advocacy groups a reason to push for a law requiring the use of rearview cameras. This week, federal regulations will require the devices in every new car on the road—a decade after the law was passed.

>[...] “I’m a pediatrician, I baby-proof my house, I go out of my way to make sure children are safe and healthy,” Gulbransen said in a recent interview with WABC. “And it happened to me? OK, guess what? It can happen to anybody. So use my example. I own it, I took responsibility, here it is. Let’s channel our grief and get something productive done out of it.”

>[...] “It took a long time, and sadly, along that journey, we had more families joining us in our fight because they had lost their children while knowing there is this preventable technology,” Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, told the Los Angeles Times. “It’s heartbreaking.”
What exactly has it transformed? Nothing has fundamentally changed in biology, you still have to run western blots and give mice cancer. A great example of “math” solving biology is super resolution - which was just a dud.
What about pets? And injuries?

Wouldn't imagine a reversal killing most healthy adults, so the fatality rate isn't a great measure
You can get a lot of value doing const $ = document.querySelector, $$ = document.querySelectorAll;
Relevant from last month:

Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35253753
It is not about 'looking and pushing' the button.

It's about stateful UI.

physical layout of buttons is usually stateless - press button thing turns on, press it again it turns off.

You don't need to think in which menu you are, and where to press, while driving.
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my experience working with industrial manufacturing is that there is ALWAYS a push to cut costs and the SoC that runs your software is usually the first thing to get to the chopping block. Given it is extremely hard to gauge how well software will perform before it is actually built and the SoC is chosen way ahead of time it leads to bad performance

And from the other side, there is a big push to add more and more fluff to make the UI design sleek, you could make it performant if you used DOS-style interfaces but no product manager is going to allow that and making animations from scratch (vs using a platform like Android or browsers that has a ton of abstractions to create fancy UIs) is extremely costly
> This is a matter of familiarity

No it is not. Or at least not for everyone.

I have learned several languages more unfamiliar to me than Rust (pure functional, logic, stack-oriented,etc), but none has given me the difficulties Rust has. Also (only my sample of course, but there are no reliable stats) no-one I personally know who has gone through the Rust book has continued with Rust. The Rust Foundation hasn't made 'flattening the learning curve' one of its 2024 goals because people don't find Rust harder than other languages. Many just do.

A false universal doesn't become true through brute repetition.
Here’s an example from your daily life. Wetness. Wetness is an emergent property of a liquid. A single molecule is neither wet nor dry, but when you have many such molecules, they collectively behave in ways that exhibit new properties such as phase transitions.

Emergent properties are definitely a thing. The reason you’re hearing more about them is because we’re paying more attention to them in lots of domains, one of the most recent and date I say common around these here parts, being the study of “intelligence”.
“Aubrey, no!” screamed one TikToker, narrating the Wood Milk campaign video. “Why on earth are you getting in bed with ‘Got Milk?’ Nobody likes milk—like, literally nobody.”

Oh the bovinity

There's some OK analysis further in, though I think they overlook the impact of demographic changes, lactose intolerance, and some other factors. The main problem for US milk providers is that most milk sold in the US is not very good. Farmers like Holstein cows which give maximum yield but the milk is not very creamy. If you can get milk from Jersey cows it's like night and day - big gobs of cream floating in it, and you can appreciate how milk functions as food. Don't get me started on 2% milk, which should simply not exist.

As so often, profits are shrinking because an industry got greedy and took up the pursuit of the lowest common denominator instead of the highest common factor. See also: journalism.
I expect the person you're replying to is speculating rather than speaking from experience. People tend to opine a lot more on Teslas than other cars when they haven't driven them.
That the economic and political system didn't deliver for a large segment of people. They felt increasingly poorer and less secure. They were offered a big button by they government with a large '** you!' written on it, and they pressed it.
Like? I LOVE MILK
No, they did log a patent to do that but they never implemented tactile ridges etc. I guess the tech is not ready
That solves that one problem, but you still get the feedback only when you pressed it, you cannot feel where the button is without looking. I can blindly turn the AC on or off, adjust the fan speed, turn on the hazard lights and adjust the volume of the radio in my car, because it's all good old buttons and knobs. How is that supposed to work with a touch screen?
The phone and desktop OS user experience has now infected cars.

"We must change things otherwise our work is not visible."
> I briefly have to look at the console, find the button, and press it

Even if that’s the case, you can lightly drag your finger across a row of buttons, and remember that the button is the third one in without taking your eyes off the road.
At the point where the target audience is aware of your campaign and against it like that, it's pretty futile isn't it?

I can't see how you convince people to buy your milk by essentially arguing about it.
Yeah. The article is confused.

In its example deciding spontaneously is fine since you're not deciding what to decide but you're deciding that you will decide and then later you'll suddenly decide what to decide. The decision to decide was planned but the substance of the decision is yet to be decided.
There is plenty of room on a car's dashboard to separate the vital, tactile, muscle memory UI from the informative, visual, reconfigurable, and essentially optional UI.

Touchscreen craze is a suboptimal choice not out of some serious constraint.

What the article points at is just another manifestation of market arrangements (the relative power of manufacturers versus the information and power of consumers) that are slow to generate the counterwailing forces needed to correct course.

A decade of excess accidents here, a decade of screen addiction there and pretty soon you talk about serious negative impact.
if you make the UI software more performant the sourcing team just picks a cheaper SoC in order to cut costs. There is little incentive to bend your ass backwards to make performant software when cutting SoC costs doesn't come up on your team's KPIs for upper management
> The cloud and E2EE encryption of Telegram have already been audited by independent researchers.

Yes, and they all agree it's crap. Just look at this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6915741 (Feel free to ignore Moxie, but listen to tptacek). In addition, it doesn't even matter since (a) it's not turned on by default and (b) it can't be turned on for group chats.

That said, I agree that Durov probably is not closely collaborating with the Russian state.
I never got enough of this type myself, they were just random gigs between other types of project work.

IMHO, the IT industry as a whole has internalised wastefulness and accepted poor performance because there's an expectation that "CPU upgrades will fix it". Over five decades that was true, it's just that few organisations have adapted to the new reality of only ~20% uplifts in single-thread performance over the last decade or so.

In principle, there ought to be many more optimisation projects, but unfortunately they're still rare.
Sorry, this is the other on my list, but while it had the most oddities of all in terms of aftermath, looking deeper it was not commercial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandraydaan-2

I can't find it, but at the time Antrix Corporation (India's commercial space contractor) was reported as responsible for it. This appears to be incorrect. Which throws the base premise here somewhat out the window.

Thanks for prompting me to look into it again. The corrected stats for failed lunar landers would be:

Government: 2/26 (7.7%)
Commercial: 2/2 (100%)

Not nearly as odd, but worth tracking.
> For things that you do regularly the button should be optimized to not be in the middle of a cluster

I found that I was using the wheel warmer button way more than I through I would. It's located right in middle of a cluster on the central console, in an awkward place to look at (right next to my hips in a blind spot).

I devised a nice and cheap fix for this UI problem that wouldn't be applicable on a touch screen: I put a googly eye sticker on it.

Better tactile feedback, no loss of function, and more whimsy in my otherwise boring car.
it is due to diving demand and miscalculated orders, so it is indeed unintentional plunge.
Real milk is bad for you now? Talk about being influenced by propaganda.
Ironically, Samsung's recent SSD's were found to have some pretty severe problems with reliability.

From memory, there's a firmware fix for it though.
They will desperately double down on revenue/user instead of user growth.
And yet VW is going balls to the wall and just announced that the ID.7 will feature even more touchscreen integration, with removal of all physical shortcut buttons. They are literally insane. I know someone who is getting rid of their brand new MK8 golf over this, the controls are downright unusable. Every review of id3/4/5 mentions this as a major negative, yet VW just sticks their fingers in their ears and goes "lalalalalalalala can't hear you".
I didn't look at the reddit link but the full mailing list thread is more nuanced than that: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/579795DF.10502%40...
Maple syrup, (other) sugar(s).
> making them significantly less expensive than tactile controls

And a single point of failure.
Yeah, but if I make a mistake and drink too much water or do not eat before going in, waiting for the ending is just suffering.
You write:

> The company wasn't (usually) actively trying to screw them over

Why don’t they speak up to their employer who can then raise it with Google? Since you yourself say Google is T actively creating a terrible working environment, it stands to reason they would respond positively.
In regards to 2), it sounds a bit directionless to be proposing stuff people don't need? Isn't that more of a problem of selecting relevant problems to solve, and getting supervision on your ideas?
You didn't work at Google. You CONTRACTED for Google. There is a BIG difference. Whenever someone claims they worked a company, the implicit assumption is that they were a FTE. I bet if you would've told people that you contracted at Google, their reaction would certainly be different.
That's what's wonderful about Doom. The simplicity of what it does belies the effort put into achieving that on limited hardware.

When it come out it was mind blowing and I think it's a testament to what can be done when people actually care about the product.

I suspect the issue with software for consumer goods in general is a stake holder/project management one and not software engineering.

If the stake holder cares more about a tick list of features than how well the features work there's not much the engineer can do. In my experience stake holders are often much more interested in their burn down graphs and Gantt charts than in getting a really polished core which could later scale quickly with just config.

You need a product owner with real vision and understanding of what good looks like. It's almost a cliche now to reference Steve Jobs but he really did get that a few really excellent features are better than a laundry list of stuff that sucks.
FYI: You can actually deplete the ground temp over time, but drilling further down helps as does storing excess heat in summer to raise the temp below a bit (yay! free cooling!). There's a ton of research on this and these kinds of systems are very common in Europe. They go very well with floor/ceiling (i.e. radiant-based) heating systems as opposed to the more common air-based heating systems used in the US. It's also _way_ more energy efficient.
This is pretty silly. I think they should lean into the silliness even more. Pretty silly is the worst kind of silly. Give them names from D&D or something.

A level 7 gnome warlock with a ring of true sight and the wand of absolute freezing => Russia has hacked payroll and is encrypting your savings.

A level 4 half-orc paladin wielding the singing sword of ix => Iran has created a new chat bot that is data mining the entire world.

Then it will be very silly, a much better kind of silly.
automative main problem is the constant push to cut costs which leads to worse SoC being shipped. Aerospace profit margins are much higher (or don't matter for gov programs) so they don't need to cut costs that much on computer hardware

> management is much happier to get something less impressive but reliable.

^ this is accurate though. Management wants bells and whistles (animations) which are hard to build without abstraction layers
There's also 'Group Explorer' by Nathan Carter.

https://nathancarter.github.io/group-explorer/index.html

The book is also very nice.

edit: Oh right, that's linked from this page ...
Looking at the comments it seems like most are just out of touch with gen z (or whatever gen) as big milk is. Cow milk is for baby cows.
Ask HN: How do fairly experienced senior engineers learn?
Due to the rapid development of the industry, there are something you need to learn almost every year. Novices usually prefer learning through videos. As they gain more experience, they begin delving into the source code of other projects and reading some office doc, which is the phase I am currently in. But I still like to watch the instructional video when learning new techs, I also read office doc though. I have heard from some more experienced individuals that they only rely on office doc, but I somewhat skeptical. Will you watch those 'beginner instructional videos' when learning new? Or office doc is just enough.

Additionally, I've noticed that some users with high reputations on stackoverflow only answer questions and never asked questions. I wonder if these high-rank players no longer need help or are capable of solving all problems on their own?