skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess the work they're doing isn't what you'd expect. From their site -

> Majored Japanese Language at university currently working at a Japanese company as a Japanese translator in Turkey and also, at the same time, self-studying web development slowly as it is my dream to be a developer.

If they're working towards the dream many of us are blessed enough to be living right now, I have a hard time telling them to slow down. I admire that kind of work ethic, honestly.
It’s nice to see key accessories (in this case, the dock) and an acceptable amount of storage included by default.

I’ve always held off on impulse buying an iPad because my cart total starts creeping towards MacBook prices once accessories and storage are added.
I don't remember when it started getting worse, but if I do a guess, I'd say around 2018 sometime, which I'd also guess is when they started pushing more changes too.
The charging dock being a speaker is a nice gimmick. However, at $499... that's not the price Google needs in my mind, and it reminds me about the Pixel Watch; too little, too late.

You can get a basic iPad for $329, an iPad mini for $399, or a modern iPad for $449. The ecosystem of apps on Android is hardly tablet-optimized, and there's no option to add a keyboard or pencil later. Also, if you learn how to use an iPad, there's no risk of it being killed after the 1st generation (looking at you Pixel Slate - if you bought that thing, it's been five years waiting for this replacement).

Software support is another issue, with the average iPad getting at least 6 years of full upgrades followed by 1-2 years of just security updates; while the Pixel tablet promises only three new Android versions and 2 years of security updates afterwards. Considering my 5-year-old iPad is still widely used here, I think that lifecycle may be too short.
> By hunger I mean the raw chutzpah and energy to do something bold, or commit to going in a brand new direction

I haven't actually noticed a decline in that with age. But what I have noticed is that the more experienced a person is, the sooner they're likely to spot when a new direction is probably a dead end and avoid going that way in the first place. Less experienced people tend to have to actually walk in that direction for a while before realizing it's going nowhere.
I started collecting personal blogs on my site. You can find links here https://manuelmoreale.com/personal-blogs

At that point you can just go to the first entry and see if it’s something that’s of interest to you.

I also collected some 1000+ sites on https://theforest.link and I’d say a solid 80% are probably personal blogs.

So hopefully there’s at least a few of those firsts posts you’re talking about in there.
This is actually a spot on comment recalling the true startup/software mindset.

I miss the old days of building software just for the pure joy of hacking things together to create value, first for myself.

The physics of software/SaaS market became severely disturbed in the last decade by free marketing money pushing the most shiny products as wide as possible without making the technical side work first (Looking at you, Clickup).

We strongly need hackers to become motivated and concentrated again to build great new things. Far from FAANGs and far from GPT-is-the-answer theme.

Just two-three hackers working together late nights over shared pizzas on something smart.

Building is the answer. And even likely so in the current reality of failing corporate promises which will take us into 2024 or even 2025 easily. The new, adjusted financial forecasts for public companies are just being published (these won’t be nice) and we are still to reach the bottom in demand for software developers.

Let’s not waste this time and build something great.
The specs feel... underwhelming?

12 hours battery life? My Pixel 7 Pro gets a claimed 2+ days.

8GB RAM? Even if it's mostly unused, my Pixel 7 Pro has 12GB.

The display has a nice resolution, but the bezel around it is huge.

My Galaxy Tab S6 from 2019 has the same or better specs... and is thinner to boot.

It kind of feels like this was a tablet that should have arrived a few years ago.
Agree 100%: all of my cutting mats are now warped, covered in dried whatever, and rough-surfaced. Silicone is awesome.
I'm glad we had this productive exchange (and since this is the internet, I will explicitly state that I say this without sarcasm). I think you and I both agree with your point:

> I think the question should be how to improve the social mobility chances for those below the median

but we differ on the "how", as well as having a more (me) or less (you) optimistic view on the current state of things in the country.

Perhaps it's fair to say that you see income and wealth inequality as the proximate cause of what ails us, and an expanded role of government, funded through more progressive/redistributive taxation, as the best way to afford better chances for those most poorly off; whereas I see the worsening of the social fabric seen in the steep rise in single-parent households and increasing permissiveness towards behavior previously deemed sinful (such as drug use) as the proximate cause, and that bigger government will only ultimately hinder the ability of those most poorly off to help themselves.

You may be interested in Thomas Sowell's book, A Conflict of Visions, for a truly elegant analysis of this type of dichotomy.
In this case the extra request to the server (and associated response) to check if the file has been modified is several times larger than the minified size of the SVG inline. It's literally faster and fewer requests to inline it.
Amazon was doing stuff though? Like getting books delivered to people’s homes.
This is so embarrassing. How can they even attempt to exist after this?

This big question — who is paying to develop this terrible app and why? Do they know it’s terrible?
You're not directly wrong, but many who are against uber/softbank/capitalists would mix in an implicit assumption that the investor class use desperation as a tool to force short term beneficial actions despite long term consequences. You can make $100 today to afford an airbnb and a cheese burger, but you'll have lost money when the repair bill (or purchasing the next car) comes due.
I can live without food and flight entertainment if they fly me Europe to US for 400 euro or Europe to Japan for 600.
Makes me really happy that I recently subscribed to Nebula. I had YouTube Premium for a while but the experience kept getting worse. They removed email notifications, added more and more ads for "premium features" that I wasn't interested in and kept making offline downloads a pain (YouTube DL is usually a better experience). On top of that the recommendations are awful and search results have random unrelated ads for "recommended videos" inline with the thing I was actually searching for. At some point I felt mistreated enough and stopped my subscription.

Nebula is great. It feels like they are actually just trying to allow me to watch videos, no nonsense. I have found a few bugs and the support team is nice and responsive. I can't imagine what else I would want.
Just wanted to chime in and say thank you for sharing. If everyone was too ashamed of sharing past stupidness we would have no guideposts at all for gauging our own inevitable stupidness.
Why would I choose MySQL in any year? There is no context you can provide to this question where I wouldn't always choose Postgres.
That's a valid point, for subsequent loads in this case the inline svg is so small that when compared to the image tag it's replacing the difference is pretty small.

But the other side of this is cache latency, this depends on the caching policy defined in the http header, for example some modes require validating caches with the server which incurs a round trip even if it doesn't require always reloading the resource. If it's fully offline caching then as a sibling comment pointed out, disk caching is not free either, under some threshold (which definitely applies here) inline is going to be the fastest way to get an svg rendering.
US Price: $499
UK Price: £599

I get that technology companies don't just directly convert USD at the appropriate exchange rate, but this is ridiculous. Especially as the conversion rate they used on the Pixel Fold is 1 USD = 1 GBP.
Good points - LLMs are ok at finding things that exist, but they have zero ability to abstract and find what is missing (actually, probably negative; they'd likely hallucinate and fill in the gaps).

Which makes me wonder if the opposite, but more laborious approach might work - request it identify all characters and plot themes, then request summaries of each. You'd have to review the summaries for holes. Lotsa work, but still maybe quicker than re-reading everything yourself?
“We could have some kind of utopia where any kind of music you could imagine could be generated instantaneously—if you want to hear Lithuanian Metallica music, you’re going to just press a button,” Everett says. “But at the same time, if you have access to that, what does that mean for art?”

It means that recorded music loses almost all value.

It doesn’t affect live music at all. People are still going to see other people play bluegrass, rock and rock, and classical orchestral music.

It’s the end of the record industry, but not the end of records being made in traditional manners.

I’m not sure that I see what the problem is.
goes -> will go ... in june
"I am not from the US and I didn't downvote, but my understanding is that your congress needs to approve spending twice: first they vote for laws that require a budget to implement, and then later when the money is actually needed "

Sort of. The debt ceiling is not required by the U.S. constitution, so congress doesn't need to do things this way, the process could be changed by an act of congress. The debt ceiling was first established by law in 1917.
Macro lens + focus stacking according to https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/About

Which links to https://amateurphotographer.com/technique/macro_photography/...

And that further elaborates (in the Barry Webb section): "a Micro Four Thirds system with a 60mm macro lens [...] also often use between one and three extension tubes and, on occasions, a Raynox close-up lens" (plus a whole lot more info.)
> It's basically an inefficient, but effective way to siphon money from the poor and middle class and deposit it into the bank accounts of the wealthy by utilizing the equity the poor and middle class have in their vehicles.

if you're a thinking like a system, then yes,

> No, it's a way I can get a safe and reliable ride anywhere in the world, without getting scammed by a local taxi (not just Uber, but Lyft, Ola, Bolt etc.)

if you're thinking like a human individual, then yes.

I agree with you both and I told you why
But then that becomes a site owner editorial decision rather than a fear of legal reprisals decision.
I confess when I was getting a tablet for the family, I was expecting I could find one in the google store. Shockingly, there were no options at the time. And, I now confess that I'm not clear I would want to go with their option at this time. I can't bring myself to think this will have a good lifecycle of support. :(
Exactly, it's not unheard of for police officers to make up to 300k a year, including overtime, here in the bay area. Starting pay for many "regular" jobs is well over 6 figures here
If you subtract $8320/year from a big tech salary, I'd wager you'll still find yourself quite handsomely compensated.
Biggest benefit for me personally is the random interactions with people across the world that write in after they read something on my site.

Being able to exchange thoughts and ideas with different people is priceless.
How would you compare the overhead of writing tests un JS to the overhead of doing proper TS?

Obviously tests are still useful in TS, but not as many I think. Also, the feedback loop of a static type system is, IME, much faster than with tests only.
See the Neighborhoods Internet Providers Excluded from Fast Internet
Spotify (Sweden): Spotify is a leading digital music service that provides access to millions of songs. It was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden.

SAP SE (Germany): SAP is a multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.

Nokia (Finland): Nokia is a multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics company, founded in 1865.

Adyen (Netherlands): Adyen is a global payment company that allows businesses to accept e-commerce, mobile, and point-of-sale payments.

Arm Holdings (UK): Arm Holdings is a leading technology provider of silicon IP and custom SoCs at the heart of billions of devices. Their architecture is key for computing, especially in mobile devices.

ASML Holding (Netherlands): ASML is a leading supplier of photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry.

Zalando (Germany): Zalando is a European e-commerce company based in Berlin. The company follows a platform approach, offering fashion and lifestyle products to customers in 17 European markets.

Klarna (Sweden): Klarna is a fintech company that provides buy-now-pay-later services, which simplify the payment process for consumers and merchants.

Revolut (UK): Revolut is a fintech company that offers banking services including a pre-paid debit card, currency exchange, cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer payments.

DeepMind (UK): Owned by Alphabet, the parent company of Google, DeepMind is a world leader in artificial intelligence research and its application for positive impact.
1. The log-replication method of upgrading can be performed using the built-in logical replication facilities as well as using external logical replication systems such as pglogical, Slony, Londiste, and Bucardo. Most of which have existed essentially forever.

2. Failovers of any database are not instant, but they are indeed quick! So let’s not claim that you can do an upgrade with zero downtime.

3. In-place upgrades are extremely fast and you can test the speed using a physical replica before hand, usually it’s a couple of seconds though the docs say minutes.

4. MySQLs major version being in the minor position is exactly the kind of “you should be sure you know what you’re doing but we won’t make it obvious” territory that I really despise.
But vaccine development can only be done with existing viruses circulating in humans. The mutations to the existing virus to test immunity escape are minimal and less risky. But mutating unknown animal/bat viruses to be transmissible towards humans to see how infectious it can possibly be only creates new risks, because if any of those viruses get out of the lab there will be no vaccine (since you can't test the effectiveness of a vaccine without circulation in humans) and to make matters worse the viruses are already predated towards humans!

SARS/MERS were easily contained because the virus needed to adapt and evolve before effectively spreading amongst humans. SARS2 was predated and highly infectious thus containment was impossible.

Also if this research was so essentially, why does EcoHealth still to this day refuse to share their research/data? You'd think that would be useful to have publicly funded research to help with the worst pandemic in 100 years, but I guess not! So why take the risks?
Ask HN: Where do people find part time consulting opportunities in ML?
What are the most successful avenues? I'm located in Toronto so not finding the in-person meetings to be too useful.
Yes, but it can be tens of thousands in many cases, and it does not cover many things that it should, insurance companies put deliberate effort into screwing people put of their claims.
or if you wanna be a much blunter in saying this:

because this society NEEDS that there exists poor people, essentially people unable to refuse a shitty job.
Thee days in a row!! Is this the result of all the job cuts?
Makes total and complete sense, and seems absolutely anti-ridiculous.

Group chats also work fine if we’re all using Messenger - group chats work just fine if we are all using Signal - it’s almost as if software works as expected if it’s being used as expected.

Mind blowing, I know.

There is no other major chat platform that offers interoperability with services the platform owner does not own.

(Messenger and Instagram just got some sort of interoperability, but since they are both Meta properties, it only helps prove my point.)

What’s beyond ridiculous is to expect a SEGA Genesis cartridge to just run, unmodified on an SNES, which is what you’re demanding, here.

Yeah, a group game of Super Mario Kart 64 works awesomely on an actual N64 with a real cartridge and four controllers - but hey, why doesn’t it work the same on my PS1?

Well, fuck Nintendo for not opening up their game to other platforms! They have awful business practices!

…

…now that’s ridiculous shit, and what you’re almost literally saying; word for word, just with different hardware and software.

(The PS1 doesn’t even have 4 controller ports out of the box, even if it could run N64 software unmodified. The PS1 also had its own exclusives and benefits, such as Final Fantasy 7. Both platforms had their advantages and disadvantages. The N64 was far more powerful, but was hampered by cartridges, whereas the PS1 used CD media and could store much more, but push far less polygons.)

Why on Earth would it be Nintendo’s responsibility to make sure Kart 64 plays great on a PS1?

Isn’t half the point of a first party software release (either Kart 64 or iMessage) to provide a reason for users/players to choose that platform instead of whichever alternative?

Should GarageBand/Logic or iMovie/Final Cut suddenly be ported to Windows or Linux as well?

At what point does the ridiculous demand for interoperability stop? What do you want, only one monopolistic set of hardware and software for everything?
I find PostgreSQL permission management quite convoluted. In MySQL it is simple to query for what grants a user has, but in PostgresSQL you need to write 100 lines of SQL to do the same... and you can't run \du and other commands without psql. Why couldn't they just come up with `SHOW` shortcuts that work in any SQL client?
Uber is getting people from point A to point B just as advertised
I used Rational Systems' 286 DOS extender a lot. It was a great boon to writing programs, because it would seg fault on a bad pointer access.
Yes that’s the biggest issue.

The other one is seald MITM, which they probably won’t know how to fix, IMO.
The 1954 film by David Lean is fantastic. Beautifully shot, great cast. Charles Laughton, John Mills Brenda de Banzie.
Which is a philosophical issue with crypto - the first cryptocurrencies were designed specifically to avoid government regulation.
If you have UEFI you can develop against the UEFI interface... its a more sophisticated OS than DOS on its own.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512
This is one thing that terrifies me. I'm sacrificing today to save for tomorrow while the masses are doing the opposite. And in a decade or 3 when I have assets they can out vote me and take it all back via taxes or rules that change the game

Some examples are like - I paid off my student debt by not going to coachella or doing optional things (that I observed others doing). They might get it cancelled for free. They got Coachella + Education, I only got Education. Rinse and repeat for all sorts of delayed gratification steps.
Many don't also
Maybe the policy should be rewritten then. If no content is allowed that violates any country's free speech restriction, then it probably means the site will remove criticism of the government of North Korea.
Does it make more sense to place a camera at each corner of the device for two cameras at anytime to feed the A.I. chip stereo vision? The single camera midpoint on the longer side forces a double think before docking the device like early USB plug.
Market competition and innovation in both ML and hardware has consistently driven down the price of AI in the past decade. You only have to look at where we are with capabilities today compared to ten years ago when CIFAR100 classifiers were the state of the art.

Barring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, these APIs will halve in price over the next year.
Easy: SQLite
Well, better late than never.

Many, many years ago when Android 2 was all the rage, Motorola has shipped Xoom tablet with Android 3. That Android version turned out to be a dead end, and the whole line of tablets went nowhere. Next Google's attempt at tablets was Nexus 7 device, which was actually great, esp 2013 version that still lays around somewhere in my office and sees occasional use. But then, Google kind of forgot tablets exist and ignored the category completely. It was left for Samsung and some obscure manufacturers making devices, running apps that are usually not really adapted to tablets. So maybe it is finally time to have nice tablets on Android with stock OS, and maybe a special category for apps adapted to tablets in Google Play.
Might be nothing. Just an accidental flag. Fingers crossed.

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/3791#issueco...

and

https://twitter.com/maciejmensfeld/status/165677067708781772...

Edit: more official news https://twitter.com/rubygems_status/status/16567751289807994...
Where is he saying that you can distribute the combined work? That would not only violate the GPL, it would also violate AFS's license...

The only thing he's saying that there is that he's not even 100% sure whether AFS module is a derived work or not (if it was, it would be a violation _just to distribute the module by itself_!). Go imagine what his opinion will be on someone distributing a kernel already almost pre-linked with ZFS.

Not that it matters, since he's not the license author not even the copyright holder these days...
I've been rich twice, now broke again. I can confirm purchase of ridiculous items, although in fairness of lot of high-end items do a better job at their given task, but it is absolutely an area of exponentially diminishing returns.
> YT users have two great options for paying for their access, dealing with ads or paying a subscription.

I wouldn't say it offers 2 great options. The ad-funded offering is a non-starter given the reality of its ad market. The paid option sounds great, but if the goal is to finance the creators you enjoy most, it doesn't work. The success of Nebula, plus several of YouTube's policy changes or lack thereof, imply that YouTube doesn't actually care, it's just driven by greed.
Aside from the software, I’d love a modern version of this laptop too. Sturdy keys with lots of travel, just the right screen size. Imagine a unibody built of this form factor, with modern SSD and RAM. The amount of battery one could fit in at that thickness would last you a week in a single charge.
OK, now you're moving from the realm of genuine curiosity and into the realm of victim blaming.

Before the collapse, FTX and crypto had a veneer of respectability. They had ads everywhere and the mainstream press treated them like legitimate financial investments.

The failure here isn't of the individuals who get suckered with crypto bullshit, it's a failure in our ability to regulate and tamp down that kind of crap. Shame on the press, government institutions, and of course tech sector VCs, for either shilling for, investing in, or looking the other way while these frauds were taking people to the cleaners.
I just watch from the Brave browser, built in ad-blocker
None of your listed reasons make a dent in explaining the massive salary differences between the US and EU.

There's a much simpler explanation: The EU simply doesn't have the capital. There are no pools of venture capitalists clustering hundreds of billions of dollars they can piss away on half-ass ideas.

It's as simple as that. They funding money simply doesn't exist.
is android usable these days or is it still "usable" in the way linux desktops are?
Back when it was $2 = £1 prices seemed to be converted at a 1 - 1 rate (and VAT was 17.5% then). This seems to be a long standing problem.