skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
O(n) for 1 million elements taking ten seconds is pretty long. What’s the constant factor?
It's great that they're aiming for this, but there's no reason to take them at their word until they actually ship something.

Also, considering that there are already multiple software vendors providing passkey hosting functionality, it seems a little late to start designing the "cross-device, and across passkey managers" part of this. If it's not in the standard already, what assurance does a user have that any of these third-party entities will implement it?
Oh, I happen to know the root cause on this one. Remember the Big Dig? It went so horrifically over budget, either the city or the state forced the MBTA to assume a large share of the debt. Since then, the MBTA has been hamstrung financially, leading to deferred maintenance, etc.
The square footage isn't the issue - it's the water+gas pipes along with windows and lighting. You'll need to do a floor by floor renovation of water+gas lines along with thinking about how to architect apartments in a way to get lighting.

All that is a significant investment in a city with very high labor prices (because most skilled trade types got priced out), so it might not be economical to do such a redesign at the moment.
I have lived in SF for close to a decade, and the only thing that has really changed is the amount of politically-charged media coverage the city receives.
Opinion != bias. If parent had said "I think this action was wrong because SCOTUS is corrupt/wrong", then sure. But reading "I think SCOTUS is corrupt/wrong because they've taken these actions" and from that concluding that the author dislikes SCOTUS isn't insight or a gotcha, it's just basic literal reading comprehension.
Your phone boots in 2.8 seconds? Mine is closer to 2.8 minutes.
My favorite thing on the TI SR-50 was to calculate 69! ... It was the largest number that the 2-digit exponent could hold and also the slowest calculation. I also discovered the 1 hidden digit of precision (13 digits) by subtracting know digits of pi away from the pi constant to reveal the invisible digit in scientific notation ...
Use a sorted index (e.g. Btree), and use those values to quickly find the start of the next page of results.

For good performance this also requires that your search criteria (if any) be compatible with this index.
Yes, but keep in mind that Starship is mostly going to be used for launching Starship satellites in the early years, and that is super valuable to SpaceX. Falcon 9 is super cheap and has a low marginal cost to SpaceX, but to launch the full sized Gen2 Starlink system would cost ~$100 billion extra if done on Falcon 9 vs Starship (and that’s just initial launch… the constellation would need refreshing on a 5-10 year basis), so Starship is worth about $100 billion to the Starlink program alone. Refueling will also be helpful for launching commercial satellites to geosynchronous orbit, for crewed missions like Dear Moon, etc.

This is why SpaceX doesn’t mind co-investing on Starship.
The actual cost is $7B or more but NASA isn't paying for it.
Qurnah Disaster (1855)
Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic, is absolutely approved in the US for weight loss. Ozempic is the trade name for the diabetes medication, Wegovy is the trade name for the weight loss medication. They are the exact same medication, in the same formulation.
>I mean if you can get 8 hours of solid uninterrupted coding, good job, but otherwise social interactions gonna happen.

I see these interactions as overhead related to work ("hey I need your help with $COMPLEX_PROBLEM" or chitchat waiting for a meeting to start), not a conduit for genuine friendship. They're (hopefully) cordial and pleasant, but almost completely work-related.

I don't use work time to discuss hobbies, music, or other interests at length. I do mention these things in passing, and if a coworker shares interests and wants to talk more, we sync up outside of work hours. Is this not the way most people operate?

> The on-site day is mostly planning, some gossip and whatever requires some bigger coordination, then rest of the week nobody bothers me.

That sounds like a pretty good balance if everyone is local. For more distributed teams needing 'virtual onsites', there are some interesting concept such as Gather

https://www.gather.town

https://sea.ign.com/ign-sea/174057/news/how-virtual-office-a...
How losing a private key is different from losing a password?

Memorable passwords should be either an exception (like master passwords) or a device-specific thing.

And private keys do not have to be locked to a HSM. If this really matters, private keys can also be memorized if they were derived by a KDF, using a seed phrase.
> Who cares about being interesting, I can go around outages in the network with a car where trains can't.

You, ostensibly[1]!

> You should be arguing for smaller cars not less of them.

I'd be more than happy to take both :-)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
IMHO, the world is going to become much more authoritarian. What else to do when you can no longer trust even audio or video of any scene; when anyone can create video of any politician saying anything they want? In response, laws, control, and enforcement will likely become very strict.
100% Disagree.

While dogs can ring positive for coerced, you want to make sure the search is as illegal as possible so that any evidence can be tossed, no evidence == no case. A dog can signal falsely for "drugs" but let's say they found $8000, that you have a receipt from the bank? While they will attempt civil forfeiture -- the dog was only for drugs - meaning no drugs found == better attempt to get that case thrown. Same for other medications, or any contraband.

For your DUI example, many a lawyer I talked too and in my university days every law/pre-law professor stated if that ever happened, they would always refuse because it does not present evidence easily - a few hours in a hospital lab means any test result then will be delayed, and lets say you were drunk, (something I don't condone) - you now have more time to sober up and the further test results will be farther from when the stop was done.

It is much easier to defeat a DUI Charge if there was no evidence at roadside that you were actually impaired. Even if your car is towed and you're billed high for the forced blood test and what not - it is still cheaper than a DUI charge which runs $15,000 nowadays, not including the future insurance waivers/SR-22/FR-44 probably required.

You have rights, it is much easier to win a case/have your case dismissed if there is proof the police violated your rights. Lawyers glee and prosecutors will drop cases where there is overt police rights violation.

I would say depending on the area, and on your race/skin color is more of a issue if you're being pulled over vs not consenting to a search because bias exists and LEO will try and try more - but with dashcams and such - that's changing, marginally. Though the video of the uber lawyer lately has been making the laps, to the point where that officer in question did get a promotion.
It will be interesting to see how the research in CSI Chester is going. Will it affect the employees situation in prisons, and can it help rehabilitation in atleast some small sense.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90794291/e2808be2808bwhat-a-penn...
Yeah, it's also for drinking, finding a husband, teaching you about variable interest rates, putting you in the social circles of people above your class and/or potential employers, and drinking.

I would (and have done so) take a HS grad who taught themselves to code as a hobby over a fresh CS grad 8 days a week. If you want to be an academic and get into certain fields of research, then yeah college is for you, but any profession where education matters does their own testing a certification because they too know that undergrad is a joke.

And to get out ahead of it, I graduated with two degrees, a 3.9 GPA, and no debt so I'm someone who has every reason to gas up college as totally worth it because I benefited from the faux prestige.
I've asked friends in HR & recruiting what their paint-points are and they claim to not have any; at least not any that could be solved with tech.

A couple of random thoughts:

1. You may just need to ask a slightly different question, or word your question(s) slightly differently. If you word the question in such a way as to come off as "what's a problem you are having that could be solved with tech" then you are not only soliciting the problem, you're asking them to at least partially imagine the solution. And your contact may not be equipped to do that, or may not want to invest the time/energy to do so. So really focus on decoupling the "tell me about what you do" part from "what would a solution be?"

2. If you have a contact who's in the right position to do this, and if you can spare the time, see if you can "shadow" somebody at work for a bit. Preferably multiple sessions spread out across multiple days. You may notice an obvious pain point that your friend wouldn't think to call out because they've already normalized the pain to the point that it doesn't register on their radar anymore.

3. Be wary of asking people who are actually personal friends (as opposed to mere acquaintances, or strangers). In some cases friends may hold back from saying certain things because they actually know you, respect your opinion, and fear embarrassment. In this regard a more distant contact might actually be better exactly because you're "just some stranger they'll probably never see again."

4. Related to all of the above, keep in mind the (probably apocryphal, but still useful) Henry Ford aphorism about "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have asked for a faster horse." Again, the customer can't always imagine the solution. Sometimes the onus is on you to generate a candidate solution to some problem, mock it up sufficiently for the customer to understand / appreciate it, and present it to them from a position of "If this solution existed, would you want to use it?"

5. I suggest reading The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank if you haven't already. The early chapters cover a lot of this ground in excruciating detail.
2% of Congress signed the letters.
Running with the billing address example... so to circumvent the ban, all one would need is a prepaid phone plan. Service addresses are collected for those, but they're basically unused and there's no incentive on the consumer end for them to be accurate.

Even on post-billed plans, getting the billing address from the mobile carrier to Google requires a degrees of cooperation that is not currently in place. Apple may have an easier time in the regard, but then again they're not likely to cooperate either.
The USA imprisons more people than any other country on the planet.

Don’t generalize that no one wants no prisons. Our prisons should not operate like Abu Ghraib. Why are drugs, weapons, sexual assault and violence occurring in what is supposedly secure facilities? Why are prisons allowing/encouraging tribalism along racial/ethnic lines? Why is rape and sexual slavery permitted?

Our tax dollars fund all of this.

Other industrialized nations have better training for law enforcement and much better prison systems, which don’t operate like hellholes.

They don’t promote a private prison industry which lobbies for longer sentences so that their firms get to bill the state and enrich their owners.
Always found Colemak to be much more programmer-friendly than Dvorak.

E.g. try typing ls -la on Dvorak.
yeah there is. put it to 1.5x or 2x with '>', turn on CC (or not) with 'c' and hit the vim key bindings. or i just do a manual binary search with the scroller.

did you also know that , and . will go frame by frame?
But if you're comparing to bubblesort.....
Re: Dangerous Metrics

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/DangerousMetri...

Another use case I have found is providing too many metrics can lead you to focus on metrics which are not important. Panicky ops people will chase spikes on a graph, which don't represent a real problem. It can be tough to talk them down off the ledge.
You mentioned some woman raising children without a car as if it somehow supported your point, I pointed out that somebody doing something in the past is not a proof of that being somehow superior or even acceptable now. Even in the present time millions live and raise children without running water and electricity, should we start arguing that Americans need to quit these too because they cannot imagine living without them?
Convergence of thread networks. Currently, you may have totally different thread networks and it causes confusion aside from just pure vendor lock-in

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/19/23269460/thread-1-3-0-mat...
Using transit to get to work will save you thousands of dollars spent on a car
There are lots of ways to structure it that don't involve an actual bank loan. It's very possible that the founder loaned the first tranche of shares to the trust and the trust is paying some amount of interest on that loan over time. Sometimes this is called seller financing.
Right, but again pointing this at most people on this forum, that answer is probably the same. Very few of us are in a situation where this can save seconds a year, much less seconds a month.

For the folks this could potentially save time, I'm curious if it is better than taking an alternative route. Would be delighted to see an analysis showing impact.

And again, kudos to the folks for possibly speeding this up. I'm assuming qsort or some such will be faster, but that isn't a given. For that matter, if it is being sorted so that searches are faster later, than the number of searches should be considered, as you could probably switch out to sentinel scanning to save the sort time, and then you are down to how many scans you are doing times the number of elements you are looking against.
Echo all the words from the author here, and kudos for being transparent.

I’ve faced exactly the same problems building my new product.
But, on the other hand, Supabase was incredibly easy to setup, and meant I could worry about infrastructure later.

Pros and cons like with everything, and always wise to understand the flaws of the tech you’re using.
> The CLI manages the Supabase stack locally: Postgres, gotrue, a realtime server, the storage API, an API gateway, an image resizing proxy, a restful API for managing Postgres, the Studio web interface, an edge runtime, a logging system, and more – a total of 11 Docker containers connected together.

Can Supabase author a set of Kubernetes manifests similar to what they run in production, and perhaps distribute those?
Isn't that what Apple is doing right now, in microcosm? Pay your thousands every couple of years for devices, pay for your subscriptions, and put in your AirPods, all for the privilege of being like everyone else?
Tribute of the Three Cows
I highly recommend Jane Jacob’s’ book:
“The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” (1961).
Maybe you're just part of a minority and struggle to come to terms with that
I don't get why the hell did it take so long (to even begin training, considering how long the training usually takes). If it started a year ago, Ukraine would already have ready pilots.
If it's any consolation at any sufficiently large company you'll be graded again based on arbitrary metrics b/c your manager (and their managers) have no idea what your actual impact is.

The modern incarnation of school is, after all, supposed to make you into a good employee.
if this process occurred from student' childhood, this is the only way to write some formal things.
You can get those from rapid weight loss, I thought. Maybe it's working TOO well if that's the case.
Assuming you’re talking about Supabase, I kind of disagree.

There’s an initial learning curve with the row level security stuff, but once you get a good grasp of it and come up with a few patterns that suit your needs it’s insanely fast to develop on. You’re trading the time it takes to build and manage an api for the time it takes to setup RLS.
Their Artemis 3 proposal had a much lower price than the one by Blue Origin. SpaceX 2.8 billion, BO something like 8 billion if I remember correctly. SpaceX was also much more ambitious and forward looking, but I'm not sure whether NASA saw this as positive or negative.
Btw - I mean, it is already out, I just want more players to adopt it (like the ones who proposed it as part of their consortium … hint hint Apple). It enables Matter.
In general, in trust law, a fiduciary duty is imposed upon the executors of a trust with respect to the trustees. In other words, the executors of a trust must act in the trustees' financial best interests, even where these interests would conflict with the executor's financial interests. To do otherwise is a breach of contract.

You can't trust (heh) regular people to be able to keep this duty in mind; which is why the executors of most trusts are law firms. Individual people sometimes make the mistake of making another individual person the executor of a trust they're establishing; but corporations are generally smarter than that.

In the case of corporate-established trusts, the question that can "go wrong" here isn't usually who the executor is, but rather, how the employees are defined to communicate their collective "financial best interest" to the executor. Very likely, there is a board of trustees defined in the structure of the trust, where some or all members of said board are elected by employees (similar to shareholders electing a board of directors of a company.)
it sounds like new water bodies are man-made reservoirs, not permanent, e.g. the thing goes out into the ocean when the dam breaks.
alias ha='ls -la'
alias hh='ls -l'
A naive PQ index that trains the quantizer once and reuses the same codebook for recent data definitely has this problem. We (Milvus/Zilliz) break up all the vectors into multiple indexes at certain checkpoints which we call segments. This doesn't fully solve the problem of degraded performance with PQ or hybrid PQ indexes, but certainly helps mitigate it.

More info here: https://milvus.io/docs/glossary.md#Segment
Ask HN: Does a zeal for learning (e.g., CS) reduce your creativity?
Maybe there are fewer opportunities for creativity when your focus is on learning rather than creating something novel?

Maybe you don't even know whether you are creative as a result?

Maybe less respect for learning might result in more creativity?
Activision may pull games from UK to move ahead with acquisition
It's not his position on Ukraine/Russia that's worrying. It's his retweeting of known white-nationalist content pretending it's not. It's his complete faceplant of "free speech maximalism" and numerous public moves that prove he's the exact opposite (latest being his currying favor with Erdogan by hiding his opponents tweets during voting hours).

In short, it's him shredding his image and principles (even if that was a cover) that gave him any legitimacy in public discourse.

I have to admit, I used to stan.
the editor muscle memory thing is always the thing for me.. Even changing keyboard and not the key layout causes me issues.
The batteries in my wife's 12c have only been replaced two or three times since she bought it in college in 1984! She worked as a commercial real estate appraiser for many years, using it daily. A few years back, she started a new job doing something similar, so it's back in use again, good as new.

I fully expect it to outlive both of us - due to HP's excellent dual-shot key molding that embeds the key legends into the keys themselves, it looks nearly new less a few scratches and dings imposed by the real world. This may have been one of the last times a product was truly designed to last indefinitely. And yeah, I suspect self-discharge of the batteries is at least on par with the actual power usage of the calculator...
Is this really just Android -> iPhone?

How about, say, SMS sent from a TextMe account via browser?
What past tech failures?
The golden path is to start with Dvorak hardware mapped keyboard (TypeMatrix 2030 USB) and then later buy a programmable keyboard (ErgoDox EZ Shine) and make your own Dvorak-based layout with your own affordances for programming.

That’s what I did.

https://github.com/ctsrc/ergodox-ez-shine-dvorak

> try typing ls -la on Dvorak.

Put alias ll = “ls -la” in your zshrc if typing ls -la bothers you ;) but personally I just type it out
Fortunately, any non-Debian Linux uses will know enough to be to do something with the .deb.
Why do you want people to spend time in prison and not be rehabilitated before release?
I though that http://freshcode.club/ was the de-facto successor to Freshmeat?

(I stopped using OpenHub/Ohloh to announce releases when they started requiring either an e-mail address or a Github login.)
Rather agree. I'm sure there'll be a bit in it in terms of efficiency and comfort, since Colemak is more recent, but Dvorak is available on Windows out of the box.

I switched to Dvorak over 20 years ago and I've been quite happy with its availability. I use Dvorak shortcuts (so, for example, w and v are next to one another), and standard Emacs bindings, and when I used vim I used the standard bindings with that too. Main issue I've faced is that some programs use WASD, and they do it by keycap rather than scancode, so now the controls are wonky.

(Regarding QWERTY speed, I type on a split keyboard on my own PC, which has helped keep my QWERTY muscle memory fairly good; people that see me type are often surprised that it's not what I'm used to. I can barely type Dvorak on a normal keyboard, though, and I have to look at the keys to type QWERTY on a split keyboard.)
Given it sync from iCloud, you probably could export with enough prying at the MacOS Keychain app, but exporting them out is not a supported use case yet.
... and that attitude is why your country is broken beyond repair.

If you feel like basic empathy is something you don't "owe" to your fellow humans, how can you hope to ever have a functioning society?
Amusingly, I just made the swap on my phone to be Colemak everywhere. :D

I'm curious on if it really matters. I made the switch for the same reason I would go between left and right handed mice. Mostly just to keep interested. And to see if I could. I've been happy with it, may change again soon. Not sure. That said, I have not focused on building speed up. Maybe if I was to try that more, I would care. I find as soon as I'm at 60wpm, I am at the point that I am not limited by typing at all.
The original assertion was about difficulty of using C libraries in the kernel or bootloader. In the bootloader you're the OS. There's no file system, no dynamic linker, and no processes. There's no guarantee some third party library will work in that environment. It might but it's work to make sure it does or adapt it if it doesn't.
"Here’s how they see it working in practice: Let’s say that a dissident or a human rights activist wanted to send a text message out of a locked-down country. A plug-in for an app like WhatsApp or Signal would do the heavy algorithmic lifting, Schroeder de Witt said. The first step would be to choose a cover text distribution — that is, a giant collection of possible words to use in the message, as would come from ChatGPT or a similar large language model — that would hide the ciphertext. Then, the program would use that language model to approximate a minimum entropy coupling between the cover text and the ciphertext, and that coupling would generate the string of characters that would be sent by text. To an outside adversary, the new text would be indistinguishable from an innocent machine-generated message. It also wouldn’t have to be text: The algorithm could work by sampling machine-generated art (instead of ChatGPT) or AI-generated audio for voicemails, for example."

I am unable to understand the point of this technology. Why wouldn't activists use encryption instead of steganography?
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