skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no need to pay the mods when they're already doing it for free, with many more willing to take their place. Some of the mods do it for power, but I would hope most do it for their love of good discussion and their community.

If it really comes down to it, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Reddit admins just kick out all the protesting mods, finding replacements will likely be pretty easy.

Edit: Mass removal is already happening. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36412619

The mods of several large subreddits were all kicked out, leaving the subreddits unmoderated. Multiple of these removed mods are also locked out of their accounts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14eq8ip/the_entir...
No, the difficulty is updated every 2016 blocks. This should be once every two weeks, but if the worldwide hash power halves it'll of course take four weeks until it can update. The difficulty adjustment is capped to +300% / -75%.

The issue here is that the Bitcoin reward has to pay for the mining cost, but there is nothing preventing the Bitcoin price from dropping lower. So miners will either have to mine at a loss for (on average) a week until a difficulty adjustment, or turn off their equipment. Turning it off will make the wait even longer and the mining price per block will increase even more for the remaining miners - leading to more of them operating at a loss or shutting down which makes the problem even worse.
> Dear Stockton,

> This letter is sent on behalf of our industry members who have collectively expressed unanimous concern regarding the development of 'TITAN' and the planned Titanic Expedition. Our apprehension is that the current 'experimental approach adopted by Oceangate could result in negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic) that would have serious consequences for everyone in the industry.

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/marine-technology-soc...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/oceangate-titanic-miss...
Just write it and share it and see if anyone finds it useful.

The people who need it most probably won't know what to ask for.
What’s wrong with Logitech controller? It’s good and reliable, I use it in the drone platform I built (in addition to xbox/ps4/ps5 controllers) and we flew the drone from the other half of this planet, this is like saying “oh your tank/car/whatever steering wheel or this component is only $150 so it’s bad!!”, that’s the idea of engineering, find/make reliable pieces at an affordable price, guess that contractor if they rebranded that joystick sensors and sold for $50000 then it will be better!?
based on experience there could be a bunch of pretty innocuous reasons e.g.
1. some company wide simplification effort on user options
2. some weird coupling of the UI project to the backend project, where this functionality was an edge case that they could postpone til after launch
I have been on a AOSP+MicroG setup with no google apps, services or accounts for almost a decade and can safely and confidently say the author has no idea what they're talking about. I don't know what sorts of applications they need their phone for but I have had almost no problems. I use my phone for everything and I can't think of a problem off the top of my head that I have that Google locked in users dont. In fact, when I first took the dive, I thought it was going to be rougher than it was but worth it, and it has been easier. Ive probably stumbled into 1 or 2 apps over the years that I couldn't use, and I can't remember what they were off the top of my head.

It is not only possible to live google free, it is fucking easy.
I don't know the US market, but I do know the EU market.
Here you can simply open ordinary business accounts with different banks. ( Costs not even a 100 a year )
All charge different prices for single transactions or batches of transactions.
And more importantly, all allow for transactions to be send by their preferred format.
Generally, their price goes down as your volume goes up.
Let your system do the math ( Pick the right bank for the transaction ) and be your own payment gateway.
That's true, I follow a lot of blogs that I get the RSS with trial and error, mostly typing /feed or /RSS, because they don't offer a straight link anywhere
> That being said, I doubt Bitcoin will be outlawed in the West, and generally agree that it will be around for the long term.

Well, not entirely without precedent, since private ownership of gold was outlawed nationwide in the US during the Great Depression. It wasn't fully legalized until 1974.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Why do you care if the end user is AI or human?
This data highlights how pernicious that the recent debt ceiling deal added work requirements for food aid for people over the age of 50.

https://msmagazine.com/2023/06/16/mccarthy-debt-deal-snap-wo...
Isn't that fairly contemporary theory though? Is there any historical record of confederate leadership using that language or applying those concepts? I'm sure someone over there had read clausewitz but I've never heard of this stuff being applied by any american military before like maaaybe ww1, a little bit.
Just having some extra money can make life a little smoother. Many of these things aren't that expensive but might not have been considered when acting frugally.

1. Buy extra copies of things where it provides convenience i.e. extra power cords for computers/phones that you leave where you need them. 2. If you travel somewhere often (i.e. family for the holidays or a significant other's house), consider buying an extra copy of things and leaving it there instead of packing/unpacking. 3. Buy personal items in bulk so you don't have to go to the store as often when things run out and you can save money this way over time, too. 4. Throw out clothing that you only wear when you have no more clean clothes and replace it with clothing you do like. Consolidate socks to one or two types to simplify matching. 5. Outsource laundry, cleaning, lawncare if you spend time doing that. 6. Spend extra on more convenient flights.
Just wanted to let you know I really appreciate your comments. I hadn't thought about doing it the way you recommend (in my mind I was thinking "oh, storing enum values as text will be inefficient", but I never did the math as you did to realize storing anything up to 8 chars is no worse than bigint), but I think it's a pretty optimal solution. I also checked my DB where we heavily use enums, and basically every enum text value that is longer than 8 characters could easily be shortened/abbreviated to 8 chars and still be very easily understood. Thanks very much!
I'll give you 1kg of wheat for an ounce of gold right now.
What's the average tenure of a mod?
<<Tesla pulled a fast one on the morons at GM and Ford, who signed stupid deals that handed the future back to Tesla>>

It's always curious to see someone with such strong conviction that somehow they have an insight, without access to any of the information involved in negotiating this partnership, that the various folks at GM and Ford failed to see.
That’s great to hear, thanks!
I would have kept my previous phones for a lot longer if it wasn't for them switching of the 2G network, and next year they switch of the 3G network! (Australia for reference)

These 4G dumb phones are cool but the power requirements of 4G can be a burden once you actually start making calls. So you get weird things like 30 days stand by but 3 hours talk time
That's just a decorative shell. You really think they drilled into their pressure hull?
I'm not disagreeing with "yes," I'm saying that yes and no were probably the two ideas that occurred to them first.
this is more like MS Access, less like MS Excel
When people, like in Ireland or in India, were starving to death while tons and tons of grain were being shipped away by the British, it's an open and shut case: YES, the British Empire was evil.

And Yes, the Tasmanian Aborigines were wiped out by specific actions by the British and not only by 'disease' as the article purports to state: such as the 'Black Line' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War#Black_Line,_October%...). A people who had occupied the land for nearly 20,000 years was wiped out in less than one hundred.
https://odysseyteardrops.com/

Pretty sure it was this guy.
The problem is search is incredibly fuzzy and only saved by relevance filtering.

So if you sort by price you get the strangest crap at the cheapest end.
Cathie Wood's fund pockets $300M in fees since its 2014 launch
That's an easy honeypot to harvest.
Sure, but it's still a tough scenario if the vast majority of people don't have a reliable way to convert fiat currency to or from cryptocurrencies (or to or from cryptocurrencies that regulators don't approve of). That would likely mean less liquidity, less broad appeal and application of applications using cryptocurrency, and potentially more stigma.
This already looks way better
AFAICT, unless you're in San Francisco, Sacramento, or New York there is currently no adapter that will let a non-Tesla vehicle use a supercharger.
> This is what happens when you take the move fast and break things culture

Or then you take things slow and you end up like NASA who has not launched any new rocket in years. Is that better?
Where do you put them?
I think if you wanted to get weird with the control flow like this you might as well make a state machine. All of this seems to be completely missing the reason we even have stack based programs to begin with: they are inherently easier for programmers to reason about.

I think these effects would ultimately lead to a bunch of hard to find bugs, all to replace the functionality of a callback.
Yeah, idk what GP is referring to. I can't remember the last time I saw a blog that didn't have an RSS feed. Maybe some exceptions being Medium posts (lol) and corporate blogs where it's posted as part of a larger site, not just someone's personal blog.
I have a similar setup and have no problems with online banking. I hear this from people, what exactly is the problem?
User experience.

Reddits API allow tailored presentation.

Where they went is irrelevant.
Office has been closed since December per ground truth sourced locally.
That does sound glorious. And, to be clear, I am merely an amateur (lover of) rather than experienced practitioner. It’s also the only lisp-like I’ve learned, and it gets a fair amount of credit from me on those grounds alone. At any rate, the opinion is very strong because 1) the pragmatic angle that I’ve already mentioned, 2) the tooling hasn’t kept up, 3) the performance isn’t worth fighting for (although it’s really still fairly good), 4) the footguns are gloriously just around the corner.

I don’t know if all lisps suffer from that last one, and I don’t know about you, but there seems to be a clever solution hiding in every line. I think it would take discipline to have a codebase that remained cohesive and in a “single language”
Thanks for sharing the experience.

From time to time, I go to https://www.areweguiyet.com/ to check out how rust GUI is doing.

I've heard good things about Iced framework (the one that System76 is building their DE on).
> everything working should be the goal

It's probably the goal, but complex endeavors mean you need to iterate to get there
Not only that but they claimed to have multiple backup controllers onboard.
I’ll bite, how do you make a self-driving submarine? There’s no GPS under the ocean?

I imagine you’d need some kind of sea floor SLAM which sounds… really hard?
My understanding is that installing both is basically 2x the complexity. What's on the other side of the plug is fairly different between NACS and CCS
Yeah, many of these comments are bizarre. And the fact that you were downvoted is bonkers. I got a $5k bonus in 2004 at a non-FAANG for simply installing a single software program from source (I forget what it was) that wasn't in Debian's package repos at the time.

I realize that HN in 2023 is a far different place than it was in the beginning, but has the percentage of users in rural states and developing nations skyrocketed recently or something?
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/titan-tauchgang-zum-wrack-de...

Edit, oh, it's a pay walled story.
> Mac - 4.17 MB

> Windows - 4.13 MB

> Linux - 73.8 MB

One is not like the others.
> I know I can buy all the stuff I need to make the perfect stake at a fraction of the cost of going out once.

Now here’s someone who isn’t familiar with the Lee Valley catalog.

I assure you, you can spend many hundreds on the stuff to make the perfect stake. Their exquisite, custom hand planes and sleds are works of functional art, worthy of use with the finest exotic wood, itself with costs that approach the surreal. Which is, of course, why going out and buying a great stake can cost so much, too.
> There are several magnitudes more millionaires than that.

A lot of people can become a millionaire throughout their lifetime just by having a normal job or small business. That's nowhere the level where I would describe as "rich".
How are you treating your controllers? I still have working PS2 and 360 controllers from back in the day.
iphone has had millions and millions of dollars of research and development
Is anyone happy with Gitlab public runners?

I've found them extremely unreliable both in my free account (every failure takes 1-2 mins away from my 50 minutes!) and in my employers paid subscription so we self run but run into issues with not being able to scale runners enough to meet developers demands.

Its also super annoying that you can't use your own docker containers hosted on ECR on public runners (no way to provide auth)
That would be FreeBSDs and their jail concept.
are VCs doing architecture now ? huh... architecture astronauts much.

looks like they are playing catchup and trying to stay relevant.

What happened to their web3 vision ?
This seems conceptually similar to python's `with` statement.

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-...
That's not legal, in my county.
This is some very optimistic thinking. I'm afraid it just doesn't match with the realities though.
Yep. Definitely something you can do manually, but the API makes it easier to reason about and coordinate across otherwise disconnected/unrelated code.
No, please no, if Lemmy looked like old.reddit no body will ever use it.
There are custom themes, but it should be never the default.
100% agree with this.

The Agent & Tools metaphor makes a ton of sense for its simplicity, but has yet to scale beyond very simple agents.

I’m long on it as a programming model, but a lot of work is needed.
Well, we'll see in 10 years I guess if it actually works, but we have no reason to trust that they'll actually attack the underlying problems, which are related to things like bad statistical modelling, publication bias, funding, etc. All easier to write articles about than do. They're going to have to re-earn our trust.
I have both a Logitech Gamepad and Logitech headset that are going ~15 years no issues. I wound up setting aside one of the MX mice after like a decade so I could have a mouse that had sensitivity buttons. It's my daily driver on my work system still.

Maybe those changes are recent but IME you've always had to figure out which are the quality lines of product from any peripheral manufacturer. I've seen dozens of the cheapo Logitech headsets broken and tossed over the years both at work and among friends. Meanwhile my G35 headset bought in 2009 has required two sets of replacement cushions in that time and still works great.

Even MS back in the Sidewinder days had their warts -- their gamepad was complete garbage while their Joystick was awesome (I still have mine).

I think GP's overall point though that peripherals like this aren't exactly unsuitable shouldn't be ignored. There's a huge advantage to something inexpensive that you can cheaply carry replacement parts for or whole replacement devices for. Once you go fly by wire (or dive by wire I guess in this case) it's not clear to me what advantage there is in designing your own bespoke system.
The SEC doesn’t consider a firm’s business model when it goes public. The SEC does make sure that they’re making the necessary disclosures and providing audited financial statements.

The initial registration form is Form S-1. One of the things you disclose in Form S-1 is the risks your firm faces that may affect its valuation.

Coinbase disclosed the following risks in their Form S-1 SEC filing [0]:

> We are subject to an extensive and highly-evolving regulatory landscape and any adverse changes to, or our failure to comply with, any laws and regulations could adversely affect our brand, reputation, business, operating results, and financial condition.

> A particular crypto asset’s status as a “security” in any relevant jurisdiction is subject to a high degree of uncertainty and if we are unable to properly characterize a crypto asset, we may be subject to regulatory scrutiny, investigations, fines, and other penalties, and our business, operating results, and financial condition may be adversely affected.

> As we continue to expand and localize our international activities, our obligations to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, and policies of a variety of jurisdictions will increase and we may be subject to investigations and enforcement actions by regulators and governmental authorities.

Coinbase was acutely aware of the risk that their business may not exactly be legal, they disclosed it in their initial SEC filing. It’s not the SEC’s job to tell Coinbase that what they’re doing might not be legal, it’s up to Coinbase to hire lawyers to advise them.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000162828021...
> We just need to enforce the tax laws we already have on the books.

Alternatively, make the Government waste WAY LESS money is a better answer. have you ever seen a mafia going bankrupt every year despite collecting protection money from everyone? only the government is so utterly incapable.
> "For devs who see every database-shaped hole and try to insert Postgres"

I see sub second performance on >1m vectors with PgVector. Vector databases have a place but this statement seems disingenuous at best. Bringing on a vector database adds additional complexity and a giant chunk of use cases simply don't need it. Not to mention the additional latency you'd be adding.
I moved out of a scientist role into software engineering specifically because I hated the long feedback cycles. My research feedback cycle would be 5-10 years.
I hate the Dollar Store. But...

At our favorite camping spot (some bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River), the Dollar Store is the only store offering necessary items. The weird thing is that it's not an isolated place, it's just really far from an interstate or large city. The gas stations sell only 87 octane and diesel. No premium gas available for my fancy SUV.

Another place we like to hang out is along a particular coast, surrounded by $$$$ houses. But to shop at anything other than the Dollar Store means that you are adding almost an hour to the round trip. Great part about that area is that the sand dunes block all cell phone signals, so it's really relaxing to be cut off from the world (but you can hike to the top of a dune for super fast 5g/LTE).
Isn’t that what Britbox is?
My mom is an architect in the US and said the same thing
That thing could have saved Nokia if they went all in.

The community around it was amazing.

They chased trends instead and couldn't keep up.
Ask HN: How are you avoiding LLM anxiety with your side projects?
I'm having a really hard time working on new, non-LLM related side projects due to anxiety that everything I'm doing is effectively worthless. LLMs have killed any enjoyment I had with programming and solving problems, as I keep jumping ahead and seeing everything being reduced to "folks will eventually just ask a LLM to do X, why bother creating something to do it".
Those bluetooth devices always break... permanently
> who will pay those people to keep up with alternate career options and continuously retrain themselves in case of being let go

You need to be able to read to access most knowledge.
Maybe so, but it's easy to say this after the fact. When kludges like this work, we admire "scrappy" and "ingenious" engineers who are finding ways to launch rockets or build submarines or medical devices or whatever for fraction the price.

It's only when it blows up that it turns from "ingenuity" into "amateur hour".

People who participated in this knew the risks. They fucked up. None of us would have designed a better submarine, and I'd wager we're not all that qualified to tell a crappy design from a good one, except - once again - after the fact.
>What’s wrong with game controllers?

I saw a video where he said they used the controllers' built-in bluetooth. Bluetooth is anything but mission-critical. Imagine a disconnect when you're trying to decelerate.
>> We Linux users are happily using it already and don't really care what other people use.

And yet here you are hectoring the plebs, putting us in our place. It sure seems like you care, because if you didn't you would have kept quiet and got on with the good life.
> This is a shockingly simple product to make "self driving".

No, it’s quite an engineering challenge to develop any robust self driving code, especially in safety critical applications.

Having human controls would still be necessary as a backup even if they did have autopilot.

Some of these armchair engineering comments about this project are incredibly optimistic or pessimistic.
Also a large private jet uses about 540 gallons of fuel per hour. That’s very roughly $5400/h in air
>You know what was hard for almost 25 - 30 years and everyone's losing their shit right now and drinking the cool-aid? The good old AI.

This is survivorship bias, unless you own a Segway and a 3D TV
Unfortunately subclassing int is actually used https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#enum.IntEnum and worse Python's int is arbitrary precision so you couldn't compile it to a fixed size.
I imagine this has been a broader and ongoing LGBT+ refugee crisis for decades, as certain states and countries are far more accepting than others. It would be interesting to have data on the various waves.
The pinnacle of perf-driven-development!

PM lists an OKR for increasing engagement.

PM launches a new version without the feature.

New version shows engagement(or whatever corpspeak metric) increased by N%.

PM gets a promotion.

Dev sees a missing feature, launches the feature.

Dev shows M people are using this new feature.

Dev gets a promotion for 'impact'.

And the cycle repeats, with minor variations for mature products.
This is why startups even get a chance to compete with the giants.
You must have a terrible record or something. No one is getting quoted $6k/year unless they have a felony hit and run on their record or something equally as egregious. Not even in Canada.
> If we keep jacking up the price of education to insanity levels while demanding ever more education

Education does not mean you have to sit in some school. There are many ways to educate yourself.
Why not use the LLM to work more quickly? I do.
Based if and only if they provide a book on kotlon in lieu of it /s

This is fucked. What's next, they ban legal references in the library?

Also lol @ them even giving lip service to be thought America's prison system has anything to do with rehabilitation. If that was the case you wouldn't be able to discriminate against felons for housing or employment or enfranchisement.
Lol, my wife has an aunt that's famous for this. She'll go whatever speed she wants in whatever lane she wants on a major 4-6 lane hwy (401 in Toronto) and will righteously swerve her finger at people flashing their lights and honking behind her: "you can GO AROUND!".

(For record and clarification I do not condone that approach :)
Video of earlier trip to Titanic in the Titan
Maybe they fill it up with solid gold to sink and then drop it all into the ocean as they ascend
JetBrains Noria
The Doomsday Argument