skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the best and most intuitive UI

I think the best UI was before all the computer displays in cars.
Everything operable without visual contact.
You use it by installing ray.io
>Maybe this trusted computing stuff really is what the web is bound to become, either using your certified TPM keys or maybe your Electronic National ID card or maybe both in order to attest the genuineness of the device that is making the requests.

If this is the future, I'm going to say "fuck the internet" and return to the soil.
Power is energy power unit time.

You are correct that power lost to aerodynamic drag increases with the cube of velocity. However, if you increase speed, the time spent is reduced. As a result, the total energy grows with velocity squared.
> “I bid for the Olympics because it’s the only way to get the billions of pounds out of the government to develop the East End,” he said in 2008.

Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London. It's not for the athletes, but it's because of them.
As a digital nomad + business traveler, eSims are total misdirection and more cumbersome experience:

Case in point - I stay in Country A (home country) for 3 months, Country B for 2 months, and then C for 3 months, back to A. Until now I used an Android with Dual-SIM (physical) and all I had to do was: put in physical-SIM whenever I am in and call it a day. With iPhone and more and more phone manufacturers praising about eSIMs, not anymore.

Country B/C/D etc may have extremely complex or underwhelming infrastructure/process to support e-SIMs. Lots of issues with “network reception not working” to troubleshooting the signup process. Heck, there are additional charges in some countries for eSIM vs. physical sim.
Everything with an installer basically
It cost even less labor to use minimal bracing for strait walls, these are curved for athletics.

I suspect they are imitations of curved fruit walls popular in the 1600’s before greenhouses took off.
Depends on how long you intend to keep livestock and what materials you have access to. Well built walls can last a lot longer than well built fences; but fences may be less costly initially. But it might also depend on how crafty/destructive your livestock is.
> If a client mentions that they collect spoons, visit a local antique store and mail them some local finds.

Wait, what?
That seems Bavaria's fault
I mean okay? Most banking security these days is comically bad compared to just the kind of 2FA that GH has. I'd like my broker to have better authentication options and if it securely identifies that my hardware really is my hardware that is probably an actual improvement that I'd want.

The rest of the time I can use a non-WEI browser and the sites that lock me out would probably be doing me a favor.
I'm very interested to hear this. We are definitely looking to evoke the former.
In this case, the PCIe card can be used completely independent of the Pi—the GPS PPS signaling can be routed differently with some dip switches on the sandwich board, and a CM4 is not necessary for full GPS + OXCO functionality.

The nice thing about installing a CM4 is it supports PTP hardware timestamping out of the box, so it could be a solution for PTP over a network if you don't want to shell out for more expensive NICs or need to support hundreds to thousands of systems.
AI chatbots are already in fast food drive-throughs
A satellite in orbit uses the energy imparted by the gravitational force of the Earth to stay in orbit (and very little to no drag depending on the altitude).
Don't drink and kill.
The universe is huge, if intelligent life exists outside the local group we have basically 0 way of being able to contact it, let alone visit it.
How is Brave these days?
In the context of caloric intake, it’s especially true due to caloric density. Cutting out the beef cuts significantly more calories than cutting out the tomatoes which are mostly water. There are about 77 calories per oz of steak and about 5 calories per oz of tomato. Which foods you choose to eat and their calorie density can have a huge impact on overall calorie consumption.
I believe Vivaldi[0] also offers vertical tabs, as does Arc[1] (albeit MacOS only at this point).

[0]: https://vivaldi.com/desktop/

[1]: https://arc.net/
If you link against an old version, it'll generally work with a newer one.

Old versions are unfortunately not always compatible with new libraries...
You are not going to bring about a Japanese or Scandinavian or whatever other “model” culture anywhere within a reasonable amount of time.
OK, nationalize the railroads.
The fact that you're not elaborating or correcting me demonstrates it isn't a straw man.
> able to get a tow truck capable of transporting my car (turns out you need one that has a full bed because of the regenerative breaking

Sounds incredibly short-sighted that the regenerative braking can't be temporarily disabled by the driver... two people can push a "regular" car to a nearby gas station in a pinch. Even one person can push a smaller car around a parking lot if necessary.

That said, they often send out full/flat bed tow trucks these days for almost any reason.

Edit: fixed "breaking" to "braking"
FWIW, postmarkos supports at least some ARM Chromebooks - https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Chrome_OS_devices
QA excellence by obfuscation. That's going to be of great assurance when a family dies in a Tesla fire on the highway.
I appreciate how the author of this piece put the entire clickbait antidote right at the beginning of the story — what do these beads look like? Why were they there?
Is the era of VC-fueled complexity ending?
I initially wrote "over-engineering" in the title, but changed it to "complexity" so as to not unnecessarily trigger some readers. I've been in the software industry for 20 years, and on HN for 10. This quarter was the first time I've seen a pattern of a lot of engineers yearning for old-fashioned simplicity while critiquing "modern" tech and practices, some of which were still on vogue just a year ago. E.g.

Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36380711

Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of enthusiast programmers is ending https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36719409

Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739920

Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682403

Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637655

DevOps Is Bullshit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354049

How I run my servers (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36744090

Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36736576

Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36654960

Some of these submissions would have been received very differently in the past.

I was just entering the industry when the original OOP craze began, and for the longest time, thought I was stupid or crazy for not "getting" it and preferring to write simple functions. Same with cloud-native systems, reactive SPAs, container orchestration, SCRUM, and a bunch of other practices. In a way, this is refreshing. But at the same time, I worry that this may signal the end of the current era of explosive growth in software (both in terms of tech and money), and what we thought would be perpetual progress may in fact be a brief summer. Does anyone else feel this way?
I could easily sell out and make a buck, but I assure you, I did not get a penny from Timebeat for this video or blog post. I asked them if they'd send a unit for review, and they did.

I will never do any kind of informercial style content; see my sponsorship policies here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships
Does the price of subscription matter at all? A dollar or two per month? I don't think so...

I have been leaving Spotify a couple of times already but it is a network effect that matters at the end. If I want to quickly share music with my gf or friends it is Spotify or Youtube...
it's a real shame that sqlite and postgres have sql differences, otherwise I'd use it alot more
OP offered a bunch of reasons why the law proposals are discriminatory and insidious things they do to make it hard to obtain an ID.

You claim to believe it's not and offer no counter point outside of you feel it in your gut and a desire to deflect and attack OP for making the point by calling the poster prejudice.
I saw folk swimming in the East River off of Queens here in NYC and I was really pumped. I may have to check that spot out this year. There's whales and seals again in the harbor too. It's amazing what decades of focused effort and time can do to clean up places. May we continue to do this the world round as we collectively grow to care for our planet a bit more (in order to preserve ourselves of course) here.
Cosmopolitans vs Nationalists
People who are citizens of the world vs people who are grounded in a specific time and place, who's ancestors have lived in that area for generations and have the stories to share of it.
hi there - i'm a full stack (primarily backend) eng. who is available for part time work. you can email me at jayceekay at gmail. ex spotify if it matters. best to you!
I find it really confusing how you think that has to do with genetics...
I remember trying out jitsi in 2020 and calls with more than ~8 people were painfully laggy, others got logged out, etcpp. I don't imagine this working with classrooms of 20+ pupils. But there did exist alternatives like BBB which did mostly just work (or Zoom with similar issues like Teams)
Desktop version is also atrocious on Windows.

Its slow. It's a resource hog. And it seems someone added onClick=sleep(500ms) on every part of the interface.

There is this thing that the message box keeps flashing and either takes a while to load or doesn't load if you search or scroll up too much.

There is this supper annoying thing when sometimes you try to copy text and it brings up the whole message including metadata instead. Who the hell asked for that?
For WoW specifically, the appeal melted away as it increasingly pushed instanced competitive endgame (raids, M+, arenas) as the the central pillars of the game. What pulled me in back in 2005 was its world which was not only vast and beautiful, but shared with numerous other players, as well as the more tabletop adventure feel that casual play (and even entry level raiding) entailed back then. Things that are prioritized now like leaderboard chasing and increasingly convoluted boss encounters are not what I logged on for.
I’m not assuming the rim has no deflection. What makes you think that.

Anyway, this sums it up pretty well. Someone has a longer memory than I:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36891231

If you’re talking about twisted spokes unwinding, you don’t have to reach zero load for that to happen. You just need to reduce the load enough so the rotational force overcomes friction. Tension will also try to unwind a screw as well. But the thread pitch on spokes is very fine, which lessens that force. If you build spokes like wood screws we would have problems and that has nothing to do with reaching 0 newtons.

You can release a lot of those tensions by squeezing the spokes mid build. Just don’t wait until they’re too tight to do it. I had a pulse in my rear wheel that probably came from doing that wrong the first time. Unless it was a factory defect, I must have overtensioned and warped a brand new Mavic aero rim ever so slightly. Expensive lesson, but it could have been worse.
TLDR: they don't need buttresses, hence the savings.
<pre> is the correct HTML. People writing plain-text email expect to be able to do things like add ASCII diagrams:

------- -------
| foo | ---> | bar |
------- -------

It's an older technology but it checks out.
I think it means that the client expects to be spoon fed.
We've taken care to decouple our product from VS Code and plan on Jetbrains next, though not for about another month at least
No, not more specifically between British and Dutch, between Americans and Black Americans.

It's not ancient history, it's what happened to your parents grandparents.
Senate panel advances bills to childproof the internet
It's nice to see something that speaks to the other half of tech revenue.

This seems pretty general purpose, but props for not shying away from the obvious!
With modern encryption, sysadmins should not have access to the data on the systems they maintain.
Its all relative — I paid $10 for a month in Germany as a resident (comes with full EU roaming). Prices in other EU countries are even cheaper. It took 1 minute to plug it in.

Also, travelers from Western countries might not really be ecstatic about paying for paying $$ for something that comes with zero upside to physical SIM.
Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make
Seeing value in LLM answers is apophenia. It's an understandable human condition but still.

There can be value in SO answers, there can not be in LLM as it's just automated plagiarism without understanding anything.
I don’t really understand your comment about office being expensive (it has excel) or it seeming unavoidable, it is actually unavoidable (it has excel).
Or you wouldn't let yourself see them, because you knew giving up meant destruction (or turning into something terrible), and no one else could be relied on to take responsibility in a way that would help you - or doing so could/would be used to hurt you. So you did what needed to be done. As scary as it might have been, if you'd allowed yourself to think about it.

That meets the definition of brave to me, personally. My apologies if this disrespectful.

Good job, and respect.
Technology begets itself. As you're less pressured by environmental limitations, you have more time to advance instead of just survive, which brings even more time to advance further faster, etc. Additionally language is a pretty huge factor for spreading knowledge, written language another huge factor, mass printing again, remote communication yet again, and mass digital communication yet again on top. It makes sense that each next leap in our past came faster than the previous.
The outage was caused by a hardware failure and (I assume) the lack of any redundancy. Using RDS wouldn't have made a difference as far as I can see.
Because everyone are starting from the wrong end, instead start from selling ads.
I’m talking in the example ” let's pay a company X that will pay the gardeners. It'll cost 95k.”

Where does that 95k come from?
It' s 2023. It' s time to switch [From Common Lisp to Julia](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32745318)
Do good enough work, embrace mediocrity.
PS5 Console – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition Bundle
Wait... so this isn't satire? I read all the way through expecting a reveal, but when I got to the bottom all I found was a link to other chapters of "How to Productize Yourself"... which, again, I thought was a joke but upon clicking that I got a list of articles like this one and zero indication that the author is joking.

I know this person is capable of sarcasm and irony and so on, because I remember seeing their "how to be a -10x engineer" article[0] before... if they're intentionally riding the line of believability here, then props to them, because this is hilarious and definitely sounds like something in the top quartile of unhinged LinkedIn-influencer-posting.

> Create arbitrary rules and rituals. Ask your clients to participate in your personal process. Lead people on journeys.

What's wrong with unassuming and consistent competence? Has the author ever actually worked with another one of these high-output culture-hacker people? It's possible to leave a great impression with nothing but technical excellence and solid communication, and I'd personally take that any day over someone who tries to turn a client meeting into some kind of spooky grindset seance.

[0] https://taylor.town/-10x
Given the current political climate, you could call it Google trying to Chinafy (Chinatize?) the Western internet.
Keep cash alive. I wouldn't pay with card at a dispensary anyway because someone would see it on your statement and use it to make decisions about you. Stay cautious. It is annoying that Mastercard are like they are, but it's a convenience issue more than a liberty issue to me.
History is based upon written records, which is in contrast to archaeology which considers physical evidence. Another way to think of it is that archaeology can tell us what happened, why history helps us to understand why it happened (with a whole slew of caveats based upon the limitations of each field). So the distinction is important and the term pre-history is both context dependent and relevant.

It is quite possible that both parties exchanging beads were in the prehistoric period for that part of the world. Then again, maybe not. One party may have had writing. Even if they didn't, the oral histories should be close enough to the introduction of writing to be considered as reliable as writing.
Tesla cars are way heavier. Nobody is pushing one with their friend. Unless it's downhill.
Average joe did not do research. Forget it.

- They found the internet had gotten a new icon and had no idea how it got there. (bundling with popular software)

- They were instructed by google.

That is how chrome came to top. See other comments for more context.
That’s cool :)
> Self driving companies want to rent us

FTFY
Singapore made that cultural shift within a generation.
>He doesn't provide an actual counterargument,he just says he doesn't like the data without explaining why.

Welcome to Reddit
I'm repeating myself because you're ignoring my point, as you lack a good argument to the contrary.

These scientists have no standing to believe what they said in their Slack messages and in email, knew that, and only wrote what they could support; that COVID was not a lab leak.

If they could support the lab leak theory, they would have written about it. That they didn't means until someone does write about it, what we have is a really good argument against it being a lab leak, and nothing else. Slack messages are not scientific research.
Alpha-Driven Development: Developing by Rolling Milestones
But they never required it in the first place.

ID was checked for age when you entered stores.

After that, you can pay cash. It’s anonymous.
Is it realistic? Using positive and creative adjectives to amplify qualities doesn't make it more possible. Be extraordinary, creative, emphatic. Work hard, be good, etc..
"Google is using the Chinese playbook."
This is not a bad way to make your customers and maybe your manager happy. But is it enough to win a substantial amount of new business or propel your career upward? I'm not totally convinced.

A counterpoint to this is Cal Newport's "So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love."

While Newport's book is more about how to identify what work is going to be most fulfilling, I think his broader point is that talent and results are what will ultimately be the biggest drivers of career success, rather than an unforgettable or eccentric personality.

A metaphor: Who would you rather fly the plane, a totally forgettable but experienced pilot, or a flight attendant who's skilled at making you feel comfortable and valued?
Honestly LLM generated and moderator edited/vetted answers would make SO vastly more useful
Yeah that makes sense. I just thought it was really neat that the US pulled off such a massive project to standardize gauge over a single weekend - similar to Sweden switching from LHD to RHD on a single day. It's a huge coordination, organization, and training challenge. In the rail case it was done entirely on paper with a little bit of telegraph support.
DevTools Tips: Breakpoints and Logpoints
Is This an Emoji?
One of the authors explains in this article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2384782-room-temperatur...

> However, only one edge of the flat, coin-like material fully levitates, while the other seems to stay in contact with the magnet. Kim says this is due to the sample being imperfect, which means that only some part of it becomes superconductive and exhibits the Meissner effect.
> If Github has the power to change usernames or account details without notice then I would like them to communicate that to me clearly and upfront.

you can want whatever you want, they have no contractual relationship with you and no obligation to consult you about anything.

> Also, you dont have to pay github to have legal grounds. If the account is used for business purposes(business card, or other forms), then github could cause you financial damages no matter how small.

if you haven't paid them there is no contract or any binding commitment or obligation for them to provide you with any service whatsoever

> This is something we should demand from them.

what are you going to demand with? you aren't their customer

> If that was the case and Github came out to say that, I would never do business with them or use their services/platform.

maybe don't build your business on companies you don't have a binding contract with?

see: Apollo, Tweetbot
Hats off to you for an honest postmortem and your capable handling of a difficult situation. The only remark I would offer is with respect to sleep deprivation—when you're the only person who can fix a problem, there's no shame in trading some additional outage time for a fresh mind. Though it feels weird to go nap when all the klaxons are blaring, problems are too easy to compound under the combination of adrenaline and inadequate sleep.
I’ve thought that ever since they got caught rolling an EV down a hill for a promo video, after taking tons of money from a major automaker.

Wait? That wasn’t Tesla? Okay, I guess there’s a level below “fraudulent to the very core”
localGPT can parse PDF into embeddings, see <https://github.com/PromtEngineer/localGPT>.
Why can't battery tech achieve this?

I have a very old petrol car (>35y) with a terrible fuel-indicator. I bring a spare 5L tank with petrol under the backseat always.

An EV could achieve the same with a small portable powerbank, not?

My current tank can hold some 50+L; this gives my old T3 a range of ~430km¹. When we lived in Botswana ('83, other car) we had an extra 150L spare fuel-tank instead of back-seats. We could do some 1500km in this old 4wd on full tanks. Which was needed as gas-pumps were easily 300km apart and often out of gas.

An EV could achieve the same with the back-seats replaced by additional battery-packs, not? I'd presume this might be too heavy or not allowed due to regulations, but technically just adding ridiculous amounts of batteries would solve this. Like adding ridiculous tanks for gas would.

Sure, the amount of joules you can pack in a KG of fuel is far more than in a KG of batteries. But to me the solution then is easy: just add more KGs.

¹yup, the mileage is terrible, a VW T3 is basically an underpowered, 1500kg brick
I disagree. Because we seldom have the same car twice, I always need to decipher some strange icons to find out what something does. Or how to operate the wipers. It might work better if you know it b/c of tactile feedback, but it's in no way intuitive.
I pay way more attention to the range of my ICE car over my EV, because I need to actually go someplace out of my way to recharge it while my EV practically always has more range than I need every day.

I spend more of my time recharging my ICE than I do my EV. It's way less convenient and I never know what the cost will be tomorrow. Meanwhile my electricity is on a fixed rate contract measured in years.
Since the Industrial Revolution, and only made worse with the Information Revolution, technology has advanced much quicker than the ability for laws and customs to adapt.