skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was at TomTom, they ran a contest for employees to come up with fun ways to gamify their internet-connected GPS Personal Navigation Devices.

Some wise guy came up with the brilliant idea of maintaining a real-time "Top 10 Speeders" leaderboard for every single road on the entire map. Kinda like Foursquare for speeding on local roads. No matter where you were driving in the world, you could instantly see the top ten speeds of other TomTom users who drove down that same stretch of road, and put the pedal to the metal to claim or defend your own spot on the leaderboard!

That one went over like a lead balloon with the legal department.

The only thing worse would be a chat app for texting while driving above the speed limit with other Leaderboard members along the same stretch of road.

They also didn't appreciate my proposal for TomTomagotchi: a simulated personality on your PND that relentlessly begs you to drive it all around town to various interesting places it wants to visit, to improve its mood and satisfy its cravings. (Kind of like having virtual kids!) I'm sure there's a revenue model having drive through Burger Kings and car washes pay for placements.
Ask HN: Why is there no API for testers on demand?
Many times I would get $100 of value out of a 30 minute test from a tester - and would love to be around to just email or text a service to initiate a test to whoever is available.

Is there some legal, psychological or other reason that this doesn't exist?
What is so special about string templates that they should be have a different naming scheme? And $ really won't ease your life to search with regexp.

Would it only depends on my own preferences, I would use only letters and dash for any identifier in code bases I work with.
The company, whose product enables remote video conferencing, is trying to get everyone back at the office so they can Zoom each other.

What a world we live in. This applies to all companies to make video conferencing software including Google...
I’m not that sure that a higher proportion of profits going to the shareholders would be a better outcome. Sure the money saved by paying the CEO less might result in lower prices or go to lower ranked employees but it’s not obvious to me that that’s necessarily what would happen.
(and to anticipate the answer of Amazon MTurk - I don't think you can easily do it task specifically to each individual or start a task through an API/email?)
I didn't want to link it because if I did I'd feel the need to read the entire commit again. Which I just did.

It really is a religious text. It even granted me absolution. When I read it I realized I wasn't alone in thinking the C standard library is total garbage. Sometimes I'd post my opinions on the matter and people would argue with me but there's no arguing with that commit. I become increasingly convinced we should all just start over from scratch every time I read it.
Not saying this design has anything like that, but it could: high-end digital pianos come with mechanical key action that's very close to what upright or even grand pianos use - except the hammer strikes a sensor instead of a string at the end.
> Obviously this system is very inefficient but nobody can deny that some CEO are better than others and that the best ones can make decisions which bring 10-100x or more money to the company than whatever they are paid.

There's nothing obvious about this to me - how would you distinguish that from survivorship bias? Why then do shareholders and boards often come into conflict on this issue?

Claiming that someone is worth paying 100m per year is an outrageous claim that requires commensurate evidence, not a wishy-washy statement about boards thinking its worthwhile. Boards are made of people in a very small oligarchic circle - their behavior is more easily explained by remembering that they're social animals in a hierarchical context than pretending this is all perfect economic rationality.
So he worked all the time but only did busywork one day a week. Which coincided with him being super productive. How do that surprising at all?
I believe it is just self-selecting. An unofficial institution that fails to display anything interesting likely won’t be added to the list.
> and admit the ppublished synthesis is incomplete because it is waiting full journal approval for the paper to come out.

Why would they have to wait for the paper to come out? Couldn't they just publish the steps in a blog post or something before the journal has approved the paper?
>How so?

Because you need to be extremely careful about overflows/underflows. All operations you perform suddenly become difficult and require careful analysis. With fixed point numbers you need to ensure that every intermediate result of your operation gives an in range result.

You can not remove that tedium by a library, since any potential application has different requirements and now you need to start out your program by defining those requirements for your library. All operations you perform need to be analysed based on your initial requirements.

Also, fixed point arithmetic does not fix floats. You have an uncountable number of real numbers and you try to fit that into 32 or so bytes. It seems simple to understand that any such projectiom whatever you try has enormous drawbacks.

That floats do not behave like real numbers is the consequence of their design requirements. Fixed point just means instead of being able to pretend that floating point operations are sometimes inaccurate real number operations, you have to deal with constan, domain specific renormalization and have to be extremely careful aboit choosing scaling.
I haven't used Livebook, but I think Kotlin Notebook is very similar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLYlDJPelQ
> unless it is a Indigenous news organization

Sounds like an easy way to get on the grift train.
Reads like a substance-less ChatGPT comment. Probably is one.
Does it support Metal / MPS acceleration?
I think this is true when there is competition and/or the good/service is not a necessity. If my electric company decided to add a mandatory $100 fee then I'd be forced to pay it. It's also why the emergency room can charge so much- are you going to shop around if you are in the middle of having a heart attack?
> Unsafe optimizations should not be done, such as automatically using FMA,

I agree with most of what you said, but automatic use of FMA is not an unsafe optimization. If FMA breaks your code, your code was always broken in the first place.
I remember when Google changed the colours of roads, and I filed a bug report. Motorways are blue darnit.
Wax would melt or sag though, and that would be an issue if these are intended for window displays. There's also a bit in the original video where he puts one in the oven to cure some additional material (which looked a bit like PVA).
That would prove that they'd done it, but not that anyone knew how (including the original authors). If this is going to be useful, we need to know how to make it.
Is hibernation typically done through the swap partition?

I thought most OSs would just be using specialised sleep state files given that the hibernation image would need to be a serialised dump of all allocated memory whether resident on physical or paged out to the swap space. By extension, with swap disabled hibernation could still happen as long as there's enough physical memory free to handle writing to the sleep image on disk.
Josef Hofmann and Daniel Barenboim played pianos with smaller keys.
> tell me what timeline you think they have in mind.

The timeline that both contestants are available and content with? It's not like there is deadline. This is just some lighthearted fun. There is literally 0 reason to rush it.
We thought that at the SaaS I’m working at but AWS scheduled maintenance in our AZ and that led to significant downtime with nothing we could do about it, no compensation, nada. It was basically our fault because we didn’t use multi-AZ. I can’t remember if this was RDS or ECS but we figured if it could happen to one critical service in a single AZ, it could happen to another.

I think Proxy _is_ overkill and perhaps expensive for what it is. For a pg install, running pgBouncer isn’t difficult. But I guess that depends on whether you’re authenticating with IAMs, which doesn’t sound trivial with bouncer (it might be).
Disinterest
It is a defense against evidence of increased cost to consumers, ok, but that's again not the argument here. Not a 'perfect' defense might have been better phrasing since it's not a defense against the arguments DOJ appears to be making.

It doesn't matter if the government lost Ohio v. Amex, and it doesn't matter that it's about a two-sided market - I was using the Court's reasoning and outline of other ways to demonstrate anti-competitive outcomes. When the Court phrases something in their decisions a certain way or creates a test, it doesn't matter if the government fails the test in that case - the test can still be applied in later cases and in lower courts. Here, it wasn't even a new test, it was just a recent illustration of an earlier one.

In Ohio v. Amex, the Court found that Amex improved product quality and increased transaction volume generally. Regardless of the fact that the government would have failed because of the 'both sides of the markets have to have anti-competitive outcomes' elements, the way to see if it meets the bar is cost, quality and volume.

It's difficult in this market to make the case that decreased cost counters decreased quality or competition because the competitors also operate at zero cost to consumers. I'm not so sure they will fall on their faces arguing that the quality of the product is lower, frankly - we'll see. Either way, cost as a balance for anti-competitive behavior should not be a panacea here.

That said, Google will probably win anyway.
The article thesis about technology impact on the prevalence of serial killers doesn't really hold up against the fact that rate of unsolved homicides has sky rocketed since the 60's [1].
One could offer a lot of speculations on how to reconcile the disappearance of "traditional' serial killers with the jump of unsolved homicides. For instance, I have read in the past articles about "experts" warning about a possible epidemic of undetected serial killers...

[1] https://www.murderdata.org/2015/01/how-many-unsolved-murders...
Curious, how would LLMs help here?
The vega-lite wrapper is very slim too, basically just converts your slithery_snake keys into humpyCamels and corrals between different data sources, so if the docs on the elixir page seem sparse its because most of the "how do I build a graph like x" is just on the vega docs. You can easily dump it to json to share too, etc.
knowing how to invert a binary tree is skill you cant learn from an employed software engineer, a pathway to many entry positions some recruiters consider... overpaid
> but self-administering the modern React deployment chain is tedious

Is it? It's not the React part that's adding to the tedium, I am sure; that part can be trivially automated away. Is it any more tedious than self-administering the deployment of older-school php apps?
People would still make it and just say that they came up with a different way. it is not so easy to prove what someone else is doing behind closed doors.
Peer review isn't the same thing as validity either. Both are proxies, sales are simply a much better proxy. Especially long term sales from an established company.

Look at it like this: a Peer Reviewed (tm) article comes out saying "Foos cannot Bar, it is impossible". The same day, Apple releases "Bar for Foos, $8/month". Over the next year you see media outlets discussing how well Foo Barring works. Online reviewers talk about how they've incorporated Barring their Foos into everyday life and it has benefitted them in all these great ways. Your colleagues at work mention their fruitful Foo Barring adventure over the past weekend. Routine posts on HN come up where hackers describe how they've incorporated the Foo Barring API's into their own products in some novel way.

Your mother then calls you up to ask if she should get involved with this new Foo Barring thing. What do you say, can Foos Bar?
On ZFS, use a zvol as a swap partition. Easy to create, destroy, resize, have redundant copies for robustness, all of the configuration options you have for a data volume but use for swap.

I've done this on both FreeBSD and Linux, never had a problem. However, IIRC there might have been some issues in the past on Linux.
Mozilla Pocket: UX Blunders and Team Commitment
Apple maps always load slow for me in mobile browser, I give up waiting for the map image to load every time.
I thought that “which way do we face to talk to the dead?” is the material of masterpiece. An innocent question with many answers, one for every reader or maybe, one for every reader’s dead.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Seriously, ANSI/ISO hybrid layout should be way more popular than it is.
Even lead apatite is anisotropic. It conducts electrons along a plane from lead atom to lead atom --- where the phosporous atoms are insulators.

Superconductivity in LK-99 moves along a similarly anisotropic two-dimensional plane.
This is very location dependant. In southern Europe there are places where most normal people actually would refill their water at the fountain when going through a town, and I have even faced small queues when the fountain is small but a slightly larger group is refilling bottles. In many small towns you don't even have a shop so buying bottles is not even an option. There's sometimes a local bar / restaurant but if you want to just get water that's a bit overkill.
They’ve been doing that via plane since at least the 70s.

There’s a local commune by me that has a “ragweed festival” where a pilot mistook ragweed for pot and raided their compound. They sued the state, got some money and now put on an annual festival in light of the plants they did find on the property haha
Why are people ok with letting YouTube do parenting for them, that's what I would like to know.

It's like you're giving your children heroin, and complaining that your dealer has half-assed parenting controls.
Here's a Project Euler challenge featuring it:

https://projecteuler.net/problem=226
> I do think there is a large potential for them within medicine

As do I.
> Leadership generally DOES NOT KNOW that error rates are just as dependent on usage - i.e. that if you search for someone who isn't in the database, 100% of the matches will be false. They do not understand which part of the confusion matrix they are being told about.

In 21-st century should it be a mandatory requirements that people in leadership positions in highly technical fields must have at least basic technical qualifications in the areas they are making decisions?
I believe you can hover the corner of a graph and hit the (...) disclosure for a "save svg" button.
Remember when Zoom lied about having strong encryption, and sharing data without permission?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-...
Not OP & IANAL… by having the LLC in Delaware, it’s probably nominally easier to convert to a Delaware C corp at the desired time. Or maybe OP lives in Delaware.
I never claimed that safety gear provided no additional safety.

Another commenter pointed out that unhelmeted motorcyclists contribute to the supply of organs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027107), so I think it all works out.
20 years isn’t that long. The point of patents is to quickly get secrets out into the public while still incentivizing people to make them known.

In this case this tiny company doesn’t have the resources to optimize production and has failed for years. They might eventually receive outside funding and figure it out, but they could also fail without releasing their secrets as has happened a few times.
Yeehaw :P
At least in Spanish, my rule of thumb is that "barco" is for bigger boats and "barca" is for smaller ones (and then you have Barça which is the football/soccer team).
Google offers (or at least used to) an API which takes 4 or more WiFi Mac addresses (part of what is broadcast) and will return an approximate location. I think the data is collected by the street view cars. If you move house and take your WiFi modem with you it causes confusion, hence the need for at least 4 different devices.

The sampling rate seems slower than it used to be.
> If iGPUs can get to punching in the same weight class as the RTX 3060s

This will never happen; a discrete card will always be faster. The interesting question rather is: will or when will iGPUs become fast enough for most purposes that currently still require a discrete GPU?
Turning my Framework laptop into a tiny desktop
Most software projects are quite trivial and routine. If such a project can be efficiently done remotely, there is an option to hire remove devs from EU, and there is a much cheaper option to outsource to India, Eastern Europe, etc... Most companies choose outsourcing.

Outsourcing has it's overheads, but even if hiring remote would be a better fit, most companies can't adapt fast, and for most companies that are not startups, few years are not that much time.

The best way to work remotely is to move a place with low cost of living, and bid on jobs from all over the world, in this case there are plenty of options to choose from.
> Corporations grifters all the way up and down, who can blame anyone for trying to capture what money is on the table so they can give their kids a better life

Pervasive sentiment that is repeated almost everywhere, but I am unsure is reflected in reality. For example, are you grifting? Is your spouse? Is your family?

Leaving aside self-reflection (that may perhaps break these delusions, which is why I asked), I am wondering how you think anything gets built or done if everyone is running a grift? For example, where did the computer you typed this one come from? How did your house spring into existence? What did you eat today?

I don't blame anyone for thinking this way because hyper-capitalism has created a lot of reasons for dissatisfaction and discontent. Is everything a grift though? No. Are there people who do that? The best examples I can think of that are relevant for the HN audience are Holmes and SBF. Without any evidence, I don't think it's fair or accurate to call someone a grifter, or assume that they are. It's not smart, clever or forward-thinking to be pessimistic if all you can do with that pessimism is create delusions.
I've seen platforms that will review your website and record a video of it. It's not realtime. I think for realtime, always available it would cost more than $100.

https://userbob.com/

https://www.userfeel.com/

https://www.fiverr.com/romanruzin/review-your-website-and-re...
Anywhere you put your data can be read by the people that run the place, regardless of what other products they make.
Yeah, right iirc.
Reproducibly is kinda a cornerstone of academia. This isn’t a product sneak peak.
I think there's two main things:

- Elixir's scripting makes it super easy to write a one-liner that tests a function, that'd be a lot more verbose in many other languages

- You need the docs tool and unit tests tools to 'speak the same language' to make it work, and for whatever reason Elixir devs don't seem as intent on reinventing tools like those as some other languages
Chinese engineer working in China here. You totally missed the point.

> bet against the Chinese

criticize the lack of innovation is not betting against anyone. it is obvious that China is not leading in anything that can potentially lead to the next industrial revolution.

as explained, no one is betting against China, but would you bet on China to be the next No.1 tech superpower? personally, I won't, my day to day life here tells me that it lacks literally all key ingredients required for such success.

not saying it is not doing okish, but doing ok including becoming the world's largest economy and tech investor is not that fancy when it is purely backed by a huge population size. On a per capita basis, R&D spending is extremely low, I couldn't name any single high tech company here that has a deep & healthy engineering culture.

> taking advantage of western smugness

the west has all the reasons to be "smugness", just look at the recent developments, reusable rockets, private trips to the space, the satellite internet constellation, ChatGPT, mRNA vaccine, the 100% remission rate for a certain type of colon cancer...the list goes really really long and I am just talking about progresses made in the last 3 years.

tell me what Chinese counterparts are? some cheap EV cars made with highly toxic materials? or maybe some mobile apps that popup ten ads for making each online order? or maybe you are talking about the so called online payment system that literally locked an entire generation of senior citizens out of real social life?

> They improved so much in the last three decades

I live & work in Shanghai, a typical match box sized apartment inside the outer ring road now costs 1 million USD when the average wage is $10k USD per annual. Simple maths tells me that one need to be keep working since the end of WWI non stop to buy such an apartment - assuming you don't need to pay tax and you don't eat, drink, buy cloth.

If you work harder to get yourself a fancy Chinese EV there, you can drive your "symbol of personal success" to a countryside, in just 2 hours, you can get to a fancy province called Anhui where you will be welcomed by millions of locals making $1k USD per annual. Don't get too shocked when you realize that those on $1k USD per annual is actually the lucky one, the pension rate is about $25 USD per month.

You need to be totally blind to call all these "improved so much".
Their demo[0] session is actually shared among all visitors, with all expected consequences like spam, dickpics etc.

0. https://desktop.leisink.net/
Thank you Google. I have your phone still and this gaslighting episode is what has helped me finally decide to get rid of Android. Meaning I will no longer be using anything from Google by choice. I hope I can browse the web with their traffic blocked.
No, tapping the "centre map on me" button switches between auto-twirly and north-is-up-by-default, but even when in north-is-up-by-default mode, it'll still misinterpret you pinching to zoom as thinking you want the map rotated. I hate it. I'd turn on a setting to have North as up always, completely disabling the rotate-by-two-fingers "feature". I can't imagine anyone actually finding that feature useful for anything.

The other setting I'd love to see is to switch off re-framing. Let's say I select a destination, then I'm curious how long it will take to get there, so I select directions. Then I scroll around a bit to see other things nearby and spot something interesting. I tap on it, and try to get directions there too, except directions is already active, so I either have to go through the rigmarole of "add stop, delete the other one", or press the back button a few times to come out of directions. Except when I do, Maps first zooms out to show my entire route, then zooms back in to the original destination, and now I have to scroll around and try and find that second thing again. I'd rather it just left the zoom alone, and let me choose where I want to be looking. Sure, have a button to frame what you're currently looking at if you want, but stop jerking all over the place.
I always put the publication date as 6 months prior on my blogs - Consider it a form of time travel.
This right here is the best take here - half of the work I do as a software dev is explaining what I'm doing to other people, raising tickets dealing with pipeline woes and infra problems and everything but writing code.

Now code is not the only part of being a dev but it's hard to feel productive sat in some agile retro or whatever.
The Keybird X1 (https://keybird-instruments.com/) is a more functional redesign - an acoustic which can be transported as two pieces of 43 and 16 kg and can be tuned by the owner. This can be purchased now.