skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm always excited to see developments in the Nix ecosystem, but I can't help but feel that this is a little bit tone-deaf. Nix flakes is a sensitive topic in the Nix community. Instead of spending time gracefully stabilizing the currently experimental feature, some of the core contributors to Nix apparently feel that doubling down and building a product on top of it instead is a better way to spend time.

Eh, they had a pain-point, built a tool to alleviate it, and shared it. I suppose the less tone-deaf alternatives are "keep feeling the pain (by not building it)" or "let everybody else keep feeling the pain (by not sharing it)." I can't complain too much with that.

> In addition, we're invited to join the discussion on Discord, of all places, instead of the other two standard messaging platforms that the Nix community typically uses (Matrix and IRC)

100% with you on this point.
China has shown to have an international police force to enact their will overseas. They probably won’t harm you, but they’re inching closer. I would also be vaguely worried about them sharing data with other companies in China that slowly influence commerce in America.

I support the ban from a competitive perspective. Until meta can spy on Chinese citizens, why should the Chinese spy on Americans?

Also I support it from a privacy perspective. We can’t as easily ban American companies from spying on us, but we should use any power to limit other companies from starting business spying on Americans. Make it less profitable globally.
I’ve often wondered of the feasibility of some kind of special built LED monitor with a custom chip to handle real-time (within a frame or two) scan line generation and CRT mask / phosphor glow emulation built in, with a slightly curved glass in front of it to complete the illusion.

That way, to my uneducated mind, the monitor itself would be handling the CRT shader effects and could accept any input, including real 80s/90s/00s devices.

But it’s quite likely that I’m underestimating what it would take to have a dedicated input processor in a display that works as well as the GPU shaders do, and underestimating the minimum amount of input lag required.
That's exactly what this HN post is about. The wiki page being linked to has instructions for doing that.
I'm so happy this is a stdlib feature. This is good enough for me to not need to bring in external loggers (e.g. zerolog) which is nice, and I strongly think that structured logging should be the default logging format.

Logs are data.
Paying for the privilege of beta testing something that puts you and your passengers lives at risk.
The OPM hack was years ago. Plenty of new people on the list they would want.
Great way to view the map here -->

https://engineeringhistoricalmemory.com/FraMauro.php
>It will just randomly refuse to give me a function/method list or claim it doesn't know where a value is defined.

Have you reached out to IAR regarding these issues. Normally they reply and give you workarounds or fixes if the issue is reproducible.
> The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month???

It's per-file.

> I only share the occasional screenshot or small file, so uploads have never been an issue.

When I was running a 1440p monitor, screenshots usually ran into the upload file size limit. I would have to manually resize them. This was a hassle, so I started paying for Discord Nitro. I'm fine with it, I certainly get value from Discord.
Ben Franklin's Greatest Invention Put Him at Odds with Religious Leaders (2022)
It seems that the science of ecology developed 200 years too late.
I'm looking to see if there is a table for power consumption with the thing all "lit up" and operating at various speeds but it doesn't have it in the datasheet.
There are costs to working on different exchanges and out of country exchanges.
Largely? They give absolutely zero shits.
Many comments are criticizing the fact that this only runs in the cloud. And if Microsoft instead announced this would only run locally, they would instead be deploring the massive remote code execution vulnerabilities that this opens.

For this feature, there's no question that providing it in the cloud is much, much better for security. Microsoft can now execute the Python code in Firecracker VMs which provide much better sandboxing than your local PC could.
Public may overestimate pushback against controversial research findings
to be clear, the headline is a bit of a eye-catcher, but it refers to this sized family:

"It could be a family with two income earners — one earning $40,000, and another earning $60,000, with six kids. This is not a family that we would consider to be doing well."

given that the average Canadian woman has 1.4 births, it is quite the exceptional family
> I have a residential sized propane tank for gas

Could you elaborate on that? I imagine most people do not have any concept of that. Are you talking basketball, person, tiny car, SUV, or something else in terms of size? I'm imagining something between tiny car and SUV.
I don't see how this applies here. This is a zero-sum game - you are fighting against the money of IP interests, and they have way more money than you. How would anything positive happen out of this?

Vigilantism is immoral, and is not likely to work, but that is still more plausible to do something than trying to out-spend large corporations in lobbying.

Or, move the whole operations to a country which doesn't give a damn about all of this, that's also a way of solving the lawsuit problems.
Japan Dumping Radioactive Water from Fukushima into Ocean This Week
This "article" is pretty much regurgitating a fairly brief part of a much longer New Yorker article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...

I'd suggest reading the New Yorker article instead. There was a discussion on it, but most of the comments were flagged to death, so I'm not gonna link it.

Other bold claims include Musk personally talking to Putin and intervening in Ukraine's counter-offensive via Starlink, NASA officials saying he's basically treated as an unelected official, Sam Altman claiming he "wants the world to be saved, but only if he can be the one to save it" etc.
> I've written more then 5000loc long program that plays an MMO for me!

Interesting, that's how I got into AHK and programming in general too. It started as a simple timed clicking script, then became dynamic enough to handle variable timings, then I sped it up by embedding compiled machine code from a C function into the script as hex, decoded into a buffer, and called it with DllCall so more computer resources could go to running the game rather than the script. I went into more detail about my story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160930
If the data showed that Tesla's driver-assistance features were correlated with fewer crashes and better outcomes I'm pretty sure Tesla wouldn't be trying to get the govt to redact this information. Elon would be Xing about it left and right.
> When most people you know use iMessage then Android is a bad experience.

Isn't this because Android uses open standards for its SMS and iOS refuses to do so?
If I were in your shoes, I'd check w/ a lemon law attorney, and see what they think about using that to get a refund. After all, the car doesn't work as described.
Yes, you are correct. They should have said "Silicon Valley, today" instead.
The writer might have access but for the rest of us reading there's a paywall popup waiting on your stories to join Medium.
>ARM designs some pretty good CPU cores, so imagine they offered good RISC-V cores as well.

This is the approach MIPS took. They deprecated their legacy ISA, embracing the industry-standard RISC-V.

Problem is, ARM's management hasn't shown any signs of actually being capable of doing this. It would have to be replaced, and the business model would need a deep redesign.

But everything hardware takes a long time. Can ARM survive until they have competitive RISC-V designs ready?

I will not bet on that.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!

I have been trying to enforce this concept inside of my current organization. There is the saying that a picture is worth 1,000 words. I would extend that, suggesting that a diagram is worth well over 10,000 words.

As an example, we had a project at work that kept getting thrown on my desk and every time it showed back up I would respond back with 20 questions based on limited writeups and JIRA tickets. Each time it would come back, I would get more confused, my team got confused, the architect was confused. Everyone was on different pages.

Then finally, we brought a new technical project manager onto the project (at my bequest to the CTO) and within a week that TPM created a diagram, we have one 30-min meeting where he presented the diagram. We then realized that each team was on completely different pages with what needed to be built. Everyone asked a few questions, but there were far fewer questions than earlier because many of the questions were answered by the diagram. We then built out the solution 3 weeks later.

So we spent 10 weeks spinning our wheels, building, unbuilding, rebuilding, and being confused as we all tried to get in alignment. THen one diagram and a 30 minute meeting later and we all left understanding exactly what we needed to do, we were all in alignment on the project and we were confident in what we needed. It also helped us call out things gaps in the initial solution, which we probably never would have identified until we ran into the problems when following the earlier method.

One diagram can save HOURS (even tens of hours) of time for everybody. It reduces errors and misconfiguration and aligns teams. Diagrams are your best friend. No matter how simple something is, I always make a diagram.
It’s almost like business needs come first
> it doesn’t satisfy some basic properties a real distance (a norm) would satisfy, including the fact that it isn’t symmetric [...] and it does not satisfy the triangle inequality.

Not sure about "real" but one can have useful distances which are not symmetric like the distance between cities measured in time or in gallons.
What? Where do phones work like that? Isn't it enough for one party to hang up for the call to be over?
This isn't the case. You get signed up for these credit services when anyone makes reports about you to them. This can be, for example, your landlord. Paying rent does not indeed affect a credit score, but credit scores are separate products from credit reports. You have a right to your credit report annually, but you have no right to know your FICO (or other such) credit score; they're proprietary products.

Basically, these companies will build profiles on anyone whose information gets reported to them, even if those profiles do not include a credit score.
> It's something that is not produced at any meaningful scale anywhere. There are no industrial processes to do so yet.

As opposed to...replacing every single ICE with an all-electric equivalent. I think scaled up renewable propane would be a much cheaper cost overall than rebuilding every single vehicle in existence.
Instead of Tesla trying FSD with vision only, they should try with more sensors and charge more for the extra hardware. They cannot beat laws of physics by just using vision.
some may consider it dystopian to expect all the poors to commute 2 hours into the city to serve the privileged upper class?
Dale Carnegie approves.
>> There is a pair-- literally, two humans-- who were able to get legislation passed in a state that is of general benefit to a) an industry where they weren't big players, and b) to society in general.

What is this in reference to? Maybe I missed that part.
There are multiple scientific studies show the positive affects of meditation and a myriad of health benefits....

I'm not sure what "gurus" you're seeing but it's not really relevant to objective studies that show it works and makes changes in the brain. I'm sure they are making some claims that are pseudoscience, but that doesn't mean meditation in its entirety is just a "feel nice" routine.

Here's just one of several I found in a quick search-

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895748/

I think of meditation as exercise for your brain. Just like you need to physically exercise to "prepare" your body you need to be doing stuff to keep your brain from going haywire and jumping from though to though like its hopped up on caffeine all the time. There are various ways to do "train your brain" but meditation/mindfulness is one very good way to do it.
Insufficient test coverage doesn't necessarily mean lack of self-discipline. It can also stem from project management issues (too much focus on features/too little time given for test writing).
New Amazon Sidewalk SoCs and Developer Tools
If we weren't legit, it would not be possible for us to have 457 customers (including 17 unicorns). I can leave you more details how we made it legal to partner AI with lawyer.
Does anyone have any insight into why the hell we do this?

the best i can think of is that those that do it learned it from their parents. if parents don't take us seriously and treat everything we say or do with skepticism, and yell at us for things we didn't believe we did then we grow up with the attitude that anything someone says is to criticize and our first reaction is to defend ourselves. meaning it doesn't come to our mind at first that the person talking to us could be saying something we would agree with.

it takes some time and patience to develop the trust that not everyone is against us, especially not the partner we love.
There's a huge amount of powershell support for admins on MSSQL.

e.g.
https://dbatools.io/commands/
https://github.com/microsoft/ReportingServicesTools
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/

Also all the normal Active Directory and file system tools, but those are too broad to go into.
They really enjoy laughing at you.
Those two problems are directly linked, and can be solved together to a great extent.

The first step is to stop pretty much all immigration into Canada for the time being. This puts a halt to the unsupportable increases in demand for housing and other resources.

The second step is to have all of the "temporary foreign workers", the foreign "students", and the "refugees" promptly return home. This frees up some of the existing supply of such resources.

Some people will claim that doing such things would be economically-disruptive. It will be, and that's necessary at this point.

That leads to the third step: remove the various government-imposed restrictions and controls on rentals, wages, and so forth. After the severe economic distortions that have been introduced by awful government policies over the past several decades, the economy will need to readjust to a natural balance again.

There may be some short-term pain, but it would put Canada into a far healthier position economically and socially over the long run.
just google ruining the experience as usual. same with youtube on iOS, they get away with it so why not try breaking the rules everywhere.
yet the existance of these api's serves as an example as to why android can be classified as a unix
A circumnavigation of the Pacific by traditional Polynesian voyaging canoes
There will always be a labor shortage in a way, but that doesn't translate to wages.

In 1990, my dad started earning 4x minimum wage. He was a recent immigrant that barely spoke English, but he could be the foreman of a shop in the SF Bay area that built cabinets because he was a bright guy.

Now 30 years later, he is the senior project manager for a much more successful version of the same company. He is an expert in his field. He works on $2million CABINET projects for Google campus or Rivian's offices. He makes $70 an hour. A little over 4x minimum wage.

Something had gone wrong.
It has been about 10-years ever since I divorced from almost all forms of notifications on all device types, and had almost always had the ringer to silenced. And I think it has been about 5-years ever since I default to DND and only selectively have a list with set number of people who can ring me.

It has angered quite a lot of people but has been a life-changer. I tend to either batch-call the missed ones or just ignore. Of course, there are calls that are scheduled.

I even have a website dedicated to that effort. Feel free to steal the idea - https://phone.wtf
> More like someone needs to save the Internet Archive from Brewster Kahle.

Can't vote this enough. As flawed as the rules are, you know them. The rules should be changed, but you don't change them by blatantly breaking them in the most flagrant way possible.
I cherry picked nothing. You didn't address anything I said. All you did was make excuses for the poor state many young people are forced to live in and added a dose of "it's still better than the USA". You're fed a constant stream of negativity about the US. America is plenty safe, just ask all the expats that live there. I'm happy that you are content and only aspire to have a small rented apartment and make just enough to survive. Would a family of 4 be able to live in your apartment? Would any of them be sleeping on a pull out couch?The way it sounds you have no family and therefore your situation is fine. Many immigrants have children and many young people would like families one day, if they can afford them.

CA, AZ, TX, NY, and everything in between are wonderful places to live. It's why so many young Canadians in Technology/STEM have left Canada with no intention of returning. I welcome them all, they are smart, intelligent and hard working people who deserve more than Canada can offer them.

Disclaimer: 30 year expat.
The Irreplaceable but Toxic Employee
Michio Kaku on Quantum Computing [video]
my wife and I speak 3 languages. So we put shows from YT dubbed in the 2 non english languages. We also have a hard rule at home to only speak to our kids in those languages. We don't respond to words in english.
Its worked well so far, particularly with COVID travel, but it gets progressively harder.

If we spoke only 1, i'd seriously consider putting shows only in a foreign language of your choice. we haven't done that since they are working on native fluency on the 3 that we speak.
Wait what? Holy maccaroni you're right!

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

So I don't HAVE TO pay the license every year! That's good to know if I ever have to reduce my bills.
What's the One Thing You Wish Existed in Product Analytics Tools?
Hey HN community,
I'm exploring the field of product analytics and want to hear from Product Managers and Analysts. Is there a single feature or tool that's missing or not implemented well in your current setup? Your insights could lead to a solution I'm working on. Please share your thoughts below. Thanks!
I meant to do the CO2 capture at gas furnaces in homes. Because the electric power available for heating is ofte limited, but might still be sufficient to gather CO2 from the exhaust of the furnace.

It'll cost energy, but it is a cheap source of CO2 for this electrolysis.
Did... this... really happen? I hope not. I imagine a huge screen above and behind the priest where the guests could see the couple's phones (or laptop screens?) as they change their FB status. Hah, that's the perfect imagery, Zuck's creation being displayed on the altar, in lieu the cross.

Searching for examples on YouTube just gets me junk about bridezillas or "bride reads cheating fiance's text instead of vows".

Maybe in this alternate future, weddings are made official by clicking "I agree" after scrolling through the EULA, formerly known as prenup.
Pixee: Automated Code Hardening and Vulnerability Remediation for Dev Teams
You reminded me of Linus git talk at Google: https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8

was the first time I heard about Perforce :-P
Some of the "people finder" type websites have most of the data they mentioned for free. I assume they source it from the credit bureaus because it had the same mistakes that I sometimes get asked to confirm when a financial institution is trying to verify my identity.

It's good to google yourself a couple times/year and file a request for those sites to remove you. Most of them do it fairly quickly.
Sounds like a really cool project. Did you take any pictures of the box? Also congrats on getting married!
When I used Chrome, I had to use profiles because that's all it had. I used it to switch between personas. It wasn't great, precisely _because_ you had to set up everything like bookmarks and extensions again.

Containers on the other hand, fit the use-case of personas perfectly. I can keep logins separate, keep a work / home session separation, etc. Best of all, I set up certain websites to always use a particular container, even when I'm currently browsing in a different container tab. I can't imagine going back to Chrome profiles.
Ozempic, the ‘miracle drug,’ and the harmful idea of a future without fat
Hard disagree. KPIs are invaluable for any modern tech business because they provide clarity on what the organization's goals are, and how to achieve them.

Let's say you have a goal to increase revenue by 50%. You come up with a plan, and assign different sub-goals to departments like Marketing, Sales, etc. Each person then gets a sub-goal down to the lowest levels of the org.

KPIs provide incredible org-wide alignment which no other management technique before, or after, them produces nearly as well.
Though I agree with your point, i don’t think it’s impossible to do full self driving with vision and an intelligent agent only.

that being said as far as I know the cameras they’re using aren’t good enough
And here's some retro-arch shader comparisons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QOHe4bOZc
It's interesting how aggresively enthusiastic HN are about Excel when it comes to discussions about Excel vs. open-source alternatives. Any mention of alternatives are quickly and aggresively shot down, ocassionally to the point of personal attacks (if you're satisfied with LibreOffice you don't have real job, etc.).

On the meanwhile, just a few threads ago there was a (quite fair) browser benchmark where Chrome comes up on top on almost every test. People in the comments instantly rushes in proclaiming how proud they are for using Firefox even if it is technically inferior, solely because it is not owned by Google.

What's up with this divide? Firefox user, btw.
But that’s not snake oil. Seriously though, these are also my table stakes requirements for trying any of this stuff. I’m fine waiting a couple years for it, and I’m also fine if it never happens. I just want to know if it does :)
I've been saying that Python is the modern day's Visual Basic and now it has become the actual "Visual Basic".
There is still no desktop version of Visio for macOS

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-visio-on-a-ma...
I can totally see us doing that.
Based on reading Taleb, I have a theory and love to hear counterarguments if there are any:

Products are as good as the worst part. Apple‘s complete integration allows them to more easily fix the worst part since they have control over almost everything. Historically, "open" systems, as Bill Gates would call Windows together with the suppliers such as Intel and Dell, could get away with some bad aspects as long as they just threw in new CPUs with smaller transistors. Now that Moore‘s law and Dennard scaling have slowed down, fixing the worst part is the only way to find good improvements.
How are you arriving at this number?
The original film likely had better resolution than the DVD, it would be nice to see a better scan.
The fact that a city is more desirable or expensive isn't dystopian. It's the fact that a city doesn't exist or function without a ton of working class people supporting it while simultaneously being excluded.