skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the system you're working on is small, and going to stay small, then that doesn't matter.

Having good default solution saves a lot of problems with migration. Storing files outside of database today really isn't that more complicated, while benefits even for small files are significant: you can use CDN, you don't want traffic spikes to affect database performance, you will want different availability guarantees for your media than for database and so on.
Just curious, what caste were you born into?
Indeed, most of my daughter's friends in early elementary school lived with their parent in a 1BR, studio, or a rented bedroom. One of them had 3 siblings, making 5 people in a 1BR apartment.
The author says that:

1. OBCs are estimated to comprise 40-45% of India's population

and

2. Exactly one out of 180 CS faculty members across five IITs belongs to OBC category

Those two facts alone make it sound like a pretty big deal to me, even if it hasn't been a part of your experience in India. Or do you think he is wrong about those numbers?
This is one thing that privacy.com is great for. If it weren't for these companies no-credit card requirement, you could also use something like Capital Ones virtual credit card, and those aren't the only two offering such services.

Privacy's is especially good imo as you can set spending limits and easily (un)pause cards and create new ones pretty easily. Even outside of trying to take advantage of auto-pay discounts, it's just a nice piece of mind to be able to be a hard check on an accounting "Oopsie", mine or theres.

That said, not a fan of this overreach and general disregard for people's money. Yes, most people are terrible at managing their money, but hidden fees, auto pay not auto happening on the scheduled date, and general corporate greed, disrespect and distrust certainly doesn't help either.
> how did management respond when the progress slowed

Rule number 1: management is never wrong. The progress did not slow down.
Amazon CEO says ‘it’s probably not going to work out’ for employees who defy RTO
You'd lose that money... it's been shown time and again that your phone is tracking your conversations for ads, especially android and the home devices.

As an experiment, start talking about needing baby supplies regularly, not in any other format (assuming you aren't and don't have one)... you might just be surprised about the outcome.
Is that really all the Economist aspires to be?
Who the hell downvotes that? Sad.
So, HTML: no but CSS: yes?
There you go Havana syndrome.
What is going on with these constant captcha's? I'm human but can't seem to read stuff nowadays.

Anyone debug this?
1 cent a mile might be losing money in some areas!

Registration in Michigan for a Model 3 is over $500 a year and used to be closer to $700.

If you assume 12,000 miles a year that's only $720 total since the 3's release at 1 cent a mile.
So am I to believe some tech figure on Twitter with a large following who has an unnamed source? Or Sam Altman, who himself has said that no work whatsoever has been done nor will be done on GPT-5 in response to the rampant speculation this single tweet created?
Nice post. Figma's engineering blog looks great; right up there with Airbnb's and Etsy's which I also enjoy.
Congrats to the folks involved.

Even knowing this is partly motivated by branding/marketing, it's great to see a16z getting more aligned with solving real pain points (vs crypto and churning out shallow media in recent years). Hope they can keep it up and hopefully more "thought leaders"/VCs follow suit. Best of luck.
How did we end up at a point where creating life turns midlife into a grueling thankless slog?
My worry is that we are lobsters slowly being boiled.
Oh yeah, I never questioned why the swings were rubber. They just don't work for jumping!
Is Solar API basically Project Sunroof but open to developers to put in any geo boundaries? This feels huge for scouting and conceptualizing solar projects.

We have a small backyard operation that I want to scale to support a lifestyle, then have passive income as well.
Standard playbook in this situation is everyone involved saves face by blaming the team who were driven out, then they adjust to the new normal and everyone forgets they were ever able to build and ship software.
IBM, Xerox, Bell Labs, DEC, Sun...
How would the GPL stop them from removing the check? They'd have to share their changed kernel source, but nobody would want it.
"Real-world applications include environmental monitoring or disaster response."

Reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/2128/
My wife dropped out of the workforce for our kids in the US and then wanted to go back to work once they were more independent. It's not that we couldn't make it work financially.

Anecdotally, I was against us having the second child. I wanted my wife to head back to work once my elder child was 3. There were a bunch of reasons she had dropped out but she had liked her job.

She was lucky but not everyone is.
> Microscopic ice crystals and dust, for example, containing bacteria and spores capable of withstanding the conditions in space, can spread into space from areas of a planet’s upper atmosphere.

I've given this some thought before. I like the idea of mushrooms being all around the cosmos due to their adaptability and the resistance of spores.

Also, the universe might actually belong to viruses.
I'll be up there, but should see my kids reach my current age. Hard for me to be optimistic about the world they'll inherit, though; I'm very concerned about the effects of climate change and the effects of things like diminishing ground water supply and ocean warming.
Living in the US, I'm also concerned about their ability to afford healthcare if something catastrophic happens and the lack of meaningful social safety net. We may emigrate from the US to solve these problems.

What do you think the world will be like in 40+ years that gives you hope?
Are you happy with your creation of e-waste? Seriously, a phone a year...
Please feel free to follow the blog. I write about parenting in particular.
> if the work is OSS/public and you aren't trying to start a VC-backed company, it could be!

Yes, it is a company that often applies and receives grants. For example, we are working on adding AI to security tools such as https://github.com/CoinFabrik/scout
of course, forget the history behind the formation of Taiwan. forget that the US props it up to maintain a military enclave where it has no right to be, in order to threaten China. it's just an innocent independent democratic people that China seeks to assimilate for no legitimate reason!

Even _without_ the historical context it is completely justifiable from a national security perspective to push out the military presence of the most aggressive nation in the past century.

Lastly - the gall for an American to invoke "self-determination" after its track record.. simply incredible. We are what, one week removed from the leaks re: Imran Khan?
You don't need to do regen to get that energy back. Your car gets significant air and rolling resistance going down the highway, its having to put in energy to keep the car going 40+mph. Using that stored kinetic energy of just going down the hill is extremely efficient so long as you're not having to do any braking, which unless you're rolling down a mountain you probably don't need to "ride the brakes". Hence my "unless its a steep grade".

The energy does not need to go back into the battery. It offsets the energy needed from the battery to keep the car going at speed.

Regen efficiency makes no difference in most hills, because you probably won't be using the regen for it.
NSA releases Ghidra version 10.3.3
for Christianity, at any rate, hard omnipotence is clearly ruled out by the Crucifixion
I mean, canonical already did this like a decade ago.
...but why? It seems like a great, simple concept, and not one that seems very expensive to maintain. What's the reasoning here? Like, what sort of returns did they expect here, and why weren't they met?
The common thread is that scrum always prioritizes the time of the managers over the time of the people producing the work.
It is silly how blindly they handle these cancellations. Not necessarily in a "wow I can't believe they cancelled so many things" sense but a "they don't really try to clearly distinguish services they are more serious about vs ones they are less serious about". Out of all the products I'd guess Google is serious about keeping long term none of them really have any messaging that's the case so when things like Pixel Pass get cancelled it hurts trust in everything.
Climate change brogrammer starter pack.
This sounds useful for malware persistence after a backup recovery
In the UK, ordnance survey does this. It's better than osm for most things, and worse for others
No, the US population was in favor of the war overall, especially at the beginning. I don't know how this compares to the Vietnam war. But the Vietnam war involved conscription, so I'd bet that had more domestic opposition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_in_the_United_S...
At least Google Photos can sort images by date taken.

That's light years ahead of Microsoft OneDrive.
Russia and North Korea ‘actively advancing’ in arms deal negotiations, says US
Only the creator needs to have an account, not all users. If you like jitsi or don't want google, etc, then just start it and nobody else needs an account.
Ukraine controls more territory now than a few months ago. It takes some real spin to characterize that as a "failure".

The mainstream media has never been an accurate source of information about military matters, so I don't know why you would even mention that.
When you’re getting f’d over, it never “comes up in conversation.”
I wrote a paragraph about this issue but cut it out for conciseness. I think it is worrying that if data is truly 'the new oil', it's really strange the names of the behind-the-scenes companies are not in the public debate.
Size of the wheels don’t make an SUV. In fact, wheel sizes have been constantly increasing, no matter the car. My Mazda3 has far bigger tires than the Camry from 15 years prior. It’s also detrimental to fuel economy.
Anyone else picturing this as like the Netflix version of Daredevil when they show you how he perceives the world through sound?
> they have poor sensors and no real coverages algorithms, they just semi randomly roam around

Husqvarna supports that, but yeah it might struggle on very complex areas (I've only really have any experience with it on fairly simple lawns). It's certainly not just randomly roaming around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLdSLJu8acg&ab_channel=Husqv...

I'm not even sure what other brands exist. They seem to completely dominate the market where I am.
https://www.amazon.com/DOM-Scripting-Design-JavaScript-Docum...

1. If you want to be good at this start with a solid foundation. The compile target of the browser is the DOM (Document Object Model).

2. Read about accessibility: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ Understanding accessibility will influence why things are done in certain ways and will make clear the difference between presentation and developers who may not understand this platform as well as they claim.

3. Learn about events and asynchronous execution.

4. Finally, learn to program JavaScript, but understand OOP is optional and considerably more work.

If you can build even the most minor of confidence in those 4 areas you will become a stellar developer compared to your peers working on this platform.
No, they're still saving the world, only now not through crypto but through AI...

https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world/
Not respecting user preferences also has a cost. It's just one that's harder to measure.
It happened because we built an interstate highway system between and through our cities, destroying downtowns and neighborhoods, and dismantling many functional transit systems.

If it weren't for this incredibly massive car subsidy, we'd have a much more balanced transportation system today.
If I made a lot of unwanted phone calls and people complained to the phone company, they would definitely cut me off. As it should be.
Can’t respond to this other user but their source confirms that there is a consistent drop in imports from China since late last year (goes down each month.). Saying “we’re back to pre-Covid levels” is a strange thing to say when Covid clearly saw a huge spike in imports, which are now decreasing. Their framing of this entire conversation seems incredibly dishonest.
There’s a difference between a destination and a waypoint.

If I’m driving through, say, Georgia, I’m not there as a tourist, I’m desperately trying to get away from it, probably via the interstate.

But I’d rather stop at an interesting restaurant that I spot via a billboard than whatever fast food chain happens to be camping out at the next interchange.
Presence of citations has near zero meaning in terms of goals of the writing or bias. These are so clearly opinion pieces. One is bordering on an attack piece.
It's funny to think that Ballmer is somehow the least user harmful Microsoft Exec
> I'm not convinced

So ... read, study, educate yourself.

> the common-sense claims I've heard about how water is a better indicator of climate change than carbon

I haven't heard that one yet. Maybe this will answer it?

https://skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-greenhouse-gas-inte...

> climate science defines sweeping portions of government policy leaves me estimating that the fudge rate is above standard acceptable parameters

Politics has not yet started taking climate change and overshoot seriously. I won't comment further on the matter.

> Consensus is about the most anti-scientific disposition possible, by my estimation, and I'd like to hear discussions from a more diverse range of viewpoints than the stock-standard atheist humanist materialist naturalist POV that colleges tend to churn out

Ah, consensus, the ultimate boogeyman of free thought, right? Because clearly, when a majority of experts in a field agree on something based on, you know, data and years of rigorous study, they must be shackled by groupthink. God forbid they reach a similar conclusion through independent research and critical analysis. No, let's ignore decades—or even centuries—of academic advancement in favor of "a more diverse range of viewpoints," irrespective of their empirical validity. After all, who needs peer-reviewed evidence when you've got opinions?

And let's not even get started on the "stock-standard atheist humanist materialist naturalist POV." It's almost like educational institutions aim to base their teachings on reason, empiricism, and the scientific method rather than catering to every fringe ideology that claims to have found 'The Truth™.' The audacity!

But hey, if you're not a fan of consensus, I've got some "alternative viewpoints" on gravity and heliocentrism you might be interested in. Why let overwhelming agreement among experts ruin a good debate, am I right?
Take your android phone, and start talking to a SO, or friend about something completely unrelated to anything you are going to search for online... Such as talking to your SO (who isn't pregnant, or able to become pregnant) about having a baby, baby clothes, needing diapers... etc. Nothing online about that, no searches, no emails on the topic... because you aren't in fact having a baby.

Then pay attention to the ads you start to see. In my specific case, it was for a specific software I used to use well over a decade ago, and suggested against as it became a really crappy product. The circle I was talking with was a random group of strangers at a restaurant on an impromptu conversaion. It was not my friend group, or anything that was merely coincidence that I received ads for that specific software.

And what makes you think that I feel I'm a special case on this... your devices are absolutely tracking you, listening and intaking every bit of information Google, MS and Apple can acquire. It's nothing special about me at all.
Not only the marriage rates. A much bigger property is needed for three children than for one, so even if poor old husband manages to scrape together enough for a one-bedroom apartment, there is a strong disincentive incentive to have two more children...
Arithmetic logic is *very much* a sought after goal for LLM.

The “intended features” of any sufficiently advanced technology always move forward.

GPT, Bard, etc all want to nail that issue and are dumping cash into it.
Employers are trying to get their power back in RTO plans

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/Return-to-office-m...
Leftfield thought, imagining a tax (vaguely like carbon credits) on energy/cpu cycles/modelling (just my vague idea). With the proceeds going to other projects to diversify the outcomes.

Always seems to me our economy is being less based on money and more on energy and productivity, basically being rounded down to physics as a healthy market economy should.
> Disk space is cheap

Disk I/O less so. An average RDBMS writing a 10MB BLOB is actually writing at minimum 20-30MB to disk - once to journal/WAL, once to table storage, and for updates/deletes a third copy in the redo/undo log.

You also get a less efficient buffer manager with a higher eviction rate, which can further exasperate disk I/O.
I think Scrum is a transitional phase. It is a solution to the problem of having a dev team shared between multiple business functions.

The dev team keeps getting yanked around and interrupted. So every two weeks you get all the business people in a room and you have them make a list of things that the dev team will work on this cycle. Then the dev team can execute in peace. The Scrum Master's job is to protect the dev team. The Product Owner's job is to get the business people to converge on the prioritized list of work.

In a healthy organization, Scrum is much less useful. Scrum combines three different cycles: defining work, executing work, and reviewing work. In a flow-based process like Kanban, you can split them up.

The product manager builds a prioritized backlog of work, and the dev team estimates tasks to help do business ROI calculations. It's a collaboration between product and development.

The dev team implements tasks from the backlog one by one. You can batch up work to make a release, deliver incrementally, or use tools like feature flags. You evaluate whether features are effective working based on metrics.
Windows HID interface is very flexible IIRC, and even added I2C support to the HID module or something... in Windows 8 or so?

I don't know all the details, but as I understand it, you don't necessarily need a USB License ($5000/year membership fee) to have a microcontroller running USB-HID across Windows.

Though I haven't figured out all the details of how all the mechanics work, its still interesting to work through even the most "toy" example of the USB-HID stack.
Musk has a lot of control over the consequences of those decisions. Planning for the future necessarily means trying to understand his reasoning.

He does have access to more information about his decisions than we do, but his choices are so erratic that it's hard to believe he has that much more information. It's so prominent that it was parodied in a film last year: "It's so dumb, it's brilliant!" "No, it's just dumb!"

So maybe he's playing the fabled "four dimensional chess", in which all his choices make sense from some perspective which is hidden from us. But those choices are important enough that we also have to take seriously the notion that they're being made irrationally, and we can expect future choices to also be made badly.

That doesn't justify the invasion of privacy his associates seem to be making here. His private medical choices are his business. But the unjustified release of that information is still information -- albeit qualified by the fact that it's unreliable.
This looks like it was published just to be the MacGuffin in a movie later.
Initially it will bring more asynchronicity. More writing and recording. Later it might involve more XR.
Why? They want to force a cull that favors their own investments?
I formerly used to work in the diabetes management space, and I too would be interested in chatting seeing as I have acquired some modeling expertise in the meantime.
South Korea is just the most extreme example of the global trend of below replacement rate and still decreasing fertility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#/media/Fi...

Central Africa is pretty much the only remaining region with fertility>3. Even in pretty poor countries like Bangladesh, which I learned in school had unsustainability high birth rates are already near or below replacement rate fertility. And if you look at time series trends, is't negative in the vast majority of countries: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
> What's CRAZY to me is why this hasn't always been the case. Who thought it was a good idea to depend on unfriendly countries like China?

This was a complaint from the beginning and it was brushed aside as xenophobia and not understanding modern economics. Its been a legitimate complaint from the beginning that has been completely ignored, even now whike we are trying to move away from China.
I find this pretty wild because I am paying more than this for my iPhone Upgrade Program (which I get yearly upgrades) and Apple One (Premier). Was this just not successful or is this just another case of Google being Google and if it isn't an instant success it doesn't survive?

To me this seems like one of those things you subsidize for a few years to get people using your services and then people are "locked" in. Or just recognize that someone doing this is one of our best customers since they are clearly in your ecosystem and just more beneficial in that regard alone.
>And I agree that this smacks of vague anti-EV sentiment. Where were the gas tax concerns about plug-in Prius drivers?

Changing the tax structure because of one car model with limited popularity isnt worth it. As the fraction of electric cars on the road increases the need to adjust taxes increases.
I think there will always be multiple large players that will compete on price, availability, performance, “smartness”, etc. Especially since GPU resources are finite and there is explosive demand.

I don’t see how you think Google could be a better service for multinationals than Microsoft, who extensively uses OpenAI models. Microsoft is the largest producer of enterprise software.
The new 802.11bf spec includes people and gesture detection. There are already a few home security companies that utilize wifi sensing to monitor occupancy.

https://thenextweb.com/news/wi-fi-sensing-ieee-802-11-bf-ana...
Render.com has free static sites (in addition to docker, Postgres). Basically as if Render and Heroku had a baby.
I am not an entusiast, the only thing I care about is my kids safety, hence a large SUV. When you will somehow remove drunks and low-IQ maniacs from roads, you can come and ask me to buy a smaller vehicle. Until then, please say for yourself and don’t attack my rights to safer roads
ah yes, of course. kernel developers can not control what modules i load, they can only control if the module violates the GPL which it only does if it is a derivative work which is only the case if linux specific APIs are used.

I have been using Linux for decades and I have never seen a single computer that would have remained useful for anything after the instant when all the non-GPL programs would have been deleted from it.

if that includes any non-GPL FOSS, sure, but most such software would have switched to GPL very quickly if that would have been the case.