skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Kia EV6 might be a reasonable replacement. All wheel drive electric sedan which gets pretty nice reviews.
True. A better consideration is the Nissan Rogue at ~3500 lbs. That's a 1000 lb. difference, which is more. But the GP didn't bother to mention the road-wear differences between, for example, the Ford Edge and Ford Escape, which also have a 1000 lb. difference between them. So it sounds disingenuous to single out EVs here.
this has "conservative who listens to rage against the machine" vibes. ...did they pay attention AT ALL?
No, that's wrong. In London for example, 46% of households do not have a car.
And the author downloaded the monitor's edid & bitwrenched it around to make their hack.

I definitely had the same expectation, & was most way through reading, expecting my expectation wasnt going to be mentioned, but I was far from upset. I was quite happy to hear there's kernel workarounds for exactly this kind of thing.

The main shortcoming I feel right now is that this only works if you only have one specific monitor you want to hack, or you are ok rebooting. If the kernel had some way to dynamically override the edid that would be excellent. Maybe a eBPF filter?
Can’t remember the source, but I read that their daily server burn is something like $700k. If their monthly revenue is 80M then that’s a pretty nice piece of profit.
Thank you for providing this! When I wrote my comment below I suspected such a thing existed but I wasn't sure.
Or a Mac.
Designing your own recommendation algorithm using LLMs
I like the idea that their grandmother has a zero-trust relationship with them regarding tech lol
Sorry, but that is insufficient evidence to me for something to be "generally well known." It is well known that there are flawed incentives to testify in Western contexts to things that did not happen in East Asia, this is known among South Korean defectors (not denying that NK is objectively terrible, one of the worst countries in the world - but defectors to SK have been known to say outright false things because this is how they get paid and get media attention and many of these publications will pay for stories).

Something that is "generally well known" by contrast is that China almost certainly harvested organs from prisoners in the 90s and early 2000s.
Every Wi-Fi router, or only routers it's trained on, deployed into rooms it's been trained on with camera footage?
Because its not a big deal.
Using an example from another country, NZ's LINZ also has some great data: https://www.linz.govt.nz/products-services/data/types-linz-d...
See my other comment for a more expanded take, but let's go with Intel for example. If they had to do all work out in the open, and share all progress they make, all they could compete on would be timing and pricing.

Pricing isn't going to be something they are likely to win on, and the timing is either time to market, or time to release IP. For the former, why buy i9 for $1000 when you can be an Indian alternative for $500 in, let's say, 6 months? For the latter, if companies can release findings after some fuzzy period like "when the prototypes have been validated," that's still IP but with a timed secrecy.
compare footnote 87 in pdf and 79 in html, the html version of the translation is invalid and reverses the meaning, uses transliteration instead of Cyrillic, but also where did the other 8 footnotes go? I have a feeling the html was transcribed by hand after the fact
It was called the "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956"[1]. There was a time before almost every family had multiple cars and the population was 164,063,411 (not 350 million) that cars seemed like a pretty good trade off I suppose. Like many old politicians cars have likely outlived a some of their usefulness.

Ran across this Youtube Channel the other day. "Not Just Bikes"

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0intLFzLaudFG-xAvUEO-A

This guy is an Urban Planner I think. Makes a pretty compelling case for things that make Urban areas more livable.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal-Aid_Highway_Act_of_195...
I'm guessing 2012 because I thought that was the year they stopped doing brain teaser interviews, which were very controversial at the time. Googling it now, the exact year is fuzzy -- like, they originally stopped in 2006, but only fully stopped around... 2011-2012? My evidence is this thread and its linked article: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1gq72n/comment...
The problem is that airplanes cost energy to stay in the air. There’s a well-known relation that an airplane operated at best economy (most are) costs ~0.4kWh/ton-km [1]. That per ton of total mass in the sky.

So the problem is that, with current battery technology, the total weight of a battery electric plane is around 3x that of a fossil plane[2]. Taking into account typical efficiency, that means a battery plane requires more energy to move a given amount of cargo a given distance.

And that’s with using relatively ancient fossil fuel engines. Unless batteries get markedly better, you’re better off just synthesizing liquid hydrocarbon fuel from atmospheric CO2 and solar panels.

[1] https://www.withouthotair.com/cC/page_274.shtml

[2] I’ve seen battery conversions of a Cessna 208 and a Cessna 337. After conversion, they have roughly the same payload of a Cessna 182 and Cessna 172, respectively. The gross takeoff weight of the battery plane ends up about 2.5-3x that of the smaller fossil plane, assuming same payload and fuel to fly equivalent distance. In both instances range drops from ~800 miles to ~200.

For another example, look at the Pipistrel Velis Electro: with daytime VFR reserves, range is less than 70 miles (my estimate, because Pipistrel actually doesn’t quote a range estimate, stating that endurance for training sorties is “the appropriate parameter to quote”). A Cessna 162 has the exact same gross weight (both are LSAs), but a 38% higher rate of climb, and roughly 5x the range with same payload. Pipistrel also had to make other compromises: 162 has a 20% shorter takeoff roll and 20% lower stall speed, too.
Except for some edge cases, what else is the use of a 3,000kg 6m truck when it is transporting between 1 and 4 people except to compensate?
I feel the same way every time this “you should be able to deploy on a Friday” topic comes up. These are peoples lives. Yes - ideally, a Friday deployment should be safe. But if it isn’t? You just ruined a small slice of a lot of people’s lives. And for what? Stubbornness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB0_-qKbal4
A defect that was not in evidence for MacOs or Windows.
OpenAI's investor pitch a year ago was that they would make $1B in revenue in 2024, so it seems they are exactly on track. Not sure what the shatters bit is about, especially given that the submission strangely validates it by comparing with 2021 revenue.
> reposting content from another source

Are you familiar with Phoronix?

> Wouldn’t the better response be to post the other article and let that one win on merit?

Whether things bubble up to the front page has a little to do with merit and a lot to do with luck or timing. It is not uncommon to replace a poor source that has nevertheless made it to the front page with a higher quality article.
Insurance companies don't raise premiums in hopes of making you a safe driver, they do it because you're higher risk.

That's the difference between social engineering (policies designed to produce an outcome) and market forces (policies reacting to changing environments).

Social engineering is a layer on top of market forces that rarely works as intended because people aren't very good at predicting the behavior/reaction of markets.
"Agile is a cult." Is a refrain I've had for a few years. I don't mean like the agile process, I mean the agile culture. I went to an agile conference for work and the things they talked about were just really really dumb, I swear they almost professed that agile could cure cancer.
https://slang.net/meaning/w

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/l-and-w

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=W%20%2F%20L
If a video is already open in VLC, yes. It's a little annoying how the button will launch Music if there's nothing to play. I don't give them a pass for this, it's just still a lottt less annoying than Windows.
I agree that this is true, however I also think that when we imagine slavery in the West we think of chattel slavery and the reality is that what we call slavery in these peasant-serf contexts was not the same thing, did not have the same mortality rates, etc.
LNG is highly polluting in practice because leaks are very common in LNG infrastructure.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/03/1077392791/a-satellite-finds-...

Disclosure: I work for a company working on detecting these leaks. https://carbonmapper.org
> The Kia EV6 might be a reasonable replacement. All wheel drive electric sedan which gets pretty nice reviews.

The Kia EV6 is a crossover...

Kia/Hyundai seem to be making some of the better "normal" EVs (not luxury vehicles), but have other issues. Unfortunately they're all crossovers.
More likely they'll just blame you, just like the sibling comment says...

Their goal was never increased productivity and developer hapiness. It was literally what they said "introducing scrum and bringing in a scrum master". Their purpose is to add and manage processes (bureucratic layers) and increase their dependants.
> first few thousand miles or so of driving

Compared to efficient cars, this crossover point is as late as 50,000km. It does not pay off as rapidly as you are implying. Something like a Kia Niro with a normal-sized battery starts with an embodied CO2 deficit of ~5t. Something absurd like a Rivian is 20t in the hole from the jump and will never be CO2-positive except when compared to something equally wasteful like an ICE Hummer.
> McDonald's is trying to run an industrial volume process with ingredients subject to contamination and spoilage

You're getting at the heart of it. McDonalds used to use very simple Taylor machines that were very reliable. The only problem was they had to be taken apart, cleaned, and sanitized at the end of every day. That required an extra employee at closing for about an hour, and another employee the next morning to put the machine back together. This wasn't difficult, but it wasn't totally obvious either so it did require an employee who had been trained on how to do it.

McDonald's wanted to save the training and the $10-$20 of labor, and a few dollars of product waste that this was costing them every day, so they asked Taylor to develop a machine that didn't have to be taken apart and sanitized every day. Taylor did that, and the machine got a lot more complicated. It heats itself up to a temperature that will kill bacteria, then cools back down. If there is a power glitch or fault or for any reason that cycle is interrupted, the machine locks out and has to be "repaired."

Also, as part of the daily cleaning and re-assembly of the old machines, all the O-rings and seals would be inspected and lubricated and replaced if they were cut, worn out, etc. Now that doesn't happen so you get more failures of seals, leaks, etc. which can also shut the machine down.
Agree that patient input shouldn't be necessary, but to replace it we will need to include other inputs besides CGM in a systematic way to get the optimal results. My company is working on how to use contextual info automatically collected by your devices to help (detected activity, measured calorie burn, geofencing, data from meal-ordering apis, etc.). This is especially true given that the CGM data themselves are lagged due to averaging and/or kalman filtering going on under the hood. This is a fundamental problem; Inreda uses two identical CGMs for noise reduction purposes just so they can get clean data with less of a lag.

None of the systems claiming you don't have to do anything in terms of meal announcement are _working_ in the sense of achieving euglycemic parity, which should be the goal. I can say with certainty that the cgm logs from people who don't announce meals on the Inreda device do not look like they are from non-diabetics: there are still often large post-prandial spikes. Inreda likely does better than any single hormone system, but the problem is not solved in any sense.
But they can go rent a car easily. Or they have a friend/family member that they can borrow a car from.

And 46% already means that it's not the norm to not own a car.
well - to be reassuring... we all have a death sentence imposed by birth. As we get older the cumulative chances of it having happened increase, eventually hitting 100%.

Cancer doesn't change that - lots of people with cancer get killed by car accidents or heart attacks. In fact a friend of mine recovered 100% from their cancer and then killed themselves on a motorbike.
It’s immediately obvious that legitimate targets would also include the robot factories. Of course, you’d have robots to interdict those robots. But some will get through to hit production. Largely similar to how it is today.
Yeah, I totally agree - but it seems like there are technological or economic barriers to such a device, or else it would already exist
Politics is a fancy name for "controlling the rules well enough to be able to prospect my little business". Politicians are not all ideologically positive and benevolent, or even patriotic or nationalist, some are really just trying to find a way to do business better.

One of the worst banana republics in that regard are the USA: here in China we'd never let a frigging casino operator rule the country, we have a small pride still.
Don't european manufacturers produce fully electric equivalents of their usual lines these days? All of those can be had in 4-wheel drive, say BMW, Audi etc.

Those brands know how to make solid well balanced cars, good quality interior and exterior. Since we talk about cca Tesla equivalents, price points should not be shocking (they still are to me tbh).
Is anyone here aware of a low-level approach (like TOAST is low-level) for "string interning" in Postgres tables? Not quite like the PG enum type, as there is an unbounded set of values, potentially millions of such. But each value may also have potentially millions of duplicates (usually with a power-law distribution), with the size of the text well-worth deduplicating.

We currently do string-interning at the application level, by:

1. creating an explicit table of strings to join with, with an auto-increment pkey and a unique index on the string;

2. "registering" newly-discovered strings in the data, by inserting into this strings table with ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;

3. then querying back for the string IDs, loading these into a local in-memory cache, and using the cache to map strings to their string IDs;

4. then actually inserting the data, where all strings have been mapped to string IDs.

It really feels like something PG should be doing itself (like TOAST!) But so far I haven't seen any extension that attempts to solve this problem.
>I think there's a bit of selection bias here in that only people who are either very enamored or very unhappy with scrum are going to respond to a hot take on twitter.

All 10 of the former?
I remember buying computer parts to build my own PC around 2000, mostly shipped from California to the east coast. The parts took 2-3 weeks to get here, which I believe was similar to most ebay shipments at the time. I didn't even think to complain back then, the selection and prices were so much better than local I just considered the 2-3 weeks the minor drawback that came with them.
Is your college website eco-friendly?
Population replacement rate is at least 2.1 kids per couple. What are you suggesting here, bud?
The Spring stuff and Rama stuff is split between the api/ and backend/ folders. The backend/ folder is the more interesting part to look at.
I wouldn't really call it "an ugly hack" since the kernel has had this procedure (to load EDID overrides from /lib/firmware) since forever. Introduced in 2012 by https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/da0df92b57311aa1b26... , current doc is in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/872459663c52f5e8a28c0...
It sounds as if Barlow and Robin are talking about different phenomena going under the same name.

Barlow is talking about a tendency for people to have difficulty reacting to change that occurs within their lifetime. They may have fought for change when they were young, but they get attached to the specific changes they were fighting for, rather than to broader principles.

Robin is talking about a broader cultural phenomenon, where some people feel entitled to rule, and present some historical time when they did rule as utopian. That is often not entirely backwards-looking. They don't just want the ideals of their youth, but a broad set of changes that will entrench their power and suit their personal tastes.

The backwards-looking language can be similar, but governance they propose is very different. Confusing it further is that many "revolutionaries" are in fact conservatives, trying to take power for themselves even while claiming to represent broader freedoms.

Among other things, this makes it hard to discuss the Russian revolutions in progressive/conservative and left/right terms. The entire thing ended up just entrenching a different conservative power base, who used progressive language but implemented little of it.
So I do not have a medical background. I have however worked a number of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) projects, and what you describe kind of sounds like a PID control loop, which also is not a simple push up/down approach.

From Wikipedia:"A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller or three-term controller) is a control loop mechanism employing feedback that is widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other applications requiring continuously modulated control. A PID controller continuously calculates an error value e(t) as the difference between a desired setpoint (SP) and a measured process variable (PV) and applies a correction based on proportional, integral, and derivative terms (denoted P, I, and D respectively), hence the name."

Getting PID control loops to work has a lot of research behind it, but it's still hard to get right with new hardware. I would imagine a PID control loop involving organics (wetware) would be much order, and harder still a PID control loop in organics with life-threatening failures possible.
I think the "no meal announcement" features are really valuable for traditionally underserved demographics who, for whatever reason, can't "get good" at managing their disease.

The difference between how quickly food and insulin hit your bloodstream make it seem like there is no way to "algorithm your way out of" meal announcements. Food hits almost immediately, and with variable strength depending on macronutrients in it, and insulin takes ~15 minutes to start working, and peaks at 1 hour, with no concern about BG levels. Can you square these 2 for me and make it make sense?
If I wasn't using https://one.google.com/about/vpn I'd probably set up my own VPN box on AWS.
> I think overall it’s a bit of a waste of time for me

The company isn't trying to optimize for best use of your time individually or to make you happy. They are trying to get some kind of result. And it very well may be worth inconveniencing and annoying higher performers to improve the performance of lower performers to achieve the result they want.
> In an old job a couple non-contributors became obvious.

So your management wasn't doing their job? They're supposed to know who's working and who isn't regardless of what rituals are practiced.
Tweet doesn't link to a full talk or paper, neither conference nor speaker is named, method appears to be inspired by the science fiction in a Batman movie...

Is this even real at all?
Seems like you'd need to know the geometry of the room in advanced (either by reconstructing it in software or training like they did with a camera).
I thought agile “fixed” waterfall because waterfall had all this effort go into a product only to get feedback at the end, which to me sounds like a failure of product not engineering. By having tighter feedback loops it was promised less man-hours would be spent. My impression is it’s changed what the man-hours are spent on. It’s harder to get an elegant architecture over 2-3 years of agile as opposed to waterfall where it can be more tightly controlled. That’s probably the limit of my perspective on the matter. I am positive there are others that know more and have a more accurate perspective on why and how things changed.
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> However, the worst case situation is that they lie about not tracking users and then they get hit with a LEO request they bow down to.

That's within reason though. A VPN is another ISP afterall, so they have to 'bow down' to law enforcement requests. What LEAs can get depends on how zero knowledge the VPN setup is. OVPN[0] for example has been 'court tested' and Mullvad had nothing to give to authorities[1] since they don't collect it in the first place (apart from payment metadata).

I'm not affiliated with OVPN or Mullvad, just a happy paying customer.

[0] https://www.ovpn.com/en/blog/ovpn-wins-court-order

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subjec...
> However, if your brakes (glucagon) can sometimes fail completely, that could cause you to die almost immediately

Failure detection is via alarms to trigger patient action based on the continuous glucose monitor (which has a different set of reliability issues) as well as patient symptoms.

Hypoglycemia becomes symptomatic long before blood sugar is low enough to result in death or serious debilitation and T1D patients know their symptoms well. The risks are not nearly as dramatic as you're suggesting as one isn't/shouldn't be relying on glucagon to prevent severe hypoglycemia, I don't think any system is designed or being conceived to operate in such conditions.

Hypoglycemia isn't really much of a problem anymore with current CGMs and pumps.
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I have released the initial free beta of a music source splitting application for macOS.

Please let me know if you have any issues or feedback!
Sure, I get that they have to justify themselves, but when the answer to that question is (almost) always "Because Nubank!" for the past 10 years it doesn't feel like much of a justification.
Nice. A lot of the ecosystem has coalesced around the Tokio runtime though. I personally like Axum. I know many use Warp, but I didn't really like the "handlers are filters" concept.
This 10,000%

It is a battle to explain this to my kids, e.g. in the context of why we scrutinize what apps they use; and one (of several) reason(s) we don't let them use various apps. The monkey-mind obsession with visible cause and effect is for certain one of the cognitive errors that will doom our civilization.

I would love for there to be hard reset in the premises of surveillance capitalism and our industry's starring role in it.

As with e.g. our collective non-response to climate change, glib shrugs in response to the methodical construction of total surveillance in defiance of passionate, funny, relentless criticism (Cory Doctorow comes to mind), give every appearance of being the sort of thing future generations would look back on with perplexity and justified anger. "How could they not just 'let' this happen, but enthusiastically drive it?" How indeed.
> … The Information reported, citing an internal source.

Luckily the projection is from an unbiased and reputable source that can be held responsible later.