skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
despite that, my canvas bags will never be blowing around in the wind or getting eaten by animals. If they do somehow get lost, they can just be washed by whoever finds them. At some point we can reach peak canvasbag and simply stop making them completely.

People like to point at 'emissions' because they look sexy on a spreadsheet, but there is more to the world than just that.
> All that to say, it sounds like whatever you have been doing has been fruitless, or at least appears this way to the man in charge of your brain. Either you haven't been hitting consistent milestones, or the payoff isn't really rewarding.

You know, this really hit home. I have very much failed to set milestones, or even properly break down the project into smaller chunks - in my mind it's just "the project" and sometimes it seems huge. I'm going to map it all out, then tackle it in smaller chunks. I'll hit the easy, quick tasks first - maybe those small wins will give me the motivation to tackle the bigger tasks. Thank you.
The general athesetic reminds me of the design concept "Mercury OS".

https://uxdesign.cc/introducing-mercury-os-f4de45a04289
Optimizing team efficiency is a team effort. It is a false dichotomy that you either work on “important project with deadline” or do mentoring. There are deeper structural problems that you need to solve first imo.
Indeed, a friend was just texting me from Burning Man an hour ago.
You'd posit wrong. The craft is getting the texture right. Managing the heat, how much to beat it, when to add salt, etc. Chefs don't get asked the question to find out how good it tastes, and in fact, most of their score can be derived just by watching them.
> They were effectively 9 years ahead of Apple in developing a usable multithreaded, preemptive multitasking OS…

But 23 years behind OS-9, which I happily ran on my CoCo 9 years before NT was born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/OS-9%2...
Slide rules build on logarithms as well.

https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Class/OS-ISRM_SlideRuleSe...
This is the last 2 days of Burning Man. How on earth would there be plenty of supplies left at this point? I bet most supplies were used up intending to leave tomorrow. If they are stuck there for several days they actually could run out of supplies. This is a weirdly arrogant statement to make.
Last time I was there in the rain I remember walking was quite difficult since every step added 4-6 inches to your height.
This is deeply unfortunate. WordPad is by far the best implementation of RTF anywhere.
Darmok and Jalad at Gerlach
I tried to build memory using recursive summarization months ago using open source models and what I found is that with a naive implementation, it would often get stuck on a certain topic forever because certain bits would survive all summarization rounds.
Don't walk in the mud. Or do, and be laughed at / cajoled by everyone else.
The natural upgrade for WordPad did never come: basic html or markdown editing.
hope as much money & marketing is poured in cure, is also poured into prevention as it is better to prevent than to cure.

I believe that many types of kidney diseases are linked to metabolic syndrome. Hope media and doctors highlight this to all and sundry that eating less, moving more, keeping weight and blood sugar in control can stop disease progression.
I'm working through this exact situation right now, I really appreciate this insight!
>as a reminder california has a national guard and The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. we have rescue airboats, amphibious LVTP and even airlift capabilities throughout the california desert at various military installations. theres absolutely no reason to "conserve food and water."

so, because taxpayers and revenue have paid for billions of dollars in toys the event-goers should not roll with the punches; 'go ahead and have a great time -- we have a Chinook en route!'

Going to a concert/event/commune/experience isn't some mandatory thing; and the weather isn't somehow unexpected, although it is severe. This isn't the same situation as a typical emergency scene. The comparison to costs of Western war efforts drawn is ridiculous.

Now, if legitimate personal emergencies emerge from the lack of travel access, sure. Roll the services out -- let's save lives; but rain and loss of travel access by itself doesn't constitute the same urgency.
I'm the same way, and can answer: lots of things feel sort of useless, but so long as they have a deeper purpose I'm all for them. Like I usually don't have a problem with motivation for taxes, even though they feel sort of useless, because I know they're important in general. Although this isn't totally reliable... you're right, sometimes something feels too useless and I have trouble starting it. But usually it's fine.
No. A small thumbnail “visual derivative” is included with the neural hash, which is unlocked (only for matches) only once the number of matches exceeds a threshold.

This was all outlined in the first two pages of the white paper, and explained in more detail further down.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
> via COSPAS SARSAT

If you’re looking for a device, search for a 406 MHz PLB (personal locator beacon). They’re $300 to 400 and have no ongoing operating expense.
> Tim wasn’t delivering software; Tim was delivering a team that was delivering software. The entire team became more effective, more productive, more aligned, more idiomatic, more fun, because Tim was in the team.

This was the money quote.

Teams do big stuff.

Good teams do good big stuff (very good).

Bad teams do bad big stuff (very, very bad).

It seems that the hyper-competitive nature of today's workplace means that engineers consider their own teammates to be "competition," and we never really get a good team. This is especially true, with the mayfly tenures of most engineers, these days.

I'm fairly happy with the fact that I was able to keep a stable team of experienced, high-performing, senior C++ image pipeline engineers together, for decades.

Other managers would bust my chops for being a "Santa Claus" manager, because I refused to burn them out, and often intervened, when other managers were being too hard on them.

It seemed to work. When my team was finally rolled up, in 2017, the engineer with the least tenure had a decade.
Harry Nyquist isn't exactly an unknown engineer who doesn't have his own achievements, though - not sure why people are saying he would be fired in a modern company!
How many of those were capable of self-driving?
There is a chart on this in the article.
> I've noticed America tends to be way more hypochondriac than average for some reason

That’s funny, I had the opposite impression after my various EU business trips over the years. Our colleagues were shocked that we could just touch the fruit and vegetables at a store without gloves. We were surprised to go to stores there and see fruits individually wrapped in unnecessary packaging.
I would note that almost everything in computing we use today is super hacky stuff sufficiently abstracted and error handled such that it seems like it’s not at all a hack.
Can you please share your journey about moving to Berlin?
Star Labs StarFighter Overview: 16 inch 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop [video]
This is possible on the web with the Visual Viewport API.
Ask HN: Thoughts on isolating an “allegedly” offline site?
Hi,

I find myself wanting to quickly parse/decode/unescape sensitive data via randomly found sites but cannot. I wonder if there is an existing solution to making sure a random base64 encoder site will not phone home with my data.

Specific use cases:

- Parse a JWT using jwt.io

- Encode/unescape/parse data from a specific format (base64, protobuf, ...)

- Hashing a password

- Generating Bitcoin wallet using bitaddress.org

The solutions I end up doing:

- Finding a way to do it offline (in a terminal) or using/writing a script I can safely audit.

- Load up a VM, load the site, cut it from network, make use of the site and throw away the VM.

I am debating on creating a Browser extension to solve this problem, but wanted to get ideas from you to see if I am missing something that already exists.

The extension would have an isolate functionality that would:

- Cut off network access for a tab

- Cut off access to other tabs (Not sure how to do this, temporary containers in Firefox?)

- Listen for tab close event and clear all browser data for that site (cookies, storage, workers, history etc...)

What do you think?
I live about 2 hrs south of BM quite near the route that all the burners take to get to BM. It's rainy, has been for the last two days. But this is Nevada. It'll dry up and be like it never happened in no time.
This doesn’t sound right. You should be able to reset the password or at least start the process using the Apple support app or the website on the iPhone itself…setting is not the only way.
It isn't on the Reservation. It is BLM land. Parts of the road (state route) out there are on the Reservation.
Thank you, I am in the UK and I'll follow up on this.
not even just when mixed with water. you can develop some really nasty cracks and lesions.
Indeed, the navy sent my dad to go get his PhD before they had him as an engineering officer on a nuclear submarine. Sure some young enlisted might do some of the physical labor, but they're being supervised by someone who knows what they're doing.
For most tax payers in the US, the government has all of the necessary information to calculate tax liability through W-2, 1099, and other filings from third parties.

A pragmatic approach might be to use this information, populate a tax form, send out for signature confirming accuracy and completeness. The balance of the tax payers could continue to use Intuit, H&R Block and others to handle their circumstances.

There is a contingent of Congress that does not want to make tax preparation easier because it aligns with their narrative that taxes are bad. The more painful tax preparation is, the more sympathy they find with this narrative.
It’s not even a city, more like 2/3 of the urban core of a large city. DC’c population is about 700k, but the metro population is over 5 million.
That situation calls for an entirely separate set of legislation.
Putting the math and physics in two separate sequential semesters was a problem I recognized.

I found it less efficient that the math was taught in a vacuum, and then later the application of it. For example, the math for acceleration was taught before, and separate from the real world application. When that application was taught, the math became a lot clearer to me.

In an era where schools seem more interested in passing students as a KPI, and less about actual education, I imagine the problem is worse.
> There is a very good chance that the same feature set could have been implemented with just 10K lines of code, less buggy and in half the time

A significant part of my personal code review process, is going back through my code, and factoring out complexity. It takes time and humility, but is very much, in my opinion, worth it.

Documenting my code is a trick that helps. When I am writing why I did something, I sometimes reflect, and say to myself "Didn't I just do this a few lines back?"

My code tends to be complex, by necessity, but it should be no more complex than absolutely needed.

A big, big tool for that, is OOP inheritance, which is considered "bad coder" smell, these days.
Kind of, yes. Normally one thinks of something like lye being caustic, not dirt, even when wet.
If you can't concentrate then you don't know why you are doing it. You have to write down what overall goal you want that you are very interested in then break that up into weekly research tasks where now you recognize that doing those tasks is necessary for said goal.

The only time I really used leetcode was to practice a basic linear algebra course. I had the idea to identify every non-linear problem on leetcode then see if I could use the course I was doing to practice writing linear approximations as solutions then leetcode was interesting to me otherwise yeah I can't just sit there and do it hours per day without a reason either.

Try briefly auditing some advanced open courses and see if anything there is interesting to you that now require self-directed research so you can figure out what's going on. Erik Demaine has a bunch online.

Find an open source project that is interesting and become a contributor now you have to teach yourself the codebase and whatever it is they're doing. Find a technical podcast then make a YouTube video animating in some software visuals to describe what they're talking about. Whatever you choose it should be something you really want to do everyday and then discipline isn't a problem
That sounds like a fun project if you are a bitcoin millionaire that moved to a ranch. Rip the components out and try to re-engineer all of the control systems.

Given the number of sensors, it could also be a great way to collect open data for farming innovation, environmental data, etc.
Imgur mirror: https://i.imgur.com/TgfKL9a.jpg
Not 100% what the article is about, just a short story.

In one of my old jobs we had megabytes of infrequently accessed static key-value data. If we simply loaded it into a const (i.e. a hash table), it would blow up the RAM so much, that we would need to upgrade to bigger VPSes. If we put it in database, it would make it annoying to keep these tables up to date, track changes in them.

I figured this was one of those in-between use cases, where the best solution is to have zero-RAM lookups from SSD. In my case, I wrote a little ruby library[1] that arranges data in equal cells in a file, and performs binary searches via `pread`. This was perfect for us, because we kept data in our repos, sacrificed no RAM at runtime, SSD lookups were fast enough, and we didn't have to support a more elaborate db.

[1]: https://github.com/maxim/wordmap
This is literally how it works in South Africa. It’s called auto assessment. You get sent a form to confirm all correct and click submit online. 99% it has all the correct information
Original forecast called for 1 day of rain at .3". Forecast as of now has 3 days of rain and a total of 1".

Government involvement will incur a fee to the org. All the BLM LEO rolled off playa to avoid this.
I’m sorry to say that if the mere possibility of a lawsuit is stopping someone from pursuing a dream, they weren’t that serious about it. Either that, or they’re greatly exaggerating the threat of lawsuits in their mind.

It’s not just a United States problem. I’ve worked with several startups in the EU and other countries where founders were jealous of our business freedoms in the United States. The very idea that you can start a business, have it fail, and not be financially ruined for decades or the rest of your life in the United States is a foreign concept to many.

We have it good in the US.
It would be interesting to know what the truth of the matter is!
It would be great, but personally I think that modern chain-of-liability concerns would probably make the premise very difficult to work out.

An EV burns down. The chassis maker points its fingers at what they claim were low quality electronics used, the electronics manufacturer points its fingers at the sharp edges left on the chassis that could create chafe points.

Technical interoperability too aside from standards; in a collision it's difficult to model/simulate/test a car that may have 20 different motor options, placement options, dozens of batteries, etc. They'll all fail differently, how do we regulate that kind of safety?
I'd love for it to work.
We changed the URL from https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/01/spacex-iphone-emergency-satel..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is a lot of psychological research on this. Start with the big 5[1] and then read about conscientiousness[2]. Then realize that conscientiousness is negatively correlated with intelligence at around -0.27 and politically oriented. The last time I commented on this here at HN I went into further detail about what conscientiousness means in real life according to the research and my comment was flagged and suppressed. I guess it made people sad. So I will let you do your own reading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness

There are two things you can do to improve this:

1. Become detail oriented. Too high of conscientiousness becomes associated with obsessive personality disorders and perfectionism, but that is the direction you must pursue in order to improve in this regard.

2. Be organized and tidy. Do you find cleaning your room stressful? Get over yourself and get it done. Make it a competitive challenge in that the next time can you do it faster and better. Challenge yourself and get it done. Each you do it focus on learning so that you improve for the next attempt. Think like this for everything. Keep in mind its almost always better to be wrong and done than to have never started out of safety.

Highly conscientious people tire less when it comes to making tough decisions, which allows them to make tough decisions continuously for longer streaks of time. You can build stamina about this, but be careful. Quality of decision output degrades dramatically with fatigue. I have had to teach myself to stop programming new things when I become exhausted and when to realize my exhaust limit.

Since conscientiousness is not aligned with intelligence you don't have to be smart to be good at this. That means less smart people will surpass you in life if you aren't good at this.
Will this be abused whereby peoples are coerced into trading their kidney for an artificial one for a price?
Yeah, I think they’re pretty cool, too. I didn’t include them to avoid going too much into history …
MouseWars
How do passwords support account recovery?
It's been 16 years since I first encountered 'Structure and interpretation of computer programs' through one of my CS courses.

It, and by extension Scheme, showed me the power of lambda calculus for the first time.

Couldn't really mention much else about that book today to be honest, though I am sure it exposed me to other ideas as well. Just can't remember.
https://archive.ph/Ejgqd
Treated wastewater is very different than raw sewage. It is cleaner than the river or ocean. Reclaimed water is used for non-potable uses like watering plants. LA is working on recycling all wastewater as potable water.
how many times have you we seen anyone comment on an article from a headline alone? Even just the headline is news content.
Do you care if your impression is accurate, or is that woo woo?
so please don't conflate our practices and products with those of Big Ag.

Fair enough --- as long a you don't do the opposite.

It is my understanding that small farms like yours account for less than 10% of total food production in the USA. So in the overall, big picture view of things, Big Ag effectively is "American farming".
The lacquer used in aluminum cans has just a trace amount of BPA.
I'm not well-versed in the use of task queues; doesn't this make one's database layer even more of a bottleneck?

Like, I thought part of the logic of a separate task queue is: 1) TQ operations, such as writing to queue, updating status, etc, involve a lot of writes; 2) If your db is your TQ, that's a lot of extra writes to the DB, which still has to handle requests from the main application code; 3) this will lead you to have to scale your DB layer in some fashion earlier than you would otherwise have to, and scaling the DB layer via, let's say sharding or something, is harder/trickier than setting up or scaling a task queue.

Especially if early/small, who wants to worry about scaling their DB layer unless they have to?

Would appreciate some insight; I have a side project that involves downloading and processing a lot of PDFs; if it sees the light of day, it will need a task queue of some kind. I'm already using Postgres, so it would be tempting to use that as the TQ, so long as that doesn't require more careful management to get working right.
All mushroom are edible.
Some, only once.
do we really have to call twitter x tho
>bad news, carbonated water is acidic.

Is this a relevant factor? Presumably plastic was chosen because it's resistant to acid.
Not at scale.

You could perform phone phreaking in the 1960s, but a million phones in a botnet provides different challenges even if both are technically just a compromised phone.
Meta comment about the comments saying “I didn’t find what I was looking for” - core fact is it was using Wikipedia as a knowledge base. So if your topic is not represented well enough in Wikipedia it’s not going to return good results. Secondly, comparing something that runs on your mobile device or laptop to Google is like comparing an apple to a container ship full of oranges.
I know this rate is too low because it pays less than the base salary of my current job (not counting stocks and bonuses), for a limited time contract and with less benefits.

I simply find the economics of freelance/contract work in the US baffling. The contract isn't even fully remote, so you can't take advantage of geo arbitrage and live in a cheaper place. I'd be surprise if they hire anyone more than an intern-level developer for that rate. FFS, I paid more for some dude to come and tidy my lawn.
This is awesome! I've become preconditioned to seeing slow buggy demos. This is snappy and a great representation of HTMX. Good work!
Get your resume. HR looks up your name. Throws out the resume. It could be fun if you can get an interview. It might hurt you though.
Thank you. Lot's of great advice here, thanks for taking the time to write this all out.
You are both right and need to take a break :)
Fair point, but I am surprised to hear that. My US friends (New England) have been extremely surprised when they hear that foraging for mushrooms is common where I come from (on the rare occasions when this comes up).
Found in a Library Book (2022)
Boredom is useless if kids don't have interests and avenues to pursue them. Nearly every child who attends school experiences hours of forced boredom every day, but that doesn't necessarily yield positive results. While I understand your point about smartphones serving as a constant "dopamine fix," I believe that educating kids on responsible tech use is the solution, not artificial limits that don't address the core issues. In addition, boredom is neither the only nor the most effective avenue for discovering one's passion. A more proactive approach involves exposing your children to a wide variety of activities and interests while instilling the right mindset in them.

I'm not advocating for unrestricted technology use; rather, I'm pushing for a more nuanced approach. I acknowledge that technology, when misused, can have negative impacts, much like poor dietary habits can have physical repercussions. However, the focus should be on the quality of engagement over simply counting screen time. Guide your children towards finding their passions and setting corresponding goals. This will foster intrinsic motivation, helping them utilize their time more effectively—whether you are present or not.
Related:

Why the Apple phone will fail, and fail badly (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9051005 - Feb 2015 (5 comments)
I guess when you compare pure performance of hardware, 10x is very optimistic from the perspective of disk. Probably the author based this number on some some specific application/database context / bias in the measurements. But yea, pure hardware difference might be hugely different compare to that number.
I omitted the step where the technician had me install the Apple support app as an alternative pathway to a password reset, but that had the same issue where a network connection could not be found regardless of being on WiFi or cellular.