skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you not name it? Especially if they're bad.
Most 3G/4G modems these days are USB connected and have QMI (for quectel chipsets) and / or MBIM both of which are easier to use from software than AT.
They still have a virtual comm port that talks AT though and that may still be required for a few diagnostic things.

Setting up a data connection over QMI / MBIM however is much easier and more efficient than messing around with AT + PPP
I'm not surprsied. I suck at CSS and just wanted a basic/brittle example that worked in Chrome. Anyone is free to fork my CodePen and make it better though. :D
From an engineering perspective you should not think you can solve
whatever issue you have by writing your own database.
Writing one is one of the harder tasks in computer science.

You should write a database system if you want to, for learning,
fun, to try out a lot of different approaches, and see how and why
things are solved in other DBMS systems.

You can even try using it on small fun projects.

Dont ever think of putting into production on something important.
It will come back and haunt you in the most undesirable ways.
toxic, like everything else related to the modern academic paradigm
Usually our conversations are pretty involved with customers so if they need more time to evaluate something it’s not an issue to extend their trial.
I totally agree.

Lately I've been seeing "A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout making waves with more experienced developers, and I definitely think it's going in the right direction of having richer abstractions and focus on DX rather than forcing the atomization of source code.
Womp womp; I'm not sure why. Someday I'll try it out on Firefox and maybe fix it.
Kinda curious why I’d be downvoted for directly answering the question.
Its the same risk you face walking on the sidewalk or going in a grocery store though where you are also liable to find these crazy people.
Dating the Arrival of Modern Humans in Asia
Ask HN: Where does ZoomInfo gets it's data
It shows open positions and terminations across department. How are they able to get that without HR selling them data. Check Meta for an example.
> You think it's too much or too little?

When it's night in Portugal, it's night in Spain :-)
Maybe in a year or two renewables will reach the deployment rate of fission 40 years ago. I'm glad the green energy transition has finally lurched back into motion, but no, I do not think it was worth the 200 gigatons of CO2 we dumped into the atmosphere in the meantime. I'm speaking of the US alone; multiply it up for a global perspective.
Sellers care about maximizing their profit.
I have high hopes for optical computing applications in ML, we need 100x efficiency to run LLMs on edge.
The boot time is long, the BMS programs are awkward (but maybe I'm not familiar with server-style BMS programs), and I can't get the DDR4 clock as high as it should be for my DRAM. There's a chance my UDIMM doesn't support the speed I want to run, but it hasn't been a big enough deal for me to look into.
I've looked into this before and there are very few tools for this. The only vaguely generic one I've found is Codespeed: https://github.com/tobami/codespeed

However it's not very good. Seems like most people just write their own custom performance monitoring tooling.

As for how you actually run it, you can get fairly low noise runtimes by running on a dedicated machine on Linux. You have to do some tricks like pinning your program to dedicated CPU cores and making sure nothing else can run on them. You can get under 1% variance that way, but in general I found you can't really get low enough variance on wall time to be useful in most cases, so instruction count is a better metric.

I think you could do better than instruction count though but it would be a research project - take all the low noise performance metrics you can measure (instruction count, branch misses etc), measure a load of wall times for different programs and different systems (core count, RAM size etc.). Feed it into some kind of ML system and that should give you a decent model to get a low noise wall time estimate.

Good tips here:

https://llvm.org/docs/Benchmarking.html

https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/08/02/Perf-measurement-enviro...
Slack and Discord are better in this regard how?
More like "from low-interest borrowing"

Institutional buying peaked in 2022 and has fallen off a cliff as interest rates have gone up
That's not really relevant. Ariely was an economics professor in the business school at MIT. He then got an offer as a chaired professor at Duke (certainly with a big raise). Economics professors at top schools have very high salaries relative to most fields, but chaired professors with big media profiles get way more than that.

If you want to see what I'm talking about, here's the data for the first full professor of economics at Michigan that popped into my head. His salary last year was $466K:

https://www.umsalary.info/index.php?FName=&LName=shapiro&Yea...

That's normal for the elite schools. There were rumors 10 years ago that Chicago made a 7-figure offer (denied by the department head at the time).

Edit: To be clear, this is what wealthy schools pay. Salaries fall quickly once you exit the top 15 or 20.
Customers who don't want to pay high prices to abusive oligopolists, workers who could have gotten paid more or been able to work fewer hours for the same salary, taxpayers who would have received the tax on business profits instead spent on compliance costs.
I'm not opposed to a bike, but as someone mentioned below the heat here during the summer isn't conducive to bike riding or walking to work. It's currently 90.5 F in the shade but I'd stay cool enough riding an electric scooter, not so with the bike.

Another concern I'd have is tail spray from the back wheel in wet weather, I've had clothes stained from a similar mechanism in the past.
You really can't blame them when they have already lost to a patent troll already in the weird little world known as "West Texas" and their highly patent-unfriendly courts.

Perhaps if technology corporations in this boat did more to dismantle the weird world of patent litigation around West Texas as a whole, the world and innovation everywhere would be better off for it.
Aegis Authenticator has been a lifesaver for me: https://getaegis.app/
The site is hosted on appengine and I decided that the (rather huge) effort google wants me to go through to redeploy now wasn't worth it for one typo.

If I ever add any features worth bragging about, I'll fix that and migrate off appengine all at the same time.
If training is voluntary and pay back in case of termination by employee is agreed in the contract, sure. Otherwise there's no reason why a company is ok to accept the risk of money loss due to the employee being hit by a bus, but not ok to accept the risk of failure to retain that person.
I'm sure there would be a few, high quality commenters whose risk appetite was sufficient for them to post high quality comments confidently
In embedded serial UART protocols (which may or may not use the RS232 physical voltage levels - often not) are very much still alive.

When you bring up an embedded Linux device, be it based on an old or a brand new SoC the first thing to get running is the UART connection, first to the bootloader and then to the kernel.
The attitudes of some peoples in these regions reminds me of a story:

Two peasants lived across the road from each other. One morning, one of them found his milk cow dead in the barn. Without his milk cow he had no income and no future. Despairing, he fell upon the ground, wailing and begging God's mercy. So deep was his agony and so eloquent his prayers that God Himself heard and spoke to him: "Your entreaties have touched me, my son, and I shall grant you mercy. How may I help you?"

Thinking for a moment, the peasant replied: "Kill my neighbor’s milk cow."

-------------------------------

Here's another more complex version of the joke with analysis of the attitude/psychology that may underlie it:

https://andrewtobias.com/kill-my-neighbors-cow/

(Scroll to the bottom under "RUSSIA PERSPECTIVE")
Except it's a discussion where the author is in reality bragging about how their product is only viable because they wrote their own database rather than using an off the shelf one, and then keeps repeating this "don't write a database" bit in every other tweet as a lame joke.
> 4K video, advanced advertising and immersive audio

Yeah, I mean, 2/3rds of this sounds great.

Obviously both can be done without the DRM parts (some discussion on codecs and patents is warranted though).
They both borrow from each other. Notifications in particular: Android’s implementation was superior from day one and iOS ended up cribbing a bunch of stuff like swiping.
Sam Altman backs Slope’s $30M round to digitize, scale B2B payments
I believe it was this phenomenon and more discussed in the CBCs The Nature of Things “What Trees Talk About”.[0] Well worth the time to watch.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/what-trees-talk-a...
Woah back up.

I live in the middle of the abyss where there is no traffic (or people), but instead rolling fields for miles and miles. If I fall, then I'm falling into dirt and grass.

People ride these things around cities? That's literally crazy! Don't you guys know that cars were invented to keep you safe inside when you crash at 20MPH!?!? Let alone 75MPH. This device has no business being a commuter vehicle in crowded spaces. Bicycles and motorcycles are acceptable because they have big wheels which provide stability via the gyroscopic effect.

That being said, please post links related to freeing the boards of binary blobs: I need a new rural outdoor pastime, and with all this negative press, there's bound to be plenty of vectors on eBay and craigslist soon....this looks super fun.

If you ask me, this is a great device but adapted by the wrong audience. This is supposed to be out there with the off-road, back country BMX and dirt bike crowd -- imagine downhill off-road long boarding.

You know, the crowd who would mock that anybody ever died on one of these going 19MPH, until enlightened they probably cracked their head open on a cement curb.
That's if you don't need to transfer. Brooklyn/manhattan example I'm assuming you are going into or out of the city into brooklyn. Look at the map, all the lines work for that sort of commute, and pretty clearly don't help you if you have a commute that isn't on this hub and spoke system.
Congrats on bringing in nuclear in this topic even though it's not relevant at all. A discussion about renewable energy wouldn't be the same without it!
Pi. The insanity but absolute need to push on with the mission.
Most people I know use Google but did not choose Google. They just bought a smartphone. There are limited options, buy a more expensive fancy apple, or a less expensive, a bit less fancy android. That is the only choice given/taken.

I know, people on HN will counter argument that there are tons of other options, but most people I know that use Google, are not aware.

In fact that is where this lawsuit at its core is about.
It seems surprisingly high for night time production. As I think original comment was about momentary production.
at some point, someone that is okay with whatever licensing terms will create an ATSC3.0 tuner box that will connect to your non-3.0 compatible screen.
> I sometimes imagine what could happen if the software glitched and cranked the throttle 100% forward or back

This has happened to cars too.

> take back street space from the monoculture of heavy, dangerous, energy-intensive vehicles.

This is crucial I think, we need to be able to get from A to B free from a risk of getting flattened by a 40 ton truck
Doubt anyone is going to miss advanced advertising.
Are unregulated industries that much better for the society? Crypto doesn't seem to be too hot for the consumer right now
Theft & rust.
1.4 MW is subway train territory.
So those glassdoor numbers are completely wrong?

Because nothing there reaches 300K.

Is the disparity between disciplines that high?
> January 2022, 4085 GWh of electricity were generated, where 63.64% came from renewable:

- 31.27% wind

- 17.78% hydro

- 6.99% bioenergy

- 3.80% solar

- 3.80% pumping
BeOS was such a delight to use. It respected the user. No circles of death, no beachballs. UI responsiveness considered an actual priority. Gobe productive was my office software of choice for a long time, too. Good times.
How would those same customers feel when the resources are spent on scamming them instead? That's why we have regulation in the first place
That sentence appears to be copied from this 2019 article: https://www.portugalhomes.com/news/article/172/what-taxes-co....

Eurostat's latest data, for second half of 2022, actually says €0.46 for household consumers, and taxes are only about 20% of that.

Edit: Significant portions of this article are plagiarized. I picked another random sentence, "Portugal became coal-free after shutting down its 628MW Pego coal-fired power plant", and it's stolen from here: https://www.energymonitor.ai/power/what-europe-can-learn-fro.... This is literally the first one I tried.
Politicians pass a law saying Google must artificially suppress unflattering news about politicians, and the entire citizenry is cheering it on. Wild. Thank god for the first amendment.
Always take commands about what to work on / not work on from random Xitterers.
China’s Battery Fire Problem
> If training is voluntary and pay back in case of termination by employee is agreed in the contract, sure.

It's insane how willing american culture is to waive what should be rights if they're signed away. Really, the primary right available to you is the right to be railroaded by contract.
Slack DOES have a good income source (buisness use)

Discord and telegram have premium but discord is way more used and have streaming features (really costly) and telegram premium is not that widespread and no one but power users need it
I always assumed they the small referred to the systems (i.e. microcomputers) rather than the size of the journal. I doubt the term "personal computer" even existed when Byte was born.
It is a statement directed at a readership of — and therefore assuming it will only be read by — application developers, rather than systems programmers; and so the context of "Never write a custom database as a subproject of any other project" is implicit.

Also, you're reacting to an incomplete quote. The tweet is:

> "Never write a database. Even if you want to, even if you think you should. Resist. Never write a database. Unless you have to write a database. But you don't."

There are precisely two cases where you "have to write a database":

1. when you want to learn how databases are architected, and educational material on the ground is wholly inadequate (which it is!); and

2. when you discover, under a production workload, that no existing DBMS sits in exactly the right part of DBMS configuration-space to meet your scaling needs — and nor can any existing DBMS even be modified to reach that point in DBMS configuration-space — and nor can you modify the design of your application to scale in a different way; such that the only possible way to address your scaling challenges is to write an entirely novel DBMS with an entirely novel architecture.

I can only think of two times #2 has happened in recent memory: Amazon with Dynamo (the core of S3 and DynamoDB); and Google with Dremel (the core of BigQuery.) Both projects have resulted in many research papers, and later copycat DBMSes (Dynamo → Cassandra, Riak, BigTable, etc; Dremel → Redshift, Snowflake, etc.) If you don't think your DB architecture is novel enough to result in that kind of response, then it's probably not something that requires "writing a database" — it's probably instead something you can do as a hack on top of some existing database. (Think: the way Citus/Timescale/Greenplum build on Postgres.)
BerkeleyDB also improved on things like dbm¹, ndbm, qdbm and cdb.

> I would consider SQLite, itself 20+ years old now, the intellectual heir of BDB.

Indeed. I've worked on projects that only use the btree part of SQLite. If all you need is a btree it's a good place to start.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBM_(computing)
I'd be happy to pay for their ibuprofen if they can prove the adverse effect

But that is not what this regulation would have you do. It would require you to actively monitor your HN comments for adverse effects and proactively publish up-to-date fixes and disclaimers on how to avoid those negative outcomes. The affected parties don't need to prove harm, they only need to prove that you failed in your support/maintenance duty.
I was surprised, too. Data is from https://app.electricitymaps.com/map, so could be quite inaccurate
It is striking to see real life examples of countries achieving high rates of renewable energy production with large amounts of pumped storage and without nuclear power.
I'm surprised how much is nuclear in the states I have lived in. The fact that California is almost 50% solar is pretty crazy too.
[Feature][SolidUI-Model] 0.4.0 visualization model implementation
A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group
Jet engine with no moving parts [video]
"Only recording lines"? There may be more to it than you think.
Legislators intend to use it to remove incriminating news about themselves during the election cycle.
You can just say Square Point...
Both Dune [0] and Nansen [1] in the cryptocurrency data analytics space have high monthly price points. Note that Nansen still has a "Contact Sales" button with a $2k / month price — I imagine this follows the "always allow someone to pay you more" advice I've seen across HN over the years.

[0] - https://dune.com/pricing
[1] - https://www.nansen.ai/plans
On my work machine, one reliable annoyance is an app that requires a button to be clicked, and a reminder from the message bar on the right covering up the button with a notification that you need to click it. So you always have to dismiss the notification before getting on with things. Steve Jobs seeing something like that would have caused a minor earthquake and it would have been fixed. In Microsoft-land, you get the impression nobody cares about GUI stupidity, at least any more.
The (press) discourse is not the territory
> This is a narrative being pushed by pro-Russian propagandists.

Is William Burns, former American ambassador in Moscow and now CIA director under Biden, a pro-Russian propagandist? When he was serving as ambassador in Moscow (in 2008), he wrote back to Washington that Russia deeply feared NATO expansion, and that it might even directly intervene in Ukraine over the issue.[0]

Burns is far from the only person to hold these views. My reading is that these views were actually very common views among Russia experts in the US.

You can't just call all these people Russian propagandists or liars.

0. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html
Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the site rules when posting here? We'd appreciate it.
"Productivity returned to 100% after consultant was eliminated"
Well, the company I worked at did, and it worked out just fine. Not even that many people involved, like 3-4, the main architect and coder had never done a DB before (but is a genius anyway). For the scope and within that domain (not relational, heavy writes), the performance smokes anything out there. In production for over a decade now.
>(or Days of Our Lives I guess)

has any streamer taken the challenge of making the "soaps" available from their beginning? i can imagine this would appeal to a Peggy Bundy type eating bonbons marathoning her soaps.
A "supposedly" whistleblower talked about this in detail. Meta was able to generate the whole life of a person from childhood to old age, and was able to simulate social media activities such as media posting, messaging etc.

I documented the original text here: https://twitter.com/prakgupta_/status/1630669890138025984
Why would it incur a cold start of 10 minutes on cloudflare? :O

Any proof?
Petition: Bring back CSGO
https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/38815968972...
I help startups launch quickly
The demo looks amazing! Congrats for your first show HN. Quick question on the technical side, do you generate the (added) objects in 3D directly or generate them in 2D and deproject it to 3D? If former, which foundation model are you using?
How the PRC Seeks to Reshape the Global Information Environment
For solar panels in particular, the answer is more or less shrug; for current common types estimates range from 25 to 50 years before efficiency drops off significantly, but obviously the technology was rather different 25 years ago so there’s no example of a modern-type solar panel that has worked for 25 years. Domestic panels often have a 25 year warranty.

Of course, _useful_ lifetime may be a different thing. If you have limited space for panels, and in ten years efficiencies have doubled (current panels that you can actually buy are in the 20% range; current lab record is 47% for exotic types, so this at least seems _plausible_), then it may be more economical to just replace them early.
I certainly have an appreciation for a well crafted font.

As a programmer I am super picky and opinionated about the font I use for coding. I can have a very visceral reaction to one font over another. (For instance, I require really good clarity between O/0, and I/l/1, and I really really hate ligatures.)

That being said, I have very little knowledge about what goes into actually crafting a font. Whenever I read an article like this that goes into how the sausage is made I find it very fascinating.
Similarweb doesn't know what the DAU/MAUs are for social networks.

It's a statistical estimation similar to TV ratings. App Store positions are accurate.
Maybe this explains why my Hisense TV, which has an ATSC 3 tuner, stopped working with ATSC 3 channels after the last update.
Link is not working for me. Title uses word `never`.
We've changed it now.
ULIDs technically fall under UUID v8 since they map onto the 128bit space. So it's possible that you can just keep using them and PostgreSQL might have something for v8 specifically.
We've changed the URL now from https://web.archive.org/web/20230930090902/https://www.wired....

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It's fine to post archive links in comments but in general not as top-level submissions. If you've googled around for a current rendition of the article and have satisfied yourself that there really isn't one out there, then it's ok - but otherwise please post the original URL and include an archive link in the thread if you want to.
For Windows Server 2019 and newer, as well as Windows 10 and 11, Microsoft now provides their own OpenSSH server for Windows, which I found to be pretty easy to set up, personally.
And here I was thinking that I wasn't the only one having trouble with iOS17's new autocorrect capitalization algorithm...
All I see is a “Tap the Region” button and nothing else on the iPhone 13 Pro
Canonical's Snap Store restricts uploads following possible security issue
Petition: Bring Back CSGO
Is there some kind of practical limit to renewable electricity production due to how difficult it is to store and its intermittent nature. My intuition tells me it can never quite be 100%. How wrong am I?
...and gets more and more dependant on neighbouring countries to produce the electricity Portugal consumes each time the intermittent renewable are down.

...and presents a carbon intensity over 4 time higher than France, despite the latter having a share of renewable 3 times lower.
Right now, when it's a calm night, Portugal imports 18% of electricity from Spain which at this moment produces most energy from oil and nuclear.

You cannot have a proper good faith discussion about renewables without nuclear and fossil fuels.