skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> yep, the older you are the better you see through this nonsense.

older people by and large make up the largest proportion of victims to online scams.
> Copyright applies when you reuse the exact artwork someone else created.

For your own sake, talk to an IP lawyer before you rely on this belief.
I know plenty of people who constantly have narrated thoughts and find it very hard to stop them.
checkout this github discussion: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/360
The free watch included was the final thing to sell me on a pre-order.
Although most distros should work out of the box these days (I think?) nothing beats these smaller ones for interested people and especially “younglings” to try out; “running from a stick”.

My first contact with Linux/Unix was through fli4l [1] an open source boot-from-floppy Linux router with which I shared our family’s intermittent 56k dial-up (!) links back in the day (I believe from 2000 onwards it was a single channel ISDN line; what a dream).

Then there was the famous Knoppix [2] distro; coming with many German computer magazines at least.

So yeah, all in all I’m more of a *BSD “graduate” (main reason being man pages were usually of higher quality; at the time at least) but to this day my favourite flash’n boot distro is still Debian based “headless CLI first” GRML Linux [3] (came with pre-configured zsh way before it was cool, lots of networking tools etc, a Swiss Army knife for the sysadmin).

I had been running an old underclocked PC with it as a router and for NFS - for years and only until somewhat recently.

[1] http://www.fli4l.de

[2] http://knoppix.net/

[3] https://grml.org/
Would it be possible to link a pure go codebase to pre-compiled sqlite binaries and not need to worry about cgo when cross compiling?
They're in a relatively flat field and can rely on the ground being frozen solid sometime soon.

If its insufficiently flat wouldn't it make more sense to smooth out those parts of the field, rather than "paving" the whole field with steel mats?
I'm curious to see how well this works with Direct Strike (custom game mode for SC2)
Wow. And not the cheapest vehicles to start off either. That's a scary proposition to consider if you buy one of those right now.
Why not ask DeepMind?
FluidNC on a Bart Dring board:
https://www.tindie.com/products/33366583/6-pack-universal-cn...
I used this with external stepper drivers to power NEMA23 axes.
I don't dispute this. What I chafe at is the default-dismissive attitude about any utility of these. "It emits inaccuracies, therefore useless" would invalidate literally every human.

That said, overall utility of anything plummets drastically as reliability goes below 100%. If a particular texting app or service only successfully sent 90% of your messages, or a person you depended on only answered 90% of your calls, you'd probably stop relying on those things.

(I wish I could edit out my vitriol.)
As far as I know it's a puzzle adventure game.
Typical bs when legacy is replaced. Same reason can also argue that cavalry and archer should remain in army
It looks like you think writing your program in the language used to express types will magically remove "runtime bugs"

If the language is powerful enough to be able to write ordinary programs, it is powerful enough to produce bugs.

Static typing can be effective at catching certain types of bug, not all. It can improve readability sometimes (as a DSL for static unit tests/executable docs).

In general, dynamic languages are more agile and you can write more tests easier. Some of the tests you wouldn't need to write in a statically typed language, therefore typing is still useful though not as universally effective as one might believe.
No joke, rerun seems perfect for visualizing a game like rocket league. Thank you for the recommendation!
and before that the biggest money laundering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_Bank_money_laundering_s... (kinda enabling Putin to become what he is)
OCLC is a parasitic company masquerading as a "membership cooperative".

Libraries (often publicly funded) produce all the work, OCLC claims ownership of the results of that work, Libraries pay to get it back (but they do get a discount if they contribute).

The only reason OCLC continues to exist is because libraries don't have the support or resources to fight them. It's very similar to the Elsevier issue in academic publishing, but OCLC does a better job with PR.
UUID does a lot of that for you already and you know its URL friendly. Its good enough for hiding things behind a URL and being unguessable. Good enough.
This.

I saved up and bought a Sound Blaster Pro. I wanted an SGI machine that cost more than a car, not that I would have the slightest idea what to do after running the demos on it. That or one of those orange AS/400 boxes. Which I would have even less use for.
And no one notices the name clash with Xen's mini-os [1]. We've come a long way since Xen and the Art of Virtualization [2].

[1] https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Mini-OS
[2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/2003-xens...
https://archive.ph/2023.10.03-211427/https://www.nytimes.com...
Many of them are open source and you can host them yourself. That would make it more cost effective. Also someone mentioned https://turbopuffer.com/. That seems like a good alternative if you're looking for something economical.
I wonder who will be the "lucky" pilot who gets to attempt the take off? Do they get massive hazard pay? Or will be it management's least favorite pilot?
Well, as Scott Adams says, "Analogies are for fighting."

If an analogy is supposed to persuade me, but the internal premise of the analogy completely contradicts the purpose of the analogy, then perhaps it should be completely eliminated or at the very least it should be challenged.

Moreover, this contradiction within the analogy highlights the exact opposite. Likely, the CEO of Coca Cola experiences that "coke/pepsi" dialog with waiters all the time and merely shrugs it off --- because that is actually a reasonable response, unlike screaming at people over a tiny, unintentional slight.
A major confounding variable here is that there's probably a bit more of a motive for Google to get someone to move cross-manufacturer than to incentivize an upgrade from someone who already has a Google phone—depreciation aside.
> There's no option to buy e.g. an a slightly more ruggedized iPhone that is 15% bulkier but gives you easy battery access. That's a thing I'd buy, even if it cost a bit more.

Why not buy a $100 rugged waterproof case and an external battery?
I believe they are just explaining the same thing with a different analogy. Can you stop thinking thoughts? “Narration” is a metaphor.
that doesn't give you step-level accuracy.

Some systems do this- for example Prusa MK3 and newer don't have physical endstops, instead they monitor current. And FluidNC supports this but clearly points out you shouldn't use it for step-level accuracy.
I hate that every discussion of reigning in abusive companies has to come with 1000 comments about how other companies are also being abusive, which should apparently make us just wave the white flag. Nah, let's deal with all the monopolies, and Amazon is a good place to start since like you said, they are just incredibly blatant.
Waiting when button phones will become the trend again
> A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant.

How does that change the social dynamics of mating? Is increasing promiscuity a good thing?

> A person can choose to live hundreds of miles away from their family yet still visit them every weekend.

> A person can choose to move to a new country, halfway around the world, and still have their parents be > able to see and converse with the grandchildren every night.

Why did this person choose to move physically away from their tribe? To slave away at a job they don't care about? Would they have chosen to move away if the tech to communicate long distance didn't exist?

> I can choose to talk to a person who speaks another language and have a computer translate for us.

Is it good to use translation tech as a crutch and not emotionally immerse yourself in the culture?

> I can choose to have my tooth decay treated without experiencing horrific pain.

Why do you have a poor diet? Why do you consume so much sugar? Why don't you brush and floss?

> A compound fracture is not an automatic sentence of death or lifelong severe disability.

Do you take more risks because you know that a fracture won't end you since medicine can heal you?

It seems to me that technology is often used as a band-aid solution. Or it enables certain types of behaviors that when proliferated on a societal level can have drastic consequences.
Like I say in my earlier comment, that's not right. Logic-based AI is still dominant in many fields. There is a lot of excitement about statistical machine learning (I know, it's an understatement) but that's only because statistical machine learning is finally working and doing things that couldn't be done with logic- not because logic can't do the things that statistical machine learning can't do (it can), and not because statistical machine learning can do the things that logic can do (it can't).

There are two worlds, if you want. For me it's a mistake to try and keep them separated. All the great pioneers of AI were not only this or only that people. e.g. Shannon's MSc thesis gave us boolean logic-based circuits (logic gates) and he also introduced information theory. The people who have made real contributions to AI and to computer science were never one-trick ponies.

An analogy I like to make is that we have both airplanes and helicopters. A flying machine is something so useful to have that we 're going to use any kind we can make. Obviously a helicopter will not compete with a jet for speed, but a jet isn't anywhere as manoeuverable or flexible as a helicopter. So we use both.

>> Logic was not the underdog here.

It wasn't, but there was a bit of a Triassic extinction event, with the last AI winter of the '90s that took the expert systems and basically severed the continuity of logic-based AI research. The story is more complex than that, but logic-based AI was dealt a powerful blow, and progress slowed down. Although again like I say in my other comment, it didn't get completely extinguished. Perhaps, like we recognise birds today as the remaining dinosaurs, we'll recognise the old-new wave of logic-based AI that is hidden by the AI effect.
Sorry, maybe I did not get my point clear here. The article about Mexico suggested that it would be irrational for Mexican authorities to really fight the drug trade. My thought was, for such a tiny economy as Estonia, were one fraud alone counted to 200 Billion, how rational would it be to fight this?

Maybe I am wrong. Probably. But it is at least worth a thought.
Doing things that bring you joy and enjoyment aren't a waste of time. Those are the point, everything leads to that. The nickname is sourced from the idea that there is never enough time to do everything worth doing, and sadness about what will get left behind undone on the journey.

"Too Much to Do, Not Enough Time"
I was just logging into the IRS website to check the status of my tax balance.

You used to be able to login with IRS credentials, but now it's a hard requirement to use ID.me credentials. So I created an account and had to verify my identity. The automated verification failed, so I waited 20 minutes on the phone to talk to one of the representatives. There was a checkbox to consent to having the meeting recorded. I opted out but the submit was disabled. Even before this, they took a 3d scan of my face. None of this seems like choice and options.

By the way, ID.me is a private company. They're even squatting on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831921&
India Is Using Terrorism Laws to Target Journalists Critical of Modi Govt
Watch me Place my tablet with ChatGPT next to my laptop and type the essay off of that into Google Docs on the laptop. Whatever contrived solution you come up with, students will find ingenious solutions around them.
That's pretty much what I meant by "do the honest thing and draw some from a hat", thanks for the information.
We noticed this through our own, homegrown scripts that check for this, having been screwed by an outage a few years ago. I'm happy they so quickly acknowledge and explain these issues. Good work!
> The agreement often has a stipulation that the same product can never be cheaper elsewhere which is sometimes easy as WalMart gets specific SKUs

Does the trick of creating different SKUs work for amazon though? If not, it seems like what they're doing might be worse. Since according to the article they're now enforcing the rule against having lower prices elsewhere through software, depending on how it's implemented it could end up having a much broader effect.
Pixels Image Process way too much. They add stuff into photos which is not necessarily there in order to make them look better. These devices are terrible.
Maybe it's just worth more to Google to convert an iPhone owner? Trade in value is not a very pure measurement of depreciation.
Indeed, another thing is that imho, casters and you tubers are data scientists that have the indexed dB in their heads, they say "at second X in this map Y you would have Z upgrade" and they talk about efficiency of mining, but I always wanted to see these things as statistics visually, like, how much faster or slower is player X in this game compared to the standard? How does the meta evolve? Or worse... If I check your replays, and you never ever scout this area, I could proxy there. You could find the build that in this map you never prepare for because let's be honest we are much more predictable than what we'd like to admit...
I hope this project unlocks these kind of possibilities
Automotive pricing is complicated. The cost probably was predicted to be profitable at some point, but costs change over time and changing cost targets is difficult. Here's some random speculation:

* The amount a vehicle costs to produce decreases dramatically depending on how many you're producing because of economies of scale, vendors charging less, and higher negotiating power in volume. They're currently not producing at the scale they expected, so their production costs are inherently higher.

* It's extremely difficult to know where you can cut costs in ways that won't affect customers significantly at design time. If you're a new startup in a competitive market, a bad reputation is a death sentence. It might be worth starting out conservatively and cutting those costs when you have better data.

* They went through production/design in one of the worst supplier markets in decades. Production costs might have increased due to last minute part changes, now they need to claw that back down again.

Etc.
They're pretty clear that their thoughts are in language, and mine are not. I'm not sure how those can be the same thing. I can stop thinking thoughts, yes.
> Life is much simpler when you don’t have to jump through twenty hoops because of some stupid political decision for every action you take as a small business.

There is the same issue in France. I'm pretty sure it's viewed by big companies that own the government as a feature to impede concurence (however small) to arise.
> Only stressed people want to relax. Otherwise, we want to do more.

You must be American.
Show HN: Zivy Listen – Turn long articles into short podcasts
Zivy Listen converts long articles into short conversational podcasts. It's a really interesting experience and I encourage you to check it out!

I love to listen to podcasts when I work out. I've tried listening to articles via Speechify but it just sounds too stale and I can't focus. I decided to see what would happen if made the article into a podcast format and Zivy Listen was born!

I'd love to get feedback from you all about your experience with the app.
The point is generally no matter how high your DPI, if you're drawing a line using a series of points, compared to drawing a line via a vector process, the vector process will almost always look nicer (for some definition of nicer).
Yes, sorry, I know it's confusing. I relativized the timestamps for 2 reasons:

(1) if we didn't do that, commenters would start asking "why are there a bunch of comments here older than the OP they're commenting on?" - and our experience is that this leads to more confusion than the other way around; plus

(2) it seems unfair to have all the comments on the earlier thread plummet to the bottom of the new thread because they're so much older.

This topic comes up regularly in a slightly different context, which is re-upping stories that make it into the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). There are a bunch of past explanations here in case helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Cost Accounting can be a bit of a dark art. It's pretty tricky to apportion part of the cost of a factory to every different widget made in it.

But in this case, it's likely just BS. They're probably just taking the yearly loss and dividing it by the number produced. Which is different from each marginal car produced costing them 30K.

edit to add: the article claims the main reason for them losing so much money is lack of throughput, which demonstrates that the claim is bullshit. If they made even more cars and "lost 30K" on each one they'd be worse off.
There are modern versions. e.g.

https://fauntrackway.co.uk/defence/air/aircraft-landing-mat

https://fauntrackway.com/
A few places but I'd suggest starting with AOE stats[1].

1. https://aoestats.io/
4-pronged approach:

A. Lighten the load as they're already doing.

B. Prep the runway surface with steel matting and wait until the time of year when the soil is hardest. (January)

C. Field (literally) replace the main gear with double bogie assemblies borrowed from Air India.[1] The single bogie gear risk collapse or sufficient rolling resistance preventing attainment of V1.

D. A rejected takeoff (RTO) contingency plan. Firstly, the runway surface should be twice as long as anticipated. Secondly, firefighters should be available to extinguish brake fires to prevent any wildfire or airframe damage.

References:

1. https://www.airliners.net/photo/Indian-Airlines/Airbus-A320-...
Estimated ship date for Playdate is end of 2023 (per website). Have there been any updates from the company on this?
It's a lot smaller than the Pixel though, which is what this thread is about.
This feels like a microcosm for politics in general.

You have a real problem (climate change) and you have an effective solution (carbon tax refunded as a dividend), but that doesn't really serve anybody's political goals.

Doing that would destroy the fossil fuel industry as people switch to electric cars and generate power with renewables or nuclear to avoid the carbon tax. Fossil fuel industry is a Republican constituency, so they fight it.

Doing that wouldn't serve any partisan political agenda. Given the choice most people would just buy an electric car, not ride the bus. It would likely require a significant number of new nuclear power plants. All of the money is being refunded to the population, not diverted to cronies and political donors. The most cost effective source of solar panels is currently China, not domestic union jobs. But Democrats keep asking for those things instead, which is dumb and most importantly less effective, so instead we get nothing.
Not selling any vehicles would cost them even more. They spent a lot of money developing cars and if you only sell a few, you're going to make a loss.
Oxford students are a danger to the world.

Or maybe only the incompetent ones are elected as PM.
doing work and not having it recognized but in fact rejected because someone somewhere lost their notes is not the path to personal satisfaction.

a lot of merit badge work is based on trust. it should not be to hard to ask a few questions about the work done to be able to judge if it was really done.

most of this should be in the control of the scout masters. if they can't trust their scouts to be honest about this and work out a compromise then their troop has a real problem
> Is there any value to those lectures, nowadays?

Absolutely. Even in the largest lectures, people can ask clarifying questions, live, from the subject matter expert. Likewise, the professor can look at the students' body language and realize that they've lost a significant portion of the class, and stop, slow down, and maybe prompt the class for questions.

There is an art to a good lecture, and it's definitely harder the larger the class, but good lectures cannot be replaced by recordings.
Ask HN: How do I improve my answer to “Tell me about a project you worked on”
I'm not the best engineer, but if my engineering skill is p50, my memory and ability to talk about technical things is probably p10. I strongly favor asynchronous communication like email because it requires less active comprehension demand.

Is there anyone else suffering from this? What do you do to get better at this in general? Or within the context of engineering interviews?

I will say that I think I have memory issues and auditory processing issues that aren't debilitating or that noticeable until they're exposed by a conversation like this. Is my only choice to yeet Adderall and "memorize my lines"?
Yeah… but I think what he misses is that it’s a line drawn by a pen. It has a certain analog appeal to it?

Vinyl is worse in every way to lossless digital. As is an analog film camera. Or a mechanical watch for keeping time. Still though.
If so, that's a pretty disingenuous way to look at it. If I'm going to be comparing the cost of a battery replacement with an alternative, that alternative is going to be "buying a new phone". The depreciated value of my current phone is irrelevant.
There may be a more economical explanation for indulging some of the more insane stuff they got up to. Who cares what the narrative is so long as you control it? If leaks got out, there was a short list of where they came from, the absurd stuff imposed costs on adversaries who had to verify it because they couldn’t afford not to, it provided freedom for some very smart people, was a way of distributing pork to favoured donors, and it harnessed the most diabolical elements of society and put them into service for national interests. There’s a simple idea that has some predictive power about these operations and programs. It’s that, the lie is the power, and each secures the other. If it’s believable and there are costs to believing it, and maybe you get some information out of it, that’s a powerful story. If you can leak a story about ESP, or even aliens as a way to regain narrative control at pivotal political moments, that’s a valuable service as well. People can flatter themselves by thinking you’re an idiot, and underestimate you too. The irony is the optimistic case for these programs is the one most unacceptably cynical.
My two examples are intended to show the difficulty of optimizing for ease or joy in the force of a system with more influence.

Capitalism is one such system, but it’s not the only system. What you’re describing is possible, and people do it, but to do it they have to have systems that support it.

It’s not quite as easy as as it is in War Games to “not play the game”.

If you want more people opting into ease and joy you first identify the barriers (which I’m attempting to do) then you find ways around them or replacements. I don’t have answers, but at minimum I wish that “faster”, “easier”, or “more convienent” would stop being used as proxies for “more joy” or “more ease”.
Apparently not one pager too. I got “Bro, I know your resume is not that short”
But is the user story format the best way to get those common pain points or behaviours out front and centre?

It’s important to know what they are. But the format you use to describe them can change a lot in how you even understand people and what’s going wrong.

And the why is so important in knowing why someone’s dropping out of a journey, not clicking a thing etc