skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels much more like a rationalization rather than a thought out argument. Let's pause to think about this.

- Cash and electronic payments both are accounted for in pretty much the same way; there are some differences when you zoom in enough, but in terms of energy consumption not materially different: both are accounted for using computers and the same mechanisms are used in communicating results.

- Electronic payment mechanisms use electronic terminals to collect payment, but cash (mid-20 century onward) uses electrically driven devices such as cash drawers or data entry terminals to track. We won't get into retail cash office details too much other than to say that for our purposes cash is either break-even in terms of energy consumption vs. pure electronic payment (though really cash is probably at a slight disadvantage since there other devices are often at play).

-- Transfers of capital between banks and banks, and banks and reserve banks, are typically all electronic, though cash will need additional transport steps which will consume additional energy to the mere communication of transactions which all payment types require. We still could consider this break-even.

-- Bank to retailer and retailer to bank conveyances are where I expect electronic payments to dominate in the energy efficiency contest. Retailers need to carry a minimum cash on hand for making change in transactions (we'll mostly ignore crime related externalities for this discussion). When the retailer falls below their minimum cash on hand, they need to have cash physically delivered. Retailers also, because of crime issues, need to clear the excess cash out of the store quickly as well, another physical transfer. This often means big abnormally heavy trucks prowling around city streets; in fact you might draw some inverse relationship to the energy efficiency of the transport mode to the suitability of its use in transferring cash. But remember that any physical transfer of tangible cash is also backed by an electronic transaction accounting for the transfer.

And I think that last point hits the biggest error in your reply. Cash transactions may supplant some electronic transactions, but do so with physical movements which also consume energy... and unless your prepared to say moving a kilobyte or two across town over a wire is less efficient than moving that same cash across town in a big truck my guess is you might agree that electronic payments will tend to be more energy efficient... and remember even with the physical move you probably don't save the electronic transaction anyway because of accounting needs: you just change its nature.
Demystifying CLIP Data
The accent gives away that this is in fact a loan from French
Everything from voidtools[1]

[1]: https://www.voidtools.com/
I really wish people would drop the "explicit is better than implicit" mantra.

What "explicit" means vague. Does it mean you want the code to be verbose? Noisy? Because that's silly, and Rust doesn't even have a history of doing that. We went from try! to ?, we went from impl Future to async/await. I'd rather people talk about what they really mean than just repeating that line over and over again.

edit: also it's really weird the OP seems to keep wanting to post this thread. If you don't like their library, fork your own?
> So how to communicate in a legal way ‘We want more female engineers cos we think it’s gonna be really good for the business and all.’ without being discriminative?

A bit OT, but I wonder why DEI is frequently chalked up as a "left" topic. Racial/feminist /etc injustices in society do have a lot of similarities (and alliances) with class struggle - but I think traditional leftist theories see this more as an indicator of a fundamentally unjust system, and don't promote a hundred contradictory DEI initiatives inside companies as bandaid solutions.

...and now, apparently DEI even does away with the reason of fundamental rights at all and just present it as something that "is good for business".
Not just open source, it should be in the public domain.
Yes. The SoCs and OEMs who made the whole Pixels and Nexus's vary.
I understand they are remote debugging flags of the agent, but is this somehow different than IntelliJ features:

- Pause button (onjcmd=y)

- Java Exception Breakpoints with caught/uncaught option (onthrow/onuncaught)
The secret of Psalm 46 (2002) [video]
Some PC games are heavily DRM encumbered. Most (on Steam) are lightly DRM encumbered. Many (everything on GOG and other such stores) are not DRM encumbered.

This is a much better situation than on consoles, where all games are heavily DRM encumbered.
A lot of the links on that page don't work, but I infer that it only applies to radio and TV, and it's not going to apply to podcasts just yet (perhaps in the future). Still, not much concrete info.
I'm surprised how few books there actually are. Each time I see one of these lists I see the same books over and over again. In a single lifetime you can easily read all "good" books. Wonder what books are good but are hardly mentioned, probably none cause if they were good the would be mentioned. We have a tendency to think there is hidden knowledge but that is just not the case. These books are what there is kind depressing if you've read most of them.
Having taken both, I’m not sure if modafinil is really “more effective“ but it absolutely has fewer psychoactive side effects overall. Ranks somewhere between caffeine and amphetamine in efficacy and side effects.

I’m much more comfortable with service members being given modafinil than amphetamine.

Modafinil can still cause an increase in risk-taking behavior (certainly did for me), but if you absolutely need to be awake and functioning for 30-70 hours at a time it’s probably the least worst option. I’ve tried most stimulants, legal and illegal, and have had jobs that required me to be awake for 70+ hours straight in an environment not so different from military work (minus encounters with hostile forces).

I think the most right solution is “don’t put people in positions where they have to work more than 14 hours or stay awake more than 20 hours” but while that is possible for corporations to guarantee to workers, it’s not always possible for militaries to guarantee to soldiers.
Because most modern car brakes are complex beats with tons of electronic wizardry. So parking brakes are using those existing electronics. Makes sense.

Not that it would mean much simply being mechanical, I have a car where the parking brake mechanically enganges at the rear prop shaft. And believe, all that brake does is supporting parking if the road isn't too steep.
Sure, but it's about locality/concentration - it's the difference between walking through rain without a hat, and getting a bucket of water to the face. It takes time for the salinity to even out, and in the meanwhile things in the area are exposed to way too-concentrated salt.

Or perhaps it's like drowning - sure, people can swim for a total period of hours a day, but they're never underwater for a continuous duration of more than a few minutes in a row.
In case anyone is curious, this is the commit that implements the change: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_CellBro...

EDIT: For folks with rooted devices, all alerts can be disabled with:

adb shell su -c 'pm disable com.google.android.cellbroadcastreceiver'

and reenabled with:

adb shell su -c 'pm enable com.google.android.cellbroadcastreceiver'

For folks on custom Android builds (or older stock Android builds without APEX module support), the package name is `com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver` (without the `.google`).
Only partial and generally non-critical updates. Upgrade your phone
"You guys are doing the lord's work here"?

How? By forcing users into a custom model serialization format (GGUF) that is claimed to literally contain "magic"?

Dark lord, maybe.
You actually still can, just not on official servers. You don't have to break your device's or the game's security to connect to a third party server, the game just lets you. Unfortunately this is mostly a thing of the past, and most online games released in the past 5 years are completely unplayable without the central servers.
> For one, just because something is not available for purchase does not mean that the creator is not deprived of the would-be revenue.

That's what the large conglomerates keep saying, although they haven't been able to produce any study proving that.

Since there's no proof of it, the loss of revenue is some urban legend.
Your statement shows why social science is hard. Superficially, sure it seems testable but in reality it is much more difficult.

Good science controls for variables. Counting the number of offspring turns a blind eye to a number of variables that can influence the outcome beyond just moral beliefs or cultural norms. Can you say your results aren't influenced by factors like genetics, environment, war, etc. that are outside those moral beliefs? Even if you could control for them, a lot of that data isn't available from an evolutionary perspective. And even if it was, moral beliefs are not static; you could have one set of morals that leads to higher numbers of offspring in one stage of your life and change morals later. It makes for a messy, and probably untestable, hypothesis.

That's my main gripe that led me to the OP. People tend to take an enormously messy social situation and think they can distill it to a simple model. Real life tends to not work that way.
Ye I dislike them too. I can never learn whether to push or pull the button without mechanical feedback from tightening a wire.

It is somewhat easier to start in hills if you are bad at matching the torque. I guess that is the marketing benefit. However of the computer messes up the release you are in a bad spot if e.g. half way stuck in a ditch or whatever.

Edit:
If you have anti roll back braking the vehicle need to be able to engage the parking brake itself so that the fail state isn't that the car starts to roll again.
As someone who would die without an atmosphere the distinction is meaningless.
I wonder if the fingerprint and face authentication still suck.
Isn’t this very common among all resellers? For example if you own a hotel and want other websites to sell your availability they will only list you if you don’t list the same availability for less money. They do this in part because people use the service to search for hotels and even they find one they want they go to other places to see if it’s cheaper.
Same for me, I paid someone to replace my Pixel 3 battery for $40 and have had nothing but a positive experience. It saved me ~$400 on a new phone, I'd gladly do it again.
This!

Why just announce it for new devices, why not announce existing devices will also get updates

Says someone with a perfectly good Pixel 4a that isn’t guaranteed updated after it’s three years old (which happened in Aug ‘23)
To the extent that a project involves implementation of existing code / modules / software and other activities that are not greenfield developments, though, the software-development-estimation-ability is not relevant as an argument against these methods, though. All training, activities, budgeting, hiring, etc. "knowable" activities around developing a project can also be managed in that way, and particularly if you're doing agile, you have a cadence against which you can do long-term planning of non-development activity.
Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms (2017)
This works very well in a mobile browser. Super impressive! Only issue I had was a slow initial load time. Not sure if that is due to Godot, or the size of the assets.
Interesting. Would you have had the same response if GP stated:

"I've worked with my fair share of vanilla JS devs who refuse to acknowledge the benefit of testing. Most of them bemoan the upfront cost of testing everything without realizing the benefits of it. I absolutely think less of them as developers."
Which applications you use is almost irrelevant -- over the past several years, there has been a steady stream of "zero-click" exploits that allow an attacker to compromise phone with no user interaction. The remote code execution vulnerabilities discovered last year and this year in the modems used in Samsung devices require nothing more than knowing the victim's phone number.[1] And you don't need to be particularly important to be caught in a wide net, cast by criminals looking to build up a bot-net or harvest data from as many devices as possible.

[1]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte...
Pandas is a shit show compared to dplyr in R and even compared to polars.
Yeah I was defin... perhaps guilty of sounding ver.. somewhat confident myself.

Luckily I only said humans add some doubt to what they say some of the time :-)
Thanks for the feedback!

> Input latency is too much for first-person or third person games. Do you plan to add client-side prediction? Can developers handle that themselves?

Somewhat, and yes. I've gone into more detail here [0], but the general idea is that we want to avoid implementing prediction within the runtime itself; instead, we want to make it a userspace thing, so that you can choose the prediction solution that will work best for your game.

Developers can already start experimenting with this now; we've opted for pure client-server in our examples/games for conceptual simplicity and to ease people in, but we'll be experimenting with introducing more userspace prediction in the future and seeing how we can genericise the solutions we build.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767359
Sequoia Captials Puff piece on SBF just before FTX's collapse
Victim blaming :\
Notion doesn't use OT. Most things are last-write-wins, but we have operations that merge like list re-ordering or permission changes. Today our text is last-write-wins, but we're developing a CRDT solution – if that sounds like something you'd like to work on, shoot me an email jake@makenotion.com or apply https://boards.greenhouse.io/notion/jobs/5602426003
Beyond this sentiment just being obnoxiously repetitive in these comments, it's also plain as day to see why this might be different. The projects in that link don't have a fixed, set date that support will be extended to from the get-go as a selling point. This phone does.
Reaction I: True enough. What other field has had it as good as upper-end sw engs in the past decade or two, yet (~95% of the time) delivered meh-at-best results?

Reaction II: So...could you tell me more about those tech CEOs, and all the levels of management in between them and the actual sw engs? Because I'm thinking that they are the Architects / Engineers / Masons behind all the billion-dollar pyramids of sh*t. And downsizing/demoting/replacing all the "entitled, mediocre" laborers who haul the big stone blocks up the construction ramps every day is no different from rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
The original commented suggested that an open source Amazon was the “real solution.” Open sourcing Amazon’s software and then nationalizing their distribution network is a very different suggestion!
A very small part of the world is supported unfortunately and the situation year to year has not been improving. On the other hand samsung and apple are available everywhere.
At least on my Pixel 7, it doesn't actually charge it all the way if I plug it in at night. It will charge until 80%, then very slowly over the course of the night until my first alarm (of many, I'm a heavy sleeper lol) it'll get itself to 100%.

Phones these days take good care of their own batteries, 100% doesn't actually mean 100%, same with 0% since both are extremely bad for Li-ion batteries.
> But the value of something is often its scarcity...

But the value to who. We have copyright laws (ostensibly) for the benefit of society as a whole by allowing creators to have a limited time monopoly on selling their ideas.

> then Nintendo would presumably argue that they intended there to be a limited number of Wii's or Pokémon Red or whatever.

Them arguing it doesn't make them right. Any more than it makes sense to allow Disney to keep extending copyright decade after decade simply because they're greedy.
One of the reasons I was thinking this way is that there is a lot of media (certainly video games, but even movies and books) that are already lost. I think being able to share them freely earlier in their lifecycle will prevent some of that.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1189450157/the-classic-video-...
You’re right. We only have 15 years of data showing Apple tends to provide excellent support. Without a published commitment they could move to a one year model any day.

On the other hand Google put out a press release!

Come on, this seems unnecessarily harsh given Apple has been the industry leader in how long they provide software and security updates for their phones.
> If there is a long-term Android user out there who finds Android phones to be crap I'd assume they would have long since switch to a different type of phone.

That's a wrong assumption to make. I think there are a lot of reluctant Android users around.

I'm one of them, and I've been using Android phones for well over a decade now.

I don't mind Android itself and the selection of apps, but I've never liked the phones themselves.

The Android phones I've used weren't sensibly sized, or had quality and reliability issues, or were generally tolerable except for one fatal downside (like a bad camera, or limited storage), or were too expensive for what was being offered.

The iPhones I've used have generally been decent, from a hardware perspective. I find the software situation to be terrible, however.

For me, a bad Android phone with tolerable software is at least kind of usable.

A great iPhone phone with unsuitable/insufficient/frustrating software is unusable.

Given that those have been the only viable options for a while now, I resort to using Android phones, even if I've consistently disliked the phones themselves.
If you've ever been on the interstate system, then you are basically with me. Literally it would be trivial in today's world to have a hookup on your car to check your speed against the local signage on a somewhat real time basis. Sounds absurd, but there is a pretty good chance every long haul truck you see out there is doing exactly that.

Similarly, mens rea is a thing. Such that statutory enforcement of rules is often a regressive policy that isn't necessarily a good idea.
Every firewall I’ve dealt with since forever has default deny on inbound traffic, state full allow for outbound connections. Regardless of NAT or not, and regardless of how cheap it is.
I agree with most commenters here that cash is useful and that cashless is a step in the wrong direction. I did want to point out, though, that this differs a lot from what at least some commenters on other forums are saying about the ban. All the top voted comments on Reddit about this are against it: https://www.reddit.com/r/washdc/comments/16wacjy/dcs_ban_on_...

I find the difference in opinion between the HN crowd and Reddit kind of interesting. Part of it is probably because that is a local to DC subreddit, but I also believe they're not really considering the privacy / civic resilience angle.

From my perspective, having lived through a near total power outage in Texas for a week in February 2021, having some cash, food, and drinking water on hand is just basic common sense these days. Some local grocers were letting people take groceries without paying, anecdotally, but I don't think that was everywhere or even corporate policy. You also don't want to rely on that to feed your family or pay for basic goods in an emergency. At one point, even the cell network was starting to go down in my area because the generators powering the cell towers were running out of fuel.
You should check out this interview with FIRE's president [0], and his upcoming book [1]. You can also check out Jerry Coyne's blog [2], which acts as a repository for a lot of the bad behaviour coming from the Critical Social Justice (CSJ) types.

The notion of "consequence culture" encompasses "cancel culture". It shouldn't be a surprise that bad faith actors exist, and netizens can be manipulated. To dismiss "cancel culture" is to dismiss the notion that bad faith actors exist. Of this set of bad faith actors, I think the CSJ types are by far the worst. They exploit the good reputation of liberal social justice (i.e. the original gay, female, black rights movement), and through motte and bailey, manipulate people into their version of social justice (CSJ), which is unsubstantiated, comically simplistic, discriminatory, and divisive. By masquerading themselves as purveyors of issues we care about, their bad behaviour becomes harder to call out as well, since they can misrepresent their critics as being against the issues we care about, and weaponize their compassion to mob their critics. Conflating "consequence culture" with "cancel culture" is just one of the many ways they're achieving that.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buarAx_u2qg

[1] https://www.amazon.sg/Canceling-American-Mind-Undermines-Thr...

[2] https://whyevolutionistrue.com/category/cancel-culture/
I have no clue about game development, apologies for the basic question. When does one use Unreal and when does one use Godot? Or does it not matter?
Totally agree with the puzzling assortment of a rubric. PostgreSQL supports role based-access control, RBAC. Not to mention, with PostgreSQL and the pgvector extension, you have a whole list of languages ready to use it:

C++ pgvector-cpp
C# pgvector-dotnet
Crystal pgvector-crystal
Dart pgvector-dart
Elixir pgvector-elixir
Go pgvector-go
Haskell pgvector-haskell
Java, Scala pgvector-java
Julia pgvector-julia
Lua pgvector-lua
Node.js pgvector-node
Perl pgvector-perl
PHP pgvector-php
Python pgvector-python
R pgvector-r
Ruby pgvector-ruby, Neighbor
Rust pgvector-rust
Swift pgvector-swift

Wonder how many of those other Vector databases play nice.
No, but I never had a problem with that, either. I kept my first phone (not the one I dropped at HD) for seven years and only retired it because my girlfriend gifted me hers.