skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No sign that the author has any interest in answering the question.

I thought the EE Times was better than that. Looks like I was wrong.
Also, not sure how common it is, but an extended friend of mine was a vet tech. She quit due to the emotional toll of seeing animal abuse. Specifically sexual abuse. Apparently they had very limited tools to actually deal with the problem and instead had to give the dogs back to the abusers. That was not an emotional burden that she could continue with.

Not something I would have thought vets would have to deal with.
Non predatory thing then is to help the owner to put the pet down painlessly and quickly for reasonable price. Without guilting the owner into 10000 operation.
>WebGPU

A massive shame that it's more or less bolted to the Sodom and Gomorrah of modern software development (Browsers and JS). Atleast in mindshare for sure.

There appears to be a non browser implementation of WebGPU now looking into it, but I can't find anyone using it or attempting to use it in production

https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn
Can we stop treating "written in Rust" as a feature? It's one of the first things in the README. Whenever I see that I don't think "more stable", I think "someone's pet project".
[2016]

From what I can tell, many today would be weirdly polite and generic Llm comments.
It’s not uncommon for groups like CISA to recommend blocking things from the internet or disabling a particular feature which is part of the exploit but not critical to the entire app. They also proactively notify users in some cases (e.g. industrial systems) so everyone knows to install the patch as soon as it’s released.

As a simple analogy, look at how the Kia lock vulnerabilities are being handled. Yes, it’s best if you can repair everything but it’s not without value to make sure everyone affected knows the risk so they can change their behavior or buy a separate lock until then.
just shit in a field bro
> Buying groceries for a family for whole week

That's the thing: when your grocery store is a short walk away, you don't buy groceries for the whole week. You just duck into the store on the walk home or you walk over at lunch. You buy things for that evening or a few days at most. Having to plan for a whole week of meals seems normal to us, but it's an adaptation to the fact that we live too far from grocery stores. With our large fridges, cabinets, pantries, and chest freezers, we basically turn part of our homes into well-stocked convenience stores so that we can go out as little as possible.
> Or you know, we had different lives and it made us have different opinions.

They said “from a European perspective”.

A Minnesotan would probably get upset if a Floridian said that living in a humid, tropical climate was the American experience (directly or indirectly).
Thing is there are enough people who lived at several places and have real experiences and funded opinions.. some say there exist even people who do this kind of objective studies, etc. Crazy world! No need to stick and believe in bubbles, it seems.
I am paying Dropbox for storage and will pay them until I die. Rock solid sync and object durability, API access to my storage for my apps, no complaints whatsoever. I don't want new, I want storage I don't have to think about.
Because gasoline was more convenient. Now with clean emission mandates gasoline can’t be used anymore. But that doesn’t mean EVs suddenly got more efficient.
They owned the editing market with Final Cut and completely dropped the ball with Final Cut X. To the point they had to start selling the old version back. Then Premiere came back from the ashes and took the throne.

One of the most glaring mistakes Apple did to its Pro market. And they did quite a few.
I don't know how this works now, but in the past it was a problematic option. For example, if you used sudo and TRAMP to do some local administration tasks, it would store those files in your own account. This was a security issue.
The article says 40% of online shopping goes through Amazon and 2/3 of US adults have Prime. If you don't sell there, you're giving up most of your business and leaving that opportunity for another seller. It's not optional to do business with Amazon, like it would be if Amazon only owned 10% of the market (still huge!) and there were a bunch of other 10% marketplaces to turn to instead. Instead, it's just like the railroads—what you gonna do, build your own railroad? Good luck with that.

And Amazon is using this monopoly leverage to squeeze its small shippers. Amazon makes them pay to advertise on Amazon, but Amazon's own products get top billing for free. Amazon makes them pay for shipping, but Amazon ships its own products for cheap. Amazon punishes them if they list their products anywhere else for a lower price. And when Amazon sees a seller who has found a successful niche, Amazon can put its own product at the top of the search page for cheaper and instantly shove them out of that niche. "Both a marketplace and a competitor."
Keep an eye on Culdesac's career page - I expect positions to be posted in the near future with terms such as: spark, data warehouse, redshift, AI/ML, etc. This experiment will come with mass data mining and analysis to "better serve" its residents. HARD PASS on living in tech corporate controlled "neighborhoods".
I think most people in the suburban US have no idea what a public, car-free, communal space where people can casually gather without buying something even is.

At this point, entire generations have grown up in unwalkable suburban life, using cars as the only mode of getting from point A to point B from the day they were born, with a strip mall as the only place to go - and even then only if you have to run an errand or get the occasional meal out.

Having been been isolated from a real third space like public plazas since probably the 60s or 70s, it's no surprise that today's suburban generation views them with suspicion, confusion, and disdain. They like their strip malls just fine thank you very much, and anyway, how would they park their car?
"My solution is to close the tab and to read a book."

Exactly. Exchange off-the-cuff zero cost near-anonymous speech with well considered, edited, personally identifiable speech with a significant cost to publish. Without knowing anything about the content of the speech you can still usefully predict that the later will be more dense with meaning and generally more worth your time.

HN is a good place to sift through the former to discover the later. So yeah, you have to put up with both.
While that is true, it is misleading. If you can use a fixed quantity of fossil fuels to generate many decades of carbon free energy, the change to the overall lifecycle carbon requirements are very different.

Just like in algorithms, making it an O(1) rather than O(n) solution, even with a large constant factor, can make an enormous difference over time.
Seattle has a pretty good bus system for the US but a pretty mediocre one globally.

When we talk about “frequent enough” 15 minutes is an eternity, honestly it is the bare minimum for what could be considered frequent.

Frequent is every 5-6 minutes. I’ve had commutes where the headway was 2 minutes. It doesn’t matter if the train/bus is late or doesn’t show up at that point.
True, but the solar panels displace way more fossil fuels than were used to produce them, so their net consumption of fossil fuels is negative.
Nah, competition is good :)

E.g. without Metal as example of what a modern user-friendly 3D API can look like, WebGPU would probably look very different, and not in a good way.

My personal hope is that the concept of a "3D API" will eventually disappear into compilers like Clang and GCC and their standard libs.

E.g. WebGPU has a pretty big API surface just for ensuring that the CPU-provided data is compatible with what the GPU expects, and any mismatches manifest as runtime errors, not compile-time errors.

Most of this API surface would simply disappear if the same compiler can see both the CPU and GPU side code, integrated into the same compilation process.
Emotional attachment does not mean that human is not able to do rational decision. No matter how deep I love my dog, I do not have the same responsibility toward him then toward my child.
Maybe of casual and gacha games. Unless iDevice users want to miss out on the highest selling [1] and highest rated [2] AAA games their only option is directing money to other companies.

[1] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/top-10-best-selling-games-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Awards#Awards_ceremon...
This is not true in my experience, Seattle has a pretty solid bus system and we still felt like we were having to plan around them even though they generally would stop every 15 minutes. You could not count on them 100% either. Occasionally they just don't show up.

15 minutes is not frequent enough.
why was this banned?
Labels like "sarcasm" and "jk" are also used by trolls who want to troll but don't want the consequences.

Often with a follow-up like "can't you take a joke?"
Yes, I completely agree —- tiny islands of walkability.

Lancaster does have an Amtrak station, though, so you can get to NYC without a car and then walk around there.
I think it is pretty well understood, for example if you look at something like the IEEE code of ethics, that technical professionals have an obligation to honesty beyond just not lying; a requirement to communicate in a way that helps the general public clear up likely misunderstandings.
Because you forget to call glGetError and do the error check on your previous call. In a world where we are driven by exceptions, not excepting and requiring you to check is actually a good thing, you wouldn’t want a shader param exception from panicking your game in the middle of a gun fight.
I learned two spaces in typing class. I think having two spaces after the period looks better and makes more sense, both in fixed-width fonts and in variable-width fonts. I've never heard an argument against it that wasn't based on incorrect premises ("You don't need to do that anymore! It looks fine without it!" Well, no it doesn't look fine without it, so yes, I'm going to keep doing it.)

But yeah, it's weird the effects of backwards compatibility... so many things decided 40 years ago, which we can't change because it would break someone's configuration.
It's more about what the badgers and foxes leave behind, I suspect. We get a lot of foxes, and it is pretty gross cleaning up after them.
This says more about the industry than about solar panels, you could say this about any product. There isn't anything inherently carbon-intensive about solar panel production.

And if you compare the distribution of these solar panels with the distribution of the equivalent amount of nitrogen produced, I bet the panels require a lot less carbon for transportation. Not to mention not relying on a nitrogen producer (Russia), and additional uses for the panels.
Ask HN: CTO contemplating returning to developer role – seeking advice
I've been grappling with a significant career decision, and I could use your insights and advice. I'm currently serving as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at a tech company, but I've been seriously considering a move back into a hands-on developer role. However, my apprehension stems from the fact that I've spent the last six years primarily focused on leadership and management rather than coding.

I'd like to hear from anyone who has experienced a similar career transition, or from developers who have worked with CTOs who made the switch back to coding. How did you navigate this transition, and what were the challenges you faced?

Here are a few specific questions I have in mind:

Skill Gap: I'm concerned about the gap in my coding skills. How can I efficiently catch up on the latest technologies and best practices after being away from the keyboard for six years? I've worked mostly with C# and .net, but I do have some experience with JavaScript.

Balancing Act: How can I balance my current leadership responsibilities with the goal of transitioning back to a developer role? Any advice on time management and setting realistic expectations?

Company Culture: For those who've been in a similar situation, how did your team and organization react to your decision? Were there any issues or concerns that arose during the transition?

Personal Satisfaction: Ultimately, what has been your experience in terms of personal job satisfaction and fulfillment after making a similar switch? Do you regret the decision, or are you content with your new role?

I'm really torn about this decision and would greatly appreciate any advice, anecdotes, or insights you can provide. I understand that individual experiences can vary, but hearing from the HN community would be invaluable in helping me make an informed choice.
> The few times I go on twitter I keep wondering if it isn't just 90% bots spamming content made to trigger real users and real users believing whatever flavor of bullshit they're fed today

That is my takeaway as well. Every feature of the site is abused at scale to flood the zone with shit. It's like trying to have a discussion inside of a wind tunnel.
Great question. From a consumer only perspective:

I always like where there is an easy method to review the presentation again. Like a link to a video of it. Also a link to read more detail. Hate when text is presented to fast. Hate when talker is too fast. This is a common problem with not experienced. Typically showing me code is a waste as I cannot mentally process that level of information and still hear you. I find it very useful, and this should be obvious, when the talk matches the visual. I like to use one to complement the other, not provide an overload of information.
Were you told it was a stress test? It seems pretty unethical to perform a test like that without informed consent.
I do not see any evidence of guilting.

> The incident involved a four-month-old German Shepherd puppy who'd swallowed a skewer and needed emergency surgery life-saving surgery. The cost of the complicated procedure and after care was close to $10,000 – more than the owner could afford. As a last resort, to avoid euthanasia, the clinic offered her the option to surrender the puppy to a new owner who could cover the cost.

What is a reasonable price? Unless someone is familiar with pricing from multiple vendors for some period of time, how could one know a reasonable price?
A connection in the context of TCP is essentially the state related to the handshake.

With UDP, you build a packet, slap an IP header on it, and send it out in the hopes that the other side receives it.

With TCP, you can't just send data, you have to perform a three-way handshake first: send a packet with the SYN flag set, receive a SYN-ACK, and if you received a SYN-ACK send an ACK back.

Stateful firewalls, for instance, track the connection state for Network Address Translation (NAT) or firewalling purposes. When a TCP connection is opened (SYN), the connection is considered 'new'. After the handshake is completed (SYN-ACK, ACK), the state changes to 'established'. The lifetime of the connection ends after a TCP packet with the RST or FIN flags set, and the state changes to 'closed'.

Cool, related things to read up on: Linux conntrack, TCP reordering and retransmission, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP, also known as "ping").
> “alleve” (2-(6-Methoxynaphthalen-2-yl)propanoic acid)

Chemical names aren't the best examples to use, as even within the scientific community, it's extremely rare to use full IUPAC systematic names for well-known organic molecules. The fancy name for caffeine would be 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine, not 1,3,7-trimethyl-3,7-Dihydro-1H-purine-2,6-dione.
Or we accept that sometimes pets die and that if the operation costs 10000 then fit owner can still decide for the pet to die.

That goes for fish, dogs or tarantulas.
this sounds awesome, i hope it remains viable. would love to see something like this scale
It's the content of the photos that matters though, and on that front unless you're into very specific types of shooting most people don't care about any advantage "Pro" gear brings.

If you're out there shooting a hundred basketball games a year or you're camping out in a swamp every weekend to get a picture of a bird it matters.

But that was never the majority of people buying "Pro" and "Prosumer" camera gear. For the vast bulk of the market the smartphone camera gets the job done at a fraction of the cost, way less stuff to carry around, and a much better workflow.

Too many hobbyist photographers seem to miss the forest for the trees here, no one cares about how sharp the picture is or how much dynamic range there is if the content of the photo isn't compelling.
Gabe, with all respect go read history. If you don’t want to read there are literally video interviews with old Israelis [1] who admit to being part of the death squads which went around killing Palestinian villagers and raping their women. This is what makes easterners describe what the Palestinians are doing as resistance for liberation.

I know Israelis want everyone to just move on from how bloody of a process it was to displace nearly one million indigenous Palestinians prior to announcing the foundation of their state. Unfortunately/fortunately — depending on your politics — we are (1) in modern times so most people don’t take kindly to European settler-colonial efforts and (2) the discomfort of Israelis with their history won’t erase the bloody genesis…

- 1: https://youtu.be/MQ1TAOibLss
All Tesla Superchargers in Israel are free
Since always. Technically, any file explorer is accessing distributed storage. First the multiple storage-devices in your local system, later the different storage in your local network, which then grew to support remote servers like FTP, Webdav, etc. And modern file managers have for some years now also support for cloud-storage like OneDrive or Dropbox. Nothing new here, except being an app build from the ground up for supporting this specific targets.
Then don't act like total knob. Demanding justification for someone's personal blog post is weird man.
Many seem mild so I think it’s important to note that there is no necessary causality between the very final comment on an account and actual ban reason
You forgot that the power station is a centralized point of failure, where as the fuel distribution network is not. This make the power stations a much more valuable target as you can easily disable a country’s transportation infrastructure.
It doesn't seem to work for long bits of text. I copied the first paragraph from Wiki:Random[0], and it submitted successfully on the website, but didn't receive analysis back. No error was shown either.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leport–Toupin_House
Delphi (and probably also Free Pascal?) is not wholly memory safe, but at least it has bounds checking for arrays and a sane string type, which is more than you get with C...

I'm an ex-Delphi developer myself, and actually Go and Pascal are more closely related than you might think at first glance: Go code looks mostly like a C-family language, but the declaration syntax ("a int" instead of "int a") and the "package" concept which helps achieve fast compilation times are borrowed from Pascal. And both have a ":=" operator, although in Go it declares and assigns variable(s) with type inference, while in Pascal it's any assignment.
This is the funny thing every time hackers discuss vehicles and traffic, always gives me a chuckle.

The smaller and lighter vehicles you all are trying to invent, already exist in the hundreds of millions! And have existed for almost as long as cars. They are cheap to buy, cheap to ride, release very little exhaust, doesn't need decaying batteries or rare-earth minerals to make, won't run over your kids and won't make traffic jams.

Also they can get you to where you're going faster than any EV or SUV.

They're called motorcycles.

Edit: Not to mention that electric motorcycles are great rides.
You replied to a post about why vets choose to be vets with "most of them like the fact they get unsupervised access to the drug cabinet and they love the ketamine.."

When challenged, you mention 4 vets you know. You say they've all at least experimented with animal drugs. What portion of the 4 said that was a reason for them to become vets? What portion did more than "at least experiment"? Do either of those represent a majority share of your sample? TBH, I think you would have phrased it differently if they did...

What is it about this small sample which is still influenced by your location, social class, education, etc that makes it representative of all vets?

Just wanted to note the wide gulf between your original reply and where you retreated.
Intel Panther Lake CPU Breaks Cover in App Update, What We Know So Far
Preparing for the end of third-party cookies
El Anatsui/Turbine Hall – miracles in gleaming gold made from recycled rubbish
I’m sure it was for some people, and that’s what I used and learned in college too, but ever since then I’ve seen no end to “rules” about language that lose their qualifiers over time, are applied out of context, or are sometimes just not true and weren’t rules until someone misinterpreted some advice or just decided to demand their way was ‘correct’ and it somehow spread. It’s pretty surprising how many conventions we have that people consider canonical but didn’t used to be.
> Poor people, however, will stay poor.

Right, so it's always in people's best interest to work harder, but $2k buys a lot more pizza than $0, regardless of price.

> You cannot fix the poverty by giving everyone money if you do not increase the amount of goods available for purchase in the market at the same time.

Supply is elastic. Increasing demand should indeed increase supply.