skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some applications want extremely low latency compared to pretty much anything else such as cloud gaming. Net neutrality rules might get in the way of a cloud gaming service negotiating with an ISP to route their traffic more efficiently. It's kind of like how when ordering stuff online, sometimes you don't care if it takes 3 weeks to arrive but other times you want same day shipping. It would be a bad experience if USPS was forced to only offer one priority class for delivery since people ok with slower delivery would be forced to pay for faster service than they need and people wanting faster delivery wouldn't have that option.

However, I think rules could be put in place to prevent the anti-competitive practices without limiting the legitimate use cases for going against net neutrality.
TIL memories are .mp3s and not .bz2s
For those interested in an alternative to Redis on disk, compatible with the Redis protocol, have a look on Kvrocks[1] which was recently accepted in the Apache foundation. It is based on RocksDB and works quite nicely for us.

[1]: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks
I get your point but to free up cash for the employees he’d have to bail out all the other creditors first. Not a good precedent to set.
I would buy that book.
What would a sufficient Faraday cage look like?
Apple Announces Businesses Can Accept iPhone IDs
If you give your card and your PIN to somebody and that somebody steals from you, how can this be the bank's fault?
> I felt like I had to write unnecessary 'glue' with header files

Headers are a feature, not a bug. They're the API. They help document the API and also keep it separate from the implementation.
...it's not O(n). Many languages, JS, Java and C# included, have O(1) access to a character at a given position. You correctly note that it won't work well with international strings, but GP is right that A LOT of code like this was written by western ASCII-brained developers.
Sounds like either pure BS or "well technically" BS e.g. in the form "it has a gravitational field, which means it will pull on all objects in the universe".

That said, I don't see that quote in the article…
If the law states they should do so then, yes ?
It’s just a number in a database. Don’t get too wrapped up about it. If you’re Elon or an investor, it might matter. If you’re a consumer, all that matters is the vehicle price and fast DC story in your jurisdiction. If you’re a climate activist, you just care they keep growing volume and making legacy auto suffer enough to have to electrify too.

It’s a meaningless number for the most part as long as the business is cashflow positive and still has ~$25B in cash equivalents on hand.

For comparison, half of public companies aren’t profitable.

https://medium.com/short-business-articles-by-svyatoslav-bir...
Part of me agrees with you.

But part of me also sees the Go's team point on this, which is that not all functions always need their error checked - as an obvious example, fmt.Println.

Sure, the compiler could add explicit exceptions for those cases, but that's a very unclean solution and it doesn't handle third party libraries.

The "Go way" is to use the errcheck tool to do that.

And on balance I think that having that defined in a separate tool - which can be configured by the user to exclude modules of their choice, and comes with good defaults - is the correct choice.
You can't counterfeit something accurately if you don't truly know how it was made
And Elon hasn't been known to exaggerate greatly or lie, so this must be true.
It's marketing nonsense, obviously.

The basis for this claim is that an electric engine can generate torque at an arbitrarily low RPM, so given low enough friction on the load it can move an arbitrarily massive object. That particular given, of course, renders the whole claim BS.
The earnest answer is I wanted to play my ripped mp3s and recordings off the radio on my computer at home. We had slow dial-up and 4 kids fighting over it, but I had my own non-internet-connected computer and an early flash drive, and the school had fast internet.
Well, as long as you set the mass on a frictionless plane in a vacuum, the car can pull pretty much any amount of mass. At some point, it'll all collapse into a black hole and the towing cable will stop working properly, so the capacity is only near infinite.
I agree that ObjC is nice, and proven ObjC codebases probably don't benefit enormously from being re-written in Swift, but that has little to do with how much better Swift is (and it is much better, IMO).
No? Direct control is harder in a Harvard architecture, but often changing data is the attack you want to do anyway.
Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain
> within two months a memorandum was circulated to the Cabinet by a Zionist Cabinet member, Herbert Samuel, proposing the support of Zionist ambitions in order to enlist the support of Jews in the wider war.

I'm confused. In 1900, Jews were only 0.6% of the UK population [1,2], and 1.3% of the US population [3,4]. Why was the support of such a tiny fraction of the population so important?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Jews#Population_size

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

[3] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-population-in-th...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
A large, established moving company can. Last time I moved, they just drove my truck into the semi-trailer along with the rest of my stuff then took it across country.
I’m in a similar boat. Header files typically led to faster compile times. OCMock worked like magic.

Where both languages are poor is how large the binaries they produce are.
Vivaldi is the best mobile browser I know! It has a builtin tracker and ads blocker. Made the change a year ago can't look back
How does it work for much larger files?
That'll be best shock is he was the best finger painter ever.
For context, NYT recently called out Musk for spreading anti-Semitic propaganda.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/19/x-twitt...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/08/israel-...
In theory, no. But in theory, we weren't supposed to have the first Fukushima to begin with. A bunch of things went precisely the wrong way.

That said, Fukushima ultimately wasn't bad, especially in terms of atmospheric releases / land contamination. It was scary, but nowhere near many of our worst "conventional" industrial disasters, let alone Chernobyl.
I wonder if the Sykes-Picot would have been different if Britian didn't have India and an interest in the Suez. Maybe it would have made no difference.
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Illegally commandeering a car filled to the brim with cameras and tracking equipment doesn't seem like the wisest move.
It is really great.
Your series A startup continues to operate and offers a severance that isn't even required for the purposes of reputation management.

They want to be able to hire good people tomorrow so they pay you severance today.

The company in question here is dead. There is no more money coming in and no business to operate.
So a completely useless claim then ?
How did they burn that much cash in a year?
Alternative very appropriate for some uses cases: `vnl-join` from the vnlog toolkit (https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog). Uses the `join` tool from coreutils (works well, has been around forever), and `vnlog` for nice column labelling
What’s the “Very Bad” scenario? Limited liability stops being limited?
A significant administrative cost benefit to single payer is not having to identify the correct payer, do coordination of benefits, etc.

With multiple “single-payer” systems in the same population (often serving overlapping populations with each other and private health insurance) you've negated that benefit.

You’ve also negated the market power advantage of monopsony purchasing by having multiple of them, and again having them coexist with private health insurance.

(And that's even before considering that while Medicare and some state Medicaid plans have single payer components, Medicare is not a single-payer plan covering the listed number of beneficiaries, but instead just under half are in the single-payer traditional Medicare, and that Medicaid isn't a single payer plan, or even a plan, at all, its a funding mechanism for state-operated plans, each of which may or may not operate entirely as a state-level single-payer plan.)
Since people really don’t know why it is famous, it is because of the sfumato technique employed. This is the painting that employs it most successfully (not sure if it was his first with sfumato, but surely the most prolific)

Leonardo is one of the first painters using the technique and who studied optics and wrote about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfumato

I think the Romans knew about sfumato as well, so it fits in the renaissance thinking of the time.
Our guest here has pretty good eyes, say David. First one to ask about it.
Guide to Modulith with Spring Boot
Thank you. This thought did pop into my head at some point, but I neglected it due to all the other stressors. Maybe that's the compromise.
They had two months of salary and healthcare two months ago. That’s the time to cut bait.
Also a good example of programmer masochism, there's absolutely no good reason for

zd, err := gzip.NewReader(fd)

to return an error rather than waiting for an actual read. The stdlib is usually pretty good about this but third-party libraries are rife with this kind of misdesign.
> HSBC UK is pretty serious about fraud

And to play devil's advocate - from their perspective, _this_ claim could very well be fraudulent. Not accusing anybody of anything, but in theory it's not a bad scam - get your son to drain your bank account, move the money where it can't be found, claim you were hacked, get all your money back. I doubt that's what happened here, but the bank has to consider it.
Can the author not simply include the necessary fonts on his site?
Host object (such as DOM elements) support has been underway for a long long long long time. Component-model has been making ongoing progress towards this goal. It'll eventually happen.
> consumer spending has shrunk

Part of the reason being that workers have been ordered back to offices, meaning a significant portion of their income is spent on commute and eating out. Crazy how damaging rto is to everything around us.
I'd be interested to see the same kinds of results before/after RLHF training for censorship/"harmlessness", which I've seen pointed to in a few places as degrading the quality of responses in general.
A better fix would be for people to see their health insurance divorced from their employer. That would actually greatly benefit startups and be one step back from corporate serfdom.
People want to use it because its very easy to sign up and very easy to use. Even compared to Paypal, its much easier in my experience. And the vast majority of users don't have any issues at all.
Agree, wrapping errors continues to build context until you have a clear trail of blame for the issue.

Most languages just expect you to read the stack trace and figure it out. Proper error handling tells you explicitly how it failed at each level so you can decide what to do at each level of the codebase.

Having global try/catch (or bang as the author suggests) is easier at first, but makes actually handling error paths worse.
Part of the unspoken reality of Twitter is that it became an integral part of modern journalism.

News agencies have been spending the last two decades cutting way back on their field reporting and foreign bureaus. And most journalists graduate college without any actual investigative experience, and get a job where they sit at a desk and read the internet all day. No one is out knocking on doors anymore.

Twitter basically became the outsourcing platform for beat reporting. There is no plan B.
The really talented technical people I know have what I call “eff you skills.”

They literally walk away over minor inconveniences like “you can’t use your own mouse here” or “you have to use VS Code and not your Vim setup.” Don’t like something management does? “Eff you.”

Last place I was at did one day in the office, and they all left without new jobs.

All are now employed again, most a level up.
How is that not machine translation?
> Perhaps the discussion should be around improving this benefit for everyone?

Red herring

You're participating in mental gymnastics to validate what is essentially poor leadership. Why?
AMD have their problems too.

Nobody likes to talk about the insane NPS configuration or the models where some cores have good L3 cache and some don't. These cause real problems which are very difficult to diagnose. I know this because I'm the one solving them for customers. Good luck if you're running a workload affected by the CVE solved in the latest Zen 3/4 microcode update, goodbye HPC cluster investment.
> "...in some cases giving their operators electric shocks. Telegraph pylons threw sparks"

The real life precursor of exploding starship screens/consoles
Fireworks was the absolute best tool for anything graphical I've ever used
I don't think military medical coverage really counts as single payer; it's an in-house employer plan, it's just that the employer is the federal government. Just because the federal government is paying for it, doesn't make it single payer.

Re: medicare, I think a reasonable way towards universal single payer (or whatever you call medicare advantage plans, as a sibling notes) would be to drop the eligibility age over many years, and eventually get full coverage; and at the same time, add all kids to medicaid. Ex: years 1-10, reduce medicare eligibity age by 1, have medicaid cover kids less than year number; after ten years, medicare covers you at 55, medicaid covers kids less than 10. Years 11-20, reduce medicare eligibity age by 2, still increase kids by one year per year; after twenty years, medicare covers you at 35, and medicaid covers until 18. Years 21-28?, add medicare one year from both ends, and I think at year 28, everyone is covered. Congress should adjust the rollout schedule regularly, as scaling problems emerge, or don't; if after a couple years it becomes obvious that it's too slow or too fast, it can be adjusted; it'd also work, but be more complicated, to do it on a % basis --- once a year, determine what age (years + months even?) would result in a 1% enrollment increase, and do that, you'll finish before 100 years, but I'm not doing the math to figure out how much sooner.
Not really, because as pointed out large companies can do it much better than small ones.
I'm so tired of this tail-wagging-the-dog excuse. It's so hard to operate in (parts of) our society without a car that we can't meaningfully hold drivers responsible for their bad behavior, or keep people who show a repeated disregard for their responsibility in operating dangerous machinery off the road?
I don’t think that’s necessarily always true. I was recently looking into using Redis as a regular database. Unfortunately data is still kept in memory even if it’s persisted on disk, so it was a no-go. You’d be surprised what people want!
Wonder how big of secondaries the founders took
> vehicle model named "L5

Is this allowed?
I mean the verification badge means less than nothing these days anyway.
I understand what you're saying, but I think you may be missing my point, which is: Jeff Bezos's reputation is damaged by this. I will not work for anything he touches because I don't think he's behaving decently.
At this point you’d have to be crazy to want to buy anything from musk.
Amazon would love nothing more than to fully automate its warehouses. It's already reached 'manna' levels of automated worker management (arguably far more draconian than the author of the short story envisioned)

The recent advances I've seen in robotics mirror LLMs to a lesser extent. I fear we're on the precipice of exponential change on the S curve here.
"Meaningful and accurate" and "useful" aren't really the same thing when it comes to advertising.
Yup, Objective-C's object system was really flexible and powerful to use. Dynamic mixins, swizzling, etc. were all useful tools for me. Having messages as first-class citizens was probably the most important part to me. It helps make the object system expressive enough that I don't remember writing much design patterns ;)

But seriously though, CLOS and Smalltalk-style OOP is probably the only flavor of OOP I really enjoy to use, and Objective-C gets you way closer to that than C++ and Java do. (e.g. the way KVO is implemented relies on "isa-swizzling", or dynamically changing classes at runtime)
As a parent this is a heartwarming article. We sometimes forget that children have always been children. Thanks for sharing.
Hopefully the ZIRP idea that dies is that VC and Big Tech can create companies off a conveyer belt.

VCs today go after shiny baubles, like “27 innovators under 27” nonsense, and have forgotten they’re mainly looking for high talent very resilient technical weirdos and any other characteristics are bonus.
If anyone wishes to dive deeper and attempt some emulation* of CXL and to find out more, checkout both links as QEMU supports emulating CXL devices.

[0] Emulating CXL Shared Memory Devices in QEMU
https://memverge.com/cxl-qemuemulating-cxl-shared-memory-dev...

[1] CXL support in QEMU
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/devices/cxl.html
The Easy Intro to the APCA Contrast Method
> Neither has claimed to be L5.

Both seem to have claimed that L4 is Good Enough for city driving but there is mounting evidence to the contrary. Notably, L5 is the one that says, "drive the vehicle under all conditions" (https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update). Apparently, "emergency response not underway" is part of the required conditions for their current implementation of L4.
It can pull any mass, near infinite, as long as it doesn’t exceed 14k pounds of weight.

Might refer to the fact that EVs have high torque, hence high bollard pull force, which is the maximum force that a vehicle can generate at zero speed.
My layman interpretation is that you can use the truck to pull on an immovable object and the truck won’t disintegrate. Pulling != towing so the marketing dept is threading a fine line here.
They need two coolers for a 7W chip?
They raised $260 million and had at their peak 1500 employees.

Think for a moment how far $260 million gets you when you have 1500 tech employee salaries in Seattle to pay. Plus operating expenses. Don't forget to add 15.3% for payroll tax. Median software engineer compensation in Seattle is 219k. Infrastructure and office space isn't free either. Seattle office space averages $43/sqft and the average employee space is 150-175 sqft.

That. Money. Is. Long. Gone. It's not a bad take, you just won't do basic math.

Raising $260M doesn't mean you're rich. The investors expect you to spend that money and otherwise why are you raising that much?

They spent 4 months looking for a buyer and had already shed 1000 employees before shutting down operations. It's not like current employees were clueless about what was going on.

Functionally there's little difference between operating up until now or giving 500 "chosen, lucky" people severance 3 months ago.
I think you meant Fireworks and yeah.
ObjC is often no longer an option for building on new platform functionality
You sound very gullible. As if execs don't know nor pick when to shut down.
Show HN: Hell's Pitching – Pitch your startup idea and get roasted
In October 2022 I started Pitch Deck Studio, an agency that helps startup founders create winning pitch decks. Over the past year, I had the privilege of working with many different clients, attending numerous meetings. I've seen a lot of startups and pitch decks, and I've learned a lot about what works and what doesn't.

Sometimes, though, I wished I could say the harsh truth to my clients. But I couldn't. I had to be professional.

5 months ago then, I decided to build an AI-powered assistant that could do the dirty job for me. An assistant that could tell the truth, no matter how harsh it is, and help founders build a better startup.

I knew almost nothing about coding but I was determined. So I started learning Python, and then HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I spent hours and hours learning, coding, and testing.

After months of hard work and dedication, here's Hell's Pitching. A chatbot that helps startup founders brainstorm their ideas in a different way.

What you'll get is not the typical 'pat on the back' kind of feedback. What you'll get is a ruthlessly honest AI-powered assistant you need to build a better startup.

Underneath the roast, though, there's wisdom that often leads to 'aha' moments.

So if you think you have a golden startup idea, give Hell's Pitching a try. It's free. And it's fun.

PS I'm ready to get roasted from you guys!
Similar, but I use Whimsical instead of Miro for diagrams.
Curious if Threads is still a thing
That's fair. SCOTUS is a roll of the dice lately, and there's no way of telling what crazy rulings they might back. As far as I know, though, that ruling hasn't been appealed.
In general, we should probably get all cars off the road until we can guarantee that they won't get into accidents. Once we have a 100% guarantee that no human lives are lost and no environmental harm can occur, we can slowly introduce one or two cars and see what happens. Perhaps the people who drive these cars should be highly trained professional drivers.

Then we can slowly introduce one or two amateur drivers and see if they cause any harm when going about their daily lives.

After we study the effects for a few decades we should be able to safely allow a few more people to drive cars on the road.
I'd love so much to see any other kind of vaguely mainstream software trend or idea that had any of this core value of the web.

Lovely writeup from Robin. Great to have this so well elaborated.
This is the actual problem, because transporter trucks are almost always just used to bring a group of vehicles to a dealership from a rail depot.

The ones carrying cars across the country for moves are quite rare, unscheduled, and harder to find. They also can't carry anything else besides cars on the transporters - you might almost have better luck driving your car into the back of a box semi and letting them load other LTL loads behind it.
It's the consequence of the food industry becoming hyperindustrialized in which uncommon ingredients and "off-cuts" no longer fit with the goal of pursuing economy of scale. Ultraprocessed food is efficient to produce and distribute and formulated to specifically target innate human cravings (high sugar/sodium/carb/fat) in ways that were not possible before.

This is a trend that started in the U.S. and gradually spread out across industrialized nations in the post-WWII world as globalization accelerated. However even for Americans, offal used to be a common ingredient before and during WWII: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gidc5a/when_...
Perhaps you should chat with Alan Cox? IIRC, he was on 28k dialup (over a couple of lines) whilst the more metropolitan of us were on ISDN. Adjust your workflow to your environment.
The founders probably took millions in secondary offerings