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Even to a nerdy myself, computers are tools to build stuff. I really can't see a (non-apocalyptic) future where the value of "programming computers" diminishes, even if what that exactly looks like changes.

As such, I think it's more valuable to think about the problems one might be wanting to solve in the future, and while computers are likely to be inevitable tools, one should consider their use and programming as an additional thing.

I encourage my kids (3 and 6) to explore computers without the internet: an Ubuntu laptop has an entirely different appeal from a browser and internet. I regret a bit for not putting them at the terminal first, but there's always an opportunity if they develop a deeper interest in the future.

Interestingly, even my dad, an astronomer making heavy use of computers and programming to achieve his goals from late 70s, tried to push me in the direction of other fundamental sciences. But I simply stuck with pure software engineering because it was so exciting in the 90s.
>Free is only free if your time is worth nothing

This is the worst take in technology. The main value of FOSS is freedom, not time or money savings. For many people freedom is more valuable than either.

Also, FOSS and managed aren't mutually exclusive.
> Plus, unless they fixed it, if you enable RCS and then regret it and disable it again, anybody who texted with you via RCS will no longer be able to text you at all. Things won't revert to SMS.

That same "bug" existed for years with iMessage, for anyone switching from an iPhone to a non-iPhone.

It still exists in some form, albeit less severely, because Apple finally implemented a timeout and a way to manually deregister a number, but it took years.
I tried this by grabbing a sound sample of a meditation bell and playing it every few minutes by calling mpg321 in a bash while loop along with a call to sleep.

It... sort of worked, for a bit, and then I just tuned it out. I still like it, sort of like having a grandfather clock, and it does slightly increase my awareness of time, but there's no change in my overall productivity.
There is only one rule: shareholder profits
Dude, you plainly didn't watch the first video where the name of the company operating the truck is WRITTEN ON IT. Your lazy response to that one was: "The first one we don't know if it's a customer."

Try watching them start to finish.

In the meantime, Volvo will get on with building and delivering BEV trucks and buses. Try not to worry so much that these practical realities invalidate your faulty preconceptions.
Oh for sure!I mentioned because it used to be thought that cold after exercisong was good.

The other thing is, this my make a a significant enough difference in elite athletes, but for the average person I thing doing it at all is far superior to doing it at the right time but much less often.
You're making a lot of assumptions here. Insurance is there to make a buck. Nothing more.
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> Also the in application file picker makes it difficult to go up and down directories.

You can use Command up or down keys.
She labels her prototypes in the video on the Kickstarter page and the one that either ended up being the final design or very close to it was prototype number 134. So it did take her quite a long time to arrive at the solution.
You cannot patent a foldable coat hanger. The only thing she could patent is the specific mechanism she used to enable folding, but I doubt the copycats would use exactly the same design.
vim bindings are worth learning, vim/nvim itself is not. Two reasons. One, graphical debugging. Almost every hardcore vim/nvim user I've met has terminal (no pun intended) printf-debugging disease, or uses an IDE on a second monitor. Carmack talked about it in an interview (https://youtu.be/tzr7hRXcwkw)

Secondly people, especially with neovim, seem to be hellbent on turning the thing into a GUI editor anyway, with bespoke search interfaces, file tree plugins, graphical plugin installers, and so on. At which point I don't understand why you're not using something made for that purpose rather than painfully try to reinvent it in a piece of software designed to output text
Interesting. However, there are also challenges to having children young. For example, less financial stability, or emotional stability. These are all things that can impact on a child’s development as well.
By paying 300 bucks, but not having a sysadmin do the legwork, you send a strong signal that you’re an individual with a lot of disposable income. Guess what advertisers make of that…
imo the best way to explain 2s compliment is via a diversion through 2-adic numbers. that also lets you explain the really fun trick where you can store multiplicative inverses within the integers.
How can you make a stateful legacy system serverless? Postgres example
As much as I love to tout the benefits of duckdb, the ability to only pull down the columns that you need is not really functionality that is enabled by or exclusive to duckdb.

It really has to do with the parquet file format. And it gets even more powerful than just being able to download specific columns. To a certain degree, you can also limit rows at the same time.

http://peter-hoffmann.com/2020/understand-predicate-pushdown...

All that being said... yes, as far as I know, polars can do all of that. Probably because it has the necessary parquet dependencies.

Now whether you should use polars instead of duckdb or vise-versa? Is polars "faster"? It depends
> We're just asking for the option

Indeed, the Wire messenger is done like this - it offers phone number, but has an option to not use them and only rely on the usernames (although I think you need to register in the web browser for that)
email hn@ycombinator.com and ask dang to change it back, and tell him that reason.
The issue is not the quality of Avalonia/Uno. They are wonderful. The issue is not availability of third-party toolkits -- they are there. The core issue is being psychologically assured that the first party is interested in supporting my platform with its programming languages and libraries. If MS can support Mac, ios, and Android -- what exactly prevented it from supporting Linux ?? This conspicuous lack of support in the presence of support for other non-MS platforms is the most bothersome bit. And supporting Linux can't be too expensive either. If Avalonia and Uno being open source with no backing of a huge corporation can do it in their stride -- then Microsoft sure as hell can do it. Again , this time economically --- why exactly is MS supporting Mac, ios, and Android -- not Linux ???. I hope you see my point. The absence of MS support is not bothersome technologically. It is problematic attitude wise. If they are fine with not doing GUI on linux (while doing it on all the other platforms) --- what other features/enhancements they will be willing to hold back from Linux ??
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> I figure I'll get on it early this time after missing out on Bitcoin

So you only aped in because you were hoping to get rich without doing any work, and then you fraudulently opened up an account on a shady ass centralized exchange when you knew you couldn't KYC, and got your pretend money stuck, and then when FTX fell over it turns out it was never really there.

Cryptocurrencies are awesome. Greedy people who can't do research and complain loudly when their "get rich quick" schemes blow up in their face make everyone look bad :-/
To be frank, a lot of my WhatsApp-using friends were very upset that it was bought by Facebook. Fortunately they generally transitioned to Signal or Telegram, not iMessage due to significant Android market share.
I've been on linux for the better part of the last 6 years. Legitimately the only times I can recall _not_ being able to do something on Linux were a handful of use cases:

- Multiplayer games: Steam Proton largely solves compatibility for a lot of games now, but the included DRM and anti-cheat for some multiplayer games made them unplayable.

- Certain specialist tools like Photoshop, some CAD software, etc. Open source in this space is better in compatibility.

For the rest of the time I'd do the same as you say: stick to web apps, use the mobile version, etc.

I switched to Mac this year because the M1+ battery life is best-in-class for the price, and I sorely needed a cheaper solution for work than an inverter + batteries to survive South Africa's loadshedding. That, and that some Laravel tooling is smoother on macOS than anywhere else these days.
Compared to their peers of the time?
You got it backwards. Fossil fuels are subsidized, 7 trillion dollars per year: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-16/climat...
Ok that seems like magic. How is it able to only read a subset of the data like that? Is this because of the parquet file format?

Also can the same thing work for files hosted on s3?
While the mixing process is certainly a frustrating one, it’s also the part I’m most addicted to. I mix something almost every day, whether it’s my own work or other multitracks “acquired” from the internet. It’s so much fun working backwards on a song I’m familiar with and going “ok, how the hell did they make the kick sound like that?!” and figuring it out :)
They said "far from bloodless".
two clicks is too hard
I run the https://webri.ng platform. It's a platform that lets users create their own webrings without any coding required. This might come in handy if anyone here wanted to create a webring.
"Would you do X for $Y?"

Most of the time you can increase Y to get the answer "yes".

In many cases Y can even be factored out by changing it to "Would you do X so you wouldn't get fired?"

Empirical answers differ a lot from people's theoretical principles.
That’s pretty normal in the USA.
>I’m aware you left yourself a bit of wriggle room versus the absolute claim. Doesn’t change how it sounds.

No. What happened here is you interpreted it as a insult to your pride. That did not occur. What occurred was a statement of a fact. It was you're own pride and bias that changed how it sounded.

>You know how they say the execution matters, not just the idea?

So. What's your point? Everybody knows this. Why are you stating something obvious? I think you were so clouded by your pride that you can't see that I'm neutral. I really don't care. Your tone only became neutral when you realized I was a neutral party. You were blinded by your own pride when you thought you were communicating with an "enemy" and when you realized I'm neutral that cleared your mind. Now you're talking some sense.

>Not sure how you are claiming that they both can and can’t deliver the required quality? Almost everything, high and low quality, can be manufactured in China. Spend the full $$$ value and you’ll get unbeatable quality. But pay peanuts, get cheap things.

I said marketing AND QC. There's a ton of low quality shit coming out of China. A ton. There's a ton of high quality stuff too that's behind a wall of bad marketing. You just need to compare TEMU and Amazon.

You say you're not sure how I made a claim that they can and cant' deliver the required quality then RIGHT after that statement you say almost everything high and low quality comes out China. So you aren't sure how I can make such a "claim" then you make the SAME claim right after that sentence. That makes no sense.

>To continue my point above, they take that product and manufacture it with the best cost-value ratio for the mass consumer. You can always get various levels of quality in knockoffs.

Quality is inconsistent enough that Chinese products are associated with poor quality. Additionally the marketing is just bad, your products may be made in China but the brand is rarely ever Chinese.

>This is actually connected to my previous post. The West is able to do this solely due to economic and currency disparities, which are further perpetuated by the West. Hence, you get:

Good we're in agreement.

>The West is completely dependent on the non-West for labor. It’s such a massive point of failure that the Western lifestyle would fall apart otherwise.

Not completely dependent. And not permanently dependent. Advanced manufacturing is still very much US exclusive. For example, boeing air liners. China does not know how to manufacture those things yet. And given the fact the US knows advanced manufacturing they can implement basic manufacturing again if the need arises. BUT, and this is a huge but, as more and more time passes with America not reinvigorating manufacturing they will slip deeper and deeper into permanent dependence.

But overall we're in agreement here. Next time be more careful before you charge in with your guns armed. It's better to be neutral as you see the world with clearer eyes.
The average AI criticism has gotten lazy, and that's dangerous
Light quality.
Immediately negative comments every time nuclear is brought up on HN.

I just want to say two things:

Nuclear power has been incredibly advantageous for Sweden. Sweden was an early adopter and it worked out well for us. Average time to build a reactor here is less than a decade. Swedes are great at building large scale energy infrastructure.

Wind and solar are not very suitable here. The wind is too intermittent, and we are too far away from the equator for solar.
We need regulations about what computers should and should not be allowed to do. Computers should not be allowed to make healthcare decisions. Computers should not be allowed to make legal threats or actions.
It's a feature of humanity. We are intrinsically broken and prone to self preservation. No matter the systems we come up with to given our conduct, we always revert to our basic character traits.
I strongly disagree with how this is presented. Doing half-assed or even passionate work for greedy insurance companies is not a horrible thing to do. Not thinking of how these companies can be reigned in and acting accordingly is far worse. We need to stop offloading moral responsibility from the people in charge to the regulae folks.
Load balancer for app is easy part, harder part is to configure replication and fail over for postgres.
If it's a "trouble", then no, it is not "worth it". Use whatever works for you.
Why do they deserve that?

To be more explicit, why do some men deserve an "artificial intelligence girlfriend" that they "own and control", that "serves them"?
imo that's outdated mantra repeated while we are just getting there.. but anyway: as is any nuclear 10 year planning now 20 years out then in reality, at least here in the west.
Plenty of folks here work on bombs for killing people, surveillance instruments for govt and police to use for spying on citizens, etc - people take paychecks and they take orders

The business of insurance is to make money by denying care that people paid for
https://archive.is/yjpei
There was a documentary about the contents of the hard drive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_P_Yxhnt0

It gives a sample of the content and the context surrounding it.
I was also definitely surprised this didn't already exist; but hey I never thought of it either! My apartment has a bunch of bookshelves with hanging bars in them (?) definitely not big enough for normal hangers unless you turn them sideways and lose a bunch of space.

On this design though, my biggest criticism would be that it requires the hanger to be leaning against the wall when folded, to not fall at an angle. While that's fine for the co-designed rack she has, it makes them a lot less useful on their own or in other randomly wall-to-rack spaced closets (even says so in the kickstarter).

The simple solution is to move the hook to be centered over the folded hanger, so it's balanced when folded. It'd look super goofy and not hang right unfolded, but that's probably fine. Surprised none of the prototypes tried that.
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I thought about it as well but if the rod is attached to a plank on the wall the clothes are 1cm away from the wall allowing for some air circulation.

Btw, there is an alternative solution, a hanger where the hook can spin, so one can hang clothes diagonally, nearly flat.
Hers looks nicer on the wall though.
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Just in case anyone is interested, I run the https://webri.ng platform. It's a platform that lets users create their own webrings without any coding required. This might come in handy if anyone here wanted to create a webring of their own. It actually hosts one of the webrings the author lists in their article.
Yes, this works for S3 files as well.

The trick it's using is the HTTP Range header, which lets a client request eg bytes 4500-4900 of an HTTP file.

Most static file hosting platforms - S3, GCS, nginx, Apache etc - support Range headers. They're most commonly used for streaming video and audio.

The Parquet file format is designed with this in mind. You can read metadata at the start of the file and use it to figure out which ranges to fetch. Columns are grouped together, so sum() against a column can be handled by fetching a subset of the file.
This is a great tool for all your phishing needs!
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Parquet is columnar, you can read each column independently, and a different compression scheme can be used for each column. You first have to read the beginning of the file to get the layout though (And the end of it as well, according to a library I have been using. Don't know why) . The http server must of course support range queries.
Gmail using too much RAM: 1-2GB per tab in Safari
They are all complicit, the people in charge have no power without their underlings.
Much goofier looking though.
>News flash, outside of work and gaming, Windows isn’t needed.

Sunken cost fallacy? I have some really expensive windows software that I'm not about to throw away, repurchase, as well as a new os/ machine.
Windows fits my needs, though the constant telemetry fight etc is very annoying.
I assume you do a lot of deletions for 1. to be significant. On the other hand, you restrict yourself to a specific class of hashes: reversible and bijective (and never producing a zero for a valid input, although I think this is just how this particular table is built and can be easily changed). This a severe limitation to ever store any data other than integers, e.g. strings.

I'm not criticizing. I've never implemented a hash table myself and want to learn. I'm just trying to understand what's the trade off you considered that I don't see.
Let me add some more sarcasm: destroying perfectly fine products because they "violate" some abstract concept is not insane at all. It's just what humans do.
Nope. The rivers where just fine to cool reactors, it was that they were heating the water too much for the (outdated) environmental regulations.
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You can see this in the HN age poll. The most recent one shows the age group clustered around late millennial to young GenX. If you're 40 today, you would have been 17 in 2000, so yeah.
> What's an acceptable error rate for such a model? What's the human baseline?

Funny, I though it was socialized medicine that had "death panels" and such /s
"For example LLMs can be used to provide surveys of a topic area, and even book recommendations, tailored to a specific learner’s need. They have, famously, a tendency to “hallucinate,” a generous term of art for “fabricating bullshit.” But in just a few months, this tendency has found a curious guardrail: the LLM can browse the web, and in doing so, provide citations and links that you can check yourself. So where before you might have been led toward publications that didn’t exist, you can now prompt the LLM to ensure it’s giving you proof."

Who wants to browser the Web with a chat bot? Who wants to dig through garbage, verify it, and provide free labor for AI companies? What are these "citations"? Is the "proof" even in the Web?
This looks good, how does it work? Also what is latency like for this?
The cost of running them isn't relevant. What is relevant: being able to get more light from a limited amount of house/set/generator power, and the control over them. They don't require a dimmer pack, just power and DMX (wired or wireless) to control their brightness, color temperature, activate special in-light effects like flickering/strobing, etc.

Some directors prefer the spectrum completeness and profile from tungsten (or the ultimate, carbon-arc, which is virtually indistinguishable from the sun.)

I also think there are levels of light that aren't really feasible except with carbon arc because LEDs don't like heat and that limits power density.

I don't remember what movie it was, but there's a photo of an enormous balloon light - larger than an entire house - over a farmhouse somewhere in the midwest, at night. Pretty sure it wasn't LEDs as the source, but I could be wrong.
>Sounds like chatgpt doesn't want your business and tuned thier cloudflare settings accordingly. Conveniently cloudflare is getting the blame, which is presumably part of what they're paying for.

The issue is fixed now. But as I mentioned CloudFlare still has a shit captcha, and the one for disabilities was broken as I mentioned.
Of the only claims that have been adjudicated 90% were found to have been erroneous.

Without analysis there is no particular reason to believe that other denials were more justified.

Few doctors on average make nonsensical requests for patient care while insurers issue spurious denials as a matter of course.

You dont need to know the total number of denials instead you need a neutral party to analyze a random sample of denials.

We could do this as matter of course and tie failing an adequate benchmark to ruinous penalties to company and CEO.
I did some digging and found out that they're a copy of air but far far superior. They're website is meetdexy.ai
I’m not talking about the “premature optimization” conversation for once. I’m talking about complexity theory, which he is the father of, being unmoored from information theory and problematic in this day and age - actually problematic back to 2000 if you’re working on problems that require clusters of machines. In the last 20 years we’ve flipped from less than 20% of developer working in horizontally scaled systems to perhaps 20% who have never had to. I believe that accentuated the discrepancy.
This one's got my eyes. Feels like this will be the next big thing in the market. I'll be trying my hands on it this weekend. It seems like I've got another one of these incoming in my org.
The latency is sub ~2sec which is pretty fast for a phone conversation. You should sign up and try it out!
What happens if you move your home to a different state after incorporation? Do you potentially have to register the business in the new state as well as the old one it's already registered in?
That's not competition.
And as soon as I saw it I thought what a good solution for getting the hangers inside of the neck opening without stretching the fabric, but the purpose of halving the required storage space is just genius.
I'm not sure but the voice and latency is pretty good for voice calls. But I do see that they are working on it.
Not on apple, at least

https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/nonprofits/