skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a difference in goals. The point of a paper is to convince an expert that the claim is correct. With an article, you can just assume that the claim is correct (or give it any level of credence you want), because the point is to inform more than convince. So the article can skip or sketch all the showing-your-work and steps and proofs and just present the conclusions.
Teletext mode (MODE 7 IIRC) was fun too!
Apple suppliers, the "carbon neutral" Apple Watch, and carbon credits
> Last but not least, I guess the current insane energy policies and quite literally cooling economic environment in Germany don't really help as well.

Who would have thought that pilling up incompetent energy policies one after an other would come back to bite them.. And if only the energy policies where the only bad choices they were making..
> However, I think it's unreasonable to expect them to design a perfect system for a highly volatile and chaotic use case such as war.

When it comes to safety-critical systems, the right engineering choice is to lean towards a 'safe' default. For example, the safe default would be to always slave the cursor:

> Once "hooked," the contact would be tracked by Aegis. But critically, unless the operator took the additional step of "slaving" the cursor to that contact, as the contact moved away the cursor would not follow it.

And here, don't reassign a tracking number, at least not within in a short timeframe:

> Vincennes assigned her the tracking number 4474; Sides assigned her 4131. Aegis unified the contacts under the number 4131. 4474 was then available for re-use, so Aegis assigned it to a US A-6 bomber, which happened to be descending.
Anyone know of anything similar, only in Typescript? Typing Koans?
Nothing beats concur - the app made so only people with an assistant can file expenses
Pesky little scripts – Redowan's Reflections
The difference between Quality Control and Quality Assurance is really important but most developers don’t really know the difference, and their only form of quality is QC catching some bugs on the way out rather than QA catching them earlier in the pipeline. I’m a contract test engineer & very rarely see the latter - for example test design alongside feature design. It’s amazing how quickly you can improve a products quality metrics (defect leakage, customer reports, defect costs, etc) by focusing a little on the QA side of development.

It’s one of the issues companies have when they think they can just replace QA with developers automated tests - it misses every other part of quality except a subset of QC.
It was simply the word for pirate. They described pirates in the Mediterranean as vikings, despite them not being of Norse ethnicity or culture in any way.
You don't need that. Just run a dns server which returns the appropriate results for the tld of your choice. Getting others to recognize and repeat might need a little "grease".
I got frustrated on the very first example (Basic 1: Any) because I didn't realize that the typings library wasn't imported by default. Maybe I should have known better, but it definitely got me.
It can be done better than today. If I order 3 packages on bol.com,I tend to see 3 delivery vans on the same day,sometimes literally parked behind each other. Or they spread out to 3 consequent days. Or the neighbour gets a delivery van half an hour later. They're mostly from the same company (bpost)

I'd like to tell them: Pick a day next week, and deliver everything together at the same time. Make it a bit more expensive to let the customer choose, and market forces will balance things out.
What the hell is going on here? 550 points for a new account and link that goes nowhere? Botted for sure.
How does this compare to having a smaller battery in the car, with more energy storage on grid?

I see that this way there are lower transmission losses, but surely this is outweighed by spending extra energy carrying a larger battery around? (Plus more particulates from tyres.)

If people are going to buy oversized batteries for their cars anyway though, then sure, why not?
Yes, all my love to DBeaver! I achieve so much better performance and productivity in that one over things like pgAdmin 4 and SQL Server Management Studio. It's a gem. <3
Roc a fast, friendly, functional language
I assume most everyone here on their free and unpaid time is here for entertainment purposes. Why waste time reading an article if the title already provides enough entertainment for a creative dialog?
> FUSE would be better but users don't have enough permissions.

This is also going to be a great prank on the next engineer who's never gonna figure why he can't see any of the files the build jobs are seeing in his shell.
Nothing beats it, really? Not even the tragedy that cut 290 human lives on which you are commenting?
I think 'Hero' here just means somebody they look up to and aspire to be like. And a lot of people aspire to be rich.

Nothing wrong in that at all.
I used to think this as well, but lately I've noticed these stories which span multiple tweets have a common feature, which seems to emerge out of the size constraint regardless of the author: concise, beat-driven storytelling.

The size limit results in each post being a coherent sentence or three, advancing the story by a small but consistent amount. If these same authors used the medium of a free-form blog post to tell the same stories, I think we'd see much more meandering, and the pacing wouldn't be as consistent.

Not saying I don't enjoy a good blog post, but for what it is, I don't mind the (1/x) tweet story format as much as I used to.
> It arrives faster because there are more of them

I think you’re overestimating how many people will buy Teslas.

Also, how many people who own Teslas would robotaxi it. A company might do it as a business, but it’d just take waking up one morning to discover a drunk passenger puked all over your back seat, or fluid remains of someone having sex in there [1] for individual owners to pull out of the program.

[1] https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cru...
I think the acquisitions were mostly a knee-jerk reaction to Epic's actions. Some execs saw their main competitor buying all these big toys on the shelf and thought they needed to start buying things as well to stay relevant. But I think noone at Unity ever thought about what to do with them other than generating newspaper headlines. Especially buying Weta felt so much like "See?! We can do film VFX too!"
The steps to pay with Apple Pay are you have to take out your phone, double click the button on the side, confirm you want to pay, have it scan your face or do a fingerprint scan, then hold the phone waiting for it to confirm "client side" - plus Apple Pay isn't as widely supported as the "tap to pay" method which has a simple logo you can look for without having to discuss it with the cashier.

Whipping out a much smaller, lighter rectangle and simply tapping it on the reader and putting it back in your pocket takes less than a second
Politics was, luckily for VW, very successful at massively delaying Vinfast's market entry with regulations. Otherwise, that electrical 5-seat SUV for only €17600 would have been a massive problem for German car companies. It's like 70% cheaper than an ID.4 and people will probably accept a lot of small hiccups for that amount of money saved.
The advantage is the "just works, stays the same, simple base" nature of it. Web dev in the browser with JS "just works" but slowly drifts, and the base isn't simple. Even learning vanilla JS is a lot harder than BBC Basic. There is a lot less to BBC Basic. For example if I remember there is zero functional programming capability, no closures, no objects even (I think there were strings, numbers, booleans, arrays of strings, arrays of numbers, arrays of booleans, etc. very simple types).
This is, imo, an extremely naive take. You claim culture is a collaborative process, yet AI only takes from the communities that produce art. It gives nothing back. You claim AI produces culture, but all it does is atomize our society, promising personal yet meaningless experiences for everyone. There's no shared culture if everyone is just consuming individualized streams of content. It's simultaneously homogenizing too, producing uninteresting torrents of homogenous images from the same model. This also harms culture, stamping out uniqueness under the weight of thousands of meaningless images flooding online art spaces. You claim the only art that's off limits to AI is that which remains unpublished, yet you continue to use the labor of others without permission, discouraging people from publishing their work in the absence of any protection for that work. You claim AI will make art more open, yet most of these models are built and operated by massive corporations with closed source code. They steal from the public and cry out fair use while trying to build walled gardens they can monopolize.

So I'm sorry but there's an argument to every point you're making. I trust the artists I speak to far more than the proponents of this technology. At least they're striving for something genuinely instead of making disengenuous claims about "democratization".
Now read the next verse.
It's a total difference of point of view.

In Europe, banks don't like you taking out credit cards. Borrowing money is viewed as a weakness and it's best to never do it.

In America it's considered a virtue to have many credit cards and shuffle them so you can be seen to pay it off. Really weird.
That is impossible because each Vanguard mutual fund is a distinct legal entity. Assets cannot be moved between funds. See Vanguard safety for more details: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Vanguard_safety
I could use one of these for just about every language I work in. Go, Haskell, Python, TypeScript...
> My bank indeed issues a real MasterCard but the monthly fees are unreasonable added on top of my already expensive checking account fees and it has very crappy app where trying to temporarily (un-)block my card needs calling their support and waiting in line while amex app gives me these features immediately on app.

Get yourself an N26 account/card if it bothers you too much. It works as a Mastercard (still the "Debit" kind though), has no account fees and you can do basically everthing from within their app.
That reminds me...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476421
The Twitter Hack (Of Craig Murray)
Yeah, outside the US, plenty of shops outright refuse Amex.
And then it turns out that the order of the parameters was mixed up... just kidding.
You can have high sales numbers and still not be competitive if you don't turn those sales into viable profits.

I guess the confusion here is between the company being competitive -- as in making money -- and having products that are competitive in the marketplace -- as in consumers buy a lot of them and frequently pick them over other options. Slightly different meanings for the same word -- fair enough. I was thinking of this as a consumer/man-on-the-street looking at all the VWs, not as someone looking at quarterly earnings.
Web won because of the long running con of "write once, run everywhere", which has in practice caused a myriad of extra work as it was not true of:

- operating systems,

- browsers,

- aspect ratios, or,

- devices

Web technology is a scam, constantly reinventing itself. There are no true experts, everyone is scrabbling for the next framework which promises the world but just expresses the same set of problems in a new and interesting syntax, with increasingly unintuitive paradigms.

It is eternally "almost getting there", near enough but not good enough, needing to own increasingly more things that should rightly belong to an operating system to work acceptably.
I made the same error. OP, maybe instead of only giving the option to see the solution, also give the option to just see a hint?
It is actually only the mastodon implementation that forces the size limit. It can actually be any size. I forked the original repo and had to change 2 variables to be able to toot 5000 characters instead of 500.
"App developers earn an average of $6 per download" sounds less weird, no?

Still, it sounds high to me too.
Interesting, I didn't find it that impressive when I tried it a couple months ago and fairly quickly went back to regular old-fashioned autocomplete. What language(s) were you working with out of curiosity?
I gave up on trying to read it on the desktop. I have Firefox with JavaScript enabled but after expanding every paragraph by clicking on it, it automatically collapses when I try to scroll using the cursor keys and completely disoriented me while the content I was trying to read dissapears from my view and the page stutters and different collapse paragraphs light up.

I guess I'll never know the details of the greatest user interface disasters in history but at least got to experience a smaller one myself.
and are housed interchangeably in big cities where most of the population experiences these facilities
So far I see more value in ontologies than graph databases. When using established ontologies naming does not become an issue and exchanging / understanding data becomes easier. You also push some of your code to the database "as data" and can reason on it better.
Article doesn't address the obvious question of how much Cuban paid for the Mavericks initially. Answer: $285 million in 1990. [0]

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/report-mark-cuban-se....
Everything's possible, but there would be no debate about UI mistakes if it was Iran shooting down a US plane. They would've done because they are evil by nature, or at least perceived as such. In that case the media and the public buys into its own reality, but of course the UI discussion could be a distraction from the public maybe starting to question if that's actually the reality.

Also from the Wiki page about this shootdown:

In 1991, political scientist Robert Entman of George Washington University compared U.S. media coverage of the incident with the similar shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by the Soviet Union five years earlier by studying material from Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post and CBS Evening News. According to Entman, framing techniques were used to frame the Korean Airlines incident as sabotage while framing the Iran Air incident as a tragic mistake,[67] stating "the angle taken by the U.S. media emphasized the moral bankruptcy and guilt of the perpetrating nation. With Iran Air 655, the frame de-emphasised guilt and focused on the complex problems of operating military high technology."[68][a] By "de-emphasizing the agency and the victims and by the choice of graphics and adjectives, the news stories about the U.S. downing of an Iranian plane called it a technical problem while the Soviet downing of a Korean jet was portrayed as a moral outrage."
This is a little off, unless you give “unit” a very different term than most use it. The term unit vs division tests are used in the military, so a unit test is to check combat readiness of a unit and division tests is the combat readiness of a division. The books that use that term mostly come from US Artillery documentation.

I wonder if the etymology of modern unit testing does come from that; but if it did I’d assume the other terms would exist too.
Aside: it is the second day in a row that a thread from Mastodon ends up on the frontpage of HN. When was the last time I Twitter thread did the same, and does anyone else doubts that Twitter is no longer at the center of tech-related conversation?
Like Pikachu?
"Sunak’s spokesman told reporters on Tuesday that the Greek government had “provided reassurances” that they would not use the visit to publicly raise the ownership of the Parthenon Sculptures and that since those assurances were broken, the meeting was canceled."

Seems a bit childish.
This is amazing and should be part of the Python documentation.
It could done behind the scenes, although I don't know how much space a typical post office has for storing mail for an extra day or five.

They could hold off delivering to a group of addresses (a street or an apartment building) until they either have a priority letter, for which a premium has been charged, or a non-priority letter is reaching the deadline, which here is 5 days. At that point they deliver everything that's waiting.
I said 10% of rides will be robotaxis and 10% of that will be in Teslas.

That is 1% of all rides taking place in Tesla robotaxis, not 10%.

Also it is about rides, not about cars. Less than 1% of cars being Tesla robotaxis is enough for 1% of rides to be Tesla robotaxi rides. A robotaxi will do multiple times more rides per day that the average car.
pg's essay on the subject is a must-read: http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html
Don't care, the link goes to a site requiring JavaScript to read plain text and I don't want to build any workarounds for that.
This team used ECS to replace Vercel, I've also seen Amplify used at one of my clients. We had some issues with Next.js upgrades and other minor things breaking, but it seems to mostly work fine. I wonder what other approaches there might be.

It seems that hosting Next.js (outside of Vercel) is one of the biggest headaches with the framework. I'm not a big fan of vendor lock-in so hopefully this continues to improve.
It's not just objects, but it has to predict what people are doing, going to do, or are trying to communicate. For example, police redirecting traffic, a passenger having a medical emergency, other drivers driving erratically, etc.
OwnCloud vulnerability with maximum 10 severity score
Xbox is on track to knock Playstation down to third place
I don't "get" spoilers. Like I don't care at all. Sometimes I will read a book and think it's getting too slow so I will jump on youtube and see a summary or head to a fandom wiki article or whatever. And then I will happily read it again. Spoilers do not spoil anything for me and I don't get why it would spoil anything for others.

People recommend me stuff and tip-toe around not to spoil anything and I will tell them to tell me all of it, I want to know if I should invest time into this thing they are recommending. Every single time people tell me no, read it, and don't respect the idea that someone is different from them. Give me the contents or I won't read it at all.

I am used to others not wanting spoilers, and it seems I'm quite unique in this regard, so I generally try to never spoil stuff, but I still don't quite get it.
If you are prevented from working is it not a attack on you? Do you have to be robbed of your keys or your car as well?
> I doubt you are making a quarter of what you would make at Amazon. Even I as a standard CRUD developer working in Atlanta was making about 2/3rds of what mid level developers make at AWS and maybe half of what senior developers make.

I don't think you know my current job or my level of seniority.

1) I am a sufficiently well-known developer that, while you wouldn't recognize my name, I am a major draw when I give presentations by name recognition in my field, and people have asked me for e.g. autographs before. You would have heard of the project I am best known for, even if not who built it.

2) I am not a "standard CRUD developer working in Atlanta." I work for a non-profit. It's engaging, meaningful, and impactful work, and it pays my bills.

My last job offer from tech was at double my current level of compensation, and that wasn't a FAANG, but a late-stage startup. I know peer salaries at FAANG, and a quarter is a pretty good estimate. I know people at FAANG making 10x, but I'd need to get very lucky to get that (a job lining up with my unique background). It might be 2x if my background completely wasn't taken into account (which it wouldn't be, for many roles).
Have you not seen the results that have been shown recently with Gaussian splatting? Photorealistic rendering looks like it'll become a hell of a lot cheaper than raytracing soon enough, and this might actually be a realistic idea.
Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/front for the last ten days: one today, one five days ago, three seven days ago, two nine days ago.
the real 10xers used asbestos everywhere, the magic material that gets it done quick
Account created 37 mins ago ? haha
Are those dev tools helpful at building fast/discontinue faster?
I think it makes sense for them to cut costs by reducing their office footprint and reducing services for employees at their offices.
I guess it depends on the place, in Tokyo at least there's a dedicated pickup counter at the post office for stuff. Other delivery services it's a bit more chaotic (the sorting centers being basically glorified garages with stuff stacked all over the place).

There's a sort of comforting chaos to deliveries in the downtown area. There are loads of small centers, deliveries happen on foot for the major delivery companies in many cases (people just pushing around carts). And the missed delivery slips just have the cell phone number of the delivery person that you can call and be like "yeah whenever's good for you, I'm home again". I imagine all the fancy logistics happens right up to the delivery centers, and then it's basically YOLO mode.
There are views where there is an implicit substrate that exists in another layer of reality, ie. dualism. That layer is generally not counted among the substrate. So a computation can be substrate dependent by introducing a non-material cause. (Disclaimer: I don't personally know anyone who believes anything like this, so this may be a bad paraphrasing.)
we can deduce that pairs of red lights are cars on the road

Generalization, abstraction, understanding. That is what neural networks are about. Current NN's are already very good at that. FSD constantly has to understand lighting situations it has not seen before.
> What was the model of this shit? Oh it has NOTHING on the front because serial numbers are gauche.

I'd really like some kind of standard for model IDs. Maybe something like a domain name and a model number.

It would also be good if devices came with a QR code printed on them that linked to the manual.
> CHF Amex

The Swiss Amex is a bit special anyway because its operated by Swisscard which is a JV between Credit Suisse and AMEX.
> The popular notion of poverty is that it is a deficit, a state of not having enough material goods nor the means to acquire them. Yet scholars of development have identified for us that poverty is a multi-dimensional phenomenon.

How lucky we are that "scholars have identified for us" what poverty is, so that we don't have to think about it for ourselves, not the lack of money, which would be easy to solve by giving money to the poor, but rather a "multi-dimensional phenomenon", which can only mean that it requires more scholarship to address.
Google Bans 'Downloader' Again Following Substantially Deficient DMCA Notice
But "XMOS links" seem to have vanished from the last two design generations, i.e. seem only to have been present in the first, now obsolete generation, isn't it? It rather looks like a common shared memory architecture now (unless I misinterpreted things).
>One of the beautiful things about Linux was that you had thing huge variety of desktop environments and the reason for it was that X11 gave you all the infrastructure, you only had to do the user-facing parts.

Why do people like to emphasize this point so much? You still get shared infrastructure in the Wayland ecosystem by utilizing libraries such as wlroots or Smithay.

In fact, GNOME and KDE are practically the _outliers_ of the ecosystem as they do their own thing, but other compositors such as Hyprland or Sway do share the same core.

If you want even higher level of abstraction so that you can make your own window manager in one hundred lines of code, you can opt to write a Wayfire plugin. It's as close to having a "base compositor" as possible.