skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My friend who’s in landscaping drives a basic F150 with an 8-ft bed. The payload capacity on his truck is less than the base Lightning. Usually he’s bringing a bunch of tools back there, and depending on the job might be carrying plants, mulch etc.

In cases where he has to haul more (eg. clearing out a huge amount of overgrown plants) he might rent a utility trailer to tow. Which the Lightning is also perfectly capable of handling.

For the truly heavy-duty job requiring several yards of rock, he’s going to pay someone with a dump truck to deliver it.

Since all of his clients, suppliers, and the dump are local, he’ll never need to tow anything 100 miles. This is the only edge case where he’d need to wait around at a charger during a job.

If there are used Lightnings for sale at a competitive price when we needs to replace his truck, he might buy one.
All but one of the contractors I’ve had working on my house over the last few years used vans: holds more and your stuff doesn’t get rained on or stolen.

The one exception was the HVAC guy who had an old 90s-size pickup, which he liked due to the better mileage. He needed to fit bulky stuff, not massively heavy things.
I'm not really convinced by the arguments that rpath should be discouraged wholesale. That seems like pessimistic/paranoid advice. It's very useful for people distributing executables to vendor their libraries and for that to take precedence over the default loader paths.

I see the argument for setgid/setuid binaries. That's a better argument against setgid/setuid permissions (doubly so if they're not statically linked) than against rpath.
Very cool, looks great. Seems to hew pretty closely to i3 from what I could tell in the demo video. Will definitely give this a try. Thanks for your work on this!
Some more options between last month and last year would be lovely, one of my main pet peeves about Google search.
Depending on the intersection, having a pedestrian crossing as part of the cycle can slow the flow of traffic. Instead of having it cycle for pedestrians every time, even when no one is there, the button can interrupt the normal cycle and allow the pedestrian to cross. But most of the time, the intersection will be working optimally for cars, since we're assuming pedestrians are few and far between. I feel like I've seen a lot of these intersections near freeways in strip-mall type areas. Except the way they function currently, that occasional pedestrian has to potentially wait a long time.
> they're also not particularly bad at them.

Things trucks are particularly bad at:
- Fuel efficiency
- Safety (for pedestrians and everyone in smaller vehicles)
- Noise
This makes me feel young. I'd never heard of Basecamp. At first I thought they were referring to Bandcamp and wondered if they published their university's orchestra recitals on it.
DHH hasn't stopped digging down though.
Dude. You are aware that the length of daylight naturally gets longer in the summer and shorter in the winter right?

Eliminating daylight savings means the sun goes down at 8pm in August, instead of 9pm.
Hey, Amethyst dev here. Love seeing this on the front page.

I’ve seen a few comments mention it here and there, but I’m swooping in with my semi-regular reminder that you don’t need to disable SIP to use yabai. It’s a great bsp window manager out of the box, with some optional—and admittedly very cool—extra features that require maneuvering around SIP.

(Also, minor apology to Amethyst users because I haven’t managed to get much time to work on it recently.)
> So basically, it's below the "Reliability*Utility" threshold (that's my term for the drastic dropoff in usefulness of a product/service/person when their reliability goes from 100% to 90% or lower)

Useful concept, that's exactly it.
language acquisition if it doesn't happen before a certain age does not happen

perfect pitch is a kind of language acquisition
> What is an agency in this context?

Successful tech agencies that have been started by people I know:

- programming

- digital marketing

- social media

- web development

- SEO

- data science

- AI (this is emerging)

The agency is a business that goes to other businesses and offers to solve one or more of their business problems for a fee. Sometimes these fees are one-time payments, sometimes they are recurring, sometimes both. I recommend having recurring payments being baked into your agency model.

It’s a relatively easy way to get “ramen profitable” (or more!) along with some money to invest.
"People complain about trucks without even trying to understand where the motivation to own them comes from."

Agree 100%. I have a Ford Ranger on order, and I am not a construction worker. I've already fielded some "hurr durr what do you need a truck for / it will never be on a construction site" comments.
The thing is, even if I only need the adjustable roof rack for 5m lengths of timber, or the 3.5-ton towing capacity a few times a year, it's worth it for me. The common argument I hear is "just rent a truck when you need it" - do the people saying this have any idea how much of a PITA it is renting a vehicle vs using one you already own?
I continue to find it vexing that these articles don’t include whether this is news to the employees involved. The transitional offers were, I have heard, pretty good.
I disagree.

I'm the technical co-founder and my co-founder non-technical; he's brought in so many soft skills around process, finance, sales, recruiting, etc.. that I would have (and would still) struggle at to replace.

He's also a domain expert in our field so for me it was definitely the right choice to make.
> You should want their views a lot, not try to keep them out!

Views don't pay the bills. They only want viewers who are willing to pay to play (even if by proxy). C-18 ensures that payment is made, else user access is restricted by legal force. Which is the same outcome if it were done by technical force. They don't care about the restrictions on users who are eschewing payment in either case.
I have no idea how hard it would be, I've never tried to read Belarusian or Russian (I guess mainly because I don't know cyrilics). But just as I wrote in a neighboring comment, maybe you could use Google Lens or something like that as an aid?
You probably mean [1].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36608024
American crosswalks are just insane. In Europe cars are not allowed to drive through the crossing on the "walk" signal. In the US the pedestrian is expected to run the gauntlet, hoping that turning cars will see you and not mow you down. Pretty sure this is what is going to kill me, and that's in one of the more pedestrian friendly cities in the country, San Francisco.

Keep the button, but for goodness sake stop letting cars drive through crosswalks in the "walk" phase.
Non hour time zones are an abomination
Yes, I met Oscar two months ago and he is a great guy.
A recent income statement is here (on page 6): https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/e...

tl;dr Margin (operating income / total revenue) is about 15%.
Purdue agrees to pay feds back $737,000 for grant submissions with fake data
Holy mother of dark patterns!

The default tab in the table is the “PROBABLE SAVINGS*” tab instead of the actual prices. (There’s actually no actual price, just estimates.)

Besides, does anybody believe their estimated prices for “available in 2025”?

* From the same trusted salesman who sold robotaxies making $30k/year!
Then where do you draw the line? I, and almost the entire developed world, draws the line at price = number of currency units required to leave the store with the item for sale. Every car could otherwise claim a deduction because it’s more fuel efficient than a sports car or a Rolls Royce or an F-350. And some cars don’t need as expensive of tires, should they claim that deduction? What about cars that are 2 wheel drive, there’s lots of savings there over 4 wheel drive…
Seems some contradictions exist in this mans writing. Elsewhere in this thread AIs are described as devoid of and self direction but here we have an AI which has disdain which would be hard to interpret as anything but self direction.
There’s a big difference between $60k and 100k.
Do you water it with unicorn tears? How did you get it to produce all year round? That's unheard of.
“The jobs are located at VMware’s Palo Alto headquarters, which will remain open.”
SVD could also mean this badass sniper rifle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVD_(rifle)
> it can tow 14,000lbs

Has this claim been independently verified? If not, why trust it? And even if it's true, how far can it tow 14,000 lbs?

If you don't know why I'm asking, well...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/doj-subpoenas-te...
Telling it to write like (or outright that it is) Knuth might just get it to write more efficient algorithms as it were.

IIRC one of the prompting techniques developed this year was to ask the model who are some world class experts in a field and then have it write as if it was that group collaborating on the topic.
> Everyone I know doing construction/trade work tends to drive much smaller pickups.

No, it's extremely common to be driving an F-150 or bigger in construction.
More relevant to the bug is the fact that GDI can do its own rendering, or send commands to a driver, usually for GPU hardware acceleration, but the same applies to printers.
This does not have the effect you claim it does. Despite significant efforts, the airport ID checking component of REAL ID has not gone into effect, after decades of can-kicking and playing chicken with individual states that haven't implemented REAL ID locally. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/12/05/dhs-announces-extension-...
https://youtu.be/ZY0DG8rUnCA?t=85
Traditional European parties have been converging towards the center. That's largely thanks to the EU, which is a centrist project founded on ideas such as social liberalism and pro-market policies. Social democratic parties have also become pretty right-wing by their traditional standards, largely due to Third Way politics that have been dominant since the late 90s.
Why did you call out the CAN bus for water penetration? I thought it was an electrical specification and logical protocol, does it specify wires too?
they're synced in realtime with your code. we have a proxy server running on your machine which talks to your website's editor and the codebase to sync the changes as you make them.
Hey proxmox, maybe get off your a$$ and put out a good multidatacenter management product so that I can transfer vms/manager resources between my clusters? It's one of the few features that keeps part of my operation on vmware instead of on your product.
Well, I don't need an open source replacement for Figma, I just want Figma to continue being good so I can do my job over the course of the next ten years. If there's a viable alternative after that, I'll evaluate it, but there isn't one at this point.
>Not totally. They have two redundant computers in the control loop. But they worked out this was a shitty idea if there was a failure so there are mechanical and electrical backup systems. Whilst "fly by wire" technically speaking they don't involve a computer in the loop.

What's the basis for that claim? Even in direct-law, there's still a computer in the path. In aircraft with the BCM, that's still a flight control computer, albeit one that's separate from the primary/secondary flight control computers.
Weird Camera Rig Captures Volumetric Video That Can Be Manipulated in 3D
You can do the same thing to rabbits by simply putting them on their back.

It's probably stressful for them, so it's frowned upon in rabbit circles. But it's a handy trick if your rabbit is a pain in the ass and you have to trim his claws.

Interestingly, some rabbits love to lie on their backs internationally. It doesn't seem to cause tonic immobility or stress them out when they do it themselves. They only do it when they feel exceptionally comfortable and safe.
Nobody with half a brain is spending.

Anyone can save 50% of 400k.

My friends work for the UN and WHO and pay no taxes yet they are fine because they are fucking retarded but they get too much money.

You could have bought all that crap for 50% off in December but you are lost. Want to buy a bridge lmfao.

Edit : 401k lmfao shows how lost you are.
Music theory has the concept of "octave equivalence", where changing the pitch of a note up or down by an octave does not change its function. This means it's possible to enumerate all the functionally distinct harmonies available in standard Western tuning. There are 12 distinct pitch classes. One of these must be the lowest note in the harmony, so there are 11 remaining pitch classes that could optionally be included or omitted. If all are omitted it's just a single note not a harmony, so there are 2^11-1 = 2047 functionally distinct harmonies.

Most of them are of little musical utility, but you could conceivably use and have opinions about them all. This is not possible with literature. There are far more than 2047 functionally distinct sentences, so there is no need to add more letters to the alphabet.
>I said Quebec to California. That's farther that US coast to coast.

Ontario Quebec to Sacramento California is 2,809 miles just under the cannonball run distance. So your specific trip might be longer, but Quebec to California isn’t necessarily that far.

> Have you ever driven 3 days at 14 hours, at 130 to 140km/hr, each day? While eating, staying in hotels, refueling and so on? Yes, that turns in 8 days in an EV.

I’ve done 35 hours of driving out of 36 hours in a row only leaving the car at gas stations and even using a piss bottle.

As to EV’s over 3 days it might increase your trip by 3-6 hours depending on what stops you normally make and force you to pice a hotel with charging, perhaps pushing you to 4 days but that’s about it. There’s simply no way you’re seeing 8 days while driving an EV 130kph vs 130-140kph for an ICE.
Might have something to do with the $30 per seat license cost of Java v9+
Not to mention that a van's interior can serve as a mobile workshop, store a lot of smallish parts in an organized fashion, or both.
They’re almost perfect, but from what I’ve observed, there are two variants: one where the button sticks out, and another where the button is surrounded by a lip.

I absolutely detest the lip variant. It makes it impossible to slap the button with an open palm, requiring an actual push instead. Particularly with the pandemic, they were near impossible to activate with an elbow. So close to perfection and yet so far…

That said I now have to deal with the terrible British ones, and the attached signals that are supposedly safer - they’re on the same device as the button, supposedly forcing you to look at them and face the traffic. In practise, the inconsistency of whether there’s a crossing indicator on the other side of the road or not means I rely solely on sound cues.

If everyone can just adopt the PB/5, even with the atrocious lip, the world will be a better place.
>> available today

> None of the CTs are available today, they're all at some unspecified point in 2024.

>> same 250 mile range but AWD standard

> That "(EST.)" next to the range is doing a lot of work!

You misread my comment. My statement about availability today and range of 250 miles refer to the F150, not the Cybertruck.
Nice, found a cool museum rather close and some arcades. Weekend plans updated.
For many (most?) startups, for many (most?) MVPs, in many (most?) domains -- yes, with a million caveats -- the "non-technical cofounder" can likely figure it out what's needed to hack together a simple product, get a handful of real users using it, and then go from there.

In my case, all I had done was make HTML/CSS websites with a bit of PHP. But I didn't let "I need a technical cofounder" and "I'm just the business guy" stop me from figuring out how to build v0.1 myself and get it out. I had never touched a server before. I had never built a web app with a MVC stack before. I had zero experience with command-line prior. I didn't have any formal technical training. But I just started coding and built it myself, and from there was able to attract a great technical cofounder and early team. And 10 years later, we sold it for $100M.

I'm not saying this to brag. I'm proud that "I figured it out" with duct tape but I realize that I had the good luck that it all worked out.

But I worry that other guys like I was are sitting there thinking 'Shit, everyone says I need a technical cofounder'. Well, maybe not. Go try to build it yourself. Especially in the age of co-pilot and decades of StackOverflow - for most apps, you can figure it out.

No one take this the wrong way. I'm just trying to potentially inspire some bright person out there to try it themselves, and building the first simple version yourself might be the missing step in attracting a REAL technical person or at least validate your hypothesis.
Everyone with a brain knows this is a vanity project by a very rich person who can do whatever he wants. The success doesn't matter. I don't think that's a good or bad thing, it's just a thing. If anything it demonstrates what a bored rich nerd can do for fun. I guess I might do something like that if I had billions to throw around, maybe I'd just make one for myself though, and not an entire product line that would put my main source of wealth at risk. Or maybe I wouldn't. Hard to say how warped billions would make my mind.
From Google's "Famous painters" list:

+ Picasso's family was Spanish nobility, with his father also a painter

+ van Gogh's father was an art dealer

+ Monet's father owned a ship supply retailer

+ Rembrandt's father was a miller, but was described as "well-to-do" on their wikipedia page

+ Dali's father was a lawyer

+ Kahlo's father was a photographer (in the 19th century) and was university educated

- Pollock was from relatively humble family background.

"Famous Poets":

+ Dickinson, as you already pointed out,

+ Frost's father was a newspaper editor is San Fransisco and
failed politician

+ Poe's parents were successful actors

+ Langston Hughes' father was a member of "the elite, politically active Langston family", though as the grandchild of slaves was hardly born with a silver spoon

+ Sylvia Plath's father was a professor

+ Elizabeth Barrett's family were Caribbean plantation owners

+ Shakespeare's father owned a successful glover's business

- Whitman's family was previously wealthy, but it got lost due to bad investments

- Pablo Neruda was from a working class family in Chile
This is super fun. But: I am winning most of my games as green / if I am going first. I struggle otherwise, not having the initiative
> One is a combination of shyness and laziness. They'd rather sit at home writing code than go out and talk to a bunch of strangers and probably be rejected by most of them.

I think this is more complicated: the problem is not going out and talking to a bunch of strangers (which I would do if necessary, and I do claim that my tolerance of rejection is sufficiently high).

The problem rather is (this is something that a friend, who works as a business consultant, explained to me): to make a successful sale, you need a salesperson "who thinks like the customer". Lots of programmers simply think very differently from how the typical programmers, and thus are bad salespersons concerning these customers.

He really said that I have an insanely good intuition for what kind of software product would insanely help some specific industry, but also honestly told me that I (and honestly also he) would likely not be capable of selling such a product (if it existed) to a customer in this industry, simply because I think too differently from the decision makers in this industry.
https://archive.today/A6Mg6
Such European parochialism! Next you’ll be talking about how traveling more than 900 meters is an epic adventure.

Trust me. You can deal with 3 hour time difference without even noticing.
> whether or not the filesystem attempts deduplication

Unless I'm just parroting truisms here, dedupe is almost never a good idea and compression is a much more common case-by-case.

> So personally I'd encourage messing around (on something non-prod, of course). Measure measure measure! Does it actually make any difference.

100%. So much depends on the particular workload and resources.

> And making backups, even for ZFS backed filesystems. Sacrilege, I know.

Logical backups, specifically. We have seen more than once corruption and data-loss in replicated encrypted snapshots due to bugs in ZFS.
I lived in downtown SF for a long time and I agree the crosswalks are a battlefield. Not just cars edging ahead or making right turns (or left turns on one way to one way), but cyclists like to stop square in the middle of crosswalks as well.

I live in NY now and though the traffic laws are roughly the same, I almost never fear for my safety when crossing like I regularly did in SF.
The flight is only part of the journey. People mostly want to get to city centres where the offices are. Small airports just don't have the transport links to get into the centre. It's bad enough trying to get to Stansted Airport on its slow train and that has 27M annual passengers.
They never root caused the bug! They know a symptom (Grammarly and this gif cause things to crash) but still no root cause. I was pretty disappointed at the end.
First, you may enjoy [1].

Second, a story from many years ago.

The local ACM chapter I was a member of bought a whole bunch of e1000 NICs, back in the day when 1Gb at relatively affordable prices was new, and a switch, and threw them in our servers and desktops, which were a motley assortment of Intel, AMD, and Other things, running various flavors of Linux and Solaris.

_Some_ of the Linux systems had a problem where eventually, the NIC would stop responding and dmesg would flood with "Tx Unit Hang" or "Rx Unit Hang", and not work again until a reboot.

If we swapped the NIC from a system where this never happened to one with the same model NIC where this happened, the problem kept happening - that is, it was something about the system+NIC, not just the NIC.

Intel eventually gave us a shipping label to borrow one of our systems when they said they hadn't been able to reproduce it but kept having people report it, and we said "we have a number of them".

They made some really exciting noises after some debugging, and eventually concluded the issue was that our really cheapass Sempron board that we sent them screwed up badly if you tried negotiating 64-bit PCI in their normal PCI slots, and would sometimes miss the messages between the NIC and the host saying that Tx Ring buffer 0 is free/full, etc, and eventually, it would miss so many of those that it would think the NIC had no more buffers, and here we are. They couldn't reproduce it because all their testbeds were well-designed and tested things.

Choice quotes mid-debugging include "I do not see how anyone could make a PCI device work reliably in this system".

They did figure out a workaround, and ship it, and asked if they could keep the system permanently for future testing.

But that was exciting.

[1] - https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15588
I'm selling my Tesla now.
Comparing yourself to a dying company...leads to death.

Thanks for 1800%
Suspilne Mediateka – A Media Library of Public Broadcasting of Ukraine
The original plan was to put the first production line in Mexico. Then Musk realized his engineers wouldn't be commuting or moving to Mexico, and he wanted them to spend time on the factory floor so they could see what was hard to make.

(Source: Isaacson's Musk bio)
A plane fueled by fat and sugar has crossed the Atlantic Ocean
archive.is: https://archive.is/pyEbu
How has this gone for you? I'm 1.5 years into growing a long neck avocado tree from seed, and I feel really worried that it won't work right.