skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So my ongoing question to the people that believe that believe that there is a solution for peace in the region do you believe that the elimination of the state of Israel is on the table to obtain that peace

Just, leaving and stopping the wonkyness on the west bank would go a long way I think. Stop blockading it, stop faffing around. Recognize the microstate of Palestina. Invade the whole shizzle and actively police it (Iraq style).

Like, literally anything but turtle up and airstrikes. Yes, you are saving the lives of your soldiers that way, but you are not making the problem go away, just making it worse.

What you need is for the people in the region to believe that having Hamas is worse than having Israel. I’m fairly certain literally everyone in the Gaza strip has lost people to Israel. Never mind that that happened because they were sitting on a stash of Hamas guns in a hospital. Do you think that matters to the children that just lost their father? They’ll just keep hearing that it’s all Israel’s fault from literally everyone around them their entire life.

Those kids must _want_ peace, and if you regularly keep bombarding and persecuting them that will always seem like a pipe dream, ergo, joining Hamas and at least getting back at those assholes seems like a viable option. Maybe you’ll die, but then, you might die just sitting in your house, lying in a hospital bed, or anywhere else, so what does it matter?
Speed Bump Olympics

https://youtu.be/r11j5yo8BhM?si=NnDDZtmiyNAHkqvQ

This neighborhood has brutal speed bumps with a warning sign on a 30mph road. This double bump just hammers cars.
Context: yes I got Amazoned a few months ago, see my top level comments.

My livelihood is based on my ability to get a job, keeping my skills current and keeping my network strong. I would never base my livelihood on the whims of one company.

A job is merely transactional. I exchange labor for money. When the company decides my labor is not worth the money they are paying me or I decide that the pay/bullshit ratio is going in the wrong direction, I change jobs and find another company that will give me money for my labor.

I’ve done so 9 times in my career and 6 since 2008.
How can network driver corrupt a database?
A separate battery pack that costs an extra $16k, and still doesn't get the promised range. Cybertruck has missed the mark big time.
A bit late, but I think these are orthogonal to Western generations. Probably due to increasing globalization of the world, but I find general attitudes toward socialization, romance, and technology to be very similar between Indians and Westerners of similar generations. Obviously Indian differences matter when it comes to a lot of things, but the older Western generation was surprisingly conservative too especially those who grew up in more rural places. The biggest differences usually come from how used to material comfort older Indians seem compared to Westerners.
Still remember tinkering around the inline asm in TP6, taught me a lot about low level part of system.
JSON is a sixth type in practice due to the way `text` acts differently depending on whether it is fed directly from one JSON function to another.

See https://sqlite.org/json1.html#value_arguments
Given that the performance is only affected by the size of that object header, the file I linked is all you'd need to see changes in. Look, the Python project is not picking their object sizes because it performs well on a quirk of Zen 3. End of story. I did performance work professionally in the past and now recreationally and this specific instance is 100% luck. This is not because I don't think the runtime people aren't smart or anything but this would be an insane thing to do on purpose.
The client does not update its state to the authoritative state of the server as long as there's pending writes present in the client's upload queue. If there is an error with uploading a write to the server (either a network error or the server returning an HTTP error response), the write will remain in the upload queue and the upload will be retried.

If the server can automatically resolve an error or conflict, it would return a 2xx response and the client's state will be updated to match the server's authoritative state.

If the conflict/error cannot automatically be resolved, there are a few options:

- The server can return a 2xx response but record information about the conflict that allows a user to resolve it (e.g. prompt a user to manually resolve the conflict — either the end-user or administrator for example)

- The server can save details in a dead letter queue

More details are documented here:

https://docs.powersync.com/architecture/consistency

https://docs.powersync.com/usage/lifecycle-maintenance/handl...
> big enough

Not even slightly. See Cantor's diagonal argument.

See also Plato's cave for syntax vs semantics.
Show HN: A RTS custom game from a MOBA game [video]
This video shows the worker of the next race that is going to be added soon. There is another playable race in the alpha build of Botacraft RTS. This custom game can be played from the Dota 2 Arcade: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=30726...

You can start the game alone and your opponent will be a bot. If you can't beat the bot, the cheat codes are: whosyourmommy, thereisnofork, and greedisbad.
The west mean the values that build the most prosperous, free and democratic societies around the world, take your pick.

Yes build mostly by white male, you are welcome.

But available to all, because those values are about the "sacred" value of each individual with no restiction on color, sex or any other things.

In fact I find it weird that you bring skin color and sex into it, are you racist? sexist?
Not sure if you're in the US or not, but we have 70MPH interstats crossing over 25mph surface roads and commonly enough my GPS gets confused which one I'm on.
from the description the flash was on a separate chip: I would guess most likely a SPI interface. You can absolutely get noise picked up on a SPI interface which looks like a command: and if an erase command is 16 bits long, you are going to see that command just with random bits every so often.
Yeah, my solution is just using a deep link - I'm unable to track whether or not the payment is completed due to the lack of a Venmo API.

I wrote about how it works here: https://gabeoleary.com/posts/venmo-deeplinking-including-fro...

When I wrote this it only worked on mobile. The deep link would take one into the app with the amount/details etc prefilled out. Just tested and it looks like the same format works on desktop now too.

I had until just now not realized that Plaid has a Venmo integration.

I could imagine using the deep link to begin the transaction and then using the plaid connection to look for it's completion...
If that were true, they would be well advised to get out; nobody's going to ride out a fifteen year cycle.
The main reason I was considering the CT was the promise of 500 mile range. My biggest issue with ~300 mile range is that I can't go anywhere for actual adventures because there isn't enough charge for a round trip.
Thanks, I've fixed that now.
> Could you name some (not commonly known ways to get fuck you money)?

To clarify, I put “fuck you money” at about $10m-$20m. This amount enables a relatively comfortable life in perpetuity without touching the principal.

The ways are all commonly known, but they aren’t commonly followed.

tl;dr — it’s boring.

As a tech person:

1. Learn sales.

2. Learn business operations.

3. Solve business problems, possibly using tech.

A great way to scale into this is starting an agency. The agency can do programming, web development, ad tech… anything that direction.

It’s cash as you go, you get to learn while getting paid, you get a front row seat to business problems, and you can make useful contacts.

Once you have enough cash / cash flow, you can buy or joint venture with companies that have good product-market fit but weak operations, and you provide the part that they are weak at.

These businesses are everywhere at price points in the $10k to ~$500m range (at around $500m, the big boys start getting interested).

Many of the operational failures are in sales/marketing (all aspects thereof like pricing, channels, etc.), organization structure (too many bodies), misaligned incentives, etc.

Some of the easiest changes I’ve personally made is pricing changes. Specifically, changing a large irregular one-off payment to a much lower recurring payment (one that is preferred by the customers), and adding three-tier pricing with appropriate value add at each level. Imho, these decisions were not made by the original owners because either they were afraid of change or they didn’t talk to and listen to their customers (or both).

This lets you develop a cash cow.

Hold your cash cow.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Boring, right?
I refused to resign when I got put on pivot. But I did prepare. Why walk away from in my case an additional vesting event and 3+ months salary as severance and getting reimbursed for my unused paid time off?
> A system that can think around a topic, draw parallels to potentially unrelated topics, but synthesize how they actually do relate to help generate novel hypotheses

I feel like ChatGPT can already do this?
EVs motors don’t wake you up when your car enthusiast neighbor gets home late at night if they’re driving a EV sports car.

If it’s an ice car, different story.

Does that answer your question?
Interesting! So that's why I used to get crappily rasterized printouts of PDFs in Chrome a few years ago.

I had thought printers could be trusted with their own rendering, but of course that is another can of worms...
It is extremely misleading to include gas savings as a reduction in purchase price. If anything that should be used as a comparison of overall operating costs and cost more than the purchase price but not as much more as the gas competitor.
Since the company seems to be answering questions I’ll give a few that come up for me. Congrats on the launch btw.

In the given design, am I understanding correctly that this means that a local commit could be seen as “committed” by the user but then later the server rejects it because of conflicts right? I guess it’s all application defined in that you could build your application in such a way as to show enqueued but uncommitted changes differently from the checkpoint, but it does mean that you could lose data if the application author doesn’t handle that well in their local code or the application server yeah? Not a critique because I think that’s true even for anything handrolled, but just making sure I understand the model.

Also, I’m a little unclear how it’s tied to postgres and what the powersync service is doing. The docs say that you fetch a JWT from your application to talk to the service but then it says that all writes are mediated by your own application code. So presumably the powersync service channel is for synchronization of Postgres -> local SQLite. Is that right? And the replication logic in powersync - is that essentially accomplishing horizontal sharding of the database for reads? Also, for the replication piece is the SQLite bit actually important or could you actually support arbitrary backends and SQLite is just convenient? Eg could you support browser LocalStorage instead of WASM SQLite or is there some piece of functionality of SQLite you’re relying on?

Finally, do you have any support for lazy local hydration / eviction? Eg if I have a Google docs like application, is it synchronizing my entire account at all times or does it support pulling a document and evicting LRU documents when some local storage limit is exceeded?
Guess you haven't seen what Toyota has been saying for the last 5 years, about how electric cars aren't the future and the future is hydrogen. They have stated this dozens of times. Then in January they said that they changed their mind and the future is electric, then they changed their mind again and went back to hydrogen.

They realistically have no idea what they are doing on this but they are profitable so they can deal with their issues easier than others.
Related to this, does anyone a good way to search only for articles?

I have a use case that requires that I only surface search results that are articles (news, blog posts, etc) rather than anything else.

The best I've gotten to so far is doing queries such as inurl:blog
> The vocab size is static, and will never change during inference.

I feel like the open source LLMs that are out there are never advertised/compared by their vocab list size.

7B weights to pick which of 32k tokens to pick, over and over (per token, sequentially)
Two small sugerstions:

* Make a small pause as if the bot is thinking each move. Probably .1 or .2 seconds is enough and not boring. We made a few games a long time ago, and a small pause makes it easier to understand the rules.

* When the game finished, I still can see my token as if I can draw it. It's very confusing until I notice the congratulations message. Don't show the token whe the game ended.
That's strange, we are unable to reproduce this on our end — both URLs load correctly for our team. I'll shoot an email to the address in your bio to see if there's any details you could perhaps share that could help us debug. Thanks for letting us know :)
If there are overlaps, headcount reductions of those overlap make sense. Furthermore the takeover company must have extremely efficient existing staff with maybe 20-40% spare capacity to take over. I have seen multiple takeovers with overworked of inefficient existing staff before takeover. The takeovers destroyed that acquired business within 3-5 years simply because they dont have the people to run it after firing the previous efficient and well-trained staff. In fact their own existing staff quit because felt underpaid with the extra tasks due to let go staff. Double whammy. Overlapped staff like managers and sub-c suites still retained....which could easily cost about 20-30% of the salaries of those retrenched workers. They are also the absolutely most incompetent one that drove the business to failure. After 25years seeing how mergers ended up I come to the conclusions: #1 MBA schools are absolutely wrong about the benefits of mergers (always dont trust MBAs, if they are that good, they run their own business), #2 there is no such thing as companies synergism from mergers (but MBA called it "if realized" which simply doesnt exist in reality but might hinted on paper), and #3 the person approving mergers never have any management education and a lot not even having MBAs but fully trust some MBAs wearing nice suit especially giving off London English or behave like Steve Jobs demeanor.
Fair point. The risks are huge. Makes sense if you've got 30% of the cap table. The risk is worth it. Esp if you are founder and on the board directing the company and fending off risks.

Not sure it makes sense if you've got 0.5% equity.

Definitely does not make sense if you are being given X,000 shares and have no access to the cap table.

Any engineer who thinks they can value a fraction with a numerator and no denominator is fooling themselves.

Startup employees -- if you were given 50,000 shares but told you arent allowed to see the cap table, please UPVOTE/DOWNVOTE accordingly if you think the pay-cut to market was worth the money you got at the IPO.
Android Studio Hedgehog stable release is now available
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Wow they'll bring down the cost by 30% so it will still cost... Millions. Rather than the 2k it costs to have a 240v outlet.
> On a ship worth hundreds of billions of dollars

Hundreds of millions perhaps, but even a brand new nuclear aircraft carrier only costs ~13 billion.
You can't compare an EV pick up and an ICE truck like that, unless you specify what you call 'doing actual pickup truck work'. Plenty of companies don't put more than 100 miles on a truck every day and that means that their workload is a good match for an F150 Lightning even if it is hauling. Landscapers, city fleets and so on tend to move to a spot, stay there all day and then drive back and it's probably possible to charge them on either end of that trip. And they're never going to be further away than 100 miles from their home base.
The first two years are great because you get a large prorated monthly signing bonus to make up for the back heavy vesting.
I get it from a "users are dumb" and cybersecurity aspect of it.
Unfortunately the bot is not very good. Just by reading the rules I was able to beat it every time on multiple rulesets.

The matchmaking is also difficult to find a partner since the rules are so customizable, and there's no way to tell what rules potential partners could be searching with. Maybe a list of games that are looking for an opponent would be good.
That's very cool! IIRC I tried to write a very simple Turbo Vision clone (or subset) but I couldn't fully comprehend how the nested widget initialization worked. I mean, I knew the last parameter was a pointer to the next widget, and so on and on, but somehow I couldn't "integrate" everything in my brain :).
Thanks for explaining your thoughts.
Plus how is it going to feel to own this when battery tech improves and the range extender feels ever more obsolete?

It’s a slower version of how computers felt back in the 90s to early 2000s. Ie as soon as bought it was quickly obsolete.
E-GMP (EV6, Ioniq5) actually charges quite fast on 400V as they run it through the motor/inverter which already pumps out more than 100kW

I think no one else is doing that at the moment.
Ye gods
What? The average truck on the road is absolutely substantially larger today than in the past.

https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history
I won't deny it can be useful, but it's still not needed. I grew up in Wisconsin (which certainly qualifies as real winters) and you can get by just fine in the winter without 4x4. The biggest problem by far in the winter isn't traction, it's being able to stop when you need to stop. AWD doesn't help with that at all.
https://www.tesla.com/support/incentives

> Qualifying businesses can claim a deduction of up to $28,900 when purchasing a new Tesla vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of at least 6,000 pounds. To qualify for the tax deduction, vehicles must be operated for legitimate business use >50% the time.
The Toyota RAV4 hybrid is a crossover which is growing in sales and competes against the Tesla Model Y. As for Jeep, the Wrangler 4xe hybrid is also growing in sales.

Instead of making up nonsense you could just look at the actual sales numbers. Most manufacturers issue news releases with sales volumes broken down by model.
That article reads like an episode of Black Mirror.

But I get it - he's making a valid and important point.

I'm curious how similar issues are handled in Germany or other countries with (allegedly) stronger privacy laws.
Sounds like a fleet vehicle.

The dually's at the ranch and has an 8' bed. No stacks. No 5" tips. Beat to shit, brown, with a bad starter.
> Sedans are still around (Camry, Corolla, Civic, Accord), but consumers are voting with their wallets for crossovers

This is objectively true but it’s happening against three decades of marketing pushing SUVs hard and especially the messaging that if you drive a small car you’re putting your safety at risk. I think there’s an arm’s race here which is going to be hard to stop absent something causing gas prices to spike or a shift in insurance requirements.
You Should Have a Research Question
It’s not that different from software focused private equity shops like Thoma Bravo. Buy a software company, starve it of resources, and price just below each clients BATNA. Revenue may decline over time, but costs fall faster and the buyer harvests that premium. There’s no synergies, just a willingness to be more ruthless and give fewer shits.

Edit: clarity
You had to turn a doorknob to leave the house, but you're too disabled to push a fucking button designed for handicapped UX?

You're going to touch traces of a million other people's gender fluids on every single other thing you touch during your errand. Germophobia is very selective.
> when no one called them?

This is debatable to say the least. Lovers of the avant-garde commonly trot out the argument that there's just no room for genuine, transformative innovation within the mainstream that can be grokked by average folk, that it is played out in some sense. And lovers of mainstream music (and arguably mainstream culture more generally) routinely prove them wrong, by managing to innovate within those boundaries in a way that's genuinely compelling to many. It happens again and again.
Maybe, the GIF contains a text comment and Grammarly not only accesses this, but also alters it (for whatever reason), thus overwriting the file in a way in memory that offsets in the GIF file or its in-memory representation are violated?
For sure, working only with a local SQLite database does simplify state management in many cases. For the most part you don't need an additional state management system/library.

Meta had an interesting article a few years back about how they rewrote the Messenger app to use SQLite: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/03/02/data-infrastructure/me...
Yes, it's a ridiculous development. Those cars have absolutely no business in the inner city, they're bloody dangerous and much too large for compatibility with the roads. And that's before we get into parking issues. PC Hooft tractors...
Because I got a little over $40K serverance by waiting until I got PIPed and I got another $30K+ by surviving the process.

Oh and I was able to put all of code through the open source process and post it to the AWS Samples public GitHub repo and reuse it.

I worked on ProServe.
How would you have enough information to make that statement? Maybe they do have a better understanding. You'd be surprised by the types of people who visit hn. This isn't your fav reddit sub
Part of the reasons for the loss at the BBC was due to copyright / licensing issues.

> Long-standing agreements with UK talent and musicians unions made it difficult too. Most UK television programmes were only ever contracted for one domestic repeat broadcast and so once a programme had been repeated once, there was often considered to be no point in further retaining the transmission master. It’s purpose had been served.

From: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-12-morecambe-wise-video-f...
Seems to be at github

https://github.com/fluree/db
> I wouldn't want to be hit by one if I were a pedestrian in a crosswalk

That, and I would also not want to be hit by one of these in my little hatchback. I'm already terrified by F150 and up, this will be the same but heavier and more likely to let me deal with all their kinetic energy. Put that with the irresponsible power that they've put in, and the kind of driver this kind of car is attracting, this is bad news.
> same 250 mile range

We don't actually know what the Cyberjoke's range will be. Given Tesla's history with range claims, there's no reason to trust the numbers on that website.

See:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-ba...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/angry-tesla-cust...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/doj-subpoenas-te...