skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A one day protest with only a protestor being shot and 1 building being entered really counts as an attempt to overthrow the government? Also where Trump tells everybody to go home and the he leaves office as scheduled?
When someone treats a rhetorical flourish in an overly literal manner, is he deliberately misrepresenting a group he dislikes, or is it just a misreading?
Few years ago I bought a 12V led strip from aliexpress, it came with a usb charger.
A "12V" USB charger. You can easily guess who put it near other chargers by mistake and then fried a PS4 controller trying to charge it with that :/
The pronouns are super confusing in that comment, but I'm pretty sure that "they" is the customer and "she" is the assistant.

The "before she could reply" implies that whoever wrote the angry email was being impatient and didn't wait for a reply to an email that they had sent. The only replies being awaited are devs->assistant or assistant->customer, and since the devs were only identified as a group it makes more sense to interpret the assistant as the (singular female) victim of the impatience and the customer as the one who got impatient waiting for a reply.
This is definitely harder to exploit than just reading the key via some UAF or buffer overflow.
I suspect it's also a lot cheaper during model development. UI changes with physical buttons mean changing molds, screen-printed text, electrical connections, etc.

With a touchscreen, you plan "touchscreen here" and the UI can be modified in software basically up to the point the first production car rolls off the line (and even after that, too).
That is _profoundly_ interesting, and I think a serious study of that is going to reveal a lot about human (or at least english speaking) psychology.
The government does not have to charge for tennis courts, it simply has to have too few of them.
Show HN: pg_idkit - A Postgres extension for generating popular UUIDs
I think the problem is that too many of us have experienced this scenario, and had it described much in the way that the OP of the thread did.

Too many people are too un-self-aware to recognize that their "just a 5-minute question" is being asked because they have not internalized the knowledge, rather than because it's genuinely something that they haven't had an opportunity to learn—too un-self-aware to recognize that this situation is unnecessarily stressful and it's their fault.
Cool! Without Grateful Dead, would there even be a Silicon Valley!? (I’m only half-joking…)
Everything sucks without training.

I am faster on a touchscreen than most people are on a keyboard. I have seen teens who are ~50% faster than me.

It's just training.
C# needs them to use them in their own frameworks. GC'd languages has a benefit that Strings can work different then C strings and you get things like interning to reduce memory usage. Now C#(dotnet) took it a step further and put in a bunch of optimizations on strings called Spans which is like a block of memory but in a safe friendly way. Now back to intrinsics, you can take a Span, shove it into a vector and poof, you have string matching. You can also use a memory safe image processing library and get intrinsic optimization for scaling, conversion, etc.

I think there is also a buffer pool of spans in asp.net that uses spans to manage all the data coming and going from headers then tosses out the exact same headers while using one copy of it then giving that memory back to the next without having it GC'd. Web servers need a fast response time to serve more requests per a second with less resources and it's all strings all the time dealing with it. Some fancy Spans and Intrinsics baked into the framework give those gains to every call in a C# app.
Not on a touchscreen you don't. Even with electric shocks as GP suggested.
Instead of working with their software vendor, some VP took their edge case for battery and charge integration as a reason to commit seppuku.
VW might actually make this move because of regulatory pressure. There was a recent decision of not allowing the use of Tesla's touch screens in Germany [0]. So if VW had continued with their touchscreen-only design they might have gotten issues in their home country.

That this hasn't happened yet might be because automotive regulation is in general a joke in this country, as the car companies run the economy and thus have strong influence government. But the pressure was building. Plus the customers hating the touch screens, as the article is saying, that will have been a small factor.

[0]: https://www.adac.de/verkehr/recht/verkehrsvorschriften-deuts...
Jellyfish surprise scientists by learning without a brain
Serious question. I have this question for, like 20 years already.

Why would anyone start a new project with MySQL? Is it really superior in anything?
I'm in industry for 20+ years and as far as I remember MySQL was always the worst and most popular RDBMS at any given moment.
Construct has been a godsend to my game design course. Thanks for all of your work, Ashley!
Old person here, been using some form of chat since 1984 (The talk command on VMS).
> It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.

Over the last decade or so, quotes like that and the parable of "The Emperor's New Clothes" have gone from old pearls of wisdom for me to basically just describing the way the world works.
I think that’s the same problem: once they did the acquisition with DoubleClick, everything solidified into “we don’t have to do customer service, our customers are advertisers” at the same time they were trying to push everyone to turn more substantial parts of their lives than search over to them.
Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives
That doesn't mean it's not still a dick move
As someone who does not follow space stuff, I kinda expected more / higher resolution.
https://archive.ph/5y2BK
The way I see it, for the past decade, the internet-connected world has been running a global experiment on our minds—and, in particular, on the minds of young people. Teens are easily distracted and exquisitely sensitive to peer judgment.

I call bullshit. The kids are alright.

You know who can’t handle the epistemic crisis of this global many-to-many information system? Anyone over the age of 50.

Teenagers might have a new way to distract themselves from schooling but they do not fall for the spin the way your dad does.
... is precisely the sort of aggressive, cynical and unpleasant response I'm talking about.
Dating via archaeomagnetic intensity data in bricks from ancient Mesopotamia
And it has probably been true for 30 years. I’ve been increasingly dismayed at the stark loss of competence from what I already considered the low baseline of my peer group.

In my view grade inflation, no child left behind, common core, the lack of streamlining and gifted programs, the democratization of university, the increased cost of university and the reluctance to fail people who have paid so much money, rampant cheating by international students, etc all played a roll. Phones just poured fuel on the fire.
Tesla did it prematurely because Musk was convinced FSD was close to being solved, and thus paying attention to the road wasn’t important.

People tolerated it so there is no pressure for them to change.
Yes I can imagine Wagner or Cardi B being counter productive here. Musical white noise — plaid noise? — works wonders though. As another commenter said: EDM has been a key factor in my productivity as a software engineer over the years.
I think there is a multi-generational trend. 150 years ago graduating highschool used to really mean something, now it's almost impossible not to. And that's not because everybody got smarter. Even the abject idiots with awful attendance get handed diplomas. There are now school districts in America where none of the students are proficient with basic math and writing, but they're still graduating most if not all of their students.
I've almost always had a

plug in usb

press "ok"

method, no matter what the manufacturer.

Sometimes I have to press the "carplay" icon on the screen, but it's quite rare

The bigger problem is that some cars are USB-C and some are USB-A. I have both cables in my bag though.

I don't bother with wireless car play as my phone always needs charging anyway.
Based on my own tiny "clinical trials" how much and how quickly children learn is proportional to the time spent working through problems together with their parents.
Smartphones have built-in dictation. And having to listen to audio messages sucks. As does reading all-lowercase messages without punctuation.
Just put some elbow grease into the automated release process, so happy to release v0.2.1[0] of pg_idkit!

It should be really easy to start/try it out now, assuming you have docker installed:

docker run \
--rm \
-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=replace_this \
-p 5432 \
--name pg_idkit \
ghcr.io/vadosware/pg_idkit:0.2.1-pg16.1-alpine3.18-amd64

And to connect to that instance you can run:

docker exec -it pg_idkit psql -U postgres

After you're in, generate an ID:

SELECT idkit_uuidv7_generate()

If you've got a chance to try it out (or there's a reason you can't), would love to hear feedback! Or even better yet, file an issue[1]

[0]: https://github.com/VADOSWARE/pg_idkit/releases/tag/v0.2.1

[1]: https://github.com/VADOSWARE/pg_idkit/issues/new/choose
This is so gorgeous. I didn't even know about the existence of rings on Uranus; it is so satisfying to be able to discern features like storms on such a far away planet!
Me neither. If I'm concentrating I don't want to wear headphones all day. Even with my very comfortable ones, it's not that comfortable and as you say, it's not the same as silence, or just the quiet of a room without human noise.

It's also the inverse problem as well though. Sometimes I want to listen to music, but I'm not doing anything that requires me to be unapproachable. Heck, sometimes I'm looking for a distraction, which is WHY I'm wearing the headphones, listening to something distracting!

The idea that wearing headphones should mean "leave me alone" just doesn't work for me, and when I want to be left alone, wearing headphones doesn't mean I can concentrate
Blaming phones isn't arbitrary. The attention grabbing [/destroying] nuisance UIs that dangle dopamine hits in reach at all times are having an effect on people, adults that grew up w/ no smartphones included.

Speaking from personal experience, when I try to read a book nowadays I find I need to reread paragraphs a lot at first until my mind settles and can get into the flow. Being away from tech distractions for a day or two, e.g. camping, seems to have a similar restorative effect on my attention span. Even then, am I at 100% of the attention span I'd have if I never indulged in scrolling feeds and reacting to social media and whatnot? Maybe. I'd guess not. It's worth trying to understand.
Thanks for the explainer, the 1989 comment threw me off.
>but this same mindset pretty much ensures that the status quo of the Fediverse (or Mastodon) remains: niche, tiny, anti-growth.

That's a feature, not a bug
If I had an office with a door that I could shut, I would go to it. No offices are like that, unless you are some big wig that, doesn’t code, and hence I am not going to any office any time soon.
> At one point I wanted to see if I could create a sort of a DIY UPS for the water fountain. It would be quite bad if I was at work and a power outage results in cats not being able to drink water (they don’t really care for normal water bowls after getting the fountain).

So another self-made problem then.
Interesting.
Is this a trend away from holding knowledge in the local wetware?

Things that are much less common over my (long) lifetime:

-memorization of classic poetry and lines from literature

-memorization of tables for simple math operations (+ - * / )

-memorization of telephone numbers

-memorization of how to travel to different locations, even in a city

Is memorization of the alphabet next?
I really believe your number is more like 80%. But yeah, the overall idea stands.
Not up to date, but a decade ago MySQL supported pluggable storage engines and so had had some good non-default choices. It was possible to fit really big databases onto small boxes using tokudb, for example.

This doesn't explain why it was so popular for starting new small projects, but people were also choosing mongodb at that time too, so ymmv :)

Nowadays postgres has grown a lot of features but I believe it is still behind on built-in compression?

Added: this old blog post of mine is still getting traffic 10 years later; probably still valid https://williame.github.io/post/25080396258.html
> The hacker in me hates the idea of enforcing something like this, but poor interoperability is such a pain that it would be nice to have stronger guarantees.

For pure consumer products (whatever that means) safety standards are quite reasonable. There are already legal requirements in the USA that plugs have certain shapes controlling orientation, grounding, and expected voltage, as well as building code so that people don’t trip over long power cables. Food safety means you can pick up something at the shop and have some faith it won’t kill you.

This reduces cognitive overhead and doesn’t require you to be an expert in every domain.

It also doesn’t stop you from hacking your own stuff (mostly — please don’t mix ammonia and bleach!) and easily provides you a bunch of dependable items on which you can build your hacks. So you can (briefly!) supply 100 amps of 240V AC over USB A at home if you want, you just can’t sell it. You can make yoghurt at home and store it on the counter in the sun if you want, no problem.
I'm amazed of the amount of great resources available to students today to learn complex topics. I'm not even that old (late 30s) but the only real resources available when I was in school were other textbooks. There were some math blogs but they were mainly focused on higher-level mathematics.
One practical example when I was interviewing a candidate a few years back - I don't need to recall or remember anything, I can just google it up at the moment and learn it.

Now this was an extreme behaviour exhibited, but am sure this is the same with everything that we have traditionally been indicators of skill - we still don't understand perfectly the underlying mechanics here of intelligence. Does memory play a role? How does long term memory / encoding affect our ability to have intelligence ? Is our ability to learn something new an indicator of intellect?

Given these unanswered questions - I doubt our current education system really measures intelligence as it has continued to develop over the years because of introduction of devices and an explosion of information.
It's still a dick move
Feeling Festive? Your Instacart Shopper Is Probably More 'Bah Humbug.'
My wife’s an editor and writer and uses voice to text all the time when messaging on her phone.

I think OP means sending actual voice memos. Yeah, I’d just never listen to most of those. I’m not the sort who has AirPods in my ears all day, so stuff with audio in messaging apps usually gets skipped.
> Do you code with noise cancellation in a sort of sensory deprivation mode? Or do you listen to music?

Related to what dboreham wrote in his sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695799): under some specific circumstances specific kinds of music can increase the concentration for me when programming. If these circumstances are met, I do sometimes listen to music on my noise-cancelling headphones when programming.

But typically I love to program in sensory deprivation mode (the same holds for learning).
It’s difficult enough to figure out which side goes up. I can’t worry about this as well.
Mostly that isn't needed because the controls you need are generally obvious. Every car has accelerator and brake pedals (some also have a clutch) in the same position that works the same with no need to look. Likewise they all have a steering wheel in the same position that again works the same as every other car.

They have turn signal indicator that works the same. Most cars it is a lever off the side of the steering wheel. One car I drove (at night) instead had a switch on the dashboard - I successfully used this to signal my turn several times before I realized it wasn't a lever - but it worked like one so it didn't matter.

Because car makers have historically been good at doing consistent UIs like this when I get into a rental car the only think I need to figure out is where the key goes and how the transmission shifts (shift levers can be many different places and have many different patterns). Everything else important to driving is the same on all cars.

Things like the radio and climate system are not the same on all cars. However they are not critical to driving.
> they essentially have two kinds of produce: cheap and expensive. Not too much of a middle ground there.

In fact, there is middle ground as the least expensive product goes for animal feed. The middle ground is the lesser quality, but still high enough quality, product that human consumers are still willing to purchase.

You, of course, set out to grow the highest quality product you can – it fetches the highest value, after all – but Mother Nature often has other plans.
Iirc Construct is a later iteration of Game Maker, or bought Game Maker, or something like that
I am not surprised. I like to say that it is hard to have an original thought. Even if you think you are original, it is more likely somebody else has already done it in the past. Most of the computing novelties I am seeing are really old ideas, revisited and potentially improved upon.

Thanks for the link, I will take a look when I have a moment:)
Google does have non-ad revenue but it doesn’t seem to be enough to affect the culture: Drive customers get the same level of support as ad-supported search users. I’d like that to change but having used GCP I’m not sure that can happen before they have a better CEO.
Pulumi – open-source Infrastructure as Code in any language
The idea with "buy experiences, not things" is that things often come with upkeep costs, even if it is just a spot to store them. A knife needs cleaning and sharpening, a mattress takes a lot of space, needs clean sheets, etc...

And your examples are somewhat biased in that they are things you need anyways. You can't really live without a mattress and some kind of knife. The question is more about what to do with your disposable income. Do you buy a thing you don't really need or an experience you don't really need. The reason to favor experiences it that they don't come with upkeep costs.
I've been working remotely since well before the pandemic and my current employer has international offices around the world. They have been setup for remote working for at least a decade, and it shows.

Many managers can't work well remotely, and so the team/projects suffer as a result, and they conclude that it doesn't work.

I will say that I don't really feel close to my team. Sure, we talk on Zoom every week (and sometimes daily), but it always feels like it's at distance (Aside from my manager, I've never met any of them in person). To me, this doesn't matter, because I have an active social life outside of work. To others, this might feel isolating if you need that social interaction.
I think both you and your parent commenters are correct in the sense that while there are people who pretend to support Israel online, they aren't actually friends of Israel.
These are people who do not care one bit for the welfare of the Jews anywhere, much less Israel.
These twitter people are problematic because it makes for very bad optics for people who genuinely want the best for the people of Israel.
I think generations of leadership has turned a blind eye to this simply because it is expedient but at some point we all lose credibility as people spew illogical ideas while purportedly supporting Israel.
The costs of offices are easier to quantify than the benefits.
Some high def drone footage would have fit the bill for you? (FYI in case it wasn't recognized /S as your comment seems a bit silly to me in that you are dissapointed that we have a decent quality image of something ~4 LH away).

The expectations humans have on new technology ceases to amaze me especially when something is unbelievably impressive and people are like, that's all?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel#Winn...
They should have said it's not just about touch. There are two components to not having to take your eyes off the road: first, you need to be able to find the controls. And second, you need to know exactly what the knob that you find will do when you change it.

A dynamic tactile touch screen solves the problem of finding the controls, but if the knob that you find could be the volume or the temperature depending on the mode the UI is in, you're still likely to look down to check which one it is.

Edit: And even some clever solution like giving different shapes to different modes doesn't help a ton, because that still uses more brain cycles and time than "reach for where I know the volume knob is and turn it left". You'd have to reach out and feel the control, and if it's the wrong one then reach for the mode switcher and then find the correct control. That's distracting regardless of whether the eyes can stay on the road, and you're very likely to pull your eyes down instinctively to help with that complicated process.
What if tests are becoming harder and pointless?

Do we have evidence that the set of questions asked on exams revolve around the same theme of questions?

I remember doing my high school chemistry exams and one of the teachers intentionally set very obscure questions on topics we didn’t cover.

We all did poorly and she used to say “students are getting dumber”. That was a decade ago.

Turns out when the teacher got replaced and the new one asked questions from material we studied, “students are getting smarter”.

ChatGPT and future models are training on entire corpus of available human knowledge including the various high school and college level exam set.

So much of exams is pattern matching on existing questions asked from previous exams.
Not really.

All of this is confirmed:

- It's agreed by both sides that meetings took place in 2013 and subsequently a confidentiality agreement was made.

- Within the same year Apple hired Masimo's Chief Medical Officer and EVP for Medical Affairs, along with additional staff.

- They developed and integrated the IP of Masimo into a commercial product.

- A judge ruled that Apple infringed patents of Masimo [1].

There's not so much room for things to have gone another way. They were aware of the company and its tech, they met with them, they hired the people away from this company, they built the tech, ultimately violating their IP.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-rules-apple-watches-i...
> Well yes - there has been some research on the use of touch screens in safety critical systems. For example: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49319450

That article is about controls on a military system. You make it sound as if people are steering their cars with touch controls, which they don't.

Screw overregulation, I do not want the government to assume that I am a complete idiot and regulate every single part of my life.
Creating a backup copy for your own use is a specific exemption in copyright law.

Creating a copy and passing it out to anyone who asks is piracy.

Again, the law is pretty explicit and clear about this.
Sure it will
Please can someone explain the gist of this article to a mere human with no PhD in AI?
This is absolutely cursed.
Rethinking Cloud Operating Systems with Rust
While Rust is gaining steam in the OS it's worth re-evaluating init including legacy UNIX-style C/C++ config and libraries.
Greatly interested, please expand!