skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BMW started using fiber optic cables in their cars in 2003 (with the introduction of 5 series E60) for CAN comms between modules, the reason was that in case of side crash the repair costs were super high to reconnect a baseball bat width worth of copper routed front to back. It's not new.
- It works well enough.

- It scales up fine for 99+% of companies, and for the ones that need to scale beyond that there are battle tested solutions like Vitess.

- It is what people know already so they don't have to learn anything new.

Same reason why people still make new websites in PHP I guess. It's not fancy but it works fine and won't bring any unwelcome surprises.
> Ease of committing a crime is surely a factor in probability of that crime occurring.

The other factor is turning a profit. You have a brick, you can sell it for parts through China and get a few cents. You have a fully functioning phone/laptop, you can sell it for a lot. If everyone had Find My on then stealing Apple hardware would be pointless. It's the orthodoxy geeks who turn it off to feel like they "own" their hardware that make it a chance play & worth a shot for the criminals & hurt normies.

> confront them while conscious and threaten them to give them their money

This is called robbery, theft means no confrontation.
A touch UI is actually always trying to simulate physical controls, it’s only better because you can have many controls in a small area but you need a lot more focus/brain to use the UI. Physical buttons are ideal still and as proven for cars
It's not an exact comparison, but at work we have tons of Go apps running in Docker containers with a 50MB memory limit. For lighter workloads, it works just fine.
I hate how I have to plug in all 104 wires to make my keyboard work.
>but it's quite rare

I have to select CarPlay on the Honda I bought last year so it can't be that rare.
Users per second and rows per second are not really that strongly correlated - plenty of services create an excessive amount of noise for a fairly low amount of "real rows".

You can push on devs to fix things like pointless logical updates but its really easy to have a rogue process create copies of your entire dataset each time it runs.
In the US all cars starting in 2007 must monitor tire pressure by law. That your 2005 car doesn't while your 2021 does isn't a touch screen function it is they didn't add that feature. Cars from before the touch screen era also told you tire pressure.

Judging by the cars you name I'm guessing you are not in the US, I don't know what your local laws are. Probably similar but different years and other minor differences.
Please don't share it.
What kills me is that we've known how to make UIs usable in human control situations for 4+ decades and this new generation of UX designers just ignore it. Look at the cockpit of an F-16 or F-22. Digital LCD displays ringed by physical buttons. Car UIs used to work like this, when they first introduced screens.

But the wider point is that we keep doing this over and over again, forgetting the lessons of the past, prioritizing flashy and less usable UI over ugly and usable because it's either cheaper or more convenient for the people making UIs, or it's the zeitgeist and it's all they know.
Sometimes I like music, most often not.

However I definitely get ear + head + hearing fatigue from wearing any kind of headphones for more than an hour or two.

Noise canceling is nice, but it seems to be hard on my ears somehow.

In a private (or home) office, I can play music through speakers and it seems to be better than headphones for me.

One thing that is both good and bad about offices is the loud air conditioning/ventilation (which of course is largely a good thing given covid, etc.) The white noise drowns out sound, but it is also fatiguing to my ears. I have been in offices during power outages when the AC/computers/etc. shut down, it's amazing how quiet it is.
> Doesn't resize decently,

About HTML+CSS, that’s just incorrect.

Go and try Tailwindcss and then tell me how bad HTML is at resizing.

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/responsive-design
They presumably mean "pure GNU toolchain", not "pre".
Does it make sense calculating teacher salaries by year when they don’t work the full year, it’s actually significantly less when we take working hours into account maybe as low as 70% so it’s more like they’re paid a 70k rate with low hours and two months off.
Oops, sorry, yes you're right, I think. I was skimming the lists of prompts incorrectly.
There is no “filtering out” when open plans are the de facto standard in an industry and there aren’t alternative workplaces for those who don’t prefer it to go to.

> I enjoy helping my colleagues with things, and doing so helps me build a positive reputation in a way that has helped my career. I enjoy camaraderie and conversations about my colleagues' lives outside work.

This can be achieved with all manner of offices!

> Humans are diverse.

Yes, but there are still distributions of opinions. It seems like there are many thinkpieces on why people don’t like open plans and why they’re bad for productivity, but never any in defense of them. Perhaps you should write one to give voice to that contingent and then we can see how many others have the same opinion.
Ask HN: Experiences using text to diagram tools in projects?
I was wondering about project/team use of text-to-diagram generation tools like d2, Mermaid, PlantUML, Structurizr, etc.

Do you have any automation set up to generate diagrams during development or CI/CD? What pitfalls and triumphs did you encounter?

Does everyone on the team author diagrams or has it fallen to mostly one person to maintain?

Do you find that it helps comprehension of the project for new people?

Have you found that people still draw diagrams in other software? How does this split work in practice?

What do you wish you knew before creating the diagrams?

What do you like/dislike about the tool you chose? Would you pick the same tool if starting over?

Thank you for reading!
I struggled with the cheaply built printer that requires a lot of upkeep the first time like many (Tevo Tarantula in my case), and in the end I realized that between the upgrades to just make it work safely, and the time wasted just fiddling around with getting it to print made the Prusa well worth the money.

Buy the Ender if you want working on 3D Printers to be your hobby, if you want 3D printing to be your hobby, then buy something actually reliable. I would take a small build volume and high reliability over something larger every single time.
Has office with door - but 15 Slack channels with notifications on. Plus a twitch stream for some game plus a endless youtube of a "relax/study" channel.

You think nobody sees what's on engineers desktops?

Of course they're all Carmack-level geniuses...

Literally sandwiched between breathless "How Github CoPilot produces 80% of our code" articles from the likes of Shopify and "How laying off a thousand more fixed my stock" from the Spotifys.
Verses Identifies New Path to AGI and Extends Invitation to OpenAI
Do what you want with code.
Umm. Stop, eat, charge, visit the restroom… what exactly is the problem you envisioning?
On a Tesla S, the media controls are not in a predictable place, and the climate controls need a menu for anything other than a temperature change.
YouTube is the final place to watch unbiased news in India. Can it last?
That may be true but it's close to a dealbreaker for me and presumably a lot of other people. Not that I'd probably buy a GM vehicle anyway.
Look at hotels in Mechelen, it'll be a lot cheaper, cozier, and it's a 20min train ride away!
Because we work in different ways now than we did in 1975? The work people do is also different. And, the people themselves have also changed. A person born in 1980s may be more used to 24/7 noise from tv and devices. A 30 year old worker in 1975 grew up in a quieter home.
We use it, we know it and can troubleshoot it if needed, it satisfies our needs and it works. What more do you need?

It also works for others, Github for example.

The only thing I am missing at the moment is a native UUID type so I don't have to write functions that convert 16bit binary to textual representation and back when examining the data manually on the server.
Agreed. At this point, if I need GPS, I've probably looked at the map before I get in the car. Love that when I start Google Maps in on CarPlay, the first thing it asks is if I want to navigate to PLACE_I_JUST_SEARCHED_FOR. Hell yeah I do.
My new year resolution is to never do remote work at my next job. I wanna be that guy known for being always there, at his job, doing what he's paid to do.
it's prohibitively expensive to access these tools. I have to identify myself and pay over £1000 to be allowed to access them. the agency either doesn't care about independent sites catching CSAM or they don't want independent admins finding out that these tools aren't very effective. alex gleason the fediverse dev tried contacting them about this problem and they didn't care at all.
PoE (power over ethernet) spec specifies 48 volts, so if you want to use off-the-shelf stuff, you need to use 48 volts.
The members of the business committee who decided that to operate the 4 windows 2 buttons are enough should be sentenced to driving a Trabant in their remaining lives. What were they thinking?... Of course, it was a desperate cost saving measure. No engineer could have come up with that stupid an idea.
I guess this only affects you if want to signal after you’re already in a turn?
JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs
Thanks for trying and feedback.

Would put more info on landing page.

Changed the button to "generate HTML prototype" hope that would help.
A few days ago JetBrains put in their answer to other coding AI assistants into their IDES, but decided on top of the nags for their new paid service have made it so it can't be completely removed.

If you try to do the normal thing and uninstall or disable it, it appears to just reinstall itself or continues with nags.

I'll say nothing on work environments where code cannot be sent anywhere for security and privacy purposes, but this is just openly hostile user behavior from a company that used to do relatively well.

Shame on you JetBrains
Fuel To The Fire: How effective are LLM-based safety filters for AI systems?
It isn't just wrong. It's a liability overhanging a lot of Tesla's cash. It also illustrates a pattern of pumping the stock price which reached $400 before a little bit of reality returned.

Now you don't hear about how your Tesla will make money while you sleep, and Teslabot is the new premise for why Tesla is worth 10X BMW
There are many ways to do steering. Until the 1950s nobody had power steering and didn't miss it. However in the 1960s they decided different steering linkages were better, but the new ones needed power steering - you could steer without but it was "strong man" territory.
Wow PowerVia is buying only 6% performance improvement? I'm not sure if that is when paired with a package designed optimized for the new thermal dissipation pathway? It has to buy more than that at the top of end of power scaling or even enable an increase in the power ceiling
Instagram has a whole help section with what appears to be numerous useful pages: https://help.instagram.com/

Searching them is garbage, you'll want to go through the index manually for those that might apply. I'd look into account recovery and verified business pages.

I was on there the other day, trying to recover my account (they flagged it because I rarely login in and I have a new computer)

There was a number in there for Instagram support too. I didn't need to use it.

I was able to get back in with minimal effort, took about a day.
Which would most likely not have happened had they not intentionally kicked the hornet's nest
How does Drive customer support compare to Dropbox?
TinyGo is not Go, it's more accurate to see it as a dialect rather than a separate Go implementation imo. Many packages (even the stdlib) don't compile under it, and as I understand it, certain language features involving runtime reflection are likely to never be supported.
Thanks for the rec! Hadn't heard of this one but just queued up several episodes. Sounds like something I'd definitely enjoy.
Uranus is roughly 3 light hours away.

Distance from earth to Uranus varies between 2.6-3.2e12 m from Earth [1]. Speed of light in vacuum is 3e8 m/s, so calling the distance 3e12 to make the math easy, it's 1e4s (2 and 7/9 hours) for light to travel between earth and Uranus.

[1] https://www.space.com/18709-uranus-distance.html#:~:text=How....
I love my 2014 Mercedes A-class. There's a screen and a joystick, and the controls never wrap around the elements. This means that I can press up/left a bunch of times without looking, and be sure I've ended up at a known point. From there, I can operate anything blind.
Its even better that the quotes of VCs gushing about SBF & FTX is in a puff piece written by the VCs themselves about how special they were that they could identify the real thing.
It's astounding that Mixtral Instruct ties with 3.5-turbo while being ~10x smaller.
As opposed to what? Postgres? Isn't InnoDB most performant for read-heavy apps?
Mixtral is a mystery to me. How in the world is that team on par with/beating GOOGLE, who presumably have all the resources in the world to throw at this?
Related discussion from 1 month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38281264

Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default (phoronix.com) 151 comments

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38488850 17 days ago, 6 comments (mozilla.org)
With the TSMC bidding war that happens every generation I could see Intel winning on cost.
Sony is investigating possible ransomware attack at Insomniac Games
Yeah, the no-buttons and no-Carplay thing completely DQs a Tesla for me.
Because it's cheap and easy to implement into designs. No need to spec and use a new part, just use USB-A for all power connections across everything you sell.
Go ask a teacher about how many hours they work -- it's more than the 40 hours a week we in tech work, generally. And their summers are often full of required continuing education courses which they pay for out of pocket, much like many other professions which are desperately understaffed (see: counselors).
That a massive share of Europe is still dependant on natural gas for things like heating and cooking. In the Nordics housing in populated areas are mostly a mix of district heating or electric heating, and the rest either have wood or some oir burner (people far away from the grid).

In mainland Europe they don’t have a lot of wood to burn so gas from the Russian sphere of influence was a cheap solution that became an addiction that blew up in many peoples’ faces – even us in the north, due to the home energy markets being tied to natural gas
I printed out the infamous quote "Go away, or I will replace you with a small shell script." It was primarily meant for one specific employee known to have the gift of gab. Seeing how my job was to automate the most mundane/error prone tasks, it seemed to be pretty effective. I heard murmurings about how some thought it was rather rude, but I never had to speak to HR about it.
Same here. I cannot stand using touch interface to do anything other than lightweight web browsing. I found an XBox One wireless controller worked wonders with my iPad for gaming.
S3 was actual innovation that AWS led the market in. Apples to oranges comparison.
It's not - it's better to just flag them and move on.
Does James Webb do video?
There is another finesse: the point of f4 is that White is threatening f5, attacking the bishop. Black then has a choice between retreating (which losses time) or Bxb3 (which gives White bishop pair).

The point of Qc7 is that black can answer f5 with Bc4 - offering trade of bishops instead, which is a bit disappointing for White. This is why this resource with g4 is important.

So if Black plays Qc7 White needs to know about this g4 temporary pawn sac. If Black plays exf4 then White recaptures with Bxf4, gaining a nice advantage in development. Finally if Black plays anything else (like Be7) White gains comfortable advantage with f5.
Uranus is on its side. The moons orbits are on their side too, and do they also rotate on their sides, all with respect to the solar plane? The dance of the Sun in the sky must be very exotic for the moon folk of that mini system.
The chart on the bottom left corner of that page shows quite how far ahead the various GPT-4 models are compared to everyone else...
I recall from the New Horizons media blitz that noon on Pluto is roughly the brightness of dawn or dusk, so the image of these planets should be bright enough!
Sometimes it's nice knowing how to do something simply for its own sake. I know lots of random little facts and calculation tricks which don't really help me in any major way but I enjoy and take pride in knowing them.
I'm using a local gitweb instance for this purpose. I have a directory of favorite repos cloned using "git clone --mirror" and a cron job to sync them every 3 hours. gitweb provides a web interface for browsing them.

I like that it lets me open files without JavaScript enabled and search the code without logging in. I still use GitHub.com to read the issues on a couple repos though.

Example of what gitweb looks like: https://sourceware.org/git/ - There's also cgit which is similar: https://git.kernel.org/
... unless it is the only way. Work with dogs, wake up with fleas.
I thought for the longest time that touch controls were a misguided attempt by manufacturers to do something "cool" because buttons are considered "boring". But I've come to realise they are doing it simply because it's cheaper. I'm sad that most electronics I've bought in the past few years have touch buttons. In all cases I wish they were real buttons. There are very few actual advantages, apart from it being cheaper.
I still like one of the defining characteristics of Unit Tests (paraphrasing Michael Feathers from memory): they are fast and cheap to run. Sure, they might not perfectly simulate production like integration tests, but they also don’t take hours burning cash in cloud infrastructure while risking failure from unrelated races dealing with those dependencies. You can use Unit Tests to get to a place where you’re fairly confident that the integration tests will pass (making that whole expensive affair cheaper to run).
There are much higher quality chargers (and cables) than Apple's.

Anker is well known, and Baseus is getting there. They are especially nice because they make GaN chargers, putting a lot of power in a tiny package.

It honestly kind of baffles me how crappy Apple's cables and chargers are when they simultaneously make one of the best USB-C to 3.5mm DACs on the market, and then sell it for $10.
unfortunately legitimate use cases for unit tests (like this) are pretty rare

in corporate codebases, overwhelmingly, unit tests are just mocked tests that enforce a certain implementation at the class or even individual method/function level and pretend that it works, making it impossible to refactor anything or even fix bugs without breaking tests

such tests are not just useless, they're positively harmful

https://gist.github.com/androidfred/501d276c7dc26a5db09e893b...
Webb is optimized for different things.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/12/01/webb-space-telescope-ke...

> Though the quality of the JWST and Keck images may look about the same to the untrained eye, de Pater noted that JWST has instruments that can measure aspects of Titan’s atmosphere that Keck cannot, complementing one another. In particular, JWST’s infrared spectroscopic capability allows it to pinpoint the altitudes of clouds and hazes with much better accuracy.

> “By using spectrometers on JWST together with the optical image quality with Keck, we get a really complete picture of Titan,” she said, such as the heights of clouds, the atmosphere’s optical thickness, and the elevation of haze in the atmosphere.

> In particular, at wavelengths where Earth’s atmosphere is opaque — that is, Titan cannot be seen from any Earth-based telescope — JWST can observe and provide information on the lower atmosphere and surface.
I was surprised to see Terraform/Hashicorp are embracing language based CDKs like many of the other IaC projects out there: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cdktf
My understanding, however fuzzy, is that all the safety/politeness tuning results in models that are at times less likely to give accurate responses. That said, I suspect that either way both types of models largely give similar answers for soft questions aside from those politeness and safety things
I was once working on an app for a Clover point of sale system. On the side there is a USB-C port. I plugged my new-ish MacBook Pro into it thinking I would be able to debug, but instead my mac instantly went black. I unplugged it, and eventually it rebooted, but the USB ports on that side never worked again.

Turns out that port is intended for connecting a receipt printer, and clearly not in any way a standard USB-C.

There is actually a micro usb port elsewhere on the device that can be used for debugging. Lesson learned the hard way.
Both/and, not either/or.

Yes, that's the world they now live in. They need to know how to communicate (both send and receive) in voice and video.

But there's some good stuff in the highlights of what was produced over the last several thousand years. All of that stuff is written. Then need to be able to access that too. And, since a significant fraction of the more thought-oriented stuff is still in writing, they also need to be able to write.
This wasn't a registration issue. In CA, new car dealers immediately register cars upon sale. The issue is that license plates formerly weren't issued until sometime later, so it was legal to drive a new car for up to 6 months with no plates. That law was fixed as of 2019. Now dealers have to install temporary license plates.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/dmv-reminds-mot...

Steve Jobs was notorious for trading in his car every 6 months so that he could park in handicapped spaces without being ticketed.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-car-apple-ceo-l...
> Things like the radio and climate system are not the same on all cars. However they are not critical to driving.

They can be critical to driving, if you have to move your focus from the street to the screen for changing the settings.
https://12ft.io/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/25/vanish...
Protein Key to Neuroprotection and Aging Discovered
I’m not not a developer, I work in the IT space and require deep focus for a myriad of other tasks (like anyone else, I presume). I’m no longer a musician but consider myself to have a rich musical background. Music does wonders for my focus, but it also generates fatigue. So I’m often alternating between music and silence. Have you noticed the same thing or is this less common?
NASA just used lasers to stream an ultra-HD cat video from deep space
I'm sure he did want to. That doesn't make what he apparently did ethical.
Fair. And the editing is hard to do while you're driving...
I doubt it — would anything move fast enough to be usefully recorded?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21191/intel-reiterates-we-are...

It's not clear from this that Intel would allow IFS to force their chip design division to "compete" on a level playing field.
the US government plans to go all-in on using AI
For others reading, most Teslas have traditional stalks still; the yoke issues mentioned are in Model S, Model X, and Cybertruck.

And maybe less of an issue in Cybertruck with steer by wire.
New AI predicts cancer survival using epigenetics
yes, typo... thanks and fixed! The point was, it's not all that far away when compared to even the next star 4.3 light years away (2.5h vs 4.5years)
Open web version
https://12ft.io/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/25/vanish...
Walmart now has mammograms, analyzed with AI
Everything you wanted to know about building a password reset feature (2012)