skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole "how to" is very simplistic. It shows that it was written by a programmer who never done any serious testing.

Testing code that depends on time is very complicated, and solutions aren't about whether you have factory methods or use C++ templates. That's by and large irrelevant. To the best of my knowledge there isn't any strategy that would handle all aspects of testing time-sensitive code. The goals and means are very different between different test cases.

I wouldn't even dare to try to catalogue all the possible problems with testing time-sensitive programs... this is just too big of a subject to try to cover in few paragraphs.
I think the point was that the application includes the source attribute of the data.
The Wikipedia pages for EA and the VW emissions scandal give a good overview with linked sources. As part of the consent decree, VW had to put $2 billion into EA.
The VW Van would be a bit more appropriate I think
There are alternatives to Tor that have different anonymity and routing protocols.

For example, take a look at I2P, which has been around almost as long as Tor. It has a lot in common with Tor, but has some key differences that may be appealing to some people. I2P nodes are capable of implementing something like an exit node (often called an "outproxy"), but there's no distinction between peers in I2P that designates one as an exit node. The project is more oriented towards hidden services, implementing its internal network, than it is in anonymizing connections to the clearweb. I think it's great that Tor exists, but I wish more people would consider I2P or at least simultaneously hosting their hidden services on both Tor and I2P. And if you really don't like running a Java runtime, Purple I2P exists and is written in C++.

There are also other networks like GNUnet, which slightly predates Tor, which is mostly file-sharing oriented, but with the goal of anonymity. It can do other things too but, from what I can tell, the project never gained much favor anywhere. Nevertheless, it still exists and is being worked on.

And I can't forget Freenet, or what's not referred to as "Hyphanet". I'll just call it Freenet for now because a lot of people still remember it. Freenet's focus is not only on anonymity but providing a distributed data store that is censorship resistant. This at least in part solves the issue of having to be online all the time in order to host a hidden service. It's been a long time since I've used Freenet, but supposedly the community is very good at discouraging crime and other unsavory elements. I haven't used the new iteration called Hyphanet.

All of these projects have significant differences from Tor, and some of these differences are seen by some as fixing significant flaws present in the Tor protocol that Tor can't reconcile. I2P's design of having no peer distinctions, in my opinion, is a vastly superior model for both security and plausible deniability. Its routing protocol also makes DDoS attacks a greater challenge. Having a primitive yet effective implementation of human-readable hostnames is also nice.

All of these projects are available for people to use today.

Tor does have two upsides. The first is that it has a larger community. The second is that it has the Tor Browser, which I2P does not have an equivalent to, although the Tor Browser can be adapted to use I2P.
I've been writing everything down in a notes app recently and I love it. If I think of a good Christmas gift for my brother in July, it goes in the app. If someone recommends an interesting-sounding book, it goes in the app. If an app at work has a specific or convoluted build process, it goes in the app.

As someone who spent his entire childhood getting in trouble for forgetting things, it's been life-changing. Computers remember things so much better than my dumb brain.
I am eagerly awaiting our first AV Storrowing :)

The hardest thing about driving in Boston is that the streets are wildly non-rectilinear. Waymos obviously don't understand "the rules of the road," they are exhaustively trained on the rules of the road until they can imitate them. For rectilinear intersections they can transfer this training to a variety of different streets; not so in Boston, where you might have a weird three-way intersection involving oblique angles. I am also not sure if SF / Phoenix have many roundabouts. Or, near me, this horrific pair of four-way-intersections somehow combining into a five-way(?) intersection: https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B022'50.0%22N+71%C2%... I suspect Waymo would get badly confused here unless it was directly trained on this specific intersection.
When I saw "cloud native" I was expecting S3-ish the way Neon does it but they say it's experimental: https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb/blob/beta4/doc/usage.md... and for them to say "beta, don't use in production" and then a separate "experimental" label must make it really bad

Are you using OrioleDB in production to have those good experiences with it?
You can't create more land, no, but you can build higher on the land you have - unless some NIMBY-driven zoning code stops you.

We have a housing crisis because restrictive zoning codes prevent housing density from rising to meet demand. The market is not being allowed to work properly, and has not been for decades now in many places, so we have accumulated a huge backlog of unmet demand.
I’ll add:

BetterTouchTool
https://folivora.ai/

ItsyCal
https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
Have a very similar idea to what you mentioned about podcasts.

Had the same result in relation to the OTP.

What did you mean by this "the content is built up to ensure a particular podcast running time."?

Btw, the website on your profile didn't work for me.
Holding company owners don’t have to be public, only their managers (who need not have equity). You have to tell the IRS about the beneficial ownership but that’s not public record. The IRS, surprisingly, has been fairly good thus far about keeping private stuff private.

It’s not just data brokers who can search DL/vehicle data. It only costs a few bucks to access it. That’s their whole business model.

I know people who have been swatted, had their vehicles smashed, their children threatened, their houses shot up or vandalized or broken into, mail or packages stolen, et c. Fortunately I don’t personally know of any kidnappings or home invasions, but such an attack enables same for a sufficiently determined attacker.

People at risk like this either take steps to keep their residential addresses non-public, or hire 24/7 security forces, or both.
In The Prince, Machiavelli wrote that men are “ungrateful, wanton, false,” and “cowardly, greedy, arrogant and mean, and their natural impulse is to be insolent when their affairs are prospering and abjectly servile when adversity hits them.”

Reminds me a little of work.
Yeah there was no cellular service, and the WiFi was limited to certain providers.

They've been talking about this for decades as far as I can remember. They always resisted it because they were worried someone would use it to set off a bomb (London has quite a lot of terrorism in it's semi-recent history). I guess now they realised that suicide bombers are probably more likely than a Nokia 3310 rigged up to a detonator.
Here's a sensible way to make that transition – driving is treated as a privilege. If you are a dipshit on the road more than a certain number of times (driving drunk, running red lights, driving recklessly) then that privilege gets taken away, and you have to use an autonomous car. Over time the safety of everyone on the road goes up regardless of what they are driving.
One under-discussed aspect of this is that so a few of these children have shared a bedroom due to lack of many siblings and oversized houses that they demand their own space in college.

This cultural change has doubled the square footage required in dormitories.
Genuinely thanks, I was familiar with the second two links but the first link in particular is useful. I've been trying to get a handle around the inner workings of Linux accessibility in my spare time for a while, so I'm grateful for more resources.

So this is not meant to be dismissive of you, I really do appreciate it, but also wow this is still pretty anemic documentation compared to most other tech fields. I kind of wonder if this is also a chicken-and-egg problem because the way the healthy documentation springs up around projects is enough people use the projects that they run into issues, they start documenting best practices... and in areas like Linux accessibility where (as I understand it) there are often like 10-20 people total working on the technologies behind it at any given time, that community isn't going to exist and we're going to get tutorials that say stuff like:

> Of course, there are much more interfaces to use or implement for specific objects, like the Text interface for text controls, Table interface for tables, etc., but the principles of these interfaces are the same, just a normal DBus programming with all it entails.

So there aren't going to be a ton of people doing interesting things in that field or digging into how stuff works, which means it's not going to have people available to help make the field more approachable.

But again, I do appreciate the resources you did find.
Maybe a company with more than 45 million users is too big anyway. So they should be split up into smaller companies to avoid the generation of market monopolies.
That looks awesome! The photo of the plasma discharge from the solid molybdenum fuel rod in the datasheet is worth looking at [1], perfectly illustrating the "Centre-Triggered Pulsed Cathodic Arc" that is the basis for this thruster.

The ion and hall effect thrusters that this drive would replace require a propellant tank to hold xenon, krypton, iodine, etc. so integrating them is a bit of a pain in the ass. Anyone know how the mass stacks up though? Hall effect thrusters from Busek have a (much) higher power/mass ratio but that doesn't include the propellant tank.

[1] https://neumannspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Neumann-...
My comment is in response to a discussion about flood insurance. I wasn't intending to say every year hurricanes scrape the peninsula back to top soil and everything must be rebuilt completely. Are there parts of Florida that aren't flooded by every hurricane?

Rate increases for insurance in lower risk zones are what pay for repairs in higher risk zones. How many rate increases will it take before most people can't afford insurance? 76% of Florida's population lives in coastal counties[1] and if the remaining 24% of the population has to pay more to insure those high risk coastal properties, but can't (or won't) then it sounds like there is at the very least an insurability crisis which needs addressed.

1. https://www.usgs.gov/centers/spcmsc/science/florida-coastal-...
It doesn't go directly to Bellevue Mall, but the line runs close enough to it that the mall is within easy walking distance, along with the rest of downtown.
Tor is considered as good as anything.

After all, if you suspect the feds control a lot of tor nodes you probably also suspect they’ve infiltrated or outright own the major VPNs; that they’ve got special access to the major cloud providers, and that they’ve got backdoors in things like TPMs and remote management agents.

Of course Tor has its problems - exit nodes with trash IP reputations, unreliable hidden services, evil exit nodes and suchlike. So it’s certainly not perfect.
So what, WalMart would go bankrupt?

It's a solved thing, for the cash round down, for the credit/plastic/online pay as is.

If you remove $0.01 then round down to the nearest .05, if you remove $0.10 then round down to nearest 0.10; so both $9.99 and $9.95 would be $9.90. Simple.
In other words, technical debt is when parts of the system does not yet implement the abstractions that align with the developers understanding of the problem?

While I don't think we're there yet or maybe not even close, I kind of feel like this kind of technical debt would be something that an LLM should be able to help with. Why can't I point to a piece of code and say "Look at this new code I wrote, now go and refactor the rest of the code base to align with it." Or can I? I assume if I tried to implement something that did this I would hit the context size limit and that would be it.
Conflicted. Glad the general movement is cohesiveness amongst platforms. Sad it's as dull, flat grey and devoid of meaningful actions as ever, particularly in the quest for prettier marketing screenshots? Or what? Design has lost its way to a horribly reductionist thought process. Bring Brutalism to the UI. Find purpose and utility to the minimalism these designs are so inspired by.

I swear the nuance between icons is hard enough to discern in one app, and remember. Then an entirely other app says no, that generic rounded square isn't a save icon, it's an open one!

Christ.
I can relate. I have had conversations about enterprise search and how it can help them especially when done with the help of embeddings + LLMs, but many do not see it as a problem. It's a classic case of people you would be selling to have hired analysts for the use case, and do not see it as a prominent problem anymore. Employees would like better search, but not as much that they would go to CTOs and vouch for it.

You can use analogies like:

1. Imagine the world before Google. Web search was a pain. <<Search for your company>> would be similarly transformative.

2. Every company has an encyclopedia - the guy who knows about the past efforts and is consulted whenever people are trying something new. Search makes that redundant and reduce times.

3. Same with repetitive work because the employees cannot find where the work was done previously.

search is a feature, and unless you address the central pain point that search solves (in terms of revenue), no one will go for it. When you do, you will end up solving the second problem about how leaders never have the issue but employees do.
These look awesome! Would love to see these get published at https://pgt.dev/
that's an interesting typo on that date. kind of rewrites a lot of history
The Burke-Gilman trail is also representative of the madness of King County transit.
Basically, some things are expensive because underlying costs are high.

Others are expensive because they are overpriced. Regardless of the underlying cost.

Have I missed anything?
Pierre Menard is a magician. He is trying to create the ultimate form of reader: a reader who can read The Capital as a novel.
Diablo Canyon is right next to the beautiful Montana de Oro nature preserve

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=592

and has land of similar quality around it. Environmentalists would probably get in the way of clearing the land for solar panels.

A good rule of thumb is that a nuclear reactor makes about $500 million a year worth of electricity, Diablo has 2 so it is economic to spend 6 billion to get another 6 years of life out of it.
Imagine you lower the manufacturing cost of the most popular beverage ten fold. How much less do restaurants charge for the drink?
They cite pneumatic tubes as an inspiration. Why not straight up build pneumatic tubes of their own?
What a terrible idea. The pilot only has one pipe that goes between two locations. There’s no indication of how they would scale this to actually be useful for local delivery. And maintenance when the trolleys break down would be a nightmare. Just like the Boring Company tunnels, the folks who dream this stuff up don’t think about how it can scale beyond a demo. They just figure they’ll figure it out later, but real-world tech is not like scaling a SaaS product.
And, really, that understates it. I'm technically urban per the Census--ex-urban per ESRI. But the idea that anyone near me could reasonably get by with just public transit is laughable. And I actually live quite close to a commuter rail station and there is a small regional bus system.
Excellent read. The danger of deferring gratification is that you become a subconscious master of it.
> "Researchers claim it is the first time an LLM has made a novel scientific discovery"

LLM didn't make discovery on its own in that work, it played role in one step of unknown importance, other steps were lots of manual coding and lots of CPUs to brute force solution.
As opposed to the alternative?
Have you seen the Debian Init Case by GreatEmerald? You can find it here: <https://aaonline.fr/search.php?search&criteria[title-contain...>. It shows the debate over systemd vs upstart in an entertaining way.

Also funny that you say it's about customizability, having a bunch of implementations of the wayland standard seems more customizable than having the one X server.
The author is conflating a few different things.

All code and features are overhead. It requires maintenance when it breaks, or requirements change. It increases complexity when working on other parts of the system, as other new features have to ask "how does this interact with existing features?", even if the answer to that is "it doesn't". At Amazon one of the VPs had a rule of thumb that if a dev or team worked full-time on a new feature, they would be at 50% of their capacity after the feature was "done" for 3-12 months due to ongoing maintenance.

So yes, writing less code rather than more code for the same feature is good, generally. But all software requires some code, so the challenge is figuring out which code is necessary for which the maintenance and overhead costs are worth it.

Technical debt is a bit different; the code is there, but something about it makes it challenging to maintain. There's lots of reasons this can happen. Sometimes the business requirements change and the domain concepts or abstractions no longer make sense. Sometimes the technical requirements change and decisions made at the time are no longer the right ones, if they were ever right at all.

But the most common reason, in my experience, is that the people have changed. New people have come in, looked at existing systems and code, and either don't understand it or don't agree with how it was written from a personal stylistic point of view. Like a functional programming looking at a system that was designed with textbook OOP and calling that technical debt.

As you move into more senior technical positions or engineering management one of the bigger challenges is determining what's "real" technical debt that's worth tackling, versus what's perceived technical debt that's based on personal opinions.
For those with blocking rules around newly registered DNS: https://github.com/saucelabs/forwarder
Arches, Glacier and Rocky Mountain national parks will require reservations
If you think copying an authorization library is ‘obfuscated code which serves no other purpose’ you’re just wrong and this discussion is pointless.

Ultimately either Apple will successfully block Beeper permanently or they will DMCA them and the courts will have their say. We’ll see.
Did you even read the article? This has nothing to do with charging infrastructure. The vehicle itself had a fault. He also didn’t buy the vehicle, he was reviewing it.
Most traffic occurs during the morning and evening commute, you'll need roughly the same number of vehicles for those surges unless those norms change as well.
Looking at the leaked GTA VI videos and seeing ImGui being used by Rockstar internally is pretty neat how even a multi-billion dollar studio will use the same open source project we all use.
> There’s a strange amount of anti-car propaganda that has gotten people worried about this, but I look forward to a driverless future in which cars are cheap, clean, safe, and available to all.

It’s not propaganda but jumbled concerns which are often poorly expressed. I think the strongest arguments are:

1. Self-driving cars don’t change pollution - even EVs are better for local air quality but still cause massive carbon emissions and unchanged or worse tire particulates, etc. – and may even make it worse locally with the extra mileage from taxi fleets.

2. Self-driving cars only lightly improve congestion, and then only to the extent that they can coordinate and you can ban non-AI drivers from certain chokepoints at certain times. The form factor unavoidably needs far more space per passenger than anything else.

3. Self-driving cars don’t really help with affordability – even if the current prices come closer to parity, that’s a financial stress for many people (e.g. in the region where I live, the average family spends as much on vehicles as they do food).

4. Self-driving safety needs a different relationship with the manufacturer. There are many areas where they can be safer but failures can also be correlated so we really need companies to share liability and have rigorous safety oversight.

As a pedestrian, I’m fairly bullish on the concept given how dangerous the average driver is now compared to 20 years ago but I worry that a lot of politicians are going to ignore the other issues because those require hard choices whereas it’s so compatible with American culture to say you can solve major problems by making an expensive purchase. These shouldn’t be opposing issues, of course, and I’d really like to combine them because autonomous vehicles should soon, if not already, be much better about following speed limits, staying out of bus lanes, etc. Making advanced automatic braking a requirement to enter a city could save thousands of lives every year.
It's feels like it's about 50/50 on whether or not that button is broken when I pull up to one of those pumps.
> Soviet russian and chinese industrialization was different

Of course. "Industrialization requires profit, except when it doesn't". Got it.

> but later and not relevant to the Atlantic slave trade that parent poster was talking about.

I didn't realize they used steam ships to transport slaves from Africa to Americas, where they made them work in factories to produce industrial goods.
In the most non-inflammatory way possible: I am not sure I'm convinced of the performance benefits of crossing a JNI boundary to invoke a method in another language, versus letting the JVM JIT and optimize native JVM code.

Would be interesting to see benchmarks here, do you know if there are any public ones available, specific to QuestDB's interop code?
The CCS2 AC-only connector (the one for normal charging at home, destination charging and so on) already supports 3-phase with up to 480V phase-to-phase, up to 22kW. It's larger than the NACS connector — there are two additional large pins — but not unwieldy.
From your original post:

> this is not a request for donations. Last year and this year I am content to finance this operation myself (although a number of people did step up and offer additional support)

I don’t have colossal amounts of money to contribute but I’d love to be able to contribute something and I’m sure many others would as well, increasing the possible scope of assistance. I understand if the complexity of setting up general contributions is not worth the hassle though, or if it simply doesn’t align with your goals here.
Integrating Airbyte, Airflow and dbt
PG&E commercial energy rates in California are $0.36/kwh including delivery[1]. Tesla charges about $0.50/kwh[2].

[1] https://www.pge.com/tariffs/electric.shtml
[2] https://electrek.co/2022/09/28/tesla-hikes-supercharger-pric...
You can actually create more land, but we usually just do that for airports. Hong Kong is a great example of building up and up while prices are still sky high. I guess you are just referring to the states though, right?
Maintaining pressurized grids is hard enough for the systems in use in hospitals, and any small failure in a pressurized pipe has the potential for a huge disaster.