skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having to settle and pay $700 million is not a loss. That is NOTHING for Google.

This is a huge win for them, because you can rest assured Google will get a ton of concessions out of the states in exchange of paying the fine. It's not even high enough to make Google feel "let's never do this again" – it wouldn't be for Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, any of these guys.

It should be in the order tens of billions or a hefty amount of their revenue, whichever is greater. Google must be celebrating such a low fine.
Same folks behind the OPM hack
The "impurity" isn't the problem. The problem is that such integration tests take a longer time to run and in aggregate, it takes minutes to run your test suite. This changes how often you run your tests and slows down your feedback loop.

That's why you separate them: not because the integration test isn't valuable, but because it takes longer.
> Q: Can you draw?

> A: Yes, I can draw.

> Q: can you draw me a cat?

(proceeds to not draw)
I too have tried to use a USB power bank as a kind of DIY UPS to power a Raspberry Pi SBC. What I learned - which may be unrelated to your experience - is that all of the several power banks I tried can be either charging, or powering a device, but not both at the same time. So my Raspberry Pi would run until the power bank got low, then the power bank would cut power to the Pi and charge itself, then power the Raspberry Pi up again. I had to buy a power bank specifically advertised as a USB UPS; that worked fine. The normal power bank seems to be designed to charge a battery powered device like a mobile phone (whose own battery can be thought of as a kind of UPS for the device), but not a device that requires continuous power (like the Pi).
Tax credits aren't very helpful when, as the parent post noted, they had to quit their job to stay home.
> It's shocking that it's illegal to make an OS that allows people to install apps from other sources after warning them, but not illegal to not allow that at all.

That hasn't been established yet. This wasn't a court decision, it was a settlement. Epic separately sued both Google and Apple and won against Google but lost against Apple, but both of the cases are being appealed and you don't have a national precedent until you have a Supreme Court decision.
Don't forget the "mom&dad helped me with a small $1M forgivable loan for my downpayment" cohort.
> massive child care tax credits

massive? lol. It was like an additional $300 a month.
Keep in mind most of what you read is UK policy proposals. They're always proposing a bunch of whacky stuff. Hardly any of it gets implemented.
Quick and Dirty Map Sharing
I created this tool to create quick, individualized maps to share or collaborate on. I've found it useful for picking restaurants to meet friends at, mapping locations to fly my rc plane, or sharing good hiking trails. Would love some feedback!
whooops you're definitely correct. carry on!
Unfortunately telling hundreds of millions of people to figure it out for themselves is basically the same as doing nothing.
Andreas Spiess' recent video [0] covered some milimetre-wave radar chips whose application includes presence detection at a distance (including if the bed is occupied).

Does anyone know of any bed automatable bed heating/cooling solution (DIY or otherwise) that can work offline of with Home Assistant? I had my eyes on E*ght Sleep but it looks like a lot of the functionality is behind a subscription wall [1] and the device is very chatty [2] and I haven't been able to find any API reverse engineering / firmware mods.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-GzUTyIH9c

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/EightSleep/comments/1248wgz/buyer_b...

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/EightSleep/comments/185cgm4/pod_3_t...
True color, visible spectrum images could help garner public support for missions like this. When I see these images, I imagine future humans enjoying a fly by, looking out a large transparent window, and seeing these amazing views.
> You're doing the work of big pharma companies so they can continue making record profits from your tax dollars while being legally indemnified from liability.

A word from your own mouth: Please stop spewing propaganda.
Delays are estimates. They can’t be guaranteed. All it takes is one other plane to be slow to act.
Just tell the pilots that the ATC in NorCAL is also bound to policies and they have to divert. No need to be a dick.
I don't understand why highway self-driving would help save on costs. You would still have to exit the highway to make stops, and that means you would need a driver to be on board the whole time, right?
There's a very clear benefit of asking someone for help, when you're blocked.

WFH comes with a lot of issues, when it comes to a timely response from people.

I had many of colleagues in the WfH world, that just ignored me for a month...

The idea that all engineering is highly focused and non-social just feeds the rockstar developer culture. And most of us aren't even close to rockstar status.

There is always a balance between collaborative discussions and focus time. I thought that we learned it 20 years ago, that devs should not hide away in cubicles?
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC
I've thought for a long time we present coverage backwards. We shouldn't be highlighting what is covered and getting that metric up, we should highlight what isn't covered and focus on getting that metric down (like how linting is done). Present it like "Hey, here's something that no one has looked at in-depth! It's a great place for bugs to be hiding!"
Yes, I think we agree quite a bit, and for me as well this is exactly the type of conversation I come to HN for.

I replied more in depth on the measurement units post on the specifics about that, so I'll leave it aside here.

> I appreciate your insights on Physics.

About physics though, I would say that when I'm talking about computations I'm not describing some complex or deep idea about the universe acting as a computer. I just mean that most of what you do as a physicist is simply to do computations, much like we would in school. You don't write proofs the way most mathematicians do: you take some functions (say, Newton's laws of motion) and an initial state, and compute the state of the system after some time or at some event. Your result is not a proof that X = Y, it is simply the value Y, which you didn't know beforehand. Ideally, you might write a program that automates this work for you, so that instead of doing a computation by hand, you ask a computer to do it for you.

> But I think there's perhaps a misunderstanding of what types are. I agree: units aren't types. However, a

>> a property of a physical system based on some model

> counts as a value that has a type.

I don't think this is the right way to look at it. Types are a specific concept in computer science/math and they act in certain ways. They are for example isomorphic to propositions in first order logic (the Church-Howard correspondence if I remember correctly), but that doesn't mean they are the same thing.
There is tremendous upside to intimacy (which I admittedly struggle with too). By closing yourself off, you foreclose the possibility of deep relationships in which you are truly seem for the whole person you are. We are all deeply flawed and that is almost paradoxically what makes lovable. It is wise to protect yourself but the walks we build to protect ourselves become a prison.
Turns out I seem to be right about the negotiation: https://acroname.com/sites/default/files/shared/blog-basic-p...
Awesome, that is great news!
Yes, all four gas giants in our Solar System have rings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_system#Ring_systems_of_pl...
Show HN: AI Agent with access to GitHub and it's own cloud sandbox to edit files
While true, I think this is still valid criticism considering so many people are quick to jump on the "AGI" bandwagon when discussing the current generation of LLMs.
HTMX is stand-alone from PostgREST, should be judged on its own interface and merits.

I’ve been using it to build a nontrivial site for a few months. It has some surprises coming from a background of experience with SPAs but it’s been pleasant to use overall, once I got over my own biases.

Not having to define types in JS is massive, and having a number of transitive frontend dependencies that I can count on one hand is huge.

It might not be the best tool for every job, but it’s a pretty great tool for small full stack shops.
ILS approaches require far more separation than visual ones.
I think the curl noise paper is from 2007: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/docs/bridson-siggraph2007-cu...

I've used the basic idea from that paper to make a surprisingly decent program to create gas-giant planet textures: https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus
side select.. so.. that basically flips between upper or lower read/write heads..

That wire though..

It seems they could have gotten twice the speed by having two read and two write pins, one one additional pin.
The kids who have the lowest chances of success in school are those without a supportive home life.

In other words, forcing kids to school at home was the most in-equitable policy in our generation, if not many.

Even things like "has a stable Internet connection" is not a given.
This is a pretty reasonable approach but I would caution against potentially being too overly-conservative in eventually moving to the bay/NY if career ambition is a goal. What's often missing in these budgeting numbers is the intangible variable of a far lower ceiling of income potential that you have to trade off. How does the calculus change if say there is some probability X of reaching a potential far higher than 150-160k, as tends to be the case in these HCOL areas?
Android is open, there is competition otherwise there couldn't be "unfair competition".
You can find many fake "UL certified" products on Amazon, with a counterfeit UL logo and all. I think the problem is companies like Amazon not being held liable for what they sell.
More than likely the equalizing effect you're seeing is due to private capital from foreign investors - e.g. the Vancouver housing market.
Rome hasn’t been the seat of empire for over a thousand years but it’s a rather nice place to live in today.

Detroit won’t return to the way it used to be, but it will regain its footing in its own way over time.
The bigger issue here is that the ILS is being set aside in favor of visual approaches in order to slot in a few more approaches per hour.

What's the point of equipping SFO with ILS if it's just going to sit idle?
> I'm not sure what 90% of fantasy rips off from JRR.

Popular conceptions of fantasy races (elves, dwarves, goblins, orcs, trolls, etc) are heavily indebted to Tolkien's portrayals of them in his works. While many of them were based on concepts from European (and especially Scandinavian) folklore, Tolkien's representations of those races were much more specific and different in character.

For instance, folkloric "elves" ranged anywhere from midgets to fairies to demons. Tolkien's nature-attuned immortals were a substantial departure from these traditions, and have suffused popular culture to the degree that they're now the default interpretation of "elf" in most contexts outside Christmas. The "orc" is an even more extreme example; the word was attested in some Old English texts but was long extinct in English by the time he borrowed it for a race of evil creatures in The Hobbit.
48v and the ethernet are not totally related, you could have a 48v car with the same wiring as before (just thinner wires which is the big saving for 48v). Ethernet allows even more saving on wire as you don't need point to point wiring for many specific features, you can just put a node which connects to the network and does the function you need. Old school wiring looms had a lot of point to point wiring on them. My suspicion is that future ones will be really simple as they will need only power and comms, with all the complexity offloaded to the network devices, as it were.
I mostly agree, but don't be so sure that there's no C code, because if there is, you'd think they'd at least run it through the analyzer and say they looked at it and addressed the scary ones.

I think infotainment actually does sit within the safe software process. Likely the lowest. I think static analysis recommendations could be relaxed for ASIL-A... I believe strongly recommended otherwise, which basically means, "you most certainly must do".

Worth pointing out that MISRA is NOT required, even for higher levels; compliance to a standard is. I'm just guessing though chance of C code not so small, if so likely claiming some amount of MISRAness. Though you don't have to do MISRA it's the de facto choice.

They might say we're ASIL-A it doesn't matter. Actually, I think development under those frameworks has ASPICE implications, and many of the same considerations.
Could you elaborate a bit more? It seems to me like the note being played would always correspond to the fundamental frequency observed. When is this not the case? Maybe as the note rings out, the fundamental frequency and first few overtones lose power, and all that's still audible are the higher overtones?
How many kids not learning to read is an elderly life worth? Kids not eating? Child abuse going unreported and unchecked?

How many years of learning loss is “just wanting to see grandkids” worth?

And when did the benefits of closing school stop being worthwhile-how many years after the vaccine was widely available? Because the ongoing disruptions to education were measured in years- all while grandma and grandpa were living it up at bars and restaurants.

Are you factoring in the many other ways that children and families could be kept safe (masking, air filtration, UV sanitizing, outdoor classrooms+heaters, etc)?

The pushback on school closures isn’t because people hate grandma, it’s because some people are capable of a cost-benefit analysis and looking at second order effects when we do so. “Hurt millions of kids to spare thousands of grandmas” folks made me lose my faith in humanity.
holy shit perplexity is fast, even with the bigger models
Umm, NYC is 30% white (so, 70% non-white). If among those who left were 64% non-white (or 36% white), if anything, whites are disproportionately being pushed out.

Although I would not say there was any group who is a majority in NYC.
What's interesting to me is that Facebook, Google etc. haven't solved moderation. Big centralized servers have awful automated solutions with no way to appeal.
Someone got some context…? This reads like far-right sci fi fan fiction. Which is not a dig, just an attempt to classify it lol
It's both and neither. Some countries are considering legislation to require "memory-safe" tooling for "critical" workloads, and C++ has never been placed on the "memory-safe tooling" list.
As long as we're casting aspersions, those little blue Uber dashboard lights have given me a few palpitations at this point.
This is the equivalent of a "When did you stop beating your wife" type of question. It puts words in my mouth. There's nothing remotely illegal about Apple operating iMessage. It takes even greater leaps to jump from that to then it somehow legally justifying the trespass...
The beauty of PHP is that it is stateless and the end of the run, everything is freed. It is difficult to have memory leaks.

Personally, I like using Typescript/Javascript on both front end and backend, but I don’t look down at PHP backends at all. And it’s come a long way as a language.

I’ve been a fan of rolling your own stdlib as the semantics there are old and weird, but vscode tells you so who cares anymore.
> I am convinced that you get more in a collaborative environment having a few devs sitting next to each other in pairs/small groups that they enjoy being with than anything else.

Like an open zoom meeting where people unmute themselves only they need to ask something?

With the additional focus-aiding utility provided by services like focusmate?

Similar to people gaming online with audio chat but more disciplined.

Combining home office with virtual open floor communication on demand.
Although I would say it's been the case for a long time that people who move to NYC to take a job (typically in the finance industry) after graduation tend to move out in ten years or less. A bunch of people from my graduating class moved to NYC and very few of that cohort I stayed in touch with were still there after a decade.

An interesting possible dynamic is that long-term dynamic stays in place but fewer new people move in.
Steam charges 30% and is completely dominant on PC, and there's competitor that tries to compete by charging 4%.
With which model? theirs like 6 of them
https://archive.is/Y921l
Google created a market, and then they stifled that market.

There's no "iOS app distribution" market for Apple to act anti-competitively in.
>Fact: it was much harder in Western societies if you were not white, straight, male, and Christian. This isn't a point for debate. It's not an opinion. You can either accept the fact, as uncomfortable as it is, and move on. Or you can be willfully ignorant to avoid feeling uncomfortable.

It may be a fact (I question the "much"), but is it a meaningful fact? Or just a dumb rhetorical device to bully and silence people for perceived crimes made by their ancestors?

1. Was there any country in the 1940s, ANYWHERE in the world, where outsiders/visitors were treated the same as the native majority? And for countries ruled by minorities, was there one where the people in power treated people of other races better than they treated the people of their own race?

2. If white men need to be loudly and constantly reminded of the sins of their ancestors (that every other society is guilty of but no one talks about it), then is it OK if white men loudly and constantly remind you about the accomplishments of their ancestors that the whole world benefits from today? Electricity, vaccines, antibiotics, computers, the Internet, trains, planes, and automobiles, TVs, air conditioning...
Can you admit that the world owes all of this to white men? That their advances in medicine and agriculture saved billions of lives?

...or would that be an "uncomfortable truth"?
The amount of money you can save moving from NYC to Miami starts to become pretty substantial if you make over 400K, and Miami has basically all of amenities of NYC with less bullshit. Miami is far from perfect obviously, traffic is horrible, the NYC food scene is much better, and there are probably a lot more people with guns.
finally found my people
Publicly traded corporations are democratic organizations. You get one vote per share you hold. If you want something to happen, the shareholders can vote for it.
> your phrasing "Lufthasa is the one making this hard on everyone" just seems wrong, having more safety seems totally justified and reasonable here.

It's so "justified and reasonable" that nobody else does it. Maybe it's not quite so justified or as reasonable as you think.
The free-software community is vanishingly tiny; the slightly larger opensource one was built on the principle of not forcing anyone to be as altruistic as them (i.e. made it ok to be less altruistic). In both cases, the overall amount of actual participants is a small niche when counted against the totality of IT professionals. 90% of professionals literally just take.

I've been around since the late 90s and I reckon the greedheads have always been around. The difference is that they used to be easily recognizable by their suits, and now they are not.
Why the /s ?
You actually said the truth, but it seems you aren’t aware.
So like... what am I supposed to be looking at here? Is it supposed to make me perplexed?

> Hello! How can I help you?

> I have no idea. I was given this link without any expectation that you could help me. What's this all about?

> The concept of "no_search" is a feature that allows users to prevent a search engine from searching the internet for an answer. This feature is being introduced in Bing Chat, as mentioned in a tweet by Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, who said, "#nosearch is coming". The purpose of this feature is to help users with coding, math, and other questions where searching the web does not always add value.

I'm omitting the rest for sanity, but it never starts making sense.
I get what you are saying, but in some domains, you really do design for a single SKU, beyond even just the CPU. Supercomputers and computing centers like SLAC have a very constrained set of SKUs that your software will ever run on.

I know this is not how most cloud or consumer software works, but that stuff usually isnt as performance-sensitive.
> I bet they give it as a play store credit. How else would they actually distribute $2 to so many people without costing a huge percentage of the payout?

I got a $0.13 cent check from some iTunes class action settlement.

edit: Think it was this one. https://www.nola.com/louisiana_inspired/we-received-a-16-cen...
I asked it the same question, and my instance is convinced it is 16th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
It’s hard to imagine life not being out there somewhere.
It's common to install PC games without an app store at all.

Does the store charging 4% have the same games but for lower prices? Which one would you use if that were the case?
No ones thinking a 7b-70b LLM is going to be an AGI lol, a 700b-1T llm likely gets pretty damn close especially with some of the newer attention concepts.
ILS is needed when conditions don’t allow visual approaches. Like, clouds existing.
> In my own case, I didn't see my own grandmother for two years during COVID other than via Zoom/FaceTime. She has a history of bad lung infections, so none of us wanted to get her sick.

Absolutely! I was already under personal quarantine of sorts before the pandemic even started, because I had immune compromised people under my care. I would bever expect society to turn itself upside down to accommodate my particular situation.
Google Lens is the first result you get on Google if you search “what is this”.

It seems like Google Lens team SEOed their way to the top of Google search and since Perplexity response works by using RAG with search engine content it responds with the info from the top search result plus some own context/hallucination lol.
If it was legal enough it would not be necessary
This on the heels of requiring bank account details to preserve auto-pay discounts, just like their security peer over in wireless, T-Mobile.

What could go wrong?
Side projects to get jobs? Surgeons don't do brain surgery in their free time
>It is true that Lewis did not seem to have a high opinion of sociologists

This also seems correct going by a couple of his current issues essays. Two spring to mind: The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, where he says something like "Only the expert Penologist, let barbarous things have barbarous names, can tell us if a punishment is useful to deter", and Vivisection, which ends something like "[So it is up to us to make the difficult distinction of what laboratory animal suffering is necessary and what is excessive to improve human life], but it is up to the Police to determine what is presently being done.", though I haven't read either of these in a while. He's also rather sour on the time's study of people in general, and the psychotherapy in particular, in both HumanTheory and sections of his three part Abolition of Man, although the second gets much more abstractly philosophical.
I don't generally agree with parent's needless reduction to 'protect 90 years old to get to 91', but can't we agree that whole schooling from home was pretty badly mishandled literally everywhere?

Not sure how we can isolate and measure just school-from-home effect on kids across age groups, various places etc. but I strongly believe there was some harm and it was not tiny. How much, and if not temporary again I can't say (but maybe some huge long term stats on things like grades, counseling frequency, suicides, BMI etc. can, but who knows if they won't show just 2nd order effect of parents suffering too).