skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I read a meter, I first need to see where the needle is pointing; that's one step. Then I need to read the start and end of the meter's range or the closest delimiters to the needle on either sides; that's another step. Then I need to mentally calculate the proportional percentage the needle is showing between those two numbers; that's another step. Then I need to convert that proportional percentage to a number between the delimiters (or ends of the meter range) that I read earlier; this is another step.

What kind of meters are we talking? Aside from the speedometer what gauges do you need to see exact values of? The temperature gauge roughly stays the same after warming up, and has a red alert level. The RPM gauge has a red alert level and you typically don’t “maintain” a steady level.

Modern cars (well, I never drive any with a digital display, only analog gauges) have labels indicating the typical speed limits in the region the car was sold in, no? You should not have to convert or calculate anything. You quickly learn where “40”, “100” etc. are on the meter and you see at a glance where the needle is.

Do you change cars often, or need to maintain unconventional speeds?

Or are new cars just bad or very complicated? (Mine is a 2002 Toyota) I don’t understand what numbers are missing.
So do lots of companies. It's a good reason for not applying to work for them. But an odd reason not to dislike their products.
Humans ingest said inforrmation, and then write further articles based on it to resell.

The economics may not work, but my point is that media companies are going to have a lot of difficulty in parsing exactly who and what is able to utilize published information; and how they / it are permitted to utilize it. In the end, their economics won't be factored.
China and Russia, are major over fishers. They have huge factory ships with swarms of smaller netters grabbing every fish they can. They do not respect size/species limits. Many countries have used armed patrol boats for offenders in their 200 mile economic zone. mid ocean sea mounts are have their fish exterminated by these vessels. Atlantic cod may not return because of over fishing on shallow banks that extend over 200 miles from Canada = where all fish are grabbed and the under 200 mile zone does not create enough young fish to compensate for these losses. Canada need to extend their control to the Grand Banks to add a contiguity zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Banks_of_Newfoundland
I don't know the right answer here, but there are thousands of public companies. If every CEO has to be a celebrity, meaning that everybody knows them and which company they are the CEO of, it's going to end up like for actors: tier one world superstars, tier two stars, then people you don't hear much about, then people you read their names sometimes in the closing credits, otherwise they are only random faces on screen.

If that's the case, the top layers of the system have space for so many CEOs. Some won't even care to be there, they'll just do their job and take the salary plus bonuses.
Oh, I definitely don't maintain that they have competent leadership, and clearly the status quo isn't ideal for attracting and retaining it. The board is clearly negligent.

I just disagree with some proposed solutions in the thread, that's all. Also don't necessarily agree that the situation was any better in the past.
No clue. The last time i looked, the prices for a heat pump from known companies like LG or viesmann are similiar than a gas burner.

And with a heat pump you can even invest in PV and use that to be even more independent and later you can leverage an EV car either by never buying gas again or for storage.

Overall a very smart concept.

But perhaps he lives in a country were energy is very cheap, will stay cheap and is very stable?
To be clear about the 'sketchy' conviction of Dwyer: there is no doubt about his guilt, and his defence essentially amounts to "ah, but you should not have been able to catch me".

In the US, as I understand it, if the cops violate the rules about gathering evidence then the conviction can be quashed. It's not so automatic over here. So his appeal has been rejected, and no one is upset about that apart from him.

As another example, in 2016 or 2017 the Irish police (Garda Síochána) installed a tracking device on a suspect's vehicle. Data collected from this was used in evidence some years later[0]. The suspect's vehicle had left the jurisdiction (crossed the non-border into Northern Ireland) while being tracked, and the Gardaí used this data which they are not allowed to do. So what was done? Well, the judge ruled that the Gardaí hadn't intended that, so it's ok, the data - including data collected outside the jurisdiction - is admissable. "Lol, lmao" added the judge. I know, I know, I can hear an alarm in your head going off as you read this, so I'll throw you another detail you'll love: this was heard in a non-jury court, yeah, that's right a court of three judges, none of this twelve of your peers nonsense.

It's all sounds a little less precise than you might like, a little more like muddling through than the 'majesty of the law' vibe. And it kinda is. Mostly works though.

[0] https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/tracker-device-planted-o...
> A real Python CGI would take longer to start because it has more things to import, but even then it's not necessarily terribly slow.

That's where the author is wrong. Complex Python, Ruby or Perl scripts can easily take several hundred milliseconds just to import required modules.
I think that's fine. Chatgpt is my typewriter. It only becomes a copyright issue if I choose to publish it's output, right? And then the fault is with me for distributing it, not chatgpt for typing it.
I don't think what you are saying is in conflict with the parent comment. They said science leaves its domain when making assertions about things which can't be scientifically verified. For instance it would be really difficult to prove God doesn't exist.

The scientific method as a mindset helps us uncover things but only if they can be tested and reproduced, as you said.
Thanks for the catch. I fixed it.
> Way cheaper. Can’t get so fat and unhealthy. And far healthier since most vegans and vegetarians live long and healthy lives compared to other groups.

Japan, where tuna sashimi is popular (apparently they eat more tuna by far than any other country), has the lowest obesity rate of the OECD countries, and one of the highest life expectancies.
I wouldn't expect too much change right away after a lay off that size. Any decent engineering team will have processes, workflows, CI/CD, etc... in place and if all the engineers went away today, most places would still run just fine for a while, maybe even a long time if the systems are set up correctly. The question becomes what happens next? How quickly will they be able to leverage new advantageous technologies? What happens when that rare thing breaks and you have no institutional knowledge? How do you solve difficult problems like content moderation? I'm curious to see where Twitter will be a couple years from now in terms of how it's engineered. I would expect a slow decline in expectations and results.
> Apple Vision Pro features ultra-high-resolution displays that deliver more pixels than a 4K TV for each eye.

That is likely some clever wording, but according to the announcement, a non-pessimistic interpretation does seem like each eye is getting more than 4K.
In the past Ubuntu had a little pop up when you booted with Nvidia graphics, installed the correct drivers and just worked. Debian required you to install manually with all the fun involved.

All the other distros have caught up so there is less to sell Ubuntu on, but it was one of the first. They also had their 1000 paper cuts project where they spent a lot of time fixing everyone else's bugs and submitting PRs.
Exactly!

And while we're at it, why stop with CVRs? Software is a key component of all engineering domains today, and thus a critical safety factor.

All MacBooks (the most popular developer machine today) have built-in microphones. We should using them to record all dev conversations (after all, there's zero incremental hardware cost to doing so), as well as all keystrokes of anyone who writes software, 24/7, so that we can retrospectively analyze why they failed to avoid writing buggy code and the decisions that led to it.

Everyone who has had their PII leaked will rejoice, knowing that we can finally "get" those nasty open- and closed-source developers who created CVEs.

"B-b-but, that's different!"
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TL;DR: it’s a counterfeit (an old one).

The article itself is short and interesting, so worth reading, but the title is a bit misleading
But it'll likely conflict directly with personal freedoms.

Plus what's the logic behind the most draconian of implementations? - If we can hold Bezos to account, why not every AMAZON shareholder?
This is another Google-authored specification, implemented only by Google, which is not currently a web standard. It’s not just Safari that doesn’t support it; Firefox doesn’t either. It’s a Blink-only API.

> Editors:

> Miguel Casas-Sanchez (Google LLC)

> Reilly Grant (Google LLC)

> Status of this document

> This specification was published by the Web Platform Incubator Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track.

— https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/
> What else besides PWAs promise to free everyone from app store rent and anticompetitive policies?

I don't know... laws?

> PWAs would also open the doors to new mobile OSs beyond Google or apple control.

Or force everyone into ChromeOS once and for all.
Good. These people, and their children, will be of great value once CCP regime collapses under demographic pressure and democratic China will have to be re-created from scratch under U.S. control.
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It's not could, but will.

The countries that are doing the overfishing have no intention of stopping. Western countries already heavily regulate their fishing industries.
Everyone's suing AI over text and pics. But music? You ain't seen nothing yet
I dislike that when you install a PWA it is browser specific. For example, if I use Chrome, the installed app will only open in Chrome. Use Firefox on Android and it overlays a Firefox icon on the installed app icon.
Its not intuitive for the average user. "Share" does not usually imply "Install" , and the add to home screen option for me is way down in the menu.
In the scientific context it would still be considered 'evidence' of some kind because there is indeed a very very very small chance an alien in fact, in ground truth, stole the prized turnip for whatever reasons.
That absolutely is untrue.

Om Malik, for just one, has posted at least three articles discussing in depth his extended reviews of the Vision Pro. Here's one (https://om.co/2023/12/14/why-vision-pro-will-change-photogra...):

> Over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to spend time with Apple’s soon-to-be-released Vision Pro, a spatial computer that you wear on your face.
So I recently took at broad look at some of the old C compilers and wrote an article about it. One interesting thing of note is a lot of compilers in the mid 70s compilers like the Small-C compiler actually only compiled a subset of the C programming language. This was because the 8-bit systems were much more resource constrained the then PDP-11s that C was developed on, and C was difficult to compile. It's hard to believe computers once struggled to run C code, and that definitely contributes to why you see more Pascal, Assembly, and Basic during that time period
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You can't install an app from the App Store with a single click.
I like the motivation, but I don't think it could work in practice. Government never seems to be able to effectively "crack down on commercial X but allow individual to do X". People are too crafty and corporations hire lots of lawyers. They will always find a way to follow the letter of the law and get around the spirit of the law. Suddenly, there's an army of "individuals with fishing rods that are totally not employees" who through a totally legit web of contractor relationships and transactions, all happen to deliver their fish to the commercial fish company for them to sell.
Are we willing to have our cubicle conversations recorded while we’re on the job to increase the data available in the event of a software defect?
This pilot with a popular youtube channel about aviation and air disasters has an video on the topic, if you want a pilot's perspective on something that as a techie seems obviously outdated in 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMWZCuTQpds

At least the voice recorder is 2 hours instead of half an hour now. But watching those incident videos I've seen a couple that ended up being investigated but the pilots didn't pull the circuit breaker and the investigation was based on the flight recorder, specially in those cases where things end up fine.
"noob" is a surprisingly good substitute. Is it an insult? depends on context ...
A nice story-- I built my own SaaS (in the middle of year seven now). A similar story... I even read Rob Walling's book and even went to a local Microconf.

The numbers grew slowly and have pretty much plateaued. It's my dream job, and I can't imagine going back to work for anyone else.

I do have an existential dread though--- mainly, "what if my revenue goes to zero?" and I constantly think about how to improve the service or build another service on the side.

Though, it's still better than the dread that comes with being employed and potentially laid off.
Last thing I listened to was Technology Connections, doing their long-format series on the format wars. According to him, porn haven't played a major role. He highlighted that the beta tapes of the time were shorter and the players a bit more expensive, than the VHS system. Because of this, VHS players sold more, so the market was bigger, so the catalogue, including porn, was bigger as well.
This is exactly the Overton window I mentioned.

Your opinion/take on this is relatively new. While technically (legally) correct, there was a whole lot of social pushback on this statement or idea even in my lifetime.

This take on workplace privacy has not been the social standard for very long, and is certainly not a universally shared opinion.

Edit: To avoid comment spam here on an irrelevant side-subject. I didn't say it was a regression or a bad thing. I simply am pointing out it has massively shifted in a relatively short period of time. There was serious public debate about introducing these at all just a generation ago. Now it's seen as completely normal to have your entire workday recorded with zero expectation of privacy. It's a rather drastic shift in society.
I'm afraid it really is that simple. The various big players in the Middle East have been doing it for decades. Iran also provides support for Hamas, which is why the Houthis are involved so directly.

The details are of course incredibly complicated, but the basic observation that weapons and money flow out of Tehran is straightforward.
Relative of hilsa is in Indus River so there is some genetic backup.
If that were true, then recessions and depressions would be impossible. The velocity of money moving through the economy would be a constant, like the speed of light. But recessions and depressions happen, so we know that the disappearance of certain transactions from the economy can have a negative macroeconomic effect.
Those benefiting from the spending have incentive to exaggerate the benefits up to the limit of plausibility. So, as a rule of thumb, expect the actual benefits to be less than the claimed benefits.

It's certainly the case that many of the supposed benefits of the Space Shuttle (and the Space Station) didn't materialize. The Space Shuttle has the additional "negative benefit" of having retarded development of US expendable boosters. Something like an expendable Falcon 9 could have been created decades earlier, had policy been rational.
I remember driving through West Virginia with my parents to visit family as a kid, and my dad was lamenting the fact that its full of the haves and the have nots, with the distinct implication that the haves did something wrong to end up there, and the have nots would be just fine if it wasn't for those pesky rich people. I was just left thinking that if life was haves and have nots, shouldn't you spend your time trying to be one of the haves rather than lamenting the way reality was? But in reality, both those views are overly simplistic.

It's a pretty big leap to go from a software engineer to Walmart. The median software developer (~$110k/yr last I checked but could be outdated) is somewhere in the upper teens as far as income percentile (20% being around $100k and 10% being around $150k[0]). Pretty much any non-management role at Walmart is going to land you in the bottom half.

I'd be curious (but it's none of my business) what about your situation makes that the most likely outcome. I'd bet there are ways to head that off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_States
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These crazy prices are typically bought for the advertising of having paid those prices, they aren’t a reflection of cost of the goods. The 800k fish was the first fish auctioned in the new year, which gets a lot of news cycles given the importance of the auction in Japan.
>For a public company, the CEO has to be a celebrity CEO.

Is it?

From the DJIA: can you even name the CEO of 3M? Cisco? Amex? Visa?

I don't think celebrity is a pre-req for being a CEO. And as OP suggests, it could even be a detriment.
So they put together a prebuilt Lego set.
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This is true, which is why it is destiny for next gen AI companies to not emerge from western countries.
In skydiving, it isn't unheard of for someone to have their phone fall out of their pocket and survive impact without the screen shattering. That's from ~13000ft, but once the phone reaches terminal velocity, it's all the same impact force regardless of altitude.

I think dirt/grass is just a lot softer than the things we usually drop our phones over, like concrete or tile.
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I think you end up needing something like trusted compute for biometric verification (eg FaceID) so the authority can delegate real-time validation.

And perhaps you do randomized (risk-based) audits where you actually have to call the government to check in - but in general, physical ID also has the same high-level problem of some baseline of forgeries, and the name of the game is just making it expensive, not making it impossible.

One example of “make it expensive” would be to require unique device IDs to be registered, eg you bring in your iPhone (or Yubikey or whatever) and the DMV verified it’s not actually a non-certified device. This rests on keys being expensive to extract from the Secure Enclave.

Edit to add: lest folks get sidetracked on the requirement for a private company and device, you can also have a baseline in-person flow where you go to the DMV, and they physically verify you, and then hand you a short-lived token that you can then send to whoever wants to verify you. For example, you're signing up with an age-sensitive site, applying for benefits, etc. -- it's non-trivial, but with a bit of infra and UX it could be made usable. The point is that once you have that token, it's pseudonymous, and e.g. PornHub can't figure out your real ID from it, nor can the government tell where the token was submitted.
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I wouldn't be happy about that. The innovation generally stops when the folks who really know the customer and have the audacity to pull the trigger on big changes are replaced.
They'll compromise on willingness if need be. Just like they did two centuries ago.
For the cost - you are talking about the capex. Starlink would go under opex, and thats where the margins lie. You can probably make the numbers work, but no one wants to touch this.

For bandwidth - there are typically around 10k planes in the sky at any time, and that number typically grows. Thats 10k audio files streaming at a time, all day, every day. Add to that the nominal Starlink traffic that already causes bandwidth issues and you end up with probably non-trivial bandwidth issues until there is larger scaleup
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This makes me happy! Phoenix and RoR before it have proven to be incredibly productive but the issues with types and runtime errors IMHO made it easy to break stuff.

Types should pass a whole range of runtime errors to build time error, which is a huge plus for reliable software!
We use it as needed, but it's pretty minimal. What sort of things do you do with it? Do you build business logic into your database, or just for data-related things?
I'm assuming they're cremated remains? At they distinguishable from any other ash/carbon at that point?
> Twitter could have fired nobody and the advertising revenue would have still declined, those two things were mostly unrelated.

They're not unrelated. Advertisers like to know that their ads work; you need staff to do that.

Look at how much tailored the FaceBook ads were vs Twitter [1]. Advertisers would be sticking with Twitter if they thought the ads were worth it.

> Facebook targeting allows advertisers to drill down, ensuring your ad is targeted at those most interested in your ads’ content.

> The Facebook ad targeting based on interests looked like this:

> Science
> Mari Smith
> Joel Comm
> Social science
> HootSuite
> Post Planner
> Smart Passive Income with Pat Flynn
> Kim Garst
> Sprout Social
> Social Media Examiner
> Buffer

> Twitter’s targeting is not quite as refined, but we targeted these keywords:

> instagrammarketing
> socialmediamarketing
> socialmediaexaminer

[1]: https://www.agorapulse.com/social-media-lab/twitter-ads-cpc-...
>The economy is a closed system

This is sort of not true. The biggest example of why is the concept of the velocity of money. If you’re unfamiliar with this concept, it’s the idea of of how many times a single dollar is used in a given time period. It’s a very important measure, and it’s historic low at the start of the lock downs was why the fed dumping so much money into the economy was not a mistake (at the time). It’s an effective multiplier, and has very real impact as to the total utils that everyone in the spending chain collect.

What this means, is that when money is spent outside a country, there is a very real risk that that the local velocity of money goes down, even though the gdp of the global economy is going up.
PWAs to me sound like "we want everyone to use the same OS (in this case something like ChromeOS), because that's more productive for us".

I get that Google pushes for PWAs because that's how they conquer the OS world. But why do individuals push for that? Because they don't know anything other than webtech and don't want to learn? Have a look at Kotlin and Swift guys, it's kinda cool!