skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the perception, but I don't think that's the reality at all. In general I think they simply are not thinking about much of anything except how to increase next quarter's margins or hit their contractual benchmarks to unlock their options. They have no big picture thinking, whatsoever. It's all just 'make number go up' mentality.

You can also see this in their personal behavior. Those at the top of the top have enough money to do anything. And what they end up doing tends to be work until they drop dead, in some cases literally - with 93 year old Buffet being the poster boy there, engage in mundane hobbies and activities - same as anybody else, and then start directing lots of money towards philanthropy. But the myopia tends to again strike there often making the philanthropy awkward and largely ineffective in effecting any sort of meaningful and lasting change -- unforeseen and unintended consequences, alongside a simple mixture of inability, abounds. The philanthropy ran exactly as they ran their businesses.
> This is a really, really high bar. For example, on surface streets, this means the system on its own is capable of driving at least 100k miles without property damage and 40M miles without fatality. The system can still have flaws, but virtually all of those problems must result in a lack of progress, rather than collision or injury

This is a weird way to think of it, I don't actually think of it as statistics. The failure cases will be different (between human and AI). Further, we want to be able to sue those responsible (not some nameless company).

Final thought, I wonder if this is the metric, when we'll start seeing insurance remove humans or increase the premiums. Basically, exponentially driving everyone into AI driving
They haven't demonstrated it at console-level prices.
tptacek was referring to mandatory legal protections.

Typically, those are only created for unsophisticated parties who don't know what to negotiate for.

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> If I’m going to put my business on hold for 3 months

I've had a failed LOI before (as a seller). Very rarely should an LOI ever fail after 3 months of exclusivity.

The LOI is "hey we'd like to dig deep into this, but we want to be sure we aren't wasting our time." Competent parties shouldn't take much more than a month to figure out whether it works or not. (Funding logistics, or SEC approvals, etc can stretch that out.)
Per capita means nothing... Our environment cares only about total emission. The rest is politics
Came here to report similarly. They cannot estimate package delivery times with any accuracy for my rural address. They virtually always gaslight us with false delivery dates. They are a running joke in our household.

For a company that should have all of the data necessary for training a system to do a better job, their systems are a farce. I would love to hear the FedEx engineers defend this status quo.
> avoiding definite inflamers like alcohol, cigarettes (tho some nicotine by itself might actually be good, cigarette not good),

There is 0 evidence nicotine might be good, and lots of evidence it isn't.
Freight railroads are alive and well in the US. Incidentally, it's also the side of the railroad business that is mostly deregulated and privatised. The passenger business is nationalised, and frankly a basket case.
This is far from a new thought. A great deal has been written about this.
I was am Amazon seller and absolutely hated it.

It is seemingly all run by bots. They delisted my product and none of the humans knew why. It is a bot that decided that and no one could answer what the reason was.

I welcome any competition that is more friendly to sellers.
Plus congestion and labour etc.
What you are saying may be true, and helpful, but just isn't related. My initial comment was about an optimal play algorithm. So that's what I was discussing.
And now they also mix it so it sounds good on earbuds and even phone speakers.
It's been a non-issue for me. I work on a standard qwerty laptop keyboard once or twice a month, but use a colemak split keyboard the rest. The worst thing that happens is I hit the wrong keys in my vim motions until my hands adjust to the standard keyboard again, but that stops happening after 5 minutes of typing.
what's the energy expenditure for an ekranoplan vs a boat per mile?
I've known a fair amount of people that have worked at FedEx corporate, poached talent from there, etc. I sincerely don't think they are going to turn the ship with the technical culture they have in place. It's abysmal, dysfunctional, and weighed down with so much red tape. Many engineers are just a cog in some large machine. Communication seems absolutely draconian.

Perhaps this is most companies that age and size but I simply would bet against any of their new technical endeavors without radical change in their organizational structures. I'd love to be proven wrong though. Healthy competition is a good thing.
Unfortunately it still doesn't expose Brotli [1], which should be already in web browsers due to `Content-Encoding: br`. There is a very roundabout way to decompress a Brotli stream though, and that's how I've got a typing game into 1 KB of JavaScript [2] back in 2022.

[1] https://github.com/WICG/compression/issues/34

[2] https://js1024.fun/demos/2022/18/readme
(it's not a basket case because it's nationalised, it's nationalised because it's a basket case - thank the automotive industry - and it's a national security asset)
That would be very foolish because the tiny, known chance of death may just be the tip of the iceberg.
They're talking about after the ice melts friendo.
Freight trains don't have to be louder than passenger trains. (Though from what I've heard, the US has incredible noisy trains, thanks also to lots of horn blaring?)

And quite a few industrialised countries around the world are building more rail lines.

The US already has an extensive freight rail network. It's the one part of their rail transport that works fairly well. Expanding that should be possible.

Especially because freight typically travels slower than passengers, so your track doesn't need to be as straight, so you have more leeway in planning.
> The people using microdosing to be more effective at work, well… good grief.

I think this is overly dismissive. I don’t think we should all be taking drugs to squeeze every bit out of ourselves out into the next jira ticket, but elsewhere in the thread there’s a comment discussing fundamental breakthroughs in networking technology that came about after an LSD trip. If someone believes that microdosing improves the creativity and overall satisfaction with their job, is that a bad thing?
I get nerding out on stuff but I don't get doing it at the age of the guy in the story. I thought as one got older one started to see the foolishness in this sort of excess. You can't take it with you. And in the end you see what became of it. Split up and sold off to strangers for a fraction of what it cost.
Yes, and board seats.
The "link" is just the repos rather than asking AI to hallucinate an answer. Rust's repo contains 2.2M LOC. The dotnet runtime contains 1.5M lines of C++.

Now if we remove in tree tests from the totals, we arrive at 1.5M lines of C++ (most tests are written in C# as you would expect) and 1.7M lines of Rust.

However, this does not exclude safe Rust code. I don't have a tool off hand that can provide a precise count of lines of unsafe code but we can get some general estimates. There are 1958 instances of "unsafe fn" out of 103,205 instances of "fn ". Further there are 11,545 instances of "unsafe " in the Rust repo while there are 10,768 instances of "unsafe " in the runtime repo.

Given that unsafe functions comprise less than 2% of all functions in the Rust repo, I think my claims are reasonable.
Now if FedEx buys a dating service... this can be a feature
It's a really bad case of Conway's Law if it doesn't only impact the design of the underlying system, but even impacts the UI
Would you say that headphones have a drastically better sound quality ROI over speakers at low budgets (under $1000) for recreational listening?
The Shrinking Podcast Industry
More simply: don't outsource activities that have a complex interface to your organisation.

Having to write complex specs for an outside organisation to implement is an anti-pattern, because:

- the more complex a spec the harder it is to write and understand

- there's potential for endless disagreements / lawsuits on what was actually promised and delivered

- the overhead of having a complex spec that must be understood by people in both orgs.
The requirements for rail depend also on how fast you want to run your trains.

Passenger trains typically (want to) run faster than freight, so the requirements are stricter.
Same thing stopping you from executing arbitrary SQL on the DB.
CNBC Make It
No, I don't think the burden of proof falls on me at all. Especially given all you've presented to support your claim are random bare assertions that don't prove the claim.

Indeed, the burden of proof falls on the person making the claim, which in this case is the petition organizer, or perhaps you. And as we've already examined, we have no way of knowing how representative the petition is. So a poll might be your best option, and sophism in an internet comment probably isn't.

That is, if you want to argue about it.

Like I already said, I'm not suggesting the government poll to find out what's popular at NIH or not, but two things are for sure: a petition signed by a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of 1% of the population, isn't a good indicator of popular support; and a good poll might be.

I mean, let's be serious and honest with ourselves: "thousands" self-selected out of hundreds of millions, billions perhaps (not sure how the survey screened for people out of the country), is nothing. Nothing. It's an emotionally appealing number which is literally within the margin of error. There are thousands who think we should research how earth is flat. There are thousands who believe we should research young-earth creationism. "Thousands" is _nothing_.

If all you can get to support your cause, out of hundreds of millions, is "thousands", your cause probably isn't that great, and/or your PR probably isn't that great. 3 million, still less than 1% of the population, would be a better starting point for an "indication" of what they support. "Thousands" is embarrassing.
Some of them are.

Which goes to show that money doesn't have that much of an influence in politics, despite popular opinion to the contrary.
not him but backup cameras require screens.
Substitute “bloated” with “more capable”. So much of the stuff we consider basic essentials was impossible not too long ago.
You're absolutely right. Their website is terrible to book anything on or do any admin with, probably got many different antiquated systems in the background
Microsoft owns Citus, a very major Postgres plugin.
Deadly for whom?
I heard about this service a while ago. I signed up, and a couple of magnets were downloaded in a matter of seconds! I am guessing they fetched them before.

I also put some heavy direct link URLs, and they were all downloaded in just a few minutes.

I wonder how are they doing it? What is their business model? When I try to stream a video, I see that it's flowing through Alibaba Cloud. Judging from the file headers, they are stored in an object storage service.

How can they afford this? Buying 10TB from Alibaba Cloud would cost me $143.36 / month on the standard (LRS) plan.

Pikpak is only $63 per year, and it would allow me to store 10TB for only $63. That's mindblowing!

Does anyone have any insights about this kind of business model that is potentially storing PTB data? Is it Chinese government-sponsored? Why would the Chinese government care for illegal porn torrent files stored on their servers?
Good idea as well.
From a user’s perspective, they’re not, they’re functions. That’s my point: they introduce a new concept, foreign to the language you’re writing in.

There’s not necessarily bad reasons for this, but the cognitive overhead of this is relatively high compared to existing language functionality.
Which layers do you think are not useful?
This is one of a few apps that has perfect support for accessing /data/data directory on rooted phones.
NVidia are the upstream for their drivers, and for a big client like Valve they would likely be willing to support the interfaces they need (and/or work with them to get them using the interfaces NVidia like). Being less coupled to the Linux kernel could go either way - yes they don't tend to support the most cutting-edge Linux features, but by the same token it's easier to get newer NVidia drivers running on old versions of Linux than it is with AMD.

(Does Valve keep the Steam Deck on a rolling/current Linux kernel? I'm honestly surprised if they do, because that seems like a lot of work and compatibility risk for minimal benefit)
You’re also very unlikely to be eating a lot of ultra-processed foods and you’ll be getting a lot more natural sunlight than most.
I'm still amazed they ended up with 0% market share in mobile phones. That took a some effort, considering they had Windows CE and Windows Mobile for years. Then Windows Phone, and they kept changing the APIs with every release so that nothing was ever backwards compatible. In a CMD shell I still have to use the goddamned backslash because of slavish compatibility with CP/M from 1974, but on the phone they create an incompatible set of APIs with every release. Congratulations, guys, well done.
I already know SQL, and yes it can take time to form exceptionally complex queries, but ChatGPT doesn't seem to do those accurately (yet). CGPT is more useful for general programming languages where there's a lot more boilerplate.
Google's latest layoffs are just the beginning
Paywall: https://archive.ph/tQpQw
It’s not to increase battery life, it’s that when batteries degrade, the voltage can drop bellow spec when the current gets too high. So when the cpu hits its peak frequency, the battery voltage drops and the chip glitches causing a reset/reboot.

Apple added an update that could detect these power failure reboots and cap the CPU frequency so your phone doesn’t crash all the time. Around the same time, a lot of Android phones like the nexus 6P were plagued with this issue where the phone would just randomly shut down.
More like "How slow is your shell?"

The three shells menioned are all very slow.

Try Busybox ash.
That may be the case, but the communication on the changes is terrible. I only noticed CRA was even deprecated after needing to dive deep into upgrading a dependency, and eventually stumbling over the GH issue comment.

Like the original article, I’m just kind of annoyed at React about this. There’s probably great reasons to change (albeit, I don’t really think even that comment communicates them well), but it’s annoying.
Sensors and compute will get rapidly cheaper over time, because they are on the cost curve of electronics. (And they are getting cheaper even if autonomous trucking has only small production numbers, just like batteries will continue to get better, even if nobody builds electric cars: the whole electronics industry is working on those technologies regardless.)

The cab can be a lot cheaper, if you don't have to keep a human comfortable and safe inside. Also keep in mind that an autonomous truck can drive 24 hours a day, and doesn't need to take regular breaks throughout the day nor sleep. (They will need maintenance, but probably not more than a manned truck.)

You are right that the costs are real. Things like first/last mile (or loading and unloading) would probably need a major reshake of the industry, if the truck doesn't bring its own labour, in the form of a driver, with it.
> Flying in a 737 Max is safer than getting vaccinated, I think the Astra Zenica clotting thing was about 50 per million and that was the one I got.

That's a false equivalence because the choice wasn't between exposing yourself to the risk due to the vaccine and exposing yourself to no risk; it was between the vaccine risk and the risk of a COVID infection.
No mention of the high fuel consumption and emissions of supersonic planes... We should be restricting air travel and replacing it with cleaner alternatives, not continuing to focus on speed...
I just store my vault in an iCloud Drive folder and it syncs across all my MacOS / IOS devices. I find it pretty quick to sync live as well. No added cost assuming you have enough iCloud storage to cover your vault.
This was similar to my experience in SE Michigan & NW Ohio in the late '90s to early '00s. Ameritech required you to order 2 ISDN phone lines, which cost somewhere around $80 per month, each. ISPs charged extra for the ISDN services, too.
Hardware is more than numbers on a spec sheet. It's the community (proxy for support), developers, maintainers, etc.

Hot take: If I need something more powerful than an RPI then I'm shooting for x86.
"Graphics programmer thinks that their field represents all of software, news at 11. In other news, systems programmers think that anyone who doesn't want to deal with memory management is a weenie."
Yeah, just noting that link for context (I don’t think it’s documented on the hook’s own page?)
The two most impactful things to try would be factory resetting it and having the battery replaced.
It feels like devices have been cast in such specific roles for so long. It's exciting and suggestive to me to see some expansion & growth, see the roles blurred a little, see some interesting attempts at value add.

Monitors seem like an interesting place where lines could be blurring. HP has this specific hook. Samsung and LG are both selling monitors with pretty comprehensive little pocket OSes built in. Apple's displays I think all have some generation of their cores on board.

These kind of appliance-grade solutions I think have interesting propositions, but HP is tapping what I think is super powerful which is these appliances being connective tissue, being ubiquitous and pervasive computing hubs. I love it.

Kind of longer term, I think the appliance-ization can and should eat itself though. Put a modest PC in or even better closely docked, and let anything talking to the monitor also route to that PC. Right now USB4 is ultra-premium, but it's so well suited to letting interesting highly advanced glue peripherals grow. A modest computer but gobs of USB4 io willing to intermediate.

The problems with computing as a soft system, with a general purpose computer having unclear purposes make this emergence fraught with difficulty. Very few have the vision to tap such high potential. And these companies both see that & want to build something more tractably/distinctly useful (for narrower clearer ends), and it's - for now - in their interest to differentiate & distinguish by not being general purpose, by staying an appliance not an advanced general screen+computer. They want to keep control. But soft systems, software, the flexibility & malleability, the possibility of USB4 as a flexible interconnecter (as would be so useful here)... it feels like the slow wash of the future coming forward will slowly occur. Slowly.

(Very side-note, what a fucking pity DisplayPort aux channel for USB or Ethernet never really took off. USB4 is better in every way but so expensive to do, for now, and we'd be much further along with interesting intermingling of systems if only DP has really some the things.)
I hope more people share content like this in HN. Note taking is incredibly personal and as a result, I think the best ideas might be lying dormant and unshared.
Google is laying off 1000 in Singapore.

Lazada and Shopee, online marketplaces, are also reporting double-digit percentage layoffs. For one of them, more than 50% of the C-suite was let go.
That's a good argument for taxing cars (partially) by weight.
Downvoted because it should be obvious they are not interested in being a cofounder?

or because it's somehow a rude question?
Out of curiosity, what specifically about international shipping with FBA sucks?
was looking for this comment. If their core website is anything to go by, I doubt they can run an ecommerce business. I've never felt more nervous about using an online service than when I had to internationally Fedex my passport to get it renewed.

If Amazon offered such a postal service I'd use that in a heartbeat with full confidence.
One more cool thing about setting up with iCloud (see other comment) is you can use Apple Shortcuts or other apps to do cool things to the markdown files directly.
Fragile in what way, please specify
That's the real fun question!
I didn’t know this, it seems they love open source even thought they have competing commercial products. Maybe there is just more money is selling cloud than there is in selling commercial databases?
> All of the above?

Nope.

At best, you can do something like this: apt-get install gparted=0.16.1-1

That handles the semver case, but that doesn't address the rest of the "all of the above":

- sha256 calculated by the content of the package (Content Addressed)

- checksum calculated from all the inputs that were used to create the package install spec (Input Addressed)

> Nix isn’t the first package manager to do something unique.

Sure. But it is the first package manager to do the above unique things. After all, the reason for Nix's existence is just that: no other package manager before it has done what it does.
I can't believe he is gone, I'm gonna miss him so much
Ive seen these obvious fraud/phishing attacks posted on Facebook so much in the past few weeks. I report them every time. Every time Facebook responds (presumably through some automated system) that it doesn't violate their community standards, so I request another review. I know it will be denied again, but I mostly do it out of spite. So I've taken to posting links to these posts in comments on posts on Facebook's company pages. My comments calling them out on their complete disregard for their users' safety then get removed because they're "spam" or "trying to get likes". It's absolutely ridiculous.

The posts in question are almost always the same format: User A sharing post X to User B with the comment "I can't believe he is gone, i'm gonna miss him so much " (sometimes the emoji will be different). This post tags a bunch of other users. Post X is a link to a shady URL with a fake thumbnail that looks like a YouTube thumbnail for a news report of a fatal car accident. I assume that clicking the link will compromise your own account and spread the message further, along with who knows what other malicious actions.
companies demand leetcode style interviews and i refuse to do them. this will be a challenge.

why? typically those who interview have a favourite trick question which is unrepresentative of actual relevant skill on the job. their goal is to prove superior intellect as they are insecure and want to keep their job. they get intimidated if they interview ex founders especially, who are generalists.
They work out of the box on Debian now too. Ubuntu used to do all sorts of upstream work to make Debian unstable work better, but nowadays Debian is on par with Ubuntu for post-install usability.
yeah, in a major metro area, I get most packages next or same day for free pretty consistently.
This is a persistent myth that’s only true if your performance model requires persistent latency and, even then, only if you’re careful to pay attention to how much is freed or allocated as you change scopes. The lifetime tracking features of Rust’s type system have non-negligible impacts on the sorts of abstractions you can make.
Quite an extreme statement. It’s important to remember these questions are often nuanced and could even be considered unsettled. Do you or anyone have any evidence of what you claim? I’m very interested in it.

I guess I’m referring to how it’s neuroprotective specifically, thank you! :)

I’ve seen the direct opposite claim made here too. If this is already a settled question as I think you’re suggesting, it would be super high value information content for you to post that conclusion, I reckon.