skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the real core of the problem. Bell Labs was populated by hackers who were perfectly content to earn double to triple what an average factory worker was getting for less toil while doing cool shit. FAANGs became too profitable and attracted people who would have been finance bros in the 90s. Engineers expected to be compensated like quants and directors like portfolio managers. You don't get a Skunk Works or DARPA from that. Moonshot basic research like that may or may not make money. Your fundamental motivating force has to be doing cool shit, not getting rich. If you want something like Google X to work, the culture has to be such that no one is going to jump ship when Netflix offers to double your cash compensation.

How do you get this? I don't even know. As far as I can tell, a lot of 20th century Skunk Works and Bell Labs type of stuff was motivated by heavy government investment and individual patriotism in trying to outdo Nazis and Soviets for the sake of free civilization. Bell himself was an interesting case. He only invented the telephone in the first place as part of his research into helping deaf people and he invested most of his riches from the invention back into research for helping deaf people. He rather presciently never even owned a telephone and refused to allow one in his personal workspace because of fear it would distract from the work.
How do non-software engineering fields somehow achieve this?
O2 levels are not set that way.

Just think where all the new CO2 is coming from.
I mean, MSNBC is a cable news channel, so taking clips of its feed and reusing them as news posts is only logical. It's not like they have an army of writers creating news articles. They find things for their hosts to blab about in front of a camera. If you don't like that style, remove it from your feed. Apple News provides tools to remove/hide specific sources from your feed. Complaining about MSNBC providing video only clips is like complaining the Detroit Lions never plays baseball. That's not what they do
I think Kagi, and MS Bing/copilot are considered “good” nowadays.
Right! Edited.
Cutting corners.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-tallied-alaska-avi...

> A KUCB and ProPublica analysis has found that in recent years, Alaska has accounted for a growing share of the country’s fatalities from crashes involving small commercial aircraft. Since 2016, 42% of the country’s deaths in these crashes occurred in Alaska, up from 26% in the early 2000s.
The batteries being used really aren't the best in terms of energy density. It wouldn't surprise me if they get 5-10% improvement by the same time early next year, without adding additional cells or significant cost.
The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
Man, the way Google treats paying customers is appalling...
It seems very frequent that they remove [WIDELY USED FEATURE] on a whim and tell users to pound sand.
My roommate used to get that all delivered to the school during that time period. Wanted to became a psychopharmacologist(?). Now he works in finance
To be fair my background is similar but the system isn’t really more opaque. I remember having the same books for the PC as (in this case my slightly older mentors) had for the C64. Undocumented PC and Undocumented DOS stand out. However you mentioned games , I too was distracted with such things (like the ABCs, alcohol, babes and cars). And had a nerd break until the web era. With maybe a little play around with VGA graphics and DJCPP or whatever it was called along the way.
> Today, important units of productivity and organisation are: - Urls - Screenshots (and images) - & notes

According to whom? I can see the value in storing and organising notes, but screenshots and bookmarks managed outside of notes just end up being a list that's forgotten about - after all, there's no context, so you don't remember what was special about what you bookmarked or why you did it.
The weight of the battery is related to the amount of friction.
MDZhB: The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
The problem I see are big companies with several products trying to break down silos between the products to share some infrastructure (be it code, libs, actual cloud infra, support teams, design systems etc) when there is very little overlap between the different products.

All in some grand hope of reducing costs by sharing things. It almost always ends with overly generic solutions that are harder to use, takes more people to support, can't be fitted well in most cases and that everyone involved hates (causing employee attrition).

This is different from having cohesive architecture within a single product.
On-demand JSON: A better way to parse documents?
Mseal() Gets Closer
Hard to highlight a punched card.
I work at Databricks, but am pretty much just an OSS nerd, mainly focusing on Delta Rust recently: https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs

I did some keyword research and wrote this post cause lots of folks are doing searches for Delta Lake vs Parquet. I'm just trying to share a fair summary of the tradeoffs with folks who are doing this search. It's a popular post and that's why I figured I would share it here.
I can’t give you any hard numbers but enough of the 2024 brood was definitely noisy last summer in Chicago.
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As much as you guys mention them, I have never, ever experienced an "Apple fanatic" in real life. I'm probably the closest thing to an Apple fanatic and that's only because I buy a lot of their products. I pre-ordered a Vision Pro because I see a lot of use for my business and some new avenues for services I can offer to clients. I'm not tempering any expectations. I'm very excited for this thing.
The iPhone also replaced things, like an iPod. This doesn't replace a Mac, and costs 2x what a Mac does.
Yes, it's nonsense. The neocortex doesn't work from the lack of lead, and psychedelics appear to start it up in some way. People didn't used to need to be drugged up on shrooms to be conscious.
Employee churn or churn rate?
They deter insects.
Yes, and you can view that in both the nav (on screen all the time) and the energy screen.
> I've never understood why Gmail itself is a LSA in the eyes of other Gmail accounts.

Because Google isn't special-casing itself (which is a good thing).

You can enable 2FA on the other accounts and then use app-specific passwords, which will allow you to disable the switch.
Of course, but that doesn't mean Fennec wasn't miles ahead. I mean, the original iPhone didn't even have multitouch zoom. Innovation vs invention. People have rose-tinted glasses about the past. They forget the bad, only remember the good.
What an insult to someone who has taken on the responsibility of raising a child. Of course they should be called parents. A man doesn’t adopt a son only to be called his “child raiser”. Stop this foolish line of thought.
They don't get the benefit of the doubt. I've lost count of how many times these agencies have been caught illegally spying only to apologize and keep doing it in secret. There's probably even a Wikipedia page of all the whistleblowers.
>> this Court is going to get one of the thicker chapters in the history books with all the precedents they have, or expected to, overturn

This is false. The Roberts court has overruled previous decisions less often than previous courts, not more often. It will have one of the thinnest chapters in the history books, not one of the thickest.

The Burger court overruled more decisions from 1969 to 1975 than the Roberts court has since it began in 2005. The Warren court has the thickest chapter in the history books. It overruled decisions at a higher rate than even the Burger court.

I am guessing that the real difference is that you agree with the major decisions of the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist courts, and disagree with the major decisions of the Roberts court.
Only in the fall? A lot of lawn crews like to blow the grass off sidewalks after they mow.
And they don't work that well. I had a phone snatched on Stratton St and no decent footage.
English is flexible. Concise writing reads faster.
Publicly "documenting degradation" - at the huge, tech-savvy firm you're still employed by - may not be the best of career moves. Nor of much use if you're trying to fight the degradation. Who, in middle 80% of Google's org chart pyramid, actually cares?
There is more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(programming_language)

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Genie
Why would it be more helpful? You already explained that the nav computer is displaying the real number. It's not more helpful to have the real number in two places rather than one. It's more helpful to have two different numbers because there really are two different numbers. The nav computer is displaying the real number for that specific route. If your plans change and you take a detour, the computer can't give you an exact number for that since it doesn't know that route and it could be vastly different. For example, if you add an extra 50 miles city driving to explore a city on your trip you will get much different milage than the highway driving your trip computer is showing you.

If it bothers you so much, go into your app and change the settings to show percentage on the top rather than range. Myself I find it much easier to mentally convert theoretical range than battery percentage (heuristics like subtract 20% for cold, etc).
I didn't realize it would be the same weight as an Index. That's great to hear. I found the Index incredibly comfortable for long stretches too. Half-Life: Alyx was incredible and spent hours at a time playing it without any discomfort.
During the time I had a Pilot and even for a few years afterwards, I would find myself writing Graffiti glyphs on paper as mentally that's how letters were written!
And if you glide to the right point, you'll find a Dragon's Tear that exposes a bit more backstory.
I'm in the exact same boat. I'd literally have to relearn basic algebra and geometry.
when in the history of anything was that the case? democracies make terrible choices, with voters often voting against their interests all the time.

dictators make dumb-ass calls often, like Erdogan of Turkey making random (randumb) pronouncements about the currency and causing terrible inflation (or Saddam's "let just fight all our neighbors, Suharto's random evil, etc.).
Absolutely. My outside impression of current Google is everyone is at war with everyone at their level. Get promoted and it's war with a new level. Your success at a given level is based on your ability to persuade the level above of your use to them ascending further levels.

It's tempting to blame Sundar for this, but he is the result of this game being setup that way in the first place, and he simply eliminated all possible other contenders, now using the viper pit around him as a moat.

What amazed me was how long it has taken most Googlers to notice that actually their VPs were at war with each other to a ludicrously counterproductive degree, and they were all being used as pawns in this. I heard some stories (and the post linked to here alludes to some) which are just off the charts craziness, and yet many are seemingly oblivious.
Thank you for making this. I'd been puzzling through how to build something similar. Starred and downloaded, I'll definitely be using!
Issue I noted:

I couldn't make the square go from bottom to top, or right to left, only top down or left to right:

https://www.loadership.com/loaders/block_grid_scale

270 degrees or 180 should achieve this effect but seem to be aliased instead...
Another really fun Cray comparison: Turner Whitted (“father of ray tracing”) is rumored to have speculated some time back when he first published on ray tracing that in order to do real time ray tracing, you could put one Cray supercomputer per pixel out in the desert, each one with a single colored light, and view it from an airplane, and that would be roughly enough compute to achieve real time.

A 4090 today is roughly 500,000 times faster, which means we now have achieved one Cray per pixel (!) for an 800x600 image (smaller than images today, but maybe a bit larger than the average image size in the late 70s).
> For those not familiar with major brood years, it is a sight to see.

Around my house this is also known as my cat's happy time. His favorite stalk/catch/toy is a cicada. They respond in the most satisfying ways for him. They make noise. They flop around. They fly. They are the dumbest things around. They are the ultimate free toy. EXCEPT for when they are in the house. Then, they are the most annoying thing, and cause for quite the ruckus as the cat is jumping on/over/off of anything/everything in an attempt to re-catch the thing bouncing off the walls/ceiling
If people are eating licence plates then it could assist with prosecuting public defecation.
> I mean, isn't that what Bell Labs basically was? Put smart people in a supportive playground and harvest the cream off the top?

Was it? A lot of people here think the transistor was one of the most important inventions to come out of Bell Labs. Here's Wiki's description of its creation:

> In 1945, Bell Labs reorganized and created a group specifically to do fundamental research in solid state physics, relating to communications technologies. Creation of the sub-department was authorized by the vice-president for research, Mervin Kelly. An interdisciplinary group, it was co-led by Shockley and Stanley O. Morgan. The new group was soon joined by John Bardeen. Bardeen was a close friend of Brattain's brother Robert, who had introduced John and Walter in the 1930s. They often played bridge and golf together. Bardeen was a quantum physicist, Brattain a gifted experimenter in materials science, and Shockley, the leader of their team, was an expert in solid-state physics.

> According to theories of the time, Shockley's field effect transistor, a cylinder coated thinly with silicon and mounted close to a metal plate, should have worked. He ordered Brattain and Bardeen to find out why it wouldn't. During November and December the two men carried out a variety of experiments, attempting to determine why Shockley's device wouldn't amplify.

It hardly sounds like they just gave a bunch of smart people a playground and told them to have fun. The problem with many historical examples is that people sometimes only pay attention to the fun parts they want to hear (a lot of focus was put on engineers and they were given some leeway) and often ignore the hard work that went into it (a lot of management, structure, and focus). We get left with overly simplistic solutions that sound wonderful, but then fail when people try to implement them.
> then you're almost already into realm of SPAs but without having the full set of tools that go with SPA.

You don't need all of the tools you think you need. HTMX is reimagining SPAs by extending hypermedia. It doesn't yet extend as far as existing SPA frameworks, but it covers a much broader range than you think.
The Rivian R1T does better, although it is also significantly smaller.
Ask HN: Has GitHub recently changed the CSS in PR review button?
As a frequent code reviwer, the CSS seems to be off.
Are you sure?

There is a lot of complexity in a million years of mixing spores and mycelial karyotypes. I haven't done the math but it seems like it could easily rival a human brain.
I'm imagining Steve Jobs responding to an irate customer with "you're strapping it in wrong".
If there's not enough housing then improvements in wages will just inflate the cost of housing.
Scientists may have the key to treating tinnitus: Retrain the brain
Maybe not USPS but it would be okay to pay for it somehow to make it harder for scammers, spammers and other harbingers of ruin.
The telemetry screen showed that the craft might have flipped over, doesn't look good for a landing unfortunately...

You got this next time, Japan! :)
Omg, I wasn’t thinking. The surface of the target liquid needs to be lower than the source. I was thinking of a pipe coming in lower than the lake, but that wouldn’t work.
Towed sweepers?

We do rake our lawns, front and back, and haul the leaves to the curb using an old shower curtain as some would use a tarp.

However, my wife does prefer to rake leaves out of the garden beds, so every fall we have a conversation that starts, We really should get a leaf blower, and that then is forgotten until the next fall.
I like the discussion. It's peering into the direction we are headed seems apt and likely enough.

I think I disagree more than a bit about how cloud-based we are today.

The article uses Signal to point to server side being less grand than we might think. But Signal feels like a nearly pathalogical example. Messages in signal have very little fan out: it's a rare event when to people read a given message. There aren't brand or media outlets also generating content alongside people. There's some multi-media photo-sharing or voice records, but most of the items shared are well under 1KB. There's no feed curation algorithms or ad targeting mechanisms running. Signal is just not very representative of must apps, nor is it where users sink lots of time into. (Their attempt to add blogging seeks to change fan out & thus increase time-spent).
Honestly think at this point I should recommend hbomberguy’s video on “Woke Brands”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg

I’ll appreciate his politics are way to the left of yours and he’s making this point for a left wing audience, but the TL;DR is: a lot of what you’re perceiving as politics here is literally the market economy acting to maximise profit.

His perspective is that _left-wing_ people shouldn’t be conned into thinking this is about anything other than profit maximisation.
Since that's basically how Sidecar works, I would imagine that this will work the same way. Copying between Apple devices is seamless with iCloud and Sidecar automatically connects displays via Bluetooth/WiFi discovery. Same goes for AppleTV and that's way more underspec'd than a Vision Pro.
If anything, Google should ask prospective engineers how they would corral a room full of boisterous toddlers.
According to the article 70% of crimes committed in the city involve a motor vehicle, so the answer is likely yes.
ElixirConf 2023 – Replacing React: How Liveview solved our performance problems
If you have a textbook you're interested in studying from, you can usually find courses from searching on Google that use that text. If you're lucky, they will make the homework and answers available online.

If you search long enough and look for older courses (before all of these online learning platforms like Canvas became popular), you can usually find lots of worked examples. There is no central location to find what you're looking for, but you should be able to find supporting resources.
Surveyor Program
Male Power over Females Is Not the Default Social Dynamic in Primates
My Gmail password is also long and not reused anywhere. My impression was that it's the app itself that Google doesn't trust, in which case, why trust it with that app-specific password? Can the app-specific password still get leaked and reused if the app is compromised?
Find it similarly amazing, yes.

> This means that the Cray could run it

Gladly, we had better things to do than that :D

But seriously, while we could have run it maybe speedwise, it definitely lacked the memory, not? And if one tried to train it he wouldn't be finished today.
But would make a fun backwards sci-fi story imagining a time traveller that brought the 80ies an LLM from today, what would the world say and do with that slow oracle?
Nah, I don't see that. Apple delivers the same spiel about the iPad Pro and its AR-capable cameras. Not one person uses the iPad Pro for that, they just want the bigger screen.
I have the SF30 Pro since a few years now and there might have been different revisions, but I definitely did not observe that. And I played through Hollow Knight with it, so I doubt that the controls are imprecise - I would not have had succeeded. Granted though, neither tried Tetris nor a classical fighting game.
Reality is what actually happened and we can view different past events with different levels of accuracy /certainty.
You're thinking of ICE vehicles, which have efficient torque at certain RPMs, and don't recover energy when they brake, so traffic is even more inefficient. Electric vehicles have all the torque, all the time, and do recover energy, so for them it's more about wind resistance, which increases with speed.
Is there a typo in your first para? You seem to want to compare France and Sweden, but both paras refer to France; I'm guessing you meant Sweden in the first.
At a lot of places teams were built in a way that they are not co-located. We have people in India, Europe, and every US time zone. When CEOs make these pronouncements they just ignore this and then the office is just a different place to take a Teams/Zoom call these days.
Amazon, Apple, Meta, heck Microsoft and IBM in their heydays all do this. All of tech does this.
The Titan Slim is newer and thinner but has a > 4" screen on top of the keyboard, making it quite tall.
I've bootstrapped all of my businesses too. However, that isn't a viable path for every business plan. If you need a lot of money to even begin, if you want to maximize return very quickly and exit, and so forth, VC is a better way.

It's all about tradeoffs, and the right tradeoff depends on the specific venture.

I do, however, think that a lot of people starting companies seek VC funding when it's not appropriate for their venture, just because they perceive that to be the only, or best, way.
To be fair, with the rampant drug abuse in Silicon Valley (particularly hallucinogens) I would not be surprised if a lot of those execs have experienced psychosis.
There are people in technical leadership making decisions who are not capable of performing the most rudimentary of programming tasks like committing code.

This is a problem when the decision-maker doesn't act on advice from staff or is incapable of understanding the advice. Now give that leader an ego and abandon all hope.

There are many rungs to fall below "competent, but not passionate". In fact, I think I prefer my leaders to be dispassionate and competent.
They are if they're raising that child and I don't think you'll find many people with adoptive/step children cheering on being called like that.

They're parents, as simple as that.
Northern Illinois actually has annual cicadas, so we get the noise every year to some degree. I'm inclined to believe these are 17 year critters that have fallen out of sync over the centuries so you get a continuous stream now.

The major brood here, XIII, has a sub-brood that shows up 4 years ahead of time. 2020 was very noisy.
> (sometimes as much as $4-5K/month)

That's not a service, that's a profit center !
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A Starting Point for Apps using: Laravel, Vue, Inertia.js and Tailwind CSS.
I mostly agree. I think it's a bit much for a first-get device that hasn't proved itself out yet but I have enough experience with first-gen Apple products that I know this will easily lead to being a jumping off point for me to make a decent amount using this as a tool. If it breaks even for me, it'll be worth it for the head start I'll have over others who will just be getting into the ecosystem with later, cheaper versions.
Would we have been able to train the LLM in the first place though? Guessing that that would have been completely infeasible?
great, we picked up an interstellar fart

i thought the webb was a telescope, not a smelloscope

https://i.redd.it/v453jfa9nky01.jpg
The article mentions "See Longbottom’s extensive tests and comparisons article here." and [1]. This was already mentioned in a snapshot of 18 Jan 2024 [2] so it wasn't added after your criticism.

[1] http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20P...

[2] https://archive.is/a99i3
My point is that, if a driver gets used to heavy-ish braking from the accelerator pedal, they might not tap the brake pedal on time in an emergency.