skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the number of openly operating fences, wouldn't that be an easier target for actually reducing crime rather than building a surveillance dystopia?
As others have said I think it just does 1 screen but it's a 4K screen you can make whatever size you want. I run 3 monitors (2 vertical on the sides, one horizontal in the middle) and I love that setup but with a window tiling app I could make 1 big screen work just as well I think.

This is why I preordered it and if I don't think it delivers on that experience I'll probably return it. Productivity is my #1 use case with things like content consumption being a distant second.
Breathalyze every pilot? Really? That sounds like a depressing, degrading work environment, which, when combined with the taboo against seeking mental health treatment as a pilot, might contribute to an increase in on-the-job suicide attempts.

In aviation, every knob you turn has at least two effects.
Are you claiming manhood is defined by what it isn't?
My overall reaction is that this is a great piece for products/teams that have reached significant scale, once the job to be done is too big and complex for one team to own, end-to-end, or there are truly reusable concerns that can be separated from the core product (e.g. auth, observability).

Because interfacing via API is expensive. Writing APIs for others to use productively isn't easy and change management also adds a lot of overhead. And if we're talking about network APIs, there's a ton of distributed systems complexity to account for.

> The problem with the DevOps movement is that it ended up taking “shifting left” to the extreme. In this sense, development teams weren’t so much empowered to deliver software faster; rather, they were over-encumbered with infrastructure tasks that were outside of their expertise.

This. In truth, I think this is a major misinterpretation of DevOps, which is meant to empower devs without loading them down with incidental complexity. But I experienced exactly this misinterpretation at the first place I worked that had embraced DevOps culture.
You don't have access to the underlying data storage for Snowflake BigQuery, and Firebolt. You can import files into those, but the data will be duplicated.

If you have less than a terabyte of data, using one of those data warehouses is the smart move though.
Cameras are great but the Bay Area has a bigger problem. They don't know what to do about crime. Does the new SF DA have a better relationship with the police? Are crimes now being prosecuted? Even when I lived there it was not hard to witness blatent crimes in the hotspots, car thefts, muggings, store theft, smash and grabs etc. You could just station some cops in those hot spots.
Sam Altman: How to Build the Future (2016) [video]
Is there any public knowledge of a Google password hash database leak for any of their apps ... ever?
I got one better

https://512pixels.net/2009/01/early-macintosh-reviews-show-d...

John Dvorak

> Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices.
> Dinosaurs were doing great. They also were not slow or stumbling. They occupied every niche on the planet. The main reason most of them went extinct was a massive asteroid triggering the K–Pg extinction event (and even then birds are still around and doing just fine, thank you).

The inability to avert or survive through an extinction level event literally proves that they are an evolutionary dead end. Extinction level events are inevitable. Humanity has the potential to deflect or destroy such asteroids (and other such events), thus we have the potential to not be an evolutionary dead end.
Benchmarks for Code Review
It’s handy as we talk about code review to use some benchmarks that anchor our expectations for review performance in data. The best that I know of are in a 2018 paper from Google: “Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google”. I find these helpful when breaking down qualitative feedback about reviews as if you can get the data, you can start to get a feel for where improvements in your review process can come from. The blog post uses this paper to set out benchmarks for review request rate, completion rate, speed, size, comment rate, number of reviewers, review comments vs tenure and review rate vs tenure.
Before the Coronavirus Pandemic, Overlooked Clues from Chinese Scientists
Not too sure why you are downvoted.
Except for every device that doesn't need a separate dev kit for development.
Fascists also used violence to suppress what they considered to be dangerous ideology.
https://iceberg.apache.org is the correct link.
I agree, I'm in awe of SideFX and have a lot of respect.

They've proven you can do a lot by being in touch with your users and being half-decent at what you're doing.
No, but that's exactly why kids prefer it on mobile. It's a consistent experience that loads fast and doesn't show a cookie banner between every step.
Totally agreed. I remember the first couple years of Chrome, and I didn't work at a tech company at the time, but everyone did work in front of a computer.

It was remarkable how quickly Chrome spread among the employees. Nothing to do with advertising -- just that it was so much faster and the whole app never crashed.

Whenever you heard someone cursing because their browser had crashed and they lost their tabs and immediate work, someone in the next cubicle would go, "why aren't you using Chrome?"

It really was that simple. It was all word of mouth.
If they are redirected at the producer, for sure. But if they are labeled as ugly, or expired, only when they are on the shelves, I'm not that sure anymore. So I don't know how much is each share - recycled vs thrown away... and again, what does "thrown away" mean? Vegetables landing in compost are thrown away?
J. Robert Oppenheimer: "Our only hope is antisemitism"
We now know exactly how much the persecution of Jewish researchers cost the thoroughbred Arian academics who were allowed to keep servicing the interests of the Reich.
Isn’t it also common to believe there is not enough housing, a homelessness crisis, but that housing shouldn’t be built anywhere?
Well this was more than 21 years ago and I still barely scratched the surface (though nowadays I also have less need for it)
Those laptops are purchased by/for corporate users. Those users don't decide what OS, software, and browser to run, for the most part.
In most of france produce markets are where you'd go for this, but you're rigidly tied to the seasonal production. So you can get all kinds of apples! In september and october. And no apples at any other time.

I'm not sure this applies in paris though, I suspect it does not. It's such a big city it's likely the markets are similar to american ones, being targeted & priced at affluent upper middle class professionals. IDK though I have spent very little time in paris.
Do people really get pulled over for no plate?

Steve Jobs was characteristically coy when he told biographer Walter Isaacson why he felt no need to have a license plate on his Mercedes. Jobs brushed off the question as if he were invincible, but it turns out he was just exploiting a loophole in California's vehicle laws.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/how-s...
Geekerwan has a great review that covers this in their iPhone 15 Pro review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSCTlB1dhO0

The CPU peaked out at 14 Watts in multicore Geekbench. That's close to the peak CPU power consumption of the entire M1 chip in devices many times larger than an iPhone.

GeekerWan had it throttling 200-300MHz when simply running specInt/specFP. It essentially throttles down to the same speed of the iPhone 14 at slightly higher wattage.

For mobile devices, real-world peak CPU performance hasn't gotten much better than my aging iPhone 12 because most of the extra performance has come at the expense of heat/power.
>You say a company should have the goal of generating profit. According to what moral imperative?

According to market economy, not to a moral imperative.
This is likely a way for Coinbase to outsource KYC. Plaid gives you regulatory backing to prove you sent the funds to the person you think you did. There are other ways of course but this is an "easy" way for Coinbase to not have to worry about that.
I guess everyone takes everything seriously now and there is no light banter anymore...
They didn't have disc brakes in 1935.
My question as well! I have no idea, but intuitively I would rather stop the industrial trawlers than the "family businesses" :-).
Sure, the ATF allowed "pistol braces" over a decade then suddenly decided they were illegal. The ATF decided they would "reinterpret" very clear definition of what a machine gun was. A person has been put in prison for selling an uncut stencil of an automatic seer (basically a drawing on a metal credit card), which by definition isn't a machine-gun.

https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/factoring-criteria...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTIDz8jflZE

https://thedailyrecord.com/2023/08/21/atf-gun-rights-advocat...

The EPA has greatly expanded the definition of wetlands.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf

And of course this example being discussed. There are probably many more we haven't heard about. You can agree or disagree with these policies, but they need to be voted on by congress. These agencies seem to be out of control and should be reigned in. Checks and balances are important.
I don't think it's possible to be Google ca. '06, but there are companies that I think are a little like Google ca. 2012.

Meta is the obvious one, but people are all "no, not like that." Those people IMO have rose-tinted glasses. Early Google was a pretty fast-moving place with founders who would breathe down your neck and expect you to deliver. It also had a lot of speculative projects that amounted to nothing much in the end. Around 2011, Larry had a brain wave and fired, IIRC, every product manager at the company. If you squint, modern Meta is pretty close, both in good ways and bad.

The AI companies are not like this. Most of the ones I know about resemble Amazon more than early Google. Other places tried to be like Google, but without to revenue to make that work, and they're mostly in trouble now.
I don't like the friction introduced by the app router. Even though the merits of layouts, streaming and React Server Components are clear. I have a stable site/app and don't need to migrate any time soon, I rather wait for something better. Which in my mind is something Server Side Rendered, written in TypeScript and close to the native DOM API.
Still, Apple computers were decidedly niche before the iPod and iPhone took the world by storm.
Backing up the power grid with green methanol
When Toys'r Us folded in EU I bough a ton of NES Mini/Classic I2C controllers, paired with https://www.raphnet-tech.com/products/wusbmote_1player_adapt... you have the same thing but brand new.

Too bad all controllers are sold out.
FWIW I sent this to my psychiatrist who replied that it is the best thing he has ever read on the subject.
Most of us don't have mega-scale problems, though. A tremendous amount of waste has been created by applying FAANG tech and processes to completely different contexts.
I guess it was THAT much faster. That is an insane leap in performance in a decade. I know they are apples and oranges. One weighed about 150x more than the other, but still such a surprise to me.
I'm not saying it can't work, but that there are risks involved.

I have worked for several companies ranging from local startups to global enterprise (not FAANG). Each company tried the silo approach when they migrated to micro services and it caused significant delays and dependencies. They would have been better off if they focused more on larger domain services with fewer external dependencies.

I am open to the idea that Amazon has been able to avoid these problems, but it's clearly not a silver bullet.

In general I have to say I'm sceptical about comparisons with FAANG, because they live in a completely separate part of the technology sector. They have income similar to small countries and can live with inefficiencies that can break a startup.
"Director of Analytics"
That’s crazy. Couldn’t you basically hire a day-time nanny for that price?
I can't speak to the grocery stores, but I did briefly work on an apple farm in Calvados. They had two dozen different kinds of apples, not one of which I'd ever heard of.

(I did once get a very lame baguette at a Monoprix once. Blew my mind that the French tolerated it.)

One possibility is that you were there out of season. We've gotten very good at preserving apples for all year, but they are harvested only for a month or so. It takes industrial climate control to make them taste good after about December.
Oh that sounds cool. I guess that would make it a ZISC? What kind of applications did you have in mind for it?
My favorite novel feature of ReiserFS was how it would take inodes you wanted to delete, cut them up, and scatter them across the hard drive with a plaintext inode suicide note.
I'd never heard of Wojcicki. Nor this story from her Wiki. I was curious how a CEO of youtube was worth $800 million.

> Wojcicki has worked in the technology industry for over twenty years.[3][4] She became involved in the creation of Google in 1998 when she rented out her garage as an office to the company's founders. She worked as Google's first marketing manager in 1999, and later led the company's online advertising business and original video service. After observing the success of YouTube, she suggested that Google should buy it; the deal was approved for $1.65 billion in 2006. She was appointed CEO of YouTube in 2014, serving until resigning in February 2023.

And man, youtube for $1.6 billion. I just did a quick google and articles are saying $180 billion today. They did $29b in revenue in 2022..
No, I personally don't, and I'm actually a vegetarian. Though, I think it might've been justifiable in the past when/if it was impossible to replace (though I'm neither a historian nor a dietitian, so that's mostly an assumption), and I think moral values tend to shift fairly slowly over time. But my main point was that they should indeed shift, and perhaps faster (if possible).
Government bureaucrats only hire other people who agree with them as that is in the interests of their job security. Shrinking the government is vital to allowing new ideas air to breathe.
> If Big Tech really are metaphorically comparable to the big dinosaurs, then I don't want to think about what it would take for them to go down.

...Antitrusteroid, the extinction event that transformed the thriving tech behemoths into Standard Oil.
This is the first time (that I know of) my content has been posted here my someone who isn't me, I'm honoured :)
If they're operating fences and other criminal operations openly and police aren't doing anything, it's either corruption, laziness, or they've actually lost control of parts of the city.

What good is a license reader going to do? They literally know where these operations are.
Apple Vision Air, available now in Mylar.
Lately my internet connection has been ridiculously bad. It made me realise how often UX is ignored for bad connections.

One of the things I notice with SPAs is that since the browser navigation does not occur normally, I get no indication from my browser that a link is loading, so the app is completely responsible of adding their own navigation indicators (which is uncommon to see in the wild).

Also sort of unrelated, I constantly see search forms that are "real time" but do not even abort previous requests, so to me it appears as no feed back, then once I finish typing I get a new set of results every second or so until it completes, making it extremely frustrating.
With all this being said, however, there are quite a few positives, the biggest of which is the “beyond great” sound system.

Brutal.
Show HN: Text λ – Safe text storage app (Beta)
Text λ is a simple text storage app with user-side encryption.
It is currently available for Beta testing.

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions on the product.

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https://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
(You'll still need a pretty big drawer)
A lot of people in the comments here complaining about the price, but honestly it makes a ton of sense to me. Apple isn't positioning this as a peripheral or secondary computing device.

They are staking the claim (via price and otherwise) that this is a whole computer that you should use for Very Serious Productivity. Whereas the iPad (for example) was always kind of assumed to be a secondary/casual computing device, this is very much not. The price, the "Pro" moniker, and fact that it has specs more in line with Apple's line of laptops than its iOS devices all support this framing.

There are clearly people who will happily drop $4k on an Apple laptop if they think it'll be a good tool. That is who this is being marketed to, not people who might otherwise have bought a Oculus or whatever.

Whether the device lives up to the marketing is a different question and one we really can't answer until we spend some time with it. I'll let you know when mine arrives. So very much depends on the "feel" of the finger sensors and eye tracking.

But I do think it's priced correctly for what they're claiming it is.
It was. You could read newspapers like NYT and Washington Post, New Yorker (maybe not those exactly, it’s been a while), but there was a large number of US publications. I guess it could have been too early, but I just feel like the demand wasn’t really there. People didn’t link to Blendle articles, they linked to NYT articles, and I didn’t really think about Blendle, and instead just found the archive.to link or whatever. But I dunno. I too would love a model like this to take off, but it just didn’t.
these non-trucking magazines that constantly claim there is a driver shortage should explain the extreme excess in supply and shortage of demand.

do we need these drivers rolling at below cost before we start claiming the shortage is over? the data we look at in the trucking industry isn't indicating a shortage, many of us in the industry are perplexed by the constant "driver shortage" claims but i think people might just be used to news that doesnt tell the truth
We now have a C64 as powerful as the Cray-1 is what you could say if you traveled back in time.
You'd use cruise control.
well at least not in their backyard. As much as I support housing I also think there should just be a genuine attempt at increasing the ability for people to actually have meaningful/paying work that can put them in said housing. It seems like there isn't enough of that (despite all the supposed claims to the contrary)
Plantwatch: The organism so tough it can survive in space
Hinduism it's pretty much alive, and Christianity it's just a fork of Judaism.

When Cristianity didn't even exist, the Chinese already had a good chunk of philosophy perfectly set and written, and even modernish rules for war and diplomacy: Tao Te King, and The Art of War.

Heck, America from Canada to the Patagonia didn't even know about Jesus until the Europeans arrived 1500 years later. 1500s damn years.
For a huge continent mass spread over from almost the North Pole to the South pole.

So much for an 'Universal' God. So universal that Aquinas had to rip a good chunk of Greek philosophy to adapt (more like smash it down with nails and duct tape) ancient Middle East fairy tales into the less-desert bound Europe as the modern Christian canonical sources.

If any, the Western world is shaped by the Roman architecture and law, and the Greek worldview, mindset and math.
The majority of the miles were highway miles, so for a big boxy vehicle this is expected IMO.
Ya. People without plates or stolen plates are a huge problem where I live. Cracking down just on that would be useful to making things safer.
If blue cheese is no longer blue then you could argue it did go away.
In not convinced its consumers refusing to eat varied heritage tomatoes. I frequent five different farmers markets and they sell like crazy. Most people can be easily conditioned and persuaded to but anything. Hence consumerism.

I blame big food corporations for trying to homogenize, sterilize, pasteurize, and genericize the taste/appearance/chacteristics of food to the equivalent of white bread. Society just trudges along with it with extremely low awareness as to how much better it can be.
> People like to say, "But those people don't even create anything, they're just taking credit for other people's work!" But just letting smart people gather and work on pet projects doesn't seem to work particularly well either. Maybe having a headstrong product oriented person upstairs is useful/necessary.

I mean, isn't that what Bell Labs basically was? Put smart people in a supportive playground and harvest the cream off the top? Lasers, MOSFETs(?), UNIX, C, awk, all those came in one way or another from there.

Methinks Google got too impatient. Something like "hey we launched Google X, build it and the inventions will flow" but the Bell Labs model requires something Google was and is constitutionally incapable of rewarding: iteration, time passing, just plain putting in the boring work, year after year.

Google is forever more in hyper growth mode, like birthing a baby that doubles its size on X months. But an 8 year old is not double the size of a 6 year old like babies do. And same for a 10 year old, you need another 8 years (16 year old) to approximately double the size again, and that process assumes constant focus and maintenance of growth attempts so that the body doesn't have stunted growth.

Google seems to be great at launching new products, then utterly fails to iterate them, because of new shinyism or internal promotion incentives or something. I suspect that bled over into Google Labs / X / other company initiatives.
They still teach Latin in Catholic schools.
I'm open to being corrected but this article doesn't offer much for proof of what this person is claiming. It starts by reaffirming ~161 billion in waste (in 2008) (termed: not eaten) and citing some of the cause of that as cosmetic defects. Then the interviewed person goes on to say it's used in alternative production as mentioned in the other comments, but offers no proof or statistics of this. And the fact that enough ugly food existed to fill the purchase orders of a number of startups going out of their way to sell it kind of implies if they weren't, it would be going in the trash.
NPM registry users download 2.1B deprecated packages weekly, researchers say
Few people hold both of those views simultaneously. Few people actually believe that no housing should be built anywhere. A lot of people believe housing is great as long as it doesn’t directly affect them in any way ie isn’t within X miles of their home or on their commute
Most socialists only hang out with other socialists. This has tricked them into believing capitalism must soon be coming to an end because everybody they know hates it.

It's pure delusion. Capitalism isn't coming to an end any time soon. None of the candidates for the 2024 election are even close to being anti-capitalist.