skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Calling Alternative for Germany "Nazis" is nonsense.
>
> Countries have a right to set their own immigration policies, and many Europeans aren't happy with their respective countries' policies. So, they're voting for change, as is their right.

There are a lot of hyperbolic uses of the term, but the AfD is more and more openly fascist. Currently circulating in the media is a conference between AfD politicians and far right activists about how millions of people including germans with migrant parents could be deported to africa. That's not some kind of immigration policy, that's one more part of their plans for "racial purity".
Going straight for the high end of the market is risky when you depend on developer ecosystems for value. The iPhone was expensive at launch but didn’t really take off until it added the App Store and came down in price.

If they get a handful of celebrities walking around with these things it may become a status symbol. Or it may become a joke, especially if somebody crashes their Ferrari while wearing one.
The only good spinner (and don't forget to include something for screen readers[1]):

<progress></progress>

Works in every browser, and out-of-the-box is visually consistent with the rest of the system.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pr...
The AfD had a large secret meeting with right extremists discussing "re-migration" policy this last November, and many members have close ties to Neo-Nazis.
>It wasn’t intended to be public knowledge

The price the NHS pays for drugs is published in the BNF.
1) If we assess all the indirect negative impacts that happen in remote places, nothing will ever be done. Should a factory making phones assess the DALY lost by drivers who get into accidents because of distracted driving?

IMO they really should!

2) Also, if we are going to assess hypothetical impacts of burning oil, why not assess the positive impacts? This oil could be used to build wind turbines, or to deliver food to a famine-impacted areas, or to raise living standards in the developing world. Generally oil is energy and energy is a precursor to GDP and high living standards.

And that's what a comprehensive assessment will include. Both positive and negative arguments. But you can't cherry-pick the ones you like. That would invalidate the results.
How Are Tardigrades So 'Indestructible?' Scientists Have an Explanation
What should one do with power once one has it? After immaturity wears thin, what should one become? The most simple answers seem to make an effort to hold onto power, expansion of power seems a method but I think popularity might be a greater preservant which in turn depends on what one chooses to become. Gluttony, specially on it's own, is pretty useless to everyone else. You could convert popularity into power, it isn't a net gain necessarily.

I suppose the todo table could have many columns. What are the great unsolved mysteries or challenges? How useful are they to humanity? How hard are they? What does it cost? How does one sort the rows?

Say each human is assigned a column with the value of the todo item. Most fields would be empty. We would need a column with virtual min-max values.

Then, while expanding the data set, you dump it onto the internet, sit back and eat popcorn for a while?
Why What We Decide to Name New Technologies Is So Crucial
Alphafold was largely trained on the structures in the Protein Data Bank, which includes lots of important protein targets. Just by virtue of evolutionary biology, many proteins are variants of one another, so if you're doing something like running AF on all of the proteins in the human body (only 24k or so), you're including lots of targets that were part of the training set, lots of targets that are closely related, and lots of targets we don't have structures for. Many (most?) proteins are also dynamic, so can't really be represented well by a single structure (rotating a sidechain inside a pocket when using a structure for virtual screening will frequently yield completely different 'hit' molecules, for instance). AF2 is a better guesser than previous tools for a reasonable structure, but that's like 1 step in a 47 step process to 'finding a new drug.' Even here, "AlphaFold" didn't find the drugs candidates, it generated the structure(s) that they ran common virtual screening tools on (which introduces all kinds of other assumptions and approximations depending on the tool).
We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics for the Last 300 Years
Reach out to folks who are in the last chapter of their life and collect the knowledge, Story Corps [1] meets ArchiveTeam. Interview them, create or add to their Wikipedia page and upload other artifacts to the Internet Archive.

[1] https://storycorps.org/
Yep, it is re-inventing database systems and you raise a great question.

At first glance, it seems like Delta Lake is inferior to a database. Most databases support multi-table transactions and Delta Lake only support transactions for single table. ACID transaction support is nothing new for a database.

Delta Lake is useful for large datasets and to keep costs low.

There are organizations that are ingesting hundreds of terabytes and petabytes of data into a Delta table every day. They're able to ingest data, perform upserts, and build realtime pipelines with this architecture.

Delta Lake is also free, so you only have to pay for storing the files in the cloud. This is a lot cheaper than a database usually.

Data warehouses are often packaged with a certain amount of shared RAM/storage. This can be a problem for a team with large workflows from many users. It's annoying to share compute with someone that's running a large experiment.

These are the main reasons enterprises shited to data lakes and now Lakehouse storage systems. See this paper to learn more: https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2021/papers/cidr2021_paper17.pdf
Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring after patent battle loss
In this case it looks like a completely self-imposed problem by the industry.

Pretty similar to the fishing industry actually. Focus on short-term profits and none on long term sustainability :'(
You think employees will stick around when their vested options are underwater?

It’s not the MBAs alone that demand an increasing stock price.
Again, well said!
Why do EVs crash more than gas powered vehicles
Astronomers detect new faint tidal disruption event
The lesson here is to never take VC money or any other investor money if you can avoid it. You lose your dream and become the slave to someone else's ideas the moment you sell.
The ones I have (SF30/SN30) remember which mode they're in so I just press the start button and it connects to my Switch. Then if I change it to bluetooth, it's the same for my Steam link until I switch it back. Plus there's a sticker on the back that gives the combos to change modes (Y+Start=Switch, X+Start=Bluetooth, etc). Some models, like the Lite 2, do have that physical mode switch.
Constellations are not typically known for their realism.
I have seen managers create task funnels for requests coming from other teams. They assume this has fixed all coordination issues.

Later I see engineers having to engage week-after-week out to other teams for coordination. Things are not in place. People don't respond, coordination "APIs" don't work as documented. I have seen individuals blamed for dependency failures that they had no part in.

I rarely see the obvious solution: Why don't managers spend day-in-day-out coordinating work across teams/orgs/corporate barriers?

Instead of doing coordination, managers seem to be spending more time doing HR stuff like vacations, performance calibrations, documenting ways to blame engineers. They create such APIs and think their job is done. Why? How? What a severe deadweight in the company.
The paper says that because the giant has a club, it is generally accepted to be Hercules. It notes that an image of Hercules should also have a lion skin, but -- despite extensive discussion of LIDAR scans showing what the image would have been in the past -- presents no evidence that the giant ever had one; it just says that, because the giant is obviously Hercules, there must have originally been a lion skin too.
Nobody's claiming nothing has changed, but that's not the source of the OP's grief.
I don’t recall.
Isn't delta lake using parquet files? I don't understand the comparison.

Also

> Parquet tables are OK when data is in a single file but are hard to manage and unnecessarily slow when data is in many files

This is not true. Having worked with Spark it's much better to have multiple "small" files than only one big file.
It has been tried, and been successful in many cases (on mobile, so not linking at this time). A proper example is in respect to right to repair laws and court cases. This is one of the primary arguments in the ability to hack your own devices, and others in the cases of grey/white hat hacking defenses.
You're confusing "rational" with "competitive", which is neoliberal sleight of mind.

There is absolutely nothing rational about terraforming your own planet to make it less able to support you.
It's not that it's bad neologism. It's that neologism is bad in general. :-)
I see this as in the same category as 3D TV. Unless they're really into air combat simulations or use it professionally for some kind of visualisations, I can't see people wanting to sit on their couch with a big headset on. I would be interested to try it, but will wait for a rich friend to buy it first.
Endangered and elusive, but not as critical as is smaller Californian cousin. Very cute animals.
Exactly. If they discovered any new drug that has even a tiny potential for recreational use, it's going to be banned quickly. Hell, we can't even have certain plants that grow entirely in nature. No way they're going to allow new synthetics. Unless our current social Puritan outlook starts to change, it's not gonna happen. And we're headed toward puritanism right now, rather than away from it, so I wouldn't be counting on it during our life times
For those not familiar with major brood years, it is a sight to see. Depending on where you are, there is a constant ambient echo of cicada shrills. When living outside Washington DC I'd leave the windows and balcony door open to wake up to the cacophony, which started around dawn. Thousands of cicadas would fly across the interstate (Dulles Toll Road in my case) and local parks.

The peak lasts not more than two weeks and in two months everything is gone, except mounds of cicada exoskeletons and bodies.
I am not taking sides in this discussion, but as a non-native English speaker I can assure you that the term was not confusing to me :-)
AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, Imagination GPUs Could Leak AI Secrets via LeftoverLocals
Their realtime mail notifications are specified at https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/push

You can also get realtime notifications using IMAP+IDLE+app passwords, although IIRC that'll lag by a couple of seconds.
Please, stop using LLM to provide post summaries. This comment is not adding value to the conversation.
As someone old enough to have experienced the outcome of dictorship in Europe during the mid 1970's, those voters have no clue what they are getting into.

One would expect that with enough information about Salazar, Franco, DDR, Gaulle, Greek junta,... people would have learned, but no, they want those guys back.
Tesla Cybertruck owners who drove 10k miles say range is 164 to 206 miles
This is exactly right. The lakehouse is a custom data warehouse you can build out of these cloud primitives to suit the specific data needs of an organisation. Think of it as a database scaled up by several orders of magnitude. Everything from storage costs to latency can be optimised as design choices. The common core in this architecture is data held in standard file formats such as parquet, delta tables, avro etc.
Google to invest $1B in UK data centre
So then why not use those existing terms?
It’s not so bizarre if you realize that bringing ACID semantics to files, lets you use the scalability of file/blob storage like S3 combined with DB-like access.

Traditional RDBMSes just don’t scale so well as S3. But S3 didn’t have ACID semantics. Now it does!
> way to sell and players a way to purchase games cheaper.

If you believe because the cut is less on epic store (assuming a developer uses all the methods available to a game developer to reduce it) that they then charge less on the epic store you are mistaken. Prices are the same between the two stores.
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Yes. And the reasonable criticisms of it too. And the people I'm referring to continue to misinterpret the claim to twist it to their own ends.

Individually masks reduce infections. En masse, even more so.
What is your real world story of scaling a web application?
Did you use a couple of big machines, or did you opt for the cloud and implement auto-scaling? How do you measure and plan for capacity?
> nobody copies it verbatim

This is not really how copyright works.

> an AI views it, and is inspired by it,

This is a misleading anthropomorphization of how AI works.
as did the Google recruiters and HR people I spoke to before accepting the job :)
Except it looks like a progress bar that isn't actually indicating progress ... that seems off to me.
there’s more to steam than the storefront, the “social network” side. game time tracking and end of year reports mean a lot to some gamers.

i don’t see epic making any meaningful impact in steams user base
Few notes:

- supporting old hw with modern software tend to be pointless, let's say you can found anything compiled for the relevant arch, you got a WM and a set of app deployed flawlessly, then? A modern web-app + a modern WebVM improperly named browser for legacy reasons it's simply way too heavy for the iron. Specially for the graphic part, and most of today's activities happen on web-apps demanding modern WebVM. Oh, of course you can write your thesis in LaTeX, but not with Zotero, you can run Emacs, but it will be painfully slow and so on. You can use the machine as a homeserver for stuff who do not demand much BUT that's means consuming much more energy than a modern raspi for similar performances... In the end it's just about showing old hw and something running on it;

- in the aforementioned terms all you need is just an old ISO image packaged with as much as software of that time you can, it's relatively doable, but it waste resources just to show an old system, without practical usage, it's normal most distros do not support such scenarios, it's more about some heritage foundations...

Now the part I agree:

- most modern OSes, not just GNU/Linux are designed for another era, not a modern one, but a very ancient one, I mean in 2024 decades after the first release of NixOS or Guix system having classical installers who take care of partitioning than spreading some archives on a fs tree it's absurd. A archaic design from the '80s;

- most modern package managers are born after the '80s, but they lag behind '80s tech. They are just archives of files to be spread in a tree. Having something that better map source and binaries crafting a system in code it's very needed and missed on most current OSes;

- most file systems are archaic, we need to go past beyond files and directories and even if in the past some have done so, like to a certain extent BeOS, we still have even users who manage their information in files & folders.

The above aspects are not much interested for keep up old iron but to evolve in modern time, actual state of tech is TERRIBLE for the actual state of possible tech we have.
Tip: People with allergies to penicillin often love blue cheeses but are unknowingly harming themselves mildly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium_roqueforti

Yes, most of the penicillin breaks down... but..
I'm not sure it's a dismissal, as in "an iPod Touch with a big screen" is quite a good pitch. Like even now, if we ever get 16" iPads it's just an iPad with a massive screen, but I'd be all over it.

edit: so yeah, I agree with you
Another great service big tech has provided to the world then!
Looking at this now.

* Delta Lake supports merge-on-read via deletion vectors: https://delta.io/blog/2023-07-05-deletion-vectors/

* Why doesn't Delta Lake have efficient bulk load? Lots of the biggest datasets in the world are in Delta tables.

* Delta Lake definitely supports compaction: https://delta.io/blog/2023-01-25-delta-lake-small-file-compa...

* What does CLI support mean in the context of a Lakehouse storage system? You can open up a Spark shell or Python shell to interface with your Delta table. That's like saying "CSV doesn't have a CLI". I don't get it.

I didn't do a detailed review of the post.
I recently watched a video that speculated that middle class people mostly bought those designer brands to appear rich. Rich people generally don't need/want Gucci and whatnot plastered all over their person. I'd buy that argument.
Those consumers who also don't buy heritage tomatoes or apples because of the irregularities in appearance, will be the ones who lose out. Sounds like there are still plenty of opportunities for cheeses, just not in a uniform delivery.
When I saw the iPad demo on that stage with Steve Jobs I thought: it’s a big iPod for old people to look at pictures. Meh.
I'm 39. I guess that extra year makes a difference?

15 years ago is 2009. CNET's recommended laptop of that year runs at less than 1/10th the performance of current MacBook Air, with an integrated GPU that is 1/100th the speed of a current generation discrete laptop GPU. Oh, and it has almost double the wattage, and probably atrocious battery life by now. A raspberry pi is twice as fast, at a fraction of the energy usage.

The cheapest, throwaway windows netbook you can buy today would give you better performance and better energy usage, not to mention increased RAM and storage, and the energy savings would pay for the device in less than a year.

So no, I really don't see why we need continued software support for 15-year old hardware.
> The market, made up of a lot of people, seems to think the richest man in the world is pretty valuable.

By the same logic, our biology must think cancer is pretty valuable because of how many resources it dedicates to feeding cancerous cells. Wealth and value are not correlated.
I have four of the bluetooth SN30's for couch co-op games on my SteamDeck. I agree that if I switched between devices often (like my son's switch) I'd need a lookup table for the power-on chording. Mine have the key combinations printed onto the label on the back.

Fwiw, the ones I have remember their last pairing setup, so I only need to power them back on via the "Start" button.
> the "app gap" was one of the main problems. High-profile apps like YouTube never became available on the platform

There were great native third-party YouTube clients in the official Store on Windows Phone. On the contrary, I missed my Youtube client after I had to switch back to Android (until I found NewPipe).
Who would have thought compromising genetic diversity might lead to problems downstream . . .
Show HN: We built a multimodal AI interviewer for mock system design interviews
Hey HN! We’re Jared, Shreyas, and Varun the creators of TechInterviewer. We’re building a product for software engineers to go through an entirely simulated systems design interview. Our AI interviewer, Steve, gives you a prompt and you talk out loud and draw on a whiteboard while Steve guides you through the interview and gives real-time feedback. Check out our demo:

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Every software engineer today has to prepare for systems design interviews and have two awful options: pay hundreds of dollars for a single session with a FAANG engineer or follow silently alongside a YouTube playlist. Because there is no instant feedback while practicing, engineers often learn about their most important knowledge gaps during the course of the interview loop.

Jared and Shreyas are both senior engineers who have spent 1000s of hours preparing for and administering systems design interviews. Shreyas was an early engineer at Deepgram and spent many years tracking developments in the TTS (text to speech) space. He realized that voice interviews had potential to change the candidate experience when he starting using chatGPT to prepare for interviewing founding engineer candidates at his startup.

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It's pretty common for us to comprehend but not actually comprehend something if it's mundane.

Our brains are lazy and put stuff on autopilot when it can, so stuff that we experience very often and regularly gets truncated and simplified and shuffled off to be auto'd away so our brain can do better things.

For an IT example, it's common knowledge that dialog boxes and windows are almost always instantaneously closed by hitting the OK button. It doesn't matter what it's saying, it's just second nature to just OK it away because that's what we do with them. Even as we try to read it our hand is already clicking the OK button.

And so "Cleared for the visual, report three mile left base for Runway 31" becomes "Cleared, Runway 31" in our minds and we end up with incidents.
I noticed the same phenomenon. But there's a hack - look at the middle or near the bottom. On especially heated topics, I might scroll all the way to the bottom first.

I thought one topic was pretty amusing, where people were discussing financial planning for millionaires. The top was full of cynical replies or reddit style rants by people who aren't millionaires, like maxing out insurance. The middle had people who did make their money and lost it. The bottom-ish had the actual rich folk.

You gotta search for the geniuses. 90% of people are in the bottom 90%. Someone asks for the key to happiness. Your average person will say "diet, exercise, sleep". This is insightful to those at the bottom, and those who are above average won't disagree. Then some dude comes along and says "life is suffering" and rants about why chasing luxury is going to make you unhappy. That dude is going to be downvoted or ignored.
your reckoning with the expense of getting into the air for fun is this: Go take about $2000 in various denominations and flush it down the toilet. Did that feel good? /s

If that didn't hurt too bad, you're past the first hurdle.
And the HN discussion of that link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758355
What kinds of challenges have you run into?
Yeah it's just internet people trying to coin terms then gaslighting those who don't adopt.
Oh yeah I was also a Kickstarter backer. It was so nice when we got a CV1 for free!!

But as for Apple vision pro, I don't really see the value at this point. And with the limited amount of headsets that will be out there due to the price, it won't be interesting for content creators.

I have to say though I'm mainly in it for the immersion. I don't really care about mixed reality scenarios as much. I've been trying them with the quest 3 but even when keeping the much lower quality in mind I just don't really find them exciting as I do real immersive VR.
And what about competing brands?, he asked.
An entertaining book about trucking. But perhaps much has changed since 2017:

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road by Finn Murphy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236118-the-long-haul
Tape over the lettering, even easier
Is Proton Bridge free now? I remember it being paid.