skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Cloud, as long as you don't mind solving the same problem multiple times every few years when things you depend on go obsolete, indeed it is a nice experience. A lot of people do mind. I won't belabor the point; Steve Yegge said it better[0]. I think some progress has been made on this front, particularly with bigger customers; but even if Google promised decades of backward compatibility tomorrow, Google's reputation would remain its own worst enemy.

Search deterioration has a much longer history than ChatGPT, but nice try. Search is an arms race against a functionally infinite tidal wave of spam, much of which is overwhelming websites beyond Google's control that historically populated Google's top search results. Epistemology is hard, the threshold for financially profitable spam is low, and the cost of sophisticated spam is getting exponentially smaller. And the long-term market solution might be someone like OpenAI thoroughly leap-frogging Google's capabilities. This is a bigger risk than you're making it out to be.

As far as privacy... Google makes an attempt to follow applicable laws, and in many cases succeeds, but it still ends up constantly trolled by regulators for money or clout. Even setting aside fines-as-taxes and legislative opprobrium, I still don't think "our panopticon strips you of way less dignity than our competitor's" is something to brag about. If you believe the nature and incentive structure of the panopticon is diabolical, businesses that function as panopticons are fundamentally untrustworthy. It doesn't stop me from using Google products and services, but in a "least bad" sense - I'm happy to switch search, email, phone OS, whatever, provided someone can make a more compelling product. I think a lot of people feel similarly.

I could argue that Google's open source contributions are largely market suppression tactics to keep the web innovating in a direction that protect's Google's core revenue. This isn't comprehensively a bad thing, as technologies like Chromium and Android are useful. But "our OSS suppresses markets more effectively than our competitors" isn't something to brag about, and combined with those regulatory trolls above, I see this as a big risk factor.

All else aside, Google (and for that matter, most of Big Tech) fundamentally relies on massive volumes of hardware manufactured in Taiwan. This isn't even a black swan, it's a sword of Damocles over the entire industry.

[0] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
Right, but if it is not acyclic, in which order should I try to understand them all?
"Well-maintained and honest" is not the same as "secure". But as with anything in security, it all turns on your threat model: how sophisticated are your potential attackers, and how valuable are the assets you are trying to protect? If the answer to both is "not very" then Ironclad is probably plenty good enough. Besides, even if you do succumb to an attack, the most likely vector will not be your crypto library but some mistake you made in how you embedded it in your application.
Dropcap Generation with AI for Webpages
Requiring consent doesn't make a difference when it's about employment. If you don't give consent, you don't get the job.
It feels so strange that lobster are cheap in the US. There is this place at the Alpine Rd. in Portala Valley with the name "Lobster shack" that sells fast food lobsters.

I mean, it was nice, but felt like a waste on the lobsters ...
For better or for worse, I think of one thing when I think of Basecamp/37signals/Hey. From <https://basecamp.com/handbook/code-of-conduct#politics-at-wo...>:

>We respect everyone’s right to participate in political expression and activism, but we avoid having political debates on our internal communication systems. 37signals as a company also does not weigh in on politics publicly, outside of topics directly related to our business. You should be at peace with both of these stances.

From April of 2021:

Changes at Basecamp - <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944192> (883pts, 814 comments)

Behind the Controversy at Basecamp - <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963975> (65pts, 47 comments)

What Really Happened at Basecamp - <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963708>(193pts, 38 comments)

“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today” - <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998127> (1366pts, 2020 comments)
FWIW the top reason I'd buy a truck is so I could take it camping, but here in Colorado though it's exactly as you say. Trucks are giant, gas-guzzling status symbols that people use to get to and from work. Most aren't used to haul anything (not even an additional passenger), but that set of testicles dangling from the chrome hitch sure looks cool.
As someone from Myanmar, this piques my interest
There are a lot of interesting comments here, but I think the one that is getting overlooked is the batteries on these.

Tesla announced their own battery production back in September of 2020. Now, well over 3 years later, their 4680 production is still struggling to scale and their energy density is barely competitive with the 2170 cells they were using before.

On top of that, the charging performance is significantly worse. All of this is clearly impacting their ability to deliver CT at the competitive level that they intended.

4680 is their biggest business failure in the past 10 years.
Just go to the bottom of the integration listing on Home Assistant's website and skip anything with a category that involves cloud. When companies are providing things for free that has an ongoing cost, something is going to break eventually.
RIP to Michael Sugrue who just passed away this week. He helped me understand philosophy and he narrates the beginning of this video.
FWIW, as someone who logged between 175 and 200 hours of usage with a Quest 2 playing Beat Saber (a high-movement game) last year, I’ve not experienced any issues.
absolutely, i'm very familiar with that stress. but committing to a donation only business model for a product you're giving away for free is playing the startup game on ludicrous mode.
> It’s a thinly veiled excuse for self centered sociopathy

Can you expand on or support this claim? This was not my takeaway at all.
Ok, but this has to be a pretty small minority, right? What percentage (or absolute numbers) of people do you think eat lobster daily, or even weekly?
The market for an EV truck is quite niche and appears to be already saturated. EV truck adoption will take longer simply due to the use cases for a pickup truck (e.g. towing, payload) and the limitations of current battery tech
I love the Spectator for its writing (I've been a subscriber for over 30 years), but I would never believe any news reporting that might creep in. It's like a 200 year old blog for conservatives (which I am not) who write about whatever they feel like.

For example: Boris Johnson is a meretricious nitwit but the magazine while he was editor was probably at its best since I've been reading it. You can imagine reading it would be a lot of fun but would you actually believe anything you read?
I'm sorry for whatever caused you to feel the need to respond this rudely to the discussion, but I was talking about myself in my comment, not you.
I don't know why, but that lander and its two robots seem adorable to me.
Given that this is the internet and I don't know you, how can I distinguish a sane person making well founded claims backed by hidden evidence they won't share with me, and a crazy person just being paranoid and seeing conspiracy where there is none?

Usually the evidence is what makes the difference, but if you can't/won't share the evidence then what good are the accusations?
Ask HN: What are the hurdles to developing and selling an electronic product?
I'm considering developing an electronics product. I would be designing and manufacturing custom PCBs that are fairly simple. Things like wifi would be handled by existing modules.

For sake of simplicity, let's pretend I'm going to develop a custom PCB with a few buttons and a display and maybe wifi with an ESP8266 and put it in a custom enclosure.

I know there are things like UL certification and such. Do I have to deal with any of that? Can I just develop this product at home and start selling it?

I'm in the US.
Surf the web like it's 1999
Lobsters in the gulf of Maine are fed A LOT of herring as bait. Like 70,000 tons a year. Hard to say what the overall result of this is. More lobsters? Less Herring?

Some lobstermen joke that they feel more like ranchers then fishermen.

https://www.wellsreserve.org/writable/files/Goldstein-Shield...
The critique is that you don't naturally know right from wrong and there are plenty of cases of men truly convinced they are virtuous doing horrific things. So you can see why it's helpful for a roman emperor but probably not the best thing for modern society.
Data Science for Everyone (NYU)
I think they mean it's not a staple food for the population as a whole.
John Dvorak is golden claim-chowder. So influential yet so wrong.
AFAIK they are just rebranded "Clevo Computer" systems. On the downside if you order from Clevo you will be asked for upfront payment and then you have to go to court to get your money back :D ... so ordering from system76 gives you at least some assurance that you won't get stiffed.
>Diaper prices have increased by more than 30% since 2019

One of the greater correlations on maternal happiness is whether she has access to supportive childcare (whether self or govt funded). A single mother, literally "doing it on her own" without any outside help is perhaps more likely to be most-miserable.

It would make sense to me that if our Oligarchies want to increase population replacement (fertility) rates, perhaps they ought'a consider excess profit-seeking outside of child-rearing products; an increase to publicly-funded daycares would definitely help.

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When you really analyze at how many/most of the richest people in the world got so rich, they tended to extract (i.e. more parasitic) much of the value rather than create (i.e. more symbiotic) it. They have also often done so at the direct expense of others simply so they could have more... when they already had much more than they could ever use. Our economic system allows for this, but to praise these folks for much of what they did leaves a bad taste.
That more just and equitable world is mainly an illusion created by cheap fossil fuels. Soon enough it will collapse, and there's not much ordinary people can do about it. Stoicism can at least help with accepting the inevitable.
B4X
Home Sales Were the Lowest in Almost 30 Years in 2023
"Tolerate" is a funny word, as though consumers actually have a choice about what price they pay and/or can forego buying groceries until prices fall, if ever. I can't simply choose not to eat for an undetermined period of time. Consumers do broadly seem to be upset, but they don't realistically have power to change anything.
The trick is to get a ZigBee device instead of a WiFi one. It's an inherently local-only protocol and you can make your computer a Hub with a $30 stick.
“Larry and Sergey were smart guys who recognized they didn’t know shit about corporateness and quickly got into a pattern of hiring and empowering psychotic pricks who were presumably “good at business”.”

That sounds pretty negative about people who were “good at business”.

How is that different from engineers who join because they wanted to be cool?
A takeway just needs to be memorable. Actionable is nice, but not a requirement. "We can't do anything useful in this situation" can be a valid takeaway, as can "we do not know enough at this point."

In this situation, my takeaway is that we do not know enough, and that's what I understood the parent's post to be saying.

Removing the surplus crabs might help, it might set off another chain of poorly understood events.
> Lobster isn't exactly a staple food anyways.

It used to be prison food.
And then claimed his GitHub was "hacked" to save his ass. And was somehow not banned by GitHub despite clearly violating their TOS.
It's really confusing (and unnecessary) to keep switching between two kinds of percentages: compression ratio and size reduction. At least one of the illustrations seems to be labelled size reduction, but is showing compression ratios.

Maybe they mean 'reduced size %' == 'compression ratio' when they say size reduction, in which case why use both terms?
The question is can this be as effectively processed and miniaturized as silicon. Still as someone pointed out they've already produced a transistor based on it and the claim is the same processes used for silicon can be used here so I sure hope it works out.
Humans always assume intelligence requires a brain. I think sugar cane are quite intelligent on the other hand. They have came up with a means to coopt another species for breeding: us humans, who have in turn created this cult of the sugar cane where it is now the most cultivated crop on the planet for probably the forseeable future. What an amazingly efficient way to proliferate your lineage. You don’t need to evolve these costly and highly derived structures like brains or articulated thumbs yourself, let the dumb human break their back harvesting you and spreading your lineage around the world.
i'm not sure, but I bet you could get an answer to a more specific hardware question like this over at /r/locallama
If you actually dig a little deeper than my comment you will find that:

1) Mostly done by dictators and not it's not people's will

2) ISIS

3) In the case of Ancient Egypt, people thought that those things were living gods and Pharaohs inside, and destroying it would kill them.

So yes, I don't trust ISIS and CPP to preserve history.
I also think that a fundamental issue with using carbon for compute is that we don't actually have a lot of it, and what we do have we largely need for all that organic chemistry that keeps us alive.

For reference, carbon makes up about 0.18% of the earth's mass, whereas silicon makes up 27.7%. The moon basically has zero carbon, and the regolith is 20% silicon.
> Businesses like SpaceX and Blue Origin are really prestige/passion projects, not normal capitalist enterprises which are all just about making a buck.

Maybe that's true of Blue Origin, but you're going to need a lot more evidence to back up that claim in regards to SpaceX.

The best estimate is that they make a >50% gross margin on Falcon 9 launches (at least for external customers). And while they spend a lot on Starlink launches, they're also making quite a lot of Starlink revenue at this point.

It's certainly true that they're dumping a lot of R&D money into Starship. But that strategy is how they earned their current medium/heavy lift launch market dominance, so I can't really fault them for that. And if Starship does work out, it could set them up for a functional monopoly on launch for decades. Not to mention dramatically decreasing their internal Starlink costs.
For those unfamiliar with 12.9-Inch iPad Pro weight units: That's almost 13 Tennis Balls. (Yep, the iPad Pro weighs about 1 Tennis Ball per inch)
Right, it must be acyclic. Which means it can be presented as a tree with some duplicate nodes. The important thing is the student must understand in which order they can try to understand the topics.
Unrelated, but TIL Drew DeVault is one of the SourceHut maintainers. His blog[0] is strongly opinionated and always an informative read.

[0] https://drewdevault.com/
There are plenty of old Linux distributions that run on old hardware. The only reasons to run a modern distro are new features and security fixes.
You're not making any sense to me. How did you get from "not famous" to "must not being a great programmer"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkcJEvMcnEg
You can't blame this on the other victim. The problem is that the RCMP has no clue what they're doing, and that Amazon is enabling this fraud.
I'll bite. I am willing to bet the majority of people down voting you are more than capable of hosting an email server. But like me, see it as not worth the potential risks involved.

Before even considering why someone might not choose to do so, I would like to point out that selfhosting email is not even that hard to do nowadays. I spent a couple hours a few years back manually setting up a stack on a dummy domain just to see if its as hard as developer circles make it out to be. It was not. Furthermore a quick search today nets half a dozen docker containers you can spin up that claim to be one stop solutions for email. If even a fraction of them succeed in what they claim you could self host email with one command and an env file. You could even use the dockerfiles as a template to run the software on metal, its all there.

Even with this newfound knowledge, and as someone who tries to selfhost equivalents to any service I find myself using regularly, I would never attempt to host my own main emails. My bank accounts are linked to my emails, my investment accounts, my insurance, my loans, things that I am not willing to risk compromising my ability to access as the result of some sort of overly prideful sentiment.

Just because someone has the ability and knowledge to host their own email does not mean they should or would even consider it.
Pagination is preserved in PDFs, even if the page numbering is complicated.

> when you reflow page to fit the narrow screen, you can simply make the same page longer instead of splitying, then you can have your same single writer page number.

You could do that, but IME, formats/apps besides PDF don't preserve pagination. Consistency across platforms, applications, etc. is hard.
As a hiring manager, I can confidently say that we are nowhere close to saturated with talented software engineers.
I read it last year and it is fantastic - super absolutely ultra highly recommend that everybody read it. Run, don't walk, towards this book!
As a tinnitus sufferer for over 35 years, I will settle for the nice gentle sound of my desk fan at night should i require it.
Have there already been cases where a project switched part of their codebase to protest something(whatever it may be) and it resulted in lower quality/security issues, or is that something we'll see in the future?

Seems like an interesting attack vector. LibFoo was made by BadGroup, use LibBar instead, it's GoodGroup approved!

Meanwhile LibBar has security flaws, known or unknown, intentional or unintentional, which quickly get absorbed into other projects in a political frenzy to expel LibFoo at all costs (and said actions also are incentivized given that they drive publicity, engagement, etc).

I would have thought this completely nuts, prior to the whole node-ipc malware debacle. I would expect state actors to make the most of this expanded Overton window.
Yeah I think this is why pilots are getting older. It's so expensive that they are doing it after the kids are out of college etc
I would hope that people who treat lobster as a staple food might appreciate what happens when the stocks collapse.
The note about moonlighting is thoughtful and well written. https://basecamp.com/handbook/moonlighting

Main takeaway is don't do anything outside of work that will significantly impact work performance, but the way it is written is well balanced and supportive of employee growth.
My dental hygienist let slip that her sonic pick tool was branded "Cavitron" the other day. Got a good laugh out of that.
Actually I meant Western marxists

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism

> Less concerned with economic analysis than earlier schools of Marxist thought, Western Marxism placed greater emphasis on the study of the cultural trends of capitalist society, deploying the more philosophical and subjective aspects of Marxism, and incorporating non-Marxist approaches to investigating culture and historical development

I thought Western marxist would be obscure to hn readers and that in the context what I meant by cultural Marxism would be clear, but I guess not.

I'm dismissive of the alt-right usage of cultural Marxism to the point of forgetting how much other people care about it
Isn't graphene just carbon?
> This System76 Thelio Major review sample was configured with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-core processor, 4 x 32GB DDR5 Micron MTC20F1045S1RC48BA2 DIMMs, 1TB Crucial T700 CT1000T700SSD5 NVMe SSD, and AMD Radeon PRO W7900 graphics.

Graphic card is like $4000. Board for threadripper could easily be $1000.
Do you have more information on the results obtained? any information on how to enable NUMA-aware code ?

The r6i.metal instance says up to 50 Gbps on Network bandwidth: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/r6i/
Considering that Meta is probably selling the Quest 2 and 3 at cost (or even subsidizing it) I'm pretty sure it's intentional as a cost-cutting measure that has an easy and somewhat inexpensive aftermarket fix.

But yeah, as someone who waited +1 year to get a third-party strap, don't do that. It's worth the 30$.
Surely you see that Amiga OS is not a popular operating system, even if the creator used it daily.
Most of the price controls post-WWII were holdovers from the great depression - if anything, the post WWII boom was stimulated by the end of New Deal Price schemes.

It's also important to note that a lot of the price controls of this era were minimum prices. You couldn't make or sell steel below a certain price, etc.
There probably is one out there somewhere. But there are many that ferment to ethanol and those are looked after and can probably out compete the methanol in most situations.

Honestly if you're just trying to store energy going to ethanol is fine too. It'll burn just fine provided you've dehydrated it enough.
>JAXA is the Japanese national air and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003.
I hope that joke was on purpose :)
We will carry this beautiful artifact forward with us until all its lessons have been learned.

There was composability and fine control in these systems that is still not present in modern systems. That's not needed for everyday consumers, but boy is it lovely when you're a programmer.
Axiom, like the space ship in Wall-e? Heck, why not I guess...

Considering the crew, and who actually pays for the launch, I guess commercial or sub-contracted are bettwr terms to discribe the mission. Private space mission aoinda way to much like rich dudes space tourism. Military astronauts and a selected scientist using a non-government launch and space craft, commanded by a proper, and experienced, mission commander is a different sport all together.
Ever tried reading small text in VR?

Imagine text that's already somewhat low-res and then been scaled and rotated a bit. Soft, blurry. The vertical and horizontal of the pixel grid are no longer vertical or horizontal if you've got the slightest bit of head tilt.

Nobody's going to be replacing monitors with headsets any time soon. It might be OK to watch video or for some light gaming on a virtual screen, but it's not going to be comfortable for editing code or other text-heavy work.
I can no longer transfer money to my business bank account: Novo, as sometime recently they also require plaid. I've been unable to get plaid working; will probably have to close the account.

I feel like a sucker for even entering my bank username in password in the Plaid login, but that didn't work.
A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. The principles / approaches (e.g. problem disaggregation) apply to other engineering disciplines.