skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, for sure, Google wants to show the answer on the results page, and for many search queries they're able to achieve this in one way or another -- either through the knowledge graph, the question-answering slop, or in the snippets of text pulled from the search results themselves. They do, at least, show links to sources in these cases, which is better than ChatGPT (or Bard, to the extent that it's used). But I agree that there's not a lot of short-term incentive for Google to cite sources in a prominent way, and there is a lot of incentive for them to develop features that replace the websites that made them valuable in the first place. There's always been an uneasy bargain between Google and webmasters, and there's always been a tension between what's best for the Google user, best for Google, and best for the Web. If there's a similar bargain with OpenAI, I don't see them approaching it with nearly as much respect: source attribution has not been prioritized in any meaningful way.
all of them.

instead of sending your password as johndoe, you send johndoe123456 where 123456 is the code
You may be aware methane biogas has other problems. It is typically very moist and contains corrosive contaminants.

Moisture content can be problematic because the presence of water vapor in biogas can lead to corrosion in pipelines and combustion engines, potentially shortening their lifespan. Moisture in biogas can reduce its calorific value, making it a less efficient than the genuine item.

Another issue is the presence of volatile sulfur compounds in biogas. These compounds, contribute to corrosion and also pose environmental and health risks when released into the atmosphere.

These problems aren't deal breakers by themselves, but the bottom line, is that when analyzing biogas we've got to take into account the extra capital expense associated with these drawbacks.
I’m pretty sure it was here that I read how cray would drive on a family trip and insist the kids stay silent while he drove and designed much the cray in his head on the drive… if anyone has a link would love to re read that story
Look, I am an artist. I was raised by artists. I live with and love many artists who work in many mediums. Some of them dont like AI some of them do.

The world changes. It is possible that the age of doing gig and illustration art online is coming to a close. I doubt it, but it is possible. Either way some people will have to switch professions or mediums. I definitely feel for those artists who will be effected by the rise of image generation more than I feel for knowledge workers who will lose their jobs to LLMs.

None of this makes it theft. You can say it as much as you like but that wont make it so.

There is always the danger with putting anything online that someone will come along and use it for something you disagree with. Many artists dont put any work online or only do so with caveats because of this. This is no different. Its just one of the risks of putting yourself out there.
At 70mph most energy is lost to wind resistance.

EVs are also heavier, which increases rolling resistance on the tires. This lead to the formulation of stiffer tires for EVs to counteract that effect.
So basically Microsoft under Ballmer?
As the article mentions, "-stat", and "-matic" are two other suffixes that were used to convey high-tech in the mid 20th century. Another one was "-rama" (presumably derived from the Cinerama panoramic technology created to attract viewers back to movie theaters in the 1950s when TV was beginning to take away their audiences).
Math Mastery – How good is good enough for a math kid
The exceptional case is the whole reason those vehicles exist. Indeed, I have no idea why 3-ton trucks specifically were called out, as they are incredibly rare outside of heavy commercial operations.
The other half is extreme, once in a century, corporate profits
> A key feature of a platform should be that the developers choose when a deployment happens.

Agreed. When I was on a platform team we wrote tools to take a process that used to be done by a deployment team (change a DNS record was a helpdesk ticket) and move it into a self-serve system (PR your desired DNS changes in, upon merge, the system deploys the changes), which kept audit happy because 'dev' wasn't touching 'prod' in the unfettered way SOC2 people stay up at night worrying about (even though Enron happened because of bad managment not Office Space but anyways), while still giving Devs effective control of when and where they wanted to make production changes, whether relatively ad-hoc or as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

Humans could approve the self-service PRs, or if a list of in-code rules had been fulfilled, the PR would be auto approved (and potentially even merged but everyone but us was too afraid to set that part up).
> There is nothing that says that a corporation can't optimize their culture to only have workers without children/dependents.

Arguably, many already do.

As "main child-raiser" (as opposed to "parent", again a place where this matters) is not equally distributed across the sexes in our society, I would say though that (1.) this does leave you at risk of legal challenges over structural discrimination and (2.) it leaves a bad taste when a corporation one the one hand does this, and on the other hand bemoans how few women in "tech" (or any other sector) they're getting.

Pushing off kids until the late 30s also has a different risk profile if it's your womb those kids might be coming out of.
The counterpoint is that it's impossible for the seed investor to read minds or force a majority-owning founder to take more funding.
Not saying these will solve your problems, but it may help give it a little perspective at least:

https://www.opslevel.com/resources/optimizing-engineering-co...

https://fernandovillalba.substack.com/p/improving-engineerin...
I’ve said this to anyone I speak to about Vision Pro, which is that the current iteration appears to me to be most similar to the gold Apple Watches that were released with the first version. These were mocked in the media but nevertheless made buzz about the Apple Watch and brought about general awareness of the product. The first Apple Watches were overall pretty incomplete products, especially in comparison to modern ones. If the Vision Pro follows the same trajectory, it will likely do reasonably well as future iterations get better community support, first party features, better form factor, and cheaper price point. Besides smart phones, Apple usually isn’t the first to do something, but when they do it, they do it well. I’m excited for roughly the 3rd gen of the Vision Pro, but will be interestedly following news of it.
You don’t really have to rise up the ranks to make 500k. That’s a competitive offer for a senior engineer or where a senior with a mediocre offer will end up with stack refreshers and stock appreciation in a couple of years withouts any promotion. It sounds wild but is true.

Also, many of the roles are just 40hr work weeks. Not that much more stress than a 150k a year job in my experience.

You are right that after a certain point more money doesn’t give you more utility in the present. However, it does buy you time in the future given the capital that you are bound to accumulate and compound.
The sad slow death of Google Search is close to genuinely upsetting.

At one point it felt like Google cared about defeating SEO spam. Now it feels like they actively encourage it.
Somewhat related, there was a Laptop that could quick switch between Windows and Linux by abusing ACPI Sleep Support and rewiring the return vectors for the wake-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5M0TwnkWUM (technical explanation starts at around 48:10)

It's all kinds of "I don't approve of the idea, but I tip my hat to the engineer that came up with it for sheer ingenuity."
Remarkable, yes. Shocking, no. Exponential growth was something experience in the computer industry for decades, and people where quite normalized to it.
The concept of the cicada lifecycle fills me with awe and wonder.

Could you imagine spending a majority of your life below ground. All you know is soil. You are pretty slow and clumsy burrowing around in the below ground world.

Then, you go through this metamorphosis. Not only do you reach an entirely different plane of existence (going from the below ground world to the above ground world) - but you enter that new world with wings free to travel in 3 dimensions at high speeds. You have sun, weather, mammals, cars, birds, buildings, trees... All things you are experiencing for the first time. And you get two weeks to pack it all in during a frantic mating frenzy.

Imagine if this experience happened to you.
And Amazon refused to sell Chromecast for a while. I think most of those moves ought to have invoked regulator wrath.
Ha. My entire career I've named (almost) every program I've ever written something-tron, or more usually, something-o-tron. (Sometimes suffixed with "2000" or "3000" depending on how cool it is.)

I guess this means I really am old now.
I drove 3000 miles in my first Time ever in a Tesla in a week and found the numbers to be incredibly accurate.
Also Shavian was designed around British sounds that makes using for Americans cumbersome
> Using surface street numbers for that is....unhelpful, at best.

Strong disagree here. When doing a trip we always use the nav computer so we always have the real number. (If only so the kids can look at the computer to see the number rather than asking "how much longer" continuously).

OTOH, in town we generally don't, so the top number being accurate for in town driving is very helpful.
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Shame you're being downvoted. The fact that this is getting around 200mi without a trailer attached is abysmal. Imagine the range, or lack thereof, if they had been towing. To be fair, I'd expect other electric trucks to get a range like this as well. It's very clear that at this point first adopters are taking one for the team.
It depends entirely on the cards and what's done when a card is missed. If the cards are straight definitions then probably not the best way to "get good at math". But if the cards (you can do this with plugins) are things like generated problems using specific mathematical techniques (solve a system of linear equations, for instance) and after failing a card you can go back and study the material, then it's effective. You can also throw textbook problems into cards if you don't want to use a generator, but that's a lot more effort than most people are willing to put in. You don't even need to put in the solutions if you're willing to keep the book around. It does mean cards take longer than a few seconds, but it still has the effect of taking advantage of spaced repetition to develop mastery of a technique.
Why is the journal of the Medieval Academy of America called “Speculum”: A device used to “examine hollow openings in your body, like your vagina, anus, ears or nostrils”

EDIT: oh, perhaps the medieval genre of speculum literature:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculum_literature
The manufacturing process seems quite friendly compared to the (albeit, local) ecological nightmare that is Si.

It sure is hard to compete with half a century of Si advancement, though. Especially given how many STEM-brains get attracted to software instead, nowadays…
You're assuming that the planes can be disassembled and put back together, and that the assembly line didn't screw up harder to fix things. They checked the doors and tail wing for loose bolts, and one airline reported loose parts in the tail wing. Some of the bolts and parts are more important than a door plug. What do you with all the load bearing parts that have been flying with a few missing bolts? X-Ray them to check for microscopic stress lines?

Also, what's the failure rate of a plane that's been taken apart and put back together in the field (including things outside of routine maintenance)? I'm guessing it's closer to the end of life reliability than beginning of life reliability.

The way things are trending, at some point the depreciation, repair costs, cancelled flights and increased probability of loss of life will exceed $60M per plane. It's got to be in the millions already. Low tens of millions wouldn't surprise me.
The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09888
I would say I use it to augment what already exists.

I don't really want my workspace divided into equal parts, I have my primary monitor which is my largest monitor in the middle. A slightly smaller (and lower resolution) monitor to the left for research, teams, etc. And then I have a vertical monitor to the right for things that I need the extra space for.

I have more flexibility to setup my workspace exactly how I want, sure I can't change it later but I don't need too. It does what I need it to do since I set it up that way.

I tried driving an ultra wide screen monitor at one point and it was probably my biggest regret of a purchase, and I have made some stupid purchases. It sells you on a more flexible ideal that just isn't the reality.

If I want to switch context on one of my screens while keeping my main screen where it is (which I do most of the time) I just move my mouse over and swipe to another space. No fussing with widows being over each other or making sure that the OS somehow knows that I only want to move part of my screen.
> In Canada, a criminal record is not a record of conviction, it’s a record of charges and that’s why I can’t work now,” Barker said. “Potential employers never find out what the nature of it is, they just find out that I have a criminal arrest record.”

Funny, I usually associate Canada with good policymaking but this is substantially worse than the US.
Documenting/blogging about organizational dysfunction externally probably won't go over very well with one's management chain. I imagine the giant bags of cash and stock options are a strong incentive to not bite the hand that's feeding you.

People tend to think big tech companies are somehow immune from human behaviors but I would counter that any organization beyond a certain size is going to have a fair amount of dysfunction (bureaucracy, politics, sociopaths, etc.) it doesn't matter what industry the company is in.

FAANG are likely to operate similarly to IBM, GE, ATT, and any other large mega-corp except they have hip furniture and cafe's.
Seems the last telemetry was flipped. My bet is that the last final burn before contact with the surface caused it to flip. It also looked like it carried too much velocity as the very end, again I think that's because it was doing the last hard burn in a direction not toward the surface.

Given how many failures there have been in the final process of contacting with the moon, I would be tempted to just embrace the velocity. One idea would be to use an anchor shot into the lunar surface.
Surely this is a mistake, as no one is road tripping in a 3-ton truck. That is pretty much a box van or dump truck. The vast, vast majority of trucks are light duty 1/2 ton or smaller.
Future Medicine: Molecular Pathways to Body's Collective Intelligence (2023)
This is really cool!

One thing I'm wondering is how the SNES implemented its Multitap support[1] with such a simple "wire protocol". Could it be that the two missing wires and/or 4 unused slots in the polling cycle are used for some kind of adressing scheme when a multitap is plugged in?

https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Multitap
Probably the 'optimal' path to a pilot's job would be to fly bulk for the military (boring things like the C130), not the fighters, and transition to a freight airline.

The UPS planes out of Ontario, CA would climb a hell of a lot faster than the passenger jets out of LAX.
Well, that would depend on whether the code leading up to the BSOD scrambled the memory of how your disks are laid out or not.

It would be ironic if trying to save the files you were currently working on overwrote your partition table or filesystem superblock(s) so you were no longer able to access any of your files any more.
Taiwan's Democracy Draws Envy and Tears for Visiting Chinese
That would be consistent with it rolling down the slope.
Frankly, this is yet another article justifying why you must never speak to the police.
> equal to all other people in the precinct

Sure. I was trying to contrast those who live within the precinct to those who live outside it.

And any influence is bounded by the amount of variation that's acceptable between precincts.
From the article it sounds like it's "potentially" economical, ready for large scale testing.

It's also a complex process - they're talking about a closed loop system with a supercritical carbon dioxide carrier stream and direct injection of liquid ox. Lots of pumps and heat exchangers - lots of maintenance. Unclear if they're taking into account all of that in their economic calculations, if they're being a little vague in order to pursue funding.

EDIT: I am pro-technology, and not questioning their process. The article does appear to me to be an advertisement.
This technology has been around for over two decades at least [1], and the reluctance of the Department of Energy and the investor-owned-utility sector to adopt it is really only due to the political pressure applied by the natural-gas sector, as the resulting fall in demand for natural gas would have made fracking for gas uneconomical. Note that both political parties in the USA got behind this fossil fuel agenda, it's entirely bipartisan in nature (the fracking boom took place under Obama, and was continued under Trump, and was boosted by the Ukraine war and sanctions on Russia, which resulted in increased LNG exports to Europe).

[1] "Methanol synthesis from flue-gas CO2 and renewable electricity: a feasibility study" (2003) (available in full on sci-hub)

> "This paper describes a novel but proven process (CO2+3H2→CH3OH+H2O) which could be adapted to use, as input reagents, CO2 emitted from fossil-fuelled power stations and hydrogen from electrolysis of water by a zero-emissions electricity source, e.g. renewable and/or nuclear energy. This approach, in addition to addressing the above two issues, would produce methanol for which there is a ready and expanding market."

One generally solid conclusion is that the countries that have to import fossil fuels are going to be the ones leading in transitioning off fossil fuels, and as expected, China is ahead in this technological sector as well:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/30/1060508/china-be...
I look at yesterday's notes once per day. Sometimes I'll look for a specific note if I think it has important details that I have forgotten.

I have a to-do list in the MacOS notes app. When I'm working on a list item I might write down what I did. The next day, I copy all of the remaining to-do items and repeat.
> "Don't be evil" was really just a diversion --- a seductive marketing ploy that soon vanished

I don't buy this. I believe that "Don't be evil" was a genuine desire, but it characterized a contrarian position designed to stand in opposition to traditional corporate culture.

The correct lesson, IMO, is that you cannot ever grow to be a corporation remotely the size that google is and fight that traditional corporate culture successfully. Larry & Sergey were just incredibly naive about this, that's all.

If you want to "not be evil", you must be prepared to remain small, and probably niche. That doesn't mean you're unimportant, but you're definitely not Google as we know it today.
Hmm

https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2023/11/11/kants-theory-of-th...

The essay is (roughly 850 words) and I can forgive the not-insignificant pre-amble, but the notes take this up to 2600 words.

Is this really a thousand word essay when it is propped up with so many explanatory notes.
Show HN: Voxos.ai – An Open-Source Desktop Voice Assistant
Voxos is an open-source desktop voice assistant that aims to put Clippy to shame while supporting new desktop workflows powered by LLMs.

Tired of copy and pasting ChatGPT responses between your web browser and IDE?

Does your copilot not quite do what you need it to do?

I invite you to give Voxos a try and maybe even become a contributor!
Assuming that some races aren't inherently more criminal than others, disproportionate differences in crime rates would still indicate systemic problems.
The more rural you get, the more likely it is that the fire trucks have been purchased secondhand from urban fire departments that can afford to buy new equipment prior to the existing equipment literally falling apart (I've got an extended family member that runs the fire service for an entire county in a western US state, and often see him when he stops at my house while driving new-to-them equipment from the east coast).

You've also got a lot of volunteer departments where each firefighter keeps their equipment in their own personal vehicle.

Why firetrucks in the US are so large is a good question. In the spirit of Chesterton's Fence, I'd assume that there is a good reason until proven otherwise.
I wish they would have proper Linux and fwupd support, which they seem to have dropped.
The fishing project was not mine. It’s an example of one where the results were not expected and the organisation involved shelved the findings, which might be illegal under this new European directive.

Factory trawlers don’t fish inshore reefs where artisanal fishermen tend to be active. You’re conflating two different activities in two different marine resources.
> And some people still think it's a waste of money.

Some of those people are right here. The number of times I've seen the 'whitey on the moon' nonsense is quite large.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

And probably most of those people don't realize they wouldn't be posting anything at all if not for 'whitey on the moon', the Apollo program era started with sliderules in 1962 and ended in 1972 with functional microcomputers (8008, 1972, shortly followed by the 6502, 1975) and a very short while later we had programmable pocket calculators (Ti59, 1977). The whole semi conductor industry was jumpstarted in those years.

When I first started out with electronics transistors were an absolute rarity and tubes were normal, in the space of a decade that changed completely.
"line up and wait" is no less declarative than "position and hold", and has the advantage of not being confused with "hold short". Who is confusing "line up and wait" with "cleared for takeoff", and are they really any less likely to have been confused with "position and hold"?
I bet you could build something like this with a Seeeduino Xiao (or Adafruit QTPY) to get a smaller footprint inside the case and not need to modify the plastic.
How do you think YouTube failed? If you tried to get someone to name a search engine that's not Google, they could maybe think of Bing or DuckDuckGo or something. If you tried to get someone to name a email service that's not Gmail, they could maybe say Outlook or Yahoo if they're older. But try to get someone to name a user-generated video platform that's not YouTube? YouTube has comparable revenue to Netflix. And Netflix has direct competitors -- such as Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ to name a few that are pretty big on their own right.
There was a time when it felt like HTC made every smartphone. Of course, that was very early in the history of smartphones, and mostly because HTC phones were often not branded as such, so they were almost like the mystery manufacturer behind everything.

Would very much like even a fraction of these Google eulogies to have a retrospective on the fall of HTC.
That article gave an example of a "typical European floorplan". It did have multiple stairs they were just not normally accessible from all apartments. If you had some emergency-only provision to enter your neighbor's apartment and then bust their wall to access the apartment behind it, more than one egress would be possible. Some emergency doors where an alarm would sound perhaps? I come up with all kinds of problems with this, but that was my thoughts looking at that floorplan.