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Ask HN: Why is Techmeme so successful?
Looking at Techmeme, it looks like a simple product. Very well done, yes. It looks like they spend a lot of time curating the news, no doubt assisted by software. But still, a simple product with low barrier of entry.

Why then is there close to zero competition? I don't see any site coming even close to their product.

I have a sense that I am missing something. Is this business harder than it looks?
I agree! My point being that if taste is subjective, defining something taste-related as "wrong" (washing the moka, putting pineapple on pizza, etc.) is also silly.

Do as you please, eat whatever you will, if it diverges from tradition or received knowledge and you're happy about it go ahead and enjoy!
In what way? The website says there is C# support. What facet are you describing needs it?

Curious, because would also like to use C#, and website says it does, you say it doesn't. I'm wondering what is up.
It would be even more trivial to just have cameras and a human who can quickly scroll through the different cams to check the gauges.

The question is how much you trust this vision system, not whether or not you still need a guy to do rounds.
I did, and the writer has a clear and obvious bias against DEI. I personally am not in favor of much DEI stuff too, but I have worked at enough large bureaucracy type businesses that are all about it and it is 90% meaningless HR busy work. I don’t think they are “optimizing” for DEI, they are optimizing for maximum profits and that is the problem. DEI is something they are saying they are doing to appease cultural trends. They are clearly not optimizing for merit, even from before all this DEI stuff started. They are optimizing for extracting as much money as they can and that means cutting costs wherever they think will yield a higher profit margin. DEI shit is just a distraction, to appease those on the cultural lip-service left, and to inflame those on the right.
Which editor have you run into that doesn't? Even nano supports configuring it with both nanorc or a command line flag.
I recommend you use smaller fonts as well.
I would argue that fat arrow functions really are nothing more than synctactic sugar. I don't know of any place where (x,y) => {} couldn't be replaced by function(x,y){}. I prefer arrow functions myself, but it's a very minor additions.

Fixing _this_ is a good point, though.
> Kener is a Open-Source

Should this be “an” in the page header?
Since our ape brains evolved millions of year ago, we've always been fascinated with big, tall things.

Stone henge, pyramids, etc

It's not rational, but it is pretty fucking cool
Wait, you mean I can use Arxiv as a blog instead of Drupal or Medium? Hold me beer!
Manifesto for Knowledge-Centric Software Development
Terrible drivers also provoke anger from me, for what it is worth.

While I don't take out mt anger on random bikers, I agree that 'sharing' is a common origin. Many roads are simply not practical or safe to share with bikes.
I agree, I think a language like dhall (https://dhall-lang.org/) strikes a good balance.
Nope, strictly by objective evidence we are alone as you know.

Our “dimension” the one unique to our perception and interpretation on Earth is dominated by biology.

I don’t see an artificial system being able to sustain a supply chain long enough to defeat that. The supply chain of biology is inherit.
What makes you confident our evolution didn’t occur the same way? The “fossil records” of the two are similar in many ways: lots of baby steps, giant leap with no known intermediary states, lots of baby steps, …
Thank you! I have to say, I find the gender-neutral toy layout here in CA stores very annoying when I go shopping for children's toys. It's bizarre to me that the state has mandated it, and I was really disappointed when Newsom glossed over this question in his interview with Maher last week.
So if I'm checking local server log files to debug a problem that started a few days ago, I can't easily tell where the incoming connections are coming from?
> The findings broadly challenge the optimistic cost-of-ownership assessments frequently touted by EV enthusiasts. The researchers found that while small and low-range EVs capable of traveling around 200 miles are indeed less expensive to own than their gas-powered counterparts, larger, long-range EVs that can cover 400 miles are more expensive. Midsize SUV EVs — currently the top-selling models by far — only reach cost parity if government incentives are applied.
Calouste Gulbenkian "Mr Five per Cent"
Author of the post here.

It's always been relatively shocking to me that this is still relevant 4 years after I wrote it. Helm is as Ubiquitous as ever, despite attempts to replace it with Jsonnet, Cue and programming languages.

I've personally moved on from Jsonnet and would recommend Pulumi to anyone experiencing this problem.
Never heard of it, but it seems to give a good digest of the format. Unfortunately, it seems aimed at non-academic crackpots. It doesn't even award points for vacuous mentioning Schrödinger or Kant.
Article says it's comprised of "supply chain and logistics management, engineering, maintenance and modifications, upgrades and conversions, spare parts, pilot and maintenance training systems and services, data analytics, and digital services."

I don't fully understand the breakdown, looks like they're doing some finance BS to push costs into the commercial and military segments (which report losses) and list global services as pure profit for some MBA reason. How else does the segment grow 180% year-over-year?
This is the insanity I don't understand.

Developing for desktop systems is essentially free.

Developing for iOS devices is $99 a year (plus store commission) for literally anyone.

Developing for consoles? Oh, you have to be a business entity, you have to pass approval process, you have to buy a dev kit, you have to... And then also pay a commission.
It's not incredibly stupid, because making it backwards compatible is impossible. How could IPv4 devices ever use IPv6 addresses? They simply don't have enough space to store the bits in the address.
yes I realised after posting it that the headline was not quite as descriptive as it should be.
Trousers for men, dresses for women.
"This article is biased, here is my biased personal anecdote."
My point is indeed that it is not meaningful to speak of the INI culture as something directly comparable to a standardised format.

> One may write a single value containing a CSV, another may use a convention of namespaced keys, whatever. One may base64, one may urlencode, whatever.

> The differences don't change the fact that they will all have the same things in common.

I think this is the first time I've seen this sort of neo-romantic argument, where the representation of information is claimed to be irrelevant because, for some unspecified reason, we all known in our hearts what is being said.

Is this a mystical theory you've built on extensively, or something that came to you from the aether just now?
I’ve never heard of those. Do you have a link explaining them?
It is somewhat similar, but substantially different - we can make a solid argument that the likelihood of getting invaded by hostile aliens in the nearest century is far lower than 1%, and also if such an invasion does happen, then building a giant space laser won't make any difference at all.

The key difference between powerful alien invaders and us creating a powerful alien entity that we can't control is that the former either will or won't happen due to external circumstances, but the latter is something we would be doing to ourselves and can avoid if we choose to.
Belize: On the Way to Somewhere
I'm talking about the LAN address. The globally routable address changes every time I reboot my router, so I don't use that for LAN. But my LAN IPv6 address isn't better. I don't know if it is stable, and it is too long. For example, my current link local address is [fe80::7713:e154:21d8:464]. Who's gonna remember or type that?
This is awesome. A lot of good comes from colocating office work into a central building so the outlying areas can be used for "life affirming" purposes.

Housing, parks, churches, restaurants, entertainment etc.

We should want more "lone wolf" office buildings like this in every city.
Costco was selling a decent quality one for not too much
That's right. This sort of thing is more likely to indicate a discrepancy between the emulator and the real hardware, than actual game behaviour, so emulator developers choose to treat it like a crash. Some emulators have "continue anyway" buttons and some don't.
This is how config actually works in Scala.
> (for now at least)

Yeah, a lot of people get hung up on the term AI as it exists today, and protesting that it doesn't deserve such consideration. I should have been more explicit that I was speaking in the much more general sense, and on an evolutionary timescale, not about technology we'd recognize today.
Im a game developer looking to get into ml/dl. Biggest thing for me is finding a problem with real value that’s not too difficult that I can work on to learn. I believe I found one, curious if you’d offer any thoughts on it.

Right now there are two systems for capturing motion capture data for animations in games/movies, inertial and optical. Inertial is easier and more affordable but comes with more errors/inaccuracies in the capture that requires manual correction. Optical is more accurate and requires less cleanup but has an expensive hardware and space requirement.

My thought is to have someone wear an inertial mocap suit and record both inertial and optical session at the same time and then use ml to learn how to automatically fix the mocap data. Then you could theoretically get the precision of optical capture from inertial recordings after passing it through the ml.

Curious if you think something like this is tractable for a first project? If you have any suggestions for how you’d solve this or if there are any existing projects you could point me I appreciate any help!
because if you mess up, and most people doing a 1040EZ could, easily mess up, there can be consequences
I am always surprised how far pop "science" articles are willing to stretch the medieval period. 19th century, really?

The medieval period normally ends at around 1500. There is like one 13th century source in the article, the rest hat NOTHING to do with the medieval period at all.

Not to mention these beds seem to have been mostly popular in Britain and maybe some parts of continental Europe and are absolutely not typical for how medieval people slept in most of Europe.

Also the whole lacking space and multiple people sleeping together in one bed for lack of it thing: yes Victorian era maybe, in the Middle Ages with low population density, surely not typical.

This is absolutely bogus science and BBC should be ashamed writing such crap.
I love the idea but can't deal with how much they wiggle. They all seem to only have 2 legs, which results in them being very wobbly, particularly at standing height.

Interested to hear if anyone knows of any actually stable sit-stand desks..
It does matter who it comes from because what someone doesn’t say is as useful as what they do say. If his critique of Boeing was more than just “DEI bad” I would be more inclined to take him seriously, but the dude clearly has an agenda and those with agendas tend to omit more information than they communicate
Yes, even then. It's a burden-and-benefit situation. The benefit is to the plumber, so the plumber should not trust the other party to take on the burden.

(Or, put more simply, "who cares the most about it"?)
In general, about how much does it cost to fully charge a Tesla compared to filling it up with gas in a given area?
This reminds me. There was a paper published a couple of years ago and posted here on HN that actually calculated the probability of life aminoacid-based life emerging. Based on the complexity of the chain needed to start replicating.
The conclusion was that it was vanishingly small in the observable universe but only close to 0 in the full universe.

I've since tried to find it without luck. Does anybody here know where I can read it or remember the article I'm talking about?
I can imagine that some would be incredibly lazy and some efficient. Question is which group would be bigger.
Highly dependent on the person. I had one at my old job and stood once for four hours, hated it, and never stood again.

My coworker had one that was always raised and didn’t even have a chair.
I do, and it's very very rough around the edges to be honest. Lots of things broken, things are even breaking between releases suddenly in unexpected places. Or at least, I'm used to working with more robust data stores.
If my work was more high stakes, I'd have already advocated for moving our vector search to something more robust. Thankfully it's not and I can just maintain what we're making with not too much stress, and enjoy seeing this OS project grow from a user perspective (haven't seen a data store go through this very initial phase in my career yet).

Support from the team is great however, and congrats to them for this round!
From a 2004 profile:

> "When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it's run like a business rather than a great engineering firm," he said. "It is a great engineering firm, but people invest in a company because they want to make money."

* https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-0402290256feb29-story.htm...

The Boeing headquarters was moved from Seattle to Chicago around 2001:

* https://hbr.org/2001/10/inside-boeings-big-move

> In a 2019 article, Jerry Useem criticized Boeing's move to Chicago, suggesting that by "isolating" the Boeing management from its engineering and manufacturing staff, the company discounted its former engineering-led corporate culture in favor of a management style run by MBAs instead of engineers.[7]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Building#Criticism

In 2022 it moved again, from Chicago to the DC-area (Virginia):

* https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/05/boeing-to-move-headquarters-...

Both moves seem quite symbolic to me.
There are expectations even with random. E.g. if you have a truly random dice and you throw it millions of times you would expect the occurrence of each number to be similarly around 1/6.

So it could be argued that given laws of universe, seeding it in any state could with very high odds come to an emergence of life, which makes it to be "expected".
Exactly. Something is better than nothing, and machine translations have recently improved significantly. Combined with human proof-reading, it's a great thing.
My company has a huge legacy business where we are still manufacturing brand new PC boards with intel 8086's on them. We have a huge inventory of 40 year old chips for it, lol.

Nobody wants to upgrade when the current system still works and can be supported (however painfully).
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Personal anecdotes with skin in the game (ie, the OP chooses to continue owning a Tesla) are more informative than "journalism" paid to have an opinion.
In relation to both the quoted sentence and your addition, I have seen speculation that where once "being in the clergy" was esteemed and attracted predators and psychopaths seeking cover, today that attraction is toward a position in science work as cover.
The question we are asking is, "Where does the complexity come from?"

A complex result can come from a complex system, or a simple system with complex input (emergence). Human genetics is a complex system.

My argument is that an LLM is a simple system. The complexity of its output comes from the complexity of its input, not the system itself.

That complexity was created by human minds, not by AI. Without the human minds, there would be no complex LLM output.
It is a regulation, not a directive. For instance, The Netherlands considers a "reasonable lifetime" of the product
nintendo are the most overly litigious company i'm familiar with, if nothing comes of it then i guess it must mean they don't think they have a winnable case
I got an L shaped one from wayfair and it’s extremely solid at all heights
That's why I use to claim that for me everything is a priori natural. Additionally I disagree every time I hear that "culture is the opposite of nature" (not sure where it comes from, but seems to be a well-grounded philosophical concept). For me it can't be so by the rules of logic alone.

On the other side: we have a lot of taboos in the language/culture and not all of them are bad in terms of social well-being or happiness of individuals (the very simple example is that we sometimes lie to our kids). And I think that what we hide behind those taboos tends to emerge as "unnatural" or rather usually "supernatural". I also usually don't agree that we don't need a revolution in physics, but I understand it is so successful in creating all those working machines and we have to maintain them... ;)
Most coral reefs predate human intervention by a few hundred million years.
I “built” my own, got an L shaped VIVO desk frame from Amazon and then a butcher block slab from Lowe’s. L shaped standing desk for a fraction of the cost.
Applications of Virus-Induced Gene Silencing in Cotton
There are so many variables to manipulate in EV vs ICE arguments that one can say anything. You can manipulate prices and costs so EVs are cheaper to own, or you can do the opposite and make ICE cheaper, or you can manipulate them so costs are exactly the same. "Your mileage may vary."
My only hot take on syntactic sugar is this observation:

If it is less characters to type out, and has a very specific intended purpose, there will always be an engineer on your team who tries to use it just one more time because they were lazy and didn't want to type the extra 5 characters, and then one more time, and then one more time, and then you're debugging code that is unreadable.

This is not an argument for/against any specific syntactic sugars, this is just an observation that I've seen.
Yes. But you have to know how to use them. And I don't mean "pressing buttons".
I find it interesting that comments questioning the validity of Big Bang are not popular here. Quoting Sabrine,

"The Big Bang is the simplest explanation to the universe that we know, and it's probably wrong"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAVUvq6BE1E
Using mid-tear Ikea sit-stand desk for 5+ years. So far so good. Not wobbly even with a 24" display with some plants next to it.
I'd argue it is different in that just seeing or talking about cyclists will often draw anger online and in person - most people don't feel the same way about cars or drivers.

Getting angry when someone cuts you off is different to being angry about cyclists just existing.
> drop in blood glucose can cause headaches

My anecdotal experience is that this is true. I can often (but not always) subvert a looming headache by eating something sweet. Yogurt in particularly is remarkably effective.
Ironically, the push for deregulation that twice had led to deadly accidents involving US-made planes, always came as policy decision from a Republican president - first Nixon, later Bush Jr.

And the regulation mean that Boeing can loose even the ability to sell what they have if they do not maintain quality as necessary.
noticed you mentioned speed.. That's probably why you are going through tires so fast.. ya EVs go through tires a lot faster but if you drive fast and more so accelerate fast then you will really go through tires
> long-range EVs that can cover 400 miles are more expensive . Midsize SUV EVs — currently the top-selling models by far — only reach cost parity if government incentives are

The Model Y is the best selling car, and the range is 310 miles, so I think the journalist is either very misinformed or being dishonest.
When people buy things they become defensive about their choices.
My anecdotal data: I almost never use standing feature of my standing-desk in the office, I use it if I want to show something on my displays to a couple of people. I see the value of standing desks, but since I am a very physically active person, I find the health benefits of standing in front of a desk just tiring and useless for me. But a lot of my co-workers do use standing desks.
It's nice to have the option of standing up for a while instead of always sitting.

Depending on your technology setup, cable routing might be made more difficult as you may need to ensure sufficient slack for the full range of movement to be available.

Depending on the size and construction of the desk, you may need to care more about how much weight you put on the desk surface. Some designs at max height can get a little wobbly and this gets worse with more weight.

When I bought one for my home office, I decided to go with one with a mechanical crank instead of an electric motor. I've seen too many offices full of adjustable desks with dead motors and decided I didn't want to be staring at a non-moving adjustable desk 2 years later.
The difference is that the average household shares multiple devices behind that single IP address, whereas IPv6 addresses are unique to the device you're using.

Identification to the level of IPv4 can still be done with IPv6 by using the /64 where you would previously take the /32, but with IPv6 you also get identifiers from within the network as well.

With how much IPv6 space is available, I'm not sure why SLAAC-based networks don't just assign different IP addresses to different use cases. I can see this becoming a problem on large company networks, but in home networks you could generate a random IPv6 address every hour for every website you visit and still never run out of address space.

Operating systems aren't exactly geared up for per-application outgoing IP addresses, and perhaps handling tens of thousands of IP addresses will bog down the kernel somehow, but in terms of privacy protection we could be doing a lot more than what IPv6 Privacy Extensions are doing right now.
> but since the existing inter-island ferry routes only run about an hour, more speed may not be worth the trouble

What inter-island ferry routes? There aren’t any, and when there were many of the routes were muuuuuch longer than an hour. The I harbored portion of the island chain is almost 300 miles long - a trip from Hilo to Honolulu would be ~240 miles.
If you use a regex in your application you need to write lots of unit tests for it that include many negative test cases. Perhaps even look for a test case generation tool/library that helps automate this.
Show HN: STSproxy – An open-source AWS STS proxy solution
STSproxy is an AWS STS (Security Token Service) Authentication Proxy, providing a simple and secure way for you to provision temporary, limited-privilege AWS credentials for third-parties who need access to your AWS resource(s).

Ideal for scenarios where a third-party without an AWS account needs access to your AWS resources.
Probably an attempt at "batteries included" as in it comes with everything you need to start using it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101910
The way I see it is that it's an attempt to gain support by suggesting a two-phase construction project with only the intention of ever completing phase one — the smaller buildings.
about the same as gas if you use a supercharger... the only way an electric car makes sense is if you can charge at home or at work.
Everyone has one at my job and the usage varies wildly, probably due to fitness and willpower. If the price is a barrier, think twice whether you'd really stand or not. Maybe you can try one a few weeks at a coworking place or so?
Beware Value Capture
The website says this: https://arc.net/l/quote/btugrszz