skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR; Clean break from social media combined with Facebook taking down her group of fellow conspiracy believers (QAnon).

It appears this would not have worked, if Facebook hadn't removed the group.
So college degrees were worth it after all. ;D
Maybe they could "remember" where your eyes were looking at a few milliseconds ago and click on that, but then they wouldn't know the difference between that or maybe you actually did mean to click in the center of the content area.

The problem is the Vision OS has no cursor. Cursor position is critical. Your eyes move around a lot more than your cursor moves, but in Vision OS, cursor position and eye position are the same. Very annoying. Maybe they could put a little cursor in the center of the screen that you could move around with another gesture.
Furthermore, I live where macaroon and macaron are spelled, pronounced, and taste different.
> the downside is that I’m obliged to work on a Mac. I kind of hate Macs. Not quite as bad as Windows, but damn I’m missing Linux in the workplace.

I got around this by running an Ubuntu VM on Parallels. I ssh in using VSCode and configured Parallels to forward application ports to the Mac side, so I can hit the web apps we build using Chrome on the Mac side.
New 'Obelisks' Class of Life Has Been Found in the Human Digestive System
You haven't needed to do that for like, 7 years now. RGB color support was added to the windows console in 2016: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/24-bit-color-in-t...
Williamsburg. What Happened? A timeline of total transformation in Brooklyn
Is there any research out there that tracks how well companies are doing in customer service? I can't tell whether I'm getting old or whether the state of play has always been like this, but like the author I run into the following situation with alarming regularity:

Customer: I want to do X. (Note: very reasonable request)

Business: You can't do X.

Customer: Why?

Business: Reasons that I can't adequately disclose.

Its getting to a point where the business (or government agency) feels like its spending more time preventing you from doing reasonable thing rather than helping you. The authors case here is a good example. But is this new or has it always been this way?
I had a play with this stuff a while ago and I killed an Atmega in the process - I suspect by burning a binary for a different chip into it. I think that was with avrdude - a combination of winging it cluelessly and the Atmega board I was using not exposing the necessary pins to force burn a new binary. The one I use in this project was chosen specifically because it had the programming pins available.

Normally I shy away from python/node/perl/intercal tooling much as you describe, but it was very painless. I was mostly expecting to document "giving up and figuring out how I should actually be using avrdude in preference to understanding someone else's language's error and/or config messages" but tripped over a stair that wasn't there when it just worked from the outset.

Discounting the bit where I tried to use a borked USB cable that is...
Depending on the tax.

For say sales tax like things if you buy something online the address you ship it to usually determines that. So no effort required there. In person if you're in TX you pay the TX sales tax (if they have one), if you are in NY you pay the NY sales tax.

As far as filing taxes for a year goes (income tax, property tax) you file taxes (or maybe you don't) and there you go. Filling taxes is largely a sort of declaration of what you say you did and owe. It's up to the state or feds to validate if they wish.
Concepts of "capacity" and "power" could be another creations of that viewer, not existing in eternity per se, only in our universe.
> If you are a software developer in the US, you should definitely advocate against remote work. Sooner or later, the company is going to realize they can hire the same developer for 15% of the salary that the company is paying you.

This relies on a pretty common mistake, that software can really only be made in American offices. It's at least less horrific than only Americans can make good software but it's still wrong. There is no reason why a lot of software can't be made in India. There's nothing magical about Lahore than stops this from happening.

Offshoring tends to fail pretty badly because companies focus exclusively on the bottom line in a globally competitive market place. If you're hiring a software engineer for $10/hr it's because their work product isn't worth $15/hr.

Am I worried that my high compensation will trend downwards over time? Yeah, it's probably going to happen.

Is all or most software engineering going to move to Bangalore? Not a chance.
Every time I see the spatial photos and spatial videos, I always view it as someone putting on their VR headset to reliving a memory of someone who died. Then they take the headset off and realize they are alone and the loss broke them. I have a lot of trouble not seeing those videos from a very depressing place.
> The dream is that your kids make a steady income at something they can enjoy or at least tolerate while not risking their physical health.

Yep. The thing is, white collar (desk) jobs are bad for your health; physical and mental. I love my job but it comes at a price, too.

If you’re looking for steady work plumbing is where it’s at. Are we at 5000 years of continuous demand, and where skills are transferable across decades (maybe centuries)?
When frogs can't croak to get a mate, they dance
For the purposes of government ID, you're going to have a principal residence. But, for ordinary people, there's no real guarantee that you actually live there. It could be a friend's house who keeps an eye out for important mail.
Rare 'Aurora Curls' Photographed
Because actually encrypting at rest usually offers a ton of hassle for little actual additional security.

For example, if done right, you need to decrypt with some form of passcode/system on boot, etc, etc. But once "unlocked" the system has access to the data, and usually the hackers come in via the "live" system.

Things like backups are usually encrypted but not always, but the number of incidents of people stealing physical media is pretty low compared to ransomware/remote hacks.
SpaceX's Starship to launch 'Starlab' private space station in late 2020s
That explanation is spot on. Japanese culture is indeed obsessed on perfection to the point it almost touches my Japanese nerve that "forms" outside Japan are just Word documents with brackets and underscores, that's just too casual! That's not what a form is(well, it is...)

> ... than a frictionless experience for the citizens.

And this is spot on as well. Most Japanese barely understand the need for that; seeking better experience is, basically, seen as a sign of weakness. Way more attention and cost are spared for preventing what are seen as improper and illegitimate, than seeking paths of least resistances or goals at all. Everyone's process people always.
Very common on Twitter too.
Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.576352v1
Announcing TypeScript 5.4 Beta
Because its a shining example of "just make things work" to a fault that prioritizes software maintanability and security way less.

So its commercial success is a reminder of the poor state of technology for most and the business forces that drive it, veering closely to going off yet another cliff.
The WWII Treasure Map That Caused a Modern Day Hunt
My understanding is that Zelle transfers are just settled by ACH under the hood, which is the same system that settles checks.

However there is possibly some new "real-time payment" feature of the ACH network that could be equivalent to wire settlement, but I'm not sure Zelle actually uses it.
A Medieval Murder Map Helped Solve a 700-Year-Old London Cold Case
I prefer to read programming books (which tend to also be part of, or contribute to, my annual "work goals"). Reading is perfect for my 20-30 minute "dead zones" since it's pretty effortless, and I can start and stop quickly without paging too much into/outof my brain. Meanwhile, doing any meaningful programming in that time would be almost impossible; it takes that long to get from 0 to 60 in the first place, and then I'd immediately have to stop anyway, so there's no point.

Of course, there's also HN. :devil_emoji:
Congratulations, this is the most confidently incorrect set of statements I've read on the internet this week.

I pity people who'd have to work under you. Sheesh.
Elon Musk sees $56B Tesla pay deal cancelled in Delaware court
The Oracle building looks like a database icon.
Unboxing the Tenstorrent Grayskull AI Developer Kit
You wanted “not common”, sounds like.

“Not a thing” is a confusing idiom. It specifically means never happens, ever, but the idiom is frequently used in contexts where hyperbole is expected, so a literal translation accounting for the hyperbole might be something more like “I’ve seen it once, but it’s vanishingly rare”.
Based on pay I wouldn't think that astronomers are in high demand, and neither does the Bureau of Labor [1].

Child care labor is in fact in low demand [2].

I think child care is expensive because insurance is expensive.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Life-Physical-and-Social-Science/Phy...

[2]: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/childcare-...
The server in this context is a "warmed" Function VM. The first time a VM instantiates, it goes through all of the setup required to run a function. That includes generic reusable stuff like Operating System setup, but also Function-specific things like JIT compilation of the Function software, library loading, language loading, all of which are specific to the Function being executed.

The Function VM is hyper-optomised to that one Function's task. There's compute-time costs in changing its role from Function A to Function B. In the public cloud, the only cost you save on is starting up the OS, if both Functions happen to use the same OS. It's faster in most public FaaS infrastructure settings to just destroy a Function VM than it is to transfer a VM from Function A's configuration into Function B's configuration. Similarly, it's faster to just leave the VM running for a little while, just in case the Function is invoked again.

When the paper discusses VMs idling, that's the scenario they describe, where servers (or more accurately software VMs inside of physical servers), are locked into a specific function for some number of minutes. These minutes are dead computing time.

Meta, as a private cloud provider to themselves, can do some interesting things to reduce the cold-start of their Functions, meaning they can run more efficient clouds if they choose, by massively reducing the idle-time that's an industry standard in the public cloud.
True, but I think the days of email as a globally reachable address are already on their way out. It's not exactly unheard of for some people to be unable to send email to addresses hosted by some common mailservers (including gmail) right now.

However, none of my friends use our mailservers exclusively. They also use the internet mail system. But having our own means that we don't have to worry about deliverability issues, spam, or any of the other problems that exist on the public system.
Are you _in_ Silicon Valley? I ask because I remember that when I was in Bells Books on Emerson in Palo Alto a month or two ago they had a display of Silicon Valley themed books that I think had a few different coffee table books. I had a chat with the person at the counter about them when he saw me browsing them.

I think the book suggested above was among them, but there were definitely a few more. Some (not all) of them may have been ‘old’ - but I think ‘old’ Silicon Valley books may be what you’re after?

If you’re nearby maybe go and take a look and/or ask the staff members there? (Or maybe someone reading this can and report back here? :-)
Encrypting data at rest in a data center doesn't provide as much protection as you might think. The level of system access in order to access the raw data files is usually about the same as accessing the higher level database system itself. So at best you're adding a couple of extra steps to the attack.

Since there are usually significant costs to encrypting production databases, such as CPU utilization, many organizations choose to focus on other security controls. Data encryption is just one of many security controls at play in a scenario such as this and the security team has to carefully pick their battles to avoid just being completely ignored as the "say no to everything" guys.
That's just false. Windows 7 was pretty universally an improvement over XP. The device driver situation alone makes a huge difference.
It only came up because the person seemed mentally unavailable, and would only do what was asked of them. Yes, I’m paying a full salary for initiative and responsibility.
I'm using "settled" in the colloquial "the money has been debited from the sender's account and has been credited to the receiver's account" sense, which for the purposes of this discussion is the definition that really matters.

You can't just unilaterally reverse a Zelle payment any more than you can a SEPA transfer.
Zelle runs on multiple networks (ACH, RTP, etc).

https://www.narmi.com/insights/getting-real-about-real-time-...

> Zelle is an example of a P2P option, but with one major difference from those outlined below; its transactions can be cleared via The Clearing House’s RTP rail. If both the payee and the recipient use banks that leverage the RTP rail, the transaction will settle instantly. If not, it will typically settle in a matter of minutes. Since users can send money to recipients outside of their bank and the funds settle in real-time (or nearly), it is considered to be an open (rather than closed) loop payment.

> Notably, Zelle has seen massive growth since its launch in 2017 and is now available to nearly 80% of the U.S. population, with adoption by over 1,600 financial institutions. Similar to The Clearing House, Early Warning Services (owner of Zelle) is privately held by 7 major banks.

https://danakivis.medium.com/the-state-of-faster-payments-in...
I thought it was pretty good / relatively unexploited before diggs collapse, but I surely have rose colored nostalgia glasses.
And, as is typical for ChatGPT, I tried the google search GPT and was met with repeated errors. Shocker.
Lamborghini will make hybrid versions of all its cars to cut its CO2
> the crisis we face today of housing and everyone leaving

Well, which is it? ;)
WebAssembly and WASI reaches Preview 2 milestone [video]
*almost no one
Always fun to see people making their own dropcaps! I haven't seen 'Alde Night Caps' before. Works well in context.

Self-advertisement: the reason you don't see many dropcaps like this is that making fonts is a specialized skill. So even if you want to make a design like an old incunabula book, you may be stuck if no one has created the exact dropcap you want. As for custom ones, forget about it. However, I & Said Achmiz have released an approach using generative models, SVG, & JS to let you easily create dropcap sets with hundreds of letters, no knowledge of TTF or OpenType or Bezier curves required: https://gwern.net/dropcap
RavenDB is expensive pay-to-use database. I do not understand why would one choose this over Postgres.
It's the worst I've ever seen it. It's a generational downturn, a major bubble burst. Feel free to look but don't quit until you find something else. I doubt we've seen the end, either. It's probably going to get worse before it gets better.
What use is that growth in terms of valuation if the company never manages to break even?
So the costume was basically just a kink?
Do you also consider wind and solar as "high tech solutions that only postpone real action"?

The problem is, simplified: consumption * environmental_cost_of_consumption < planetary_limits

You need some justification to declare 2 of the 3 terms in the equation a "sideshow".
MBA's don't follow scientific method. Engineers do.
This is a good example of advocacy journalism that almost fools me. Cato isn't my normal rag, but I'm libertarian-adjacent enough to agree with at least some of what they write. I'm nodding along to this piece, realizing what a terrible law the Jones Act is, and then get to a passage like this:

> But rising costs aren’t the Charybdis’ only problem. Delays in the vessel’s construction have seen its projected delivery pushed back from late 2023 to late 2024 or early 2025. That’s not a surprise. The shipyard building the Charybdis signed a contract to deliver two containerships in 2020, but the first ship wasn’t delivered until 2022 and the second in 2023.

Gosh, I wonder if there might have been some notable world event c. 2020 that might have lasted around 2 years and pushed out heavy industry deliveries?

Eeesh. Now I'm wondering what else they're spinning. Wind power in the US is, on balance, doing just great. Surely there are things to improve, but is the Jones Act really the thing standing in the way? Not sure, but I don't think we can trust Cato to tell us.
I don't think Apple had a monopoly on capacitive screens. There were a couple other mobile devices that used them and came out around the same time. Maybe they tied up all/most the available production capacity for a bit?

Typing on the original iphone wasn't perfect, but it was generally better than tiny physical keyboards in many cases
"The couple moved in together as COVID-19 swept the globe. To Don, the pandemic and the global response to it were filled with clues pointing to some kind of conspiracy, orchestrated by America’s leaders and the media. Maybe the virus was accidentally leaked from a lab; maybe it was a bioweapon. Don also suspected the lockdowns had a nefarious purpose, and he believed the vaccines were unsafe, perhaps designed to kill."

We now know it was likely that "the virus was accidentally leaked from a lab". The government and the media lost credibility when they dismissed that speculation as a "conspiracy theory".
Wipro to lay off hundreds of mid-level employees to improve margins
The search for a problem to continue selling the solution continues
Tabletop device teaches you sailing before hopping on board a real boat
I love these photos. While they seem like casual pics, the composition is carefully considered, the person here knew what they were doing.
I still think the original iPhone was the best size. I use the iPhone mini today, and I wouldn't mind it being a bit smaller still.

It really lends itself to the phone being a tool, rather than a device for endless entertainment. It also suggests it is an accessory, with the desktop/laptop being the home base, rather than the phone being a primary device.

It really bothers me that the phone is now at the center of the ecosystem. It seems like the hub should be something that isn't as vulnerable (to theft, loss, or drops) as a phone.
I don't look at the patch by itself, I hoped that was clear. I apply the patch locally, where I have the full context.

I can of course do the same with the PR, but then it loses its convenience. :)
Not to be confused with macarons, which are also delicious but have no SW design named after them!
You can always rob the pensions of the young
Yeah until the notoriously unreliable ChatGPT forgets that it's supposed to follow that and starts giving you some CYOA text.
Well some company try to implement Raft algorithm with good intentions but do a bad job a at so bugs make it so they fail Jensen test.

You can’t force people to test their software correctly unless it’s a regulated field like aviation.
Attempting to apportion voting rights suggests that one is at most gesturing half-heartedly in the direction of lawlessness.
I do understand that there are those who believe in a so called literal interpretation and thus equate each day of creation in Genesis to a thousand years but I don't understand their response to the big bang theory. I would think they would proudly proclaim, "Science now agrees with what we said for thousands of years. Namely, that the universe had a beginning." Instead their response was to attack it vehemently.

It's a strange response to me. I think St. Augustine's argument for why there is a God assumes that there was no beginning to the universe because he said that if the universe had a beginning then obviously there is a god. St. Augustine would have viewed the big bang theory as irrefutable proof that there is a god.
If this is something you want to play with, but these high end Daktronics units are too expensive, search AliExpress for "gas station price display".

Here's, for example, a 12 inch 7-segment high single digit for ~$38, including shipping: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802774192337.html

You can use their driver boards, or just scale up a cheap 7-segment driver with a few extra parts to drive the 12v it wants for each segment.
And for completeness, a Macron is the president.
and a connector that is 5x the size of the ADB connector. I mean, just look at that thing. It's huge. It's ginormous. No wonder Apple didn't go with that thing. Instead, they used a connector that had pins that would easily bend if it was accidentally attempted to be inserted into the wrong port.
But the Bible nowhere says or implies that the universe is young.

The closest it comes to commenting on the age of the universe is where it says in Genesis the earth was created in six "days". Note that these days do not correspond to 24-hour days (e.g., the creation of the day/night cycle is also referred to as being done in one day), but simply, an unspecified period of time devoted to a particular activity, which could be millions or even billions of years.

Also, note that the Genesis account implies the universe and the earth was existing for some period, before action was initiated to prepare the earth for human/animal habitation.
> Thursday’s moves from a variety of tech titans, which already are slogging through the worst year in the industry’s history, caused analysts to wonder whether the carnage would get even worse and when it would come to an end.

Written July 27th, 2001. Talk about statements that age like milk.
It's probably more relevant to your previous blog post that did a survey of technologies, but I'm curious if y'all ever considered a fully centralized approach. Is there something about Fly that benefits from a decentralized approach?

Disclosure: I work on SpiceDB alongside maintainers like the pymacaroons author
Referer/referrer, macaron/macaroon, the web isn’t good with typos…
Have you ever done that?
I remember this time. I worked for a small b2b startup at the time and one of my coworkers left to take a better offer at another company that week. The company he went to laid him and everybody else off that same week. He ended up in the local newspaper in one of those "oh well" shrug-emoji articles.

Since we were bootstrapped we ended up lasting a little bit longer, but pay freezes and such eventually killed the company and forced them to sell.

When the pay freezes hit, I was able to use a personal connection to get another position at lower pay, but in a virtually recession proof industry which brought in extraordinarily valuable income and stability at the time (my wife and I were basically Ramen poor during this). The job market took 3 or 4 years to rebound and I personally didn't go back into startups until around 2007.

I remember seeing job posting for "entry level with x years in y technology" where x > 10 and y technology hadn't even existed 3 years prior.

Very very scary across the entire tech world. The cuts last year and this year are huge, but don't have quite the same exploding bubble feeling from back then. Still, it's no fun to be on the receiving end of them.
> That conclusion isn't rational. Neither in terms of the framing of the evidence that supports it, nor in terms of the logic that follows.

Can you elaborate on what exactly isn't rational? I laid out a chain of thought that can be attacked link by link, you've just made a sweeping claim with no backing arguments.