skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that pgsql wasn't appropriate, it's that the neutered AWS RDS managed instance was inappropriate. Whether more appropriate non-pgsql solutions existed seems to have been outside the scope of the article.
Thanks Chromatic!
it seems to depend on state - some are no more than 4 headlights at a time, where fog lights would be main headlights plus fog lights, as opposed to main headlights plus brights.

most laws appear to be based on direction and aim.
Pretty cool stuff, and a good reminder that security is likely not permanent. Especially on an unchangeable blockchain.
Sorry, your original comment sounded like you were asking what the acronym stood for, not the definition of Artificial General Intelligence.
Thank you so much for the explanation!

I see much more clearly how something like this could be extremely useful.
It's no longer possible to tell. Some of the ideas that avg Americans have on the way just about anything works is frightening.

My favorite lately is that the US was the real bad guy in WWII because we used nukes.
We do it everyday with Javascript in the browser, on, like, 10 orders of magnitude bigger frequency than we ever run Java Apples and Flash. The whole web commerce, banking, b2b, etc. depend on it. Imagine that, huh?

Is that enough snark?

Not to mention, if your problem is container breaking out, you have way way bigger problems that shell-script containers.
Besides tobacco and alcohol use, obesity and type 2 diabetes are risk factors for cancers. High fructose corn syrup FTW.
Why You've Never Been in a Plane Crash
Thanks sorry, should have specified: In California?
The best is the claim that multiple encryption makes it weaker or that encryption is the weaker of the two. If that were true we'd break encryption just by encrypting once more with a weaker algo.
> 1. rust eliminates data races through the type system, so the great benefit of promises doesn't exist in this context

I don't know about this one. Programmers who use async Rust often talk about how they appreciate that `await` is explicit because it lets them coordinate state using cooperative scheduling. This is maybe a bit higher-level than just data races, but it is about avoiding certain kinds of race conditions.

> it explains why people have this bizarre misconception that promises are just an efficiency hack, because in rust that's all they are

I'm not sure about this either. The post argues that they are more than an efficiency hack in Rust, too- that intra-task concurrency is a useful control flow structure and promises are what enable it. That intra-task concurrency happens to share a thread is a performance benefit but that's incidental to its flexibility benefits.

> promises are what async rust implemented, just under the name of 'futures'.

Well, it's not like Rust's promises are exactly like JavaScript's promises either. JavaScript promises are continuation/callback based; Rust's are poll-based. In a sense they're like your earlier definition of "futures," except that the future API lets its caller decide how to block when the result is not yet available.
Has anyone figured out what the main lenses are made of yet? VR lenses are usually plastic to keep the cost and weight down, so you have to be careful when cleaning them, but Apple wasn't overly concerned with cost or weight when designing this.
Plants die for lack of CO2. It's their food.
At least in my state, an umbrella liability policy is fairly inexpensive. Mine does require that I also maintain liability coverage on my cars and home so it only covers liability in excess of that, therefore it's not too costly. If you own a house and have assets such as retirement accounts it's probably something you want to add.

I do agree that the minimums have not really kept up with inflation in healthcare costs. A $50K liability minimum would only cover a few days' care in a hospital, any serious injury would likely cost several multiples of that.
My personal opinion is that if a vehicle's loan value would ever exceed the value of the car, you can't afford it.
Liraglutide restores impaired associative learning in individuals with obesity
The counterpoint to the weight criticism is that other leading headsets are heavier just balanced in the back more. Apple will probably do something to distribute weight to make it less noticeable too
I use my (factory installed) fog lights only when the conditions are bad enough that I need a downward facing light to be able to see the lanes or obstructions. mine turn off if I turn on high beams, which do not have the very close reflections. they make a significant difference in specific circumstances. why I see some people drive with them on under all conditions, I will never know.
> It's Wharton, though, so the signaling alone may be worth the price.

You’re (mostly) not paying for the content of the courses.

Reasons to go/pay (in no particular order):

1. It’s a finishing school, with all the good and bad that implies. Some of the details below fall into that category.

2. Developing your peer network. Includes classmates, professors, and alumni.

3. Access to incredible research opportunities and research resources (yes, even for MBAs).

4. Access to jobs that (mostly) only go to grads of Wharton and similar. Think consulting and IB.

5. Access to job networks of niche and often super interesting jobs via peers and professors.

6. Signaling, although this does work both ways. While it opens doors for some jobs, it makes you overqualified for others.

7. Being in an environment of driven and (mostly) competent people. The scope of “what is possible” will probably be redefined for most/many Wharton students. (This might be worded somewhat poorly… not exactly sure how to say it).

8. Related to 7, being graded on a curve against motivated and competent peers can… build character. I’m not sure what it’s like these days.

9. In the past, there were some niche concentration courses that were super interesting. I’m not sure what they are now, and I’m not sure they make it to MOOCs.

10. Wharton Follies.

To close, if someone goes to Wharton primarily for access to the classes, then I would say that they have pretty much failed Wharton, regardless of what their grades end up being. Most of the knowledge from the classes can be gained more easily and cheaply in other ways.
A decade ago, I was "judgment proof" after a decade of drug dealing and general degeneracy... the person I was then allowed me to be the phenomenal asshole we are all capable of channeling: fuck you, I got nothing! "Blood from a stone."

Life is so much simpler, yet more satisfying, now that I've lived long enough to secure away a few assets. God willing, we'll all live long enough to not be the pieces of shit our youth/ignorance once allowed.

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I read the other day that 20% of male Millenials are currently uninsured.
Tasting Indian Creek
Because the "vector networks" and vector graphics editing are for the graphic design part of Figma, not the UI design one.

You don't just draw whatever random vector shape and turn it into UI.

You create UI elements and arrange them in UI related containers (grids etc) for that.

The "vector drawing" is for the decoration of the UI, not for its definition.
If you have a planet with a hydrogen atmosphere, it's a pretty good bet there is no (free) oxygen nearby.
Is this near Tacoma?
Fundamental disagree. What the services and network effects of being in a country is worth is very much up to the individual to determine amd when taxes are significantly higher tham their value it causes people to leave. Its a big part of the wealth drain in canada and why our capital markets suck so bad vs the usa, where many rich and founders go instead of staying. You cant think you can give someone a bad deal and they will jist put up with it forever.
My go-to site for questions like this is examine.com.

https://examine.com/supplements/curcumin/

So yeah, like sibling said, it doesn't seem to do much.
> The company had about 230 employees, had offices in Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, Muscat, Selsdon and Steinhausen, and did business throughout the world.

That's a... really strange list of office locations, especially considering the relatively small number of employees.

> The owners of Crypto AG were unknown, supposedly even to the managers of the firm, and they held their ownership through bearer shares.

How does this work in practice? If management doesn't know who owns the company, how can the owners exercise influence on company business?
Unfortunately, the lack the industriousness of the Chinese people is certain to hinder the velocity of innovation we'd see with a purely Ethiopian effort. People don't eschew the "Made in China" label without reason. With hand tools for example, I started with Chinese made Harbor Freight in my 20's, German in my 30's, now it's either Ethiopian tools or "I'm not doing this project".
That's interesting because I block all publicly facing ips from DigitalOcean from every server I own. the amount of spam and hackers probing from there ips is beyond a joke. Anyway thanks for your input.
War in space is no longer science fiction
http://archive.today/t1Dcn
Given the passive radar code in KrakenSDR apparently fell afoul of ITAR, one would have to be careful around this.
Alot of this around today?

Related earlier:

Fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39241643

The scientists fighting the epidemic of fraudulent science research

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39244601
It’s a good article, but rolling your own is usually not advised. Who is going to manage and monitor it? Who will be in charge of upgrading it now? These often come with a sysadmin cost that is offloaded to some software engineer.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels a sense of doom doing web development in 2024. I have years of experience doing web development, but not continuously. I learned the atoms (HTML/CSS) years ago, and then got more familiar with the rest of the stack through a proprietary development interface, hosted locally. jQuery was the name of the game back then.

I finally did "real" full-stack web development only 2 years ago, and used a framework called Gatsby which was all the rage. After that contract ended, I dipped out into the embedded world for a little while.

When I returned to web dev a few months ago, Gatsby...no longer exists? Now there is this framework next.js that seems to be king of the hill. It's nice, but it doesn't feel light years ahead of anything else.

I've also gotten my hands on Django lately too, and it's also a pleasure to use, with some strange hiccups.

I find web dev frustrating to no end because of the amount of change. It hasn't sat still for long enough for me to understand it deeply, even though I've spent a large amount of my professional career involved with web development in some way. I finally learned how to configure DNS this year, only because I got serious about purchasing a domain and hosting an application. Only once I started working as the solo tech contributor on a startup idea did I realize how little of the stack I understood...
I was a little surprised to see not one but two huge fans. Reviewers have mentioned hearing no fan noise, but maybe they crank up a little if you really push the GPU + CPU with a 3D game.
> there could be a vanishingly small cohort of researchers who both operate with integrity and whose CVs are competitive for faculty positions.

I think it's fallacious to compare the CV "competitiveness" of a falsifying 'scientist' with a legitimate scientist.

Not that that's what you were suggesting, but maybe we haven't fully accepted what it means to combine the typical daisy-chained/chain-reaction growth of CV opportunities (one prestigious-looking line item opens a door to one or more others), with cheating offering additional boosts as needed at each step.

When an athlete "juices", they can perform with greater strength or endurance.

But when a scientist falsifies research, they aren't performing greater science -- they're performing greater CV (and terrible science).

Competition for faculty positions shouldn't be CV, but the potential for great science.

If an institution wants to use CV as the proxy for science potential, then they have to address that the CV metric is being gamed like crazy, including by falsifying (i.e., terrible) scientists.
Or at least through third party head straps.
I do not live in the EU.
these type of comments are common until it happens to you
... try asking ChatGPT? ;-)
On a smaller gas giant you could build a floating platform (like a giant zeppelin) and launch from there. Because gas giants are so large the “surface” gravity at the altitude such a platform would be floating at is not as high as you might expect. On Uranus and Neptune it’s actually lower than 1G.

However, past Jupiter size the mass keeps increasing while the radius doesn’t, so even from a floating platform you’re contending with multiple G’s.
You can make a fairly strong statistical argument there are no spacefaring species in our galaxy. Even at 1% the speed of light a species could fully colonize the galaxy in 10 million years, 0.1% the age of the universe.

That we see nothing implies intellgent life is rare, short lived, or we're early in the age of the universe. For example, red dwarfs will last trillions of years compared to the sun's 5B lifespan.
If we're talking about our own vision rather than another driver's, yes, fog lamps might detract a bit from our night vision. The truth is, if you're using them in an actual fog, your distance vision is fucked anyway, and it's your regular headlights (which do not power off when the fog lamps are on) which are doing the damage to your night vision, since they're focused at eye level and reflecting back. The fog lamps aren't a big worry in that regard.

> I remember reading about this in an article written by a rally driver in ADAC magazine maybe 20 years ago now.

I've seen those arrays of fog lamps installed on rally cars, and I'm not sure what they're about but they're a pretty different paradigm than anything that comes installed by the factory on a passenger car.
I don't know. I'm not in academia or doing research, but from the outside looking it, it seems like a racket.
Careful, generally, diverting or otherwise messing with the flow of waterways is illegal. Got a talking to from a DNR officer when I was a kid.
They need to start putting in grant contracta that if the researxh is found to be fraudulent the ibstitution is resppnsible for oaying back the grant money. This would also helpbsolve the endowment problem
Fuck it, show em what a Kubelblitz black hole can do to their chrome bumper.
The Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, CA, is the OG version of this hobby or obsession.

https://youtu.be/mUKRPoQKynk?si=6mO7VIlwti-h_DKp
Quick honourable mention for Pimoroni's similar tiny framework, phew:

https://github.com/pimoroni/phew

and this rather clever start-as-access-point-to-join-network scheme implemented on it:

https://github.com/simonprickett/phewap

which works a treat!
Probably precisely why they use two fans. Have them really silently instead of one audibly.
Fast-Follow vs. Original Ideas: Best ROI for Founders?
Hi HN. I'm a full-time founder stuck in a loop of idea iteration. Every time I think I've landed on something new, I find a startup already doing it, which kind of forces me into a fast-follow situation without intending to. I know having competitors is usually a good sign, and even YC says it's better because it means you're likely not in a dead-end market.

But this cycle is frustrating. Hunting for completely original ideas takes forever, and more often than not, we end up just trailing behind someone else who got there first. So, I'm wondering if I should just lean into this and focus on finding small startups that's just starting gain traction, and fast-follow one (ofc considering product-founder-fit, easiness of building the MVP, etc.). It feels like this is the no-brainer higher ROI move. But something also feels iffy so I'm not sure.

Really appreciate any insights on this.
Etymology of the Word "Technology"
Like you’re from N.C. and know it will fill up with water or just a general warning?
I was so curious about the origins of the SHA algorithms that I made a FOIA to NSA about SHA-0^0, as I wanted to understand how it was developed and requested all internal communications, diagrams, papers and so on responsive to that.

Interestingly I found that after I got a reply (rough summary: you are a corporate requester, this is overly broad, it will be very expensive) I could no longer access the NSA website. Some kind of fingerprint block. The block persisted across IP addresses, browsers, incognito tabs, and devices so it can't be based on cookies / storage.

Still in place today:

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://nsa.gov/serve-from-netstorage/" on this server.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1#Development
Hah. Or this old gem...

https://youtu.be/hShY6xZWVGE?si=z8jme9DppsbSMUdb
I have a feeling that's one of their goals, if you watch the launch video you can see they're really trying to make their offering as flexible as possible.
I never understood the story about the book-printed PGP source code. Isn't source code protected speech under the first amendment anyway, regardless of the form in which it is transmitted? All kinds of media receive first amendment protection, including things like monetary donations, corporate speech, art, etc. I've never heard of there being a requirement for the printed form. Did the interpretation of the first amendment change recently in this regard?
That x-ray shot made me thinking I was looking at the head of a futuristic robot.

In some ways, I guess I am.
Also probably why they are relatively big for a device of this size.

If you're designing for a specific airflow target, making the fans larger lets you make them quieter because they can spin slower than smaller fans while displacing the same amount of air.
Creating a macOS app with Lua (and nothing else)
A common reaction in the comments is that healthcare costs too much and I don't disagree but my first reaction was "I lived 20 years in places with amazing public transportation and didn't have to deal with this at all" Those places were Seoul/Singapore/London/Paris/Amsterdam/Berlin/Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto Like, I just didn't need a car at all. Rarely missed one.
Some routers do have 3/4/5 antenna directional antenna systems. I'm not sure if there's enough room or cost margin for an IoT device. If they were only directional then, I'm not sure they would help all that much, if there were other devices in the same direction (within 3km). However, there might be very short range differential (eg quadrapole) that could have faster than r^2 fall-off. The problem is that you're relying on all other devices in-band to do the same.

I think that's one of the reasons why unlicensed (ISM in the case of WiFi) spectrum is best used where the natural cell size (due to attenuation) is small.
Couldn't you just use a large solar gravitational lensing telescope?
https://eclypsium.com/blog/understanding-detecting-pixiefail...

https://binarly.io/posts/The_Far_Reaching_Consequences_of_Lo...
Don't forget though that that toaster may have been made by people being paid a living wage, maybe even in the UK, and probably in the tens-hundreds of thousands, not millions of units produced as cheaply as possible by slave labor.
Trailer Park Boys kind of needs to be watched after midnight.
Neural implants do, too. Particularly the need for a large 1/4" jack in your head. Like, you're telling me you can drill out that much brain meat, but you can't a fit bluetooth chip in there?
Also you'd need to iterate everything about the insurance regulations in that location since the types of events that insurance pays out on can vary quite a bit between US states, let alone across oceans.

Some places have insurance laws that will make people say "wait, car insurance pays for that?"

Also, most of the reason US car insurance is so expensive is due to the cost of healthcare, which is paid for in other ways in many other countries.
Look at industrial economics and shakeouts.

The advantage a first mover has is early access to innovation. With earlier customers and a slightly more mature product they're a step ahead. So, knowing this, can you leap frog it by second guessing what the customer/market really wants in a way that wins for you?
> If you can get the resources you need in a microcontroller you can afford, and you prefer programming in Python... why not?

Particularly when you consider that the "bloat" here has no secondary side-effects: it doesn't waste resources that other software could be using, because no other software is running.

I am a long-time web developer who has always intellectually understood the interest in microcontrollers but never had much of the need. I do now.

I'm not even a fan of Python but MicroPython is a surprisingly productive development experience and I've learned a lot in a very short time with a Pico W.

I will probably use TinyGo at some point in the future, particularly as I try to use smaller devices, and I'm not averse to porting to C, but I really rate the MicroPython ecosystem highly in terms of actual coverage, though mainly just the intent of it, which is unimpeachable IMO.
A lot of this stuff is outdated, even in the last seven years. Firefighting is an area where there's a lot of urban "knowledge" that is just straight ... wrong.

You have agencies like NIST and NFPA doing studies and science, but they also get often a bad rap from firefighters for being "overly" safety conscious. Ironic, considering that they did solid foundational work that saved firefighter lives (now, though, more die due to PTSD and mental illness and accumulated cancers than do in the line of duty).

I exaggerate not, I saw an ad for lateral firefighters to come work somewhere in the south:

> Are you tired of being a firefighter in an OSHA state? Does your bunker gear smell of pallets and sadness? Do you really need someone to supervise you throwing a ladder? Come work for XYZ FD.

In this case, it's the concept of "flow path" that is outdated. Firefighters believe(d) that by controlling the entrance of air/oxygen and where it exits the structure or such, that you can create "flow paths" that the fire will follow, bypassing rooms and going down hallways for example, until it all defenestrates through a window or your vent hole. It does no such thing - it's not lava flowing downhill with gravity.

There's a lot of knowledge you gain on the job, often from the senior people. I tell new recruits that Fire Academy doesn't teach you how to be a fireman, it teaches you how not to kill yourself and your brothers on the fireground.
Nanorobots: An innovative approach for DNA-based cancer treatment
Toyota vs. Ford Comparing Design and Cost of the Ownership [video]