skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turns out that servicing 100% of the population isn't practical when people choose to live in very remote areas.

Mostly correct. However, not everyone chooses to live in a remote area. The Navajo, referenced above, are among the people who were forced to settle in a particular area, at the point of a government gun.

Moreover, if it wasn't for people living in remote areas, people in the cities wouldn't have food.
Quora is the only site that I actively block to make sure that I don’t go there by mistake.

It has to be the worse site on the internet.
Long article but still only covering such a modest bit of the problem. Tesla racked up dozens of clean air violations, got another slap on the wrist, and has since racked up a hundred more clean air violations. Tesla has dozens of mg of pollutants in the water around some of their spaces when the legal limit is 0.1 mg.

The previous submission It's the Impunity, Stupid doesn't go nearly as far into discussing how incredibly inappropriately & unseriously Tesla has taken waste disposal. But it covers these other topics. And, key, it has the appropriate level of contempt for how Tesla has never met with any real reckoning, how they have been a serial violator that seems to not care in the slightest. And it points out how ridiculous it is that we keep letting them get away with it, that they have never faced any consequences of concern. https://niedermeyer.io/2024/02/02/its-the-impunity-stupid https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235146
It was also one of the first movies for Jesse Eisenberg, but I cannot find his character (Jamison) in the list. I wonder if it was renamed during shooting. There is a small part for Joseph ($8K total), but there is no character with this name in the final cast.
Sure, touchscreen is expensive, but if you just have notification on your phone that the door is not closed properly that's already considered "smart". Basically anything connecting to your home network is advertised as such.
i dont trust the founder
And what if it is?
...and power inefficient. The metrics are just not the same as those for home use.

Also, like military hardware, industrial appliances rely on a long chain of logistics to keep going. They generally will however degrade more gracefully and be easier to maintain - because they're designed to be maintained.
That’s a big oversimplification of what people were worried about during the prior years.

While taking substantial precautions to limit the spread there was that many deaths and hospitals were on the brink of collapse. More spread would have started a terrible rationing of care leading to a much higher spike in excess mortality, especially in immune naive populations.

Now despite almost everyone moving on from precautions, due to substantial immunity, we’re no longer on the precipice of spiraling out of control.

Yeah it’s not nearly as newsworthy because we’re not on the edge of a cliff anymore. It wasn’t just the death rate, it was the way it could have exploded.
It means the orbit is perfectly circular. Earth's seasons are driven almost exclusively by our axial tilt*, not our orbital eccentricity. Our eccentricity also being 0.0(167).

* Astrometeorologists feel free to correct me on this.
It looks to me like they just use libgit as a dependency. Do they have a fork of libgit that they would push changes upstream from?
Glad I'm not the only one who had this reaction. I just can't bring myself to accept that a problem that could be solved with a slightly better version of JSON or property lists requires this many buzzwords.
Why haven't I seen NDNs take off?
I've searching through discussions about Name Data Networks (NDNs) and all of the strengths of switching to a content-focused network stack. Why is it then that I haven't seen many implementations of NDNs? If people know of examples where the architecture has been used I'd be interested in hearing about it.

Thanks!
I’m worried that the open source Bitnami projects, consisting of high quality software container recipes and kubernetes helm charts, will stop or turn bad.
Car insurance in California has price caps. And as many of us know from econ 101, price caps lead to shortages.

The California auto insurance market basically failed in December and it is now almost impossible to get auto insurance with less than 3 weeks lead time. Most of them have closed their brick and mortar locations and do not accept online applications.

Of course, California’s solution to a shortage is to try to mandate supply.

quote from commissioner that refused to allow price increases for 4 years:

> “These alleged passive-aggressive tactics by insurance companies to slow down drivers’ access to coverage are unacceptable, dangerous, and will not be tolerated,” Lara said in a press release Thursday.
Show HN: Simple demo of a cold boot attack using a Raspberry Pi
Oh boy. Just as dh almost managed to push all other package helpers out of existence, at least for official packages:

https://trends.debian.net

I don't think it's fair to expect third-party developers to keep track of all this and produce fully compliant packages without resorting to hacks like fpm. I have a couple of staging servers running Alpine and am thinking of switching more serious workloads to it. Maybe switching fully some day if that works out fine. I was surprised how easy it is to write Alpine packages, they don't change formats every week so your knowledge stays current, and I wrap even basic shell scripts in packages now. Not something I ever did for Debian systems.

Have a look at official packages for an example:

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main?h=3.12-stable

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community?h=3.12-sta...
My dog is my alarm for when the kid starts drawing on the walls or breaks something. He barks to let me know. It’s very convenient and I’m glad to have him. If it was practical to make a computer to do this I’m sure people would find it useful.
The only time I ever saw the Amiga's mouse pointer lag was when transferring files over serial with TwinExpress at an unrealistically ambitious rate (for a machine without a buffered UART, anyway.)

But yes, that direct connection is one of those things you don't really notice until it's not there any more. The first time I tried using a mouse on a PC (with 1200 baud serial mouse) I described the experience as like trying to walk when my foot's gone to sleep.
> There is a documented 30-year history of ISPs not expanding their network while claiming subsidies for exactly

You are conflating two things.

I haven't read the book but does the data show they did it in a discriminatory manner, that is they didn't expand to minority areas even when it made business sense?
I am also a proponent of this idea. I bought a Sharp R21LCF microwave last year - it’s a commercial microwave and the single control is a dial to set the time. It’s great!
That's still running water. I'm talking about homes with zero options for water. Not even a well.

And sometimes (like in New Mexico), thousands of homes are cut off from water infrastructure because some rich guy doesn't want a pipe running under his golf course.
Peterson is wrong about the biology of lobsters. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/111615/do-lobste... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...
Yeah, I don't pick up calls unless they're from someone in my contacts. Too much spam, scam, and scum.

Also: push-to-Siri is maybe the least convenient, but also least annoying and most consistent trigger. Apple Watch comes with "raise-to-Siri" on by default; picture chatting with someone while chilling on the couch, moving your wrist the wrong way, and Siri randomly interjecting based on something you said, taken completely out-of-context. I tend to disable features like these as soon as they come out.
On release, IIRC, disabling it did not work persistently, ostensibly due to a combination of bugs, so a lot of people found that especially egregious.

I think it was something like it would default to enabled again if you uninstalled the updated version, since you can't uninstall the bundled version? I don't quite recall.

But that made people very upset indeed.
In the US you can get away with only having liability insurance.
It's easy to grow a small adoption in terms of percentage.

I grew my boiled eggs consumption by 100% yesterday.

Java/C#/C++ could never grow 40% in a year even if their absolute growth surpassed Rust by a wide margin.
I know what causes seasonal variations, but for some reason I thought 0.0 eccentricity meant no tilt. Thanks
>I will get downvoted for this, but it's my perception.

I will always downvote a comment when someone writes something like this. It is irrelevant to the conversation and screams insecurity.
By making it harder for people to use the site casually, you tip the balance in favor of spammers and away from people who actually have an interest, and therefore usually some knowledge, on a given subject.
Or just remove subsidies and enforce anti-trust laws to make sure there is real competition.
Apple Vision Pro's Virtual Display Feature Works with Intel Macs, Limited to 3K
Meanwhile if this were a Microsoft product everything you'd do would be sent to them and it would just be expected.
> UPSes could be designed with the kind of deep-cycle gel batteries used for marine applications like trolling motors to last even longer and be even more reliable.

Don't put a deep-cycle SLA or gel-cell battery in your UPS. It will last a much shorter amount of time (2-3 years vs 5+). I do not remember the specifics but it has to do with how big the plates are and how thick the internal connections are in the battery. Designing this chemistry of battery is about trade-offs and unless you greatly oversize the cells and do your own install externally it will wreck your battery longevity.

If you want to maintain spec in something like an APC UPS, buy CSB batteries (which is what APC slaps their sticker on) and get something from their GPL line https://www.csb-battery.com.tw/english/01_product/00_overvie...

The real disruption for UPS's are the switch from SLA to LFP cells, but power density isn't as good so they need to be sized up a decent amount to handle standard loads. But the chemistry is a ton better.
Thanks, there's so many resources tucked away in obscure places that there's probably a dozen more cool things like this that never get noticed.
I've been writing containers for 10+ years and this last few years I've started using supervisord as pid 1 that manages multiple processes inside the container for various things that CAN'T function as disparate microservices in the event that one fails/updated/etc a lot more.

And man I love it. It's totally against the 12 microservice laws and shoudl NOT be done in most cases, but when it comes to troubleshooting- I can exec into a container anywhere restart services because supervisord sits there monitoring for the service (say mysql) to exit and will immediately restart it. And because supervisor is pid1 as long as that never dies your container doesn't die. You get the benefit of the containerization and servers without the pain of both, like having to re-image/snapshot a server once you've thoroughly broken it enough vs restarting a container. I can sit there for hours editing .conf files trying to get something to work without ever touching my dockerfile/scripts or restarting a container.

I don't have to make some changes, update the entrypoint/dockerfile, push build out, get new image, deploy image, exec in..

I can sit there and restart mysql, postgres, redis, zookeeper, as much as I want until I figure out what I need done in one go and then update my scripts/dockerfiles THEN prepare the actual production infra where it is split into microservices for reliability and scaling, etc.

I've written a ton of these for our QA teams so they can hop into one container and test/break/qa/upgrade/downgrade everything super quick. Doesn't give you FULL e2e but it's not we'd stop doing what tests we already do now.

I mention this because it was something I did once a long long time ago but completely forgot something that you could do until I recently went that route and it really does have some useful scenarios.

https://gdevillele.github.io/engine/admin/using_supervisord/

I'm also really tired of super tiny containers that are absolute nightmares to troubleshoot when you need to. I work on prod infra so I need to get something online immediately when a fire is happening and having to call debug containers or manually install packages to troubleshoot things is such a show stopper. I know they're "attack vectors" but I have a vetted list of aliases, bash profiles and troubleshooting tools like jq mtr etc that are installed in every non-scratch container. My containers are all standardized and have the exact same tools, logs, paths, etc. so that everyone hopping into one knows what they can do.

If you're migrating your architecture to ARM64 those containers spin up SO fast that the extra 150-200mb of packages to have a sane system to work on when you have a fire burning under you is worth it. For some scale the cross datacenter/cluster/region image replication would be problematic but you SHOULD have a container caching proxy in front of EVERY cluster anyway. Or at least at the datacenter/rack. It could be a container ON your clusters with it's storage volume a singular CEPH cluster, etc.
Ask HN: Managing Overseas Teams Successfully?
Where can I go for insight on successfully managing an overseas team? After a reorg this week I changed from being the direct manager of four local reports to being the manager of a manager of a team of seven engineers. That entire team, including the manager is in India. I’m the only person in the US. This brings a whole set of challenges that are new to me. There are a lot more people. My relationship with the engineers is now indirect. We only overlap for 3 working hours per day. Between the low-res, long distance connection and the difference in our accents I can’t understand a significant amount of what they say. And due to cultural differences I find it very hard to read between the lines.

How can I make sure I’m successful in this new role with a minimum of costly trial and error?
From It's the Impunity, Stupid,

> By the end of 2021 it had racked up 12 new violations, and over the course of 2022 it racked up another 28, barely breaking stride for a $275,000 federal settlement that similarly touted EPA’s “compliance monitoring” as having “returned [Tesla] to compliance.” Over the course of 2023, Tesla received a whopping 76 notices of violation of the Clean Air Act.

And now we are finding they are poisoning the groundwater with a litany of chemicals ranging from bad to extremely horrible (Benzene, Ethylbenzene, TCE, PCE, Arsenic, and 1,4 dioxane).
Agreed re: being a non-profit. My great hope was that Elon might do that with Twitter. Needless to say, I was… not right about that.
It appears that Quora's pages are SEO optimized now, to the detriment of human users. Basically you can optimize for ad revenue and not have human user experience degrade significantly.
I would expect if you have liability insurance theres a lessened chance you would flee the scene of an accident you caused.
disproportionately the type of person to kill or seriously injure someone else in a car crash is the type of person that is “judgement proof”
I mentioned this below in a reply to a similar suggestion - It is critical to remember that most of the 'battery house backup solutions' do not have fast enough switch time to switch without rebooting some computers.

Most of the battery systems (like EcoFlow, Bluetti) has switching times that are between 30 and 100ms. The larger Enphase ones are ~100ms, and the Tesla battery system is around 25ms.

Online conversion UPSs have 0ms, and switching ones are usually in the 4-8ms range. Some systems can handle 30ms, most can't handle 100ms.
What I have not seen here ours why I still have a landline.

Telcos are required to have five 9 uptime for landlines in the USA. (That's less than 6 minutes a year.)

None of this is promised or regulated for internet based voice solution.
Michael J Fox on pity, Parkinson's – and a potential cure
>The actor was diagnosed with the disease when he was just 29 and one of Hollywood’s hottest stars. He talks about how he’s coped, what frightens him – and why being a saint is so boring
Counter counter point: What I do on my computer is different than what I do in a public space
I can 100% guarantees you that Quora didn’t die because of people who didn’t want to run JavaScript or be able to access it over Tor.
16% effectiveness for complex tasks vs 88% is a big gap to close. I wonder what the magic number would be on effectiveness to make the AI more cost efficient.

Will we all become AI quality control supervisors, reviewing work and stepping in to finish random incomplete tasks that the llms get hung up on? Would be interesting to ponder.
Its almost as if user-created-content sites are un-MBA-able... in the way that MBAs are cloned to measure only certain metrics in a soulless gaze toward a self-exit from the growth hocky stick launching pad they are attempting to build on bad faith and anti-patterns...

Reddit is a cluster that manages to ONLY keep going because of how agressive mods can be about their positions, but as we have seen time in, time out, MODs positions get molested by ADMINs and ADMINs posing as MODs. MODs on the take.

The point being that when Reddit IPOs - there are undoubtedly mods who have/are/will-be compensated/profit when IPO hits.
That is… not what software does in states it has not been programmed to handle
What happened to generating config from templates? Like puppet/chef/ansible? Then it doesn't much matter what configuration format is used, as it is all generated from a common template.

Systems like pkl and skylark live on their own and isn't well integrated with systems outside it (for example, an object inside a configuration might want to generate a log source definition in the central logstash config, or a new object in the monitoring system).
You chaps in the US have no bloody idea how lucky you are. In the UK, everyone's car insurance are increasing by 50% to 100% for ICE cars. EVs premiums are even worse.
I think personally greed has a lot to do with it and the fact the UK Govt don't care about the people.
Don't forget that KVM and QEMU are great alternatives to Virtualbox depending on ones needs (OS host, kernel vs user mode, hw acceleration).
Interesting reference. Non profits cannot hoard money. I believe it becomes taxable and they can lose their non profit status (i am not an expert)

Though, hoarding seems like a mischaracterization. Per the article linked, the cash burn rate is on the order of $100M/yr, having $150M in the bank is 18 months worth of funding.

The biggest gripe I read in the article is the "high" expenditure rate and how necessary it is. It seems like reasonable people may disagree on whether that spend rate is excessive.

If the expenditure rate were lower, I'd agree it would be hoarding.
> Did you find any migration tooling to help?

With the caveat that I don't do software engineering professionally, I recently migrated a personal Vue 1/JavaScript project to Vue 3/TypeScript, and it was mostly painless. There's a migration guide¹, and Phind and Copilot were helpful.

¹ https://v3-migration.vuejs.org/migration-build.html
It looks quite a bit bigger than Earth.

I don't think anyone will be leaving that atmosphere with chemical propulsion any time soon...
They have to pay the judgement. If they do not, their wages get garnished. There is no lending.
Deepmind news
Only tangentially related - one big hardware store chain in Germany ran bankrupt because they started to frequently ran „20% on everything“ marketing activities. The idea was to attract customers who would return when one activity ended, but the result was the opposite: the extra customers only came for the 20% and didn’t return between the activities, and the loyal customers started avoiding the chain and waited for the next program to start.
It’s only awkward in certain cultures. Travel more and you’ll see places where there isn’t such widespread social disturbances.
Maybe we should have a higher standard for quality developer tools than enterprise shovelware?
But would you continue to buy it afterwards, or just chase the discounts? Aka:are you truly a "conversion" or just a single discount sale?
Every state I've lived in requires auto insurance.

The idea makes sense -- the state recognizes that vehicle accidents will happen and preemptively deals with free loaders by requiring auto insurance, instead of just suggesting it. It falls down when the state isn't actually requiring the insurers to do their damn job.
As in what platforms? I wasn't involved in that part but pretty sure they were posted to the all the usual UK platforms, Reed, Monster, and we also tried some agencies.

Last time we tried Reed we had to take down the ad because we got spammed with hundreds of low effort submissions who didn't seem to even read the description. To be fair I think this is just a market response to spamming in the other direction.
It's in part that some people are naturally introverts and thus withdraw into non-social activities like reading, anime, movies, music, gaming, programming etc. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy because the other kids are out there interacting with others, and thus learning social cues and skills. For example, alcohol famously reduces social inhibitions.

It's not that the natural introverts cannot learn these skills if they apply their mind to it, in fact it's probably easier for them since they're generally smarter.
In particular because Appin Training Centers was only incorporated several months after being named the plaintiff in the lawsuit, and appears to exist in order to facilitate these suits.
Show HN: laidoff.support Support for laid off workers
Price caps are pathetic stand-ins for profit caps.
I fell for a feint though. Reading their docs it seemed like they were going to go in the direction of class components with attributes (class decorators). So we built our app for that, thinking we'd be future proof, but alas the community went 180 degrees the other way, and our Vue 2 app became super hard to upgrade to Vue 3.
I've seen his A combinator called N.

Peter Hancock of University of Edinburgh wrote about a combinatorial basis he called "AMEN". You can Google for "AMEN Combinators". Hancock's N is this person's A.
Doesnt this version still screw up the individual developers or smaller outfits that provide paid addons/upgrades to their open source software? It exonerates open source projects that dont engage in any business activity, but holds responsible the 'stewards' who provide paid services and addons? This would kill a lot of individual software developers and small outfits that fund themselves by selling paid upgrades/addons or other services whereas the non-profit projects still remain for major corporations to leech off of them. Added bonus is that the law will eliminate the small competitors of all those major corporations as individual devs and small outfits cant handle the financial burden of this compliance. To make an example from a healthy open source ecosystem: WordPress project would continue without issues, but all the small developers and outfits who make a living by creating plugins, themes and other things for that ecosystem will go kaput.

Am I misunderstanding this?
It isn't, but neither is rust.

Safe rust is safe from data races, but that's just one kind of potential thread safety issue -- one of the simpler kinds. It's not nothing, but not anywhere close to thread-safe.