skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listening to our podcast episodes on Business Books & Co. won't quite get you as much as reading the actual books, but it will follow a sort of 80/20 rule in that I think our episodes cover 80% of the major points in each book. Here are the episodes we've done on books in that list based on the categories the author ascribed:

Product, Design & Marketing

- S4E2 The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
https://pnc.st/s/business-books/5d9f9531/the-lean-startup

Organisational Behaviour, Management & Communication

- S1E1 High Output Management by Andy Grove
https://pnc.st/s/business-books/095f226633d34496/high-output...

- S3E4 The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
https://pnc.st/s/business-books/1067de4d/the-hard-thing-abou...

- S3E7 Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss (author interview)
https://pnc.st/s/business-books/920fe358/never-split-the-dif...

Creativity & Getting Stuff Done

- S2E2 Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
https://pnc.st/s/business-books/6e3f927715094617/creativity-...

We also have 30+ more episodes... many are book summaries/discussions but about 1/3 of recent episodes are author interviews. You can find all of our content for free on your podcast player of choice here: https://pnc.st/s/business-books
I read The Cuckoo's Egg only a few years ago (in my 30s) and it's an absolute delight. Easy to understand if you do any sort of linux administration, and really demonstrates how lax things were and how far we've come in terms of cyber security.
IIRC former NCI head, Vince de Vita, mentions that early oncology research was pretty much right-to-try by default because they had no data on anything. And it made some people live longer because they could change strategy after the first one failed. Nowadays you have a standard care and if it fails the system will almost drop you out..
For a mere 20M-70M rows I'd stick with Postgres, index, and materialized view.

After that is when I'll start migrate to duckdb or clickhouse (or citus if I don't want to move out completely from Postgres)
I sent you an email from diego.moita69 at gmail.

Thanks for reaching out!
This is the collective genius of everyone driving around looking at their phones. The government realizes that worrying about vehicles’ mechanical state is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
“Officially recorded”? Is it being recorded? Assumed it was just a live feed
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/att-took-283-mil...

This is one fairly recent example. They didn't just get provided "money to use for broadband." They were expected to provide service within an area, and they didn't actually provide service to people they said they were capable of serving.
LA can independently go after local scofflaws because the Federal agencies tasked with enforcing the federal rules are corrupt and not doing their job.
> It's also temporary and goes away the moment the drug disappears.

Some meditative insight might reveal that, in fact, everything is temporary. Therapies don't need to be cures.
A radio club in the Netherlands were able to receive it with their twenty five meter diameter dish.

https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024/uhf-signals-of-japanese-m...
The invalidity of that claim is a bit more nuanced. Having an inner, less secure algorithm may expose timing attacks and the like. There are feasible scenarios where layered encryption (with an inner weak algo and outer strong algo) can be less secure than just the outer strong algorithm on its own.
NTR is a very inefficient use of nuclear fuel. What you want is a NSWR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket

A true nuclear rocket. Just like a chemical rocket is a controlled explosion, NSWR is a controlled (cough) nuclear explosion.
> and pinch there

Pinchers!

I'm only teasing honestly.
There was a time when it made sense to have both done by the same entity. Time for a devorce. One does the work the other collects the reward??
the statement of facts[0] essentially disagrees with that perspective.

"33. Supervisors B, C, and F, and others, however, realized that VW could not design a diesel engine that would both meet the stricter US NOx emissions standards that would become effective in 2007 and attract sufficient customer demand in the US market. Instead of bringing to market a diesel vehicle that could legitimately meet the new , more restrictive US NOx emissions standards, VW AG employees acting at the direct of Supervisors B, C, and F and others, including Company A employees, designed, created, and implemented a software function to detect, evade, and defeat US emissions standards.

tl;dr : Bosch (company A) along with VW employees created the evasion function at the behest of supervisors.

[0]: https://www.mass.gov/doc/vw-statement-of-factspdf/download
i actually work at a financial institution and you should not trust your bank, you should review your statements and complain if you find errors. which you will.
I'm guessing it could be because when you pay cash you go into the store which causes people to buy stuff and they more than make up the cost.
A little less than 300kWh/year. For a 9cft fridge, some fancy new ones use even more than that.
I think eventually when they have an m2 on an iphone then it can work but they’ll probably have to remove the fans somehow. Also the front display I wonder if it will go away one day. To reduce the weight further, cost, and with sunglasses you can’t see the persons eyes. However, it does differentiate the look from oculus
I’m honestly surprised how infrequently i see people wear AirPods Max. I see sony equivalent 10-50x more and beats quite frequently too.

But, just looked up the price and didn’t realize they were $550. Wow. That explains a lot of it.

Even the newest Sonys are just over $300- i thought that was expensive
Agree. I don’t think people realize just how many incoming video streams this thing has to process. I’ve heard it’s like 14 or so independent streams of video that needs processing in extremely low latency ways. Apple had to build an entire dedicated chip just to handle the realtime processing of this much incoming data.
I have one wish for every program I use, whether it’s a browser or not - let me use the keyboard exclusively. I don’t care about your UI, I’m not here to be wow’d by design. I don’t want to remember where on the screen or hidden in menus you put my obscure command, which I happen to use regularly.

Better yet, give me a keyboard-shortcuts.json that I can customize myself, in case one of your commands conflicts with one on my machine.

I want to get in and out of your shitty program as quickly as I can and get on with my life.

~ end old man rant
Materials availability / cost is the driving force.

America has lots of wood and lots of gypsum, and that's what we build our houses with.
It's the weekend so I can't confirm this with my work laptop but I'm pretty sure using arrow keys snaps windows in their predefined configurations (half the screen). And then the annoying UI asking what you want to do with the other half pops up. I could snap it to half the screen and then resize the window to it's original size but I shouldn't have to do that.
It's apparently now trivial to brute force the private key used for Windows XP-era Microsoft Product Activation, as another example. (that's where UMSKT and the like get their private keys from)
> This, and perhaps parent's driving skill has just been poor for a very long time now. No drop, just sitting at the bottom.

I'm not trying to be mean, but the adage in poker of spotting the fool at the table here applies. And as a person who rides bicycles, motorcycles as well as drives cars, and has driven in the EU with much stricter driving requirements I'd say there has been a massive drop in aptitude over all.

So much so that I just want to live a life that allows me to be car-free now. EVs are nice, but having everything I want within walking distance is much more preferable.
It's likely an additional data point in some kind of 'suspicious' rating.

I think I hit quite a few of those 'suspicious' check-boxes that law enforcement would consider important, whilst actually technically knowledgeable people wouldn't even blink at them. Refer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39050898
>Ultimately it will take strict legislation and compliance measurement along with penalties to protect the government from overstepping the bounds they promise not to step over already, let alone new ones.

They will find ways to not comply, often blatantly. They have no scruples.
Any large film/music/video games twitter account post gets spammed by AI bots and I mean literal AI bots that occasionally give the game away with "you have run out of credits" or "I don't understand this prompt" messages. Also a bunch of them just retweeting their own posts that have nothing to do with the original in an attempt to farm engagement for their older stuff
One problem with GBM is how fast it progresses. I was my dad's caretaker when he had it, and the amount of waiting and paperwork required for most of the programs we looked at were beyond what his life expectancy was. Those that might have been possible were shut down - it was during the peak of covid. The exhaustion from the daily visits to the cancer center for radiation treatment required full head to toe PPE for both of us. Cancer itself is exhausting, but the paperwork and phone calls and pharmacies - it's too much.

I'm grateful for the work of the doctors in the article, and very hopeful that the treatment works. A close friend of mine was on a trial vaccine for his cancer, which looked promising for a while, but suddenly stopped working - the cancer was ultimately fatal.

I think trials should be offered as potential first steps, especially for aggressive cancers. Patients know the risks. They're either 100% going to die within 6 months to cancer, or, worst case, die trying to fight it, or best case, be cured.
Same here. My first reaction to this was "how does this compute entropy at all"? Also, entropy and complexity are two different, if related, concepts, both mathematically and colloquially speaking.

It's abuse of technical language in efforts to sound impressive, in my opinion, which I guess is a valid form of language evolution. There are other words in our lexicon that have become general purpose and fuzzy in spite of their precise technical origins.
Trials aren't really designed to be care-giving mechanisms. It's not a goal to be easy to get into. They just need to fill the trials with eligible patients and that's it, obviously very unfortunately for a lot of folks.
The article suggests not charging your phone to 80% and unplugging, but doesn’t cover the recent iOS setting which allows capping your charge to 80%. That’s what I do and it offers best of both worlds.
> Are "Random shell scripts from the internet" categorically worse than "random docker images from the internet"?

> With the shell script, you can literally read it in an ...

... https://shellcheck.net.

Can't do that if all of the work is hidden in a Dockerfile's RUN statement. I commit shell scripts in shell script files, and the Dockerfile just runs that shell script. Then the shell script can be version controlled for purpose, static analyzed, and parsed in an IDE with a plugin supporting a shell script language server.
Not sure why you got down voted.

> it doesn't waste resources that other software could be using, because no other software is running.

While this is interesting observation it is not always true. A lot of devices are low power, and depend on battery.
So, do we think there is a path to using some future version of the transparent OLED's that were being shown off at CES here?

If the same density can be achieved you can imagine how much simpler the entire device would get with just a transparent screen – you'd have to move the rest of the electronics into the edges but that seems very doable.
I have yet to find any fast UI framework that uses Skia. It seems it's great for mostly static pages (like old style HTML) but as soon as you do animations and desktop resolutions, Skia's CPU rendering will fall apart.

Case in point, none of the Flutter examples are smooth on my 4K laptop. But I can play Assassin's Creed Mirage (released a few months ago) just fine at 70+ fps.

Edit: And my Android phone also can't handle scrolling up in this Flutter demo app without severe stuttering: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gskinner.f...

My understanding is that rendering large text blocks with Skia will max out the CPU. So they would need to chunk the content of the div inside the scroll container, like what Chrome does.
Phalanx CIWS deployed on a Houthi missile just seconds from hitting a US warship
Why not simply say "disorder" then and:

a. avoid making certain subsets of people think you're using precise concepts that you aren't.
b. make it easier for people that don't know what entropy even is to understand what this tool does. Disorder is a far more widely understood term in my view.
Gotta get a bigger antenna for my baofeng to receive this.
Thank you, hope it works for many years!
People will presumable share these devices with various people in their family. I could see the auto adjustment being pretty critical.
Wierd Algorithms [video]
Bookmarks stored as pseudo-files in the regular file system and accessible via the browser or double clicking the file directly.
The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles UNDER his house - Numberphile [video]
At some point, we'll publish more documentation about this, including instructions for how to build your own language binding.

And, it's only a sub-process right now, but we plan on also providing a C library as another way to bind to Pkl.

But if you want to learn more about how this works, feel free to connect with us on GitHub! https://github.com/apple/pkl/discussions
I got a few, also the longer one. Works 99% for both days and PD.

But then I have this one Seagate external SSD that simply won’t mount with it, for which I have to use a TB4 cable (even though it’s not rated for TB).

Also, some cheap Chinese devices only work with their supplied USB-A to C cable.

Other than those edge cases, those Apple cables are great.

It goes to show there is no one cable to rule them all, even though they look identical.
Yep. Same for the other end of the cable. I’ve heard folks ask why it doesn’t use a mag connector like on the Apple Watch since it appears to mimic the shape.
I wasn't personally aware of the migration until after it had been executed, but if I'd reviewed the PR I'm not confident I would have known any better. It doesn't feel intuitive that any table with any foreign keys gets completely wiped.
> I think trials should be offered as potential first steps

We need really good science and statistics, far superior to p-values, to allow this potentially life saving treatment without the inevitable deaths from people at the limits returning a "not significant" finding for something that actually works.

Maybe something like allowing people who are too far gone to qualify for treatment as part of a study to instead qualify for the experimental treatment with their results only being included as a special "humanitarian" cohort.

I'd also like studies to be able to compare a treatment group against prior control groups, so that everyone today can get the experimental treatment instead of some of them being given a placebo (if there's a lack of another decent treatment to use as a control). If there's nothing effective that can be done as a control, every one should get the treatment.
Having recently listened to the freakonomics episode on the same thing I'm mystified by something that podcast and this article do. They state that they're is an estimated 2% of bunk papers or there but then also that they are "becoming overwhelmed by the amount of bogus research" or that they "would estimate that there are far more paper mill papers than general papers" when it's like "swimming in garbage".
2% doesn't seem like it should elicit those sentiments.
E-bikes certainly make it more accessible and I would highly recommend one if you are trying to drive less. Myself and many of my friends commute primarily by bicycle and get around fine on regular bikes, but our city is small and commutes are less than 5 miles.
That feels like it'd cause light bleed issues when you want it to act as a proper VR headset? Can you make transparent OLEDs which can go fully 100% opaque when desired?
Rather the opposite, actually.

The allowed broadcast strength in the 2.4GHz band is so high that in a (sub)urban environment you won't just receive your own network, but also those of literally a dozen neighbors around you - and there are plenty of areas in your house where you can receive your neighbor's network better than your own so you end up in a shouting match.

And of course many people "solve" their poor wifi connection by adding a repeater or increasing the transmission power, which fixes the symptoms for them but makes the overall problem worse for everyone around them.

5Ghz has essentially solved the problem, simply because the signal gets killed real quick by things like walls - especially exterior ones. Your signal won't make it much beyond your house so you don't get in a shouting match with your neighbors, and adding a repeater (mostly) does what you'd expect it to.
That is what Nvidia would like you to think and is exactly why their CEO said it.
No, this is bad advice. Yes, battery management software has gotten better, but you still can't get around physics. Keeping lithium polymer cells at close to 4.2V per cell for prolonged periods of time will degrade them quickly, regardless of any clever "maintenance mode" hacks that make the cell dance around the top 5% of it's capacity. But also, never charging past 80% will confuse the charge controller and start giving you incorrect percentages if it's not expecting you to do that.

Charge to 80% most days, charge to 100% occasionally, avoid discharging beyond 10 or 15%.
Are you suggesting it is sensible to measure airplane crashes in hertz?

It's not algebraically incorrect, but it contains something dangerously wrong connotations about what kind of data it is.

https://xkcd.com/687/
Agreed. The idea that financial engineering is somehow necessary to "promote liquidity" in facilitating the changing of ownership of a business is completely arbitrary, and not inherently good as far as I'm concerned.

Sure, rules that make it harder to buy companies might slow down the volume of businesses being created due to less investor interest, but I'm not sure that decline would surpass the slowdown in fradulent exit schemes.
Oh, it isn’t always play - sometimes you discover that you are IO bound when you shouldn’t be, and end up tracing your woes through a similar route to that which you describe to a bug in the hypervisor scheduler where network and disk IO are blocking each other due to a shared interrupt specific to the combination of disk controller and silicon that’s running the kernel. You blow a day of engineering time, but you improve performance of your product by an order of magnitude on the same hardware.
First, do no harm. This is a foundational tenant that permeates healthcare. As a former health system executive I have been in positition to influence decision making about high risk experimental treatments in certain cases. In the US currently, in most states, you as a patient have a more or less unlimited right to try experimental treatments if you are facing a reasonable likelihood of death otherwise. The FDA plays a very limited role in one-off situations though they are frequently made to play the villain. The reality is that there are legal avenues available much of the time that providers and companies are loathe to employ. Much of the time drug companies and doctors have lots of reasons not to want to roll the dice if they think the odds of success are low enough. The risk/reward is a very different outlook for the patient than the providers and companies that may need to be a party to the treatment. There are reprecussions to all patient deaths as a result of an experimental treatment however well intended and consented.

A complicating factor that weighs over everything is that there is a long history of terrible abuse of informed consent with less privileged patients, puerto rico is a trainwreck of abuse going back a century but there are many more. As an administrator I always felt that patients who are freely giving informed consent always have the right to try, however slim the chance of success. But, it can be brutally difficult to parse out those instances where influence, coercion or even misrepresentation are at play with a particular patient and family. Family dynamics of course can play a large role too.
Those aliens have no gps and worse internet.
Flight travel and shipping is more expensive too.
Weather forecasting is more difficult.
They never create Starlink.
You keep the battery pack in a pocket. If they did what you're suggesting, size would be a problem, and fans are ... usually less effective in pockets.
Just anecdata, it really seems like drivers are significantly worse after COVID than before. Not just on main roads but on side streets and parking lots. I can't say if it's due to driving less during shutdowns or a confluence of other issues but people seem to drive shockingly worse.
I remember someone saying "There was no market for 'Amiga games', there was a market for Amiga 500 games." If you look at it that way, it had a nice long run as a game machine, while failing in most other segments.
This is absolutely true.

There is a pretty staggering difference in terms of how the different insurance companies pay out their claims -- everything from how they dictate services and hourly rates within their Direct Repair Program (DRP), and to the parent's point, where they set thresholds on the percentage of parts on a claim/repair which can be:

* OEM (e.g. genuine parts from the auto manufacturer)
* vs. Aftermarket (e.g. 3rd party clones)
* vs. Remanufactured (e.g. picked up from a salvage yard)

In general, higher-end insurance companies that charge higher premiums tend to want collision repair body shops utilizing majority or even all-OEM parts, whereas other "cut rate" insurance carriers typically try and get body shops to utilize mostly or all Aftermarket parts, some of which can have very questionable reliability.

My company has many clients in the automotive and collision repair industry, and we've even built a number of parts procurement platforms for the US and Canada markets -- in one of those applications, we specifically had a module that put in the DRP part allocation requirements for each insurance carrier, and to run reports for those carriers to show body shops that were in compliance vs. out of compliance with those requirements.
Which make and model of keypunch do people use these days? I thought that IBM had discontinued the Model 029 ages ago (along with all the other unit record equipment).
Well, it would likely be affordable at least.

On the downside, when the next disaster hit and FEMA didn't cover it, it would look like FEMA doesn't want to cover low income housing, which isn't a good look.

But there does need to be some mechanism to convince people to abandon homes and towns that are not appropriate given environmental conditions. And it needs to be done carefully so it's not like kick all the poor people out, do some civil engineering that never happened while it was a poor community, then sell the land to developers who make a huge profit.
> Trials aren't really designed to be care-giving mechanisms.

Sure, but they could be. Easy enough to gain profit from those who get the disease at a later date. If a current standard of care treatment is used as a control for say, half of the cohort, there could be some way to charge every participant's insurance for half the cost of the standard of care (with the other half getting the experimental treatment on a blinded basis).