skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's all try stuff and see what works, and then retroactively make up some crud on why it worked, if it did work (otherwise brush it under the rug).

Reminds me of how my ex-client's data scientists would develop ML models.
> Pretty ballsy to say that hard data of drivers getting more reckless (which is furnished in the article you're replying to) is superstition.

thankfully, that's not what I said.

What I said is that this idea that everyone forgot how to drive is stupid and superstitious.

blowing smoke up ones ass used to be a medical treatment until we learned differently.

Something may be going on but it sure as shit isn't that people forgot how to drive.
This kind of compromise probably sounds reasonable to someone trying to break an intractable smartphone addiction.

But as someone who has never really had a problem with my smartphone, taking photos of a map and trying to pan around on a dumb phone sounds like pure torture. I can’t imagine it working well for any of the locations I actually need to pull up a map for, which are almost exclusively far away and require long sets of directions.
USB devices built according to the spec must have overvoltage protection, but yeah, I'd be surprised if all of them actually implemented it.
$840 a year just on watching TV is heaps. $4200 over 5 years. That's a fair wack cash.
Hybrid works so well.

No. I live far away from the office. Hybrid, just like a full RTO, means I have to move. I don't want to do that.
You can install pytorch with it, I have been doing so for a while.

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
torch = { version = "1.13.1+cu116", source = "pytorch-cuda" }

[[tool.poetry.source]]
name = "pytorch-cuda"
url = "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu116"
priority = "explicit"

But, it does seem to go off and download many GBs of pytorch packages for all possible python, architecture and OS versions which takes ages. Feels very broken at least.
I think it depends on what your expectations are.

From one perspective, it's a big success in that it's deployed "everywhere", has multiple implementations, and seems to work the same way everywhere. Many language toolchains target it, although there are varying degrees of success / performnance.

From another perspective, it's a "failure" because it's not the end of JavaScript, and it's not an operating system.

There were a number of people/organizations promoting as such -- saying it's basically going to take over all of computing, and be both the foundation of all languages and the foundation of operating systems. That seems a bit silly.
Same reason Japan is succeeding. Monoculture.
You can stay home and keep things the way they were, and management does not need to fire you or confront you because they can tell others (who were to meek to stand up for themselves) that "he/she is working on it" indefinitely. They can save face as you not challenge their authority directly and also don't need to fire you because you pretend to be collaborating, and you going back to the office could happen any time soon.

That's a really good approach, that's also what I'd use if I can't find a better alternative.
Yep, and surprisingly good too (I use it daily).
I had totally not your experience.

I got this book when I was at the first semester of IT. Back in my university town, most students of IT or physics had this book, or lented it from a friend. And we discussed a lot about what was inside.

So I wasn't a seasoned academic, but the new-kid-on-the-block. And my goal while reading was never to understand Gödel. Or to like Bach's music (I actually dislike most of his music). Or to get into arts -- but hey, Escher I like.

My goal was to train my mind. To get into thinking models new to me, because they aren't taught in normal school.

Also, for me this book was an extension. Even while still in normal school, I went to the university library to read "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" (the german version of "Scientific American", but without the nationalism in the title). Many articles were over my top ... but the "Metamagicum" articles I deeply enjoyed. So when this book come out I expected some extension of these articles ... and I was not disappointed.
How glib. In the future, when avoiding addressing everything someone says, you can save yourself some time by not entering the conversation thread.
> I’m biased right now because you assume stuff about me that you maybe shouldn’t.

I only talked about "typical thought processes" because you said "we all" which I assume meant the general population. Didn't assume anything about you.

Even though the base problem was given to me by another, everything I wrote about "what makes a resourceful idiot / how they are a problem" is based on my personal perception of the ones that I've seen. Which is most likely going to be a neurodivergent's impression of certain neurotypicals. AKA biased.

And the "I don't think" was leading a question, not making an assumption about you.

> Everyone’s experiences and thought processes might be starkly different from each other.

...which is I'm so hesitant to believe that everyone is a resourceful idiot.

And why I made a disclaimer about the fact that my own thought processes might be starkly different from not just who I'm describing, but other brains in general.
FYI: HN seems to remove the query string, which contained an auth token to bypass the paywall, so here you go, full link:

https://david-delassus.medium.com/letlang-specification-fina...
> We definitely kept the bomb secret in order to show off our power to the Soviet Union

Err, the British, Australians, and Soviets "in the loop" knew about the bomb development programme - the British and Australians talked the US into starting it after they equivicated for some time, not even taking Einstein seriously about the supposed "need" to develop it.

The Soviets were closely in touch with the progress of the Manhatten Project thanks to Klaus Fuchs who tackled the thorny problem of imploding the fissionable core of the plutonium bomb and was present at the Trinity test.

Which does pose the question, secret from whom?

Certainly from the US Vice President and general US public, the general Commonwealth and Axis public, etc.

Not so much from Allied high command nor even Axis command suspicions - both the Germans and Japanese had their own nascent atomic programs which had promise but lacked resource commitment.
Spotify does this too, at least in my region (Estonia). It's frustrating, but not that frustrating to go back to downloading MP3.
Some things they could compete on, just because I'm overthinking this:

- price (do I have to pay or do you offer free with ads?)

- content quality (do you have 4k movies?)

- organization (can I filter by director? Do you have a collection of all the Oscar-nominated movies from this year?)

- advanced controls (can I make a playlist of tv episodes?
Maybe I want to watch a series in a different order than it was broadcasted)

- accessibility (do you have subtitles in this language?)

- extras (does this have a commentary? a trailer? the cut scenes?)

- more extras (can I pause and get the name of the actor that's on screen or the name of the song that's playing?)
Yep, this is not new. The top people will find new jobs easier, so when you do something to annoy your employees - not to mention something extremely disruptive like RTO - they're more likely to leave first.

Even in this job climate, all they have to do is start answering the occasional recruiter that messages them.
> the Colleoni coat of arms – and on it, are three comma-like shapes. These are testicles, thought to have been included as a display of macho strength, and because of the similarity of the family name to the word for them, coglioni.

Looks like Tres Commas isn't just a Silicon Valley invention!

Also, "braguette" is my new favorite word.
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No, some set of people will forget. Even if they intended or desired to remember. Mental notes fade for some set of people. And at different time lengths.
I mean that's what web crawling is, right? By extension, you just can't reach a page unless you stumble upon a link to it _somewhere_. Google gives you an option to submit a link and schedule a crawl that way, so that's another option if it's not being linked to from anywhere.
> It surprising to me on HN because I would assume most people on here are making good money.

A lot of people are students, or just don't like paying money for a frustrating experience even if they can afford it.

> $62.64/month.

But then you haven't got access to the things which are currently on Netflix or Peacock or YoutubeTV or whatever it is this time, and feel anxious or resentful that you're paying a monthly fee for whichever one you're not currently watching, or else have to spend time canceling or re-signing up for them all the time.

> Legality aside you need a seed box, membership to specific sites, and VPN. Which can add up to more than $30/month just to download pirated content.

That's how the people who have the money do it, but they're not doing it for the money.

> Not to mention the time investment in figuring out how to get the movies and tv shows to your family members on all of their devices.

Why would that take a long time to figure out?

> A budget NAS with 20 TB is going to cost $500. A small PC to transcode also $500.

Used PCs are ~free and anyone can get 20TB of storage to put in it for <$160:

https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Ultrastar-HC510-7200RPM-Drive/dp...

Also, people often have these things already.

> Backing up 20 TB to the Backblaze is going to cost $13/mo.

Why would someone pay money to back up to the internet what they downloaded from the internet to begin with?
Deno Deploy dropped from 35 GCP regions to just 12: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127598
Yes, the sentimental sensationalist yellow journalists at ProPublica have really gone over the top with that one. Oh brother.
None. If you’re solving the darknet riddle on your own, you won’t click through into the article; the title’s a spoiler warning.
Yip, I agree. I'm aware of gross gaming revenue and was involved in the industry in a past life, though obviously never filing as a casino. The thing that misled me, at a glance, was their costs - $3.5 billion. I wasn't aware there'd been massive consolidation in the casino industry, and thought I was looking at a casino's costs/revenue (in which $3.5 billion would be insane without it including losses), not a sprawling corporate enterprise.
I’d second ESET. Go for just their AV product, not full everything-shield, and there are configuration options to make it do less and less, up to a point.

Plus, it can be had cheaply-keys from prior year versions, IIRC (someone correct me if I’m wrong?) will activate (and/or extend?) an account, and those keys can be had legitimately and cheaply from NewEgg or other places.
Take it international new venue each year, maybe London?
Well, since I'm spamming, let's commit to it :)

That's pretty much what "Relieving your Python packaging pain" advocates.

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/relieving-your-python-packaging-p...
> the company was “focusing on autonomous systems, and clearly one purpose of autonomous systems is self-driving cars.”

So autonomous systems != cars

Is Apple's foray into autonomous systems purely for R&D, keeping engineering staff engaged, and spend some cash?

I recall seeing a video of Tim Cook being asked if Apple was building a car and he said something like Apple looks at a lot of things.

To me, and this is just a theory, Apple car was something to keep the media distracted from other developments. For example, Mac Rumors says the Apple Vision Pro was in development for over 10 years. But the first time I heard about the rumor of an VR/AR headset was in 2021.

Cars are a whole different competency then consumer electronics. Regulations, service centers, spare parts—talk about a headache! And imagine the fallout if an Apple car crashes or strands someone in the dead of winter. The automotive industry is notorious for turning brand loyalists into disgruntled critics. I see it all the time- people who swear they will never buy BMW, Merc, Jag, Kia, and Jeep.

Apple likes to squeeze suppliers. Would they be able to squeeze LG Chem or BYD for batteries on this self-driving electric car? Perhaps Apple Car will have a cheap under powered Hyundai 1.6L turbo and the Apple Car Pro will be electric.
>> How about insurance, when there is an accident?

The insurance company would need to demonstrate that you've had an accident because of your modification. Just them being present doesn't invalidate anything.

However, in the real world, you can bet that they would try - you'd probably win in the court of law, but it's a risk.
Hey! So sorry to hear that. Unfortionately, I have never done anything with embedded devices, so I feel like it’s beyond my capabilities.
Ah man, one childhood mystery I wish I didn't know the answer to.
Boeing Finds New Problem with 737 MAX Fuselages
Could you elaborate what context length means in this context? Maybe an example?
Why my side projects failed
I'm really interested in deno, but I didn't yet have the chance to test it properly.

I would love for this year to see the runtime support for either Google Cloud Functions or AWS Lambdas
The technical side has been solved for 15+ years. It's a licensing/rights issue what is screwing with the video experience.

FWIW Netflix should go back to providing physical content rental (DVD, blueray) with full catalog. Or someone should do WHAT Allofmp3 did in the 2000s with Audio and THE ROMS licensing.
It happens, but pretty rarely in my experience, though I'm probably not the most avid consumer of music so other people might have a better grasp of the extent of this issue on Spotify.
> configuration file (...) this file will be evaluated before the Rails application or (...) which makes referencing constants defined in the application code impossible

That's not strictly true. You can use them just fine if there's a good reason to do it. For example this erb file works as expected:

<% require 'socket' %>
<%= Socket.gethostname %>

Useful if you have a specific provider for the config values.
Microsoft Is Working to Address Election "Disinformation and Misinformation"
I've been using the Cat S22 as my main device for the past month or so and have found it to be pretty much exactly what I was looking for.

It's a flip phone that runs android, so can still use whatsapp, signal, email, maps, use rideshare apps, scan qr codes, and play music, but is limited enough that I'm not scrolling on it during free interstitial moments. The screen is too small to really be useful for reading the internet or using something like instagram, but I'm not totally cut off from friends and family.

I've used other dumbphones in the past, notably the Punkt MP01 and the Light Phone II and the Cat feels like one I could use indefinitely and not have to have another device handy. The only exception I would note is that I recently got back from traveling to a foreign country and a city I'd never been and I think I would have rather had a smart phone there.
Wasn’t the U.S. total GDP lower back then though? Percentage of GDP would be a better comparison.

E.g. in 2023, the U.S. GDP was approximately $25 trillion. 1% of that is about $250 billion.
But it need not right? You could easily weave 6 strands in different paths through all the rods and do calculations to be sure that any two could fail and the building still stand.

Sure you now need to tighten 6 cables with a winch rather than 1 to assemble your building, but it still seems like it would be far quicker than traditional frame construction.
Stockholm please!
Strange that you can be so confident about this with private security when even actual police are sometimes involved in cases of excessive force, corruption, coverups. Besides, whatever your personal knowledge/experience is it can't be vast enough to prove a negative here, and only one counter example is needed.

Regardless of the year I think you might want to reconsider your overly confident notions about fiction/reality or at least the condescending tone. I don't know what is institutionalized in what places, but have been threatened by casino security. Fuck around and find out I guess
If I'm hacking something I own, it's also highly likely that I am capable of fixing it and doing any needed maintenance. Part of the hacker mindset is not letting the fear of voiding a warranty stop you from truly owning the product you paid for.
This is the actual reason. TCP being a stream-oriented protocol, it would be perfectly valid (although totally inefficient) for the DNS server to send back an answer in 25 small-sized TCP packets. The DNS client would possibly even not notice it.
HN is overwhelmingly pro-WFH.

Can people who are pro-WFH write some reasons why RTO might be better overall for the company?
These people trust caller id, but shouldn't, of course.
I download said content and share it on a public torrent site. Your move, dilippkumar.
I'm not sure you understand what it means to be a senior engineer.

A senior engineer can generally do every single role involved in the process, from PM all the way down to developer. They often don't because they don't have the time to fill 3 or 4 roles, but they _can_.

One of the roles they can fill is manager and reaching out to others in order to coordinate and facilitate work amongst others.

A senior is _not_ a junior who can program faster or better. A senior is someone who has a much broader set of skills than a junior.
There's an app called Stremio that just blows any "official" app away. The app is not for piracy per-se, but it's easy to turn it into a full fledged PopcornTime version that works.
Why woodpeckers don't get stuck in trees
Why "flop"?

It was a fashion trend that lasted for more than 100 years! Sure, fashion moved a lot slower in medieval times, making 100 years somewhat short-lived for the time. But even so, including the less ostentatious non-padded versions, the codpiece in general was a practical piece of clothing and truly ubiquitous at it's peak.

In some ways it was way more successful than any modern fashion trend could ever hope to be...
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (2008)
That's deffinately not true, I used to go to the casino under no illusion I'd come out poorer. I'd just do it because it was fun.
My grandparent's crappy ISP-sponsored router from ~2017 (maybe 2016), TP-Link C1200 v1, had the IPv6 firewall enabled by default. (It has UPnP enabled by default too... which I turned off promptly. They don't need it anyway.)

My own Asus router from 2016, RT-AC1200G+, also came with IPv6 firewall enabled.

Both routers are 8 years old at this point. And they are far from being a prosumer product. What router are you using that it doesn't come with IPv6 firewall enabled?

edit: Oh, and my friend's cheapo Netis router (quite an obscure brand IMO) also had IPv6 firewall enabled out of the box.

>ipv6 firewalls to become ubiquitously strong

They don't need to be strong, the firewalls just have to be stateful so that they can drop unsolicited packets. It's that simple. Any other more sophisticated attacks would have made your NAT equally vulnerable as well.

Additionally, stateful firewalls have been available since decades ago. They are not exactly black magic.
Good, I use yandex mail and search and I would mind if it died.

Mail is a no nonsense mail provider, and works everywhere my own tld address is rejected by stupid forms.

And yandex censorship is different than google censorship, so the venn diagam of what you can find with both is pretty good.
And they're going from binge-watching ad-free episode of an entire series, to releasing one episode a week... with adverts.

Yeah, no thanks. I'll just VPN+torrent the ad-free version and watch that, thanks. On any device of my choosing as well.

And why should I pay £8.99 or whatever to one streaming service, for one programme, that was previously "free to air" for the other series? Paramount taking back Star Trek from Netflix for example.

I'm not sure how many multi-million dollar, unseen cancelled-after-one-season dramas with 50,000 viewers these studios need to create before they realise 'we need viewers to 'build a franchise' and make a profit'.

Just imagine if these series or dramas were only seen by a few thousand people at most: Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Band of Brothers, Shogun, Dallas, Cheers and so on. Even How I Met Your Mother and Big Bang Theory were pretty much pre-streaming when they started, but syndicated to world-wide terrestrial channels.
Appreciate the video.

Points for improvement:

- Almost dropped out due to the 1min intro.

- And: are you actually using your mic? It sounds like a built in MacBook/smartphone microphone.
They're just pricing themselves out of their target audience with bad price per quality/variety.

Of all the players netflix should be best placed to understand this given that this effect basically made them.
Pandoc runs locally, or there are 2 bad looking websites that run it. I wonder if it would be worth making a good looking UI with pandoc running in the background.
That's not been my experience with hybrid work at all.

The days in the office were always unproductive, as you work on a new desk, need to set up your work station (which gets even worse with hot desk approach). You also couldn't really count on having all the meetings in person, as someone always had to stay at home for some (probably quite often, bs) reason, so now you have 5 people in office that need to Zoom because 2 stayed at home.

After a couple of you realized you won't get much done in the office, you use the time in the office to chat about things, most often not about work. When it's about work, it's in a negative light about silly decisions the company / team has been making, things that annoy you to no end, you can "casually" discuss alternative companies that hire your kind of talent. In person, it's much easier to talk about these things casually.

With hybrid work, you also can't hire people that aren't reasonably close to the main office.
Offtopic:

Recently I found myself in the market for a custom keyboard, to my great surprise. Custom as not as DIY but as something different than $10 OTC or even $100 Logitech.

After the hours of watching pics I decided to just see it with my own hands and went to a shop which specialize on them.

And there I confirmed the feeling what I had before - 99% of these keyboards, despite quite advanced tech gone into them on all layers, are not usable, because they are made to stroke the ego of the owner but not for the actual work. This is especially evident by the crammed right cluster which makes typing brackets, curlies and quotes quite a pain, because the Shift key is gutted and nowhere under the right pinky.

Using something else than microUSB or Type-C (for the PC connector) is just a cherry on top.
It's the HiPhi Z.
This is a low effort comment, overly negative and provides no value to the discussion.
It's the "HiPhi Z":

> Despite having a 74 km less advertised range than the favored Tesla Model 3, The HiPhi Z bested the world’s best-selling electric sedan by a whopping 81 km (50.3 miles) in real-world winter testing.