skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a UK accountant, but I'm currently working as a finance software analyst.

I spend quite a bit of time coding to solve problems. Normally turning a csv into another csv (Python), or writing Javascript for our ERP (Netsuite).

There is little competiton for roles, they're well paid, and you get exposed to some interesting(?), process type problems.

My point is that there are lots of careers where coding isn't the main thrust of the role, but is really useful.

I learned Python whilst in a role where I was underemployed and it looked enough like work that no-one bithered me about it. I also fart around with computers and code in the evenings.

I am sure there are tasks you could automate in your own role to give you confidence in other roles. Or maybe even carve our a more coding based niche. Understand code and law? Great!
True. Brevity works better.
The iPhone is quote a big (and at times quite heated) device, not sure that the philosophy behind it will help Apple in this case. Apple Watch, while physically small, it can't honestly do all that much (like displaying a movie in HD-like conditions on a reasonable big screen), so its energy requirements are not that big to begin with.
> Their subscription service is only behind Netflix and Amazon

Because it's drastically cheaper in an obvious dumping exercise, and has some interesting IP kids and grown ups that used to be kids want to (re)watch. However there really isn't that much content on it, nor is new content coming that quickly, so at some point after everything of interest has been seen, people will start unsubscribing.

This is why Netflix is constantly churning out new stuff of very varying quality (utter shit next to masterpieces) - you need to keep people paying the subscription.
Also, mirrors that curve near the far end.

Each time I visit US I'm frustrated by the american cars having flat mirrors. The blind spots are insane. I guess it's due to some weird regulation?

In EU mirrors have their last 2-4cm curved, and there's virtually no blind spot, and you don't need to adjust mirrors too precisely even.
Paramount?
They have a page for this: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
that is the exact same language used for the canadian law. "zero emission" includes hybrid

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/cars-and-light-tr...
Debugging Tokio instrumentation
What's the speed? I heard of llamafile before.
I ran a Hackintosh as my main computer between 2014 and 2022. Large part of the reason was cost: I was a student, so I didn't really have money to drop thousands upon thousands to get a Mac desktop. Even dropping like 1200€ on the cheapest MacBook Pro, which got me into using macOS in the first place, was a tough ask.

Another aspect was that the Mac desktop lineup wasn't great. There was the Mac Mini, which had a pretty limited chassis for any kind of expansion, not the best CPU options and ran on integrated graphics. Then there was the iMac, which had the same CPU I chose for my Hackintosh, but was significantly more expensive and came with a monitor that I didn't really need since I already had a good monitor. And lastly there was the Mac Pro, which was overkill both for budget and power, since it wasn't like you could spec it out with an i7 instead of a Xeon. The latest Mac Pro was also the trashcan, really emphasising how not great the lineup was.

With a Hackintosh, I could really just choose what parts I wanted, as long as macOS supported them in some way, and stuff as many SSDs and HDDs as I required over time, since it's not like my student budget expanded to having a separate NAS. And it'd be much cheaper than a comparable Mac, not that there were really any directly comparable ones. Performance-wise the iMac would've probably been the best one.

While it was a pretty superb system, especially for the money, it did get a bit tiresome to deal with the hacky nature of the system by the end of it. macOS updates would always be somewhere between "mild pain" and "large pain", so I did defer updates quite a lot. Sleep also stopped working at some point, so I often kept the computer running 24/7. And when Apple switched over to ARM, I knew that it was time to jump the Hackintosh ship. Thankfully by 2022, I had access to engineering bucks and had already acquired a NAS for my data storage needs, so I replaced my Hackintosh with the first-generation Mac Studio. A lot more expensive than my Hackintosh was, but a great computer nonetheless. Also dropped my apartment's total power usage by like 15-20%.
I listened to a fascinating podcast from Jane Street on their solution.
Pasted the relevant part

https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/
--quote
"So, we’re trying to build a proof of concept. At the end of the day, we sort of figured, “All right. We have these GPS appliances.” We talked about hardware timestamping before on the GPS appliances, and how they can’t hardware timestamp the NTP packets, so that’s problematic. We thought, “How can we move time from the GPS appliances off into the rest of the network?” And so we decided that we could use PTP to move time from the GPS appliances to a set of Linux machines, and then on those Linux machines we could leverage things, like hardware timestamping, and the NTP interleaved mode to move the time from those machines onto machines further downstream.

The NTP interleaved mode, just to give a short overview of what that means… when you send a packet if you get it hardware timestamps on transmission the way you use that hardware timestamp is you get it kind of looped back to you as an application. So I transmit a packet, I get that hardware timestamp after the packet’s already gone out the door. That’s not super useful from an NTP point of view, because really you wanted the other side to receive that hardware timestamp, and so the interleaved mode is sort of a special way in which you can run NTP and that when you transmit your next NTP packet you send that hardware timestamp that you got for the previous transmission, and then the other side, each side can use those. I don’t want to get into too much of the details of how that works, but it allows you to get more accuracy and to leverage those hardware timestamps on transmission."
-- end quote
People thought that war in Europe will be impossible. They were wrong. And now we are paying the price. Turns out large conventional war is very much a thing. Right now we have a big one in Europe, handful are brewing around the world.

Artillery is still, and for many reasons will be, a king. Shells are order of magnitude cheaper than rockets. They are smaller. Easier to manufacture. Missiles are nice if you want to destroy specific targets. Things that move or are so far away that artillery can't reach them.
> This sounds like a bad idea. I doubt people will respond with proper context, especially given that it will still be lacking in information.

Waymo has 360 degrees cameras. There's absolutely no lack of context if the video starts 2-3 minutes before the incident and stops when everything was sorted out at the scene. Bonus points if it has audio also.
I wouldn't be that worried about generic, nonpersonalized ads, but the idea that by clicking a link you consent to be systematically spied upon by means that an average user cannot even comprehend is repugnant to me.
3M smart toothbrushes cause millions in damage due to DDoS attack
I would guess so, yes.
Getting big "this is actually good for Bitcoin!" vibes from this. I don't think we can fairly assess who was at fault, given that none of us were there. But it is insane to just assume a manned vehicle would have fared worse, and declare it a victory for driverless cars.
No business I worked for values what modern universities are producing.
I guess social media is generally not claimed to be a curated experience, whereas on HN the curation is explicitly described with words like “gratifying intellectual curiosity” and the like.
Safari is nothing like IE 6. If the price of a free web is some incompatibility then it’s a price worth paying.
it's even easier than before with the internet.

> δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν — Θουκυδίδης
I think it was outside their ecosystem, and they let it happen probably in the same way they let HTML websites happen with modification (accept apple pay? install the app?) but not a lot.

apple's podcast directory is NOT required to listen to a podcast.

that said, most folks submit their RSS feeds to apple (and google play, etc)
Self driving cars are a misguided attempt to make driving safer when the underlying issue isn't necessarily the driver.
The US is a fairly aggressive power that gets involved in a lot of overseas wars. If you backcast the same logic to WWII; the US could have had a nuclear shield then and been perfectly safe from invasion, but what it actually wanted was the ability to get involved in Europe and the Pacific.

Having an impenetrable defence is nice, but the US hasn't fought a defensive war in ... I don't know how long. Maybe a century for all I care.
Yah I was thinking of Diaspora a bit when I included the word "few" lol. Although even in that case Egan is willing to hand-wave away technology in one place if it is the most narratively convenient way to move the story around to some other technological or philisophical conundrum he's after in particular (like how the computer technology of a Polis is basically just magic) or if it makes the story more accessible to a human audience (like how the "gestalt" sense is usually written as straightforward human-style vision even if it is ostensibly some distant derivative there of). If we do start uploading our brains into computers I don't think I'm going to give Greg Egan credit for "predicting" it, but he did take good advantage of that trope to explore some really cool ideas.

IML the point of sci-fi is to ask interesting questions. Very rarely is that question "what is the absolutly most plausible thing that could happen next century?”.
You obviously are not from a culture where everybody is a cyclist. We have more bikes than cars in our country because you can use them at all ages and get to more places using a bike. My kids learned to ride a bike at 2.

We have some research [0], on average anybody over 6 rode a bike 232 times and an average of about 1000 km in 2022.

[0] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/verkeer-en-vervoer/pe...
It's open secret ROCA is thoroughly infiltrated by PRC intelligence, and Chinese missiles can hit anywhere in TW in 7 minutes. If anything, if PRC wants to unilaterally attack TW, you would expect PRC to manufacture casus belli that TW is pursuing nuclear program to preemptively strike TW before they even start assembling an invasion force. Most of the world would be left shrugging because nuclear proliferation of non recognized UN state is going to be jus ad bellum reason for PRC to start whacking TW indiscriminantly. The entire PRC invasion can be seen months away is stupid for this reason, they're not going to telegraph an amphib build up before destroying TWs military first. And as seen in exercises in response to Pelosi, they can pull that operation together in days, the hardware movement itself indistinguishable from exercise mobilization.
I think the end goal of self driving cars is simply to let people do something else than drive. Safety is only a condition for this to happen.
I too am very surprised by what I'm reading. For contrast, here's a recent thread of people explaining how beneficial it is to work in small commits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39187487
> Trump is aligned with your average American

Considering he lost the popular* vote in 2016, that's a strong claim.

If he manages the popular vote this time, I'll grant you it.

> No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. — HLM

* which distinguishes itself from the electoral results by clearly including the opinion of the median voter.
You clearly feel very strongly about this, but maybe try not to assume that you are the only person who reeeeeally gets the scale of this stuff.
> It fees to kill animals for science

> What it feels like to kill 563 mice for science

That's some title-gore in this submission--unless the destination page itself had the problem, and was fixed in the next ~14 minutes.
Or these men simply lead more active lives with regular exercise. Hard to tell.
You said it was specifically anti-Christian, not this broader claim of "religious belief".

Allowing secular homosexual marriage is no more anti-Christian than allowing secular divorce.

We do not give carte blanche to religious viewpoints.

People can hold religious beliefs which are sexist, racist, or homophobic, as you surely must know. Others are free to call them out for their sexism, racism, and homophobia.

Are you going to attack a Christian whose religious belief is that his faith supports homosexual marriage? Are you going to deny that Christian his liberty to tell a homophobic Christian that those homophobic views are not Christ-like?

If I have the strongly held religious belief that I must proselytize my faith, even at work during break time, and a co-worker objects and does not want to listen to my proselytizing, then under US Title VII Civil rights law my employer must stop me, even if I think it's an attack against my Christian faith, because in our secular system the religious rights of one do not override the religious rights of another.

Since millions of Christians support homosexual marriage, it makes no sense to say that support for secular homosexual marriage, and opposition to those against it, is anti-Christian.

The United Church of Canada, which is the largest Protestant denomination in Canada, is not anti-Christian.

The Episcopal Church is not anti-Christian.

The Church of Denmark, which is Denmark's state religion, is not anti-Christian.

All of them support homosexual marriage not just in the secular sense but sanctified within church practices.

You are free to say they don't actually follow God's Word, as clearly expressed in the Bible, but then it's more like yet another doctrinal disagreement between the Dutch Reformed Churches, which you've mistaken as a mass anti-Christian attack.
I’ve been waiting for this since the first talk about Unison. Love the huge progress you have made and congrats to the public release of Unison Cloud!

Question: Is it possible to set the region of the database/storage? Or is there any timeframe when this can be configured? For GDPR reasons I cannot use hosting that doesn’t support storage in the EU.
People thought the same about Putin, or junta in Argentina. Problem is that they couldn't understand their motivation. Some people, don't care about GDP, well being of their populace or popularity, not to mention media. They don't have to worry about reelections, or retirement.

Just maintaining their power.

And that gives them time to pursue things politicians from liberal democracies consider things of history.
But your mother is still better off with the drunks not driving (they may crash into her car). So she may still have less accidents in a world where everyone goes self driving.

This will still leave us with the random and dangerous behaviours of cyclists and motorcycles though.
> would never ever had access to launch codes

What do you think, how many hours does it take to remove and jury-rig launch signal electronics for a motivated nation state at the cutting edge of weapons technology? If the Soviet troops had agreed to leave the bombs in situ, Ukraine would have had some sort of nuclear capability within the week. (And even if the Russians had sabotaged it, Iran and NorK prove that obtaining or refining the fissile material is far harder than explosives lensing and ballistic missile delivery.)
"Hallucinations" can't be solved, they are there by design. This is how people's mind works too.
Vesuvius Challenge used the DLS I12 "High resolution imaging camera" mode: https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Imaging-and-Microscopy... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I6JNrR6A9pMdANbn6uAuXbcDNwj...

The 2019 scans were done at 7.91 micrometer resolution with 88KeV monochromatic x-rays. Synchrotrons like DLS can also use their uniquely coherent x-rays to do diffraction imaging but I see no evidence they've tried that with Vesuvius scrolls. (Because the object is too thick?)

That scan is 5.5 terabytes of .tif files. The 2023 scan apparently is at 3.24 micrometer resolution and four separate scans of 53/70/88/105KeV each, which should produce a vast, data processing-chokingly wad of data. If all x thousand scrolls need to be scanned at that detail then the Vesuvius Challenge people are going to be juggling a lot of hard drives.
A lot of companies in the EU only survive due to government grants, so I'm not sure apple will be successful on this one. They are trying a USA strategy on EU soil.
Here in the PNW,

"The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon ... up to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep [and which] stretches for over eighty miles (130 km) as the river winds westward [toward Portland]." - WPedia

Hmmm. Now I'm wondering how many reservoirs already (or could) exist above and along 80 miles of river. (No need to dig tunnels to the generators.)
Others have made better points but I want to add another thing to point out you can also be making the same "is-ought" mistake yourself:

Impaired drivers (drink, drugs, sleep), bad drivers, dangerous drivers, etc. who ought to use the self-driving function are exactly the kinds of people who won't and continue to drive badly.

What this means is the safer drivers leave it off (because they outperform the system), while dangerous drivers also leave it off because they mistakenly believe they outperform the system. The traits that it's meant to protect people from are the very traits that ensure it can't do its job.
Isn't Meta the one building the AR/VR operating system? Quest runs Android and they are upstreaming the 3D stuff, I think.
Reminder: this phrase was never used
I stopped after a few seconds because I thought will staring at a black circle just give me eye strain (again)?
What do you mean by "sending ads your way" and how did you 'literally beg them to stop'?
NASA's Mars Exploration Lab Lays Off 570 Because Congress Can't Get It Together
You should better wish that the DRAM manufacturers make memories with appropriate widths.

In-band ECC is a horrible workaround, which has a real hardware cost much higher than traditional ECC, in additional die area, increased energy consumption and much lower performance.

Intel has published some information about their in-band ECC controller, while NVIDIA, as usual, is much more secretive.

The performance of in-band ECC would be unacceptable without the addition of a special rather big cache memory and a great increase in complexity in the memory controller, which is required to implement clever caching algorithms. No matter how clever is the caching algorithm, there will still be workloads where the performance will be much lower than with standard ECC.
So basically next gen RPA. Guess UIpath, Automation Anywhere need to be worried.
A reminder that rocm is getting better! Great news for GenAi budget users
The state of Android Automotive in 2024
> If you side effect outside of the exactly once system, and the receiver can’t suppress duplicate notifications then you’re screwed

If you are getting duplicate notifications, then you don't have an "exactly once" system, but definition. Exactly once systems are not possible, bu your own explanation. You can store data in a durable way such that applying it multiple times is safe, but that is not "exactly once". Your options are at-least once or at-most once. Again, by your own statement: if you have duplicate notifications in your system, you do not have "exactly once".

> As for your other points, with eventual consistency you get weird problems like “I wrote X, then Y, but then read X and the system converged to X, except a week later I read Y, but just from half my fleet, and only for a 30 minute window”.

This is not data corruption, this is the semantics of an eventually consistent system. If you don't want those semantics, don't have an eventually consistent system, but that is entirely different than data corruption. Developers not understanding the system is different than corruption.

I agree that eventual consistent is probably not a good idea for most problems.
Yep, plugins in JQuery world are really consolidated and mature
Making Money from a Stats Website
Carbonyl browser: a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminal
I can't shake a vague memory that Java was named in an early brainstorming session with post-it notes on walls with tons of good and bad names, where eventually Java remained as the winner. I believe I've heard about this as a prime example of good brain storming methods from the early days when it wasn't at all obvious.

Does anybody know if this is right or if I'm confusing it with something else?
No. Ruby is called Ruby because it is the better Perl.
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Hmmmm Nice resources, thanks
This is very much how I feel about the RepRap/3d printing community.

Must be a common pattern in tech.
Technically this approach puts the burden on the build toolchain, the toaster only needs a WASM runtime which is actually not that big of an ask (it is far easier to put a standalone WASM runtime in a toaster than a full browser)
> with 16GB of RAM

Which is not a lot.

> superior build quality

Is that really true? There are PC laptops with comparable or only slightly inferior build quality.

> And on top of that it runs completely silently.

That great. But it depends on your use case, thermal throttling can certainly be an issue. Also Intel/AMD have mostly caught up performance wise.
Wouldn't taking these kind of factors into account be quite basic part of the analysis?

Of course, they cannot take everything into account.
For personal projects, I really wish there was some sort of semantic CSS with many different implementations, which this could be one of them.

What I mean is a set of rules on how to structure your HTML (like use a main element here) with some set expectations of how it will be structured on the page.

Then, many different people could write different spritesheet that makes the same HTML looks widely different. I'm not just talking colour, but fonts, radius, opacity, animations, etc. etc.

One stylesheet could make the HTML look barebone black and white, where another makes it look all in gradients of purple with fancy animations etc.

All for the purpose of writing simple application where you don't care so much about how they look.

- classes would not be used
- CSS variables would not be used
- just plain old div, H1, section etc.
Unfortunately it is heavier, longer wheelbase, less powerful and the nail in the coffin: gets the same real world fuel economy as a ~700cc pure ICE parallel twin. And they mention this in the article with the Honda NC750X. Not to mention about 50% more expensive.

For me it would have to get at least 80mpg (3l/100km) to make any sense. And even then if your target is the highest economy, lowest pollution, practicality in town, something like Honda PCX 125 gets 100mpg at a quarter of the price.

But maybe it's just the start and future generations will have some real advantage other than "hybrid" in the name.
This was interesting, although a small list.
But it is definitely lacking any sources to back these claims.
From reading the article I have no idea, where the author got these anecdotes from.
City of Gary
The story of a self-employed software engineer who was diagnosed autistic in his mid-40s
But if I work on legacy projects, I have to know JQuery