skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m confused by the enthusiasm. Have we all forgot that we’ve been through this “virtual desktop” cycle already?

A lot of people wouldn't touch a Meta headset with a ten foot pole, especially with all the account shitshow that happened when the Occulus brand got sunsetted. Then Vive headsets required a lot more investment and you had to be already convinced to dive into it. Not mentionning that macs and the all Apple ecosystem didn't have enough GPU power to deal with VR so anyone knee deep in there wouldn't touch VR.

I'm kinda glad that side of the market gets into VR, and even if we see a lot of tired ideas in a "eternal September" style, we might get new insights and nice findings as well along the way.

I'd still be worried about how much Apple will allow for users to tweak that experience. I don't see a third party window manager being ever allowed for instance
A proton is a hydrogen ion and isotope.
As my original comment says I don’t do this for anything tax-ish (for the same reason you mention). But there is no reason a phone company need know my SSN. Or the pharmacy.
Funny, that’s the same exact (bad) argument against the minimum wage…
Damn you, now I can’t unget it.
Wow we are really making some stupid decisions because of the unrealistic impression people have about technology.
What we've suddenly discovered is that having servants on-call costs a substantial amount of money.

Which is what all of the gig economy services are - you have always been able to get driven around - they were called limos and chauffeurs. Likewise the wealthy have been having servants fetch their dinner for decades, if not centuries.

With a container ship full of VC money our industry was able to sustain an illusion for some years that servants can be had for cheap. Turns out the basic economics of having servant(s) hasn't been disrupted by technology.
That appears to show the position of the magnetic north pole over the years. Does the location of magnetic pole affect local weather conditions?
"Peak Windows": Windows 7

"Next Best": Windows XP
Oh yeah? Well I was Time magazine Person of the Year in 2006!
Online banks require you to provide such photos of an ID. Also, registration for government services.

However, in the banking case (and likely government, but I cannot speak to that directly) they are running your data against a KYC API so chances of your information being valid are low.
I plot, but I allow myself to be surprised. I can't plot things out so closely the story is a train running on rails.
They've made enough modifications that it's no longer entirely compatible with MIPS. But it isn't far off, either.

Ironically, MIPS Technologies sold off all their remaining rights to the MIPS architecture a few years ago and is now trying to pivot to RISC-V...
It only "worked" because pizza delivery drivers had to bring their own vehicles, made below minimum wage and were working for tips (AKA exactly what we don't tolerate today).
> Every proton would have the energy of a baseball

I wonder if you could capture that energy and use it to generate thrust.

Most of the energy is coming from your thrust so it'd be a lossy process however if you're able to capture all of the energy then there won't be anything left to damage the ship.
> If I received this card, I would think twice about attaching a homemade USB device to anything.

I have a Raspberry Pi devoted to the purpose of plugging unknown USB devices into in order to do a security check on them.

If it kills the R-Pi, no big deal. If it doesn't, then you have the power of Linux to interrogate the device with and spot suspicious behavior.
Technically these are referred to as "charts" and not maps. :)

Another fun (and free!) resource is SkyVector, which automatically stitches them together and has tons of useful features for flight planning.

https://skyvector.com/
searches say over 20 million meta quests 1-3 sold and tech reporting already claims quest "has gone mainstream" back in 2021, so i dont think your point holds up. What has apple done that meta has not here?
My view is Meta has done far more for adoption than a product released 2 days ago and sure AVP honeymoon phase is exciting, especially so for those who've never tried VR before.

https://www.techradar.com/news/oculus-quest-2-sales-figures-...
... and yet there were so many people who wanted to do the job for the existing pay. I'm not in any sense suggesting these were great jobs, but I'm pretty sure people made at least minimum wage (based on how much I tipped and how long deliveries took).

If you took a straw poll, I think you'd find a lot of drivers in favor of higher pay and not so many in favor of higher pay but zero hours.
Ben Eater's channel is great:
https://youtu.be/sTu3LwpF6XI
I think this is a good question and the kind I wish I thought of.

Not the GP but I think in this case, "real" transparency refers to a culture in which there is no attempt to hide issues like this (internally at least); they should be caught and should be immediately handled without positive or negative impacts to one's career.

As such, this would not be "real" transparency. The issues being raised appear to be only being done under duress (perhaps as an attempt to show that something is being done) and may easily vanish when media attention passes.

The issues themselves seem relatively simple and should have been discovered a long time ago. As such, the implication made by the fact that /they weren't/ is that Boeing and Spirit have informal internal policies that discourage the discovery of these problems.
Yeah, they have the “Visor”.
Kip Thorne said it's theoretically possible. One end of the wormhole is on earth, the other is on the spaceship. Then you fly the spaceship and hop into the wormhole and arrive into the future on Earth.
Might be related, not sure because this is the first time I hear about this manufacturer: "Bambulab A1 Recall Update" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39255538
> Among my acquaintances, I honestly don't know a single person who idolizes these tech leaders.

I've talked to people that think Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are going to be standing beside St. Peter at the pearly gates.
I’d definitely consider not letting some basic visual schematic outputs fall too far down the priority list.

A lot of existing EE is basically just the visual diagrams and a lot of existing EE people will expect the tools to give them the visual diagrams they work with somehow… like even just including the compiled schematic as an SVG in with the compiled outputs of netlist, gerber, etc… something that other software can be used to convert to PDF without extra complexity in your tool and can be used to interoperable with the existing talent pool of EE people who have not just no idea how to use your tool… but know how to read typical style circuit diagrams.
in niven's "known space" universe that was known as the "kzinti lesson"; the kzinti
were a warlike race that thought humanity would be easy pickings because their telepathic spies said they had a civilisation completely at peace. turns out humanity figured out really fast that their mining lasers, fusion drives, etc could be used as weapons when the hostiles showed up.
What makes you think the stealth ship is impossible? They explain the concept pretty well in the first book: extensive cooling systems to soak up waste heat, large liquid tanks to store that heat internally for a while, and radar-absorbing coatings. We literally have all of those pieces today, it’d just cost unfathomable amounts of money to build with our current technology.

As a bonus, they even talk about the radar-absorbing coating not being perfect, and being able to detect the stealth ship as an object a few Kelvin above the background radiation when they pumped their radar into it.
You said data import, so I assumed it was pulling rows into an empty table. The example I posted was a way to create a table with a static integer PK that you could rapidly generate in a loop, and then later convert it to auto-incrementing.

> I’m sure there’s a way to get it to work with integer ids but it would have been a pain. With UUID’s it was very simple to generate.

IME, if something is easy with RDBMS in prod, it usually means you’re paying for it later. This is definitely the case with UUIDv4 PKs.
First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing
There are many reasons this happens:

1) As a CEO, I want headcount. Being the CEO of a 200-person operation sets me up for better jobs than a 50-person one. Being in high-profile organizations if good too (and when they fail, I can switch jobs). Same for VPs and managers.

2) As a CEO, I want bonuses. Those come from growth. Zero bonus is the same whether the company lives or stagnates.

3) Rationally, in winner-takes-all markets, a lot of this depends on early losses and overspending. If you and I are building eBay, and I get there for $10M and you for $100M in 10% less time running massive losses, you win. A lot of tech is winner-takes-all or winner-takes-most.

.... and so on.

Except for retirement account holders whose money is being spent, it's almost certainly better to be a cash-burning Potemkin unicorn than a growing, profitable 50 person company.
https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3104/flip-...
You conflated the information!
So much of my life has been reading sci-fi that was perhaps before my time, but oddly prescient, and I think in some ways, self-deterministic.

I know (enough) about the math and physics, the energy required, etc. to logically understand how "impossible" it might be.

My brain still rebels and to some extent, wants to believe.
> There's a general principle known as Jon's Law (not sure where the name comes from) that any powerful space drive is by definition a weapon of mass destruction.

Also known as the Kzinti Lesson, from Larry Niven's Known Space series. I've not read where in that series this term is first introduced, but they're somewhere in all that.

> Obviously anything even wilder like an Alcubierre Drive would be likewise

Not yet known; the original Alcubierre Drive is a toy model that demonstrates the point, but has so many problems with it that, as is, it definitely won't work.

Something else along similar lines that does work? The only thing it won't act like when it hits something, is like being hit by normal matter that's actually moving at the speed of light, because if it did it would also be an infinite free energy source.
So depending on how you measure, you’re always stationary or moving near light speed, or somewhere in between, depending on your measurement reference (the thing you’re moving relative to)?

How is there a speed limit at all, if that’s the case? You can accelerate to 0.5c and then toss an apple out the window and say you’re moving at the speed of an apple tossed out of the window, relative to the apple. You have all of c available as headroom again? You can accelerate up to 0.5c again, relative to the apple you tossed out the window?

I am imagining you will say that it will seem like this is what is happening to folks in the spaceship, but what’s really happening is that time is slowing for the spaceship and it’s passengers, and that they still can’t reach c. Fine. But c relative to what? There is no absolute c because there are no truly fixed points, so c relative to what?
>"According to the CEO's linkedin post, they were basically trying to keep up appearances of being a 200 person company"

Where in the linkedin post does the CEO state that?

My understanding is that they reduced headcount greatly over the last couple of years and were well below a 100 people. The source of this was a then current employee that my company interviewed in November.
The key here is that it's worked for restaurants with historically decent margins (pizza) it likely won't work for most restaurants
We've recently been struggling with BigQuery and various other GCP services (i.e. CloudRun and Pub sub) as it feels like utilizing these services can feel like a minefield of gotcha's. With their documentation, and limits/quotas being spread all over the place. It's given us more problems than solutions thus far; albeit that could very well be our fault.

Has anybody else had this experience? Or are we just doing it wrong?

This is not intended to be a rant, just curious.
>you have always been able to get driven around - they were called limos and chauffeurs

... or taxis, but that's not quite so consistent with the class-war narrative.
Obviously no. This is the reason we have the minimum wage and labor laws. I can’t believe this is even a serious question
The Fortran-Hating Gateway
I don't so much mind paying extra to the person doing the delivery, I get frustrated when I have no insight (intentionally) into how much of the fees and surcharges (or even tips) are supporting delivery driver salary and benefits versus being a convenient way for a company that mostly exists virtually to increase their fees without it being obvious.

I will absolutely call a place and order on the phone if it avoids grubhub extracting an extra $10 in fees from both sides of the transaction... and give the delivery driver the difference in tips. But yeah, less frequently than I did when VCs were subsidizing the cost.
We've been deploying changes all day so could related, thanks for the report. Should work now.
A hit piece is something written to intentionally degrade something. You can have a hit piece for Bitcoin, but not some technology. You can have a hit piece attacking someone who uses technology. But for that specific use, you wouldn't try to explain the idea as a thread through many different examples across many different separate engineering domains. This isn't a hit peice about your favorite flavor of tech, it's a "hit piece" about a new-enough trend that's appeared in SWE, it's a disagreement about an idea... more commonly referred to as, an opinion.

but you're right, opinions you don't agree with are dangerous.
Corsair Launches MP600 Elite: Inexpensive Phison E27T-Based Drives
I feel like this is what code review is for. Isn’t this also possible with your application code? How do you prevent that?

As for I/O concerns, run it in CI with deno and ensure there is no I/O
what has been? OOB errors?
Webbrowser opens url -> print -> save as/to pdf?

I'm sure I'm missing something, what is a cli interface buying me here?
Under Trump? The president we voted out? Let's have the same conversation when Putin is no longer president.
I just went to walmart.com and searched for "bacon": https://www.walmart.com/search?q=bacon

I put "Boston MA" into the store selector, and it told me that Lynn MA was the closest. It shows as $4.48/lb for the store brand. The Hormel brand name stuff is $4.98/lb.

Why do you say "definitely"?
Or stopping. It takes the same amount of time to slow down as it did to speed up. Presumably, you'd have to rotate 180° so you are now thrusting in the opposite direction. So at the speeds you've reached to get there in 20 years (ship time), you'd just race on by.
Isn't that what most ancient Roman texts we do have are? Tax records.
> Giving in to all their demands, of course.

That can't be my position, I don't know what all Russia's demands were. But offering to draw NATO's sphere of influence back out of Ukraine seems like an obvious carrot that should have been offered. Maybe some guarantees to reign in any US interference in Ukraine's politics. Not supplying endless arms and materiel. That would have dramatically reduced all killing and destruction we've seen since 2023.

The comparisons I'm going to draw are Iraq and Afghanistan. Although Russia was probably going to be a lot more careful as occupiers given that this is happening on their border. Eg, not supporting the drug trade so much and hopefully being a bit more serious about rebuilding.

> "Anti-war" people always seem to have a curious blind spot when it comes to the countries that actually start wars.

Who are you talking about there? The US? UK? NATO? Iran? African Nations? That is a wide net.
Agreed, runtime checks can be implemented in typescript - that’s the beauty of it
It adds a lot of overhead at any scale, it’s just that the overhead is hidden due to the absurd speed of modern hardware.

I’ll again point out (I said this elsewhere in a post today on UUIDs) that PlanetScale uses int PKs internally. [0] That is a MASSIVE distributed system, working flawlessly with integers as keys. They absolutely can scale, it just requires more thoughtful data modeling and queries.

[0]: https://github.com/planetscale/discussion/discussions/366
> Most of these countries Russia never touched, or fought off of Turks and then let them be.

Does the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact ring any bell? Do you know what the Baltic states went through? Did you hear about the Prague spring or that glorious sister republic in eastern Germany? Fuck, do you know about the Holodomor?

It’s a bit rich to say these countries never knew Russian oppression. It may not have lasted very long, but it was particularly brutal. The first thing they did is get away at the first occasion and all of them are traumatised to this day. Ukraine and Belarus tried to play nice. Belarus is now subservient and annexed in all but name, and Ukraine is being torn apart. So tell me why those Eastern European countries would not do anything they can to stay out of Russia’s reach?
That sounds like a really good change! Tipping is such an archaic mess.

It took a hundred years, but all those people in America who griped about tipping when it spread here from Europe turned out to be right.
If your tsconfig settings are strict enough this is a type error :)
> always face the exhaust in that direction! It's not rocket science!

You don't see a problem with trying to accelerate with two exhaust streams at 180º to each other?
> So glibc's qsort doesn't sort arrays of items when fed nonsense input? No kidding.

Not only will it not sort them... it will lead to OOB memory accesses by qsort itself
Does that mean there are no more pizzerias that offer delivery in Seattle? I don't live in the region and I genuinely don't know.
EVs reached 33% of sales in China, 35% in Germany: https://apnews.com/article/automakers-electric-vehicles-us-c...
Are you saying that imprisonment following conviction by a jury is violence?
"multiple storms have already spilled over into the hypothetical category 6"

If they do go this route, I'd like it if they future-proofed it and include categories 6-10. Seems inevitable we're gonna see the first category 7 in the next 5-10 years.
This is an amazing concept.

You still need heavy EE understanding to know how to develop PCBs, so it’s not going to turn every software engineer into a PCB pro, but it could totally change the game for EEs that can learn to code.

This is definitely a step in the right direction though and I’m wondering how much of a PCB can be represented in an abstract syntax tree or something similar. Are there edge cases, or could you completely describe a PCB layout using code?
> takes the same amount of time to slow down as it did to speed up

Assuming you're going somewhere, you can use atmospheres and gravity to slow down. Decelerating should take less time than accelerating in practical contexts.
That's interesting, may I ask how you'd typically perform the interrogation?
Let's set the clock back to 1989, I'm a student at an agricultural university in the Netherlands who just got himself his first CD-player. The thing had an RCA connector on the back marked RC-5 which turned out to be a remote control protocol [1]. Of course there was no Wikipedia back then but we did have a working postal system. I wrote a letter to Philips asking them to provide me some details on this RC-5 protocol and that connector on my new drive so I could create something to interface with it.

A week or so later I got a big envelope containing the electrical characteristics of the connection as well as the timing and coding details for RC-5. Using that data I created an RC-5 interface for the user port on my Commodore-64 which I controlled through an RC-5 driver I created in assembler. Using the C-64, the driver and the adapter I made myself a musical alarm which did wonders for my house mates' early morning rest when I happened to leave the volume on the amplifier a tad too high. I'm pretty sure I was the only one using a 70W hifi alarm clock back then, at least at my university.

Now I just set my phone. Boring.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC-5
It's not so simple. 1.5C was decided on after assuming 2C would be fine after (warranted) political pressure from more at risk countries.

What are the risks is really more about climate sensitivity than a specific temperature, think of it as how much can change given a warming of X degrees. Recently there is growing scientific evidence that dangers we thought were only possible at high temp scenarios, say 3-4C, are possible at 2C or might even be underway. Meaning that the climate is more sensitive than had been projected. This means that not only according to the study linked above are we closer 1.5C + 2C, but we also have more to fear from passing those temps because more can go wrong at lower levels of warming.

Every tenth of a degree matters and we should stop obsessing over 1.5C or 2C and work on mitigating as much as possible and preparing for whats coming and slow emissions and pollution as much as possible
IF it passes, SCOTUS will scuttle it.
Blockhead has definitely been hurled at innocent people as an insult.
I still think this methodology can be tested by creating equivalent carbonised scrolls, where you write some specific text and check the result against what you wrote. Ie you run your test artifacts through the scanner and software, and the process should return you your test text that you wrote before carbonising the scroll. At that point you can be assured that the process is not making stuff up from noise.

But, without that process, you can have no comfort than what is occurring is valid. The software might reliably see a letter in some noise, but so? It doesn't mean the letter is actually there... One can't verify the scroll, and one hasn't verified the process.
Global warming is real, but I wish we paid more attention to biodiversity and set goals there instead of fixating on temperature. I understand why temperature is there. It is easy to measure and an easy number to campaign around, but biodiversity, to me, is the actual point and focusing on temperature, while a major factor, diminishes the many other issues attacking it.
The last ice age ended over 10,000 years ago [1].

Parent might have been referring to the Little Ice Age [2], which according to the IPCC was

> ...a multi-centennial period of relatively low temperature beginning around the 15th century, with GMST averaging –0.03 [–0.30 to 0.06] °C between 1450 and 1850 relative to 1850–1900.

GMST = global mean surface temperature

Hardly, counts as valid given that we are talking about 1.5C/0.03 = 50x bigger change right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
no a proton is a hydrogen nucleus (or at least can be seen as one) and has a charge. travelling near lightspeed you would have to worry most about uncharged atoms/molecules (because of their mass) and neutrons, neither of which can be deflected.
There is no penalizing ICE. Fossil fuels subsidies are $7 trillion/year: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022

If fossil fuels are not subsidized, 100% of car sales will be EVs.
I seem to remember that tea has another molecule that balances the negative effects of caffeine. Now let me try to find that information back...

EDIT: It's called theanine : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9anine
Solve something you experienced as a college student. You're an expert in what it's like in 2024 to have gone thru such a crazy process. What would you have wished for?
Amazing way to browse the site, well done
Agile (TM)
Right, because space is known to be full of atmospheres to use to slow down. ???
so... you're saying you've hit this exact bug before? I bet that was a fun debug session!
Minimum wage = poverty level