skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a wertern European, the first time I converted wind speeds from a US hurricane, I thought I fumbled the maths, it was like 100kph/60mph higher than our winter storms.
I since learned that the storm scale and the hurricane scale are different, and we simply don't have hurricanes here, we never see real crazy wind speeds and we don't use the hurricane scale at all.
There is an aspect of this where it is natural, but given this happens every few months and the companies that it happens to don't really cohere or make sense makes to have valuations anywhere near what they achieve it seems like there is an artificial aspect to it to say the least.
On the other hand, that also meant that if the team/company didn't give a toss about the quality they'd release the product unfinished, and there'd be no way to improve it even if someone wanted to. So while in some cases you'd have time to polish things up, in a lot of cases you still had the "eh, it's good enough, ship it" attitude without the benefit of being able to fix anything later.
Overreality – How Tech Is Betting on Your Discontent with Reality
Pumping Nvidia by something like $1 trillion on “not publicly visible” business models of any kind anywhere sounds a hell of a lot like “wild speculation run amok” to me. It’s not that I don’t get your argument, but seriously, where is a company that’s making money from charging customers for AI services, let alone enough that there’s a trillion dollar ecosystem here? It just doesn’t exist. Ultimately to support this kind of valuation there have to be paying customers and real business models and real value add at the end of the line otherwise it’s just a bubble like all the ones before.
> Problems are things to be solved, not a reason to put up blockers preventing things from happening.

Unless the problem is that those things are happening, in which case the solution is to put up blockers...
MkDocs with the Material for MkDocs theme has reasonable blogging support, and a dockerized image for building. It also has some other features like footnotes, mermaid diagrams, and "code annotations" for code blocks.

Type markdown, build in docker, publish assets to GitHub Pages :tada:
Mastering Assistant in Logic is surprisingly good, but I do still find that I have to tweak the chain going into it to get the best results out. It's remarkably light on the compression so adding a little bit, along with some EQ, before it goes into MA definitely helps on the kinds of music I make.
> Matthew and Rachelle felt mounting unease about Zac’s trajectory. He was growing up too quickly, and he sometimes behaved belligerently—stomping around their flat, slamming doors, at times becoming physically intimidating. Fearing that he was taking drugs, they asked his childhood physician to draw blood at his next checkup and surreptitiously screen it.

No wonder the kid had issues

edit: they also hid cameras
Isn’t the lack of foss just a matter of time and popularity of the platform? If it takes off, there is nothing stopping developers from making foss for the AVP, as far as I know. Popular open source apps exist on iPhone and iPad.

My RSS reader of choice is NetNewsWire, which is foss. The developer posted about why it’s not on the AVP[1], not even the iPad version. It basically came down to him not being able to test the actual hardware, since he isn’t going to drop $3,500 on it. If it becomes popular, and future versions are cheaper, this could change… just as it did for iPhone and iPad.

[1] https://inessential.com/2024/02/04/why_netnewswire_isnt_avai...
I'm not trying to say all process is bad and I'm not sure where you got that from my comment. So to clarify: instituting process only makes sense when you have consensus across teams that need to collaborate with each other on what that collaboration is supposed to look like. In other words, process only makes sense when people agree on what needs to be done and what to do. In a hospital setting, processes can be tremendously helpful in ensuring that supplies are restocked, that someone is always on-shift, that patients can be transferred from one department to the next without needing to know who exactly is on-shift. There is consensus on which supplies are needed and that departments need to have people on-shift. Mission clarity is almost built-in: patients need to be treated, and that treatment needs to happen as quickly as possible after it is determined that the treatment is necessary.

Performance evaluation, a lot of the time in corporate environments, but especially in engineering, has no such consensus. It is not even possible to achieve such consensus when people are not clear on what they are supposed to do, which is because the business is not clear on what it is supposed to do, which is actually a good thing because we learned, decades ago, that making year-long plans in an attempt to achieve that clarity ended up ossifying businesses instead of letting them be responsive to market conditions.

So no, most businesses are not like hospitals, where the notion of "responsive to market conditions" is completely ludicrous when demand is inelastic, prices outpace inflation year-over-year, most customers are dissatisfied with value-for-cost, and there is almost no accountability to the customer with the rare exception of malpractice suits.
I grew up watching Jurassic Park, and the main takeaway was technology is amazing, but many people will abuse it to get what they want without any regard for potential devastating consequences, often ignoring any logical argument against it if they've already found a path towards profitability.
Yes but big picture, neither the SNAP nor PYPL announcement has any real impact on the Q-o-Q trend.
Looks like they weren't the only ones to have the idea of a bodycam based shooter to improve immersion in hyper-realistic graphics. Another game is trying the same thing to great effect, but as a multiplayer shooter.

https://youtu.be/ytF-AWKJTKA
When I first got my first cell phone (a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+), I found the idea of multiple pages of apps off-putting, so deleted everything which didn't seem necessary, and what couldn't be deleted moved into the various extant folders.

I've kept with this since, and hope to never need another phone (when this one dies, I'll just get a small camera, or a tablet with a rear camera).
> It's not real, it shows the market has been totally gamed.

It's really crazy how things are moving since the end of lockdowns, more or less everybody agrees the economy is in a bad spot, layoffs, inflation, recession risks, fertility issues, climate change issues, energy issues, wars, people can't afford housing, the end of "cheap" money, &c. Meanwhile my stocks pumped 50% over 6 months for seemingly no reasons, more than half of my gains happened in the last year

idk what's cooking but I'm starting to smell smoke
"nutrient and energy source" is an interesting perspective: we certainly can't live off radiation (or heat, or electricity, or whatever one might consider as direct energy input) plus all the atoms contained in a lifetime worth of food arranged in simple monogamous molecules. We are no less dependent on other organisms arranging atoms into molecules our bodies can use as fuel and building blocks than a virus is dependent on a host cell for reproduction. I suppose that we can't really want a definition of life that excludes everything that isn't a plant?
According to the wiktionary, the etymologies are different (braguette coming from braie, which is an old word for pants, mostly associated with Gauls, whereas baguette comes from the Italian bacchetta, wich means rod)
Peaker generation isn't that expensive. Because you have almost no fuel cost.
I like how this is basically scientists arguing about tier lists. The stats tell the story but people just love to rank things.
- pumping water uphill

- splitting water for fuel
Ah, this is messy.

My speculation:

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EDIT: got mixed up with whose daughter Dominique was, but I think the general hypothesis still holds.

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- Zac was working with Shamji, under pretense of being estranged from mother

- Zac met Shamji's daughter Dominique, and they were friends or dating

- Zac was staying with Shamji's associate Sharma

- Zac's story was starting to show inconsistencies for Dominique and maybe Shamji

- when Zac's mom texted him "sending much much much love", he had a "look on his face" after reading it that caught Sharma's attention, and he asks who the msg was from. Given his estrangement from his mom and family, Zac had no quick answer that wouldn't imply another love interest. In his confusion, Zac appeared to be cheating on Dominique. Maybe he bragged about another woman, misreading how Sharma would react. Maybe Zac looks like some sort of undercover snitch, for which Sharma is hypersensitive.

- In the course of next few minutes, Sharma grabs/breaks the phone, punches Zac in the jaw and locked him on the terrace, and called Shamji, who turned around due to unresolved confusion of who Zac was

- Zac panics. He knows he knows he cannot explain without everything unraveling. He tries to jump to buy time to invent a story. He fails to make the jump.

- Sharma sees him missing from balcony, but doesn't know if he made it to water or climbed down or what.

- Shamji and Sharma don't know what is going on, and can't make sense of what happened.

- Shamji is trying to keep his daughter out of the situation, so is trapped in his lies.
My blog works like many of those described in others comments, it's:

- Jekyll(any static site generator would do, I'd probably pick Zola or Hugo if I was starting from scratch. See list[0])

- GitHub to host source code

- GitHub actions to push resulting assets to S3(Would try R2 over S3 if starting from scratch I think)

- Cloudflare for TLS, edge caching(including HTML[1] which is nice)

The source for my blog is: https://github.com/k0nserv/hugotunius.se. I also made a starter template[2] at some point, but it's quite out of date now.

0: https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators

1: https://hugotunius.se/2020/01/01/edge-cached-static-sites-on...

2: https://github.com/k0nserv/one-cent-blog
Well, or Qui Gong. But not everyone can open themself towards it, so maybe for some those games are beneficial.
I've been told downsizing can be very random. "We'll keep PersonA because they're in the middle of a project that is running late, and our client won't tolerate a change, but PersonB just finished their project".

I doubt it's as random as all that - and I've known people who were forced out because of their salary (he went from sales to project management, but kept the salary, and they let him go at the first opportunity).
SAP stops using Tesla cars for company fleet
I used to use LineageOS from 2018-2022, and even maintained a public spreadsheet of the different supported devices and their info to help people find their own devices. I eventually moved to iOS last year for a variety of reasons, though a part of me misses using Lineage. I wrote about why I moved here[1].

[1]: https://blog.eowyn.net/2023-moving_to_iOS/
Sturgeon's law would imply that the overwhelming likelihood that any random unknown text we find from the ancient world _in situ_ is likely to be not be very good.

Most of what we have left from the ancient world is material that people felt worth copying for _centuries_ after they were written. That's a fairly amazing quality filter and gives people a skewed perspective on the overall quality of material written at the time.

A selection of work from a random library has also likely to be filtered for quality to an extent, and for the most part, the "good stuff" is going to be works that we _already_ have copies of or fragments from. Anything we don't already have a copy is is most likely going to be something that there weren't many copies made of, and usually there's a reason for that.

Which isn't to say that anything we find isn't going to be interesting for other reasons -- even bad writing is going to be incredibly useful for historical research.
Ask HN: Why don't modern vehicles show detailed engine codes?
OBD-II is the standard for accessing vehicle ECU codes and is accessed via a specialized port. Many modern cars have a digital instrument cluster AND an infotainment center. Why can't I get detailed information about a check-engine light from one of these screens?

For context, I have a 2023 GMC pickup and had to attach my OBD reader to understand why I had an engine code.
Yes but good luck convincing all if Europe to follow you when you switch.
Command line interface guidelines (2021)
No, the nukes in the hands of superpowers are the only reason we have had peace for so long.
Exactly. If it was double, it would be a non-brainier.
Why I'm moving to iOS (2023)
Finnair collects voluntary passenger weight data for flight balance calculations
Can't it be both? Can't they be excited to do more interesting research now or as soon as possible, but with the prospect of getting rid of the nuclear fear in the future?
Neither did the plans start in 2011. Rather, they ended there.

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/25906-why-can-t-boeing-ju...

> In the early 2000s, the plan was to roll out the production model of Y1 by 2015. In 2010, Boeing’s patent became public, revealing a glimpse of the new project: a dream of all low-cost airlines and a bold new step for the industry. The aircraft was supposed to have T-tail and nearly elliptical fuselage cross section with twin-aisle 2-3-2 configuration, but retain drag-per-seat and weight-per-seat ratio comparable to single-aisle competitors. A variety of weight-optimization techniques, utilizing the newest composite structures, was explored. According to Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Jim Albaugh, the company was already looking into converting their plants from metal to all-composite manufacturing.

> But come 2011, the project was shelved.
Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping.

This too, shall pass. The minimum amount of memory for a double buffered fullscreen surface at 8bpc on a 4k monitor is 48MB. RAM is meant to be used, and if it was not for memory hogs, the DRAM industry would be a decade behind where it is today.
If what you were saying was accurate and taken at face value, then we would see companies and products simply crumbling every few years, for seemingly unknown reasons.

There is definitely some amount of truth to this but, by definition, it cannot be as bad as you portrey it.
Very cool, sounds like a saleable product. I feel like there's already half a dozen landing pages with people trying to sell what you just made in the 18 hours since you've shared it here. That should however be a red flag to those same people, a demonstration in just how easily commoditized LLM products are.
Found myself needing to find emojis relevant to a specific theme and wanted to play with OpenAI's API. So, I built https://emojisearch.fun
I enjoy that it’s still using Twitter as the root domain. Do they just not know how to change it?
Any recommendation on how I could improve my submission? Sorry for giving the impression that this was a spam but without any possibility to contact the user @ryes, I figured this was the only way to get any answers. swurl was awesome btw.
What is this plethora of options people have for banking, paying rent, getting documents from their doctor... And this isn't just an issue with phone apps either.

When I visit my bank account online I'm met with full page advertisements for other services from the bank and I have to hunt around to find the tiny gray 'No thanks' text before I can even get to my accounts. And from there, I'm met with constantly changing UI patterns and abstract hieroglyphic icons instead of plain text like it should be.
We use a kind of funky BigQuery setup at my shop to reduce our spend, and I think it's based on a quirk in BigQuery pricing that Google doesn't explicitly recommend.

BigQuery has two completely separate pricing models: on-demand, and slot-based. The two models bill on completely separate things:

* On-demand pricing bills per GB of data processed by your query.

* Slot-based (or editions) pricing allocates your project a number of CPU/memory slots, and you pay per CPU-second.

You can find the costs each query would have by looking at the total_bytes_billed and total_slot_ms columns in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS_BY_ORGANIZATION table, and multiplying those values by the slot-ms cost (total_slot_ms * 0.01111) and the bytes-billed cost (total_bytes_billed * 0.0000059). Then you can go through your queries and allocate them to either on-demand or slot-based pricing, depending on which is cheaper.

Usually slot-based is cheaper, but queries that do a lot of internal joins can have really huge CPU costs but cost very little in on-demand if they're not reading a lot of bytes.

Somewhat annoyingly, these billing models are configured at a per-project level; you can't switch between the two of them in a single project. Fortunately, you can query tables from other projects easily.
> which is one of the few compatibility breaks that C++ did with C

It's not "few" though, it's "quite a lot". C and C++ semantics are so different that you'll have to write in a specific "common C/C++ subset" for code that should compile both in C and C++ mode.

For all the flak that Objective-C usually gets by both C and C++ people it did one thing right: it respects C as a proper subset instead of creating its own bastard-fork like C++ did and then freezing it in the mid-90s.
Open Source Resume Builder
I still haven't seen any ads. Hopefully, by now, my profile indicates that running an ad in my general direction has a negative ROI.
In reality it seems like a combination of police failings and the family expecting too much. The texts that were exchanged and the findings in the apartment certainly give rise to at least a reasonable suspicion of foul play which arguably should have prompted the police to investigate more thoroughly. If not murder, it is entirely possible that other crimes were committed, such as extortion, false imprisonment, obstruction of justice, etc. There may be various reasons why they didn't investigate more thoroughly: incompetence, lack of resources, or some more sinister/political reason.

But it is far from guaranteed that a more rigorous investigation would have yielded meaningful answers, let alone a conviction. The parents' theory (that he died accidentally while trying to escape danger) sounds plausible to me, but of course it would when carefully presented by a sympathetic journalist who also decides what other facts of the case to disclose to us. I am doubtful that evidence could be produced to achieve anything close to the "beyond reasonable doubt" threshold required to sustain a conviction. That alone could be a reason for the police to decide not to devote significant additional resources to the investigation. We will probably never know.
> America’s per capita CO2 emissions are down 6.6 tons (31%) per person just from 2000.

That's a completely wrong way to look at it. A country can lower its emissions by outsourcing the activities that make them. Do I have to elaborate on what America could have been outsourcing to China since 2000?

The per capita C02 emissions, assuming that you don't ignore all of those that happen outside the country, have kept increasing since 2000.

> Clearly climate change is still a major issue, but it’s a major issue being actively addressed.

I would argue that it is not being actively addressed at all. Hell we don't even agree on whether we need to "accelerate our emissions with the hope that a miracle will happen and give us a technology that saves us" or "slow down and start preparing society for a world with less energy".
PostgreSQL is enough
> Wake me up when there is real evidence.

Real evidence would only be there after it already happened. Which would be too late to do anything about it.
Corporate america seems to love them, in small biz I never needed such things as we directly worked with customers and knew all the finances. There was a direct personal understanding of what was important and what wasn’t. That’s missing in Big Co. I’m not confident OKRs are a good replacement or not yet myself.
Not just cement, all new construction now requires impact windows and doors that can withstand a Cat 5 by default.
schwarzschild radius of mass of the universe (3.4 * 10^54 kg) = 5.05 * 10^24 km

radius of universe = 4.4 * 10^23 km (47b ly)

mass required to have schwarzschild radius of 4.4 * 10^23 km = 2.96 * 10^53 kg

Surely we are still discovering the implications of these numbers being so close.

I like your time-reversed black hole framing, thanks for that.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=+schwarzschild +radius+of+mass+of+the+universe

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=radius+of+universe

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=+schwarzschild +radius+of+2.96*Power%5B10%2C53%5D+kg
I've been using Ozone over the last few years for my home masters and even with all the AI and bells and whistles, it's nowhere near as good as a master from a studio who uses analog gear. I will also admit my ears are just not there yet. What it is good for is cutting a demo to send out to labels or DJs to play at shows.
It was a supposedly replacement for Firefox that's written in Rust.
Not really what I was saying. I'm talking about being obstructionist for the sake of being obstructionist, primarily focused around appeals to nature and digging for reasons that can be used as an excuse to justify the appeal to nature.

If the end result of your thinking is "this has too many bad effects so we can never do this entire category of thing" then you've gone off the cliff. The solution is to fix the bad side effects while continuing the beneficial thing rather than saying you can't do anything at all.
> 2x WFO/week is actually quite comfortable for me.

Just started a new job a few months ago that was 2x WFO. Worked out fine, didn’t mind.

Of course upper management is now planning for a full RTO. While also worrying about potential retention problems lol.
Vesuvius Challenge – an ML and computer vision contest – deep dive
Here's a walkthrough of how I set up Hugo with free hosting on Cloudflare - https://smaller.fish/posts/hugo
Everything seems to revolve around Tesla/Musk headlines.
Check out CloudQuery - https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery for an easy cloud asset inventory.
read the jaunt by stephen king
I think it's not just the amount of inflow into a stock its the herding behavior and the speed that sets up these crazy unnatural movements. Most of these stocks are come back to Earth relatively quickly so they all leave at the same time too.
I really like OKRs when they are executed well
Truly bizarre how many large companies do not verify email addresses before setting up accounts.
Yeah, this 100%. Which is why I suspect a 'winning' strategy for a career in software engineering is 'get involved in big new projects early on, take care of the low hanging fruit without much care for code quality or maintainability, and saunter off into the sunset before you have to deal with the consequences of your actions'.

Meanwhile the folks stuck behind end up with the blame for these people's mistakes and the problems caused by their work, and get treated like poor performers because they can't just rush out features at the same lightning pace.
> If Russia didn't possess nuclear weapons, it's not unimaginable to think that the US would have intervened directly in Ukraine, maybe even with boots on the ground.

At least 500,000 people have died to the lack of a solid western response.

Edit: casualties*
needing to compile them on the airgapped machine introduces more dependencies. Things also get weird when your airgapped machine is a slight version off from your dev machine. There's a lot of ways around it but we've found for the size of this tool, it was preferable to just write our own handful of math functions over building out a deployment method for extra dependencies.
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