skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did have real mitigation plans for such things, luckily this service was deemed non critical as there really wasn't a workable solution.
This is the most interesting theory I read on the state of tech lately, and it makes perfect sense.
Within the EU we tend to call this the Brussels effect. Where high standards affect the standards of trading partners even when it’s not required in those countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
The floppy disk music scene
we always ordered big ticket items from tax free catalogs, even if we had to work to get the catalogs, dating back to the early 80s even.
I tried Apache Superset and it's really complex and almost difficult to use app . Metabase has better UI but looks like mainly built for charting , also many business critical features such as access control , audit log etc are behind enterprise plan (which I heard quite expensive)

I am building an SQL Editor for Teams called QueryWise (https://www.querywisehq.com/). It allows you to easily switch between multiple databases, provides multi-tab results, and offers folders to organize your queries. Additionally, QueryWise includes access control and auditing features. It also supports basic charting and offers Notion-style reports.
If I had to steelman a county's solar ban... Solar production is intermittent / unreliable. And hydrocarbon power plants are the county's backbone.
I could not agree with you more.

All electronics fail, and all systems reliant on electronics fail. Not all worm gears fail.

As someone who has worked in tech my whole life, and who currently runs a technology-centric company, I generally detest the state of technology these days. I have reached a point in my life where I consciously limit my use of technology, and make it a point to steer clear of purchasing and making use of devices and services with "superfluous technology" unless their are no alternatives.

Many (if not most) modern technology systems are far too complex to be properly tested, especially when taking into account integrations (via "standard" interfaces) with third party technology systems. As technology systems have become more complex, their reliability as tools to accomplish an intended goal has drastically decreased while the telemetry capabilities of the systems have been drastically improved (without me knowingly realizing any benefits thereof). As such, I have learned to rely on technology less and less as I have aged.

There are surely many reasons for the inverse relationship between complexity and reliability of technology systems, but a cursory list of suggested root causes that come to mind include:
- use of (necessary, in modern software development) automated test tools;
- use of programming languages too-abstracted from technologies employed within the system;
- a likely growing percentage of developers lacking a working domain knowledge of the systems they are developing;
- the corporate / financial pressure to needlessly upgrade or evolve technology systems--even in the absence of flaws or demand for the upgrade--in the name of maintaining / increasing shareholder value (see also: planned obsolescence, etc.)

Two immediate examples of "too much technology" that come to mind, because I have experienced them within the past few days:

1) Bluetooth is soon to be 26 years old, yet my model year 2022 smartphone cannot reliably communicate with my model year 2022 vehicle's head unit via Bluetooth to play music or relay audio during phone calls. I cannot tell you how many point releases of smartphone software (or vehicle head unit software) have been released since I have owned both the phone and the via Bluetooth, but Bluetooth has never worked correctly on any of them. Why?

2) On some recent releases of macOS Sonoma, the OS can read FAT* formatted USB media without issue, while other releases (to include 14.3.1) cannot read FAT* formatted USB media. Regarding 14.3.1: on 14.3, I could read and write to FAT* USB drives just fine, but I could not type an email longer than a couple of lines without the UI overlaying text on top of other text in the email, making the entire text of the email illegible. When 14.3.1 (with the text overlaying issue fixed) was available, I applied the update right away. Now I can write emails without issue, but I cannot read FAT* formatted USB drives. Why?
If I'm using Django I let Django's default test harness handle that for me - it runs each test in a transaction and rolls it back at the end of the test, which is pretty fast. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/testing/overvie...

For my other projects I'm generally using SQLite where starting a new in-memory database is so fast it's effectively free.
With the notable exception of Cybertruck I like to think of them as “conservative AF, but with fewer buttons and knobs”. Sort of like the iPhone. The visual similarity of the onboard computer to iOS design only reinforces the impression.
Oh, TIL Logic was not always an Apple product. Upload + download is possible right now but deeper integration with DAWs is on the roadmap. I’m going to create a native sidecar app that can turn your DAW into an input device for the browser to record from.
Wakulla Receipt Map
Owl* not own
Can you (or someone else) explain what the alternatives are? How can I write unit tests without mocks or fakes?
A noble goal for a superintelligence.
Not what I meant. "People want an experience that works out of the box."

That experience of a car just working out of the box, doing what it is supposed to do, and never having any issues whatsoever, is more typical of Toyota/Honda than it is of any of the EV makers. Even though electric vehicles as a category should be better in principle (fewer moving parts).
> People want an experience that works out of the box.

I hear this since 30 years. Yet absolutely nothing works out of the box. Everything has a learning curve, sometimes only for the sake of change (see Windows, iOS, etc)
No, if you search through it it adds 'imprisonment for life' to both the 'advocating genocide' offence and also the 'Offence motivated by hatred' under the act (presumably meaning online speech) section separately.
It looks like Haskell.
> there wouldn't be high union membership.

Union membership is 10% in the United States.
I remember in Tim Ferriss's "The 24 Hour Body" he had a section about Michael Phelps, who was reported to have consumed 12000 calories a day when training - the explanation one of his subjects came up with was that (a lot of) the calories were used in maintaining body temperature in the relatively cold water of the pool.
Since this is HN, I'm curious: what led you to notice? Using a cheaper device?

I haven't looked at installed package size in a while - and I use an app store known for lightweight apps!
> What worse problem?

How would you solve the problem of wealth concentration in free-markets without incurring in greater wealth concentration under a closed-market?

> And why success should not be punished?

Because generally we want to reward and incentive the betterment of society.

> Do you think people will voluntarily stay poor just because they might be taxed more if they reach 10 million?

Maybe. It must be depressing to live in such a place. If you punish success, you reward mediocrity. But the thing is that those that reach 10 million or plus will always have the option to move their fortunes abroad, so it's the middle class that ends up paying the heavier burden in countries ruled by this mindset.
To major backbones I suppose.
Analysis Breaks Down the Annoying "Poet Voice" (2018)
The internet predated the web, which caused the bubble, by decades, with killer use cases like email, and so it's not surprising its still with us. The web is the subject here, not the internet. The dot-coms were web companies, not Gopher and email companies. What's with this revisionism. Is this ancient history now that no one here can remember?
What is function calling for LLMs?
> Steelcase Leap is an expensive work throne that commands respect from your allies and instills fear in your enemies.

That’s why all startups use them and why the rest of us mere mortals lust after them.

FTFY :)
I believe the confusion with "ignoring the car picked cases" comes due to thinking that they are additional games to the original ones, instead of being part of those that constitute the 2/3 in which the player starts picking wrong.

So you thought that eliminating them you were left with the original 1/3 vs 2/3, when you actually removed half of the 2/3.
But in the absence of criminal enforcement, it just sounds... clubby.

Welcome to Techno-Neo-Feudalism. Your superiors are handling their own compensation quite nicely, thank you. Now get back to work !!
FTC targets providers of "illegal impersonation" likely used by fraudsters
NASA (of course) has some good maps if you are interested in the eclipse path.

Orthographic:

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2024Apr08T...

Animated:

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEanimate/SEanimate2001/SE2024...

Google Maps (didn't work for me):

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2024Ap...
I had a lumbar puncture about 5 years ago because I got meningitis. Thank God I didn't have any issues with CSF, this poor lady's life sounds like a nightmare. I feel terrible for her and I hope she gets better, it's not fair that she had to go through this.
> I always saw unions as a bureaucratic/political layer that sits on top of workers, collecting money without contributing.

You're thinking of management.
Being popular isn’t the same as “good”.
I agree with some of the things you argue, but I do think it is more a matter of how Python is typically used rather than the language itself. There are quite a lot of optimizations that can be done for speed and other metrics in both web and local applications, but people will migrate toward frameworks that instead focus on ease of management and maintenance (like Django).

I agree there is a lot of bloat in some cases. All I'm saying is that one has the option use Python in a more "responsible"/efficient way, and there are plenty of projects which do so.
I don't think that changes the parent's point at all. Whether the focus of your enthusiasm and status is performance or luxury is irrelevant if you're spending more than you "need" to for your vehicle.

It's like custom PCs - some go for EATX systems with Threadripper and dual graphics cards and NVMe RAID 0 while others go for 4L ITX systems or fanless configs. But a Dell tower is functionally very similar.

Someone buying a S-class Mercedes probably isn't doing it for the V8 but for the comfortable interior. They're still spending $100,000 when a Camry could do a similar job.
I agree about calorie counting, I think it's a valuable tool, and I recommend it to everyone who's interested in losing weight. I don't do it all the time because it's a pain in the ass, but I do it periodically when my weight starts going up for whatever reason. It really clearly illustrates how little idea you have of what you're putting in your mouth if you don't do it.

I'll disagree on the article, though. I thought it did a great job of illustrating why the "extra calories due to the exercise I did" argument is too simplistic. Compensatory behaviours, metabolic compensation, and all the rest mean that the calories out part of the equation is much more complicated than the standard linear model would suggest. I use MacroFactor when I'm tracking which automatically adjusts my calorie budget based on my food intake and weight movement, and it's astonishing how little difference exercise makes.
That reminds me of hacktoberfest, it's not crypto related, but people were creating similarly pointless pull requests for t-shirts.

https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628342
>For the bathroom, I (a man) peed sitting down. I’m not ashamed to admit it.

Rather the opposite, we (men) should be ashamed to pee standing up into anything that's not a urinal, it's gross. Also, relatedly, we should LISTEN when our cohabitants tell us any of that.
There is no lift on a sphere or cylinder without rotation dude. The whole point of parent post is that the "proper" discussion does not inlay a good intuitive understanding of lift, which in my opinion, should start with "push air down to go up".
I'm of the same agreement, although somewhat partial to the IXP option, as it would force ILEC types to get better about routing to them. My point is that it's reductive to boil it down to a single number when it's going to vary significantly based on the endpoints the user chooses to communicate with - the 100ms target is great for a destination on the other side of the globe, but horrid for a destination in the same city.
The engines had AdBlue, tuey reduced AdBlue in the mix when not in inspection mode. Without AdBlue, there was no way to ever meet emission requirements.
Broadband funds helped deploy fiber here. Pings to 1.1.1.1 are ~2ms.

I love considering latency now.

edit: Cable is still hooked up and it's 17ms-20ms. Not awful.

LTE: GSMA is 25ms-33ms, GSMT is 25ms-51ms.

I don't have satellite, DSL, IDSN or dial up to compare.
How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets–and Putin
If the plant is producing at expected amounts, the cost of paying a human and union acceptable wage won't be that much. A union contract means you won't have labor strife later, just negotiate a contact. Without a union you have endless turmoil and mad workers who are thinking about having a union.
Discussion on the official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433674
A full Nutrition Facts label would be nice. Downstream AND Upstream, latency numbers to headend and nearest IXP, availability numbers, then price stability between day 0 and 3-5 years.
Wow. Your site is awesome. I could use some similar stuff for books.
There were a lot of people in 1980 who didn't understand the internet until they got email in 1990 but that doesn't matter because that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the dot-coms which were WEB companies not INTERNET companies. These two things are not the same and it most definitely the WEB and not the INTERNET that kicked off the bubble. It was web browsers and web servers and web languages and protocols powering web businesses. Not email. Not gopher. Not telnet. Not FTP. NOT THE INTERNET! THE WEB. I get it that this site is now filled with people who are too young to have lived this stuff, but are you also not the least bit curious about the history of your industry? Am I the one taking crazy pills!!
> It starts with how combining flows at the trailing edge of the airflow create a vortex which induces an opposite vortex around the wing,

Wait, I was under the impression this Cutta circulation was a computational simplification and the "real" reason were the pressure differences as explained in this submission. What am I missing?
Why South Korean women aren't having babies
The two references to "hacking" in the Background section are not references to any of the grounds for dismissing any claims of the complaint.

The fact that defendants counsel is referencing evidence that will come out later in discovery seems to suggest the defendant expects the case to survive dismissal.

Some of the lines in the Backgound section of this memo look like they came straight from the client, unedited.
My bad, I was reading the wrong reference the whole time! Thank you. I've found the right paper now.

A 5.1% reduction compared to predicted caloric expenditure over the long term seems quite believable. I wonder if it can go higher or if that's the maximum extent, and what refeeding does.
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More discussion a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39514464
Actors in Hollywood have agents for that

And, famously, a union. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_SAG-AFTRA_strike
Good to know. I've learned lots of things from Simon Willison's blog (datasette's author), so can't imagine llm being unuseful.
That’s true; and I think even more recently they were in talks with Kia, who publicly let the cat out of the bag
The Claro Programming Language
The telegraph and telephone were the same thing because they both ran on copper lines? Today's historians of times a century ago disagree, so I think your argument falls down under examination. Canoes and air craft carriers are the same thing too because they both float on the ocean? Trains and cars because they both roll on land? The applications that run on top of the internet are not the same. Telnet is not the App Store. FTP is not Facebook.
> "We know what it takes to create great products that are used and beloved by billions of people and businesses"

Really? For the resources that Google has (people, dollars) they really come up short on that.
You need a blog.

And I need to read it.
You should write about it and link it here. This is truly in spirit of hacker ethos.
It is scientifically proven that every food is grown in some local conditions with local phenomena. Global averages are relevant only how they affect these local conditions. When global average climate changes, local phenomena become more erratic. That's not some scary speculation. Unless you have serious research on contrary? How can you be so sure there's not going to be heatwaves, floods, etc. that cause havoc in enough locales to affect world food security?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39514464
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39514464
If you aren't mocking away the infra, that's an integration test.
It's seems to leave a lot of room for interpretation. Is _any_ hate crime punishable by life imprisonment? I would hope no judges in this country would agree with such an interpretation, but you never know
They don't need the excuse. Why does it matter then?
Author of piece here. Fun to read the discussions. A few comments

@roenxi: I agree that the precision obsession is central and not about super advanced math. However, it's clear that it does require explicit quantification, and it was not done in the middle ages say. Also, the era does not only see the rise of manufacturing (where precision is key), but also Newtonian science, accounting, financial markets, and better navigation and cartography. When trying to explain these things jointly, you land in the diffusion of the calculating paradgim.

@Animats: We don't give it a lot of space, but we do mention that practical engineers used little math: "Before the Industrial Revolution, however, aspiration often outran achievement. Many of Leonardo’s machines were famously unworkable, and while Ramelli’s machinery book was popular, practitioners remained unimpressed. Before the Industrial Revolution, men of practice often saw mathematicians as frivolous." When you discuss the type of math that was important, I also think that you aim a bit too high. Calculus is useful, but a lot is just really getting the most out of simple arithmetic.

@082349872349872: We're not claiming that it works for other things than math. Clearly the strateg works because there is mathematical structure in the world....

@ecshafer: Isn't this strengthening our point? Yes, during this era of broad spectrum of activities were conducted by "mathematical practictioners" which blended a lot of disciplines. That suggests math as a unifying glue. Also, we don't neglect trial and error and practical skills. That's the whole point of the industrial revolution section: "the Industrial Revolution required that basic mathematics and a quantitative outlook reached the class of people actually engaged in production". But trial and error was nothing new. Mathematized production was.

@303uru: I don't deny these points; there's always complexity. But if a single factor accounts for a lot of things, it should be noted.
Vast majority aren’t in compliance, and the data they do publish is essentially useless. Lots about it online, but a reasonable interview here https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/02/13/the-fight-for-transp...
Not sure about GP’s setup by I accidentally have a drying closet too. It’s quite common where I live. There is a cold water clothes washer next to my bathroom. In the bathroom there is a retractable clothes line (just a wire in a spring reel and hook on the opposite wall). I have a dehumidifier in there which must run 24/7 anyway or the house will mould. Just put to wet clothes on the line, put the dehumidifier on clothes drying mode, and close the door. Doesn’t take long for the clothes to dry, and my things last much longer than when I was in the US and used a tumble drier. Not to mention my t-shirts don’t get all misshaped.
Although it is not mentioned in the JEP, I wonder if we can use fenced code blocks as @snippet tags [1]. Of course one can still use {@snippet}, but fenced code blocks seem to me to be the go-to for code quoting in Markdown.

```java id=example
class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String... args) {
System.out.println("Hello World!"); // @link substring="System.out" target="System#out"
}
}
```

(However, some JS highlighting libraries will strip pre-existing HTML in the code (e.g. PRISM.js [2], as is mentioned in the JEP), negating the @link tag above. Highlight.js [3] seems fine though.)

[1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/413
[2] https://prismjs.com/faq.html#if-pre-existing-html-is-strippe...
[3] https://jsfiddle.net/LFJKR/
I don't find the code particularly readable, and dynamic typing isn't something that holds a lot of attraction for me, so this one is rather meh, although I do find the LLVM backend interesting.
I'm not 100% sure tilt is supported out of the box, and amibo for sure is not unless you have a dongle or something.

But I'm not sure why this is so surprising, the steam deck is a Linux PC.
Yeah, most Xiaomi users flash their phones with custom or AOSP ROM for a reason

Xiaomi SW isn't as bad as other Chinese manufacturers, but still...
I had what I'd guess were around a dozen spinal taps as a kid/teen. Had issues with back pain at the spot that took some years fully go away. One of the times I thought I was pretty much recovered around three or four days later and went off a small jump with a Razer scooter. Got one of the worst (and weirdest) headaches of my life and it lasted for like a week.

Can't imagine dealing with that for years.

They are infinitely less of a pain the thinner the needle is.
Interesting, thanks for the nuanced explanation. Based on various things I saw over the last few years I thought it must be cut-and-dry, but no doubt the reporting erred on the sensational side.
Would be great to learn about your chosen items.
Your definition of “least complex” is objectively very complex.
The Future of Employment: Generative AI and Automation
I did not say reflector as implied by that link but deflector, a thing put in the fluidstream to move it somewhere else. airplanes lift because you are moving air down. People get hung up about the convex side of the airfoil but what else is the fluid going to do, stay a vacuum? it is going to move in the way the deflector shaped, adding to(actually providing most of) the downward flow. There is a lot of engineering that goes into it but at the end of the day an airfoil is the shape that moves enough enough air downward with the least drag. The only reason it is a thick teardrop shape is it has to be strong enough to support itself and the airplane. otherwise the ideal shape would be super thin shaped like the upper surface of the wing bending slightly from the cord(aspect directly into the stream) to the trailing edge(a few degrees of slope).
Your complaint with the fries can't be that they're not close enough to a potato, that I am sure of!
> if you are going to get them during the interview you study for them

And a lot of interviewers (at least in my limited experience) are quite okay with you referencing your notes during the interview.
So when is the crunchyroll integration rolling out?
It may not be now, but some people remember the time when the internet felt more like a community and it was glorious.