skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The are loads of real world workloads that have similar patterns to pgbench, particularly read only pgbench.
Expecting a monetary benefit from a BOINC project is the weird take.
The impact to cashless payment infrastructure ranked how high on the list of problems there?
Do not go the founder route right out of school, no way - not only does it put you at extremely high risk, you also have zero industry experience at that point. And with the changes coming in the industry, "I'll work big tech later" is not a guaranteed path. While you can find well-known anecdotes of success of people who went straight from school to doing their own thing, far many more fail. Keep in mind that VCs are not your friends - you are a lottery ticket to them, as in they don't care whether you personally succeed, as long as one of their investments succeeds enough to cover all of you that fail.

Go the 2nd route - get the most money you can, pay off all your debt, get enough experience to actually know what to do in this industry, and then start something on your own.
React is successful because of the tech/VC bubble, not because it's some miracle technology.

The actual websites where React is useful can be measured in single-digit percentages (effectively a full-blown application requiring a desktop-like experience, think a trading terminal). It is overkill for everything else.
If you do too many cash transactions compared to legit carwashes in the area i can imagine it will attract attention
What do you mean by the LLM Python tool?
What's the long-term plan then? Rehosting on a different OS?
The way to make refactoring safe is to have a solid test suite.

With a good enough test suite, if all tests still pass, you can be pretty confident.

To me, making refactoring easier/safer is probably the biggest benefit of having tests!
No, that is dark energy.

From the pov. of gravity dark matter is simply regular matter that we can't see.
There are mushrooms that "eat" radiation from nuclear waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
Yeah 3mbit/household doesn’t really sound great here unless your other options are even more limited. I don’t know what typical over subscription rates look like, but 20% of the homes watching Netflix at once saturating the entire town’s link sounds… high.

I’m in the boonies and the DSL connection I had as a redundancy for a time was 7mbit down, and that’s by far the slowest of the options available to me.
Any testflight one can join to get in on a early beta?

I'm eager to give it a try.
I used to write my emails with ChatGPT's help for a while, but looking back it's quite cringe because they're so obviously ChatGPT-written, even when I thought they weren't. Now I've given up on using AI assistants for emails completely, because I really don't want the same thing to happen again in retrospect.
> Basically users are okay with profiling, so long as it is quietly done by Amazon or Microsoft or Google, and not by the guy actually writing the code and giving it out for everyone to use for free.

No; the groups are approximately "cares whether software respects the user, including privacy", or "doesn't know or doesn't care". I seriously doubt that any meaningful number of people are okay with companies invading their privacy but not smaller projects.
What scale is this example?

If those are 5 mil traces with 5 mil spacing, then you might get better performance with a simple smartphone camera. The built in superresoloution algorithms seem to do a decent job on PCB's.
> On paper. As far as I know there are a myriad of ways to circumvent paying taxes.

Please let me know then! 37% top income tax bracket + 15.3% self employment social security and medicare is 52.3% right there! and we aren’t included state or local or other taxes and fees involved in running a business.

It seems people get confused about capital gains taxes vs income taxes. That $927/4220 is almost certainly capital gains taxes.
Please don’t. I can’t eat this much popcorn.
Seems like you missed the part where large ISPs have successfully forced states to ban municipalities from building their own networks.

It doesn't matter how hard or easy something is if it's illegal, even if the laws that make it illegal are themselves extremely obvious examples of regulatory corruption.
Sure, but why not preserve the option for people to use hardware keys?

Unfortunately, both the FIDO and WebAuthN working groups seem to be dead-set on making the hardware authenticator use case as painful as possible [1] [2] [3].

I just don't get it. Why even try to pretend that WebAuthN is a single API for both use cases when all stakeholders in charge seem to have given up on one of them?

[1] https://github.com/fido-alliance/how-to-fido/issues/16

[2] https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1612

[3] https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1822
The the greatest respect, I don't think you have studied how these
things unfold in practice. In all security scenarios having defence in
depth, including maintaining secondary and tertiary systems greatly
slows down a decline.

The problem for a society that worships efficiency and convenience
is that security feels like a luxury too expensive to maintain. That
becomes a rationalisation to say things like "that will never
happen". Or psychological 'splitting' ; "If the power goes off we're
all screwed anyway, so why even try to prevent needless massive loss of
life as an interim posture"

> Modern power infrastructure is incredibly resilient and outages

I'm sorry but you've been exposed to wishful thinking. I've a masters
degree on my desk from an MoD student who did a thesis on black start
and lockout scenarios as part of national security research (sorry I
am unable to share it but you can dig up the same stuff from any
published civilian university these days). I don't wish to be alarmist
but there is a great deal to be concerned about and a great amount our
governments and engineers need to do to secure things here in the UK
and in the US.
Want to know where you can shove your hockey stick?
To a far, far smaller extent than banks, but yes.
the site says "100 Times safer cars", so yes, as rust makes everything automatically safer.
lol minus points already. Sad to think there's so many deluded wanna be bunker owners out there. It's not gonna happen folks.
Lenski.
Well a real argument people have is concerns about being in a situation of having a Chinese style “social credit system”. Now, iou might say “cash won’t save you” and you might be right but that’s a case for using cash. I think in the US it can be a bigger concern because of rise in punishment (social and otherwise) for wrongthink. We have already imported Mao struggle sessions, essentially.
They still had source negative film for Star Trek: the Next Generation in 2012, 18 years after it went off the air. They used it to do an HD remaster for a show originally mastered on video tape [0]. I don't know if this is common or rare.

[0]: https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2012/07/remastering-star-tr...
How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions into Public Housing
Where I work, we started doing an on-call person from each team for urgent issues on Fridays so we can still be available 5 days a week to customers while internally being mostly 4 days a week. So far it seems like a fair trade.

Digital marketing agency not software development though. 30-person company.
https://archive.ph/2024.03.17-141727/https://www.nytimes.com...
If that were true, Carvana wouldn't have an obscene valuation.
>... but tell me I'm wrong.

It genuinely feels like you know you're assuming the worst when the article doesn't go that far.
Which leads to the question: what is the smallest Z80 assembly function which takes an ASCII code as an input and returns one of these characters some way? 3x4 is 12 bits so with a little waste one can fit it into a 16 bit register pair. You could thus encode it into a 96*2=192 byte lookup table but isn't there some procedural generation to shrink that?
This website is closed on Sundays
TypeRacer – Race against others in typing contests
Coffee Percolators: An Explanation and Roast [video]
Concentrating on the process of developing airplanes from concept to production quickly rather than just concentrating on just one airplane. When you have the former, the latter becomes easier.
Autonomous drones are literally decades old technology at this point
Can this be done for smaller areas by sharing a full time employee? For example, our community has a shared well and reservoir with a part time water manager that administers/maintains our system along with many others in the area.
Not all states. About 20 do, the rest do not.
> It seems people get confused about capital gains taxes vs income taxes.

Among them, you! The people in this article aren’t buying them out of paychecks. Capital gains rates are their worst case scenario.

They’re paying next to nothing into Social Security (remember, only the first $160k income gets taxed there) and they aren’t paying into Medicare (Jobs’ famous $1 salary would result in about a penny).
A couple Heinlein's stories referred to a Renshaw device.

From "Assignment in eternity" at https://archive.org/details/assignmentineter0000hein_h0q8/pa... :

"Around World War II Dr Samuel Renshaw at the Ohio State University was proving that most people are about one-fifth efficient in using their capacities to see, hear, taste, feel, and remember. His research was swallowed in the morass of communist pseudoscience that obtained after World Word III, but after his death, his findings were preserved underground."

That Renshaw is the author of "You're Not As Smart As You Could Be".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Renshaw lists more places where Heinlein cites Renshaw's tachistoscopic training, including in this fan mail response.
The Pitfall of Implicit Returns
Hell, we don't even have a good definition for intelligence that is accepted across different fields.

The problem I see is we keep looking for supersets of all these features added together, and as the article points out, something that humans have....

>This rationale is particularly powerful if human experience is limited to a small, and perhaps idiosyncratic, region in the space of possible states of consciousness, as may be the case.

There will be a large part of humanity that will want consciousness/sentience as something that humans have and other things don't (you already see this often with the 'has a soul' argument). This will set us up to have a large blind in to machine systems behavior in self organizing systems, and is a shared concern among those that see AI as a potential existential risk.
The .4 is not what makes it Sonoma. The 14 is.
>Uganda has a massive financial sector (for a country as poor as it is)

Is that actually a good thing?
google more or less created k8s, they're no going to buy a competitor to it
I see I have a slightly different interpretation of the word 'readable' lol.
> It took them years and years, but all this time Perl has been a notable exception.

If we take Apple at their word then it's an exception only in that they haven't got round to it yet, not that it isn't also going to be culled -- the Catalina release notes mentioned Perl explicitly alongside the other two:

Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for
compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting
language runtimes by default, ...

-- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...
Probably yes if you use the inline event handler feature it has.

https://htmx.org/essays/web-security-basics-with-htmx/#bonus...
The Planning Abilities of LLMs: A Critical Investigation (2023)
States and municipalities don’t need to build it; small community-run organizations (nonprofits or not) can do so in Oregon.
Meh in that case even a barcode is 'readable'.
Turing test was never meant as a test for consciousness. Intelligence — even AGI - that’s one thing. But “feelingness” or sentience— that’s a totally different matter.
The upper case letters are fine (impressive, considering the resolution), but there's no way I could read the lower case if I didn't already know the text.
And the Kessler Syndrome
Personally, I think it's very important, and I think most people would agree, to prevent harm and cost to humans, and to enable them to be free, live long, and prosper. [0] I don't think there's a higher moral or practical imperative - if you don't care about that, what do you care about? The GGP said "life on Earth will be around long after our species and its descendants cease to exist", implying that the extinction of humans was not an issue!

Damage to nature, as a general concept, can often shorten lives, cause great harm to the living (warfare, starvation), and cost enormous amounts of money - climate change is very expensive. One reason is that we have enormous amounts of fixed capital - 10,000 years worth, in a way - invested in the ecosystems as they currently are, including all our agriculture, ports, cities, infrastructure, borders, food and water supply, etc. etc. It will be very expensive and pointless to rebuild it all for new ecosystems instead of just retaining what we have.

Also, most people agree that harming animals is also wrong, though not nearly on the level of harming humans. If you physically abuse your dog, for example, people will be angry and there are laws against it in most places.

And I think most people value what is 'natural' to some degree; it seems like a common value of humanity across time and cultures. They prefer the natural hill to the strip-mined one, the green field to the parking lot. They also like coal and parking their car, so there are competing values too.

[0] :)
How could you possibly arrive at this conclusion? Think of the most famous stories / literature works before year 1500 - myths of Ancient Greece, the bible, ancient folklore about fairy folk - none of it was produced for a market of any kind.

You are unfairly taking credit for the fundamental human need of self expression, and assigning it to your preferred ideological position.

Can you name 5 famous stories, before year 1500, that were made ‘for the market’?

Even penicillin was not created for the market. Most scientific discoveries weren’t.
Sometimes being smart means you're better at rationalizing your beliefs.
I agree with you to some extent on som points. I would say, as far as “food riots,” we have a more immediate threat to food commerce in that in the US and to some extent Canada that we are moving toward the legalization of crime and this is already having an effect in cities like Chicago, in which they are now pathetically talking about building Soviet style food markets due to such policies.
I know quite a few people that would prefer not having rust in their cars.
The US has its strenths in being an omnipresense. Not only does it have the largest carrier fleet it has bases around the world. It can mobilize anywhere on earth. China can’t do the same. They don’t have much of a navy nor do they have a global network of military bases and supply caches.
There is actually a path to $2 keys:

Most modern smartphones support contactless smartcards (a.k.a. "NFC"), which can be used as FIDO credentials. It should be possible to produce these for around $2 at scale.

They wouldn't work at computers, unfortunately (not even with an adapter, since desktop browsers and OSes don't expect to speak FIDO-over-ISO-7816-over-CTAP-over-USB), but with QR-based cross-platform flows now part of the specs, phones could pretty straightforwardly serve as readers for other devices.

If large issuers of ISO-based smart cards (e.g. banks or government authorities for biometric ID cards and passports) could be convinced to just throw a FIDO implementation on there (there's open-source ones available!), people could even use the cards they already own.
Not in my experience, the majority of the time. Those that don't are usually Linux ported apps that don't utilize the install functionality properly. The point is that the OS provides the tools to do so.
Grandma doesn't care about this. They just want their screen to work.
As a home user I like their hardware has the least vendor lock in, so when things break it is easier to replace with generic parts or swap around
Minuscule gets down to 2; 3 and above don't even look that weird. Maybe that pixel fonts are not the optimal choice.
Nothing specific to React but having both client-side and server-side validation means that any deficiencies of server-side validation will be concealed and go unnoticed (until exploited by an attacker).

In contrast, server-side validation only means any validation deficiencies are more likely to be discovered during legitimate usage since the client-side validation is no longer covering up for it.
If the American Social Credit system (which would already be largely redundant with the private credit system) would give demerits to people with loud exhausts, I'd welcome it in a heartbeat. I can't rightthink or wrongthink with the idiots who do that coming and going all the time.
> I would like to put in the effort to implement most redis commands there and map them to SQL, so that all data can be saved inside a fine tuned sqlite.

Maybe this is related to what you are looking for? https://launchpad.redis.com/project/reqlite
Did this question have a point? It did not.
Two Smart People Fell for a Facebook Scam
NASA Engineers Poke Voyager 1 and Receive Memory Dump
Turbo is basically unusable. It doesn't produce code. It produces steps.
one technique i have used is to start with a focus on the data model, then hand-drawing a UI (on paper or a whiteboard) to validate the models and reveal any holes or opportunities to better map the data. i will draw out UI's for consecutive steps using this technique, and keep track of the how the records in the database would change, again on paper or whiteboard. from here, i'll seek to isolate the "hero path" through the use case, then consider other personas and what they may want to see.

then, you gotta get away from the work - go on a walk, or better yet spend at least 1 hour in nature. enough time to disconnect from the problem. it's so important at this phase to get away from my previous mind-space and to not listen to music, podcasts, or soak in any other ideas. i know if i spend enough time looking at leaves and moss, touching dirt, or talking to my chickens, i will truly activate my background job runner in my brain, which will crunch away at this.

return to the studio, and do this process several times. resist the urge to write code or use a computer to draw UI's or whatever. keep it in your brain, where thoughts are plastic, and utilize my hands to draw and give those intangible thoughts a physical form. i close my eyes and visualize every flow, every click, every read and write to the database.

this happens in a loop, hopefully for several iterations, across multiple days to weeks. starting, re-starting, stopping, iterating. again, stay away from a computer until the iterations start to reveal the real edges of the problem i'm working on. once it feels like i can close my eyes, see the paths, understand the data and its transitions, then (and only then) is it time to write some code.

the trick for the next part is to build out the necessary stuff to implement this rudimentary understanding, using the most minimal code possible. then, i'll make a UI as quickly as possible so my brain can start to have a foothold on the growing system and map the increase in fidelity to my mental model.

most of the systems i have built that start with high-fidelity prototyping end up with a lot of rework. whenever i skip the early phase and necessary day-dreaming, i always end up paying for it in some way. the myth of the systems developer sitting in front of a computer, silent, barely moving and somehow being magically productive on early-phase work doesn't reflect my personal experience. we are all beautiful and unique, and of course we work in different ways - but i have found that shortcuts like early-phase productivity lead to diminishing returns and an altogether less fun systems development experience.
https://archive.is/Imiw1
i think you're missing the point that "new shittier people" are admitted to practice every admission cycle regardless. i have considerable doubt that this'll lead to any material increase to that figure.
I'm running an Eclipse development environment that's regularly compiling a huge codebase. Had 2 crashes this week after updating so less than once a day. That's assuming it isn't an Eclipse bug ;)
> We have tens of thousands of time & labour rules due to hundred unions making thousands of negotiations over decades, on top of complex baseline payroll and taxation rules across governments and provinces and levels.

Working in healthcare/insurance right now and I can tell it's a very similar tangle of rules about which insurance plan covers what. The mess that's US healthcare ties up at least a trillion dollars a year in servicing its complexities. While it pays my bills, it pains me that a country can self-inflict such penalties just to not have some sort of government provided universal healthcare system.
“ the world can no longer afford two things: first, the costs of economic inequality; and second, the rich”

“ The evidence gathered by social epidemiologists, including us, shows that large differences in income are a powerful social stressor that is increasingly rendering societies dysfunctional”

“ Even affluent people would enjoy a better quality of life if they lived in a country with a more equal distribution of wealth”

“ Greater equality will reduce unhealthy and excess consumption, and will increase the solidarity and cohesion that are needed to make societies more adaptable in the face of climate and other emergencies”

It does go that far
Thankfully not. But imagine if power was out for several days or weeks, which will happen in the future as natural disasters get worse.
> My friends had a Swedbank account, so I was able to get set up with them.

Totally understandable

> What is the best bank in Sweden? I guess I should say, what is the best one with an office in Trollhättan?

Sadly don't have any personal recommendations as I also use Swedbank and do not live in Trollhättan, though I see a lot of people who like Handelsbanken or Skandia.

> Also, I live above the Swedbank.

That sounds really convenient, don't know about your office but mine is such a nightmare, only open 3 days a week 9am-12pm!
It is so simple to come up with excuses. It is raining. No need to go. We are in spring and here it means the dirty season, no need to go. Or it is negative temperature outside, it probably does not dry...
These craft are capable of controlling a local swarm of drones themselves. Its hardly obsolete to bake in redundancy in control especially one capable of running independently at the edge.
SS and Medicare are largely capped at around $150k, and the 37% tax bracket doesn't kick in until an income well above $500k. Using those figures and claiming it means that your "tax rate is 50% right there" is extremely disingenuous, bordering on outright lying.
Lots of people make this mistake many times before learning this. I enjoyed this perspective.

This is covered as Tracer Bullets in the book The Pragmatic Programmer. If anyone hasn’t read that book, I strongly recommend it. Should take an afternoon or two and covers the top 100 most popular blog post concepts that make it on HN.
It's 7 pixels high, like most games on that platform, because it fits with the 8x8 tiling system (if you had the space between lines)

https://github.com/pret/pokered/blob/master/gfx/font/font.pn...