skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm biased having worked on GCP, but I think GCP actually has a very good track record of not sunsetting entire products or removing core functionality. When I worked on AppEngine, I would often see apps written 10+ years ago still chugging along.

It is true though that GCP sometimes sunsets specific product functionality, requiring changes on the customers' part. Some of these are unavoidable (eg committing to apply security patches to Python 2.7 given that the rest of the world is mostly not upstreaming these patches anymore), but not all of them.

I would certainly use Cloud Spanner externally now that I've left the company, and IMO spanner has such a compelling featureset that it's a strong reason to use GCP for greenfield development. The problem though is that it's only available on GCP, and could become expensive at large scale.
I remember hearing about some hardware made for the government (military?) where the development tools ran on some 1970s minicomputer that had long since ceased to function, but it was no problem because in the 80s they wrote an emulator that ran on 68k, specifically an Amiga since that's what someone had sitting around the lab at the time. Then in the 2000's they realized the supply of Amiga parts wouldn't last forever so they bundled the whole thing up to run in an Amiga emulator that ran on whatever version of Windows was current at the time. Then 16-bit Windows ceased to be a thing, so....
> Later it came out DHH was a contributor to the list.

I didn't see that in the article in you linked. Are you referring to another source? Could you link it?
Or are they just more widely disseminated? Could it be that previous generations were as degenerated, but it never spread any further so in the end no one heard for all the stupid things that teens and kids did?
That's... the entire point of a for profit company. Why on earth would they put company money in an index fund? What an absurd idea.
I agree there are many out there using fake outrage for personal gain and ladder climbing. In this case DHH's frat club behavior was publicly called out. Instead of accepting responsibility he called timeout to cover his own behind. 37 lost business and credibility from the fallout. That's hardly harmless.
Cute quote - added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup :)

I would add supply chain, however.
Reddit CEO tells users 'we know your dark secrets' strikes fear into web surfers
Technically yes. But currently you need a 70 meter (230 foot) dish to hear/talk to it.

To talk back to voyager, DSS43 uses 75kw to transmit, so you might have to have a commercial account with your local power company.
I don't hire, but that story would make me want to hire you. It takes certain skills and pig-headedness to successfully work on old software!

I once asked a company to rehire me saying that I only wanted to do software maintenance work (I wanted low stress). I am good at it, and it's hard to find people that want to do that work. They didn't rehire because although the manager really wanted me back, his idiot boss had taken it personally when I had quit. Idiot boss later got ousted to their dismay: I shouldn't enjoy that but I did!
And religious leaders are moral? I thought things like prosperity gospel and faith healers are extremely common in non-atheist circles?
Could you elaborate? I'm not sure what it means to apply these to software development (at least, 1 and 3).

Also, what does drainage mean in this context?
I have confidence a game published on steam will be there 20 years from now. I have much less confidence games on epic games store will be there 20 years from now. That's a huge value-add.
You've made me imagine a doormat made out of old cat5 and usb cables, and I'm horrified in an amused kind of way.
I installed solar panels and AC.
I think it’s both. Housing policy can help or hurt but overall many places in the world have stuggled to keep housing prices affordable.
I hope you can tell some stories! If not here, you should definitely set up a blog to write down your thoughts. I find it really interesting to read and hear about how the industry has evolved over the years.
or soma.fm secret agent radio (lots of bossa nova)
Saur, ... [0]

0: https://youtu.be/EmT0i0xG6zg
Coin sized battery can last 50 years without recharge – coming in 2025
Some Massachusetts delivery customers stunned by Instacart price mark-ups (2021)
I heard non-squeaky wheel look more loyal and are kept around.
The thing is, you don't need racism to make the adjacent residents seem like the people they are, it's just one more reason to build spite towers. They're standard rich boomers who'll show up to every hearing and persistently move the goal posts until any change is impossible, and they're on record doing so in a way that's beyond embarassing.
The article I posted shows what is working better - the Olga Troyanskaya / David Kelley style models. There was another one (Kundaje group?) recently that used Hi-C data.
It made me very happy, for some reason, that people are systematically and thoroughly studying a subject as obscure as this (fluid dynamics of peeing in insects). I now question if research is happening on every single ridiculous notion that crosses my mind. I bet a bunch of people are actually interested enough in that computation that a field of study exists for it, that I know nothing of, and couldn't find out about if I tried. What all of actual fuck are people looking into?!
This talk by Gene on developing it is such a great watch:

https://youtu.be/pVFX3V0Q2Rg?si=vF-Z5dOd0IqgPFtP

So many innovations have been made in realizing that you'll be able to do it in software if you just wait a few years.
Made me smile. That's interesting in this context: https://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html
Because they've already made the money.

You can talk about future growth all you want. I'll pay you Friday for a sandwich today, and all that.

They're saying just do the thing. Actually make the money. Don't spend a lot of time faking white papers that say how you're going to make money 20 years from now.
Complicating this calculation is the way that the 'catch-up rights' are provided via tribal mechanisms, which incentivizes 'chiefs' and 'council members'/'elders' to prolong the inequality so that they can maintain their power & control.
I have definitely had to do archeology on 20+ year old code, including disassembly to work out actual production code was when it clearly wasn’t the version we had source for, and that’s now 30+ year old code which I expect will still be in productions at least a decade from now.

Equally I’ve seen COBOL compiled to new platforms because it has outlived all the systems it ran on.

I’m pretty sure there must be areas of Java, or C++’s standard libraries that haven’t changed for a very long time, and will continue to be used for decades.

The thing is, it’s often easier to just figure out the code, or rebuild the whole underlying platform, than to track down the original author and hope it wasn’t a Friday afternoon commit.
An honor! Pleased to contribute.
> I would delegate those decisions to healthcare subject matter experts. I'm not qualified to make those sorts of decisions. Neither are politicians, economists, or statisticians on their own.

Like the UK NHS's NICE?

"The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for conducting health technology assessment (HTA) on behalf of the National Health Service (NHS). In seeking to justify its recommendations to the NHS about which technologies to fund, NICE claims to adopt two complementary ethical frameworks, one procedural—accountability for reasonableness (AfR)—and one substantive—an ‘ethics of opportunity costs’ (EOC) that rests primarily on the notion of allocative efficiency."[0]

"NICE’s use of ICERs, quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and the cost-effectiveness threshold as its preferred tools for decision-making, with some allowance for relevant social and ethical values, has been consistent since the institute’s inception"[0]

and as Karol Sikora said: "QALY [is] not a perfect metric, but it’s the best we’ve got"

"[NICE] guidelines are based on the best available evidence. Our recommendations are put together by experts, people using services, carers and the public"[1][2]

Sounds not unlike what you suggested ... and yet they've consistently used 'value for money' measures such as QALY.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387327/
[1] https://www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/our-programmes/nice...
[2] https://www.nice.org.uk/process/pmg20/chapter/introduction#w...
It seems like it had othe problems apart from being discontinuous from the city. There are lots of areas like this in the US which are contiguous with the city, that still end up as dead zones.

Did anyone really believe this was a good idea? I feel like the developers' need to turn a profit and the government's need to impose itself don't leave any good ideas on the table. Instead they focus on packaging up the same bad ideas just with different marketing.

When it inevitably doesn't work as promised, they just say oops, and move onto the next project.
Ah, in tiny gray font it says the reason is "Newly Seen Domains". :P
Because if you keep losing customers and market share, you one day won't have a company?
> Design your APIs for someone as smart as you, but less tolerant of stupid bulls*t.

This is definitely applicable outside of robotics. For example, I work on a large-scale LLM training framework and tend to think this way when thinking about design decisions.
Thanks for your advice. I agree and will try to improve on this for the future
There's certainly that. Noone cares about that hot stack when your distributed system needs to work 24/7/365 for a couple decades with 0 SREs.
The point of a company should be to benefit the people who work for it. Reinvesting money into a company can help with growth, but as they say, it's a risk. The point of the company is the workers, so there's nothing lost by just ... giving the money to the workers. If it's time to look for growth, they can reinvest it. Being profitable gives that flexibility. But if you're not an investor driven or publicly traded company, contrary to popular wisdom, the line doesn't always have to go up. Sometimes sustained customer base or just slight growth is enough.
I think you're right overall but too optimistic about timelines. I think about 10 years of experience or more is where things start to level out. Depending on how you count my experience, i'm either at ~16 or 20+. I regularly learn from people with 10 years of experience.

I don't think I can say the same about people with only 5 YoE.
I put together a slow (but readable!) HNSW implementation in python to really understand how it works: https://github.com/jbarrow/tinyhnsw

Indexing time isn't great, but query time is surprisingly good for it being written in unoptimized python and numpy.
Yeah, that is exactly the problem. :)
Free markets are markets in which parties are allowed to voluntarily trade without government interfere.

Communist-supported companies do not violate free market definitions. After all, people still get to decide whether they will trade with them.
It's more that robotics can now mooch off the AI boom. All that money going into adtech and surveillance produces technology that can be used to solve practical problems.
You're missing that plenty of people lack the intelligence, education, media literacy etc to actually recognize that "fake"ness. You can still pull in a hundred grand scamming people on instagram by posting a selfie with a rented or parked Lambo and a caption reading "Send me <shitty cryptotoken of the day> and I'll double it and show you how to be rich just like me!!!"

There are people on this very forum who are 100% subscribed to the "if you work hard you will make it" propaganda and also the often unspoken corollary of "if you didn't make it, it's your own fault". Arguably that's the entire ethos of this VC/startup focused community.

We are extremely irrational creatures, who have pretty much only advanced by being able to write down information and curate that body of work over the centuries, enough to tease out a couple semi-working systems that produce better than a coin flip results enough of the time to manage to advance. Even the best educated, smartest, or most successful of us are absolutely chock full of irrationality and bias opposed to direct evidence. Even Einstein abandoned the data when it disagreed with his beliefs.

There's also some preliminary data that younger people consider the awkward, scammy, low production value feel of things like tiktoks to be "more authentic" and therefore more trustworthy to them. All you have to do is say ten words very confidently and some insular community will adopt it as part of their belief system. Look at all the absolute dreck, nonsense pseudoscience that makes up the incel community.

Media literacy is completely irrelevant to all the people who lack it. When you haven't learned HOW to pick apart and interrogate a source of information, you have no option but to fall back to shittier, brand or ideology based source analysis.
I swear HN is like peak satire at this point.

Do you not understand why one starts a business?]

It ain't to work 90 hours a week until you drop dead from a coronary at 48 with nothing to show for but an obituary that says you created lots of shareholder value.

When did the West Coast tech scene utterly lose the plot?

What ever happened to starting a good company that makes a good product that fills a need, and provides a stable and comfortable life for the employees?

We need more public benefit corporations and way less VC bullshit.
Predicting Loneliness Through Digital Footprints on Google and YouTube
Please read the actual study, it's linked, and you've replied to another one of my comments where I have stated some of the study assumptions:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n...

They state 2.2cal/min of 'light work', and have other details on assumptions. They also state 27.9% of whole day spent on work, which would imply either 6.7 hours spent on working, or... more likely... if you include one day off, it would be 7.8 hours per day for 6 days a week. Pretty close to ~8hrs/6days/wk.

The difference between 1550 and 1700cal for BMR is only 5cal/hr, so my calculations on difference in exertion between sitting (120cal/hr) and the 'light work' of the paper is essentially the same. It's still ~195cal/hr. My assumption was 10hrs/day for 5 days... so 8 hours/6 days is nearly the same amount of total time. Makes an office job even worse in comparison.

Also, another note that is very different from today's assumptions buried in the paper: 13.1% of average day that wasn't sleep or work was spent walking, and 20.6% was spent on cycling. That's ~1h10m a day walking, and ~1h50m a day of cycling. 3 hours of walking/cycling a day alone could account for much of the difference in total calories burned.
If you keep losing customers, market share, and mind share, eventually, you won't have a company. Basecamp went from being an industry-leading product to pretty much something that legacy customers too afraid to switch are still using.

You don't need investors to care about the long-term health of your company.
How is this enforceable if a company does not physically operate in any capacity in that state? The worst I thought could happen is local ISPs might block the site, but otherwise why shut it off yourselves?

I didn't think one state could compel a business in another state to do anything whatsoever.
Yes, it's giving the error that I must input a number of 90 days or less.

I'm being facetious, I don't fully understand who the tool is for (I'm definitely allowed to be here for more than 180 days in a row)
Cool! At Neon[0], I work full time on our custom postgres proxy[1]. It's a very nice protocol to work with, although our usecase is quite a bit more complex compared to the ideas presented in the post.

Neon databases scale to zero, so the proxy needs to spin up databases on the fly. The proxy doesn't do that but it knows if the databases is running and asks our control plane to schedule it if it isn't. It's a fun service to maintain.

The biggest pain is error handling. Postgres is really bad for error messages and codes. The only available code we can use is usually protocol violation...

[0]: https://neon.tech/
[1]: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/tree/main/proxy
I reloaded until I was able to tap twice fast enough to reach the profile page, then "delete"/"deactivate" the account.
The Earthsea trilogy by Ursula Le Guin is another one (there are also books beyond the first three now, but they're more targeted at older readers).
UK scientists say more Redwoods in UK than in California
It's hard to push into an existing market already controlled by a corporation worth billions. They have so much money in the bank that they can win any war of attrition. So nobody ever really tries.
Document reranking is powerful, but daunting to get started with
It is true in general that the "binding energy" of a nucleus is reflected in the measured mass or atomic weight, exactly as mc^2.
It's not applicable. The theorem applies to the boundary of 1+2n dimensional balls - surface of an ordinary sphere, bulk of a 5-ball, 6-surface of a 7-ball, etc.
Do you believe its equally likely the reason for you and I not getting it is something genetic?

Also, for all I know you could live in a hut in the mountains so I don't know your exposure.

I assume its medium to high given your implication.
I really hope it will be possible to configure the Beeper app to use self-hosted bridges vs using a separate Matrix client.

Having the features and polish of the first party app, but with a user-controlled backend (like how Bitwarden does it) would be great.

BTW, I have a Pebble on my wrist right now :)
They came up with a really over-engineered, over-complicated attempt at splitting data into multiple databases. I'm not sure this was the best idea or even a good idea, but then I also don't understand how it came to the situation when they only had a few months before their current database gets overflown and the whole system collapses.
I have an Audi, and it refuses to automatically change the clock when entering a new timezone (or when daylight savings time happens) unless I pay for the navigation feature that is completely redundant due to CarPlay.

So twice a year I roll my eyes, say "You'll have to try harder, Audi", and change the clock myself.

I guess they heard me. Joke's on them: this is almost certainly my last German car.
I'll still be waiting another 10 years for my flying car, but at least CostCo has robots that can automatically wash your hiney hole on sale for just $300 this week.
Yes... and the person I was replying to was saying the best reddit is one without ads. If the best version of something can't exist because it would bleed itself dry paying for hosting it's not a real option to judge against.
Wrong. His doping and his coordination of doping across his team pushed other teams to dope to compete with his team. There was no obvious suspicion of doping prior to his team and that is clear that Lance and his team were performing far above the level of the other teams in his early doping days.

Your statement is only true after the doping snowball exists within many teams of that sport. If the athletes didn’t lie or if they were caught in a reasonable amount of time, then there is no need for doping.

I’m guessing you are making unstated assumptions because of your wording when you say “pretty much demand”. Are there any non-obvious assumptions that might be interesting to discuss?
Shortcomings? What is up with these military strategic analysis that imply that Chechoslovakia could do anything but getting different degrees of crushed between Germany, Hungary and Poland?
I have been curious about this myself, I am wondering if it could have something to do with collecting money in the state?

Maybe they could still just be sued in Texas regardless of whether or not they are there.
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(1) what are the job titles typically of M&A people at FAANG, and why can't you approach them yourself and need a VC connection?
Image and video posts get way more activity than text posts constantly. People don't just want text posts and no one wants to be reddit's free image host like imgur used to be.
Solid point. Always thought that way myself, even for individual work, not only for company work. Too many people in the world think they are successful only if others think or say so.

Who gives a flying fuck what others think, as long as you have confidence that you are doing the right thing, after having put in the thought and effort?

Basically they don't have confidence in themselves, and hence look for external validation from others, which is a trap. Today they like you, tomorrow they don't. Whatcha gonna do about that? Cry?

what you gonna do with your life now that I'm leaving - Santana.

Google lyrics of that song, and check the first two sentences.
Or, Steam should have a lower rate for developers that don't care about 80% of those features.
" after grade 8 " (the OPs concern) is more like 15 y.o., right?
Zenfone 10 is your last chance.
It’s amazing how vocal they can be—as they’re typing “this actually is liberating for women” with one hand. That isn’t easy.
readers may also find their Show HN yesterday interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692801
Love this, love this! The attention to detail is pretty damn professional, and this is quite clearly by someone who knows the kind of stuff that works well for ADHD peeps.

Nitpicky feedback: the layout needs a little tweakery for wide layout; as it stands 3 boxes on a wide screen is quite Large. A `max-width` on the categories and products (they look like the same CSS?) works well.

I especially appreciate the portable desk whiteboard; it seems perfect when I inevitably figure out how to not have an omnidesk (food and work included, which is an utter cardinal sin I know…)

I don't use Amazon so apologise in advance that these might not have affiliate, but I might also recommend the Ikea NILSERIK as a cheaper alternative for an ergonomic stool. A blue light alarm is absolutely useful: the Lumie Zest seems to have been discontinued (good! it was SUPER expensive) but I can't comment on if the newer ones have more gimmick faff. Either way the slow 30minute 'sunrise' is pretty good so I would absolutely recommend it.

If nothing else I can wholeheartedly recommend the youtube channel (and now book!) How To ADHD; Jessica's vids are real thorough, engaging, useful and with brains in mind! It might be super useful to sprinkle them into various articles, though be aware there are a WHOOOLE bunch of vids lol...

Anyhow a fellow ADHD haver you have my thanks and kudos for concept and follow-through! Keep going; you have my bookmark :>
Oh dear, I hope they don’t delete your account for violating their community guidelines!
why no buttons
artificially more expensive because of outdated and backwards zoning laws keeping housing expensive
The GPUs we change arrive on a large board which hosts multiple GPUs with SXM interface. GPU itself arrives with its heat sink only, and we only change the GPU itself. Board is never replaced.

Same for the RAID card. The processor has a couple of failure modes (no cache or no card), both directly related to RAID processor itself. Again same for the Ethernet cards we fry. They lose their MAC addresses, all pointing to in silica problems.
> There are reasons "apogee" is more recognized word than "apoapsis".

What are you getting at? The -gee suffix means Earth. Apogee is apoapsis of an orbit around Earth. People playing KSP speak of apoapsis because Kerbin isn't Earth.
Really takes the "inter" out of it, doesn't it?