skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bridge strikes data for British Columbia, Canada, for the past several years:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/vehicle-sa...

It does not look like repairs have even begun on the damage from 2023-02-10 (Knight Street, Cambie Overpass). There is still just a big chunk of concrete missing, with rebar sticking out of it, and the large direction sign which was there has yet to be replaced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgjqjrcfYJE
MS Word templates are one of the most awful things I've ever messed with. I had a fun time using them with pandoc to produce autogenerated word documents. ARGH! The nightmares!

We should just all get off our butts and learn LaTeX! Not that I have. ahhahahaha.
They do have that remote but since it doesn't come with the car, you can bet rental companies didn't pay extra to provide customers with that fob.
I did the parachute jump thing long ago, mainly to deal with my fear of it. It was a static line thing, where you climbed out onto a peg under the wing, with your ripcord attached to the airplane. You just let go. The static line was about 300 ft long so you fell a bit before the chute automatically opened.

Anyhow, all went well, and I received a heluva rush. But that was it for me, didn't want to do it again.

P.S. if you climbed out onto the peg, you weren't coming back in. The instructors made it clear that it was too dangerous to try, and the airplane couldn't land with you on the peg. So they showed us a piece of pipe they'd use if you tried to climb back in or wouldn't let go.
Apparently the hobby drone racers are doing that now: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-04-05/how-a-small-c...

And it's certainly not just a recent Ukraine related thing either: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/boffin-builds-backyard-missile...
To add to this, I think it was Jason Snell or Myke Hurley who suggested that this might have started as a Jony Ive project. And I think those have been great, but towards the end it was leaning heavily into form over function.
At Notion we run our GitHub Actions jobs on ECS, and use auto-scaling to add and remove hosts from the ECS cluster as demand fluctuates throughout the day. We also age out and terminate hosts although they usually live for a few days to a week. I guess we had to pay some one time setup costs around configuring the ECS cluster and fiddling runner tags, but it seems to work pretty well. We have our own cache action although it’s not as fancy as depot’s, just a tarball in s3.

Overall it’s pretty simple terraform setup plus a couple dockerfiles. And we get to run in the same region as the rest of our infra that’s close to most of our devs (us-west-2).

ECS might sound more complicated than “just use ec2” but we don’t have to screw around with lambdas and the terraform is pretty simple, much simpler then the Philips-labs one. It’s about 1400 lines of Terraform across 2 files since ECS has so much stuff built in and integrates with auto scale groups well.
High end robot vacuums have been innovating (including Roomba), with self-emptying bins and ML-based obstacle avoidance for things like cords and pet waste. This requires a camera, so any high end robot vacuum is going to have one. For me, those features are worth it.

The other big area of innovation is combo-vacuum+mop, including automatic water replacement and cleaning, but those features don’t seem to be fully ready for prime time yet. Roomba is behind the curve on this one.
I think you're expecting technology to solve a political problem. That doesn't work; those same countries probably wouldn't think twice about making it a crime and putting you in prison for working around it.
I made a checklist to help small time operations get real secure real fast! I wanted to share and see if there was any feedback.
> … anyone using other than embedded iOS/Android work. I’m talking businesses with 8 or 9 digit revenue…

The use case and revenue doesn’t have to be contradictory, I guess? What do you mean by “serious work”? iOS and macOS and their bundled apps use SQLite in a lot of places and Apple generated, idk, at least 9 digits in revenue last year. It sounds like you expect SQLite to excel in all use cases including high concurrency/resiliency web services where traditional heavyweight DBMSes like MySQL and PostgreSQL typically stand out, but that’s far from the truth. The authors of SQLite clearly carve out when you should use it (https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html) and it’s clearly succeeding in what it’s good at.

With that said, lots of big firms successfully use SQLite in desktop and web offerings as well: https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
Krita would have been a much better example I think. They've had some reasonably successful crowdfunding campaigns and ongoing monthly income, with focused visions of the product they create, and they've proven capable of attracting actual users who are in it for the art instead of just your "FOSS"-radical Stallman types.
Current market cap of Hubspot: $33B: https://www.google.com/search?q=hubspot+market+cap
I would prefer no rewards. Rewards transfer wealth from poorer people to wealthier people, because the latter spend more absolute dollars on rewards cards. This regressive effect is a big turn off imho in addition to the stupid points optimization games that rewards card owners have to play.
Seriously I don't get how anyone can literally defend that garbage.

Bunch of Stockholm syndrome going around.
i expect personal experience to be the most heavily weighted source of confidence
You do not understand it.

He specifically disdains these entertainments because they pretend to be what is real, obscuring what reality is.

Anyway, so you read something online and repeat it, and you think its going to contradict someone who actually read Plato.

I just don't get it.
Thanks for your posting. I'm just curious about posting nytimes links since it's not free (they seem offering limited free, tho). So they're more like 'invisible' 'member-only' links so I'm not sure it's ok with hacker news guideline.
> Time-varying gradient fields may induce currents in nerves and muscles, causing tingling, tapping, or twitching. Patients must be instructed to alert staff immediately when they experience such sensations.

(peripheral nerve stimulation)

https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2011.3906
>And not just secretaries: higher paid managers & such too.

No, the managers were lazy and insisted on having secretaries print everything out for them, and refused to touch a keyboard.

>In fact them more so (as they would drop the task on a secretary, who would then enlist the office kid who knew some tech).

In my experience in a college, the secretaries could handle their computer-based duties by themselves just fine. They only called for help when they ran into a problem they hadn't encountered yet. But doing basic file management at the MS-DOS command line (this was before Windows) was within their ability.

>The issue with that was (still is) that they will need telling each time.

Yeah, so what? ryandrake above said "I recently had to have a non-technical person send me a very large file, and encountered this", so that's why I countered with this in response to his claim that "ftp is too big a technical hurdle for the guy". It doesn't matter if it isn't natural or familiar; all you have to do is cut-and-paste some simple commands. If you can't do that, you're hopelessly stupid I think. You don't even have to understand the commands! That's my whole point with the utility of a command-line interface in situations like this: you can give someone some explicit commands, and they should be able to follow them exactly, simply by cutting-and-pasting or typing them in. It's not like a GUI interface where you have to try to tell them (perhaps over the phone) exactly where to click, which isn't reliable since you may not be able to exactly duplicate their environment or they might be using a different program or even OS. If you're somehow smart enough to use a computer with a GUI for years (and likely multiple computers: smartphone + PC), but you're too stupid to open a terminal window and cut-and-paste a one-line command, this sounds to me like "willful ignorance".

Anyway, the point is that this is fine for a rare occurrence like this. It doesn't sound like ryandrake has to deal with this problem with this same person on a daily basis.
Shell is used A LOT -- for data science, machine learning, cloud, CI, putting together Linux distros / boostrapping, embedded systems, and other heterogeneous problems.

configure is one use case. And autoconf in particular will probably be around forever, regardless of the existence of Solaris/AIX -- for the simple reason that many old and important packages like coreutils use autoconf.

Probably nobody is going to rewrite the coreutils build system soon. (coreutils might be rewritten/obsolete before that happens!)

The good news is that OSH can run configure scripts as-is :) It's actually easy to run them, because they are meant to run on many different shells.

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It's also not a binary yes/no thing. Cobol and Fortran aren't dead, but people choose to write new projects in different languages now, and that's good! I had an entire career without seeing any Cobol at all. Zero.

Likewise OSH can run POSIX configure scripts forever (and those same configure scripts can be run by /bin/sh and bash)

But I think lots of people will choose to write brand new YSH scripts as well.

The computing world is only getting more heterogeneous (in both time and space). Shell accomodates that, and Oils is designed to accomodate that.
The 1x16/2x8 GPU port and 1x4 M.2 port goes directly to CPU, Rest of ports come through the Chipset/PCH/Northbridge/Southbridge/however you call it. The CPU-Chipset link is not real I/O bus coming from CPU die for quite some time. So motherboard brands can't just offer x16 to everyone.

Breaking out full sized full speed buses was possible with PCI and PCI-X because those were real buses bridged to real CPU buses. That's not the case with PCIe.

0: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/17308/hlg-intel-prod-brief...

1: https://www.lowyat.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AMD-AM5-Di...
Change the topic after defeat?
Exposure to PDBEs and Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality
Prostate cancer cases worldwide likely to double by 2040, analysis finds
How to calculate a Pareto front world take me some thought.

I wonder, in practice, does defining my preferences and weights and then using a genetic algorithm find the optional solution? That would take me less thought, because I already know exactly how to define a score function and use a random API.
If you can social engineer the name of their bank, banks are quite responsive when sent a judgment and a writ of attachment (which courts are usually quick to give when they've entered your judgment).
Ya, self driving cars are just acting as taxis in a couple of cities.
To be fair, I have heard that from a lot of lawyers. They say that any time you touch the legal system without a lawyer, you are setting yourself up for trouble.

This is not just self interest. There really are a lot of hidden traps. Words almost never mean what you think they mean. If they have a lawyer and you don't, you are taking a serious risk.
This headline is a bit misleading. Debate about big tech's social harms has been constantly happening everywhere online and in the news for many years. It's a frequent topic of conversation. This is often facilitated using big tech's tools.

But the article isn't about censorship. It seems to be about lobbying tactics in negotiations about international trade agreements that most people don't know about and have no access to.
> Customers are not in a position to judge how much of a threat this might pose to their actual safety.

I'm not so sure about that. I knew the statistics, and I paid full attention in the pre-jump class. A colleague of mine who went with us did not pay attention and shattered one leg from the ankle to the hip. Fortunately, he made a full recovery.

I don't know why any intelligent person would regard jumping out of an airplane as "safe".
Perhaps this author shouldn't publish their advice about databases. I fully accept that people don't know everything, and I fully support them exploring new things and falling on their faces (if you don't, you aren't really trying). But I object to them offering advice at the same time: the following is from the followup article:

https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/should-you-use-sqlite

The first argument [in the prior article] that is completely bogus is about the speed: I argued that, if you’re not careful, the access times of the database will be actually slower than to simply use the file system.

Now, obviously there is a large flaw in this argument if you know anything about databases. Specifically, I never thought about the option to just create additional indices for columns I frequently addressed.

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You can generally get assets seized relatively easily, depending on how things are structured.

The challenge is a lot of sketchy folks will ensure they hold very little directly themselves, which complicates things.
If you don't like C, you don't need to come into threads about C. HN is not for ideological battle.

Would you go into a thread about emacs and say, "Why would anyone use emacs over vi?" And if not, what makes you think you should do that here?
Layman's summary: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/01/health/flame-retardant-pbdes-...
The event link makes it look like it's just referring to the theater. It even mentions a "door time".

Even if it is the whole hall (which used to be the Exploratorium, back in the day), there's still no way in hell they'd get 30,000 people inside. According to https://palaceoffinearts.com/info/, the maximum capacity of the facility is 5,000, and even that would be very crowded.
This is not making resisting the urge to jump on a plane Monday (and deep-six my ability to make rent) any easier.

On another note: it's hard to overstate the profound influence of teachers and professors who go out of their way to introduce students to unusual or special experiences (including dragging them halfway around the world). Thanks to mine, for example, I might experience some extra degree of enlightenment in the next life, (or less time in Hell in-between, depending on who you ask). Lives changing.

Thank you also to the institutions who enable and support these rare and rich souls.
Great blog post. When you write again in the future, you should submit to HN. I am sure it would generate a lot of interesting conversation.
Hmmm… I suppose I’m looking for the wrong solution then. We need to jailbreak the smart TVs and load our own software on them instead- can be as dumb or as smart as you need.
Scaling AI Model Deployment
> If I, as a peon, owed child support or something

Just here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815731

But if you're very rich and owe tens or hundreds of millions, you can just ignore it and move on.
Wow, thought he passed away.
> It's filled with negative

I would even say it's only negatives.

But unfortunately, it will have to stay legal, otherwise people would still seek it through illegal means, possibly exposing themselves to much worse dangers.

It's the same problem with drugs (including Alcohol) and tobacco, they need to be legal in order to he regulated.
I doubt anyone intentionally tracking military aircraft is gonna be too worried by ISM radio band regulations.

(They're either the kind of idiot who aims laser pointers at police helicopters, or they're doing it with intent to get in much more serious trouble than just ignoring radio regulations...)
NVidia advertises their latest GPUs as having 18 NVLinks, but each link is 4 lanes. Make a 72x PCIe link, and you will see that the numbers are very similar.
> then 30 year jumbo loans would not exist (F&F cannot buy non-conforming mortgages)

Fair enough, the 30-year mortgage wouldn't exist for the average American. I don't believe the Fed buys mortgage securities containing them either.
Oh boy. Outlook users are in for a surprise with "New Outlook" is forced on them in the near future. Microsoft has been pushing and warning about this change for some time ....
Oops you left Storyteller.ai running on autoplay and its been reading Mein Kamp for two hours
Maybe my wording is wrong.

Based on the description in the article, I assumed it was a form of "advanced placement" of students with better scores. It includes elementary school, middle school, etc so I wasn't entirely sure what to call it. My school did have AP courses in MiddleSchool though.
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: implications for human health
> maybe something like the Start menu is the right approach - quick search, but also categories and lists of tools.

Sounds like Google Docs.
Hire a hacker for review (Spyrecovery36 @ gm ail com ). They offer service like ( phone hack, GPS track, face book recovery, delete criminal record, whatsApp recovery, retrieve lost wallet and many more...
At some level, I really want to like Kagi. It represents how things should work. Value for value. I don't have any particular opinion about the pricing. I don't have "fuck you money", but I don't feel like it would appreciably hurt me if I put off cancelling the subscription for a year or two.

The problem I have with Kagi (within the status quo) is that it attracts high-value users, and it exists in a system that refuses to settle for anything less than milking those users for every penny. It's not that I think the idea is bad or the founder is dishonest, it's that Kagi is ultimately asking me to believe that it can construct a vessel that won't spring a leak under the pressure of GOOG/MSFT/AMZN/META when they turn their collective eyes toward acquiring Kagi's user base. And I'm not ready to believe that.

As C.A.R. Hoare so aptly put it, "There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars.".
ah fair enough, idk your project, sounds like a fun time

just saying that people who are expected to put in significant hours to semiprofessional low budget movies sometimes feel exploited. if you don't for yours hell yeah
New 3D cosmic map raises questions over future of universe, scientists say
I envision a thread of research in the exact opposite direction. Take a logic program/theorem/database query/... and use a LLM to guide a search for a solution/proof/query plan/...
I don't know if I should have expected different (not really familiar with individual game journalists) but for a video labeled "Cold Take" it felt more like listening to a series of hot takes.

>This is not a $200 million game, this is a $5 million game at best, the rest was spent on sipping Singapore slings on the sandy beaches.

Sure you don't want to have a more substantive view of how executives mismanaged the project in your "cold take" about poor executive performance?
They Gonna have a division names U.S. Robotics and Mechanical Men?
The ability to rank domains up and down is the main reason I feel kagi is worth the price. A few coding sites are raised. Quora, pinterest, and a few other noise sites are blocked. It's like Google from the early 2000s when you could find what you were looking for on the first page.
RIP then. https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collec...
It’s often a fear or trauma response. Nobody wants to spend 6 months out of the year trying to keep the plates spinning, and they definitely don’t want to spend 60 hours a week when things get ahead of them. Everything takes twice as long as we think it will and we don’t trust that we can keep ahead of user demand. Many of us have experienced it or been adjacent, and for a long time after we overreact to that scenario.

Because we don’t trust that we can keep the wheels on.

Over time the memory fades, and the confidence improves, and we get more comfortable with things being okay instead of unassailable. But it can be a rough road until then.
Bugs out for me in Firefox at around 2/3. Works fine in Safari.

My kid (6) crashes all the time, and she is naturally attracted to picking Peach. I'd say because of that, a character with high acceleration is going to be better. Though she also just likes to push the gas.

Though we're playing the one from GBA on Analogue Pocket. Which is probably a lot less advanced as the one in question here (a game for Wii U from 2012), it does resemble Wacky Wheels quite a lot.
The problem isn't so much the sand, it's all the air gaps between the grains of sand.

Adding metal won't help any- once it gets to a liquid phase, it'll sink down, or if it doesn't stay liquid long enough, will just trap most of the air in it.

Edit: you'll also want to keep oxygen out of the environment in the liquid phase. Depending on the metal you use and the exact makeup of the sand, you'll wind up with some materials that are often used in refractory cement- aluminum, oxygen, and silicon will do the trick and absolutely ruin the effectiveness of your heat battery.
> That’s your opinion, but I was clear about the origin of the information which is accessible to anyone, it’s up to others to vet and validate information they find online, and furthermore, what you think is poor form is strictly your personal opinion and has little to do with the implied social etiquette of this forum, and nothing to do with its actual rules.

Evidently not.

> codezero 1 day ago

> [flagged]

Do you always get this upset, argumentative, and perceive personal attack when people disagree with you?
But you can add that as a dimension to the chart!
Google considering charge for internet searches with AI, reports say
> Kill Fannie & Freddie and the 30-year mortgage goes away.

Probably not; without them, the norm wouldn't have been created, but while rates for them may change those going away won't remove the expectation and, given the expectation, the market will find a rate af which it can fill it.

Mortgages in general will be less attractive, though.
Pretty sure when you join a gym you sign a waiver of liability. At least if the gym owners have any sense at all.
Does the ability to reproduce their weights include the 'fixes' to hide laundered GPL code?
$10/mo was the price to lure in the masses years ago, they all cost more than that now for ad-free viewing.

In any case, price is not reflective of streaming's actual economics because those were either subsidized by VCs (Netflix) or are an arm of a corporate behemoth (Apple, Amazon, Warner Bros) that can afford to lose money there in exchange for customer acquisition.
Stocks traded by members of Congress by number of shares:

#1 Microsoft: 98.01 million

Source https://www.fool.com/research/congressional-stock-trading-wh...