skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to wonder why in this age a trillion dollar computer company that helped usher the PC revolution would allow their systems to become crippled by a full storage device, especially when these devices are applied as indispensable tools for everyday life.

I'm begging the question:

In the 70s / 80s there was consumer tort litigation for all kinds of "misrepresentation", which was fair, because there was a huge and growing business of dark patterns of false claims, faulty products, and schemes for exploitation of unwitting and/or oppressing customers.

But it also became absurd, like class action suits against RCA for selling TVs with 25" inch screens where the picture only measured 24.5 inches due to the cabinet facia overlapping the edge of the tube or the raster not reaching all the way to the edge, etc.

Tort reform became a hot-button political issue because an enormous subsector of "consumer-rights" legal practice developed to milk payouts under consumer law. You still see this today for "personal injury."

So Apple has trillions in pockets and all their kit is sold with capacity specs.

Well, customers has better be able to get access to all that capacity, even if it kills their device.

I'm wondering if it's not a bug but a legal calculus, a la intro to Fight Club where Ed Norton is reviewing the share value implications of Ford paying off claims for Pintos that explode when rear-ended versus the cost of a recall?
Visual Studio Code March 2024
It's written in Go. The models that it uses are configurable, but it mostly uses gpt-4-turbo by default currently. It calls the OpenAI API on your behalf with your own API key. No fine-tuning yet, though I'm interested in trying that in the future.
This is interesting; we've also been building an incident management tool, hoping to open-source it shortly, once it is ready.
"Righteous clams" - going to start saying this immediately along with "What's the clam-age" and any other variants I can think of
Visual Studio Code for Java: The Complete Guide
OEIS is fun but the bare homepage probably isn't too helpful. I highly recommend Sloane's memoir about the history of OEIS: http://neilsloane.com/doc/HIS50.pdf "_A Handbook of Integer Sequences_ 50 Years Later", Sloane 2023
For charging speed you are right, the last 10% is at reduced rate. But, if I understand correctly, battery health is not depreciated with a 100% charge limit on Teslas with the newer battery composition that started sale in late 2022.
IntelliJ Idea 2024.1 Released
I've been using exclusively plain-text email for a long time, and it's not even for security; I want to be able to respect people's font choice.

When you send HTML emails, the font is chosen by the sender, which normally is fine, but some people prefer to use dyslexic-friendly fonts (e.g. OpenDyslexic or Comic Sans) to read their email, and I don't want my message to be artificially more difficult to read.

Since most emails really don't need elaborate formatting, I'm not 100% sure why this isn't the default.
I wonder how I could apply those tips on a daily software engineer scrum meeting.
Yeah, a lot of small deployments(<100, <1000) use amd64 because they can buy them in small quantities and they don't need an embedded developer to hack something together that ships on the hardware. I personally think arm64 is often a better choice for these kinds of systems but it's also hard to find people who are comfortable with non-Windows systems in these spaces and you have to go that direction if you go arm64.

So you'll see a lot of cheap, technically "embedded," Windows systems that are sitting in places driving displays or providing kiosk functionality because the economics work a lot better than trying to find an embedded Linux developer and build an arm64 system around the same thing.
I remember this one landlady complaining how her variable rate interest-only loan had rates going up so she had to increase the rent to cover it, and wasn't entirely possible...

Like why that sort of insanity was possible in first place. There should be something going towards principle. As not doing it means that increasing rates can be destruction.
That’s actually a different guy that the videos I was thinking, but still represents the same idea.
Ubuntu 24.04 Beta delayed due to malicious code in xz-utils, other Linux
Interesting, let me try:

A tonne of CO2 is 12/44 C, or 273kg. So let's call it $1/kg because 250 ~= 273.

A kg of CH4 is 12/16 C and 4/16 H, so a kg is $0.75 for C + $2.50/4 for H = ~$1.40/kg.

https://www.epa.gov/cmop/updated-coal-mine-methane-units-con... says 1000 cubic feet of methane is 19.26 kg. Call it 20 because we're doing it in our head.

$1.40 * 20 = $28 / kcf.
I'm not sure sight-seeing is the only reason to bike tour.

I did the Katy trail last Fall (across the state of Missouri — about 6 days or so of camping/biking). It was punctuated with pretty limestone bluffs and the Missouri River but to be sure had stretches of farmer's fields, etc.

I still enjoyed the isolation, and then the small towns you rolled into. Turtles, camaraderie with fellow bikers, sense of accomplishment and adventure....

A lot to enjoy besides the views.
Oh! It should work. What doesn’t work? I’m testing it on iOS all the time.

Which version are you?
>Interesting, but is x86_64 as an arch used much in any embedded applications?

A lot. ATMs, MRIs, digital signage, etc.
Would Hamas dissolve? Their charter specifies that their goal is to kill all Jews. What happens after they are citizens?

The two state solution was offered repeatedly. Israel isn't in charge of that. Hamas refused every time. So, I support you there, but it's not up to the 12 million living there. It's up to the handful of Hamas psychos holding Gaza hostage.
Sorry, the service are now at like 100% load. This is getting quite a hit.

If you get a delay there, you can try reloading.

I’ll try adding some more servers if we’re going to be on the front page.

I’m bringing up a new server in the US region now. Should be 10 minutes, hopefully will soak up the load
How do shell corporations help you avoid paying income tax? Most countries now require employers to deduct this tax at source, so it's very hard to get out of it. Of course there are things you can try (e.g. your employer loans you money and then uses an offshore employee benefit trust to repay the loan) but tax authorities tend to come down quite hard on this.
Testing your native AOT applications with MSTest
What were the main factors making the Model X feel so different?
Interesting, thanks. Last time I encountered x86 in an embedded fashion was ~25 years ago (PC/104) at a job I worked at.
>Waiting around while the computer does a load of computation.
You know, this reminded me of Blender 3D, once you are done with your model, etc. And proceed to the rendering process, we definitively have to wait for the computer to do its thing. But you are right on what you say. Hard to come up with algorithms that not depends on massive data I suppose. Thanks both of you for your recommendations.
How do they keep pulling this off?
Thanks! I agree it's great for coding while tired. I also like it when I'm procrastinating or feeling lazy. I find it helps to reduce the activation energy of getting started.
A gun malfunction has a potentially lethal consequence. This bug caused a person to see a fake photo of herself with fake boobs out. Perhaps it's ok that the safety standards for the latter are lighter, no?

You also didn't address the main point of the earlier comment. Is every programmer responsible - even criminally, some suggested - for potential bugs or vulnerabilities in one of their products?
It seems you’re confusing these concepts? Purchasing power is NOT equivalent to productivity.
My wife takes big payments at her company.

I'm pretty sure lots of people are putting these on credit and... might not ever pay it back.

She literally couldnt get cash from these people.

(US medical btw)
it’s true and we do. It’s a really astute observation. But it’s not because it’s a strategic move by NSA or CYBERCOM or DoD in general. We have more than enough bandwidth (both metaphorical and in the technology sense) to conduct loud attacks concurrent with other operations. Why we don’t is a pretty amazing reason: bureaucracy. Literally everyone i’ve talked to about it has told me it’s because of “authorization this and authorization that” and by the time they MIGHT get approval (rare) the point is already moot.

It also just makes us look incompetent in the field on the world stage IMHO. These brazen attacks by other countries have been extremely effective. Why not treat it like another sanction? We’re the big dick US, if they retaliate we can rereretaliate even harder. And yes i know that’s not a word and yes this is actually p4x from the story (can prove however you want)
That's amazing. Hard to believe that Polars is only a 7 person company.
>How well a vehicle will hold its value is a factor that many people factor into their purchasing decisions.

Cars are commodities, like microwave ovens or washing machines, not houses. You won't get any sympathy because your risky economic bet didn't pan out the way you expected it to.
>had no speedometer (this is so weird)

My Toyota has both a dial speedometer [hidden behind right hand/wheel], and a large numeric speed display that is easily-viewable. Unfortuneately, if there is any status update (e.g. cruise control, low gas) then the numeric speed digits disappear (replaced with whatever status/issue) — at which point I then no longer know how fast I'm going.

Fortunately, I believe both infotainment displays are running an open Linux distro — perhaps the numeric speedometer can be made permanent?
Spotted the Pacifica driver ;-)

And yeah the calculation varies, here in Québec it's about $1.20 CAD to charge it at home(10¢/kWh), and about twice that to charge it at a public L2 charger (1$/hour). I save about 4 liters of fuel with that. Fuel right now is ~1.60 so I end up saving around $5 everytime I charge.

Adds up pretty quick, and the vehicle is actually cheaper to purchase initially because of the government subsidies. Makes me wonder every time I see a gas Pacifica...
That is normal with most companies at most airports in my experience, (in major cities in the US). Phoenix was nice because it had a train from the terminal to the rental lots, but usually IME it's a shuttle bus .
The 6T token dataset is surely a high quality subset / refined extract from much larger public datasets. It's misleading to compare their sizes directly.
The Worlds Shortest C Implementation of Rot13 (1998)
I grew up in an area that the "TransAmerica Bicycle Trail" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAmerica_Bicycle_Trail) goes through. The "Bikecentennial '76" event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikecentennial) used that route.

The only reason I know this is a tiny sign commemorating the "Bikecentennial '76" next to a tiny section of dedicated asphalted bike trail out in the middle of nowhere along a state highway route.

Every once in a while growing up I would see folks following the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail. It looked like both a lot of fun and a lot of work.
Timescale acquires PopSQL
There's a huge difference between a car depreciating normally (which all of them do at varying rates) and what happened to the Model 3 depreciation curve over the last 12 months.
The trolley problem is the *real* threat here.
No matter how much you want that to be the case for ideological purposes, it isn’t.
because poor people, typically:
- do not quality for high-rewards cards (which have higher credit score thresholds)
- if not savvy, carry a balance because they can't afford to pay off the amount in full, are subject to higher interest rates because those are the cards they qualify for, and thereby pay much more than than well off consumers (increasing the transfer of wealth)
- if savvy, realize that having a credit card costs them more than not, and stick to cash
- are more likely to be receiving payment for services in cash themselves and will just spend that rather than depositing and using a CC (if they even have a bank account)

(update: 4.5% of US households are unbanked; these are mostly from the lower quantile) https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html
> not in their charter.

18 August 1988.

2017: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full.

> They are accepting 10% casualties according to the article (probably bullshit).

I genuinely can't parse this. What does it mean to "accept 10% casualties". Casualties means injured/dead. Do you mean 10% of the total population injured? 10% of those injured in a strike are non-combatants? Steel-manning while gently guiding back to the material: lets ignore the 100:1 extreme in the material, and say 10:1. That would mean roughly 90% are non-combatants. Not the inverse.

I'm a Zionist and I'm shaking my head at the majority of what you wrote, there's no need to be this rude to anyone, ever. The condescension harms you more than them, you're trying to win them over, you shouldn't be ranting and pretending they don't know what a % mark means, its detrimental to your argument because it increases perception you're missing their point

More widely, at some point we have an obligation to engage with people and avoid silly side debates like "the charter says kill all the jews, here's the 1988 charter, oh you know they have a new charter? sure they revised it, but the revisions are stupid pandering to ignorant Western sympathizers" and "find me a document allows for saving a Jew authored by Gaza's government. Let me know where this document is."

There's a really unfortunate tendency to conflate any criticism of this war with "Hamas good" or even "Hamas okay" or "Hamas bad but not that bad" etc etc. Not claiming any of that. I'm on the right of Israel opinion polls because I want the war to continue until Hamas is eliminated because I do believe that the 1988 charter describes how they see Israelis to this day.

But I, like everyone else, contain multitudes, and see a straight through line from IDF concerns about targeting rules getting looser and looser and looser over the years since the 90s, what I've seen since October, and now this information we have in the TFA. I'd rather acknowledge that publicly and remain clearly morally superior than start long arguments over if its okay using things like 1988 charter.
When voters say 'no' to new stadiums, what do professional sports teams do next?
Full Line Code Completion in JetBrains IDEs
Mini-nukes to be built in Hartlepool under multimillion-pound proposal
I didn't find this piece particularly compelling. As opposed to a thought piece, this is more like a feels piece with the usual gestures at how "technology is changing us", without hard numbers or proof. Not impressed!
> even just the feeling of assuming that someone is watching has to have a profound impact on the way you develop.

This isn't really discussed enough. It's not just an impact on children's development, it's also an impact on adults.

If people think that they're being surveilled (whether or not they really are), that changes how they think and act. They can never really be themselves anymore. That effect is the entire reason that panopticons were invented. It's also a key part of the book "1984".

Personally, I think this means that ubiquitous surveillance is a form of psychological torture. Or, at best, it's a form of psychological manipulation.

It's poison to the very idea of community and society.
If they were "commonly known", then you exploiting them seems even more, not less, likely to have removed them from stockpiles, no? Because the North Koreans were clearly not going to fix them on their own anytime soon (because they hadn't bothered to all that time), until you came along and offered free pentesting services; while those vulns were even more likely to have already been included in stockpiles (being so well known).
The replies to the tweet that say some variation of ‘no marketing strategies work on me’ crack me up. If you think you’re too clever, it suggests to me that you could stand to be more introspective.
I'm using it on OpenSUSE and it seems to work fine (I doubt it would be hard to make it work on other unmentioned distros as well). MacOS is obviously irrelevant. Nvidia seems to release their drivers for FreeBSD and Solaris but how many people actually DS/ML on those?
I hope this isn't too meta, but journalist's absolutely love starting stories like this, and it's pretty nauseating:

> ... the members-only Manhattan social club frequented by Kim Kardashian and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, were greeted with flutes of Champagne. Offerings of sliced raw tuna on crispy rice and roasted maitake mushrooms awaited them as heads turned to admire an Andy Warhol and a Keith Haring, while New Order throbbed in the background.

These "gasp, look at the fancy menus!" intros always serve the same purpose, which is to caricaturize the people involved as "out of touch rich guys".

There is plenty in what happened here to simply highlight the mistakes these people made. Plus, as other commenters have mentioned, the bigger issue which the article doesn't quite grasp is depreciation. I tend to immediately discount stories that start with "look at these fancy things rich people do" because it almost always indicates the article author is trying to get the facts to fit their predetermined narrative.
I believe charging anxiety was. The base case for car rentals is generally "time bound, busy itinerary" of some sort.... think business trips, holidays, etc.

Few want to spend that precious time becoming familiar with that cities charging network if charging is new to them.

I recently rented a Mach-E over Christmas in a large Metro, and stayed in a populous suburb. Charging & the states of chargers was no fun and really added a cognitive load.

However, I did realize I enjoyed EV's for some point in the future - somewhat curing range anxiety of my normal life routine.
"Universal health care" is a phrase that basically means "everyone is on medicare" by now and to a right-wing listener is synonymous with losing control of your health care decisions.

"Institutionalization" is a weird synonym for "imprisonment" to any left-wing listener, since those are the only "institutions" we put homeless people in, mentally ill or not.

This is the kind of bullshit fight that makes me miss the fairness doctrine in media. People still disagreed, but they at least focused on making their case instead of misrepresenting the other side. Now not only does the fight go on, it's full of shitty rhetorical tricks designed to appeal to emotions instead of any kind of actual policymaking. It's exhausting and I had hoped Hacker News to be a sanctuary from this.
This sort of dogmatic rejection of HTML ended up being the bigger problem. If instead futilely fighting against HTML email the community would have just embraced the idea, we could have a sensible spec for email (instead of just ad-hoc whatever Outlook does) and email could have had a chance to prevent its fading relevancy.

But no, we had to fight the great evil of rich text which left vendors, MS in the forefront, to their own means to fulfill the strong and justified user demand, with predictable outcome.
Vercel: Improved Infrastructure Pricing
good article, enjoyed the little storytelling even if a bit distracting. i think most folks on here are going to be super critical about them starting on a NoSQL database in the first place when it was very likely that relational would have been the way to go from the start, but sometimes you just need to get something off the ground and Firestore can be the fastest to do so (not recommending fwiw). we were also one of those “thousands” of startups that started with it and migrated off after a few years too - so might be a bit biased there - but it all worked out in the end
That's the quote that stuck out to me, too. It's like they're insinuating that the person is lying (while elsewhere admitting they don't have evidence either way). I mean, I don't want to backseat-quarterback here, but would it have been so hard to say something like, "We have decided to take our website offline while we investigate a report that our website generated an inappropriate image of a user"?
Mitchell Hashimoto joins Polar.sh as an advisor
Taiwan emerges remarkably unscathed after earthquake
We are loving it! Team picked up Rust and got started building productively in a few weeks.
Why Is a Child Not a Miniadult for Infections? (2021) [pdf]
Previous article with impacted web servers/reverse proxies from the same author.

https://nowotarski.info/http2-continuation-flood/
They take a loss from every transaction and make up for it with volume. /s

My guess is that since Robinhood Gold gives you a lower margin interest rate, enticing people to use more margin, they hope to reap all the money back and then some.

Since the rebate money goes directly into your Robinhood account, rather than a checking account, they encourage it to stay in Robinhood.
Breakthrough in prime number theory demonstrates primes can be predicted
Poolifier Web Worker version 0.3.15
## What's Changed

### Fixed

- Fix possible race condition at worker node recreation on worker node `error`
and `exit` events.

### Changed

- Optimize different JavaScript runtime handling code with a branching less
design pattern.
- Disable release publishing on https://deno.land/x/poolifier in favor of JSR:
https://jsr.io/@poolifier/poolifier-web-worker.

*Full Changelog*: https://github.com/poolifier/poolifier-web-worker/compare/v0...
> What do you mean, "conspiracy garbage"

"I've read about the US government doing bad things in the past, and so, I'm allowed to say that any article with a headline which I find provocative, is paid government propaganda"

That's a garbage line of reasoning and I don't care for it.

Did the "academic and scholar" you cited, write anything at all, to back up the claim that the op link is paid propaganda by the government?

It's conspiracy garbage to cite "huh did you know a highly respected academic says that Jose in Arizona smuggled heroin? Because I read this scholar's work, which means I'm now qualified to read a RAND study headline and conclude that it's worded so provocatively that it must be government propaganda"
I don't read that paper as backing that claim. At best the paper finds that the mechanism is more complicated than "money transfer from the poor... to the rich". To quote the conclusion directly:

"Notably, our results are not driven by income, as they hold within the sub-samples of low-, middle- and high-income individuals. In particular, high-FICO high-income consumers benefit the most from reward credit cards, but they do so at the expense of low-FICO high-income consumers. While credit card rewards are often framed as a “reverse Robin Hood” mechanism in which the poor subsidize the rich, our results show that this explanation is at best incomplete."
Reverse engineering Bandcamp authentication protocol
Space experts foresee an "operational need" for nuclear power on the Moon
Sleeping dragon: https://tabletopy.com/404
Jp²rt – A Package to Predict Retention Times (In Untargeted Metabolomics)
The jp²rt package allows to estimate retention times related to untargeted metabolomics by LC-MS/MS analysis for hundreds of thousands of molecules given an even small sample of known experimental retention times.
I’ve really starting paying attention recently to how many people in positions of power are willing to literally kill thousands of people to gain material wealth they have no practical use for.

Boeing being the poster child for this trend, but it’s truly systemic and I feel it’s just gotten worse.

Of course it’s nothing “new” per se, but that only makes me think there is a structural flaw in our species if we elevate these killers into power.
> Tesla's disastrous earnings report ...

Fisker just released a half-finished $75k car into the market and promptly went out of business without OTA capability to fix it. Maybe write an article about them instead of TSLA the meme stock.
Awesome, You should give this a try.