skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the page is currently being hugged to death so I’m not sure if this is actually related to OP, but…

My father was very much in the category of “disgruntled federal employee” during his employment with the USGS. I’ll spare most of the details, but the most ridiculous thing I remember was his screensaver showing the countdown, in days, until retirement. He had this going for at least 15 years prior to his retirement.

Can you imagine going into work every day and seeing a countdown with nearly 5000 days on it? Absolutely nuts to me.
The sad thing is that Michaelangelo was paid to do a lot of his art. And the David was a commision, he was creating art the same we are coding today: not for the copyright, but for a wage. It was financial incentive enough.
95% of zips in 1963 were safe and livable. Now everyone is competing to live in 15% of zipcodes

You address the supply side of the "housing crisis", what about demand?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951876

I've seen both sides flag basically everything.
Amwatson/CitraVR
It isn't exactly. Increasing interest can mean you have to pay liabilities unexpectedly early. But it's really the difference between your income and interest that matters. If your income is keeping up with inflation then higher inflation doesn't make you worse off; it just means you are paying off debts faster.
that just means she had the PMF to begin with

if you done the same and have 0 customers that means you did something incorrectly.

it is IMPOSSIBLE to do the same thing that works and net 0 customers.
Only below the 1000px breakpoint for tablets. Suggested videos probably keep people on the site/app longer than comments. They should have shown 5 videos with a "show more" drawer for the rest. But we know they care more about money than our happieness.
You support Iran having nuclear weapons in order to keep Israel in check? You're delusional if you think you'd like a world with the people running Iran in charge.
Snowflake is hiring.
https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/university

Mostly Bay Area and Seattle area, but many others too. Onsite.
Excellent project, well done!
You do realize that all these are about multiplexing multiple logical threads of execution on top of few physical threads of the executor? Getting this wrong alongside the Java argument (because Java retrofitted green threads - it could not adopt async/await, pushing it away from the scenarios .NET is already good at) does show me that you neither know how modern async runtimes are implemented nor understand the meaning behind the keywords repeated in every message.
New Line delimited JSON
Do those have an inverter built in? If not, at $600/kWh very pricy compared to what this guy used at $190/kWh for batteries, or $360/kWh including the inverter:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G81TKC6?ie=UTF8&th=1&linkCode=s...

Also, $190/kWh is so cheap. Its hard to believe how fast costs are falling for energy storage.
Wires from panels in parallel will all be at, typically, 48VDC. Voltages add only when you wire in series. No "live parts" are exposed in modern systems.

The quoted regulations govern construction. Residents have much greater latitude. All the appliances mentioned are approved for use with rated extension cords.
I grant that there's a world where, because the vehicle is parked on the sidewalk in front of the house, this caregiver can watch it like a hawk while also doing their job, and the would-be burglar knows they are watching, and so does not break into their car. It does not seem likely to me, but it's possible—maybe this is why only one person gave this safety excuse for parking on the sidewalk.
Like peter theil says, in 40 years only technology has improved , the real world has declined.

Should we value technology so much that we cheer on the loss of the real world?
I am very clearly agreeing with Jason that the organization has demonstrated itself to be entirely disorganized. The opposite of optimistic.

I have addressed the excuse of turnover already. It isn't one.

But even if it were an excuse, that still goes poof when the organization discovers that they dropped a ball that someone else trusted them with and handled something so poorly, and tries to deny any cuplability and even tries to bash Jason back, instead of saying "Shit, we didn't know because we're all new here since then. We feel terrible that this happened!"

That would cost zero cents to have done, but it was still too much.
That seems insignificant compared to the subsidies doled out by the American govt.
It mushes all the concepts together into very recognizable AI soup.

Let's see how it does with Native American

https://stockcake.com/i/historical-handshake-moment_626739_3...

https://stockcake.com/i/historical-handshake-moment_626741_3...

These could cause some upset... If you have to do this maybe at least avoid publishing anything tagged "History"?

https://stockcake.com/i/reindeer-caravan-march_309941_464989

Northern natives all have horns, right?
Also known as JSONL, or JSON Lines. Basically a file of JSON objects separated by newlines. Popular format for logs these days for obvious reasons.
I agree but the education system is starting to improve. Some schools now offer combined Baccalaureate-MD programs which can reduce the education time by up to 2 years.

https://students-residents.aamc.org/medical-school-admission...

Tennessee now allows some physicians to practice without completing a residency program, largely as a way to attract immigrants to work in underserved communities.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/993693
There was an example directly before that question which shows an example output when dividing by zero. There you can see what format they expect the error to be.
They seem to be ESP32 based wifi modems talking to 8-bit machines over a variety of interfaces. I don't think exploits compromising the 8-bit machines are a serious concern or even likely. Presumably the question was just being playful curious.

The IoT-style modems, maybe, but that wasn't what was asked. I'm not sure what the architecture is like for the network so I can't really say if there are security concerns there.
I fully agree with all your points. My comment was based in my observations that, even given the truth of everything you said, "time to prepare automated tests" is usually one of the first things to shrink as unexpected events cause projects to slip on their timelines.

That's not a good thing, but it is a real thing: healthy organizations should respond by protecting that time, extending deadlines, and assessing what about their process and environment is causing planned timelines to not match reality ... but that doesn't always happen. When it doesn't happen, testing discipline can slip from (for example) "we need unit tests for complex logic modules, and integration tests for real networked service interactions, and at least 70% coverage" to "just get the happy path tested however you can so this feature makes it into the next release".

Given the reality that this will sometimes occur, engineers should remember to always prioritize the highest-value (that is, the maxima between time spent creating tests and defects that those tests can catch) testing work and methodologies. In good conditions, that will result in them writing the most important tests first and then writing any other tests they feel they need. But in bad conditions, this approach will still ensure that the most important automated verification is present.
I need to order supplemental nutrition for my son. I usually just pay out of pocket, but I contacted a company that can deliver the product and have it billed though my insurance. It would end up costing me about the same but would at least count towards my deductible. They delivered monthly. After the second delivery I got the first bill. It was much higher than they said the per unit cost was.

After a lot of Byzantine exploration of billing codes, I discovered they were billing a daily charge for infusion. A lot of angry phone calls just reached the conclusion that they add this charge because they are allowed to by the insurance.

I'm guessing this is a similar thing. They can keep charging a daily charge so long as they are able to control that the device is active.
I think some of the bits of advice here apply more to "soft" topics like tech debt, etc. Things that feel more like storytelling rather than informational.

Technical presentations have a different set of "rules".
MAD is a well established doctrine for deterrence. The people running Iran are running Iran, not the world. The people running Israel however have undue influence on my and many other countries.
We generally call traitors who win "patriots".

Drawing swords, scabbards, etc. etc.
> If your operations have a 90% survivability rate it could still be considered a success despite those 10% they end up killing, because 90% is a lot better than 0%.

> Meanwhile a tired pilot is more binary, it either can have 100% passenger survivability if things go well or 100% fatality if things go tits up, meaning the risk are too high to take chances.

This isn't how the math works. A tired pilot either kills or doesn't kill their passengers on a given flight the same way that a tired doctor either kills or doesn't kill their patient in a given operation. In both cases it's 100% survive or 0% survive.

Pilots aside, we also have laws about keeping truck drivers from driving too many hours, and accidents involving drowsy truck drivers are unlikely to have fatality counts measured in the hundreds.

The difference between doctors and pilots/truckers isn't in the amount of risk involved, it's that surgeries are expected to have a non-zero fatality rate. A doctor can do their job perfectly and still lose a patient, so it's harder to prove that the fatality rate would be lower if we gave surgeons more rest. When a truck driver falls asleep at the wheel and kills someone it's obvious because they did something provably illegal or unsafe right before the crash. When a surgeon fails it's a lot harder to prove it was preventable.
I'm not sure this answered the question. The company is based in Germany. Can they not just ignore the Italian ruling, since they're not in Italy?
Meta-Population Epidemic Models
In my experience, the compass can be totally backwards when you're around tall buildings.
Another option is Phocos. You can set the PV / grid / battery priority order.
> The amount of revenue the city takes in through ticketing is outrageous, to the point that it's less and less about bylaw enforcement and more about making money.

Be that as it may, a society that allows individuals to claim public land for private use without any compensation or penalty also seems outrageous.

I can't speak to SF and personally I'd look the other way if someone is taking less than a couple feet from a sufficiently wide sidewalk in front of their house. But at least in NYC many sidewalks, crosswalks, bike lanes, car lanes, and bus lanes are impassable because the cost of parking there is far too low.
Beware of EuroDNS
>Am I alone? Am I simply jaded?

I've not been to 'Next, but every conference I've been to the best parts are talking to speakers afterwords or magic hallway conversations with developers or other attendees.

Sounds like you got a bit of that at the expo. If you go again, make it a point to hunt down the engineers or speakers you liked and get into the nitty gritty.
> I see lots of AI companies are trying to transform the MedTech industry, but I'm unsure how much of their products useful / are actually adopted by the hospitals. Maybe some experts in that space can enlighten me on that?

My impression (as an outsider with a partner in the medical field) is that the prime function of the "medical industry" is to generate reams and reams of documentation about "care provided" to an insanely granular level. Functionally, this information is mostly bullshit that is irrelevant to providing medical care, but it serves a very important purpose for the medical administrative class so that they can bill the patient for each bandage applied or Ibuprofen administered.

AI MedTech companies mostly seem primed to increase this firehose of bullshit. Whether or not that will take the pressure off front-line medical personnel who are currently tasked with generating it remains to be seen, but you'd be hard pressed to convince me.
Thanks. That awful thread would have made a fine blog post. I can’t imagine why anyone would switch that misfeature on.
> All this might become irrelevant with technology replacing GPs/Physicians. Perhaps in 10 years time we'll be examined by robots at our local pharmacy.

lolno. Aside from the fact that AI is nowhere near good enough, we can't really build robots anywhere close to the dexterity required to do many of the physical actions. Also people like having human contact.

"Economies of scale" only works well for things like manufacture, and is much more limited for many other things. It certainly doesn't reduce the cost of actually paying a yearly salary to these people, or ensuring you have enough places (hospitals) for the to work at, which isn't cheap either. There are some small advantages one can take here on there, but in general, it scales fairly linearly. This is not just me saying that, your own link, again, says that.

Training 10 junior devs really is about 10 times as much work as training 1. Maybe slightly less because you can group some things, but not too much. And training 20 junior devs is about twice as much work as training 10.

It really is just a funding issue – which is what everyone has been saying for years. Labour wants to increase spots by abolishing non-doms – we'll see if that works when they win the election.

Otherwise feel free to stand for election and propose the n% tax hike required for all of this and see how well that goes.
I think its similar worldwide. Like I said my brother quit. Its also true that IT people are ridiculously overpaid. Both problems will inevitably revert to the mean.
What are your feelings about the Ferrari California?
This reminds me of the time when I built a battery stereo power amplifier and then only used it a few times because I didn’t want to risk burning the apartment complex down. It was fun building it though.
Ah, okay. I think we have different ideas of what constitutes a failed state.
Whole Foods' new smart carts may skip long lines, but they need some work
I get that the syntax options are just to adapt to different language users but it’s a little bit confusing that some claims are actually wrong in the specific language. In the first test, they state that adding two bools gives an error, even though this is perfectly valid in Python.
I like that their 3K inverter works with a 48-volt battery bank. They seem incredibly low cost for the value.
>"scraping" usually refers to

Understood. I use the term "scraping" loosely and, admittedly, purposely. I think it's illustrative of the broader point I was attempting to make.

But, if you really want to be precise, what Google actually does is more commonly (and euphemistically) referred to as "crawling". And, it is more accurate to say that they are crawling for the purpose of indexing what they've crawled. Crawling is essentially the front end of an overall process which ends with indexed results.

Whatever the nomenclature you prefer, the effect is the same, and so is my point.

>websites go out of their way to encourage google

I understand that some websites "encourage" Google, and that intersects with the alternative point of view I've been suggesting. That is, that Google is monopolistic in its traffic ownership and the content owners have little choice but to offer their content to be freely monetized by Google. It's also worth pointing out that there are some businesses which are built around SEO from the ground up while others—like news outlets—pre-existed Google but now rely on them to survive. These are different.

To further close the loop, my suggestion was that the original topic of this thread might also be seen as somewhat of a remedy for that effect. And, frankly, it's strange to me that you will allow that Google should be paying sites for their scraping or crawling or whatever, but don't seem to be connecting it to my point, when it really could be viewed as an alternative remedy to the problem I'm describing.

Overall, I believe mine is a more interesting and accurate way to look at the problem than to simply accept that Google has intermediated so many content sites and their consumers as some natural and universally right state of affairs.

In any case, I don't think Google's search business model or that SEO is a thing, etc. is lost on anyone on HN. And, thought I might encounter more interesting discussion here around my view. But it seems most people here have accepted that Google just owns the traffic and everybody must play along. Further, that it's really for their own good. I suppose it's become harder to imagine a world where content producers own their content and are not coerced into giving it away for need of traffic from a single monopolistic source without whom their business might not survive.

But, it's somewhat surprising when I zoom out and think about the spirit of "hacking" and the audience that used to more predominantly frequent HN. Thinking back to staunch support of folks like Aaron Swartz and other topics. Maybe I'm the only one who sees these as somewhere along the same continuum. And that's fine.

Nonetheless, I find this discussion tedious and boring by now, as I'm sure others do my "alternative perspective". So, let's just agree to disagree, rather than have these pedantic restatements of definitions and Google's well-known search business model as if these are somehow dispositive.

Thanks for your time.
Dunno, Elon and Bezos seem to be doing their damndest to push past the red line. A pacemaker with an LLM you can chat with would also be a good sign we’ve passed the point of no return.
No, but the “typical” person isn’t old. Just like the “typical” man didn’t support 6 people in the 1960s.
Have they really? Going through their comments history I don’t see others like this, but maybe I’m missing something?
There’s Lebanon and Iraq that just closed their airspace too.

I don’t know how the countries the drones, fighters, or missiles flying through or over will respond.

Israel wants to intercept before arrival to airspace and Iran said anyone who opens airspace will “face a decisive response”.
>You address the supply side of the "housing crisis"

Why the scare quotes especially when no such term was used?

>what about demand?

"...growing demand due to job growth" <- demand side was indeed mentioned.

It's literally illegal to build enough housing in many, many places where jobs are via low height limits, absurd parking requirements, and large setbacks etc.
I'm the author of this post. If perhaps you're wondering why I didn't just transfer the domain to Cloudflare, it's because they do not support the South African TLD, unfortunately.
> Are there any really smart people here with credentials and credibility to prove it who are also complete garbage at navigation?

Anecdatum: I think I'm smarter than the average bear. I have an MS and work at a FAANG. However, I'm absolute shit at navigation. Last month, I hung out with a friend who is similarly bad at navigation and we lost the car for 15 minutes.
Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy?
Still feels like 20% of the time I try to use Siri/Alexa, they hit one of these failure modes:

1. Fail to activate

2. Fail to respond (just keep listening forever)

3. Activate on the wrong device (talking to Siri on Phone, HomePod 2 rooms over responds)

4. Fail to access data they should have ("Who is speaking?" or "I'm having trouble...")

Thinking over it, I think voice assistants have the most bugs of any technology I use daily.
What do you mean by better quality of graph pictures? If you're talking about 2D string diagrams/box and wiring diagrams/ or functorial box/tube diagrams a la Meilles or McCurdy, I agree! If there is something else you have in mind, I am curious!

Can you give me some examples of articles we could improve, and describe what you'd like to see?
I've always linked my inability to navigate to my inability to visualize things in my head. Even in the area where I've been living for about 15 years now, I still struggle to determine routes if I don't travel them very regularly.

This afternoon, we drove to a place in the city nearby. By now, after so many years, I can guess which exit to take, but I don't know whether to turn left or right at the end of the exit until I'm at the end and recognise it from previous times I've been there. But I can't picture it in my head beforehand.
if you have any questions feel free to ask!
Maybe, I think we have to trust the medical people that they know what they're doing. My baby daughter was in incubated in ICU twice with severe Bronchiolitis. It was nice to see the same people look after her for a week rather than a continual stream of people clocking on and off.
Is the argument that true inflation should be worse than CPI because it helps with diversity?
Obviously the extension cord you use needs to be rated for the power it carries. Anyone buying extension cords can see there are different sizes. They are well-labeled, and it is easy to look up the gauge needed for its length and what is to be plugged into it. A correctly-rated extension cord is no more hazardous than the same-rated Romex, and often cheaper.

All the appliances mentioned are rated to be used with appropriate extension cords, and cords are sold at retail for such use.
The only benefit this format provides is the ability to read some columns without needing to read all columns. Unfortunately it is not a seekable format. That's a pretty big miss.

It also wouldn't be that hard to make it seekable. All you would have to do is make each tsv file two columns: record-id, value.
i thought this far too late
> We also believe that the terms “call-by-value” and “call-by-reference” are so hopelessly muddled at this point (between students, instructors, blogs, the Web…) that finding better terminology overall would be helpful.

Maybe that shouldn't even be exposed to the programmer. The programmer-level questions are, is it copyable, is it mutable, and is it alias-free? Whether it's passed as a copy or a pointer is really an issue for the compiler. If you're passed a read-only copy of something guaranteed to not be aliased, you can't tell the difference from a reference. Some Modula compilers made that decision automatically, based on object size.

Rust compilers have the info to do this. I'm sometimes asking myself whether I should pass, say, an array of 3 32-bit floats in graphics code by reference or by value. The compiler knows better than the programmer what the hardware can copy fast, and that may differ with the platform.
would love to check it out
> And wind blowing has what to do with compiler optimizations again?

The wind blowing shakes the tree.

When the tree shakes, the dead branches and loose leaves are removed.

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This is similar to when a bundler will traverse the connected code graph and remove the things that are not attached.
HTTP/2 Dynamic Benchmarks, 2024 edition
I suppose the same reason companies get rid of perfectly serviceable laptops and servers: depreciation and chasing after fractionally larger efficiencies.
this shouldn't be too hard
How much of this is just that one model responds better to the way you write prompts?

Much like you working with Bob and opining that Bob is great, and me saying that I find Jack easier to work with.
Honestly, calling BS on this. The cheapest large package mass produced factory farmed chicken at my local big retailer grocery store is $2/lb. The nicer stuff is more like $5/lb.