skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW being a "job hopper" doesn't seem to be a negative anymore, and may even be seen as a positive now. From what I've read, if your application makes it to human eyeballs at all, they're more likely to view a long role at one company as stagnation.
Curious about your self-hosted db - was it also Postgres? How much had you played with pg before you tried Neon? Can you expand what you mean by 'glitchy, slow and laggy'? Slow connection due to cold starts? Scale-up? General inconsistency in performance? What kind of data volumes were you working with?

I ask because my experience with Neon has been completely different to what you just described. Ever since their 'closed beta' days, it has always 'just worked'. Their CLI has been great, none of my automation has ever bombed out without good reason, and I've never seen it cost me more than I expected. Notably, I was also able to self-host it with relative ease, and found that they actually encouraged people to do so. (In contrast, there are a number of similar 'open source' offerings such as Supabase that I've tried self-hosting, and found that while their core codebase is on GH, it is extremely difficult to deploy outside of their own environment. Not intended as a dig at Supabase, they do some really great work and contribute a ton back to the Postgres community - I'm just using them as a relevant example).

As an aside, I've also met people from Neon at various conferences, including co-founder Heikki. They all struck me as genuine Postgres enthusiasts & great fun to geek out with. Neon (like Supabase) have been _really_ pushing the envelope on Postgres for the last couple of years, and have sponsored some significant developments & proposals. In my view they're a 'real OSS company'. While that probably does rose-tint my view of them a little, that's important to me & makes me happier to give them my money. They've certainly done more for Postgres than AWS ever has.
How do you convince Meta to move to Stockton?
Most deployments of IPv6 are mobile networks which don't actually allow their client phone IPv6 addresses to be reachable (as was the dream around getting rid of NAT).
> you can't pay for investigative journalism with a substack model

Why not? Some of the best investigative journalism I've read has been on Substack.

> Most news organizations have figured out that partisan coverage helps grow your audience while criticizing your own team results in cancellations ... Journalism is hard work and it doesn't pay much

That's probably true of e.g. the New York Times, but the Intercept isn't a great example. The history there is quite complicated. When they had Greenwald at the helm they were doing OK and got an audience. Once they booted him out and went fully partisan they lost most of their audience but the editors didn't care because they are/were funded by a billionaire.

Even then it was complex. Greenwald technically wasn't cancelled - he quit because his editors didn't want him to write stories attacking their side - and wrote about how Omidyar had successfully divorced his funding from his own political views here:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/pierre-omidyars-financing-o...

no matter how much my attacks escalated on his [Omidyar's] core beliefs and the other groups he was heavily funding — and escalate they did! — I never received any remote signal that my outspoken journalism and commentary were imperiling his ongoing funding of The Intercept.

[The Intercept] is a dream job for most of [the employees]: enormous salaries, endless expense accounts, a complete lack of job requirements, and no need even to attract an audience. For years, outside of three or four journalists, articles published by The Intercept produce almost no traffic. With rare exception, nobody reads the site. They have a massive budget to create highly produced videos and yet their videos almost never exceed even 10,000 views: most tiny, from-their-garage, zero-budget YouTubers attract larger audiences. And nobody cares, because the money flows in from Omidyar no matter what.
As long as you want to hear back from the server you send a packet to, you’ll always be able to “reverse tunnel” into a firewall. This is because source ports are ephemerally allocated, which is a necessity unless you want to have a maximum of one HTTP connection at a time.

That said, a proper firewall implementation would only allow traffic back to a source port that is in the routing table as having an established connection. But that’s a stateful firewall (vs. stateless) and comes with its own set of complexities.
> you need an inverter anyway to convert the DC to AC and back again

But you have complete freedom to choose their frequency, so you can use much cheaper transformers.
Launching an AI personal finance assistant for college students
I used screenshotmachine.com to look at myturnpiketollservices dot com.

It looks like the site is behind Cloudflare and CF has marked it as a phish (w/ an ignore & proceed link).
So how radioactive will the thruster become? If used for human spaceflight it's going to end up in the same place where people will be.
Like much else in the U.S. system of government, responsibility for managing elections is distributed between the federal and local governments, and most of the laws are local, not federal.

For decades much of the south was under federal oversight because the suppression of black voting rights was so flagrant that Congress passed a law to impose some sanity, but the law was significantly hamstrung by the Supreme Court in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
indeed:

“.. should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.”
I am on the latest LineageOS, and "df -h" does give me a lot of information, along with a reasonable figure for the device size under /storage/emulated.

I am using a ConnectBot local session to see this.

When I run this as root, the output of df is different, but it is not immediately obvious why.

If you can see the subdirectories, "du -sm *" will recurse and report usage by directory.
"Listen Jack making people have two factor introduces friction to the signup process, which reduces customers, which reduces growth and profits. Meanwhile if there's a security incident what are they going to do, they can't sue us we made a TOS change that prevents that, so all they can do is b** on the internet. It just doesn't make sense to waste money on security because it isn't our security." - The Roku CEO probably.
Then embrace industry standards and don't add unknowns. “There are always organizational problems” is a poor justification for creating more problems.
Or, for the non-technical audience, Ghost.org seems a solid recommendation, followed by Substack.
> To you, sure, the term is not as useful. But to the people involved in academia and politics, the jargon is useful.

In what way exactly is "Global South" more useful than "3rd World" to "people involved in academia and politics"?

Sometimes jargon is necessary, but sometimes it's just fashion.

Also, in no way is jargon fixed. If I recall correctly, hundreds of bird species are slated to be officially renamed for political reasons. And just look at how many jargon terms there have been "in academia and politics" for Americans descended from Africans: negro, black, African-American, Black, etc. I see no good reason why a foolish term like "Global South" can't be abolished as well, for reasons of clarity.
I have access too at my recovery email. But without my old phone....

Again, my lawyer wrote them a letter via snail mail. No response.
Distraction, not cure
MattKC has some interesting content from time to time, like this project he worked on. But I find a decent number of his videos to be weirdly click-bait hell, like the video about installing Windows 98 on a modernish ThinkPad (using CSM - which isn't all that interesting or exotic and seemed to exist to game the Youtube algorithm for clicks) or about a video he put out a few years ago about Super Mario 64 not being optimized, with the implication that Nintendo willfully neglected to disable debug symbols in the final build of the game.

However, the reality is far more nuanced than he was letting on. The likes of Kaze Emanuar set the record straight, and actually did a proper deep dive into optimization for the game (and not just by passing a -O2 compiler flag I might add). I'd say take MattKC's channel and content with a grain of salt.
Super impressive. Can’t agree more with the author that GPS is a stunningly clever engineering achievement.

For those interested in the story of the development of GPS, I found “GPS Declassified” by Richard Easton to be an engaging retelling.
It won't help. That was my case. It is simply geolocation differenxe
A long while ago, I was told that the flight deck crew on Air Force One would wear eyepatches during nuclear drills, so that if (hopefully temporarily) blinded by an airborne nuke, would be able to continue flying after switching the eyepatch to the other eye.
Space is Full of Junk [video]
Based on what? "Budget" phone manufacturers (Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Transsion and many others in the long tail) make tens of billions of dollars in revenue every year and are very profitable.
This is true. But let's face it. I don't know of any self hosted email that is as good as gmail. Maybe fastmail?
I'll save you all a click. Vaclav Smil doesn't do any analysis around costings. He pulls the figure from a Mckinsey report[1] (now 2 years old) and multiplies it by 2. To have a meaningful discussion about this, you would have to read the Mckinsey report and understand the input assumptions. In particular, what are the assumptions around cost curves?

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/business%20functio...
Same here, was 39 when it happened, 41 now.

It was very troubling at first but you adapt.

I no longer doubt anybody suffering from long-covid. I used to be very skeptical, like “chronic fatigue” and “fibromyalgia”, but when a cold does permanent damage to your hearing you realize how different COVID really was
We have a WhatsApp group where we share music recommendations with each other. It's grown quite a bit now and it's gotten hard to keep up. Also new members missed everything that came before. So I set out to solve this problem and have some fun last week.

I decided to write a shell script that does the following:
- Parses chat export file and extracts all the Spotify URLs.
- Removes duplicates
- Authenticates w/ Spotify API
- Fetches Ids of tracks already in playlist
- Creates a difference list of missing tracks
- Adds those to the playlist

And that's that.
> FWIW I really don't need to remember the IPv6 addresses of devices on my networks, DNS and my router handle that for me fairly automatically.

That is true, but the OP said the people manage the network equipment.

You do need to remember IPv6 addresses when your network is hosed when the DNS server becomes unresponsive or returns nonsense. IPv6 adds an annoying barrier to troubleshooting. Not that you can't work around it, but it does have more friction than troubleshooting IPv4 issues.

I'm personally really torn about IPv6. On one hand, it technically is better, and for more reason than just the increased address space. On the other hand, it is more difficult to grok than IPv4. Especially because IPv6 does a bunch of magic that, if you're not on high-end networking gear, isn't logged anywhere.
> If we are unable to make full self drive work for cars

Believe me, air have so much more volume, autopilots for planes are simpler than for cars.

Definitively, air transport is more dangerous physically than land transport, but with stricter regulations on build planes and on maintenance/using them, we now have magnitudes (about 100-1000 times) better safety at air than on land.
And that was done with an unparalleled level of american investment to build such a trade partner. Billions of dollars spent by the american government alone in aid that largely came in the form of grants, not loans. Billions more in investment by american banks and funds through the years. Majority shareholder in toyota today is a private bank out of Plano, TX.
I think you may have misread the parent comment in the opposite way that comment misread the title. Isn't it a bit sad that System Verilog ended after a bit over two centuries?
Many states charge people for murder with sufficiently reckless behavior endangering public safety even without violent criminal intent. Such as wildly excessive spending and drunk driving etc.

The underlying logic is risking someone’s life is violent.
Sundar has made the case before which I think is pretty good point: The open web is basically an ads driven model. Without ads the open web would be very different.

(Opinions are my own.)

The alternative is paywalls everywhere, or existing on donations. Try reading the Atlantic/NYT today and see you like the ad free model. Or try lemmy if you want to see the donation model.

Hacker news is based around tech and entrepreneurship still yes? What is the current audience that drives the upvote consensus that everything needs to be free AND ad-free?
Now that's a blast from the past - T5! I always thought it was underused, but it's also from so long ago now, and even Google has moved past it to UL2 etc AFAIK. What's the use-case here for reproducing it? Aren't there already many good code models?
Show HN: 3D ISS tracker with live video
This is a little hobby project that I've finally tidied up and released. You can see where the International Space Station is now, with live HD video from NASA, on a pretty 3D globe. The positions of the sun and moon are also accurate, though sizes and distances aren't to scale

The clouds are also near-realtime; I span that out into a separate project at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk, where the cloud images I create from EUMETSAT data are freely available.
same - I noticed it again as I was reading this article
Script is here bdw: https://github.com/digitalmaster/WhatsApp-Group-Playlist-Gen...
It's not serverless it's a postgrest API over a DB. Which is plenty of backend for many of my purposes. Postgres's RBAC is sophisticated enough to use as your entire auth layer if you know what you're doing with it. After that it's a free rest API.

I'm not like a supabase diehard or whatever but I have used it to great success in a handful of projects, especially early or proof-of-concept stage ones. For me it's not a replacement for nginx it's a replacement for rails.
(Neon DevRel)

By all means, self-host Neon and come talk about it in our Discord (https://neon.tech/discord)!

Cheeky jokes aside, you can definitely go down the hetzner/VPS route. Not everyone has the expertise or desire to spend time doing so, but if you do, then go for it I say. We have some nifty features that are non-trivial to recreate, but again, it depends on your needs.
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node-postgres (pg, probably more specifically pg-pool) doesn't do too well with serverless, not handling TCP connections killed while in the pool (or something): https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres/issues/2112 (open since 2020)

A nice marketing opportunity for Neon/Supabase to get a fix officially released.
Pretty freaking terrible. I've never before had to send out more than a handful of resumes to get a new job... but right now I'm getting nothing back. Well, not quite nothing - I've gotten a few recruiters asking me to commute 2 hours for hourly body shop gigs. But nothing realistic.

My advice is to just keep working on it - send out resumes, write cover letters for the ones that look promising, A/B test different resume formats, and just keep at it. Something will work eventually.
That's my point. It doesn't perform in terms of loss, even though it performs well enough in terms of compute
Multi Account Management with AWS
People also tend to forget (or not know due to never having experienced that specific period themselves because young age or any other reason) that during the time when “things like X” were actually made, there was a point of oversaturation (without much evolution happening), and the public got tired of it and moved on to something more unexplored.

Examples: pop-punk in early to late 00s, photorealism in paintings in 1900s, “boomer shooter” videogames of late 90s/early 00s, etc. I don’t see photorealism in paintings having a massive comeback or a nostalgia wave right now, but pop-punk and “boomer shooter” videogames have been having pretty strong nostalgia waves recently, and they are doing quite ok.

And I 100% agree with your overall point, people remember titans like the original DOOM/Quake, but forget the flow of all the lazy unimaginative derivative slop that eventually started proportionally dominating those niches (which is what eventually spelled out the end of the mainstream hype era for those, and let us enter the “they dont make things like that anymore” fallacy stage).
Macros? Any situation where code edits other code?

Sure, I could not write a regex engine, but the language itself can be fine if you keep it to straightfoward stuff. Unlike the famous e-mail parsing regex.
Nice strawman you got there, would be a shame if someone had a different reason.

10 USD is too much to charge for ad free twitch. I don't WANT to support twitch, their reputation and brand isn't stellar.

They're probably one of the least awful, but I have better places to spend my money. Like the content creators on twitch. I begrudgingly pay twitch to support the streamers I watch and care about. but 10$ so streamers can get none of that... pass, if I care about the streamer, I'll unmute the small window, if I don't I'll close twitch.

Until adtech companies start acting more ethically as a rule. They deserve no consideration. Bad behavior might not excuse bad behavior, but it obviously encourages it.
For many things, yes. Local plumbers will often get most of their work via word-of-mouth, for which doing good work is necessary. In which case, being terrible at marketing to me signals that your work is good enough to stay busy without trying.

Note, there is absolutely nothing scientific about this claim of mine. Just a made up heuristic that seems plausible to me.
Would you mind sending me a link to the oil? Or is it prescribed?
> For the macbook air it's lack of support for external displays.

Lack of support for a third display (counting the internal display). And that's not specific to the MacBook Air but rather to the base SoC vs the Pro and Max chips. IIRC the M3 added the slight improvement that closing the lid disables the internal display and allows for driving a second external display.
> I can't understand anything.

Is the typical botanical idiomatic problem.

Petiolate: Leaves join the stem by a narrow "tail".

oblong-elliptic: Shape of the leaf, self-explanatory, also indicates that the leaf is entire (blade shaped as one continuous structure)

acute on both ends: blade leaf starts and ends in a point (that is short in both cases).

glabrous above: upper surface smooth

slightly hairy below: surface below covered by tiny "bumps" or vesicles to protect from dry or chill conditions (feels hairy to the touch)

Peduncles thickened at the apex: Ambiguous, but that "tail" is more thick in one extreme (probably before to join the leaf blade).

Hemispherical capitula: Flowers "glued together" over a disk, and arranged as a half sphere. Is not exactly like a daisy, but you pick the idea.

involucre with lanceolate acuminate leaves subequal to the flowers:

That "disk" has also spear-shaped bracts (accessory small leaves) that are more or less as long as the flowers are.

Flowers subvillous-tomentose with yellowish pubescence

Flowers in this genus have a strange (and pleasant) plush texture. They are covered by a dense layer of short yellow (or red) hairs. Is very strange the first time that you see it, but also adds a lot of charm and coolness to the species.
That's the Kang and Kodos Theory of Humans.

Actual humans have ideas, values, beliefs, religions, obligations, loyalties, desires, etc...

And they also differ a lot in brainpower and ability (and desire) to work!
He said it's what they will be focusing on, but that they will continue to support Rewind
If they are also carry the responsibility over the wrong decisions, it's OK. If not, the organization is doomed.
How would you know a marked bike was stolen? Does the police offer a public listing of all the stolen bikes?

(I do not think so, but this probably would make sense)
> Musk has barely done anything unethical compared to other CEOs, but he's nonetheless ruffled powerful feathers, and there's a backlash against him.

Yeah. The court of public opinion is pretty powerful. It isn't a grand conspiracy. Dude made an ass of himself in public. A decade ago, the common approach to such situations was to resign and retain one's dignity and preserve stock value. But Musk, like Trump, prefers to fan the flames and fail spectacularly.

We hate Musk, because this is kayfabe, and Musk is a heel. This is how Musk wants us to feel. This is how he wants us to react. You love him, but I promise, he doesn't love you back. He only loves that we're both talking about him.
Not much to be done about that with community ran servers for a lot of games. Its a thing when the game developer runs a ton of servers but usually that only lasts a few years after release before these are shut down by the game developer.
But it does appear to be the author's intent, considering their Twitter account has a photo of the crab using the gohper's carcass (with dead eyes) as a carpet referencing the same article (if you translate the Chinese). Also, the author went out of their way to use a CrabLang logo (not a Rust logo) to add the knife.
https://x.com/ratuthomm/status/1775183479858483439
https://imgur.com/a/txMb4Kw
$69/month is peanuts for anyone running something that hopes to make any amount of money. Developer and operational experience, uptime, etc. seem way more important. Just getting to skip dealing with all that nonsense and focus on whether your idea / startup has any value whatsoever seems far more important.

(Obviously if it's just like a hobby deal then run it on a cheap VPS).
There's actually an old documentary you might like:

Sherman's March

the filmmaker retraces Sherman's march through Georgia, with a camera on his shoulder as he interacts with people who live there now.
I thought compressed JSON was pretty efficient. How much would you expect to save over that with a custom binary format?
The point is that the rewards are clear and enormous, but the actual responsibility is way more diffuse. There will be plenty of people working at Nvidia who were less competent and less hard working than the person doing an almost identical job at ARM or AMD or Intel. But their reward will likely be 2-10x what those other people get.

The aggregate system seems to be efficient - capitalism has done a fairly good job at creating a successful innovative business environment, but the way it does that is just wild rewards predominantly for people who were in the right place at the right time.

There are people who are at Nvidia who are genuinely responsible for the great stuff that Nvidia has done in the last few years. But they're going to be a minority of the people who get rewarded.
Bit of a tangent, but you might have better luck with hardwood vs. plywood. The glue in plywood makes it more difficult for CO2 lasers to cut through. I was super surprised when someone at work mentioned they were able to blow through some hardwood in a single pass but had a struggle to get through plywood.
> This project utilizes the hand gesture recognition model provided by the Google MediaPipe project.

The rest is just some glue.
Glasgow is lovely, people are cunts.
Okay. That's pretty funny!

I didn't even notice, I just picked the first 2.5" enclosure Amazon showed me.