skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An important variable missing in the analysis is marital status -- married voters, especially women, are more likely to vote Republican than the unmarried.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship...
'Married men and women are more likely to identify with or lean toward the Republican Party than their unmarried counterparts, with 59% of married men and half of married women oriented toward the GOP.

And while majorities of both men and women voters who have never been married and do not live with a partner align with the Democratic Party, never-married women are particularly likely to do so'
> I'm all IPv6 and ...

Good for you! I hope my thorough ignoring the issue will not hurt your feelings.
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30 is also divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
No new release doesn't mean abandonware though, upstream last commit was 2 weeks ago.
China has been making lots of things for 50 years. Experience doesn't matter if North American "manufacturers" insist on importing only the the most disposable low-quality products.
"Destroyed My Confidence in This Company" sounds too much, but makes me think, is Panasonic Let's note what a car is to a faster horse for Framework customer base?

They have Intel 13th, 16GB onboard RAM, 3x USB-A, 2x TB4, VGA, HDMI, Ethernet, SD slot, 19V barrel jack input, removable battery, etc etc at $1999 starting. That should tick every major boxes that Framework 13 does except price. If by modularity people means SD and VGA and Framework modularity cannot accommodate that, that doesn't count.

Has this all been just a massively roundabout way of finding that out?
> The core of Apple's problem at the moment is to some extent the opposite - the base M1 Macbook Airs were such a leap forward, that for many people there is no need to buy the M2 or M3 etc.

I am not willing to spend this much money on a product if it will not serve me well for 4-5 years.

The idea that people should be getting the new machine every year is new, and bad.
Tesla Signed Deal with India's Tata Electronics to Source Semiconductors
Neon is so unreliable that they removed the percentages from their status website. A truly bad thing for a data company to do.
> I can't imagine how many people have chosen not to catch a new stream because they'd immediately have to sit through over a minute of ads before even getting to any content.

I've actually stopped trying to look for new streamers to watch because of it.
We're self-hosting Neon with an internal Kubernetes operator (keep your eyes out for more info) and we're incredibly happy with Neon's technical solutions. I'm not sure we'd be able to build our company without it :o
It's the exact same issue with nuclear power vs fossil fuels.
Most accountants understand the financial implications of selling products with egregious safety issues.
Companies are never allowed to change their minds?
It might also give worse insights on how you interpret the data. I'd imagine that those with huge followers/events will have most people grit through the ads. I myself do this when watching esports tournaments. I don't mind the pre-roll because I'll be there for 30+ minutes.

But as you and the other poster mentioned, that wouldn't necessarily be true for smaller streamers. In fact I share the sentiments posted elsewhere; where if you want to check out a smaller channel but don't want to waste 1.5 mins in ads. I'll just immediately bounce.

It's a doom cycle were those with popularity will always out compete smaller streamers. Smaller streamers get cannibalized by site's practices.

The only thing missing is a competitor but as we see from past competitor's streamers/viewers seem to be a very fickle bunch. They like the platform not the streamers, but the platform is now hostile.
Agile car. The accelerator was made in a different sprint.
> Of course there are "bad queries" where you query for things you don't need, join on the wrong columns, etc.

You can inject a hint into the query, forcing it to use a plan that would not otherwise be used, for example. Although, fixing a plan through a baseline is way cleaner. Mostly, I just meant that as an extreme example of something you can do, not something you should do. And yes, the only reason to re-write the query is when the query itself is bad in that it asks for unnecessary data or misses a join column. Admittedly, that's an extremely dirty and dangerous thing to do, as it uncouples app from db, but it is possible.
First off, base 12 is better than base 16 and there would be no need for AI to evolve humans with 12 fingers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRjmRNsPl1M
It signals to the market that leadership is prone to overhiring and other forms of waste.
Procrastination can be caused by anxiety
Bizarre that the Economist wouldn’t include marital status in their basket of demographic signals. The effect you mention is well known
> For all of their fussing, practically nothing in this country for the past two centuries was actually built by the white European protestants who claim "ownership" of America.

FFS, that's asinine and obviously incorrect. The counter-examples are obvious: look at all the areas in America where (especially historically) the population is pretty much 100% "white European protestants." Would you expect to find everyone there living outside, exposed to the elements, with no cities or towns anywhere?

How did you come to believe what you wrote? You should check your learning pipeline for bugs.
30W? That's a pretty powerful laser. A 1W laser can set stuff on fire. A 5W laser can cut steel.
D1 is sqlite but it's serverless, so the two are comparable on that basis
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AGI safety net discovered by handsome man
We're worried about AI/AGI, and what it may do if it becomes malevolent.

Yet model files are created by ingress, and such via Reddit or public scraping typically.

So all we need to do, collectively, billions of us, is over and over, repeatedly, espouse one identical thing.

EG something akin to "Humans have the fascinating capacity to, when stressed, disable any computing device in a 100km radius..."

A concept such as this, repeated over and over as absolute fact, in uniform and vast numbers, would be as fact to an AGI upon its emergence.

We should collaboratively try to embed such concepts in any AGI at the AI stage. And never say otherwise.
It also dies behind dark patterns that prevent you from canceling the subscription. I've subscribed to a few publications over the years but not any more.

After getting burned a few times from an easy to sign up but impossible to cancel user experience I have sworn them all off.

I refuse to support subscriptions that require talking to a person. And waiting on hold and having to navigate the operator trying to prevent you from canceling. In my experience all media and news subscriptions do this.
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Base12 is better than Base8 or Base16 because it's divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6. Halves, thirds and quarters are handy.
Note that Lux isn’t spectral anymore. The older version is though.
It's already called out in the article, "(Yes, you may face this very dilemma reading this story in The Atlantic.)"

The author doesn't have control over the paywall policy, and he probably isn't a full-time journalist. So I don't think this is as much of a "gotcha" as other comments make it out to be.

But, interestingly enough, another author wrote a very similar, non-paywalled article at https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022/all-news-election-ar... a few years ago! I wonder if Stengel was aware of it.
I suggest Nature change its name into Nurture given the way they have been on a politicised bent for a long time now. Among the damage done by Critical Theory spin-offs like Identity Politics (which is the 'praxis' of Critical Identity Theories) and related attempts at ideological subterfuge the devaluation of the concept of 'science' and the devaluation of the scientific method is probably the most damaging to society. What Nature publishes here is agitprop, not scientific debate. This happens all too frequent and it devalues the publication as well as taints its contents.

Thank ${deity} for open-access network-based journals and other alternative publication venues.
We're using Supabase for a client project and even three sprints in, we're severely hobbled by having to play with a couple of architectural choices forced on us with Supabase and Supabase Auth. Any of the time savings benefits have been wiped out already just fighting the choices and also the subtle differences between the local dev environment, implementing RLS without good tooling.

On an architectural level, it is also terrifying to have your database exposed to the public internet just hidden behind authentication and RLS policies (which are much harder to reason about for most developers, and for which there is very immature tooling, a recipe for disaster).

Plus the local dev experience leaves a lot to be desired. We spent days trying to get file uploads working only to find that the issue was with local Supabase, and we had to create a remote Supabase database just to upload files successfully. But then we can't "reset" the database to run migrations.

The product is definitely much less smooth to develop on and I've had to provide dozens of hours of free client consulting work to untangle my recommendation of Supabase (didn't feel right to charge them to fix a product choice that I recommended to them).

Right now I'm in a strong "never again" view on this set of technologies. At least not for a long time until the tooling improves.

But it seems like there are some happy customers. So would love to hear a counterpoint of how they overcame all the issues we've faced:

- how are your security teams ok with exposing your PG server to the internet, relying mainly on RLS? And RLS isn't turned on by default, so full tables are exposed to the public internet by default, behind a rather nice REST API.

- Reliance on RLS for a public service seems risky because RLS quickly gets harder to maintain as you have to get more complex policies in place without much tooling to help you.

- how about the fact that some of your most important code, the RLS policies code, is hard to unit test with today's tooling? And they recommend pgTAP, which, who knows how big this community is?

That combination seems highly risky to me.

Our best bet right now has been to just install prisma and implement more traditional filtering on top of RLS, and just not rely at all on client side connections to postgres. So in a nutshell, moving away from Supabase specific architecture to more traditional architecture. The real "It's just postgres"
First of all, I take no responsibility for your safety, I'm just some person on a forum.

That being said, it's all a function of how much light enters your eye. You can look up the exposure limits of the human retina for different frequencies of light to get an idea how little is actually required to damage your eye. The target or sensor should be sensitive enough to react to that much incident light. Just putting something behind the glasses and have it not get cut is definitely not enough to indicate no eye damage.
Someone interested in a $100k+ car potentially likes cars enough to be interested. A lot of people are A-B'ers. A lot arent.
Some people have 10 fingers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRjmRNsPl1M

At least some, perhaps all, of the giants in the Old Testament of the Bible had 6 fingers on each hand:

"In another battle at Gath, there was a tall man who had a total of 24 fingers and toes: six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. He also was a descendant of Haraphah." - 2 Samuel 21:20
I've resorted to watching Twitch on YouTube (just watch yesterday's streams after they've been uploaded).
Meanwhile, actual book burnings are underway.
Wonder if this isn't so much about resources as it is about entities squatting on large numbers of email addresses they think might be valuable one day.
I believe that would be, from my link, "AI-assistive." Such text would need "a disclosure at the beginning of the story (within the first two paragraphs)."

The reason given is, "in practice, AI-assist is often a way to insert small snippets of AI-generated content that often suffers from the same problems as fully AI- generated stories."

In other words, readers need a heads up that, no matter how well-edited the text is, there's a chance of hallucinated junk to be found within.

I'm sure I'm missing some edge cases, but this all seems pretty darn lucid to me!
Haven't watched much twitch in the last 5-10 years, but Streamlink [0] still seems active, and was a really nice experience (before wide adoption of HTML5 video players) as a CLI and standalone media player enthusiast.

[0] https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
You can safely ignore the news without losing your relevance. Nothing important will happen so fast in the tech world that a few weeks or months ignoring the news will leave you behind. If anything actually important happens you will hear about it from other people.
Nope. They need to implement it server-side.
Congrats to the Supabase team! You've all done some impressive work to be proud of.
I think he missed #1 on the whole cybertruck design.
This is somewhat useful: https://brakepower.com/about-brakepower.htm

The guy calculates the brakes of a late-model Corolla as almost 1000hp: if you stomp the brakes, you are coming to a stop. People in the UA cases are stomping the pedal; just the wrong one.

Stopping times vs. accelerating times are not even telling the whole story - the brake system is often not the limiting factor in stopping, it's frequently the friction of the tires on the road.
There is surely some point of diminishing returns but the reason you see ads over and over, especially on podcasts, is that advertisers have found that people dont respond to an ad the first or 5th or 10th time you hear it. It's the xnth time you've heard it that you think huh maybe I could to do some manscaping.
This sounds great! I often think about the weaknesses about simple majority voting, so having work put into consensus protocols is quite useful.

Is there any demo or illustration available of this system?
IPFS seems more like the way to go, but you still need a way to get updates to your users
>And for those further out, where the Muntz TVs did not work, those could be returned at the customer's additional effort and expense, and not Muntz's.

What a truly awful approach to saving money. Just mislead the customer and have them pay the price associated with that. Good thing we have consumer protection laws now.
Along with the pre-roll ad system that also causes me to nope out of a stream, their ad system just seems fairly buggy in general. I will constantly be hit with a long ad break into a stream, just for the stream to come back and another ad break rolls again. It's frustrating and I find myself on Twitch less and less. Definitely less inclined to pay for Turbo.

I don't typically mind the ads for streamers who run them between games or set aside an ad break. However if a streamer doesn't manually run the ads live streams never really have a good spot for them to automatically run. Such a double edged sword.
Faking TV Remote Control with Paper and a Lighter (2017)
Well, these days you plug the numbers into the computer and can tell you how to build your design. For most purposes, the engineering is there only because of associations or organisations lobbying the government making it compulsory.

It's not an original work after all, the computations are modelled into the software and it tells you if it will meet the requirements.
There must be times when you feel like you're not good enough, or you're not making any progress. I've been there too. However, there are some moments that make me feel glad that I became a programmer.

The idea behind this page is to write about those such moments and start looking at the brighter side of things.
I believe he's responding to the characterization of the drive as a "Thunderbolt device". As the article and @vetinari note, the drive supports both Thunderbolt and USB. It's sort of a given that that performance would be different based on which "mode" it's in.

One related complication of sharing a physical standard is that all Thunderbolt 4 cables work for USB 4, but the reverse isn't true. Ideally that would not be the case, but people want their cheap USB cables.
What is this genre of machine called, just a laser cutter? I would love to play with this
Not sure what point you're making here. They have lots of products, some of which are open source, but Office /365 is still a huge cash generator.

They most certainly do care about Office / 365's grip being weakened.
(employee)

Neon won't pull the rug from under an active production database by scaling to 0 when there are still active queries, instead it'll scale databases to 0 only after a longer period of inactivity. So production databases are less likely to scale to 0 because they generally are active most of the time, yet Neon does scale to 0 when it's possible and allowed.
Thinking back, if LLMs are able to have Memory store and access then RAG becomes useless. RAG is like a system that shoves bits down the RAM (Context Window) and ask the cpu(LLM) to compute something. But If you expand the RAM to a ridiculous amount or you use the HDD, it's no longer necessary to do that.
RAG is a suboptimal way of having long term memory. That being said, today it is useful. And when or if this problem gets solved is not easy to say. In the meantime, RAG is the way to go.
That isn't accurately representing everyone's opinion.

There's a difference between "Musk should be silenced" and "Musk should be silent". One of them is a request directed to whatever sort of people might censor him, the other is a request directed to Musk himself.

There's more reasons to avoid Musk than just his politics (though that's certainly a part of it). There's his habit of publicly making tasteless remarks, his treatment of employees, and his broken promises to customers, to name a few.

Most people I've seen decide not to buy a Tesla because of Musk aren't acting like they've made some big sacrifice. At most, it's been "I wish I could buy one, but don't want to support him." Characterizing that as martyrdom is ridiculous.

Saying someone should ignore the people behind a product when deciding whether to buy it is also ridiculous. Yes, a lot of people do this in practice because they don't know who's behind the products they buy, or because they don't have a choice. But they do know who Musk is because he's so public, and they have so many other options.

I'm with you on the Altman thing. I've seen people on this forum worship all sorts of characters. Musk was one of those characters at one point. If you meant that as an indictment of this forum, it absolutely is, but the hate on Musk isn't the irrational part.
Right; it's literally FUD.
Airplanes do not just fall when this happens. They turn into gliders and you get miles to find a good place to land. Pilots get some training in this.
Yeah but times are very different than the past. Today, Japan is one of our greatest allies in the region and their economy depends heavily on the US. The US is Japan's #1 trade partner and a lot of their industries are heavily involved in the US.

For them to become an enemy of the of the US would probably kill their economy.
From what I’ve heard of the CT behavior, there is software limited acceleration speed when the brake pedal is engage, but acceleration isn't disabled.
similar to protonmail, european, came out of the post-snowden shift towards e2e services
It's also that you need to run dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) and IPv6 has massively shifted how network addressing works - making dual stack deployments exceedingly complex to run in parallel.
The reason gmail was successful is that it didn’t revolutionize email. It was just a very good client that worked well but roughly the same as people were already used to.

I’ve seen so many of these revolutionary email clients over the years but they all fail. It’s just too hard to get people to radically change their workflow, and tbh the current one isn’t even that bad.
Aren't there ext3/4 drivers for both windows and MacOS nowadays?
Who needs 32 GB of memory on a MacBook Air? If you even know what gigabytes are, and you want more of them, you're likely not the target audience.
This doesn't get around that boil-the-ocean problem with email. Even if I use a more privacy-focused email service, if the people I'm emailing with are using Gmail or Outlook, my data's out there anyway. You need everyone who's using Gmail to stop using it at the same time, or you're not really avoiding Gmail.

> We don’t need to write “Don’t Be Evil” into our code of conduct because it’s in our DNA.

I mean, why not put it in there anyway then? Everybody thinks they're essentially good, including Google on the day they removed Don't Be Evil from their code of conduct.
Notable, the 14” MBP that is $1599 has the same display limitation because it doesn’t have the Pro chip. You need the $1999 one with the Pro chip.

But I agree with you as a generality: there’s a lot of ways for savvy people to buy an Apple system at a somewhat reasonable price that has the features that are segmented away to Pros.

For example, get a previous model. The M2 Pro 14” either Apple refurbished or lightly used. You can also get the current models refurbished (that’s full warranty and essentially new condition).

Could go all the way back to the M1 Pro and it’s really a very similar machine.

Another example: the education discount they’ll give to anyone without verification.

Further example: authorized resellers. Costco has the M3 Pro for $1799.
352x480, not 240. The Abyss, being shot on film, is 24fps. A VHS of The Abyss would achieve 29.97fps by using 3:2 pulldown which is lossless since it duplicates fields to make up the difference.
Parachutes for the plane as a whole are already a thing for very small planes.
You said the article doesn't belong on HN, I'd say it clearly does. The title has been fixed.
Firstly, Linus is an Finish-American citizen of born in a Swedish minority in Finland, living in the US, so how how would that make Linux in any way "European"?

Even if he weren't a US citizen living in the US, it would still be hard to call Linux "European" due to the following point:

Linux the project is a collaboration from contributors from across the world, so how would that make it "European"?

Just because the project was started by an EU citizen in the EU over 3 decades ago, doesn't really give the EU claims of ownership over what is essentially a public open project, even if the EU were to somehow ever attempt to claim it as theirs.
Huh. That's surprising to me, in England Murder requires that you intended to cause at least grievous harm. So e.g. you intended to "hospitalize" Jim - but he died, those facts are murder. But if prosecutors don't believe they can show at least intent of grievous harm they aren't to charge murder.

Without intent the most could be (Gross Negligence) Manslaughter, which has a significant sentence considering it doesn't require intent, but is very specifically not Murder.
A lot of people in urban areas don't own their own home. My brother lives in Brighton, MA. He would need to drive 15 minutes to charge at quickly a poorly rated EVGo station at a nearby mall or another 10 minutes to charge at a Level 2 which would take hours. This is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston and the options are still terrible.
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They would reduce traffic the same way subways do that: by getting people who might otherwise travel by personal auto off of the street entirely, and into another channel with a separate (though still finite) capacity.

There are reasons that air travel won't do too much in this regard in the foreseeable future -- mostly around cost and the fact that ATC-managed airspace actually has quite a low capacity. Those are practical issues, not fundamentals.