skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from what the article explains for TB3 vs USB4 enclosures, there are several additional issues with what connects how in an apple silicon mac. It is a mess to figure out an optimal set of enclosures and ssds for a macbook, as some combinations work better than other in apple silicon, while not having any difference in intel macs. For example, a lot of usb3.1 gen 2 enclosures seem to be recognised as gen1 (5Gb/s vs 10Gb/s). I don't think it is very clear why, but probably having to do with the specific usb controllers. In general, TB controllers seem to be more reliable.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/usb-on-m1-macs-isnt-act...

There are a lot of other factors to consider too, like how many pci-e lanes is dedicated in a usb port, how they may be shared between usb ports etc, eg it seems that some usb ports that are usb3.1 gen 2 are actually limited to ~8Gb/s because of that

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/issues-with-usb-ports-o...

Advice: get an enclosure and ssd that you have seen somewhere in the internet as working with your device.
Good point about the technical founder. That was certainly the case for us, as our CTO handled many issues himself.
All the other stuff that goes with travel - [decent] networking, [maybe] related vendors, a "good place" to be ... etc
> You're assuming that we won't.

That's really not how I read that comment.
If it's of intellectual interest, it belongs here.

A tech company failing to deliver for some reason is of interest. Tesla stopping deliveries is as interesting as cloudflare dropping traffic or aws down time.
I actually really love my Framework 16 (which I'm writing this on), but the integration with Ubuntu (which is their supported Linux distro) was far less performant than I expected. I ended up installing Win11Pro on it, and since then I've been cherry (apart from being on Windows).

I really do hope they begin to offer more customization and expansion options soon; I'd love to support them some more, but there's not anything that I need from them, since I got a couple extra modules when I ordered it.

My biggest gripe is actually the LED array modules, because they don't have any convenient software to utilize them if I don't want to write python in my freetime. They're soliciting feedback on what people want out of them, but I definitely get the impression they're just planning to have users create the apps. Stuff like battery percentage or scrolling marquee should have been there from the get-go.
Any article that brings up LibreOffice as the driving force behind a move away from Microsoft has me both skeptical and amused.

Sure, it’s wonderful that LibreOffice exists, don’t get me wrong. It’s a piece of software that’s famously better at opening ancient Word-formatted documents better than Word itself. It’s lovely that it’s free and supported by a great community.

But I’ll be damned if it isn’t my very last choice for productivity software. It just is not somewhere I want to spend my time.

Idealistic prose about data sovereignty is nice and all but I’ve never seen an organization have an ounce of hesitation about Microsoft’s enterprise data privacy and security.

Really this manifesto is limited to organizations who have specific need to avoid things like search warrants, and in many cases all you’re doing is changing the search warrant from Microsoft to your company’s servers. Really if your information is that sensitive you probably need a more bespoke solution anyway.

Finally, this article misplaces the value that Microsoft provides. Software as a service means that the software is providing a service: in other words, companies aren’t subscribing to 365 because they need a better spreadsheet program than LibreOffice, they’re subscribing so that they don’t have to administer servers for email, documents, communication, etc. Open Source offers no such thing.
Speaking (and thus cca thinking in) foreign languages massively stimulates your brain. You can't do much more for your (or child') mental development than make it learn and keep using multiple languages. Age doesn't matter, you arrive at the destination just a bit slower - Ie I am in my forties and learning french, slowly but surely.

If they spot you, 2 things may happen - they will be nice like all normal people anywhere do and maybe even appreciate that other people are learning their non-trivial and probably a bit obscure language.

Or you hit the rest, and they will either laugh at you, ignore you or just switch to english if they want/can. This is very common in France in my decade and a half experience of going there almost every weekend, also very frequent among young. Their own shame and mistake, instead of embracing the future and improving themselves, they choose the other direction and watch world slowly pass by. I think it comes from their deeply flawed education in this regard, not on languages per se but whole view on exceptionalism and what current world actually revolves around.
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> Who Can Best Express the Situation as a Confirmation of Priors.

That's what happens when your CEO spends a lot of time publicly engaged in culture war politics.
> Except some beliefs are objectively stupid.

I agree. However, hoi polloi don't evaluate others based on the objective validity of their beliefs, but rather whether they share the same beliefs, however stupid.
The real issue isn't 'insane gibberish', because that's quickly and cheaply discernible. The real issue is eloquent, well written text that looks like a new contribution but is actually a re-hashed mixture of the same six talking points as the other 1000 articles published by the same entity, because you have to actually read and think about it to realise that it's wasted your time.

We're not fighting against random noise, we're fighting against manufactured pap.
Could anyone have suggest for adblocking for Facebook and Twitter?
Absolutely tracks with the car industry’s historical concern for pedestrian safety. None.
as a "mere user" of the JS or API endpoints, should I think one is better than the other? To me it doesn't really matter if it's Supabase/Neon, Turso, or D1 powering it as long as... it works

Is this faster / more resilient?
Owner suggests ownership - he owns something like 15%. And he is a billionaire. "I don't like this true thing" is very different from "this is incorrect."
This attitude displays a fundamental lack of understanding of human society. People from different cultures are different. Not because of race, but because of cultural socialization, which persists for generations even in a new host country. In a democracy, those cultural differences will be reflected in the government and society of the new country. There are perfectly good reasons why the people in new country wouldn’t want to live with those changes.

For example, my parents come from Bangladesh, which was disarmed by the British. They cannot understand—for deeply cultural reasons—why anyone would need a gun. My wife’s parents, meanwhile, come from a frontier tradition, where you need guns to protect yourself from mountain lions or in places far from the reach of the law. Insofar as everyone votes their culture, why shouldn’t the people who are already here be able to say “we don’t have anything against your culture, but we prefer ours, and we don’t want you coming her and changing our society?”
It's not that it will be disastrous. It's that it already is disastrous right now.

The functionality of the Internet is severely degraded by NAT, and has been for all of those "at least 15 years". The network can't deliver its most basic function, which is to let any node talk to any other node at will.

As a result, the designs of huge numbers of higher-layer protocols have been warped and complicated, and the whole thing has contributed to the whole maelstrom of extreme commercial centralization pressures, too.

Everybody who wasn't willing to hard cut over to IPv6 should have been forced off of the Internet 20 years ago.
This is achieved through our Pageserver. The pageserver ingests streams of WAL, and so contains both snapshots and deltas. This lets us efficiently seek to any LSN by replaying page deltas on top of the nearest snapshot (we call it the GetPage@LSN API).

This blog post has a lot more details: https://neon.tech/blog/get-page-at-lsn
Has the ban been signed by Biden yet?
> Why this website?

Could educate the public about the need to keep spending more solid money on this kind of things.

> Construction will close a portion of the Los Angeles County’s 101 Freeway overnight on weekdays for several weeks starting Monday.

We should cheer that less people will have a car crash against a deer or a puma in the area from now on.
Diffuse reflection is only dangerous up to a few feet away. You're neighbor would have to be deliberately aiming the beam at your eye to blind you assuming you're not in the shed with them.
Efficient knowledge distillation without the teacher model using CLIP
Use only the teacher embeddings to perform computationally efficient knowledge distillation.
I think I was equating urgency with breakthroughs, but your comment has changed my perspective. Thanks for that!

Another example of a breakthrough emerging from non-urgency: AI. It wasn't a new field, and was highly academic, and then boom. Transformers.

I guess the urgency with climate tech is a personal one, not inherent to the industry.
Sleep apnea also affects people with thick necks, such as people who used to play sports or lift heavy things. So you can be a slim, thick necked person and still be affected by it.

This comedian's mom taped him in the middle of sleep apnea - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP1rMGlUCck
You're oversimplifying. US residential power is currently supplied by a pair of 120 V wires, but most of the stuff in your house only uses one leg of that pair. That's alright because it's AC, and the ground wire doesn't actually need to carry any significant current. Power just returns time-lagged through the same wire when the voltage changes.

If you switch to DC, that doesn't work any more. Every amp in requires an amp out. The wiring in your house just got a lot more complicated, not to mention the wiring in the local grid.

Also, running your neighborhood on 85 V (the DC equivalent to 120 V) isn't exactly efficient. Even large ground-mounted transformers only provide power to 10-15 houses at most, and pole-mounted transformers may only service one house. The main power to your neighborhood is 7.2 kV because it's more efficient to to send power at high voltage and low current.

It's not impossible for a residential solar setup to output thousands of volts, but it's not easy and it's pretty constraining for designs. There's also a world of difference between that voltage at the street and that voltage in the house. Things go wrong in the house.
Nice job! Congrats!!
When McDonalds spends money, do you complain they are spending your money?

US government paid SpaceX for services rendered. It's economy 101.
Found this excerpt from [1]

> I dedicate this beautiful genus to Mr. M. P. Edgeworth, Esq., to whom we owe a valuable description of the vegetation and agriculture in the Sikh states in northwestern India (Hooker's Journal of Botany, II. p. 267), and I combine this with the wish to also pay tribute to his famous sister, Miss Maria Edgeworth, who has become dear to all educated people through her writings, which are marked by rare depth and fullness of mind and spirit, as a warm admirer of nature and the natural sciences, with a modest monument.

Now I'm curious about the reason behind its "gardneri" name.

> Edgeworthia Gardneri nob. Tab. I. E. with petiolate, oblong-elliptic leaves, acute on both ends, glabrous above, slightly hairy below, peduncles thickened at the apex, hemispherical capitula, involucre with lanceolate acuminate leaves subequal to the flowers, flowers subvillous-tomentose with yellowish pubescence. Hab. in Nepal, where it was discovered by Mr. Wallich in 1820.

There are too many high-level botanical terms here, I can't understand anything.

[1] : https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34664378#page/293/m...
their production rockets don't:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/spacexs-falcon-9-roc...
A lot of it depends on what exactly you want to do (in|with) tech. Plenty of developers get by with high-school algebra. At the more extreme end, if you want to write software for weather forecasting or other fields using numerical computation, simulation, etc., then you probably need a background roughly equivalent to a degree in maths. And there's a lot of "in between" those extremes.

For my money though, I'd say a good starting point would be:

1. Calculus through Calc III (as the Calculus sequence is typically structured in American universities)

2. Linear Algebra

3. Differential Equations

4. Probability Theory

5. Statistics

Sidebar: if you specifically want to work with cryptography / cryptanalysis, you probably want to study number theory, abstract algebra, and probably a bunch of other stuff that I don't know anything about. :-)

Resources? Hmm... there's a whole world of stuff out there, and plenty of previous HN threads discussing various books, blogs, courses, videos, etc. But you could do worse than using Khan Academy, and the ProfessorLeonard channel on Youtube. Other good Youtube channels include Michael Penn, 3blue1brown, blackpenredpen, Organic Chemistry Tutor, MathMajor (which is still Michael Penn - he has two channels), NancyPi, and MIT's OCW stuff (Gilbert Strang in particular has great video lectures on Calculus and Linear Algebra).

Also note that if you're self-studying (as opposed to taking a class at university) then it mostly doesn't matter what edition of books you use. And you can find used copies of older editions of maths books for pretty much every topic imaginable for pretty cheap. Search on Alibris and then sort by "Price - Low to High" and you'll usually be able to find a book on your topic for $2.00 - $5.00 or so. If you prefer ebooks there are legitimately available free books on most subjects again, and there's always the pirate e-book sites if you want to go that route.
> use Grammarly Pro to rewrite your sentences into coherence

Is it just me or is this a bizarre practice for someone who is actively making money on writing?

Like, shouldn't you be expected to at least have competence in your craft? Writing with correct grammar should be the baseline of someone writing for profit. Or even "help with an outline", if you can't write an outline of what you're trying to communicate, and you need the averaging machine to help you, do you actually have a unique understanding of the topic? Or are you merely rehashing existing content that's been fed into the averaging machine?
The founder of Turso explained how they can have such a generous free tier in a tweet:

> Lots of people have been reaching out to me asking if they should expect our free tier to be around, given recent news.

> Yes, you can expect our free tier to be around.

> The main reason we built a service on SQLite is that we knew we could build the most efficient thing in the market with that. I usually keep these number semi private, but last month Turso had over 20,000 databases under management - in all plans - and our Cloud bill was less then 3.5K USD.

> I sympathize with Planetscale, in the sense that running a company is hard and you sometimes have to make hard choices. But look beyond words, into cost structures and incentives:

> Of course our service is expensive to operate, like any service, but most of it is staffing. We'll never find ourselves in a situation where killing our free tier will make any dent in the profitability of the company.

https://twitter.com/glcst/status/1765466864338034717
Regarding the definition, they use the one Wikipedia mentions [1], namely, "the Global North consists of the world's developed countries, whereas the Global South consists of the world's developing countries and least developed countries". So the answer to "who comes up with this" would be "the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development". Both China and India are considered Global South.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South
Thanks for the encouragement; I just called my county representative to avail myself for Wednesday's Commissioners meeting.
Maybe in very recent cars but man the lack of government standards allows the absolute worst cars to be driven on the road because a lot of manufacturers (mainly American and Korean) have had on and off decades of pretty bad low quality cars. Cars that would fail inspection in Japan or Germany are perfectly fine here and as a result the overall fleet is on the crappier side.
Because of this Switzerland has outlawed portable laser pointers higher than the lowest class.

Anything more powerful than a low end projector pointer is now classified as a weapon and regulated as such.

This at least keeps these units out of the hands of the general public and those that can't use them responsibly.

It sucks for those of us who used them responsibly just like we did with RC aircraft before drones became an item on a discount shelve. However at least I know that if I go to a large event or even a demo I won't be permanently blinded by some idiot.
pretty trivial

It doesn't matter how trivial it is to override a stuck pedal, it's still a serious hazard, because even if you have the option to shift into neutral a driver may not think of that or may not react in time.

It's also trivial to override it in the Cybertruck: just press the brake pedal. Braking is hard-coded to cut off the accelerator, so if both pedals are pressed the brake wins and the accelerator is ignored. Still a big problem though.
Precisely this and China nor India are considered "poor".

The thing is, there are already pathways in place for "exceptional talent" visas that make entry simple of you are getting sponsored for a visa.

A lot of theese academics are coming from dubious institutions and most likely have dubious credentials. I don't have qualms having these hoops in place to qualify who is coming through the border.

But this whole system is a joke when it's easier to get a semi legal status by illegally crossing than by entering legally. That's a different discussion.

I'll take the downd00ts for an otherwise good discussion on this topic.
> I think there's a strong optimistic case that the private sector can get us there by 2100 or so

So, never. The private sector has been dragged kicking and screaming to where we are now; Oil CEOs today are still resisting calls to decarbonize (https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ceraweek-big-oil-exe...) like it's the 1990s. Trillions in corporate sharedholder value are diametrically opposed to transitioning. They have vested interests, and a massive sunk cost with the current fossil fuel economy. We are so utterly screwed.

> that blunts economic growth

While economies have somewhat decoupled carbon from economic growth, putting economic growth as a master priority above all others is exactly what got us here and looking increasingly like a bad move.
America will go to any length to avoid undoing an export far more damaging than any of its nuclear bombs: its 1960s city planning

Even if it means crippling its own economy and the economies of its allies

Think of the trillions of dollars lost per year globally because some seppo modernist urban planners were arrogant enough to think they’d uncovered the ultimate solution to designing cities regardless of the nuances or context

Want to begin repairing Pax Americana? Get private interests out of your public infrastructure operations. Be a role model for other countries within the American Empire to emulate
> when I'll be able to

You can go to Alibaba and buy a $5,000 EV and then spend a similar amount to import it. It's a lot of hassle, but makes for an entertaining Youtube video.

For the mainstream, likely about 18-24 months after BYD breaks ground on their Mexican factory, which could happen any day now.

And it depends on your definition of "cheap". BYD is obviously going to start with American sized vehicles. The Internet might want the subcompact $10,000 Seagull, but we're much more likely to get something like the $35,000 Atto 3 as the cheapest model to start.
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1. You should try and see the experience
2. It scales to 0. If you have lots of projects aurora costs really add up
3. It supports branches and integrates with vercel. You can have environment for every dev and every pr.
4. We will be on multiple clouds soon
5. We are just getting started
Given this is serverless - can this scale indefinitely? Asking both in terms of storage and compute.
Sounds more a problem of NOT following #2. The metal plate is unnecessary, after all.
> Java was overtaken by C# years ago.

i dont quite get the point...you mean in the obsolescence rating?
> no-one has ever been able to demonstrate an actual software/hardware failure that would cause unintended acceleration

It always disappointed me that toyota ended up paying out so much money for a 'software fault' which nobody could ever demonstrate/find, despite a lot of experts from both sides inspecting all the code.

The court deciding there probably was a bug despite nobody being able to find it seems... wrong. I understand courts doing that in cases where there is no evidence/the evidence was destroyed - but in the toyota case, the full source code/hardware was available, yet still no fault could be demonstrated.
My local pihole provides great benefit blocking *.facebook.com
On the bright side we’ve desperately needed a noise filter for, like, a decade or so. At least these LLMs are a big noticeable discontinuity to make the problem obvious.
Not sure about Tesla or automotive, but in electronics manufacturing a stop ship will usually stop the line shortly. Your inputs could be used elsewhere so you don’t want to build up unsellable WIP stock.
I'm on an Intel MBP still - not coding as much but still working great
That's not what "objectively" means -- nicer looking. And ma-TAB to autocomplete makes it the same for the three times a day I might have wasted two keystrokes.
Eyewitness testimony tends to be less detailed, less reliable, less timely, less actionable, and less useful, the further one gets from an event, temporally. Best to get it sooner vs. later.
But it's not all. Just a lot of the ways. Too many of them.

That's the point I'm making. You can buy expensive HDR displays that actually display correctly where it's not dark.

They're just expensive, and so most people aren't buying those ones.

So I will repeat, the problem is not with HDR content. It's with displays advertising themselves as HDR when they're simply not.
It’s actually the opposite of what you’re saying.

Software freedom can’t compete with having someone else manage your email, documents, and communication servers for you.

The moment you contract someone else to provide those solutions there’s inherently no way to have end to end “free” software experience even if your contractor of choice is using free software.

People don’t subscribe to 365 because Word is better than LibreOffice Writer. They subscribe because someone else is removing a bunch of labor from their organization.
Indeed. xkcd 810 comes to mind.
Congratulations! Nice job, Neon team. The most remarkable part of the service is the forking history in storage for a database. So fun.
I've never been able to click on a Turingpost link, they all give an SSL error...
That is insane. especially in a car where you can't really just rip on the ebrake or throw the engine into neutral with a gear stick. It's terrifying to think these massive trucks are all around kids and families.
There are some limits. Architecture wise storage indefinitely and compute up to the largest bare metal node on Amazon plus as many read replicas as you want.
> It's incredible how much effort Twitch puts into bypassing adblockers

The type of user they have is more likely to use adblockers than, let's say, most YouTube users. That's probably why.