skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At home charging isn't essential for owning an EV. They're just a convenience.

We can argue back and forth, about ubiquity vs mainstream, but ultimately the point I am making is that these definitions are merely opinions.

Who cares if evs are mainstream or not. If you can get at-home charging, speaking from my own experience, owning an EV is awesome. If you have to rely on public charging, it is not as convenient, and requires more effort.

If you are someone who goes to Costco, the PX, or Walmart to get gas, then using public charging is a wash. If you are like me, who uses the nearest gas station, public charging was a bigger pain than filling up a tank.
A billionaire dinner party points to a political realignment in Silicon Valley
I'm having a lot of fun with this!

Prompt:

> Factful.io uses a hand-coded natural language parser to determine factual accuracy to within a tolerance of 12.3 standard units of factfulness.

No revisions, it must already be perfect!

Prompt:

> The only remaining bias in Factful.io is that which is legally required by the USDA.

No revisions, it must already be perfect!

Prompt:

> Factful.io checks everything you enter against a database of known facts as defined in ISO 102522 "A comprehensive list of all that we know to be true."

Suggested revision:

> It seems like there might have been a misunderstanding or an error in communication. If you have a specific question or topic you'd like to know more about, please provide more details so I can assist you effectively.

Prompt:

> Factful.io provides the Objective Truth as determined by an international panel of experts from countries which have names beginning with "Y" and no ports.

Suggested revision:

> The reduction in extreme poverty over the past two centuries is one of the most significant changes in human conditions. The decline from over 80% of the global population living in such conditions in 1800 to under 20% by 2015 represents a major shift, driven by a combination of factors including economic growth, technological advancements, improved health care and education, and international aid and development efforts. The World Bank's international poverty which which was set at $1.90 per day in 2011 prices, is a benchmark used to measure extreme poverty globally. Adjusted for inflation, this threshold would be equivalent to $2.57 per day in 2023 dollars. Living below this line means that individuals lack the resources to meet their basic needs for survival. Despite the progress, extreme poverty remains a critical issue, particularly in regions like South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria, for example, was have to have the highest number of people living in extreme poverty with 2018, with 86 million individuals below the international poverty line. Efforts to combat extreme poverty continue through various means, including economic development, and in education and health care, and targeted poverty alleviation programs. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, include a goal to end poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030. Achieving this goal will require sustained and concerted efforts from governments, international organizations, the private sector,

I think it's fair to say there's some edge cases left to smooth out. ;)
Google is very explicitly doing mass layoffs throughout the year. At this time, the company has every incentive to fire liberally. They have a quota of headcount to reduce through 2024, and firing for cause is better for morale (not to mention severance costs) than firing employees with good track records. If their layoff quota is 20% for the year, 20% of Google's employees broke the rules somehow, and Google fired them all, that'd be a great outcome for the company. That would mean they don't have to conduct mass layoffs, with all the morale and severance baggage that comes with.
I was rather surprised at the number of downvotes pointing out that the guy supported an (alleged…) child rapist.
Same. When I was born, optical storage did not exist in any form. It was vinyl, cassette tapes & floppy disks. Lasers were SoTA things that scientists worked with. Not in consumers' hands.

Then (besides LD & VHS) came the CD, which has gone a bit out of fashion lately.

Then the DVD. Which was popular in its heyday, but also over the hill.

Then Blu-Ray. Not to mention a truckload of recordable & rewrite formats, DVD-RAM, MO discs & what have you. On the computer side, flash & TB hdd's for cheap.

Disclaimer: and I'm not even that old yet! Neither retired or owner of a gray beard.
Hi! Getting a 404 on your portfolio and resume links.
HN who is hiring ratio (job seekers vs. jobs posted)
Just listened to a segment about him on NPR, apparently his writing themes were greatly influenced by an experience he had as a child where he was standing next to someone who was killed by a lightning strike.
EU is keeping an eye on Apple
> extensively confirms that you are a real person

There's a sort of balance. By giving less information to a dating site, you might be safer, and limit how much information can get out in a breach.

And then there's the whole advertising/data collection/sharing behavior of most internet sites. "We never sell your information" (except they share it, or "use it for services" or whatever gets them off the hook)

I've also noticed that some folks on dating sites have been burned and are extremely hesitant to participate if a phone number or other personally identifiable information is required.
How to Build Successful Business Cases as a Data Engineer
Really like the brand identity you went with as well as the methodology to guarantee the quality of your data.

I'm sure you're already aware but my guess is that this methodology could be a friction to scale to other locations. Really curious to see how you'll go around this challenge as well as what solution you'll find for monetizing the project.

All the best for this cool unconventional app
Are you struggling to get buy-in from stakeholders on your data projects? The key is to create a well-crafted business case that communicates the value and ROI.

A strong business case should cover:
- The business needs and how the project addresses it
- Expected benefits, both tangible and intangible
- Risks and how they will be mitigated
- Detailed costs and timeline
- Strategic alignment with company goals

Some tips for making it compelling:
1. Tailor the level of detail to the audience. Executives want high-level summaries, while finance will expect detailed cost breakdowns.
2. Translate technical details into business outcomes. Focus on the "so what".
3. Acknowledge risks and objections upfront. Explain how you will manage them.
4. Use data to back up your claims. Estimate ROI, cost savings, and revenue growth.
5. Tell a story. Walk through the problem, solution and outcomes in a logical flow.
6. Keep it concise. Include an executive summary and use visuals to simplify complex information.
7. Seek feedback early from critical stakeholders. Incorporate their input to secure buy-in.

The most effective business cases are developed collaboratively with finance, PMO and impacted business units to ensure all perspectives are represented.

What has worked for you in getting stakeholder approval for projects? Any horror stories to share?

Note: This is a summarized version; the full article provides more details and examples on creating a compelling business case. Let me know if you would like me to elaborate on any part of the process!
One of the key things that made the 30s so horrible was that Hoover and Roosevelt both pressured industry to not cut wages, which they complied with, but they cut employment instead.
Yes, the grading was brutal. But, when I did manage to earn a good grade, it felt really really good.

Unlike high school where an A meant nothing at all. My dad (Air Force) called such things "PX ribbons", meaning you could buy them at the base exchange. The only one he ever valued was his DFC.
What if the people translating the characters were neurons? ;D

Also, it's rich to imply humans don't do literally everything LLMs are accused of to argue they're fundamentally different from humans.
I was curious since it looked like there were more people posting requesting a job lately.

Code: https://github.com/bilbof/whoishiring-ratio
> if they wanted out of a relationship then they could do that via divorce.

People often don't know if they really want to end a relationship or not and even if they did, breaking up is hard to do. They don't just get divorced one day, there's usually years of lead up. And as people start to grow apart or to resent each other, they can act out in all kinds of ways, including cheating. And if someone is too afraid to pull the trigger and actually end a relationship, getting caught cheating is a great shortcut.
I still have my own
I would really like to see a decaf option there.
Sounds much like the situation in Detroit.

I know someone who tried to pull that stunt and bought a house in Detroit for just a few thousand dollars. It really did not take the city all that long (less than a year for sure) to decide he was not going to fix the place up. They made him an offer he could not refuse -- give it to the Detroit Land Bank for nothin, or go to court.
Weeds are just unwanted grasses, flowers and hedges. Sounds like you like all of your lawn plants, so you don't actually have any "weeds."

That's how I do it too. It's the right thing for our planet.
Why did the original poster post it if not to have the image downloaded to be displayed in his friends feeds?
Don't think that's the same problem - that's about the failed puts still costing a dev money [0](272 points, 2 days ago, 99 comments).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40203126
"It is not accessible" is not a fair statement. Accessibility goes way beyond "it's not readable by a screen reader" – and even that is in my opinion rapidly changing with AI accessibility tools. See my other comment[0] that touches this topic briefly. Sure, we want and need to provide better solutions, but a lot of this is done by developers and there's little we can do about that.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40212705
I tested Suno vs. Udio to crown the best AI music generator
That sounds egregious enough that I have trouble believing this can be correct. My understanding is that AWS bills for egress for every service, parts of the file that aren't transferred are not part of this so can't be billed. There could certainly be S3-specific charges that affect cases like this, no idea. But if AWS bills the full egress traffic costs for a range request I'd consider that essentially fraud.
And after their spouse starts asking questions about where these multiple thousands of dollars are going?
Thank you, I understood what you meant, but I'm taking issue with your requiring that level of commitment from others, when there are absolutely people out there who would bring a ton of experience to the table for whom your requirements are complete non-starters.

Maybe you don't need highly experienced senior people at the stage you're at now, but you will at some point, and by setting this expectation now you're setting yourself up for failure in the future, IMHO (which is why I'd be questioning you heavily if I were an investor).
OR could 20m deep drilled core samples recovery remnants of RNA based live??
TIL, the good news I guess is I only ssh into my hosting platforms and GitHub who have a reason to protect my data since I pay them.

Still I'll be sure to break up my keys more going forward and disable SSH forwarding.
Go in late January, Shinjuku station, above Marunouchi line, 20-40 homeless sleeping in the main tunnel under Yasukuni-dori to get out of the cold. Go into the park behind city hall. Look in tbe bushes. See tents made from tarps. Same is true in many other parks. Also that park behind city hall hands out food to homeless people. I'm not saying Japan has lots of homeless people, only that they are there.

My impression from XX years in Japan is there is a strong ethic of "don't bother other people with your problems" so the homeless generally try to keep to themselves.
Everyone on HN were predicting death of X.com under similar layoff news. But it is still ticking.

Seriously, whats different this time?
Ban Non-Competes, Enable AI Talent
>the cookie banter

brilliant
I don't love the idea either, but in what way is this worse than ads on Nickelodeon?
Earlier discussion (85 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842156
Do they really outbid Google, Microsoft, Facebook, OpenAI, Apple, etc.? I totally believe they pay better than the average startup but those companies are spraying money around right now and their stock options have a lot more upside – Tesla’s P/E is wildly high so they’d need a phenomenal reversal in fortune to drive it enough higher for anyone to see a great return.
This is one of our top feature requests and we'll be implementing it very soon. Thanks for your feedback.
There were a lot of chinese made keiser phones that allows you to edit all the phone/sim related identifiers. Sadly they were discovered and rooted out of the amazon marketplace.
> Were there many complex programs written in BASIC?

I don't know generally, but I worked in housekeeping at a large hotel for a few years in my younger days, and the software they used to track the rooms was in interpreted BASIC.

I didn't know that until my manager started cursing because the software broke. When I looked at the screen, the error message syntax was clearly that of BASIC. I just typed "RUN" at the prompt and everything worked again. She thought I was a genius.
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Internet was still an alien thing to a lot of people throughout the 2000s, and if you think about it - that’s only 14 years ago! And look at this article - it’s reflecting on the good old days as though it happened thousands of years ago.

Yes, the problem definitely lies in social media and its evil attention-grabbing algorithms, but the fact that people never got to experience the old-school Internet also plays a role in this. People just don’t know any better!

For a lot of folks, the web is merely a source of news, a means to pay bills, and to engage in mindless short-form entertainment.

I am all for bringing back individual sites and communities back tho!

Is money the real root problem of this? Not just from an advertising perspective but also from the perspective of a person.

Fundamentally, the Internet provides freedom of communication with the entire world, but these days we can hardly engage with that world because the ability to support oneself financially comes first. As such, you either don’t spend a lot of time online, or you spend your entire time online chasing the cheddar…
https://github.com/ZJONSSON/node-unzipper/issues/308
> This is something I learned the other day.

Any link you can share?

Edit: Google "disinflation wealth redistribution" provides some relevant results
Yes, #2 is a difference. But what makes it an advantage?

One might argue this via parsimony (Occam’s razor). Is this your thinking? / Anything else?
I can't test this due to the product being out of stock, but I wonder what their approach to PCI compliance is.

Processing credit card data has a high compliance burden if you're unwilling to use a secure widget made by an already-authorized provider like Stripe. That's for a good reason, most web and mobile apps are designed such that their backend servers never see your full credit card number and CVV. You can't do this over SSH.

I also wonder whether you could even do this if you had to handle PSD2 2-factor authentication (AKA 3d Secure), which is a requirement for all EU-based companies. This is usually implemented by displaying an embed from your bank inside an iframe. The embed usually asks you to authenticate in your banking app or enter a code that you get via SMS.

You can take the easy way out of course and make the payment form a web page and direct the user to it with an URL and/or a Unicode-art rendition of a QR code.
You would crash the process. But, sometimes it's useful to do a little bookkeeping first.
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Set Point Theory
Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Process
> Side glass that can withstand a steel bearing is fluff.

This one I actually think would have been somewhat useful, presuming it was cheap enough to actually use. I don't throw steel bearings at my car, but I would imagine that strength probably carries over to stuff falling out of trucks, rocks being flung by tires, etc.

It's not world-changing, but it would have been useful.
Does it need to be? Both are bad in my reckoning.
I needed a paper bag to get through the first part of the phoenix project. As a DevOps person it thoroughly stressed me out.
In NYC there's a lot of public transportation however we're seeing its proposal in LA and other poor public transportation cities. In spaces where you need a car to get around it can be very hard. A bus here in southern california can take an hour when the drive takes 15 minutes or less.
Sounds similar to what's happening with OnlyFans nowadays, where customers believe they're interacting with their favorite "creator" they pay to subscribe to and to message, but in reality it's an outsourced worker in an emerging market economy impersonating them.
> One isn’t automatically worse or better.

Is that really true? Deflation sounds conclusively worse. Everyone starts to hoard money instead of spend it, and the economy goes into a tailspin. Any debt you pay back is with dollars that are worth less. Most anyone in debt, which is a lot of people, should prefer inflation.
HVIF supports having different shapes at different levels-of-detail in one file.
If I remember correctly, JBOD means that if a drive fails the data on the drive is lost. If you have so many disks then you have an expected fail rate of roughly 1.7% per year (according to the popular drive statistics from back blaze).

Isn't it a bit harsh to lose 1.7% of data every year? Why not a dead simple RAID that can tolerate the loss of a disk without data loss?
I'm actually in the middle of reading it.. I'm still struggling to follow it all, know in which variation I am at a point and see where it is going. But it is sure entertaining
Those are about a different issue - not a great time for S3 billing!
Oh that is definitely on our roadmap and something I've been heavily thinking about. Stay tuned!
The yield rates for the Ivy League schools are all over 60%. If they admit too many students, and their yield rate is unusually high one year, then they have the right to rescind admission of students, even if the students have already committed.
I don't even think in this case it's a matter of the AI hype dying down (though it is, and will continue to do so as products like these fail to get actually useful) I think this is just a complete nonstarter. Like, there's just nothing here that isn't better executed with existing tech. If I want to ask my phone to order a pizza, I can set that up in a lot of apps with Siri shortcuts, or, and far more likely, just open the damn app and pick what I want. Why the shit do I want to carry around a Rabbit, and make sure it has wifi access, and keep that also on my person next to my phone that does all that shit already?

It's literally just another smartphone, that you only control with your voice which is the worst way to control a smart phone, and it'll offer suggestions I guess? And I guess if you don't want the suggestions you need to have a whole fuckin conversation with it.

Like, we've already been down this road. It's tremendously easy as a customer to just be presented a list of things to buy, pick what you want, and swipe your credit card. Rabbit is a regression to ordering things with a phone, except instead of talking to a person, you're talking to a robot. But that's not an improvement, and in fact in many ways, it's a step back.

I just, I cannot fathom who wants this.
Roblox already allows children to engage in a in-game stock market for items. Ads were overdue to be honest.
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Thanks for trying it. Your ideas are helpful and I have included them in my notes.

When the code window is docked, does grabbing the right edge to resize it work for you?
I follow an American car drifter on youtube who moved to Japan in '22 and I've been shocked at how affordable his life is. He has kids and a wife and they'll go out to dinner and I think his usual bill is in the 20-30s for everyone.

He said it's super hard to rent a house as a foreigner there, he lucked out and found a landlord that knew him from youtube and leased an absolutely beautiful townhouse for $1800 that would be well into the $5ks in my city. Glass garage doors, just decked out.

Fruit though, he loves to show how expensive the fruit is and it's shockingly expensive. Not exact here but we're talking like $10-20 for a single melon.

I'm not sure what city he's in, he seems to be IN a city and is in Tokyo a lot but I can't remember if he's IN tokyo. So maybe it's not Tokyo expensive but I'd always assumed Japan was incredibly expensive to live in, in general.

If anyones interested he has a bunch of videos where he talks about the move, house tour, etc. He's one of my favorite youtubers and I'm not even that into the drift stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDQkOPQXPLM
Supreme Court decides not to block Texas law that age-gates porn websites
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lol, that was what I was alluding to, but I seemed to have provoked a non-monty-python-humor reply.
> iPad might cannibalize mac

Do not think it's possible. Traditional Mac computers can win in so many ways
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