skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's the disrespect the ad shows that is the problem.

But you're right that "missed the mark" is not really an apology for anything in particular.
It really depends on your usecase; I'm personally fond of OpenSUSE and Alpine Linux. OpenSUSE is more "conventional" like Debian/RHEL, and Alpine is a touch idiosyncratic (mostly, musl as its libc means 3rd-party binaries often won't work) but is tiny ant fantastic when it does work for your usecase.
> Unless I misunderstand, isn't this EXACTLY what the US does to ensure certain businesses are or aren't profitable in their smaller jurisdictions?

Traditionally this is called fines rather than taxes. The ostensible purpose of general sales tax is not to bankrupt every grocery.

> this just makes it so you can do simple addition in your head while you walk around the store instead of throwing in some multiplication

Why do you have to do any math in your head at all? The register will do it for you at the end.
the cheapest way when I worked construction was doubling the drywall. Put up two sheets instead of one on all walls. Typical insulation in the walls was fine but double sheeting led to a significant reduction.
> $1000 for a laptop that will last 10 years

That's for the 8GB model (which is already too low unless you use your Mac for the same use cases as you would use an iPad), 16GB is $200 extra.
There was a survey of available GNSS corrections services from a couple of years ago - some of these services are global and not limited to a single country:

https://medium.com/@mikehorton/what-is-a-mass-market-gnss-co...
I live nearby and whenever I drive/cycle through the area, I have to laugh a little. In person, it looks just as absurd as it sounds or looks on a map. $1 million homes surrounded by giant windowless hulks. It's possibly the most dystopian place in DC metro.
The stock market, or any kind of market really, is nothing else than a huge distributed pricing machine.

It is incredibly good at doing that. But it is short sighted. It is able to integrate risks to some extent, on a short time scale, but it is very bad at processing second or third order effects, and can't do strategy.

In other words, the famous invisible hand is completely unable to predict the future.

Humans are also notoriously bad at that, but still better. This is why we have states and CEOs.
> There is water on Mars, why not use it?

It's expensive. Every gram takes tremendous resources and energy to extract. It would be like using antimatter for a small-town fireworks show.
Six boffins mostly hailing from Singapore-based universities have proven it's possible to interfere with autonomous vehicles by exploiting their reliance on camera-based computer vision and cause them to not recognize road signs.

How do non-camera based systems (lidar etc) get road sign information? I would expect with cameras...?
Rolling-release distros are unlikely to fit into the same usecase as a slow-moving stable-release distro.
But that's the history that makes the flipping of the script so stark. Anybody embedded deeply enough in the company should be aware of that exact loss of reputation.

And if the company fails to know its own history well enough that even they are missing the point that speaks volumes about how they value institutional knowledge.
This is the first G4 watch since 2005: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/severe-geomagnetic-storm-stil...
WASM Binary Visualizer
ChatGPT Search could launch as early as Monday
What will you do once the propane runs out? Solar (and battery) is the way to go.
Not sure if and how modern cars with all their electronics might be affected. Also maybe have some paper maps and a compass somewhere (and know how to use them!) and don’t purely rely on GPS.
I just got a demo of GitHub’s copilot workspaces. It looks like Devin but it works.
Really? I would value my life much more than that.

I think how the question is phrased really matters.

How much do you value your life? Or how much would someone have to pay you to kill yourself?

Are these even different questions?
In both cases during the "learn the tool" phase you end up spending time having to figure out how to do things, understand workflows etc.

In the TUI case though, you can usually tweak that workflow and configure it to match your brand of thinking. It costs a little more per instance up front, but after that year (or whatever time period), you get a much less frustrating experience, and the oddball things your particular workflow requires have been smoothed out - where in the GUI you'd still be frustrated and a bit fumbly or suboptimal, so you continue to pay the penalty for it over time.

It's really about how you amortize the total time put into using the tool.
You can option click the green button, but I agree, one of the major regressions from Lion, IIRC, that we haven’t recovered from yet.
A 18 year old German flew though Russian air defense, and landed a Cessna near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987!
In Oregon, after some severe forest fires, ice storms that shut down whole towns, and the possibility of a Cascadia Subduction Zone event (ie, ~9.0 earthquake) They recommend keeping supplies for 2 weeks to allow time for local areas to get regular supplies of food, water, etc. https://www.oregon.gov/oem/hazardsprep/pages/2-weeks-ready.a...
Okay that makes more sense. I was skeptical of the article's claim that the water was just being heat-vaporized into oblivion.

That said, more water-sustainable power generation is clearly still a need.
You might be confusing the interface with the operating system.
> we'll still need humans to maintain the thing

Sure, but you're not going to need major shielding for the first few hundred reactors on the planet. Putting the stuff that requires maintenance away from the reactor will be enough for a few decades. (Put simply, the aspiring interplanetary powers who insist on heavily shielding their reactors aren't going to be releavant on the ground. You can launch a second reactor for the cost of one's shielding.)
Try days, not months. Especially in densely populated areas.
Building things on permafrost always ends badly, that is huge problem in Alaska where they have to constantly re-level buildings and build things on pylons.
I think you're missing the point. Even a company with that scale and resources has a hard time handling distributed systems. Even huge enterprises still use one datacenter because they don't have the talent and/or desire to do more than one.

So expecting everyone to solve those hard distributed systems problems is untenable. That's why everyone is centralizing in massive datacenters.
You could flip the main breaker to your house off at the panel.
Data showing the 2024 tech job market is far stronger than 2023
I'll start with my back-of-the-napkin summary of the 2023 - 2024 (so far) comparison stats below:

- There are 29.5% more tech job openings today than the low in March '23 (and the positive trend has been largely steady)

- The YoY number of average daily tech layoffs has declined by roughly 20%

The following data was gathered from the two most comprehensive sources out there: TrueUp.io and Layoffs.fyi.

Note: the difference in total numbers is due to TrueUp's much larger dataset (it tracks more startups & non-US markets). They both still show a nice improvement, e.g. the decline in average daily layoffs is around 24% on TrueUp and 14% on Layoffs.fyi.

TrueUp.io

- There are approximately 211K open tech jobs today; there were 165K last March. That said, the peak was 478K in April '22.

- In 2023, there were approximately 429K people laid off by 2K tech companies (an average of 1,175 people/day)

- So far this year, there have been approximately 117K people laid off by 539 tech companies (an average of 894 people/day)

Layoffs.fyi

- In 2023, there were approximately 263K people laid off by 1,200 tech companies (an average of 721 people/day)

- So far this year, there have been approximately 81K people laid off by 287 tech companies (an average of 619 people/day)

If it doesn't feel like it's improving, please hang in there. No market moves in a straight line...but at least the bumpy ride appears to be on the right track!
The very early quants (people who did rough mental options math in the Chicago pits in the 1970s) were finance bros by osmosis. You had to be.

It changed at some point during the '80s, probably to no little degree thanks to Renaissance.
Well, database introspection isn't new, we could've done that decades ago, but there are good reasons for the layer of abstraction.

Also if you go down this route, I think Postgraphile is a much better realization of that idea (uses GraphQL, not REST): https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
I’m patiently waiting for text to 3D model generation.
Agreed. I was thinking along the same lines. Some Wonka-like contraption where all this on-going creativity in a room was captured, fed into a whimsical pipes leading to an assembly line, with an iPad reveal at the end.
It rubs me the wrong way when most people refer to best by date on food items as the expiration date. Looks, smell and taste go far in deciding if food is good to eat or not.

Interestingly even medicines don’t magically go bad the day after the expiration date.
Climate protesters storm Tesla gigafactory in Europe
Scroll to the northwest a bit and you can see that you can ride Metro straight to the data center! How convenient!
> Their job is building a working .deb with working software

If that were was all there is to packaging - upstream developers could do the same job & have their CI/CD pipeline shoot out a .deb file.

However, it's not unheard of for package managers to maintain an evolving patchset that changes the default behavior and better integrates the upstream project to the rest of the distribution and its philosophy.
A very fast CPU these days seems ways more unnecessary/superfluous (and therefore "luxury") than a very long battery life.
"How dare you react to the text, you were only supposed to read the sub-text"
I suppose on a very complex system, that could be a big deal. But I think the last site I did it on was running on AWS so all ports were closed unless I specifically opened them for a specific purpose and it was just a few tweaks I had to make to pass. I normally only have 80 and 443 open to the outside world.
LOL we saw how that played out with COVID. 1/2 your "community" is going to deny the disaster and deliberately worsen it. 1/2 (with some overlap) is going to go from grocery store to grocery store buying all the necessities to resell them later.

EDIT: Wow, I know HN wears rose-colored glasses when looking at the past, but come on, people. We didn't hallucinate the antimaskers, antivaxxers, and thousands of protestors deliberately ignoring stay-at-home. I worked with a health official who had her home picketed because she dared to involve herself in health policy. It's only been a few years and y'all are in denial already.
Yep, they don't have products they need to maintain. Just enough infra to figure out the next profitable trade. Once heir models stop being ahead the curve, they can be just scrapped.
Good catch. The team could add this rule to their Ellipsis config file to make sure that it's always flagged: "Never use magic numbers. Always store the number in a variable and use the variable instead."

Docs: https://docs.ellipsis.dev/config#add-custom-rules
> Are there any tricks for cheap, safe hydration for a family?

Live near a lake, stream, etc. and enough firewood to boil water.
> Mars is regularly irradiated by solar radiation. This is very different from being radioactive

Yup. Mars is radioactive to the degree empty space is.
In a lot of places you can get permission to have your own water well. You may not even need to filter it.
It will be a GPT-4 tuned for agentic tasks.
> I think you're trying to fabricate problems where there are none.

No, I'm not. The problems with Git's UX are well-documented, and have spawned many projects over the last 10+ years trying to deliver "Git, but easier" or "Git, but better", so it's not just me who sees this.

I'm happy for you that you're comfortable with Git, or so indoctrinated to the workarounds required to use Git well that you're used to them. I believe it's time for something very different, and much easier to understand.

> why do you think Git managed to become the world's de facto standard VCS

I think it was because Git has lightweight branches, and an ephemeral working directory, both of which made it nicer to use than the older, slower, centralized VCS's. I've kept both of those features in Grace.

I also think it was because of GitHub wrapping a lightweight social network around Git and popularizing it, at the same moment that shared open-source dev really started to catch on as an idea. Without GitHub, Git wouldn't have won.

I do not think it was because Git is easy to use, overall. Again, maybe 20% of devs really get it, and the rest don't and just hope nothing bad happens. It was better in some important axes, and we've all paid the bad-UX tax to get those better parts, but 2005 was a long time ago, with a very different set of network and hardware conditions, and we can do better.
High water tinned foods will help a lot.
It's miraculous, but it's not nearly nearly all of human knowledge. Ask anything slightly specialist, and it'll give wrong answers. ChatGPT's translation is also not well developed. Llama doesn't have any, I believe.
The same thing happens when we create heat on earth with nuclear energy, when >50% is directly used to heat the earth via waste heat, and the electrical part becomes >99% waste heat (some tiny fraction of energy is probably permanently converted to chemical bonds, etc.)

However, this is completely dwarfed by the dynamics of flux in and out of the earth. I forget the exact order of magnitude but I think it's around 100TW, and of course about that amount needs to be rejected to space. The key dynamics that provide us balance are of course the exact and precise quantities of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, albedo, etc.

And of course, coal and natural gas are releasing stored heat energy too, but their contributions to changes in the atmosphere far exceed the contribution from direct heat energy on the surface of the earth.
I started reading the last chapter this afternoon.
Deno KV has a maximum record size of 64Kib [1] which is pretty severe. Compare with 25Mib for Cloudflare Worker KV [2]. It can be worked around, but it will make your design more complex if you have potentially large textareas, let alone images. Hopefully it will be raised by the time Deno KV gets out of beta.

[1] https://deno.land/api@v1.43.2?s=Deno.Kv

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/platform/limits/
You can zoom out arbitrarily far to increase the odds, sure. But for discussion purposes i limited to our galaxy's 10^10-ish hypothesized planets.
article was interesting, but what an awful website. fonts disappeared twice while reading, weird formatting everywhere (viewed on chrome with modern iPhone). Is this the state of internet these days?
If it makes you feel better, my CV isn't even good enough to get a FAANG interview..
When you scale up too much it creates market impact that affects returns. You basically become too much of the market.
In Silicon Valley, CEOs have a fiduciary responsibility to call every upcoming product "magic" even if it's boring.
Sure, you are technically correct (as we all know, the best kind of correct), but I think the point is maybe that the comment far above about "7 iterations" was meant to be more "emotionally correct" than technically correct.
Sam Altman pre announced it will not be a search engine https://twitter.com/sama/status/1788989777452408943
They have not made slide rules in decades, so most of them are collectors items.

Best would be to print one on legal sized paper, and cut it out, and learn the ropes.

Now, if you get more serious, you could glue said paper to a thin piece of plywood, and if you get even more serious, you could 3D print one.

I googled 3d printed slide rule, and now, after my morning productivity was ruined with particle systems, and my afternoon productivity was ruined with archaic calculating devices... my weekend is now ruined with trying to actually PRINT a slide rule.

When are the meetings for HN addicts???
Except the first one had already testified and the second had already taken depositions which are usually admissible in court.
https://archive.ph/b8Kyi
Could the same work for financial assets, in principle? Ignoring second order effects on the economy.

The federal government sets a budget. Then taxes everyone's financial holdings in the same way as you describe (in the second paragraph) to meet that budget?

If I understand you correctly, the way it would work is that federal government sets a budget of $100. Alice has $1000 of stocks and Bob has $500 dollars of bonds. So Alice pays $66 of taxes and Bob $33. If next year Alice has $2000 dollars of stocks and Bob has $500 dollars of bonds. Then Alice pays $80 and Bob $20.
> First, My own upbringing did nothing to equip me to properly raise a child. I simply cannot trust myself to do a good job.

With this realisation alone you might be in the top percentiles of the population.

> I'm sure someday the future will look brighter but it sure as heck isn't today, or any time in the next 50 years.

And yet it still might be better than at least 99.98% of human history (50 out of 300k+ years).
>Metal is at least mostly recoverable energy. The footprint of the contents lost is not.

It should be, but how much of that is actually recycled vs. how much ends up in a landfill.
A djinni with Tim Apple's face would be funny. Comes out of a home pod and magics the whole recording studio into an iPad. Probably too whimsical for an Apple's taste though.
> Why? The most important info was the time at which the error happened (which, for users who were on Windows, was in the bottom right of the screen).

Except it isn't in UTC and it doesn't show an offset.

Even if you stored the user's timezone, that doesn't mean that's where they were working from.
To be clear, you're being taxed on the asset's value, not on the unrealized gain. This conversation seems more like:

- you make $100k a year

- you pay $20k in taxes

- one year, you buy a house for $400k

- in the next year, its value doubles to $800k

- I say "your income (including unrealized gains) last year was $500k. You only paid $20k in taxes. That's only a 4% rate! How unfair!"

Among other things, I find the whole thing silly because of course it'll only be used to criticize the low tax rates of people who have unrealized gains. If Amazon crashes and Jeff Bezos's net worth goes down by $20B and he pays $100M in taxes, no one will write an article about how unfair it is to tax the poor guy $100M on his incredibly low income of negative $20B. Poor guy, he'd probably be the lowest-income person in the whole country!
Maybe instead if being arrogant and condescending read the very comment section you are partecipating in to see plenty of people saying just that
This industry seriously needs higher engineering standards for any software in areas like medicine. Just because you're making a medical smartphone app doesn't mean the same low standards as other smartphone apps apply to you now.

I'm guessing the pump was already coded defensively to guard against whatever some shoddily coded app may try to do, but trying to anticipate every way in which the typical app developer is negligent is not easy. Constant reconnects draining your own battery is one tricky defect to deal with.
Over decades of travel, I've found that one of the best ways to experience a culture and a place is to learn how to cook the local food. I guess you could do that through cooking classes, etc., but I've found a whole new dimension of traveling by staying in Airbnbs/etc. that have kitchens, and going to the market down the street to find ingredients.

For more experienced & long-term travelers, having some way of preparing food (maybe just breakfast, or breakfast + lunch) often means you have the budget to stay in a place longer and get to know a place better. And you can take a day or two off to recharge if you've exhausted yourself, and know that you won't go hungry or be forced to go buy crappy to-go food at a convenience store or the like.
You're trying to use emotional language to avoid actually thinking about the question. The correct answer is b, and the alternative is just plain banditry.

You don't have an automatic right to compensation or audience for your work. Your right is that others can't take your work without your permission--i.e. that they don't own your text just because they can read it. If you have no rights over your text, then only the man with the printing press wins. When you do have those rights, you can trade them for compensation, audience, etc. and that's your choice, not theirs.

Does this mean that agreements are made between entities in unequal economic positions? Yes. But so does employment, so does freelancing, so does nearly every business ever.

Being personally dissatisfied with the current economics of publishing does not change the social contract that underlies it.
This is a pretty "icky" comment. Naming specific groups that will be growing exponentially has echos of less savory characters using these arguments for political gain.

It is very unlikely that any group will have long term exponential growth. As pointed elsewhere where this type of growth doesn't scale. The groups you mention have been around for centuries and they haven't become dominant. Social cohesion falls apart over time.
If it worked, that would be very cool.
Have the local water delivery company drop off 5 jugs a year
This. So much this. I don't even understand how browser integrations are not universally thought as a core part of a password manager. With all the phishing that's going along, it's really the last line of defense.

Oh and I'm not only talking about elderly relatives and such. Modern phishings are very very well made, and there's one going on to steal Steam accounts that I would have likely fell for (and I consider myself pretty good on the matter).
Not at all! Mostly because of three issues:

- Reproducibility: often enough I'll come across a straightforward issue like "using an extra serial port" that already has the pins broken out on the board but isn't set as a serial port by default. The solution is almost inevitably "go into this directory deep inside your Arduino install and edit this header file". That results in two issues:

- It's not project-specific so other projects on my machine now also get the modified header

- If someone else checks out my project, they have to go in and edit that file themselves, spreading the modification like a virus.

- The abstractions are often overly simplistic and hide what's going on under the hood too much. I don't remember which board/chip it was off the top of my head but one board I was working on was having weird timing issues. As it turned out, the whole BSP for Arduino-on-that-board was running FreeRTOS under the hood and was context switching out of my loop() function arbitrarily (causing the delay between, say, two digitalWrite() statements to be dramatically different sometimes)

- The code quality of 3rd-party libraries that are commonly used varies dramatically.

I ultimately settled on Zephyr. It does a fantastic job of doing hardware abstraction and configuration behind a DeviceTree setup, it exposes really nice and consistent RTOS primatives, it has a ton of device driver support baked-in and has generally quite good code quality for all of them. I can do multiple stack-allocated threads with priority instead of having to do ugly polling hacks in a single superloop.
What happens when the drones are used to target airplanes?

The drones are too small, cheap and numerous to use a modern fighter jet's weapons against.
I'm guessing: https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/mnesia.html
So, what is it that you do exactly?