skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh, I threw up a little in my mouth just from the headline.

This constant tracking of kids is unnecessary and dangerous. Generations of kids survived without their parents needing to know their location at all times.

And yes, I totally admit, some kids (very few actually depending on the locale) didn't survive. But we've traded this false sense of "safety" for kids that are so risk averse it is seriously negatively affecting their development. I highly recommend the writings of Jonathan Haidt - he not only has great arguments but also has a lot of data to back up his conclusions.

Kids don't need more tech, they need less of it (and FWIW, most adults, too).
The problem is not the pens. It is the paper.
Keep what in check? The war measures act has been used twice in 60 years!

The trucker fiasco ended only when the Ukraine war substituted the COVID madness
"Democrats just need to communicate Biden's success more effectively"
Thanks for the feedback. FWIW, I am very cognizant of the emotional toll of giving up religious beliefs, which is the main reason I've not been tackling those head-on.
Does it also feel like you showed your hand and all they had to do was ante to see it? I’d be very anxious about getting screwed by unsavoury actors.
There's MotionCam Pro for android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motioncam

I myself feel the same, with emus on iOS the only missing class of software at this point is like... Blink+V8 instead of WebKit+JSC as a browser choice.
Vetrue.
How much does the average trip go for distances such as your use case?
Morris would have references to modern "Palestine" (that is: stuff from like the time of the Roman empire doesn't count, and the term was not in use nor was it apparently an ethnic identity during much of the long reign of the Ottoman Empire) starting around 1911, with the "Filistin" newspaper, and points out that up until around 1920 the claimed identity was "Syrian" ("Southern Syrian", from the Suriyya al-Janubiya newspaper), until the Franco-Syrian war screwed that all up.

One of those fun scenarios where everyone with a simple story is wrong. Like, Gaza and especially Jerusalem were clearly centers of nascent Arab ethnic identity? The UN partition was in part a response to unified ethnic identification in the Gaza region?

A good AskHistorians answer on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17552u6/why_...
I’m amazed no one is pushing back on this. I respect your decision as a parent — it’s your decision — but not letting them have a phone until 16 or privacy in their YouTube sounds miserable for them. I would be, but everyone is different I suppose.

In contrast, I was watching gore videos by the time I was 13. I think I turned out ok.

We’ll see if it’s survivorship bias, but personally, I plan to give our daughter Kess most of the freedom she’ll want. She’ll figure it out. The worst situation would be for her to develop feelings for someone and not trust her parents with that info. I suspect restricting smartphone usage is exactly how to end up in that situation.
> all the value of the company can walk away if they don't like it

They really can't, because a majority of their compensation is in now-unreasonable amounts of OpenAI equity (because it was worth much less when it was granted). If employees decided to walk away, rendering their vested equity worthless, they wouldn't get anywhere near the same value of, say, Microsoft equity as a signing bonus to make it worth.

Any senior OpenAI employee with decent amounts of vested equity on low valuations has strong financial incentives to stick with the company, and also strong financial incentives to convince others to stick with the company.

Some more thoughts from back when employees "threatened" to leave: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-employees-did-not-wan...
Also, one of the things that no-one tells you about parenthood is just how much effort you spend entertaining them. So maybe bookmark this, it might come in useful in a few years!:
https://successfulsoftware.net/2014/01/31/fun-and-geeky-thin...
Everything was always that expensive, it was just less obvious.

What if you had moved to outsource the office tasks sooner? Could you have better invested that time and stress elsewhere?

The $100k per year improving hardware? Was that the best way to spend the money? Maybe it would have been better spent on marketing, or investing in reducing production costs with better tooling. Whatever the differential from what you spent was lost at 3x.

Gains often compound over time too. Cost reduction begets cost reduction.

Of course, thinking like this results in madness and moral hazard. I’ve seen companies do crazy, catastrophic things gearing up for sale.
(De/Re)-Composition of Data-Parallel Computations via Multi-Dim. Homomorphisms
Compared to what? A Honda Civic or a Ford F-150?
Same reason we have debit cards with parental controls.

If I lived in Chicago, I'd put my Ventra card on my kid's smart watch.
Is Apple planning to 'sherlock' Arc?
If you want to say "lets you do color grading", then fine. But claiming/implying this can make "pro video" or stuff that looks like it came out of a cinema camera is absurd. I know they don't say that outright, but it is heavily implied that the only, or major, difference is just color space and grading. And the name is just...laughable.

> On a technical level, why does video shot on an iPhone look different than one shot on a big Hollywood camera?

...and then they launch into color grading and whatnot.

The real answer:

Because the pixel pitch on a cinema digital camera is four times the area of the pixels on an iPhone which allows for much greater light gathering which means lower noise, and the sensor is far less limited by diffraction.

Because the iPhone lens, being so tiny, has almost zero depth of field and that looks like shit.

Because the people operating the camera are very good at cinematography.

...not because of some software.
Hey Nick, good to hear from you again!

>You know it must have been stressful when you were compelled to list your desserts in order.

Haha, that's true, but I also get more excited than the average person about desserts.

>Now that we're almost in June, does it feel like the deal happened a million years ago? I know when stressful things happen and time passes, it always feels like it was so long ago even when it was only a month or 2 back.

Yeah, I hadn't thought about it, but you're right. We're only about six weeks out, but it feels like it happened six months ago.

It was funny during due diligence, I was really stressed out, but I could already tell that I'd look back on it and wonder why it was so stressful. At the end of the day, it's mostly just preparing reports and answering questions.

I think the feeling that's hard to recall is that even though the reports I was creating weren't that complicated, they were stressful because the stakes always felt so high. I was always so worried about making errors and messing up the deal or opening up myself to liability claims after closing.

>It was a pleasure having you on a few years ago in the Running in Production podcast

For me as well! It was fun to chat about TinyPilot's stack and tooling.
I also remembered his post about dropping $50k on the site redesign*

I actually thought it was a big W for him when I saw this post. But I guess, if you consider the opportunity cost of Google employment, it's a financial L.

* https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot-redesign/
It sort of does. The good thing is that if I see it going the non referencing path I halt and say: first
Follow the rules.

And the links come.
Go check my history. Send me a mail and I'll send a photo of the fields and the wind breaks here that you can geolocate.

I am definitely not a bot.

I am however extremely fed up with Google. And equally thankful that I have found something that works as well as old Google (or better).
> Or, more precisely, reserves the right to do so in a future version. rustc does not currently do this

Does not currently do what ?

Rust certainly will re-arrange the layout of a default repr(Rust) struct to make it smaller, for example: https://rust.godbolt.org/z/7KsqvnE9o

[Edited to provide a nicer Godbolt example which compares the two layout strategies]
Here's a source for the US in Q3 2022:

> By the third quarter of 2022, an estimated 96.4% of persons aged ≥16 years in a longitudinal blood donor cohort had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from previous infection or vaccination, including 22.6% from infection alone and 26.1% from vaccination alone; 47.7% had hybrid immunity.

Doing the math, that estimates ~70% of US blood donors over 16 had contracted actual covid by almost 2 years ago.

(https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7222a3.htm)

Are blood donors representative? I don't know. Reported and recorded positives doesn't seem at all representative of an overall infection count though, since it misses probably most minor cases of covid, which makes up most cases period.
Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups
It's not 500 out of 300M rare. I have a co-worker who could support himself entirely on sales from a children's book he self-published.
It was quite straightforward to join and runs really smoothly.

Free plan for the win.
I can’t tell if this article is from 2024 or some previous year. Maybe that’s part of the problem.
I love this landing page, excellent work. Steps me through lots of examples with clean and efficient writing. Nice work!

Edit: i just bought it
FK indexes by necessity need to be placed on the foreign table, which is just as likely to be a preexisting table that already contains data.

To be clear I 100% agree that adding indexes later is extremely painful. A little care when first creating tables goes a long way, and I’ve never seen a database fall over due to preemptive over-indexing but I’ve seen countless do so thanks to being underindexed.

Still, taking a DDL operation which is presumed to be essentially instantaneous and adding a default behavior that requires locking completely separate tables for a potentially-lengthy update does give me pause.
For every couple year major versions (with decently advanced notice it's coming and/or a recency allowance) I think it's fair to charge anew but for minor improvements over the lifecycle of a major version I think it's fair to want to buy everything that will come in the major version up front if you're making a one time purchase. Tons of software is this way from Sublime to Windows to ZBrush to an absolute crapload of games. In this model a one time purchase is seen more as an alternative to holding a subscription over the lifetime rather than the intent to forego any future features or enhancements out of interest of the exact current feature set being all you'll ever want. There is also the "in-between model" e.g. IntelliJ where you get the current version + a period of updates and you can either stay with where it ends at that period or pay a smaller amount for more updates.

I'm not sure which group the Halide changes mentioned above fell into but just on the general topic I think it's a fair expectation.
The common grapefruit diameter is smaller than the diameter of a DVD. People like to reference the size people in the area might be more familiar. When you say grapefruit, I don't think of something the size of a DVD. That would be an extra large grapefruit based on the sizes and pricing of all of the stores that offer grapefruits I have ever seen. The DVD diameter sized citrus fruit I'm familiar would be pomelos, and not all stores carry them.

If you routinely see grapefruit with the same diameter as a DVD that it is a normal measurement for you then, that's great for you, but it is not the normal
Whose Epstein connections are you talking about – Gates or Altman?
Show HN: I created Sentence Counter to quickly count sentences and words
I have found that it largely depends on class. If you are a blue collar or middle class worker, things have been getting worse for several decades now. If you are upper-middle class or richer, there may be more ebbs and flows in how you experience the economy.
If you aren't young or breastfeeding, iodine tablets don't particularly matter.

https://dsa.no/en/preparedness/taking-iodine-tablets-in-the-...
"Robo taxis" as they currently exist are pretty obviously not the long term goal, it's not an interesting business, it's just an easy test platform that recoups some costs.

The real business is an entire transit system, with purpose-built vehicles of various sizes, centralized routing, etc.
Hacker News Summary Script
Python script that summarises the top articles on Hacker News via google gemini
I've run into working programmers who were bad at debugging before LLMs existed.
To the author, I noticed a typo: a misspelling of "meachine" instead of "machine"

"""
These features bring Numerical Elixir and its ability to setup distributed model serving, over CPUs and GPUs, to traditional meachine learning algorithms, allowing developers and data practitioners to tackle a wider number of problems within the Elixir ecosystem.
"""
What postgres needs is some command to freeze query plans. It doesn't need it very badly, because the planner is excellent, but the need exists.

But what is a slow query plan in development has no relation at all with what would be slow to run in production. You create that error and the consequence will be a lot of spurious indexing with little practical benefit.
Because women's objections are ignored and women are expected to provide more proof than men. Scarlett Johansson is the third woman so far who made it clear that she is not happy with Altman's/OpenAI's conduct, but they all are being asked to provide more proof of harm done. In case you missed it--his sister made serious allegations and was ignored; then a female board member went public with her reasons for resigning and people say its sour grapes; and now Scarlett Johansson is objecting to Altman suggesting that it was her voice even after he was told that she is not interested in working with OpenAI.
How much % of the theoretical FLOPs are you getting with those 7900 XTX on training?
next size up from grapefruit is pomelo I think, then maybe durian, or cantelope, then honeydew and watermelon
Cars are a real business despite being unable to navigate open water. What matters is that it’s profitable, not whether it works everywhere. Waymo appears to be unit profitable on a cash basis. (It’s far from recouping its investment into R&D.)
Ah I remember the good old days of strict XML parsers that would fail if they didn't have Internet access to pull the schema in.
Virgil: A Fast and Lightweight Systems Programming Language
Yep. A lot of people are significantly more miserable than they’ve ever been. The mass layoffs were traumatic.

> The vast majority of respondents, 72%, indicated they think inflation is increasing. In reality, the rate of inflation has fallen sharply from its post-Covid peak of 9.1% and has been fluctuating between 3% and 4% a year.

Inflation is increasing the depreciation of the dollar at a rate between 3% and 4% per year. Silly public having no idea that inflation is actually the first derivative of that.
Why not use shotput-sized? 4.33 to 5.12 inch diameter [0]

0. https://www.topendsports.com/resources/equipment/ball-size.h...
Try posting on LinkedIn as though you are on Hacker News. That’s how I approach it. Authenticity is rare on the platform and there a shortage of relatable, likeable content.

I do fairly well just posting about the problems I’m working on and the puzzles I’m trying to solve.
Some urban transit systems use NFC for fares. Maybe you want your kid to have a bus or subway pass without having to carry a wallet.
I wonder what this will do to car insurance costs. Sometime in the 90s we had monster hail in Munich and the damage to cars was in the billions. Years later you could still see cars that had tons of dents from that one day.
Haha! That's great! Selling the company - also incredible. Congratulations my dude.
I had this happen when I got rid of facebook years ago. I just lost touch with certain groups that were going to the movies or out for drinks or whatever. I just wasn't aware things were happening. Occasionally I'd get "where are you?" texts. No big loss, as I had other much closer groups where the communication mechanism matters less and varies, but I can imagine it could be isolating for some without that.
Something irks me about volunteers spending real money to support all the OSS freeloading businesses. I'm talking about companies with a market cap in the $Billions. Almost none of them can be bothered to kick back even a modicum of financial support to the authors of the software that runs their business, and to add insult to injury, they in fact soak the members of community who distribute the binaries for their bandwidth.
> How much does the average trip go for distances such as your use case?

They seem to undercut Uber and Lyft by a hair. Given the longer wait times, and lack of a need to tip, that seems fair. (In San Francisco, they undercut by a wider margin. But human ride shares are more expensive there for a variety of reasons.)
Or $60 if you pay annually instead of monthly - though who knows how long that annual discount will last.

[edit] and there's no buying the watch WITHOUT the Fitbit Ace Pass data plan, the watch setup REQUIRES a data plan.

from the Compatability section of Tech Specs page:

"Requires Wi-Fi and Fitbit Ace Pass data plan for setup."

[edit2]

though I guess you could buy just one month of the data plan, just for setting up the watch.

But the watch's WiFi supports only 2.4GHz.

[edit3]

the annual data plan deal is only good until before Aug 31. see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzDpo1t02yA&t=275s
ICQ, RIP: Why all instant messaging disappears (in the end)
Yes, AIUI from discussion here last week, Waits used the final Midler verdict as precedent.
I think the reason for this is that most people don’t even know the answer. If there were only 2 options when this question was asked then 49% of people saying the s&p500 is down would indicate a low confidence result I think. The number is basically a meaningless coin flip.
I worked in ops for 20+ years.

If someone blocks you it becomes an incident, a post mortem and you learn your lesson.

If someone blogs about it, or e-mails you, it gets added to a todo list and might get fixed in a few weeks by a disinterested intern.
Wait till activists start setting SDCs on fire before calling it a “real business”.
Better than Banana sized, I guess.
> It is a vague claim. How do you decide what is “important”?

Java is so clearly ahead and by so much that it doesn't really matter, but generally, "important" can mean size, expected lifetime, criticality for business or some combination of them.

> Which I note has both JavaScript/TypeScript and Python ahead of Java.

Python is about on par or slightly ahead but given that the vast majority of the uses of Java are for server side applications, while the vast majority of Python uses are for data analysis etc., so clearly Java is much more favoured for serious applications (not to mention Python's serious scaling issue). JS is indeed significantly ahead, but again, clearly the vast majority of JS use is for web client programming. Node.js was very big for a while, but it isn't as big anymore. Again, ask any market analyst. Perhaps in 2035 some new language is going to show up and unseat Java, but in 2024, Java is the language of choice for serious server-side apps -- not the majority choice (i.e. all other languages combined may make up more than 50%), perhaps, but the first choice nonetheless.
How will this work out with grade school kids' socialization, when some kids in a class have the neat smartwatches, but some don't?

I remember very much noticing as a young kid that I didn't have some things some other kids had. But most of the time that was at home, rather than visible every day. And I was also a bit aware that some other kids had less than I did. (Parochial school uniforms helped.)
I much prefer Waymos as a pedestrian. They always stop at stop signs.
Apple purposefully leverages its closed ecosystem to generate social friction amongst kids in order to drive hardware sales, making them persona non grata in my book.
Oxide and Friends 5/27/2024 – Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later [video]
Next size up from grapefruit according to ISO is small red cabbage, then small green cabbage followed by cantaloupe.
It sounds like you bought Halide 1. At the time, we had supported Halide 1 for three years of huge feature updates when we launched Halide Mark II. Rather than just drop Halide 1, we gave everyone Mark II and a year of additional updates.

The alternative would have been to just release a separate app called Halide 2 and stop updating Halide 1. In that case, version 1 would probably fall apart pretty quickly due to OS and camera changes year to year.

I’m genuinely curious if you’d have preferred we stopped updating Halide 1, because we’re always trying to find the best way to support users while keeping the light on.
Still, as pbhjpbhj suggested, if I were publishing both content and ads, I would consider publishing the ads on a different domain (not just a subdomain) to reduce technical issues. Domains with ugly names are very cheap.
> Requires Ace Pass data plan $9.99/mo.

LOL
Ah I see, it just makes it easier for potential buyers to get a loan. Thanks for the response and the cool blog!
Roujin Z is really fun.
That's not my experience. I've rarely seen a comparably priced ride. They're usually at least 50% more expensive than Uber or Lyft.
Nevertheless serverless is an actual concept where you don't deploy any server instances, you use only services. Those services might scale up with server instances, but you don't have to know about that.

I was against it too at first, but then I realized how to use it.
Taxes you pay pay for this, or your employer pays it instead of paying you.

Now you can argue that health care costs less on a per basis, or even per productive taxpayer basis, but that's a different matter. Maybe the US could recreate your healthcare COST system, but it doesn't have to also take on your payment system (tax instead of direct)
Thank you! It seems the Elixir LSP does provide useful features... I'm worried that even after getting it working on my Mac, the same troubles happen again when I move to remote machines. I'll try the Elixir slack!
I'm still working with my accountant on that, so I don't have the final figure. I'm expecting the taxes to be relatively low due to expenses that I had to amortize in the last couple of years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513450
What does that have to do with my question? Do you think the popular conception of what government "should" be changed post-Civil War?
Of course. The clause doesn't cover how the country is divided into provinces, for example.

The clause covers, with no real check on power (see Quebec vs high court), the most important part of the constitution - the government's relationship with its people!
Hume: Empathic AI
A binary format does not need to be complicated, and does not need to be the same as D-Bus (which has many problems). Furthermore, it can avoid some of the things in JSON, e.g. requiring escaping, requiring Unicode, not properly supporting 64-bit integers, embedded binary data cannot be made directly, etc.
My heart sunk when I saw this on the cookie control panel for a popular website "We and our 796 partners..." Oh, do f*k off...
I don't think it's one user; I think it's a ton of them. Want to use Let's Encrypt in your Openshift-on-AWS deployment? certbot's in EPEL, along with a lot of other quality-of-life stuff for log-shipping, monitoring, etc.
> usually at least 50% more expensive than Uber or Lyft

Hmm, I used them this weekend and was comparing pricing. Waymo was cheaper. That said, I wasn’t riding during peak traffic. And in peak traffic, I’d vastly prefer a Waymo. So I get the premium pricing.
If "simple" can mean "low level" then maybe SDL2 (or 3 might be ready enough.)