skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair. I've only ever had success with this strategy as a solo hacker. It was once claimed to me that this would be a disaster on large teams and I had to admit that I had no evidence one way or the other. Don't know if that resonates with your experience. Just anecdotal.
> Getting answers to simple questions like "How many shoes did we sell in-store vs ecommerce last week?" is a nearly impossible task.

I find this type of thing scary as an outsider looking in. How a company so large has such immature engineering continues to astonish me.
Microsoft isn't the company to bring what you're picturing here into reality. Honestly what you really want is a journaling software like Obsidian.
The Gnostic gospels were only relatively recently discovered (1945 per Wikipedia), perhaps I should have picked one of the other heresies in early Christianity that are virtually unknown outside of some early church father dismissing them.

And my point isn't that oral records are better than written records, it's that they're not really worse. Or put differently, written records are rather incomplete accounts: there's a tendency to treat written records as the ground truth of history which isn't particularly warranted.
in some states, using the bathroom that most closely aligns with their gender
Just installed Winamp after ages, now I've spent the last 20 minutes searching for the skin I used to have. I remember it so vividly, silver-chrome and the inlays on the buttons being a light neon blue - but I can't seem to find it in this huge pile!
Trump joins TikTok and amasses over 1M followers in 24h
Why would that be counted as profit at all, if it was spent?
Televised Music Is a Pointless Rigmarole (1968)
What a great reference! Well done.
Yeah, I stopped reading when I saw the focus on AI. And I could probably cobble together a good proposal, but I'm not willing to lump it in with that sociodigital fatberg.
Came here to say this, glad other people have it in mind as well.
> HN tends to be highly skeptical of “if you don’t have anything to hide, you wouldn’t mind the lack of privacy” arguments.

Well, those arguments flip the narrative. No one has to justify their privacy; invasion of privacy needs to be justified - and, when warranted, scope needs to be enforced.

In case anyone needs an analogue: when paying, you don't give the seller access to all of your money. They justify a particular amount and if you agree, they get the right to only that.

With money, we tend to call folks who take more than warranted "robbers" or "thieves". I think society would be in a better state of we viewed invasion of privacy as negatively.
honestly so fun to see billionaires just invest their time/money into random stuff like this
I see a lot of american voices seemingly unaware of the reach and control of their platforms. I see nothing wrong with forcing them to support the creation of local content in countries where they operate (in order to extract wealth).

If those american media platforms (for which there are no local equivalents) want my canadian dollars, I'm ok with them having to re-invest some of that locally.
ShadowFinder: Find possible locations of shadows around the world
Demo video from Rainbolt, the guy who can geo guess anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQIjDPFgdJA
This [1] says Snowflake was also bidding to buy Tabular.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/databricks-is-buying-data-op...
Related: https://www.veith.net/e12calc.htm

It quickly calculates pairs of resistors from E12 (and other) resistor series to meet a target.
Why do you think it will happen inevitably?
I think Coke and Pepsi sometimes distribute it depending on location, but don't produce it.
I can totally see this being helpful for niche areas of fan fiction (cough, rule 34), where untalented fans demand content that is also not taking away any money from professional artists....
I'm aware that car prices are falling across the board, but I see EVs being hit harder than ICEs. I've heard from some local dealerships I visited recently that new EVs are sitting on the lot for longer too.

My I-PACE cost me over $80k when it was a one-of-a-kind vehicle, an EV from a mature car manufacturer with a luxury interior, sporty performance, hatchback, AWD, and heat pump. It won the 2019 World Car of the Year award (https://www.worldcarawards.com/web/2019_results.asp). It can easily make it the 150 miles from Seattle to Yakima over the PNW Cascade mountain pass in driving snow without needing to stop to charge. It was a bit of a stretch for me to spend that much on a car, but to me it was -- and still is -- a great car.

It wasn't too long before some other EVs with similar characteristics entered the marketplace, and at lower prices. Probably the biggest differences include slightly more splashy range on the spec sheet, although I would argue Jaguar is being more conservative than they really need to be with their advertised specs, and a faster charge rate. In other words, the newer EVs can get from point A to point B with less time spent at the rapid chargers.

Therefore my I-PACE's auction value is almost down to $20k, in spite of being low mileage and in excellent condition. I still get as much range out of it as I did the day I bought it. There are a few reasons for the precipitous price drop, but I suspect the overriding one is that nobody wants an EV that charges at 80kW.

Personally I use my gas car when doing road trips that would otherwise require a rapid charging stop, and I exclusively charge the I-PACE overnight in my garage. So I guess it's still worth a heck of a lot more than $20k to me, which is why I don't think I'll part ways with it until something really expensive breaks on it.

Meanwhile those who have EVs that don't use Tesla's supercharger network are stuck with the likes of Electrify America when they're road tripping. In that case I'm not sure your overall experience is going to be all that better whether your car is capable of pulling 80kW or 150kW at 35% SoC. I imagine people in 6-figure Taycans capable of pulling 270kW sitting in the same line as the $15k used Bolts capable of pulling 50kW for one of only 2 functioning chargers at an Electrify America site in a rural Walmart parking lot to open up, and then the charger ends up only being able to put out 100kW if you're lucky. The charging capabilities of your EV don't mean much if you can't take advantage of them.

Maybe the "unwashed masses" are starting to hear about the horror show that non-Tesla charging networks are as non-enthusiasts are suckered into buying one off the lot without the dealership being completely forthright with them about the true state of things, and that's being reflected in the relative price of used EVs.
One way it challenges old doctrine is that 1000ppm CO2 was considered good air quality in the past. Now it seems 800ppm or perhaps lower should be considered good air quality. They haven't tested other viruses yet (both colds and flu viruses are now considered airborne I understand, and other respiratory viruses probably are also), and each virus may react differently, so nobody actually knows yet what an optimal value is. It is even possible that the optimal CO2 value is somewhere below the current average concentration of CO2 in the air around the world when taking all airborne viruses into consideration, but nobody knows. More research is needed. But at least for covid, 1000ppm CO2 should probably no longer be considered good air quality (though replication of the study would be good.)
>shuffle a deck of cards

Fwiw this is surprisingly subtle and non-trivial to get right. A naive "random swap" approach does not produce uniform permutations. Sorting based on a random comparison function can likewise produce biased results depending on the implementation of the sort. Tagging each element with a random number and then sorting based on the tag works (or so I think?) but you need to deal with the case where tags collide. Fisher-yates shuffle is bulletproof but I would not trust myself to write it from memory lest you end up writing Sattolo's algorithm instead.
Why Lithuania is the best place in the world to be young
Scholastic Launches Book Vending Machines in Chi-Town
> City centers or good locations remain the same and don't magically expand or spawn out of blue

Tokyo would like to say hello. IIRC, it’s the only place in Japan with a net population growth, largely due to people moving in for work.

The situation is dire elsewhere because many people are taking completely absurd and/or selfish stances on development in their locale.
You can hang out in /r/proseporn to get samples.

I’d recommend “All the kings men” by Robert Penn Warren. It sounds like a political book but it’s not. It’s more like The Great Gatsby in that the structure is as much about the narrator. Also the writing lapses into “overly poetic” like McCarthy.
I used to think this too, but apparently RISC isn't about the number of instructions, but the complexity or execution time of each; as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_comput... puts it,

> The key operational concept of the RISC computer is that each instruction performs only one function (e.g. copy a value from memory to a register).

and in fact that page even mentions at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_comput... that

> Some CPUs have been specifically designed to have a very small set of instructions—but these designs are very different from classic RISC designs, so they have been given other names such as minimal instruction set computer (MISC) or transport triggered architecture (TTA).
Looks much seedier than the Webster. I agree they are not catering to the same type of resident, gender notwithstanding. The Ewing seems to be a last resort for someone to not be homeless.
Canada / USA / Mexico moves mostly in lockstep thanks to NAFTA. I don't think Canada or Mexico are looking to accept these dumped Chinese vehicles.

> Central and South America, parts of Asia

Brazil is all into Ethanol and is the largest economy of South America IIRC. India is highly protectionist, so good luck selling things there.

Once we knock out the obvious contenders, its not very clear who will buy this massive pile of Chinese EVs. Africa? They barely have electric infrastructure. Who will build all the power-plants so that EVs become feasible there? Especially if we assume the richer parts of Africa (ex: Egypt and South Africa) moving with Britain like they tend to do.

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Tesla has already a growing inventory problem, in part due to Gigafactory Shanghai directly competing with Chinese vehicles like BYD. Tesla has been forced to collapse the prices of its entire lineup in China/Europe, while NA demand is also falling due to overproduction.

I dunno, its not very clear that China overproducing EVs is a good move. There's a lot of risks here.
In software, I first heard "surfaces" used about 30 years ago in the context of computer security (attack surfaces).

In general, I interpret it as a five dollar word that means "where the world interacts with the software".
> People are betting on which of these cases we are in now.

Very, very few US homeowners are betting on profiting from home price changes within 10 years.

They are betting on reducing monthly shelter cost volatility, and the freedom to modify their home, by purchasing a home with a very long fixed rate mortgage and maybe selling after a couple decades.
I can see how women might consume more romantic fiction as comics/stories than men, though if there's nothing in your app that's only relevant for women, I'd recommend dropping that as part of your pitch
I offer extra lessons in business studies and ICT to high school students and I dread the process of preparing assessments. It takes a lot of brain energy and time. So I decided to make an AI quiz generator using ChatGPT.
Your feedback on how I can make it better will be hugely appreciated
I think the economics of being decorative make it hard.

However, one wonders if 3D printing may allow the return of detail work that would be cost-prohibitive otherwise.
Same with some EU countries. They're full of parasite mafia-like organizations that have been given power by the state to just rent seek.

In Austria there's a tax on all devices with built-in storage, from phones to blank DVDs and external HDDs, because the association of movies and music IP holders claim digital storage is used to store pirated content so it's their way of clawing back revenue lost to piracy.

You can't make this up. That South Park skit is spot on for this country. I think there's similar taxes in other countries too.
Since housing has virtually no upper-limit on what you can spend, it can absorb any disposable income from other things getting cheaper (food, technology, etc.).
So Delta will eventually become better but not before Databricks gets a year or three of advantage over iceberg and open source delta.
Yes, get in touch with me.
Cloud providers don't store stuff in a literal cloud, so it follows that they too must worry about their own physical devices.

If you agree that FDE is good for physical access to lost/stolen devices and cryptographic erasure, I'm not sure why you don't think that applies to hardware in a data center which is just as capable as being lost/stolen, and also needs to be securely disposed of.

>But expecting it to do anything else is just magical thinking.

It certainly does more than just check boxes for SOC, which was my entire point.
"what is the underlying process" is another way of saying, all we have is models. We don't really understand anything. Even gravity. Yet, we can model gravity extremely well for practical purposes.
On the flip side, I've used plenty of first party SDKs with weird timeout values, poor error handling, and non-idiomatic APIs for the language.
Soda is usually produced locally. They likely produce and distribute it under license in some areas.
What are you guessing from? Historically, generation for generation, x86 is good at performance and awful at power consumption. Even when Apple (not aarch64 in general, just Apple) briefly pulled ahead on both, subsequent x86 chips kept winning on raw performance, even as they got destroyed on perf per Watt.
Particle accelerators for the microchip era
So is medicine, so is air travel, so is farming...
Glenn and friends cooking had a fun deep dive into creating Dr Pepper, multiple videos, part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG499GYHdgk
Does anyone know how to figure out who their clients are or were?
+1 for The Death of Ivan Ilyich, it's a marvelous example of an author depicting something you (probably) haven't experienced and nonetheless convincing you that's what it's really like.
> existance as a device is not based self-referentially to the concept of time

Its existence as an object is not, but its definition as a clock is. Basically the article is defining time in terms of...something that's defined as keeping time. Which, as I said, is circular.
That feels reductive to me.

Any story -- fiction or non-fiction -- that is written down is just tiny ink blobs on paper. I don't need to suspend my disbelief to read a textbook about anatomy.

Reading fiction isn't about believing that the created world it's real, only that it's plausible, given the natural laws, constraints, and logic present in the world that's been built.

Put another way, when I read LoTR, I don't believe that Tolkien is asking me to suspend my disbelief that elves, dwarves, and fantastical creatures once populated our Earth; instead, he's built a world where such things exist, and he's asking me to read a story about them, while promising that his stories will maintain the internal consistency of the world he's built.

I like the GP's use of the term "secondary belief"; I think it very much encapsulates that middle ground where an author creates rules for a fantastical world that are always obeyed during storytelling, vs. an author who creates a fantastical world, but bends and breaks that world's rules (if there even are any to begin with) in order to serve the story they want to tell, which does require suspension of disbelief.
Evidently
Neato, and I personally appreciate your finops.sql example query :)
In another life!
The point of provable trust is also to take I to account the environment IMO.

Aka, zero trust computing.
How do the tolerances combine when you're using two resistors? I'm pretty sure they'd add together if in series (so two 5%'s become 10%), but I'm having trouble easily intuiting what happens if in parallel. Do they combine in the same way that resistances combine when in parallel?

edit: Actually, I'm not so sure anymore that the tolerances would add up in series... I should probably just look this stuff up, since I'm not awake enough to intuit correctly, I think.
You’re saying these comics are for women? Seems like these are for men…
The secret ingredient is benzoic acid.
I get what you are saying that it is more succinct. However the next statement "it is not true to say ..." confuses me. In fact there are many cases where I did not know that I did not know something important.

I was cross country skiing across a frozen lake. The ice was 24 inches thick. I knew it was that thick. I did not know that where a lake narrows there can be current that prevents ice from forming. Moreover, I was unaware that there were major issues about frozen lakes that I was unaware of. I was not aware there was any risk and therefore came much to close to falling through the ice. Those little "crack crack crack" sounds stick with me. There have been other examples when I was unaware that I was ignorant of life threatening issues.

My use of that phrase is perhaps particular to the fact that most of my realization of "unknown unknowns" has been when they are life threatening.
Great example, great way to explain it. Nice work.
The only color reordering that happens is to assign the color with the largest quantity of chips to have the lowest chip value.

Once the optimization has happened, you can edit the colors, and the order will be preserved. So if you want to swap it so that white is the lowest valued chip, just edit the color of the lowest valued chip to white.
just like it'd be politically incorrect to say "I'm building a video game for men" even if 90% of first person shooter players are men
As someone who has run many, many home games, including cash and tournaments, also consider how easy it is to stack a fresh buy-in. Having 6 of one color, 5 of another, 3 of another, 8 of the next... Yuck. Many ways to make a mistake. If I'm doing a tournament where the starting small blind is 25, then I'm going to ALWAYS use:

8 qty 25 chips = 200
8 qty 100 chips = 800
4 qty 500 chips = 2000
N qty 1000 chips = N000, where N controls how much the starting stack is.

When I'm preparing a bunch of new stacks, I mostly just have to deal with stacks 4 or 8 high, which can be measured next to each other in under a second. Also, the first two colors add up to 1000 exactly, and the first three colors add up to 3000 exactly, simplifying the math. Also, standard chip racks hold stacks of 20 chips, so the first three colors can be pre-built and stored in the racks. If I'm doing a cash game, with $0.25/$0.50 blinds, I use the same formula as above, but divide by 100. Just as easy.

For a $1/$2 cash game, I'm going to ALWAYS use:

20 qty $1 chips = $20, for blinds
N qty $5 chips for the rest of the buy-in

And that's it. Since again, standard chip racks hold stacks of 20 chips, these can be set up in seconds. Later in the game, we can break out the $25 chips.

Also +1 to using "standard" casino chip colors. In the US, $1 is almost always white, $5 is almost always red, $25 is almost always green, $100 is almost always black, and so on. Don't confuse people.

Buy your chip set based on how you allocate your chips when playing, don't allocate your chips based on whatever chip set you happen to have.
Sometimes air gets trapped in unusual places. When these types of things are found, that air can be tested with modern equipment.

"Ancient air pockets changing the history of Earth’s oxygen"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160822174234.h...
Interesting, maybe because of less oxidation.
_Prime Obsession_ is a good book-length intro to the RH (and to Riemann himself) that doesn't assume any math background.
The entire point of Zionism is to convince Jewish people to move to Israel, they weren't "cleansed" from their countries of origin. Ashkenazi Jews are from Europe, they invaded, actually ethnically cleansed and oppressed Palestine.
The thing to understand is that the perspective transform in homogeneous coordinates doesn't just shrink the X and Y coordinates based on Z distance, but it also shrinks the Z coordinate too!

The farther some objects are from the viewer, the closer together they are bunched in Z space.

Basically, the points out at infinity where parallel lines appear to converge under perspective are translated to a finite Z distance. So all of infinity is squeezed into that range.

Why is Z also transformed? In order to keep the transformation affine: to keep the correctness of straight lines under the perspective transformation.

If you have an arbitrarily rotated straight line in a perspective view, and you just divide the X and Y coordinates along that line by Z, the line will look just fine in the perspective view, because the viewer does not see the Z coordinate. But in fact in the perspective-transformed space (which is 3 dimensional), it will not be a straight line.

Now that is fine for wireframe or even certain polygon graphics, in which we can regard the perspective as a projection from 3D to 2D and basically drop the Z coordinate entirely after dividing X and Y by it.

An example of where it breaks down is when you're using a Z-buffer for the visibility calculations.

If you have two polygons that intersect, and you don't handle the Z coordinate in the perspective transform, they will not correctly intersect: the line at which they intersect, calculated by your Z buffer, will not be the right one, and that will be particularly obvious under movement, appearing as a weird artifact where that intersecting line shifts around.

You won't see this when you have polygons that only join at their vertices to form surfaces. The 2D transform is good enough: the endpoints of a shared edge are correctly transformed from 3D into 2D taking into account perspective, and we just render a straight line between them in 2D and all is good. In the intersecting case, there are interpolated points involved which are not represented as vertices and have not been individually transformed. That interpolation then goes wrong.

Another area where this is important, I think, is correctness of texture maps. If it is wrong, then a rotating polygon with a texture map will have creeping artifacts, where the pixels of the texture don't stick to the same spot on the polygon, except near the vertices.
Efficient Hydrogen Gas Compression: Balancing Energy and Increasing Density
I don't want to cause undue alarm, but I appear to have discovered a crack in the firmament, and there is a slight risk that the sky may be falling.

https://www.wikisky.org/?ra=13.366907631355211&de=-42.526359...
Bit-twiddling abstract addition with unknown bits (2020)
I like trying and hearing about some of the smaller or older producers. Some have interesting products or interesting stories. Squirt (also Dr Pepper brand), Moxie, Frozen Run Birch Beer, etc.
Really? 2004 Mozilla or 2024 Mozilla?
Mozilla stopped being a FOSS leader when they stopped developing Firefox OS.
Is this machine translated? There's odd switching of gender, or is there a connotation of gender assigned to various companies?
I think you forgot the link?
The Notepad file encoding problem, redux (2007)