skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One looks like a combo tool that is a small spanner and a key of some sort. The triangular piece might be a tag. The long number 9 looking thing is interesting but anyone's guess, a lever of some sort? Little blue thing looks like one of those rubber faucet washers that comes in a variety pack.

A few non washer items mixed in that stand out are the 1/2 inch conduit locknut and what appear to be a few T-nuts.

That tri-spoked aluminum disk looking thing is also interesting.
Whether it's gridlock really is a matter of opinion though. Our three branch system is designed with a very specific goal in mind - balance of power through checks and balances.

If the government can only get something done by ramming it through only one branch, maybe there's a reason. It's possible that the action wouldn't hold up to judicial review or that the legislature of elected representatives don't support it.

We can't keep assuming that gridlock is a symptom rather than a feature. Not necessarily directly related to this specific topic, but sometimes governments just have to slowly to do their jobs well.
Making it "appear human" is an input heuristic. I don't want to have to know some special syntax to work with it. It's a novel feature, not a problem.
Ah gotcha, agreed.
Oops, thank you for the correction! I learned something today.

Though I'm sure you can see how I thought that the other Robinson fitted in the conversation,
It’s a spectrum, it’s multidimensional and it changes over time though.

I love myself computers and probably more so earlier in my career than now, but I also like influencing people (often through code, with a focus less on algorithmic elegance but instead more on setting patterns, tooling, and APIs that influence how others build around them); and I also enjoy the challenge of aligning the pleasure of a juicy piece of elegant code against the pleasure of positive business outcomes. I think that makes me neither a “boring business person” nor a diehard code nerd, but somewhere at the intersection with attributes in other directions not captured by either stereotype.

That said, if you really are 100% motivated by abstract technical challenges, then maybe academia is more for you than industry is. Or working at the small slice of companies that truly make their bread and butter on cutting edge technical excellence and not, say, applying tried and true tools to some underserved niche.

I do find the “algorithm nerd” charisma also tends to intersect with having warped views of how the world operates and weak self-awareness, so maybe easier said than personally realized.
It terrifies me that I have heard people say this unironically.
I did that with the 4 pin Molex connector in a drive in the '80s. That normally takes a tremendous amount of force, but the connector on the drive side gad the most pliable plastic I've every seen on a connector.

The drive was loaned to us for testing by a disk controller company that had hired us to write drivers for their new controller, and they had received the disk on loan from IBM.

It was a 1 gig drive at a time when 200 MB was the norm for a big personal computer disk and not yet on the market. At that stage only a select few outside of IBM had been loaned these drives for testing.

I was pretty freaked out. I assumed that I'd be in a lot of trouble for destroying the drive. I told the person who had loaned us the drive what happened and he told me that he'd fried two of these drives the same way!

He'd found out from his contact at IBM that IBM was losing about 10% of the drives from the early production runs due to their own technicians plugging power in backwards when testing the drives as they came off the line. The contact also said that IBM had already revised the parts list to switch to a Molex connector whose plastic was firm enough to end this problem.
I have enya in my head now.
There's definitely more colorful interiors going on with the younger generation.

Here are a few resources/articles that get into that discussion:

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gen-z-interior-des...

Check out how colorful IKEA's resugent retro designs are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRSJqGficVw

Postmodern design (trending in 2022 and beyond):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA5Pj0_yCaQ
The difference is that you can read the code that ChatGPT generates.
Disregarding all of the negative sentiment and claims of this repeating old work, I must say the source code is very fun to go through. The code is well-structured, integrates many awesome technologies and provides a foundation to build on. The project is the clearly the result of a high caliber level of craftsmanship and labor of love, great work Will Chen (wwwillchen) and others!
What requires legislators to contue to pass new laws? Is the expectstion that our body of laws must always grow or we have failed as a country?

Not passing laws is totally acceptable if there aren't any proposed laws that help further the will of the people.
Good catch, I agree that subscription_id looks hallucinated.
Like people who post "here's what ChatGPTx said" instead of their own answer. Quite literally, what is the point?

However, I don't think it's really bad for the technical industries long term. It probably does mean that some companies with loose internal quality control and enough shiftless employees pasting enough GPT spew without oversight will go to the wall because their software became unmaintainable and not useful, but this already happens. It's probably not hugely worse than the flood of bootcamp victims who wrote fizzbuzz in Python, get recruited by a credulous, cheap or desperate company and proceed to trash the place if not adequately supervised. If you can't detect bad work being committed, that's mostly on the company, not ChatGPT. Yes, it may make it harder, a bit, but it was oversight you should already have been prepared to have, doubly so if you can't trust employee output. It also probably implies strong QA, which is already a prerequisite of a solid product company.

Normal interest rates coming back will cut away companies that waste everyone's time and money by overloading themselves on endlessly compounding technical debt.
The Dacia Spring is a Dongfeng made car, not a European made car. Same tariffs would apply.
A whole lot of scattershot criticism without actually saying or claiming much. If anything this increases my faith in Burns, if that's the best you can come up with against him.
This is sooooo true.
BuildWith's goal is to tell you what technologies a website is built with. SiteProfile's goal is to provide you with the meta information of a website. Just like getting to know a person, I created a profile for websites, including images, social media links, and other information so you can quickly understand the site.
Nah people will just use it to run football pools and fantasy baseball leagues. It won't be a serious thing.
As someone who lives in New York and doesn't own a car (and hasn't for almost two decades), this was such a poorly thought out plan that I hope it never comes back.

It was little more than a backdoor tax on all city residents, disguised as urbanism. Good riddance.

(FWIW, I even support more funding for the MTA, within reason, but this wasn't the way to do it.)
Majority of VWs sold in China are made in China
Jurrangelo Cijntje is a switch-pitcher for Mississippi State
It's funny how much negativity was/is around things like NodeJs when so many back end engineers railed against frontend folks for only wanting to use JS and not adapting "proper" languages when they always go and try to go out of there way to do the same thing in reverse.

Not that this isn't worthwhile or interesting
Not BS, they are random chains of text. BS implies that there's some intention. There's zero intention. We have to stop giving LLM's human-like traits. It just confuses the common man into thinking we are close to creating an AGI, smart code. We are not.
Serious questions -

Do people living outside the city of London also agree it only has benefits? And does it work so well for London because more people actually live in the city, compared to New York City which is comparsrively full of commutors and tourists?
Yes, today is the first day of testing for SiteProfile. I have seen the issues everyone is encountering in the logs, and I will fix them as soon as possible. Thank you very much for trying it out.
That's a pretty misleading way of explaining the term. It's certainly not an unalloyed positive. Urbandictionary or similar might give a broader understanding.
Somebody said: just live long enough to live forever.
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4 is still an oligopoly[1]. It’s a little better than 3, but we didn’t have super cheap cell plans. Compared with most of the rest of the world, it was still quite expensive.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
And that section of the Delaware River is not known for its water quality.
I am working to fix them. Thank you very much for trying it out.
If you search for his name on Google a lot of links are removed (in Europe).

He was kicked out of intercom for sexual harrassment: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/harassment-allegatio...

and somehow made his way back in to the company
Tell HN: Legitimate voting email from city clerk marked as spam
Today I was browsing my spam folder and there I found an email from our local Deputy City Clerk. The topic of the mail was how to go about voting by mail. (I promise this is not a political post). I unflagged the "spam" status, perused the email... everything was legitimate. Emails, phone numbers, attachments (yes, I did check in VM), etc.

So, it has just occurred to me (I'm a little slow sometimes, getting old) that the sensitivity to one or a handful of "negative" reviews or judgements is enough to flag something potentially important as "spam". It only takes a few (how many, I don't know) "reports" for our automated systems to consider something it is not. (In fact, apparently, a single, probably false, comment suggesting improper jury sequestering could be enough to declare a mis-trial in a recent, high-visibility court case here in the US.)

I'm waiting on results of an important medical test. That's what first drove me to the spam folder in the first place (maybe somehow it was considered spam?).

So, this "hole" in authenticating messages may apply to much more than just vote-related emails. Be careful, and don't assume anything!
I remember watching Walter Cronkite on TV. Most people thought he was pretty even-handed in presenting the news.

But I wonder. The problem was, he was pretty much the only source of news for an awful lot of people, so how could people tell if he was even-handed or not?
If they money didn't flow through Kaspersky (the wording here of "Kaspersky" donating it vs Apple donating it is weird) and it was donated to a neutral charity (say, red cross or Médecins Sans Frontières), I don't think anyone would raise an eye on it.
Looks like the author is into game development, and STL is often avoided in that context. I think one of the reasons is performance - STL has made some design decisions which prioritise general use over performance.

Often cited example is `std::unordered_map`, whose spec necessitates an implementation using separate chaining (or similar). Depending on the use case, in high performance applications, a different implementation can be much faster.

Although I don't understand why some people hate all of STL so much. Like sure, use your custom hash map, makes sense. But is anyone really replacing basics like `std::find` or `std::sort`?
I'm technically DevSecOps. It honestly feels like any other software dev role in the cloud. Our org is big enough that there are enterprise templates for the various AWS services. So we end up doing very little Ops work, just some tweaking and troubleshooting. I manage the paperwork for security vulnerabilities that get discovered on our team. Really nothing fancy.
There's actually very little information in a video, which becomes obvious if you look at a transcript of it.
The official documentation for releasing personal projects at Google is externally available: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference

I believe many of the repos in the @google GitHub org are people's personal projects (and hence not officially staffed/supported, as disclaimed). In the linked Show HN, the authors confirm it's a 20% side project.
Yeah this is more on-brand than I could have imagined. I’m not sure I’d have dreamed up something this perfect if asked to parody the guy.
I don't think it has any benefit for them to explain why. Explaining why just invites argument.

"Oh, you can't pay because we are in Russia, just pay to our Massachusetts subsidiary!"
Nonreciprocal quantum batteries exhibit remarkable capacities and efficiency
The kinetic energy is relative to the reference frame being used.
Is the idea here that normal (read: low?) interest rates will let companies spend more time getting things right?
I posted a long reply about how your math was wrong, and it is, but the correction I wrote was wrong as well. The correct way to solve this problem, which I do not have time to go through at the moment, can be found here: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/P....

But I maintain that whatever the mathematical procedure, it is absolutely impossible for the stationary-ness of one of the objects to affect the outcome of the collision, assuming we're ignoring things like static friction, air resistance, etc. This is a simple matter of reference frames. If you disagree, put the two objects in space as I suggested and tell me which one is "stationary" and how that could possibly affect the outcome of the collision.
Sorry you are having a rough search. I was part of a large layoff so I know plenty of people who’ve been through it recently, some more than once if they went into another company that then had layoffs. I’d say the average search in my circle for those actively looking was about 3-4 months, with people who were very junior taking perhaps double that. I got some rejections that shocked and upset me at the time, but now that time has passed I’m glad I’m not in those roles because I found something later I liked much better.

For myself, referrals were a huge part of getting a job somewhat quickly. As more people are looking, the slush pile of resumes gets bigger which causes employers to feel they can be more picky. So if you’re relying on a cold application turning into an interview, that will definitely have a very low success rate.

I know only one person who didn’t get a job for an entire year, one of the smartest people I worked with at my last job, but to be honest it seemed like they were having some mental health / mid-life crisis things going on and not actually applying much if at all. I don’t know you and your situation, and I’m not saying this is the only explanation for a long and fruitless search, but if you think you might be like this person then I’d encourage you to reach out to someone who knows you and get the support you need. Marinating in negative thoughts won’t get you anywhere. This stuff has to be addressed because attitude, emotional state, and overall vibes can bleed into the entire interview performance and undermine what is otherwise a solid showing.

I hope something good comes your way soon.
I used to believe that a baseball kept accelerating after it left my hand in a throw. It was a major reorienting for me to learn differently.
ah, no way to avoid micro managing then. :-)
Are we all just ignoring that plants pull CO2 out of the air and produce usable energy in the process?

So clearly it is possible to do more efficiently.
I have taken a thorough look at the source and I very much enjoyed it.

The project highlights the utility of Bazel more than I have seen before. How long did it take you (and others) to become as fluent as you are in Bazel and working with it?

Additionally, you (Will) seem to have a very intuitive grasp of build processes in general, notably many of the scripts are fun to dive into and have a very clean design. How did you familiarize yourself so well with those sorts of concepts? Do you have any recommended readings or side-projects you’d recommend tackling to get experience with?
I can see if being considered unfair if it's a single business, but I do think that it's at least a little funny, considering we have penny rounding (to the nearest nickel) here in Canada since geting rid of the penny. Now it's by default, everywhere. And as someone that uses cash for all in-person purchases, it's actually really, really nice
I don't think you need to draw your own conclusions: "This is not an officially supported Google product".
we've all been there, go get 'em
No problem. Since we can back out of deals at the last second, just divert the $850M going to a billionaire's entertainment complex he was too poor to build on his own.
As a person with a disability with more then 30 years of experience living independently, I have a hunch your quote is too long. "Priviledged" people (although I dont aproove of that term) on the ignorant side simply won't treat me like a human, no matter what I do in return. Even worse, those who claim they have some "experience with disabled people" are even worse. Their tiny bit of a glimpse of an idea propells them with such a dose of hybris that they won't treat you like a human either. Trust me, I know a lot about that version of "respect", being treated disrespectfully basically every day I leave the house and use public transport.
It’s simpler. Business people hate paying people for any other reason than making more money.
I've encountered this a few times in Tokyo myself; from memory at the very least outside of a mall in Shinjuku and outside of a building a block or two away from the Shibuya Scramble crossing. My traveling companion never noticed them until I pointed the sound out, so for those who find themselves in Japan pay attention if you notice a pressure in your ears and a high-frequency sound that seems to get more/less intense as you walk. If you follow the sound to its source you'll probably find that it seems to be coming from a metal trapezoidal horn, usually mounted from ceilings in places outside buildings from standard electrical junction box with exposed conduit. The sound itself is a constant, high frequency (18-20khz?) ring, and can get pretty intense as you approach the device.

I believe they're anti-loitering devices targeted at young people, who can hear a higher range of frequencies than older people. I've encountered them all over the US (if you're in the Bay, there's one mounted outside the Twin Peaks Tavern in Castro), though usually they pulse rather than emit a constant buzz. They're sporadic but common in Tokyo for sure, I encountered at least a dozen in the combined week or so I spent in various regions there. It was always creepy to me whenever I'd discover one, the sound was slightly nauseating if I ever got too close and left a strong negative impression, as though they were some sort of threat.

If anyone knows more specifics about these things btw, happy to have details. I spent a period of time trying to find the exact device but never could find any pictures of them, and unfortunately neglected to when I was actually in Japan.
A perfectly elastic collision would still be the same - the energy is still conserved and divided equally between the two cars.

Assuming the cars are of equal mass. If not, the heavier one will drive the other car backwards faster, and the energy will not be divided equally between them. But the sum will remain the same.
I love this joke:

curl -Lfs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haampie/libtree/master/lib... | ${CC:-cc} -o libtree -x c - -std=c99 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
I think the ARM platform is super cool and I’m glad Apple adopted it, but at the end of the day if the OS is closed source, I’m not that interested in hacking on the instruction set it runs on.

In fact the only reasons I’m on a Mac rather than Linux are because 1) they make the best consumer laptops by far and 2) I’m stuck in the ecosystem.
Motorcycles are free in London. NYC was only giving a 50% discount.
US is #1 in foreign investment: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/top-countries-foreign-di...

And no one invests in individual public projects anywhere.
Man, has HN grown up? A bunch of thoughtful, critical comments about something written by Freeman Dyson and not even a single example of cow-eyed worship. Never thought I'd see the day. I'm proud of you guys.
Wouldn't this app be the same minus the hardware? [https://one-sec.app/] seems like they actually did a research paper out of it. [10.1073/pnas.2213114120]
This has always been a befuddlement on my part about keeping large quantities of wealth essentially safeguarded by a single password and account combo which you then store in random after market wallets. Weakest link and all that.

I admired the etched into aluminum ingot approach, but laboriously typing in the pass phrase seemed ludicrous for “currency”, and the risk of losing this one priceless token was like having all your wealth in gold bars.
Did anyone else assume that this was about the Bear app, because there is no branding or link back to the author's actual project?

Also, did anyone click on the double ^ at the bottom, hoping to either go back up to the top or find something about the author's company, only to find that they had upvoted the post by mistake? I'm wondering if (by this count) 167 other people might have done that.
Edit: you completely changed your comment after I replied, so I'll respond to your new one here:

> This is incorrect. The London congestion charge zone covers 21 sq km. The proposed Manhatten congestion zone includes only the area below 60th street, which is approximately 20 sq km. They are almost exactly the same size.

That's a completely silly comparison. Manhattan is 23 square miles. London is 610 square miles.

In other words, the proposed Manhattan congestion area is 33% of Manhattan's total land area, if we accept your assertion of 20 square km (7.72 square miles). The city of London congestion area is only 1.4% of London's land area.

But of course, you can see that on the maps I shared. It's plainly visible. It's difficult to define the equivalent proportion for London, because it would be so absurd -- something like everything within A406 and A205.

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Old commment:

OK? It's not the technology I have a dispute with, it's the implementation. The way they were planning to do it here involved numerous exceptions necessitated by the sheer scope of the thing (e.g. the FDR and the west side highway) and arcane rules (e.g. one deck/ramp of the queensboro would have it, but not the other) that were necessary to wedge this kind of a system into Manhattan's street system. Because of these, there was almost certainly going to be a mess at the edges of the zone.

But also, it should be fairly obvious that a tax on "ULEZ" probably already excludes most vehicles on the road, thus significantly reducing implementation challenges. It's less of an active fare-gathering scheme, and more of an incentive to get people out of older vehicles. We have a similar system in place at time of registration.