skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you trust the quoted capacity figures, though?

Actually yes. Because even at 83%, my iPhone can last longer than its original battery's brand-new capacity. Also, I'm using Macs for ~15 years now and Coconut Battery's battery reports (which just interfaces with macOS battery information features) were always spot-on.

> but doesn't feel like it's holding that much charge, feels like it's due a replacement.

Actually, an iPhone's daily endurance depends on two things: Network connectivity & quality, and the apps you use. WiFi uses way less battery than cellular to begin with, and some applications "performance improvements and bug fixes" means "we have improved the performance of tracking you while using the app, and fixed the bugs about misreporting usage data". Applications like Instagram are so optimized at tracking its users, it drains my battery faster and heats my phone better than some games.

> to ensure for example that older stock still reports 100% when sold...

Low self discharge batteries are borderline magic. A low-discharge Li-Ion battery sitting at ~40% can sit there for years, if the cell is good. A low discharge Ni-MH battery can sit at ~90% for a decade. I recently opened a new blister of Eneloop AA batteries which were sitting there for a couple of years. All of them were at ~95% charge.
We're doing 11->17. For our team it's some intersectional compatibility issue between Java, Apple silicon, and docker or something? I dunno, it all just works on my Linux machine.
New Shimmer is a Floor Wax AND a Desert Topping!

https://www.tiktok.com/@user2571420815968/video/720501112959...

But both the JavaScript and Lua versions of React are full of high fructose corn syrup, anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_zsZMn5Efk

I'd prefer a low-calorie high-performance port of Svelte to Lua.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6EVgwMfzb0
I had ChatGPT-4o translate this to contemporary english

> We assume, as stated earlier, that electrical fire is a common element, equally shared among the three mentioned individuals before any operation with the tube begins. Person A, who stands on wax and rubs the tube, transfers the electrical fire from his body into the glass tube. Since his connection to the common stock is cut off by the wax, his body is not immediately replenished. Person B, also standing on wax, passes his knuckle near the tube and receives the electrical fire collected by the glass from A. B’s connection to the common stock is also cut off, so he retains the additional amount received. To person C, who is standing on the floor, both A and B appear electrified. C, having the normal amount of electrical fire, gets a spark when approaching B, who has an excess, and gives a spark to A, who has a deficit. If A and B touch, the spark between them is stronger because the difference in their electrical fire is greater. After they touch, there is no spark between either of them and C, as the electrical fire in all three is equalized. If they touch while being electrified, the equality is maintained, and the fire circulates continuously.

> This has led to new terms. We say B and similar bodies are positively electrified, and A is negatively electrified; or rather, B is electrified plus, and A minus. In our experiments, we electrify bodies as plus or minus as needed. These terms are used until philosophers provide better ones. To electrify plus or minus, it’s essential to know that the parts of the tube or sphere being rubbed attract the electrical fire from the rubbing object during friction. Once friction stops, these parts are ready to give the received fire to any body with less. Thus, the fire can be circulated, as Mr. Watson demonstrated, or accumulated or subtracted from any body, depending on the connection with the rubber or receiver, while cutting off communication with the common stock.
Proton receives ISO 27001 certification
I know it's not directly related to this, but I remember one time I went to a dealership in my area that was apparently known for being particularly skeezy (unbeknownst to me before I went in). They got sued for some sort of fraud.

Anyways, I remember going in, and the guy pulling up a car in their system when the (too good to be true) car listed wasn't in stock.

He turned the computer screen around, and there was one of those (I think) fake "you have a virus" pop ups in the IE window. It was either that or a real alert. Either way - clearly incompetent with tech, and once I saw that I noped out of there fast.
taking a dragon or soyuz back may be the straw that breaks the camels back for starliner
>> not to mention maintenance costs which are quite high.

I remember watching Gas Monkey Garage where they bought a smashed Ferrari F40 for $400K. One of the funniest scenes was Richard Rawlings on the phone with the Ferrari parts dealer telling him how expensive the parts were he needed to rebuild the car with. The funniest was the juxtaposition of Richard, a guy who's used to haggling with people to get a good price on everything, and here he was being reminded that these were OEM Ferrari parts with the quip, "How much for a quarter panel? Yeah, I KNOW its a real Ferrari quarter panel!" with the standard eye roll that the cost of this was killing him.

The whole show gave a glimpse into owning one of these cars. IF something does happen to it, in order for it to be "certified" as a legit Ferrari, you have use all OEM parts and have a person from Ferrari oversee the repairs. The whole show was a lesson in the amount of time and money needed to own one of these - even if you don't drive it very much.

Here's an article that detailed the whole process: https://www.hotcars.com/what-happened-to-ferrari-f40-from-fa...
Unfortunately there may be some unavoidable casualties.
Yes, for local small business jobs you are correct. But these laws could cause large multinationals to leave Colorado.

Plus, in reality, banks really do not "need" tellers since most people get direct deposit, use debit/credit cards and phones for transactions. So large banks could leave too. I remember reading somewhere banks do not really like saving accounts since most people keep a small balance in them.

With that said, I wish the laws Colorado has for AI and salaries could be nation wide.
Apparently my WebCollage screensaver is popular enough to annoy Google (2002)
The EPA ruling against Apple casts doubt on your ad hominem accusations.
Wow. That IS a dumb take. Have you even seen the board?
Actually, I can’t think of a single item that tastes better reheated in the microwave than an oven.

I just recently got an Anova Precision Oven (which has steam injection in addition to otherwise just being a really good and consistent convection oven) and literally everything I reheat now just tastes fantastic.
This is where I want AI the most in UI dev. I've seen some apps for this, but I haven't seen one that is a fully automated AI that compares snapshots in realtime while it clicks around and checks for behavior as well. A big gap in UI testing, whether it's visual or unit tests, is testing the behavior. How great would it be to add a prompt of a list of requirements and have an AI test it locally, and then report on which requirements are not being met.
Not sure if that applies to your line of work but RHEL has been an increasingly annoying source of issues in low-latency space. Their kernels are a bizarre mixture of cherry picked stuff from upstream and a completely bonkers project structure.
Also, they break ABI across minor kernel versions which is unthinkable in mainline. What I'm trying to say is: if you're doing more funky stuff with your OS, just go with a distro built on top of mainline.
Show HN: We built a product to help companies reduce AWS/GCP/Azure spend by 50%
Hey HN: Kaveh here, founder of https://www.usage.ai/

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I have been building Usage AI for almost 4 years now (4 year anniversary in 1 month from now!) with an incredible group of founding people. We started as a product just to help lower AWS EC2 costs, and now we do all major AWS services (such as RDS, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, and Redshift with more on the way) and other clouds: Azure and Google Cloud.

Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS/GCP/Azure costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live on a call. On average, we reduce Cloud spend by 30-50%.

To reduce by 30-50%, we don't touch the instances, require any code change, or change the performance of your instances. We buy Reserved Instances and Savings Plans on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback. So you get the steep 50% savings of 3-year no-upfront SPs with none of the commitment (we reimburse you for any underutilization).

We make money off of a % Savings Fee. Happy to chat directly kaveh@usage.ai

Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization's AWS expenses? We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas!
ooi what's wrong with Simon Willison's site?

I suspect my site would fall afoul of some of the taste around here but I didn't think Simon's was bad as far as they went.
That parenthetical “or anything declarative really” is doing a lot of work, given that:

React is a tool for writing 3D scenes that can handle state updates: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

React is a tool for writing music that can handle state updates: https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-music

React is a tool for writing infrastructure-as-code templates that… um… could with some additional work handle state updates: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-terraform-generator-using...
Nuclear-electric, with electric ducted props all over the airframe, is probably the best heavy-lift aviation propulsion system. Same as or better power density, insane efficiency, virtually unlimited range, 10-100x less maintenance.

Now, back in the day the NB program was experimenting with nuke aviation, but this is 1951, they don't have electric anything. No, they had DAC as one option, which is compressing the air through an open core, then the heated air gushes out the back. This was, incredibly, even judged unsafe by 1951 standards. IAC - indirect air - was using a heat exchanger to heat the air, then it shoots out the back, but this engine - the HTRE - had a pile of other problems, and was insanely wasteful in comparison.

One of the enduring problems of these (and the SLAM PLUTO nuke ramjet) was using compressed gases as the cooling - it's very hard to make the flows consistent enough to get that precision cooling, because reactor control isn't very fine tuned. There's a definite lag time when changing reactor power. The consequences of a "compressor stall" sort of failure in an air-cooled reactor, where the fluid flow blocks up, were just too horrible. And of course DAC and ramjet nuke engines were basically Chernobyl on wings[1] - they're not going to be landing anywhere.

Nuke-electric though, with a self-contained reactor making tons of juice, and then using distributed propulsion and laminar control to hack the lift/drag - that's where it's at.

[1] Well, not really all that bad, because they're not chucking an entire Home Depot's worth of building materials into an open reactor. Still, any optimistic notions of the airflow being free of fission materials is a frickin' pipedream. It's going to be spewing out some nasty stuff, even if it doesn't damage itself, just by sucking in dust and other passing doodads.
High school computer science classes might expand in Michigan. Address equity?
Like the article, I'm only concerned with comparison counts, trying to explain why B-trees look like balanced BSTs, and why that gets tighter and tighter with increasing numbers of children per node.

It's simply because the nodes themselves contain the equivalent of a balanced binary tree, in the form of a binary-searched array.

In the ultimate case, we set the number of children to be large enough to contain all the data, so then there is only one B-tree node, which is binary searched to find the element. Then we have the same number of comparisons as well balanced binary search tree.
No, CRConrad, no. You misunderstood what was said.

Having put those capital initials in the words was exactly to mean "if we get to the Real Thing". You are stating that in order to get Art, Thinking and Judgement we need Proper processes: and nobody said differently! I wrote that «if algorithms strict or loose could one day produce Art, and Thought, and Judgement, of Superior quality [this will be] very welcome». There is nothing in there that implies that "fake thinking" will produce A-T-J (picked at writing as the most important possible results I could see); there is an implicit statement that Proper processes (i.e. "real thinking") could be artificially obtained, when we will find out how.

Of course the implementation of a mockery of "thought" will not lead to any Real A-T-J (the capitals were for "Real"); but if we will manage to implement it, then we will obtain Art, and Thought, and Judgement - and this will be a collective gain, because we need more and more of them. Irregardless if the source has more carbon or more silicon in it.

«Faking thinking» is not "implementing thinking". From a good implementation of thinking you get the Real Thing - by definition. That we are not there yet does not mean it will not come.

(Just a note: with "Thought" in the "A-T-J" I meant "good insight". Of course good thinking is required to obtain that and the rest - say, "proper processes", as it is indifferent whether it spawns from an algorithmic form or a natural one.)

> KISS

May I remind you of Einstein's "As simple as possible, but not oversimplified".

> only

Intellectual instruments can be of course quite valid and productive if used well - the whole of a developed mind comes from their use and refinement. You asked about the capitals, I told you what they are (when you see them in the wild).

> see your failure to recognise

Actually, that was a strawman on your side out of misunderstanding...
> - Netflix will only send you "high quality" (over 720p) streams on certain browsers (IE on windows, Safari on OSX, ???? on Linux) that support Encrypted Media Extensions.

It's not only netflix that does this, all of the streaming services do (though some of them limit to 1080p instead of 720p).

Such an utterly pointless anti-piracy measure... every show ends up on torrents in 4k regardless, only serves to punish those actually paying for the service.
If your comment is motivated by substantive personal experience, that's great, but then the thing to do is to share some of the information that your view is based on. You know it, but the rest of us don't. A snarky swipe with no information is just as bad a comment whether it's posted by someone with relevant experience or not.

If you don't share relevant information, it may as well not exist. If you do share it, you should follow the site guidelines and edit out snark and swipes, so your substantive comment has a better chance of persuading the reader, and a lesser chance of provoking (f)lame responses from others.

> Why does Apple get this response from your highly educated tech audience?

It gets the entire spectrum of responses. You're noticing and assigning meaning to the responses you dislike, because that's what we all do: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

> Perhaps we have personal experience we cannot speak more openly about due to NDAs but would still like to let out a quip.

It looks like you can speak openly enough about it to say more than just "Hello Apple Global Security", which is the run-of-the-mill internet stuff we're trying to avoid on this site. If that's what you mean by letting out a quip, please don't.
Yeah, because:

1. There is a text and data mining exemption for both for profit and non profit in the EU

2. Laions datasets are just lists of links to images on the open Internet together with their alt text

3. Seems to be a much bigger copyright cartel for music than images
Yeah. It would also be nice if they gave some comparison values, like typical microplastic / nanoplastic levels in municipal drinking water.
Java 17 was mostly a positive upgrade. Although in my slow moving bank we still managed to do this a while ago and mostly for the same reasons, Spring Boot let us scapegoat it! Having security put in tooling they don't understand so that it alerts whenever something is vaguely out of date has been annoying for systems that aren't consumer facing but instances like this make it worthwhile.

Thank you Spring Boot, and long may it continue.
With fMRI. The emotion the salmon "feels" doesn't matter, what matters is that it was "feeling" something while being dead.
The average person (in the world, perhaps not in Atherton) most definitely has ongoing stress about paying the bills.
The paid internship... The true unicorn...
Experimenting with AI Services in Firefox Nightly
Ruminants are actually very efficient protein generating machines.

They (like us) have been evolving under thermodynamic pressures for millions of years, I would like us to be able to not have to produce them to have high quality protein/fat/etc, but I haven't seen anything to say it's remotely possible.
Except for the simplest puzzles, you always have to sacrifice the others to minimize one.

For example, area and cost oftentimes have very similar designs, except to minimize your cost you're going to be using a plain arm with tracks, but to minimize area you're going to be using an extendable arm.

The extendable arm costs 40 and can oftentimes be manipulated to use no extra space, whereas the plain arm costs 20 but if you need to use tracks they're just +5 each. But if you have to use a track you're definitely using extra area.

And cycle time is completely at odds with both area and cost. Using a single arm to do everything will never win on cycle time because a single arm can't keep up with how fast the game produces reagents - you need two arms for that.
anyone spending 20k$ on a handbag lost all touch with reality.
Upvoted despite vast disagreement because I (sort of) appreciate someone openly arguing this.
Congratulations on successfully parroting some of the racist propaganda you've been exposed to. Somebody paid good money for that.
Misinformation interventions reduce misperceptions but increase skepticism
Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay
https://archive.is/x5Ywo
It takes time for extra capacity to come online. We saw it quite clearly when the Ukraine war started: western allies want to help Ukraine, and Ukraine desperately needs artillery shells, but the facilities to build those were scaled back to produce at peacetime rates (i.e., not much) in the name of efficiency and cost-cutting. Rebuilding and restaffing new factories isn't something that happens overnight, because those rely on a broader supply chain for component parts and personnel.

https://apnews.com/article/us-army-ukraine-russia-ammunition...
In the video starts at around 21:30
The reliability of the printer versus the phone is not at discussion. The reason to go with paper tickets is that they have significantly better availability and partition tolerance than phone based tickets. Using a paper ticket requires that the ticket be available at an exact future moment in time (when you board). The hassle of potentially using multiple unreliable printers ahead of time to prepare the paper ticket is an engineering trade off in providing a system with excellent time of use properties.

In the event that your personal printer is not functioning, the airport has many publicly accessible printers for your ticket printing convenience.
I've seen this claim around but IMHO this is an attempt to spew smoke and blame-shift. Check out the board and C-suite. It ain't that diverse.

What I've heard is that they cleaned house of everyone who "made too much" (meaning the senior people), outsourced a lot, did the usual MBA-style hollowing out maneuver. If DEI played any role it was as a lame excuse to cut down all the tall poppies and avoid age discrimination or union objections. The real motive would have been to dump all the people whose salaries were too high and replace them with fresh out of college or offshore workers.
From a point of argument, they're not wrong though, albeit an obvious point they're making that if loopholes exist, companies will definitely find them and take advantage, and still be in compliance because the pitfalls of said regulations weren't accounted for.

This leaves it up for debate in courts to settle those shortcomings, but it wouldn't be surprising if they found they were compliant and that the rules need adjustments.
Notice the (2021).

Read the change in which Embark's CTO backs off from Rust.[1] They were building their own rendering ecosystem, but seem to have backed off from that.

The mainstream Rust 3D ecosystem just isn't good enough yet. I've brought this up before.

The core crate for 3D is WGPU. This is a layer which tries to cover Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL, DX12, Android, and WebGPU targets. It works, but there are performance compromises to support all those different targets. Supporting web and Android means giving up some parallelism on desktop.

The main alternative to WGPU is Vulkano, and MoltenVK, which is an adapter for Apple's Metal. (Apple just had to Think Different, which is why many games are not ported to MacOS.) It's OK, but it's really just a subset of Vulkan on top. Same parallelism problem, although not for any essential reason.

All those offer a Vulkan-type API, which is rather low level. The caller has to manage GPU memory and scheduling. For that, there's Bevy, which is a whole game engine framework. Good work has been done in Bevy, but it's a framework, so you do it their way or not at all. There's Rend3, which is just a crate to manage memory and scheduling. I use that. It's been abandoned. I may have to take up maintaining that.

Nobody is pushing these towards maximum performance and quality. Nobody has a good modern big-world 3D shooter on these stacks.

All this stuff works fine if you're doing simple scenes. If you're pushing towards, say, the level of a 10 year old AAA title, it's not there. Modern Unreal Engine, not even close.

Not enough money behind it.

[1] https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-ecosystem/commit/61f0e...
RedSails.org has a lot of very nice micro-features:

* Tastefully displays the most relevant citation at the bottom of the screen as you read, e.g. see https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/

* Uses system light/dark UI settings.

* Literally every article (with descriptions, author info, post date, etc) displayed on the homepage in chronological order with no pagination, great for ctrl-f, etc.

* Selected authors and category-based navigation available.

* Entire site is very fast and lightweight, text-focused, no superfluous javascript or CSS, good typography, works well on mobile, etc.

* First-class RSS feed support
The Chevy Silverado EV Should Have Been Named the Avalanche
>Do those domestic luxury brands exist? If so, why arent they sold for export?

The value of a luxury brand is in the history, reputation and social proof. I bet there will be Chinese luxury brands eventually, only after decades of cultural export. You can argue that South Korea "suffers" from the same problem as well, with SK being relatively new on the global stage. However Japan has luxury brands (like Commes Des Garcons, Issey Miyaki) that were established 50-60 years ago.
The whole idea of DEI is that there are competent people that have been overlooked because of extraneous factors. If you have evidence that this led to hiring incompetent people you should probably provide it.