skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my friends from high school has a dad with a business. I still live in the same city where I went to high school so I occasionally get called to do some tech support for my friend’s dad. Last summer, he ended up in SSO hell and so I got loaded on muscle relaxants and went to help him.

He’s an excellent guy with a great attitude and a genuine love for what he does. He’s infectious and when I get to see him, I usually laugh so hard I damned near hyperventilate.

His SSO issue was so severe that all that good humour and attitude was totally absent. It took a couple of days, but we got him going.

I’m a big fan of democratizing tech, especially security tech. But SSO is quite complicated at the best of times. When it goes wrong, it’s like troubleshooting a plate of spaghetti where half the noodles try to bite you.

In the case of SMB, when it goes wrong their businesses mostly grind to a halt. They often don’t have dedicated IT staff - the model of a son’s friend who comes in to help because he didn’t move away is quite common in SMB.

It’s a good idea, but in practice until we can get it to be completely turnkey, I don’t believe that many SSO providers could even afford to provide support for SMBs.
The AI content mill will sadly never provide me with a 30 minute video on dishwasher detergent or reposted NicoNico gems like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKljlnfE-GU&pp=ygUJbWlrdSB0Y....
It's really about ending real estate as a vehicle of creating generational wealth, an end to real estate speculation. At most, real estate should be an income generator, not a speculative asset.

There is so much wrong with real estate as a speculative asset. It leads us to create policies to limit housing (because existing owners have their assets increase in value).

The problem with this idea is that money has to come from somewhere. All we're doing is stealing from the next generation. It's a massive wealth transfer from the young to the old and wealthy. Housing is a necessity. It should not be withheld from people for the sake of investment gains.

Homelessness is primarily caused by unaffordable housing. People don't like the externalities this creates but they simply want to move those people away so they don't have to see them when the solution is as simple as giving them housing. Well, not entirely, but that gets you 90% of the way there.

Withholding shelter in the wealthiest nation the Earth has ever seen is unjustifiable state violence.
Pretending they're being tracked and that people are making money from it makes them feel important, more like. You aren't actually that valuable.
> How much of him being a hero is a coincidence?

None. He knew the right thing to do and did it despite extreme pressure.

> Did he refuse to sign the previous launches?

I don't know about him personally, but Thiokol, at the behest of McDonald and other engineers, had sent a formal letter to NASA the previous summer warning about the O-ring issue and stating explicitly that an O-ring failure could lead to loss of vehicle and loss of life.

> Did NASA have reasons to believe that the launch could be successful?

Not valid ones, no. The launch took place because managers, at both NASA and Thiokol, ignored valid engineering recommendations. But more than that, NASA had already been ignoring, since the previous summer, valid engineering recommendations to ground the Shuttle until the O-ring issue was understood and fixed.
This is really a different notion of "density" than the gp is talking about---it averages over the whole country, including a lot of very empty areas.
Sounds very similar to the Seagull manager, described as someone who "flew in, made a lot of noise, dumped on everyone from a great height, then flew out again, leaving others to deal with the consequences"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management
It's totally not safe for work or decent society but this podcast, who's name is also NSFW, did a decently funny (opinion based on the crowd's laughter) using LLMs and voice duplication: https://youtu.be/CC59ZJDWIWU
There's dozens of JDK & Class Library implementations. If you use the Oracle one - well, that's on you.

Most people don't use the Oracle JDK anymore.

And OpenJDK is GPL licensed - and has no strings attached. What you are referencing are people using Oracle's First Party JDK (which has a base of OpenJDK + Secret Sauce). Oracle wants money for that.

> No one is gonna pry Java from your hands, but we'll get to laugh at the choice

I don't think anyone in Javaland are concerned. .NET usage is a tiny blip on the radar compared to Java/JVM ecosystem.
Hacker claims to have 30M customer records from ticket seller giant TEG
It's difficult to make work economically, other than shuttering for part of the year.

Which is why tourist resort towns and stadium areas tend to have a lot of closed shops when they're not "on".

Which in turn makes them less attractive for year-round residents, which spirals into intensifying seasonality.
Why does that make me think about x11->wayland core?
Reasons for using Python: it is easier to find code on github for reuse and tweaking, most novel research publishes in PyTorch, there is a significant network effect if you follow cutting edge.

Second reason - to fail fast. No sense in sculpting novel ideas in C++ while you can muddle with Python 3x faster, that's code intended to be used just a few times, on a single computer or cluster. That was an era dominated by research, not deployments.

Llama.cpp was only possible after the neural architecture stabilized and they could focus on a narrow subset of basic functions needed by LLMs for inference.
The Airbnb measure fixed a quarter of the problem. That is huge by most standards
You can’t do math by measuring real-world objects.
Also, people who own multiple homes, and people who are in the biggest house they are likely to own and expect to downsize.
Neuraloperator: Learning in infinite dimension with neural operators
CNCF Cloud Native Artificial Intelligence Whitepaper [pdf]
I have had my phone for 4.5 years. I charge it every night to 80% - I have Accubattery installed, so it pings to tell me to unplug it, and it also does a fairly decent job of measuring the capacity. I charge on a fast charger (10W) instead of the super-fast charger (18W) because that keeps the temperature from rising too much. I use the phone a fair amount, so I'm usually charging from around 50%. Therefore, the battery has had ~1600 cycles of around 30%, or 480 full cycles equivalent. The design capacity of the battery is 4000mAh, and Accubattery tells me it currently stores 3460mAh, which is 87% of the design capacity.

I therefore approve and recommend the above strategy for treating the battery to make it last longer. I also recommend Accubattery - it seems to do the job fairly well.
As an owner I disagree. Ya, Elon is often as ass. Tesla's are fast, safe, and have all the usual EV advantages. I'm not buying a worse car just because a billionaire is an ass.

However most people that want a tesla, have a tesla.

But they all look similar, have narrow use cases (commuting on clean roads), have minimal road clearance (except the truck). People (like me) like turn signals, shifters, and temp sensors. I bought a model 3P, the only option was tires not good for under 40F (because of damage to the tires, not traction). No option for anything else, despite it being under 40F that same day a 1.5 hour drive away.

The new model 3P (no Yp yet) made the steering wheel buttons WORSE, they don't click. Pretty much a deal killer for me, especially since they removed the turn signal and shifter stalks.

Model Y is nice, but very low for a SUV at 6.6 inches. Well below what you might need if there's a snow storm.

Rivian R2 and other competition is looking pretty good, last thing I want to think about is the rotational alignment of the wheel so I can hit a moving target of a turn signal, without even a click to let me know I hit it.

I'm plenty pleased with the ergonomics of my 3P, nearly everything either has a button, voice control, or is set rarely enough (like seat heaters) that I leave it on auto. The new 3P is a disaster in comparison and won't even warn me accurately track when it's going to freeze.
Jlink/jpackage UX isnt the best either. They mostly produce installers not a single binary that you can just run. Project Leyden has some interesting work around this called Hermetic Java which plans to ship one binary with the VM + jar together. It’s coming out of some folks at Google. I’m really looking forward to it.
Some buggy JS — it only reports one city's temperature transition numbers, then those same numbers are repeated for each selected city.
Looks like this should be marked with (2021), assuming date at the top of the blog post is correct
Metaphors get abused in this article in a confusing way, and I don't think it explains why the quality curve goes downward at first -- the initial drop in quality is compared to an initial capital investment? what? -- but I agree with the truth of it.

I think the article could be a lot shorter and easier to understand if it simply said that the current design is in a local maximum, and you have to work your way incrementally out of the local maximum to reach a different local maximum. I think programmers would get that metaphor a lot more easily than the "buying widgets for a new factory" metaphor.

I do like how the article puts the spotlight on designing the process of change: picking the route, picking the size of the steps, and picking the right spot to announce as the goal. That gives me a lot of food for thought about the changes my team is contemplating right now.
It was impossible for me to tell the difference between "Temperate - Dry summer, warm summer" and "Temperate - No dry season, warm summer" on the map.
How would that help you? Being able to reason about irrational numbers is useful.
Would you be okay with your neighbor using the same argument and running an industrial scale chemical manufacturing plant from their apartment? It is their own property after all.
They couldn’t get GPT5 to write a clone for them?
> because they don’t make it anymore

They do, you can buy it at Walmart cheaply.
As far as I can tell, these do not exist in any meaningful number in Barcelona. They also rarely exist in city centers, at least everywhere I've seen in Europe. That's why entire buildings were turned into AirBNB.
This seems like a retaliation measure rather than the DMA making the technology not accessible.

I get this feeling that apple thinks they can pit their European consumers against their government? These measures don't make the DMA or the European Union legislation more unpopular imo, they will make apple less attractive to European customers.

I actually think the DMA is a pretty good piece of legislation. I like it.
That's very hyperbolized. It's still convenient to them, just less profitable. If they have mortgages less profit is better than no profit in all scenarios.

I knew an Airbnb host in Italy, he shared with me that by renting to tourist compared to the normal market prices to locals he would make 3 times more. It's a no brainer, but he would gladly accept 1/3 of that if the alternative is 0 (and he did during the pandemic when tourism stopped).
This reads like the Nirvana Fallacy to me [0].

Will this move solve the problem? No, but what alternative are you comparing it to where it fares so poorly?

I suspect even the staunchest proponents of unregulated construction of denser housing would only claim that it mitigates the problems of housing affordability, not that it solves them. This new STR policy could be one of many pieces of the puzzle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
The 'ole swoop and poop.
Literally all they're saying is 'fuck' and 'holy shit', it's not like they're dropping racial slurs or anything.

If you're that sensitive to this mild of profanity you probably shouldn't be on the fucking internet in the first place my friend.
The 15k houses were built over 10 years, but the 100k growth is over 4 years. So 4/10ths of 15k ~= 9k/47k housed.

I think it's fair to say I'm being dramatic by saying it's a drop in the bucket. The action frees up more housing than Barcelona built over the same time period. This is good.

However, it's still not a long-term solution. This is a one-time action that when taken, and combined with the housing being built, fails to provide for even 50% of the people moving to the city.

Voters want a solution that makes living more affordable not just one that makes it less affordable less quickly.

As an aside, I think people can become complacent when a one-time solution to a problem lessens the pain momentarily. Suddenly the issue isn't as high of a priority and so the underlying situation continues to exacerbate the problem.

What will voters do in a few more years when this lever doesn't exist to pull? Ban all foreigners?
> the follow up actions to highlight where information was intentionally ignored, prevent that dispersion of responsibility, and ensure it didn't happen again.

Unfortunately, while that specific problem did not happen again, the general cultural changes that were supposed to happen had been lost 15 years later. The loss of Columbia in 2003 was due to the same kind of poor decision making and problem solving process that was involved in the loss of Challenger.
The article isn't very clear but assuming it's a 16-bit numerator and 8-bit denominator, then MSN's answer to [0] lays it out (although for higher bit sizes). If the denominator was 16-bit, then the top-rated answer (by caf) to the same SO question seems like another approach, but that wouldn't be a one line change.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2566010/fastest-way-to-c...
Can you say why, at the time, it was appealing? It was what people around you did? It was a way to express individuality?
Four year window for licenses to expire. Good time to get a pied a terre there. Should be fun!
I really don't think a slightly different syntax is enough of an argument to bring a separate language, introduce another massive dependency (and another vendor) into your supply chain, and create additional problems with hiring people, but to each their own.

I don't mean Optional, it was never intended for widespread use, according to its own author. It's solvable by using annotations; uber has a solution that allows you to only annotate nullable fields, and the rest is assumed to be (and checked at runtime) as not null. There are never that many nullable fields in sanely designed applications.

Writing Kotlin in other IDEs is about as good as writing it in vim. Java experience is closer to the same level regardless of which of the big three (or two…) you prefer.
Yes it's easy to strain metaphors.
> AirBnBs I've stayed in the past few years have all been janky, weird, and not really any cheaper than hotels

And yet, you stay in them.
> Until SSO is as plug n play for users as Google Sign-in

I noticed that Slack offers "OAuth with Google" for their Pro plan (lowest paid tier) but SAML SSO requires the more expensive Business+ plan.

Would it make sense to allow everyone to use the "easy" SSO and require higher payment for stuff that's complicated and easy to screw up?
Surely it should have been called the 'cornfield interceptor'?
Only for MFI-licensed accessories, or for everyone?

I think there's been fast pairing for MFI devices for a while now. I very vaguely remember an Airplay-enabled stereo once invoking some popup on my iPhone to please share my Wi-Fi password with it (presumably over Bluetooth, or maybe Wi-Fi direct?), which I found really neat. This was over 5 years ago.

Other than that one stereo, I've never seen that flow anywhere else, and I've probably spent hours of my life entering my Wi-Fi passphrase using a d-pad text interface.
>> Additionally, 0% SOC may be set as high as 20% capacity. <<

I think that was the case for GM Bolt years ago, but batteries cost a lot of $$ and you won't see more than 5% reserved for buffer these days -- or 95% usuable capacity.

Tesla also had software lock limiting access to extra battery capacity on the Model S -- 70KWh instead of 75KW, or about (7%?). No point in carrying around extra weight that costs $3,000 to unlock, but it probably helped prolong battery life.
The worst I am seeing is 78% in figure 6.

Obviously, I am not talking about charging your battery at higher voltage than advised, but comparing 0-100% (least optimal cycles) to 40-60% (most optimal cycles).
You don’t need to know the digits of a number to prove that it’s irrational. You just need to demonstrate that it can’t be expressed as the ratio of two integers.
They knew. They didn't care. It ended up being a good deal for both groups.
I could definitely see that. If you're not pressed on time it can be a smoother ride for sure. But if you're trying to get somewhere fast or efficiently like going to the airport, you'd want to get a regular Lyft/Uber otherwise you might miss your flight.

It would be cool if you can configure the ride preferences for how aggressive you'd like it to drive.
That will more than double the housing production (1500/yr construction, 2500/yr freed up) during the years it's implemented. This is a finite change that will run out, and more housing will definitely be needed, but imagine the opposite: no new construction for 7 years.
it boggles my mind. why this isnt talked more.
NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16
> NASA probably didn’t look closely into the engineering

Yes, they did. NASA had been told by Thiokol the previous summer about the O-ring issue and that it could cause the loss of the Shuttle--and ignored the recommendation to ground the Shuttle until the issue was fixed. The night before the launch there was a conference call where the Thiokol engineers recommended not launching. Detailed engineering information was presented on that call--and it was information that had already been presented to NASA previously. NASA knew the engineering information and recommendation. They chose to ignore it.
So you have to pay for performance features too rather than getting to contribute to them and using them in the open? Unfortunate.
Except there don’t appear to be anywhere near enough airbnbs to put a dent in the rent increase. I’m not saying it won’t do anything; I’m just saying it won’t do much. If you want to lower rents, you’re going to need to find a place to build, and if you can’t find any place, then prices will continue to go up and who will you find to scape goat then?
That's quite true, but still surprisingly human like to me when compared to, say, Tesla FSD. It will also take longer to call one due to less supply.

If we want nice, relaxing ride with no time pressure then we call a Waymo. Uber is still our go to if we are in a rush.
Bolt will cool itself, but it does so more aggressively when plugged in (even if not actively charging). I always leave our EVs plugged in when it's over about 80F and below freezing because of that.

My 2021 is complaining loudly (running the cooling system) about the heat-wave today.
The OP never said ShotSpotter is selling A and B. The OP is making a general statement. Note I could see ShotSpotter combined with something else as being an effective crime fighting tool. I could also see ShotSpotter never working well.
For comparison, 2012-2019 in SF was 88% growth over 7 years, or >9% year over year growth.
As a paramedic, drive time isn't necessarily the biggest factor, I feel, it's response times for EMS, particularly for wounds that are not easy to tourniquet.

After that, it's also generally not distance or speed of drive time - usually the factor that determines speed to the hospital is "opticom", aka traffic light pre-emption. I can move a lot more smoothly if my opticom is making the entire "lane" of intersections green for me, even if traffic is garbage.

There's also a self-selection in that study. Reality is most GSWs do not NEED to go to a L1 Trauma Center (the difference between L1 and L2 in most cases is as simple as "teaching facilities", the difference between these and L3 is who is required to have certain people physically at the hospital 24/7 versus "on-call").
Or, holiday homes. These are furnished short term rental apartments with kitchens, often washing machines and dishwashers, etc. Common in parts of Europe. But at least in Germany they are well regulated and you actually sign a rental contract for your stay. I suspect that makes them a lot less accessible for tourists from abroad.
Massive demand? My feed has mentioned numerous lack of demand, parking lots filling with unsold trucks, and significant cuts to production. "According to Ford spokeswoman Jessica Enoch, one-third of the 2,100 workers will remain at the plant starting April 1, 2024."

Apparently they are cutting from 3 crews running 2 shifts to 1 crew running 1 shift.
That other dimension is the one we use to dissipate heat.
Yeah, it has a good point to make (change means abandoning local maxima), but overplays its hand.

The curve picture feels like a false idol, as soon as he starts doing TA on it, the carriage is well in front of the horse
> RAG doesn't have to involve vector search.

This. Not sure why RAG triggers vector search for everyone. Retrieval Augmented Generation is as generic as it can get.
Don't worry, at least here in the US the ridiculous fees that are being charged by homeowners are making hotels seems worth it again, no legislation required.
If you’re looking for some accessible ones to play Inhave very fond memories of the ones at Rinkworks:

http://www.rinkworks.com/adventure/

The site is straight from the late nineties; mobile wasn’t a concern at the time, and it remains not a concern. These are better consumed in a desktop. The whole site is a delightful bastion of “The Old Internet.” The role playing games are also plenty fun!
Was one of those 250,000 kids. The only real vivid memory I have left of that unfortunately was seeing a Tour de France documentary in the IMAX screen they have. That was really incredible.

Haven't really followed the story closely, but quite sad to see it getting (forcefully?) shutdown like this.
Thank you for your story.
> it's Apple saying to EU regulators we can't provide these features securely and privately

They can't, or they won't?

Just because they say they can't do something doesn't mean it's true, especially when that something can negatively affect their profits and market share, so then they weaponize it as "think of your security!".

Considering Apple's insane wealth and technical expertise, it's definitely possible, they just don't want to do it because they want things their way not the government's way, unless that government is China, then everything is suddenly technically possible. Using Chinese cloud providers for iCloud? You got it. CCP backdoors for everything? Consider it done.

So no, it's just a tantrum.
> to gainsay a Thiokol VP

My understanding is that it was the NASA manager, Larry Mulloy, who had given the go for launch for the SRBs.
I'm assuming you're a troll because I don't believe an adult would actually post this comment.
It doesn’t have to do much, it just has to show some net benefit considering the cost to ban is low. Locals receive the consumer excess through reduced housing costs that would’ve otherwise been real estate investor and AirBnB short term rental profits.
The problem with hotel rooms is that they’re more expensive, get much more expensive per additional person, and don’t have the amenities of an appartement.

If I’m somewhere with a group for longer than three days, we want to be able to hang somewhere and cook our own food. The only other thing that offers this feature set is private rooms in hostels, and those are both rare and nearly always fully booked.

I’m not saying having a good base for vacationing is anywhere near as important as residential housing supply, but saying “just book hotels lol” takes a very dim view on AirBnBs.
Definitely a bad example.