skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rail simply takes too long and too much money to lay down.

But e-bikes that I agree with you. Our car centric infrastructure basically makes an e-bike. Still pretty dangerous. With minimal infrastructure investment, certainly a thousandth of what would be necessary for a rail line, I said he could make a kick- ass ebike infrastructure completely separated from dangerous cars.

Old rail lines are actually really good for this. They're already separated from car infrastructure. But even if you dug tunnels or elevated, a bike path still would be a lot cheaper
Wait, doesn't that mean that Hollywood, the theaters, and MPAA are a restraint of trade?

And really any voluntary business code, like Fair Trade or LEED or the AMA's medical ethics codes are illegal?
I've had a few uses for PDPL so far and I'm trying to add functionality when I need it rather than taking a shortcut and just writing the script I need in $LANGUAGE. But, like you said, it was fun to build and I learned a lot so if it's not useful to me or anyone else, that's OK too!
Wasn't there a Game of Thrones episode which had this exact scenario? As I recall, it didn't go well for the runner guy.
This tool is amazing for us. There's so many pieces to this - the capability is a big step forward for architecting databases.

Rudimentary compared to what you've done, but is it possible to take an existing database schema, developed either in the Supabase migrations style or another tool like Flyway, and draw the diagram? That alone is huge for us in an enterprise setting, and would allow us to communicate the structure of the database to business folks (especially large databases). How does the tool build that from migrations currently?
No, I don't believe that it would be. In terms of "calories expended over distance", it'd be pretty close, but we're made for endurance, not raw speed. From what I understand, the energy budget of the human body is tuned for 2 things: neurological activity (the energy consumption of which far exceeds any other animal on earth) and endurance.

It's what makes us such terrifying hunters... prey can outrun us but then when they invariably have to stop to recover, we eventually just turn up and they have to keep running again.

So, any activity where you're cranking the ol' powerhouse up to 120% and going for a run is going to incur a cost, both in terms of energy consumption (which, as the post demonstrates, is slightly more efficient than a fast-paced walk), but then also the resultant metabolic waste which needs to be eliminated, which is a process that takes place during recovery in the 24hrs or so after you've completed your "efficient" 7-minute mile, and I don't believe the article takes this into account.

I watched an interesting video recently (I think it was Kurzgesagt?) that talks about the illusion of high-intensity activity vs low-intensity but longer-duration activity.
It could just stop at hindering.

I think it's safe to say at this point that Boeing is hindering Americans. Full stop.

I'm a very proud American, my grandfather worked on Apollo, and was a submariner in WWII. Recently Boeing has not made me proud.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump's X space crashes
NNT wrote Skin in the Game, which discusses such types of managers who cause similar damages.

He argues that there should be clawbacks to managers that harm a company to the degree Boeing’s current management has.

He invokes The Code of Hammurabi to illustrate how ancient civilization used to deal with such class of professionals.
Apparently a few CF customers got emails last week saying that CF is investigating a customer data leak. Wonder if it has something to do with the lack of response from support.
If you’re going to insist on using the same tool for every job, at least pick a better tool.
etravelsim is where I got a 4gb esim for traveling in a few Mediterranean countries recently. Worked great and was cheap. Only issue I had was apps that were dependent on a phone # like WhatsApp acted a bit weird. But other than that everything else worked just fine.
The problem is that you can't run a large engineering department based on "Bob says Steve isn't that good". It just doesn't scale, that's the whole reason metrics get introduced.
Ohh but it can. The downfall of Boeing has literally been because it prioritized not paying money for skill that definitely exists.
This precedent doesn't prevent parallel construction at all. In fact, it encourages parallel construction.
Probably the same reason the Space Shuttle wasn't cancelled even through pretty early on it was clear that it didn't make sense.

Upper management decisions are seldom made for good technical reasons.
no need, keystrokes are sufficiently unique.

even if its not, enough decent fidelity data with letter/word frequency analysis
paired with small Neural net will quickly disambiguate keystrokes after the first paragraph.
That's all fair, but the context of the conversation was the present day, not the aggregate of all human history.
It would also help
If they didn’t change the layout every 6 months.
I imagine more than a few former Twitter infra folks are really enjoying their popcorn right now.
Elon Musk interview of Trump hit by technical problems on X
The point of using a mockable interface, even if there's only one real implementation, is to test the behavior of the caller in isolation without also testing the behavior of the callee.

This can be overdone of course, not everything needs this level of separation, but if it makes testing one or both sides easier, then it's usually worth it. It's especially useful for testing nontrivial interactions with other people's code, such as libraries for services that connect to real infrastructure.
More than middle management, it was extreme financialization.
The Las Vegas Strip and its hotel casinos are famously one of the most surveillance-heavy areas in the world due to the casinos ostensibly looking for casino cheaters but it goes way beyond that now in the name of "safety"
Samy wants to be your friend.

Declining is futile.
It's not a monopoly, though. Strictly speaking, there are markets where Apple is far from a monopoly, and yet this is still true there. The issue is that Apple is weaponizing laws and limiting consumer freedom. Apple is being anti-competitive and abusive, even when it doesn't have a monopoly.
it's only a DDOS if you consider your own users logging into your poorly managed servers to be the service deniers
yeah i don't love my job at all but it's...fine. they call it work for a reason.

a few years ago, i'd bail. not an option today since i like money. gonna ride this gravy train a bit more. not gonna do it with a smile though.
Not all parties to a transaction provide value to everyone in a transaction. A union, lawyer, real estate agent, etc is optimizing value for one party but not both. As long as one side of a transaction has a monopoly you can end up with “middlemen” favoring the side that picks them, thus why Ticketmaster still exists.

Patroon is chosen by content creators not customers as such its goal is creating value for content creators not customers. As a customer it’s providing negative value with their policies to immediately cancel service the instant someone unsubscribes rather than letting the month play out etc. Thus why their website can be so unbelievably terrible for customers and yet they stay in business.
So for customers Apple/Google/whatever may provide literally infinite more value not because it’s significant but because they are on their side.
> The record for the Western States 100, which has nearly 19,000' of elevation gain, is just over 14hrs for men, and about 15.5hrs for women.

Tor des Géants (78,700' over 205 mi) men's record is 66:44 at just over 3 mph and that doesn't touch the Barkley marathon with 60,000' gain and under 2mph, though that's more to do with the rough terrain than elevation.

190' per mile isn't that much, especially since the Western 100 ends 5,000' lower than it starts.
I’ve been working on a personal finance app for the last few months that’s in beta now that’s doing something similar.

It’s essentially a personal finance app plugged with Plaid, autocatergorization and whatnot, and the dashboard automatically dynamically updates a Sankey chart of your monthly spending.

Example https://imgur.com/a/olpW97s

Shameless plug, https://www.conquest.money/
I'm wary about adding chores to my life, that was something I mentioned in the article. I've been running the API crawler for a while now and, so far so good.

The quantified self movement is adjacent to this but not quite. If you are gathering data from a service with an API, this can grab that and you can work with it. I used to wear the Oura ring and now I have 2+ years of data sitting in JSON on my laptop that can be ported to anywhere. I'm not really looking to, like, optimize productivity or physical output or anything, I just want to have and work with data from services that make my life a little easier.
Evans Hall [0] on the UC Berkeley campus is a brutalist building completed in 1971. My friends and I watched for many months as a steady stream of cement trucks drove up Hearst Avenue; we joked about how there would eventually be a similar stream of dump trucks carrying away the refuse when it was demolished. Little did I know that would probably be in my lifetime -- see [1]. For 1971 views from the balcony of my then second-floor Evans office, see photos 3 through 7 of [2] (the final two photos were taken inside that office).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Hall_(UC_Berkeley)

[1] https://www.dailycal.org/archives/tends-to-stick-out-evans-h...

[2] https://caltss.computerhistory.org/image/campus-1971/index.h...
I think you mean Homer Simpson vs. Boxcar Bob.
> Welders are highly qualified and well-paid craftsmen.

They’re not. You must be one of those people that hears something once and quotes it as gospel. My BIL did that yesterday: “nfl viewership has been down because of all the different platforms, and it’s been trending down for years.” As it so happens, last year was their second-best year of ratings since ratings were tracked. But, it fit his narrative, facts be damned.

“We all see the welding school advertisements: Make Over $100,000 As a Welder! And while it’s true that skilled welders are among the most sought-after workers in the job market, the average welder is bringing in $48,000 per year, a far cry from six figures.” [0]

[0] https://primeweld.com/blogs/news/how-much-do-welders-make-in....
The obvious patch for this is to have monetary penalties for failing inspection written into the contract, so that submitting shoddy work has a price measured in dollars. Money is the unit of caring, at least at a corporate scale, so there needs to be money involved if you want them to care systematically.

(I don’t know if NASA already does this. They might.)
I've been experimenting with the ALFA HaLow HAT [1] for some personal projects. There's also a number of APs good for point-to-point use.

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/19956
Check into a hotel room in Idaho and this won't happen. Check in to one of the hotels in the city who makes its money on tourism where the worst shooting in the US occurred and here we are. We are talking about 5 Miles of Las Vegas Blvd.
And yet that isn't the case on Android, macOS, Windows, etc.

This nightmare scenario only exists in your own mind and you're spooking yourself over it.
I really think it's worth it to go back and read the original Apollo program proposals, technical conference memos, and NASA administrative plans to see the history of the program and how something like this gets off the ground in the first place.

The US was not a bastion of technical capability or well educated people in the 1950s. To say that the "skill doesn't exist anymore" suggests a misunderstanding of "where it comes from" in the first place.

You can do the same thing for Apollo as you can for the Shuttle. The process of reading through these histories, from front to back, is incredibly enlightening, and shows just how with determination alone you can build something like this from scratch.

That being said.. it really also helps if there's a dual purpose use for the military.
That's a rookie move that risks your weekend. Some deploy Monday because everyone is in meetings planing your week and mistakes can be fixed without people noticing. I prefer Tuesday through Thursday because less mistakes are made. Early mornings are good, lunch time has benefits. Don't do it just before you leave or by the time you get home you could be engulfed.
> this video is not available in your location

So much for supposed freedom of speech, Elon
There's absolutely no context on the tweet which seems to be a continuation of a conversation non-logged in users can't access. It's impossible for anyone without a twitter account to understand what you're talking about.
Boeing has been very slow at raising salaries and contract rates in the last 15 years or so. That lead to a lot of the best engineers, managers and technicians leaving.
>The Rock, being human is able to exhaust at least as much heat as you, taking away from your advantage.

I'm not so sure about this. The Rock has only slightly more surface area than I do (due to his larger physical size); it's not a huge amount more, certainly not double. However, he has much more muscle mass than I do, probably more than double. Therefore, his surface-area/muscle-mass ratio should be lower, meaning he should have less ability to exhaust heat than me. (Muscle mass is what generates all the heat.) Therefore, over time, he should get overheated more quickly than me, though of course this depends entirely on our relative physical activity while we're trying to fight or avoid the other.
Lack of adequate STEM education in US schools --> more liberal arts majors --> more MBAs --> low value for engineering fundamentals and higher value for financialization --> Oh crap, MBAs can't send stuff to space?
What provider do you prefer? We're big fans of Hetzner
Until I started doing things to help my knees, the stuff I was doing, that I covered with NSAIDs actively made things worse.

I’ve had osteoarthritis in my knees since I was 16. At 27 I was opened up and told I had worn grooves through the cartilage and into the bone (I guess that’s why it hurt to ride a bike).

Doc told me quite literally to sit on a couch. Instead I took up karate, and the enforced stretching there relieved a ton of the pain. It didn’t fix anything, and i’d still get knee pain when riding a bike (I cut way back) or running, but my every day experience was tolerable.

In the past few years I started going to a functional fitness gym, and our coach got me towing a sled backwards- THAT fixed up my knees. Something about it has let my knees repair, and I haven’t had knees that felt this good sinc3 at least 1990.
I thought the LoRa "915 MHz" band ran from 902.3 to 914.9 MHz.
Waymo to begin testing on San Francisco freeways this week
Off-topic: Dear proud American, pls loosen up your immigration rules for highly-skilled workers who despite the last years would still be very grateful to move to America.

We want our grandchildren to one day also be proud Americans.

Cheers,
A friend from abroad who still believes in America
I graduated as an engineer and eventually became a business analyst/consultant. If I were in your position I would choose the business degree and either a minor in software engineering (it's not the same as CS) or learn SE using web resources/courses.

Since you're not in SV and I assume in some other IT dominated locale, you are likely to earn far more in the business world with strong IT skills. Business knowledge and experience opens doors to many industries so you can gravitate to areas that appeal to you. As a software developer your domain specific experience will be far more critical than your knowledge of selection of software tools and frameworks. But jobs for software developers are mostly defined by your technical experience and thus difficult to transition between domains.
I think which region you are in changes your perception. In America, I don't think I have ever seen a non-software russian product. In China (perhaps ironically) I saw a lot of Russian products.
Odd. I’ll fix tonight.
s/Go/Haskell and I feel this 100%

when you have a programming language that can do everything and vibes with how you think, you're golden
"I want to leave but I have $2.5M worth of RSUs vesting in the next two years" = golden handcuffs.

"I want to leave but if I do I may not be able to find another job and may not be able to pay rent" is instead the reality most Americans face.
Every so often I run through the common set of licenses to double-check which one I want to personally use for my projects (both commercial and for fun), and I always end up back at AGPL. For me, it just strikes the right balance between open-source and restricting corporations from disproportionately profiting off of my labor.
It is definitely weird to see Trump re-using his nuclear threat/joke to Kim Jong Un about the size of his button. I've noticed he's repeating so many of his old quips again. But this particular time didn't even make sense.
Laptops will be next. And they will want to check the OS:

Linux=Evil Hacker.

Windows=Harmless Muggle.

Hope nobody tells them about WSL...
I don't feel SUPER bad for patreon here. They're been trying to push people to their app super hard instead of their mobile website. And the mobile website is barely usable.

This is kinda what happens when you put yourself into a situation where you can't make your product work WITHOUT apple or google's store.
The Spintronics mechanical circuits game is sort of like conveyor belts.

Electrons are not individually identified like things on a conveyor belt.

Electrons in conductors, semiconductors, and superconductors do behave like fluids.

Turing tapes; https://hackaday.com/2016/08/18/the-turing-tapes/

Theory of computation > Models of computation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_computation
The human mind is subjectively indestructible, I.e. impervious to physically perishing (it is purely mathematically operational.) The body, that uniquely mapped to the person, can be reanimated indefinitely relying upon tissue engineering and neuroscientific knowledge progressing in unique human brain cell networks and respective central nervous system action.

We are less than 2 decades away from digitally migrating to a doppelgänger body.
The ZDI Vanguard Awards
I can assure you that skilled welders like the ones you need for aerospace applications are rare and valuable. The welding techniques and standards are much higher than your average welding application
People are being let go despite working hard and going above and beyond.

This is what primarily scares me and my circle. I'm not going to look for another job while I see and know people far smarter than me being let go from positions far more important than mine.
SpaceX does not own any "Fremont paint factory".

We're not talking about "he" here. We're talking about SpaceX.
Python re-implementation of Cryptomator encryption scheme
It doesn't encourage Parallel construction unless you think any restriction on warrants does.
I'm no athlete, just get around town on foot a lot. Even on sidewalks with no baggage, running at a medium pace with a springy step seems less tiring.

If I'm wrong about that, at least it's obviously easier to run downhill. When walking, it can even take more effort vs flat. But when running, by definition both feet leave the ground at some points, so you have less friction and can let gravity do its thing.
Exactly. Who's to say Bob knows what he's talking about?
This is basically what we do, except we use Earthly[1]. An Earthly satellite is basically a modified remote Docker Buildkit instance.

[1]: https://earthly.dev/
>In any case, the crucial difference is that a smartphone is a product of independent value that you can buy, whereas a credit card is not.

This is missing the broader point, which is that companies absolutely do gatekeep access to "their" customers all the time in several industries in and outside of tech. Customer acquisition costs a lot of money, and one of the ways businesses recoup their costs or boost profits is by monetizing them by selling access.

The problem with Apple doing it is that they're abusing their market power.
On a related note, does anyone know of companies that let you sell esim services whitelabelled? I've noticed a ton of new esim travel apps appear this year, and I'm guessing they are just marketing and using a third-party for the heavy lifting.
When we look back at the DeSantis livestream it looks like infra is telling him again it's a ddos instead of fixing the underlying problems. They never get the resources to really fix it... Rinse repeat?
I'd argue that's a very good reason to have backup options. Remember that looking for a job does not commit you to leaving your current one unless you find something better.
I’ve had a lot of trouble with their support recently as well. A domain I was trying to renew just…wouldn’t. The ticket I opened went unanswered for nearly a month. What finally got them to look at it was posting on their forums with a ticket ID. Even still, they just quietly renewed the domain without a response or confirmation or anything so it’s technically still open…
The article claims 113 micrograms per liter, the document claims "<0.113" micrograms per liter.

Page 177. Also called "Report Page 20 of 71".

RL stands for "Reporting Limit".
I haven’t read through the code in detail but I can tell you “sub-nanosecond overhead” is misleading and marketing fluff. On first look, the measure seems to be some convoluted “time per thing” where the number of threads is far far smaller than the number of “thing”s
Ask HN: What non dev-related mailing lists are you subscribed to?
I just realized maintaining a mailing list is super easy using sr.ht. E.g:

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/free-writers-club/
https://sr.ht/~amolith/book-club/

Mailing lists feels like a minimalist and simple form of forum that immediately filters out the junk of noisy social media.

Are you subscribed to any non-dev related mailing lists?
On paper, this looks to me like what the MK4 should have been from the beginning.
> THE EXACT SAME SPEED

Usain Bolt and I have the same PR if you round to 1 significant figure. I think he should share his medals with me.
> So it doesn't seem like much of a step

Rebuttal, that seems like a huge step.
China's Taichi-II Chip: First Optical AI Processor Outperforms Nvidia H100
Can any expert in this domain validate the claimed performance over H100? Any pointers on how optical processors work and how mature they are over traditional processors.
They want to please everyone. Basically, what ends up happening is that new features get added but the company doesn't want to choose which buttons are more important than others. There is no one-size-fits all solution: every option makes somebody else's workflow worse. The most "neutral" and "logical" solution is to construct an ontology of button types and then materialize that in the form of nested menus. Hurts everyone the same.

I think this is a problem at the product-management level, where they cannot decide which user persona they want to prioritize. Could also be financially related, and other users complain when the company picks a side.
Didn't the fact that you had a technical degree make it easier for you to transition though? Or do you think that a business foundation is more important and versatile than an engineering one?
Is it just me or are these books just astonishingly good? Like… sometimes k come across media at juuust the right time and (emotional) place and they’re amazing but on review merely good.

I’m immediately re-reading them and they’re just as good - if not better - the second time.

Quickly became my favorite books of all time, which you’ll have to trust me is saying something.
Why the F are we letting apple tax 30% of the hard work of people. They do not deserve it. If they had a platform with organic "discovery", maybe 10% would feel less like rape (including processing fees)