skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If America can make space a crusade again instead of a business sure.

The Chinese are currently in their Apollo phase in which every engineer dedicates their life to the mission.
I think Mac OS is far more powerful than wsl …
> How many of the apps you're complaining about are paying 30% to Apple? Hotels and restaurants definitely aren't.

If the CEOs could sign a petition that had a sure chance of antitrust action against Apple's fees, every single one of them would be itching to sign.
> Elon would not be trying to buff his "Evil Billionaire" rep...right?

Elon: the billionaire that promised Mars, but delivered mercury.
About time, hope it goes well.
> still do housekeeping every day

They don't change sheets or towels ("for the environment")... just inspect the room, then leave.
I don't see a contradiction. I read it that the microservices are independent and thus can build in parallel, if several teams work on changes to several microservices.

Spinning a build worker outright when a change us pushed is the fastest way, and may be expensive if the build process is prolonged.

OTOH I've seen much faster image build times, with smart reuse of layers, so that you don't have to re-run that huge npm install if your packages.lock did not change.
And OpenSesame - using as Mattel kids toys to brute force (non rolling code) garage door openers.

And he's got an awesome project using helium weather balloons to fly networked RGB leds synchronised to the DJ tunes.
U.S. Inflation Rate 1960-2024
I'm working on an ungodly pile of hacks (https://github.com/jeffparsons/hope) to help with this. Coming Soon™: S3 backend and better tests.
Not only is it the nuances and pace of changes, but theres also a temporal element of seeing cause and effect over time from within an ecosystem. Is there a way to just parachute in and learn how to judiciously use classes in JavaScript the way one would if they were out there assigning Thing.prototype.method = function () {}? Can Udemy give you the same a-ha moment learning Promises today that someone got when they were drowning in callback pyramids in their Express v3 app?
wonder how many devices they lost to devices like usbkill trying to copy other peoples random usb drives at defcon
I record long, rambling voice memos in noisy environments which Whisper struggles to parse. Perhaps this can rescue me from the tedium of hand-stitching the fragmented results together. GIGO, of course, but there's an equilibrium here that might be struck.
More likely the ones for weight loss, because those people can't help themselves. Pardon the sarcasm. Not to be confused with the people who would benefit from MDMA but otherwise actually can't help themselves.

Funny tho, it's a good thing we saved those millions in excess deaths (from Covid) as many of those othwrwise unhealthy individuals survived to take the weight loss jab.
If we were having this conversation in the late 1800s I'm pretty sure that you would be arguing to me right now that the trans-continental railroad provides "tremendous value" to shippers.

It's become an increasingly common argument in discussions about Apple to phrase their value as one of "distribution", or sometimes less subtly as "access." But no one would ever credibly argue that the actual physical distribution costs, hosting, and bandwidth of the Patreon app is more valuable than the entire platform itself. That would be absurd. Instead, what people actually argue is that access to Apple users is the value that Apple quote-unquote "creates"[0].

I think a lot of people look at this and see it for what it is: rent seeking. But it's a marvel of the modern tech landscape that we've trained so many people to not only accept that they are the product for the platforms they use, but taught them to be proud of being a product. We've gotten people to come around to the idea that companies have done such a good job turning them into a product that the companies now somehow deserve some kind of special reward for doing so.

Excessive use of customers as bargaining chips inevitably creates bad incentives for companies, which become increasingly defensive of their "assets" and increasingly more and more hostile to consumer choice and freedom to move from ecosystem to ecosystem. These negative effects play out again and again in multiple industries both inside and outside of tech, to the detriment of both consumers and the overall markets. But when tech companies come up (whether we're talking about Apple, or Steam, or Nintendo, or whatever) -- for some weird reason people suddenly become very defensive about the rights of companies to treat them like cattle.

TLDR, no, access to iPhone users is not Apple providing value to app developers. It's just rent seeking.

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[0]: As if iPhone users would somehow stop using smartphones now if the iPhone went away.
It's not just the prospects of finding a new job that sucks, it's also that no one can actually afford to start a business. The continual draining of wealth from the lower and middle classes has had a severe effect on the lower and middle class's ability to compete.

The only way to actually start a business with some potential degree of success involves being a suck-up to massively wealthy individuals so you can onboard an angel investor for your product. This also generally means gimmicks that appeal to the rich and wealthy. A great example is smart kitchen appliance whose goal is to do something worse than what's already on the market so that they can corner people with dark patterns and subscriptions.
This issue is detectable, at least, to prevent cascading issues (it probably requires manual intervention to resolve though):

You have a started and finished columns and/or a state column on your migrations table;

Insert into migrations;
Run migration foo;
Update migrations set finished = now, state = finished where migration = foo;

Then your deploy tool refuses to run (and reports an error) when there are any non-finished migrations found.

Honestly if your migrations need `if not exist` regularly for basic stuff like creating tables or whatnot something is wrong - it implies you can't rely on other migrations having been performed at which point you have no reasonable way to expect that the end result will be correct.
I was trying to help with a simplified mental model. Sorry, I thought the "another way to think about it" part was clearer than it might have been.

The linked paper in the parent comment has a graph on page 347 (page 2 of the content). The human's walk curve is substantially more efficient than the other gaits, included on the graph, which is the point I was trying to make. Humans best their caloric/distance ratios over time ("endurance hunting").
Probably the most fun is almost all on strip hotels have access to lots of Ethernet cables in your room… maybe the VoIP phone, maybe an access panel in the closet. Maybe nothing in my network for windows users but you can start digging into vlan’s pretty quick
The gap between Waymo and all other competitors in the self-driving space continues to widen.
No legal precedent can prevent parallel construction, because when it is done right, nobody but the police are actually aware that it took place.
Glue catalogs can be used by other query engines as well. Separating schema from compute is the foundational concept behind a data lake.
If consumers really want to pay that much more for that convenience, why won't Apple allow the merchant to say that the price is lower elsewhere?
https://xkcd.com/1053
> Earning money nowadays is all about having access to money which comes out of a safe money printer.

I argue that's always been true. Most of the big tech we know today came from very privileged backgrounds that allowed them to take risks that'd be unthinkable for many of us. drop out of college early, run 2-3 failed business to the ground, being booted out of one company and come back later to the same company as an executive, etc.

It takes money (or a lot of your time) to make money, that's always been true. The money it takes these days are just so high.

Wish you the best of luck in your endeavors, and I'm sorry you gotta navigate this way. I still have some decades to try and get something I can truly own be sustainable, so I want to at least make use of my youth while I have it.
A lot of times you want to be able to cmd+click on something and actually see what the hell the code actually does and not get dead-ended at an interface declaration.
Define successful. I think you two had an opposite meaning of what successful is.
Arguably GP is already successful in their current position with respect to overall satisfaction, if one treats satisfaction as a boolean.
Likely, if there were another terrorist (which is not very likely, they usually don't repeat the same thing over and over) the housekeeping would report something weird, and then somebody would file it somewhere, and would sit on it for hours if not days, and then when the shit hits the fan, everybody would trade the blame and claim it wasn't their job to do something about it. I mean, the US Secret Service works this way, do you expect hotel security to be better?
Foreign Investors Pull Record Amount of Money from China
There's the mild note that the behavior of the 'x0, x0' form changed between RVV0.7.1 and 1.0 - on 0.7.1 it sets VL=VLMAX, while on 1.0 it inherits the previous VL. That said, the 0.7.1 behavior is still useful, and improper behavior would certainly be caught by basic testing, never mind the users who have had chips with it for a while.
`hope` is a good name for a service trying to solve this problem :D
I had a friend who was a welder for nuclear power plants.

He got shipped around the country.

Not exactly a trade-school C-student.

Had a better house than mine, but I’m a cheapskate.
Personally I don't find it great for prototyping. There's just too much boilerplate, which is why I use other languages for fun/personal projects.
This is fairly similar in concept to what we do over at depot.dev
https://depot.dev/blog/depot-magic-explained

We've found that BuildKit has several inefficiencies preventing it from being as fast as it could be in the cloud, especially when dealing with simultaneous builds (common in CI). That led us to create our own optimized fork of BuildKit.

The number of fine-tuning knobs you can turn running a self-hosted BuildKit instance is limitless, but I also encourage everyone to try it as a fantastic learning exercise.
Thanks!

If you think that last paragraph sounds like fun I be delighted to accept a lucrative position on the advisory board for this enterprise. :)
"The USA LoRaWAN frequency spectrum has 64 uplink channels available (125 kHz each) (channels 0-63) starting at 902.3 MHz which increment every 200 kHz up to 914.9 MHz. There are 8 additional uplink channels (500 kHz each) (channels 64-71) from 903 MHz which increment every 1.6 MHz up to 914.2 MHz."
( https://www.baranidesign.com/faq-articles/2019/4/23/lorawan-... )
Short of blocking ChatGPT from support center DNS network requests, people and employees are going to use it. (And even then some might be VPN bypass the filter)

It all comes down to quality at the end of the day. The person doing the work will be fired if the quality of their output isn’t up to standard, assisted by AI or not. That’s how the language translation industry has operated successfully for years.

Completely agree the natural instinct is to rubber stamp. But in the language industry, their boss looks at metrics like “percent of translations edited” and translators reviewing machine translations will get flagged and loose the work if they are bypassing the expectations and not doing the job.

In other words this is a mostly solved problem. Put the responsibility on the worker for the AI’s output, and the worker will care as much about its output as they care about their job. Which also applies in the software field. Employers are generally fine with Copilot, etc, but it’s not an excuse for sh*t code. That same model can be applied in different contexts.
For context, they announced that they were starting freeway testing with employee passengers in Phoenix back in January.
> 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.

is this recent? I definitely remember my service playing out the month when I cancel subs. Because for most subscriptions period I cancel the moment I subscribe.

I think the caveat here is that you are charged on the first, no matter when you sub. Be it on the 2nd or the 28th. But generally I can still access that month's rewards, so it's still not as bad as it could be.
AutoX and Pony.ai in China have been been offering rides to the public with no safety driver for much longer than Waymo
There's a great scene at the end of Generation Kill where the war reporter asks the commander why he didn't reprimand one of the worst leaders underneath him more harshly.

The commander essentially says that he constantly receives conflicting reports about his leaders' performance, and if he relieved one for unproven reports, his command would disintegrate. Because the good leaders have equal numbers of bad reports about them, from those who don't like them.

Summed up the proper exercise of authority nicely, imho.
A rifle can be disassembled in relatively small components, and re-assembled in minutes. You'd have to do a pretty invasive and thorough search to detect it - and still, the criminal could just keep it in their car, which is not checked, and bring it in 10 minutes before the time, assemble it and do the deed.
Which books do you mean?
Looking at how cheap LFP batteries are getting and people not getting much for feeding back into the grid from their solar installs I think battery pack sales are about to rocket. Australia is in a very unique situation with a lot of land, big potential for solar and wind.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Dawnice-Outdoor-Cabin...
Yeah, "time traveling" somehow got prepended to Basilisk in the common perception, even though that makes pretty much zero sense. Also, technically, the bidirectionality does not need to be causal, it "just" needs to be subjunctively (sp?) biconditional, but that's getting pretty far out there.

There are stronger versions of "basilisks" in the actual theory, but I've had people say not to talk about them. They mostly just get around various hole-patching schemes designed to prevent the issue, but are honestly more of a problem for certain kinds of utilitarians who refuse to do certain kinds of things.

You are very much right about the "being human" thing, someone go tell that to Zvi Mowshowitz. He was getting on Aschenbrenner's case for no reason.

Edit: oh, you don't need a "complete description" of your acausal bargaining partner, something something "algorithmic similarity".
My main beef with C# was the culture. I spent around 15 years building stuff in C# (since 1.0), and absolutely loved the language. But, man. The Microsoft shops were so full of Kool-Aid drinkers, and there was so much enterprisey crap that often came along with that. I miss C#, but I don't miss the culture.
Note you need to also raise the configuration limit of max upload to 200mb after the plan change in settings.
Google does have a vr product. It’s just insanely dated but was pretty cool back then.

https://arvr.google.com/cardboard/
I continue to use them instead of Lyft or Uber. Same price practically for me when I commute around SF. I love it.
The emotional toll working a front line customer service job takes is unreal.

Sure I've had low moments in my career as a programmer, but I don't really feel harmed by those experiences.

I worked less than half a year in retail in a very wealthy town, and I still find myself thinking about some of the ridiculously entitled people I had to interact with. I feel like it permanently changed me.
I guess the precise definition would be most ungulates, but not migratory ungulates?

> Although not extensively studied in non-humans, endurance running is unique to humans among primates, and uncommon among quadrupedal mammals other than social carnivores (such as dogs and hyenas) and migratory ungulates (such as wildebeest and horses)

Anyway I was attempting a clumsy metaphor to aid someone's understanding, not trying to be pedantic. It's easiest to compare sprinting and not-sprinting.
https://archive.ph/jnlNV
US wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
I’m a big Waymo fan. Some of my thoughts;

Waymos are one of the first things that my visitors to SF want to try. It feels like living in a science-fiction future.

The ride and navigation feels very smooth - after the novelty of having no driver in the front seat wears off, you become accustomed to the experience surprisingly quickly. In comparison, I found the Cruise driving experience pretty uncomfortable and stress-inducing.

The app and software inside the vehicle is really well-designed. Which is unusual for a google consumer product!

And my female friends, in particular, far prefer Waymo to Uber or Lyft because they don’t have to engage with a creepy driver trying to hit on them.

I, for one, welcome our new self-driving overlords.
>> I can't imagine why people use Airflow these days.

GCP Dataflow is based on Airflow. I imagine a lot of GCP customers would default to this for their data workflow
> and you don’t even have to look this up

It wasn't surprising, but having hard facts always helps. Apple v. Epic revealed Apple makes 70% of app store revenue from mobile games, which is generated by less than 10% of app store users:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/10/apple-vs-epic-70percent-of-a...
Where's the strawman? You're whining about giving money to SpaceX in exchange for asking SpaceX to build something to the specifications of the program. That's not redistributing wealth to the top, that's purchasing a service.
Why, if its not cheaper, what is the value add (if you’re not female as another commenter pointed out)

I routinely have as little interaction with the driver as I want
Only now that T20 cricket is played in many countries including USA and continental European countries does it make sense to have cricket in the Olympics. That really only became true in the past year with USA participating in the ICC T20 World Cup.

With older forms of the game (5-day test cricket and 1-day/50-over cricket), matches took too long and it was played by too few countries to make sense.

I’m sure another motivator to include cricket in the Olympics is to appeal to viewers in/from India, Pakistan and other south Asian countries that aren’t so prominent in other Olympic sports.
Based on what you found I'm guessing 1967. Total guess.

Maybe someone else can refine this?
At this point, nothing Microsoft offers is open source to my knowledge. Screenshots users screens to train AI, has ads in the start menu.

Krita and Gimp are nice, so is Inkscape. Pinta on linux desktop for the MSPaint but better experience.

Things like Adobe Photoshop charge monthly subscription fees then charge you to CANCEL your subscription.

Weighing it out, Windows is spyware. Funny it advises people to switch back to 'Paint' - Thanks, ol reliable since '98?
I mean, you're not wrong, It's just strings (usually) instead of ints.

It's pretty bad, but it turns out that exceptions and inverting my entire program to pass into a Result's flatmap chain are even worse.

When they come up with another strategy, I'll try that instead, but until then I'll keep using the least bad option I've found.
Have you seen FSD 12.5.1.3?
Green hydrogen??

I was always taught that it was colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
You get to be alone during the ride
>so it'd only be nice with proper judges (quite rare apparently).

Taste is just nostalgia with extra steps. Whatever the prestige class was building when the present adults were kids (or during a noteworthy economic boom time) is "good architecture", and everything else sucks.
Extremely strong recommend of Pale Lights, Unsong

Strong recommend to all of QNTM's, especially their SCP work (linked), Ra, Fine Structure. Also to PGTE, Worth the Candle

Recommend to Worm.

Check out r/rational!
Sounds like a fun experiment. I'd be interested in Apple allowing Patreon to test that theory by disabling purchases within the app. Is this really about access to a niche user group of users who would never sign up elsewhere?

Apple seems to be very invested in forcing Patreon to either not be in the app store at all (and given the limitations of web apps, this is a significant penalty), or offer exclusively Apple payments in the app. Then Apple goes a step further with rules blocking Patreon showing links to other purchase methods in the app. These are not the actions of a company that believes that its users can be trusted not to make a purchase elsewhere.

If these users would never give Patreon money by going to Patreon's website, Apple wouldn't be scared of a link to the website payment options inside of the app. But they are scared of that, because they know that many of their users would choose to pay less online if they were informed about the choice or if Patreon decided not to offer payment options in the app.

I think the fact that Apple is (according to Patreon) not offering a choice of whether or not to accept payments in the app pokes a lot of holes in the idea that iOS users would never use a website to subscribe.
I regularly build images where we install Python from source, which makes 30m seem quite normal...
Do you have an example of one that you know won't run? Effectively all the routers should be flashable unless I'm mistaken and any of them that include GPLv3 or LGPLv3 software must allow it to be custom flashable due to the anti-tivoisation clause.
As I've mentioned on another thread, I just wish Waymo drove faster. They often don't keep up with the pace of traffic.
1.) Waymos are safer than human-driven rideshare vehicles

2.) The vehicles are standardized, comfortable and clean

3.) You can play your own music or none at all, roll down the windows or leave them up, while an Uber driver's preferences might not match your own
This has also been my experience, yeah. My interviewers were very interested in watching me rifle through that core dump. (:

Ultimately, it feels to me like selecting for people who both can navigate existing code and interrogate a running system (or, minimally, one that had gone off the rails and left clues as to why) is the right way to go. It has interesting knock-on effects throughout the organization (in, like, say, product support and quality assurance) that are direly understated.
Regarding remote Emacs: WezTerm allows to completely capture and redefine key combinations. There's no good way to send things like C-S-", the terminal protocol just does not support them. So I made WezTerm send "<f12> c s '" instead, and added extra bindings in Emacs. This F12 trick allowed me to send quite complex combos that terminal protocols can't support.
My Ubers often smell very strongly of the food the driver has been eating.

The driver is often on a call for the entire journey, which is annoying.

It’s often much colder or warmer than I’d ideally like.

An extreme case, but I once had a driver stop a ride, jump out of the car and pull the driver out of the car in front. They proceeded to have a fist fight. The other guy had honked at him for blocking the road or something.

I’d much prefer a computer to drive me around.
Keep in mind the things tracked in the Consumer Price Index are not static. That is, over time, there is a drift towards comparing apples to oranges. For example, if beef becomes too expensive so consumers switch to pork eventually then beef is removed and pork is tracked. That's not less inflation. That's bait and switch.

Futhermore, year by year inflation is too out of context. Instead for a given year we should also get the compounded rate for the previous 5 yrs, 10 yrs, and 15 yrs. That level of transparency would be significant.
Looks like Paint is staying, just not Paint 3D.