skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your specialized scenarios with gravel and snow are… interesting, but very misleading. A few inches of loose snow pushed up in front of your wheel does does nothing measurable to stop the car over staying within static friction, and if you aren’t already sinking into the snow, chances are that it’s packed too hard for this trick anyway. A thick layer of shifting gravel on the other hand stops you even without brakes, which is why we use it for emergency runaway truck ramps. I’d need to see some data to support if fully blocked wheels make a difference there - and even then, it would be a vehicle weight and tread-specific edge-case.

> ABS extends braking distances.

This is a very common and dangerous misunderstanding based on comparing the wrong datapoints. If your edge cases was true, it would still be wrong the majority of the time.

The best brake distance is always achieved by riding the brake a hair before any wheel locks up. ABS does not affect this - it might try to stop you from increasing brake pressure further past the limit of lock up, but it will not release pressure.

Locked wheels on the other hand always give you the worst possible braking distance short of forgetting to press the brake.

ABS shortens the brake distance from disaster to reasonable by managing wheel lockup when you did not, managing each wheel independently which you cannot, at speeds that a brake pedal does not allow, and using full-vehicle data you do not have available.

The mistake is to compare a perfectly modulated brake maneuver with a panic brake maneuver. What you need to compare is “perfect vs perfect” and “panic vs panic”.
somebody needs to save you from yourself
Monitor Postgres Replication Slot Growth in Slack
Cable TV is falling apart
Cisco to lay off thousands more in second job cut this year
Hah, I'm already there in my 40s! I'm seriously considering getting a strap for my glasses - right now I just hook them into my shirt, but they'll occasionally fall out when I bend over for something, and it's only a matter of time before they break or go into a sewer.
Epub support was my most wanted feature, glad it’s finally here. Major kudos to Zotero!
Do you have a solution for tracks that are identical in content but differ in metadata ? Some audio tools insist on making changes.
Or russia
For me it was DC/OS with marathon and mesos! It worked, it was a tank and it's model was simple.There was also some nice 3rd party open source systems around Mesos that where also simple to use. Unfortunately Kube won.

While nomad can be interesting again it's a single "smallish" vendor pushing an "open" (see debacle with Teraform) source project.
Gets an upvote because this is a nerdy thing close to my heart. I posted here years ago about the hidden complexity in hunting this elusive little icon.

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22308457&ref=simplecto....

Original post:
https://simplecto.com/complexity-downloading-favicons-told-i...
I have built my own local-first solution to transcribe entirely locally in real time word by word, driven by a different need (I'm hard of hearing). It's my daily driver for transcribing meetings, interviews, etc. Because of its local-first capability, I do not have to worry about privacy concerns when transcribing meetings at work as all data stays on my machine. It's about as fast as Otter.ai although there's definitely room for improvements in terms of UX and speed. Caveat is that it only works on MacBooks with Apple silicon. Happy to chat over email (see my HN profile).
Not unless your cat purrs magnetic fields in the Tesla range.
I would like to become more familiar with such things, but my CS education was lacking in this regard. It was almost entirely geared towards programming, and none of these things come up in my career.

I suspect this is widespread.
What does it mean to receive both value and error in the context of division? What about neither?

The issue is not that they cannot be handled, it's that they can be. You included an entire extra branch and check for something that will never occur because they're legal values for your tuple type. I assume it'll be optimized out of this trivial example, but imagine writing a function to receive your tuple type in a codebase where you didn't create the tuple. ADTs prevent this entire worry because there is no way to represent illegal states.
I work at an in-house software development team, although it's a very small one at a non-profit, so not directly comparable.

But I would say you should know you are not going to save money by going in-house. The success criteria should be getting a better product that supports your business, not saving money. It will cost more than your current software costs.

i don't know what size team you are considering, but you certainly can't do this with less than 3 people, and that's probably too small. (not all of them are necessarily 100% "programmers", there are management and other tasks, more below)

I don't actually think logistics is particularly unglamorous, I think it's as interesting as most and more interesting than lots -- but it may not be interesting enough to attract talent at significantly less than they can make elsewhere. So you're going to have to be paying at least somewhat competitive salaries -- good news for you of course is that the job market isn't great now. But still.

So think about how much it will cost to have 3-5 (possibly more) staff at competitive for tech jobs salaries... is it still potentially worth it to your business?

If it is, then great. You've got to hire good talent, including especially someone skilled at figuring out what the software should do. Product management/product ownership with a dose of user research thrown in. This may or may not be a developer (probably not, but maybe), it may or may not be a manager of developers (maybe). This will be the hardest part of execution. Just doing everything you think you as the boss need, counter-intuitively, won't actually lead to a successful product at an affordable price -- you are wrong thinking you know what you need. (Yes, I can say this with confidence not even knowing you, it's always true).

Trying to copy everything your existing software does but then adding more -- or trying to keep all the workflow exactly the same while switching software -- won't lead to a successful product at an affordable price. Part of the product design isn't really product design at all, but business/workflow design.

You could considering hiring a consulting firm to write and then maintain this software as well. That will probably not be cheaper than doing it in-house -- (although it could be if your in-house plan goes seriously awry!) -- but may have a higher chance of success than building an in-house team (and getting the right team!) if you pick the right consultant. It also of course gives you more flexibility to cancel or scale down the project at any time if it's not going well, vs the emotional and sometimes legal or financial pain of laying off employees.
I think this would be a great opportunity to contract private firms and companies to do exactly this. It’s not law enforcement work, so it fits perfectly.
This was 100% apolitical. A lot of his stuff is, and his team really does their homework.

The stuff he says before the main story, tends to be quite political, but the main story, itself, is often apolitical.
too simple

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I believe “bloodbath” is the term that would apply at the next shareholder vote.
Ozempic makes it so much easier to have a healthy diet too. I've been taking it for ~5 months now, losing a steady ~0.75lb/wk which is a perfectly health rate to lose at.

Greasy, fatty, hyper processed foods are a quick trip to nausea-ville for me. The thought of a meatlovers pizza physically turns my stomach now. I am irrationally happy when my partner wants to go out to eat and we go somewhere that has grilled salmon on a salad. I'm not being driven by all the little fats and salts and cheeses they add to food to make it more additive, I can freely choose, and enjoy, healthier less processed options.

It's also crazy the portion sizes. Like I'm losing just under a pound a week, that should mean I have roughly a 400 calorie a day deficit (roughly 1.5 klondke bars). I routinely eat half of what's served in restaurants, or a third, and still have a minuscule deficit. Portion sizes in the US are just too damn big, and everyone expects them.

My partner has found it harder to eat large meals since I'm not eating large meals and he's lost weight too. It's been fantastic for both of us.
I have a serious question - is “clean code” an opinion, or something rooted in actual theory and principles?
Could this be part of your competitive advantage in the future? or is the software a commodity and just kind of annoying at times?

Changing ERP systems takes a long time (months to years) and for the whole transition period you have TWO systems to maintain.
Only one way to know for sure on the long term effects.. However, we do know the long term side effects of obesity - and it is quite costly, by some estimates $200B+/year in the US alone. Not as bad as smoking ($300B+/yr), but entirely preventable regardless.
>Just look at what happens when someone finds out that it takes tens of nanoseconds to call a C function in Go (gc).

I'm not too familiar with Go but my default assumption is that it's just used as a convenient excuse to avoid learning how to do FFI.
Civil asset forfeiture is indeed horrible and often used to basically just steal from the poor. It is also totally different than having your door kicked down for failing to pay taxes or being arrested for saying the wrong thing online.
I can't take credit for that particular screen, it's the Trace UI in Google Cloud. I did look at LangSmith for tracing, but for now I wanted to stick with standard OpenTelemetry tracing, so you could export the spans to Honeycomb etc
Do neighborhoods still have 'deli's in Australia? Like, little 'sells everything' shops? I was there in the 70s'/early 80's, and always found it great that, in the suburbs, you might often wander around and find a 'deli'.

20c of candy in a bag, a copy of some obscure comic book for another 85c, a pack of fags for Mum, some extra milk-duds and choco-babies, and bobs your uncle!
I think there's a certain truth to that, but I don't think that's the whole story.

I also think that the direction that modern tooling has taken is a huge factor. Developers these days often do more integration than development. That is, a large amount of the work is tying libraries and premade components together rather than actually writing the code. This is awesome for production speed (that's the whole point), but I think it comes at the cost of (among other things) innovation and the things that encourage innovative thinking.

Stepping back and taking a longer view, I think we as an industry have made a fundamental tradeoff. Speed of development and minimizing cost of production is prioritized at the expense of true innovation and ensuring that the fields of innovation are being adequately fertilized.
And if we had a time machine and went back to 2022 I would agree with you. Section 127 got repealed in 2023 and got updated with a more comprehensive version see [1] and you know what they will probably define it even more if there are other ambiguities. Like it should be and like I said before. I am seriously questioning your intentions now, it's clearly not in good faith anymore.

[1] https://www.brettwilson.co.uk/blog/the-online-safety-act-202...
Perpetual use of software used to be free after purchase. Nowadays SaaS is more or less the norm.
> because the smallest unit you can really work with on modern computers is the byte

Absolutely not, look e.g. at all the SIMD programming where bit manipulation is paramount.
second this 1000%
CPython 3.12.3 vs PHP 8.3.7

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Pretty amazing what a webapp an do. I whished there were more lile them and not all these native apps
Same with Western drone strikes vs Russian killers
Not for my users. And there are enough of them out there that if there was some incredibly rare problem that only happened in 1/50000 installs, you would be getting a lot of complaints. Seriously, this is something that can be made bulletproof, if one cares to.
And the server itself can be very resilient if you run something like debian or freebsd. Even on arch, I've seen things fails rarely unless it's fringe/proprietary code (bluetooth, nvidia, the browser and 3d accelerated graphics,...). That presumes you will use boring tech which are heavily tested by people around the world, not something "new" and "hyped" which is still on 0.x
Of course this is a simple criminal case. In any case involving national security, we won't see any warrants, and there is nothing to prevent Signal or the involved agencies to rootkit / install an implant / rubberhose the user.
I got my sister a NES Classic to play with with her kids. Her boyfriend hacked it and put every single NES ROM on it.

The kids' conclusion? The graphics suck, and they much prefer Xbox.
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There's no call to insult something like that. If they choose to eat at Chick-fil-a because they don't have time (or don't know how to cook) that's fine. They should be commended on their food choices there. Chick-fil-a has so many fatty, fried food options and they choose something grilled, with vegetables.

Besides, what toddler do you know of will choose to eat a kale salad?
Interesting. How does Stripe and other SF based payment platforms handle it?
I have also been overtaken by old front wheel drive microcars at river crossing. Plenty of lucky idiots out there - it’s all fun and games until it’s not.

On and off-road capability are always at odds with each other, because “agile” also means “unstable”. It’s a matter of compromise and expectations.
How come vigilanteeism is accepted for computer related crimes but not other ones?
The very serious long term side effects of obesity definitely seem worse than of glp-1 agonists, although time will tell.
There’s another company that pays 99$ a year for a similar lease and I’m unable to locate the source.

Most bottled water companies have this sort of sweetheart deal because we as humans don’t seem to value the thing that keeps us alive properly.

Freshwater speculation will be huge in the future.
A considerable part of modern culture and industry revolves around shaming people for not being slim, clearly it is not having the effect you describe since the problem is getting worse. No one says people should be coddled, but saying just eat less is as useful as saying just stop being poor.
Disclaimer: I'm extremely biased having worked as a consultant for a few companies in "Cloud-Stuff" dealing with (almost entirely) major (non-technical) F500 companies. Typically this work was "modernization"/"cloud native" blah blah development.

My firsthand experience with many of these organizations is lack of competence in a large portion of the technical staff, paired with dependency on the software systems being used.

I don't mean "nerd sniping" subjective attacks on competency (you don't know $TRIVIA about $LANGUAGE/$SERVICE, wow lol), I mean lacking basic programming literacy/ability to troubleshoot from written documentation/read simple source code for enterprise CRUD developed for their domain that they're (presumably) familiar with.

i.e getting confused responses for questions like "Did you check the logs?", despite the process being outlined step-by-step in a runbook.

The end result is these systems had a laborious, slow process for even very trivial troubleshooting.

Instead of doing what you're doing "should we find more competent people", they'd add Yet Another consulting firm of marginal skill to mash shit together until it mostly worked, at massive expense.

A short time later, when an issue was encountered, they'd repeat the process, burning money along the way.

My $0.02 is only that, if you directly depend on software for your business, at least consider having people that can manage and maintain whatever it is that you depend on (assuming its not some purchased SAAS from a reputable company)

I can't say this is relevant to your situation necessarily, nor am I in any position to advise one on how to operate a logistics company. My only position is some companies seem totally allergic to even attempting to hire competent people and waste untold sums on third-party firms doing mediocre work, directly impacting their ability to do business.
He said freelancers.

Median compensation for senior engineers in Europe is nowhere near 150k. Even in Switzerland.
Almost correct - the third implementation does generate the clock, but it isn't necessary to drive the clock directly from the system clock, as there are m/n clock dividers available. I use a 300 MHz system clock, and divide down to 50 MHz which works well. (I've also addressed a few other shortcomings of this library, but am not done yet...) Haven't looked at the 10 MHz half duplex mode, though.
I thought Claude used human feedback due to Surge claiming they were a customer:

https://www.surgehq.ai/case-studies/anthropic-claude-surgeai...
Even better, you can get a 15m Ethernet cable that brings the network to the point of power (with the standard 15m power cable).

I had my Mini set up outside and extended the power line as far as it would go, but then once inside, the Wifi signal was very weak, even just 30' away.

So I've ordered the Ethernet cable, and will attach it to a simple Wifi extender that's also at the point of power, so the inside signal is strong.

They really should have thought of this in the design -- going through walls is always a challenge.

The idea design would have the router combined with the power adaptor ("wall wart"), so the signal originates inside.
Just pitching in a transcription tool that lets you transcribe video and audio files using Whisper and WASM in your browser, and get a .txt, .srt, .vtt file. Maybe in the future support for Whisper Turbo?

https://video2srt.ccextractor.org/

Disclaimer: Working on this project.
Human technology is nothing but free lunch after free lunch after free lunch for centuries. And the rate of free lunches is only increasing.
This article reads like ragebait and not as analysis.
Point 1 (which is specifically mentioned in the article as well) and point 3 seem to be rooted in the same issue:

The responsible public servants aren't competitively paid and vetted or that they lack expertise.

I'm sure governments can find expertise in universities, technological institutes etc.

Point 2 seems crazy to me.

Fixed priced contracts should specify exactly what the goals and requirements are. Obviously if more is asked down the line, then there's grounds for negotiation.

I don't understand how governments aren't allowed to operate on this basic principle like everyone else.
Opening up new ground in the search for dark matter
People selling stuff are in the same category as the drug companies; I have no objection to regulating them, and imprisoning them for fraud, with an enhanced penalty for preying on particularly vulnerable people in the case you described.
If you're in logistics and have an ARR in the $200-$300M range then you are not a big player. Logistics is a massive field with a lot of variation. It would help if you could share at least some details: where in the chain do you sit?

My experience is in the car industry with factory-to-dealer and some of the supplier-to-factory. The core systems were built by SAP, they were very expensive but they were reliable thanks to some smart architectural choices. Those were supported by various bespoke solutions to solve very specific requirements over the company.

In general, at your size, and assuming that you're doing something with retail-like margins (1-2%) then you're almost always going to be better off buying and running some COTS solution. The time look away from that is if there is nothing suitable on the market and if there is a strategic move on the table. Software systems can give you a big competitive advantage. It could even be a way to build a sister business - I can give you a number of examples where companies have "scratched their itch" and then spun off their software as a product company.

So what do you do? You know your business. Can you afford to waste ~1M EUR a year (3-4 really good freelancers in Europe + cloud/license costs) for a couple of years next to what you're already doing?
"GARM is a small, not-for-profit initiative" - is the definition of it given on the World Federation of Advertisers's website. The WFA was running GARM ("WFA therefore is making the difficult decision to discontinue GARM activities"), and the WFA describes itself as "a global association that represents over 150 of the world’s biggest brands and more than 60 national advertiser associations worldwide. Together, they create a peer-to-peer network of the world's best marketers".

So what is it? A small non-profit run by an association that represents 150 of the world's biggest brands and more than 60 national advertisers associations?

https://wfanet.org/leadership/garm/about-garm
Yet no body talkin' Seems suspicionious.
I never read any comic book, sorry..

In absence of a government willing or able to enforce laws, vigilantism creates a public pressure to fix the government. Either way though, people are entitled to justice. If the government doesn't provide it, then the government is responsible for the harmful consequence of the resulting vigilantism.
I don't think you can customise MacOS launcher to look like default MATE but you can definitely customise MATE to look like default MacOS
The Kia Telluride does not have a locking differential in the same sense as conventional 4x4 vehicles. In fact, the Kia Telluride comes with a multi-plate center clutch that allows for distribution of power between the front and rear wheels. When the clutch is fully engaged, in most cases there should be no slippage which means that power is distributed evenly (50/50) between the front and rear. However, there's always the possibility that the clutch can slip given enough of a torque differential between the front and the back. It can offer improved traction in poor road conditions.

A proper locking differential found in most traditional 4x4 vehicles/trucks, when engaged, physically locks the axles together which means they cannot spin at different rates. This is essential for many more rigorous off-road applications when you may have to rely on traction from a single wheel to get you unstuck.

This is exactly the type of misleading marketing that is described in many other comments. A clutch pack cannot physically lock axles together in the same way as a locking diff.
Your study you linked compares the diabetic population taking GLP-1s against a healthy population. Of course they're going to find more eye problems in the diabetic population, diabetes damages the eye.

Correlation does not imply causation. Especially this one.
A little confused, this is basically a self hosted jsfiddle?
My opinion is that Supabase is one of the best models for OSS business we have seen. Do they get everything right? No, but they embody the spirit and adjust slot based on community feedback.

Vercel on the other hand, not so much. They’re closing the loop on multiple open source avenues and have been making features Vercel hosted only for awhile now. It’s getting harder and harder to properly and easily self-host Next.js for example.
Okay. Your building is now worth half of what it used to be. That's capitalism.

Hiding value drops distorts the market and makes the balance sheet of property owners seem stronger than it actually is. This "discount" regime essentially pushes the risk of an economic slowdown, which owners should naturally carry, onto renters instead.