skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have lots of rental scooters here in Seattle too, scattered around the city like confetti, and I love it so much! Anywhere you go, it's easy to find a ride. I use them all the time, especially because they make the streetcar and light rail systems so much more useful. (So what if the place you want to go is half a mile away from the nearest station? You can expect to find a dozen scooters waiting on the sidewalk, ready to whisk you away.)

We used to have a bike-share program which used standard lots as you propose, but it didn't work. There simply couldn't be enough lots set aside to make the system convenient: you'd have to walk a few blocks to the nearest lot, look up wherever there might be another bike lot near your destination, ride there, then it'd be a few more blocks' walk getting where you actually wanted to go after parking the bike. There just weren't many trips short enough that you'd want to get there by bike which were also long enough to justify that much extra walking.

Nowadays, we have dockless e-bike rental provided by the same companies which operate the scooters: the bikes, too, are scattered around the city like confetti. They are easy to use and very popular.
Hahaha not belittling at all, I'm just old enough that "running X with Wine" means "spending hours upon hours pulling your hair out until X barely works" to me. Getting it for free feels like cheating :)
1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion
Looking up new terms on investopedia and going down rabbit holes from there is not a bad start, I think.
August was Medium's first profitable month
Looming Canadian rail work stoppage threatens US supply chains
Glad you asked! _Facing the Dragon_ by Robert Moore

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/book-review-facing-the-drag...
Eh, phantom braking is definitely a problem. It's gotten better, for sure, but I've definitely had times where there was nothing within 1/4 mile in front of me on the highway and suddenly it slammed the brakes.

When I first got my Tesla in 2019, there was one specific overpass that I would go under during my commute that seemed to have a ~20% chance of triggering automatic emergency braking. I got into the habit of preparing to stomp the throttle which would override AEB.

Luckily, a software update came out a few months in that seemed to fix that specific case. Now, I've done 1,300 mile road trips that didn't have a single phantom braking incident.
I don't know what you mean by having the URL bar completely removed (how do you navigate?) but I use CSS to trim the top of my Firefox to look a bit neater with the Sideberry extension: https://gist.github.com/reuben/4afa453611abd7f1477429b2c001f...
Source: https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/be-careful-w...
Show HN: How to over Engineer a Todo App (The Zenith Gradient Algorithm)
Hey guys, I recently published an article about a scheduling algorithm used in a time management app.

It analyzes the effort and level of enjoyment of all the tasks on a user’s schedule and computes the ideal amount of time that should be allocated to each task to ensure that the user will be the most productive.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on:
- The practicality of such an approach to time management
- Potential improvements or alternative approaches to the algorithm
- Your experiences with other time management tools and techniques

Here is a link the app if you’d be interested in giving it a try: https://www.acumenweb.app/
TLDR: use shitty allocators, win shitty memory leaks
I only see a form field for /imagine. How can I /describe?

The docs say to hover over the uploaded image or use the test tube icon from
the sidebar, neither of which seem to be available on mobile.
I often find people who don't even really know where the local library is, or even begin to know what they might do with it.
I still believe that if the Ukraine had made some token concession-- for example, offering a binding secession referrendum in the Donbass, that would have given Putin the bacon he needed to bring home without an actual war.

The de-facto capture of Crimea wasn't enough, but the Donbass would've been. Got it.
Feel basically the opposite, in fact I would go to say this takeawway is the wrong one - the article is titled "Calling All Hackers" but can't go three headings without talking about shitcoins and venture capital. There's the HN definition of hacker and the infosec one, and phrack is for the latter. "High tech, low life" hackers don't have obsessions with venture capital.
I had the same experience about 5 years ago.
>No, actually, it's because Posthog explicitly recommends that as the way to do it

Just because a project recommends "curl whatever | bash" to get started doesn't mean it's something you should productionize. You need an engineer that's done more than a bootcamp to understand code pinning, packaging, and deploying in order to ship a supportable, observable system. You're making my point for me.
Obs ist an software for recording the screen and your camera and can stream it to multiple destimations.
Was the Real Jobs Revision Negative 818,000 or Negative 915,000?
What do you mean by no restrictions? My account was flagged and under review after using two bold prompts.
"Relatively few blacks and Hispanics had the test scores needed to get into MIT" because:

- These racial groups have far fewer parents who can afford the coaching and external resources required to have kids achieve those test scores

- These racial groups were subject to a long history of systemic segregation that locked them out of opportunities to build generational wealth during one of the most opportune times in the US's history to do so (post-World War II)

That is part of the reason why schools like MIT chose to use race as a factor.

Tons of literature has been (and continues to be) written on this topic.
Oh, they do not appear? At the bottom of the scales is Afghanistan, guess whether there may be objective reasons for the aggregate scalars (and whether their referent could be palpable - phenomenic).
PwC braced for 6-month ban in China over Evergrande audit
There's a weird one I ran into, and I for the life of me do not remember which project it was under, but if I open dev tools, the style changes for an element, then if I close dev tools, the style goes back to normal. I never could figure out what the heck is going on. I almost want to blame the viewport size changing just slightly, but I couldn't find a single CSS rule that would make it make sense, and I think even popping it out, it behaved exactly the same. It was frustrating, but I felt like I had to ignore it since no normal user would ever see it, it just made debugging with dev tools confusing.

Edit: In your case, that's where I start print debugging LOL
You said

> The spokes are really hard to make precisely with machining

That is not true.
> Does the US invest in manufacturing like this anymore?

No, but that is different from not investing. Today the US invests more in automation and engineering and less in manual labor.

> if there were a war today would the US be able to produce as much as it did in WW2?

It took several years to ramp up to WW2 level production. We would see the same, a couple years of trouble on the fronts while building industry at home, then when the industry is built up massive production.

Historians (amateur so I'm not sure if they are right) tell me Hitler was ready for WW2 first and Italy begged him to not start the war as their industry wasn't ready. However France and Briton saw the war coming and were building their industry and so waiting might have made things worse.
most modern memory allocators use internally mmap, this is why it most times makes sense to not use the system allocate for long running programs

Generally given that page size isn't something you know at compiler (or even install size) and it can vary between each restart and it being between anything between ~4KiB and 1GiB and most natural memory objects being much less then 4KiB but some being potentially much more then 1GiB you kind don't want to leak anything related to page sizes into your business logic if it can be helper. If you still need to most languages have memory/allocation pools you can use to get a bit more control about memory allocation/free and reuse.

Also the performance issues mentioned have not much to do with memory pages or anything like that _instead they are rooted in concurrency controls of a global resource (memory)_. I.e. thread local concurrency syncronization vs. process concurrency synchronization.

mainly instead of using a fully general purpose allocator they used an allocator whiche is still general purpose but has a design bias which improves same-thread (de)allocation perf at cost of cross thread (de)allocation perf. And they where doing a ton of cross thread (de)allocations leading to noticeable performance degradation.

The thing is even if you hypothetically only had allocations at sizes multiple of a memory page or use a ton of manual mmap you still would want to use a allocator and not always directly free freed memory back to the OS as doing so and doing a syscall on every allocation tends to lead to major performance degradation (in many use cases). So you still need concurrency controls but they come at a cost, especially for cross thread synchronization. Even just lock-free controls based on atomic have a cost over thread local controls caused often largely by cache invalidation/synchronization.
Same - I have now become a morning person against my will. I also haven't set an alarm since the kid was born (almost 2 years)
The people in those past articles weren't crypto startup CEOs, or startup CEOs at all most of the time.
And extracurriculars, which are expensive.
For managing SQL Server and other enterprise grade infrastructure and resource planning. And at least for now, many many other Windows based multi platform development tools that aren't yet practical on Linux desktop. Although, progress is being made in that direction, which is great to see.
They probably don’t want to deal with email registration workflows and want to limit themselves to OAuth, but that’s not user/customer-friendly.
wrong. It's common knowledge that social networks are harmful to teens. You're the one with work to do.

I don't have to match a pro-tobacco post with a billion medical studies. When you contradict established fact, you're the person who has to prove it.
It's how some think. Graal is a full compiler written in Java. There's a long history of JVMs and databases being written in GCd Java. I think you could push it a lot further too. Modern JVM GCs are entirely pauseless for instance.
As far as i know, Nvidia drivers are not stable enough. When a driver crashes in a data center the computer might reboot and continue the operation after some minutes. When a player plays a game and the graphic card crashes, he might readily switch to Windows.
Bored Ape Nazi Club [video]
I wear my Apple Watch almost 24/7 and use it's sleep functionality to wake me with gentle wrist taps. Twice a day, I charge it for a small amount of time:

1. Once, while reading right before bed gets it to 100%.

2. During my morning shower, which tops off the battery for the day.

Background: Apple Watch Series 7 with the fast charger it comes with, plugged into an Apple 20 watt USB-C charger that I think came with one of my iPhones.
a recent windows update changed my black background to random pictures (changes on login). now I have to activate windows to be able to change it back, because now I "see" it all the time
> an autopsy that could have indicated whether there had been medical malpractice associated with her death was “rendered impossible”, according to the lawsuit

This crosses into criminal liability.
That and you get user observability for free, and support injection in a way that to this day there’s no good way to do in an “app” experience.

Presuming your bot requires people to interact with it in public channels, your CSRs can then just sit in those channels watching people using the bot, and step in if they’re struggling. It’s a far more impactful way to leverage support staff than sticking a support interface on your website and hoping people will reach out through it.

It’s actually akin to the benefit of a physically-situated product demo experience, e.g. the product tables at an Apple Store.

And, also like an Apple Store, customers can also watch what one-another are doing/attempting, and so can both learn from one another, and act as informal support for one-another.
Because the alternative is pretty provably worse for you, and for them.

* You have to save your (hopefully unique!) email/password in a password manager which is effectively contradictory to your "I won't use a cloud service" argument.

* The company needs to build out a whole email/password authentication flow, including forgetting your password, resetting your password, hints, rate limiting, etc etc, all things that Google/Apple have entire dedicated engineering teams tackling; alternatively, there are solid drop-in OAuth libraries for every major language out there.

* Most people do not want to manage passwords and so take the absolute lazy route of reusing their passwords across all kinds of services. This winds up with breached accounts because Joe Smith decided to use his LinkedIn email/password on Midjourney.

* People have multiple email addresses and as a result wind up forgetting which email address/password they used for a given site.

Auth is the number one customer service problem on almost any service out there. When you look at the sheer number of tickets, auth failures and handholding always dominate time spent helping customers, and it isn't close. If Midjourney alienates 1 potential customer out of 100, but the other 99 have an easier sign-in experience and don't have to worry about any of the above, that is an absolute win.
what do you mean they don't have restrictions?
It's a reasonable but naive question. There's a big difference between Nvidia offering driver/CUDA support for DC hardware vs providing driver support for desktop/gaming gear. There's also a big difference between the quality & consistency of driver support for desktop GPUs between Nvidia & AMD.
> Volcano erupts in Russia

Geography is hard.
This is like saying volcano erupts in Africa or volcano erupts in Chile, or volcano erupts in US.
When I tried to explain to him that I fixed the thing he claimed to have fixed, I heard him hesitantly say it wasn't the same bug. Not sure what he told his boss this time around the fix was for, but I was able to fully reproduce the bug with this fix.

If you can't reproduce a bug, you cannot in my opinion say that it is fixed. If you have to reproduce it via local debugging and changing a value, or hard coding a value, I think you're possibly close, but there's a chance it might not be the case!
To me those usecases are already revolutionary. And human in the loop doesn't mean it is not revolutionary. I see it multiplying human productivity rather than as immediate replacement. And it can take some time before it is properly iterated and integrated everywhere in a seamless manner.
> It's like complaining your Rolls-Royce comes with too many features such as TVs and umbrellas in the doors, while you just want a working car with 4 wheels - go buy a Ford Fiesta then.

But they are not selling a Rolls Royce: they are selling idiots a ford fiesta they’ve replaced the physical key with a cloud-based, vendor locked smartphone app, whilst calling that a unique selling point which justifies the rolls Royce price tag.

Whilst generating a lot e-waste in the process.

To be clear, my issue is not with them offering this as a part of their product for those with no alternative, but instead with forcing it on those that do.
> but this "most of the time" will bite you when you stop looking at specific reviews and driver support and just buy a laptop.

I've never once looked at reviews. The only time I've been bitten in the last 20 years was when given a MBP for work (the intel model with butterfly keys).

There's definitely edge cases out there. But these days they're exactly that: edge cases.
For some immunocompromised people, this is their only real option – because the rest of us aren't wearing masks.
I didn't think you had any evidence.

All sorts of common knowledge has been utter BS. This sort of moral panic stuff is a class of canonical examples.
The Java shops you're thinking of didn't disable GC during working hours, they just sized the generations to avoid a collection given their normal allocation rates.

But there were / are also plenty of trading shops that paid Azul for their pauseless C4 GC. Nowadays there's also ZGC and Shenandoah, so if you want to both allocate a lot and also not have pauses, that tech is no longer expensive.
Yes, rescue makes no difference.
I don’t know that nature rewards anything. But with our power to make moral judgments comes a response to do so.
Yes, you could make the same argument for humans. I’m an antinatalist and so should everyone be too.
Hard no. When this services burst, every subscription made through it will die as well. Remember Stoop[1], “a newsletter app” which did the same trick? It's abandoned and stoped working a couple months ago.

[1] https://stoopinbox.com/
100% agree, and in my case its a service-based business so overhead is much higher per additional client vs an additional SaaS signup.

And 1 problem client, even if they pay 80% of our higher tier pricing, can lead to major headaches across the board.

Something we learned (and are continually learning) is vetting clients as much as they vet us, versus just trying to get the sale.

Funny enough, being more stern on pricing, what we offer, and in general our boundaries of what we cover has led to higher satisfaction from clients and our team.
I found it fun; reminded me of Manna. What do you recommend that you enjoyed more?
Sideberry for Firefox has settings that allow changing how new tabs behave. One of the settings allows placing new tabs on top of the list.
A song with a volume that goes crescendo. Sleeping with the window open, so you'll start getting sun-light with gradually increasing power starting at dawn and you'll tend to ease into waking up, and you'll notice you'll wake up earlier.

Birds help. I've planted a dozen trees near the house fifteen years ago. Now they're huge (three stories high) and attract all kinds of birds, and the chirping definitely helps start the day and tops any alarm clock.
Hydro dam failures can cause mass destruction and evacuations of entire cities. Nuclear is not unique in this aspect.
Wardriving for a place to Live
Virtually shoplift your favorite goods
> Why do we say that Nvidia does not have enough driver support on linux?

It's a long story.

Nvidia has provided pretty-good datacenter/CUDA support on Linux for a long time, now. The problem is desktop Linux. Nvidia wanted to focus on supporting the old x11 desktop server at a time when most distros were switching to Wayland as a replacement. Nvidia tried to fix the issue by giving Linux devs a proprietary render API to develop Wayland support on, but it was largely rejected since it required writing a lot of platform-specific code. For a few years, the only way to properly accelerate Wayland on Nvidia hardware was to use the reverse-engineered Nouveau drivers that broke most desktop software - a catch-22 for Nvidia users that wanted a more updated desktop experience.

Very recently, a few things started changing. For one, Nvidia started to shuffle around their proprietary GPU code to make their hardware more open and modular. For two, starting with 510-series drivers and continuing through 535 and 555, Nvidia has started to make Wayland support a priority. In the long-term this should resolve the issue of Nvidia GPUs requiring special workarounds to support modern desktops.
IANAL but yea probably? Same as any cloud server.

I’m not sure of an AGPL game or technology would ever be knowingly used inside a cloud service
Bought an AMD GPU as my most recent graphics card for this reason. I was able to play just about all my Windows games without issue, except for multiplayer games that rely on anticheat that does not run on Linux.

When Win10 goes out of support I'll probably be using Linux as my daily driver for the foreseeable future, so I'm glad Valve put in the work.
What if the prelife consists of eternal torture for everyone who has yet to live?
OP is talking about WSL.

I've seen some technical documentation, such as readmes for source code, that assumes the user is on a Windows laptop running WSL. At this point in time if I see anything mentioning Ubuntu I just assume it's written with WSL/Azure in mind.
Inoreader let's you subscribe to email newsletters and have them show up in your reader
We seem to use fairly modern systems out here. They do appear to be programmed in a ripple type green wave progression depending on congestion. You'll hit one or two reds for every five or six intersections.

The intersection I have in mind has a left turn on it. The left turn is not timed and will only cue under two conditions: at the opening phase to main traffic, and if there is no oncoming traffic for the initial ten (or so) seconds. Otherwise it waits until the entire phase is complete (with a 120 second timeout) before it resets. At night time it will cue almost immediately.

One question that I have though, and you'll have to pardon my ignorance. Would it be efficient for intersections to always be red until a vehicle approaches? Then only allow X number of vehicles before turning red again. Basically turning the traffic signal into an "advanced" stop sign, with the expectation that you stop by default. Unless the system detects there is no cross traffic. Then you can have much more rapid phases and it protects against folks racing to the next green (red when they arrive) light.
Same conclusion here.

At my last job we had a customer who was famous for doing this. Since he generated a significant amount of sales, we couldn't just sideline him, so I learned to only ask one question at a time on email. Otherwise, if you asked e.g., three questions, it was a complete tossup as to which one he would decide to answer, all the while reminding you that this was a "hair on fire" issue for him.

Compounded with the fact that he was on another continent, multiple time zones away, this made debugging anything a difficult proposition.

We had another customer for the same product in the same country who had absolutely no problem answering whatever questions you asked him, in as much detail as he could supply. It has to be a personality thing.
It's not the Canadian fave that is the Bloody Caesar (where you add clam juice, of all things)
"The Novelty Nuclear Missile: You never know when it will go off!"
It just becomes a pain (slower) to get things, but if it's worth reading I think people still manage to get what they need.

Nowadays you can pay extra for open access even in a closed access journal and most do- so there are very few truly closed articles published anymore. It is mostly accessing older literature where it becomes a problem, but of course there are ways to get anything, especially if you are tech savvy. Most people in academia have access through some other means- their local public library, alumni access through the schools they went to previously, etc. ResearchGate has also semi-automated the 'request a copy from the author' route. People keep requesting my open access articles through that, which is annoying.
Try creating something mocking Xi Jinping.
The what now? Tacomas are still a thing are they not? And both Ford and Chevy revamped and reintroduced their mid-sized truck offerings in the last 5 years.
Microsoft's revised Recall AI feature will roll out to beta testers in October
There are people that love high trucks like that and simply do not care that it makes their truck more dangerous to others just for their own aesthetic preferences. It's simply not their problem. Some would even claim the added danger is a feature that incentivizes others to stay out of their way.