skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tether to launch stablecoin pegged to UAE's dirham
Copycat weight-loss drugs are becoming big business
Those who profited from the grifts aren't going to have to cough up their gains. For them, the system worked. Improved systems require treating this operating model like insider risk.
> It is absolutely possible to serve recommendations in a content agnostic way based on other user behavior

Indeed, and I assume that's why the home page is full of sports and music when I'm not logged in. (Or was recently, it now shows a blank page).

I'm a very strange person: I don't have any interest in sports, and will listen to perhaps 2 or 3 bits of music every week — if I've heard a piece before, I generally find it predictable and by extension dull, unless some prior association of positive feelings can override that.
That chart doesn’t say what you think it says

Fatalities per mile and injuries per mile are down, and the safety/security systems are strictly net benefits. Americans are driving more than in the past and in more vehicles. The real issue is that Americans do t give a shit anymore, are distracted as hell, and in general trust in society has declined. Low trust societies have insane road cultures, and the decaying state of the average driver is a reflection on the decaying state of Anerica trust in society.
It is only through technology that we have swelled so comfortably to our present populations. Arguably there are periods throughout history where technology has allowed super growth and the prosperity of artificially maintained populations (sic., Rome and aquifers)

What happens when a population cannot be maintained? Collapse. Whether by resource starvation (the poorest and most vulnerable go first) or conflict (populations invest in warfare.)

For students of history/lit, it may be anecdotal to know that "Odysseus" doesn't mean adventurer who goes around trying to find his way home it means "child of anger." Why was our hero named so? "For there are so many people in the world, and it makes me so very angry" (the uncle of Odysseus upon his naming.)

So according to some accounts, the Trojan war and many other conflicts of those times (the "sea people"), were cataclysms instigated by excessive populations for those times in human societal (technological) evolution.
> I rapidly learned never to use that word within earshot of my managers.

Stands to reason. Agile, in the Manifesto sense, defines the considerations to consider should managers be eliminated from the picture. Nobody is going to be comfortable knowing that their job is on the chopping block.
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Does multi-region replication also go under the apache license?
Eli Lilly's weight loss drug slashes the risk of diabetes in long-term trial
In general, most people's honest estimates are lowballing it. :)

Seriously though, you want to give an honest estimate. What helps at the sales stage is providing _context_ for the estimate. In other words, don't just quote a figure, break the job down into a project plan with time/cost estimates for each section.

When I was consulting and going after large, somewhat ill-defined projects, I found it was often possible to sell the client on a short (1 to 2 week) engagement to look into their problem, drill down on the unknown bits and make them known, and deliver them a project plan and a set of time/cost estimates that they could then use to better solicit bids. Yes, we usually got the development work on those gigs, but it was a separate project.
Meanwhile musk with his truck is like "YOU won't be the one who gets injured if there's an accident!"
But aren't most estimates low?
I can confirm, last night my internet was not working, and a sonos speaker started randomly playing an alarm. I tried using the app to disable it but it requires the internet to manage your local speakers. I don't recall this being the case with the early version of the apps.
Rust generally uses lexical scoping, and each function/closure has a unique (possibly anonymous) type per definition, not a type per call. I would therefore expect local types to be per definition too, so the behavior seems fine to me.
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Zoom Webinars can now host 1M attendees
Is this a PR thing? I can hardly imagine a use-case for this.
Because of this mismatch there aren't many young folks with these skills; expect these salaries to flip around once most of the experts retire.
Can you provide more info about this?
That feature goes back way longer.

Internet Explorer 4 (Windows) with Active Desktop was the first time I’ve encountered HTML as a wallpaper. The performance was terrible on most computers of that time but you have to bear in mind we were talking about a few hundred megs of RAM being “high end”.
I went to Sonos because I had invested in some Airplay speakers and they just didn't work correctly even though I have an 100% Apple eco-system. Once I went to Sonos, it just worked.
My friend used to carry a copy of the driving regulations and confront motorists who got angry when he took up a lane. Obviously though this doesn't scale (either time or quantity wise).
>You need to develop a polite but curt tone of voice for customer support.

And very focused responses in terms of action items.

You might think of 3 things to say, check, but sadly 90% of the people you respond to with a list will behave like they read just one of them. Sadly this also leads to dragging things out for everyone who can handle more than one thing at a time :(
Were they a Nissan, dodge, or Chrysler driver? I’ve noticed drivers of these three brands are extra terrible, and the RAM 1500 has the highest (by far) DUI rate for any vehicle.

If you drive any of those brands I will treat you like a maniac, and I’m usually right.
The first time I hear an american acknowledge lifting 800 million people out of poverty is good and commendable i'll concede any other country is close in terms of brainwashing skills
> Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected U.S. president in 1952, promising to take a harder line against communism, and his staff members John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles had significant links to the United Fruit Company.

Yup, it was all about keeping those commies out.
We could have NeWs, but we got X11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work (2022)
I'm really enjoying the experience of Zen. I appreciate a ~modernish~ style and UX paradigm on a browser that isn't chrome based. Keep it up!
That's a good argument for independent throttle control being possible, but it's not a good argument for that being the default. When working with safety critical systems (which throttle control absolutely is), it's important to have sensible, easy to understand defaults. The more steps you have to take to do the "correct" thing, the more likely it is that someone screws up one of those steps.
I use the same type of soft potentiometer they use, and I find them kind of expensive. That constantan wire sounds somewhat promising but then all that custom work of winding onto a string and polishing sounds difficult or costly. I wonder if there is some sort of fishing line or something that would have useful electrical resistance.
Since we are generalizing.

Runner here, I only communicate with cyclists by means of rude hand gestures because cyclists think they own the road and leave no room for pedestrians. At the stop sign near my house, not one cyclist slows down or stops and infact many have yelled at me when I am running across. V2V probably wont solve this problem but I wish cyclists start to yield to pedestrians and stay a safe distance away from us runners because we dont want to get hit by cyclist folks.
Sometimes you just want to JSON-encode a []struct{<ad hoc stuff>} or something like that, so it’s entirely reasonable to use a func-local named type rather than repeating the anonymous struct.

And to gp: if your func local type ends up observable and even testable, of course it shouldn’t be func local. Otherwise you’re describing testing implementation rather than behavior, indicating you’re writing bad tests.
Probably not. However i think (after copius println debugging and lots of time) i'd probably be able to narrow it down to which line the unexpected behaviour was happening. From there i would google the language construct, and hopefully get something useful.

The art of debugging isn't memorizing all the foot guns, its narrowing the problem down enough that you can deal with the foot guns you have never heard of before.
I bet this is what people felt when JavaScript was first demoed on the web.

In the year 2077, when each font will run it's own virtual machine on WASM containing a "minimal" Ubuntu image, some enlightened blogger will suggest server side rendered fonts as a performance improvement.
The other, equally unpopular, solution is more stringent standards for getting a license and mandatory periodic re-tests to confirm you still know how to drive. It's way too easy to get a license in North America and many people forget everything they needed to learn to get one in short order.
Reading the discussion, I see the developers intend to never sign their OSX package. This is a pretty big red flag for me, shows that the developer isn't really serious about supporting OSX.

Too bad, I was excited by the idea, but this is just unprofessional and I really need to trust my browser.
Surely you don't believe that? After Clarence Thomas and his lifelong friendship with Harlan Crow - it must be a whole lot cheaper and easier to buy off less important federal judges.
Hypothetically, anything can happen.

A "senior" cosplaying as junior can easily turn into conflict and deadlock when people feel their toes being stepped on by someone beneath them.

A junior cosplaying as senior reflects a situation with nepotism or favouritism. They are typically routed-around, quietly, by the people with relevant competence and jobs to do.

Real believable seniority is actually important in eliminating friction.
I agree with the premise and conclusions, but what struck me, particularly, about this was how well it was written. Thanks to the author for a super piece.
I thought the same, but I was not sure, so I searched for the answer, and surely the NIST page "Daylight Saving Time Rules" [1] would be definitive? Unfortunately, its statement of the rule [2] seems ambiguous, in that it uses '2 a.m.' without qualifying it as local time (though the example does.) Is there a rule saying that times expressed as a.m. (or p.m., I suppose) are always local time (in whatever context they appear, which could also be a cause of ambiguity) unless explicitly qualified otherwise?

[1] https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/popular...

[2] At present, daylight saving time in the United States begins at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday of March (at 2 a.m. the local time time skips ahead to 3 a.m. so there is one less hour in that day) [and] ends at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of November (at 2 a.m. the local time becomes 1 a.m. and that hour is repeated, so there is an extra hour in that day.)
My blog. Used to have to do a lot of customization, such as image resizing, custom formatting every time I wanted to post something.

Now I have a custom plug-in that I wrote for obsidian that lets me click a button which exports the markdown note, optimally resizes all of the related videos and images, sends them to a static side generator, seamlessly uploads to GitHub and runs a GH action that publishes it to my VPS.

Downside is that I don't have as much of an excuse for being lazy when it comes to authoring new content.
It has to do with wheel base and fuel consumption. Trucks are exempt from many parts of the fuel guidelines. Yet there is a segment of our population that need/want trucks. However, try buying a small truck in the US. It is pretty tough to do so, because of those regulations. The regulations need to be revisited to make more sense, but for some reason they are set in stone.
I suspect the number of cops per capita also matters a lot. The U.S. seems to have very few by the standards of western countries, especially European ones, even though we have a more violent society.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/police-officers-per-1000-...

There are a lot of reforms that would have to be carried out to U.S. departments to essentially keep from just turning new recruits into more bad apples, but some of the problem may be that from the cops' point of view they just don't have time to deal with any crap. It might be weird to suggest that part of the problem with bad cops is not enough cops, and it's definitely not an excuse, but I bet it's a reason.
A nuclear power plant has strategic importance like an airport or a bridge.

Ukraine's military response is limited because the power plant is extremely valuable (monetarily as well as energy it produces) and they don't want to break it. But that's not what you argued.

I get the impression your argument changed from radiation risk to risk of electricity shortage. But if that is your concern you presumably would be fine with a country having many small nuclear reactors instead of a handful of large ones. But I suspect you'll change your argument again to make the case that small nuclear reactors are somehow bad, too.
I've read the README and watched the video, but I'm still not sure what this is doing? I know it can "synthesize [a] font at runtime", so does that mean it's creating a random handwritten font as you type? But it's not based on the user's handwriting?
I've recently made a similar (more modular) project which compiles various features and patches them into a Firefox profile. It can compile themes, hardening, userscripts, userstyles and more into a clean firefox profile, basically removing the bloat from firefox while still being fully customizable: https://github.com/explosion-scratch/firebuilder
> I just think that a toast should also be displayed

As long as it can be disabled. I find toasts to be actively bad and don't want them to happen at all.
> Do you want to have a good faith conversation about this? Because going back to debating the meaning of "understanding" after I already said this was misleading is not a good way to have a conversation.

Call it "understanding", call it "content aware analysis". I guarantee that their closed captioning service has much more of that quality than this new feature does.

> Can we set up a baseline that there is a difference between content agnostic analysis and content aware analysis? Transcripts are content agnostic in that they can be produced without any comprehension of the words said. This feature is content aware in that it is looking for specific meaning in the words said. Do you not see any difference between these two?

Again, I don't see it. CCs are not content agnostic: they have to have semantic understanding of the words said in order to produce accurate results. How do you think CCs differentiate between the words "to", "too" and "two" without looking at the surrounding words and having some idea of contextual usage? How do you think CCs can tell between "there" and "they're" without understanding if the speaker is referring to a person or a location? This is only the tip of the iceberg as to how CCs actually work, and more "content aware analysis" will always lead to more accurate CCs.
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe... - see the chart labeled "Total national health expenditures, US $ per capita, 1970-2022".

We've been seeing healthcare costs (and premiums, which largely have to match those) go up in pretty much a straight line since at least 1970.
...and now the modern equivalent is the Giga Press: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/09/teslas-giga-press-has-l...
It turns into this endless cycle of "we need to ban this and ban this and ban this" and never looking at the actual cause of the problem. Just the government creating more work for itself and creating more laws to control people's actions.

I think the stigma point is definitely true, but it's not doing anything to improve things. Obeise people are looked down at by society, but in the US 70% of the population is obese and the number just keeps growing. The natural incentive system is broken by government programs. Why should I bother eating healthy and limit my diet when I can just get health insurance when I get diabetes?
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I disagree. If I define two modules

mod one {
struct Cat { name: String }
}

and

mod two {
struct Cat { name: String }
}

I have two distinct types called Cat which are not equivalent.

one::Cat != two::Cat // doesn't compile but illustrates the point, I hope

Similarly, when I call a function I create a new environment (think, stack frame) for each call which contains values that are distinct from all other calls. I would expect the same to hold for types defined within a function.
Seems to me a technically advanced enough system like this should probably combine the independent throttles with the steering to some extent? I'm talking out of my rear possibly, but like if a severe enough turn radius was used, maybe then automatically adjust the throttles to make it possible in combination with the rudder?

(as a default)
They violated a very important rule.

Things You Should Never Do Part 1:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Or they get angry and make aggressive maneuvers that put you and others at greater risk. Yes, motorists should just get used to sharing the road with cyclists, but reality is usually a compromise between what is the theoretically safest option vs what is the safest practical option given the current road conditions and the skill of surrounding drivers.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/How-Much-Faster-is-Fas...
says it has to be a mobile device. I need something that works everywhere across all my devices.
I can relate to so much of this! I've had a couple of relatively successful B2C products take off as side products in my time, and it is very hard not to develop a personal involvement in the support requests; whereas the detached, time-boxed, semi-automated approach is by far the best way to prevent it from taking over your life. Ultimately you're not a charity (unless you are) and, unless you specify an SLA, you owe these people almost nothing: I tend to suggest offering an automatic refund to anybody dissatisfied for this reason: then invest 95% of your time in whatever makes 95% of the profits.
There is low and honest and low and dishonest.

It's one thing to quote a low fixed price and take the risk yourself but boy do you need some mechanism to prevent the customer from making too many changes.
Troubleshooting a simplehuman foam sensor soap pump that won't dispense soap
It's possible to add a pretty simple 50Hz/60Hz switch to any SNES or SFC console (just as on Mega Drive / Genesis, Saturn, Jaguar, and others), see eg. https://gamesx.com/importmod/snes5060.htm

I don't know if the timings will be EXACTLY* the same as on an actual console from the "other" region but should be pretty close, close enough to not really notice a difference in gameplay and make all the games I know about from the "other" region work correctly, assuming you bypass the lockout chip as well and aren't trying to play a game which detects a disabled lockout chip like the SA-1 games.

Often these 50/60Hz switch mods either don't switch the colour encoding at all (you get PAL60 which actually works on many, even older, European TVs and monitors, or NTSC50) or breaks it completely, but use RGB interconnects and that won't be a problem at all. IIRC a PAL SNES modified this way outputs PAL60, but it might have been just totally broken composite / s-video as well (which will show up as monochrome on any display).

(on Dreamcast, PS2, and later model PS1s hardware from all regions can actually do both colour encodings as well.)

On NES you really need to swap a couple of chips and a crystal to convert a PAL console to NTSC or vice versa, some other older systems as well.

*) I know that at least on the 1st PlayStation, a PAL console switched via software to 60Hz doesn't have exactly the same timings as a real NTSC console, also vice versa, but the difference is so minor that at least I never even noticed, just read about it years later on the Internet, IIRC it was either the shmups.system11.org forum or some Mednafen developer comments on their website where I saw this

(apologies if this is already touched upon on your site, haven't read those pages fully yet...)
Ok, so we get a really big heat pump that sends all the heat to space.
No auto/live/hot reload, just a well-maintained single (rust) binary static fileserver with .zip, upload, auth, & webdav.
The survey is exactly sociological. This involves perception: "how do you evaluate your day of yesterday = what is the typical perception of the day of yesterday per population".

Which can be very telling. Of course the data is to be interpreted.
There's a third case: dealing with folks who just aren't technically savvy enough to figure some things out on there own, no matter how intuitive, well documented, or fully featured your product is.

I think I'd rather troubleshoot with a well-scripted AI chatbot, than a human being who's forced into the role of an automaton - executing directly from a script. Just, FFS, let me escalate to an actual competently trained human being once I've been through the troubleshooting.
Could you provide some screenshots? I’d love to see what your desktop looks like with this configuration.
What’s the title of the documentary?
I feel very strongly that collaboration is perversely demonized, and that language models are used to delay or even defer collaboration.

I can cite junior devs who use ChatGPT instead of asking for a pair, and I have had to very, extremely emphatically reassure them that I was available—and enthusiastically so! This kind of shyness is historically typical of juniors, but I see the use of language models as an obstacle to their development.
Holy shit I’d support this. Far too many incompetents on the road, and yes they should be required to wait for better drivers.

Germany has so much better driving norms on its highways since the lack of speed limits enables those who are fast to force those who are slow to stay in the right lane where they belong.
Normalizing to a zoned date (vs. an epoch representation) during a transition period is problematic. During the transition periods (unique to each daylight time zone) the temporal distance between timezones changes (increases or decreases by 1) temporarily.
I imagine that the manufacturers' fleets will be driving 24/7--a parked car is an investment that's not paying off at this moment. If they last 5 years, that'll be doing pretty good.

If you want to own one for exclusive personal use, you'll be doing so in an environment that's increasingly unsympathetic to your needs as somebody with a fleet size of one and a customer base of one.
Show HN: Log2fluent – send logs to Fluent over TCP/Unix sockets
log2fluent is a command line tool (written in Go) that sends application logs to a Fluent server (e.g. Fluent Bit, Fluentd) via the Fluent Forward Protocol as structured log data.

Adopted from my blog original post "Utilizing Pipes for High Performance Log Management": https://cyral.com/blog/utilizing-pipes-for-high-performance-...

It's mostly useful for situations where you don't want to ever write logs to disk and you don't want to update your app's code to send logs directly to Fluent.

Check it out at:

https://github.com/ccampo133/log2fluent

The README has a bunch more information as well as some example usage. Thanks!
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