skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
totally understand where you're coming from, but I think there's a difference between being aware of your emotions and trying to suppress or fake them. The article isn't suggesting that we should be constantly 'on' and pretending to be someone we're not. Rather, it's about developing self-awareness and learning to manage our emotions in a way that's authentic and sustainable.

Recognizing the stimuli that trigger our emotions is a great first step, but it's not just about rationalizing it away. It's about understanding what's driving our emotions and learning to respond in a way that's healthy and constructive. This takes practice, patience tho
Did it derive from ultimate, or ultra (beyond unix)? I assumed the latter.
Interesting. I have the exact opposite issue. Hypervigilance and all that.
Unlike cars, trains and subways can't get you door to door (especially in suburban areas)
The Arabic numerals are called Arabic because the Europeans got them from North African Arabs. They are different to the Indian numerals.
They generally have a very latency sensitive input/rendering loop. Performance analysis can be challenging, but with the right tools it can be much easier.
I think you can consciously learn a skill by practicing it enough. You can choose to project positivity and like most things in life, fake it until you make it.

>feel like a form of emotional labor that can be exhausting and unsustainable

There definitely some wisdom in knowing when to draw back for your own sanity.
interestng read. I've always been curious about how to generate realistic-sounding fictional addresses. The author's use of real-world street patterns and naming conventions is a good touch. Has anyone else used this guide or similar resources for writing purposes?
I wonder whether oak gall ink is vegan. The larvae of the gallflies (actually wasps) that grow in oak galls emerge as adults in early summer, according to the Wildlife Trust, leaving the gall mostly intact. Thus, theoretically, it should be possible to make oak gall ink without harming any animals. It would still be an animal product, but produced only from by-products of a wild animal. But then again, perhaps changes in the chemical composition of the gall throughout the larvae's development make such late-harvested galls unsuitable for ink production.
I downloaded a puzzle game for iOS and was enjoying it. I was maybe 5 or 8 levels in and of course it got harder. But the last level was literally impossible to complete without some additional purchase. I tried a few ways just to prove that it was a trap. And it was.

I have literally not played an iOS game since that moment.
No. Support for remaining in the EU is incredibly high.

In fact, these economic arrangements with MNC’s are rather unpopular - especially given native businesses don’t get the same tax breaks.
I’m planning a side project starting in October 2024, and it’s a big one. I have ambitious goals for it. Are there any recommended tools to help open-source projects stay focused and avoid distractions, especially when the initial phase could take over six months? I’m familiar with GitHub’s tools but would like to know about other best practices in this situation. Especially on project planning and other stuff.
This is great news for people who want to buckle themselves into an uncontrollable 70 mph thin-metaled panopticon : P

I remember reading that these Waymo cars haven't been allowed onto highways until now. If thats true I wonder how that will change these statistics since that dramatically increases the need for the vehicle to think and perform...
To be fair, the footage they showed him was just not good. They tried to play it off as as horror genre clip, but knowing how bad "AI" is/was at the time makes me think that wasn't the original intent. That was uploaded 7 years ago. GenAI has made improvements since, but it still doesn't dispel his point
htis is a great hack! I've been looking for a way to measure DC currents without breaking the bank. Has anyone tried using a similar setup with a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino to create a more robust and accurate measurement system?
I’m a huge public transit fan, but let’s not let perfect be the enemy of better.

I live at a train stop in SF. I take a bus to work. Public transit is great. I still use Waymo sometimes because coverage isn’t always amazing at all times. Sometimes I’m in a rush, sometimes I want some privacy, sometimes I’m carrying some heavy things.

Replacing low-occupancy human driven vehicles with low-occupancy robot driven vehicles is good if they’re safer. Today, they’ve proven to be safer. Today, lives are saved because a human driver chose not to drive. If a private individual wants to pay more (<2x, not a single order of magnitude), then let them. There is no reason that the private introduction of self driving cars needs to stop the investment in public transit.

Let us save lives on the road to the future, even if some stops along the way aren’t your chosen stops.
FWIW the issue is not mostly the builders—the issue is contracting practices and program management/oversight. California HSR hired (among other contractors) Dragados, which has a long history of building huge amounts of HSR in Spain at some of the world’s lowest costs. Look how that’s gone.

Nor is the problem “bureaucracy” as a sibling comment said—actually the opposite is true, we need more “bureaucrats” with technical expertise to oversee contractors so the taxpayers don’t get our lunch eaten. We have gutted all technical expertise from government and now we often outsource the oversight to even more contractors (sometimes the same ones doing the designing and building!). Results are predictable.

We also have a huge problem with litigation and “regulation by litigation” as a replacement for actual “bureaucratic” oversight. Agencies conduct insanely expensive years-long public feedback programs and environmental studies (never mind that electric rail is innately good for the environment) for fear of lawsuits, which happen anyway and delay things even more. Instead of regulation by litigation, the government should step up and provide a clear set of achievable regulations, and if agencies/companies meet them, they can start building.

The countries that do rail infrastructure really well and really cheaply are not always the ones you expect—some are stereotyped as lazy and bureaucratic (Italy, Spain) and some are thought to be places where everything is expensive (Switzerland, Norway). We have a lot to learn, but often we tell ourselves that it just can’t apply to us because we’re so exceptional.

For details on the specific problems and solutions: https://transitcosts.com/
Heads up would have been explaining this at the time and not silently transferring ownership of the domain to a second for-profit entity with no lead up and no announcement [0]. I'd have thought that after the trademark fiasco you'd have learned to be more open about your intentions for your for-profit arms, but it seems you might have taken the opposite lesson.

[0] This announced Gitea Cloud but gave no explanation for why a second for-profit was created instead of just using the already-controversial Gitea Ltd: http://web.archive.org/web/20231127091431/https://blog.gitea...
On one hand, I completely agree that deliberate practice and intentional positivity can be powerful tools for growth and skill-building. The 'fake it till you make it' approach can be especially helpful for building confidence and momentum.

I think the key is finding that balance between pushing ourselves to grow and being kind to ourselves when we need to rest. It's okay to take a step back, recharge, and prioritize our own well-being. In fact, that's often where the real growth happens - in the moments of quiet reflection and self-care.
Aren't you just reinventing Red Hat?
But intellectual property has traditionally been property for a long time. Copyright isn’t a recent invention.
It isn't made for humans anymore.
I trust your product is as good as you say it is but I'm looking at the website trying to suss out why.

I'd love it if you could just tell me exactly what sets it apart. A lot of the language reads as abstract marketing fluff like boosting my productivity and the like.

Maybe you could tell me what is bad about trello, asana, jira etc that you sought to fix with your product?

I would also ditch the ai image at the top. It kind of sends the message you phoned it in when making the website. You'd be better off just showing the product itself right from the start.
The first image on the marketing page is an AI-generated picture of a person staring back. At best it's unsettling, and at worst it makes me wonder how authentic of a user experience the app can offer. Above-the-fold, first landing page content is valuable real estate. Ethically/copyright-ambiguous, inauthentic marketing is a strange thing to value imo.
They're realistically humanoid (two arms, two legs, head with 2 forward-facing eyes and mouth), which is more than I can say for a lot of AI-generated "art" I've seen.
> And what's with the obsession with aesthetics?

Aesthetics are important! Especially for home use, where you might be looking at your systems all the time.
Worked here. Changed my mind on SQLite. Hipp worked alongside us. SQLite can be crazy performant:

https://use.expensify.com/blog/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a...
This happens on train routes through towns (or, towns that developed where trains stopped) and the track is at an angle to North. Frequently the first few blocks nearest the track are aligned to the track, and then the town says “wait a minute” and suddenly everything orients to the cardinal directions
20% of patients have symptoms and all carriers are at risk of developing cancer.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2350/

0.5MB RAM and 4MB of flash might not sound like a lot, but that's plenty for many micro computer system environments.
I didn't say suppress or fake your emotions, I said to rationalize them.

If they are irrational you prevent the emotional knee-jerk response in the first place.

If they are rational then you know the root cause to work through so you can fix the issue.

For those rational emotional responses, recognizing the stimuli can still be helpful. It's still stressing, but you know the exact problem and can work to resolve it, the opposite of suppressing it.
Congrats on shipping! Not gonna lie, the AI generated images of people on your landing page give me the creeps. Especially the very first one.
Getting a salvage title Tesla and converting any other cars to use the Tesla drivetrain quite popular on my Youtube.
Who does that style animation today? It seems so much of it is 3D animated with a cell style render. I'm not an anime fan, so maybe somebody is still doing cell based animation, but that would blow my mind. So breaking into the industry seems very strange to me.
Hi. I am told that this was basically me when I was young. Picky eater, vomiting, consistently 5th percentile on the growth charts. And to top it off my favorite food was, you guessed it, McDonald's chicken nuggets. My parents tried all sorts of things–making my "favorite" foods, repeatedly serving the same food until I would eat it (I wouldn't), begging and pleading, various punishments. None of it really worked.

Well, I grew out of it in my teenage years. No guarantee that your daughter will too but I figured you might want to hear that there might be hope in your future :)

P.S. I am vegetarian now. Go figure.
Something you know is there, but you can't explain
Isn't this just salary benchmarking. It's been happening for ages. As far as I know they submit the data anonymously with only your job title. so that companies can benchmark their pay ranges against others for the same role. It forces upward pressure on wages for some companies too.
I feel ya my own brain is a chaotic attractor, and trying to pin down a single theme is like trying to hold water in my fist. I've come to accept that my writing is a reflection of my curiosity-driven ADHD, and that my 'audience' is likely just fellow travelers in the land of tangential interests.

dat being said, I've found that embracing the chaos can be liberating. Instead of trying to force a theme, I focus on creating a 'personal API' - a collection of loosely connected ideas and interests that can be mixed and matched in unexpected ways.

those who can maintain focus on a single domain, I'm in awe. But for the rest of us, perhaps the key is to find ways to create a cohesive narrative thread through the chaos, rather than trying to impose order on it. Anyone else out there struggling to tame the snow globe of their own mind?
Post title made me laugh a little bit
What do you mean? Amazon has the hardcover listed for sale.
Waymo is a money hole it has never got close to making a profit. Think of all that equipment attached to a luxury SUV and the upkeep. The purpose of Waymo is research - you just get the privilege of paying to be a guinea pig. There is no market for Waymo - just Google who dumps money on it.

Another important thing to think about is that Uber and Lyft are operated by people. Often these working people need the meager salary to live - wouldn't you rather support your local economy instead of being a research subject?
Why is that? Especially if you have a read-heavy application, what is the scaling limit you're worried about?
> At best it's unsettling

To say the least... This one looks like something out of a horror movie.

We've had models that can generate realistic looking people and coherent text for a while now, if they're going to insist on using an AI generated image (for some reason) at least make it a good one. Or better yet just mock up a product image that shows off what you're actually selling.
honestly, I've always thought the focus on aesthetics was a bit... superficial. I mean, who cares what the thing looks like as long as it gets the job done? But the more I think about it, the more I realize that's a pretty utilitarian view. If I'm going to be staring at this thing for hours a day, shouldn't I want it to be visually appealing? And let's not forget, a well-designed system can actually make troubleshooting and maintenance easier. I've seen some beautifully cable-managed rigs that make it a joy to work on. Maybe I've been wrong to dismiss aesthetics all these years... you've got a point, aesthetics maybe matter.
Exactly, the scenario of everybody using a robotaxi should be compared to the scenario of everybody using taxis but not because of the requirements for obtaining a license. Instead I expect taxi drivers to drive safely because 1) their customers would report them if they drive dangerously and 2) crashes would prevent them from working and cost them the income of several days or worse.
It supports QSPI PSRAM natively. So it’ll be a lot faster than doing in manually on ATSAMD21
you're advocating for a proactive approach to emotions, where we acknowledge and rationalize them to prevent irrational responses, while still allowing ourselves to feel and work through rational emotions. This approach seems to strike a balance between emotional awareness and emotional regulation.

I think this is a great way to approach emotions, and it's refreshing to see a nuanced discussion about emotional intelligence.
While not generally available at this voltage level, SiC VJFETs do not have an SOA limit (on drain-source current and voltage; the p-n junction from the gate to the source-drain channel has current limits for non-capacitive current (i.e., forward conduction and reverse biased avalanche mode; though with a high enough gate impedance in the off-state the drain-source connection is avalanche proof to full drain current for as long as it takes for the channel to reach it's ~500C limit)).

It's generally sad that power JFETs are so neglected, because e.g. a normally-on switch in a buck eliminates the auxiliary startup supply, and the absence of a gate oxide allows designing with the junction's clamping activity in mind. Also the forward conduction gate-source is a diode temperature sensor literally right at the channel.
Hey why not just offer the advice instead of commentary about money? I’m all for critiques of why 12U rack might be a wrong or right choice, and if the author is such a snob they can’t handle some nice advice then there are plenty of people here to discuss it with. If you’re happy to offer advice, please do. Your post comes off as elitist and diminishes your trust. Delivering the actual advice is more valuable than an attacking rant. Computers are often a consumer hobby, so it’s ridiculous to complain about money.
Therapy helps. Building a stronger sense of self and with it, more internal boundaries between your thoughts and beliefs and those of others.

I'm this way as well, and it's like your emotions are totally porous, absorbing everything from those around you. It's a blessing and a curse. Generally stems from a childhood where you had to be very in tune with the emotions of your caregiver in order to stay safe.
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> It's this disingenuous "even though nobody in this thread has expressed [...]"

No, what's disingenuous is your weird attempt to stifle an entirely on-topic discussion which has made you uncomfortable. You're suggesting that we may not criticize a stance or argument unless another Hacker News user has directly advocated for it. That's not how it works, or else we'd never be able to talk about things like the DMCA or Microsoft's forced-reboot update policy.

That said, how about we steer away from pure-meta personal attack posts to something that at least involves the original topic of markets and market-actors, starting with:

> I'm just going to make them up and pretend that an imaginary member of [group that I don't like] said them"

Your comment is saying--via sarcastic subtext--that I have "made up" items #1 and #2 and that (to substitute GP's term) "free-market ideologues" do not advance either argument about efficiency or cartel-risk.

Is that really what you believe and you'd be convinced otherwise by examples, or would you like to issue some non-sarcastic clarification?
You can unambiguously claim they are safer the moment Waymo reports parity with L5 automation criteria. Until that happens you're talking about a system that by Waymo's own admission under-performs human drivers.
First off, I don't know that Richard Hipp agrees with you about what roles SQLite is "meant" to be in.

Second: the reasons are straightforward:

* For read-heavy access patterns, SQLite is crazy fast.

* It's fast enough that you can often simplify your database access code; for instance, N+1 queries are often just not a problem in practice.

* SQLite removes a whole tier from the N-tier architecture, which in turn removes a whole set of things that can go wrong (and if you've ever managed your own Postgres or MySQL: things do go wrong).

It's not a perfect fit for every application, or even the majority of applications, but the push you're seeing is a correction against the pretty clearly false idea that SQLite is well suited only for "tiny embedded client-side application databases".
Good fun, please add wallpapers up to 4K!
Marrying someone doesn't make it your property...

Glad Australia is moving away from the marriage.
> A DNS provider could 10,000x your domain cost

DNS providers can't do this.

It's domain registries that can.
> As you say, the boundary is often about what pricing should be next year. But there's often a lot of nudge-nudge-wink-wink given good information about what prices and salaries are today.

Sure. Just like a lot of people steal office supplies from their employers or trade small scale on insider information. But that doesn’t mean you could or should build a website to enable that on an industrial scale. Same applies here IMHO.
What about both? You travel long distances using the subway and then your last mile is done on an auto-automobile.
This might be the inspiration I need to write up my homelab. I think it's otherwise suitable for /r/cablegore
Thanks for doing the math and making this concrete!

I think it’s interesting because:

1) it gives Waymo a higher target to shoot for - it hasn’t “solved” self-driving because its safer than the average driver. I am so impressed by Waymo, but I feel like some of this article smacked of premature “mission accomplished” vibes. The fact that it just accepted the comparison to average without caveat is an example of that.
2) As a matter of policy, everyone can agree that a Waymo ride home for the tipsy is good, but where policy will have issues is convincing good drivers such as my dad to take Waymos everywhere. Not to mention most drivers irrationally think they’re way better than average - that will affect policy in a real way.
You'd better follow through and do the thing you said though. If you start saying things when people are riled up and then don't do it... They're going to notice.
Are you talking about the web specifically, or more as a 'fundamental principle'?
It's possible to give constructive feedback without being mean-spirited.
the case for emergence is far from settled[1]

https://hackingsemantics.xyz/2024/emergence/

1 https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-genera...
Not really. I think you would be surprised if/when you cross over to the side of being an employer or maybe even a hiring manager. Its a different job sure (being the employer or directing work) but you and the people doing the work can choose to have an adversarial relationship or a cooperative relationship
... I'll let you take a guess which companies generally do better.
Taxi drivers are incentivized to drive as wrecklessly as possible (with a w). Safety is not their top priority, making money is.
That's why you have to build and live more densely. The US absolutely refuses to do that, outside of Manhattan and a few select other places. It won't be a place where local trains make any economic sense until this changes.

However, for your "door to door" point, that's not desirable anyway. Even here in Tokyo, you have to walk a lot to get between your home and work or wherever you're going. That's a big, big part of why people here are so much thinner than Americans. Having transport that takes you door-to-door without any significant walking is terrible for your health.
Indeed there's no benefit to users from an app being arbitrarily tied to the Play Store, but that's entirely equivalently so to how there's no benefit to users from any sort of DRM.

Perhaps "digital rights management" isn't exactly the thing to use here, but it's still the same general concept of "author of a specific piece of media/content/app adds an arbitrary technological restriction that doesn't directly benefit users in any way (while ideally not affecting intended proper users) but still potentially helps the author".

It's harder to see for free apps, but for paid ones it's utterly trivial - of course you're gonna have to buy it through the Play Store with a Google account if the author has decided to only sell it on the Play Store; and afterwards wanting to use it without Google Play interference is equivalent to wanting to access media without DRM after having bought it (i.e. reasonable desire, perhaps not even illegal to attempt to achieve through arbitrary means, but owners of the respective thing can still try their damnedest to prevent you from it).
(1) But the goal is also to get “random drivers” to stop driving. In theory, you may one day be able to own a private self-driving car, with the same safety record.

(2) Uber drivers have a reputation for being extremely aggressive and don’t need a special license. I’d also like to see how they compare.

(3) I do want to see the data you propose, because I think you’re fundamentally right.
> If that were true she would have won.

Not who you're discussing with, but Hillary did win the popular vote by about 3 million votes.