skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with 90 minute one way commutes

This is most every Houstonian I know, including previously me. Maybe that's unique to oil and gas where you live in Pasadena and then do jobs all over. Then again on a bad day Pasadena to the energy corridor could take an hour and a half...

IDK I guess this just reminds me of the time I had a conversation with this startup guy that was totally convinced that single moms working two jobs could totally pull themselves up by their bootstraps if they had an hour of freetime at night. "She can teach herself to code, or pick up another marketable skill, and use that to get a higher paying job."

I'm not sure if it's lack of empathy, or a lack of understanding of human energy as a resource, or maybe folks like you and that guy are just super awesome energetic people... oooor maybe it's a privileged position failing to understand the reality of burden and how much harder it is to make "the good decision" after 2 90 minute commutes and a day of degrading labor vs when one spends the day working from home at what ostensibly may be a hard job with long hours but still just isn't the same level of energy cost.

BTW there are 3.54 million truckers in the USA, lack of rail infrastructure created an absurdly massive class of people that are constantly in transit and genuinely have no options other than fast food. Oh wait, sorry, they could have a fridge in their truck they fill with overnight oats they prepare at home between jobs.

I think "choice" is a weirdly binary term in these kinds of conversations. We can all choose to run 5ks every day. You could choose to memorize every USA president and their home state. You could choose to start a garden - why don't you garden? It saves money, generates dopamine, and increases your resilience to market shifts in food costs. Why don't you choose to do pullups every day? Pullups are a very useful compound bodyweight exercise that improve strength and require literally no equipment other than a tree branch, and according to google, 99.9% of Americans live within a mile of a tree.
These games have negative externalities.

So does paternalism.
Yeah, the OSS aspect of FreeCAD is a win for sure.

With Solidworks, they have things like the "Maker" edition which is only US$48 per year:

https://www.solidworks.com/solution/3dexperience-solidworks-...

I grabbed a perpetual license for the Maker edition when it first came out (free at the time) though I don't think I ever got around to really using it. ;)
Has the ink on the Voynich manuscript been dated? As far as I know, not.

The parchment / vellum is dated to 1425 or so but the iron gall ink could be anywhere up to almost current day.

Is there any strong evidence of the age of the writing?
I'm curious how the check is implemented in Google Play Services. If it's based on the package manager's initiatingPackageName field, it should be trivial to bypass on rooted devices (or unrooted custom ROMs).
The challenges I’ve had with buck or boost conversion is on mixed signal boards where I have very sensitive analog circuits. The ripple and switching noise on the output can make you lose bits on ADCs, or show up on a DAC quite easily. It’s easy to get a buck converter doing the right thing without horrible EMC/EMI if you’re careful and follow the manual, but it’s a lot harder to optimize for something like low noise without utilizing LDOs
Sony Turns to AI to Tackle Rising Animation Costs and Animator Shortage
Couldn’t agree more
That's a classic I haven't thought of in ages
> And therefore, comments can easily become outdated.

I am firmly of the opinion that keeping the comments up to date is part of the job of the developer. And if they're not doing it, they're not doing their job. It's no different than taking the time to write code that does the right thing, expresses the intent of what it's trying to do, etc. And, when code is peer reviewed, not including/updating comments in places where they are important should be a reason to send the code back to the developer.

I feel the same way about automated testing. They're both (testing and comments) way to make our code better; easier to understand, easier to maintain, more likely to be correct, etc.
>. This should always be done by experienced individuals with quality reagents and the proper lab equipment.

Naaa.
Same with prescription meds, open it up!
Isn't that how we found a drug for a Parkinson's mouse model? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP]

Big brother's job is not to control and ban certain behavior. California thinks this way and aggressively enumerates every possible bad thing they can conceive of and making it illegal. As if slipping on a banana peel were illegal. It's borderline insane, like why not make getting sick illegal or being poor illegal, why not make changing lanes without a turn signal illegal. Ethically as long as the instructions say, "do this wrong and you'll die, it's a garage door spring" people will know. Or "take this medicine, but if you don't check your liver/kidney/clotting you may well die". In big bright red letters.

Don't make it impossible to do freely. Just make it impossible to do without reading and agreeing to the fact that you understand the big red letters. Understand the risks. Medicine is all about patient autonomy and this is the opposite.
I’m beginning to suspect you are answering the wrong posts. If you are in fact replying to me, please note that I said:

I subscribe to the Times and am not anti-union.
Commenters in another thread recommend Mango Jelly tutorials.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41515552

https://www.youtube.com/@MangoJellySolutions
It's not so much about intentional v/s unintentional. Rather, it's about these proprietary features becoming the de facto standard on an open operating system. The decision will not be in the hands of the developer; rather it'll come top down where the management will say that we check for integrity. After all, who doesn't like some tegridy?
What's in a Name? A Guide to Zeiss Super Speeds
There is no animator shortage. They just don’t want to pay up.
No, it’s the input that’s disconnected
PyQt can be pretty snappy, but all it takes is a little ignorance implementing a slot method to tank performance. You really have to understand your program as a C++ event loop and not a regular Python application.
I've been really hoping someone makes an OBS plug-in to simulate the Max Headroom stutter.
You should look at ClickHouse which has good PHP client

[0] https://github.com/smi2/phpClickHouse
You don't own your device. We need a third party OS where root is the norm.
> why not make changing lanes without a turn signal illegal.

Funny you should say that, the California Vehicle Code (CVC) Section 22108 requires drivers to signal for at least 100 feet before making a lane change or turn. The fine is $240.

https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/vehicle-code/22108/
Sounds like we need to be preemptively taking out all the Product Monetization executives if they're so ready to start murdering people.
It's now possible. I work for a mvno that was recently acquired. We have a $5 pause plan. It has no data, voice or text, it just keeps your line active.
It's also quite expensive, at $6/TB/month. If you have a lot of data, that adds up quickly. Just for my 4TB backup drive, it's much cheaper to just use HDDs and rotate them myself.
You can recycle residential water as Vegas does, but you can't with irrigation since it picks up salinity from the land.
Another poster mentioned after taxes vehicles cost 1.5-2x of the US cost. There'd be more money for safety if they weren't so busy taxing the everliving shit out of car buyers.
I use fish personally. I don't see value in using a bash compatible shell for interactive use (I can run bash scripts anyway, just like I can run python and perl scripts)
Have you read any books at all by Indians who lived through the British empire. Maybe start with “My Experiments with Truth” by Gandhi. The caricature that some modern Indians have made of the British empire would make even Gandhi turn in his grave.

But if you want to read something really heretic, maybe try reading An autobiography of an unknown Indian by Niraj Choudhary. Choudhary was a British raj supporter, as in an Indian who opposed Indian independence. Does that shock you? There were actually quite a lot of them, more than you’d expect.

Then if you want to get really metal, read in his own words, by Subedar Sitaram Pande. Sitaram Pande, was a soldier for the bengal army, for the British empire from 1812 to 1860, it’s one of the rare first author accounts we get of an Indian in that era. It will give you a glimpse of how an Indian at that time thought generally (hint: it was far more dominated by caste than you’d expect), how he viewed the empire and his relation to it. At that point I would say you are ready to try to understand Indian history that is not an avengers movie plot.

I would follow it with CK Majumdars history of modern India, one of the best historians so committed to the truth that Nehru had to throw him out of the government and try to prevent him from writing his book. Don’t worry, he’s not an heretic, he was an Indian freedom fighter, but you will find that he was far more honest about his life under Britain, under Indian national Congress and the state of the country in different periods of time (he also has a 12 volume set covering India for over 2000 years that I never had a chance to complete).
Higher productivity in this environment pretty much universally translates to fewer staff on shift. It’s just another way to lower costs at the expense of non wealthy people. Why do you think it’s so hard to find help in any big box store nowadays? Or why most of them only have one or two cashiers working when lines get longer and longer?

PS: $18 an hour in the bay in 2024 might as well be under minimum wage. It’s unconscionably low if one wants to maintain any standard of living.
> Except Apple can't tell a good story about what you're actually supposed to do with the [Vision Pro] that people believe and buy in to.

The funny thing is that Apple is usually good at waiting to build and sell a product until customers are ready for it and want it (even if they don't realize they are ready and want it).

Vision Pro is a still just a cool tech demo. A very cool and very impressive tech demo, but still a tech demo. I don't mean that to say that it can't be a useful product, but Apple built it without a real market for it.

Maybe that's ok: maybe they need to build and sell the tech demo now in order to refine the tech so they can get to the actual product, with the real story, that they'll sell 5 or 10 or whatever years from now. Or maybe... yeah, maybe it's just a flop.
A related article I've always liked: Fictitious Minneapolis street addresses: A guide for writers.

https://southtwelfth.tumblr.com/post/56794633391/fictitious-...

Somewhat tongue-in-cheek article that explores the intricacies of our road system to come up with a fake address that sounds believable.
The interesting part about Minneapolis is that it has two grids. Early development occurred at angles to the Mississippi river, while later development straightened out to N-S and E-W orientation.
Baumol cost disease
Inductors are needed to allow for higher output current than the input current.
Wanna grab a virtual coffee? I have built some chrome extensions as well since recently. It’s fun! It would be fun to spar about extensions.

My email is in my profile.
But is that really a valuable goal? The market determines wages, and usually it's willing to favor sacrifices like a 24 hour oncall rotation. Don't those people deserve for the value of those sacrifices to be reflected in compensation?

"Equal pay for equal work" is a much more compelling goal in my view than "equal pay for unequal work".

Not to mention it's incentivize companies to cut the roles with artificially inflated wages. Imagine a government mandated that some component or material cost 15% more than market rate. You'd refactor your design with that new cost in mind, and reduce usage of that component. Similar deal with labor.
Dr. Robert Epstein: the influence and surveillance capabilities of Big Tech
I think it's really the integration between hardware and software, nearly all of which is under Apple's control. Most companies don't do vertical integration anymore, and it shows. It's harder to produce a polished product when the hardware parts come from a bunch of different manufacturers, and you have to fight to get your software to work on it.
This is already possible with #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
The value is in using the same language for scripting as interacting with the computer as a shell, so that you're more fluent in that language when it comes out writing things with that language.
Well one thing's for sure, the card does accurately represent that man as obnoxious.
There was a great talk[0] recently from Laravel core team member about ClickHouse, Probably you will enjoy watching it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jjvaFWWKqg
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The fact that checking primality has a deterministic algorithm is a recent Indian breakthrough.
With all due respect, if you are making calculang with the goal of creating a tool for others to use, you need to work on a concise and clear description of what calculang is and why it exists. I'm sorry but I still have no idea what it even fits into in the broadest categories of language, library, or conceptual framework. No disrespect intended, just sharing feedback if you're hoping to grow this product.
My home wifi setup is one AP in the ceiling.
any piece of software unless I needed it for a profit-making venture and the ROI was very obvious and very positive.

Yes, that's right. Weird that a business making powerful software is targeting that market and not hobbyists.
What was unique about it besides the recipes?

You can teach someone else the recipes, and plenty of people know how to bake

So I don't see the problem with making 3 stores at a high quality
There's a bit more to it than that. There's an underlying library which can support solid modelling, but Blender has (or had) such an outdated version that it just wasn't possible.

Back in 2020 someone submitted code to get it working, in order to make solid modelling possible:

https://archive.blender.org/developer/D6807

Unfortunately it looks like no official Blender developer ever took the time to review it, let alone merge it.

Super unfortunate, as it was only about 15 lines changed. Probably would have needed at least one revision though, as one of the changes was just commenting out some lines. That'd likely have needed to be a better conditional instead.
We built Joist, an ActiveRecord-style ORM in TypeScript, on top of Facebook's dataloader library, and haven't had a single N+1 in ~4 years:

https://joist-orm.io/docs/goals/avoiding-n-plus-1s

Any "query in a loop", whether a manually-written `for` loop, or an "emergent for loop" from 100 `after_update` lifecycle hooks firing at once, are always auto-batched, every time.

Joist is also likely why we actually like GraphQL, vs. it generally having a reputation for being a pita to implement (N+1s everywhere w/o tedious, manual batching).
The tenacity if this guy is insane.
For the moment some random cheap ones from Amazon - I haven't run it long enough to see if it will last more than a few months of full-time use. The battery was a freebie, so I don't actually recommend it; the charger is an "ULTRAPOWER 4a". We'll see.

What it's augmenting is a pretty cheap AIMS power brand modified sine-wave inverter/charger (meh, should have gone pure sine, it causes some of the power supplies to make funny noises) hooked up to a Litime 2kWh LFP battery (very happy with the big battery). TODO on the experiment is swapping out the inverter part with direct 12V conversion for some of the things on the inverter, but I wanted to test the regulator approach with a non-critical component for a month or two first before hooking it to something that can deliver 100A, obviously with a fuse. :-)
Right. How much would you pay for software that saved your $60,000 designer weeks per year?
https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/eu-consumer-grou...

This one give slightly more information.

"Today, premium in-game currencies are purposefully tricking consumers and take a big toll on children. Companies are well aware of children's vulnerability and use tricks to lure younger consumers into spending more,"

Gacha games.
Cost reduction is a major focus
I spent a good part of my childhood on Girard Avenue North, part of the first alphabetical sequence running east to west. It was always a comfort to know I could find my way home if I knew the alphabet.
I appreciate what the author is saying in terms of building some level of longevity into your musings/writings/etc.

However from the article: "First, you need to select a theme, usually related to your professional goals, and then set up a newsletter. Examples of themes can range from database optimization to product marketing".

As a rough hewn cognitive equivalent of a Kinder Surprise, I find this on a personal level utterly impossible. I'm sure everyone has their own style of writing, but I don't start with a concept and work from there. Instead, I furiously flop my lobes around like a neurological snow globe and then calmly wait for the dendritic snow to settle. So my blog starts with an article on how to build a better IDE, then goes into the construction of an infinite wish generator, followed by a paper on the biological constraints of free will, and bla bla bla bla.

I'm aware that this makes my blog virtually immune to even the concept of a target market except perhaps for the most extreme spectrum of ADHD, but I'm resigned to it.

I think that building on an established domain is fantastic and is probably the most effective way to build a following, so I'm always curious how others manage to retain that level of focus.
Upcoming Screenings of Films in 70mm
Seattle has a similar situation with the coast.
Calling these devices "phones" was really disastrous, now we're conditioned to treat them as appliances instead of computers.
>Grep, sure, it is rare that I want to grep a binary file.

Case in your point - I grep binary files all the time (mainly to look for strings in complied executables).
This is great news! I look forward to seeing new Sony animated movies with the human characters having eyes on the sides of their heads, 8 fingers on their hands, and 3 legs.
That sounds super interesting. What's the approach you've been using for this?
We're not going to run out of new anatomy anytime soon
> They are not providing anything real service in this case.

They connected the driver to the passenger, and negotiated an acceptable rate between both. They build and maintain the infrastructure necessary to make this happen quickly and reliably at global scale.

If that’s not a valuable service, drivers and passengers wouldn’t rely on it. But they do.

It seems you want to use the service, and just don’t want to pay for it.
I must say, I love the tagline

“creating order out of chaos (or reverse if needed)”
> The pay has not scaled and you're working long hours, Monday through Saturday. Not exactly a dream job.

This describes my federal job. I wonder how many other federal jobs are like this. My coworkers used to put up with the stress/schedule/etc, but now the pay does not outweigh the cons. I foresee the industry I'm working in, becoming a shitshow; I wonder what other industries will follow suit.
It's Joel Bauer!

https://joelbauer.com/
I'm not an expert either, but it could be compared to bitmap graphics vs. vector graphics.

3D modelers like blender (or even OpenSCAD) work with a bunch of triangles - there is often not some higher level representation of the geometry. You could put a drill hole in a part, but it ends up as just a ton of triangles that approximate that drill hole, vs. a file format which semantically encodes "there is a cylindrical drill hole at this location, with this vector direction, and this radius".

That's what things like BRep (Boundary Representation) and STEP files give you is that semantic data which describes the part "here are the edges, faces, dimensions, etc.", vs. "here's a bunch of triangles, good luck machining this"
More than 1,000 but I am increasingly using Pinboard, where I have about 5,000.
Just from the schematic, it took me longer than necessary to figure out the leftmost symbol was for USB-C
I appreciate that you named the source directory `sauce` instead. It's the little things that matter.
We can't even get photo ID required to vote for federal office, despite the law requiring it for other stuff that is a right ascribed merely to people ( guns ) unlike voting which is expressly protected for citizens ( although non-citizens could vote for local office if law allows it like in American samoa.)
I would say you don’t need the tv show, if you watched the movie. The movie is just superior to the tv show in every way imho.
Definitely gonna borrow this language, it’s a really important aspect of social life. I’ve always been very, very thermometer-like, with a strong tendency to mirror which allows me to connect with people 1 on 1 easy, but on the flip side I absorb vibes I don’t want. My coping mechanism is to avoid bad vibes, confrontational situations, etc. Even being in a social group for long can affect me negatively if the people there have values I don’t agree with, even if I have no desire to change them. Any tips for how to manage that better?
Gacha is a good example, but those base builders that feature fun characters and start slowing and slowing you down more, promising you can unlock the next level of cannon or whatever for just a few cents more, those are nasty.

Or the ones that offer a way to battle baddies with your friends but your weapons are just not quite good enough, but there's a premium upgrade...

I remember my kid playing a little "My Little Pony" game on iPad that was free and pleasant and then four levels in, suddenly "oh, you need Twilight for the next missions. Parents, Twilight costs $5."
It's not like a lot of animated characters are realistically human anyway.
Batching writes is probably a good idea, but by far the absolute best way to do something like this with SQLite is to use WAL and have a single designated writer (and as many readers as you want), probably fed by something like a queue. As long as you do that, I usually find the the performance is often really amazing.
> Make sure you’re squarely facing the person

Awww shit that's gonna be hard for my inner Minnesotan. All that deep listening stuff needs to be done at a 135-165 degree angle, so you're both vaguely looking in the same-ish direction but can make occasional side glance eye contact
It's a little annoying that I couldn't find a description on their site of what FreeCAD actually is.
How long does it take to learn? Are other jobs that draw from the same talent pool becoming more efficient?
So will they be able to copyright their output?
That's the point. It was a sarcastic response to point out how ridiculous it sounds.
Does exactly what? Ban whole ecosystems because somebody on the internet used it wrong? Could you please provide any substantiation to this entirely unbelievable claim?
> one of the huge flaws I find with the ActivityPub protocol is the way identity is tied to specific instances

Hmmm good insight. Seems like a major oversight that a user's identity is limited to the server they are using. Your solution sounds better!

There was a lot of hope and promise in the concepts of decentralized, privacy-friendly web 3.0 with various approaches like Solid, Decentralized Web Node DWN, Fediverse, InterPlanetary File System, but it all remains a bit niche and peripheral.

It is a shame yes. But I think much of the underlying philosophy is sound and so for that reason I believe that there is a future for these sort of decentralized technologies. I guess widespread adoption has not been helped by the economic juggernaut of advertising $$ facilitated by targeting.