skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weird thing I’ve seen is in almost all the online forums I visit, like Reddit, YouTube comment sections, parts of twitter, hacker news, the cybertruck is universally panned. Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented. Shows how much of a bubble the internet alone is. MKBHD got the ratio’s right in his review, 75% of all approaching population are excited about the car and when asked to guess its price, they all wildly overestimate it, guessing close to a million than a 100k. This car is probably a hit, it would be a bigger hit if it were a gas car, it’s low range and really low range when towing make it impractical for any actual truck work.
I was/am a bit confused: I think this is unrelated to the wgpu cross-API toolkit in rust, it just abbreviated WebGpu the same way?
const can be cast away, auto can have some really nasty behavior, constexpr doesn't have to do anything, inline can be ignored, [[nodiscard]] can be discarded, exceptions can be thrown in noexcept functions, etc. Almost everything in C++ can be bypassed in one way or another.
I have a company in Finland whose legal name contains the + character.

It’s always a modest thrill to interact with new computer systems and see if and how they break. Some web forms just can’t be submitted because my company’s legal name has been autofilled from the registry and is not an editable field, but then they have a validator that won’t allow the string that their own system inserted into the form.
This came up for me not long ago. A* is a specialization of Dijkstra's that is the canonical "path finding algorithm" for game development. A* is good for finding how to get from a specific point A to a specific point B. But I wanted to know how to get from any point A to a list of point Bs. And so it turned out that the extra work that Dijkstra's does that A* skips is exactly the work you want when doing such a thing. It's also cacheable, which is incredible in the modern era of having basically infinite memory for this sort of thing.
Yeah. But there is the old adage that its harder to fire then it is to hire - used as an excuse for rigorous testing.

Most of what we do day to day does not take a genius. Maybe companies just want to think they are special and need the smartest.

In terms of firing, I dont think I know anyone who was close to getting fired for their work. Its usually behavior related.
Men tend to be in higher risk situations more often than women.
It is quite practical. I'm actually planning a book on the subject.

The reason why some Rust enthusiasts have been experimenting with Rust in the Linux kernel is because they are passionate about Rust, and kernel maintainers are looking to find younger people. It's neither an endorsement of Rust nor an argument against model checking in C.

The reality is that this tooling isn't yet well known about. As it becomes better known, it will be adopted.
It’s not the site, which is fine and written by the great GDS.

It’s the data is available to other users and those idiots don’t parse it properly.
There is a perspective from which all politics is just entertainment with audience participation, while The Powers That Be control the things that actually matter.

(I'm not saying I endorse this view, I'm just trying to explain)

t. Kooky conspiracy theory collector
Just an FYI going to an Ivy doesn’t cultivate that network in most cases; you need to come from the right background and have some spending money to keep up with the lifestyle (ski trips, Broadway musicals, etc).

In that way social network is more meritocratic, as many people have come from very humble backgrounds and succeeded with skill and charisma.
So if it comes down to UBI are the highly skilled expecting near the monies they earned in tech cause the high paid factory workers were forced to take much less in the food and services sector. Maybe we can pay a UBI so you won’t loose your homes while the former factory workers could get some form of reparations for a more fair result.
> Also, anyone in this industry long enough has been around for "Oh, we will just replace that broken piece of hardware" that ended up "WHY IS EVERYTHING ON FIRE?" because versions didn't match up, hardware was rejected

I've been doing this for 25 years and I'm not sure what this means. Dell isn't going to come back to you and say "sorry but we can't fix this". With the warranty SLA worst case scenario they'll just replace the entire machine if they have to although I don't remember ever seeing it come to that.

> just plain "Actually, THAT failure mode isn't redundant."

When it comes down to it similar issues exist with clouds - regions, availability zones, etc. Big clouds have had multiple widespread outages just this year[0].

From that reference you can see that MS and Amazon themselves struggle to design, build, and run solutions for their own products in their own clouds.

It's always interesting to see marquee household name companies/products/solutions go down when US-East (or whatever) is having a bad day again.

Cloud can be a lot of things but a silver bullet for reliability and uptime isn't one of them.

[0] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2024/07/31/microsoft...
just the tip of the iceberg. if you think about it, maybe the kernel that runs everything in the world shouldn't be controlled by a single edgy dude.
I may be arguing for (3) but then I’m not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. I don’t fancy the security types that do that.
EVERY Polish driver (without intending to) possibly exploited lack of type checking in an Irish national crime database:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_licence_in_Poland#Mist...
Equal time on national television, by law. Like they do in France for example.
It’s a shame they learned the exact opposite lesson from what they should have.

In fact they should have added their own honeypot company names to the DB to force companies to parse robustly.
Harnessing the Power of Silicon Carbide in Industrial Induction Heating
> life choice problem

Not this simple.

Choice isn't binary, it's incredibly complex. There're millions of individual little effects that go into each and every one of your choices. You actually have no idea how much influences you have over your "choices". In fact, almost everything you do in life is completely out of your control - you just do it, it's habit. Is brushing my teeth a choice? Certainly, I do it, but I also don't make that choice ever, it just happens.

Why is it that some can drink every week and be fine, but some can't ever drink because they are alcoholics? Why is it that I am able to eat as much as I want, and I'm not fat?

You could just be lucky enough that you do not have a propensity to overeat. Neither do I. But be humble, have some humility. You and I are privileged. I did nothing to earn this. I eat what I want, when I want. It's merely a coincidence the what and when happens to not harm me.
If you look at an Aztek today it doesn't stand out as unusual at all.

It feels like the Aztek was ahead of its time and many mid-size SUVs have since caught up with its aesthetic.
Small Town Truth says it's a registered 501(c)(3). I just found it by searching here: https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/

It leads to further rabbit holes I don't have the time to dig into now, but I might later, because now I'm very curious where it leads.
"Unlike batch tables, streams are infinite. You can't "just wait" for all the rows to arrive before performing a join."

I view batch tables as simply a given state of some set of streams at a point in time. Running the same query against "batch" tables at different points in time yields different results (assuming the table is churning over time).
Right, I'm going to name my next company "NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE"
In Plain Sight (2006)
What makes that one better in your opinion? I've tried both and I think they're both OK.
The fact that law can convey meaning rather than having to specify every little trivial detail formally is a feature, not a bug.
We need better performance testing [pdf]
"Democracy dies in darkness"

and silence, apparently.
A* is faster in practice if the heuristics used by the specific implementation are accurate and if the graph is "general" for the problem space. I'm being very loose with the word "general" but essentially it should have typical structure for the problem space it represents.

There's almost certainly a paper somewhere proving that A* with a given heuristic can always be made O(large) by choosing the right adversarial inputs.
All that ramp up prepared you for an experience that you'd take in with minimal interruptions. We completely lost that way of enjoying things..
Not in Poland. Before the last election we had 100% partisan media with the public media campaigning for the ruling party and the opposition controling the private media. Both had the Fox News/CNN/Pravda levels of objectivity showing a strange propaganda version of reality.
It will likely become available for application developers to use. At work, we use it to assist warehouse checkins by allowing the guard to take photos of the truck, paperwork, seal, etc and fill out the forms going in and out. If built-in then it can be run on-device, so over time a lot more workflows can be seamless.
> What would you do?

The scientist calling bullshit that can back it up gets in history books. The others eventually lost credibility.

So I (and pretty much all scientists I'e ever worked with) would call it a failure.

By your implication, nuclear fusion researchers would have "found" it decades ago. But since reality wins in the end, and scientists are generally not pathological liars, they did not. They continue to advance the field.

There's ample other cases demonstrating the flaws in your story. Bad scientists don't tend to last long under the gaze of reality.
> My daughters were born in Hawai'i where the birth certificates give you 240 characters for the name.

That tracks--now I'm imagining some doting parent cooing: "Who's my cute iddle-widdle Humuhumunukunukuapua'a? You are!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_triggerfish
It's written to be understood by humans but humans found so many ways to nitpick the language and find loopholes that the legal language has evolved to be insanely verbose and specific.
Well there is no way to ban political messaging in-practice, so we have to regulate it. Also, imo, making education accessible to the masses is important for combating the effectiveness of straight-up misinformation. Right now a good chunk of the population doesn't even seem to understand why they believe things generally, so there's plenty room to improve.
Just saying that on the same webpage there was a link to an article about the guy with three p*nises...
Implements that you put there are different from those you don't put there.

That doesn't seem very complicated, does it?
Literally every cybertruck I see has been fully wrapped with some business logo on it. I’m not sure I’ve yet seem one that wasn’t bought as a tax write off.
Botnet-style AI scraping tool known as Mellowtel promoted by Plasmo framework
Just discovered the popular browser extension framework Plasmo have started promoting this shady company mellowtel.com that "use your users computers to train AI". Plasmo list it as the only monetization option in their "Getting Started: Monetization" guide. Made a long post about it on X after one of the lead developers tried to brush it off, saying it's not an endorsement.
> I'm convinced computers are much better at it, but lawyers suffice.

This is just wrong though. The effect of the law is only what humans determine it to be.

Computers can't be better at it by definition. If a computer claims a law says one thing but a judge/court determines the other, the judge wins because the law is a human system.
Doesn’t the vaccine also only provide temporary protection? That’s why I thought booster shots were a thing.
> I do want to quit this daily hypnosis that reels is trying to subject me to.

100% agree on that. A couple months ago I got caught up in reels and spent like two hours watching videos. And then I thought ... what the hell did I just do? I don't feel fulfilled, I didn't learn anything meaningful, I feel like I just binged on candy and want to throw up.

Now I avoid reels like the plague. I just log in a couple times a week to see pictures from friends and family. As soon as I see a really attractive reel preview, I remind myself that it isn't nearly as awesome as the preview looks, and close the page.
Honestly it doesn't work that well. Far-rights channels will push left-wing candidates to graveyard slots, or put them against 3 trained "interviewers", etc.

Maybe it's still better than in the US? It's far from perfect.
I built a portfolio optimization and backtest tool supporting 36,000 securities
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Gold rush shovels
Does Bezos have uber-intel, and knows Trump is going to win?
Time management might seem like a prosaic topic, but for any CTO who aspires to be more strategic, it starts with being in control of one's time.
I think A* is solving a different problem than dijkstra's, since it requires an admissible heuristic to do any better than dijkstra's.

As long as you have an admissible heurustic, A* won't ever perform worse than dijkstra's.
My reading of this is a lot more generous to the maintainers and a lot less sympathetic to the author than yours is. The maintainers highlighted the problems and the author came back basically with "I don't believe you so let's go with my approach to stay more general" - it's one thing to disagree, it's another to straight up not acknowledge the feedback. The author ate a lot of very senior people's time arguing instead of listening to them and learning from their experience and that was justifiably frustrating forcing much more direct feedback. The kind of mistake the author made - having to enforce at each individual syscall level instead of it being a protection on the memory itself enforced on all accesses - indicates a poor understanding of how to think about security and build security APIs which is a problem when you're proposing a security API.

It's particularly impressive how misguided the patch is given that they took inspiration from the OpenBSD API implementation, changed both API & implementation, & then argued with both Linus and Theo who started Linux & OpenBSD respectively and were trying to give direct feedback about how OpenBSD is different and why it took the approach it did.

Hopefully the author has taken the more forceful feedback as a learning opportunity about listening to feedback when the people giving it to you have a lot more experience. Or their team is coaching them about what went wrong now that this became so visible to learn what they got wrong.

From Matthew Wilcox who is another senior Linux maintainer:

> I concur with Theo & Linus. You don't know what you're doing. I think the underlying idea of mimmutable() is good, but how you've split it up and how you've implemented it is terrible.

It's delivered directly and bluntly but it's not mean or personal. The author proposed a bad patch & argued from a position of ignorance.
Recycling is not burning.
Spinach doesn't have a lot of iron. The reputation is due to a late-19th century study that was mistaken, and found that spinach had 10x the iron that it actually does.

https://historiesofecology.blogspot.com/2015/08/on-spinach-i...
If that’s a joke, it’s a very good one. Otherwise, what happens at some point in the future when your daughter tries to get a boarding pass?
Did too many games release in Q3 of 2024?
Sure, I'm in the Bay Area too. I see Rivians daily. Had an F-150 lightning pull up next to me yesterday. Every once in a while I'll see a Luicd whatever. Can't remember the last time I've seen a Cybertruck (on the road or broken down). In the past week I've seen a couple Hummer EVs. Hell I've seen more running Vinfasts than running Cybertrucks.
Nice! That’s what I was hoping to hear!
sad truth: dryers absolutely destroy clothes.
Because a peer-reviewed article published in 2005 which I did link says "Lawrence Angel's anthropological studies of Greek skeletal remains give mean heights for Classical Greek males of 170.5 cm or 5' 7.1" (n = 58) and for Hellenistic Greek males of 171.9 cm or 5' 7.7" (n = 28), and his figures have been corroborated by further studies of material from Corinth and the Athenian Kerameikos." and cites studies by Angel et al. 1985, Robinson 1984, and Kovacsovics 1990 and his own work on Italy. And when someone's later article says n=170, but an earlier article says n=163, usually they changed their mind in the meantime, especially when the first article had to use the data from another country available in the middle of a war and analyze it with pencil and paper. Archaeology continued after 1945 and electronic computers became a thing!

It is possible that some person might have scanned the 1985 book and posted an unofficial copy but tracking things like that down is your job.
> What else do we need?

Less, honestly. I don't want a more complex browser that tries to revolutionize my productivity or use AI to blow my mind. I want the old Chromium omnibox in a well maintained and open-source client that opens webpages and blocks ads. Anything more than that is unnecessary for my needs as a developer.

I just don't think you can make a business selling novelty browsers with subscription services built in. The people motivated to try new browsers are a small market motivated by incredibly disparate and unique reasoning. Trying to sell a replacement for "the everyman's browser" feels like the wrong audience to target when they're the least likely to switch. I've never loved dialectic reasoning, but browsers either have to remove things until you're unique by omission, or add things until you're so cutting-edge it hurts.
Phil Lesh death: Grateful Dead founding member dies at 84
I don't know what category of comment this is but can we please make this go away
Going to screenshot that incase it ages like milk.
> This is a band aid

Yes, and like a band-aid it will help sick people heal. Which is a good thing, that should be celebrated.

I don't believe that I've ever heard anyone espouse the idea that nothing else in the patients life should change, or that the drugs alone are a complete answer. Although, that seems to be the counter position to your argument.

Everyone knows that fat people need to eat less and exercise more, including the fat people. These drugs help them do that. The drugs are advertised, sold, and prescribed that way and include advice to that effect in the informational pamphlets they come with in addition to usually including a lecture from your physician.

What else do you need before you can just be happy for people that are struggling a little less now?
Law is one area where I see can AI being very useful. At least once we figure out how to get it to stop randomly making things up. The data set is largely public record too which should help avoid the copyright concerns that exist in other areas.
Linen; linen is made from the Flax plant.

Natural fibers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_fiber

Green textiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_textile

There are newer more sustainable production processes for various natural fibers.

TIL that there are special laundry detergents for synthetic fabrics like most activewear like jerseys; and that fabric softener attracts mosquitos and adheres to synthetic fibers causing stank.
I get why you might want to use open stack.

And I get why you might want to use open stack on Kubernetes.

What I don't get is why you would want Kubernetes on open stack on kubernetes.
I find Kia/ Hyundai designs more pleasing and “out of the box” than most other automakers. Of course they have some failures like the Ioniq 6 sedan, the thing looks like the hate child between a 911 and an MB C300.
Wow! This is so cool. Thank you so much for sharing!

I used my own tool Livedocs to visualize the same and here are the results.
https://livedocs.com/livedocs/aws-latencies-3f2fefd5-f45d-48...
KitOps: Only Standards-Based Packaging and Versioning Tool for AI/ML Projects
Is anyone really changing their mind based on some newspaper endorsement? I’m pretty sure everyone knows who they’re gonna vote for at this point.
Do you really think Harris and co are able or willing to end capitalism? They have nearly as much to lose as the billionaires.
Can you get insurance for them?
Is this why millennials and early genx are seeing higher rates
They're currently shipping North Korean soldiers in to assist their invasion of Ukraine. That's a rather significant "escalation".
Yes but when your brain is broken and the desire a liiiiitle too strong it becomes bad.

I smoked. The desire to have a cig was debilitating. And I didn't want it, I never wanted it. But the sheer desire would bring me to my knees.
Well now whenever I hear "Jesus H Christ!" I know what the H really stands for.
I assure you I am not a shill, in fact I have been so critical of some of what Automatic has chosen to do over the years, that I single-handedly got the moderation policy of wp-tavern to be created. (true story)

This does not make sense to me here, you wrote:

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> To your point, this would not be the first time apple or google or samsung released their own thing that a developer previously had a super popular version of, and it won't be the last year such things happen.

Yeah, except this isn't Automattic's "own thing". It's WP Engine's plug-in, lock, stock, and barrel.

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my comment specifically stated that it was not the first time a developer had something and then an app store made another version of it so what you are saying is not making sense.

I'm well aware ACF was not Automattic's, my comment clearly mentioned I was shocked and salty when wp-Engine acquired it.

(I am and have been an ACF pro license holder since before it was bought my wp-engine)

I use ACF on a half dozen sites.

But just so the world knows, and this was made blazingly clear many moons ago in the open source and WordPress community back in the day of the heated exit of wpmu-dev and their plugins..

no one owns all the GPL stuff, and no one owns a slot in the Wordpress.org's servers, plugins directory or themes directory.

All sorts of plugins and themes and developers have been kicked out over the years, some rightfully so, so questionable.. either way, you don't own the directory, you can take your code, their code, and host it anywhere you want.

A lesson I hope many others aside fro wp-engine are (re-?)learning at the moment.
> there's the same-sex marriage prop (which I believe is purely symbolic and doesn't have an actual impact on same sex marriage in California)

It removes an on-the-books clause that was rendered inoperable by a SCOTUS decision. I think it’s a step above symbolic since any future changes in SCOTUS jurisprudence reversing or partially reversing Obergefell (which I don’t think are at all likely with this court on this issue, but it doesn’t hurt to be prudent) could make it operable again.