skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't work in states where the insurance industry has successfully lobbied for laws requiring that all vehicles in a household be cross-insured for every driver in the household.
Yup, it's pretty good.

It's just not a huge winner. Many industries don't work that way, there are no "huge winners" even if there are some companies that are huge. Oil & gas doesn't really have "huge winners". The huge companies are a result of huge amounts of capital being put to work.
I’ve found that it’s not uncommon for an interested individual to find details that have not been documented or “found” by others. I collect video games and have found variants of popular games that have been otherwise undocumented on any list or archive that I was aware of. I’ve found audio recordings from the 90s that seemingly have no recorded history on the internet.

These aren’t things historians have had hundreds of years to document, but several thousand or more people have been on this space long before I was looking at it more intently than I could ever and I still come across things from time to time that weren’t known to exist.

Likewise, in the past month I’ve spent an unfortunate amount of time reading laws and board bylaws and it doesn’t take long to find long forgotten rules that are being actively violated. Even outside of code, documentation is hard.
We agree on one thing: this wasn’t a discussion. It was you embarrassing yourself in public.
Hard to trust a map which places "Bali, Indonesia" where "Paris, France" should be.
> But only when operating on fields that are indexed.

No, even without indexes, you only need O(N) memory to find the top N records under any ordering, including on random sort keys. You do have to examine every row, but if you are using a column store or have indexed the weight column, the scan will require only a small fraction of the work that a read-everything table scan would require.
Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
Falcon-9 uses radar altimeters for determining vertical "distance to go" during landing.

While a sideways position error of even ten meters is not fatal, it is critical for the rocket to be quite close to zero altitude when deceleration brings the velocity to zero. (Any residual error must be dealt with by the shock absorbers, and their capability is modest.)
Recite 99 bottles of beer on the wall, but start from 1 and change so the number increases? Stop when there are no remaining numbers or when you reach infinity, whichever comes first.
Yes, exactly.

It almost certainly won’t hit you directly, but that stuff is in orbit with you now, and it is uncontrolled.
“Not my job though. My title is completely real.”
Dilletante already exists to mean someone who doesn’t do something with seriousness and amateur doesn’t carry the same connotation as amateurish anyway so you don’t really need a new word.
WordPress – Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Isn't that already a go-to-jail offence?
Largest employer is a strange way to describe a huge winner.
So if an automated decision happens, and the reviewer looks for a second at it, and says, good enough, that will be OK according to GDPR. Don't see what GDPR solves here.
> And you kept finding structures that were in an invalid state - the relationship among the elements had been broken.

Which is why functions should have typed arguments and results. :)
This is pretty much the framework I teach admins at work:

- What impact does the change have?

- How do you get out of that change, and how long does that take?

- And what is your confidence into the change, and the bail-out plan?

And honestly, if you have a high-confidence, fast bailout plan, you can be downright brazen/#yolo about changes. We've recently had to update a central and critical IDP, but we eventually realized: We have the old docker images, and it has a 200MB sized DB. We can dump + restore that in 2 minutes. So if the upgrade goes wrong, we have high confidence to rollback in like 5 minutes. At such a point.. why not just go with it?

Similar things are developing with Postgres upgrades. Setup 1 leader + 3 replicas, upgrade 2 replicas, failover, see how much explodes and at worst, fall back. If we can test beforehand, alright.

Other teams plan complicated upgrades requiring coordinated actions of 6 other teams. And like 3 know how to possibly take back that change? And like 4 know what to actually do? Ugh, this ended up in a fun weekend.
"Have several children, a driveway full of cars, and a few moving violations..."

Yeah, that's kind of an edge case, there.
> this comes from playing a self-made orbital mechanics game

My interest is piqued!
The term 'nerd' needs to complete its rehabilitation like 'geek' has the last 20 years. It's the most concise term I can think of when describing someone who is enthusiastic, focused, and knowledgable on a subject. I think it's a badge of honor
It's a long story. Theoretically yes, practically no.
A very tamed - yet on point - comment on Mullenweg's recent behavior.
They should. This nesting is why `with` exists, but even if `cond` and `case` could test for exhaustiveness (they can't currently, and I don't think that `cond` ever could), `with` would not be able to test for exhaustiveness, since there's always two paths described.
Really? I distinctly remember a lot of pissed off kids in my college philosophy and psychology classes trying to defend their religious beliefs and that we are more than just monkeys with fancier tools. Most of the religious folks (at least vocally) dropped out of Philosophy 101 after 2 weeks. It was incredibly entertaining. I guess this was 20 years ago, but assuming we are a more secular society I guess I thought that would still be the case.
Sounds terrible, why would you be against that?
Thats just not realistic at all. Its so far away from realistic, i'm not sure why arstechnica is posting this VC ad.

You need the size of the area you want to shine it up which is HUGE.

Why do we entertain this? How do people get funding for doing this? Are people so ignorant?
No, I'm not suggesting any kind of financial pain at all.

Do I support the ability of people to travel to their job, shopping centers, or any destination they like?

Absolutely!

Do I think a privately owned vehicle, which spends 90%+ of its active life being parked in spaces that could be utilized much better otherwise, is the best way to achieve those abilities?

Nope. Sorry.
Depends. If the competing universities degrade into glorified coding boot camps they’ll probably get thier lunch eaten in turn. And graduates need to be getting reasonable job offers as well.
As someone with ADHD, this article format is literally the worst.

- Text is broken up into tiny little chunks that I can't really get into flow

- Images are taller than my screen

- Images don't have anything to do with the story, or worse they are distinctly different than the story (story describes someone holding a purple spiky ball, photo has them holding a yellow duck, not even a yellow spiky duck)

- 3/4 of the content is unnecessarily large images, videos, or infographics, 1/4 is text and it gets lost.

- There's background video playing

- Background images are unnecessarily animated

- It requires accurate scrolling to see some bits of text

- Scrolling makes bar charts grow or shrink, or content fade in.

- The crinkled paper background makes it hard to focus on the content.

- Sometimes the crinkled paper scrolls and sometimes it doesn't. And there's a seam between the transitions.

- There's one image with crinkled paper on top of the background with crinkled paper, and they're different.

When you first watch Memento it kind of gives you a hint of having anterograde amnesia; I assume this is the same, but it gives neurotypical people a hint of having ADHD. For me it was like the Futurama episode where Bender looks through the goggles that let you see like a bending unit and it makes him feel like he's seeing double.
North Dakota, yes.
Specifically the "Looking Forward" section feels straight out of ChatGPT. Apologies to the author if it isn't.
> A. Explanation of “Open Source”

> 1. Before we delve into the specifics, let’s take a moment to explain what “open source” means. In the world of software, “open source” refers to a type of computer software in which the source code is released under a license where the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

how embarrassing. And there's "delve"!
Yeah, as one of the vast majority of Americans who live in a car-dependent area and aren't made of money, have fun trying to force that on everyone.

Also "suboptimal" is a matter of opinion.
> Is orange juice a fruit? There, take some of your own medicine lol.

I'm not sure what you are trying to imply here? That it is? Orange juice is not a fruit, it's a juice derived from a fruit. Which is healthy in moderation, but definitely not enough alone to cover all the optimal ingredients you would get from a variance of different fruits.

> In all seriousness, if you're not convinced ultra processed foods are bad for you as a rule, there's nothing I can do except throw a bunch of studies at you, which I've already argued is insane for such a basic and common sense concept

I'm not convinced because it all depends on how it was exactly processed and the amounts.
All change from the status quo causes financial pain, usually for the people who can’t afford it.

The OP also didn’t suggest or implement the change, but only commented that they liked the results with regard to car ownership and use
This is amazing. Thanks for posting.
Compare that to society's extreme definition of safety. Vehicles will be allowed on road only if it results in less than 100 deaths per year. Yet, we as a soceity has decided that certain risks are worth taking compared to the benefit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7Fi8I-qOk
How Climate Disasters Are Making Mobile Homes a Huge Risk
Funny - I always wanted to visit Iqualit.

Although probably not in cold weather...
Love living in a broken republic
If we're only considering "runs on VMs" and "cost" then I can beat Hetzner by a huge margin running on the server in my home office. The point was, saying "it can run on a VM, who sells VMs the cheapest" is a largely useless comparison.
Running and Securing Servers: A Concise Guide
I prefer IINA on macOS, but it might be because the UI of VLC looks antiquated. Functionality-wise, VLC is superior.
https://archive.ph/09vmu
> even efficiency is poor.

Not really. The atmosphere does reduce solar energy at the surface, but the fact we're 1 AU from the sun is the major reason we receive so little power.

The costs of putting things into orbit and maintaining things in orbit are unlikely to ever overcome the atmospheric difference.

Plus, on the surface of the Earth, you get convective cooling in atmosphere "for free." Good luck keeping your panels cool on orbit.
> And then there’s the cone. You can’t ignore the cone. The VLC icon — a traffic cone — is a tribute to the traffic cones collected by École Centrale’s Networking Students’ Association. Sounds weird, right? It’s like the developers decided to inject a little dose of the absurd, to remind us that this tool wasn’t created by suits in a boardroom, but by students with a penchant for traffic cones.

Reads like ChatGPT to you?
For me, amateur generally just translates as "not paid for his services."
Does your workplace have salary transparency? If not, this setup sounds designed to limit the average employee's capacity to negotiate.

In a world where pay is tied to public-facing titles I can look around, recognize that I'm doing more and better work than people with a higher title than me, and push for a promotion.

In the world you describe (absent salary transparency), how do you know if you're getting underpaid relative to peers?
I use MPV but always keep VLC installed just in case. The main form of media I consume is audiobooks, and speeding up audio playback in VLC sounds off, while setting 2x playback on MPV still sounds fine.
Ground based solar has very little flaws.

Its cheap (its just silicium plates), we will have organic based systems in the future. You will be able to print it in the future.

Efficency is huge. We have so much unused roof space, its ridicoulous. parking spots, house roofs, commercial building roofs.

Why would you think its smart to send computers, which need cooling, up to use the energy over there? Do you know how hard it is to radiate heat away in space?
Thanks for the pointer! I'll be trying to set up Zink and see if I can write some documentation around using it for ChimeraX.
It is all about variance. Higher variance activities have both more potential upside and more potential downside. Risk management is all about figuring out how to improve average upside. In investment, that probably means placing a variety of bets. In one's personal life, nearly everyone I know has a story about how they benefited from being talked into trying something they wouldn't have otherwise presumed interest in. Be that a hobby, a blind date, a job, going to talk/meetup. Even just listening to a song/album.
Hmm without getting too esoteric and the disclosure that I am not a Bhuddist, your point is one of the inferences the reader can make from the story.

-the vendors can't see the point in this 'fruitless' endeavor to build a database of their god's names for some godly/spiritual reason.

-The buddhists can't understand and importantly have no need to understand why the vendors need to "understand" their task, which, they never clarify to us.

That said, obviousley CLarke probably had no idea about proper bhuddist theology. But I like to hope that the idea is still proper?
In the photos, are those normal people's homes around those dystopian towers?

Or are they government-owned buildings, like on a military base?
I feel like he's limiting himself to just 2 positioning methods.

There are so many other methods that the lander can use to know where the tower is.
Shout out for Slow Horses, one of the best shows on TV.

“So you're in charge of the rejects.”
“They don't like being called that.”
“What do you call them?”
“The rejects.” -- Jackson Lamb
A lot of people live on the borders. On both sides.
I think this is an important issue to know about articles like this that claim to be providing factual, historical information. Without direct links to primary sources, how is anyone supposed to trust that this information is accurate and not just an LLM hallucination?
> Students are not used to doing the necessary work to learn. They are used to doing the necessary work to pass.

I'd like to point out this has nothing to do with cheating. Cheating happens at all levels of academic performance.

I have not been in university for a while, but I do remember that it was rare that I did my best work for any individual class.

For me it was more of a "satisficing" challenge, and I had to make hard choices about which classes I would not get A's in.

I'm sure some professors might have interpreted my performance in their class as indicative of my overall abilities. I'm fine with that. I learned as much as I could, I maxed out my course load, and I don't regret it at all.
They stopped doing that at least 10 years ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317155232/https://news.redd...
Does anyone know how well it works on the Apple Watch? I have Overcast but am very frustrated with my experience on the Apple Watch because it doesn't sync properly even though the watch supports cellular connections. Nonetheless, it was the best of the podcast apps out there for that purpose. Has Castro made some progress on this front? It would be enough to convince me to switch if it works well on both the phone and the watch.

Thanks!
Sometimes at bedtime my cat will go to the door and scream nonstop. I don't know why he does it. Maybe it is for food or attention. But the only way I have found to get him to stop is to pick him up, put him on his special pillow, squish him, and have my partner join me in telling him "we are going to bed, it's bedtime".

I'd say about 80% of the time he listens. So he is capable of understanding what we want him to do, and capable of supressing his own personal desires in order to maintain harmony in our group. Funny enough, he won't go to bed unless both me and my partner tell him it is bedtime, so maybe he is only obeying because there is some majority consensus?

Because of this, I find it easy to believe that a cat or dog could be taught something as abstract as "self" if they can understand commands and intent and group dynamics. It's just difficult to tell what is "understood" and what is just conditioned behavior. Hell, I can't even answer that question for myself as a human.
As the article explains, with a well designed procedure, the required navigation accuracy is quite modest. Even the latest consumer IMUs and GPS would do, and SpaceX is using even slightly more accurate "tactical grade" units, typical for all launch vehicles.

Good article. It is nice how it goes through all the points systematically.
The proposed price signal is "the more expensive, the better". So forbidding car ownership, in other words. A deeply destructive point of view.
The Vibes Are Off: Did Elon Musk Push Academics Off Twitter?
Rumors are that people expected AAD to be "AD, but in the cloud!" and were sorely disappointed to find out that it wasn't.
'cause privately-owned cars are a significant contributor to mortality, and take up, like, 99% more space than is warranted?

I mean, everyone (well mostly everyone) is absolutely mortified by commercial aviation, which, like, commits literally 0.01% of those sins on a global scale?
> it might happen in a couple of years

Narrator: It will not happen.

The only place space based solar makes sense is on things that are in space.
Thank you. I think that I’ll need to read this again with that particular comment in mind, because that makes sense.

The limitations of Elixir syntax means it would need to be something more like:

ucs do
expensive() =>
and cheap1() -> "branch 1",
and cheap2() -> "branch 2",
cheap3() -> "branch 3"
end

There are other ways around it, but it could be fun to try to build a macro in Elixir for the UCS.
I prefer MPC-HC.
Huh, considering the thorough checking that CRPF guy did for my backpack to finally take out a plumber's tape and throwaway. Is government/ airlines security not confident about their security procedures.

edit: CRPF -> CISF

Thanks to @db1234 for pointing it out.
I have not! Thanks for the tip! Much appreciated!
Well, during the end of the pandemic I had the misfortune of hear some engineers undergrads talking about on how would they supposed to pass classes now that they were going to be in person; apparently a lot of them were doing just "fine" on online classes and tests...
I can run a 64x512GiB server in my home office loaded with NVMe drives for $80/mon (probably cheaper depending on how many years you amortize the server purchase over)!
My insurance company requires me to sign an affidavit affirming that my adult child will not drive a car insured by said company. If my adult child does drive my car and gets in a collision, the affidavit is used by the insurance company to absolve themselves of any financial responsibilities related to the collision.

I think it'd be reasonable aside from one obvious edge case: my adult child is blind and will never drive a car, yet I have to sign a new affidavit every time I renew my policy (every 6 months).
VLC is ridiculously useful.

I actually use VLC for a lot of things other than playing video:

1. Ripping video files off websites

2. As a DVR where I can schedule a stream rip via scheduled task

3. Media format conversion

4. A way to check file content while it is still being downloaded (VLC is resilient to missing chunks of files)

5. DLNA alternative - since the Xbox build of it can play off NFS/SMB shares

After all these years, I still feel like I've barely touched most of its capabilities.
For me, it has been this 30-minute video on the disasters climbers faced attempting to summit K2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfO61yFgUqA
Making using a car more expensive doesn't disincentivize car ownership or usage when there is no other alternative. Like you can't rely on public transportation, biking, or ride shares to get to your job in most parts of this country. The rising costs of the past few years haven't reduced personal car usage as much as its made the lives of people near the bottom of the income scale much more stressful and expensive.
You're probably correct about the design, so that would be a question of retrofitting existing old hardware. The example you're giving shows that the transition to these new fluids is already there. Thanks!
Let's admit who the real hero of media playback software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3ASoftware_that_uses_...
One classic approach is to over-hire and weed out. I find some form of this de-facto happens anyway, so managing more explicitly has some benefits.
Didn't Snap/Flatpak/AppImage/containers already solve this problem?

Yes, sarcasm.
In a criminal court, guilt (not liability) is also determined by a jury of your peers, and not the gov't.
It is a trend in all operating systems. All operating systems and their desktop applications (the whole package counts!) run best on the hardware that is made around their release. Debian-derived (Ubuntu Mint) runs dog slow on an laptop of 10 years old.
The article says that it was written May 18, 2023 but it's listed under the 2024 section of "blog posts by year" and the author is now submitting it here for the fourth time:

1st time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37367895

2nd time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39688021

3rd time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919190

is this some weird SEO game?
Are the airline stocks losing value? Could be a scheme to profit with pur options
Breath of sanity here. I wish I could upvote you twice.
Any engineer who wants to do good work will leave if he’s supposed to justify every good decision with 20 forms and 5 layers of management.

Poor leadership will corrode anything including great workers who feel like they can’t get anything done.
And that is one of the best ways to hire new grads. Take the best of the crop of interns you've had.
The Decline of the Working Musician
If it's not, then they've successfully nailed not only the voice but the output format, too.
https://archive.ph/2024.10.21-141942/https://www.newyorker.c...
The 20k price tag in the article is pretty clickbait-y. It talks about families with 4 kids, and, if you have 4 16-20 year olds all driving, the chance of a 20k bill is not far fetched. If someone wanted to make a bet with me that their 4 kids wouldn't cause >$20k of damage over a year, and I get $20k if they don't, I'm not sure I'd take that bet.

We gathered a ton of quotes, and yea there are crazy prices at the end of the tail (see: https://www.coveragecat.com/cheapest-car-insurance/texas#quo...) but otherwise the distribution skews to the left. When we trained a simple model on that data (https://www.coveragecat.com/calculator/carrier-comparison) it was pretty obvious that age is the primary variable in premium. You can fiddle with the variables and see what changes, spoiler alert, age has the highest correlation with premium.

Anyone who has met a teenager in 2024 would not be surprised by this.
I feel the same way about python, but I don’t blame python authors for using the python ecosystem to write python tools when I am forced to use a little python. I consider python to be an essential part of any build system since it’s used in so many places, as much as I don’t like it.

Maybe the problem people have is that node/npm are becoming a similarly “essential” build system piece much like python. That much I can certainly understand.
I tried extracting the content using Google Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 using https://aistudio.google.com/ - the first page (scan-2) worked fantastically well, the second page not so much. Here's what I got so far: https://gist.github.com/simonw/ba87f507ef5c11d3335959c055533...
That doesn't seem an absurd price for owning six cars?