skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in case anyone cares, I re-watched the podcast and I'm leaning towards something getting lost in translation (or, more uncharitably, Ben being misleading about what he was describing in order to make the company look better than it is).

At 47:42 he says:

> So serving energy customers is kind of like the end state, you know, that, that makes sense when you're launching like, you know, full Falcon Heavies full of full of vehicles.

Implying he knows you're not getting 200W/m^2 with only a single 10m x 10m 16u cubesat. He says for single satellites their short term goal is to be an alternative for street lights in undeveloped areas, which requires much less power per unit area.

And at 1:11:57:

> And you can also optimize like different curves of customer saturation, you know, so like initially, you're not going to have as many customers excited to buy, you know, a couple minutes of sunlight that's not very bright. But later down the line you're going to have a lot of people who are very interested in buying a lot of sunlight. Um, you know, at the kind of point where we're, you know, a couple hundred Watts per square meter for, for quite a while.

So it sounds like 200W/m^2 is a long term goal, not something they're planning to have right away with the 100m^2 satellites.

Would be interesting to run the numbers and find out exactly what would be needed for 200W/m^2 in the maximally bright part of the illuminated area, in terms of the size and number of satellites required.
I think this is the key to why smoking MJ isn't really that bad (and, conversely, why vaping nicotine vapes may be worse in some respects than Tobacco).

The quantity matters. MJ smoke is a tiny amount if done daily, while Tobacco is orders of magnitude more. And vapes have no limits, so to speak. One disposable is maybe 12 packs worth of nicotine, but you can easily finish it in 4 days if you try.
The bug probably wasn’t reproducing on Linux because the clang shipped with Xcode is from Apple’s fork. The version may say “15”, but it was closer to upstream LLVM’s clang 16. There are also changes that haven’t been upstreamed yet and probably some that may not ever be (if my experience updating libtapi in nixpkgs was anything to go by).
They aren’t though. Subsidized phones are like monthly car payments drive up costs and are targeted at people bad at math.

If consumers paid out of pocket for their phones then they would be more picky about upgrading and plan prices. It would also make upselling shitty plan features harder so the carriers would loose a lot of money.
> We just don't particularly have consensus it should be solved.

I think that is going to change as increasingly people see for themselves the negative impacts of unchecked immigration. I fear that most people won't be personally impacted until the worst of it hits (due to climate change) and by then it'll be too late to make the sensible preparations needed to offset the coming refugee crisis.

I'm not a fan of domestic surveillance either, and hopefully we can place limits on its use internally to minimize the impacts to citizens within the US.
I'm aware... sigh, I've used this method to decrypt traffic alraedy and this is a giant PITA.
I’m thinking about the long term here. I don’t care about grades, I think they’re a poor signal. What I care about is whether the engineer I’m working with fifteen years and four employers later actually learned the fundamentals. Some did, some didn’t, and I can tell the difference.
I've never felt so much like I'm reading a passage from The Trial aside from while reading the novel itself.
Came here just to look for and upvote this book :)

It's a great, short primer for anyone who needs to do a bit of light UI design as part of their job, but doesn't necessarily want to become a UX/UI specialist.

It's one of the best resources I've come across as a FE dev.
Lock or not, the main story is that there is no OSS baseband. Locking would not be possible if people had the ability to choose the baseband software that best fit their needs.

https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/ProjectRationale

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/64337/do-cell-p...
> the intern allegedly "maliciously interfered with the model training tasks" for a ByteDance research project

Did the intern post a manifesto or something? What was the point of doing this?
Sure, if you want to have 4 loops where 1 suffices.
> Hackers ... sent emails to patrons by exploiting a 3rd party helpdesk system.

Disingenuous or what?

Hackers sent emails by exploiting IA's failure to secure its access to that helpdesk system.
Bentonville is being gentrified by the Walton Family philanthropy. I hear young people talking about how great Bentonville is.
Can you go in the other direction? Higher exponent and mantissa than regular float/double?
This a thousand times over. And don’t forget the 8 entirely advert-free radio stations featuring music, live sport and current affairs too.
Your "HN folk's ability to empathize with people working hard" made it personal...
That is a perfectly reasonable argument. My point was that Ars' headline was deliberately misleading. Note that the article doesn't go into any real depth about alternative financing plans.
Wow, even mentioning communists made you get downvoted. That's sad.
The other day there was a game where person wanted to play something while in the meetings without turning on the screen.

First thing I thought instead of random buzzes to reply to - trying to replicate it would be cool to buzz morse code and then having person tap back what was buzzed.
By this logic the dorm room bathrooms at public universities are also public and I should be able to setup cameras /s
What if instead it were about shifting direction in favor of what is deterministic in response to numeric measures? For example instead of doing what feels comfortable as necessary to lower the perceived cost of hiring/training what if the focus were on building things that execute faster, achieve superior accessibility, or lower the cost to refactor according to automated analysis? Excellence is exclusive to those who wish to achieve it while conformity is the opposite.
That’s a good thing people would stop overbuying phones.
Similar background here. I think what made it «click» into place for me was the notion of metaphors and mental models.

When someone (remember to define who!) looks at your app, they’ll subconsciously build a map/model of how your system works. This model doesn’t have to be accurate nor complete, and very often it certainly doesn’t match your system model and architecture diagrams. But it needs to be good enough for the user to get their task done. Example: many devs think of a git repo as a tree of commits, and they mostly get the job done even if that’s not at all how git actually works.

The challenge then becomes to communicate a sufficient mental model with the minimal amount of effort on the user’s part. (You could write a user manual or an interactive onboarding tutorial, but let’s be honest nobody is going to read that.)

How? Reduce the burden by explaining in terms of things they already understand. Examples:

* Practically all UI toolkits come with buttons that resemble real-life physical buttons. You don’t need to read the label or anything else to recognise that pressing it will trigger an immediate action.
* A bus ticket app will visually display the ticket in a design that resembles a paper ticket. This helps drive home the point that «this box with a QR code in it is just like having a ticket in your hand».

A lot of design work can be seen as mapping out first what the users need, then how to communicate to them through the UI how your system can help them achieve whatever they want to do. This involves finding users and asking them a boatload of questions to understand how they think, what they really need. And also whether your UI communicates a sufficient mental model (don’t contaminate their minds by explaining your UI!) and how to fix it when it’s inevitably not correct on the first attempt.

After all that, you can start worrying about colors. There’s lots of good recommendations here already, highly recommend both reading some of the books and observing some real users trying real systems for the first time afterwards.
A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote
I'm curious to know if IA has ways of detecting whether archived pages were deleted. If rewriting history has big implications, doing so for "the internet" would similarly be big.
I was already an existing TMobile customer. I bought myself and my wife an iPhone 11 in cash when the phones were brand new. Never had a contract. Already had an LTE plan, didn't change that plan at all. Just bought two new phones from TMobile and had them slap the sims in.

Fast forward to a couple months ago, I happened to notice while browsing my TMobile account that my phone was being reported as "Carrier Locked" with subtext that said "This phone is not eligible to be unlocked". Not my wife's though, hers was listed as "Unlocked". It took over a month of being yanked around by TMobile reps telling me they had to "escalate but the issue will be fixed within a week". It never was.

They would ask me why I wanted it unlocked. I would just respond something respectful but firm along the lines of "Because it's my phone. I paid for it. You have no business locking my device"

The way I see it, it was either theft or false advertising, plain and simple. Either they stole the phone from me after I bought it. Or, they sold me a device as unlocked but never realized that promise. It should have NEVER been locked. It makes me mad just thinking about it. I don't understand why a carrier even has the power to remotely lock a phone that was never theirs to lock in the first place.

This is all to say: I agree with your observation. They deserve heavy handed regulation because they have proven they will abuse any inch you give them.
They (Congress? GAO? DHS? ) should have a separate department certify and monitor these sensors. Make it this department's sole job to keep this sensor network running properly.
I remember when (almost 25 years ago now) I did first year computer science, you had to hand in your code for an assignment, and then you had to sit with a tutor and answer questions about what it did, how it worked, and why you'd written it the way you did. Cheaters could get someone else to write their code for them but they did very poorly on the oral part.
I think I would say short term rewards heavily outweigh long term rewards. This is even true when long term rewards are much higher and even if the time to reward is not much longer than the short version. Time is important, but I think greatly over valued.
My guess is that undelivered letters are returned to the sender and scanned in. Below the line will be a barcode or similar UID that identifies where the returned letters came from.
Going to chime in. Young(ish) person in tech. Have heard nothing but great things about Bentonville.
I'm into mountain biking and the city is like a spiderweb of awesome looking biking/walking trails built by the Waltons.
https://raku.org is a great language if you want all the paradigms in a smooth way
Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane: The surgeon who operated on himself three times
You can have a undocumented immigrant from Nicaragua mow you lawn or hire a fully compliant landscaping company- who will probably still employ an undocumented migrant.

I myself have paid handymen under the table.
X changes its terms of service to steer user lawsuits towards a Texas court
It's important to realize that we're not really marveling at the technical merits of what they've built. It's quite functional, but nothing particularly excellent. We're really just marveling at what isn't there, namely megabytes of tracking libraries, UI libraries, etc.
C++ is absolutely terrible at this, either UX or performance (or sometimes both), and it's not even close ;)
I hope they have to offer some significant compensation to find a competent replacement willing to move to Arkansas.

Companies need to be humbled a little with these policies they want to force.
I am not in the US.

Where I live Waze and Google Maps are fine.
I don't think this is the case. Rather, ad-blocking-blocking was the primary motivation, and the undoing of evilness is a byproduct that allows much better marketability.

In reality, extensions are user-installed software. There is ALWAYS a risk with user-installed software on a PC. It's one thing if this is code webpages can automatically serve to you - then, the security is larger concern.

But I, for example, don't see anyone trying to clean up Win32 for security's sake. The closest thing I can think of is Wayland, which is also for security. But - that's desktop wide, for absolutely all software.
Open-Source, 3D Printed Trackpad
It is not "copyright infringement" tax. It's called a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy and it's a rather common thing, at least in all of Europe.
Used regex to parse XML - including properly handling namespaces!

TBF, the XML was part of our integration platform, so I knew it was well-formed. Using regex to parse what I needed from the incoming payload was several times faster than using a traditional XML parser. This was on the Java platform. People were amazed at how fast that system could process incoming messages!
I don't know why they don't distinguish entrants who are fund-raising versus time-based qualifiers.

If you ran a marathon sufficiently fast to get under the qualifying time, that doesn't mean that you are required to run THAT FAST on race day for the Boston Marathon.

Some runners try and run fast on race day and discover that their body has hit the "wall" and are forced to run slower, walk for much of the remainder of the race, or worst case, drop out.

Qualifying times for the Boston Marathon are different for older age groups. Older runners can get into Boston with a much slower time than someone in their 20s.

Then there are years where it would require super-human effort to get close to a qualifying time (i.e. 2018, year of heavy rain and wind, see https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/runs-races/japans-kawauc... )
Every so often, I want to get an epub of Paul Graham’s essays (eg right before a flight). Hopefully I’ll remember to use this
More importantly, they don't need to be nice and/or care to be successful.

Businesses are nice because they have to compete for customers, and that is easier if you're viewed as nice.

TV Licensing is a monopoly, they can have the worst customer service on earth, and that won't affect their revenue by much. There's just nowhere else to switch to.

This is also the reason why many government / publicly-run systems are so unfriendly and have such terrible UX. It's not like you can apply for benefits somewhere else (and the government would actually be very happy if you could!) , so nobody cares if the application is fifty pages and requires you to put in the same personal details 5 times.

To add insult to injury, there are no shareholders that demand the metrics to go up, so nobody has any incentive to optimize anything.
Thank you, Steve Ballmer, for a concert app that made me want to scream
http://archive.today/SRseE
`The app brags about how its “Zoom Thru” tech allows me to “navigate Intuit Dome like a pro.” This is not my goal. My goal is not even to be an amateur. My goal was to eat popcorn and listen to Billy Joel.`
> software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot.".

Is that supposed to be a negative? Isn't that the point of any profession? Like are any of these analogs negative?:

Medicine has accepted as its charter "How to cure disease if you cannot."

Accounting has accepted as its charter "How to track money if you cannot."

Flight schools has accepted as its charter "How to fly if you cannot."
Autoenshittification, YouTube, and Disenshittify or Die
In the sense that being unable to discharge student loans is good for users, I presume.
I wish I could upvote your comment more than by +1. Thanks.
France allows companies to have more onerous locking policies than the U.S. is proposing. French telecom companies are allowed to sell locked phones, require customers to request unlocks (rather than auto-unlocking, like the U.S. proposed rules), and the companies are allowed to take up to 3 months to respond to unlock requests, rather than requiring immediate unlocks after the first 60 days pass.

I like unlocked phones, and I buy my phones unlocked. But I agree with the sentiment here that we already know what the prices are for unlocked phones: manufacturers will sell them to you at that price, and telecom operators in the U.S. will universally allow you to bring your own, unlocked device free of charge. What the companies offering locked phones offer is an optional subsidy in exchange for a locked phone; while I'm sure there are reasonable arguments around e-waste that result in wanting some limits to locking, there is an obvious tradeoff in that the value of the subsidy diminishes as the allowed lock time diminishes. Mandating short limits to phone locks raises prices for poor people who can't afford unlocked phones. It's not always bad to do that — sometimes companies are taking advantage of poor people — but it's pretty true that will happen.
The Lean Dating Manifesto
By cutting off do you mean that it correctly rounds towards zero? Maybe you can implement rounding to closest by just doing the calculation in a one digit wider mantissa with rounding to zero and observing the last digit, at least for an even base. It won't be rounding to even though, but for that a 2 digit wider mantissa is probably enough.

Rounding to nearest with an odd base doesn't seem to be as straightforwardly implementable from rounding to zero calculations at a higher precision.
There's hundreds of us! I pay $15/month (+tax) for my service which has more than enough for my use most of the time. I don't get all the cross-promotional stuff, and I don't get a phone subsidy, but I think the lowest advertised price for all that stuff us $40/month. Saving $300/year gives me plenty of phone allowance, and I can buy my own tacos or whatever.

I don't have to pay for 'activation' when I move the sim from my phone into a new phone either, even though I hear about that happening still.

I don't have to try to get all my family lines on the same carrier either, so if the three of us are in a car stuck on the side of the road, we have a better chance of one of our phones working to get assistance.
Monthly car payments can be good, though, as opposed to paying cash, assuming you can get a reasonable rate of return by conservatively investing the cash in a fairly liquid investment.
Getting racist slurs yelled at me by my robot vacuum is arguably the best outcome imaginable if someone hacked it.
At-home brain stimulation could be promising depression treatment
What a coincidence, I was just browsing Microsoft's Go fork (for FIPS compatibility, basically replacing Go crypto with OpenSSL and whatever API Windows has, just like there's a Google's fork that uses BoringSSL), and found this patch:

https://github.com/microsoft/go/blob/microsoft/main/patches/...

Upstream Go tricks Windows into enabling long path support by setting an
undocumented flag in the PEB. The Microsoft Go fork can't use undocumented
APIs, so this commit removes the hack.

So, even if they fork something, they have to strictly follow this guideline and remove undocumented API usage. I wonder if this only applies to Windows APIs though.
It's great until you find yourself looking for another tech job, particularly with another RTO company.
In some cases, easier classes aren't a bad thing.

I had a decent GPA and took reasonably hard classes. I had a required discrete math class that was awful. The professor would assign homework for the next chapter that we hadn't gone over yet and them grade it as if it were a test. WTF am I paying you to teach me if I have to learn it myself before you ever present it and test me on that? Assign reading beforehand - great. Assign upgraded, or completion-graded homework beforehand - great. Grad it like a test before teaching it - BS. I took it with another professor after dropping the first one and they had more normal practices and it went much better.
> Mine needs about 5 miles of walks a day

That's a lot of walking. Mine gets about 2 miles a day and it takes about 60 minutes. Sometimes I do a 2 mile jog with him which he loves.

If you don't mind me asking, how long do you spend walking your dog? Is it a fast pace and/or do you count dog park time somehow?
Interesting. The person I replied to had the opposite opinion. The only answer for them, it seemed.

Care to share a bit of the detail behind this very pointed response? Thanks so much for it.
I use both vsc and cursor, cursor imported automatically all my vsc extensions and settings and theme and everything.
>Wolf, coyote oppose pasture rule, claim cramped coops are good for chickens
> Visual studio is open source

Sort of. The core is, and the installable binaries with telemetry and properietary extensions are not.

The open source, telemetry-free version of VSCode is called VSCodium: https://vscodium.com/

> Didn't cusor fork it and is building it features directly into the fork?

Yes, in their recent interview with Lex Fridman they argued that life as an extension is too limiting.

The main reason we criticise Microsoft for doing this and not them is just their size and market dominance.

Why jump through hoops to make competitors better able to hotwire their own AI into VSCode, or hotwire Copilot into their own IDE, when it's easier to iterate fast and remain unpredictable?
My experience is that time away from the crossword doing anything else works this way.
Yeah especially because it’s a “company town” feels like putting literally all your eggs in the Walmart basket.
Even he admits, he had to start somewhere.
Such an increase can actually be quite feasible; quadrupling the labor spent on final examination would be perhaps a 10% increase for the total labor spent on preparing and teaching a university course, and at university level (unlike earlier schooling) we don't really have a shortage of educators, quite the opposite.
I wonder who the highest-ranking employee will be who actually does move to Bentonville, Arkansas.
Locking phones is not at all a requirement for carriers to offer subsidized deals. They could offer phones on installment plans conditional on an N-month contract. The buyer could switch carriers and keep the phone, but be on the hook to pay off the rest of the contract term. The only reason to use technological locks is to further trap a customer into a carrier relationship beyond the legal terms of their contract. It's yet another example of companies violating long-standing rights and norms and getting away with it because there's a computer involved.
> vscode is developed by VPs borged from github

Other way around:

In 2011 [Erich Gamma] joined the Microsoft Visual Studio team and leads a development lab in Zürich, Switzerland that has developed the "Monaco" suite of components for browser-based development, found in products such as Azure DevOps Services [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma

1. https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
From Uber Delivery to Building a Solution for Car Detailers in Just 6 Days
Recently, I was researching invoicing tools when I stumbled upon something interesting. During an Uber delivery, I met a car detailer who was manually managing his bookings and payments. After some digging, I found that 45% of the car detailing industry (part of a $12 billion market) still uses manual tools!

So, I built a tool just for them. It’s a streamlined platform that connects to Stripe for payments and makes booking and scheduling a breeze for both customers and detailers.

I’m excited to see how this helps! Know any car detailers who could use this?
(that 5-7 years is "maximum effect" there are others that simply using two to some degree adds a few years of brain health - and that might be mentioned elsewhere in this meta analysis)