skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm not sure how far you've tried to drive with apple maps. but from what i can tell, apple maps is better for navigation around NYC and SF. not so much when you get out of the few cities where it's better.

even around vancouver, which i would have thought might be a big enough place to get some love from apple, i still get frustrated with apple maps directions. google maps might not have all the shiny bits that apple maps has, but the directions are always right, or at least close enough to right that i'm not mad about it.
> next year will be entirely new and innovative and in the bin in 12 months.

Yeah but my problem is that they are the ones with grand visions that may or may not ever come to fruition, and I am the one left with half-baked features that the business clearly needs to fix right now but are seen as unfashionable to work on.

Recently I was at a point where I've suggested to onboard a junior resource to mop the metaphorical floor. I'm starting to think that, next time, I should ask to have different degrees of seniority in the team to make it more balanced.
No problem at all!

I would be curious how the Attic server would have gone with a Tigris bucket and local caching. Not sure how hard that is to pull off, but Tigris should be substantially cheaper than our NVMes and if you don't really NEED the io performance you're not getting anything for that money. Which is a long winded way of saying "we aren't great at block storage for anything but OLTP workloads and caches".

One thing we've struggled to communicate is how _cheap_ autosuspend/autostop make things. If that Machine is alive for 8 hours per day you're probably below $8/mo for that config. And it's so fast that it's viable for it to start/stop 45 times per day.

It's kind of hard to make the thing stay alive with health checks, unless you're meaning external ones?

We are suboptimal for things that make more sense as a bunch of containers on one host.
In a purely numerical setting, you can only distinguish these two cases when you evaluate the expression with enough accuracy. This may feel like a weakness, but if you think about this it is a much more "honest" way of handling inaccuracy than just rounding like you would do with floating point arithmetic.

A good way to think about the framework, is that for any expression you can compute a rational lower and upper bound for the "true" real solution. With enough computation you can get them arbitrarily close, but when an intermediate result is not rational, you will never be able to compute the true solution (even if it happens to be rational; a good example is that for sqrt(2) * sqrt(2) you will only be able to get a solution of the form 2 ± ϵ for some arbitrarily small ϵ).
i don't read that as a condemnation of usefulness of integrating w/ the system tzdb (every language stdlib does this under the hood)

my biggest issue is that the structs and function definitions are pretty opaquely named and make it very hard to learn let alone teach newcomers.
And then when I pan the map, maybe 90% of the time it doesn't load new results for the visible area. It makes Apple Maps pretty unusable for finding things in unfamiliar areas.
If I’m using a pocket calculator for a problem then for all intents and purposes 1×10⁻⁴⁰ = 0
Civic Tech's Third Wave
Debating moving to iCloud. What are other people's experiences?
> People are weak, corrupt, lazy, stupid, and endlessly self-serving. Institutions are weak

This is partly a self-fulfilling prophecy. Low-trust societies are filled with weak, corrupted, lazy and stupid leaders.
Anyone got tips when traveling with kids?
There's no "accurate results" most of the time

You can only have a result that's exact enough in your desired precision
The beginning of a new kind of discrimination - call it 'synthetic racism.' AI-generated music is being dismissed outright even before listening to it, not based on quality or enjoyment but purely on its artificial origin. Just as past prejudices dismissed art based on heritage rather than merit, we're now seeing a new bias against anything not 'human-made.'
> The .h and .c files of a component must always be stored in the same folder so that the compiler can find them
He who saves his country, violates no law
> Texas is the only state in the lower 48 that has no major connections to neighboring power grids. That means growing energy demand in Texas must be met by new power generation in Texas.

> "Texas didn't [build solar farms and battery storage] for an energy transition reason at all," says Rhodes, "We just made it easy to build things here. And so people started building things here."

It's hard for me to reconcile the criticism of Texas's market structure with the fact that they seem to add more (clean) generation capacity than any other state.

Is it as simple as: Their state is growing very fast (both people and electricity per person due to datacenters) leading to supply/demand forecasting difficulty and mismatches?

TX generates 138% more electricity in 2023 vs. 2009 [1]. By contrast CA generated 5% less electricity in 2023 vs. 2009 [2] (roughly same for any 2 years around those start and stop years).

I do wish this topic were treated less politically and more pragmatically. At this point everyone seems to agree we need more electricity in the future with less carbon intensity and so far, TX is one of the few states actually achieving it at scale.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=2...
[2] https://www.energy.ca.gov/media/7311
That will not work for scanned PDFs without a text layer and even if it has one, it's not guaranteed to work.
My mistake. Maybe the wrong use of the word.

And yes, it was a shallow article. It was not a deep dive and nor do I have the technical chops to write a deep dive.
YouTube fundamentally does not respect the time or attention of users - even if you pay for YouTube Premium.

The only way I can stomach YT at this point is with blocktube and unhook; I can disable parts of the interface, block channels and content individually or with regular expressions, and filter comments with regex - a necessity given how many scams are being run right now.

I dread the day they drop RSS feeds for channel updates.

https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube

https://unhook.app/

Edit: also see how YT search gives you unrelated nonsense. User-hostile may as well be their mission statement at this point.
All You Need to Know About RxJS to Get Started
I'm not sure admins of old mainframes from the 80s would be interested in getting latest vim running on their hosts! I still use whatever old version of vim that came with my freenas.
AirPods are the biggest surprise runaway success under Tim Cook
> health insurance CEO was shot dead in the streets

Middle manager from Minnesota scraping in at the very bottom of the 0.1% wealth line, in a system with power-law dynamics, is a high-profile mugging.
> The object is already constructed in a valid state.

But that's the entire value proposition of do-not-allow-construction-of-invalid-state!

If a User is actually a User, then you can say "the object is already constructed in a valid state".

If you decide to be 'less dogmatic' and instead construct Users-which-may-or-may-not-be-users-just-throw-an-ex-if-theyre-no-good, then you cannot say that the object is already constructed in a valid state.
I can't even imagine having this sort of attitude where you think that your presence is like a "celebrity guest" for strangers and and will be "making their day." You. Complete strangers.

Like, how does one have such an inflated sense of importance? And feel absolutely no shame in writing it out for the world to see.

Delusions of grandeur.
Unfortunately it seems like a large subset of execs can only think one quarter at a time.
I would imagine that is practically a separate category of tips
That’s ridiculous though. It wasn’t “considered impossible” because we hadn’t engineered a solution yet. It was “considered impossible” because of men’s historic tendanxy to view women as incapable.
The core of C is pointer arithmetic; This creates a fundamentally unsafe environment.

You can't even do anything in C without some asm (syscall wrappers) because C was meant to boil down and streamline PDP-11 assembly (Your computer is not a fast PDP-11) to a set of consistent principles. The consequence of this is that the
core of the language is pointers and pointer arithmetic, and raw unabstracted pointers are fundamentally unsafe to work with.

Using the rust type system I can essentially confirm code is bug and edge-case free with exhaustive
matching and unit testing (C's lack of tooling blessed the world with autoconf and cmake btw). Not to mention rusts ability to abstract away necessary boilerplate gives
me more time to think about my code instead of pointer arithmetic and allocation heuristics.

The "cure" for C is a language that abstracts away raw pointers and memory allocation.
Suggestion to the void: update the map so that it shows the counties and districts without power.
I've always been tempted by Linux as my main driver, being myself an idealist. But making the move always been hard while I always had linux secondary machines around.

My main reproaches towards macOS are weird choices Apple is imposing his users or the lack of compatibility with other systems :

- Mail.app and the way it persists with its ridiculous way of handling attachements (I use Thunderbird)

- Having to install additional apps to have an decent window manager or finder : Alt-Tab, Rectangle, new file menu

- Not being able to pop a calendar while clicking on the clock

- SMB compatibility is hell

- Finder is hell

- ...

Too much customisations needed while Linux "just works".

The recent position of the brand toward politics made me take the plunge.
Or, we can look at the spectrum of politics that exists and, observe that there are political groups outside of the Democrats and Republicans even within the United States, and see that you're wrong.
Hmm, I wonder if they're doing this so they can drop some code for Spectre/Meltdown mitigations? If memory serves the fix was somewhere around the 10th-11th gen for Intel.
But if you want your philosophy to encompass most people's lives, it mustshould approach the 'standard model' of family-with-kids, or it's impractical and/or inapplicable.

In order for a philosophy to be completely applicable to human life, one has to have lived the experience, not just viewed it from afar.

And, as with all comprehensive philosophies, compassion must be at its root, or it's irrelevant nonsense constrained solely to the physical world, not the human world.
Ah yes, I also need a number displayed to know what I should like and dislike. Just makes my life easier.

Pro tip: If you see this comment fading away, it means you should downvote/flag it.
In what way? It’s using nema 17 motors, the same as most printers. They sell completed units for ~3000eur and that totally makes sense - but if I want to do the labour and parts sourcing myself what is driving the estimated cost so high? $250 for the custom controller board, $20*6 for the motors, $60 of plastic. That’s well under $500
If you click on the state, you get a county view.
Texas was literally founded to be a slave state. I know this, because my ancestors were there doing that. No surprise that it's still oppressing big chunks of its population.

One thing I will say, it's hard to put all the folks in Texas in a bucket.

Several classes of folks live there- most of my friends there are just trying to, like, keep the fresh tortillas in stock at the HEB or serve beers while keeping a functioning automobile. Regardless of the goodness or badness of their ideas (or even fantasies of sovereignty), they are still materially beholden to a powerful and oppressive state.

People who get joy out of watching things happen to poor folks in Texas really don't understand gerrymandering, cultural hegemony, or any of the other mechanics of how oppressive governments operate.

I can guarantee you that those same folks, in Texas, would be the conservative folks writing oppressive laws to empower their good ol' boy buddies to do horrible stuff to the population.

Because at it's base, the inability to see oneself in oppressed people is the same everywhere we go.

The view that the idiot lumpen serfs deserve to be oppressed (or, if you prefer, "deserve the government they 'elected'") is the same aesthetic position that leads the folks who own Texas to conclude they can do whatever they feel like to the people there.
I Googled Peter Madsen, figuring he did some securities fraud or whatnot, but wow, no, full-on submarine murder.
I've switched the default to DDG when they started requiring JS. I run with JS enabled, but the fact that it's now required screams fingerprinting and other shenanigans. 90% of my searches are trivial, so DDG is now a better default fit.

Hey Google, here's a modest proposal: nerdsearch.google.com. Return the same results, but in a spartan HN-like format, with no JS or fingerprinting or other "did be evil" things. Non-techies will never find out about it if you don't advertise it. You can still fingerprint people who don't know or care about it.

> Gmail? YouTube? Gemini? Chrome? Android

Most of these are best-in-class, so I think I detect some bias in the question.
Generating getters is actually 2 IDE clicks that will protect you down the road.

Trying to refactor fields that made it into a public API is a nightmare. If you're shipping code people use, you won't get to refactor their projects from your upstream library.

Also, no one is suggesting everything needs a setter. Where is this coming from?
> rich are endangering their riches in this experiment

The history of modern revolutions is that the rich are fine. Hell, even in the French Revolution, most of the aristocracy fled with their lives and moveable riches. In the intervening centuries, mobility of both people and wealth has substantially increased.
They've been around for a really long time. I suspect that back in the analog radio days of yore, the control pulses transmitted by your Futaba were recieved as a pulse train - 6 channel radio, six pulses and a big enough gap between frames to reset the index. At the RX all you have to do is feed those pulses through to successive servos one after the other, which is easy and cheap to do with basic logic ICs.

So when you use hobby servos for robots, you're taking a low precision actuator meant to make a flap or throttle or other control surface go relatively up, down, in, or out, that was designed in like, the 70s, and asking it to do modern robotics stuff
Excellent refinement. Gods, remember how amazing those programs were technically, and at the same time how incredibly boring they were as music?
Interesting you say that because I’ve found their directions to be generally ok on UK roads. Not perfect but not terrible either.

The best satnav I’ve ever had was whatever was built into my VW CC. I think it might have been TomTom-based. I loved pretty much every aspect of that satnav. In fact I loved pretty much every aspect of that car too.
Largely no, but I did upload one of the very first ones I generated at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP5eOdyRhYw – For some reason I find this sort of thing good background music, though suspect most would not!

I quite like music with uncommon modes and weird scales and Suno isn't too bad at emulating this - especially with Arabic music (e.g. "swirling dramatic orchestral arabic music with oud guitar" will yield many good, if stereotypical, results). I'm not familiar enough with traditional regional music to pick out all the flaws so it works for me, but a "local" would probably say it sounds unrealistic in the same way that Suno-generated typical Western pop and rock sounds off to my ears.
I’ll happily spend all day wet outside as long as it’s warm enough not to want a jacket.

Which is why I just get water resistant jackets rather than raincoats.
I read their comment and immediately thought of the same movie. That story did moral shades of gray very well. I do wish there was more content like that.
The value comes from user-generated content, just like on Instagram—individual posts may not matter, but their collective contribution is what creates value.
Takes a certain kind of person to care, though.
It's getting down-voted because it is a very bad advice, one that can be refuted by already known facts. Your comment is even worse in this regards and is very misleading - the LLMs are definitely not going to "accurately explain everything you need to know", it's not a magical tool that "knows everything", it's a statistical parrot which infers the most likely sequence of tokens, which results in inaccurate responses often enough. There is already a lot of incompetent folks relying blindly on these un-reliable tools, please do not introduce more AI-slop based thinking into the world ;)
Not too bad, but here in Memphis most power lines are old and above ground, so any moderate system coming through will knock out a significant chunk of the grid.
Sean Carroll had an interesting podcast episode with Daryl Morey on that topic (among others): https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/03/15/138-...
I asked it to expand an article with further information about the topic, and it searched online and that’s what it did.
This is crazy. The ones we used in the Navy were heavy and delicate. Now it fits into the palm of our hand. Just incredible how far things have come.
come on, that was easy. for a challenge, predict how much each will go up.
If you are in the US you can just fire them for no reason at any time, making employees fight to the death to not be in the bottom 10% is fun for management to squeeze a bit of extra performance out of people but not for anyone else.

If you are in the rest of the world, batch firing "the bottom 10%" for the stated reason of performance (they normally lie and say it is for a different reason) still requires the exact same amount of effort as doing it when there are actual performance issues.

Properly managed teams deal with actual poor performers, and your bottom 10% employee might be a top 1% employee any other company.
> I’m sure you won’t see the police, public health, state dept, as waste.

Nope, I want to defund all of that. I want 0 of my tax dollars going to that waste. Police is abuse. Public health is a fraud. State Department is waste. Our points of view are irreconcilable, we need a system to resolve our differences civilly.

> So sure, it would be great to hold hands on this but that’s not how our system works.

The totality of our laws and system of government were decided iteratively by majorities representing all sides at some point. The President doesn't get to come in and decide all the laws passed by Democrats in the past are "waste and fraud" which seems to be what he's trying to do. The way to change the law is to go through Congress, but of course changing the law is much harder than not implementing.

> Congress sets a budget and laws with very high level instructions. The President’s job is to implement.

His job according to the Constitution is to implement "faithfully", meaning it's not his will that he's carrying out, it's the will of Congress. We already have an IG system to give Congress feedback on whether the agencies are running how they see fit, but Trump just gutted that. That's not the behavior of someone faithfully implementing the laws for Congress, that's the behavior of someone implementing laws for himself.

> But crying “Constitution crisis!” When the President, with all the powers of the Executive

What they are doing is not one of the powers. The Constitution does not allow for this, the law does not allow for this either. They are breaking the law.
Wipeout Pure: Browser FAQ
> You can't even do anything in C without some asm (syscall wrappers)

Which language can do anything without some asm and support as many platforms as C?
Point object could be either, since the coordinate systems are truly interchangeable, e.g. the class could just store everything as Cartesian internally and convert to/from polar as needed. In a class with more mutually exclusive properties I can see how this wouldn’t work so well.
Reading a facial expression is one thing.

But I think what you're talking about is someone's ability to simulate the internal state of someone else. Or its little brother: simulating it correctly and then getting mad at the result due to ego.
Apple Maps always refers you to Yelp, which in the past extorted businesses for good ratings. I avoided them like the plague, so I can't say if they're any better.

Or worse.
Trying to avoid them as much as I can : Kagi, Thunderbird (gmail account), different YouTube frontends as they tend to regularly break (YouTube is really pushing back nowadays), No AI, LibreWolf, Lineage and I'll complement with Nextcloud for drive/calendar/contacts.
Grocery chains where lack of power = no freezers = spoilage come to mind.
Not really, 100k homes in Georgia is roughly 3% of homes.
The involuntary wealth transfer of slavery was from slaves to the rich, not the other way around. Framing it as the slaves taking from the rich when they stopped being slaves by no longer providing free labor is monumentally disingenuous, and I don't think you really believe that.
South of Atlanta we had a tornado warning around 5am. Several downed trees and power outages but I haven't heard of any actual tornadoes that touched down in my area yet.
Define "accurate"!
I'm in Georgia. There was a bad thunderstorm front that came through last night and briefly took out the power to my building. High winds and tornado watches across much of the state. We really need to bury our power lines.

It's very typical of this season as we experience several rounds of rapid temperature fluctuations between the 60s and 70s and the 20s and 30s. Late winter and early spring typically bring storms and tornadoes to our region.

It's funny to see everyone rush outside donning springtime apparel and then be hit with the coldest days of the season just after. And it happens every year. "Fake spring", we call it.

We've got a forecast for snow this upcoming Wednesday too! Fingers crossed.
They're saying multiple things can synchronize on the same public field. Same reason you don't want to use this.

Although I suppose they could mean the concept and not the keyword. A field might not be thread safe and there's no way for an object to guarantee thread safe access of to a field.
My goodness, you're not kidding. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/the-texas-law-that-dictates-...

I dug a little further and apparently there's an "obscenity" law that prevents you from selling sex toys as sex toys, according to https://www.houstonpress.com/news/opinion-yes-texas-has-a-la...

> Like Heather, she spent her time in Dallas lying to people about products to stay ahead of vice officers.

> “This was my first experience as a white girl from Wisconsin at fearing the police,” she says. “My heart was in my throat. I had to say with a straight face, ‘no, this three-pound dildo is a cake topper.’ I would have to talk around any reference to the body parts these were supposed to be used on. Even with regulars who I knew were okay, I never changed the words in case I got used to telling the truth and slipped up when a cop was around.”

Freedom.
True. Had a friend head to Central America to surf (I don't recall which country). The first cab he hailed took him to an alley where others were waiting and he was robbed of his passport, cash.

End of trip.

Please don't interpret this as my painting the whole of Central America as dangerous. This is anecdotal but perhaps a cautionary tale? I suspect if he had not grabbed a cab but rather found a bus or some other sort of mass transportation his whole trip could have turned out wonderfully.
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