skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It has a battery soldered on the circuit board. The battery slowly discharges while the unit is on. In about 10 years of operation, the battery voltage drops below 1v or so. The battery powers nothing

I am not an electrical engineer. Could the microcontroller use the battery as some kind of calibration? Or could it have another function?
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I appreciated OP sharing their thoughts. But this piece didn't land for me.

I think it's a question of conflating aging with ossification. I know I will die, leaving things undone, unmade, unsaid. My body is falling apart in a lot of dreadful ways. Yet I can still grow, still learn. I intend to gather, change, be protean, until life draws the curtain closed. What a thrill!

As I age, I come to see the vistas I imagined when younger as shallow, half-baked. I wanted shallow things, having nothing to compare my desires to, no context for the myths and narratives of my own life aside from the media and socialization I was exposed to early on.

How could I -really- picture the world beyond, the richness and pains I would stumble into, almost entirely on accident? How could I imagine anything true or close to the source, having lived for such a short time, tasted so little of the complexity of our substrate?

Which brings me back to the OP's lament: of course they failed to make good art: they were not guided by an interest in touching the true thing, only in being recognized as someone that can touch the true thing. Trading the vulnerability of unfiltered experience for the rigid belief in their deserved/desired social status. What good fortune they yet live, can yet grow and change and make art!

I am reminded of Tarkovsky's Stalker, and the Stalker's Prayer:

"Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being! Because what has hardened will never win."
Right. Some else's back yard.
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That's a fairly narrow and pessimistic view of people's character and evolution over time.

Some people are wired differently and take calculated risks their whole life.

Read the life of Louis Pasteur if you need an example.
> Who doesn't want their Amazon packages delivered sooner?

Me, at least enough that I cancelled Prime, and took advantage of that "Amazon day" thing they had whenever I could.

I'd love for someone like Amazon or Walmart to offer weekly delivery to my neighborhood, and I could just order things as I remembered them, all delivered every Wednesday or whatever. Save time, save gas, save having to think about it.
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> I think that's completely silly framing

It's literally the framing of the linked article though, which takes as a prior that JIT compilers are already ahead of AoT toolchains. And... they aren't!
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It's not Russia's aircraft carriers I'm concerned about.

Russia's experience with drones vs. her guided missile cruisers has more than enough there to translate to more capable aircraft carriers.
I don't think you can update any 10-year-old windows computer to the latest version of windows (11) with all security patches via official microsoft channels.

(Also, lol @ "via official Apple channels", you're aware Open Core Legacy Patcher is a thing and have hedged against people mentioning it.)

What are you comparing to?
Regular and Irregular Motion [pdf]
I won't comment on the OP using 'horrendous' as an adjective, but that quote seems misleading and unclear to me. Transactions (not transaction logs) are about maintaining [relational] database consistency, not directly about ensuring no data loss. A database engine would rather roll back a partially applied transaction and lose the data in it, than update one table and not update another, breaking the relation between them, and becoming inconsistent/corrupt.

Transaction logs then, are a separate record of these transactions into a log file. The quote says they are 'essential' but three paragraphs later in the link[0] is this: "The [log] mechanism was first implemented in version 7.1"; transaction logs are not essential for RDBMSs and are not essential for ensuring against data loss, they are one part of one larger design for reducing the chance of data loss. (Having a separate log file does not ensure that no data is lost in the event of a crash because the log file could also be lost by the same crash).

"so the database server can recover the database cluster" - the quote has switched from transaction logs as essential, to clustering-with-transaction-logs as essential, without clearly calling that out; there are clustering designs which don't need transaction logs so that isn't essential, and from the PostgreSQL documentation[1]: "It should be noted that log shipping is asynchronous, i.e., the [logs] are shipped after transaction commit. As a result, there is a window for data loss...". Neither transaction logs, nor log shipping clustering, are enough to ensure no data loss. It is possible to improve on that with synchronous_commit[2] (off by default in PostgreSQL) but that can still be designed badly to allow data loss to happen.

The quote is misleading about what transaction logs are for, what situations they can/cannot help with, and what other concerns are involved in guarding against data loss. Given that data loss is a particularly important concern in relational databases compared to some other software and systems, and that there are so many details which need to be considered to reduce risks of data loss, the quote being at all vague or misleading seems worse than it would be if writing about other systems, and worse than it would be if written in the context of 'a high level overview of databases'.

[0] http://www.interdb.jp/pg/pgsql09.html

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/warm-standby.html

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/warm-standby.html#SYNCHRO...
I also felt it odd to hold up Silence of the Lambs as some kind of a paragon of achievement. I saw it when I was a kid once, and I recognize the memes/lines from it, and I know it occupies a certain place in culture

... but otherwise I don't think about that movie, especially not 2 or 3 decades later. For me personally, it would be OK if it didn't exist. I don't plan to watch it again, ever

I'm very sure the author would say the same thing about what I'm doing -- i.e. "Who cares? It's OK if it doesn't exist"

I think the lesson is: don't take yourself too seriously, and don't take your own personal perspective too seriously.

I get where the author is coming from, and there are some very well-written sentences in this blog post. But I also think that to adopt this world view is a recipe for misery. It's one view of things, not absolute truth
Since the link shared here is for Triple N-Back method/app, for those looking for a standard Dual N-Back, there are many web apps, one such app I found in search results is https://dual-n-back.io/
Show HN: Why spend $$$ on data when robots can learn from us?
We just released Point Policy, a framework that allows robots to learn by directly copying humans.

Point Policy does not need robot data, motion planning, simulators, or interactions. While the robotics community has been spending millions of $$$ on collecting huge robot datasets, we show that with just 30 videos of a human performing a task (less than 15 mins of human effort), we can teach robots to perform complex tasks in unseen scenarios with new objects.

Here is a thread on X (prev Twitter) with visuals - https://x.com/haldar_siddhant/status/1895518805151138274

Would love to hear the community's questions, thoughts, and comments! We have open-sourced the entire framework and encourage robotics researchers, engineers and enthusiasts to give it a try on their robots.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20391
More videos and code: https://point-policy.github.io/
> Outlook

> modern email

That can't be true. Now, I haven't used Outlook myself, but I've received enough garbage from that godforsaken relic of a time when MS wanted to EEE email to know that that can't be true.

FWIW, I've posted patches to the PG mailing list just fine with GMail. The web app, that is.
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That is table stakes. So, rewind 5 years. Introduce that, remove attestation while you are at it. And make sure we have multiple compatible implementations.

Without it passkeys are a sham. And since that was and is the case I don't see any conceivable future where passkeys benefit anyone but google/apple/ms. For the sake of the web it needs to die.
A lot of the cartoons I watched as a kid had excellent animation, and a lot was very primitive 3D rendering that looks horrible in comparison. As a kid, I didn't even notice!
To provide a little grounding for the author's writing, most novelists don't publish until their 40s or later. Most young novelists who publish don't publish anything that sells until their 40s, too.

Which isn't to discount the author's point. Their writing is introspective. But our perceptions are not always right, and it screws with our self-perceptions, especially of what success means and looks like. We are drawn to exceptions and anchor our expectations for ourselves within their stories.
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Set the bar low, your sights high, and work your ass off, and you'll achieve much and have a blast getting there.
> Small drones do not assume the role of tanks

I'm not saying they do. I was replying to a comment.
I'm pretty sure you also do not need a driver's license to operate them since they are bikes.
It only matters if the restricted money covers more than what it's intended for.

If you have 500M allowed to cover education and require 700M total for it, then the restriction doesn't matter at all.
I love the UI personally; I don't see a way to friend or follow other users, although I know that may be coming soon.

My biggest missing feature: I can't see what series a book is in. For instance, if I look up the Three Body Problem, I can see the author, the rating, reviews, pub date, etc; but nowhere does it tell me this is Book 1 of the Remembrance of Earth's Past series. That's pretty big for me; I commonly use these sites to click on the series, and see a full listing of all books in that series, so I know what to read next.
And they should use the system DNS services for that, not their own partners.
But we must also contend with the fact that most people -- ourselves included -- won't fix most of their flaws. Besides, your anecdote does not even further your point. You're talking about having the intention to try to improve yourself. That says nothing about whether you'll actually follow through, let alone succeed.
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So almost every comment in this thread so far says this is a horrible article/horrible manager/just horrible.

I disagree. As a manager who has to deal with difficult people sometimes, I enjoyed it. The archetypes are recognisable but there are others.

Her recommendations aren't quite my style of management but I can see they are coming from a positive place. She is trying to help someone who is difficult find a productive place in the team, and giving them actionable things to take away.

Failing that, you move on and fire them of course. What else are you going to do?
I see things differently. As you get older, the opportunity cost of not taking risks increases significantly, pushing you to take more (calculated) risks.

And it turns out that you get better at calculating these risks, so...
podcast app is the worst, I can never find what I'm looking for
A side effect of employing tens of thousands of full time people that do product development is that matter how good your product currently is, there is an entire organizational hierarchy that has to justify its existence. The result is that every great product keeps picking up parasitic features and functionality. Intended to add value, but paradoxically removing overall value.

There is a fine line between staying ahead of the competition and enshittification and most companies don't find it.

The most recent examples that come to mind are Spotify and Slack. Products that were, at one time, a pleasure to use, but have since been significantly degraded by a continual assault of minor features and re-working of UI.
How to help an Open Source project that your company depends on
You are right that it has been a cumulative process, and the issues will continue to accumulate. But it has nothing to do with Covid or WFH. It started years before that.
> Seems like we'll need a really big war to make that essential, and then there's an open question whether we'd actually be able to do it given that nobody knows how to do anything anymore.

I'm not sure if I'd be rooting for this eventuality.
> BTW, I assume that when/if the Ukraine war ends, the Ukrainian drone industry will be the best in the world.

I'd say it already is.
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I think the antidote is to intentionally avoid routines to optimize. Cultivating an objective of variety helps break out of the mundanity-loop. (caveat: everything in moderation, including moderation)
I think as humans live longer and longer, the youth years should expand correspondingly. I think nowadays one can easily live until 100 years old (at least I know plenty of oldies in their late 90s around here in western europe). The 40s are the new 30s.
The reason Amazon likes the drones is there's nobody they have to pay riding them. The bikes (for now) require a rider.

And autonomous ground-delivery vehicles have and are being tried. There are tons of issues with those, too.

The drones were an interesting if obvious idea to try, but I think they aren't quite practical.

Now hydrogen drone blimps might solve many of the problems, but introduce new ones. And helium is too expensive.
Skybox Security shuts down, lays off 300 employees as Tufin acquires assets
Apple Music, at least when I last used it, could not handle copying podcasts to my old iPod Video - this is now handled in Finder, as best as I can tell. It will copy the tracks, but it doesn't properly flag them as podcasts so if I switch to another track and then go back to the podcast it does not remember my location.

Never had that problem with iTunes.
I'd like to apply, but I am in Canada but (very) willing to work West Coast hours. Is this possible?
> That does not necessarily mean good ad blocking must break. Most people find the ad blockers on Safari to be fine, and Safari does not have that kind of blocking. It has long required the declarative rule kind of blocking.

This presupposes that advertising platforms will not react to the changes to adblocking in any way, but I don't think that's realistic.

The declarative rules can only be changed with updates to the extension (AFAIK, please correct me if I'm wrong). This means users can't block ads themselves (at least uBlock Origin Lite can't do it), and it will take between days to weeks until new block lists have propagated.

Now, remember last year when YouTube started blocking adblockers? They changed their implementations sometimes multiple times per day, and after minutes to hours new blocklists were distributed that got around them. This won't be possible anymore with Manifest V3, so Google just has to update their adblock implementation often enough to finally get rid of them.

And the same goes for other platforms. Once the majority of users is using browsers that only allow declarative blocking, more platforms will start updating more frequently.
“Ten years later, as a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford in 1976, I experienced a minor epiphany about ambition’s degradation. At age 16 or 17, I had wanted to be another Einstein; at 21, I would have been happy to be another Feynman; at 24, a future T. D. Lee would have sufficed. By 1976, sharing an office with other postdoctoral researchers at Oxford, I realized that I had reached the point where I merely envied the postdoc in the office next door because he had been invited to give a seminar in France. In much the same way, by a process options theorists call time decay, financial stock options lose their potential as they approach their own expiration.”, Emanuel Derman, My life as a Quant
Every once in a while I like to read up on what the decision makers are saying about us to one another when they think we're not looking. Helps me remember that I need to care about getting as much as possible for me because that's what everyone else is doing.
It is kinda marketing staple to make people feel bad about themselves or exaggerate problems so they desire your solution. You see it everywhere in different forms.
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This is arguably true for all director’s cuts and remasters ever released.
My archlinux has moved from a bunch of scripts to just a window manager with Chrome. At the end of the day, you realize you don't really need all these gadgets and notifications but just a terminal and a browser.