skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Dude, "LOL online orders exist" is not the slam-dunk you think it is here.

Dude, "LOL online orders exist" is absolutely the slam-dunk I think it is here.

>First, that single weekend's 8.6k sales (if the timestamps are to be believed) are than Tesla's Canada sales for the entire prior month (Dec 2024) as well as exceeding the total for any month in 2024.

Yes, happens when the government announces they're going to take $5,000 away in a few days.

>Second, even a mob of frenzied Canadians car-buyers would probably fall more-evenly across different sellers, and across more days of the month, rather than being so unusually-concentrated.

Wrong:

Tesla clearly outpased the competition, Model Y selling double what the second place competition was.

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-model-y-leads-canadas...

Tesla was selling double of what the competition was in the same rebate program less than a year ago.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-dominates-canada-izev-rebate...

The frenzy was due to the government ending the rebate program.

>Finally, remember that the incentive program was already slated to end within another month or two, not a year later or whatever.

You missed it, they made another announcement that it was ending within days. That caused a frenzy.

>This places limits on how big we can expect the crowd of procrastinating car-buyers to be, especially since for most people cars are not impulse-buys.

Once the end of the program was announced, the buying commenced.
This appears to be a different take based on the speedometer value. Also, he turned the system on 3 seconds before the wall, while giving the other system much more time. More importantly than all this, why didn't he used FSD, why is he using legacy Autopilot?
But that isn't what appears to be happening. Their "boss" (the DA) is the one saying "I don't want to". When your boss gives you clear incentives, like not prosecuting (throwing out) portions of your work, you are going to stop that work and focus on other things.
i mean its also nice office decoration and also lets them rank on HN. many companies spend far more on employer branding with far less results.
Can you request a bigger delegation? a single /64 is very limiting, since that effectively limits you to 1 subnet (so no extra guest / IoT subnet)
Is this a China bot?

> Political movement that spreads notions repugnant to all decent people

Exactly, specifically, what is so repugnant to “all decent people” about being Uighur?

> Whereas the US keeps their no-fly list secret and requires you to figure out people's credit score from context, so that's better?

The US’s. Is this a serious question? Of course it’s the US. It’s the US version a hundred times over. And yes, people can act how they want. I don’t particularly give a shit how you or daddy Xi think I should behave.

> Whereas in the US only nobodies get black-vanned at protests, and the CIA torture flights are only for foreigners, so that's better?

Once again, I cannot tell if this is a joke or not. Yes, of course this is better. I don’t want my government actively suppressing real citizens like you do. I really do not care if they said Xi was fat, or hurt your feelings, or practiced a religion that makes you cry incessantly. In the real world, you need to get along with people you don’t like - you can’t just sterilize them in a camp. Xi is a dipshit.
It's simply a mechanism to allow trades to happen outside of the lit market, not much to do with ownership tracking. The DTCC still "owns" the shares and the brokers are keeping track of individual ownership. There may be a clearing house to facilitate trades between brokers. Dark pools are available to retail traders via some brokers but of course most are not that easy to get into. Its really no different than trading on the open market but there is less available information.
The author of Chaos Monkeys was hired by Facebook in 2011, the same year as the author of Careless People.

Facebook launched in 2004, so in both cases it isn't exactly "early days" of the company, especially compared to The Accidental Billionaires (which The Social Network film was based on).
>And yet it's somehow being pushed as a be-all solve-all replacement

But it isn't a be-all solve-all replacement. The whole point of HTTP/3 is that you can still use HTTP/2 all you want in your build-outs, and it uses as appropriate. If large file, many packet, high speed sustained performance is your thing and you've got problems with HTTP/3, deploy it on an HTTP/2 server. Go nuts. Positively nothing will go awry. Everything will be fine.

You're arguing a strawman.

>Additionally, if your performance degrades even in these ideal conditions, what does this promise for non-ideal conditions?

This is an absolutely nonsensical statement. HTTP/3 is quite literally built for situations where you have many small requests, often in suboptimal situations. The average web user interacting with an average web page over something other than their local ethernet connection, exchanging tens of thousands of back and forths for different resources and navigations and posts. Screeching, with moral superiority I might add, that if it pins the CPU using their oddball no-name server -- oh, and where they bizarrely forced the HTTP/3 server to use HTTP/2 congestion control because that made the results funner -- with their client machine with a CPU 1/4 the performance of my smartphone, downloading a many GB file, isn't the big win you seem to think it is.
If you want to remove Sharpie, use IPA...isopropyl alcohol...India pale ale remains useless.
Yep. It's pretty nice
If all everyone does is help others, you have a circular system where everything is done.
Do yourself a favor and make sure it's preflashed with ESPHome, eg https://a.co/d/8wh4oEK
AI's Effects on Programming Jobs
Gimp 3.0 Release Notes
How much of this is actually needed for security vs just cool?
The site is very snappy, which matches well your pitch.

However your principal selling point - the nanosecond-level speed - falls flat because it's a property important in self-hosted scenarios. Once you put your super speedy stuff behind a web-based API, that selling point becomes completely meaningless. The fact that once our data hits your servers it is handled really quickly doesn't mean much. I am sure you are perfectly aware of that.

That is, your pitch is disconnected from your actual offering. If you are selling speed, it needs to be a product, not a service. It doesn't need not be open source though, just looks at something like kdb+.
I have this idea of tools which help you do the right thing and tools that let you do the wrong thing longer. Jupyter is already the latter sort of tool, and this is the bad kind of tool on top of the bad kind of tool.
I don't see why Google/Android can't implement the same solution.
That is also wrong of the US
From whom was VSCode acquired?
"People are naturally ambivalent" is a statement of fact, not an argument. What confuses me is that you imply that you agree it's true. After all, if people did care they wouldn't need advocates to care for them.

What's more, we don't want to care about things. In fact a lot of pain we are experiencing now is precisely that we are being forced to care about things we haven't had to for decades, arguably centuries. It sucks. Life is better when the plumbing "just works" precisely because then we don't have to care about it and can focus on other more interesting parts of life.

There has been a critical breakdown in the trust people have in the experts that advocate for them. The damage started with a flurry of self-inflicted wounds and then those wounds were mercilessly exploited by those seeking tactical advantage. What makes this especially evil is that these mercinaries use people's natural ambivalence to damage the very institutions that made their ambivalence possible! They are tricking people into acting against their self-interest.

The real solution is neither to defend damaged institutions nor to seek their utter destruction. The solution is to heal those wounds and take strong action to avoid future damage. That's the only way people can go on not caring so they can focus on more important things.
Plastic isn't digestible, so swallowing gum just means the plastic comes out the other end. It won't solve the pollution problem.
As you say, expansive. As in: it expands the definition of surveillance in a way that isn't widely accepted.
Jefferson wanted 19 years to make it something each generation gets the chance to do, based on life expectancy at the time.

>And the half of those of 21 years and upwards living at any one instant of time will be dead in 18 years 8 months, or say 19 years as the nearest integral number. Then 19 years is the term beyond which neither the representatives of a nation, nor even the whole nation itself assembled, can validly extend a debt.

>[...] On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. [...] The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.
> silently converts languages when opening .xlsx files.

Sounds like a bug waiting to happen
Ask HN: How should I rewrite my UI to be cross-platform (mobile and desktop)?
I'm a solo developer making a VPN app for iOS, Mac, Android, and Windows (https://wallpunch.net/download/). Currently all four versions are written using native code, but every time I want to change something on the UI a large amount of work is required. Since I am planning some major UI changes, I figured first rewriting the UI code to be cross-platform would end up saving me time. It would also make it easier to eventually create a Linux version too. Based on the research I've done so far React Native and Flutter seem like the two top options. However I'm not sure which is best for my specific use case:

1. The app UI is very simple. Buttons, lists, input boxes. That's about it. Frontend performance is not particularly important.

2. As a VPN app, a large chunk of custom native code is required for each platform to link up with the native VPN-related APIs, so this must be easily integrated with the UI framework.

3. I would like to limit the amount of added dependencies and links in my build chain as much as possible.

4. Once rewritten, I hope it will be easy to find freelancers to implement minor UI changes in the future.

Any suggestions?
Not that much, really.
Yeah, it's straightforward to reproduce the results of the paper whose conclusion they criticize, "Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization", without any (explicit) regularization or anything else that can be easily described as a "soft preference for simpler solutions".
You are, of course, 100% correct. In my haste to explain the 'sourcing' behaviour of the errata I accidentally jumped to the sinking verbiage. Input pins are "pressure gauges", not "flow meters".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_transmission
Why would you need a better example? It's a very, very stupid question; asking it is not worthwhile.

This is the problem the experts pointed out:

If your sample is so small that a substance you're looking for isn't present at all, you will fail to detect that substance, even if it was present in the pool you drew your sample from.

Theranos claimed the reverse, that they could detect a substance whether it was present or not.

How much thought do you want to devote to the question of whether a different approach might realize that dream?
Why are these comments saying that not doing a small part of a job that your boss doesn't want you to do is means for dismissal?

If something you are doing is being thrown away, you should change focus (like pulling back on quality of life arrests, and focus on real crimes).

If your boss is destroying all your work, you're going to get fired for not producing anything. I'd recommend you figure out what your boss cares about.
Why not just put all the free()s at the end of main() behind an #ifdef DEBUG or something?
It could have been avoided, but you didn't notice the problem and therefore couldn't avoid it.

To me it looks like your comparison to Tesla FSD is much more apt than you realize. If you want the "magic" to work you have to trust it, and accept that it will run you over the cliff the first chance it gets.

If you're a true fan you'll then head to hackernews to explain that "if only i had stopped it from running me over the cliff, the technology would have been amazing".
I made a galleria of successful cold emails sent to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos etc.
its called https://coldemails.world/

aka The Cold Email Hall of Fame

cold emails have changed my life.

its allowed me to move to sf with nothing but an idea, dream and willingness to make it happen.

coming here, i found others who've done the same.

so i made this website, that includes cold emails students, young founders have sent to Elon musk, Jeff Bezos, and other top CEOs, athletes and celebrities of the world.

the site is aimed at increasing your luck in the world :)

if you have a successful cold email, submit it on the site!
I asked this last time about the one in London, and was told that one of the checks is that the image has changed since the last run. Otherwise the data isn't used.

Prevents not only technical issues but attacks like someone blocking the camera or putting a static photo in front of the camera.
If you're using cloud storage for backups, don't forget to turn on Object Lock. This isn't as good as offline storage, but it's a lot better than R/W media.

At work we've been using restic to back up to B2. Restic does a deduplicating backup, every time, so there's no difference between a "full" and an "incremental" backup.
Ok.

Look, I’m not saying the cranks should be dragged out back and shot, just that they are a net negative.
.NET Heisenbug Mystery Theater: How Did an Exception Escape Its Catch Block?
The fluid can't be "easily" simulated.

It's a chaotic system (turbulent flow is chaotic). Even tiniest differences between the real and simulated state will add up and amplify over time.

Fluid simulation is a notoriously hard problem. We don't have a solution to Navier-Stokes equations. Practical implementations have limited resolution in time and space, and plenty of simplifying assumptions.
Not manipulation as most/all of these execute around the NBBO. Exceptions exist for extreme block trades that may give some price advantage do to the sheer scale but we are not talking about manipulation.

I can easily see the retail price of a good, I can go to a wholesaler or some other holder of this good and ask them if I can buy it at a cheaper price. They might tell me to kick rocks if I don't have volume. Pretty similar to a dark pool. Markets are both private and public everywhere.
There's nothing wrong with green accounts doing Show HNs, really.
At one point we bought a fancy (for the time) microwave link to cover a distance of about 3km. We specifically asked whether it would be affected by weather conditions. We were assured multiple times in the most confident of terms that it would not be a problem, the technology was tested and such eventualities accounted for with various features and failsafes.

The thing proceeded to go down every time it rained, and no amount of tweaking settings, power, phase, polarity or orientation helped. This is the manufacturer/vendor doing the tweaks, mind you, not clueless me (I wouldn’t dream of touching this arcane technology I knew nothing about).

In the end we ditched the microwave and went with a good old copper link which worked without a hitch regardless of the weather.

So since you are, in your own sarcastic way, asking how I know, this is how: from experience. I don’t know about the technology but I do know about when they promise you it will work in the rain.
Interesting! I didn't realize it varied between sub-disciplines of CS, I guess.

Theoretical computer science and cryptography both typically do alphabetical. Maybe because of their adjacency to pure math?
(Canadian citizen) I have been looking for something like this but essentially checking if a product is _not_ American. The existing apps / tools seem to be mostly garbage using AI which tends to hallucinate -- the more obscure the product, the worse it is -- or filled with ads.

Personally, I'd love to see a little more regulation wrt where & how a product must show a Made in / Product of label. It should be front-and-center. I shouldn't have to scan through the mess of ingredients, nutritional facts, etc on the back to try to spot something that isn't even always there.
Neat and fun PR stunt. Tech needs more of these!

SGI did this almost three decades ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/19971210213248/http://lavarand.s...

...harnessing the power of Lava Lite® lamps to generate truly random numbers since 1996.

According to https://www.lavarand.org/news/lavadiff.html:

Seed production rate was about 8000 bits of seed per second on a 200 MHz SGI O2 under IRIX 6.5.

The patent has since expired: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5732138A

(And Cloudflare re-implemented it, seemingly starting just after the patent expired in 2016.)
everything is a bug waiting to happen… :)
Thanks for the insights. Would love to hear your opinion on what are some traditional workflow/collaboration models in Engineering that are less relevant given recent AI advancements and should be revolutionized.
Telefon tel aviv is nice, gfx is crap
A better example might be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8JZCqaJ068

I always wondered if Mr. Gibson had really thought that part through. Eyes are evolved to detect movement and having the visual motion of TV static overhead from horizon to horizon in cyberspace is a UX nightmare. I doubt anyone could withstand it for long without a stress reaction or some other kind of distress.
They make a software to help libraries lend ebooks for free. Without their DRM you either wouldn’t be able to borrow ebooks because publishers would never agree to it, or would be limited to kindle/libby to read them. They’re not perfect but how is it bad behavior to say you’ll issue a takedown notice if your copyright material is republished? I don’t really understand why they’re being treated as the enemy here?
Or they're propagating a meme.
https://youtu.be/11lPhMSulSU?si=Lqi274EhmzM7nTgB
Schneier: Full Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities a 'Damned Good Idea' (2007)
Dark pools started in the 1980s once the SEC permitted securities to be traded off the exchange they are listed on. I think that was well before flashboys.
There's also a sort-of informal "standard library" of C libraries that have super-stable ABI's that we can generally assume are either present on the system or easy to install. Zlib is another one that comes immediately to mind, but there are others as well.
Even the Switch needs periodic system and game updates. These tend to be small because the OS and games are small (compared to those on eighth- and ninth-generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony).

More promising in terms of the old-school "plug in and play" experience is Evercade, who can get away with it because their titles are mainly licensed, emulated retro games that aren't changing any time soon.
A lower court just declared their treatment and deportation of Venezuelans as unlawful and it changed literally nothing. They’re still doing it. We’ve seen this several times already. Unless enforcement happens, they simply don’t stop.
You mean how much of this is theater so you won't think about how this company MITMs a meaningful percentage of the internet's encrypted traffic?
I had no idea they went that far back? Good knowledge!
If these narratives get him what he wants, what does it matter?
Scanning HTML at Gigabytes per Second on Arm Processors
“Don’t you want more billion dollar startups!?” is how I read the title. It is an appeal to emotion of faux innovation and economic dynamism, reading between the lines, which should come as no surprise. The blog author/org is an immigration services law firm. It is content marketing, and their business requires immigration requiring their services to survive.

https://www.fosterglobal.com/about-us/
Why does a user need all 1M commits? Can they perform their work with only a few?
I hadn't considered their fee structure.

I guess it also likely not helpful to the VCs to have the public market having real opinions about the valuation that the fees are presumably based on, unless the company is a clear runaway success
> Why is the maker and her site so porny but not porn?

Sex sells.

The logo is a breast with nipple.
A town won't put a lean on your house because you painted your shed the wrong color.
I agree, this is true of every employee.

It is leadership’s responsibility to make sure the labor they’re allocating is going towards the big picture. If it’s going straight into the trash, that’s not the labors fault - they do what they’re told.

You hit the nail on the head, it’s a problem of incentives. Software engineers don’t HAVE a career. There’s little to no mobility and they understand they will be struck down as soon as the company can. Often even if the company is pulling revenue.

Do that across the entire industry for two decades and the labor catches on. People job hop because every company ever has told them to job hop. Not explicitly told them, but told them via their actions.

This can be changed but the reality is the leadership doesn’t give two fucks about engineers. They don’t want their opinions, they want code monkeys. So, code monkeys they get.
Precisely this. People dismiss utility of LLMs because they don't give 100% reliability, without considering the basic facts that:

- LLMs != ChatGPT interface, they don't need to be run in isolation, nor do they need to do everything end-to-end.

- There are no 100% reliable systems - neither technological nor social. Voltages fluctuate, radiation flips bit, humans confabulate just as much if not worse than LLMs, etc.

- We create reliability from unreliable systems.

LLMs aren't some magic unreliability pixie dust that makes everything they touch beyond repair. They're just another system with bounded reliability, and can be worked into larger systems just like anything else, and total reliability can be improved through this.

EDIT: In fact, my example with probabilistic primality tests is bad because those tests are too nice - they let us compute tight bounds on the error rate in advance. LLMs are not like that. But then, a lot of systems we rely in our daily lives also have this property - their reliability is established empirically, i.e. we improve them until they work reliably enough, and then we hope they'll keep on working, and deal with random failures when they occur. So that's nothing new, either.
Nginx Rejects Dark Mode Support for Error Pages
Bambu Lab. Not open source friendly but they're the first company whose printers more or less Just Work.
You're misunderstanding. A level of abstraction is necessary for operation of modern systems. There is no human alive who, given an intermediate step in the middle of some running learning algorithm, is able to understand and mentally model the full system at full man-made resolution, that is, down to the transistor level, on a modern CPU. Someone wishing to understand a piece of software in 2025 is forced to, at some point, accept that something somewhere "does what it says on the tin" and model it thusly rather than having a full understanding.
Right but half of all people employed in the US work for companies with 100+ employees.
Posting on a publicly accesible website is the legal equivalent of standing on the street corner having a conversation. A police officer doesn't need to search anything because it's out in the open.