skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I didn't communicate well: I am all for forcing game consoles to also open up. If one can argue against walled gardens for mobile devices (and I would), the same argument works for game consoles, too. They're both, at their cores, general purpose computers that just have DRM and restrictive licensing slathered all over them.
CNG buses were about a 10-year experiment in Toronto. There were a number of bus terminals where CNG vehicles were prohibited, either due to clearance or because of the associated explosion risk.

A second batch of buses were converted to diesel so that the fuelling station could be decommissioned.
Even now, when I see Briar's name anywhere, I think of this as "ah, that Android only app" and that imho is saying something for a privacy messaging app. I am not saying it has not reason (Apple's unsound, unfair, and consumer hostile tight control is the reason! [1]) to be Android only, I am just saying - it's very unfortunate and unfortunately defeating.

[1] In the name of privacy theatre which they have actually been able to defend by spending both on PR and lawyers.
Absolutely this.

The frustration when I turn on the Steam Deck and the Apple TV goes

"Look at me. Look at me! I'm the output now"
Seattle also has (or had) trolley busses which fixed that problem.

Everything is cost, it's all cost, not the ability to actually solve the problem.
Most simple words in English are still Germanic in origin. In fact, in the previous sentence, I count six Germanic words (most, word, in, English, are, still), versus only three Latin/French words (simple, Germanic, origin).

But as you say, the relationship between English and German doesn't have anything to do with what we're discussing. English and German are two different languages. Immigrants who spoke German gave birth to children who learned English, and after a few generations, their descendants didn't speak German any more. And that didn't just happen with German immigrants. It happened with every non-English-speaking immigrant group.
It's not always easy to find the data you want. When you're writing a blog post like this, you do research and find the studies that you can, published when they were.
See here, and deer were hit regularly on the 4m road I walked... but even as a kid I recognised it was kind of dangerous, and I wouldn't want my own kids to do the same.
Yes. This is the killer app for blockchain. I want Movies Anywhere, but for everything and without an industry gatekeeper. If I am subscribed to Netflix, I should be able to watch every video in their catalog through any service that has the bits.
i'm not sure how this is anything to do with productivity

surely that's when the same product or service is delivered more cheaply

the starting question must have been more like 'why are restaurants more profitable now'

and it's because restaurants are now selling more take-out meals; essentially a different product, which has lower overheads
If you cross into the US at a port-of-entry and are admitted as a visitor then you are good whether or not you took Melatonin supplements. If you enter illegally or associate with people who entered illegally, don't be surprised if you are caught up in a raid. However, even if you get detained, if you have no criminal history, you will get released after arrested because there are no more beds [1].

Seriously though, if you are going to make a cheeky reference to race, at least get the reference right. Melanin is responsible for darker skin [2].

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/ice-seeks-more-bed-space-detainee-n...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin
Yeah, the warzone will be the final judge, no doubt, this is just cheap talk.

> a real 10x engineer is an even temperament and a lack of arrogance

Super subjective, but I see the 10x engineer as being arrogant, you have got to if you are really 10 times above your peers. Although it's true that some arrogance might come from a place of insecurity. Someone who is truly leagues above someone else will not berate them for being below, they will encourage them to improve or palliate them. Pointing out how the other is worse and they are better is argumentative, which usually a 10x anything doesn't need.
What you adopt are not virtues.

It is absurd in the face of death by plane falling from the sky to not smile at it.
You're right. We would have been mocked "It's a mile and a half, I'm not picking you up when you have two perfectly good legs."
CRAY-1 Hardware Reference Manual (1977) [pdf]
OpenAI has a gigantic moat.

No moat means Joe Anybody can compete with them. You just need billions in capital, a zillion GPUs, thousands of hyper skilled employees. You need to somehow get the attention of tens of millions of consumers (and then pull them away from the competition, ha).

Sure.

The same premise was endlessly floated about eg Uber and Google having no moats (Google was going to be killed by open search, Baidu, magic, whatever). These things are said by people that don't understand the comically vast cost of big infrastructure, branding, consumer lock-in (or consumer behavior in general), market momentum, the difficulty of raising enormous sums of capital, and so on.

Oh wait the skeptics say: what about DeepSeek. To scale and support that you're going to need what I described. What's the plan for supporting 100 million subscribers globally with a beast of an LLM that wants all the resources you can muster? Yeah, that's what I thought. Oh but wait, everyone is going to run a datacenter out of their home and operate their own local LLM, uhh nope. It's overwhelmingly staying in the cloud and it's going to cost far over a trillion dollars to power it globally over the next 20 years.

OpenAI has the same kind of moat that Google has, although their brand/reach/size obviously isn't on par at this point.
Brainrot, Part 1
Why Python Developers Just Use Postgres with Dawn Wages on Talking Postgres
> Schools need to dismiss the kid to someone

"Back in my day" the bell went and we walked out the gate and went home.
I spend at least half of my best days working on making our bad days better.

The thing about being intelligent is that you have the capacity to find wisdom faster. I’ve worked with too many intelligent fools, and nearly all of them quit rather than face the consequences of their own actions.

I tend to stay too long, either cleaning up after my own messes or someone else’s. Maybe I watched too many westerns as a child. Who knows.

But I’d rather work with someone wise who can’t reinvent bloom filters from first principles than someone who could, and thinks doing so is a good idea.

There’s an ethical trap where you think you’re the only one here who can make something work, because now you’re on the hook to support it and if you have a negative opinion of your peers, how is that going to work out, do you think? Did you think? Or were you too busy wondering if you could do it to think about whether you should?

I think the advice, “never be the smartest person in a room” is just about the biggest bullshit in tech. Intelligent people cannot teach you to be like them. They can’t change your brain much more than you already have, just surviving school and university. But a wise person can teach you three new things before lunch, sometimes without even trying.

Don’t be the wisest person in a room, and if you must be, don’t denigrate the wisdom of beginners. Good teachers learn from their pupils.
Russell himself makes false and dubious claims in that book (for example, claims about Aristotle/Aristotelianism, which he hated). I don't regard him to be an especially reliable or objective expositor of philosophy or philosophical history, generally speaking.
We used to have smaller pick up trucks, but they were eliminated by fuel efficiency rules that require larger trucks. :P
It does look pretty nice, although in the mud the kids might prefer to walk on the unlit pavement where the trucks probably drive really really fast.

Plenty of space to build a separated bike path for minuscule cost, though.
Surely behavior of children on a busses plays _some_ role in this decision. Not sure how they would even gather stats on this but busses in my youth were total zoos.

Further, schools near me won't allow many children to walk home even within a safe walking distance with parental consent for (and I quote) "liability reasons". Absurd.
I always feel confused when I see something that is supposed to ostensibly be a sustainable improvement over traditional processes but then is obviously a huge pollutant. Like the bricks made from melting plastic bottles for building structures, or this solution where plastic bags are used.
I got a good deal for an S90C + Q990C combo. It was 50% off off their regular price which was already quite a bit cheaper than the comparable LG/Sony counterparts.

After 1 year, I am 100% sure that I will never again buy a Samsung product, no matter how cheap it is.

Just look at the first sticky here:
https://www.avsforum.com/threads/2023-samsung-4k-s95c-s90c-s...
There's a difference when everyone is walking home (so you often walk home with a few friends who live nearby) vs being alone walking home.
This is nonsense though. How are people using stoicism to shut you up? I've never seen anyone do that. If they are, they are misunderstanding the intention.

Doing what you can control and focusing on that, doesn't mean that you also don't speak up for change, because that is entirely something you can still control. In fact it's encouraged, because of stoic 'virtue', "That which you do the right thing, that is all that matters"

If others are using it to shut up up, that is what is outside of your control, you ignore it and do the right thing anyway.

Under stoicism, you would still push and advocate for change as an individual, but you would understand that if the world doesn't change or doesn't respond, that is out of your control, but you can and should still excuse your right to do that, because that is within your control.

The entire argument here seems to be missing the point.
This is a strong argument that habits formed during covid stuck around until today, as it was long enough to reshape the baseline.

Unfortunately these habits seem to affect the sociability of everyone, and I think we still underestimate what a terrible burden staying locked in was on the population.
The simple fact that you generally need to have Apple hardware to make iOS apps is a reason enough
why would they want to scrape the bottom of the barrel?
Jim Keller: "The best computer manual I've ever read." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/jimkxa/status/1900605071869833278
The bar chart is pretty funny. "Over 3 miles" is the highest bucket? That's supposed to be far?

I went to school in a semi-rural school district, one of the largest in the state by area. I just checked Google Maps and the high school is 13 miles away, 16 minutes by car (much of it highway), and maybe a half hour by school bus if I remember correctly. It could be a bit tedious, but it wasn't a terrible commute by any means.

> Parents are not simply choosing to drive their children to school because it’s fun to sit in a long line. It is becoming more of a necessity because schools are more spread out than before, or at least families are living further from their schools.

Necessity? I don't see what's wrong with school buses. They're just about the only practical form of mass transit in rural areas. They work for all ages, in any weather where the school is open at all.
What course or resource should one look into if one is interested in learning more about constraint solving
You make it happen. Someone has to.
Thanks! That's some more for my watchlist.
When I signed on to a Mars mission in 1999, the scientists told me that’s JPL’s approach: instead of extremely expensive, robust, redundant craft, they would begin to make leaner stuff and worry less when it failed...

Around the same time, Mission Control was replacing their bespoke hardware with COTS and trying to minimize the “glue” HW/SW for space systems.

You'll also see that expertise on a particular instrument package is leveraged over and over across multiple missions.

NASA still has amazing educational outreach and makes incredible software, even for mere mortals.
My kids' school used to let parents into the yard during dropoff and pickup. It was wonderful: a time for the kids to play with their friends and the parents to mingle and catch up. Now we have the car dropoff/pickup line. I'm for "everyone park and walk your kid into school" or "let kids go home by themselves if it's safe to do so" [0]. The car pickup and dropoff is the absolute worst.

[0] Our current bike route from home to school isn't optimal -- too many busy streets where drivers routinely run reds. That's a rant for another day...
We may be thinking of two different roles, which might fall under the engineer umbrella. When I think of an engineer (and especially so a 10x or elite engineer), they design and invent and create and have absolute control over what they do.

If an engineer doesn't have control or follows the designs of an architect, they are merely in an executor role, and their engineering skill is put to use not in inventing or solving a problem but merely executing.

There's a time and place for that, but it's definitely not the dream when I think of the engineer I would want to be.
I have been boycotting samsung since ~2014; because of my experience with two, brand new, ~$1000 samsung devices, neither a phone. Their customer service blew me off, because both devices had intermittent issues. I tell people to avoid the company and its products.

both devices were malfunctioning within the first month.

1) 4k60 32" monitor, the power button always flaked and it would randomly shut off, thus necessitating unplugging and plugging it back in, 2-3 times a day. customer service: "unplug all monitor cables and plug just power in. what is on the screen? oh, then it's fine. have a nice day!"

2) Refrigerator. Intermittent fan issues were the reason i called. i ended up having to replace, for cause, the heating elements in the refrigerator side as well as the fans due to ice damage to the impellers; then the ice machine started leaking inside the freezer door somewhere, and that leak would freeze on the bottom of the freezer and push the door open, letting water just drip on my floor for hours, nearly damaging the subfloor. I also had to replace the motherboard. So now i have a water-less, ice-less refrigerator.

i could go on about how their SD cards are quite fast but don't last long if you have them in outdoor devices (like dashcams, trail cams, security cameras) - the only raspberry pi i've ever had to throw away had a samsung SD card in it that overheated to the point of contact burns - i went to unplug it to reboot it and received a welt from the SD card for my troubles.

I'm just one person, but read enough anecdotes and you can ignore them all!
My take away is that the overall labor per customer decreases because workers are spending less time on non-cooking/serving tasks. The paper implies the efficiency gain is in how labor is used rather than production or serving efficiency. This seems like an anticlimactic conclusion.
I suppose because people consider it as all encompassing guiding philosophy for life.

At least to a philosopher, philosophy is the core basis which all your thoughts, and consequently goals originate.

I think it depends if were talking about "how to live" versus "how to be successful and establish your business this year"
> It also takes longer to sit and wait in the cold with a 6 year old than it would be to just drive there and back.

I don't know how your bus driver would handle it but even back in the 80s, some parents would drive their kids to the bus stop and let them wait in the car until the bus came. As they got older, like 5th or 6th grade, they would be taught to dress warm for the wait.
Thinking through where I've lived -- a lot of the original school buildings built in circa 1950 were more in city center. The article touches on the move of schools to the outskirts of town as a cost savings measure but I think the opposite may be true.

As population and (perceived) facilities increased, the schools built new buildings in farmland or other wide open areas on the outskirts of town to have more room for stuff like stadiums, huge auditoriums, bigger playgrounds. The land may be cheaper but the new high schools are almost more like college campuses vs. stately buildings in the middle of town.

There's an appetite for more and we've relocated schools to make more room not save money.
If I lived in the kind of third world hellhole where this was a realistic scenario, I'd leave the country.
My mom walked me to school until I was in 4th grade. She was a single mom and needed to work, so she decided to let me walk to and from school from then on. I made friends on that walk. 30+ years later, I am still friends with many of them even though we live hours away from each other.

I'm not a parent, so I don't know what I don't know; but, I've observed so many kids being shuffled between school, events, "play dates" where it is harder to build deep relationships outside of the parent's sight. Everything is being curated to "ensure" the kids are safe or on the "right" path.

I understand that we live in a different world, but I really do feel that its to the detriment of the kids.
> Schools need to dismiss the kid to someone.

Do they? What's the citation for that law? Who are the schools dismissing the kids to when they walk home by themselves?
Still appreciating my 2011 high end Samsung TV. I believe it's the last non-smart product year. It could stream videos from a network share but that's about it.

Judging by current trends i will have to replace the attached chromecast before the TV breaks.
Yeah, you can see a lot of creativity depending on what's available. Where I once lived in Houston, parents would park at a nearby strip center and huddle around the school exit. And then walk their kid across the 6-lane road (3 lanes in each direction) that Houston is obsessed with building back to where they parked their car.
I don't have to deal with racist waiters by ordering through an app and having it delivered. This is a win-win where the restaurant is more "productive" and I don't have to deal with the staff guessing my race so they know how badly to treat me.
Bottom right corner, to the right of the 5.

I just updated the app to tell you how many cells are blank. If it's less than 4, it'll select them so you see where they are.
>don't need to download an electron app to interact with physical hardware.

I don't need to download an Electron app to interact with physical hardware, full stop, WebUSB or not.

Is that where we're at now? That writing a small utility to configure a widget over serial in platform native tooling is beyond us?
I'm sorry for your experience, but this is extremely location dependent.

Walking home from school in many areas is perfectly safe. In other areas it's not. Making blanket statements or restrictions without context doesn't make sense.
/me says "ok boomer" in gen-z
The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate – Part 1 (and Part 2)
Part 2: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03/investigative-reports/t...
Helicopter parents exist because public trust is completely eroded.

I don't want to blame it on diversity but the example provided in the article is a homogenous-culture society with high trust.
What about the people that report parents to the police for endangering their children by allowing them to walk/bike to school?
Can't wait to see people wanted for crimes against humanity driving around in their Teslas. What a great advertisement.

Seriously, I wonder what is the marketing value today of associating your brand with Israel. There is a worldwide de-facto boycott of anything that has to do with it, as is reported even in the Israeli media:

> Israel in last place in Nations Brand Index

> there is a de facto boycott of Israeli products and that Israeli exports are at high risk, with a significant aversion to products labeled “Made in Israel.”

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-in-last-place-in-n...
If they were responsible for AdWords, they’ve had a net negative influence on the web.
> takes longer to sit and wait in the cold with a 6 year old than it would be to just drive there and back

1st grade is probably too young to wait alone. But by 3rd grade I'd expect a child to be able to bundle themselves up.
I think kaiser is pretty widely regarded as the best experience possible with healthcare in the USA. Unfortunately its not widely available
What are you trying to say?

A company only exists as legal fiction created by government bureaucrats.

Governments regularly issue documents about these companies, I.e. certificate of incorporation.

How is this any different?
In EU, Cyber Resilience Act requires automatic updates, so the second point is moot.

Most owners want just plug and play, so it makes sense.

Even third point is pretty moot. We don't do that for hardware, why for software... A component is no longer manufactured? Tough luck, hopefully you stockpiled it.
nothing in hardware is cheap until it scales up. in fact, the cost vs. scale dynamics are well understood, see Wright's Law.

the "huge assumption" is our entire roadmap... and the major things that drive cost-down are: (1) increased carbon yield by integrating existing pyrolysis technology, (2) shrinking transport distances by operating pyrolysis near injection wells, and (3) increased throughput by making our pyrolyzers larger. these take time, but are hardly shooting for the moon.
Californians should read this too:

(TLDR: It's Prop 13's fault)

https://www.kqed.org/news/11980715/why-dont-more-bay-area-ki...

>California has fewer school buses than in other parts of the country. A survey conducted by the Federal Highway Administration found that nationally, almost 40% of school-aged kids ride a school bus. In California, that number is only 8%.

>Like so many questions related to school funding and services, the answer to Winters’ question has roots in the passage of Proposition 13
> It's that schools need to dismiss the kid to their parent.

Do they? What's the citation for that law? Who are the schools dismissing the kids to when they walk home by themselves?
This is the kind of article that needs to get into national culture. We gotta change the way we live. I don't know how to get it to happen, but we need more people doing this.
Right wing media does this openly. Killing commies being good is a meme and anything they don’t like in the government is because of commies.
My interpretation was always that the Stoics were the more type-A people while the people following Epicureanism were a bit more hippie. Still lots of overlap
I didn’t understand at the time how much of a privilege it was that I could walk to school where I grew up (with crossing guards for the elementary schoolers, even!) and more importantly that my parents encouraged it, even if it was a bit of a hike to middle and high school without a bike.

Unfortunately we moved during high school and lived something like 15 miles from the new school; at least there was a bus.
No, you misunderstood what I meant.

Normally, a sliderule at distance x has the value of log(x) written on it, which allows doing multiplications by moving along the sliderule, since log(ab) = log(a) + log(b).

Now imagine a sliderule onto which values of x^2/2 are written. This also allows you to multiply two numbers, because ab = (a+b)^2/2 - (a^2/2 + b^2/2).