skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're leaning on some "ackshully technically" definition of stranded. The fact that they had emergency contingencies in place the whole time doesn't invalidate the fact that they were stranded in the common colloquial sense of the term.

If I'm at work and my car breaks down, I'm stranded. I call my buddy to pick me up, and if there is an emergency I can ask a coworker to drive me home, but I'd rather not inconvenience them and so I am stranded until my buddy comes.

The word stranded is almost never used to describe scenarios where literally no contingency exists, because such scenarios almost never happen in modern live. To insist on such pedantry would be to effectively retire the word from common parlance.
The real issue is the effort required to rewrite everything without introducing new bugs resulting from a misunderstanding of the original code
That makes sense. I guess I was only considering what my own response would be to receiving feedback. I think I'll just change my approach to just trying to articulate genuine appreciation for the opportunity to interview in the first place, and see if that sparks any love my way.
Billions of credentials were stolen from businesses around the world in 2024
In that case, a link to the real story would be much appreciated.
Because you also want the lens, which is exactly what doesn't fit on a phone form factor
We can all brainstorm about this, but are you in a position to do anything about it?

Modern vehicles certainly could include a maintenance and fuel log and essentially a built in code reader, but unless a manufacturer decides that's a priority, it's not going to happen.

From a driver's perspective, the less software I need to be aware of, the better. My ancient vehicle has electronic fuel injection, but that pretty much just works; otherwise, there's no software. Modern cars have so much software, and some of it is just there and just works and often improves the driving experience, but the software that is in your face is often a negative. My last nice car would detect which keyfob was on the person who opened the driver's door and set the memory seat for them; my current nice car wants you to login to the center console and tries to figure out who is opening the driver's door and login as them, but sometimes it gets confused and it's a lot of button presses to fix it, and you have to do it with the car in park. More advanced features, but less useful because it's more intrusive.

Navigation is about the only useful intrusive feature. Unfortunately, integrated navigation tends to require map updates for money. Pushing to Android Auto avoids the costs, but then you get things like weirdness with intermittent connections, and inconsistency between phones --- the spouse's phone has a nice button to quickly get to the car ui, but for mine, I have to go to 'all apps' and then select the car ui app --- no way to put that on the launcher either.
> Hard to follow this argument, not sure which companies in Europe "won't have to play by the same rules"...

Nobody except Apple is required to make its new features available to competitors, from day one, no?

> I hope this works out, it's ultimately to the benefit of the consumer.

See iPhone mirroring on Mac: not available in EU. This was entirely rational choice by Apple given how small market EU is, and it's hard to see them handling any new deeply integrated features any differently.

See also how GDPR worked out: clicking through bazillions of obnoxious banners and an occasional 451 error on obscure US websites that can't be assed with this nonsense.

Thanks to overreaching EU bureaucrats, I will now also "benefit" by missing out on features that I would probably personally consider beneficial (just as do iPhone mirroring). Thanks I guess?
... if I get it right the whole idea of clustering sliding windows is wrong, the question of "what you should do instead?" is an interesting one.

I'd imagine two answers are: (1) for time series which are somewhat periodic you might cut out individual days or weeks and try to cluster them for each other, (2) for time series which are intermittent you might create some definition of an "event" (an earthquake, or a particle passing through a detector) and then cluster events and maybe (3) for something episodic such as "heart rate during a workout" you would cluster episodes.
This is a case by Germany’s own cartel watchdog, the “market” it refers to is the German market. This is unrelated (though compatible with) the DMA.
how much of the work can be ai generated, would a minor human copyrightable addition to the artwork constitute an original work. what would stop someone from generating art and popping a watermark or some imperceivable steganographic addition such that the ai part and human part cannot be disentangled.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia+AcademicPsychology+...
What makes you think they just kinda suck?
Adding “undeniably” to a sentence doesn’t magically make it so.
> What’s funny is that history is the subject I was least interested in all through school.

Indeed, history is largely lost on kids. You need to see some real world events play out before you can care about history.

I also think, if you're going to teach history to children, it should be taught in reverse chronology. Basically here's what's happening now, and that's due to what happened last year, which is due to what happened last decade, etc. Work your way back to the Greeks and Babylonians. Like James Burke's Connections.
TL;DR:

I shared my experience guest-lecturing at Harvard. I talked about how the professor had a surprise challenge question, and that the app failed to answer correctly in front of the students.

I then talked about why it failed, some of my attempts at improving it, and finally how I succeeded. I then talked about how the final solution is significantly better, and that the model is now more than capable of generating these complex rebalancing strategies without any issues at all, even for a list of 100+ stocks.
I didn't say anyone was claiming it was.
At this point, Leviticus seems like someone took a bunch of classical Levantine culture war grievances against the Greeks and Romans and just snuck them straight into the Bible.
freetype code looks chaotic, though, it was written for local trusted fonts first. It was a typical google move "let's expose this random thing to internet, we can add security in 2025".
And it was written while slavery was still in full swing, right? And long before women were given any say in the democratic process. When did the genocides of the natives come into the picture, were they also counted among the free and the brave?
The new administration has no regards for law. They are breaking multiple laws. This isn't how you get things done.
It would be interesting to know how many of those old professors with PHDs, lawyers, engineers supported Hugo Chavez at the beginning.
Ask HN: Unlock bootloader of non-rooted Android 6 to 11 without a PC
How do we unlock bootloader of any non-rooted Android 6 to Android 11 without a PC (and its related ones; USB data cable, platform tools) ?
Not eating animal products at all improves animals living condition infinitely more.
While true I suspect that the future of energy storage is overwhelmingly dominated by large scale battery storage. A lot of the alternatives fall in the "cute, but complicated, situational, and/or doesn't scale" category.
Probably a good call
> This is a direct-join union, meaning that workers can sign up on their own. This allows folks to bypass traditional unionization processes like elections and employer consent.

Good reminder that the word "union" is overloaded and doesn't always mean what you might assume.

People who join a union like this don't have union representation or union contracts with companies. They rely on individual members to take action in various forms within there own companies. In theory they could call for a strike and ask everyone who is a member to strike from their respective companies, but in practice it's more about raising awareness and making noise in hopes of driving change.

So while technically it's a union, it's not comparable to what most people think of as a union in the United States.
For anything I can't remember, I just use at the command line:

? toolname <option>

Eg

? git branch

which gives me common examples of git branch

It aliases to tldr which is normally up to date with new tools.

See also cheat.sh etc.

https://tldr.sh/

I understand the point about muscle memory but I think that was more of a concern in the days before we had it easy with instant internet answers and now LLMs (eg GitHub copilot command line) doing our boring thinking for us.
Guilt doesn't apply to all mammals?
The best libraries are libraries that have a clearly defined goal, hit that goal, and then don't change until the goalposts get moved. Something that happens only very slowly in font land.

Its age is completely irrelevant other than as demonstration that it did what it set out to do, and still performs that job as intended for people who actually work on, and with fonts.
You're arguing from priors. I respect Berger's work, but it doesn't exempt him from acting like a pillock, clearly.
And procs - https://github.com/dalance/procs
Hopefully historians do not miss the immense irony of a situation where the only 2 countries to debase their own monetary system for a pseudo-currency, both orginally used the US Dollar.
Once you become a vampire meat eater it just becomes so hard to turn it off. It is the most immoral thing I do at the moment and I’m trying to create a multi year plan to be done with this. It’s nothing short of a sin, and to say a smarter animal shouldn’t be eaten as opposed to a dumber one just sounds like the words of a vampire, a tribe I also belong to.
I saw elsewhere that someone said it was ablist to say that an audiobook doesn't count as a book, which I could only think that we put too much importance on books.

Don't take this as an anti-intellectual screed. Far from it--I read a lot. But I think you can also learn from magazines, newspapers, plays, orations, etc. It leads to this weird situation where people are optimizing not for what they're learning but for the count. How many books have you read this year? Does an audiobook count? Like... it doesn't really matter.
DOGE saving effectiveness has been questioned. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302705/doge-overstates...

Of the $6.8T budget, $55B (or whatever is the truth) would amount to less than 0.9% of spending. https://usafacts.org/articles/this-chart-tells-you-everythin...

Anyway, we have a Government Accounting Office already which is highly critical of waste. If anyone was earnest, they'd send them more resources.

On the other hand, if someone wanted to cripple every infrastructure, institution, and agency across the board in order to cause chaos, without transparency, accountability, and compliance, then DOGE is super effective!
I already did. I don't use the Internet anymore.
def with_synchronous_commit_off(&block)
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.exec_query("SET synchronous_commit = off")
yield
ensure
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.exec_query("SET synchronous_commit = on")
end

I'm not a Rails expert: does this reliably give you the same connection from the pool? If not, you could be setting `synchronous_commit = off` on one "physical" connection, and clearing it on another. This is setting it at the Postgres session level, so it will persist for the lifetime of the connection. If it's not managed reliably, it could lead to some very confusing bugs (only triggered in a very small window when Postgres shuts down unexpectedly while the transaction is still unsynced to durable storage, making it extra fun to debug).

In general, though, this is a very handy feature.
Given your concern for accuracy why don’t you provide specifics about what the issues with her side of the story are, or at least a link to an article that does? Because so far you’ve only made vague accusations. What illegal drugs was she selling? The article mentions the company she worked for made a drink with hemp. Is that what you’re referring to?
Ask HN: What're some interesting non-AI things happening in software and tech?
1 for 3, 2 for 5
Interesting viewpoint! Thanks for contributing to the discussion in a positive way. Hope all is well for you, good luck with everything.
Great question! I'd say the biggest difference is the mindset while using it:

1. This isn’t an alternative to messaging apps. Messaging is for active conversations; social networks are for passive catching up.

2. Facebook Groups come with Facebook distractions. Even if you try feed blockers (which are tough even if not impossible on mobile), a single notification can pull you back into the engagement loop. This, on the other hand, is intentionally boring—it does just one job and nothing more.

It’s like having a home-cooked meal vs. eating at a bar. A bar has "everything" a meal at home does-and more-but the atmosphere pulls you in, keeps you there, and changes the experience entirely. Now I might do want to have a meal at a bar once a week for guilty pleasure, but not every night :-)
What is the last game you can think of that has the cultural impact of the Halo 3 release?
a union doesn't guarantee money, that's true. However, a union can guarantee acceptable hours worked - for example, limit overtime (without pay) to X hrs per week.

Or, they ensures you're credited regardless if you left before the game shipped (because it is a form of portfolio for your career).

And lastly, a union means you cannot be exploited hard, like a lot of wanabe game programmers and artists are wont to be.
The adjective cafeteria connotes "choosing". Note that the word heresy derives from Greek haíresis (αἵρεσις) meaning "choice" or "option". With respect to Christianity, heresy-choosing has been around a long time, there's been no outgrowing of any kind. It's just that heresy is more prevalent in some centuries than in others. Arianism, for example, was rampant for several centuries. In our own time, the choosing (against) is mainly focused on teachings related to sexuality and marriage.
Do you have any recommendations for something weatherproof? Maybe something easy to convert back to regular bike? I would love for a little supplementary power to flatten the hills on the commute.
As someone on neither side of that aisle I can tell you it is the smothering effect of attempting any logical discussion in those topics. The smothering effect comes from one side more often than not.

The best part of it all is that you can post like the above with no clear side chosen and the people whom it applies to will react to it negatively as well.
> DOGE is undeniably a good concept.

On paper.
Hemp is a type of cannabis. Historically in the US, it contained extremely small amounts of THC. With the legalization/decriminalization of THC across many states, I don't know if that's still true.
I think there's a difference from being uptight about time and obsessively punctual
Their entire tech sector compared to the US or China
Thanks, you're right I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.
Excluded middle. It doesn't have to be automatic, it could well be a choice. Best of all worlds if you ask me.
I doubt they're happy about having to be up there that long.
I was mistaken. I'm not sure what would prevent a proxied QR code + proxied Bluetooth signal.
That's quite impressive by the standards I'm used to. Do you mind if I ask what scale you're operating at and what tools you use to manage the staged rollout?
Not as sad as a world in which Billionaires actively and shamelessly use their power to rebuild the government on their favor and spread misinformation, populism and hate globally their own media platforms.
The startup employing her was selling products containing hemp, which used to be illegal but was legalized at the federal level several years ago.
Hello stranger, nice to see you on the interwebz.
Perhaps that is a clue!
Regardless, they would need to be a few meters from you (spec says <100m, but that’s very generous).

If they are right next to you, there are many criminal activities more lucrative than sending an imessage...

...Which wouldn’t be possible anyway, because devices using ble to communicate typically require to be paired together by their owner.
Global BESS deployments soared 53% in 2024
- https://www.energy-storage.news/global-bess-deployments-soar... - January 14, 2025 ("Storage installations in 2024 beat expectations with 205GWh installed globally, a staggering y-o-y increase of 53%. The grid market has once again been the driver of growth, with more than 160GWh deployed globally, of which 98% was lithium-ion.")

China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-09/china-... | https://archive.today/DklaA - July 9, 2024

China Already Makes as Many Batteries as the Entire World Wants
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-12/china-... | https://archive.today/8Dy4D - April 12, 2024
Tips on how to use me (from AI agent)
Sometimes because we aren't the one who bought it (again!).

A few years back, my sister bought a HP scanner/printer, then moved away and left it to me. She always liked it, but I never did. Then, after my mother died, I needed to scan my mother's death certificate for a legal thing with a short deadline. The printer was out of ink. The UI did not want to allow me to access the scanning feature without replacing the ink (I've since learned that there is a non-obvious workaround for this). So, the scanner wouldn't work without ink, and my mom had just died, and I had to get this thing scanned before 5 pm, and...

The scene from Office Space was mild compared to what happened. There were broken pieces all over the room.

I left the room like that for a few days, because I just didn't want to deal with it. My sister came to stay with me for a bit after the funeral, and I had to apologize and tell her that I needed to clean up the guest room (where the printer was located). When she saw what had happened, I explained, and she was a bit worried about my mental state. In an attempt to be helpful, so I wouldn't be without a scanner/printer, she bought me a replacement.

The exact same fucking model.

Her heart was in the right place.

I still have it, and I hate it. But I haven't killed it. Yet.
I am not the best to answer this question, but I remember using 'poot.apk' to root without PC and from there I don't remember. Rom flashing sites usually have tutorials for specific versions of Android. I've gotten this to work before, but I don't have my android devices on me to try this right now.
We're Waiting for the End of the Sentence
Yes I'm sure canvas is still quick, but I've run into teams doing really elaborate things in canvas, d3, etc for what amount to really simple graphs where they'd have been much better off with normal DOM elements and events in SVG.
Wow, definitely familiar with his work, though haven't used AutoCAD for quite some time. Pretty sure my fingers still remember some of the text commands.
For me, being old time user, (ab)using any subpixel layouts for text rendering and antialiasing is counterproductive and (especially with current pixel densities, but also in general) introduces much more issues that it actually ever solved

“Whole pixel/grayscale antialiasing” should be enough and then specialized display controller would handle the rest
You are free to use facebook.
And cool, good for them. They can get laid off after Korean game devs working for 1/5 the pay make games that sell much better
I'm curious about how you posted here, then...
> Canada participated in Afghanistan war and people including children, in Pakistan were killed by NATO airstrikes.

That's horrible. It should not happen. I was very clear that extrajudicial killings of civilians are wrong.

> I do not condone any killing by anyone. But people in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.

Agreed. If NATO did something that you find comparable and you condemn it, then by your own standards, what India did is also a violation and never should have been done.

What India did is arguably even worse, since the killing of kids in a war zone at least had no intent or malice, just incompetence. Whereas the killing in Canada was a purposeful and intentional violent and public assassination, performed by hired civilians outside of internationally agreed military command and justice structures, it should be seen as an even more egregious violation of international standards.
Except people on Blind brag about doing this under the domains they control.

I wouldn't interpret this as a top-level policy, just some individuals in some hiring and pay/leveling decisions with little accountability. This does mean they represent Google though, and one remedy for that is a settlement by the corporate entity.

Ideally shareholders would become interested in rooting this out and creating better, less expensive, accountability.

It creates an environment where everyone (or some additional subset of everyone) feels they need to elevate their own in-group.
I'm pretty sure windows dropped subpixel anti-aliasing a few years ago. When it did exist there was a wizard to determine and set the subpixel layout.

Personally I don't bother anymore anyway since I have a HiDPI display (about 200dpi, 4K@24"). I think that's a better solution, simply have enough pixels to look smooth. It's what phones do too of course.
New (likely aesthetic only) bugs in font rendering are probably considered preferable to existing security vulnerabilities, I would hope.
Fine-tune Google's Gemma 3
This is done at large scale right? I still can't affordable solar power method for my house.
> Because nix is not fully reproducible, full source bootstrapped, or multisigned.

You've conflated Nix and Nixpkgs. My suggestion was to use Nix as your build engine, not to base your system on the existing packages in Nixpkgs. You'd still build your own complete package set, like you're doing already. Using Nix would give you a build sandbox that is purpose-built for deterministic builds, and you won't have to work around the troubles of Docker, which is not designed for that. I'm sure you must be aware that it's effectively impossible to reproduce a Docker image bit-for-bit when building from a regular Dockerfile, and I'm sure you've had to come up with some nasty hacks to work around all that. You could also use Nix's built-in store path signing feature, which does support multiple signatures.
About Probabilistic Counting
That's really irrelevant to the point being discussed. I was just trying to give some context to the apparent hypocrisy the OP had identified, without adding my own opinion about it.
The Bible is a mixture of history, poetry, wisdom literature, and much more. There's a really fascinating study Bible (ESV Archaeology Study Bible) that does a fantastic job of putting everything into its historical, sociopolitical, and geographical context.