skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have pretty good insurance by most standards, but a trip to the ER or emergency room for a serious case of food poisoning would be pretty hard to handle. Couple that with often having some important event coming up (project deadline, travel, social event, etc). So to that end, I throw out when in doubt. Yes, I feel particularly bad wasting food, but there are significant financial and social costs I have to pay for getting it wrong. And honestly knowing that I'm risking those things actually makes eating the food less enjoyable.

It's important to keep in mind that people are making similar rational decisions when deciding to sniff or toss.
Yes dude, I feel you. “Butt kicked” = getting definitely out debated = society recognizing those ideals of hate are not valuable; however you want to phrase it.

Sometimes you don’t feed the trolls. Sometimes I read a thing on the internet that is so absurdly hateful and spiteful that nobody responds to and I worry “who out there is reading this, and might be on the fence about some human values. If they don’t see anybody responding to it at all, will they think it’s an acceptable view point?”

I’m not gonna save the world, but occasionally I can offer rebuttal to cultural biases.

It ain’t much, but it’s something however small.
Thanks for the info! I am a big fan of the readability of CTEs. Though I guess in production code we use SqlAlchemy, so it would just be a matter of swapping `.cte()` for `.subquery()` probably...
There is very strong incentive for anyone that manufactures and sells anything at scale to do it as cheaply as possible.

There is a lot of money to be made in parts replacement services, as well.

Capitalism sort of guarantees this result after a certain amount of time. Even Miele has cut plenty of corners. Open one of their appliances from 20 years ago, and open another from today, and tell me I'm wrong.
I read this out loud and my girlfriend thought I said something about launching micro lawn chairs up into space
That's a reasonable wish. I imagine the usual thought is that warranty periods should provide a reasonable proxy for durability information, but I also understand that it's a pretty imperfect proxy.
They don't take the item apart and subject it to an engineering review.
This is, of course, true. Many fail with the mindset that if only they can build big enough haystacks, the needles will coalesce like shiny seaglass upon the shore, because surely they will hire the algorithmic wizards, and oh yes.. AI(!!) and ML(!!).

Still, this really could have useful applications in scientific applications where the goal is to capture extremely fast events in detail... super-colliders, fast-fusion events, etc...
Well, in some cases big overpasses or 5 lane roads make high density difficult or unpleasant. You can't have both a high density area and a freeway.
> the designs you see from mass-market manufactures reflect what consumers actually want when making their purchasing decisions

Well, no.

The actual problem is consumers come from a high-trust society, but producers do not. When producers ALSO came from a high-trust society, consumers were right to not worry about what "hidden cuts" were being made in the name of almighty profit, because it simply wasn't done, and in fact, couldn't be done because there were too many honest people involved that a bad apple here or there couldn't get any traction.

That's no longer the case, but culture changes slowly, and in this case, it's a change for the worst: not being able to trust your fellow man.
Let's keep the wages stagnant for 40 years, and come up with new ways for the average American to do more things because they're so naughty, 40% of food goes to waste you naughty American.

What else should Americans do, use less water when showering, to fix 'water waste'?

Maybe the problem lies elsewhere...

To take it apart a little more - why is 40% of the food being thrown out a problem? What do we gain by cutting that down to 20%? Do we have a food shortage? Agriculture is 0.9% of America's GDP and less than 0.7% of the population is involved in farming and fishing combined. [0]

It's not at all clear there is any food 'waste' occurring and even if there is, it's not at all unclear where it sits on the list of priorities. I'd say somewhere near the bottom.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
If you ever do that, word from someone who worked on AR: have a very fast system to do the eye tracking (and the subsequent compositing), use cameras that are faster than 60 fps because no one will want a system that takes 16 ms to react to eye movements.
We have some industrial washing machines and dryers and they each break down at least once a year. But so far it has always been easily fixable. Can't say the same thing about modern home appliances.
That guy takes sayings and phrases that are funny to hear once, then says them 400,000 times in every video. Each.

I can't stand him anymore. I literally cannot hear "keep your dick in the vice" again so long as I live.
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It depends on how you use it. Size matters. On a site I manage, we send about 64KB of JavaScript and we are working to make that smaller... and the main site functionality works when JavaScript is disabled.

In contrast, many sites seem to think that 1MB of JavaScript, or even 5MB, are acceptable, and they can't even show simple static content when client-side JavaScript is disabled. On a slow link, 1MB of JavaScript means that the user has probably given up. And it's not just the size. 200KB of HTML is far far faster than 200KB of JavaScript; web browsers are highly optimized for handling HTML, while processing JavaScript is necessarily much slower. JavaScript is great for some things, but like a sledgehammer it's not always the best solution. Too many people aren't considering the real end-user experience. "Pretty graphics, but it takes 5 minutes to download" is usually not a worthwhile tradeoff.

To paraphrase Goldblum:

Your web designers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could use JavaScript, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
The biggest problem is: how is said review site going to be sustainable?

Even apart from what you've mentioned, white goods are a minefield of scummy business practices. Just a few I've seen:

(1) Consolidation: reputable companies buy out lower quality brands or merge with other companies, and roll out the lower quality / economy models under the strength of the brand name of their higher end consumer product. The consumer never knows if that year's vacuum cleaner is the reliable model.

(2) Sowing confusion through different naming schemes: with different model numbers in different countries, all with subtly different faceplates but mostly identical innards, it is impossible for the consumer to rely on review sites. E.g., RTings is great for TVs... if you live in the USA.

(3) Meaningless warranties: e.g. on refrigerators they will give a "10 year compressor warranty" but the compressor isn't the thing that's going to break, it's the touch-screen panel on the front of the fridge, and by the time it breaks there will either be no replacement parts or the replacement and repair / labour cost will be so high you may as well buy a new fridge. Same for washing machines and dryers - the 10 year warranty is worthless, the PCB holding the membrane buttons on the faceplate will vibrate and corrode its way into failure within 2.

That's just on the manufacturer's side, and that's not counting things like planned obsolescence. The store is another hell hole of scummy practices (loans, "extended warranties", misleading sales tactics, what have you).

So how is this review site sustained? For the rich the cost is immaterial, either they get the high end doodad or they replace the cheap one yearly, whatever amortises better over their lifetimes. The live-in or part-time help probably does all of the work anyway. They don't need a specialised review site.

For the poor there is no choice, they will get what is cheap and if it breaks they have to get a new one. They sure aren't going to fund some specialised review site.

For the middle, you will make the best decision you can in the time you have and spend it more productively on other things. A review site will be nice but what for?

I mean... I'm totally with you on this, but really, what is the solution?
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Based on my recent experience of removing the beater bar on my Miele vacuum, I'd bet that Miele is not substantially better. I had pretty good feelings about my German engineered, $600 vacuum until I saw the insides. Lots of cheap plastic waiting to break, and it was much less serviceable than I expected. My dad used to work for a janitorial supplies distributor and I occasionally got my hands on commercial vacs. Those were generally built like tanks. Don't get me wrong, I like other features of my vac, like the HEPA bags with the flap that closes when they're removed, but I don't think of Miele in the same way now.
Please “seek to educate people, not cancel them”
Because developers aren't supposed to to use them. The documented interface is ntdll or whatever.
That's one of the messages I like more from Emma.
to store 980k on a double-density disk

We had something like that in the PC world too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS)
And this is what the Thermopylae pass (The battle in 300) looks like today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermopylae
> I'm guessing your parents are still saving money overall, even accounting for the stuff thrown away.

I'm the same as OP, for the most part my parents would be buying the same stuff at the same store. They'll also be buying at the price on their weekly shopping day and if that's on a weekend when a lot of people shop then stores aren't discounting, whereas I can take advantage of daily specials or late night discounts.

> Two, the "keeping fridge stocked" model affords going to a cheaper store less frequently, and buy in bulk, saving considerable amount of money on a monthly basis.

You can do both, most thrown away food is of the more perishable varieties, so you can buy that on an as needed basis and buy stuff like tinned food in bulk.
A few years ago my children's hamster escaped. We couldn't find him for days. I figured he had made it outside somehow cause we didn't see him or hear him or see any droppings.

After about 4 days though, there was an off smell in the kitchen. We tore everything apart, emptied every cabinet, pulled the stove out from the wall, moved the refrigerator, etc. and still could not find him (or any evidence of him.) We scrub everything and out it all back.

But the next day, smell is still there. Then it occurs to me that the refrigerator back panel has holes to vent the fan. I shine a flashlight and see some fur. Bingo.

I take the back off the fridge, but I still can't reach him. At this point its not clear to me what's killed him. I get some tongs to grab him but I see he's stuck. I wiggle his body free and pull him out, and immediately the fan starts arts spinning full speed and I nearly retch.

The point of the story is 1) R.I.P. Jordan the hamster, and 2) The condenser fan was basically held in place for 4 days without burning out - very impressive as far as I'm concerned. (This was a very old refrigerator BTW)
Commercial ranges get hot. Fast. In a big surface area. My father in law was a higher up at a major food company that sounds like a major network equipment manufacturer. He put a commercial kitchen in our barn. It has roughly double the width and 30% deeper than a consumer cooktop. It has 6 eyes and will bring 3 gallons of water to a boil in less than 10 minutes. Preparing a meal in it cooks in a matter of minutes. We use16-20” skillets on it and there is no issue with hot spots. I don’t have the numbers but I wouldn’t doubt if it had triple the btus of even the best home model. The oven is gas and convection and cooks about 30% faster than a standard electric oven. The whole experience is just faster and larger scale. If you have the room and a father in law to pay for it I highly recommend buying one!
That's just the government testing super sekret military tech. That or complete ineptitude and incompetence. I'm betting on the former. Nothing to see here. Did you know Donald Trump is the president of America???
In lower internet speeds Facebook loads a lite version which is super fast (loads better than HN for me) and has most of the basic functionalities.
[I didn't downvote it.] It breaks some of the unofficial rules of HN:

No jokes, no kittens, no oneliners.

I recommend to write a longer version of the comment that adds some info. Something like:

fake> This is/was very popular in the demoscene [n years ago]. My favorites examples are [youtube link] and [youtube link]. In particular, there is a post from [famous demoescener] that explain how he/she used this effect [link] in [optional youtube link]
They don't have a condenser fan, the whole back of the refrigerator is covered by passive heat exchange tubing.
Select elements are pretty decently style-able nowadays [0], though the options in the dropdown don't seem to be supported (at least in Firefox).

https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/select-css.html
The engineers who design fridges aren't evil. They do things for a reason. So, we're left with questions.

Questions:

1) what is the cost difference between the two fans?

2) what is the average first-owner lifespan of a fridge?

3) how long will the fan outlive the fridge in the first-owners house?

4) how big a supply is there of the new fan? Is it in use on more appliances?

5) does a 60% reduction in power draw result in a fan with a longer lifespan?

6) is resale something people care about, or are appliances fashion?
there are several good reasons to isolate and deprecate

1) web technologies change frequently, junk is accumulated over time if new tooling and updated dependencies aren't adopted- this is more effective in deprecation
2) iteration speed is faster

ultimately code that makes up infrastructure or the foundation of micro*s should be quality first (e.g. auth, kubernetes, microfrontend compositor) but other things should focus on shipping and iteration.
The is the sixth Show HN for this in ten days.
As someone who’s been on the receiving end of such edicts, and also tangential to people giving such edicts, my personal opinion is that it’s about posturing.

Telling your superiors “I’ve had my team working round the clock” conveys more sense of urgency than “we’re working on it, that request will be handled as soon as my people get back from their weekend.”

It sucks and is bad management in my opinion. But from what I’ve experienced, people eat that stuff up. Especially people who come from companies that have constantly fought fires all the time. It’s very frustrating.

As I’ve gotten older, more eyebrows have gotten raised at long work schedules, so that’s good at least. My personal experience tends towards work/life balance being more available in larger, corporate positions but I can’t tell if that is my bubble, or if that’s the general case.
literally the second thing I said summarized your entire rant.

Paraphrased again:
> They want to know you are interested in self improvement

I am merely helping the guy out, to point out that the super negative question shouldn't get to his head.

You, my numeric friend, 4ec0755f5522, should try being less negative. You just made a lot of super negative assumptions:

> "idiot this, idiot that"

what's the saying, there's a million ways to skin a cat? Morbid as it may be, there's many ways to solve a problem and answer a question, and some ways may resonate better with some people. You have no idea what company or role the guy is applying for, or what they are looking for. Maybe they are looking for a super douche sales guy, in which case they need someone who is pure ego and arrogance. Everyone has a place in society.

Life isn't about being perfect all the time. Sometimes if someone is giving you a bs question, they might know it, and they might expect a bs answer back, simply because it's fun.
Laundry mat in college used speed queens. They destroyed a lot of my clothes, so no thanks.

My mid range top loading HE washing machine doesn't try to beat everything I own to death.

Not sure what the cost breakdown is there, but I like buying 100 shirts that last 5-8 years. A washing machine that ate them up in half that time would have a rather significant financial impact.

Weighing that against the cost of the washing machine itself? Eh, I'd have to think about it some more.
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Work's firewall is coming up saying this site is malware :S
That doesn't make it better. 10px at 1/96 inch per px makes them only 2.6mm.
Ditto. Initially entertaining but it wears off quickly. He is obviously very popular so there is something to be said about that - he is truly funny.

Also, his analysis is decent but he is no expert by any means like his fans think.
> If you go and buy an dishwasher from Miele

A commercial dishwasher from Miele. Miele also does consumer products, and while they are highly regarded and rather expensive, they are not immune to cost cutting.

That's unfortunate but I found that the most cost effective way of buying appliances is to go with major mid-low end consumer brands and accept planned obsolescence. High end consumer often isn't as good as the price make it look and commercial-grade is just too expensive (expect 10x price).

Usually, with mid-low end consumer brands, you can expect your appliance to last at least for the duration of the extended warranty period. People offering you extended warranties know what they are doing, and will cover the the time period where your appliance is the least likely to fail.
I'd suggest an ancient Kirby, or if you have some extra funds, a new one. I love ours, and it is bomb-proof, if a bit heavy.
I had a really weird experience at Fry's in Renton a decade ago. They sold me an opened box priced as new. It didn't work. They refused to return it. Then they tried to physically remove it from me without having offered a refund. (As if to put it back on the shelf?) I grabbed it back from them and said it's mine, I paid for it. Nobody in store would talk to me about this with any clarity, so I wrote a complaint in email, got back some grammatically incorrect nonsense. Decided to eat the cost and order from newegg rather than deal with their weird customer service.
Agreed! Documented specs for any every manufactured good would be amazing.
Huh, total US retirement stuff about a year ago was ~$28T, and total US market cap at the same time was ~$30T. Now obviously there's not complete overlap there, because a huge chunk of retirement accounts are not invested in equities at all, and a less huge but still significant chunk is not invested in US equities. However, that means that the remainder is still a massive chunk of all US equities.

I would not have guessed this, given the size of the average person's 401(k). My guess was much smaller. Not sure if I'm worried or relieved to be wrong about that.
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All this to get an app to make "do any of my contacts also use signal" requests? You could probably just figure out what endpoint the mobile client calls and imitate them yourself to avoid all the overhead of setting up the mobile devices. If you have to register to make the request, just provision a bunch of VOIP numbers and go to town.

Point being, if "who is using signal" is a question you want answered, it's far more trivial than having to acquire actual devices. Your oppressive regime could go from zero to black bag list in an afternoon.
About indexes, they improve query performance, but they also decrease write performance (and of course take space) that's why it's good idea to remove indices that aren't used or rarely used. Especially indices that are placed on columns that have random data and/or are frequently updated (prevents HOT updates) can hurt write performance.
I cynically think that this is a fall out of top-down direction from management for their little cost cutting bonuses. Short term benefits and incentives (fuck the consumers, durability will be dealt with when I am no longer around) trading off long term consumer loyalty. I hope I am wrong.

You can see a stark difference between family run businesses and a firm that has a board of directors.
I think it is Sahara to the Amazon: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/sahara-keeps-amazon-green/
For decades the most prominent CR criterion for car reviews was whether a folded wheelchair would fit in the trunk.
That’s not the issue. Even if my credit card company reverses the charge, Wag could still seek for payment and send the charge to a collections agency, possibly affecting my credit score.

If you sue and win they have to annul the charge. You also create precedence which is crucial in American Law jurisprudence. $1000 USD is a significant amount of money for many people.
Converting the cost into "modern currency" is missing the larger problem though. As companies are making things cheaper to produce, the overt government policy is to debase the currency so that nominal prices go up instead. Wages nominally rise too, but not nearly as much. So we get left with cheaply made appliances that actually aren't cheap, while the savings get funneled upwards.
", at least in advanced capitalist nations such as the UK and the US, where the processes of secularisation have recently been distinctly uneven, we don’t quite know how to behave in places that, in Erin-Marie Legacey’s phrase, make space for the dead. I can remember provoking a similar morally outraged reaction when, a decade ago, I took my small children to the local cemetery for a picnic"

I... what?

Atheist, raised by atheist parents in France, being respectful in a cemetery is not about religious education. It is about empathy and not being an asshole.

People who go there are most likely mourning. That's the last place where it is appropriate to bring kids playing.

And that author, talking about "advanced capitalist nations" like UK was one and France was stuck, like he seems to be, in the 19th century...

A lot of things happened in France between the revolution (1789) and the first stable republic (1871). A lot of it had to do with religion and monarchism, which were highly political. Secularism would really reign triumphantly only at the very beginning of the 20th century with the 1905 law of separation between the church and the state and this has been a very crucial turning point.

Talking about 19th century religious sentiment in France won't be relevant if you ignore the secularization process that has happened during the 20th century.

Something, dare I say, the "advanced nation of UK", with its official religion and archbishops having a voice in legislative matters, has never gone through.
I don't present a false dichotomy at all. The conspiracies put forward by people lack evidence, predict nothing about newly released material, and refuse at all times to admit defeat.

Therefore, whatever level of "control" required is simply not there. There are not many people in control, no one is engaged in any cooperation, and the chaos observed is actually chaos, not orchestrated.

To say otherwise would be require the three criteria above, which does not exist, period.