skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how it unfold the text, but it doesn't give visual hint on what was unfolded, and doesn't provide a way to fold it again, it seems.

Be it topographic emphasize or coloring, there should be an hint. And clicking the text thus emphasized should collapse it.

That's my opinion, otherwise, nice done.
Why Hasn't the iPhone Moment yet Happened for Voice UIs
I lived near the Palo Alto Fry's around the same time when I was a kid, and I always remembered it as a supermarket with some electronics. It wasn't until college that I got interested in computers and electronics and started to go back to Fry's again. I was always sort of puzzled - did I remember the supermarket correctly? Was it a Fry's? Whenever I said to people, "Fry's was a supermarket," they looked at me like I was indeed crazy.
Thanks for the great posts.

Have you seen any numbers for the life expectancy of grid connected batteries? I heard A solar project in Hawaii expects to replace the batteries every 5 years with daily cycles. So for California it would be $111 million /yr in battery costs. Manageable, but not a trivial amount to be factoring in to the cost of firming up the capacity of wind/solar.
They're daily for the reason that if they're not unnecessary, it's possible to react quickly to obstacles.

In the ideal case, if everyone just says "yep, still working on that feature, I see no obstacles, next", standups can last 3 minutes.

In the case where someone says "I'm blocked by a PR by Geoff from Team B" for 2 days straight, the team knows to step in.
They didn't back down. Back in June 2020, before the draft code was released, Google said they were prepared to share revenue from news.google. But not search. They demonstrated "good faith" by entering into agreements with some news providers, paying them money for news. [0]

The AU government then specifically included search in the act's explanatory memorandum. Google then threatened to ban search from Australia.

In response to Google threat, the government and Google talked. After the talks, Google withdrew it's threat. The Government claimed Google backed down.

Now we read search is excluded. [1]

How do you know a politician is lying: his lips are moving.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/business/media/australia-...

[1] https://theconversation.com/this-weeks-changes-are-a-win-for...
4G (or maybe even 2 and 3G ...) would probably be better at that than 5G will be. 5G will have high capacity and very short range. Great for video calls and streaming YouTube if you're close to a tower, not great for the toaster trying to phone home from the basement.
I'd guess that most people working "outside of normal hours" are doing it by necessity doing some kind of low wage job, and therefore poorer. e.g. anyone who works in restaurants or bars or music or nightlife after 10pm, taxi drivers, pizza delivery, Uber drivers, 24/7 gas station and supermarket employees, security guards, delivery truck drivers, garbage collectors, train drivers, etc.
I do this at work, even with newer developers, although I try give them more slack and time to adapt to our commit & PR style. Do I need to pick on minor formatting issues or a spelling mistake? Do I want to? No. My concern is that the long term cost of maintaining and fixing this when it was actually cought in PR.

So whenever someone nitpicks on my code it's usually for the better, i.e changing a method name.
What does it mean to "understand something"? Why don't we consider "big lump of axons and dendrons" to be an understanding?

To me at least, understanding is quantified by the difference between the number of bits in your model and the number of bits in the thing you want to understand. "True understanding" is when you've gotten the model down to a small enough size that you can fit it in your head. But there is no a priori law that everything interesting in the universe should be able to fit in your head. We've just been lucky so far. Maybe we will keep making progress understanding how consciousness works, but never shrink it down far enough that we are satisfied with the "explanation".
It's mildly amusing to see kudos for a solution that lacks any <noscript> support.
isn't there a .pizza ?
there's also .black , and ,
I think maybe a .travel ? Or something along those lines.
Source Serif Pro is truly one of the most beautiful modern web fonts.
How do you only have 558 PoH with ~900 days of daily use? Do you only use it for 30m per day?

Here's a 512GB WD Black from my home lab server. It runs ~10 super light usage VMs with Docker stacks that include 2 GitLab instances, 2 GitLab runners, 3 Nextcloud instances, 3 Redmine instances, 1 Gitea instance, 2 Drone runners, 1 Minio instance, 1 Nexus instance, 1 Emby instance (w/transcoding), and various reverse proxies, etc..

The write endurance is supposed to be 300TBW, so it should really be over 20% used but says 0%.

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 38 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 95,066,245 [48.6 TB]
Data Units Written: 135,910,315 [69.5 TB]
Host Read Commands: 972,466,473
Host Write Commands: 2,504,003,547
Power On Hours: 17,383

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, max 256 entries)
No Errors Logged

Compare it to a 500MB Crucial MX500 under the same load which is supposed to have 180TBW:

Model Family: Crucial/Micron BX/MX1/2/3/500, M5/600, 1100 SSDs
Device Model: CT500MX500SSD1
Serial Number:
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 11225
173 Ave_Block-Erase_Count 0x0032 032 032 000 Old_age Always - 1032
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 067 044 000 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 0/56)
202 Percent_Lifetime_Remain 0x0030 032 032 001 Old_age Offline - 68
246 Total_Host_Sector_Write 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 59166051308

That's 68% used after ~30TBW (59,166,051,308 sectors*512 = 30,293,018,269,696 bytes).

What I've learned from trying to diagnose those MX500s is that TBW doesn't really matter all that much. It's the P/E cycles that really count. For example, the MX500s are rated for 1500 erase cycles (#173 above) IIRC.

I've also become skeptical of many SMART implementations. I know the PoH on the Crucials is incorrect because when they were new they were reporting 45 days of PoH on a system with 76 days of uptime. So if the manufacturers can't get something as simple as PoH right, how can anything be trusted?
The cities are much more walkable as well. It was mind-blowing to use Google Maps for walking and transit door to door including specific numbered staircases for train stations with precise to the minute schedules for the trains.
Emirates B777s and A380s do this too. Especially the A380s that stream 3 different cameras (tail, below, front). I don’t think they record the feeds though, maybe that makes a difference? But yeah seems odd to me that recording video makes it a military asset... how many millions of passengers on commercial planes have recorded the view out their window etc.
It is sad to see that this article itself is literally citing a throwaway HN comment about patents and E-Ink as if it was a fact. I questioned the veracity of that claim and never got a response from the poster.

I'll paste what I last commented about this because I'm already giving up trying to get any form of sane discussion on it.

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As I have stated, I was looking for evidence or proof for OP's claim about patents and did not find it, nor does OP appear to be able or willing to back up his/her claim. My opinion is that display pricing is driven primarily by volume, and secondarily by a lot of other rapidly fluctuating variables related to ITO/TFT manufacturing costs. I'm sure patents has some effect on the industry, but most likely negligible as I've never heard companies being impacted by it. At least not in my corner of the industry.

To be frank, I believe OP's claim about patents is wrong and is just some kind of worldview that for some reason has caught on recently in HN and is getting repeated without being challenged.

The simplest evidence I can give that volume is the main driver of pricing is to compare EPD 6" matrix display pricing between 2007 where it was 100x more expensive than it is today. Patents haven't changed. Volume has. That was driven by large scale buyers like Sony, Amazon, and others.

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The grisly trials that gave poison to prisoners
UPS, Fedex, and USPS have very different market niches. UPS focuses on volume, mid-market package delivery, Fedex on high-margin, next-day service, and USPS gets the dregs, including a tremendous amount of letters, not to mention junk mail. And their delivery patterns are quite different, not just the type of items delivered. I would imagine the ideal van is quite different, particularly as between UPS and USPS.

FedEx and Amazon probably enjoy the most flexibility, partly because they both heavily utilize contractors for last-mile delivery. To avoid unionization FedEx has deliberately made some interesting decisions about which markets they were going to pursue and which they would cede to UPS. Amazon seems to be taking a page out of FedEx's book. In either case I imagine fleet uniformity is more difficult to achieve logistically and financially without full vertical integration of that component, and not as important when your independent contractors are absorbing much of the efficiency losses. UPS and USPS have more incentive to maximize vehicle efficiency because they directly internalize all the costs.
It's like reading a Politico fact check on a democrat.
I used d3.js for one of my first programming projects. I was grateful and impressed that almost every question on Stack Overflow was answered by Mike Bostock or Jason Davies.

I'm (a little) older and (a little) wiser, and know this kind of support is a huge amount of work. It sounds like
"focus[ing] on learning and broadening your perspective" is what fueled all those answers I so appreciated.
You can still use S3 even without being on AWS, though for more reasonable (< 1TB) amounts of data, old school local storage served by Nginx does the trick.

For SNS, what does it offer that RabbitMQ doesn't? I've always found RMQ to be rock-solid and wouldn't use SNS anyway.
A lot of my early formal learning was using Turbo Pascal circa 1990. it was a really nice language to learn in. Very easy.
Awesome project. I wonder what custom .nix files would be involved with this setup.
It's much easier to inspect at multiple points, and I know what to expect coming down the pipe.

There are multiple threat models, and having different options helps in different situations.

It's also not realistic for me to try to figure out what's going on inside an SSL or TLS library.

I'm OK with TLS being the default, but I believe in always providing a plaintext option.

TLS also introduces compatibility and accessibility issues. With regards to GPC specifically, requiring TLS cuts off access for a huge population of about 20 years' worth of older devices which work fine otherwise.

There are many, many situations where plaintext ability has allowed me to access my own resource where requiring TLS would have caused it to fail, and I'm certain there are many more which I cannot even anticipate ahead of time.
> I've never heard of any serious writer printing out their prose and cutting it and rearranging it.

Writers definitely do this. Maybe not at the prose level, but for sure at the plot level and chapter level.
Wirth repents this himself, he though, like many of us, that developers care about quality and it would be obvious for them to adopt such languages.

Problem is this kind of programing languages go against the UNIX culture of move fast and break things, with considers them programming with a straight jacket.

So here we are fixing memory corruption issues, with hardware and OS vendors bringging back hardware tagged memory ideas from Lisp Machines to fix C machines.

"A Brief History of Software Engineering"

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Miscellaneous/IEEE-Annals.p...
When they started being huge money makers for the stores. Warren Buffett talks about how Kraft wasn't as good of in investment because private labels at into market share and profits of their non-superstar brands.
AiLab Interview with Jeremy Howard
> this has now happened 3 times, on different (but otherwise basically identical planes) in an ~18 month time span

Wouldn't that make it more likely that there is some systemic cause, such as a flawed inspection process?
I thought the two were unrelated! I only heard about the supermarkets maybe a year ago, but I've been going to the electronics store for a decade and a half. Did they split off at some point?
I have the same question here. How do you only have 45 power on hours in 80 days?

Does anyone know why power on hours seem to be under reported so often?
You can do that -- but remember that the USPS operates at a huge scale and with a very specific set of use cases. Mass market vehicles are designed for average use cases.

If they can custom design a vehicle that saves a driver 1 second per delivery, or decrease their accident rate by 1%, that could be enough savings to pay for the vehicle and then some.

Many organizations that operate at a huge scale find it beneficial to customize their essential tool set.

That being said -- The USPS definitely does have some vehicles from traditional automakers in their fleet. My mailman drives a RAM ProMaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Ducato It's left-hand-drive though, so I would imagine that carriers wouldn't want to drive one on a route with mailboxes at the roadside. https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images...
> I'm not sure “native symbols” are a good thing in an interchange format.

"Try", "writing", "a", "sentence", "in", "JSON", "syntax", "some", "time", "and", "I", "guarantee", "you", "will", "change", "your", "mind"
I imagine that a number of routes- perhaps especially in the countryside- may not be suitable for electric vehicles yet. Add the burden of heat or AC on top of the vehicle's weight (plus packages) and it may be difficult to complete without recharging.

Since they are planning to be capable of retrofitting them, I wouldnt be surprised if they are planning on holding out a bit to see if battery and charging tech improves or standardizes further before investing heavily.

All of that said, I would be very surprised if they didn't electrify the entire fleet before 2030. The cost savings in maintenance alone would probably justify it even without environmental consideration.
25% of the available space gone after four years could very well be a problem.

Also, if writes continue at the same rate then wear will increase exponentially, as the same number of writes are distributed over an increasingly smaller amount of space.
Creating integration tests for Socket.IO servers is a lot easier with this tool
> In 10-20 years when this technology is outdated we’ll probably find out what it really was.

Based on something I saw in the mid 90s and the numerous reports of these cylindrical crafts, I think it will be more than 10-20 years before these are outdated. Like the Stealth version of the UH-60 helicopter that crashed during the Osama raid, we likely won't know more about these crafts unless there is a similar sort of accident.
(I had to look up who Dan Simmons is.) An American science fiction and horror writer "deserves some credit" for popularizing Keats?! Sounds absurd, but I wouldn't know. I hadn't noticed Keats is more popular than when I first was into him in the 80s. Here's something better than a guess:

A graph of mentions of "John Keats", "Dan Simmons", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "The Eve of St. Agnes" since 1800. (It wouldn't let me use more titles)

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=John+Keats%2CD...

So I guess the Simmons theory would see an upswing after 1989? I don't see any increase in the mentions of his poems. The name "John Keats" was most common at points during the 1920s, 1930s and 1950s. So.. the graph doesn't obviously support your theory, I'd say. Hard to say. Perhaps Keats poetry sales are up since 1989?

Leaving out "John Keats" you can see much more detail in the remaining terms:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Dan+Simmons%2C...

This view seems to more clearly show Simmons having little effect.

Edit: I first tried ngrams using "Hyperion" but noticed many other things - software, books etc - had that title in the last few decades besides Keats poems or Simmons books. So I tried phrases that I thought would be more safely Keats-related only.
Lots of nostalgia about Fry’s here. Well, I have a different take. Fry’s was my first job, and my first introduction to wage slavery. They never at any point cared about employee health or well-being. Breaks were the state minimum. Pay was the state minimum. The entire staff (and there were hundreds back in the day, when the checkout line would back up into the store even with 20 registers open) shared one 7x7 beige break room. It looked like something from Prison Architect, just an old tube TV with bent bunny ears (you weren’t allowed to turn it on though, it was for training) and the stale smell of cigarette smoke. Knowledge was irrelevant, it was all about sales. SPIFs (bounty-style sales commissions) and revenue ruled the day. Aside from that, the owners didn’t care; cliques and in-groups ruled hiring and firing in the absence of leadership. Stores were always falling apart even when they were new. I don’t think anything over 7’ up was ever dusted; even 20 years ago, it was so thick in some places you couldn’t see the paint. The repair bar employees would regularly rifle through customers’ hard drivers and keep the juciest pictures.

Just another cynical retail empire, pumped hard and drained dry by its owners while the foundation rotted from below. May they build condos on its grave.
Back button usually come with an unfoldable list of jump points.

I am more ennoyed by how the jump points are turned into a useless feature by so many javascript out there which load new content without impacting the browsing history.
While there is no component critical to the engine located radially to the blades, there are other things, like wings and passengers.
Trader Joe’s is fascinating. Their own products are unique and you develop a craving for them. That creates serious retention. And over time they’ve designed out more and more third party stuff, replacing it with their own (instead of selling both alongside each other). I’ve never read a business case about them but it seems like a killer strategy
SELF, Lisp and Smalltalk are just as dynamic.

There isn't any Python dynamic feature that those languages lack, yet they solved out the problem a couple of decades ago, and SELF JIT is the genesis of HotSpot.

What Python lacks is JIT love and being too much attached to CPython.
It wasn't that long ago that eevelopers would use HPUX/SGI/SUN/AIX workstations, sometimes even for developing software for other microcomputers.

It's entirely possible that there was just a ~25 year blip in which workstation and consumer computing hardware was the same.
> it requires Google/Facebook to enter into good faith negotiations with news organisations

It's funny how the human mind tries to make sense out of complete nonsense. (This isn't a dig at you.) You read the act was forcing them to bargain, and you (like me as it happens) immediately assumed to bargain someone must have something to sell and the price is determined by what it is. What it is must be access to news, surely?

So with that in mind, read this direct quote from the act [0]:

> Division5—Non-differentiation 52ZC … (2) The responsible digital platform corporation must ensure that the supply of the digital service does not … (a) differentiate between registered news businesses, because of … (iii) a registered news business being paid, or not being paid, an amount of remuneration

But no, they are not bargaining over access to news. So what, precisely? Well, as far as I can tell the act doesn't say. They just, must, bargain.

I know the advice is not to watch the sausage being made, but geeze ...
Lenovo sells the Thinkpad style external usb keyboard. That could be torn down and connected to the Rpi. That was my idea anyway.
Indeed, it's the only way to fly is using DNSSEC
It seems I have it worse than almost anyone.

2.5 month old, 1 TB, M1 MBA:

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 46 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 5%
Data Units Read: 315,158,527 [161 TB]
Data Units Written: 303,071,863 [155 TB]
Host Read Commands: 1,331,719,025
Host Write Commands: 1,036,195,203
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 167
Power On Hours: 762
Unsafe Shutdowns: 7
Best part is that the SSD is soldered into the board and it can't be replaced.

Even worse. In this case for the M1 Macs when the SSD dies, the Mac becomes bricked and if you have no backups then the data on the dead SSD is lost.

A typical web dev may rely on running a couple of electron apps, docker, IntelliJ and lots of chrome tabs to get their work done. Alongside everyday use looks to me that the life of this SSD is going to be shortened very quickly.

I already said this before [0] and it seems to them 'it is not an issue.' Well here we are and this thread is full of other concerned users.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26150405
Why would alients want to enslave us if they have robots? In any case they are not very talkative, they didn't even contact us; if it is them they are just monitoring; makes sense: the only thing one could do with a primitive culture is to monitor it, because otherwise you risk destoying it. Maybe these are alien anthropologists doing a field study.
I think this sort of criticism of Apple usually lacks much substance. Everybody know what Apple products are, if you want something that’s highly customizable and easy to upgrade then why not just buy one of the countless different products that offer those features? Apple’s products tend to work very well, are typically well made, and reliably last a rather long time. I personally enjoy working on them more than any Linux system, so I buy them for that purpose. If I wanted a computer to tinker with, I wouldn’t buy a Mac.
Hi Jevan, thanks so much for your interest! We'll reach out :-)
Dang, this is sad. It's important to have at least one physical store in a given category because you can easily see what's out there and get ideas on what to buy. I feel like I'm part of the problem because I haven't been in a couple years, but I built my three years old gaming desktop using components I cobbled together there. Now there's no significant computer component store that I am aware of. Wow.
There a new book about D for Python programmers.

"D, the Best Programming Language, for Former Python Developers: (Learn D Programming for Python Developers)"

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Former-Python-De...
One Canadian brand has been leaning into their traditional bright yellow packaging with bold lettering and I would even say it almost feels trendy. See pictures on their Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/nonamebrands
Moving isn’t easy so CAC can’t go to zero. The extra a restaurant pays in rent to be on the street with all the restaurants over being a few blocks away is a marketing cost. That cost is where the ghost kitchen finds their competitiveness and the delivery company finds their margin.

They won’t take over. Rents ability to change in the long term means that if ghost kitchens get too popular then restaurants will face less competition for rent and be able to drop prices.

But I don’t see what time immemorial has to do with it. For a long time paying high rent to be on restaurant st was the most effective way for a restaurant to spend their marketing dollars. For a long time buying carriages was the most effective way to spend your transportation dollars.