skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that must be for true free-range eggs (note that free-range and cage-free are not the same thing).

Around here eggs are often a loss-leader promotional item. $0.99/doz is not uncommon to see.
Yeah, somewhere around the point HN became fifty percent submissions in languages I don't speak is the point where I would stop visiting at all. I'm not going to sort through all that looking for things I'll enjoy reading.
Do You Have the Empathy to Make the Move to Architect?
That's because nobody makes an argument by starting with "I'm making a slippery slope argument" - it's always identified by someone else. Same with whataboutism, no true scotsman, etc. by their nature.
Coronavirus’ Highly-Infectious Lambda Variant Capable of Escaping Vaccine
In the US, ~50% of people flatly refuse to get vaccinated. Most believe Bill Gates is going to microchip their precious bodily fluids because some genius on TV espoused a conspiracy theory.

To the end of controlling this pandemic, I think you cannot rely on voluntary participation because it creates a Tragedy of the Commons situation where people can opt-out for made-up religious, comfort animals, or conspiracy theory reasons that have zero to do with public health.
nope. i’m not okay with Gmail doing that. in fact I’ve completed removed all google products from my life. i don’t need someone to constantly spy on me.
There is a value proposition, but the tech just isn't there yet. It requires too much manual setup, pieces are not very standardized, and they also don't work well.

Imagine asking your phone to watch a movie in your family room, then automatically, the lights dim or change color, the curtains are pulled if it's dark, the tv and receiver are flipped on and the movie is loaded and ready to go on pause. Many people would find value in this. This is all technically possible and some people have actually created this setup. But it probably took them several days and fiddling to make it work. I can barely get my Yamaha receiver and LG tv to work together and they are top of the line new components.
Have you noticed how the grocery store almost always used different units for comparable products? For example, the tag might be $/oz for Kellogg's but $/lb for General Mills. And that is sometimes with tiny products that have no business being in dollars per pound.

I think they are purposely trying to make it more difficult to compare.
If one country managed to win all the silver medals, while each of the other countries managed to get one gold medal each, which country got the best results at the Olympics?

There isn't one perfect scoring system in this case, but disregarding everything but gold would completely ignore the value of second place, which is still a win over all other competitors but the first place
New Climate Report Will Detail Grim Future of Hotter, Extreme Weather
Businesses—in the guise of mediocre managers—absolutely invent arbitrary deadlines as a mechanism of control. If the deadline were real, it would have context, engineers could use that context to adjust the scope and design of what they're building and we wouldn't be having these conversations in the first place.

The problem begins when deadlines are used to limit agency rather than support it.
As someone who lived in Italy and Pakistan all her K-12 education years, your comment is so damn off base. Are you seriously saying that India (and Pakistan for that matter) have the same racial dynamic as America? Yes, India is diverse. Yes, we are not all the same. But that is not akin to the racial structures I have seen in the US.
I don't think it's possible or reasonable, particularly in the US, to assume or associate cultural identity with physical traits.
In Canada, engineer is a protected title. There are software engineers and you get professors who stress to you the importance of testing and safety, and there are safety and ethical requirements. It’s not very strongly enforced though, lots of people here get away with using the title
Okay, this sounds good, but also like a major invasion of privacy?
Nocode/lowcode is excellent for company internal apps & GUIs. Imagine things like barcode/QRcode scanner app for warehouse that just needs to send an HTTP call somewhere. Stakeholders/business people might be able to complete some smaller apps & views & GUIs themselves an no need to wait for engineering support.

It's likely never going to produce production quality web UIs for sites that have millions of consumer users where everything has to be optimised by hand but that's not really most use cases or the case for NoCode/LowCode.
I've been wrestling with this and I don't think it matters. Fascism is here. There is no escape.

Eventually anything that connects to a network will be crippled to the point of uselessness unless you submit to constant monitoring. If you try to avoid it you will be guilty until proven innocent by default.

By eventually I mean in 2-3 years.
How can bitcoin participate in services/goods which have shrunk?
Yeah, of course the Trumpist/(maybe? I'm not 100% sure on connecting the two)Tea-party wing is the new wave I'm talking about that might represent another transformation of the party (we'll see, may just be a blip). You're right that there's probably less influence from the libertarian thought in that—there remains a rhetoric of "government is definitely bad always" but I'm not sure there's follow-through in actual policy, and it's (much) less free-trade friendly. Trump, personally, was also highly notable for talking a pretty big anti-neoliberal talk, which is unique among major-party candidates for President in the last, oh, 30-40ish years—to be clear, this is not to be read as an endorsement of him, just noting something remarkable about his candidacy & time in office.

Incidentally, these shifts are at the level of party leadership and policy. Nearly every Republican I've actually known since at least the 90s has had positions that match Trump's more than they match the average R politician, even as the party itself ignored, downplayed, or gone directly against many of those positions—I think that's exactly why Trump took those positions and ignored the orthodox Republican platform where it didn't match, in fact, and at times you could even see him apparently workshopping positions live, it really was fascinating—so I'd say the Republican electorate has been Trumpist for quite a while. Actually, some Trumpist positions, including anti-neoliberalism, anti-interventionism, and free trade skepticism, are very popular on the left too, but, as with pre-Trump Republicans, not well-represented among their politicians—I think there's an opportunity there, should someone find the right angle to attack it.
Thank you very much for the article! Everything is available, very useful information!
And this kind of thing is exactly why you should never trust the cloud.
There are plenty of 300 Mbps+ speed tests posted on r/Starlink. But that's peak, vs the average that Speedtest is showing.

Starlink's bandwidth and latency are way past good enough at this point. The issue with Starlink currently is reliability. Many people experience dropouts and jitter that make it unsuitable for video conferencing or gaming. This is often caused by people being unable to meet the requirement that the dish have a continuous unobstructed view of most of the sky, unlike a traditional satellite dish that stays pointed at one tiny section of sky. This will improve as more satellites are launched.
10K hours??! Try 100K hours (55 years x 50 wks/yr x 40 hrs/wk).

I still don't know much.
I agree that there are better possible taglines for the service.
I've been using X10 stuff for nearly two decades. So I'm pretty sure that already exists exactly as your describing.
Looking at that, surprised they didn't go for a taller tower and some kind of cable arrest system like aircraft carriers have. I'm sure they thought of it.
You can only discriminate against white people. You can't discriminate against all of the political elite's pets. Pets include blacks, browns, gays, trans, and all the victim groups. Also businesses usually can't discriminate either.

I get that this tag line is more for marketing purposes, and in fact they might not refuse to take white ppl's money that want to sign up... but they are in fact discriminating in the type of content they will produce and stream-- but since its against whites it is okay.
If you cut out the cloud and stick to local-only devices the reliability increases significantly.
That's for reinforcement learning, right? What is the adversarial learning problem in say, classification based on Solomonoff?

If hypercomputation is possible, then anything based on Kolmogorov complexity would be SOL, but if not... is Solomonoff induction just too expensive in practice?
Indian Muslims, a group that experiences increasing marginalization within that large diverse country; would probably not
It complicates code until it makes it easier, sometimes.
I admit to being mystified by the value proposition of Nest thermostats. I have a simple programmable thermostat that I can put on a set schedule (and change if I'm going out of town and want to set everything for energy savings) and the incremental value of having something more dynamic just seems miniscule.
I don't think any reasonable person could honestly believe there is any significant possibility[0] it could have been faked. The Soviet Union would have had a vested interest in proving it was a hoax if it were, yet they uttered not a peep of protest.

Faking it and keeping that information from getting out, especially over this time span, would be a ludicrously wide-ranging and leakproof conspiracy that continues to this day.

[0] Because really, anything is possible. We could all be a Boltzmann Brain that came into being mere instants ago, that's just a useless thing to invest any serious consideration into.
I almost wonder if this is one of the key differences related to development speed between SpaceX and their competitors (Blue Origin, etc.) Most big space rockets are built in relatively low unit counts as ordered (unless I'm mistaken), whereas Musk's other large concern focuses on mass-production and solves problems for mass production. Hearing Musk speak about manufacturing challenges in the Everyday Astronaut interview, much of what he was talking about in terms of manufacturing challenge was about lessons learned from Tesla. Seems like focusing on the production problems this way may be a reason he's pulling of launch vehicles at the price points SpaceX is achieving.
I don't think many boring old construction cranes have a lifting capacity of 1350 t, nor do they need it. This is a mobile crane.
Both Netflix and Amazon already have a "Black Stories" category - not sure how this could have a chance against that kind of competition.
They already can decrypt iCloud photos, why else perform an on-device scan ? If not with the intention to scan all local contents ?
>Not full extinction, just extinct-in-the-wild

Or just "extinct where we grow crop X"
There's a really good book called "Code Complete" from 1993 (revised several times) that I think captures a lot of this sentiment in a more organized and illustrated way.

A lot of stuff on this list has been tribal knowledge for decades (well, except for the part about build pipelines, language choices, and Stack Overflow, etc.).

My first code mentors in the 80's & 90's said some of the same things in this list, and I passed them down to my mentees (?) as well.

https://www.powells.com/book/code-complete-9780735619678
Just ordered a copy. I love stories of that period, which is just before I was starting to learn about computers.
Not having a created_at column and the index bloat that goes with it?
There's not as much money in piano as in programming.
i mean. he did warn everyone that this is going to happen decades ago.

chiming is on this would just give the cancel mob more ammunition
It works better for databases that can only sort on the primary key (iirc Cassandra is one of these)
There's a huge difference between Apple scanning files that are on Apple's servers and Apple putting spyware on your encrypted device.
> off the shelf home automation software that I could use to control them.

Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io
> While rare, sometimes it's a problem with the compiler. Otherwise, it's always DNS.

I don't quite understand this one? Does it refer to domain name server? So if you're having network issues it's always DNS problems?

> Corollary: Most code out there is terrible. Sometimes it's easier to write a better version yourself.

I never cut-and-paste directly from stack overflow. I cut from several sources, combine the best practices and adapt everything to make something novel, and hopefully "better". But i think it's important that you understand what it does before you use it. This might seem self-evident, but my experience tells me not everyone agrees with this methodology.
If i find inspiration to a solution, i usually leave a link to the original source or stack overflow page.
I'd expect to continue to see regional variability based on density of subscribers, latitude, and quality of nearby ground stations.

Service should become faster in general though based on SpaceX statements, and based on the fact that they'll have a lot more bandwidth available with more satellites in the sky.
I use the railwaycat fork also, and it works fine for me writing go. I don't enjoy rust so I've never tried.

If you're interested, my emacs config is here: https://github.com/nathanvy/dotemacs/blob/master/init.org
Well, the focus is (and, indeed, should be) on disadvantaged and under-represented minorities - at least until the playing field levels (which may take a while).
One data point instead of two. Which may or may not have advantages depending on your situation.

At any rate it's definitely simpler, and you don't have to forego the created_at column either.
I have absolutely no comment on Apple that you or anyone else hasn’t made. Except your comments about hash matching, the whole point is it goes to manual confirmation, they don’t just detect an illegal hash and come arrest you.

But do you seriously think this isn’t going to be the standard for Android, Windows, ChromeOS, OSX, etc coming at degrees of time or implementation?

I know all the Android people are just thinking “I can root” or “I’ll run Lineage” which is well and good but relatively no one else will.

Stomping your feet and saying No More Apple For Me is not a winner here. It needs to be worse than that for them. What that looks like? I’m just as clueless as anyone else.
Yep, consistently uses 10-20% of a core even when I have absolutely nothing related to docker running.
> period of exceptional technological supremacy in the history of mankind that subsequently reverted so completely

This is true for many major engineering works, at least in the west. Many rail systems, dams, tunnels, etc from the 20th century would now be impossible politically or cost prohibitive.

The pyramids may not have been realistically possible any time since they were built
Would someone explain what changed for the rest of us?
I was pretty sure that food was not included in official inflation statistics.
I can assure you, as an allergy sufferer, that vacuuming makes a huge difference in my well-being. Dust and pollen build up and make me miserable. Carpet is tougher to clean, and we're having wood floors installed in part to make cleaning easier.
2 Hackers are suing the Iowa sheriff who imprisoned them for pentesting
Yes, we no longer bind-mount node_modules or bundled gems, but I still run into a lot of performance issues with Docker generally (especially very high kernel CPU usage). Additionally, not having node_modules and bundled gems accessible from my development environment makes it harder to diagnose dependency issues when I need to (e.g. pull up the source code for a gem and see why it's not working).
Ths.In Cuba, for example, most people form a Cuban culture for all races.
I'm surprised Ethernet over Power doesn't seem to get more attention. It's basically Ethernet cabling without running any new wires. It was the only thing that fixed wifi availability throughout our townhouse.

I'd be interested to know how a wifi mesh performs in comparison, but I can't see how it could be nearly as good, without being much more conspicuous.
The important part is the number of bits used for storage; the textual version is only for humans
Making Sierra Pay
I wonder if it was the cheapest Five-Eyes country to ship them all through.
It's just a Show HN...
First thing I do on a lenovo thinkpad is disable the trackpad, trackpoint FTW.
A tangential, silly observation. I hear Musk being called "a Steve Jobs" a lot... wouldn't "a Howard Hughes" be closer to the mark? Maybe a generational thing....
Application level code validates UUIDs based on a specific format not to mention what the specific database might expect depending on the data type
My understanding is that if the UUID is not sortable, inserting it into an index can be a performance hit. So if you have a write-heavy table with non-sorted primary keys, you will have a lower ceiling (higher overhead).
You might find waypipe interesting: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
> sorta kinda

I think the muddying consists of the fact that conflating physical traits with cultural identity means that any criticism of the given culture can be and is frequently labeled as racism.
> What are the advantages of sortable UUIDs

I guess for use-cases like Instagram's: "Generated IDs should be sortable by time (so a list of photo IDs, for example, could be sorted without fetching more information about the photos)... If you use a timestamp as the first component of the ID, the IDs remain time-sortable... [but require] more storage space (96 bits or higher) to make reasonable uniqueness guarantees" [0]

[0] https://archive.is/xiMGZ
Someone asked this:

> Wonder which certain long-nosed tribal "people" funded this one...

But I couldn't reply to it since it was flagged. The answer is Techstars Music, owned by Techstars which is founded by David Cohen

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/black-oak-tv/company...
Is XQuartz substantively different than X11?
Agreed, this isn't a robot used for intimidation or as a police-presence replacement, its used in the same way a disease-resistant social-worker would have been used, if such a person exists.
What's the advantage of a new service targeting black people as opposed to targeted content from Netflix? Netflix already infers what type of content you like and has a far greater content budget (or percentage of a content budget they can devote to this) than you can raise.

It's not like BET, where there is a clear advantage to having a channel with black oriented content. It feels more like a different cable provider.

If you were trying to make a YouTube competitor, I would understand that. User-generated content doesn't seem as solved as top-down development.
So; Gilligan's Island for black people
Another reasonable exception is referencing external sources - whether it's a specific library you borrowed code from, a piece of documentation needed to better understand what's going on, or a reference to a SO post explaining some weird workaround you've implemented.
If it compares things that are not comparable, it's worse than nothing though. I'm pretty sure, for example, that what's considered normal bread in the US or the UK is completely different from continental Europe. Not a difference in quality, it's literally a different product. Same with yogurt, etc.
Are you describing a celestial event, or scheduling a New Year’s party for humans? For the former, you are probably already using TAI (or GPS). For the latter, use an ISO 8601 string, and call it Europe/London instead of GMT. As you recognize - the mapping of human dates to celestial time is unstable. Don’t pretend it is by using a number until you need to.
"Apple has the right to decide how you use their product"

I hate this argument. If Apple wants to claim ownership of _their_ products then they shouldn't sell them. They should lease them.
Caveat: I don't live in a fire hazard zone so take this with a grain of salt.

Wouldn't it be better not to plant any grass if it's that bad where you are? For soil erosion planting something else sounds more adequate.

I do see a problem with septic fields. Can't plant anything else that I know of on those but grass. If you do know of something let me know and I'll plant it on mine instantly lol.
The Omnia was quite expensive, but I've gotten frequent updates for the last four years. It's a nice mix of hackable and "just works".

I've turned off the WiFi at this point, and just use it as a router now. The UniFi access point that I installed provides better coverage in my house since it's easier to place in a central location.

Overall, I'd rate it as a good value.
This sounds like a mistake? When/why should the application validate the format of a UUID?
In principle, the answer is getting together and standardizing on generic protocols.

Unfortunately, there are multiple reasons why this can't happen in the current environment.

The business reason is that all the big tech giants are now deeply accustomed to lockin-as-a-model, and you can't have lockin if you have a standard that everyone can use equally. So, literally everyone in the space sees it as their incentive to let other players conform to their standards, but not to conform to anyone else's standards. This does not result in a standard, de facto or de jure.

(I made the same objection to the "metaverse" concept a couple of weeks ago. It can't work as some people are envisioning; the business proposition at this point is complete nonsense. Every participating company will be happy for other companies to voluntarily walk into their walled garden, but no company is going to walk into somebody else's walled garden.)

The technical reason is that any attempt to standardize at this point is more likely to produce a mess like bluetooth than any sort of coherent standard. Plus you get an echoing of the business model problem where every participant will see the standard as a weapon to be fired at their competitor rather than something to conform to for mutual advantage.

Not helping any of this is the problem that the problems that they are solving just aren't that compelling. This limits the amount of value they can extract from me by virtue of the fact I'm not paying for more than I'm getting from the 'smart home', which doesn't really leave them with much money to play with. It also doesn't help that the camel's nose is already under the tent in terms of not simply enabling the user but trying to control the user, with things like letting this authority twiddle with my air conditioner and that authority twiddle with my hot water heater, and in 2021, I have less than no confidence that buying into a smart home won't continue this trend.

Personally, my assessment is that the tech industry of the 2010s and the 2020s is structurally and temperamentally incapable of producing a high-quality smart home. The best they can do is create a locked-in walled garden that works great if you buy into it from top to bottom (and pay the subscription fees!), but gets abandoned in three to five years and then becomes totally nonfunctional as they pursue the next thing.
I think its clear by your statement that you have no idea about America.
You’re right, currently iCloud photos isn’t E2E. I’ve updated my comment
I think you will always find a core that stays and a core that leaves.. the reason is that people don't feel heard so they look for other places to voice themselves. I went from slashdot to reddit to HN. Even now HN doesn't feel satisfactory.
What an abysmal mindset.
Really cool as a starting point for creating you own arbitrage bot :)
Nextcloud is so kludgey.
Another confounding factor is requirements for increasing gas mileage. One way to do that is reduce wind resistance, which could mean a more sloped windshield with less turbulent airflow. Insects could just be diverted more effectively now without striking the windshield.