skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the toilet was designed to address these issues, yes the maintenance and security costs need to be included. That is why they bought the self-cleaning armored toilets to begin with, to cut down on these costs. These toilets have mechanical machines that self-steam the interiors, the seat tilts up and self-cleans, the floors and walls are made of steel to resist vandalism and there are all sorts of sensors in place to automate the toilet.

So to the degree that this equipment breaks down or fails to deliver on the self-cleaning promise, those costs should be included in the total cost of the toilet, no?
How is that parody supposed to work?

That is, it looks like the piece is trying to show how ruthless Google is by comparing it to AT&T, and arguing that Google makes AT&T look like a piker.

But every example of Google's proposed idea was either actually done by AT&T, or economically impossible.

IMO, the parody should have gone the route of Google explaining how to avoid the anti-trust legislation that AT&T had to deal with at the time.
s/b syncism - English for Gleichschaltung
No.

The thing you will almost see and if you search on past histories is that HN VC crowd is ""salty""/bitter they missed the crypto wagon.
A quick google suggests that his opinion is strictly incorrect and its a myth.

The largest reason for homelessness is addiction.
Seems like a tautological argument for calling any law you dislike “corruption.” That isn’t particularly persuasive.
But at least there's the network effect of getting access to papers, which is more than you can say about most social networks.
In my opinion there is nothing wrong with third parties offering services on top but you know, the whole cryptocurrency idea is that you don't need them.
It's the less-racist remix of his 1896 "Get Off The Earth" puzzle, which contains twelve or thirteen "chinamen" in the exact same poses around a globe.

http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog.php?post=blog/20110715&sec...

Whoever currently owns his name is still selling it, except now it refers to "warriors". https://www.samloyd.com/product/get-off-the-earth-card/
I suspect that, after the battery, screens are the next thing to get broken. With a non-repairable phone, all it takes is 1 out of n components for the entire thing to be rendered non-functional.
Sure, a parallel command structure may make a good decision while the nominal command structure is corrupt. But I'd still say it's better to focus on the problem with the nominal command structure (eg why is the bike registration bureaucracy so overbearing) than to hope that the parallel structure will choose public benevolence when protesting their own issue.

Furthermore I'd say that more often than not, a parallel structure for the police is going to choose actions that are not in the public interest. Hence how you're remembering this singular example of some temporary mostly harmless anarchy.
Consider switching to a APS-C type mirrorless or Micro Four Thirds. They might not be as good as a full frame DSLR, but the lenses are a lot lighter and compact. So instead of carrying around a backpack you can easily fit everything into a small messenger bag which you can easily take everywhere.
Sorry if I was unclear, when I said that the video implies fires are not caused by climate change, I was referring to the specific fires discussed in the video, not all forest fires. I'd encourage you to read the fact check, I think they demonstrate quite a bit of education and finesse: https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-fores..., https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-o...
Whither Tartaria?
It's actually amazing.
Uh, BTRFS and Lustre can't easily be compared. The former is exclusively a single-host fs, the latter is a cluster-only fs. The former focuses (more or less successfully) on data resilience and availability, the latter on performance.

There are quite a few large scale distributed file systems. XtreemFS, Hadoop and Ceph come to mind. There are others, e.g. OrangeFS (successor of PVFS), PanFS, etc. .
Ask HN: How to make things more searchable?
I was reading a verge article [1], and this stood out to me.

> But in STEM fields, directory structure remains crucially important. Astronomers, for example, may work with hundreds of thousands of files in the same format — which can be unwieldy to scale to a searchable system, Plavchan says.

Anecdotally, I've found searchable systems to be lukewarm. Search engines like Google are good for out-of-the-blue questions, but when looking within local files or data inside programs, search systems struggle to get what I need quickly. If I remember a specific file name, Spotlight search on macOS usually tells me what I need, while the default search on Windows does more or less the same. But these search systems never really help me find things in-depth, perhaps some mathematical formula embedded somewhere in a PDF file compiled from LaTeX. Or these search systems are not as forgiving when I'm trying to look for something that isn't text-based, like pictures or 3D assets.

Search is complex, so what can I do to depend less on these built-in systems? How can I make things more searchable in general? What methodological approach can be adopted to make searching for something, regardless of context, better?

Mindful folder structures, tagging files, consistent naming, and associating content to regular text as much as I can is a start, but I wonder if there's more that I'm failing to do.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
If they’re not recycling CO2 into O2 and instead venting CO2 to space, does that mean ISS is constantly losing gas and it needs an ongoing resupply of oxygen all the time?

I thought oxygen was used fast enough to make resupply impractical, but perhaps there are in fact gigantic tanks of O2 under immense pressure somewhere aboard the ISS.
Contract testing isn't E2E testing and doesn't provide the same guarantees. So they are replacing a high cost, high value system with a lower cost, lower value system. So they are literally saying that they don't think the extra value of E2E testing is worth the extra cost.

Personally, I think they are wrong, and the problems they have with their E2E tests are problems with their implementation. Fixing them would benefit the customer experience and the developer experience as well as reducing the costs of the E2E. They are absolutely going to have critical customer impact (they are fintech ffs) that their E2E tests would have caught. Of course, whether that actually tanks their business depends on other factors. So accepting more critical issues may the right thing for the success of the company. Robinhood customers were greatly pissed off by its behavior, and yet it doesn't seem to have hurt them too much. But I wouldn't fucking boast about it!
Democrats demand the same results of their cops as Republicans do, they just can't stomach the process (which is a common cop critique of liberals.)

Relying on cops to fix a broken society is as bad as relying on teachers to fix a broken society. You end up with a bunch of sadists as cops, and a bunch of martyrs as teachers.

You actually have to change something, you can't just let the status quo continue and expect a different result.
You are kind of proving my point. You just defined 10 to be "two" by establishing which base you are using. Thus, notation is subjective based on the author's desires. But, my argument was not even that. My argument was that 2 comes before 3 is not a universal law of math. That was chosen (subjectively) by humans.
The taper, when it comes, will feel like a relief
Does anyone know why smartphones couldn't disrupt the dashcam market?

With the wide angle cameras, half a TB of storage, phones should be able to do everything a dashcam can do.
> In Africa, while there was a lot of colonization, in most places the indigenous people were not displaced (and replaced) to the extent that they were in Europe, Australia, or the Americas

Huh? The Bantu expansion mostly happened well within what in the rest of the world is the historical period. The people the ancient Egyptians documented to their south do not exist today. The replacement of the population of South Africa was late enough that it happened under white rule.

There was no phase where African people were replaced by Europeans, but that's not at all the same question.
Your comment is easily understood and needs no further editing. I have been working on being more inclusive and appreciate seeing examples on how its done.
VPN A only sees a request to VPN B. Because of that they don't need to know anything about the final destination or even that there is a final destination beyond VPN B.
sorry, but braille is much more than "literally jhst a 3d font". Contractions define "shortcuts" for e.g. word endings or whole words. see e.g https://brailleworks-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/brailleworks... for some examples.
I'd encourage you to read the fact check to understand why they described it as misleading: https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-fores..., https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-o...
This was the reason I returned my Surface Book 2 back in 2018. I got it out of my laptop bag one day and burnt my fingers it was so hot. Fans at 100% and it was sitting at 99C just one degree away from shutdown.

That plus a whole host of annoying software bugs with the detachable design, keyboard backlight not working until I reboot, etc. was just a horrible experience so ended up getting a refund and buying a MacBook Pro when the 2018 models came out. Sure it has the crappy butterfly keyboard but three years later and that MacBook Pro is still a fantastic machine that I haven't had a single issue with. Cost the same as the Surface Book 2 as well.

The new Surface Laptop Studio looks interesting but I am very hesitant to buy Microsoft hardware again. It looks nice but is plagued with issues even today from what friends and colleagues tell me. Real shame. Hopefully things are better with the new models announced this week but I will be sitting back and waiting a few months to see how they are in the real world rather than a 3 day review.
> I personally know a guy who was homeless for over 15 years. He would soundly agree with Stossel's take. His opinion is... if I can attempt to summarise in a few words, that homeless people nearly universally choose that lifestyle, and if you ever give them a 100% guaranteed way out of it, they will run the other direction as fast as they can. I suggest you re-think your opinion of Stossel based on that segment.

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> that homeless people nearly universally choose that lifestyle,

I'm sorry but I can't really let that slide. A lot of homeless people aren't homeless because they chose that lifestyle and your anecdote doesn't change that fact. A lot of homeless people (roughly half of them) have serious psychological issues that make them barely able to function normally in society, this is why a significant number of war veterans are homeless. Don't make me started on people of all sorts or people that are unable to have a home because of their history (former criminals, illegal aliens, ...).

https://www.bbrfoundation.org/blog/homelessness-and-mental-i...

Few people would chose that lifestyle willingly, certainly not "universally".

I slept rough 2 times in my life, in dangerous places, and it was already bad, I can't imagine having to do that for months or years.
And if you have that surplus clean energy, you should spend it powering things that would otherwise be powered with fossil fuels - not trying to offset someone else's emissions. Carbon removal only makes sense in a world where nobody is burning any fossil fuels, and we're trying to lower atmospheric carbon. Lower, not offset.
clojure.spec is not a type system. Still, my point is, just using a typed language won't remove the need for contracts, you would still need to roll up something like Nubank did even if it means using MyPy reflection features.

For example, imagine you have two services that communicates through a message queue. Service A produces X as a string, but Service B consumes X as an integer. You can type that, both services would compile, but it would break as soon as you tried to consume that message. And yes, you can build something using MyPy reflection or whatever, but you have to build it anyway.
I'm a bit fascinated by this project because in my last career I worked as a fertilizer company agronomist. I ran teams of college students each summer who worked as crop scouts.

The scouts walked fields and tried to determine:

1. Were there any weeds and which type? What was the density and would it be worth respraying?

2. What's the plant population? Did the farmer achieve his goal for the number of plants?

3. Are the plants showing disease? What disease(s) are in the field? Is it economic to spray a fungicide?

4. What's the estimated yield for this field? If it's corn what's the approximate harvest moisture? Are the plants standing well at harvest?

I'm excited because it appears that Google's Project Mineral can achieve every single one of these goals. However I was left wondering if it could do it economically?
My mom said I shouldn't consume bait. I can't recall why she said that.
That's monitoring, not testing.

Of course, both have the same form, you run the system and verifies if the results match the expected. But monitoring is done constantly during the lifetime of your infrastructure, and verifies the entire infrastructure; while tests are done episodically, and verifies your program or a component. Tests also often block some procedures, while monitoring doesn't (but it certainly starts some).
Nice! I missed that nuance in the article.

Looking forward to eventually check out Sachem if there's a plan to share it?
Photographer Documents U.S. Military&#39;S Fake Middle East Villages
If Delta tells Southwest I was once an unruly passenger, how is that not defamation or some form of actionable harm to my reputation?q
> It'll even install updates at night and then make reboot sounds to wake you up. And the next day, your unsaved open documents are all gone.

That reminds me of last time I upgraded my mac by doing the transfer from one machine to the other. When the new mac booted for the first time, it had the same unsaved documents I had open on the old one. Things have come a long way.
China Bans Crypto
Changing the amount of something has big effects on supply chain, logistics, and costs. Mass production is all about volume and lead time.
Oh look, it's the guy who redefines words like "nihilist" to his own private definition again (confusing absolutely everyone in the process) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28182964
I think what they mean, basically, is "e2e testing absolutely everything was becoming a nightmare, so we've now switched to 'contract based testing' - effectively 'unit testing where the microservice is the unit granularity' - plus some e2e style testing for critical paths where it's still valuable enough to justify all the extra effort".
So where I see “It’s only if you are privileged (or, arguably, ignorant) to not consider…” in your comment, that was written by someone else?
For the last 20 years for work, I've had a series of Dell laptops. They've always had a problem with overheating in my bag. Dell has no clue how to fix their sleep problems.

Meanwhile for personal use, I've always used a Mac. I don't recall ever having a Mac fail to go to sleep when I closed the lid during normal activity. That said, I have had a problem here or there with its waking back up. But that's a problem I've maybe only seen once every few years or so.
This is the literal reason I switched to OSX. I dislike the impractical design of Macbooks - horrible connectivity and no way to swap batteries.

However the combination of 15 hrs battery life + closing the lid and it not melting a hole in my bag trumps any negatives.
In my case it also messes with many internal devices like webcam, USB etc.

Half the time i have to reboot to make those work again.
I'm not classifying them as shills because they disagree with me, but because most people I talk to are pro-crypto (at least in theory) and anti-think-of-the-children. Those profiles could be elaborate constructions. It seems kind of likely, of all the tech people I know none of them think those things.
Hibernate works fine on my windows laptop, but it was not the default setting for lid closed. Mine has a performance switch built in. Close it while in high performance mode and the fan would continue to run at full blast. Stupid.
Maybe, but it's a simple minded dig to a much better point. He diluted his own post by placing the police and about 50% of the population into a reductive stereotype. Not the best way to be persuasive.

Also, Villanueva, the LA sheriff is not only a Democrat, he was assisted by the Democratic Party in getting elected. Not only was the OP stereotyping but he was trying to shift blame to another party. Maybe Democrats in CA should start looking into their own party for the cause of these problems rather than giving them a free pass and shifting blame.

FWIW, I think the justice system in CA is hopelessly corrupt and brutal and has been for decades. That's a pretty serious problem Californians don't seem to want to address. Maybe corrupt, brutal justice systems suit the bosses of both parties just fine and the voters just don't want to admit their tribe is just as bad in this regard as the other tribe.

Oh well, divide and conquer strikes again. Enjoy your free nightstick massage and lead infusions.

https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/la-democrats-helped-...
I you were an unruly passenger, it can't be defamation because it isn't false.
America is substantially reducing poverty among children
Thats fair. I will admit that the E class I used to have was probably some hybrid leather, but it didnt make me sweat, so thats ok.

Not usre what City weave is, but Ill look into it. Wool seats sound amazing. That is something I would go for.

At this point i have my luxury brand preferences, but its nice to see alternatives and other brands doing different/better.
The fix is regulation mandating:

1. All phones should allow the bootloader to be unlocked, without compromising security, so that the user can install any OS on it.

2. All hardware parts should provide details of an API so that anyone can make device drivers for them for any OS.
> Most of the natives were killed but some were enslaved and kept as food

It should be noted that the pygmies are generally in a symbiotic relationship with the Bantu today - competition between the groups is limited by the fact that the pygmies inhabit non-arable land.

This would have been different when the Bantus arrived, of course.
I'm very happy about this, an official support to run Workers locally. I invested some of my personal time to get this tool, I submitted a patch on a community project (since Cloudflare wasn't officially supporting this). I think it was a very important missing piece for me to consider Workers a serious development tool.

https://github.com/gja/cloudflare-worker-local/commit/ce6004...
Tariffs on Chinese goods didn’t bring companies back to the U.S. research finds
I don't believe the suppliers need a nine year heads up.
Typically linux users (like myself) enable S3 sleep mode, which does exactly what most folks expect it to (sleep until a user action is taken). It's rock solid and I've never had a problem with it in ~8 years.
I guess "smoking gun" is too strong. Maybe what I should have said is something like "there's been a new development which completely changes the characterization of the sequence of events leading up to the pandemic."

What you're saying is worth looking deeper into, but it's not enough to start making claims yet, imo. There are probably hundreds or thousands of proposals and papers floating around now that talk about different things one can do with genetic engineering. If something should arise that is related to the concepts in some of those papers you wouldn't necessarily jump to the conclusion that there's a causal connection. Not without more information, anyway.

"it is the aspect of the genome which is hardest to square with a natural origin"
This doesn't tell me it's artificially created. The most this tells me is it's not well understood.

"The fact that they did not put this forward themselves in in and of itself suspect."
It could be related. Or it could be unrelated and there maybe some other explanation. My point is, when you want to charge someone with a serious crime, which I think this falls under, you need to come with some pretty strong evidence that directly ties whoever is involved to the events of the crime. This evidence may very well exist and it's not been shared publicly.
If you can get a dedicated account person (1000 person company), AWS is probably the clear winner.
The best phone of 2011 was probably the iPhone 4S. I didn't have this model, but I did use its predecessor the iPhone 4.

I remember hanging onto that phone for about 3 years I think, and replacing a battery somewhere along the way, so I thought I'd remind myself how that process went since it wasn't stuck in my memory anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI30NPW5Kls

Turns out that one could actually open the case with a Phillips screwdriver. 3 screws to pull total. A little bit of glue behind the battery.

Obviously things have changed quite a bit, but I could see hanging onto that phone and replacing components as they died. Would I actually want to be using that phone now? Probably not. Should we insist on things being that easy to fix? Almost certainly.
That's good! I'll be stealing it.
That's a convenient method when the patient can also make a phone call / appointment to inform the doctor they don't seem to be working rather than extorting (and I'm not using that word lightly) $150+ a month. Also consider the multitudes of other medications where there is no real argument to require a monthly extortion fee.

It seems to be this is more for the benefit of the healthcare system financially rather than the patient or the health of the population as a whole.
Facebook purposefully propagates anger and rage as much as it can because it gets people to log on to the website. Cities aren't designed to maximize hatred and crime.
But thousands of animated characters on screen is pushing the graphics. You can't really do the same in a standard way with an off-the-shelf engine. You put 500 animated characters on screen in UE4 and everything is going to crawl to a halt.

RTS games even today limit players to ~200 pop each.
How do you figure? 100% of in-app advertising goes to the split between the ad provider and the developer. Apple doesn't get 1 cent from that (unless the ad comes from Apple, obviously).
That's true, I guess, but we're discussing legal issues here. I think that would still be legal even though it would be dumb.
You have been in two of three situations.

1. No e2e tests.
2. Heavy, flaky, slow e2e tests.
3. e2e as a driver of first class system integration

Compare with

1. no unit tests
2. tons of unit tests, that regularly fail, nobody cares and check in more bad tests, "unit" tests that thread sleep and take minutes
3. CI/CD with 0 tolerance for failures or >1s tests

The difference between "We have tons of tests" and "We drive development with tests" is night and day. Sure, if you slap on e2e with the mandate "They must exist", then you're going to have a shitty experience, e2e or unit.
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How does this product make money?
I've been curating a list of open source no-code tools. I'm sure I've missed a few but here they are.

It includes the ones mentioned here - AppSmith, ToolJet, BudiBase and SaltCorn. I'll add NodeRed even though it's a bit more hardware/IoT oriented.

https://pocketworks.co.uk/blog/open-source-no-code-tools
Except in many cases, we didn't have the tools or technology to be able to test theories that eventually turned out to match real-world measurements. But the theories existed beforehand anyway and weren't any less science.