skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a qualitative leap from every other known piece.

Fair enough.

Now, since we are on HN, a site dedicated to "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", I'll advance a question.

First the background: stone seals were used to ratify all sorts of contracts. The more intricate the seal, the more status the owner had, and most likely this was in part due to the fact that it was more difficult to forge. So, the owner of such a seal very likely enjoyed a nice status dividend. Of course, the person himself was shown a lot of respect and deference in face-to-face encounters, but because of the seal, his representatives could enjoy some form of authority hundreds of miles away from the home base. And since Minos was a maritime civilization, this probably was quite a typical occurrence.

Now, here's the question: this seal stone was made hundreds of years before the Bronze Age collapse. I agree with you that it appears to be qualitatively way above all the other seal stones discovered so far (and most likely those not discovered too, since we have discovered thousands of inprints as well, and a spectacular inprint would have been publicized). So the question is: why didn't the craftsman who made this seal, or his disciples, or some other craftsmen not create similar sealstones during the next few centuries?

And maybe I'm allowed to engage in some wild speculation here. The owner of the seal, well aware of the immense advantages he enjoyed because of its uniqueness, was most likely also aware that if more such seals were to flood the market, his comparative status would diminish. So, he had all the reasons to make sure this didn't happen.

Now, most cultures have some type of myth of the master artisan being killed or imprisoned by his patron, but the first and most well known such myth is the one of Daedalus, who worked for ... king Minos.

Is it possible that the creator of the Pylos Combat Agate suffered the fate of Daedalus?
Coke and Pepsi have that kind of mark-up on their aluminum can sugar water products.
As others have said, you're using definitions that are very much not the normal ones. If you're talking to other people, you don't get to make up your own definitions.

But, more: I'm a "worker". I work for other people. I also make a borderline-top-10% income. I make more than many small business owners. So I'm not middle class, because I have a job? Class is about how I get the money, not how much money I get?

And in your last paragraph, you talk about "the upper income class". Is there one class hierarchy that is based on income, and another that is based on source of income? If so, why should I have solidarity with my income-source group rather than with my income-level group? And if not, then what are you trying to say in your last paragraph?
Or more verbosely, "Mental health improves when you stop consuming propaganda"
Gödel’s Loophole in U.S. Constitution
You jest, but you know deep down that (except for S3 and APIs created outside Amazon) every API on AWS can't easily be replicated outside of AWS, and that's the point the parent's making. It's like calling Android (at least the official version) open because it's based on Linux.
Because AWS doesn’t actually want to collect the egress fees. They want you to avoid egress entirely for high-value services, which has all kinds of excellent implications for AWS:

Third party SaaS offerings that move large amounts of data are effectively forced to host in AWS.

Want a small number of high-value servers (e.g. big GPUs, etc) in your own data center or colo to use for non-availability-critical purposes integrated with the rest of your AWS stack? You’d better price in egress!

Want to gradually transition to a competing cloud? Good luck, egress will bankrupt you before you finish the transition.
The Technics SL-1200 turntable. The fact that the design has not changed except for minor tweaks since the product was released speaks for itself. I used it both as a DJ many years ago and now kept one of the turntables just for listening. The quality of the turntable is palpable not only in its physical weight but in the utter simplicity of the design. The dotted edges of the rotating plate are both aesthetically pleasing while also informative communicating rotation speed. Every detail every little part of the unit is functional design of the highest quality while also visually appealing. In my view one of the greatest achievements in modern electronics and industrial design.
Someone who is 24 grew up on irc, ventrilo, and teamspeak? I know people still use irc but figured most kids wouldn't bother with it.

You must appreciate the difference between chatting online vs. in person.
So tldr they did a study to back up the anecdotes in the book "The coddling of the American mind"
I would buy a well ported full version (not an electron wrapped web version). Microsoft do have software available for Linux including their Edge browser. We used their Linux native MS Teams during lockdown which worked but sadly is electron based however it is the first modern official MS Office app for Linux. I don't use office suites but my kids use our linux computers for school work and they often bring home Microsoft Office files to work on at home. It would be worth paying just to have a seamless experience for them.

I have a licenced version of Windows and Office in a virtual machine so I have already bought Windows AND Office for Linux in a way since I never intend to use them standalone. If Office worked perfectly under wine/proton it would be awesome. It has been close at times with different versions. Unfortunately nobody here much likes the vm experience as I don't have a second video card for accelerated video and it isn't seamless so they generally use online Office that lacks features or struggle with LibreOffice which has a lot of bug and differences.

The idea that all linux users will not pay for software is wrong however it is a very small market as can be seen from the Steam hardware survey. Most Linux users would prefer their data in open formats but since I don't personally use office suites and my kids home work is ephemeral I simply don't care. I am happy to spend money on Steam where I own Microsoft produced games that are played exclusively on Linux.
Honest question: how much of the torrent content is corrupted in some way? I dabbled with file sharing back when Kazaa was a thing and I infected my computer to the point I had to reinstall the operating system and I "learned my lesson." But maybe I overlearned the lesson, and it can be used reliably?
Victorinox Spartan Swiss knife.

https://www.swissarmy.com/ca/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/M...
Well, that's kinda the thing that I'm realizing. I want my first coffee about... 10 minutes before I wake up. Add the chaos of getting the kid to school, and I'm not retiring the phin filter any time soon. But, sitting at home, I very well may fashion a rig on my desk that makes the perfect low&slow espresso for my second cup. And, hey, that's a lower dose of caffeine, so I can justify a third cup!
Implying people need to start with a trainer is pointlessly exclusionary.

When I started training I couldn't afford a gym membership so primarily did bodyweight training at home, so a trainer was just completely off the radar as an option.

Sure, once I could afford the gym I could train a lot better, and the may have neen true if I could afford a trainer on top, but I couldn't.
Really solid. I am excited about this one. Good design with clear problem to solve.
Looks like it can fly for 12 minutes on a single charge and takes 40 minutes to recharge. The video is super neat, but I'm curious how loud it is.
That's 100-550$. Peanuts compared to the actual cost.
One might make a similar argument with taxis and Ubers significantly reducing the total number of cars that need to exist even though there might sometimes be drivers on the road looking for another fare.
You are not being charitable with the arguments of those you disagree with. People are not reduced down to their race or gender, those aspects are one factor among multiple. No company is hiring random people matching their desired profiles off the street simply because of those characteristics.

I have a lot to say about your views on this. First of all, I am not concerned about company cultures. There are way bigger concerns in life than company culture. And if that really matters to you and you don't like your company culture, go to a company you like.

Your phrasing of "collective punishment" is really telling. You seem to really focus on the hardship incurred by the candidates discounted a bit because they are historically privileged. I find it very easy not to dwell on the temporary misfortunes of well-qualified software engineers. They will be fine. It's not a big deal. I care much more about fixing the "collective punishment" that has been inflicted on certain groups for hundreds of years.

And to your point claiming you know how to fix these problems: I like what you advocate. I disagree that it will be sufficient. Nothing has worked. We need to try everything, because the problem is so hard. To me, what the OP describes is part of the price society has to pay for the ill-gotten gains we've enjoyed for hundreds of years. It's not a punishment, but it's like tech debt. We backed ourselves into a corner where things are so bad that the only feasible ways to address inequality among groups is hacky solutions like affirmative action. Nobody WANTS to do that. But the problem is just so old and stuck.
I went to sell some stuff this month, and was very sad to learn that most people have moved to Facebook Marketplace. Apparently it's much more difficult to sell stuff on Craigslist now.
SawStop table saw. It‘a a great saw in general, but what absolutely blew me away was the assembly. Extremely well thought out, from the order in which boxes of parts are opened, to the instructions, to the assembly procedure itself. I could not come up with a single improvement.
Wayback Machine archived version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211126144321/https://www.newyo...
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Language choices are less about language to me and more about ecosystem of libraries. Python has generally been very strong in the ml/data science realm. I know Julia is catching up but am unsure just how much it covers. Example of python libraries I would consider needed as part of the data ecosystem, numpy, pytorch/tf, batch and stream processing frameworks like spark/flink/beam, workflow orchestration like kubeflow/airflow, data formats like pyarrow, etc. My company does most of our ml in google cloud so gcp libraries are also quite helpful. How much of that does Julia have equivalents to? How much coverage do those equivalents have? We’ve done some ml things outside python before and one general issue for most languages is leaving python there’s a high risk that something will be missing. Because of that if we use another language it’s preferred to keep scope of it’s project small. I think only big exception is on the data engineering side sometimes Java is better as a lot of batch/stream frameworks have best coverage in Java, although ml libraries is weaker there so our usage of Java is mainly data pipelines.

Another issue is pytorch/tf in python are very dominant in research/projects. Often we clone relevant recent projects and try experimenting with them to see if they help. Swapping to Julia would hurt a ton in that area.

edit: Also while I'm fond of python I'd be very open to seeing another language win. There are language design choices I dislike in python, but I like enough of the language and ecosystem as been too strong to leave most other languages worth pondering. If Julia grows enough that my coworkers start asking for Julia support I'd be happy to explore it. My pet preferred language is crystal (ruby like readability + types + good performance) but ecosystem wise it's tiny.
Wow, I have a bad habit of reading the comments before reading the site, but you aren't kidding. My gaming PC is lagging on this site! It also doesn't help that reader mode (at least for Edge) doesn't seem to work for the site.
I had the first-gen, spinny-wheel iPod. While I love (still have it) as much as you, I don’t think it was as good as the touch wheels that followed shortly after. By the end of mine’s daily use life, the wheel had loosened up enough that the music would get louder as I walked because my gait would rotate the wheel. Past that, it was perfect and I cherish still owning it, I just wish the wheel had held it’s firmness.
> And who doesn’t wear an N95 class mask? I see about 2/3rds N95, KN95, or KF94s, 1/3 useless masks, appearing to be mostly correlated along economic lines ($2/masks vs. $0.50/masks).

I can't comment on the rest of the science, but fwiw, I live in NYC and I'd estimate that maybe 1 / 20 people I see on the street are wearing N95/KN95/KF94 masks. Everyone else just wears cloth masks, or paper surgical masks.
I also am thinking of moving again.. I'm not so worried about covid and I'm 100% willing to vaccinate but using masks forever is not something I'm ok with. I have some medical issues that make that really nasty and there is still no proper process or ID for this. I'm willing to accept more risk. I've lived in 4 countries so far so this is fine for me.

But the problem is that governments change. I'll move somewhere and a new government will get voted in that'll change the game again..
A Utopia of Useful Things
S3 has its own data retrieval costs, as do several of their managed services.

Those are separate charges from the EC2 costs the Cloudflare blog post discussed.
Oh hey, good call – I got a Kobo Libre H2O recently, and I'm loving it too. It's just... great for reading!

I have some quibbles on the firmware front, but on the whole it's a great Thing That Does Its Job Well
Ip?! Perhaps v6 but not v4 by a longshot.
Decades of legacy code no one understands fully, and an appreciable fraction of the world economy running on Lovecraftian horrors of spreadsheets dependent on implementation details and bugs in Excel.
Which US cities have you lived in where the chance of being stabbed on public transit is meaningfully higher than the chance of being stabbed in any other public place?
I don't think this is Amazon's intention. AWS does not make its money from SMEs.

This is about courting developers. If Cloudflare is going to make it free to play with all their tools, and only start charging when usage becomes "real" then they have a good chance of winning over the dev community. AWS can't let that happen, because they know then the enterprise rot will start.
Not only did I answer the phones but I haphazardly volunteered to help out for a shift at the local factory. I spent a shift Christmas Eve (with tinny music over the PA) crimping wires to a transformer. At the end of the shift they explained that they didn't need that work done but they didn't like they the large wire had to be crimped to a medium wire before being crimped to a small wire. This was a step that usually had to be done once per panel one or twice per day (large commercial orders) but they had me, guy who had been there for six months, crimp a couple hundred of them as a lesson to management. Well I learned that lesson and to this day I don't waste ANYONE'S time. No matter what.
The majority of the people who routinely work more than 50 or 60 hours a week don't do it to become rich. They do it to survive.

The stereotypical hard working SV entrepreneur is in a very tiny minority.

Interviews to people in hospices show that one of the most common regrets is having worked too much.
I did. I've been doing it for over 3 decades, and worked with all kinds of languages. Of course, it's only my own anecdotal data set, but no, "once you try strongly typed language you'll see how magnificent it is" doesn't work anymore. I tried, and it's not that it's bad - it has its advantages - but it's not the bugless paradise that fanboys promise. And also I learned that running incorrect code 50 times a minute is not bad at all - actually, it's a pretty good rapid prototyping technique. Some people never launch their code until they are sure it's 100% perfect, I am not one of those people.
Buy a house / condo and get started.

Stop eating out at low price/food value places.
Covid is a meme
Dedicated servers from Hetzner and OVH is what I use. Very sweet deals they have.
Wasn't that Vizio? Probably all of them are making more money selling data...
Try Sonarworks headphones edition if you want to hear an awesome software update to improve the audio quality.
Python is the middle manager of languages. It sucks at everything, but always knows a guy.
1500 years for the current bound format. The preceding codices and before that scrolls were much less user friendly.
Mamiya 7 camera. It is ergonomically great, especially considering its size and large film area (6x7). Good shutter button with a lock.

Its 65mm lens is amazing to use - the edges line up almost perfectly with the massive rangefinder window, so it's like taking a picture of what one eye sees. This is great because I believe the best images are the ones that look like seeing, that make it seem as if beauty is commonplace.
Keys can be exchanged without root authority. Root authority is only required for identifying that website owner is who he claims to be.
Mostly unrelated but I would like to be able to set the temperate and water pressure for my shower so I can just enter and press a single button. This would also be great for those showers where you can never get the water temperature or pressure right so you have to keep adjusting it.

I would also like to run a bath by doing the same thing, and having the water stop when it's at the right level. Maybe there could be a heating element that keeps the water at the right temperature so you don't have to occasionally top it up with hot water.

I'm sure this already exists but I've never seen it anywhere.
Google flights is fantastic. Don't know if it is "the best-designed thing I've ever used", but it is on top of my mind as I just used it yesterday. Google doesn't get enough credit for the things that they did do well - including Search and Maps.

Another is Macbooks - the pre-2015 ones at least. I haven't used the latest M1 ones, which I hear great things about. The Aluminum body, the flawless screen, magsafe, great sound - there is so many things I love about Macbook hardware. Such a beautiful marriage of form and function.
I was referring to this text from the 0readme.txt:

>Most of the "later" and "Marvel" games were published in SAGA+ format (with a better parser). These versions are not included because ScottFree cannot play them yet. The following games were available in SAGA+ format:

When I searched for SAGA+, I found almost no evidence (outside that readme) that "SAGA+ format" is even a thing that really exists, let alone that any particular version of the game is in that format or that anyone has written a parser that can parse it.

Also, it lists three licensed games and Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle in SAGA+, which sounds as though it's not licensed, and should be releaseable.
These are the best products I've used in the last decade:

1. 2013 Macbook - Still us it. Though bought the new m1 today.

2. Pelican Kayak - Special edition for costco (has detachable bags). Probably not the best kayak. But at $300, probably the funnest thing I've purchase per $ spent. I've explored so many places with it; beautiful, sublime places filled with birds and wildlife. Super fun. 70% of the world is water.

3. K2 Rollerblades - Hate running, but rollerblading feels like a superpower

4. Delonghi Expresso machine + Oat milk.

5. Sony FDRx3000. Like a Gopro, but better. Though now badly needs an update.

6. DJI drones.

Best deal ever: All you can jet pass from BluJet. Flew around the world for $600 for a month. (plus some minor fees).
This is eye opening. I might take a look at this in depth and try Julia again.
Loom is fantastic for quickly creating and sharing desktop screencasts. I use it frequently to demo features to clients, or make recordings to supplement a question or comment for colleagues.
I saw a quote once that stuck with me: python is the second best language for everything, first at nothing.
To bring it back to the article, this really seems like one of those "get it in and run away" cases. Or to be a bit more accurate, run away before getting it in...

The author made a number of comments on the PR about how they expected it was almost done while there were still outstanding concerns from maintainers. The author stopped responding to comments when their employer's priorities changed. Someone else volunteered to finish the author's incomplete work, then the author closed the PR, complaining about being tired of seeing it in their PR list.

The maintainers spent a fair amount of effort explaining many (basic Rust) things like the extremely unsound API design of dereferencing a user-supplied raw pointer. They were trying to help.

This just doesn't seem like an individual the maintainers have any reason to trust.
That's just a list of bad analogies. The electric car did take off 125 years ago. It just slowly lost out because of the ICE, and now the advantage swung back.

Vertical landing rockets did take off. The issue is that they were all manned for obvious reasons. Then IT advanced and now you don't need a person inside to land them. NASA and McDonnell Douglas realized this and it led to the DC-X program : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X , which demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that vertical landing and takeoff was doable, and it did so at a price that was lower than the financing SpaceX needed for Grasshopper. However the NASA budget was constantly being cut, and they had to chose between the VentureStar (which has military use) and the DC-X, and they chose the DC-X. It was absolutely clear to everyone at the time that vertically landing a rocket multiple time was completely feasible. What really happened is that NASA did it faster, better, and cheaper than Elon Musk ever could, but NASA is not allowed to operate commercially and US politicians only care about financing programs that are useful for defence or for votes. It's a question of ideology that made SpaceX useful.

No one thought that landing a rocket vertically multiple times was impossible. People just thought that Elon couldn't do it. And indeed it took him a lot more resources to do it than NASA - the DC-X took 100 million dollars and 2 years, while SpaceX took 7 years and 500 million dollars to fly their first VTVL (Grasshopper, time from first receiving outside investment)

Vacuum trains of any appreciable use were never, ever built. And not only that, but there is no comparable Li-ion or automated flight computer to make them worthwhile. Those two examples are horrible analogies.

Elon Musk never took a technology that was never built before and made it work. He only ever took existing technologies and leveraged technological advances to make them more viable, which is a good thing. But he never made a technology work that never worked before. Ever. He simply doesn't have the resources to do the fundamental engineering necessary for that, nor the good judgement to know where to focus these high-risk low-reward efforts.
HP 12C. The best RPN calculator ever created. Mine is over 20 years old and still going strong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-12C
Implementing Oauth2 and OpenID Connect in your application
If you split your own firewood by hand, a Fiskars splitting axe is insanely better than any standard splitting maul you'd find in a typical hardware store: https://www.fiskars.com/en-us/gardening-and-yard-care/produc...

For mechanical pencils, the Rotring 600 is the best thing I've ever written with: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZWYUA4/
Probably the 4th generation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Shuffle#4th_generation)
Spatchcock and charcoal grill. Have never had a dry turkey this way. Much better than oven roasted and much harder to dry out.