skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> whether there's compelling use cases outside of that

Indeed, this is the billion dollar question. It's very clear there are compelling use cases but the really obvious ones are niche industrial uses, commercial applications etc. So the real question is compelling mass market use cases.

The two mass market ones that are apparent at the moment are fitness and virtual office spaces. Fitness is already well on the way, virtual office use is still tenuous and really needs hardware improvements to get off the ground. Those improvements look likely in the next generation of hardware so it's going to be an interesting 24 months to see whether it takes off or not.

The elephant in the room, as you point out, is that neither of these match Faceook's supposed aspiration to create a Metaverse. So I see Facebook/Meta's ultimate success here being dictated heavily by how fast they can get over that and target the real mass market use cases as their primary focus.
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/...
Do you only use lambdas for compute, or do they host servers now?
> creator of Tarsnap

I am much more a fan of their work on diffing
I don't get this logic, that's what .gitignore is for. I've been using .env files for years and never mistakenly checked one into a repo.
You could also use the Tor Browser...
I wonder how difficult it would be to port elisp to Common Lisp and then get GNU Emacs running hosted in SBCL or whatever. I really like the idea of my editor running in the image.
as far as I can recall, in the Arrival story ("the story of your life") the aliens eyes are a continous ring that has a 360 degree view.

I also recall that the aliens were impressed by humans standing in 'only' two legs. as their entire biology was radially symmetric.

this is why their perception is so unlike ours.
There's nothing like going to an office bathroom and seeing that all the stalls are full, or just slightly better that they are all full except for one that just seconds before has become vacant.
Jesus Christ. As someone who use to give out meds this is such an easy mistake to make that it's crazy that this is now criminal.
The old logo had a fun little animation when you hovered over it which took advantage of all the lines, seems they did away with it :(
Craig here from Crunchy the company he's referring to. Not sure what he has in mind, but having built a lot of Heroku Postgres in the early days I definitely have thoughts on what can make a database great. There is a big gap between most developers and what you need to know to efficiently run Postgres. Without tipping too much of our hand, we're focused deeply on building an amazing developer experience for Postgres. Some things we're thinking about are how we can actively detect N+1 queries (common in almost every ORM, Rails, Django, etc) and notify you about them. We already have some big differences like shipping with connection pooling built-in so you can easily scale to 10,000s of connections, really any production Postgres setup should be running with pgbouncer, where as on a lot of providers it's either not an option or you're left to your own devices.

Good enough may be absolutely fine for a lot of people, but no lock-in to a single cloud, better developer tooling, proactive alerts and recommendations, quality support all feel like an opportunity to be better.

Kurt may have entirely other things in mind, and would be all ears if there is low hanging fruit in terms of feature or experience we can do to make Postgres even better for folks.
$8-$50 is "baffling expensive"? I think if it protects a few grand in the bank, well worth it. If you don't have a few grand in the bank, I think maybe yeah any non-free 2FA solution becomes "expensive".
Too bad a signup is required...
I only realized it wasn't satire 20 seconds in. So much fanfare for such a mediocre product.
In modern dynamic languages, it usually easy to have an array of floats or ints, but an array of structs may not even really exist.

Also of course AoS has fixed fields, while SoA has dynamic fields.
An XML DOM with just 8 bytes per node
I accidentally changed the layout of the app and could not figure out how to undo it back to default haha. Panicked for a bit but thankfully found an answer online.

It is a great tool though (free too) and yeah been using it for years.
There's probably a prize for calling out traitors, so this doesn't work.
Netflix’s Big Wake-Up Call: The Power Clash Behind the Crash
At the time we would joke a bit that acquisitions would get some new very high priced domain. We even looked at getting the .app TLD for all Heroku apps to get their own .app domain. We ended up with our acquisition "gift" as Matz, which was great to see it support Ruby and the community given how Heroku couldn't have become Heroku without the Ruby and Rails community.
One of the annoying things about doing it manually is you have to come up with all those special identifier names for the shifts and masks.
Has anyone noticed the windows on these planes become very hot when dimmed? They don’t have regular blinds but instead include a gel which can be electrically dimmed. They aren’t hot enough to burn you but uncomfortable to touch.
You need some kind of engine sound, a bird chirping faster won't get pedestrians to realize that there's a car approaching. Unfortunately, we kinda associated whining with electric/futuristic cars - it's basically the coconut effect [0]. Additionally, you also need to be able to modulate the sound to the speed. Some manufacturers (like Porsche) get quite creative within those bounds, but it's going to be hard to create something really exotic given these constraints.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect
TL;DR: Ad for GlacierMD
I've always cringed when I saw Subaru's PZEV ("Partial Zero Emission Vehicle") badges. What the heck does this mean? Sure, the engine generates exhaust, but the bumper doesn't?
The ABI for a specific platform will define how bit fields are arranged in memory, or at least you can always rely on GCC to not change behaviour. They work perfectly well for data in memory, at work we use them all the time for storing tiny integers or flags.
Applecare+ can now be extended "indefinitely" (we don't know yet how long, but likely around ~7 years). Cost varies from $35-150/year depending on the device. So you can now have your apple hardware covered under warranty for longer than any other manufacturer, along with having longer software support than any other manufacturer.

Applecare+ also includes two "accidental damage" incidents per year. So you can throw your 7 year old Macbook out a window or into the ocean twice a year and Apple will repair it.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/applecare-coverage-for-...

I am not an Apple die-hard fanboy. I personally used many Android devices, a Dell XPS 15, and a custom built PC until last year (switched to an iPhone 13 and M1 Air). But Apple is providing longer software and hardware support than any other company right now, and I really don't understand how you can still complain.
It's always a bit cringe worthy when a person talks about how smart he is. But that doesn't make it wrong.

You seem to have read it as some kind of bragging, but I see no reason to interpret it that way.
The entire medical profession is insane and intentionally geared towards inefficiency and difficulty.

They pride themselves in it being so hard instead of realizing that this is glaring problem that needs to be solved instead of nurtured.

This begins from medschool being prohibitively hard, to a lack of global licensing process, to doctors being on duty for 36+hrs when you cant legally drive a truck without stopping after 8hrs.

Its all wrong at every level.
Huh, interesting, I hadn't realized. This link here was a very quick, straightforward description of the actual proportions: https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/drawing-a-flat-piano-keyboard-i...
COVID protocols and protestors, combined with the decay of the ongoing K-12 and college education system, Great Resignation, and general economic malaise of Millennials and Zoomers.
RDS runs pretty well! It's just irritating to use.

The good DBaaS give me a lot more power. This is true for Heroku PG, PlanetScale, Supabase, and Crunchy Data. Some of them let me fork a DB to run a PR against, some give me app level features that save me code, etc.

Most modern hosted DBs also let you run your own replicas.

I'm not really complaining about how well RDS works when your app is connected to it and it doesn't failover/go down for maintenance/etc. It works fine as a DB backend. That's just a baseline I don't think is very valuable anymore.
I complain about getting a lifetime pension after 20 years of service. A career is 22-65 or 43 years.
When I started at CurrentCompany, the dress code was described to me as "business casual." So after accepting the job offer, I emailed my contact in HR about what constituted "business casual." They gave vague instructions that basically said it was up to my boss. My boss didn't really care much except that we couldn't wear jeans or t-shirts, unless we were working in the datacenter.

Now we're midwest through and through. In the Before Times, the women tended to wear out of fashion clothing, while most of the men wore golf shirts and slacks. And if you wore something slightly out of the norm, people would sniff and tut-tut you.

Then COVID happened, and CurrentCompany went 100% remote. Then vaccines came out, cases dropped, and the whole RTO movement started up. And CurrentCompany realized that everyone was used to working in WhateverTheFuckWeWantToWear. And actually made a good decision. We could now wear jeans. Or shorts! OMG shorts! That was previously treated as if you were coming to work naked. And t-shirts were allowed. Sneakers/tennis shoes too! Anything to get people back in the office.

I'm 100% remote, but every now and then I need to pick up something, or PushLargeButtonInDataCenter, so I go visit those who are hybrid. And what do the majority wear? Jeans, golf shirts, out of fashion women's clothing, and very rarely, t-shirts.

It takes a long time to turn around a company that has been operating for a century.
Heat adaption is a real thing. I understand even if you start going to the sauna your body changes physologically.
That's not how nursing works.

And truckers are being abused in similar ways.
I think you are are either misinterpreting my stance or transferring an argument from your personally experience. Also, you may want to revisit the HN guidelines[1]

My position is not that they were always adequately staffed, but that in my experience increasing staffing did not fix the problems as expected because the problems were rooted in more systemic issues. As I've stated elsewhere staffing may be part of the solution but rarely a panacea. Also, my stance is that fixing the systemic issues will help them do less non-patient-centered work so they can focus more on being a healthcare provider, where they are the most valuable.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please follow the guidelines for commenting and assume good faith: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In particular, 2FA is not a standard but rather a collection of techniques, some of them standards. Yubikeys implement a good number of them. When someone asks a question like this one, I take it to mean "Bank with WebAuthn support", which is in fact a standard, and I'd also like to know if one exists that also lets you selectively disable other weaker factors.
Don Thompson gets after this from another angle in "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art". The particular thread I'm thinking of is the purchases of Charles Saatchi. It looks externally like there's a positive feedback loop where he collects you, which makes you famous, which makes your work valuable, which he can then sell. But ... if you look at the average value of work in Saatchi's collection, it asymptotically approaches $0. The man buys a lot of art. Warehouses full of stuff that hasn't been seen. Similarly, there are a lot of poor writers in New York. Is there a positive feedback loop? Try measuring it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0230620590
I have been seeing so much Elon hate lately. I keep thinking this guy's the (one of) reason for SpaceX maybe I'm blinded or something.
> In peer review, if a small clique of authors reviewed each-other's articles favorably, while ignoring, and being ignored, by the rest of their field, that would be ethically problematic.

The comparison to peer review is perfect, because exactly this happens across many areas of research.

Any area where the pool of potential reviewers is small enough that everyone (sort of) knows everyone else, the process tends to get corrupted by concerns over personal networks, careers, grant funding, etc. etc.

Much as prestigious book review cliques get corrupted by networks, careers, access to publishers, etc. etc.
Doesn't basically everyone consider or day dream leaving their medium level job pretty often? What options are there people to make nurse level money in a regular town?
You want young people using GOOP for medical care?
This is definitely worth looking at deeper. I don't have the answers just questions about what made Japan different. Did they keep printing money/borrowing when they entered the death spiral (debt/GDP ratio >120%)? Did they have massive welfare programs? Did they have other massive spending by the government (military or number of government employees for example)? Did they have really high taxes? What makes Japan's circumstances different than our own, or in the past Argentina, or Greece, or <insert any nation that has had over 120% debt/GDP ratio in recent times here>.

I also think saying 29 of those years they were wrong is not accurate. The inflation hasn't been there BECAUSE the Fed kept it from happening. They've simply been letting the water build up behind the damn (while all tat printed money went to major companies and industries as the IOU was written in the taxpayer's name), and we're now at a point where there's no more road to kick the can down. We're at the end of the road. The debt/GDP ratio has been over 130% since 2020. That by definition means we're in an economic death spiral. That doesn't mean it's not reversible as other nations have demonstrated. Our death spiral becomes irreversible by 2028 and the nation insolvent by 2040 unless something out of the norm happens, like a balanced budget amendment, austerity, reduced spending, an increase in the GDP, the forgiving of our debt by China, all of the above. I'm pretty sure that's where The Great Reset was supposed to come in. I'm also pretty sure the banks aka the Market Makers were well aware of this timeline as stocks started ramping up for the biggest bubble ever a year before the debt was scheduled to breach 120% (the timeline has been public record since at least 2014 which is when I first saw it on CSPAN during the 2015 budget review meeting).
Apple does already have a program for corporations (https://support.apple.com/self-servicing-account-program), though it requires at least 25 repairs per year.
Agreed. We have a small number of high value users so we’re actually running on the smallest non-free tier (mostly to avoid cold starts) with almost zero head aches. It’s like $15 a month.

The only frustration we’ve hit was mentioned in the article: static IP for integration with 3rd party services (VGS), but we used an add-on and I think we’re still in the free tier, or it’s a few dollars a month.

The cost? We were actually spending more on GCP due to ham fisted provisioning, plus a $150k dev ops guy. So ya, I’m pretty happy about the cost.
> There are a jillion reasons to do things that are chores.

> Do I want to clean my house? Yes. Is it still a chore?

> Do you seriously perceive any chores as not worth doing?

None of these are relevant as to whether 'chore' has negative connotations.

It clearly does to me and I'm baffled at the opposition. Do I want to clean my house? No of course not, and you don't either. If your house cleaned itself automatically would you still wish to do it? No, you do it because you need to, not because you want to.

Just about every dictionary definition mentions chores as at least possibly considered negative:

> a hard or unpleasant task: Solving the problem was quite a chore.

([1])

> A chore is a task that you must do but that you find unpleasant or boring.

> She sees exercise primarily as an unavoidable chore.

> Making pasta by hand with a rolling pin can be a real chore.

([2])

An entire article that wouldn't exist if chores were fun activities: [3].

> “Chore” can have a negative connotation and feel like a burden to a child.

[1]: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/chore

[2]: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/chore

[3]: https://www.nspt4kids.com/parenting/take-the-chore-out-of-do...
When a business personn asks me for a new feature I spend a couple hours discussing their requirements and customer needs. I make sure to ask the right questions and draw out corner cases they haven't thought of. The business person has a bit of training to put forwar their requirements correctly

A doctor might spend 5 minutes listening to your symptoms, you have no training on how to recall them correctly or bring up the right ones. Another 5 minutes might be spent discussing treatment. And you life might depend on this
I'm trying to switch from Heroku to Render but it is awfully slow compared to Heroku, my Rails project takes something like 1 minute to start after it has been shut down gratefully. Moreover, it breaks the CSS assets and uses the older assets instead of the latest ones. I do not why, it is a really small project and I have none of these issue on Heroku
I don't think Facebook or Instagram is a monopoly in any sense of the word. Lots of people happily don't use either and there's a boatload of competing social media platforms.

If your goal is to thwart software monopolies (a pretty low impact use of FTC time imo) Google search or Visa & Mastercard (duopoly) should be a much higher priority.

The social externalities piece gets into philosophical territory. We "protect" people from cigarettes by taxing them heavily. Yet lots of people still choose to use them. Some would argue we should do the same for social media, others would argue that individuals should be free to decide for themselves. Still others would argue that comparing the health impact of cigarettes to that of social media is ridiculous.

IMO disincentivizing carbon emissions is a much more clear-cut externality to fight against!
France and Germany urged to rethink reluctance to gather ethnicity data
> What makes you think government is that much worse than the private sector in this regard?

Sure a lot of people coast in the private sector, hiding in the corners of their organizations. But if the business allows too much of that to happen, they go bust. In government, they just go get a tax increase.
well its bullshit, there are some shitty ones but also some really good ones.

besides a smart meter is only required for certain people. only a digital meter will be required for most people.
a digital meter will be smart if it gets a communication unit, however most digital meters lack these.
(you need the com unit if you have more than 6kW/year, produce more than 7kW to the grid or if you have a wallbox/heat pump/etc)

however some power providers will force a smart grid (digital meter + com unit) on you and you can't deny it (you can't deny digital meters aswell)
however they are not as smart as they could be and most of the time you need to send your total kW amount to the provider anyway...

(btw. your power provider and the grid provider are not always the same so it might be that you send the amount to the grid provider or you have a smart meter and the grid provider forwards it to the power provider and the grid is basically a municipal one so it might happen that each county/city might have a different one (my parents live 30km afar and have the same power provider, but we have a differet grid provider))
(smart meter usage or not is bound by the grid provider so you can't just switch it, since you would need to relocate...)
It sounds a lot like music pre-2000s, perhaps a little less sophisticated/optimized due to a longer feedback loop.
That's not what the "Secure Enclave" is or how it functions

Is the point of your comment to throw FUD at... what, exactly?
I tried the other great English filler text:

"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country."

It translated it to:

"Each mom's time."
Hedgefunds don't get to perpetrate $Billion Medicare fraud and then get elected to the Governor and Senate. (HCA / Rick Scott).
95% of the people: Apple makes great products that doesn’t become useless in 2 years.

5%: I need to be able to upgrade ram on it
My experience with regular windows on airplanes is that the shutters can get quite hot as well. The energy they absorb from the sun has to go somewhere — and it gets radiated away as heat.
Also speakers, PAs, etc. and really nice saxophones.
I like how the notifications with buttons actually respond to clicks
The tools are available for purchase as well.
My impression is that many conservatives simply don't value the basics of critical thinking and cross-checking information. They've learned to trust their "gut" and/or prayer above doing the legwork needed for finding or checking info. They've been convinced they either have special powers or have a direct "network connection" to the Big Guy's Fact Channel In The Sky.
> This is great,

Thanks! (It's my little project.)

> I've often wondered why so little focus is spent on tools like this. Feels like low hanging fruit given the great usability improvements they can bring.

100% agree. Definitely a QoL tool for the ZFS lover. The zsh key bindings open up uses I never really even dreamed up, because it's just so quick to get to a usable interface.

Definitely also a very UNIX-y tool too. Recently I started fiddling with piping to git repos and tar archives and it's very cool -- see: https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm#example-usage

> Wondering if btrfs will get some love too.

btrfs makes this exact thing harder, but, cross fingers, the btrfs devs are listening, because I think btrfs folks would love a ".btrfs" directory like the ".zfs" directory.
And I agree with that. What I don't agree with is why this is happening. And even if we look past this particular instance, should we not also be dissolving The Villages and whatever other special districts exist? Why just this one that opposes the Governor?
Thanks for clarifying! Really cool and weird!
And then they go to jail if the computer glitches or police kill someone in their presence.
I haven’t used it but I think sr.ht might match your needs.
This reads to me like Alice just isn't doing her job properly. If this results in specs that are really hard to fulfill, hopefully the process is accountable enough to trace it back to her.
Don't leave us hanging
Brought down the repo at an airline when I included an emoji in a commit message.
> when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself

Even histories of Lisp often don't emphasize this: Lisp was not, originally, invented as a programming language. It was a notation for describing the mathematics of computation. A variant of lambda calculus that could describe itself compactly.

The fact that eval could actually be implemented, was an accidental discovery. To quote McCarthy:

> Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval ... and I said to him, ho, ho, you're confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for reading, not for computing. But he went ahead and did it. That is, he compiled the eval in my paper into IBM 704 machine code, fixing bugs, and then advertised this as a Lisp interpreter, which it certainly was.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050405213907/http://www8.infor...
Could this awesome work be used to getting X11 running in the browser?