skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should probably start off with: yeah, I don't like the Wirecutter drill article or find it useful. They eventually call out their intended target audience:

For most household tasks, a 12-volt drill is more than adequate. It’s the smallest
class of drill, and due to advances in battery and motor technology, such models
have become formidable with regards to power. … If you’re a rabid DIYer with plans
to build a deck, a doghouse, and a tree house, we recommend a stronger, 18- or 20-
volt drill.

They're not reviewing higher end pro tools because that's not their audience. Were pros ever looking at WC for reviews? I know that for tools I'd be looking at more specialized folks like Project Farm or Torque Test Channel.

WC did cover the popular "pro" brands available in America (Milwaukee, DeWalt, Ridgid). Potentially they should've included Makita but Festool and Hilti are way beyond the price point of the home gamer target audience. Hilti especially goes after the fleet market, so even if you're a pro they're not necessarily going to be your goto brand unless you're at a larger company. Anecdotally Milwaukee kit seems to be very popular amongst tradesmen out here. But like with circular saws there's probably some regional variation.

I think WC did miss some important stuff for home gamers and they definitely got it wrong with the Bosch drill. It's small. It's tiny. It's about as long as the DeWalt and about an inch and a half shorter in height. You don't buy it for the power you buy it for the size. If you need to stand it up on the battery, get a bigger one with a foot.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-drill-fo...
With all due respect, you answered the question about what the goal of lying is with "it depends" and then didn't actually answer how the lying is anything other than a bad thing that causes more problems? Which was my point.

So it's not pedantic to say we should discuss real numbers. In fact, it would work better since we could all at least know we're being honest with each other, something lacking currently.

When you start off every conversation with a blatant lie and then call out "PEDANTRY" when called out on it. that will never lead to civil discourse or positive solutions. So why do it?
Starlink doesn’t work for anything else than very sparsely populated areas. Population density in most of Europe is beyond of what they can support.
Terminals cost SpaceX $1500, breakeven is under a year considering the upfront cost to the user. Profitability will be determined by how many turns a Falcon 9 can make during its service life and if Starship can replace it fast enough (further driving down cost per kg to orbit). Everything else is mostly a fixed cost (ops, perpetual depreciation to account for satellite replacement on a cadence, etc).
I've never accidentally committed a secret into any repository. When I create a file that holds secrets, first thing it either gets encrypted or goes into gitignore.

What exactly is the path that leads to committing secrets, apart from utter incompetence or disregard? Do people not review what they're committing at all?
That cartoon that Musk made famous is from Colin Wright, a blogger who considered himself a leftist until gender politics reared itself. Yet Musk and Wright both seemed to forget about the Tea Party revolution and how it morphed into the birther & then Trump 'movements'. His blog's title is 'Reality's Last Stand' - a title of bracing shamelessness considering its political roots. He's quite a fit for Musk, surely.
You should use values like rem, em and ch as they're related to font sizes. If your root font size is 16px then 1rem equals 16 px, you can set the line height to 1.5rem etc. With ch you can limit how many characters an element should fit.
I expect you'd want accurate tagging for this to work well (less of a problem these days I guess). My prime reason for sticking with foobar is the option for tree-view playlists and auto-generating playlists from compressed archives.
Windows 7 is still supported by Mozilla:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/100.0.2/system-require...

Firefox works better on some platforms and hardware, Chromium works better on others. It is what it is and blaming users won't fix their problems.
insert Steve Jobs reference works "all the time" to convince readers about these phoney corporate laced narratives.
Success depends on a combination of hard work, circumstances, choices and random probabilities. Perceptible success, on the other hand, is completely different ("fake it till you make it" syndrome). As for the fancy "ivy leagues" - those professors are mandated to make it sound good to address the marketable skills. I am sure there are many others who don't get featured here (or get the PR they want).
I just recently saw the release of RV service and am interested but I don't want to play $1000 and be on a 12 month wait list. Anyone know what the current wait time is after ordering service?
Who Uses IBM POWER9?
A repost of a question I posted a little over two years ago. I'm wondering who actually buys IBM POWER9 systems - and does IBM actually net money off POWER9?
How many apps have you written that should work offline? Because in my career it might have been less than 5% of projects. It's fine to optimize for the remaining 95%. My client's CRUD app doesn't need an offline mode. It would be nice, sure, for that one time the boss is using the app on a plane, but it's towards the bottom of the priority list.

95% of projects, I'd pick productivity over working offline, especially these days when being truly offline is more and more rare.

And lastly, even in JS, offline support is a pain in the arse, not a given. You have to design your entire app around it, it's not something you can add 2 days before shipping.
Thank you! Awesome that you want to try it, this app is just a small part of a bigger app that I am developing, a mix between Twitch and Zoom, but for musicians and other performing arts. I hope to launch it soon here in HN, will let you know, i feel you might be interested! Best of lucks for ya!
I did see a full copy of the SQLite amalgamation file in the FDB codebase, but you're probably right that they might be using internal APIs.

I'm still skeptical of the "tremendous performance penalty" you'd suffer from using SQLite. Just because you do fewer things doesn't necessarily mean you're faster at doing them. I've hit ~120,000 inserts/sec on SQLite without weakening any of it's durability guarantees. If you play fast and loose with fsync and WAL, I'm sure you can squeeze out even more performance.

I can also think of use-cases where you don't want the write amplification that comes with RocksDB or the memory constraints of LMDB.
So, counterculture can no longer be found where we might have found it historically. That seems like the kind of thing counterculture would do.
At what abstraction level is the "data sharding" being done at?
e.g. firmware of hard disk, file system/memory abstractsion, OS handling file/memor abstractions, application making it's own file/memory abstractions on top of OS, appliation using portable/hardware neutral data format with application going through OS for read/writes.

"Why is it ...." -> File systems/memory systems are "coorinate spaces", usually accessed through OS abstractions and not directly handled by an application.
Exceptions: database systems

Creating a coordinate space for storage/saving at application level is equivalent to implimenting a memory allocation scheme (aka function of OS, not an application)

Per scatternet link example, the "memory/storage area" for a given shard, may or maynot reside on same local machine. Application requesting "memory/storage" would not know where the "memory/storage" resides aka locally or remotely.

"What am I..." -> In the context of this discussion, similar to distributed database system

"Excerpt - ...." -> Sounds like a trie data structure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie )
Only for L4 load balancers. L3 (switches doing ECMP) won’t modify source IP and L7 (e.g. nginx) will reuse TCP connections to the backend servers.
Delivering time sensitive goods from many locations to many other locations is not an easy business model. Especially when you do not control the provider of the sensitive goods or the delivery provider.

Logistics is a tough business so I’m bearish on Uber eats.
Midwest. 0 walking here.
Outside programming I’ve never met someone self taught saying they are engineers. Has anyone met one?
I’m convinced that this is one of the greatest songs written to date. Very simple but at the same time deep, and I haven't yet met a person who didn’t like it.

As an aside I read that fela kuti was an influence to eno at the time and I think that can be heard in the repetitive nature of the song, especially in the guitar lines.
Could you elaborate / share resources on "downfall of the Java sandbox as a security boundary"? Sounds interesting.
Good to know it, but this is not enough. Browsers should not provide access to local fonts by default because it allows to identify an OS. Therefore, the only sane solution seems to bundle necessary fonts with a browser.

Of course, browser should use its own font rendering library instead of using a system one.

Of course, for browsers that target a single platform (like Safari which is available only on MacOs) this is not an issue, but Chrome or Firefox might be used on many platforms, like Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Plan 9, Chrome OS and so on.
That's because the Vice article talks about the WSJ article. Often, HN moderators will point to the original source, particularly when the following article tends to be click-baity.
Seems like there is a lot of higher margin opportunity than residential available in business/gov.

I see they have a business at 500/mo. Wonder what the breakdown is.

Judging from their land coverage they are still a bit off doing container/oil/bulk/cruise/yatchs. With better coverage it seems like yachts/boating could run pretty high margin given the current options.

It will be interesting to see the induced demand starlink has. With remote work it makes stuff like rural housing and long term cruising a viable living option for a lot more people.

The way pricing is going on solar/batteries off grid is becoming pretty reasonable if you are willing to not mcmansion.
People aren't getting paid more because everything else is more expensive.

People are getting paid more because there's a glut of jobs / shortage of workers.

To achieve its policy goals at containing inflation and avoiding a wage-price spiral the Fed needs to break the back of the wage market, which means it needs to destroy jobs.
> My recommendation is not to implement any design that can’t handle the difference

I'm not going to tell my employer I'm not implementing the design, when I can solve the problem, though in an ugly way.

> if you’re using a webfont and measure before it loads

That's not a problem. You can check if the font has loaded.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5680013/how-to-be-notifi...
Do you really take your RV to places without cell service enough to justify the cost? I see so many RV folks jumping on this but I don't see how you could justify it unless you spend the majority of the year in the middle of nowhere.
I don't understand what you are looking for. Care to explain?
Well then! problem solved. :)
Looks like they've tightened up the security quite a bit.
Surely you don't think that a company that has a contract to service the ISS also would likely have a number of high-value government contracts around the globe, and certainly inclusive (or even exclusive to the DoD/USD...

Imagine all the surveillance the NSA can harvest simply from the use of all the starlinks given to Ukraine...

We talked about the likelihood of cyber-attacks rising with the Ukraine conflict, and a part of cyberwarfare is going to be a portion of surveillance...

Starlink creates a global network for providing service to anywhere on the planet.

So if you have a device that uses starlink, there is not a single place on the globe where you cannot be tracked actively via starlink.

I think its insane that we don't have open convos about this here on HN with a critical eye.

And this is why they didnt name it SkyNet :-)
First off - I can’t find pricing on half the $1k enterprise software shit and spacex has rocket launcher prices on their website without a “email to ask” button?

Second, that’s the customer price - I suspect SpaceX has a lower cost especially if they’re reusing stages.
Only on a mac, unfortunately
But the person with the most "beginner's mind".
> "fibre to the home is unavailable and the best connections available are DSL. Starlink would be an enormous upgrade"

5G is also an enormous upgrade from DSL, and better suited for dense urban areas. Here in the UK it's at least 4X faster than Starlink and 1/4 the cost. I haven't had any fixed-line internet connection at all in the past 2 years since cheap 5G became available.

Starlink is great for rural areas, which often have poor DSL and neither fibre nor good mobile coverage.
The FEAST code has a few things to note, as the actual discount doesn't come out to 50% off. Which is fine, just have the right expectations before using it.

- It's for delivery only

- Discount applies only to the food

- The service, delivery, "temporary local fee", and "temporary fuel surcharge" stay the same

To test this, I put together a $67 order of Thai food, which had $17.88 of fees added onto it, coming out to $84.88. With the coupon, it's $51.38. If I was to order it directly from the restaurant (so I'm only paying tax), it's $74.79.

So it's not horrible, $84.88 (no coupon) to $51.38 (with coupon) is a 39% discount. And 31% off compared to ordering directly from the restaurant.
> I'm not sure I understand what's desired.

A suggestion on low cost development/target platform(hardware and software) so that the cost of developing and distributing educational XR apps is lower.

> I read XR as a shorthand for VR/AR with the X being a V or A. I don't know of a third kind eXtended Reality.

XR stands for eXtended Reality, and includes VR, AR and MR.

VR is Virtual Reality. It is completely disjoint from real world.

AR is Augmented Reality. This is where virtual objects are put into real world.

MR is Mixed Reality. In this, real world objects are put into virtual world.
The cost is to never have to think about it again.

That can be worth more than the service itself.
Starlink launches are costing nowhere near that.

First, you're ignoring reuse. They may not discount external customers for this (or they might, I honestly don't know but $67m doesn't reflect that regardless) but they are of course getting that cost reduction themselves.

Second, SpaceX is creating demand for reusable first stages and proving their reliability through Starlink so it can afford to be a loss leader.

Third, a big cost in satellite launches in insurance costs. Launches can fail so insurance costs are really high. That's not really an issue for SpaceX because the Starlink satellites are cheap and replaceable. There's really no need to insure them at all. If a launch fails, that's fine. Just launch another one. it's cheaper than paying the insurance premiums.
> and if we all trusted each other, then none of this is necessary?

I mean, maybe, but that's never going to happen so it really doesn't matter
Don't conflate scale complexity with business complexity
$200 million seems high. That is the price for a brand new ride, no? According to this [0] 3 of the last 4 launches were refurbished first stage cores so the actual price is much, much lower than the sticker price.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_launches
Installing and Using the Seed7 Programming Language in Ubuntu
Fiber should be the solution there, then 5G, not Starlink.
Have you read the minutes of the FOMC? Because I did and it made me a little pessimistic.

"We can't allow a wage price spiral to happen."

So if you have counter arguments, it would really brighten my day and allow me to see the future a little less dark. Thanks.
It sounds crazy, but I think edge computing in space is really going to be a killer advantage.
This is a bit of a tangent to my original point but picking up a different game because D&D doesn't do the setting you want isn't the counterculture I was talking about.

As an example, say your group decides they want to play a group of super-soldiers roaming around WW2 Europe killing ever bigger and badder Nazis while gaining more abilities and better equipment. You then pick up GURPS or D20 Modern or whatever. That's not counterculture, it's the same experience but reskinned and with different mechanics.

What I'd consider counterculture to be is something like Night Witches, which is still set in WW2 but is a very different play experience and tells a very different kind of story.

(It may be that I am missing your point and that we are actually somewhat in agreement.)
It exists elsewhere and with qualifications it can be correct. My sub-floorboards are inch+ thick solid oak. You’d never see that today.

But many other aspects of the house are annoying and silly.
Retail price of a Falcon 9 launch on a newly built booster is $67m. I doubt that it costs them $40m for one Starlink launch when they are now reusing those boosters 12 times each with 21 days turnaround. Also there are a lot of benefits to SpaceX of being their own customer. The increased launch cadence makes everything more routine and reliable, benefiting their other customers. But the most important thing is that they can try things that third party customers may not want to risk, like pushing reuse to the max, or being the first customer for Starship.

F9 numbers are moot, really, because the previous launches are
a sunk cost and won't be an ongoing expense. The ongoing expense will shift to Starship launches to launch and maintain V2 of the constellation, and costs per pound will drop dramatically if things go as planned, though the constellation will also be a lot larger.
The RV service ships immediately if you order it but is lower in traffic priority for speeds when you use it in a fully populated sold out cell.
At some point I started referring to code as expensive/inexpensive instead of good/bad, the metric being "how much money did it cost to first implement and then maintain this feature?". It makes business people pay attention.

I've found that it takes roughly the same time to write expensive and inexpensive code - additional expenses in the former case pile up later on in the form of time spent debugging and/or infrastructure working way too hard for the desired effect.

Unfortunately it takes knowledge and experience to write inexpensive code and it's not rewarded proportionally, so while you might cut expenses with your code by e.g. four, you're likely to be paid at most twice that of a regular developer, provided you get recognition.

Conversely, you can write expensive code and have an average salary - many people go this route, because pretty often it's hard to assign blame should something become expensive a few months later.
Not even close, brave is second to only librewolf which breaks a lot of sites.

Safari/WebKit is modern IE at this point

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/23/opinion_column/
Quite a while (see my other post).
they have already addressed throughput in v2 satellites. the only route to failure is if starship cant reach orbit and return.
Yes, supply side restrictions should be reduced.

However, artificial demand must be dealt with as well, or we overbuild resulting in a bunch of empty homes. Another disadvantage to only dealing with the supply side is the prices of building materials will be unnecessarily high due to additional artificial demand from investors building homes as stores of value.

Finally, supply side only solution creates a potential nonlinear event where investors dump once the homes start to depreciate. A seesawing which the Fed has bolstered with artificially low rates across many asset classes. Not necessarily a bad thing altogether for the housing asset class, but it seems inefficient from a resource standpoint.
"And that's in the middle of the developed world."

In this case 'developed' means 'having legacy infrastructure'.
Thank you, ree-san. Enjoy!

New book about the 80s coming very soon.
Advertising cooperative phenotype in costly signal facilitates collective action
Breaks a lot of sites and disables a lot of things for no reason.

Its only for very advanced users.
That's the right solution. But it won't work for other browsers because unlike Safari, Chrome of Firefox might be used on tens of different OSes and there is no need for marketing companies to know what OS are you using.
It just grew, is all. Pinterest the search results page application and spam receptacle, and Pinterest the personal collection tool don’t have a ton in common. It’s still a very nice experience on iPad and you can use it without being affected by the bad things it does and that are done on its platform.
One I found funny was, the Georgian archeological expedition discovered ancient wires in the ground and concluded that the Ancient Georgia already had telephone. To which the Armenian radio responded by saying that the Armenians also have done such research and that the conclusion was that the Ancient Armenia had wireless.
5G can be deployed on the same spectrum as LTE, including the low frequency bands that support long range. For those deployments you do get faster speeds compared to LTE but not significantly (I've read it's about 25% faster for the same spectrum). All 3 major cellular providers in the US have 5G deployed on their low-band spectrum (T-Mobile on band 71 (600 MHz) and AT&T and Verizon on band 5 (800 MHz)).
Yep. Have bought some used servers off eBay that have look to be decommissioned Google servers.
> Everything else is mostly a fixed cost

I disagree. They have all the normal variable ISP cost structures, too. They need to scale uplinks and the size of the constellation linearly with the number of subscribers they allow in an area, etc.

IMO, what it will really come down to is how big the market is. Terrestrial infrastructure, including fixed wireless, should win most places-- it's a question of where the mobility benefits and/or population density make it viable, and how distributed these places are over the globe.
Steps to get to 250 stars on GitHub
Does the government realize how most electricity is presently produced in the US? They are trying to ram electrification down our throats. How well did that go with Covid vaccines?
There are small ISPs doing roof to roof singlemode fiber in very densely populated parts of Dhaka, Bangladesh that probably beat this guy's German copper dsl speeds by 50x.
And there was much rejoicing throughout the land.
To follow on this sentiment at a slight tangent, I am happy for the enthusiastic attempts from all quarters but folks seem to misunderstand that incremental progress in academia is often due to the problems being very hard. Formal verification in the presence of weak memory models is an ongoing problem that only recently has seemed tractable thanks to the hard work of the folks at MPI etc over more than a decade of publications and iterating on logics like Iris
Last time I checked, Loqseq didn't support free-form text / Markdown as it's an outliner (only). Now I recently heard[0] that there's a "temporary free-form text mode" now(?) – I have yet to check it out but going by what people have been saying on the internet until a few days ago[1,2,3] this doesn't seem to be solving the problem or otherwise people would have stopped complaining.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31308517

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/logseq/comments/uo45oa/moving_back_...

[2]: https://discuss.logseq.com/t/allow-non-outline-freeform-text...

[3]: https://discuss.logseq.com/t/longform-writing-in-logseq/3527...
That's not how I see it. I see it as not trusting that the default is good looking so we'll list a bunch of good-looking fonts with the hope that we get a hit and the browser doesn't use an ugly default.