skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should probably not automate all toil. You should only automate toil when the toil cost/effect is more burdensome than the cost of automating it. All automation has a cost, and may or may not create value. Automation should have a positive and timely return on investment. If the ROI is 10 years down the road, you probably shouldn't automate it (yet). If there is a cheaper way to deal with the toil, explore that avenue first.

Several times in my career I worked on projects to reduce toil. Sometimes the project would fail because the time it took to work on them went well past the cost saving estimation. Sometimes they would be completed, but the value created was far less than their cost. And sometimes automation wasn't even the solution, and we just needed to change our process or system, or do some other manual thing that reduced the toil cost. Sometimes we chose to automate toil because we were afraid to take on a larger project we knew would make the toil unnecessary, so we paid for the automation and then later for rebuilding everything. Or toil was used as an excuse to justify a project that didn't really have to do with toil.

One of my biggest mistakes as an engineer was assumptions I made about my work that ended up creating more waste than value. Talk to an outsider about your plans and why you're doing it, take their advice seriously. And if your automation is optional, make sure you have buy-in before you start working on it; i've sunk months on things that nobody ended up using.

A great way to automate toil is incrementally. Typically you have a runbook with step-by-step instructions, and over time you automate one step, then another, etc. The investment is minimal and gradual, it can change over time, and you can target the costliest parts of the toil, optimizing value.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652291
I hope this is a joke and not an example of anger management issues.
It is certainly possible. But there are a few important thoughts here.

1. That people have been wildly wrong about various technologies before is not evidence that a given specific technology will succeed.

2. Many critics don't doubt the technical capabilities but instead worry about the social harm of systems developed using cryptocurrencies.
So it’s like paper certificates for gold!
But why have terms in the first place, if they're that up in the air? The nicest thing I could say for a recall effort is that voters who were too apathetic to vote for another candidate now feel motivated to engage in the process, but as it's an extra vote it incurs costs which the normal cadence of elections doesn't.
I don't know, and it terrifies me. I don't have a good answer to this. This is why TFA resonates with me.

I think we need some sort of unified online identity that is relatively easy to recover in case of accidents but very hard for hackers to crack/steal, and also that this identity cannot depend on the whims of Google, Facebook, Microsoft or any corporate provider with arbitrary and opaque appeals procedures.

I don't know what a truly achievable and satisfying answer would be like. I've lost some sleep over this :(

And don't get me started on backups of irreplaceable digital things like photos of your loved ones. I've really lost sleep over this. I do have some backups, but it's a chore and none are foolproof.
It looks like they did at the time : https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-29-european-standardization...

I think standardization does not harm innovation. With more actors working on the same standard, it can evolve and get better while consumers are able to reuse hardware (here, phone chargers)
We get hail, but it has never been bigger than about 1/8 inch. Our climate just doesn’t have the right conditions to form lightning. Hail, sleet, snow, rain all still work properly.
There was a technical issue with the how it sounded but, yes the underlining point was you need some kind of pay as you go model or something. if you can't offer a free tier.

Don't get me wrong it's pretty cool tech if you trained your own model.

I'm also having a hard time coming up a use case. Outside of spam and games I'm having a hard time coming up with generative AI is useful at all anyway.
It doesn't even take a lightning strike to get into this type of situation. September rolls around and everyone gets a new iPhone. Many forget to migrate their password manager over before sending their old phone back. Unlike the author who clearly thinks a lot about disaster scenarios and redundancy and recovery, more casual users do not. Some get lucky and are logged in to their password manager on their desktop. Some not so much and are even locked out of their AppleID credentials. Even if you remembered to migrate your password manager, you might not have remembered to bring your MFA code app.

This is the entire impetus behind Uno's productized Shamirs Secret Sharing recovery scheme: https://www.uno.app/blog/replacing-passwords-with-people. Our bet is that, like the author questions in the OP, for most people with a trusted network of friends and family, the main threat vector is not hackers and nation states trying to take over their digital lives, but rather nature, age, and accidents, etc. And that social redundancy is an acceptable risk in order to mitigate the tendency we have to want to be our own single point of failure.
It took decades for ASML to successfully develop EUV lithography. It was widely thought to be impractical prior to that. No one else was willing to even try.
With inflation at the rate it's at, I can't help but laugh at "crypto is so volatile!" That argument made sense in the endless bull markets - but these days? What's not volatile? I-Bonds?

The idea that the US Dollar is the eternal pinnacle of stability always seemed naive in principle, but now its clearly naive in practice.
> Slower to load compared to cartridges

Access time. You loaded from the cassette, but once loaded you didn't need it. CD-ROM games (like LE) needs to access the disk for everything and with an already minuscule RAM you can't cache anything.

I played LE on the PC (and with 2x drive and SMARTDRV) and I don't remember such big lags, though it was 25 years ago so of course my memory could deceive me.

Of course if you can find some balance not using the CD all the time then of course it could greatly enchance the experience.

Syummary: yeah, they could be used, but access time was another small, but a nail in the coffin, at least IMO.
I think the complaint is this isn't a new or unique solution, but it already exists through other companies like GoodRx.

Just out of curiosity, I looked at some of the costs for the most prescribed meds. All seemed to within the same price range. Personally, I liked the GoodRx UI better.

Not that what Cuban is doing is "bad" but I don't know that it needs to be characterized as some radical new alternative. That seems more like marketing hype to me but it does a good job of raising awareness.
Can confirm Artifactory is a PITA.

Used to use Rietveld and now using Gerrit. You have to buy in to that code review methodology and you lose a lot of the other things (issue tracking, CI), but those can be handled elsewhere by better/more-specific tools.
It'd be more relevant if the owl or Tick memes actually showed you a process to derive a picture of an owl, or The Tick, like this book does with many of the animals it illustrates. But you just knew someone was going to have to drop this meme on this thread.
This happened to me ~2 times I think due to exhaustion and/or stress. Just had to sleep to remember.
Gonna have to ask you to show your work here: who specifically made an LHC prediction and is now asking for as bigger LHC?
The demo and copy are great. Not everyone will agree it is "better" because that's subjective but your website does a good job of telling people it is better and the demo is good enough that some people will accept what they see/read/hear. :clap:

Your heading makes it seem like you want the direct comparison to AWS polly so maybe add a table to directly compare different aspects of your product vs aws that make it better. Sound quality is just one attribute to compare. What about SDKs, limits, code samples, use cases, more nitty gritty sound comparison details, etc.

Pricing should also be more transparent if you want to compare aws to yours - what maths did you do to get 8x cheaper because at first glance that is misleading.
Does xkcd apply here? It's not like there haven't been huge advances covering most, if not all of the aspects that are holding bitcoin back today.

> Bitcoin is scaling rapidly with higher layer development. ...

> Don't fall into the trying to build a new TCP/IP because alternative protocols are somewhat better.

Scaling Bitcoin with higher layers is like tunneling IPv6 over IPv4 even if you could just deploy IPv6 directly.

There's the huge waste environmental problem. And even Bitcoins consensus safety (51%) is bested by more recent advances in algorithms. Why hold on?
I think I'm lucky then. My 'traditional' bank is paperless, has a good app and website, and I can do everything over the phone with relative ease if I need to. It's all a bit clunkier than one of the app-native banks (which is why I half-switched to the app bank) but that's the software snob in me more than missing functionality.
Credit cards are pretty meh for people that accept them. A % of your money disappears. The customer can say, for 60 days, "nah I didn't want that" and the money is taken away from you, no questions asked.

There was this big push in retail a few years ago to get customers to stop using credit cards. I knew it was going to fail, but merchants are looking for alternatives here.
In 1969, Neil Armstrong landed on Moon?
My employer has been fully remote with half-day Fridays for 2 years. In practice, those half-days are worth maybe 20% of a regular work day, not 50%. I feel like we've already proven a 4-day work week can be effective and the only thing holding us back is an adherence to convention and expectations (by managers, execs and investors).
Alright. I agree, that's certainly a very valid point.

So would you have cancelled the moon landing program? In 2020 dollars that program cost over $257B (over $400B if you count related programs and costs)[1], and that goal--landing humans on the moon--has demonstrated very little utility.

[1]: https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo
Holy cow. That's outrageously good. The female voices are way better than Unreal/AWS
The fab is still here. Ownership can change in the worst case. It would be nice to have a leading EU-owned chip maker, but we just don't have that yet. For the short term and the worst of cases, just having the thing matters a lot more than the profits staying here.
Where I live everyone uses lightning bugs and fireflies interchangeably. Real arguments occur in the realm of duck duck grey duck VS duck duck goose.
The USSR and United States had zero trade and never went to war. And since the fall of the USSR the number of conflicts has not gone down. Ukraine and Russia were very interconnected, but that did not prevent the invasion.
Nintendo always does something that's JUST slightly off with their consoles that make them annoying as hell to use.

With the switch it's the screwed up USB-C implementation and the fact that you can't use bluetooth headphones (it has BT support, but only for the controllers)

With the DS, the wifi only supported WEP, not WPA, even though WPA2 had been released by the time the DS came out

The Wii famously didn't support HD output.
only if the site started a session
> I'm saying your argument is flawed. Imagine I told you "the sky is blue, my cat told me so". Well sure, the sky is in fact blue, but that doesn't make my cat a good source of information.

I think we just have a different approach to communication. If you told me "the sky is blue, my cat told me so", I would probably just verify the color of the sky and completely disregard the 2nd portion.

And no, that doesn't make your response flawed, because it mentioned a cat. It just makes it padded with irrelevant information. Part of comprehension is filtering irrelevant stuff like that from text in order to arrive at distilled facts that can be checked or verified through an experiment.

Same way that my mentioning John Oliver doesn't really impact the weight of my arguments, since the facts within accurately reflect reality. It was just an irrelevant padding for context, not something that was supposed to give extra weight to my arguments.

Does that make sense?
There's a certain kind of "top talent" who like to explain why organizations suffer when people of their brilliance are not catered to. When they have to fix things, or maintain things. When they can't always be working on precisely what they want to be working on at every point in time, where they have to serve an actual purpose beyond "ooh, shiny!"
Elon Musk is dead wrong about working from home
> I wonder if in 40 years someone will read your comment and wonder how clueless some were in this era.

That reminds me of a line from a track by Apollo 440:

"Mick Jagger came up to me and I said 'I've seen the future' and he goes 'Yeah, if there is one...'".
I literally had no idea a swarm of fireflies is called a lightning storm. I also didn’t know they are called lightning bugs. TIL
You'll probably do better once you can retain people who reject employer surveillance.
A very large number of organizations won't accept checks from random people precisely because of this problem.
I agree that it's better than nothing. Sooner or later deepfakes will be pretty much perfect and detection will be more or less impossible.
Back in the 1980's I co-wrote a computer algebra system, that ran for example on many colleagues' first computer: The first Macintosh. Resources were scarce, everything mattered.

Malloc attempts to work acceptably well under diverse scenarios. Specific programs such as ours can adopt simpler memory disciplines, supported by an interface with malloc.

Almost all of our memory needs could be served by pools of fixed-size slugs of memory. Each pool experienced considerable churn and reuse, but the total memory needed by each pool was unimodal, growing to a peak then subsiding until the pool was no longer needed. We chose a universal fixed-size block to be served by malloc. We kept these blocks on a master stack, to assign to pools as needed. We kept the slugs in each pool on stacks, to reuse as needed. Closing a pool returned its blocks to the master stack.

There's nothing novel here; this is about as dumb a protocol as one can imagine, and correspondingly faster than anything else we tried.

I still believe the lesson today: One's core algorithms need to be crafted to cooperate with the fastest memory protocols. The doctor can't do everything without the patient's cooperation.

For example, I believe that the approach taken by Rust will ascend as we better learn how to work with it.
"The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote. .. Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals." - Albert Michelson, 1894

What makes that quote especially remarkable, and ironic, is that was the same Michelson of the famous Michelson - Morley experiment which [1] was an extremely important clue on the path to discovery that would lead rapidly to relativity, and then general explosion of discovery in physics to follow. Not only could he not even imagine the relevance of his very own 'discovery', but largely doubted his own results as the experiment was not intended to 'fail'!

The point I make is that so much of major advances in science have come about not through directed efforts but through some sort of serendipity. And it seems to me that observing what happens with ever higher energy collisions is one area where what may be important is not what is expected, but what is unexpected. It's also an area where there is no direct profit motive as contrasted with things like energy or what I assume you are implying with biology. Those fields will naturally advance because there's money to be made. Atom banging is generally not quite as lucrative an industry and, as such, various sorts of public funding tends to be much more important.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...
Agreed. Smartphone or payment terminal like a cash register. ATM's could do validation as well. Getting into the spectrum of how cash is used this doesn't have 1:1 parity with every way in which cash is used but does fill many of the same use cases and while it does need a smartphone to validate it does not need network connectivity thanks to the nature of merkle trees.
> but I also don't treat my lawn with anything other than what falls from the sky

Do people spread poison on their lawn? Why?
I'm curious about those numbers for both cases myself, but I know that only one of them you can actually get the numbers from (although only the number of coins in wallets, not coins belonging to users, as a user can have many wallets), the other one is completely in the dark as no one can really say who has what.

Since we can't know the numbers for fiat, we can at least try to understand it for Bitcoin. As far as I can tell, sources seem to point towards the number being closer to ~2% of wallets hold ~70% of all Bitcoin.

If this is a better/worse distribution than fiat, we will never know.
Compare to the American classic from 1970:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ed+emberley+drawing+books+of...

Both are extremely charming. Are there other examples?
> I was set to be all libertarian about this…

Disallowing patents is the libertarian solution, though it would be up to the customers to demand published specifications and official support for interoperability.
> unless I’m switching back and forth between iPhones and Androids, I’m not having to buy new cables.

Even if you did. Lightning's been around since 2012. It superseded the Dock connector every iPod and iPhone had since 2003. At this point they are pretty ubiquitous.

> Apple charges license fees on Lightning

This also prevents the mess that is USB-C where vendors don't implement the spec correctly (and brick unsuspecting devices in the process, see Nintendo). Apple can just refuse to license devices from vendors that don't implement the spec correctly.
Yeah, we never get thunderstorms.
Silly but Facebook, How did I get hacked?
The Costs of U.S.-China Semiconductor Decoupling
The problem is: is also the full query encrypted or just some values that are considered sensitive? I remember a research form some years ago showing that if an attacker is still able to see the SQL code can recover the content of the database by looking at the queries, the responses and "putting the pieces together". Now, if the target was to get the exact values inside the database (think about employees wages) it still required to observe a very big number of queries, but if you were interested in getting a reasonable interval for each value then the number of queries needed become small enough to be doable in practice.

Unfortunately I don't seem too be able to find this again, but a quick search turned out two papers that say that just encrypting your db isn't enough: [0], [1].
In particualr [1] doesn't seem to go into the details of how you could recover the data, but mentions that many operations as performed by "normal" databases leak information if performed over encrypted data.
Maybe someone that is more familiar with Queryable Encryption can comment on this?

[0] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~shmat/shmat_hotos17.pdf
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
250 per year for people who get paid say 250k per year.

So that is 0.1%, I'm sure the productivity boost from GH can be greater than that for knowledge workers. Even for people getting 25k the productivity boost could be more than 1%.

That said this kind of support turn around is just bad and should be called out forcefully.
What market is Intel a monopoly in?

They don't even have all of the x86 market.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/335650-amd-achieves-al...
I have a device from launch, and remember for the first while this didn't work, but now does. It must've been fixed at some point with a SW update.
You are right, there's a negative comment about California. Maybe even two, in the entire thread.

How does your original point about bias, sampling and people with grievances flocking to this thread stand up?
They say it's 100% of the full-time salary, but the one open position they have is a full-stack JS engineer for the equivalent of about $66k USD. Is the market really that bad in the UK? That's not even a good new grad offer in the US.
RoundUp and products like it should be illegal, every time I see someone using them I want to hit them
> Also most dealerships essentially "flip" cars (like those people on HGTV flip houses) - they clean them up, do basic service, add a warranty of some sort and that gives them extra margin versus just taking a small fee for handling sale paperwork.

To be clear, I meant new car dealerships — the ones that are branded to a particular manufacturer brand (e.g. "Ford dealership", etc.) Why aren't those dealerships just consignment stores? It would stabilize a very cashflow-constrained franchise business, into something that's essentially just "making money to be a showroom" — which is exactly what those really are.

> Honestly I'd hate to sell a car via consignment because there's zero incentive for the dealer to do anything with it. They might sit on it for months.

Seems fine to me. Any consignment store is really just doing lead-gen: helping to arrange a contract between the buyer and the manufacturer (where they just happen to take temporary possession of the car in-between.) Sort of like a car real-estate agent.

The important thing to realize about consignment models, is that your customers aren't the people coming in to buy things. Your customers are the manufacturers, who essentially rent space in your lot to show off their products. If you don't work to sell their products, the manufacturers stop renting that space from you, and you don't make money.

Certainly, consignment stores aren't as motivated to move particular products. Especially particular high-margin halo products. But they are motivated to do volume — i.e. to hit their manufacturer/renters' revenue targets.

(Also, keep in mind that a consignment store can't really "sit on" consignment goods; those aren't their goods to sit on. If the manufacturer wants to rotate them out for other stock, they just go to the store, take those goods out, and put something (or nothing) else in its place.)
The @ ruins most of the point of macros, which is to extend the language, provide cross-compatibility, and create DSLs (I guess that's three points...<-as are these). Anyway, since it's not surface homoiconic (although you can sort of dig down to the homoiconicity), it's better than most other languages, but still isn't a true contender for being an acceptable Lisp -- very close though. Just put the parens back and get rid of the junk syntax (and please stop idiotically marking the macros!), and I'd probably never look back.
Show HN: Chaingrep – Contextual on-chain data API
Google's push to bring its 165,000 employees back to the office – Fortune
Oh excellent, everyone's accessories need to be replaced now, and then with every subsequent usb update?
Umm, the German company Zeiss is the only company in the world capable of making the mirrors for the EUV machines used in this factory.

They're still have world leaders in power semiconductors with Bosch and Infineon.

This isn't the only fab in Germany btw. Global Foundries has a fab in Dresden doing advanced low-power FDSOI ICs.

You can't expect a single country to lead a majority of technical fields forever. That's unrealistic. I'd say Germany is doing completely fine.
In my experience, that's the only sane way to use it even on modern hardware.