skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The core idea is that we don't really care about recipes, but about the underlying building blocks of knowledge to execute them.

It's an app because we realized that the best way to approach this problem is to actually separate cooking from learning to cook — instead of trying to do them at the same time, which is painful. This product was a pivot from a previous thesis, which I explain here: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/a-new-hope
Very US centric so I won't use it for now, but it's a good start!
Ah that makes sense.

Just a whole different lifestyle for those dogs.
I love that the comments on this story range from "film sets are sacred, please don't direct your eyes at a crew member or a production assistant will be viciously fired" to "film crews can burn in hell forever and if they tell you not to walk on a sidewalk tell them to go fuck themselves"
Germany has been getting too many things wrong - afg/Iraq, nuclear energy, greece, brexit, putin. Under all the sophistication they look totally lost and clueless.
Nobody sane would take that deal.
I find this spreadsheet handy for thinking about AWS region-wide outages and frequency. This seems to be the first major us-east-2 outage, indeed, vs us-east-1 and other regions.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gcq_h760CgINKjuwj7Wu... (from https://awsmaniac.com/aws-outages/)
Where'd you get that number from? That's pretty interesting
This is such a silly argument. It took Okta 11 years of being in business to get "hacked" once. What makes you think you'll be better at security than a vendor whose livelihood depends on it? Do you build your own door locks also?
I prefer those with more resources to have more say over the running of our country. On average in a free market those with more resources are better organized and know what’s best for the country. Furthermore the structure of society should be organized to help those that know what they are doing. An unpopular opinion however.
True, but the regulations they push through often happen to only impact smaller competitors, or only impact things people are actually using to quit smoking.

Also, their VEEV vapes are only available in tobacco and menthol flavors, and those flavors have been shown to be less effective for tobacco cessation. (They also tried to push through laws banning other flavors, if I remember right.)

Pre-empting the "think of the childeren" responses; tobacco marketed to kids continues to be widely available:

https://shipfest.org/vaping-for-kids-the-top-10-vape-brands-...

Check out the Pod Juice Freeze "Strawberry Kiwi Pomberry", for example. If not for the big nicotine warning on the bottom half of the label, I wouldn't be surprised if parents confused it with kids' Pedialyte, or some sort of DIY popsicle mix:

https://www.ejuices.com/
> If the job pays 3x the median salary to maintain two homes, maybe it will get politicians to consider the needs of the constituents who maintain one home on the median salary.

No, you’ll get politicians for whom maintaining two homes, one in a high CoL location, isn't significantly difficult even without the income from the job. I mean, we’ve actually done the experiment and can see the results.
What are you hosting? Multi-AZ seems like a bare minimum for basic reliability. That said it's not a panacea. There's all sorts of cascading/downstream "weirdness" that can result on AWS's own services through the loss of an AZ.
Fwiw all the carts in the photo are only the Lighting and Grip departments. That doesn't include Costume, Hair, Makeup, Special Effects, Sound, Stunts, Props, Camera, and other departments I'm probably missing that work on-set.

And of course it doesn't include all the off-set work like Art Department, Production Office, Construction.

And that still doesn't include all the post-production work like Sound, Editing, VFX, and more.

Source: I work in film.
Currently watching the launch event! :)

I took a look at the low level stuff, compiled it and tried breaking it and pushing it to the limits. It's quite stable, something that you would expect from a Python Core developer as a founder.

My only concern is that the actual `edgedb-server` CLI isn't documented at all.
Really it's pretty much anything. Every case is different and in the law there is no black and white, meaning nothing is simple. Take this scenario, you have a dispute with a lawyer and they draft a legal document with certain statements and legal ramifications. At this point, the wise answer is to hire a lawyer and have them battle it out for you. At say 300 dollars an hour, if drafting a document takes an hour, you've just spent 300 dollars. This doesn't include any research your attorney has to do around the case which is also possible (remember no black and white in the law) or the fees of the administrative assistants to print and mail the response, etc. Your opponent may not be making money while perusing this, but that person isn't paying someone at a billing rate either. Stretching it out only bleeds your reserves to continue the dispute.
The issue is that the credit card company doesn’t necessarily run through a full legal analysis of the seller’s rights in a transaction when the buyer requests a chargeback.

Of course it may eventually all get settled in the seller’s favor in court, but in the meantime the buyer has their vehicle and their money back and it’s on the seller to track them down and sue.

So people tend to do person-to-person used vehicle purchases in cash-equivalents (cash, cashier’s check, etc) so that there’s no worry about the money disappearing after the buyer drives over the horizon.
That doesn't justify the search and seizure of all his customers' property without due process.
This is beyond political corruption, it's human corruption. Inherent to the way people respond to incentives.

People inherently will try to put things to their benefit and to what incentives them. It takes a lot of structure to make the cost benefit of the incentives to outweigh the perceived benefits. It starts with something relatively good, but slightly pushed and snowballs from there. "I got stuff done that fed all these people! Surely making sure i get a little extra food is fair.....". Maybe someone notices and say "thats not fair", then why would the person go through a bunch of effort to make sure everyone is fed again and not just themselves? Altruism?

Every social structure ever created to stop this has failed in Human history, its reasonable to say every one that will ever get created will. They will be exposed to powerful forces of erosion and entropy. Maybe you can get a machine system that rules over humans that has different incentives or something, but any system that seeks to curb corruption will fall sooner or later. You can try to make in the system a desire to repair itself, but that in itself becomes an incentive and then we see purges.

You can build a tower to keep your rock up and defy gravity, but that tower WILL fall one day.
Obesity kills more people than even smoking old fashioned cigarettes, so in my opinion it's all a farce. The government doesn't care about your health, they care about taking your money.
The addictive part is the main issue. People don’t smoke for 30 years because it tastes good, and I don’t think vapes are any different.

I don’t think kids would ever DIY non-nicotine vapes enough to cause a public health crisis. Kids could have huffed Halloween fog machines in the 90s but they didn’t.
The Tolkien letters, the J.K. Rowling tweets of the ‘50s.
The invisible ink screen effect (blurs the message/photo until you touch it) in iMessage is essential if you're in a long distance relationship or away from your partner and still trying to have some fun!
I wrote a lot longer explanation but deleted it. Suffice it to say other systems are good enough that functionally no-one wishes they had the US system instead, and it'd sure be weird if every single other OECD state had been relying on price controls this long if they weren't having some beneficial effect.

My short-version argument would be—and I'm a little annoyed at having to explain this, because I've been explaining it to people on the Internet for 20 damn years, it's so not-hard to find this info that it's kinda difficult not to have been exposed to it, and it seems like it should be common knowledge at this point and like some folks are going way out of their way not to understand it—that the "good effect" is precisely that the US spends 50-100% more than any of these countries, per capita, and does not smoke the rest on practically every metric, instead doing a little better in some areas, a little worse in others, middle-of-the pack on others still. It sure as hell looks like we're paying a huge premium for similar outcomes, which also explains why there aren't a lot of people in other countries begging their governments to adopt a system like ours (a fact one has to explain when cherry-picking metrics to make the US look good—OK, so why aren't others rushing to copy us? At least some of them should be, if we actually do have an unambiguously better system).

The "good effect" is that other health care systems spend far less, and also don't bankrupt people over medical bills, while achieving roughly comparable results.

If I came to you and told you I had a process to produce a Tesla knock-off that produced a car a little better in some ways, a little worse in others, but pretty damn comparable, at 50-70% of what it costs Tesla to produce a car, and then showed you dozens of factories I'd already built that were demonstrably doing exactly that, you wouldn't ask me how I was defining "good effect" when I used that to describe the results of the One Weird Trick of my process. It's obvious.

Were you not aware of the vast differences in costs & accessibility between OECD healthcare systems? By which I mostly mean between the US and everyone else.
EdgeDB seems more popular in NA and Europe. See https://ossinsight.io/analyze/edgedb/edgedb
In my experience the problem isn't really lack of time/resources, but lack of accountability. There's always more to do than there's time and you just have to estimate and prioritize.

But even for cleanup efforts that clearly are worth the time/priority, places that develop these problems really bad usually make it very difficult to be in any way rewarded for thinking ahead to how your technical choices today will impact things in a year or more. People who stay there internalize this lack of accountability and stop trying.

You need your people to feel like caring about and investing in the future is a valued priority. Otherwise, they won't, and then you'll arrive in that future, and it will suck because everyone didn't care to build a good one.
> They assist with loading and unloading the goods, make sure the goods are adequately stacked and strapped

This seems like a problem already solved in the airline industry.

* Pilots don't load and unload the planes. Baggage handlers and gate agents do that. Flight attendants ensure that self-loading cargo is adequately strapped.

* Airline dispatchers (a job which requires an FAA certification) handle much of the flight planning, weather monitoring and other paperwork.

In other words, many of the "other things" a truck driver does are outsourced in the airline context to other employees who are not controlling the airplane.

I don't really see why the DoT couldn't create an analogous "truck dispatcher" position for OTR trucking, who handles all or most of the things you described.

One long-term consequence is that it would further entrench the scale effects of volume shippers (like ports and Amazon warehouses): A dispatcher at the origin would be the responsible person to verify that loads are correctly stacked and strapped, and shippers below a certain scale would not be able to fully use a full-time person in that role.
Vulnerable to a MITM attack, just like my string-can telephone
> On average in a free market those with more resources are better organized and know what’s best for the country.

They know what is best for them. It has nothing to do with what is best for the country.

As you are advocating for an oligarchy, I suggest you take a look at all the oligarchies around the world: don't you notice that they are all, without exception, terrible places to live, and not even good places for striving economies? Surely, there must be some fault in your reasoning.

On the contrary, most great countries in the world have something in common: they tend to be democratic, they tend to be quite equal in the distribution of income, and they also tend to be run as social democracies.
Scam! Avoid this
> The least companies could do is compensate this useless labor.

I've found having the company present when you do the test, i.e. screensharing or whatever, is a good compromise. You can talk about the problem, and you know they've got some (time) skin in the game.

The tests become shorter when this is the case, e.g. 1 hour rather than 8 hours. Because they don't want to spend 8 hours sitting there while you do the test.

They're not going to invite 100 candidates to do that test if they only have one position open, but if they send out the test and you complete it on your own time they might.
You could wear VR goggles and turn that garbage heap into a beautiful beach.

Someone should start selling VR workspaces.
Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs
Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch:

As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code.
Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine.
But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere.

So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code.

We couldn’t find an easier way to do this, so we built it.

Chunk is an all in one web editor (think of the codesandbox experience) that allows you to write, deploy and run a piece of code in the cloud from a variety of triggers: HTTP, WebHook, manual or scheduled (cron).

No setup, no build, no deploy. Chunk makes you go from idea to code running in the cloud in seconds.

Let me know what you guys think!
Since when does an $850 price tag on an android phone count as low end?
White cars have two problems: damage shows, and the smallest amount of dirt shows. The silver color helps with the latter part quite a bit.
Well you're adding two parties to the transaction. If you go to McDonald's you just have to pay McDonald's. If you use a delivery app you also have to pay the delivery person and the app.
But is the fracturing coming from poor leadership, or is it coming because the newly engaged grassroots demand it? Nobody will self-identify with the phrase "manufactured dissent", but I suspect the average politically engaged person would tell you that politicians are a bit too chummy with each other and it's good when activists make them confront tough issues to see where their values really lie. (Did you hear about the Schumer protest this week, where a pile of random staffers occupied his office to demand he take a harder line on climate negotiations?)
The Secret Diary of a ‘Sustainable Investor’ – Part 1 – By Tariq Fancy
The thing about this stupidity is that it's the thrill of being the cause and, as the essay observes, it is not just low-IQ or low "class" people who indulge. Some people like to steal stop signs, and some people like to ruin their co-workers' reputations. It has little to do with actual low intelligence, but it is irrational and unpredictable.

The most dangerous people, though, are bandits who figure out how to use stupid people for their own purposes. They can turn uncorrelated human stupidity, moderated by the central limit theorem, into correlated human stupidity and use it as a weapon. They come with armies; they become the bosses.
Agreed - our company's app isn't a game but is built on top of UE4, and nearly all of our code is in Python and it's never the bottleneck, not by a mile.
IIRC Zoom signed up with Oracle Cloud when COVID hit and they needed to scale like crazy.

https://www.oracle.com/customers/zoom/

I'm not sure if Zoom has any Critical infra in AWS though.
Yes, but this is their plan B. Simultaneously working to regulate away the disruptors and also acquiring some of them is good business sense. They hedged their bets.

Anyway, do you have a better explanation for the inconsistent positions tobacco regulators take in the US?
UK's National Grid asks coal power plants to be on standby this winter
I really like the articles overall and you've done some great work!

I'm coming from a different approach to my workspace etc but it's funny, the first two just seem pretentious to me. And I know its a 'workspace' but seems more like 'look at these books I've read'.
It made us so smart in fact that we developed the scientific knowledge necessary to no longer have to do it.
Thanks, this comment made it very clear to me that I never want to touch a terraform system.
> Corporate process improvement is not an excuse for treating people badly. An individual human who treats people badly is not allowed to say "well I deal with a lot of people and I need algorithms and sometimes my algorithms don't work so I'm doing my best to improve them".

I don't think you're disagreeing with patio11 here. To wit:

> Sometimes situations which result in external complaints are the result of a process failure, and *in those cases we try to fix the instant case and improve processes in the future*.

I read that as: they prioritize satisfying the immediate, dissatisfied customer first and address process improvement second, which is exactly the priority that you're suggesting. Especially combined with patio11's other suggestion of personally contacting the upper management of the company.
In fact, the NY State Throughway already has something like this, but for a different purpose: Combining and separating double-bottom trucks (which are allowed on the Throughway, but not on many local roads around it).
This sounds a lot like the Marxist theory of alienation [0] in practice.

Because do-ers can't decide what they do, they get alienated from their work product and get apathetic.

The fact that it is happening during a capitalist crisis only adds strength to the theory.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation
There's clearly a balance to be had - but if millions of dollars in ill-gotten cash and property in the boxes were his (as he's admitted) then of course the Feds are going to seize those and any others with unknown provenance. It's not like this was a bank, it was in a strip mall. Judges have been siding on behalf of people who haven't been accused of crimes, and they've had their property returned (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-26/judge-ru...) which of course is proper.
I think the most crucial (and often overlooked) difference between the films and the books is the narrator's perspective. The films are largely shown from a neutral / omniscient narrator's perspective. The books OTOH are mostly written from the perspective of the Hobbits. (The conceit is that the books are adapted from written hobbit lore collected mostly by Bilbo and Frodo[1].) The implication is that there's much more emphasis in the books on what's important and interesting to the Hobbits, as opposed to Men or Elves. In the film, Frodo and Sam are only arguably the main characters, and only because they are the Ringbearer and those that destroy the Ring in the end. But the boook is really Frodo's Own Story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch
I'm close to ~half your age, and every vaper I know started vaping from clean-slate. Absolutely zero of them were ex-smokers or have ever touched a cigarette. I honestly cannot name a single ex-smoker in my circle or a degree or two removed - all of them started vaping to vape. Almost all of them started before 18.

I don't know of a single person using it as a cessation device. Anecdotal, of course, but still, didn't expect such big of a difference compared to your post.
I think it is the short term (a few days) that is most concerned. As said you can lied to a few person all the time, … but not all people all the time.

Like open source and market there are bounded to be bad move and dead end, but the basic is still right.
I have a large circle of friends with a wide diversity of opinions about Tom. It's not representative, so I have no idea who is an outlier. But I understand why each of them sees it the way they do, and I'm certain that none of them is unique in their outlook.

I believe a stackexchange conversation is a very skewed set of Tolkien fans, who are there specifically to discuss those kinds of questions. There are many ways to be a fan of Tolkien.
When I was 12, my parents bought an Osborne 1. I was busy learning how to use all the apps, and one of these was called SuperGraphics by Eric S. Ruff. Dad bought it over snail mail, and it arrived on a 5.25" floppy with a handwritten thank you note.

SuperGraphics was a drawing tool, and it had one really neat feature: it could export a BASIC program that would recreate the image you drew.

So I loaded up MBASIC, something I wasn't really familiar with, and took a look at the code. It was a whole bunch of POKE statements with hard coded addresses and values. I tried changing some of them and I found that I could get the position and types of characters on the screen to change.

Then I started digging into BASIC more, and learned about variables and loops, and then I was able to draw all kinds of stuff!

Some short time later, Dad was driving us to church and I remember realizing and saying that I had a lot more fun writing a program to generate an image than I did just using SuperGraphics to draw it. We were driving down Franklin Road, just about to cross highway 99.

So thank you, Mr. Ruff, wherever you are, for getting me started down this path.
Running your own version isn't that much work but I said the same thing about EKS and here I am paying my AWS bill ::shrug::
>Everything is bad for your body.

Slippery slope. Just because everything is some degree of bad, it doesn't mean there are very large differences in the degree of bad. Reasonable people are able to draw lines between those degrees and be roughly in sync with each other. The philosophical exercise of saying everything is bad is not very interesting to me.
> I used to advocate for take home assignments, but now I really don't know what the answer is for directly assessing skill.

The way we do it is a one hour conversation with screensharing where they have an IDE open and complete a small test. They know we're serious as we're spending our time as well. An hour is still an hour, but more reasonable than a weekend-long take-home test.
Not sure this actually solves a real problem. A lot of the questions/problems mentioned in the article are already things being addressed by any service worth using.

At the end of the day, you just need to generate a PDF from a template. The template is a solved problem. Invoices generally do not have that huge amount of variability in terms of layout.

I have been using microinvoice (https://github.com/baptistejamin/node-microinvoice) for the past couple of months and it's been a breeze. It uses PDFKit underneathe and has been working really well. I don't think PDF generation is a task that should require using Chromium. There's pandoc & other libraries that can easily do this at a much lower cost to both resources and finance.

The blog posts sounds like its solving a problem that doesn't exist. Generating invoices _at scale_? Is scalibility really a problem here? Generating a PDF takes a couple of milliseconds. Rent a $5 VPS and it can generate all sorts of PDFs for you without an issue for a long time before you'd start worrying about scalability. Heck this sort of thing doesn't even need to be a dedicated service.

Not to downplay anyone's hard work but Lago just doesn't sound like it's solving a real problem.