skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"how much toxic dust they spew into the air"

This, to me is the most important metric. And from a person who is allergic to absolutely nothing thank spaghetti, I’ve always noticed this aspect of vacuums

To the point where I make an effort to start my vacuum out the door when first starting it such that the initial blow of the fan blasts the dust captured within to the outside.

Most people don’t realize that many vacuums have a small filter for the escape air and they never clean or change that other filter

EDIT: I also, will never have a carpeted home. The reason is, once you have a fully hardwood home, you realize just how much actual detritus accumulates in even the most lightly traveled areas.

In the 1980s we bought a house in Tahoe, and it had 2" (TWO INCH LONG) shag carpet. and it was RAINBOW COLORED.

I wish I had a pic of it, but it was literally 2" long rainbow shag carpet that was a nightmare.

https://i.imgur.com/u4sFJj2.jpg

But the entire house. 1982 cocaine house.

Carpets were invented to hide dirt. The history of the vacuum is quite amazing.
>"Does this mean the government or economists are "lying" (his word)?"

The way I see it, it is in the government's interest to "lie" about the rate of inflation because it is advantageous for them to do so. Inflation is used as a tool in monetary and fiscal policy. "Inflating away" debt is a real strategy and policy.

"Lie" is a loaded term, and perhaps this is a limitation of our vocabulary. Because inflation has no universal definition or universally accepted measure, economists and statisticians have leeway when they calculate what the rate of inflation is. For the sake of argument, let's assume there is a "real" inflation rate. Having an "official" number lower than the real number means the government saves money on expenses that are indexed against inflation, and they get to repay debt with inflated money. The converse of this is costly for the government, as an official number higher than the real number means they have to spend more than expected. Therefore, it makes sense to me that the government is incentivized to under-report, and that they can do so because of how complex the calculations are. Is it a lie to switch to a different model, one that happens to result in lower official numbers? That's up to your own interpretation.
This is the way.

I make a new markdown file for every program / VPS login command (the entire SSH command with custom ports), and really anything which I know I would need to search through bash history down the road to do it again.

Those files are sorted into a handful of folders which allow me to quickly find all these programs / commands quickly.
> Corporate House Cleaning/Reduction In Force scenario

HP did this back in 2013; be in the office or resign.
Almost all car batteries in North America are made by two companies: Exide, or Johnson Controls.
What you can say about Scala?
Trimmed inflation is a better measure than non-trimmed for goods with substitutes. Bacon going up 1000% in price is not as bad as all food going up 5% in price because you can just stop eating bacon, but you can't just stop eating.
On the bright side, a shelf bracket is a pretty cheap wear item to replace. Can be 3d printed. It's not like any of the electronics went bad.
If you need history to happen differently to get to "the end of history", then you're not at the end of history.
(Especially) if you have a cheap or old equipment that still use 32 bit and also those want say a larger persistent partition and updated software in their live USB.

Latest update :

https://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/2022/04/customizing-ubunt...

The older post have more screens but a bit dated (2017)

https://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/2017/06/customizing-ubunt...

There are some success in the past (2017) and even update (2019): https://esp8266hints.wordpress.com/tag/isorespin-sh/

No mention of running under Mac though. My Macbook 12" can run live USB but not install version. May have a try later.
Censorship on campus: universities scrap ‘challenging’ books to protect students
I have a two-legged Steelcase with the design you mention, and it does wobble considerably compared to my four-legged one at home.

Raise your desk way up and give it a nudge - watch the monitor jiggle
Ditch the build-with-CLI requirement. If you're working on notebooks, show your commitment and make the static site generator a notebook itself.
Innocent victims surrender all the time. I didn't read it as assigning blame or a moral position .
When you had to pay to receive SMS, WhatsApp didn't exist. Your only other options were more cumbersome things like email and AIM, which still required paying for a phone internet plan and having a capable phone.
Page details processes specific to Sid, CEO of Gitlab
More likely to succeed with an application than an assumption of failure :)
When initializing a GPU context you can specify whether you want the most efficient device, the fastest device, etc, for a GUI app then you would want to pick the most efficient, which is a single flag to pass in, or supply options and let the user pick which one they want.
Honestly, I'd be pissed too if I was Zuck.

I'm a goddamn billionaire - if I invite you to the meeting, idgaf what you are doing unless someone died - get on this goddamn Zoom call. And even then, they better have been important! Dogs, cats, idgaf, get on this goddamn Zoom call!

Then, because I'm a genius who singlehandedly started Facebook by myself, I extrapolate this thought to its logical extreme and start intimidating my employees based on this intensely personal feeling.

I'm Mark fucking Zuckerberg. Get on this goddamn Zoom call.
MTBF is great for the manufacturer, but not for the individual customer that gets one that fails prior to the MTBF. It is a mean value, after all.
When programming blogs are designed to be harmful
A lot of SV engineers in the last 10 years have had it good. Like how people born in America have it good compared to people born in Africa (irrespective of intelligence, hard work, talent etc...). I think that will change.
You can also use the common crawl dataset.

https://commoncrawl.org/
When people in America want to send pictures without both ends having iMessage, they either use MMS (aka "text it to me") or share them some other way.
The costs for internet in the US still surprises me, how on earth can it be so expensive?! I understand some countries, but in the US, it seems high costs are because "because we can", not because it has to be like that.

In comparison, you get 1 Gbps symmetric fiber connection in most countries in Europe for under ~$30/month. In some, you even get it for under $10/month (like Romania, which has surprisingly awesome internet infrastructure).
Thank you for saying two big things. (1) how relatively balanced the country is with Dem and Repub divide. I just looked and was blown away how often most states were within a 65/35 divide of voting for president.

(2) bringing up a silly system that ends up being electoral college. But bringing up some “silly” alternative is an issue because doing away with 2 senators per state doesn’t automatically mean we just duplicate the house in the senate. Why is that the assumption.

DC should be a state and PR should be a state if they majority vote for it too. These should be beyond obvious and agreeable if people really believe in the reasons America exists and democracy etc.

When my initial comment went against the current senate set up, I didn’t say disband the senate. I’d be fine with a scaling system of Senators like 12 for California, 10 for Texas, 8 for Florida, New York, 6 for next eight states, and so on. This will lead to an amount of around 200 senators. Giving California 5-6% of the Senate instead of 2% isn’t going to suddenly destroy the farmer in Kansas from having any power.
Pentago is a first player win (2014)
apparently the actual source of the quote is Hugo Rossi
> As guitar oriented music seems to be sunsetting

What do you mean? That guitar music isn't "charting" is not an indicator of anything, especially with streaming. It's not the 90s anymore. Rock isn't the music of youth since 20 years ago, but guitars still sell extremely well.
If that is the case, no brand has high enough build quality. We have tons (literally) of multi-thousand dollars desks from Steelcase and other high-end brands - all of the two-leggers wobble.
Are you confusing force and energy? Force without acceleration does not change energy.
Cash/USD/EURO/etc is still used to do all of those things by a vast majority.
Stable Diffusion launch announcement
It does make sense depending on your situation. In a typical US car-dependent cities, yeah, maybe commute is a big productivity killer. Having said that, pushing work all the time also lead to burn out so at some point the mundane tasks become decompressing time (only if you can appreciate sitting idle in traffic; everyone is different).

I live in a city where multiple grocery stores exist within 5 minutes of each other and I do enjoy doing mundane tasks outside my professional life. Those tasks made me pause, clear my mind, and escape the bubble that we called "work" (yes, work itself is a bubble).
Prices are an index and very rarely is the index not at an ath. Even in The periods you mentioned, the index was only off ath for a month or 3 and that’s mostly noise from
Energy prices, so no it never reached a new equilibrium below where it was (that would be disastrous)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=SF8B
When you say "new age firm" I think you are implying "crypto" but any entity that is operating in multiple jurisdictions with >1B of revenue is gonna have a similar corporate set up for taxation/IP purposes.
The reviews have gotten more in-depth and of more expensive items as he's gotten more popular over the years, which has likely given him the ability to do more frequent and expensive reviews.

On the farm part, there's a pretty funny video he has called (iirc) "Does Project Farm actually farm?"
There's "Start Your Own ISP":

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Good catch, it looks like the channel that's used to stuff cables in wouldn't work with clamp style monitor arms.
I have unsubsidized Century Link fiber for $65 a month for gigabit symmetrical and it is indeed very good. Considering Century Link was birthed from US West, the company that we fondly coined "US Worst" back in the day, I've been pleasantly surprised by (and thankful for!) their current competence.
It must be, because I've used one and it produces an unacceptable level of wobble. It's not much by itself, but if you add monitor arms and such, and raise the desk, it is quite noticable
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Congrats on the launch.

Your website is super annoying to me. Gray on black prevents me to read much of the text without highlighting or zooming in. Those image swaps for scrolling is very distracting and disconcerting.

Convince me that your desk is worth the money (which we do not know), compared to buying an Ikea door and set of sturdy electric stand/sit legs with memory ($600).

The drawings on your website do look interesting, and look quite sleek and well executed.

edit: bit more details about my desk so the comparison makes sense desktop is 61" x 30" x 1" solid wood, goes sitting 26" to 52"+, I stopped at 52" because the cables where stretching, lifts up to 500lbs, have not tried that max.
Two things I didn't see mentioned that I'd want to see:

Some sort of low profile storage, so I can keep my desk clear so I can see the display. Right now I have so many things on my desk that I'd like to put under it: gift cards, USB dongles and storage, lip balm, eye drops, sticky note pads, tape...

Lacing bars underneath to mount equipment to, for example I have my docking station mounted under my desk. I also mount a power strip and ziptie power and data cables to it, which will be less of an issue with the built in charging/power receptacles.
You aren't missing anything.

Cloud SQL postgres on GCP with <50 connections is like ~$8/month and has automated daily backups.

The differences in SQL syntax between SQLite and Postgres, namely around date math (last_ping_at < NOW() - INTERVAL '10 minutes'), make SQLite a non-starter imho... you're going to end up having to rewrite a lot of sql queries.
It's not like you can trust the content of the blockchain, only that the content has not changed. Big fallacy about blockchain and trust has been spread
> Any traffic you’re able to offload via peering you wouldn’t be paying an IP transit to haul

When you're small enough, the difference in price between transit and what it takes to get you to an IX is likely to be pretty small. But, you probably want to be at an IX sooner or later anyway (easier to get multiple transit offers at an IX than on the side of the road), so might as well peer while you're there.
Yeah I was the same - I only figured out the multi line trick a few days ago https://til.simonwillison.net/aws/boto-command-line
The integrated screen is bad for your neck.

Phones are already bad enough for encouraging poor posture. Do not use screens so low that you have to look down.
Would you rather have Rosetta used as a recycled building material? And half of the artifacts recovered in Mesopotamia later destroyed by radical islamists?
Where I live the local power utility distributes dry ice in the summer during power outages.
I'm not sure; there may be. But I'll gladly give up a hundred bucks to not have to wait on hold to argue with some poor customer service rep.

What I'd really rather do is have a conversation with the person who wrote the "Lifetime Warranty" copy. What "lifetime" are they referring to? I can't think of a defense for it. I can only imagine two ways the warranty could be activated: Either you buy it and it never works to begin with, or you buy it, leave it unopened for your entire lifetime, and then open it on your deathbed to discover it doesn't work.
2.5m subscribers is nothing to sneeze at if they have ads enabled.
big tech been sounding the alarm lately lol. They are all realising that they are funding early retirements for majority of their employee who usually come hacker news to post a blog about how they quit their job to fly solo.
Oscar winning PARASITE was edited with a 10 year old copy of Final Cut Pro 7
Probably. If the network grows, more nodes will be added as the demand increases (because the nodes who open the channels, get paid a small amount of money. Very small, but still something).

You can run your own nodes, and get paid to open your own channels.
I found this part of the article a bit hair raising, especially the examples -

Bobby Fischer was mentally ill - is not being schizophrenic a form of intelligence?

I read the article linked about 'Christopher Langan' - the guy lost out on a scholarship and got kicked out of college because of circumstances related to his poverty and uneducated single mom.
Is having loaded parents also a form of intelligence?
Do you think that might be because the overwhelming majority of people don't use crypto? Per capita I think the numbers are quite different. Where's the majority of ransomware happening again? And of course, you know that in the fiat world, we try and stop it whereas in the crypto world it's embraced with open arms as economic freedom.
That question is pretty meaningless unless you can somehow measure the quality of an engineer. Is it the engineer who can build systems nobody else can, the one who can build the cheapest system that performs to spec, the one that can work well in a team, the one that is always available, the one that can teach others, etc etc etc etc. I'm sure anyone can think of many more aspects to being a good engineer.

I bet NASA and NIST have a great bunch of quality all-round engineers, but I'd be surprised if they were better at leetcode than the average FAANG dev. After all, FAANG devs have literally been filtered through an "are they good at leetcode" process. FAANG may be full of money chasers, but if the way to get more money there is by "being a good engineer" that does not mean much.
And they rolled their own crypto.
They're used to half ass analysis from news outlets that report on that single number instead of doing their job and adding detail/nuance to the discussion.
Uhh wow... what they say is "With developer signups from the world's leading brands." Then list a bunch of big logos.

Reminds me of planetscale.com which has a bunch of logos on their home page, but really those logos are using vitess, not actually using planetscale.

Purposely misleading on both fronts imo. Rubs me the wrong way
But isn't it boring knowing roughly where you will be in a year or two? It isn't like fishing or cooking are unknown territory, the skill curve is very easy to look up so you know roughly what you will be able to cook or what kind of things you will do when you go fishing. When I learned physics or programming that altered my worldview, many other things I've learned like play tennis didn't give me anything like that at all. Its just a list of things to practice, and then you have built the skills to execute them and that is it you can now serve properly or whatever you practiced, doesn't give any satisfaction since you knew the outcome even before you began.

So at least to me there aren't many things left worth learning. Maybe chemical engineering could be interesting to learn, as it isn't entirely clear to me how people work with chemistry, I have no idea what I'd be able to do with a few years learning chemical engineering.
Do you have monitor arms? The tiny wobble is exaggerated by the monitor arms. Plus, when standing, I do often lean into the desk a bit.
I'm building a front end app for Wikipedia & Wikidata called Conzept encyclopedia (https://conze.pt) based on semantic web pillars (SPARQL, URIs, various ontologies, etc.) and loving it so far.

The semantic web is not dead, its just slowly evolving and and growing. Last week I implemented JSON-LD (RDF embedded in HTML with a schema.org ontology), super easy and now any HTTP client can comprehend what any page is about automatically.

See https://twitter.com/conzept__ for many examples what Conzept can already do. You won't see many other apps do these things, and certainly not in a non-semantic-web way!

The future of the semantic web is in: much more open data, good schemas and ontologies for various domains, better web extensions understanding JSON-LD, more SPARQL-enabled tools, better and more lightweight/accessible NLP/AI/vector compute (preferably embedded in the client also), dynamic computing using category theory foundations (highly interactive and dynamic code paths, let the computer write logic for you), ...
There's a time bomb baked into the conceptualization of mythos of the United States.

The US in many ways legitimizes itself as a government in the traditional of the "western european project," by evoking the ritual, esthetic, ideals, and historical lineage of ancient Greece and Rome. From names and architecture, to values and ritual, there is an establishment of ties, real or imagined to be real.

On one hand, this works fantastically to mentally cement the US in the greatest of greats, but we cannot ignore the visibly obvious - that ancient Greece and Rome declined and fell. By drawing a parallel to ourselves(us-centric obvs) we draw a parallel to our own decline. We we're honest with this comparison, we have to be honest about the demise of these governments too. It's not possible to separate the too.
Same. I'm really confused about why they aren't marketing them better or at all? Also as another user commented it looks like they might be accessible on our phones? But I don't really access Netflix on my phone unless I happen to be stranded somewhere unexpectedly
Survivorship bias somewhat. There were plenty of people living in literal shacks 150 years ago.
Just like cyberspace in the 90s where Napster thought they were untouchable because they added computers to things, people often confuse "uncensorable digital technology" with "nobody just gives a shit, yet". When people start giving a shit, it all goes to hell very quickly.
Happiness has nothing to do with IQ. (Didn’t read the article but its very clear)
A Better Way to Upload Images
but they are also used to much much more too
I’ve met people other people called 10x engineers. Once you looked soberly at the development process that illusion has faded every time.

Part of the problem with the myth is that as originally formulated it’s meant to be between your worst and best engineer, and whoever came up with that idea is an idiot, inattentive, sheltered, or all three.

Why? Because the worst engineers help the team by calling in sick. They have negative outcomes all the time, which means everyone else in the team is infinity times as productive.

What the rest of us think is 10x versus an adequate developer, and there are almost none of those. Are there people who can work solo and produce as much as a team of 10? Sure, but that’s because of the communication overhead. Can that person join a team of ten and double their output? Only if they are a unicorn among unicorns. The easiest way to double the output of a team is to double the output of the team members. And that doesn’t make you look more productive than them. If you’re not very careful it makes you look less productive.
Belgium and the Netherlands and Luxembourg were the same country, at least for some time, then split up and are good countries to live in (probably beating the US on most quality of life metrics). Same goes for the Nordics which were at different times in various combos (Denmark-Norway, Sweden-Finland, Sweden-Norway, Iceland was a part of Denmark).

Also a bunch of other examples where the countries aren't necessarily the best to live in, but pretty much everyone is happy they split - Yugoslavia, India/Pakistan, West Pakistan/East Pakistan. Singapore/Malaysia (to be fair Singapore were kicked out).

A split of the US among the crazily politicised duopoly wouldn't be the end of the world. One part would be reactionary as hell and move time back (on social and ecological issues), the other.. who knows.
> Case Shiller home price index is another measure that shows 4X increase in housing costs since 2000. housing is a large component of cost of living

Case Shiller measures home prices (asset cost), not housing cost (rent expense, actual or forgone by choosing not to rent out a property you own.)

Also, the repeat sales method it uses has structural biases that favor increases.