skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Costco or Walmart will often carry it. Many grocery stores (but definitely not all) will have it so it’s worth asking.

My favorite use is sparkling grapes. https://sciencenotes.org/how-to-make-fizzy-fruit-with-dry-ic...

Put (food grade) dry ice at the bottom of a bowl, then a clean cloth or towel (for insulation), then grapes. Ideally our a loose fitting cover over the bowl.

As the dry ice sublimates, it passes through the grapes which will capture some of the CO2 and carbonate the grapes.

Very fun, and much less practical, use of dry ice…
You cannot win. The top comments on HN are _always_ pedantry. These people will always find something to complain about or nitpick while completing missing the forest for the trees.
If possible, spending a few years without a car can be a great way to save a lot of money.
Is there no mandatory warranty period required by law where you live? Genuinly curious.
I live in Canada and our condominium negotiated for CAD$40/month (included in our strata fees) with Bell (essentially a Canadian Verizon) 1.5GB fibre internet, the full traditional cable TV package, as well as Crave streaming (which is licensed in Canada for HBO and Paramount programming). Regular consumer pricing for all this would have been near $200 (though our building wasn't wired for fibre and the deal included them installing the infrastructure). I know they probably come out ahead because it includes a lot of units that would go with a competitor (Rogers, which is our version of Comcast), but it really puts things into perspective.
I have a 2-leg Uplift desk, and I really have to lean into it to make it wobble
Smart people understand that “happiness” is not the point of life, and thus do not seek it out as much.

I could move to Hawaii, teach surf lessons, live in a shack, and smoke weed all day. That would probably make me “happy”. But what the hell is the point?
Fantasizing about the end of the world/country/whatever is a popular pastime in the US. It is reasonable to suspect that the talk is primarily the 1% loudest people and that if anything starts to look like it's getting real, the remaining majority will step on the brakes.
If Andreas Reuter and Theo Härder didn't want people to make any jokes and live humorless lives, they would have named it DICA. Or CIDA.

But no, they named the concept ACID.

Why do you think they did that? Do you really think they aren't in on the joke?
A game engine will tell the OS to start up the discrete GPU if it is available. This is why I asked the original question. Is there some way to turn that off?
The elephant in the room for any analysis like "It's a more productive use of time than whatever the alternative would've been (social media, watching television, etc)." is that, y'know, maybe people need to find good uses of their time other than working.

But that sounds elitist so nobody says it. Doesn't make it any bit less true.
Another consequence of supply shortage: mass production mishaps
Pixel Guesser: Test your sense of pixels
The study I read about claimed the opposite - in later stages of life, parents are happier than childless people.
IMO In-person five days a week is preferable to dystopian tracking automation, not that they're mutually exclusive.
They had radar and geomagnetic mapping back in the 1990s, at least - Time team did ~250 digs that were broadcast on channel 4 and are now all on youtube, most in HD now.

And "geophysics" were used to decide what and where to dig in most of them. They're making new episodes now, as well.

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimeTeamClassics
I don't really get the appeal of a display inside the desk surface. That's where people put things, thus covering up the display.

Seems like it was inspired by more sci-fi aesthetics rather than actual user need.
A lot of the Made in USA Craftsman hand tools were made by Western Forge. There's usually a "WF" somewhere on the tool on those. These are generally good quality. Craftsman then moved production to China and the Western Forge plant shut down, although the company is still around.
Seems to miss the obvious double whammy:

1) Because it burdens producers to no obvious benefit, a problem forever

2) Because progress over time in language processing makes it less and less necessary
You don't have to wait for the transaction to confirm before backing up the wallet.dat. The keys in wallet.dat are the same regardless of the transactions to/from them.
Mostly, for my own edification, but did similar ambiguities arise during the implementation of the Fugitive Slave Act? If so, how where they handled?
It definitely wasn't Meta's strategy when I was there in 2018. They hired a lot of junior software engineers but all other positions had relatively limited headcount (which I mostly think is a good thing).
It looks amazing! Great intro video.

It probably doesn't make sense for Browserflow as a business, but I'd love to find a tool like this that exported a Scrapy spider, similar to the now unmaintained Portia.
Friend of mine needed to run fiber across the street. They had to dig up the road. Cost was $50k. This was in a city where there aren’t large pools of money from the government to get people decent Internet address.
I take it you're not American.

We Americans love our soda far more than our friends around the world.

I had sticker shock when I went to Italy a couple weeks ago and if I ordered a soda at a restaurant, I'd pay 3-4 euros and get a tiny 8 oz can.

In America, at a restaurant, if you order a soda, it's $2-4, and you'll usually get a 12 or 16 oz cup and get free refills.

At least I stick to the Diet/Zero-Sugar varieties so I'm keeping the calories down.
Yeah, just about every major hobby subreddit has a wiki which is basically that.
because you like memes, most people do not want the companies they are trying to build on to be unprofessional all the time, it's not a good look

hopefully the other commenters have helped fill in this broader perspective
This should be higher.

I realized when monitoring COVID data that rolling numbers like this can be heavily impacted by the number that’s rolling off.

Take, for example, a 7-day COVID case count of 100. The next day this drops to 90. That’s great, right?

Well, if yesterday’s 7-day values were all 100, and today’s are 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 30, then yes, that’s great!

But if yesterday’s 7-day values were 700, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, and today’s are 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 630, then that’s potentially very bad (depending on other context).

This is obviously a hyperbole, but it shows that looking at and comparing rolling numbers can be tricky, and you need to look at other context to get the full picture.
Thank you for the insightful & detailed reply!
This entire comment is full of mistakes and logical errors.

> We are hard wired to feel both in roughly equal measure, regardless of our circumstances [...] So our minds are constantly adapting to our circumstances and rebalancing things so that we come back to the center.

Citation desperately needed. This sounds like pure pseudo-science. There definitely exists a bio-chemical mechanism that attempts to normalize the numbers of hormone receptors w.r.t. the level of released endorphins, but it's in no way a simple zero-sum mechanism like you're describing.

> Stop chasing things and you may not be happier, but you'll probably be less miserable and experience fewer bouts of crippling depression and anxiety.

Your conclusion isn't consistent with your premise. Didn't you just claim that "our minds are constantly adapting to our circumstances and rebalancing things so that we come back to the center". By your logic, everything we do is futile, and nothing will change the feeling of anxiety and depression.
I have a friend that bought half a cow from a farmer. Fully butchered he spends approx. $5 a pound for the meat.
So I'm trying to learn about system design without having ever encountered large problems from any of my projects. What I'm reading keeps pushing for hash rings for these types of distribution problems.

Someone who does this stuff for real, do orgs actually just do a hash % serverCount? That's what a startup I worked at did 8 years ago. I thought nobody actually did this anymore though given the benefits of hash rings?
> Top of the World tech innovator

Yes, top reason an average enterprise developer has to deal with a distributed mess as opposed to a more manageable monolithic one: "we will do microservices despite being nothing like Netflix". On the upside, more developers are now required.
Looks really good, congratulations!

I'd be really interested to buy non-screen version of this. I wish that screen was an optional accessory. The last thing I want on my desk is SM timeline or stock ticker/graph. In fact I want my desk to be as dumb as possible, no internet connectivity. Provide me a sturdy height adjustable desk with tons of ports and power outlets.

BTW do you ship to India?
And more than that - it's abstract problem solving. Sometimes the problem is never gonna have an answer until I am washing my dishes after breakfast tomorrow. My subconscious & creativity can't be sped up.

It's this idiocy that you can convert time into software at a fixed rate that got us into this mess.
> Every single study done on it shows that creative staff (including engineers) are more productive working where they are less disturbed, that open-plan offices are the least productive environment, etc.

Do you have any specific sources on hand (preferably a good meta-study)? I've heard this claim a lot, and I'd like it to be true, but I've never seen it sourced. Also, I feel like it could depend a lot on the individual, but anecdote is not data.

And yes, open-plan offices truly suck.
It helps to have 3 key points that you want your audience to take away from your speech. Not more. And then tailor everything to drive home those 3 points. One of my favourite speakers who's really good at this is Larry Lessig, see his talks on YouTube, some of them are absolute classics.
Plan 10 from outer space is a very strange but very sweet movie.
> Meanwhile, in our low-perqs atmosphere in NY, distractions were limited and productivity was high. We also all made money.

Yes, that's how it usually works out.

By the way, 'perqs' is a peculiar word. English is my second language but I'm used to seeing the word 'perks'.
The third parties don't need to be "viable" to have an impact in ranked choice voting, that's kind of the point of it. Just talking about a viable third party is a sign that you're thinking in first-past-the-post, winner-takes-all terms.

You can have the big "we like red things" and the tiny "we like red apples from new zealand" party, and keep the "We like Blue things and hate everything from new Zealand" party out of office because of how voters rank them.

Which then, in strategy meetings, leads to the divisive "We hate everything from New Zealand" policy getting ditched by the "We like blue things" party, because it only appealed to a small minority, who get to vote for a newly created extremist "We really hate NZ" party that reflects their views better anyway.
All of the bridges I've listed were hacked or exploited just this year, for hundreds of millions each.
All those things are means, not ends. Nobody starts their day off saying "wow I could really go for some open p2p consensus this morning" in the same way nobody starts the day off with "damn I really need my TCP/IP to start the day off right."

The things you can build with these tools are better built without these tools.

It's been 13 years. Crypto is old enough to be in high school, and it still hasn't found a use case better served with it than without it - despite a list proponents pull out as long as my arm of 'killer applications' that are 'just around the corner, @remind me 6 months'. Soon crypto will be old enough to go off to college without a use case. But of course we're still early, right?

They've lost the plot. They're not building products, you know things people want and use.
> Using operating system provided functionality

I’m inclined to accept that, too, but it is a moving goalpost and unfair when comparing between OSes and/or time periods. For example, consumer OSes have been shipping with speech recognition libraries for decades, and they’re getting better and better.
Meanwhile I live in San Francisco and I still can’t get affordable symmetric gigabit fiber internet to my home.
I agree 100% with your last line ;). OK, my statement "trying to make someone else happy, will never ever fail to make you happy", perhaps needs a footnote such as "in moderation, obviously. does not include sacrificing your entire life for someone determined to remain unhappy or suffering from severe depression". Then again, its surprising even someone with depression who doesn't give a lot back, you can still go around thinking "well I tried" and your friends respect you, perhaps they emulate you. Good begets good, and all that. That's the idea of the pay it forward movement etc
Yeah and don't forget that buying the car itself is just the start. Even if you don't get a loan you need to pay for registration, insurance, maintenance and gas.
"Hi, our managers are actively assisting in the investigation by law enforcement. We are continuously applying for the release of the frozen assets. Hotbit will resume normal service as soon as the assets are unfrozen and the asset managers resume funds managemen. Plz don’t worry."

Oof.
Not sure why they're trying to trump Discord's "uh-oh we had a little fucky-wucky" style in terms of annoyance. It's people's money, you know, you really need to act seriously in this field.
The problem with state-run healthcare is that right-wing parties will always sabotage it when they are in power. The “government can't work” narrative is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You see this particularly obviously in the United States, but similar things happen with every state service in pretty much every democratic state.
I have heard that "young people are just smarter", will we see a new CEO of Meta any day now?
No one says the manager switches off. They may have a host of reasons, possibly non-technical, why they don't agree with you. It's certainly fair to ask what they, but the point is it's not a debating society. There needs to be some amount of trust that a manager is operating in good faith, on a rational basis, and while perhaps not an expert some degree of competence in the area.
It's "kick-the-can-down-the-road" engineering. If the server can't hold the database in RAM anymore, they buy more RAM. If the disks are too slow, they buy faster/more disks. If the one server goes down, the site is just down for an hour or two (or a day or two) while they build a new server. It works until it doesn't, and most people are fine with things eventually not working.

This has only been practical within the last 6 years or so. Big servers were just too expensive. We started using cheap commodity low-resource PCs, which are cheaper to buy/scale/replace, but limits what your apps can do. Bare metal went down hard and there wasn't an API to quickly stand up a replacement. NAS/SAN was expensive. Network bandwidth was limited.

The cloud has made everything cheaper and easier and faster and bigger, changing what designs are feasible. You can spin up a new instance with a 6GB database in memory in a virtual machine with network-attached storage and a gigabit pipe for like $20/month. That's crazy.
Oh, I thought this for wet OR dry vacuums, not ones that could do both.
> We won't even talk about gas.

Well that went down in price in July, and is one of the reasons inflation was flat in todays CPI.
You can try live rooms here: https://workfrom.com/browse/j2lw5h, and if you want to create your own you can do that after creating a login here: https://workfrom.com/try
Unfortunately, Putin has a nuclear umbrella and the wagner group. It seems unlikely he will be held accountable.
I was complaining about Oreo prices to my friend group on Discord literally last night!

It's been a long time since I've had an Oreo but I cannot bring myself to pay $6.99 for a 14oz package of oreos when I can bake my own cookies for pennies.

Not quite the same as an oreo though. Target had a store brand oreo-type cookie that was IMO even better than the real thing. Used to be $1 for a 14oz package but they've since stopped selling it...
>When there are no longer central actors specifying/implementing/revising the protocols for ultimately-social interactions

Hm? What? Even Bitcoin has central actors implementing, revising, specifying changes.
I got hired by Google in 2016 and I could tell you the interview was a series of interesting tasks all having to do with what I was hired for - working on compilers and related tools.

Though after that I was asked for additional interviews on basic algorithmic stuff cause Google thought original interviews to be too narrow in the scope, anyway hardly any esoteric stuff.
On the other hand, I don't think it's "smart" for a person to ruminate and dwell on problems they can't change, especially not to the point that it has negative effects on their life.

The way I see it, we're all going to be dead in 100 years, and life will go on without us. It's not my place to solve every problem in the world, and in the grand scheme of things, my life is very unimportant, so I might as well relax and enjoy it.
They were examples of technology that came from outside of archaeology. I don't know what the future tech is called as I've not seen it yet :P
With both.. it's the same interface
Elon's flakey and a bit crazy, but SpaceX's progress would not have happened without him. If he left it, their progress would immediately slow.
great. what about wage growth?
You and others are quite correct and I misspoke: It's hard to experience happiness if you're worried about your basic survival. A few years ago, it was found that an average of $70k in North America was the cut off, where anything above that has little to no impact.

While I stand by the contention that virtually nothing will provide sustainable happiness in the long-term, existential problems (lack of food, shelter, or love) can certainly get in the way.

Likewise, experiencing chronic pain will continue to impact your ability to enjoy life.

But!

The mind does have an incredible ability to adapt. Ask anyone experiencing chronic pain and you'll find they have a higher pain threshold than most. Likewise, those who have been poor their whole lives find poverty to be less traumatic than those who've had a "fall from grace" and have to adapt to sudden poverty. But adapt they will.

The mind is constantly trying to return to the middle. So if you're trying to maximize happiness and minimize suffering, know that you're working against your own biological wiring. Good luck with that!
How? With the possible exception of the usb dock, I don't see how this desk replaces any of these, except perhaps your monitor -- albeit, with a worse monitor.
Speech can cause a physical reaction equivalent to violence? That sounds less like a rational claim and more like the...

> onion2k

Oh, I see what you did there.

Come on people, don't feed the trolls.
Mathematicians crack a simple but stubborn class of equations
at least in america a sports car would be a car like the toyota supra. Which only added a manual this year. Didn't offer it before. same with many bmw's etc.
Maybe one day there will be futures for software engineer contracts. the contracts are almost standardized on levels.fyi
I find that grocery stores offer better pricing on occasion: ribeyes more than half off the ordinary market price, etc. If you have the vacuum sealing technology, you can be selective in your bulk purchases to maximize the financial benefits of timed purchases. Costco comes with a baseline level of quality but is less competitive on price. As you stock your freezer, you have the bandwidth to 'wait it out' until the next sale comes.
RIP my $100 in USDC
> 1Gbps with unlimited data for $79 a month

Wow, sign me up. Comcast, which has a monopoly on my market, charges me a few bucks more per month, for 150mbps.
I'm not sure about the 1960s, but generally all appliances have gotten quite a bit cheaper and had less durability and repairability since the eighties. There was a step change in the late nineties both in price and quality when production moved to China.
Two-legged desks that have a horizontal bar at the bottom connecting the two legs don’t exhibit said wobbliness, in my experience.

The Lumina team could consider this modification to add stability if that is an issue in their product’s usability.
Damnit, don't tell the secret to car-people. We want our bicycle paths not too-overcrowded :p
I think Amazon would have a better rep if they didn't have a stack ranking system.
> The change in consumption patterns is caused by inflation and should be measured

While inflation can change consumption patterns, its not the only factor. For example, how do you compare your current spending on a mobile data plan or video streaming service compared to how consumers spent their money in the 1970s?
That is a bit confusing. Try live rooms here: https://workfrom.com/browse/j2lw5h
TS compiles to JS, JS runs on a runtime (V8, Deno, Bun)

Systems languages need to be able to run on systems that literally cannot afford any overhead of an additional runtime. They need to run on systems that do not even have an operating system or more than a few kb of RAM.

> It's quite clear that TypeScript is going to be around forever.

Wow. "Forever" is quite the claim.

> add a few constraints to make it low-level.

This is...inaccurate.
Nip2: A spreadsheet-like GUI for the libvips image processing library
No, but if all of FAANG are hiring by that criteria, it still works; startups can hire good talent because they break the pareto equilibrium, but that's ok for FAANG because they obtain that tech through acquisition after the idea and execution are derisked. The system works!
> I know better than to argue intangibles such as coding style or software architecture, but some things in Computer Science are just facts: we can verify them. I don't care much for saying false things to appease someone's ego. In cases like this, I'm not the one who can't acknowledge being wrong.

Yes, there's some ego in that. Author won't back down.

But clearly, the author isn't the ultimate arbiter of truth. Some things are objectively true.
>Want to take that bet?

GP literally did when he bought the meat.
Aren't the best engineers generally at national labs and NIST and NASA? FAANG is known to be full of money/status chasers.
To be happy, you must define something as a source of happiness. Smart people might be more nuanced or finnicky about actually making such a determination.
We can disagree and still be friends.

> 1. No threading is supported. If you reply, it duplicates the message being replied to.

Threading (using "Reply") is not supported in mixed iMessage/SMS/MMS text chains. (I'm using iOS 16, so this may have been (unwisely) supported in earlier Message versions.)

> 2. “Tapbacks” (reactions) duplicate the message being reacted to with “so-and-so likes message … message”

You can now see iPhone tapbacks on Android phones in Google Messages. I'm not sure if it's on defaultly yet. https://www.macworld.com/article/610908/google-messages-andr...

The other things you list are limitations and side-effects of the standards used. They're valid, but I consider the experience "fine" without them. If the groups I text with cared about these we would probably use WhatsApp since everyone has that. Signal would be my preference, but it's hard to change people's habits.
Fair enough. It seems that others are having the same issue. I wonder why it's happening.
This is cool if it can be used as an additional display. Having another OS and app store would be less appealing.
Something tells me this would undermine the business case of selling you a subscription for your desk to work.