skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that most of the horror stories I hear on new appliances are control board failures, more than physical hardware failures.

I have a washer and dryer from 1993 that are still going strong, but over the years I have had to replace belts, or idler pulleys. I have had to replace hot surface igniters, and the fan impeller in the dryer. But over all they have held up well. But neither one has any digital logic. They both use old school mechanical timers.

Our washer acted up briefly about ten years ago. Was making a hammering noise during agitation, and we called an appliance repair guy to look at it. He told us to run it until it quit, and left us with recommendations for two manufacturers of washer/dryers that still build units with mechanical timers. He said those will run as long as our current units. The noise sort of went away after a few months, and the washer still runs.

Flip side, I have helped two friends diagnose controller board failures on touch pad controlled ovens. One was the relay driver. The other was actually a failed membrane push button in the display, it was stuck active. In both cases, the ovens were less than five years old.

And the guy the looked at our washer said basically the same thing. The vast majority of his service calls are for failed control modules.
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From a cloud perspective, I'd hope everything just carries on.

But from a 'shareholder' perspective I expect the stock markets will go silly at the first sign of shaking.
https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/volcano-watch-ca...
Rusty red rocket web app
Maybe the fundamental disagreement is what constitutes the epsilon and whether a straight "copy" is actually dishonest/bad/immoral?

In your example, say the comedian is testing the joke on a new demographic (christian vs. jewish, say), so the epsilon in this case is not just the substitution of a word in the joke but also testing the joke on a new "market".

On the one hand, I think there's a place for giving credit to the original source and even having things fall under (some limited form of) copyright. On the other hand, I also see the need for experimentation and freedom to use ideas, which aren't and shouldn't be copyrighted.

Wikipedia wasn't the only internet encyclopedia, it just happened to be the one that "won". Maybe there was a reason why Wikipedia won on merit but random chance was, no doubt, a big part in it.

Relying too heavily on the novelty of ideas prevents experimentation.
I've often encountered dependency issues on Ubuntu. One time, while dealing with NVidia/CUDA, running `apt-get -y install cuda` complained about some missing dependency. I recursively went through the error messages and installed every missing dependency manually, and it worked, but it took me a long time and a lot of typing.

Then I wrote a script that does that automatically:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

main() {
local package="$1"

if [ -z "$package" ]
then
echo "usage: $0 PACKAGE"
exit 1
fi

install_package "$package"
}

install_package() {
local package="$1"
local subpackage

if sudo apt-get -y install "$package"
then exit 0
else
sudo apt-get -y install "$package" \
|& grep '^ ' \
| sed 's/[^:]*:[^:]*: //;s/ .*//;' \
| {
while read subpackage
do install_package "$subpackage"
done
}
sudo apt-get -y install "$package" \
&& echo "SUCCESS: $package" \
|| echo "FAILURE: $package"
fi
}

main "$@"
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There were plenty of really cheap streaming boxes and sticks even at the time, an HDMI input for cable TV not being the future was very obvious in 2013.
Why do you want to switch to deno? I still don't understand what's the reason to use it over node.
I'm in the process of moving (apartment to apartment) and the process of boxing up and lugging extremely heavy boxes of books so they can use up precious floorspace in my living area for no practical purpose is giving me anxiety. I'm thinking of getting rid of all by my most precious ones. In fact, most of my favorite books aren't even in this pile anywhere.
But you would primarily live with the person or within walking distance. Hundreds of years ago if you ignored your partner for the whole day while living with them that would probably be grounds to break up as well.
I wouldn't know. But from the author's arXiv statement [1] that

..though all of my previous (dis)proofs were flawed, i think the flaws pointed me towards the right direction..."

it seems they are quite confident in the current version.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12546
I don't have experience with anyone actually throwing a fit for not insta-replying. But one factor is that for some people not-insta-replying == never replying.

Email and text as async communication only works if both parties actually have the processes in place to reply async.
Google used to have that, probably lost it, and then they lost people like Brad Fitz.
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Earning large sums of money corrupts everything. Eventually people realise that being 'evil' is highly profitable.
Lots of infrastructure written in Java, and I suspect it still features heavily in school curriculum development.
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Working from home should be an opportunity to get healthy - but it hasn't seemed to work that way. Somewhat the opposite!

So now I'm getting serious. Going well so far.

I'm using The Very Fast 800 via the book by respected author Michael Mosley (see the blog for details).

What's your experience fellow hackers?
No, the cost of a Fargate vCPU is just higher compared to EC2. An EC2 t3.small instance costs about 2 cents/hour and a similar configuration on Fargate costs about 9 cents/hour. For m6i.large and c6i.large instances, the disparity isn't as bad but it's still 15%-20% more expensive.

There are a few different reasons we're using Fargate. Like the other commenter mentioned, there's the lambda max run time. Our Fargate tasks also have a few sidecar containers running alongside the main services. The ECS Exec integration is also nice for poking around when things aren't working correctly.
Huh? I have a pfSense firewall, a 16 port PoE switch, and several MacBook mini servers. All in the living room. They are all essentially silent (since that was a hard requirement for me). Silent (and good) gear definitely exists for spaces that require it.
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I have this one aliased to mkcd, but yours saves an extra character. I like it!
Very good list, I look forward to diving into those that I've not had any exposure to. Without a doubt Kogge and Brodie will appear on my list one day.
Let’s eliminate all labor laws too. Roll back the clock. Anti trust nonsense as well
Not quite.

Yes, Archers Daniels Midland collects a monstrous undeserved federal subsidy.

But unleaded gasoline needs something to raise its octane rating. MBTE turned out to be a public health and ecological disaster. What we use now is ethanol. Probably some other alternative would be cheaper and not burn crop acreage, but wasting corn has been good politics: corn farming states have a preponderance of senators.
It's a question of the topic. Some topics need to be handled synchronously. And if you don't answer in a conversation this is legitimately perceived as "rude".
There is also a public forum on Sep 8: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2022/09/commercial-su...
It’s for fun. It takes playing pieces most people have available, rules many are familar with, and makes a new game with just a few more rules. For fun.
Varies widely. Size of school, public/private, urban vs rural location, cost and availability of surrounding housing.
The US basically did what no losing power ever think would happen. They do unconditionally surrender but then the US enforced pretty damn easy terms on them.

Given that they let the emperor continue, they might as well have just allowed surrender with the promise the emperor would remain. But of course that choice was not made at that point.

An what I think people need to consider is that all of WW2 basically happened because the allies did not force unconditional surrender on Germany in WW1. A mistake that many wanted to avoid. Of course famously Wilson debated this question with Henry Cabot Lodge and that disagreement is a huge part in the US rejecting Versailles. Wilson justified himself by basically formulating the two Germans theory, ie there is the evil militaristic Prussian Germany and the good German people. Henry Cabot Lodge didn't buy that.

Sean McMeekin in his new book makes the point that FDR announced the unconditional surrender doctrine basically to placate Stalin and did it basically without fully coordinating that with the British. Attempting to offer the German military some sort of deal that would have made them remove the Nazis prevent Eastern Europe falling to Communism would have been a better policy. That is of course very controversial.

And if I have learned one thing, its that unconditional surrender is always a incredibly hot issue with people passionately arguing both sides.
I imagine they are referring to different people, not one single person who is both.
Yeah but the ones who remain are (voluntarily or involuntarily) the most committed.
I stopped knowingly buying all things Sony because of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia

and this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

That made me switch to the XBox One, and I was quite happy with it.

I've not knowingly paid directly for anything Sony. Indirectly, I've watched Spiderman on cable, so I expect my cable provider paid them pennies out of my monthly fee.
I mean, by large most people in most places in USA are friendly/neutral, since most of the people in SC are conservative, the brand of hate you get from the crazies is of the trump/maga/racist flavor. Where as in liberal areas, you'd probably get a different sort of hate.
Every time this quality decline pops up there always someone to argue that this is all caused by survivorship bias, but this argument just doesn't hold water: if it was survivorship bias, you would see isolated old appliances scattered between homes, but nobody with many appliances from the 80s and earlier still working, yet it's the opposite that occurs. I'm extraordinarily happy to still have 3 of my grand parents (95/93 and 86) and most of their stuff is almost 40 years old :

- fridge

- oven

- dishwasher

- freezer

- hairdryer

- vacuum cleaner

- mixer

- coffee machine

- and even a microwave oven that's been in use daily since 1984!

The notable exception being the toaster (thrown away when we learned it had asbestos in it very close to the bread) and the washing machines.

> A $10k fridge today (e.g. Sub Zero) will easily last for many decades.

I wouldn't take a bet on it. Especially because luxury stuff are targeting a wealthy audience who often change their still fully functional appliance after a few year to buy “better” ones (bigger, additional feature, or even just a design that isn't out of fashion), they have very limited incentive in making things that last several decades, it just needs not to die during the typical ownership duration. Related trivia: the most expensive Hermès handbags are really fragile because the crocodile skin is untreated, and if you carry them outside when it rains, every drop will leave a stain. That doesn't seem to negatively affect their business in any way.

That being said, it is true that household appliance used to cost much more back then, and people where willing to pay that much money. That's the tragedy of competitive markets for commodities: it's a race to the bottom.
or go for the coin throw directly
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I almost exclusively play steam games and I couldn’t imagine a more seamless experience. You go from buying a game to playing it in a matter of a few minutes to hours. There are rarely any surprises if you use current gen or slightly older hardware.
These just sound like comforting lies to tell yourself when in reality, for most people, it's probably just vanity, hoarding, and consumerism. Book collecting has more in common with DVD collecting than some aspiration of knowledge. At worst it's no different than a Funko Pop addiction.

My cure is to maintain a single shelf of books that I own. Just one shelf. Either a shelf inside a book case or a long shelf that stretches a wall. But either way, once it fills up, you have to being replacing. Can't just go to every book sale and buy mercilessly.
In that case you could roll a single d4 and give one player the odd numbers and the other player the even numbers.
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Hello friends at HN
For the past 3 years we have been arranging our physical textbook series and the first one has been published.

You can view sample chapters and see that the book is printed on premium, photo-quality paper here:

https://japanesecomplete.com/book-1

In true hacker ethos, Japanese Complete was a project started to address a need the founders had and now it’s turning into a tangible product so it is quite exciting for us and we appreciate your continued support.

All the material in the first book is available with a free online account on our online curriculum, only that it is much more beautifully laid out for convenient look-up in the book. A much more compelling representation down to the feel of the cover and the weight of the text in your hands like fine silverware.

Please only get the book if you can afford it, because as mentioned you can also get the same course material with a starter account at no cost to you.

We developed a lot of innovations for teaching and acquiring Japanese rapidly and to-remember. Please ask any (sincere) questions here.
Well if you want to use cheap carbon free electricity but don't want to see turbines that makes you a NIMBY in the most literal sense of the word.
Ohh I know all about the Steam Deck ;) It's a promising device and I've got high hopes for it. I haven't tried hooking mine up to a TV in a long while, I wonder if that's working well yet. It's my device for playing Guilty Gear Strive, but I prefer to play on a TV, so I haven't actually been using it much.
Well, no luck there, I'm an American. But I'm sympathetic to those across the pond that hold similar ideals as me.
Heh, I commented in that post from yesterday how Bun looked more promising longer term to me than Deno, even though it wasn't production ready yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32460658

Like you said, don't know if Bun had an influence on the timing of this announcement, but great to see innovation in the JS server space. Kudos to both the Deno and Bun folks!
I would hope that any company with hazardous environments would have a heavy focus on safety, green or not. It shouldn’t be seen as a benefit.
Building a beautiful Acrylic Commodore PET [video]
It would be nice if they included a compat flag for importing without this special syntax. As it stands, there is no clear drop-in replacement path for Deno, and as a result, I have no interest in using it.

I'm not rewriting my work so someone can have fun playing with VC money and abandon mature software.
Can you give an example of a game? This sounds intriguing.
Bloodborne became the reason for me to get a ps4 (albeit a bit late). For new-gen though, I'm less persuaded so far, particularly when many titles are still available on the previous (e.g. Elden Ring). The next batch of exclusives will be a more decisive factor.
I think it might be being a public company more than it is about earning large sums of money. The people who own public companies ultimately have control of the company, and typically care only about how much money is generated.
Technical users will have no problem, but for non-technical users email it is easier to do permanent record keeping and documented CYA. Non-technical users puzzle over how to document a text message in writing or how to permanently store and document a slack/irc type chat. Screenshots that are printed out on paper and scanned into a .pdf? I've seen things like that.

For a lot of situations the benefit of electronic communications is CYA and permanent record keeping, not speed or ability to notify 24/7 around the world.

"As you can see by the forwarded email chain below, I emailed ops about the backup process being broken a month ago, then reminded them two weeks later, then escalated the ticket after a month, and still have not heard anything back, as you know SOX compliance requires that we actually keep that data, so given the complete lack of communication over the last month, I'm curious if you know of an ETA to repair the backup process or if we should implement a local non-IT supported solution for backups of SOX compliance data, and if so how would that local process interoperate with existing documented security policies such as PCI-DSS and related requirements?" At least if it comes to a court case I won't be the one blamed, LOL. This is how business gets done at large companies, if someone can't get blamed individually, it ain't getting done.
This checks out. PS has mostly all the exclusives anybody would care about. Anything Xbox exclusive is likely available on PC.

also PS5 related—I'm still appalled that a proper web browser was not included.
I gave Google the benefit of the doubt right up until they introduced their real name policy, haven’t had an active account since.
This is true and little bit my point. The concept of copying with slight differences does not need to given a its own name of 'the epsilon method' when the existing idea under the name 'copying with slight differences' is both more direct and is self-explanatory.
While that organization has never had any appeal, I always thought it was valuable to have around, because when they eventually came for us, they would probably start there. Half-kidding aside, I've come to believe that valuing intelligence is what we value when we need something unfalsifiable to support an unstable identity. Be competent, masterful, successful, compassionate, magnanimous, creative, and if you're really special, apply it to those things. Learning to cope and manage the fact that you're always going to be an idiot to someone is more useful than an extra sigma will ever be.
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I dunno.

I think it's a continuum, for one thing.

Phone calls are clearly sync. But IM on the desktop is, in my working life, much closer to sync than email.

I think of phone texts as attempts at unobtrusive but still mostly synchronous communication.
Using my GitHub SSH keys to login as root on my servers: https://gist.github.com/withinboredom/84067b9662abc1f968dfad...

This can be extended easily, even dynamically creating an account if the user is part of an org, or use libnss-ato to alias the user to a specific account.
What makes a vehicle masculine? I know plenty of women who own trucks who insist their truck isn’t.
This sounds like the 90s when not using a router.

Don’t you need a basic router/nat to protect your systems?
Atlanta, Boston, Houston, and Philadelphia all have medical center areas with 3+ hospitals within walking distance of each other.

Houston has the largest medical center in the world with ~10 including Texas Children's Hospital, the largest children's hospital in the world (or at least it was a couple of years ago).
After 40 years, perhaps the anti-nuclear movement could realize they were wrong.

Burning all that coal for the past half century was a really bad idea. In the meantime, we patiently wait for another solution. Today we could be talking about being carbon neutral by 2070 instead of 2050 but we decided to wait.

Now we need to spend money to “adapt” to climate change.

https://hbr.org/2022/08/its-time-to-invest-in-climate-adapta...
>I wonder if Headscale can also use internal credentials? As far as I remember with tailscale you had to log in with Google or Microsoft which is another total deal-breaker. But I haven't looked at it in ages as the hosted variety was a non starter anyway.

from the project page:

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

>Node registration

> • Single-Sign-On (via Open ID Connect)

> • Pre authenticated key
Agree, it's usually thinking about the consequences, things that don't seem clear directly that makes second order thinking hard.
TL:DR: Your safest bet starting a new business is providing an incremental improvement to an existing good or service.

>The idea is to copy something that’s clearly working with some small but sufficiently significant changes.

>Instead of trying to go from zero to one, we’re going from one to one plus epsilon, where epsilon represents our small change.
What could possible go wrong
> p.s. The reason I moved on is because it was simply poor phrasing in a casual anon chat.

It wasn't poor phrasing. Being unable to reject the null hypothesis (on one subtest, even) doesn't mean there's no effect. If you test something 15 different ways, and you get a statistically significant effect with consistent slope on 12 of them, a non-statistically significant effect with a slope in the same direction on 2, and a non-statistically significant effect with a tiny slope in the opposite direction on 1... that looks pretty universal. It's an interesting question for followup research whether those 3 things are actually different in some way, or whether it was luck.
Web scraping might be thought of as a quasi-legal rebranding. For example, I think there are a bunch of sites that basically clone StackOverflow.

In other "techy" places, I think "reaction videos" on platforms like YouTube might fall into this category.

Forking an open source project though seems to be the iconic example in my book.
Agreed; Ubiquiti/unifi is easier to get started with. But as soon as you want to do anything more 'complex', it often can't do it or won't let YOU do it. Mikrotik is at better at not getting in your way. Though, Mikrotik setup is more involved and requires a bit more knowledge about networking than Unifi does. Only thing I really don't like about Mikrotik is the CAPSMAN/AP situation. They're pretty bad and very difficult in my experience, to get working right/seamlessly.