skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drop shipping has become a cancer for the online shopping experience.
We don't know what the actual coding question was; the claim that casting int to int32 is expensive seems to be an unprompted remark coming from an interviewee. I'm guessing they didn't get the job.
Sure, and it seems likely increased flooding might be the tipping point for many who would have otherwise chosen to stay and adapt as best they could. I'm curious which other parts of the world are likely to be most affected by any sort of mass relocation out of Pakistan, if it did occur...Saudi Arabia and UAE appear to have the largest diasporas?
From insurance rates and lack of investment it would seem like it (I live here)
Thanks, I was looking for this as well.
Mine is when marketplace sellers go "oh, sorry, we got your order but this is out of stock" or worse, "we mispriced it, it's actually $100 more we cancelled your order". Zero repercussions for staying a marketplace seller, no repercussions for the kind of behaviour the store itself would never accept.
I'll throw out my startup idea:
A heavily curated amazon, with ~1 option per product type, sold at a premium, prioritizing things that are constructed well/last a long time.

Obviously you can't do everything at once, and people want choice in things like fashion. A kitchen store would be great. One toaster, one oven, one coffee grinder.
*uninhabitable
Hey, late to the party, but my wife and I went through this type of issue recently. You want to test drive an OutBack and a Santa Fe. The rear seat width and leg room are highly optimized compared to other vehicles in the segment. We were able to fit 2 car seats and an adult in the back seat of both of those cars without going up to a full-size SUV.
I'd also love to know the upper bound on how long a game can be.
> Phone numbers are nothing like programs. The comparison is false.

That wasn't the comparison in the first place.

Finding the location of the program and its uninstaller is very much like an address or phone number lookup. Updating it is like updating an address book. And you need a database to maintain it all and find what you need, and something has to update that database. That's one major thing an installer does.
Nothing wrong with this blog but I'm pretty sure the exact title has been done 1000x
I build all my side projects with the following stack:

- ASP.NET Core with Razor Pages for templeting (substitute this for Django/Laravel/RoR to match your preference)
- SQLite for DB
- TailwindCSS standalone + a UI builder like https://shuffle.dev for the UI (huge bonus if your templating engine supports components)
- HTMX to sprinkle AJAX where appropriate
- AlpineJS for small DOM manipulation (open/close menus)
I feel like Microcenter is a good example of combatting this, they have cheap house brands of components, but they are legit and not the outright scams that propagate online marketplaces like Amazon.
Yeah the trick is to actually use the small layout everywhere, not just for consistency but to continue getting the benefits of reduced finger strain and hand motion.

I reproduced most of a small keyboard’s layout on my laptop using KMonad and now don’t even touch about 20 keys even though they’re available. It’s that realization that makes one dream of just omitting the unused hardware.
Yes, but the original title shouldn't have been rewritten in the first place since it was neither misleading nor linkbait (from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."). I've fixed it now.
Thanks for sharing examine.com, looks interesting!
not mentioned here yet: small bet approach, popularized by Daniel Vassalo https://twitter.com/dvassallo
All of said tools having the most godawful interfaces and documentation known to man if the JS ecosystem is any evidence of the direction things are going.
You may be able to find a programming job that's less mentally demanding, to the point that it allows you to reserve most of your mental / creative energy for your own projects. Might take a few tries, but there's probably something out there that would accommodate your interests (depending on where you live, etc).

Best of luck in either case. I can definitely relate to what you're talking about, so no, you're not "just crazy" FWIW.
> we still consider AIs to be 'things'

Do we, though? You and I do, sure. Most people here will, probably. But at least one counter-example was on display a few weeks ago, the guy from Google that told the press that their text completion engine was "alive" and "had agency".

From my friends I talked about this (which are not in IT), most believed him. YMMV, but I seriously believe a good chunk of the population thinks we already have thinking A(G)I. I don't think there is a "we" here, anymore. :/
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26103769 - Feb 2021 (67 comments)
actually the effective limit seems to be around 50 nodes
I'm at least fairly confident if I walk into Walmart and buy something it will be minimally fit for purpose and meet the legal requirements to be sold in my country.

Meanwhile, you have no problem finding devices that should have FDA/Health Canada/FCC/IC approval and do not.
From the bottom of my heart: No thanks.
sure, and people can draw their own conclusions about a "marketplace" allowing morally reprehensible products on it, and whether to purchase from them in the future.
> Off topic, but why do you consistently spell "which" as "witch"?

Sorry, I'm Italian living in France, my English is far from good...
Yes, there were extreme events in the past. These events are now much more frequent thanks to climate change. Sometimes 10s to 100s of times more common.

Gloal climate change is caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases. This is now very clear and there is very little evidence of anything else having more than a small impact.

The COVID lockdowns had an effect on the climate, see for example the reduction in high clouds due to a decrease in flying [0]. Stopping GHG emissions only prevents further climate change. It does not fix it, just stops it from getting worse.

To change the climate 'back', we have to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, not just stop emitting it.

Many people who want to stop climate change are also pro nuclear energy as a means of doing that. But why would that have anything to do with redistribution of the means of production?

[0] - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abf686
Are you talking about from the employee's point of view, or the HR process? I'll answer from the employee/team's point of view, because that's more interesting. If you're looking for the HR tools, disregard this answer!

My current company uses a Miro board for onboarding (with links to Confluence pages, Google docs, Slack channels, and other things we need).

A previous company I worked for used random links people threw at each other in Slack. Before I left, I'd put together a Google sheet (or the Microsoft cloud equivalent, now that I think about it I don't remember which platform we used there) that included set-up tasks, people to meet, things to read/understand—pretty much everything someone would need to get up to speed. The big advantage of that over Miro (or Trello/Jira/etc) is that everything was visible in one place, with due dates easy to see and to calculate based on start date, and owners easy to identify.

I'm not sure if this will be useful, but https://www.cybadger.com/2022/07/02/a-tale-of-two-onboarding... gives some details about other onboarding experiences I've had. Apologies for the shameless (well, some shame involved) self-promotion; feel free to ask for more info if it'd help!
I don't think Walmart handles any fulfillment for 3rd parties so commingling wouldn't really be possible.
In this case a basketball court might actually increase the property value enough that your taxes would still go up
Interestingly, the greater the number and quality of our observations, the more casually such observations are dismissed on the basis that we didn't always have such observational capacity. It's alleged in turn that observed events have been taking place the whole time, but weren't measurable, at least not with such accuracy as to be useful.
Ug, why no shipping to New York?
I've been playing with it a bit, and I also find the information theory aspect absolutely amazing. It's more than just the English language that's encoded there. It's also encodes information about characters and the styles of countless artists. I just cannot fathom how all this information fits in that space.
I am using it for Elixir and Python. It surprises me at times, and sometimes it just misses. Most of the time I end up with a template that is just a little bit off which is fine.
Do you believe that there exists a moral obligation to affirm someone's identity?
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Mistakes to correct statements, yes. Those balance out. The opposite of being right is being wrong, the proportion of these two is their score.

Lies though, where we find out they knowingly said something they knew was wrong when they said it, don't balance out. The opposite of lying to someone to manipulate them is respecting them enough to let them make their own choices. They need to acknowledge that and start purely providing facts again - even at the cost of some political narratives, before they'll regain trust.
I've found it to be 50-50 or less in my recent experience, but there's an interesting reason why. I recently shopped for a fidget ring and found AliExpress had lots of options, but none that fit my size 14 fingers. So I checked Etsy and was pleasantly surprised to see only ~20% of their listings were rings from AliExpress. Another 70% of listings were for rings that all had similar designs but were slightly unique from each other, each with unique listing photos, and all with minor flaws from being handmade. Eventually one seller had an honest bio that describe themselves as a "jewelry making village near Jaipur, India". I believe many pieces are actually handmade to a degree, in what I presume to be a series of small rural workshops with correspondingly cheap labor. They are probably given order lists by middlemen who run their own Etsy stores and are willing to deal with the logistics and customer service.
You realize Moore's law is about kaput right? We're running up against fundamental physical limits at this point.
https://plantuml.com/ is free and nice. Plays well with Markdown and C4 diagrams.
The only UML-specific diagram type I use is the sequence diagram but that is very useful IMHO.
May be an ad but this is something I would actually use if it wasn't paid.

Like other said, maybe it will inspire someone to take this and make an open-source version
Thanks for this info, particularly as we look to expand internationally :)

Our price includes lab costs but also the cost of the packaging, shipping, ordering physician, etc. which all starts to add up!

We decided to start with at home kits for the convenience but are planning to explore other methods of measuring levels (e.g., partnering with physical labs)

Edit: I should also add that costs/prices typically start higher with startups and we fully expect them to come down as we scale.
I don't think there's any disagreement that things have to change. The difference is whether we're talking about negotiating a difficult balance of competing interests within reasonable limits, or engaging in a political knife fight to decide who gets all the remaining water.

We need to make a conscious decision to recognize a balance is possible though and negotiate it. If we don't, the situation eventually devolves into the knife fight regardless.
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I try to keep abreast of SSD prices, as I've been looking to swap out the spinning rust on my ESXi server with SSDs, but the prices are still a bit too high for my taste, and that hasn't changed much over the past few years.

Which is why I was really surprised to see this both on Vice and ArsTechnica[0].

A quick web search for "4TB external SSD" shows prices in the USD$400-600 range. So 30TB for ~USD$40 seems too good to be true. Actually, it strains credulity well past the breaking point.

And as the old saw goes, "if it seems to good to be true, it probably is."

Then again, I guess a lot of folks haven't been paying attention (as I have) to storage prices. But even so, 16TB spinning rust drives are an order of magnitude more expensive than the price quoted by Walmart for this "30TB SSD".

It just goes to show that Joe Bessemer (and/or someone else) was right[1].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/walmart-lists-a-30tb...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_sucker_born_every_mi...
Very different in terms of scale, industrialization... Mughals eventually settled into the culture of the region, mixed with the people. They are part of the fabric of the Subcontinent. British rule was qualitatively and quantitatively different.
AI art will continue to contribute to the decline in quality of all media. I could write 10,000 more words on why but I'll just stop here.
You've identified a genuine need and a service that would fulfill it. I think, to greater and lesser degrees, places like the wire cutter and consumer reports, and now a whole bunch of derivatives that speak in the same tone as wire cutter, are attempting to fill this need.

Of course, they themselves may be subject to quality control issues. Although perhaps the thing that you're talking about that would be different is the manner in which the curated selection is organized and the overarching purpose.
Yes. It's always been about more extreme weather - more droughts, more floods, more tornadoes, more hurricanes, more extreme storms, heavier snow storms, and so on.

Most areas will get warmer, some areas will get colder. Sometimes they'll alternate. Some years and seasons will be less extreme than others, some will seem normal, but the trend will be clear.

Systems which were built for the old normal will fail more and more frequently, and at some point they'll stop working permanently.
Limit of what exactly? I've made much bigger than 50 nodes SVG-graphs using GV, and styled them with probably 50+ CSS styles and animated more than 50 nodes.

So, could you please elaborate?
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To be able to do a 3hr interview without neuroticism requires stamina that you can only learn by having become very good at something with practice. When you look at journalists who can't do that without centering the conversation back on themselves or using confrontation, it's pretty clear that competence in a physical discipline makes the difference.

Interesting comparison to journalists though. Who would be a peer as an interviewer? Maybe George Plimpton, Christine Amanpour, Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Rose, or Dominick Dunne?

Personally, I respect physical competence, techne over episteme, experiment over theory, performance over criticism, predictive power over post-hoc explanation, etc. It's more of an orientation than an idolatry.
I wouldn't say "a lot". A handful at most.
Hey! I know this is a bit late, but Part 1 of Basecamp's book "Shape Up" might be helpful too. It's not explicitly about specs, which is probably why I didn't think of it before, but it's worth a skim.

https://basecamp.com/shapeup/webbook
It would be interesting to see which categories would benefit from more granularity.

For instance, I feel like I need only one toaster, one oven. But I have 3 different high-quality coffee grinders that I use for different purposes.
I always enjoy Comeau's blog posts, they're the essence of interactive learning. For real world things, I also like Bartosz Ciechanowski's work [0], they have very highly detailed renditions of things like mechanical watches and internal combustion engines.

[0] https://ciechanow.ski/
I'm all for improving the success of local agricultural efforts, and the 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability, but it's hard for me to generalize how something like small scale thresher manufacturing would work in America. The average commercial farm in the US is a much larger operation and has millions of dollars of very high-tech machinery from my understanding.
I usually get side gigs (freelance work where I can give 10-15 hours per week) through HN hire freelancer thread, Reddit, UpWork and my social network. I aim for gigs that have interesting problems to solve.
What would be good to see on this page: an example of the correction of unwanted fish-eye from a portrait photo of a face.

You could fix bad profile photos and such without the need to upgrade to more expensive optics.
We architects love engineers like you. Less work, more collaboration, less risk. And scale is exactly the point where real architects are needed.

It is about culture. Which is very hard because many junior architects have a power trip over their fellow engineers.
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Nothing happens in Antarctica because the world powers signed a treaty in 1959 causing that to happen[1]. If it was open land that was allowed inhabited and owned by people forming new governments, I would bet you would see settlements sprout up there quite quickly. In space you might be able to set up new sovereign entities. That is one major reason people will want to go there.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/antarct/anttrty.jsp
I did a more modest version of this as a handful of simple children book-like stories [0,1 2]. I had just gotten access to Dalle and was so excited about how thr future could look like.

I can't wait for a future where MMORPGs have characters, scenarios and landscapes filled in by AI. The users and the developers can give the skeleton of the in game lore, and then the AI tools can fill in with beautiful detail.

[0] story of a seamstress, https://twitter.com/RamonDarioIT/status/1552152241959669760?...

[1] story of a bnb host, https://twitter.com/RamonDarioIT/status/1552162769176109056?...

[2] story of playing chess against Magnus, https://twitter.com/RamonDarioIT/status/1552164214462025728?...
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As someone on the outside of AI tech, I wonder if this is also a reflection of how difficult it can be to make create a differentiated product in the AI space on a small budget. The mission statement also indicates that they would like to find products that are complex, likely to create a moat and make it difficult for competitors to move into the same space quickly.
A code dump does not make it an open source project. Sustainable OSS projects are developed publicly.
Wonder if you could convert an image to a sketch

That makes the process a little less simple, but still easier than doing the real work
I love the way this is put together. Just outstanding work - totally readable with interactive illustrations. Hats off!
Sure, it’s called Costco, it’s great
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I actually did borrow my parents car because the commute got so bad. I commute from Aachen to Cologne. After 2 trips there and back which would usually take me about 4 hours total, I had accumulated over 8 hours of total travel time and kinda had enough. Was very glad i was able to WFH.
It won't work for every use case but https://flowchart.fun is one open-source alternative
Since some HN readers have opted for gaming laptops, I would like to know their experiences with Linux. Did you have a problem with sleep mode, poor battery life, WiFi connectivity, GPU temperature, etc?
There are two stages: an architect defining the big picture and then a technical senior person reviewing the small picture. You describe the later. The big picture you cannot do like you describe.
I think there is one extra point though - that these events can be much, much more frequent.

When an event is 100 times more likely, you are getting very close to a 'caused by' situation.

Obviously, extreme events existed in the past. But something like the 2022 south Asia heatwave was so extraordinarily rare before, when climate change increased the frequency of similar events by more than 100 times, climate change was responsible (in most reasonable uses of the word).

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...
The biggest advantage is that CRTs can have variable geometry pixels which match a lot of older resolutions and aspect ratios. While it's a lot easier to deal with non-square pixels on higher resolution displays (i.e. 1600x1200 can properly emulate a 1.2:1 rectangular pixel of a 320x200 display) CRTs still have effectively infinitely variable shaped pixels.
Missing from the article: "Advantages of LCD over CRT"
All laws and changes to the laws are already publicly available in the US???
OK, I see what you're getting at now. Given my experience with horrible messed up installers though, I maintain my plea for simplicity.
I won't tell them if you don't!
There's a picture in the original paper, Paint it black: Efficacy of increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6592

(And with a name like Jens Åström, he should be researching hydropower.)
They can use it from their phone or tablet.
Your point is underrated. There are alot of sampling bias going around.
I'm wondering why my question got downvoted. I've had this happen before when asking questions. Could it be a matter of a couple of readers not assuming benign intent? As in, someone thinks I'm not actually asking a question but making a statement and they don't agree with the statement. Either way it's interesting.

Perhaps the more likely to be read as benign version would be this: We all agree site A is bad because it's misaligned (which I think all agree is due to being driven by ads). Then we propose that site B is good - but there's no indication about WHY site B is good. We know why site A is bad, but why is site B good. And more specifically since we're describing the value in terms of alignment, what alignment is there in site B that drives the goodness?
So the tool seems to conflate specifications with work tasks. In my previous job (pretty much top-down btw) product owners did that as well in Azure DevOps. There were huge Product Backlog Items with lots of description and sketches. After the work was done nobody would look at them again, and they went to the pile of other completed PBIs. When you were touching the same place of the code again you would often wonder how the program should behave and usually left wondering, because it's impossible to find the specification again. What I really longed for was specifications checked in as markdown in git.
It’s probably a good thing Tom Lehrer didn’t know about this paper…
I wouldn't call it jealous or mad. Just kinda something close to sad.

As I go though life I keep getting more aware of as silly as it sounds how many things are designed to strip "joy" from our lives. Even if you only wanted 5/10 of the cores or whatever in this thing and sure you paid less. There will always be that nagging feeling in the back of your head that there is a part of what you paid for being intentionally kept away from you. Effectively stripping your ability to have joy/happiness for your purchase. You don't deserve full use of your product because you didn't hustle/work/strive/stress/struggle hard enough to deserve it. Its just anti-human as all things are becoming now day.
I learned in linguistics that brains can't think in negations and at first understand the unnegated and then negate it. Popular example: "Don't think of a pink elephant." And you'll think of a pink elephant...
Have you ridden in a Tesla? (I have 3). Reliability and outage reports are not hallmarks of the family of companies. Perhaps more so for SpaceX.