skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mobile apps / web portals could have helped the part of the problem related to status updates of staff location/availability not ingested fast enough. Apparently communications ingest bottleneck was a significant part of why the overall problem tipped into an even worse runaway state with no viable recovery options short of "full reboot."
Reading a news article planted by the PR department of a big company is a skill. I can understand how this reads like "we're doing this for our people". This is just "the execs wanted to play pickleball so they had courts put in" dolled up to sound like big, happy, community-oriented charity.
A chilling realization that follows from this picture is that the inhabitants of North America encountered by most of the Europeans who came later were more or less the post-apocalyptic remnants of once large civilizations that had already collapsed in a continent wide pandemic.
I was shocked by that too. Maintaining such a sheet is a good idea, but never _ever_ share it. It's bad operational security. It's also revealing more about you (what other companies think of you) than it is about the companies in question.
The obvious answer is to fix the road

If you're paying, sure. If you're not, the obvious answer is to route away from the accident-prone routes while trying to minimize increases in journey time.
Usually stores with constrained inventory by design are a sign that the company is on the upswing because they are aggressively controlling inventory.

When you see a store bulk up with crap stuffed everywhere, it’s often tied to loading up on debt and sometimes bankruptcy risk.

IMO, Barnes and Noble sees an opportunity with the struggles of Amazon in retail and the decline of Starbucks. Starbucks used to pride itself as a “third place”… now the drive through is the priority, the seating has been reduced, and the management seems more interested in fighting labor than having happy hospitality employees.

People who read tend to have money. It seems like a winning combination to have people with money hanging out in your retail establishment. Plus they can riff off of Target’s super successful pickup model that is every mom’s favorite thing ever.
Right. It's not that the military tech wasn't better, it's that, given the massive logistical advantages of indigenous Americans (consider what a supply chain looked like for even a tiny European force in the Americas!), the role of disease-induced chaos putting much of indigenous society & politics into something resembling death convulsions before many of them even saw Europeans, plus some straight realpolitik "heads I win, tails you lose" moves from the Europeans, it was a pretty minor factor in the whole thing. Just the weapon-tech advantage wouldn't have been anywhere near enough for the conquest to go even as smoothly as it did, thanks largely to the logistics disadvantage of the Europeans (and the conquest wasn't terribly smooth, anyway—Europeans lost plenty of battles over a span of centuries before mostly subjugating the Americas).
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I wonder if it’s that or simply a lack of slack in their system.

It seems to me that just like pre-staged inventory helps in logistics management, that extra planes and crews in the rotation could improve operations under these circumstances.
60 years ago your kids would’ve been woke about black people and women having equal rights. 20 years ago they would’ve been woke for LGB rights. Now they’re apparently woke because of trans rights. Or rights every human should have.
Has anyone happened to hear Brian Eno's Music for Airports played in a real airport?
So what if the stores are smaller? In retail it's sales per sq. foot that counts.
Amazing: 18 EUR seems way too low. Same as retail/barista etc. here
What do you mean by this - do you have a specific example?
Yes. If the cold side gets too hot, the pressure on the compressor input gets too high, which means the compressor is doing far more work with every stroke - and input electrical power goes up massively. The motor overheats and the thermal cutout stops it. When the motor is cutting in and out efficiency goes way down.

This is an issue with fridges. When you buy a new fridge and first turn it on, it's called a 'pulldown'. The compressor gets far hotter than it ever normally gets in normal operation. Most fridges are only rated for 3 pulldowns in their lifespan - and if you do more than that and the fridge fails, they'll claim it isn't in warranty anymore. And in modern fridges, the software keeps track of how often so they can deny the warranty claim too...
>> It doesn't help that I think most women would prefer (or perhaps think most men would prefer) that their bra says 32DD instead of 40A.

> I think you overestimate how many women care about the letter associated with their cup size.

I would have thought women cared at least as much about the circumference number. That's what they worry about in every other item of clothing; that's why the same clothes are a smaller size at high-priced stores than they are at low-priced stores. The letter is a measurement of whether you have a flat chest, but the number is a measurement of whether you're fat!
> It [work] is the gravitational center around which the other activities in your life revolve.

Don't let work be most important part of your life! Companies encourage you to, so they have another cheap way to lock you in. Years of work from home showed me that your (social) life shouldn't mainly happen at work. Better find friends at hobbies/meetups/etc.
I had no idea technical books were the target to shoplifters. I imagine it wasn’t techies stealing these but other opportunists.

I never minded buying IT books even when I wasn’t in the best financial situation. 40-50 bucks for a good book could bring almost limitless rewards. One thing though, I needed to browse and skim through the book to decide whether it was a purchase or not. Most books I bought like that were thoroughly studied. I can’t say the same thing about books I bought online though.
There was a whole chain of them: Computer Literacy. Killed by the Web, I guess.
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I just can't help but comment on the strange notion of a "list of reasons why".

The few correlations our feeble minds just happen to notice are not mystical decisions whereby nature slowly yields to the will of its creatures over many generations. Asking "why" is just anthropomorphizing for the sake of it.
Compare the pre-Columbian Pima and the contemporary Americans and describe the differences in scale. You have taken my sentence out of context by removing, "and obliterating entire country-sized hydrology systems."
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It already did. Unfortunately, it being less of an ass is still under copyright.
Yes, my point is that spelling this out is important; I didn't find it obvious what you were trying to convey at all. (And more generally that people will not find obvious the same things as you, and that it's helpful to be explicit where possible.)
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Move to a state that does not have an income tax. Instant raise!
> There's a lot of people who know exactly what's going on.

Who or where are these people? (For any industry / system.)

In my experience, people understand things at a local level but quickly lose understanding at a system level. And I think there is a subtle difference from figuring out what went wrong once something did go wrong from understanding things prior to such an occurrence. Humans are pretty good at figuring out things after the fact, but we have a pretty poor track record of systematic understanding and preventing failures.
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Of course I’m oversimplifying the process. But my point is the actual number of flights, passenger and luggage loads and unloads, etc can be a lot lower than a normal workload. On a normal day, an average Southwest plane flies quite a few hops, loads many passengers, unloads many passengers, etc. For a worst case reset, the normal routing doesn’t need to be followed.

Of course this will introduce complexity. But it will also need decently less than a normal day’s number of operations.

If I were designing a solver for where to move aircraft and crews (which is apparently what SkySolver does), I would test it on random and malicious inputs. If it’s initialized with every crew member and every plane at an independent random airport in the US (where Southwest has service) with a few broken for good measure and a few airports shut down, it should still find a solution. Waiting 12-24 hours to start so none of the crew is timed out could be part of a valid solution.
It might also be related to equity. I was laid off and went from a mature startup to an earlier stage startup, and on paper my TC dropped by 50%. But neither company is public yet, so who tf knows what either company will be worth at the point either of them IPO. My base pay went up by about 5%.

So I guess depending exactly on the specifics, "my TC dropped by 50%" might not really be a very meaningful statement without more context.
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If you look at dedicated writing AI tools like NovelAI, you can see that this is exactly how they work. They have a concept of a "lore book" with "keywords" that you can use to remind the AI about how to properly generate the content.

For example, if I were writing a novel about a fantasy kingdom and there is an evil king, then I can write a description of the king ("The king is evil and wears a red crown") with the keyword to "include" it being "crown", "king", etc.

As the number of tokens increases with these AIs I think this problem will decrease decrease (1k was NovelAI originally, and now GPT-3 Codex is 8k). I do wonder what the "ideal" solution is in the future though. Or do you have to create a "lore book" for ChatGPT too?

(A thought I've had is that maybe we can automatically "create" the "lore book" and then re-inject that seamlessly? For example, in the fantasy kingdom example, maybe ChatGPT can generate a list of characters for each "chunk" of text and then automatically inject that into the "last" batch of text.)
I replied to a sibling comment with a list of a few. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34166459
You’re being downvoted because it sounds like woo but the people downvoting aren’t up to speed on the latest science.

Nightshades are tolerated by people with healthy guts and there is a smaller set of people with a gut dysfunction that means the solanine (alkaloids) in nightshades causes leaky gut syndrome leading to the inflammation you are talking about.

Curcumin (turmeric) does alleviate this inflammation pretty powerfully, at least on a temporary basis
I have a feeling this would be considered unacceptable ageism elsewhere, but Japan requires some drivers to display a sticker which indicates to "other drivers that the marked driver is not very skilled, either due to inexperience or old age".

For the Young/New:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshinsha_mark

For the Elderly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dreisha_mark
Ted Gioia is not a shill for B&N. He's actually more of a music writer. And other things.
You are correct in the fact that 'buy' doesn't mean zero cost. At scale both 'build' and 'buy' suffer from the same problem, overhead.

'Build' has the overhead of the initial development, documentation, testing, the follow-on maintenance, refactoring, etc. If you have one 'build' item in your code base that's not a huge amount of overhead in the long term. If your entire code base is custom you have a scaling problem; you will end up spending a lot of your development effort on this overhead rather than revenue generating work.

Ideally 'buy' lets you go further but you will eventually reach the same scaling problem. The overhead here is in research, prototyping, integration, bugs, workarounds, etc. As you have more and more external dependencies this overhead goes up until you are in the same boat as above. Also not all dependencies are created equally; some have more overhead than others.

For background I do embedded software where basically everything is 'build'. When I say everything I mean file systems, network stacks, hardware abstraction layers, communication protocols, testing frameworks, and so on. I would estimate that roughly 90-95% of what my team does is maintain all of the 'build' pieces, none of which makes a profit but all of which are required for the features that do make a profit; we just don't have time to work on the latter unless we take more shortcuts in the former. So when you say that a 'build' solution takes < 1 engineer to maintain consider what that looks like in 5, 10, and 25 years. The overhead stacks up, the industry changes, institutional knowledge is lost, hiring and onboarding becomes more difficult, and so on. Of course my bias is in systems that last a long time where it's incredibly difficult to replace custom bits that have outlived their usefulness with third party bits.
I used to sell old IT books on Amazon or Ebay. Thankfully most were more timeless than "Foo 1.2.3 in 21 days". Once I even acquired and sold a one-foot-cube-sized MSDN box for about a thousand dollars. Both of us made a lot of money.

At some point Ebay deleted my account and I recreated it later but lost my history. Amazon now requires invasive identity verification I refuse and won't let me sell anymore, despite having over a decade doing it in good standing. It is possible it was related to me briefly selling an ebook, which doing permanently took away some of my privileges. Dunno for sure, the site is obtuse and has more archaic layers than the Windows control panel. Easy to get into a link loop and never find out why it doesn't work.

TL;DR—These big companies just DGAF. I now throw old IT books in the trash/recycle-bin when I move. Currently have some about CMS that would be useful to someone.
An antiseptic is a substance used to slow down or kill microorganisms. It's also an adjective meaning boring or uninteresting. I'm saying that they're being a bit boring, but also that their life might literally be too full of hand sanitizer.
This has been highly dependent on the particular B&N, in my experience. One in Raleigh (may have technically been Cary, NC, this was 15 years or so ago) had Knuth's TAOCP on the shelves, never seen that anywhere else. Certainly not in towns with less technical inclination (a town I lived in in GA for a decade, for instance, had a miserable technical section) where the technical book section was dominated by Windows and MS Office how-tos.
Not OP, but I would recommend Kysely as a great example. I’m on mobile so don’t have a link at hand sorry.
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It will work that way with anything :)

Especially gradle.
My perspective is different - not disagreeing with yours.

My goal is to constantly be “putting myself out of a job”. That means I need to be able to recognize a problem or opportunity, understand the business context, do enough of an MVP or POC that the rest of the organization understands, train and move on.

Sometimes the internal organization doesn’t have the desire or capacity to maintain or evolve the solution. In that case it’s my job to find an outside consulting company.

I don’t do staff augmentation.
Removing these books was what Daunt did at Waterstones.

“Daunt also removed legal textbooks, technical guides, reference books from the shelves. In return, he stocked more books that customers were delighted to discover which led to an increase in sales.” [0]

If there is “a market there”, it’s probably as a specialised store.

[0] https://startupmarketer.co/how-a-physical-bookseller-turned-...
The book is accepted as true by more people than the criticism. The author got away with it.

Interesting all of the criticisms are individually weak arguments. Like you’re saying no argument is strong?
Waze has an option to avoid difficult intersections under Navigation settings.

https://i.imgur.com/7tvbYw3.jpeg
thanks! loved working with your team on the Copilot for X post!

i feel like architectural change is needed to prevent it. We can only be disciples of the Church of the Next Word for so long... a schism is coming. I'd love to hear speculations on what are the next most likely architectural shifts here.
Yeah, my main point is that it remains far from clear as to how the government would approach a situation like the 2016 DAO hack.

>“Exploiting a smart contract” isn’t a specific offense, and some instances might be legal.

Exactly, there does not seem to be easy catch-alls here like wire fraud or unauthorized access.
What model do you have? I currently have a boiler for hydronic baseboards and would like to move to a more all in-one-solution for heating/cooling that is predominantly electric. My goal is to move all my gas appliances to electric with solar but it would be great to have gas backup and gas for those cooler days.
I don't know about that. Something that makes me sick to my stomach is the current only accepted behaviour to react to being laid off by being grateful to such a wonderful company to have given me opportunity to learn and blah, blah, blah. There is so much dishonesty and fake gratefulness around that anything departing from that, including just sharing that you interviewed a lot and only found dead ends, is a black flag.

I get that this is marketing, and that's the game in an employer market. But sh*t, no-one is calling out the fact that maybe the responsibility is not only on the incoming recession, but also how dumb a large portion of the industry has been in trying to ignore as best as possible a freaking war, a pandemic, and flying oil prices, and carried on over-hiring at high wages. I'm grateful mine didn't go in that game and froze hiring very early on.

Maybe it's an emphasis, the way I read it is that you should keep your unpalatable opinions to yourself, because being critical of the system is cause to be rejected by it.
Thanks no thanks, what an abomination.
I think that he means generating application code from a database schema. A tool like Jooq (https://www.jooq.org/). If so, then I agree with him.
And to get to 250% COP in heating on average you'd expect to have, at least, 8.5 HSPF2 rating on your heat pump (it's still just the heating performance w/o de-frosting cycles as far as I understand so the real world COP of a 8.5 HSPF2 will be lower than 2.5)
Generally the designers seem to be making some good decisions, such as cheap parts, identical corner pieces, etc…

There are interesting developments around using precision targeted spraying at individual weeds that this robot would be good at. The chemical volume and hence weight would be low, so you don’t need a big diesel tractor!

Similarly, a small robot like this could make daily passes over a field, killing weeds when they’re still tiny. Again, this reduces the power and weight requirements.
A micro library at a maker space might be a better option.
This.

I use an M1 Air and the hardware is exceptional (other than the keyboard obviously). Mac OS however is not. You need something like Rectangle installed just to get half-decent window management. Windows 11 wipes the floor with it on accessibility (for things like font tweaks and so forth). And the speed with which you can work under both Windows and Linux (Mint for example), using the keyboard almost exclusively, really puts Mac OS to shame.

If a non-Apple laptop maker did Apple-quality hardware with a better keyboard and anything like the Air's battery life then I'd be interested.
I agree - I like when people disagree with me - as long as either I learn something from them, or they learn something from me - if we both dig in our heels, no one learns anything.
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I kind of love this idea. How do you do this, especially if you're throwing originals away, in a frustratingly and methodically legal way?
Southwest doesn’t have interline agreements with other airlines nor, AFAIK, the integration into reservation systems that allow rebooking onto another airline.
The roads that are "safety corridors", at least the ones in California, are rural two-lane, two-way undivided roads where people kill themselves trying to overtake cars that are going 1 MPH slower than them. The only way to redesign these is with K rails down the middle, but the ideal thing to do is mandate speed limiters in cars.
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Can you give me examples of those things happening in Florida?
A Barnes & Noble near my parents moved from their original space at one end of the mall to the other end. This new space is smaller than their original space by about half or two thirds. While they have fewer materials on the shelves (and fewer shelves), it seems more lively than the original spot did, probably because there's fewer space for the number of people who go there. I bet that the company would see that as a fair tradeoff.
Well it isn't single-purpose, you can get browser, discord, spotify, irc or anything just by swapping to desktop mode... But i'd rather use my phone or pc for that and leave deck for games.

Also, on steamdeck subreddit i saw people using it as their main PC (not much power, but definitely more than enough for majority of day-to-day tasks, especially with external monitor). I recall motorola razr (android one) had dualboot (android + ubuntu), and when plugged to external monitor you was able to use it as a small PC. But due to pretty weak hardware back in 2011, this idea never took off.
It's useless for the time being but hopes to be useful soon. Hey, just like me.
There is room for such alerts in many ecosystems. For example, WordPress: There should be alerts for stale plugins, plugins that have recently changed authors, and other metrics for awful plugins. It could be condensed into a trust level rating from 1-5. That's only one example.
I've been wishing for this too. Not fastest or most fuel efficient, but the easiest route. Really just as few turns as possible, but especially avoiding things like two way stops and uncontrolled left turns.
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There are a lot of little free libraries in my area. A few years ago I took all of my Goosebumps and Animorphs books that were still at my parents house and drove around dropping them off. I hope some kids got as much enjoyment out of them as I did.
These days most anything that would serve a role as a core router at a mid to large sized ASN will be powered from a huge battery bank and -48VDC rectifier system. You can easily have 400-800Gbps of traffic going through one box.
My google maps has been doing this for weeks already. Is google maps Waze?
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Mostly because because Apple is already able to be charged with the major technology (it's not something they're going off and doing on their own). The Qi wireless charging standard is one that a lot of phones and accessories are using ( https://makezens.com/phones-with-wireless-charging-technolog... )

> The MagSafe Duo Charger conveniently charges your compatible iPhone, Apple Watch, Wireless Charging Case for AirPods, and other Qi-certified devices. Just place your devices on the charger and a steady, efficient charge begins on contact. The charger folds together neatly so you can easily take it with you wherever you go.

They'd need to move the entirety of the wireless power transfer devices and accessories to some other standard.
> passionate about the product you're making and/or selling then you're going to not do very well

100% agreed. Not that it isn't possible, but I'd like to start with a product person because a product person will fight for what matters to the customer and I'd prefer to be in that camp.

Satya Nadella after Balmer would be another example. Balmer did great things for MSFT stock ticker, but so much of the 90's love was lost. Satya has a massive uphill battle but with Github, VSCode and other efforts - I do believe he sincerely cares.
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